Then, Rowena handed several packages of snack-like items to Tang Yiling. And watched Tang Yiling stuff the bags of snacks into the zippered jacket pocket.
"Thanks……"
Tang Yiling nodded lightly to the two of them, pushed open the apartment door painted with red talismans, and walked into the dim corridor.
"boom!"
Turning sideways and closing the door tightly, Tang Yiling was left alone in the cold wind. In the dark and cold corridor, Tang Yiling opened and closed the palms of his hands, and then tightened the two sheathed daggers around his waist.
"call!--"
Taking a deep breath, Tang Yiling clutched the bright flashlight specially provided for him by Leng Shuanghan, stepped forward, and quickly went downstairs at a jog.
Running to the lobby on the first floor, looking at the dim lights outside the door, Tang Yiling turned on the strong flashlight in his hand. He walked alone to the dark alley outside the door.
After passing through the alley more than ten meters outside the apartment, Tang Yiling stood on the wide street of the campus again. He looked back towards the alley. In the dark alley, only the light of the apartment lobby was isolated in the darkness.
"The most urgent thing is to see my sister first."
After calming down, Tang Yiling raised a strong flashlight and shined it around. After confirming the specific direction of Office Building No. 5, Tang Yiling continued to move quickly through the dark campus streets at a trot.
The time at this moment is fixed at nine ten in the middle of the night. There are still one hour and fifty minutes left before the curse comes.
The apartment itself is located within Qian Ling College and is on the edge. Office Building No. 5 is located on the other side opposite the apartment, and the straight-line distance between them almost runs through the entire campus.
In order to prevent them from getting lost due to unfamiliarity with the campus environment during the mission, Tang Yiling and the other four people completely recorded the main routes in the campus as well as some small roads that can be passed quickly before departure.
Tang Yiling relied on the high illumination of the strong flashlight to quickly shuttle between the small roads and the main roads.
Tang Yiling's eyes kept drifting over the surrounding scenery and landmarks, and quickly compared them with the route in his memory.
After walking through a section of the road next to the restaurant and reaching the three-way intersection, Tang Yiling was slightly stunned.
The strong light of the flashlight directly exposed the human-shaped snowdrift on the street not far away to Tang Yiling's sight.
Next to the human silhouette, there are some messy footsteps and traces of being dragged.
"Nine twenty, less than a third of the way."
Tang Yiling glanced at the time, looked at the familiar scenery around him, and finally took a look at the snowdrift that had already been fixed in shape, and quickly left the place.
At the same time, in the lobby on the first floor of Building 5, Tang Linsu, whose body had long since dissipated from the flames, was hiding in the back of the only conference room, leaning against the back of a leather chair that was large enough to hide people.
With slightly parted lips, he breathed in the cold air around him, and large beads of sweat kept falling from his forehead. His ears were pressed against the edge of the leather chair, always paying attention to all the movements outside the door.
(This almost uncontrollable hunger... is a 'sequelae' that will only appear after the second phase of the inscription is over!)
At this time, Tang Linsu didn't have the slightest panic in her eyes. Instead, she was a little surprised by her current situation.
(Could it be that... I am missing some key memories. When was it...)
"Tap! Tread!..."
There was a strange sound of footsteps outside the conference room door.
The footsteps sounded like women's high heels at first, but when I listened again after a while, it turned into the sound of leather shoes stepping on tiles.
"Squeak!——"
The door of the conference room was slowly pushed open by an external force. It was unclear whether the footsteps of high heels or leather shoes began to echo in the silent conference room.
From the moment footsteps entered the door, Tang Linsu quickly adjusted her breathing.
The sound of breathing weakened under Tang Linsu's conscious control, until she couldn't even hear her breathing accurately.
The footsteps kept lingering at the door, neither going deeper nor leaving; it was like a patient hunter, quietly waiting for his prey to become tired.
The two sides faced off in separate chambers in the small conference room!
