Global Collapse

Chapter 680 Immersive Experience with the Cuckoo Spirit

"Alright, enough of that." Wen Qin patted her pants and stood up.

They've been resting here for over ten minutes; it's time for them to leave.

"Keep running," he said, helping the overturned car to its feet. The streetlights cast long shadows of him. "Don't let the ghost catch up with you."

Tonight, Bai and Hao Laoshi also stood up and picked up their bicycles.

The group continued riding their bikes into the dark night.

The road was deserted; only the three of them were on the wide road.

There were no shops on either side of the road, only green belts.

As Bai pedaled, he said, "We've been riding for so long, we should have covered more than ten miles by now."

He had no concept of distance; he estimated that it was more than ten miles.

“That’s too little,” Wen Qin said thoughtfully, “it must be at least several dozen miles.”

Hearing this, Bai Wei felt a little relieved.

They've run so far, it will take the ghosts quite a while to catch them.

Thinking of this, he felt full of energy and wished he could ride it for dozens of miles.

"We've passed through a lot of intersections along the way, just randomly choosing directions. I wonder if the ghosts will turn at the wrong intersection when they come looking for us," Jin Yebai imagined.

Hao Laoshi was distracted, looking around nervously, afraid that a ghost might jump out from the roadside green belt.

But he never saw the ghost jump out of the green belt; instead, he noticed that there were more shops on both sides of the road.

The further you go, the more shops you'll see along the roadside.

They have probably entered the bustling part of the city.

Most of these are snack shops, but they are all closed.

It's definitely not the time for snack shops to open now.

As he was looking at both sides of the road, he heard Tonight White's voice coming from ahead: "There's another intersection ahead, which way should we turn this time?"

Upon hearing this, Hao Laoshi also turned to look at the intersection ahead.

But one glance was enough to freeze him in shock.

wrong……

This intersection...why does it look so familiar?
Wen Qin also noticed something was wrong when he started drinking. He suddenly stopped the car, and the wheels screeched as they rubbed against the ground.

Bai hadn't yet realized the seriousness of the situation. He stopped beside Wen Qin and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"No... Run! Turn around!" Wen Qin uttered a few words quickly, then forcefully turned the car around and ran away from the intersection.

Cold sweat crept up his face.

As Wen Qin fled, she muttered to herself in a state of near collapse, "How could this be? How could this happen? Why... why am I back here again..."

That intersection was where the nine people parted ways!
They actually came back here!
How can it be……

Ignoring the sweat on his face, Wen Qintang pedaled hard, trying to get away from that strange intersection.

Hao Laoshi was also pedaling hard ahead, and the moment he realized something was wrong, he was ready to run away.

After a few seconds of stunned silence, Jin Yebai realized what was happening and quickly followed on his bike.

"What happened!" Jin Yebai almost roared from behind, "Why did we end up back in this godforsaken place!"

“It’s a ghost wall,” Wen Qin said, her voice trembling. “The ghosts have found us.”

"Damn it." Jin Yebai cursed under his breath and pedaled even harder.

"Watch your surroundings!" Wen Qin Tanjiu's eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings. "Don't get out of the car. If you spot any suspicious figures, turn around and run immediately!"

As he spoke, he pedaled furiously to escape.

Then, he suddenly noticed another intersection ahead.

He looked closely and saw that it was the same intersection they had just seen.

Tonight, Bai also saw the intersection ahead. "They're back... How could this be? They were clearly fleeing in the opposite direction..."

As he spoke, he looked back, trying to see if the intersection behind him was still there.

But the background was shrouded in fog, making it difficult to see clearly.

Suddenly, the three of them heard a chilling sound.

A series of heavy footsteps reached the ears of the three.

They looked around frantically, but couldn't see the person who had made the sound at all.

"Where is that sound coming from?" Tonight, Bai gripped the handlebars tightly, causing the front of the bike to tremble slightly. "I can't tell."

Hao Laoshi's face turned pale: "I can't tell either."

what to do? What should we do now?
It's the same intersection no matter which way you go, and now there are eerie footsteps again.

Wen Qin gritted her teeth and said to the other two, "Follow me."

After he finished speaking, he rode his bike towards the intersection ahead.

Bai and Hao were startled, and then boldly followed.

There's no other way; this is the only path we can take now.

They could only push their way into this intersection to see if they could find another way out.

But no matter which path the three choose, this intersection will always appear in front of them.

This place is like a maze from which there is no escape.

How to do?
Wen Qin spoke of wine with a sense of despair, as if she had reached a dead end.

The terrifying footsteps kept ringing in their ears, getting closer and closer.

But they couldn't see the ghost at all.

At this moment, Wen Qin Tanjiu suddenly turned around and looked at the Polaroid camera hanging around Jinwanbai's neck: "Quick, try taking a picture with it!"

If you capture a ghost in a photo, you might be able to lock it back into the picture.

"I want to too!" Tonight, Bai gripped the handlebars tightly with one hand and held the Polaroid camera in the other. "But I can't take pictures while riding, and I don't dare to stop."

Wen Qin said anxiously, "You can do it, try it first..."

