Chapter 9

Liu Ming pressed his face against the car window, while Yao Ling, full of fear, desperately rammed the window with her shoulder. Lin Yifan, gasping for breath, had a face that was indistinguishable between sweat and lake water.

The car had already sunk to the bottom of the lake, surrounded by darkness with no light in sight. The glass, no longer protected by Sadako's curse, was gradually crushed by the water pressure.

In just three seconds, the water had risen to Lin Yifan's waist.

Yao Ling's delicate fingers were cut by the glass shards, drawing several bloody lines. She sat down in despair, clutching her hair tightly: "I once heard a senior say that the first cycle of the horror movie wiped out ninety percent of the team..."

"Even though we were well-prepared, we... still underestimated it." Liu Ming gradually put down his gun, lying on the seat with a deathly pale face, letting the water rise over his shoulders.

"What a joke, to die here..."

Lin Yifan's eyes were bloodshot; he couldn't believe he would die in this hellish place, without even completing the first trial mission.

Liu Ming lowered his head: "Actually, I was mentally prepared when I entered the horror movie cycle."

"Teams with more than half new members, I never had much hope for them." Yao Ling, with her wet, tired face, looked out the window with lifeless eyes. Ghostly white shadows drifted past in the dark lake bottom, and even if they got out, Sadako would still drag them down.

Lin Yifan kicked the door and smashed the window, struggling and cursing, but... it was all in vain.

The water rose over the roof, and Lin Yifan, who hadn't given up, pressed his mouth against the last bit of space at the top of the car, greedily breathing the last bit of air.

The last bit of space was flooded, and the submerged sports car was completely filled with water.

Holding his breath, Lin Yifan, floating in the water, kicked the window with all his might. The entire glass finally shattered, but before he could swim out, he had reached his limit.

His face stiffened, and bubbles gushed out of his mouth. After a few instinctive struggles, he sank onto the seat.

Lying on the seat, Lin Yifan, who had lost consciousness, looked peaceful, with the last bit of air from his lungs escaping through his nose and mouth. His consciousness gradually faded...

"Hey!"

On the verge of fainting, Lin Yifan heard a muffled thunder in his mind, which only slightly woke him up, but his consciousness quickly became blurry again.

"Get up! Get up! Forget it, you lucky bastard."

A strange voice kept echoing in his mind, soft and coquettish.

Is this a hallucination before death? Shouldn't I be seeing a quick review of my life?

As his consciousness faded, Lin Yifan, submerged in the dark blue lake bottom, closed his eyes, with occasional bubbles escaping from his nose.

At this moment, a girl in white emerged from Lin Yifan's backpack, kicked her legs, and swam above Lin Yifan.

The girl in white looked at Lin Yifan lying on the seat, pouted, and reluctantly approached him.

Feeling something soft press against his lips, Lin Yifan's stiff fingers suddenly clenched.

Air!

Lin Yifan greedily sucked in air from the soft object, like a drug addict, desperately taking in more. His blurred consciousness gradually cleared, and his brain reactivated.

He suddenly opened his eyes, but in the dark blue water, he could only see the girl in white and her long hair floating in the water, beautiful and dreamlike, especially the distorted movement of her black hair in the lake water.

As he regained consciousness, Lin Yifan felt himself being pulled out of the car by the girl in white, who was dragging him out.

"Watch out, the imposter is coming!" A girl's voice echoed in Lin Yifan's mind.

"Imposter... gurgle..." Lin Yifan realized he was still at the bottom of the lake, and more lake water filled his stomach, making him feel bloated and uncomfortable.

"Quick, transform into a ghost, or I'll leave you here."

The girl's voice echoed again in his mind. Lin Yifan frowned and thought for a moment, then silently recited: "Transform into a ghost."

Instantly, as if tearing apart his heavy flesh, his face became grotesque, fangs grew in his mouth, his right eye glowed with ghostly fire, and his skin became rough.

At the same time, Lin Yifan's mind became furious, and with a grotesque face, he looked at the approaching white figure.

"Go deal with the imposter, I'll save the other two." The girl's voice echoed again in Lin Yifan's mind, and her small feet swam towards the car.

At this moment, Lin Yifan, filled with rage, stared at the approaching Sadako without thinking.

"Ha, I want to tear, tear everything apart!" Lin Yifan's mouth spewed out ghostly blue fire, and he charged at Sadako, losing his mind.

Indeed, he was sprinting at the bottom of the lake!

His rapid swimming created bubbles, and seeing Lin Yifan approaching, Sadako stopped and started using her glare.

"It's useless!" Roaring, Lin Yifan, who had been suppressed for a long time, grabbed Sadako's leg and jumped out of the water onto the shore.

After Sadako's glare failed, Lin Yifan stared at her without hesitation: "You're so ugly, even calling you a dinosaur would be an insult to dinosaurs. You're so ugly and still want to be on TV."

Seeing Sadako trying to struggle, the enraged Lin Yifan grabbed her leg and threw her onto a utility pole, the sound of bones breaking echoing in his ears.

