Eighteen Ghost Emperors of my ancestors, how dare you make me live in terror?

Knock knock.

A dull knocking sounded in the quiet corridor.

This eerie darkness can scare people to death.

Every time Lu Ye knocked on the guest room door, Chen Chen's chubby body would jiggle.

I was afraid those doors would suddenly open.

"Are you really that afraid of ghosts?" Lu Ye looked at the chubby little hand tightly clutching his clothes. "I always thought you were joking."

"I swear to God," Chen Chen raised his hand and swore, "Although I'm an S-rank, I've been genuinely afraid of ghosts since I was a child."

I glanced at the time: 23:56:19.

.......

Rule 5: [Curfew Hours]

Do not leave the room after midnight and do not disturb other guests.

........

Knock knock.

Lu continued knocking on the next guest room without stopping.

"These guest rooms are empty. Someone went in during the day before, but there was nothing there."

"I know no one's here," Lu knocked again, "but something's fishy."

"If it's suspicious, why are you still knocking?"

"How will they know we're going in if we don't knock?"

Chen Chenguang heard a few words in the middle, "We...are we still going in?"

"How can we steal the ghost artifact if we don't go inside?"

23:58:01.

Lu Ye turned around and went up to the third floor, knocking on the doors of all seven or eight rooms.

Still no response.

23:59:28.

There were only a few dozen seconds left until midnight.

Chen Chen could also see that Lu Ye had no intention of returning to his room before midnight.

So he gently fiddled with the ring on his hand, summoning two child ghosts to place on his shoulders.

"Fine, fine, I'll just drag all this fat down and play along with you. After all, I'm the one who came to you."

The Wilderness Inn has many rooms.

Only a few rooms are inhabited by living people; the others have never been opened.

But on the day he picked up the soup spoon, Lu saw the door open as he bent down.

There should be a strange creature living in each room.

Based on past experiences of Ghost Hunters clearing dungeons, some people have entered these rooms in an attempt to search for ghost artifacts, but found nothing.

Actually, it's not that it doesn't exist.

Rather, they didn't actually open those doors.

Tick ​​tock.

The empty corridor seemed to echo with the sound of a clock.

At this moment, just before dawn, the silence was eerily quiet.

Lu Ye walked to the innermost level, where the signboard clearly read "He Zhijian".

"Should we go in or not?" Lu Ye grinned at Chen Chen.

Chen Chen said with a long face, "You're the boss, so you call the shots. I'm definitely not going to die in this godforsaken place."

"Let's do it."

.......

00:00:00.

With a gentle push of the hand holding the doorknob, the door opened without much effort.

Upon entering, you'll find a living room with a distinctly Japanese style.

A figure dressed in a dark blue kimono knelt in front of a long tatami table, with his back to the two people.

From behind, her hands are held up, and her head, with its hair tied in a bun, lowers every now and then.

This is a posture for eating.

The other person seemed to sense someone approaching from behind, and instead of moving, turned their head.

It was a blank face.

"An incompetent husband." Chen Chen chuckled. "So you live here?"

Then, the smug smile froze on his face.

Because he could clearly see the dishes placed on the tatami table.

Fingers, feet, hair, torn skin... like scraps removed from a corpse, too precious to throw away, used as a side dish.

The man was chewing on a finger, the crunching sound sending chills down your spine, and he extended an invitation with a blank expression.

"Would you... like to enjoy it too?"

Chen Chen's face turned pale instantly, and his lips trembled.

"This is the entrance," Lu Ye said.

"Wh...what entrance?"

"The true entrance to the [Widow of the Wilderness] instance."

"Where? I can't see it." Chen Chen looked around blankly.

You have to look at it from the opposite direction.

The sound came from above.

Chen Chen turned his head and saw that there was no one around him anymore. Lu was standing upside down on the ceiling at some point.

"I...I'm not going. Don't drag me into this. I don't want to see it." Chen Chen seemed to have guessed something and turned around, intending to retreat two miles away first.

Before he even reached the door, he was bound like a maggot by a strange, crystalline red thread that had mysteriously emerged from his clothes.

With a flick of his finger, Lu Ye tightened the red thread, pulling Chen Chen up to the ceiling and causing him to fall to the ground beside him.

"Hehe, too late."

The instant the perspective rotates.

It was as if I had entered another space; the scene before me had completely changed.

A strong stench of blood and decay filled the air, and the atmosphere was cold and eerie.

No longer an elegant Japanese-style room, but a haunted house in ruins, the walls covered with black bloodstains and slime, piled high with rotting limbs and maggots. The words "He Zhijian" still hang on the door, but now it is decayed and dilapidated.

The two were no longer upside down, but were actually standing on the floor.

"This is the real eerie copy, hidden in the inverted side of the Wilderness Inn."

Lu Ye smiled happily, feeling a great sense of accomplishment in solving the puzzle.

"Don't bend over, because if you bend over you can see the real copy upside down."

"It is forbidden to go out after midnight because the entrance to the upside-down world will only open after midnight."

"Do not enter the [He Room], because this room is the only entrance to the real instance after midnight."

"Everyone felt something was wrong before, but they didn't know what it was, simply because they hadn't noticed it..."

"This is actually a reverse-rule A-grade copy!"

So cool.

So this is what it feels like to use your brain!

Lu Ye was enveloped in a huge sense of satisfaction at this moment, and patted Chen Chen's shoulder heavily.

"Praise me quickly."

"Don't rush to praise me."

Chen Chen pointed to a grotesque creature in front of them that was so disgusting it was almost indescribable.

"I understand everything you're saying, but I'd like to ask you... what is this thing in front of us?"

This creature was almost half the size of a room. You could vaguely make out that its main body was humanoid, but its limbs were slender and terrifyingly long, and its abdomen was swollen like an insect egg.

Its back, covered in slime, was covered with human arms and legs, as if they had been randomly inserted.

Click click click.

The monster was greedily gnawing on something.

It was a corpse with its skin peeled off, its hands and feet cut off, its hair shaved off... and all its remaining tissues removed, like a carefully selected delicacy.

It's clear that the corpse was very strong when it was alive, with a pair of impressive pectoral muscles.

Who knows, it might be useful someday for opening wine bottles and squeezing out a "heart" or something.

"This guy is Kirishima Yukino's true husband, Makinohara."

A bizarre A-grade creature!

Seemingly startled by the calling of their names, the monster abruptly turned its head, its zombie-like face staring intently at them, before letting out a terrifying shriek from its throat.

"Now we'll split into two groups."

As the monster lunged at him, Lu also quickened his pace.

"The real instance has already entered. All the rooms outside can be opened. There are eerie things and ghost artifacts inside. I'll take care of them all."

"And what about me?" Chen Chen pointed to himself.

"You're in charge of stopping this big guy."

"Who?"

Chen Chen was stunned.

Who is responsible?

Then, in the next moment, Lu Ye grabbed him by the collar, charged forward with all his might, and threw him into the monster's wide-open mouth like a shot put.

Lu Ye himself had already left the room and closed the door.

inside the room.

"Holy crap!"

"I'm warning you, don't you fucking come any closer!"