Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 85 Wang Shanshan and Wang Haiyan

Inside the Guanjiang residential area, near the center of Dachang City.

This residential complex is located in a top-tier new commercial housing development in Dachang City, and the developer is Zhang Wei's father.

To live here, you either need to be a powerful and wealthy person, or you need to take on a long-term mortgage.

At this moment, in a bathroom on a certain floor of this residential complex, in a shower room filled with steam.

Wang Haiyan was using the showerhead to wash her daughter Wang Shanshan's hair.

It's been getting hotter and hotter lately, and I'm sweating buckets even when I'm at home. Because of my daughter's heart condition, I don't dare turn on the air conditioning right away; I can only give her a slow, warm bath.

Steam swirled in the bathroom, forming a misty veil. Water droplets from her hair splashed down to her collarbone, then rolled gently down her graceful body. But even the hot water on her skin couldn't dispel the slightest chill.

Normally, at this age, she wouldn't be able to bathe her daughter anymore.

However, Wang Haiyan still vividly remembers the terrifying incident in late June.

The daughter first stayed out all night and didn't come home, then she came back with a classmate named Yang Jian.

The school's official statement was that intruders had broken into the school and spread hallucinogenic drugs, and the other students had died from drug overdoses. But she knew very well that it was all a lie; in reality… it was haunted!
Shortly after, the daughter took a long shower in the bathroom, then suddenly screamed shrilly. When her husband, Wang Bin, asked her what had happened, she actually said she saw something outside the window.

At first, Wang Haiyan thought her daughter was seeing things or was just being sensitive due to the upcoming college entrance exam. But the series of terrifying experiences that followed still send chills down her spine, even now when she recalls them.

After that, the family of three moved to this riverside community.

At the same time, she turned her head to look out the window, fearing that something might appear there.

"Mom..." Wang Shanshan suddenly said, "That's enough, you've washed all the shampoo foam off your hair."

"Oh...oh...okay..."

Wang Haiyan then went to get the shower gel, squeezed it onto the bath sponge, and instinctively used it to wipe her daughter's neck.

On the daughter's neck, a dark blue handprint can be clearly seen!
The hand didn't look big; it looked like a child's... or rather, a baby's hand!
“Mom…” Wang Shanshan naturally knew why her mother, Wang Haiyan, was applying it here: “It’s useless, this stuff can’t be washed off.”

“Shanshan, how could you have encountered such a thing…” Wang Haiyan began to sob, “You’re only 18 years old…”

Now, the daughter's face is almost completely bloodless. And according to the doctor's examination, her heart rate is only a dozen beats per minute! The cardiac surgeons were shocked when they saw the report and told them to take the child to the emergency room immediately, saying that she might have acute heart failure and was at risk of sudden death at any moment. However, they went to all the cardiac surgery and cardiology departments in the city hospitals, but they couldn't find the cause at all.

Wang Haiyan and her husband Wang Bin have come to realize a harsh reality: this is a problem that modern medicine cannot solve at all, and they can only pray that their daughter can live a little longer. Their daughter's metabolism has almost stopped, and her skin is as cold as a corpse.

She was still alive, able to speak, and able to breathe—though slower and weaker. Now, she only needed to eat once every two days; eating more would make her feel bloated. She rarely spoke a word for half a day; a young girl in the prime of her life had become like a living dead, causing Wang Haiyan immense heartache.

Wang Shanshan could tell that her mother was feeling bad, so she could only force a smile and try to change the subject by saying something to cheer her up.

"Mom, how come you don't have any extra fat on your stomach? My classmate's mom always says that your waist and abdomen will sag after giving birth, but you look like you've never given birth, you don't even have a single stretch mark."

Wang Haiyan gave a wry smile, thinking that it was good that her daughter was willing to talk more now, no matter what: "Silly girl, after I gave birth to you, I learned postpartum recovery exercises with the nanny every day, and later I became obsessed with yoga and Kegel exercises. I've never stopped doing them all these years. My coach said that the most important thing is not to have a tight and taut body, but to be in a comfortable state. I sent you to dance classes before, also to help you maintain the best posture."

Wang Shanshan nodded and said, "Mom, you've been helping me take baths lately, you've really worked hard. How about I scrub your back for you later?"

"Oh my, our Shanshan has become so sensible. Mom is so happy."

Seeing that her daughter seemed to be in a slightly better mood, Wang Haiyan finally felt a little relieved.

After washing her daughter, she turned around and said, "Okay, Shanshan, you can help Mom scrub her back."

Wang Shanshan applied shower gel to the bath sponge and then slowly slid the sponge over her mother's shoulders and back.

"Mom," she suddenly slid the bath sponge little by little down her mother's back and waist, gently rubbing it in circles to create lather, "I will definitely take good care of you and Dad from now on."

Warm steam carrying the scent of shower gel wafted over. Wang Haiyan turned her head and saw water droplets clinging to her daughter's eyelashes. Suddenly, she recalled the night eighteen years ago when she held her baby in her arms and cried. At this moment, she felt the softness of her daughter's palm against her back and felt the gentle, affectionate touch on her waist.

Wang Haiyan really couldn't understand how her life had turned out this way.

Back then, Wang Haiyan graduated from the finance department of a top university. While her classmates were busy submitting resumes to foreign companies and preparing for civil service exams, she walked into the campus recruitment fair with a business plan in hand, saying that she wanted to provide financial consulting services for women.

