si-mexico Chapter 538 (2 chapters combined into one) [Domain·Double Gate] Luo Weicheng's Method
Chapter 538 (2 chapters combined into one) [Domain·Double Gate] Luo Weicheng's Method
The first rays of dawn shone into the beauty salon.
Looking at Luo Weicheng's arm, Wu Hui's lips moved slightly, and her heart felt as if it were being clenched by a hand.
On one of his arms and one of his calves, there were two distinct, dark handprints, one large and one small, as if they had been branded with a hot iron.
This was undoubtedly left behind by two ghosts, and the price was the visible atrophy of muscles.
"It's alright, don't worry." Luo Weicheng smiled. "If she really caught me, I would have suffered more than just this minor injury."
Bathed in the glow of the sunset, he recounted his recent experience to Wu Hui in detail.
In other words, how exactly did he "switch" Wu Hui out?
Yes, the key point is "change".
Regarding the curse on their group, Luo Weicheng couldn't be sure whether it was related to time.
But whether it was true or not, he didn't dare to verify it, because the way Wu Hui was dragged away at that time already showed that they didn't have time.
He had to use another method.
And just then... the female customer appeared.
Luo Weicheng knew that this was because the incense burner could not allow him to safely pass through the first curse, and the female customer was bound to appear!
Because Wu Hui is in that world.
Therefore, the female customer from that world will appear in reality.
However, there is a loophole—a very important one—that is, Wu Hui did not replicate the experience at the original time!
She first lingered in the bathroom for as long as possible, whereas in the original timeline, the female customer should have simply cleaned herself up and then gone straight to the treatment.
In the mirror world, during the time Wu Hui was dragged from the bathroom back to the beauty bed, the female customer was actually already lying on the beauty bed.
This is the time difference.
The time flow in the mirror world and the reality outside the mirror is synchronized.
When did the female customer first appear in real life?
She was injected with uncertified anesthetic, which triggered an allergic reaction, leading to an irreversible death.
Afterwards, she died completely, but when Luo Weicheng went to check on her, she revived in reality as a ghost!
Meanwhile, in the mirror world, Wu Hui is entangled with a deformed baby.
Meanwhile, Luo Weicheng realized something when he saw the female customer's lower abdomen:
The medical malpractice incident at the time resulted in the death of not only one customer, but also the unborn child in her womb!
In other words, a deformed baby in the office!
In that instant, his brain automatically deduced a way out:
The female customer switched places with Wu Hui.
In other words, the two cannot exist in the same world.
So the female customer can replace Wu Hui as long as she returns to the mirror world.
But the more important question is, why would the female customer be willing to go back to the scene where she was killed?
Moreover, he could no longer see Wu Hui or the female nurse, just as the female nurse had never been able to see him before.
but.
There is one exception.
That baby, the one closest to the incense burner, was the only ghost that could sense and touch Luo Weicheng, so it could also sense the female customer.
At the same time, its existence is very special because Luo Weicheng did not see it in reality; he could only see it in the mirror.
Then the baby's actual body is reflected in the mirror.
Therefore, it can be used as bait or a catalyst to lure female customers back!
Of course, Luo Weicheng didn't think about such details at the time. He made the decision more based on instinct and the fact that the female customer would want to find her child.
He had no other choice at that point. If he didn't do something, Wu Hui would most likely die in the mirror, because the curse here had surpassed all the beings they had ever seen before!
Following his instincts, he ran to the office.
It wasn't to escape, but to rescue Wu Hui.
But Wu Hui used a strange object just a second before he went in, and moved under the beauty bed, causing the two to pass each other by.
Meanwhile, after the female customer completely transformed into a ghost, she followed Luo Weicheng into the office!
The situation was extremely dangerous. The office was a small, enclosed space, and Luo Weicheng couldn't see the world in the mirror or find the baby. Almost immediately, the female customer grabbed his arm again!
But at that very moment...
An invisible, icy little hand grabbed his leg.
It was a deformed baby who crawled out of the closet after Wu Hui left!
It also sensed the presence of its mother and, as if calling for its mother, let out a chilling cry!
It was at that moment that Luo Weicheng regained his ability to peer into the world through the mirror. Through the Bagua mirror on the door, he saw the deformed child hanging on his leg!
The next second, it let go.
The female ghost also let go.
Step by step, he walked towards the door and took down the mirror...
