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But when the two people, who were already caught in a whirlwind of ambiguity, stood face to face, and something like this was happening downstairs, something felt off.
Dou Tang silently shifted his gaze away from Lu Zizhen's face.
Lu Zizhen also rubbed her neck awkwardly, seemingly feeling somewhat lost.
The sounds downstairs grew louder and louder. A couple with a peculiar fetish were breathing heavily, and it was unclear how far they had progressed.
Dou Tang sighed softly, pursing her lips and remaining silent.
Lu Zizhen glanced at him sideways, then walked to the side with her hands behind her back, not daring to turn her back to him.
Look.
Her fingers, which were stretched behind her back, were twisting and turning together, the tips of which were white from the force, clearly indicating that she was not at peace.
Just then, a gasp came from downstairs, followed by screams.
"Eh, ahhh!!!"
Dou Tang and Lu Zizhen immediately sprang into action!
The two rushed towards the stairs at the same speed. Dou Tang leaped directly from the top of the stairs to the bottom, while Lu Zizhen stepped onto the railing and quickly rushed down the stairs in twos and threes.
It took the two of them less than fifteen seconds to go from the fourth floor to the first floor.
But when the two arrived downstairs, they only saw a disheveled man slumped on the ground, trembling.
Upon seeing two people suddenly come down from upstairs, he panicked and scrambled to the ground to escape. But after looking closely, he rushed up to them as if he'd found a savior, pleading, "Call the police! Call the police! My girlfriend has been kidnapped!"
Lu Zizhen frowned: "What did you encounter? Explain clearly!"
Dou Tang looked towards the corridor, where obvious drag marks appeared on the dusty floor, but there was also some wall plaster sprinkled on top of the drag marks.
If the dragging marks are traces of the woman being abducted, then where did this brand-new plaster come from?
The plaster was sprinkled right on the mark.
"No, I don't know. A black shadow, something blurry and black, took her away!"
The man's speech was somewhat slurred, clearly indicating he was terrified. Dou Tang could also sense a slight resentment emanating from him, suggesting that an evil spirit had indeed attacked them in broad daylight.
Lu Zizhen frowned, then looked at Dou Tang and noticed the marks on the ground.
Dou Tang said coldly, "Chase them."
Lu Zizhen nodded, then turned around and said, "Hey, go tell your witch girlfriend to protect you. Also, don't ever do any more wild sex in such dangerous places!"
After saying that, the two of them ignored the man's reaction and ran forward in the direction of the marks.
The trail led to the end of the corridor, then turned into the playground through the back door at the end.
The two raced against time, climbing out of the window and following the trail until they arrived at a bicycle shed completely shaded by trees in the back playground.
The backyard was quiet, and several badly rusted bicycles were still parked in the shed, seemingly left over from the past.
At the end of the trail, there was a dark hole.
The hole, which had been covered by a heavy, rusty iron lid, had been lifted, and the surrounding fallen leaves had disappeared.
The opening is quite large, about two people wide, and you can see a steel staircase below it, which seems to lead to an underground fortification.
Dou Tang glanced at it and concluded, "An underground air-raid shelter outside Tokyo, pursue it."
After saying that, he jumped down into the hole without hesitation, grabbing the opening with one hand, and his figure disappeared into the darkness.
Lu Zizhen came to the cave entrance and looked down. Dou Tang landed on the ground, hunched over and looked ahead like a wild beast eyeing its prey. At the same time, he said, "It's safe. Come down."
Lu Zizhen then jumped down.
Dou Tang caught her, and then the two of them looked at the dark world before them.
The underground air-raid shelter was quite large. The place where the two landed seemed to be a passageway, about 1.8 meters wide and tall. Dou Tang even had to duck down to avoid hitting the old, broken light bulbs overhead.
It was pitch black before him, but Dou Tang's eyes glowed with a faint blue light, helping him see in the darkness.
Lu Zizhen then took out a talisman, which emitted a bright light. She stuck it to her hand, then faced her palm forward. A soft, warm yellow light was released, which, although not strong, was sufficient.
Seeing her like this, Dou Tang actually smiled: "I remember when you used to pretend to be weak, hiding behind me with a camera. If I had known you were so strong back then, I wouldn't have protected you so much."