She gritted her teeth and swallowed the hardships of the early stages of starting a business. During the day, she went to office buildings to hand out flyers, and at night she stayed in her rented room to do market research. Her notebook was filled with customer needs, and her fingers developed calluses from frequent typing.

The turning point came at an industry salon. She took the stage with a carefully prepared PPT, and her clear and logical analysis made a man in the audience nod frequently. That man was her current husband, Wang Bin, who was already a well-known entrepreneur at the time and was impressed by the fierce determination in her eyes.

Their acquaintance carried the unspoken understanding of working professionals. Wang Bin admired her decisiveness and resilience, while she valued his vision and composure.

Unexpectedly, after getting married and having a child, she found that balancing work and family was incredibly difficult. The once successful businesswoman was now exhausted from raising her child, becoming petty, fussy, and even perceived as heartless. But everything she did was to give her daughter, Shanshan, the best education. She doted on her, fearing she might go astray in life.

So when she first saw Yang Jian, she warned her to be wary, because she knew that girls at this age were most easily deceived by boys. So she treated him very harshly. Now that she thinks about it, she almost lost her daughter's life!

"Mom, at your age, your waist-to-hip ratio is even better than mine. When we go out, people think we're sisters. Well, I guess my great figure is all thanks to you, Mom."

"Where did you learn such flattery, you little brat? It's not that exaggerated..." "I'm telling the truth! Look at your waist... Ah, ahhhhhhh!"

At this moment, Wang Shanshan let out an extremely shrill scream!

"What's wrong, Shanshan? What's wrong?" Wang Haiyan was startled and quickly turned around to ask.

"Mom...you..." Wang Shanshan's expression was one of utter despair as she looked at her mother's left side, "You're pregnant too..."

Wang Haiyan was startled. She then walked to the mirror, wiped the water vapor off it, and turned to check her waist.

"what happened?"

Like a frightened bird, Wang Bin rushed into the bathroom, and then he clearly saw his wife pressing her lower back there...

There was also a bluish-black handprint!

Upon seeing this scene, Wang Bin felt his vision go black.

Wang Bin slumped down at the bathroom door, looking at his wife and daughter.

Wang Shanshan was still standing under the shower, the water washing away the handprints on her neck.

The bluish-black marks on Wang Haiyan's waist looked even more gruesome!
"This...this is impossible..."

Wang Bin grabbed his phone with trembling hands, scrolled through his contacts, and quickly dialed a number.

The person they contacted was their daughter's classmate, Yang Jian!
It was he who paid a high price to have his daughter's classmate help him defeat the evil spirit that was haunting his daughter.

Now, we have no choice but to ask him for help!
I just hope he can save his wife one more time!
ten minutes later.

Yang Jian arrived through the Ghost Realm, bringing Liu Yan with him.

Yang Jian stood by the window, his ghostly eyes glowing slightly red, staring at the bluish-black handprints on Wang Shanshan's neck and Wang Haiyan's waist. The two marks seemed to have grown out of the skin, and upon closer inspection, fine grayish-white lines had appeared at their edges, spreading like tree roots.

Wang Haiyan's body visibly trembled: "Will we... become that kind of thing?"

Liu Yan said, "I've already tried it, and the Gu worms are ineffective against the Ghost Slave Seal. Now that your Ghost Slave Seal is starting to turn gray, Yang Jian's Ghost Domain won't be very effective either."

"Then, what should we do?"

Liu Yan looked at Yang Jian and Wang Bin and said, "Excuse me, could you two please excuse us for a moment?"

Seeing that she seemed to have a solution, Wang Bin immediately nodded and went out with Yang Jian.

Wang Haiyan knelt down and pleaded, "Miss Liu, please save my daughter and me! I will repay you even if I have to work like a slave!"

"You said it yourself. No need for later, you can be my slaves right now."

Then, Liu Yan took out a yellowed kraft paper map from her cloth bag and spread it out on the coffee table.

The front of the map shows a detailed street map of Dachang City, while the back...
"This... is Black Abyss City?" Wang Shanshan leaned closer, her fingers barely touching the back of the map before she abruptly pulled back. "It's so hot!"

The city outlines on the back of the map look as if they were drawn with some kind of ash, leaving faint black marks when you run your finger over them.

Liu Yan took out two small glass bottles, inside which were several leeches curled up.

“This is the ‘Guiding Gu’ I made.” She handed the bottle to Wang Shanshan. “After you swallow the leeches inside, the system will temporarily identify you as my Gu worms. Of course, I can’t guarantee that it will be successful.”

Of course, she was referring to the reincarnation system.

Wang Haiyan's face turned deathly pale instantly: "Swallow it?"

"Or wait until the Ghost Slave Seal turns completely grayish-white, at which point you will suffer more than death."

Wang Haiyan pressed further, "What do you mean by 'system'?"

"You'll know later."

Liu Yan quickly pointed to a location on the map: "Now, go to the intersection of Anqing Street and Beichen Road in Dachang City. Then, run a red light."

"Running a red light?"

Liu Yan took out two more pairs of tweezers and several sealed insect containers from her bag: "Afterwards, you will enter Black Abyss City. Simply put, it's like being transported to another world. Then, go to a street corner and find a black trash can with a triangular symbol. Collect the insect eggs or larvae inside, especially a strange centipede with a human face. Collect as many as you can, no matter how disgusting they are. You can also collect them separately. These trash cans are located on the streets of Black Abyss City, about one kilometer apart."

Wang Haiyan and her daughter were completely dumbfounded.

Time travel?

(End of this chapter)