Luo Weicheng immediately rushed out the door and fled to the original beauty salon.
When he saw Wu Hui on the bed, he knew he had made the right gamble; he had saved not only himself but also Wu Hui.
The moment the female customer returned to the mirror world, Wu Hui was switched to the real world.
"That's about it."
After exchanging information, Luo Weicheng said, "It's dawn now. Should we consider ourselves to have survived the first round of the curse?"
Wu Hui nodded gently.
But her brows remained furrowed, not relaxed.
"I'm informing the other entrants that we're safe here for now." Luo Weicheng picked up his phone and noticed several more messages.
"Chen Ji's side has also finished."
"Like us?"
“Yes.” Luo Weicheng nodded: “It was sent not long ago, probably around dawn.”
“We’re going to meet them now. The address has been sent to us; it’s next to the funeral home.”
After saying that, he briefly edited his experience and sent it out.
After doing all this, Luo Weicheng put down his phone, and the room fell into a brief silence.
Until it was broken by a soft sigh.
"Old Luo, we've really had some bad luck."
Wu Hui touched his withered arm and said softly, "This is only the first round... Of all the entrants, this place should be the most dangerous."
"Ah."
Luo Weicheng gave a wry smile: "However, our gains are also the greatest; at least we now know one of the guests' 'wishes'."
Supporting each other, the two walked towards the door. Wu Hui glanced back at the office, which was silent inside.
“Zhang Wei…” she murmured, then pondered, “There’s something fishy about how this person died.”
"how?"
“I observed that his head was severed by a sharp weapon, which is unlike what Xianglu did, nor is it the work of the mother and child he killed.”
Luo Weicheng agreed that it wasn't the mother and son who did it, because he had personally been caught by these two ghosts, and their attack methods had nothing to do with sharp weapons.
As for the incense burner...
Luo Weicheng recalled the incense burner he had seen in the mirror. He couldn't see it clearly at the time, but he felt that it was filled with smoke.
Strangely enough, even when she was standing in the mirror world where the incense burner existed, Wu Hui couldn't see much clearly!
Only the stove itself could be seen; the incense sticks on it were as if viewed through frosted glass, appearing blurry and indistinct.
Based on their existing experience, they have now deduced that one of the incense burner's attack methods is to pull people into the mirror world.
There should be no specific attack method.
Otherwise, how could the incense burner itself kill someone? With incense?
Luo Weicheng shook his head self-deprecatingly, confirming that Zhang Wei's death had little to do with the incense burner.
Pushing open the door of the beauty salon, the morning sunlight shone on them, bringing a touch of warmth.
Wu Hui felt a little relieved.
"Old Luo."
She kicked a pebble on the side of the road and said softly, "Actually, we might be quite lucky."
"why?"
“Think about it, the strength of a curse is constant. This curse is related to Zhang Wei, but we’ve already passed the most dangerous stage of the ‘medical malpractice’ incident, so perhaps the next round of the curse will be somewhat slower.”
“There’s even a possibility that we might only have this one round left,” Wu Hui muttered to herself.
"Nonsense."
"Who said I was just making things up? I provided evidence!"
"Huihui, ghosts aren't a physics problem; they don't obey the law of conservation of energy."
"You're too rigid! Can't I just consider this a wish?"
"...If you like it, that's fine. But are you sure you want to make a wish through this door?"
"..."
The two figures walked further and further away, and behind them...
The sunlight became brighter.
The light shone into the beauty salon.
very quiet.
In the boundless silence, suddenly...
A soft, damp, strange sound came from the office, like a water ghost crawling ashore.
Wu Hui and Luo Weicheng, nobody knew...
After they left, an incense burner appeared on the table.
The incense burner was pitch black, with three incense sticks barely visible, and a layer of incense ash covering the inside.
Smoke filled the air.
If Wu Hui and the other person were here, and looked closer...
They would see a small, bluish hand resting beside the incense burner.
Her face was covered in folds from being soaked in amniotic fluid.
The other hand emerged from the incense ash.
Then comes the head.
body.
Until the entire deformed body crawled out of the incense burner...
The incense burner, at the moment it appeared, slowly melted into mid-air.
It's not that it won't happen again.
Just not now.
The sticky baby crawled out using both hands and feet.
climb.....
Snapped.
Squeak——
The door was pushed open by a slender, bluish-purple adult arm.
This arm grew out from the baby's back.
