Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 22 Hunting the Cursed Blade
The moment the candle went out, Jiang Jin didn't hesitate to throw the freshly cut premium char siu into his mouth!
This char siu adds 5% SAN!

It's currently at 71% SAN!

The tolling of the death knell ripped through the silence of the darkness like a blade, while the rushing sound of water surged in from all directions.

Jiang Jin quickly turned on his phone's flashlight and rushed to the kitchen door with Sang Zhong!

However, when he turned the doorknob, he found that the door was locked!
"Boss Chen! Boss Chen!" Jiang Jin shouted hoarsely, but there was no sound from outside!

"Deathstroke, go out first and pull Boss Chen over to open the door!" Jiang Jin shouted. Although humans cannot touch the skeleton hound, as long as the latter is on the same level, it can touch the former if it actively and intentionally touches the former! Unless Boss Chen's SAN value exceeds 80%, Deathstroke cannot enter the material layer, let alone come into contact with material layer life.

And so, the death knell immediately pierced the door...

However, the next moment, its body actually... passed through again in the same spot!

Clearly, Deathstroke was also terrified. It turned around again and tried to pass through the door, but each time it was no use and it would come right back!

It barked at Jiang Jin, who quickly understood its meaning. This was a spatial curse even stronger than the Ghost Wall curse, which shouldn't be something a mysterious evil spirit could do!
Jiang Jin immediately realized what was happening and turned around again!

The extinguished candles still slowly emit wisps of smoke, and the bowls and chopsticks that disappeared from the Huang family's old house are still placed on the kitchen counter, with the ebony chopsticks crossed in an X shape.

But upon closer inspection, Jiang Jin suddenly noticed that half a blackened fingernail was stuck to the edge of the blue-and-white porcelain bowl.

He remembered! It was that fingernail on the stairs of the Huang family's old house!

The ghost did not appear, but lurked in the darkness, waiting for its chance to strike.

Jiang Jin moved slowly, his body pressed against the kitchen wall. His back bumped against the cold metal countertop, and he suddenly felt something wet behind him. He turned around and saw that water droplets were seeping from the entire kitchen wall, and the liquid was meandering down!
"Woof woof woof!" Deathstroke suddenly tucked his tail between his legs and barked, but the sound of his canine teeth chattering was clearly audible. Jiang Jin gripped the boning knife, which was imbued with malevolent energy, tightly, while his other hand reached for the Reincarnator's Watch.

He's not considering the Rusty Hunting Crossbow and the Dead Man's Bone Arrow as ranged weapons for now. Not only do they consume too much SAN, but in enclosed spaces, they only stun ghosts for 1.5 seconds, making them too inefficient.

At this moment, Jiang Jin suddenly saw that a large indentation gradually appeared on the cushion of the originally empty armchair, as if something unseen was slowly sitting down!

Seeing it sit down, Jiang Jin immediately took the opportunity to take out the Resentment Moss Ointment!
With a "ding," the chopsticks suddenly separated automatically.

Jiang Jin didn't care about anything else and applied the Resentment Moss Ointment to the boning knife!

This time, as long as we strike this evil spirit hard, there is a 15%-45% chance that its resentment will be unable to re-form into a vengeful spirit for at least one to three days!

The sound of flowing water resumed, followed by a slight creaking sound from the armchair.

Jiang Jin gripped the boning knife tightly. He knew things were going wrong, but he couldn't wait any longer! He continued to close in and hack at the ghost!
Suddenly, the phone's beam went out instantly!
Jiang Jin was shocked. In the pitch black, he immediately relied on his familiarity with the phone to tap the screen again and turn on the phone's beam!
"Wang Wang Wang!"

When the beam of light reappeared, Jiang Jin was surprised to find that he was standing straight to the right of the armchair!
Moreover, he discovered that he couldn't move at all after that!
what?
"Death... Death Knell... Attack it!"

The death knell hurtled straight toward the armchair from behind! But then, its body seemed to freeze in place, completely still!
Jiang Jin suddenly realized something and glanced at the kitchen counter in the corner on the other side!

It's "her"!
It's that one ▇▇▇!

Although ▇▇▇ couldn't reach the Mysterious Layer to kill Jiang Jin, "she" was using the evil spirit of the Huang family's old mansion, which was already in the Mysterious Layer, to deal with him! Using this ghost as a medium, she was wielding her own cursed power!
A strange sound of water came from the bowl in front of me.

