Day of Imprisonment

“I feel like I've been forgotten!”

Wu Rui opened the door of her 'hiding place.' Outside was silent and misty.

“My phone is gone, and my clothes have been inexplicably changed into something else. It's very strange. If I hadn't seen my own face in the mirror, I would even suspect I had become someone else. This might be a hidden rule within this haunted building.”

“Ah, I knew I shouldn't have hidden in the hiding place.” Wu Rui sighed, then looked back at the rat with a helpless expression: “Especially, I shouldn't have brought this guy in with me.”

Following Wu Rui out was a white rat wearing a small Taoist robe.

“Why are you looking at Daoist Lord? The situation was critical at the time. That ghost banging the drum was very fierce. If it had found us, we would have surely died. And we were forced into a dead end at the time. If we didn't hide, we could only wait for death.” The white rat also complained bitterly, muttering things like 'Why am I so unlucky,' 'That idiot rabbit,' and so on.

What a chatterbox!

The next moment, the rat's nose twitched, and then it sniffed around.

“What's wrong?” Wu Rui asked.

Her acquaintance with this rat was a coincidence.

When the broadcast announced 'Entering Night,' she inexplicably felt a burst of dizziness, as if she had lost control of her body in an instant, or as if her soul had been drawn out of her body.

However, this feeling came and went quickly.

Almost in a daze, Wu Rui found herself in another place.

In a strange room.

The door was ajar, and the window was half-open.

Even after experiencing several cycle days and witnessing many unbelievable things, Wu Rui was still frightened at that moment, a little flustered, her mind blank.

Fortunately, she wasn't stupid enough to shout or do something irrational.

Calmly observe the environment, Luo Xi had taught her these things.

Lü Ting had also said similar things to her.

“Never make choices in a panic!”

Wu Rui deeply agreed with this point, and then she knew how correct this choice was.

Because next, some fierce ghosts passed by the door, some even poked their heads in to look. Fortunately, Wu Rui was covered with a cotton quilt, which, although smelling musty, seemed like a barrier that could defend against all evil at that moment.

Wu Rui slowly hid her head under the quilt. She could hear something entering the room, searching, the sound of footsteps thumping, making her scalp tingle.

If the other party lifted the quilt, they would immediately find her.

But until the next bell rang, announcing 'Daytime,' the quilt was not lifted.

Good luck.

Wu Rui poked her head out to look and discovered another unusual situation.

The 'daytime' outside was abnormal!

A heavy fog locked the sky, revealing a strange silence, while before, fierce ghosts roamed and the noise was constant.

“This place is too strange!”

Wu Rui knew that she didn't have Luo Xi's brains and couldn't understand the various terrifying mechanisms in the scene, but she knew that this abnormal 'daytime' must have a problem.

So she didn't move.

Later events proved that this was very useful, because after a while, a strange drum sound came, and a few seconds later, a huge ghostly figure appeared outside the window.

She heard the sound of the door being pushed open, and the sound of drumming echoed in the room. At the closest point, it was almost like drumming against the quilt.

People who haven't experienced that feeling can't understand how intense the fear was at the time.

Fortunately, the quilt was still not lifted.

The sound of drums and footsteps moved away, as fast as they came, and left very quickly.

Wu Rui guessed at the time that if it came to speed, she would definitely not be able to outrun the other party.

At this moment, she even thought of some distant memories, as if when she was a child, she heard her father tell her stories, and she would be very afraid even of some monsters in fairy tales. At that time, she would wrap herself in a quilt, hiding inside, both afraid and wanting to hear the story.

Full of security.

“Dad? No, that's not my memory. My parents have never been so good to me. They only have my younger brother in their eyes... But why do I remember these things...” Wu Rui felt a pain in her head.

It was like a nail had been pierced into it.

The confusion and bewilderment of memory brought a splitting headache.

But the more she tried not to think about it, the more memories surfaced.

A cartoon bear hairpin, a birthday present, and her father would carry her on his back, asking her if she would carry her father on her back when she grew up.

“I can carry Dad now, I'm very strong.”

“Haha, my Rui Rui is the best!”

Fragmented memories and voices kept appearing.

Wu Rui was about to faint from the pain. She trembled and touched her nose, discovering that blood was flowing out.

Just as she was about to collapse, a voice reached her ears.

“Supreme Star of the Terrace, respond without ceasing, wisdom bright and pure, may the mind and spirit be at peace.”

Then, a furry thing drilled from behind the quilt to the front, and then hit Wu Rui more than a dozen times left and right.

It slapped pretty hard.

Wu Rui was stunned at the time.

Later, Wu Rui learned that the one who saved her and slapped her was the same guy.

Not a person, but a white rat wearing clothes.

Claiming to be 'Rat Taoist'.