......
"Mother and child died, medical malpractice... No results found."
At a stall not far from the funeral home.
Fei'er put down her phone and shook her head.
At six o'clock in the morning, she and Chen Ji suddenly switched back to their original bodies.
There's no time to investigate the companion reading park; the immediate priority is to gather everyone together and combine the clues.
Ren Yu said he had already encountered a ghost, but it didn't seem to be very serious, even less so than Feng Yao's experience; he was just startled.
“Zhang Wei definitely pulled some strings,” Huang Yue said. “Just search the beauty salon’s name and see if you can find the relevant documents.”
“No.” Phil stretched her neck stiffly. “I’ve tried, but I can’t find it.”
"I can't find any negative news about that beauty salon."
Her movements did not escape Chen Ji's notice, causing his heart to sink slightly.
After switching back to his body, he immediately realized something:
The changes didn't just happen to them in their paper doll form.
It also happened to his and Fei'er's original bodies.
For example, Chen Ji now feels that his arms are a bit heavy and are drooping slightly, as if he is hanging two bottles of mineral water.
The change was subtle; if the pen hadn't reminded him beforehand, Chen Ji would never have noticed it so easily.
Fortunately, this trend is not too serious.
But the next round... might not be like that.
They are getting used to the paper figures' light, airy bodies—no, not just getting used to it, but their brains are beginning to believe that feeling is "their original state."
It was precisely because of this that Chen Ji gradually began to lose that inhuman lightness.
After returning to a human body, it will naturally feel uncomfortable.
what is this?
A rehearsal? Coercion? Or... a real and tangible impact?
if the latter one.
So when their consciousness completely believes that the "paper doll" is their true self, do they truly and irreversibly become paper dolls?
Pressing his arm, Chen felt unusually unfamiliar with his own body.
"...So your first round lasted all night long." Du Tingfeng's voice broke his thoughts.
Chen Ji nodded.
"Six hours?" Du Tingfeng asked again, his voice sounding very tired.
"Correct."
"...You said that inside the paper figures in the hotel were the twins, a boy and a girl." Du Tingfeng said thoughtfully.
"Moreover, the paper figures manipulated your bodies without engaging in any self-harm or suicide."
"Then the ultimate purpose of this curse is definitely not as simple as the ghost replacing people in the Black Ewe Domain."
Chen Ji understood his meaning, which coincided with his own thoughts.
Du Tingfeng was saying that it wasn't about replacement, but about transformation.
In the end, their original bodies were completely transformed into paper figures.
"Therefore, this must be done in stages."
Du Tingfeng said, "I suspect the second time will take even longer..."
"Assuming you turn into a paper doll at midnight every day for 6 hours, then you have 18 hours of normal human time remaining."
"If we want to turn you both into paper dolls completely, in other words, to leave you no time to be human, then we'll use 6 as the starting point—"
He held up four fingers, then lowered them one by one:
“6, 12, 18…”
"Until the final stage, 24...."
"Boom! The complete paper doll has appeared."
Du Tingfeng's words were very clear: by midnight tonight, they would likely remain in paper doll form for a full half day.
Being unable to go out is already the best possible negative impact.
At that time, there is a high possibility that some unexpected changes will occur.
"It's still a long way off." Fei'er took a sip of soy milk and said calmly, "Your problem is the biggest one."
There is indeed a problem with Du Tingfeng and Xu Sandao here.
The biggest problem is that there is no problem! They didn't encounter any ghosts.
No one believed this, as funeral homes were supposed to be the most dangerous places, and Bai Shaohua had even mocked them before.
Nothing happened that night.
"Thanks to you." Xu Sandao patted Du Tingfeng on the shoulder and yawned.
"That's just how it is when you're lucky enough, there's nothing you can do about it."
That's what they say, but jokes aside, nobody really thinks it has anything to do with luck.
Good luck can't completely prevent encountering ghosts, and Du Tingfeng is currently only relying on passivity, without using any leverage.
"Your curse may appear during the day."
Chen Jidao stood up and looked at the four figures on the street.
Liu Zi and Luo Weicheng's group two arrived, while Ren Yu was still on his way.
“Let’s go back to the funeral parlor,” Chen Ji said. “If your curse is truly related to Zhou Liang, then it might be more serious than the rest of us…”
"Both are more dangerous."
Chapter 2 has been updated and merged into this chapter.