I changed the world.

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"Don't go over the wall! You can't get out! You can't get out from here!!" Soon, after another intruder tried to escape by climbing over the wall, everyone knew that climbing over the wall would not get them out of this nightmarish situation.

"It's a ghost wall! It's a ghost wall!" one of the infiltrators cried out in despair, drawing his pistol and firing at the oncoming stone beasts. However, this level of firepower was not enough to cause much damage to these rock-based creatures; instead, it attracted their primary attack...

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"Ugh..." With a soft sound, the thin man struggled to his feet on the ground near the east wing. He had been knocked away by the stone lion and was momentarily dazed when he fell to the side. Only now did he come to his senses. His body was covered with scratches from the friction with the ground. However, after stretching his limbs, he found that there were no broken bones or other serious injuries, which was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

He looked around blankly and found that several of his accomplices had fallen to the ground, some of them even with mutilated bodies. His body shuddered involuntarily, and then he heard his accomplices shouting that they were trapped in a ghost wall and couldn't get out by climbing over the wall. He was even more terrified.

Although he still didn't know what had happened, everything before him confirmed that the operation had failed, and not only had it failed, but they might all perish here. What terrified him most was that what he was witnessing was clearly supernatural, a realm completely beyond his comprehension.

As a branch of a folk secret society, the Lotus Platform Society, to which the thin man belonged, was not an unfounded troupe. It naturally possessed some tricks and supernatural practices. However, as a leader of the society, he knew that these were all genuine charlatan tricks, and none of them actually involved supernatural powers.

There was a time when he arrogantly believed he had completely understood these so-called magical arts, dismissing them as mere tricks to fool the ignorant. However, only now does he realize that while his own methods may indeed be tricks, that doesn't mean others' are...

His mind was a complete mess. However, the thin man knew that in the current situation, it was impossible for him to figure things out while lying on the ground. He first pressed the earpiece and whispered a few times, only to find with despair that the earpiece had stopped working at some point, and the notification tone coming from it indicated that the connection had been lost...

Immediately afterward, he saw a fat man rushing towards him with unprecedented agility. Just as the man was about to pass him, he spotted him sitting up and grabbed him, saying, "Seventh Brother, don't just stand there, run!"

Hearing the screams, cries for help, and even gunshots behind him, the thin man, who had initially followed the fat man in a daze, gradually came to his senses. He shook off the fat man's hand, took long strides, and began to run wildly...

Although they were in a panic and didn't know where to go, it seemed like some kind of tacit understanding that the two of them avoided their original target—Zhang Jing's main house, as if some more terrifying monster was hiding inside.

It's already like this outside, who knows what even more terrifying things might happen once we actually go inside that house...

Neither of them dared to gamble with their lives at stake. Even the last bit of ferocity left in the thin man had been wiped out by the stone lion's blow...

Besides, even the pistol slipped from my hand when it flew out, and I don't have time to look for it now...

The two ran frantically, bypassing the main house and sprinting along the path beside it towards the backyard. They were almost at the back door when they saw something even more terrifying. On either side of the back door, another pair of stone lions stood, and now, those lions began to tremble and turn their heads…

"Oh my god!" the fat man shouted and ran to the other side, while the thin man was even faster. He had already spotted a path on the other side that looked like it led to the back of the mountain.

"Erpang, head towards the back mountain! Maybe we can escape!!!" The thin man pointed and shouted as he rushed over.

The fat man followed behind him, panting heavily as they sprinted up the mountain path. Without looking back, they began running wildly along the path; however, they soon realized that taking this route was not a good idea.

That is because, along the mountain path paved with bluestone steps, there is a stone beast carving at intervals. These carvings are lifelike. In the past, even if the thin man saw them, he would not pay much attention to them. At most, he would praise the owner's attention to detail, and that would be it.

However, now, he and the fat man clearly saw that as they rushed up the mountain path, the stone beasts on both sides of the steps began to crack. Cracks appeared on the stone beasts like the breaking of an eggshell. After that, as some weathered material peeled off their shells, the stone beasts began to turn their heads and turn their gazes toward the two of them...

In this situation, turning back was absolutely impossible; there were pursuers behind them, and if they turned back, they would be caught red-handed. The only way was to speed up and move forward. After all, based on their previous experience, it would take some time for these stone beasts to come to life, and they had to use this time to create a safe distance. In short, getting as far away from this eerie house as possible was the only sensible thing to do...

The two ran wildly along the mountain path, one after the other. Unfortunately, neither of them were people who usually had a habit of long-distance running or other fitness activities. By the time they reached the end of the path after this extreme sprint, they were both panting heavily. The fat man, who was a step behind, was panting heavily, his mouth agape, looking like he was completely out of breath.

