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Chapter 216 The sound of opera singing, the second part of the music box curse (4k)

In the dim light, the hotel appeared extremely dark, and there was a musty smell in the air, clearly a result of being locked down for too long.

Lu Ming, familiar with the route, led the way to the second floor of the Caesars Hotel.

The ground was still covered with a red carpet, and there were some huge, charred, and smelly footprints on it.

It's hard to imagine that a normal person's footprints could be so large, and they also emit a foul stench of decay.

Lu Ming had been to the Caesars Hotel before when dealing with the newspaper ghost incident, so he naturally knew that as long as the footprints overlapped with the ghost's, it would trigger the murder pattern of the woodcutter ghost.

With a single slash, just like a ghostly cleaver, it directly dismembers the supernatural.

Entering the Caesars Hotel without knowing this information would be a life-or-death situation.

Fortunately, Lu Ming had made preparations in advance. He wrapped the soles of everyone's shoes with a thin layer of gold, so that the footprints would not become the medium to trigger the inevitable death rule.

The group made it to the second floor without encountering any danger.

The journey wasn't long, but it was incredibly agonizing for Sun Rui and Li Yang.

Because they were prepared to encounter paranormal events, since the Caesars Grand Hotel was, after all, a haunted place, and treating it like an ordinary hotel would undoubtedly be very dangerous.

Tatata!
The group walked all the way to the fourth floor but found nothing unusual.

This was not unexpected for Lu Ming, because the first floor of the Caesars Hotel was the lobby and kitchen, the second floor was the restaurant, and the third and fourth floors were all rooms.

The truly dangerous place is on the fourth floor, where there is a corridor that does not exist in reality, with countless rooms on both sides that connect to the supernatural realm.

These rooms are undoubtedly inhabited by vengeful ghosts, and there are so many of them that the word "many" is insufficient to describe them.

The rooms on both sides of the corridor seemed endless, arranged in a bizarre way that was incomprehensible to ordinary people.

Sure enough, after arriving at the fourth floor of the hotel, Lu Ming found the familiar corridor without much effort.

The corridor was incredibly deep, with no end in sight. Anyone with a little experience could tell that this was a place that did not exist in reality.

It's almost 6 PM...

Lu Ming muttered to himself.

He had paid attention to the time before he arrived, and he paid special attention to the time point of six o'clock.

Lu Ming had paid attention to this particular time point many times before, and this time, after 6 p.m., something strange happened again.

The lights throughout the Caesars Hotel came on at the same time, illuminating the dim and gloomy environment, and the hotel returned to its previous state of operation, with lights shining everywhere.

Furthermore, you can hear many other noises, such as footsteps and the sound of people eating...
"Playing tricks? Watch me, Ye, shatter them with a single sword strike."

Ye Zhen was still rather reckless, drawing his twisted and cracked longsword from his waist and preparing to attack.

Lu Ming frowned and stopped him, saying, "Don't act on your own. It's normal for the hotel lights to be on and for these unusual movements to occur... Our primary task now is to find room 31."

This Caesars Hotel is far more complex than it appears, and it's not even an ordinary haunted place.

Countless different Caesars Grand Hotels overlapped together, in a state of chaos and disorder.

Like a book, it has countless pages that exist together, and each page can come into contact with the outside world.

Just looking at the densely packed rooms on both sides of the corridor, Sun Rui and the others couldn't help but feel a chill run down their spines.

They knew, of course, that these were not ordinary rooms, and that if they opened these doors, they would most likely be attacked by vengeful ghosts.

"go in."

Lu Ming remained expressionless and continued to lead the way at the front.

Regardless of the danger, he had to deliver the letter to room 31.

And simply leaving it at the door won't do; we might have to open the room and put the letter inside.

"28, 29, 30..."

According to the order, Lu Ming should arrive at the door of room 31 soon.

But then something unexpected happened.

Lu Ming stopped in front of a dim porch lamp, somewhat lost in thought.

This was also a room, exactly the same as the other rooms, with no difference whatsoever. The only difference was that he could hear faint piano music coming from inside, as if someone was playing it.

"Room 71..."