After that, she and 'Rat Taoist' experienced many things, but Wu Rui found that 'Rat Taoist' was even more timid than her.

Many times, it was this rat who desperately pulled her, not letting her go out. For example, when hearing movement outside, or someone talking, or even someone fighting, Wu Rui wanted to go and see, but Rat Taoist would give her a lecture, saying 'Protecting oneself wisely is the way of the superior person'.

Timid is timid, but he still puts gold on his own face.

How shameless!

For example, when being chased by the drumming ghost, they were also in a dead end, which is why she pulled Rat Taoist into her 'hiding place' together.

Wu Rui squatted down at this time, looked at this 'Rat Taoist', thought for a while and said: “I feel like I've been tricked by you?”

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“When did I trick you? Little girl, don't talk nonsense!” Rat Taoist became anxious, his whiskers trembling.

“If you hadn't pulled me back several times, I might have already joined Luo Xi and the others, and wouldn't have been forgotten in this terrible scene.” Wu Rui said this, but in reality, she didn't really blame Rat Taoist.

No matter what, at the critical moment, it was Rat Taoist who recited the incantation and then slapped her back to normal with his little paws.

Otherwise, she might have died of pain.

Her situation was very similar to when Mao Ge had a headache. Thinking of this, Wu Rui felt uneasy.

Fortunately, Rat Taoist later gave her something that he said was a 'pill', although the taste was strange, a little salty, a little astringent, but it must be said that after that, she didn't remember any more strange memories, and her head didn't hurt anymore.

“I'm doing this for your own good. Who knows what the situation is like outside? At the critical moment, you can't make a wrong step, otherwise it will be eternal damnation. You little girl don't thank me and blame me. If I had known, I shouldn't have cared about you, it would have been better to let the ghost eat you!” Rat Taoist muttered again, his words like a string of firecrackers.

Wu Rui had already become immune to this kind of nagging in the hiding place. She ignored it and let it mutter to itself, and it would stop talking after a while.

“So, what should I do now?”

Wu Rui asked herself in her heart. Obviously, Luo Xi and the others should have already left the scene, possibly by clearing the level, or possibly through other means. Now only she was left, and Wu Rui had a very clear understanding of her own abilities.

If it was just a low-level level scene, she could still try to challenge it alone, but if it was a high-level scene, it wouldn't work.

Especially in this kind of large scene, she didn't dare to think about clearing the level, she only hoped not to die and to leave alive.

“I can only leave from the entrance!” This was the only way Wu Rui could think of.

As for exploring the scene or anything, she didn't dare to think about it.

“Rat Taoist, thank you.” Wu Rui sincerely thanked Rat Taoist.

“What, have you discovered your conscience and know that Daoist Lord is good?” Rat Taoist asked.

“I know that I can live to this day thanks to you, but now I plan to leave this scene.”

“Leave? Little girl, you haven't figured out the situation yet, have you? You are a ghost now. Unless you transform back into a living person, you can't leave.” Rat Taoist said one of the most important rules in the scene.

“What?” Wu Rui did indeed discover that her current situation was abnormal.

For example, the light didn't cast her shadow.

But she really didn't expect that she had become a ghost.

How did she become a ghost?

Too amazing.

Moreover, since she was already a ghost, why did she have to hide under the quilt and shiver in fear before?

They are all the same species, who is afraid of whom.

“Of course, 'ghost' is just an identity in this scene.” Rat Taoist explained.

“Then how can I change back?” Wu Rui also found that Rat Taoist knew a lot of things. At this time, of course, it was more direct to ask him.

“It's very simple, find someone who knows you in the 'Night' and have them call out your name.”

“It's indeed very simple, but now, where is there anyone who knows me in the scene?” Wu Rui's mentality was a little broken.

According to Rat Taoist's statement, wouldn't she be unable to leave?

Can she only wait until the end of the cycle day to restart before she can die back?

“Daoist Lord, I do know another method...” Rat Taoist smiled at this time, but just as he said this, he was interrupted by a strange sound.

It was the sound of drums.

Wu Rui's face also changed.

“That fierce ghost is here again!”

Before, this drumming ghost had been chasing them relentlessly. If it wasn't to avoid it, Wu Rui wouldn't have fled in a panic with Rat Taoist into her 'hiding place'.

Unexpectedly, they encountered it again not long after coming out.

“Girl, can you open that hiding place of yours?” Rat Taoist asked at this time.

Wu Rui nodded. After obtaining the card ring, [Hiding Place Inside the Door] could be opened three times within a single cycle day, greatly improving its practicality.

“You hide first, this ghost is coming for Daoist Lord, haha, the sound of drums rises, blue-faced ghost, more than a zhang tall, with towering horns, branching teeth, hairy arms, and scaly back... It captures rats, and won't stop until they die.”