Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 58 Lost Layer Ghost Domain

"Death knell!"

The undead hound growled, and a trail of eerie blue flames traced a path through the gloom.

At this moment, Deathstroke unleashed the [Ghost Mark] ability!
Jiang Jin gripped the [Mourning Hunting Rifle] tightly; the runes on the barrel glowed faintly, and the gray worms also pointed towards the fourth floor.

Frankly speaking, even now, Jiang Jin is still just a Level 1 Bloodstained Tracker. Entering the Lost Layer remains extremely dangerous! Moreover, the Lost Layer is already shrouded in the Ghost Domain!
If Jiang Jin cannot find Liu Yan soon and bring her back to the Mysterious Layer, they will both die here!
The Lost Layer is always a terrifying hunting ground for LV1 Reincarnators! LV1 Reincarnators can only survive in the long term by operating mainly in the Mysterious Layer!

"Liu Yan is upstairs...we have to go up!"

He had just taken a step when he suddenly noticed a mirror on the wall beside him.

In the peripheral vision reflected in the mirror, Jiang Jin caught a glimpse of a boy with bluish-black skin, about seven or eight years old, standing behind him!
He was naked, his body was bloodless, and only a pair of empty eyes stared intently at him.

Jiang Jin was not surprised, as both the student code of conduct and the faculty code of conduct mentioned it!
"court death!"

Jiang Jin turned around abruptly, and with a flash of cold light, the Chen Ji Roast Meat Boning Knife sliced ​​off half of the boy's head!

The instant black blood splattered, he pulled the trigger—

"boom!"

In the mirror, the Soul-Devouring Bullet pierced the boy's chest, and the Hunting Curse Mark was instantly imprinted on his spirit body, causing his bluish-black blood to surge and evaporate like boiling water!
It was only because Jiang Jin had the hunting rifle "Mourning Cry," the evolved version of "Mourning Bell," and the ultimate trump card "Knocking Ghost" that he had the resources to venture into the Lost Layer!
But clearly, the ghostly realm had begun to surround him!

As time goes on, it will become even harder for him to escape from here!

As Deathstroke lunged at another bookshelf, although the bluish-black handprints on its body reappeared during the process, they were quickly burned away by the bronze runes on its body.

The mournful hunting rifle roared through the dark blue haze, each [Soul-Devouring Bullet] precisely striking the "target" deep within the dark blue haze!
"Successfully synthesized resentment shards!"

Jiang Jin rushed into the dark blue haze and grabbed a blue crystal of resentment in his palm!
"The third one!" Jiang Jin reached out and grabbed it, the crystal feeling slightly cool in his palm. "No wonder Wu Qin was able to get four fragments of resentment crystals!"

Fortune truly is found in danger!

—If other reincarnators were here, they would probably be astonished.

In ordinary mission worlds, hunting ten vengeful spirits might not even yield a single resentment crystal, but in this library, Jiang Jin collected three in such a short time!
"This place... is practically a breeding ground for resentment."

But soon, Jiang Jin sensed through the mournful cries and his own hunting intuition that the number of ghosts in the surrounding dark blue-green haze was increasing rather than decreasing!

The Soul-Eating Bullet has unlimited ammo, but pulling the trigger to fire it consumes SAN points! However, this shotgun can fire continuously as long as the trigger is pulled and held down, and SAN points are only deducted after each trigger pull. But the problem is that these ghosts in front of you won't stand still and let you shoot, so relying solely on continuous fire will deplete your SAN points very quickly.

There's no time left, I need to get to the fourth floor quickly!
Jiang Jin switched the ammo mode of the [Mourning Hunting Rifle] and loaded the [Soul Lock Bullet].

There's no time to drag this out any longer; I just want to make an example of them!
"Death Aim - Activate!"

Through the scope, a bright mark appeared at the fourth-floor stairwell, and the infrared lock point was directly pinned to a hidden spirit.

"boom--!"

[Soul-Locking Bullet] hits the target and triggers [Fatal Penetration]!
The ghostly figure that was hit... instantly disintegrated!
However, there was still a lot of dark blue haze around, and the visibility became even lower than before.

The mournful cries continued to indicate the presence of more spirits at the location marked by Jiang Jin.

