Chapter 171

"Fuck..." Yuan Xiaotian couldn't help but suck in a cold breath.

These severed feet belonged to Huai Yi. At this moment, Huai Yi was already in a semi-conscious state; otherwise, this scene would have been even more terrifying for him.

They clearly didn't see a ghost, but everyone knew that this was the ghost's doing. What shocked them even more was the ghost's speed.

Slowly, a sense of powerlessness began to spread through the team. The joy and confidence they once felt from discovering the lamp's effect gradually faded.

"Damn it, what... what the hell is that thing?" Yuan Xiaotian's expression was terrible.

"Stop dawdling, either we charge through, or we find another route," Feng Jie urged. "Hurry, he can't hold on much longer!"

"Let's change routes, Mr. Jiang," Zhou Tong suggested. "These severed feet are here, and if you look closely, the toes... the toes are pointing at us. As long as we come down this side of the emergency exit, we can't avoid it. There must be a trap here!" The more she spoke, the more urgent her tone became, as if she was convinced of this.

"How about we take the emergency exit on the other side?"

"It's useless. If we go to the other side, these severed feet will appear on the stairs there," Jiang Cheng said quickly. "That ghost thing is faster than us. There's no way to avoid it."

"It's also stalling for time," Jiang Cheng said firmly. "It's not easy for it to find a chance to attack us now. It's waiting for this lamp to go out."

As it stood, Jiang Cheng didn't think the one attacking them was a murderer.

First of all, based on the previous fight, it wasn't realistic for a murderer to take care of Wu in such a short amount of time.

Also, this kind of attack didn't fit their impression of a murderer.

Li Mengyao was another matter; they had already seen her. So, the one who severed Huai Yi's feet should be Xia Qiang.

To be precise, it was Xia Qiang's severed upper body.

The image Jiang Cheng conjured in his mind was Xia Qiang's remaining upper body crawling on the ground.

At a very fast speed.

The light from the lamp was dimming more and more. The hardest thing now wasn't how to deal with Xia Qiang and Li Mengyao, but the inability to pinpoint their locations.

Just as Jiang Cheng hesitated briefly, a hand reached out and rested on the hand holding the lamp. Jiang Cheng couldn't help but be taken aback, his eyes immediately becoming alert.

But when he saw who it was, Jiang Cheng's expression returned to normal, and he said, "Fatty..."

"Let me take the lamp," Fatty's voice revealed a sense of solidity, as well as exhaustion, quite different from the impression he had given Jiang Cheng before.

Hearing that Fatty wanted to take the lamp, everyone's reactions weren't good. Zhou Tong even moved her lips, seemingly to stop him.

Everyone was convinced and relieved to hand the lamp over to Jiang Cheng, but handing it over to this fatty... that might not be appropriate. After all, besides being a little sensitive, he hadn't shown any other outstanding qualities so far.

If there was a second choice, Yuan Xiaotian and Zhou Tong would naturally think it was Feng Jie.

"I know you mean well, but don't push yourself. Everyone's lives are tied together now. Once..." The situation was urgent, and Yuan Xiaotian didn't have time to be polite, but he had no ill will towards Fatty in his heart. If they could get out this time, Qiang-ge and Li Mengyao's lives were saved by these three people, and he would remember this favor no matter what.

Oh right, and his own life was saved too.

It's just that in his heart, his own life was far less important than Qiang-ge and Li Mengyao's.

But to everyone's surprise, Jiang Cheng paused for less than two seconds before letting go, naturally handing over everyone's hope to this man named Wang Fugui.

"Everyone follow me, I can hear the sound that thing is making." He paused, and seeming to think it wasn't accurate enough, added, "Not one, two of them."

"One... one complete, and the other, only half left," Fatty continued.

At the same time as hearing these words, Jiang Cheng's expression suddenly relaxed a lot. It seemed he was right. Fatty could indeed sense things they couldn't.

The half person he mentioned coincided with his own prediction, that it was Xia Qiang's half corpse, the upper body.

Jiang Cheng didn't want to, nor did he need to know why Fatty could do this, because he understood that this fatty, although not smart, would definitely be on his side no matter what happened.

"His feeling is right. The complete one is Mengyao, and the half one..." Feng Jie's eyes flickered, and his voice wasn't very natural as he said, "Is Qiang-ge. After his body revived, only his upper body could move, crawling forward on the ground. He was the one who hurt Huai Yi."

As the number two person in this team, Feng Jie was naturally not stupid. He was just a little confused at first, and he wasn't used to entering such a mission for the first time. Now, his mind was gradually clearing up. Many things he couldn't figure out before, he was now slowly understanding.

Moreover, he had a great advantage, which was that he was decisive and didn't dwell on things. As for Jiang Cheng's choice, he just needed to believe it.

After all, Qiang-ge had said that this man was someone Mr. Gong Zhe was optimistic about.

"Where are those two guys hiding now?" Jiang Cheng asked in a low voice.

After a moment of silence, Fatty replied, "One is 5 meters ahead of us on the stairs, the other should be in the corridor. It's constantly moving, I can't feel its exact location."

Hearing Fatty's words, Lin Muyun looked at the misty stairs in front of him. As the light gradually dimmed, the surrounding mist seemed even more mysterious, and the visibility was reduced to a terrifying level.

Relying on the naked eye alone, it was impossible to observe the surrounding situation at all, but from what Wang Fugui said, it was as if he had installed a radar in his head.

A radar specifically for detecting ghosts.

"Is this the so-called Apostle's control ability?" Lin Muyun thought in his heart.

As one of the heirs of the Lin family, Lin Muyun knew much more about Apostles than ordinary people, after all, the Lin family was inseparable from these things.

So when he noticed that there was something wrong with Jiang Cheng's shadow, he just pretended not to see it, and secretly warned his younger sister Lin Muwan not to ask Jiang Cheng about the shadow.

For him, Apostles were a group of people who could control ghosts, of course, provided they paid enough price.

And for Apostles, the ghost inside the door they carried on their backs was their greatest reliance, and also their biggest trump card.

They would not use it lightly unless absolutely necessary, and at the same time, it was their deepest secret.

And most Apostles would harbor considerable hostility towards those who knew their biggest secret, although Lin Muyun believed in Jiang Cheng's character and didn't think he would do anything excessive, he didn't dare to gamble, after all, his younger sister was here too.

It would be terrible if his sister was implicated.