Still unsatisfied, he grabbed a bunch of wires, sparking and electrifying Sadako, making her spin like a windmill, and finally threw her against a wall.

With a loud crash, Sadako's mouth spewed out black smoke, and the wall collapsed.

Seeing Sadako struggling to crawl out from under the rubble, Lin Yifan raised his head.

"Hehe... hehehe, from the start to now, was it fun?"

Spewing out ghostly breath, Lin Yifan's face twisted.

"Why aren't you talking! When I answered the phone, you could talk!"

Roaring a few times, seeing Sadako showing fear and crawling back, Lin Yifan's inner brutality was aroused.

He pressed Sadako to the ground, opened his mouth, and bit down with his fangs.

Despite Sadako's constant struggles, Lin Yifan held on to her neck, his eyes filled with a ferocious, almost insane look.

Like a cheetah with its prey, he didn't let go until she stopped moving and died, then spat out a piece of rotten skin.

Soon, Sadako's body began to decay, and with a gust of wind, her entire body turned to ashes and disappeared.

Staring at the vanished corpse, Lin Yifan panted heavily, coughing and spitting out small blue ghost flames.

After a while, his skin began to regain its color, his fangs retracted, and his mind, which had been heated by resentment and anger, gradually calmed down.

Holding his forehead, Lin Yifan blinked in a daze, his clothes soaked, water dripping continuously. He stared at his wet bangs for a long time until he heard a commotion by the lake.

"Hey! Whoosh!" A barefoot girl in white dragged Yao Ling and Liu Ming out of the water, struggling to pull them onto the shore.

Coming back to his senses, Lin Yifan only remembered mysteriously kissing the girl, and then his inner power erupted, and he beat Sadako!

No, did he subconsciously recite "transform into a ghost" when his consciousness was blurred?

But the resentment of this ability was too strong, making him lose his mind and bite Sadako to death... dead?

Sadako is dead? But the cycle hasn't ended? And there was no notification of mission failure?

Confused, Lin Yifan looked at the girl in white.

"Hey! Come over, come over!"

Squinting, Lin Yifan quickly walked over. If she wanted to harm him, why would she save him with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the water?

"This man just needs chest compressions, but the woman is in bad shape, you take care of her." The girl in white said, starting to perform CPR on Liu Ming.

"Huh?"

"How did I save you? Do the same for her, don't you understand?"

The girl in white continued to do as she pleased, ignoring Lin Yifan.

Lin Yifan didn't fuss, as saving lives was more important than worrying about other things.

He kissed Yao Ling's lips, breathed into her mouth, and performed CPR, inevitably touching certain areas, but for the sake of saving her, he couldn't be too particular.

After a few repetitions, Yao Ling suddenly opened her eyes, staring at Lin Yifan who was kissing her.

Pushing him away, Yao Ling fell to the ground, coughing violently and spitting out the lake water from her stomach.

"Cough, cough... so uncomfortable!" Yao Ling's face turned pale.

Lin Yifan gently patted her back to make her feel better.

"I'm done, bye!" The girl in white leaped up and disappeared into Lin Yifan's backpack.

"Wait!" Seeing the girl in white disappear back into the backpack, Lin Yifan felt a chill. Was she hiding in his backpack all along?

Liu Ming, lying on the ground in a "big" shape, spat out a large mouthful of lake water and sat up, coughing: "My stomach..."

Yao Ling, just sitting up, quickly turned her head away when she met Lin Yifan's gaze.

Without mentioning the CPR Lin Yifan had given her, her face slightly red, Yao Ling pretended to draw her gun and looked around cautiously: "Where's Sadako?"

Lin Yifan, breaking out in a cold sweat, glanced at his backpack. It was possible... the real Sadako was in his backpack, with the real tape!

"What happened? We were saved by a newbie?" Liu Ming looked shocked, more with the joy of surviving a disaster.

Not finding the real Sadako, Yao Ling looked at him: "Newbie, care to explain?"

"I kicked the window and dragged you two out."

"That's it?" Liu Ming looked disbelieving.

Yao Ling asked bluntly: "Sadako didn't interfere?"

"I don't know, since it's a horror movie, maybe Sadako can't appear for too long? Anyway, you ask me, I really don't know." Lin Yifan continued to play dumb but was thinking about how to get the girl in white out.

She seemed afraid of being seen by Liu Ming and Yao Ling but not by him?

"Let's not talk about this now. Our talismans are all wet, let's quickly leave this place and find a safe spot." Liu Ming dumped out a pile of wet talismans, the characters blurred and unusable.

"But our money is all wet, where can we go?" Yao Ling took out a wad of crumpled bills. The three were drenched, and the cold wind made them shiver.

Lin Yifan thought for a moment and smiled: "I have a good place."

Now that the "Sadako" had been bitten to death, there was at least no immediate danger. Lin Yifan wanted to find out what was in his backpack.

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