Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

Du Wei looked calmly at Bob and the others who approached him, not showing the slightest bit of strange emotion.

"Sir, did you also suddenly come here?"

The speaker was Bob, who had the most contact with Du Wei, so after hesitating, he greeted him.

But he was still a bit scared.

Because the feeling Du Wei gave him was very wrong.

His face was always overly calm, and his eyes were filled with rationality, as if he would never do anything that didn't align with his values.

His temperament was also very special, conveying a hint of strangeness amid the coldness.

Bob thought that if this Horror House adventure were a movie, then this Asian man would definitely play a highly intelligent, extremely cold-blooded criminal.

However, after hearing what Bob had to say, Du Wei did not reply immediately but turned to ask the others a question.

"Is it the same with you all?"

In the face of insufficient information, this was a clever response, leading and probing with skill.

Bob nodded and answered, "Yes, I went through a shadowy passageway and came out on Ferocious Ghost Street."

Lisa followed up, "I can't remember how I got here, but it should be the same as you all."

The man part of the other couple said, "I was about to make a call at the entrance, but there was no signal on my phone, and suddenly the door opened. I walked through the door and ended up here."

The remaining woman spoke thoughtfully, "I'm like Lisa, and it seems like we've all been injured a bit."

With that, she raised her arm.

Following her gaze, Du Wei saw that her arm had clear signs of injury, with some of the skin peeled away, blood dripping, and a large area of bruising.

"These injuries must have been caused by compression and friction,"

thought Du Wei silently. Back when he majored in forensic science, he was very interested in cases of mechanical asphyxiation deaths and had specifically studied them for a time.

Under the Spirit Vision state, Lisa and her best friend both appeared similar, with purplish lips, protruding tongues, and their bodies showed signs of injury caused by compression and friction.

[Asphyxiation is caused by lack of oxygen, resulting in cyanosis from the face to the neck, and may also cause congestion of internal organs and accumulation of blood.]

The judgment of mechanical asphyxiation, however, needs to be made based on the actual situation, and the manifested forms are not the same.

But Du Wei could roughly guess how Lisa and her friend had died.

"It must have been a very narrow space, only enough to fit one person, forcibly stuffed inside, causing mechanical asphyxiation."

At this point, the others had shifted their attention.

Coupled with Du Wei's vague reply just now, they instinctively felt that they were all the same.

Lisa, even more so, took her best friend's hand, concerned as she said, "This place is too dangerous, I think I'm mentally unstable, once we get out, I'll definitely find an experienced psychologist to help me adjust."

"Me too."

Her best friend shrugged but winced because of the pain in her neck.

"What a damned place! Let's get out of here quickly!"

"I agree."

"So do I."

The speakers were Bob and the remaining man, respectively.

It's just that their memories retained some parts from before they died, so that man wasn't very nice toward his ex-girlfriend, even appearing a bit indifferent.

At that moment, Bob seemed to suddenly think of something and turned his head to look at Du Wei.

"Right, sir, would you like to come with us?"

He was hesitant, after all, this man had warned them earlier not to enter the Horror House, instinctively wanting to leave together.

Du Wei was silent for a second, "Of course you can."

Lisa, who heard this, frowned slightly and cast an unpleasant glance at Du Wei, but under the circumstances, she chose not to say more.

The group continued forward.

While in the state of Spirit Vision, Du Wei noticed that the further they walked, the stranger and more eerie the feeling around the four of them grew.

For instance.

Lisa and her best friend had been sticking close together since they met, and their angle was very strange, forming a V shape almost as if they were about to stand back to back.

Another man's walking posture became increasingly rigid, very mechanical, as if he were a rusting machine with joints that seemed to be slowly seizing up.

The only one who seemed normal was Bob.

But that was the most abnormal sign...

How exactly had he died?

Du Wei pondered for a while, unable to ascertain, he could only suspect that his death was due to a severe blow to the head, a mechanical form of death.

Therefore, he deliberately slowed his pace, trying to fall behind the others.

He knew that although it seemed relatively safe for now, this was only because Bob and the others hadn't realized they were already dead.

After all, no one could be certain if, in the next second, they would become aware of this fact and then turn into ghosts...

Placing hope on the ephemeral and unknown was what Du Wei detested most, second only to corpses and blood.

But then, Bob seemed to notice that Du Wei's pace was a bit slow and turned his head to say, "Sir, you'd better pick up the pace, otherwise, you might encounter unforeseeable danger."

Du Wei calmly replied, "Why do you say that?"

Bob licked his lips, and in that instant, as seen by Du Wei through his Spirit Vision, blood flowed from his mouth, mixed with saliva, thick and nauseating.

"Because I suspect there really are ghosts in this Horror House..."

"Oh? How did you come to that conclusion?"

Upon hearing the word "ghost," everyone simultaneously stiffened and turned to look at Bob.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Bob said nervously, "It's because the way we appeared on Ferocious Ghost Street is so strange, completely unscientific. Other than ghosts, I can't think of any other explanation."

Lisa nodded in agreement, saying, "That's right, I feel the same way. Back in the Japanese-style haunted house, I felt something grab me, and later, I found two blue-tinged handprints on my ankle."

After speaking, her face darkened as if she had thought of something.

However, Du Wei noticed that, under Spirit Vision, the eerie and abnormal aura around Lisa and her best friend had intensified.

It seemed...

Any second now, a terrifying transformation might occur.

The remaining man added, "I feel the same, because I remember clearly trying to call the staff, but couldn't get through at all, and then suddenly the door opened."

"You must know that besides the staff, the door only opens when someone enters, but I didn't see anyone."

"Moreover, I appeared on Ferocious Ghost Street in the blink of an eye, as if I'd teleported."

As he spoke, in Du Wei's eyes, the man who had originally been made into a wax figure at the Wax Museum underwent a change.

His facial expression seemed to freeze, and his hands and feet became so stiff that his walking posture turned downright stiff and awkward, looking bizarre yet comical.

Moreover, Du Wei discovered that the changes he witnessed in his Spirit Vision were now manifesting on the man.

This meant that they were on the verge of transforming into fierce ghosts...