A bizarre resurrection: I, Yang Jian, am bound by a contract with the school beauty!

"Water...there really is water!"

"The passage...the passage is broken?!"

"How could this be?! How could it have broken at the top first?!"

The expressions on everyone's faces.

In that instant, everyone became extremely tense!

panic.

It spread in their hearts like a plague.

They are all demon tamers.

They know this better than anyone else.

—In this eerie lake, the appearance of water signifies the appearance of ghosts!

Because the "water" in this lake is not water at all!

It is a terrifying thing formed from the resentment and supernatural forces of countless vengeful ghosts!

as predicted!

The very next second, in their utter horror...

An indescribable, terrifyingly eerie aura suddenly erupted from the darkness ahead!

That aura.

It was cold, deathly silent, and filled with an ominous atmosphere, like an ancient iceberg crashing down on them!

The eerie perceptions of everyone.

All of this happens at this moment.

The strongest alarm was issued!

It felt as if sharp needles were piercing their nerves!

"Enemy attack!"

"Prepare for battle!"

Bruno was the first to react.

He roared loudly.

He attempted to mobilize the power of the vengeful ghost that he had just devoured within his body.

The others also adopted defensive stances.

Supernatural power surged within them, emitting faint lights of various colors, attempting to salvage a sliver of life in the darkness.

However, it was all in vain.

Faced with absolute terror.

Their feeble resistance seemed so laughable and powerless.

Before they could even see what was in the darkness...

Before they could fully unleash the supernatural power within them...

"Pfft—!"

A strange sound, like a sharp weapon cutting flesh or cloth being torn, suddenly rang out in the ranks.

Immediately afterwards, a player's scream abruptly ceased.

Scarlet.

Warm blood gushed out suddenly, splattering all over the face of his companion!

Everyone was stunned.

They had just adapted to the darkness.

In their vision, where they could only see blurry outlines, they could only see the body of a companion beside them...

It was neatly divided into two sections from the waist up!

The upper body and lower body separated instantly!

A large amount of internal organs and blood mixed together and "splashed" onto the ground.

And on his face,

They still maintained that terrified expression, ready to defend themselves against the enemy.

He even,

They didn't even know how they died.

Extreme fear gripped everyone's hearts in an instant!

They had no idea what was happening in front of them!

They didn't even see any enemies!

All they knew was that their comrade was dead!

They were instantly cut in half in a way they could not comprehend at all!

They never dreamed of this.

The path back that they considered their "way out" turned out to be even more deadly than the bottom of the abyss!

They had no idea.

This sturdy passage was first crushed by the surging lake water, and the point where it flowed into the lake was not at the bottom where the pressure was greatest, but rather...

Above their heads!

……

at the same time.

The mysterious man, who was walking rapidly down the passage, suddenly stopped.

He suddenly looked up.

His gaze seemed to pierce through layers of darkness and rocks, looking in the direction the group of people had gone.

The ten players following behind him stopped in their tracks, looking at him with confusion.

"What's wrong?" one of them asked.

The mysterious man did not answer. His pupils, in the flickering firelight, slightly contracted and dilated, flashing with a light of surprise and uncertainty.

A faint, almost imperceptible presence.

Yet, an eerie fluctuation, strangely familiar, emanated from above.

The fluctuation made him feel a sense of... apprehension.

"I see……"

He muttered to himself.

His voice carried a hint of realization, as well as a subtle sense of gravity.

"That ghost...that ghost that should never have been released..."

"It was actually not suppressed in the deepest part of the Ghost Lake."

In his mind.

Slowly, a gaunt and terrifying figure, forgotten for countless years, emerged.

That figure.

It lacked both earth-shattering grandeur and world-destroying power.

It has only one rule, which is extremely simple yet extremely unsolvable.

The mysterious man's eyes sharpened.

He spoke slowly and deliberately.

He uttered that rule that froze the soul.

"Make eye contact... and you'll die!"

Making eye contact is certain death!

Anyone who makes eye contact with that ghost.

Whether you are human, ghost, god, or Buddha, you will trigger its unreasonable and domineering killing rules and will surely die!

This is a terror that is almost unsolvable!

The memories of a mysterious man.

It was as if this familiar, eerie energy had pulled me back to an incredibly distant era.

In those days.

This ghost,

It is the nightmare of all existence.

It was suppressed in the deepest part of the Ghost Lake.

Although it has been worn down by countless years, its strength is no longer what it used to be, and it has been weakened to an extreme.

But even so,

That's not something a mere group of newcomers who have just gained supernatural powers can contend with.

I encountered that vengeful ghost.

For those players who chose to retreat, their fate was already sealed.

just,

He didn't understand.

How could such a terrifying being, which should have been sealed away and suppressed at the very bottom of the eerie lake, be...?

How did it end up there?

That spiral staircase.

The higher you go,

The less pressure one experiences from the mysterious lake, the safer one should be.

Gradually,

A flash of understanding crossed his deep eyes.

Yes.

It's lake water!

As the black coffin containing the female corpse moved.

The entire haunted lake began to revive and spiral out of control.

The supernatural power that had been suppressed for countless years was now surging wildly, like boiling water.

This force,

This caused the lake water to surge back!

It's like shaking a bottle of murky water that's accumulated countless impurities. Some things that were originally at the bottom of the bottle will naturally be overturned by this force and surge to the top!

I've figured that out.

The mysterious man's expression became more solemn than ever before.

What he was worried about was...

It's no longer just about the life or death of those dozen or so players.

in case……

If that "staring ghost," carried by the surging lake water and through the already exposed breach in the passage, were to completely leak out...

The consequences would be unimaginable!

That would be an unimaginable catastrophe that would sweep across the real world!

"They encountered the 'Staring Ghost'."

The mysterious man withdrew his gaze.

He spoke in a low voice to the fewer than ten players behind him who had chosen to believe him and continue downwards.

He didn't explain much.

Simply put, the terrifying rules were revealed.

"Make eye contact, and you'll die!"

He turned around.

The arm holding the will-o'-the-wisp torch appeared more stable, and the steps quickened.

"Gentlemen, we need to speed things up."

"Some things from the bottom of the lake have been brought to the surface by this out-of-control water."

"We must get to the bottom as soon as possible."

"Go and solidify the seal there, go and deal with the source of all this."

"Otherwise, when the seal on the entire Ghost Lake completely collapses..."

"It's not just those people who are going to die; we, and the entire world outside, will come to an end."