"Then you are being rather ungentlemanly."
The two began to explore the passageway, their rapid footsteps echoing in the confined space, becoming eerie and ethereal as they traveled into the distance.
The dark passageway was bright in Dou Tang's eyes. The eyes of the Green Ghost, who had hunted in the abandoned mansion, had given him night vision. He moved forward quickly, touching the walls to sense something.
The passageway was very long, seemingly endless. Dou Tang and Lu Zizhen continued forward, the space ahead appearing to stretch infinitely, the two of them like long snakes in a pipe.
Finally, the passageway came to an end, but it was a fork in the road. However, the roads on both sides were much wider, even wide enough for vehicles to pass through, and the ceiling was a full four meters high.
“These are air defense facilities abandoned during the war. Maybe someone actually lived there. Could they have been kidnapped?” Lu Zizhen wondered, looking at everything she saw.
"No, I sensed resentment from that man; it must be an evil spirit."
The marks on the ground pointed to the left. Dou Tang looked to the left and discovered that there were room doors on both sides of the road.
The drag marks had become blurred and indistinct, as if some unknown entity had lifted the woman up, leaving only a small part of her body on the ground.
But there were no footprints. Could it be that the thing was floating?
Dou Tang was still pondering when he suddenly saw something flash by in the darkness in the distance, followed by a loud bang, as if a door had been slammed shut.
Without a second thought, the two of them started walking and chased after the sound. They eventually arrived at the source of the sound, which was a heavy iron door, but it was not an extremely thick blast door.
The sound of something coming from inside the door
There were some sounds, as if someone was talking, and Lu Zizhen noticed that Dou Tang had already positioned himself with his legs one in front of the other.
His eyes burned with blue flames, he gritted his teeth, and his fists were ready to strike.
Lu Zizhen quickly covered her ears, and the light from her palms made the outline of her ears appear translucent.
The next moment, Dou Tang threw a punch.
Chapter 47 Little Wraith, You've Met the Wrong Person!
A punch, as loud as thunder, as bright as a flash of light.
A heavy punch struck the keyhole on the iron gate, smashing it into a jumble of twisted steel fragments. Then, Dou Tang kicked the gate open.
Dust billowed behind the gate, and in the darkness, a shadowy figure crouched in a corner, muttering to himself.
This place seems to be a barracks or something similar, with abandoned bedding placed on steel frames on both sides, and the smell of decaying wood.
As Dou Tang and Lu Zizhen approached, they discovered that the dark figure was blurry and almost disappeared, clearly not a living person.
It was barely recognizable as a woman's figure, but if it was indeed a woman, her shoulders were rather broad.
She seemed completely unresponsive to the two intruding into the house, still squatting in the corner muttering to herself.
"Teacher Jiangdao, Teacher Jiangdao..."
Jiangdao? Jiangdao Yizai?
You've found the right place!
Dou Tang quickly walked up to the shadowy figure and asked, "The Jiangdao teacher you mentioned, is it Jiangdao Yizai?"
The shadowy figure paused, its shrugged shoulders stiffening. It turned around, its semi-transparent face showing surprise: "Eh?"
“…Huh??”
The dark figure suddenly floated up: "You can see me? Wait, you know Professor Jiangdao? He's still alive?"
Although I don't know what happened, the shadowy girl in front of me seems to know that she is dead, but she still retains her sanity... and she may not know about Ejima Iya's death.
Analyzing these things from the conversation, Dou Tang decided to speak ambiguously: "I am Jiangdao Yizai's friend. We came here by chance. There is another person in our group who was dragged in by something unknown. Do you know what happened?"
“Mr. Jiangdao’s friend…” The dark figure gradually stood up. At this moment, the two noticed that the female ghost was wearing a long, dark school uniform with the hem of her skirt reaching all the way to her ankles.
"Ms. Jiangdao, Ms. Jiangdao..." Her voice trembled, and the temperature in the room seemed to drop several degrees.
Dou Tang protected Lu Zizhen and took a half step back.
The female ghost lowered her head, seemingly lost in some kind of fantasy, her body trembling occasionally. Dou Tang continued, "Can you hear me? Miss... classmate?"