Lu Ming silently read the numbers on the doorplate next to the porch light.

It wasn't 31, but 71, a number I never expected.

Why is this happening?

After room 30, there was room 71.

A certain pattern has been broken, and the rooms have been rearranged in a different way.

"If I'm not mistaken, the piano music played by the people in this room and the bells of the music box are the same."

Although he was somewhat wary, Lu Ming hesitated for a moment before pushing open the door.

"The curse of the music box is related to the wedding. Since this piano music is connected to the music box, it seems we have no choice but to investigate."

Besides this reason, Lu Ming also pushed the door open and entered because the appearance of room number 71 here seemed a bit abrupt, as if someone had specially placed it here, waiting for Lu Ming to enter.

They come, the security.

With Lu Ming's current strength, he really has nothing to fear, even inside the Caesars Grand Hotel.

The interior design is quite old-fashioned, clearly reflecting the style of the Republic of China era.

A piano was placed in the not-so-spacious living room, and a woman was sitting in front of it.

The woman was wearing a red cheongsam, and only her back was visible. She was clearly a human, not a ghost.

The moment Lu Ming and the others appeared, her piano playing rhythm faltered for a moment, and she became somewhat flustered.

"Who is she? Why would someone be in such a haunted place?"

Li Yang, who was following behind Lu Ming, looked wary and suspiciously examined the woman sitting in front of the piano.

This is a very beautiful woman with delicate features, fair skin, elegant hair styled in an updo, and a tight-fitting cheongsam that accentuates her perfect figure.

They couldn't sense any sign of death from this woman.

Moreover, her lips were clenched tightly, and her whole body seemed to be trembling violently, but she endured this fear and dread and insisted on playing the piano in front of her, as if some necessary reason was prompting her to do so.

"Don't disturb her, she's playing the piano."

Lu Ming knew that Xiang Lan was playing the second part of the music box curse. Besides Xiang Lan, there should also be a man named Anan, and they should be living together.

They weren't exactly ghost tamers, but they were also different from normal living people; they had been imprisoned in the Caesars Hotel for a long time.

To be more precise, both Anan and Xianglan were people from the Republican era, but they were trapped here in a strange way.

Lu Ming had a sudden thought and decided to give it a try to see if he could control one of the puzzle pieces of the music box curse.

However, once Xianglan stops playing, a terrifying supernatural attack will strike, so in order not to disturb Xianglan, Lu Ming directly activated the sixth layer of the Ghost Domain. Everything in sight seemed to turn into an eerie gray-white photograph.

Everything was frozen at a certain point in time.

The six layers of the ghost realm froze time.

Sun Rui, Li Yang, and Xiang Lan all froze simultaneously, frozen in place.

Only Ye Zhen made a slight movement; his eyelids twitched, and his eyes rolled around.

The six layers of ghostly domain cannot completely freeze his time.

Of the people present, only Ye Zhen, besides Lu Ming, was able to realize what had happened.

Lu Ming used the six layers of the Ghost Domain to prevent Xianglan from being frightened by him, thus stopping her from playing the zither, or even running away.

Then, a phantom figure gradually split off from Lu Ming's body.

The figure was wearing a red and green sweater, a felt hat, and sharp steel claws on its fingers.

Most strikingly, his face was covered in burns, with almost no normal skin, making him appear extremely horrific and grotesque.

This is Freddy Krueger, the malevolent ghost from A Nightmare on Elm Street who strikes fear into the hearts of many.

Freddy didn't immediately start killing this time. Instead, he slowly walked over to Xianglan and sat down next to her.

Then, Freddy began to play the piano in the same way that Xianglan played.

Beautiful piano music flowed from under his sharp fingernails; the melody was no longer that of a music box, but a piece of music he had never heard before.

Generally speaking, people who know nothing about Western piano music would not recognize it.

However, the melody is very soothing, echoing softly, somewhat like a lullaby from abroad, but it seems to have been slightly modified from the lullaby, with a dark, oppressive, and eerie feeling.

After Lu Ming used the six layers of Ghost Domain to freeze time, he had Freddy appear and attempt to merge with and control the second melody of the music box.

