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Chapter 131 The Forgotten Breath

Faced with this sudden change.

Erin turned his body slightly away with a hint of disgust, letting the pale face brush past him.

Then, with a "bang," he smashed the yellowed tiles on the ground with his head and bones, creating cracks.

The suffocating despair from before did not cause much of a ripple in Erin's heart. Although Erin's current mental cultivation was not yet sufficient to truly enter a meditative state, dealing with a despairing emotion that tried to corrupt him was a piece of cake.

The suffocating despair had barely spread when it was suppressed by Erin's mental will.

"Huh, why are there dead bodies here?"

The apartment building was ordered to be emptied by the Chinese council members in Chinatown, so they would definitely have sent someone to inspect the building before doing so.

If there had been such an obvious corpse at the entrance of Ping An Apartment at that time, even the most careless inspectors would not have missed it.

In that case.

That means the female corpse was likely found after the Ping An Apartment was emptied.

This is interesting.

Before figuring out exactly what kind of power the forbidden object, the "Shadow of Suffocation," possessed, Erin cautiously refrained from touching the female corpse that had fallen from above him.

Instead, he crouched down at a certain distance from the female corpse and examined it using the flashlight he was carrying.

This is the body of a dead woman. Based on my previous deduction, she should have been dead for a short time.

However, the strong stench emanating from her suggested that she had been dead for quite some time, which contradicted Erin's guess.

but.

Seeing the extraordinary power that must have been tainted on the female corpse, Erin was not surprised.

Her long, protruding tongue made her look no different from those who had hanged themselves and died of suffocation, but strangely, there was no trace of injury on her neck.

"It seems this female corpse died of suffocation. Could this be the power of the forbidden object 'Shadow of Suffocation,' which hasn't fully matured yet?"

Erin stood up and looked at the corridor in front of him that led to even deeper darkness.

The apartment was much larger than Erin had imagined. Although the rate of decay was somewhat strange, there was no other trash on the ground except for some dust.

The long corridor makes the interior space of this apartment building appear even more winding and deep, while the dark green doors on both sides of the corridor give people an invisible sense of cramped oppression.

The walls on both sides of the corridor were severely aged, with even the plaster peeling off.

This added to the desolation and dilapidation of the apartment building.

After a moment's thought, Erin walked into the apartment building.

As Erin walked, he was secretly alarmed. Behind the peeling paint, he could vaguely see some dark red spots, which looked like traces of blood.

Meanwhile, whenever Erin walked past those walls with dark red spots, he could always smell a stench, as if those walls with dark red spots were hiding one corpse after another.

They hadn't walked more than a few steps.

Erin suddenly saw yet another corpse next to the trash can in the corner.

"The second body..."

"The third body..."

As Erin ventured deeper, even stepping over the stairs to the second floor of the apartment building, he continued his ascent.

More and more corpses appeared in front of Erin.

Some of them huddled next to the trash cans;

Yes, they lie quietly at the corner of the stairs;

Some knelt on both knees, facing the wall with expressions of extreme pain...

The sight of so many corpses caused Erin's emotions to fluctuate, and her expression gradually became solemn.

These corpses included men and women, young and old; some were dressed smartly, while others were ragged. These seemingly unrelated people shared a striking similarity.

That is, they all seem to have died of suffocation.

The corpses were completely unharmed, and there were no strangulation marks on their necks that could cause suffocation, yet so many people died of asphyxiation.

This sent a chill down Erin's spine as he ventured deeper into the area.

At the same time, a strange feeling kept emerging in Erin's heart.

The feeling seemed to be reminding him that he had forgotten something very important, but Erin couldn't remember it no matter how hard he tried.

That strange feeling lingered. Erin instinctively sensed something was wrong, but for the moment he couldn't pinpoint it. He could only walk along, trying to figure it out to himself.

"All the corpses appear to have died of suffocation, yet there isn't a single wound on their bodies. How can this be?"

Lost in thought, Erin's legs, which had been steadily moving forward, suddenly stopped. Accompanied by a weak heartbeat, Erin murmured to herself in surprise:

"I feel like... I haven't breathed for a long time?"

In the dilapidated and almost silent Peace Apartment, Erin's voice rang in his mind like a thunderclap.

At this moment, Erin finally realized that she had forgotten how to breathe, without knowing when it started.

moment.

The strange feeling he had been having was suddenly resolved.

Breathing is an almost instinctive reaction for everyone; it is a spontaneous and proactive behavior of the body. Even when a person is asleep, their mouth will still instinctively and subconsciously inhale the surrounding air.

But this time, he actually forgot to breathe.

That ability, which can be described as a human instinct, was subconsciously ignored by him.

This is so incredible.

It wasn't until his body began to feel slightly suffocated, coupled with the suffocating and painful expressions on the faces of the corpses when they died, that he realized what was happening.

Upon realizing the problem, Erin subconsciously increased the intensity of his breathing.

However, when he tried to take a deep breath of fresh air, he found that the air around him seemed to have solidified, making it impossible for him to draw any oxygen from his surroundings to relieve the stuffiness.

"breathe···"

Erin, who kept reminding herself to breathe with the sound of her breathing, found that she had been unknowingly affected by the shadow of suffocation since she entered the building.

This even caused Erin to give up her almost instinctive ability to breathe.

It seems I've already been affected by that suffocating shadow.

[They're already so eager to influence me this early on, it seems...]

(End of this chapter)