"Eh, eh, it's possible." The female ghost shuddered, suddenly came to her senses, raised her head, and a hint of joy appeared on her face: "That's great, that's great, Teacher Jiangdao is still alive... So, what are you here for?"
"Save someone." Dou Tang sized her up, inwardly wary but outwardly calm: "Someone has been brought in. Besides you, who else is here?"
The female ghost's eyes widened, her face turning panicked: "That's...that's a monster! Oh no, I have to hide quickly, oh no, oh no, oh no..."
After she finished speaking, her figure gradually became transparent and slowly merged into the wall, disappearing from sight, as if she was eager to escape some being wandering in this dark world.
As if to verify her words, a faint, distant sound came from the darkness outside, but the direction from which the sound came seemed to be somewhat high.
Dou Tang immediately understood everything.
Lu Zizhen's mind worked quickly, and she said, "That thing was pasted on the roof before."
Dou Tang nodded.
The wall dust scattered above the marks actually came from the ceiling, and the only drag marks on the ground were because the dragger came from above. It seems there is a predator attached to the top of the wall... And judging from the female ghost's attitude, that predator may harm the vengeful spirit.
The two were very familiar with this situation, and their ability to quickly deduce the enemy's situation based on available intelligence was a basic skill.
Dou Tang turned around and left the room, looking up at the ceiling.
The dome, which I hadn't examined closely before, now revealed quite a few new clues upon closer inspection.
The entire dome was extremely filthy, covered with some dark, grimy substance, like a sticky sludge.
Lu Zizhen, having left the room, waved to light up the road ahead.
"I'm here," she said calmly.
The darkness not far away was illuminated by the dim yellow light, and a disheveled woman appeared out of nowhere, her head bowed and her toes lightly touching the ground.
"Not dead, just unconscious. Tch, trying to control his body?" Lu Zizhen said, somewhat annoyed.
Dou Tang looked up at the woman but found nothing. It seemed that the unknown vengeful spirit had concealed itself or entered the woman's body.
Just then, the woman raised her head, and a sharp, mournful laugh began to echo in the air.
"Hehehehehe..."
The sound was so high-pitched it was irritating, drilling straight into the ears and causing excruciating headaches.
Dou Tang and Lu Zizhen frowned together.
But it wasn't because the sound was too eerie or terrifying.
"I thought I would hear a male voice," Dou Tang said, puzzled.
Indeed, according to common sense, if the missing persons were a man and a woman, then since we have already seen a female ghost, the vengeful spirit here should be male.
The woman, controlled by the vengeful spirit, had a venomous and cold look in her eyes, a stiff smile on her lips, staring intently at the two people in front of her, as if they were two prey who had no sense of their own presence.
Although the vengeful spirit didn't know where these two people got the audacity to keep chasing after him, it had no doubt that once it appeared before them, they would be terrified and run away in a panic.
"Let there be more victims, let there be more people killed," a voice echoed in my heart.
But the indifference of the two people in front of it aroused some doubts. The vengeful spirit, whose mind was disturbed by resentment, still retained some wisdom.
Why do these two ordinary people in front of me not seem afraid?
No, why is that woman laughing?
Why is that man laughing too?
Although he was unable to think about deeper issues, he was undoubtedly being looked down upon, which greatly angered the vengeful spirit.
The woman being controlled by it began to furrow her brows and bar her teeth, looking extremely angry. The already cold underground became even colder, and Dou Tang even exhaled breath.
"Look, the biting cold is here." Lu Zizhen was even in the mood to joke.
Dou Tang let out a long breath, his eyes filled with excitement as he stared at the woman, as if he could see through her body and directly at the vengeful spirit within her.
Azure flames erupted once more, igniting in his eyes. Dou Tang slightly hunched his back, poised to attack.
"Hiss—" A woman not far away screamed, her hair flying wildly as she floated over!
Lu Zizhen shook her head, a look of regret on her face.
Dou Tang stomped heavily on the ground!
"Oh!"
The blue light swayed and dragged through the air, tracing Dou Tang's path. In just a moment, he arrived in front of the woman, grabbed her by the throat, and shoved her backward.
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