Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 53 Tomie and the Ghost Baby

"Backlash from the rules?" Jiang Jin immediately understood. "It will cause a curse, right?"

"The backlash can take many forms, but there's no doubt that as long as the rules are followed, the ability will continue to exist. The rules are absolute, and there's no way to change them."

Jiang Jin: Excuse me, Liu Yan, the person who can change the rules is sitting right in front of you. If it were me, I'd change it to a hundred push-ups a day, or even twenty!

This also made Jiang Jin ecstatic: the side effects of the Resentment Crystal Shard were negligible to him! But he accepted all the benefits of the Resentment Crystal Shard!

So, does the Mourning Shotgun have a similar function? We'll have to figure that out.

"However, you don't need to rely too much on intelligence. This world may not develop exactly the same way as the original story."

Jiang Jin's biggest trump card right now is the Door-Knocking Ghost. The Door-Knocking Ghost's ghostly domain is powerful and can be used to combat the curse currently lurking in the school.

"My Little Strong Club is basically defunct now, and has temporarily joined forces with the Ghost Tamer Headquarters to prevent the school's curse from spreading. But I can't understand why the school is allowed to open as usual if that's the case. I can only assume that the Ghost Tamer Headquarters may have some other scheme in mind."

One of the world's most powerful evil spirits may be lurking within the school...

"Alright, I have some things to take care of. Don't let your dog follow me."

"Huh? You noticed?"

"I am a sorcerer, and you have no idea how terrifying this profession is."

Behind the library, there is a laboratory building.

Liu Yan walked slowly.

The Ghost Riders headquarters assigned her a chemistry lab, which was usually kept locked tight. Liu Yan had repeatedly warned her that no one but her was allowed to enter.

No one dared to ignore the warning from a "ghost tamer".

Reaching the end of the corridor, in front of the laboratory with three locks, Liu Yan took out her key and unlocked them one by one. She kept a watchful eye on her surroundings as she did so.

She entered the laboratory, closed the door, and locked it again.

Then, she looked at a rectangular object covered with a black cloth in front of a pile of chemical experimental equipment.

She walked up to the thing.

“The gray nematode has already transmitted its information to me,” Liu Yan said. “In short, you’re ready to agree to my conditions, aren’t you?”

An eerie wriggling sound came from inside the object covered by the black cloth.

Then, Liu Yan grabbed the black cloth and pulled it open!

Inside is a fish tank.

The fish tank contained a large amount of liquid.

This is not water, but alcohol from a chemistry lab.

In the center of the fish tank, countless gray nematodes were crawling on a head!
The head was clearly that of a woman, with a beauty mark under her left eye.

The lips of the woman's head were almost entirely covered with gray worms, which kept biting and growing.

"Let me hear your conclusion... Ms. Tomie Kawakami."

The insect began to move away from her lips, and then the woman's mouth began to move.

"You...devil..."

Liu Yan sat in front of the fish tank, resting her chin on her hand.

I don't like this answer.

Then, the gray worms continued their frenzied biting! The woman began to scream in agony!
“Go ahead and scream. The soundproofing of the lab walls is excellent. You have no way to escape. Your regeneration speed can never keep up with the speed at which the gray worms bite. You have no idea how much pain I endured when the gray worms crawled out of the Three Corpse Brain God Pill I swallowed in order to become a witch doctor… But all the sacrifices were worth it.”

The woman named Tomie finally said, "Don't you... feel sorry for me?"

"Excuse me, Ms. Tomie, I am a woman. One of your biggest weaknesses is that your charm over women is far less than that of men. I have also made sure that the people watching this surveillance footage are all determined female demon tamers, and they will never give you any opportunity. I already knew how capable you are and how many evil deeds you have done when I read the manga back then."

Then she took a matchbox out of the drawer.

"Or would you mind experiencing the pain of being burned by fire again? Immortality would become your greatest torment."

"If I promise you, you will..." "I will give you a certain amount of freedom."

"you swear!"

"I swear."

……

"Li Hua, what's wrong? You look so listless on the first day of school."

Inside the convenience store, Cheng Mi looked at Li Hua with puzzlement: "Could it be that you watched too many adult films last night?"

Li Hua looked up at the student rules posted at the convenience store and said, "Cheng Mi, I met with Zhang Wei from the previous senior year on the day I returned to school."

"Is he from that senior class who always plays PUBG? Didn't you usually call him 'Impotent Senior'?" Cheng Mi grinned and said, "I remember he was really good at PUBG. Didn't you used to skip class from time to time to go to the internet cafe with him for a game?"

Then, he took two cans of iced cola and a bag of fries from the convenience store owner, tossing one can to him: "Here you go. Why did you suddenly bring him up? Look at you, like you've seen a ghost."

Li Hua didn't reply, but just stared at the water droplets on the Coke can, which were sliding down his wrist and gathering on the table.

Liu Yan walked along the classroom corridor carrying her lesson plans.

A gray nematode quietly crawled out of the sleeve and scurried along the wall. At that moment, it was wriggling restlessly, as if it had smelled something.

In the monitoring room, Jiang Jin was reviewing the school's surveillance footage.

The monitor screen flickered, and the image briefly switched to the interior of Class 7, Grade 12—

The desks and chairs were neatly arranged, and there were still chalk marks left on the blackboard.

everything is normal.

"...Li Hua, you just said you went to see that Zhang Wei, what happened next?"

Li Hua nodded, her voice low: "He said some strange things to me at first, then I contacted him again, and then he gave me a photo."

"What picture?"

Li Hua took out a photo from her phone and handed it to Cheng Mi.

Cheng Mi looked down—

That was a group photo of the entire Class 7 of Senior Three. As graduation from high school approaches, the school will arrange for the graduating class to take a group photo in advance.

In the photo, everyone is standing in the sunlight, smiling brightly.

Only one person.

"This is?"

The person's face was completely black, which looked rather eerie.

“Her name is Wang Shanshan, and she was also in Class 7 of Senior Three.”

Then, he pulled Cheng Mi to a dimly lit corner.

"What happened?"

"Then Zhang Wei told me to take a screenshot of the part of my face that was blacked out, and then try turning the phone's brightness to the highest setting and holding the phone as far away from my face as possible..."

Then he did as instructed.

"Look, what can you see now?"

Cheng Mi squinted at the phone screen, which had its brightness turned up to the maximum.

After a full five seconds, he suddenly gasped.

"This...this is!"

The blackened face actually vaguely resembled the face of a terrifying baby!

(End of this chapter)