He didn't know if he could succeed; after all, it was just a simple experiment.

As it turns out, even for a ghost tamer like Lu Ming who has already broken through the limits, controlling a new supernatural entity is not a simple matter.

Even though Freddy replicated every note of the second music box curse, when he played it, it was just a simple piece of music.

At most, it's more soothing and beautiful than the piano music played by an average person.

It does not possess any special supernatural abilities.

"Failed?"

Lu Ming's eyes shifted slightly, but his body remained stiff, frozen in place by the sixth layer of the ghost domain.

The failure of this attempt did not frustrate him too much, or rather, it was something he had expected.

It would be the success on the first try that would strike him as unusual.

"Since we can't control it, we have no choice but to leave this eerie room 71."

With a thought, Lu Ming used his Ghost Domain to teleport himself and the others in the room back to the corridor.

The time-stop effect of the sixth-layer ghost realm has ended.

Sun Rui, Li Yang, and Ye Zhen resumed their actions simultaneously.

Of the three, Sun Rui and Li Yang only felt a flash before their eyes and found themselves in the corridor. Only Ye Zhen seemed to know what had happened.

He was always outspoken, and looking at Lu Ming, he said directly, "Lu Wudi, as expected of the man I've chosen, your mastery of the Ghost Domain has reached such a level, you can even stop time..."

Pause time?

Sun Rui and Li Yang were taken aback upon hearing this.

Ye Zhen obviously wouldn't speak carelessly. If he said Lu Ming could stop time, then their sudden appearance outside the room just now must have been Lu Ming's doing.

This ability doesn't sound threatening; at most, it might serve as a special kind of cheat code in some Japanese films.

But those who control ghosts are well aware of what pausing time means.

Even a brief pause is an extremely terrifying thing in the face of the supernatural.

Imagine how terrifying it would be if someone could kill you silently without your knowledge or warning.

Lu Ming didn't care about these things and said, "The woman in the room is not a ghost, nor a ghost tamer. She is just an ordinary person. The fact that an ordinary person can play a piano piece in a supernatural place is itself unusual."

"And as far as I know, once she stops playing, we will suffer some kind of terrible supernatural attack... In other words, the piano piece she is playing at this moment is to fight against that supernatural attack."

Lu Ming didn't just discover these things; he already knew about them.

However, after hearing the piano music, Lu Ming had the idea to give it a try, but now that the attempt had failed, he naturally gave up.

The second curse of the music box is in the Caesars Hotel. It's not going anywhere, so we can deal with it later.

Li Yang said, "So, Captain, the order of the other rooms is normal, but room 31 has mysteriously disappeared. How are we going to deliver the letter to room 31?"

The deep corridor seemed to stretch on forever, with many branching paths interspersed throughout.

Even Lu Ming, who had been here before, couldn't find his way around.

Moreover, this place is a haunted place, not a real location, and the terrain and the arrangement of the rooms can change at any moment.

"We have no other way but to continue."

After saying that, Lu Ming led the way to the end of the corridor.

He is very powerful now, and can even restart himself using some special method.

Ordinary ghosts and supernatural attacks cannot harm him.

Seeing this, Li Yang, Sun Rui, and Ye Zhen followed behind Lu Ming.

Of the three, only Sun Rui seemed very nervous.

Li Yang trusted Lu Ming unconditionally and never thought anything would happen to them.

Besides trusting Lu Ming, Ye Zhen was also very confident in his own abilities and did not think that his scapegoat would be suppressed by the ghosts in the Caesars Hotel.

Before long, the group came to their first fork in the road.

To the left is a corridor that seems to have no end, and to the right is another corridor lined with rooms.

Before Lu Ming could make a decision, he suddenly heard a faint voice coming from afar.

The sound of opera singing was very familiar.

It felt like I'd heard it somewhere before.

"The singing voice... is somewhat similar to the singing voice coming from the Ghost Stage in Taiping Ancient Town."

"However, the sound is more solid. If the sound from the Ghost Stage is just a supernatural simulation and not real, then this time it is real that someone is performing."

(End of this chapter)