Chapter 20 You're Such a Pervert

Jiang Cheng looked at the shattered sculptures outside the window, sighed deeply, and turned his head to look at Huai Yi. Huai Yi looked confused and asked, "Jiang-ge, why are you looking at me?"

"You're such a pervert," Jiang Cheng said with a melancholy tone. "Such an understanding ghost, you actually forced her to death."

Huai Yi: "???"

"Don't do that again next time." Jiang Cheng shook his head and turned to leave.

After all, he was from the Crimson team; his thought process wasn't very normal. Huai Yi could understand. After a moment, he caught up and asked, "What do we do now?"

They had been lying in wait for so long, but the number of sculpture ghosts was dwindling. Continuing would be pointless.

Jiang Cheng said as he walked, "Let's find Fatty and the others and ask them how many they've taken care of. Add them up and see how many sculpture ghosts are left."

...

Shen Mengyun stood in Jiang Cheng's previous spot, wearing work clothes, imitating Jiang Cheng's manner, directing waves of sculpture ghosts to climb the stairs.

At first, the team of sculpture ghosts had a sparse dozen or so, then gradually decreased, becoming 10, then 4, 5.

Finally, until now, she had waited for a long time but hadn't seen a single one pass by.

The corridor was quiet.

"It seems they've all been taken care of by Mr. Jiang and the others," Shen Mengyun thought, and Jiang Cheng's face unconsciously surfaced in her mind again.

But as she thought, she suddenly felt a palpitation.

She couldn't quite describe it, like a needle suddenly piercing her heart.

Her first reaction was that she was being targeted by something.

She had encountered such situations before, but never as intense as this time.

But... how could it be?

Mr. Jiang had said that this clothing could conceal the aura of a living person, making the sculpture ghosts mistake her for one of their own.

"Could it be... there are still sculpture ghosts alive?" Shen Mengyun raised her head, carefully searching with her eyes. "But how did it discover me? And where is it hiding?"

From Shen Mengyun's perspective, she could see one side of the corridor and the hall connected to the corridor.

Similar to her location, sculptures and other artworks were also distributed on both sides of the corridor and inside the hall.

However, these sculptures were fine; they had already checked them before.

In the dim environment, most of these sculptures only revealed a portion, or even just half a profile.

Looking at them for too long was truly eerie.

She had checked the scratches on the clothes. All 25 sculpture ghosts had been taken care of, but the feeling of being targeted not only didn't weaken but became even stronger.

What puzzled her even more was that she remembered there was an eye pattern next to the scratches, but now, the pattern had disappeared.

The unease in her heart grew stronger, even driving her to want to escape from here.

It was as if she was about to die.

Suddenly, her gaze paused.

On the right side of the corridor in the distance, there were several sculptures standing. She had noticed them before, but this time, it seemed like there was a different feeling.

Due to the lighting, only the lower bodies of the sculptures were visible; the upper bodies were hidden in the shadows, leaving only blurred outlines.

"1, 2..." Shen Mengyun counted one by one, "4."

"4?!" She immediately felt something was wrong. She vaguely remembered that there were only 3 before.

Moreover, the last statue was hidden in the shadows, a bit shorter than the other statues.

Just as she concentrated on looking closely, something seemed to move in the shadows. Shen Mengyun subconsciously blinked.

When she opened her eyes and looked again, the sculptures had returned to 3.

Everything before seemed like a hallucination produced by her tension.

But Shen Mengyun knew that it was definitely not a hallucination. Something must be happening in a place she didn't know.

She wanted to notify Jiang Cheng and the others, but her phone was left in the library.

"Calm down, I must calm down." Shen Mengyun adjusted her breathing and continued to observe.

But not long after she shifted her gaze, she quickly discovered another strange place.

This time it was on the left side of the corridor, and it was closer to her.

It was a similar situation to before, a sculpture hidden in the shadows.

A sculpture that she had no impression of.

It was as if it had appeared there out of thin air.

Judging from the lower half of the sculpture, it was a half-body figure.

Shen Mengyun's eyes paused, and she immediately recalled the story Jiang Cheng had recounted, the half-body figure that appeared strangely in the photos of the art center.

But after she realized it, the half-body figure disappeared again.

When she discovered it again, it was already at the corner of the corridor not far from her, and this time, she saw it very clearly.

It was indeed a half-body figure, and its neck was twisted exaggeratedly, with its head tilted, and a pair of gray-white eyes staring at her.

"Crap..."

During this process, Shen Mengyun also discovered the half-body figure's movement pattern. Whether she moved her gaze away from the half-body figure or blinked.

In short, as long as the figure disappeared from her sight, even for just a second, it would move towards her in a very strange way.

In other words, as long as she kept staring at the figure and didn't blink, then this half-body figure would stay in place obediently and wouldn't pose a threat to her.

But... how could a normal person not blink?