At the end of the mountain path is a platform, which is decorated quite exquisitely and looks like a viewing platform. In the middle of the platform is a traditional Eastern-style pavilion.

However, the two of them had no time to appreciate the scenery around them. When they rushed onto the viewing platform and saw the surrounding landscape, their faces showed an overwhelming joy at surviving a disaster.

"Er...Er Pang, it's not high here...we can just...climb down and...get out!" The thin man panted as he called to the fat man, pointing to the railing of the viewing platform.

Chapter 368 The Mysterious Night at the Zhang Residence

The viewing platform is located on a small hill, with a highway not far below. Strictly speaking, the height from the top of the hill to the highway is not high, about three or four stories. In particular, the slope is not a steep cliff, but a steep slope covered with various plants. Although the angle looks large, there are plants to climb, so climbing down from here to the highway should not be a problem.

Especially since they have no choice now!

The two sprinted past the pavilion at top speed, panting heavily as they used their last bit of strength to rush towards the railing of the viewing platform. However, just as they were about to reach the railing, their vision blurred, and in the next instant, the world spun around them, and everything around them changed in a whirlwind...

The sudden change in the surrounding environment disrupted the two men's sense of space, causing them to feel as if they had lost their balance. The thin man instinctively squatted down to steady himself on the ground, while the fat man, exhausted, lost his footing and fell to the ground with a thud.

In just a breath or two, when the two of them stood up again, they saw a completely different scene than before.

This is a small hillside surrounded by lush trees. Looking up, a dazzling Milky Way stretches across the sky, a stark contrast to the night skies of big cities like Linzhou, where you can hardly see any stars.

Moonlight bathed the earth, and there were neither stone beasts nor viewing platforms in sight. It was as if they had suddenly been transported to another world.

"This is..." Both of them had blank stares on their faces, completely unaware of what had happened.

The two exchanged a glance, and in each other's eyes, they saw fear—the fear of the unknown. For them, everything they had experienced that day was enough to completely overturn their worldview.

"Seventh...Seventh Brother..." The fat man forced a smile that looked more like a grimace and asked, "What...what should we do now?"

The thin man thought to himself, "How should I know what to do? I'm desperate too..."

But at this moment, he couldn't bring himself to say such words. He didn't answer immediately, and first fiddled with his headphones, which still showed a connection loss message...

He looked around, circling the area, trying to find something to help him assess the situation. The fat man, though receiving no answer, followed closely behind, also glancing around intently.

Unexpectedly, the two actually found a man-made object: a stone tablet not far away. The tablet looked ancient and weathered, clearly having been around for many years. It was half-hidden in the grass and had two ancient seal script characters on it.

"Seventh Brother, what... what is this character..." The fat man stared at it for a while, and finally turned to ask his eldest brother.

The thin man blushed. The inscription on the stone tablet was very ancient, and since he hadn't studied it in a relevant field at university, he naturally couldn't recognize what the characters were. He immediately retorted angrily, "These characters look dated! I'm not one of those professors in university, how am I supposed to know what's written..."

Seeing that they hadn't found anything else, the two waited in place for a while, but still found nothing, so they had no choice but to continue forward.

The surrounding area is filled with sparse and dense woods. This is a hillside with an ancient path leading down the mountain to the southeast. The path is not very flat, but some broken stone slabs still remain. The sound of flowing water can be heard not far away, as if a stream is passing by nearby.

The two walked along the ancient path. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, and the leaves on the trees beside them rustled and shook.

"Seven...Seventh Brother..." The fat man suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"what happened?"

"I...I think I saw something pass by..." the fat man said, pointing to the side with a trembling voice.

Upon hearing this, the thin man felt a chill run down his spine and hurriedly looked in the direction the fat man was pointing. In the dark jungle, there seemed to be countless unknown entities, but upon closer inspection, he couldn't make out anything clearly.

"Don't...don't scare yourself..." The thin man looked around for a while but couldn't see anything, so he forced himself to remain calm and continued walking forward.

After walking a few steps, another gentle breeze blew by, rustling the branches and leaves of the surrounding trees...

"Seventh Brother... I think I saw something pass by again..." The fat man's face was more ashen than if he were crying.

This time, the thin man didn't rebuke him again, because even he himself seemed to see something flash by...

However, upon closer inspection, nothing could be clearly seen in the deep jungle.

It was as if some unknown threat was lurking nearby, watching them...

