Chapter 59: Skin-peeling Ghost
Walking in the wide corridor, I looked at the rooms on both sides, and my heart was filled with peace. No matter what, after all the hardships, we finally got here, and it was only a stone's throw away from here to go downstairs.
Chen Lanyu and the others cheered because they knew they were not far from leaving the apartment.
Even I relaxed a bit, then I found the stairs and walked towards them.
As I walked along the stairs, I said excitedly, "We should be able to go downstairs soon by following this staircase."
"Yeah, we're finally going out." Zhao Pengyu also said excitedly. As for the others, they were also very excited.
Anyway, there are only seven of us left in this room escape game, which makes us very urgent to find a way to leave here.
I continued walking down the stairs, observing my surroundings and looking around. But the entire staircase was quiet, with nothing there. This made me secretly relieved.
We walked down the stairs and in a blink of an eye, we had reached three floors. At this moment, I realized that I was only one step away from escaping from this apartment.
"I'm leaving soon." I couldn't help but smile.
But as we continued to walk down, I heard a strange sound. I didn't notice this sound at first, but later, I gradually felt it.
"Everyone stop for a moment." I said hurriedly, and then everyone stopped and looked at me strangely.
I didn't say anything, but listened quietly. I felt that there was a footstep above our heads. At first I thought it was us. But now everyone has stopped, but the footsteps are still there. And getting closer and closer.
Zhao Pengyu looked up and said in a terrified voice, "Listen, there seems to be something upstairs, and it's coming towards us."
The others nodded as well, they had all heard it. Seeing this, they all looked upstairs. Soon, along with the sound of footsteps, something came down from upstairs.
The reason why we call it a thing is that it is red all over, like a skinned frog, with blood flowing all over its body. Not only that. It got on all fours and rushed towards us like an animal.
But when we saw what was in front of us, we could see its appearance clearly, and we were all stunned.
This is not a thing at all, but a skinned person. There is no skin on this person, and his whole body is covered with blood-colored meridians, which makes people shudder just by looking at it.
When it appeared, I didn't have time to think about it, and I ran downstairs frantically. Others also woke up and ran downstairs in a hurry.
At this moment, the man let out a scream, got on all fours, and chased after us.
As I ran, I looked behind me. The people behind me were running like crazy. However, due to physical reasons, the girls ran very slowly. Especially Mi Qiqi, she was almost caught up.
Seeing this, I couldn't bear it anymore and rushed towards her.
At this time, everyone was in a panic and rushed down without caring about anything. Mi Qiqi, who was the last one to come, became the target of the ghost. This skinned ghost was extremely ferocious and it pounced directly on Mi Qiqi and threw her to the ground.
Mi Qiqi screamed wildly and pushed the skin-peeling ghost hard, but she couldn't hold on in the face of the skin-peeling ghost's fierce strength. The skin-peeling ghost screamed at her and opened its bloody mouth.
Just then, I came in front of Miqiqi and took out something in my hand.
To everyone's surprise, when the skin-peeling ghost saw this thing, he immediately put it in his arms. He even ignored Mi Qiqi under him.
I took this opportunity, quickly grabbed Miqiqi, and dragged her out.
Mi Qiqi grabbed my arm with a look of relief, then hurriedly followed me away.
When we came downstairs, we saw Zhao Pengyu and the others sticking their heads over, and it seemed that they were also very scared.
"Don't worry, the skin-peeling ghost won't come out." I said to them.
Seeing me saving Mi Qiqi, Zhao Pengyu couldn't help but shout, "Zhang Fan, how did you do it?"
"It's because of that human skin." I said with a smile. The thing I handed to the skinning ghost just now was that human skin. And it was that human skin that made the skinning ghost give up chasing us.
"What's the logic behind this? If we give him the human skin, he will stop chasing us?" Chen Lanyu asked curiously.
"That's right." I looked at them and explained softly, "When I was a child, I lived in the countryside and heard many stories from the older generation, including the one about the skin-peeling ghost."
"The Skinning Ghost is an evil ghost, and not just any evil ghost. Because it has no human skin, it will peel off the skin of its victims. It is very cruel. Therefore, I concluded that as long as there is human skin, the Skinning Ghost will give up the chase. It seems that I succeeded." I said.
"Zhang Fan, you are so awesome." Mi Qiqi looked at me with admiration in her eyes.
"It's nothing, I just heard it from others. I didn't expect I could save you." I looked at Mi Qiqi and said.
"But have you ever thought that if you can't save me, you will die with me." Mi Qiqi looked at me tenderly and I could see love in her eyes.
I smiled slightly, and then said: "I didn't think too much at the time, I just wanted to save you."
"Really? You're so awesome." After saying that, Mi Qiqi hugged my arm, her face full of admiration.
I looked at her expression and turned away in embarrassment. It wasn't because I was shy. It was because I lied. I didn't intend to die with Mi Qiqi. I went to save her, and it didn't matter if I failed. Because the skinning ghost would peel off her skin, and during this time, I would have run away.
But I naturally wouldn't say anything about such a thing that would spoil the mood, and I continued to walk down the stairs.
Soon we reached the first floor, which was the final place from where we would escape from the apartment.
"Is it finally over?" I said with a relaxed mood, looking at the door in front of me.
But when we arrived at the door, Zhao Pengyu suddenly shouted: "Look, there is a line of words written on the door."
I looked over hurriedly, but my expression suddenly changed.
Because there was a line of blood written on the door: "The ultimate way to leave here is that one of you must die. This person's blood will open the door to survival for you."