The first thing Shen Mengyun thought of was to stare at the half-body figure while trying not to blink and quickly leave this place.

According to her observation, the half-body figure's movement speed wasn't fast; she should be able to shake it off.

But just as Shen Mengyun was about to act, she realized that her body was completely unable to move, as if she had been fixed in place by a curse.

Only her eyes and neck could move in a small range.

After a moment, she understood the reason inside. This restriction was the same for both people and ghosts. She could prevent the half-body figure ghost from moving by staring at it.

Conversely, the other party could do the same.

And what made Shen Mengyun even more desperate was that the half-body figure ghost... didn't need to blink. Its pair of gray-white eyes had a jade-like texture.

With the last blink, the half-body figure ghost finally arrived in front of Shen Mengyun.

...

"Hmm?" Jiang Cheng suddenly stopped.

Huai Yi, who was beside him, immediately became nervous and looked around, "What's wrong, Jiang-ge?"

"Did you hear any sound?" After a moment, Jiang Cheng frowned and asked.

"No... nothing."

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Cheng patted Huai Yi and quickened his pace, "Hurry, after we find Fatty and the others, we'll go find Ms. Shen to join up."

At the corner of the stairs, the two groups bumped into each other. When Fatty saw Jiang Cheng, he was overjoyed, "Doctor, Wang Qi's brother is especially skilled. Together, we took care of 9 sculpture ghosts."

"We got 10," Jiang Cheng replied indifferently, "and another one was forced to jump off the building by Huai Yi. I wanted to stop him, but I couldn't."

Fatty heard this and looked at Huai Yi, blinking as if he had made a new discovery about him, "Brother Huai Yi, didn't realize you were into this?"

Huai Yi's face was full of refusal, but he didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, Jiang Cheng helped him out, looking at Fatty and asking, "What are you doing here?"

According to the previous arrangement, they should be lying in ambush on the other side of the stairs.

"Oh, it's like this, I just received a message from Ms. Shen saying that she had a new discovery and asked us to go find her." Fatty took out his phone and said seriously.

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng's brow twitched, "Shen Mengyun?"

Seeing the doctor's face change, Fatty was also startled, "Yes, yes, ah, what's wrong? Didn't she contact you?"

Fatty's first reaction was that something bad had happened. Could it be that the doctor was jealous?

He had known Jiang Cheng for more than a day or two, and he knew that the doctor was petty. He quickly explained, "Doctor, don't misunderstand. Ms. Shen might have just... hey, you know, girls, they're shy. You should understand."

Jiang Cheng's face changed slightly, and he turned around and ran downstairs.

Looking at Fatty's puzzled expression, Huai Yi quickly explained, "Shen Mengyun's phone was lost in the library. How could she send you a message?"

Hearing this, Fatty's face froze, and then he looked at his phone with a different expression, "So... the one who sent me the message was a ghost?"

"It's that half-body figure ghost!" Fatty immediately confirmed.

Because all the sculpture ghosts had been taken care of, they had checked.

25 of them, not one less.

When the group arrived at Shen Mengyun's location, they saw Shen Mengyun, wearing work clothes, still standing there.

Her arms hung down naturally, and her face was facing forward.

At first glance, she looked no different from the nearby sculptures.

Seeing that Shen Mengyun was still there, Fatty let out a long breath, but then, as if he suddenly realized something, he sniffed his nose. A faint smell of blood permeated the air.

The closer they got to Shen Mengyun's location, the stronger the smell of blood became.

And what was even stranger was that Shen Mengyun seemed to have no reaction to their arrival.

Jiang Cheng stepped forward and slowly reached out his hand to pull down Shen Mengyun's mask.

The face under the mask was as white as paper, biting her lips tightly, her eyelids slightly closed, as if she would open them in the next second.

But for her, there was no longer a chance.

She was dead.

Jiang Cheng knew she was dead as soon as he approached.

"Ms... Ms. Shen." Fatty's heart thumped when he saw Shen Mengyun's appearance.

He had a very good impression of this woman, and he could also see that she was especially good to the doctor and had even saved him.

Huai Yi saw this and stepped forward to help Jiang Cheng put Shen Mengyun's body down.

After all, she was disguised as a half-body sculpture, her lower body hidden inside the wooden frame, revealing only her upper body.

But just as he touched Shen Mengyun's shoulder.

An accident happened.

Shen Mengyun actually fell straight down.

No, not all of her, only her upper body fell down!

Her lower body below the waist, was gone...

There was no lower half of her body in the wooden frame at all!

She was like a real half-body sculpture, her entire lower body, including a pair of legs, was torn off.

Then only the remaining upper body was propped up on the frame!

If you didn't look closely, you would think it was the same as before.

Huai Yi, who saw this scene, took several steps back in fright, and the color disappeared from his face.

At the hideous and massive wound at Shen Mengyun's waist, you could still see bluish-purple internal organs and intestines, and dark red blood flowed all over the ground.