Beads of sweat the size of soybeans slid down the thin man's face, but he dared not wipe them away, as if he were afraid that wiping away the sweat would bring great danger...

The two stared wide-eyed, looking around. However, in this dark woodland, with only moonlight as their sole source of illumination, they could barely see their surroundings. Finding anything was no easy task.

The thin man seemed to remember something, and searched his body for a while, but found nothing. Then he turned to the fat man next to him: "Quick, check if your phone is still there."

Seeing that the fat man seemed a little confused, he urged again, "Hurry up, don't just stand there, mine has run away..."

"Oh, oh..." The fat man frantically searched his body for a while and finally pulled out his cell phone from his pants pocket, so he hadn't lost it.

"Lighting, lighting!" the thin man reminded him from the side. Only then did the fat man realize that the phone had a lighting function, and many phones had quite good lighting functions. The one in his hand, for example, was known for its powerful lighting.

With breakthroughs in electrical technology, modern mobile phone lighting systems widely utilize light enhancement technology due to the use of high-power batteries. The effect is even better than the flashlights of Zhang Jing's previous life. After turning on the light, the fat man began to shine it into the dark areas of the surrounding woodland.

As he swept the light towards the depths of the dense forest on his right, he suddenly stopped what he was doing. Right in their line of sight, a skeleton, now completely white, hung from a tree, swaying gently in the wind...

The two were stunned for a long while, then looked at each other, and in each other's eyes they saw fear...

No other abnormalities were found after that.

The two continued on their way, but they walked much slower than before. The skeleton hanging from the tree seemed like some kind of lingering curse, weighing heavily on their hearts. It also served as a warning that there was some deadly threat in this area that they were unaware of.

Chapter 369 Kneeling and Begging for Mercy

Before the two had walked another hundred meters, they vaguely saw a white shadow drift past in front of them. This time, the fat man seized the opportunity and shone the light in his hand in that direction.

Then, the two saw, within the halo of light, that floating in the air was clearly a light, floating paper figure…

The white paper figure, illuminated by the light, seemed to float in mid-air. Though it appeared light and airy, it defied logic and remained still in the breeze. Then, it slowly turned its face to look at the two people. It was a blank face, casually drawn with ink. However, at that very moment, the corners of its crudely drawn mouth slowly curved upwards, offering a smile to the two.

At this moment, that smile appeared so eerie and chilling to the two of them...

"Da da... da da da..."

The thin man heard a rapid knocking sound in his ear. He turned his head and saw that it was the fat man who was trembling all over, his upper and lower jaws knocking together uncontrollably.

He himself also felt a warm current slowly flowing down his groin...

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed through the thin man's mind. In a moment of sudden inspiration, he knelt down with a thud and began kowtowing repeatedly, pleading, "We admit defeat!! We admit defeat!!!! Please, someone with divine intervention, spare our lives!!!"

Having never seen his elder brother like this before, the fat man was momentarily stunned. However, he quickly recovered and, mimicking his brother's posture, prostrated himself on the ground, kowtowing and shouting, "Great master, spare my life! I know I was wrong, please spare my worthless life..."

By this time, the two of them finally realized that there really were extraordinary people in this world!

And everything they are facing now will most likely fall on the shoulders of that unknown "master".

However, considering everything they had experienced, such a highly accomplished person was simply incomparable to the so-called "masters" they had previously imagined.

Even they themselves wondered to themselves, such methods are practically divine, is it really the work of a "human"?

However, at this moment, the only way is to kneel down and beg for mercy. No matter whether the master here is a human, a god, or an immortal, it would be best if the other party could just let them go like a fart.

The two men kowtowed and begged for mercy for a long time. The surroundings remained silent, as if no one was around. However, the two men did not dare to stop. They kowtowed repeatedly until their foreheads were bloody and their heads were throbbing. They were dizzy and lightheaded, but they did not dare to stop. They continued to bang their heads on the ground.

Finally, a cloud of smoke suddenly rose up around them. Then, as the smoke dissipated, they heard footsteps ahead. Seeing that something had changed, the two dared not stop and continued to beg for mercy on the ground, but their voices were even louder than before.

Then they heard footsteps approaching slowly, followed by an old voice saying, "Wait a moment."

The two dared not disobey and quickly stopped what they were doing, but they did not dare to raise their heads and just lay prostrate on the ground, feeling uneasy.

"Keep them under guard and await the Lord's return to decide their fate," the voice said again.

Immediately afterwards, the two felt a tightness on their backs as each was grabbed by a pair of strong arms and lifted up by their vests. The weight of an adult was thrown into the other's hands as if it were effortless.