An Unusual Life Beginning with Evil Spirits-Chapter 110 : Your Neck!

Volume 3: High School Arc - Mirror Game
Lu Haochen didn’t hesitate either and climbed directly into the backseat, sitting beside me.
Soon, the two new players caught up.
The homebody guy got into the passenger seat of Shan Xuelin’s car, while the construction site guy got into the back of Jiang Yulong’s car.
The Death Coffin members also hurried into the cars, and then all the vehicles started up almost simultaneously.
Running all the way from the mirror factory left me a bit breathless, and Lu Haochen wasn’t much better off.
As for the homebody guy, he was much worse—his clothes were already soaked with sweat, and he was panting heavily.
“Who is he?”
Shan Xuelin started the car while glancing back at Lu Haochen.
“A passerby player accidentally brought into the factory, selected by the System.”
Glancing at Lu Haochen, I couldn’t find any fear on his face, only a trace of confusion, and more of alertness.
Shan Xuelin looked at me in confusion, then started the car and drove toward the city.
Finally, I had the time to explain things to Lu Haochen.
During this process, although I was extremely alert, nothing ever actually happened.
“So... you’re all so-called players? And now, we’re playing a game where we could die at any moment?”
Lu Haochen’s situation was much better than mine.
When I got involved in the game, I had no time to react—it was over almost instantly.
But when he joined the game, he even received a prior notice...
Damn!
Does this game treat people differently!?
And Lu Haochen had told me most of his situation too.
This so-called Taoist of his was just a kid raised in a Taoist temple since childhood, and the ghosts he’d encountered... were mostly the kind that couldn’t harm ordinary people directly.
At most, they could just affect one’s sleep quality, hardly anything terrifying.
In other words... Taoists or monks were no different from ordinary people, and the so-called ghost-expelling methods he used had no effect on the strange beings in the APP.
The so-called ghost keepers he mentioned were basically just people who used special methods to trap some souls, which caused almost no real harm to ordinary people.
At most, they disrupted sleep and maybe gave you a scare in your dreams.
That was... the ghost keeper he talked about.
And he initially thought I was a ghost keeper, deliberately trying to scare him while he slept.
As for why he could see the strange being on me, he said he had this ability since childhood—to see things others couldn’t.
In other words... this guy was a total rookie.
A complete newbie, with no means of resisting the strange entities in the APP.
“Taoist, huh... I get it. Yunyan, you also know how dangerous our game is. There were people before who wanted to study supernatural phenomena in the real world, and they ended up bitterly disappointed. The supernatural in the real world and the strange entities in the APP are completely different—entirely different levels. Little brother, you don’t look that old, so I suggest you throw away all your real-world knowledge about the surface world... oh, I mean the normal world’s supernatural stuff. Otherwise, you’ll die.”
Shan Xuelin said blandly, then talked a bit about the supernatural in the surface world.
To sum it up in four words:
Completely useless.
The supernatural in the real world had nothing to do with the strange beings in the APP.
They felt like two entirely different things.
Looks like what I said to Lu Haochen before was totally a misunderstanding.
This guy thought I was a ghost keeper trying to harm people.
And he was a Taoist.
But whether it was ghost keeping or Taoism, it was vastly different from what’s in the APP—totally incomparable.
“You’re Brother Shan, right? Hello, I’m Lu Haochen.”
“Ah, hello, I’m Shan Xuelin.”
“Brother Shan, you just said you’ve done some research on the supernatural, right? So… how different is it from this APP?”
“Well…”
Shan Xuelin and Lu Haochen started chatting just like that.
I was sitting right behind the driver’s seat, and Lu Haochen was seated beside me.
Shan Xuelin was diagonally across from him—perfect for a conversation between the two.
As for me, I leaned against the seat, thinking about the strange things that had just happened.
Why was there a one-hour gap?
When we had just come out of the factory, the sense of dissonance wasn’t so strong.
But as time passed, the sense of wrongness became stronger.
An entire hour missing—where did it go?
How did we get out of Factory Building No. 7?
Why didn’t I remember anything about it?
I glanced at my watch.
It was already 1:10.
What exactly had happened inside that factory?
The sudden chaos earlier left me no time to sort my thoughts.
That blond youth Yaocheng and the middle-aged man Xiang Wei had started running without hesitation.
At the time, I didn’t even react—why did they run?
Xu Han and Jiang Yulong ran too—why?
Hesitating, I was just about to ask Shan Xuelin when suddenly I heard a shocked cry from the front passenger seat, diagonally across from me.
The homebody guy exclaimed,
“I can’t move!!!”
What do you mean you can’t move?
I was stunned.
At the same time, Shan Xuelin and Lu Haochen’s eyes snapped toward the homebody guy.
The three of us all looked at him in that instant.
At that moment… the homebody guy was staring in terror at the windshield ahead, shouting,
“You… what are you doing!?”
Instinctively, all three of us turned our eyes to the front windshield.
But… there was nothing there.
“No… no! Don’t do this, don’t… ah! Help me! Help me!!”
His terrified expression was reflected in the windshield.
At the same time, his hands suddenly lifted.
“What’s happening!?”
Shan Xuelin shouted.
I was getting nervous too.
The Evil Spirit Form was already prepared.
But… I had no idea what was happening to the homebody guy!
That slightly chubby man suddenly raised both hands and clutched his neck tightly.
“No! Don’t! Ugh!!!”
There was a muffled grunt.
Next, I seemed to hear something tearing.
Blood gushed through his fingers.
And his screams became even more miserable.
“Help! Save me! Please save me!!”
Lu Haochen reacted, too.
He stood up from the back seat and reached over the chair to grab the guy’s hands, pushing them outward.
At that moment, both Shan Xuelin, Lu Haochen, and I were all shocked.
The homebody guy’s neck was being sliced open bit by bit—by nothing.
“Help me! Help—guh guh… glug~”
Blood spurted from his throat.
Seeing the terror in his eyes, I instantly reacted.
Without a word, I braced both hands on the driver’s and passenger’s seatbacks, lifted my body, and kicked hard at the front windshield!
‘Pa!’—the windshield shattered on impact.
Then I stepped on the dashboard and kicked again.
‘Crash!’—the entire windshield was kicked out.
When I turned back, the wound on the guy’s neck had already passed five centimeters, nearly severing his windpipe.
His eyes were wide open.
Suddenly, he turned his head toward the window on the car door.
Almost instinctively, I followed his gaze.
At that moment, I saw a flash of my reflection in the window.
The face in the reflection was smirking coldly at me, raising her hand.
She seemed to be holding something, lightly pressing it against her neck.
‘Ssshhh!’
A warm stream suddenly flowed down my neck.
At the same time, I heard Lu Haochen cry out.
“Liu Yunyan, your neck!!”