Just as he was urging Jin Ye Bai to hurry up, he suddenly felt a tightness around his waist.

He looked down and found that he had nothing on his waist. Then he felt a chill on his back, as if something was pressing against him.

Wen Qin felt a tingling sensation on her scalp and her hands and feet were ice-cold when she drank wine.

His bicycle has a back seat.

He knew that something was sitting in the back seat.

And it's something invisible.

It's an invisible ghost...

He hadn't expected the ghost to be invisible.

Immediately afterwards, he felt the force on his waist suddenly increase, almost suffocating him.

Wen Qin lost her balance while talking about drinking and fell to the side of the road.

The sudden turn of events startled the other two.

Wen Qin patted the wine with his mouth wide open. The immense force in his waist made his eyes bulge out, and the contents of his stomach were almost being squeezed out, making him feel nauseous and want to vomit.

This ghost wanted to strangle him in half!

No... I don't want to die...

Oh right, you can also use that!

Wen Qintang suddenly struggled to take out something, and then threw it violently into the distance.

Hao Laoshi, with his sharp eyes, noticed that it was a bowl of white rice.

After throwing out the white rice, Wen Qintang felt the strength in her waist suddenly disappear.

Ignoring the pain, he immediately scrambled to his feet and ran towards Tonight White.

"Quick! Take a picture of the rice! The ghost is invisible. It's eating, and it'll come chasing us again once it finishes." He grabbed Jin Yebai, who had just stopped the car, and pointed in the direction of the white rice. "Quick, take a picture! Get the ghost in the shot!"

"Okay, okay..." Jin Yebai held the Polaroid camera, his hands trembling, "Turn it on, turn it on quickly!"

Hao Laoshi parked his bike some distance away.

He watched as the bowl of rice dwindled until it was empty in seconds.

At that moment, the Polaroid camera in Jinyebai's hand was turned on.

"Hurry up!" Looking at the almost empty rice bowl, Wen Qintan couldn't help but take two steps back.

This instant camera doesn't have a screen on the back, so Tonight White can only determine the position by looking at the small viewfinder.

Just as Bai was looking through the viewfinder to find the rice, Wen Qin noticed that the bowl of rice was empty.

Then, the empty bowl was slammed down.

He heard something lunge at him.

it's over...

Just then, a blinding white light flashed before their eyes.

It was Bai who pressed the shutter tonight!
After taking a Polaroid photo, Tonight White couldn't help but sit down on the ground.

He was terribly frightened.

Knowing the ghost was already pouncing on him, he still stood there taking pictures, which required immense courage.

Wen Qin was still holding her breath while drinking, and for a moment no one spoke.

One second, two seconds...

Ten seconds later, there was still no movement around. The ghost did not continue killing.

"We...successfully?" Tonight, Bai turned to look at the other two.

"So taking pictures of ghosts really is a way to survive?" Wen Qintan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He then bent over, clutching his stomach, trying to ease the pain. "Let's go find other people and tell them about this way to survive."

Sitting on the ground, Tonight White nodded.

The photographic paper had already been ejected from the output nozzle. He reached out, took the paper down, placed it on the ground, and looked at the image on it.

Because it was taken at night, the background of the photo is almost completely black.

But the figure standing in the middle was very clear; it was looking down, as if it were looking at something.

This is a ghost.

Looking at the ghost in the photo tonight, Bai still felt a lingering fear: "Should we burn it?"

If it's not burned, it will crawl out of the photo again.

Wen Qin straightened up and said, "No... I have another guess now. If the photo can seal away ghosts, could it be a cage for them? Was our previous action of burning the photo a mistake?"

"You mean the ghost couldn't have crawled out of the photo originally, and it was only because we burned the photo that it appeared in the world?" Tonight, Bai propped himself up and stood up, moving a little further away from the photo on the ground.

“But we didn’t burn the ghost-infested photos,” Jin Yebai pondered. “We burned other kinds of photos.”

Wen Qin was also puzzled. He glanced at the ghost photo on the ground and said, "Let's leave here first. It's still very dangerous here."

He went to help the bicycle that had fallen to the ground.

Hao Laoshi patted his chest and asked, "Should we go find someone else?"

“Yes,” Wen Qin nodded as she hopped on her bicycle, “tell them that Polaroid cameras are a way to make a living.”

"Oh, and don't forget to bring the Polaroid camera..." he said, turning back to look at Tonight White behind him.

But he had only turned his head halfway when he heard something fall to the ground.

When he turned his head completely, he saw Tonight White lying on his side with his back to him, struggling in agony.

His head looked as if it were being grabbed by something and forcefully pulled backward.

He struggled and thrashed about, but couldn't make a sound.

Two seconds later, with a crisp sound, all the struggles ceased. Tonight, Bai's head was completely turned 180 degrees, his face and back silently watching him in the darkness.

Why……

Wen Qin looked at the scene before her in disbelief.

Why can ghosts kill people?
"Run!" came Hao Laoshi's voice.

Wen Qin, as if suddenly realizing what was happening, sped away on her bicycle.

To experience what it feels like to twist your neck 180 degrees and see if you can still struggle, GuGu deliberately twisted her own neck. Good thing, she's now in the hospital.

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