When the two sides were confronting each other, Tang Linsu's eyes seemed to become extremely slow, and one second seemed to be stretched to the length of an hour.
At this moment, she not only had to endure the hunger caused by the second stage of the incantation, but also had to maintain the same posture and remain motionless in the continuous tense atmosphere.
Her willpower was passing rapidly amidst the hunger and nervous environment, especially the feeling of an empty stomach after not eating for nearly three days, which almost caused her breathing rate to become disordered several times.
"tread!--"
The next second, the footsteps that had been lingering at the door suddenly disappeared, and a dead silence instantly enveloped the entire conference classroom.
"Tap tap! tap tap!..."
The dead silence in the classroom did not last long, and was directly broken by new footsteps outside the hall.
New footsteps echoed in the empty hall. The owner of the footsteps walked and stopped in the hall for a while, as if he was looking for something. In other words... he is looking for someone.
(Must...must leave as soon as possible! Get out of here!)
Tang Linsu, who also heard the sound of new footsteps, made up her mind in her heart. Just start the third stage of the incantation while you are still conscious, and use the power that bursts out in a short time to quickly escape from this place.
(Whether it’s new footsteps, enemies, or friends, this is a plan that must succeed!)
At this time, Tang Linsu's limbs were already numb, and there was a fatal dizziness in her eyes due to hunger. Even using willpower to activate the half-hidden incantation in the body would take close to five minutes...or even more.
"Tap! Tread! Tread! Tread!"
The footsteps lingering at the door. After hearing the new footsteps, they stomped on the ground with anger, turned around and ran quickly towards the outsiders who broke into their territory!
At the same time as the footsteps left, Tang Linsu, who was already overwhelmed and hit by the shock, fainted.
"Bang!——"
The sudden impact caused Tang Yiling, who was not prepared at all, to be thrown away by the huge force.
Tang Yiling's figure drew a perfect arc in the air. Then there was a dull impact, and Tang Yiling's back came into close contact with the hard tile floor.
"Boom!——"
The dull sound of impact echoed continuously in the empty hall on the first floor. Tang Yiling, who fell to the ground, twisted his face and tried his best to endure the severe pain transmitted from the nerves throughout his body to his brain.
At this time, Tang Yiling suffered a double impact on the abdomen and back. At this moment, he was like a doll that had been torn apart for no reason, lying straight on the tile floor.
"Ta-ta-ta!——"
The fallen, bright flashlight kept rotating on the smooth ground; the light emitted from the flashlight also disappeared as the nearly smooth cylinder of the flashlight rotated.
By coincidence, when the flashlight stopped after hitting the wall, the light it illuminated happened to shine on the position before Tang Yiling was knocked away.
Tang Yiling endured the constant warnings from his muscles and nerves, stiffened his neck, and looked in the direction where he was knocked away.
I saw an extremely thin humanoid creature wearing tattered robes, standing upright where Tang Yiling was standing before he was knocked away.
Under the strong light of the flashlight, Tang Yiling could clearly see that the hands and ankles exposed outside the tattered gray robe were translucent.
The face of the cursed nightmare in the torn robe is always in the shadow of the big hood. Even if there is strong light, it is impossible to see the face of the cursed nightmare in the torn robe through the shadow.
But the most concerning thing, and the most eye-catching thing, is that on the translucent feet of the broken robe curse nightmare, wearing a pair of extremely brand-new, extremely bright-colored [red high heels]!
"Except for the modern version of 'red embroidered shoes' in horror novels, this is the first time I have encountered them in reality."
After basically confirming the shape and appearance of the cursed nightmare, the neck that was originally stretched out was finally lowered, and the back of the head came into contact with the cold tile floor again.
"Hoo, hiss!——"
Tang Yiling, who was originally relaxed, was caught off guard by the sudden nerve pain.
"Tap! Tread!..."
Although he was not staring at the curse nightmare, the echo of footsteps that kept coming to his ears still echoed around him.