More and more spirits began to gather at the location of the stairs!

"No, we won't have enough bullets at this rate..."

Moreover, his hunting instincts told him that these spirits in the shadows were nothing compared to the source of the curse behind them!

Clearly, these gathered spirits were preventing Jiang Jin from going up to the fourth floor!
But Liu Yan is still on the fourth floor...

"Damn it, let's fight!"

Can't wait any longer!
He suddenly pulled out a golden box from the Reincarnator's Watch—his last trump card.

"Knocking ghost...come out!"

He opened the golden chest!
The air suddenly froze, and a putrid smell filled the air. From the box, the silhouette of a hunched old man slowly emerged—a black robe, pale skin covered in lividity, and withered fingers slightly raised.

"Boom... boom..."

The knocking echoed through the library, and the dark, gloomy atmosphere receded like a receding tide!
The demon slaves let out shrill screams, their bodies melting like wax.

Deathstroke's eyes blazed with a fierce blue flame, tearing open a passage to the fourth floor.

"go!"

Jiang Jin rushed to the fourth floor!

The dark, bluish-black haze here was so thick it was almost tangible, reducing visibility to less than three meters. But the runes on the wailing shotgun flickered violently, guiding him in a certain direction.

"Jiang Jin!"

Liu Yan's voice came from within the mist. Dozens of gray threadworms formed a defensive net around her, but the Gu worms were being annihilated at a visible rate.

Standing beside her was a glamorous woman wearing a coat—black hair, snow-white skin, and a beauty mark at the corner of her eye—who was playfully twirling a strand of hair between her fingers as she sized up Jiang Jin.

"This is your boyfriend?" Tomie's red lips curled slightly. "This is the first time I've actually 'seen' him. He's more than I imagined..."

"Shut up." Liu Yan coughed up blood. "Jiang Jin, she is a clone of Tomie, and is temporarily controlled by Gu worms."

Jiang Jin was taken aback.

"Tomie? That name sounds familiar."

“A female demon created by a Japanese manga artist named Junji Ito,” Liu Yan said, looking at Tomie, “can be described as an immortal being.”

Tomie's smile froze for a moment—she saw the gun barrel in Jiang Jin's hand pointed at her, and an infrared aiming dot appeared on her forehead.

“I remember now,” Jiang Jin said coldly, “I’ve seen your story when I was watching short video movie reviews.”

"Don't tell me it's the kind of thing like, 'Come look, this man is called Xiao Shuai, and this woman is called Xiao Mei'?" Tomie immediately started to fidget, but she was still wary of Liu Yan and didn't dare to take off her coat to seduce the man in front of her.

Jiang Jin took out a lunchbox from his Reincarnator watch. It contained chunks of meat he had cut up using the Blood Decomposition Technique in the cafeteria kitchen to replenish SAN.

"Eat it, Liu Yan! After replenishing our SAN, we can return to the Mysterious Layer!"

"Take a look at him first, Jiang Jin! He is none other than Ghost Eye Yang Jian!"

Jiang Jin took a few more steps and looked over. The scene before him made his pupils shrink sharply—

A boy was pinned to the wall with his right hand pierced by rusty coffin nails.

The nail tip pierced through what appeared to be a scarlet ghost eye.

The boy looked at Jiang Jin and said, "Are you also a Ghost Tamer?"

Tomie said, "I understand. You plan to rescue him as well?"

"Wait a minute." Jiang Jin looked at Yang Jian warily. "Are you sure it's him?"

“I’ve confirmed it,” Liu Yan said. “The probability is at least very high, and it’s worth a try.”

Just now, Liu Yan asked Yang Jian, "You went to a convenience store to buy bottled water before, how much did the owner ask for?"

"How did you know about this? He said the city has become like this, selling me a bottle of water for 10,000 yuan. I said why don't you just rob me? He said the worst I could do was lose 10% off and get it for 9,000 yuan."

At this moment, Jiang Jin's hunting instincts, the mournful hunting rifle, the death knell, even the gray worm, and Tomie all failed to notice that a bluish-black hand was reaching out from the shadows behind them!

A hand that clearly belongs to an adult!

(End of this chapter)