Jiang Jin could clearly see that the bowl was full of black liquid! Just like the disgusting liquid that flowed out of the shattered mirror!
His muscle fibers felt like they were being pierced by countless ice needles, and the hunter's instincts of the Blood Tracker were screaming a warning!
But what's terrifying is that the next moment, a pale hand came into view from the sleeve of a blue long robe!
There are obvious canine bite marks on my hands!

He couldn't turn his head at that moment, but he could vaguely see someone sitting on the armchair through the corner of his eye!

The next moment, that hand raised the bowl and stretched it toward Jiang Jin's mouth!
However, I don't know if it's because of the canine bite wound on my hand, but my hand is shaking like I have Parkinson's!

Do not!
The hunter's intuition told him that if he drank this, he would become the same kind of evil spirit as the Huang family's haunted house!
"Death Knell! Go into the Mysterious Layer, close to the Material Layer! If you can move, go and take those few pieces of blue-veined char siu from the corner of the kitchen counter!" Jiang Jin shouted.

Jiang Jin knew that the ghost was waiting to collect his soul near the Mysterious Layer of the Lost Layer! But once Deathstroke moved away from the Lost Layer, the influence it received would weaken!
The next moment, the frantic howling of a death knell came from afar, and soon after, the blue and white porcelain bowl in front of Jiang Jin shattered in two!
The putrid black liquid splattered on the pale hand, and Jiang Jin instantly regained control of his body. He grabbed the boning knife and charged towards the grand master's chair! But at that moment, the grand master's chair suddenly flew through the air and crashed down on him!
That "person" has disappeared!
As Jiang Jin dodged to the side, a cold, wet hand suddenly pressed against the back of his neck—

The evil spirit of the Huang family's old house was right behind him, breathing out chilling air!

A sharp chill spread from his neck to his entire body, and Jiang Jin saw dark lines bulging and moving beneath his skin.

Deathstroke charged forward again, biting the invisible body of the vengeful spirit behind him!
Taking advantage of this fleeting opportunity, Jiang Jin swung his boning knife and stabbed it fiercely behind him.

"Pfft!"

The tip of the knife felt like it was piercing through mud.

At that moment, he heard a sharp shriek, and in an instant, all the glass containers in the kitchen shattered, and the cured sausages wriggled and fell from the hooks like live snakes.

Jiang Jin's hand split open, and blood flowed down the hilt of the knife.

The next moment, Jiang Jin was suddenly flung away by an invisible force and crashed into the freezer where frozen meat was stored.

He was hit hard, and his phone was thrown away!

Jiang Jin was hit so hard that his vision was filled with stars. As soon as he stood up, he saw through the beam of light from the phone in the corner that he saw Deathstroke being lifted up by something, and the hound's limbs twisting at reverse joint angles.

"Hold!"

How dare they damage the death knell?!

The hunter's vision of Bloodstalker is activated!
Then, he vaguely saw a human figure, and a "rope" made of black water around the figure's neck. This rope extended towards the corner counter, where the blue fatty meat chunks were stored!

It is within the Lost Layer that this evil spirit is controlled via these ropes!
But didn't Deathstroke take away that piece of flesh?
Jiang Jin immediately rushed forward and slashed at the rope... but found that he couldn't cut it at all!

Seeing that Deathstroke was starting to falter, Jiang Jin risked everything!
"Just like this fire, it seems invisible, but if you know its 'pulse,' you can cut it off."

Jiang Jin gritted his teeth, his hunter's vision remaining locked on what lay ahead!
"pulse"……

All attention was focused on the black rope around the ghost's neck—there was an almost invisible "death line" there!
Yes!

The pulse is there!

He lunged forward, his blade slicing precisely across the humanoid figure's neck.

The instant the boning knife pierced the humanoid figure's neck, data flashed across Jiang Jin's retina:

"Reincarnator Jiang Jin, you are about to unlock the Hunter LV1 Bloodstained Tracker ability to hunt down Cursed Blades."
Hunting Cursed Blade Awakening Progress 37%...64%...89%..."

The death knell crashed heavily to the ground, while Jiang Jin's boning knife sliced ​​diagonally down along the "death line," feeling as if he were cutting a steak with tendons!
A phantom figure dressed in a blue robe finally materialized!
In the darkness, the humanoid's neck was unnaturally bent, trying to pull out the knife embedded in it, but the blade pierced into its spirit like a tree root!

Jiang Jin stared at the dying Deathstroke lying on the ground, roared, and gripped the hilt of his sword tightly...

Finally, the neck of that illusory ghost was severed...

Completely divided in two!
"Hunter's Cursed Blade Awakening Progress..."

100%!

(End of this chapter)