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At the same time, he was also wary, worried that the woman in front of him might not be alive.

A common trick in supernatural horror movies is that the creature that appears to the audience as a living person at first is actually dead and a ghost. This kind of trope is nothing new.

Hearing the breathing of a living person...

The woman glanced at Mo Jiang, carefully memorizing his words. She recalled that she had been controlled by the female ghost earlier, and it seemed that she only regained control of her body after the man in front of her appeared.

This man shouldn't be one of those things.

"As you just saw, there's a ghost here, and she harbors great malice towards us."

As she spoke, the woman opened the wardrobe. The clothes inside were still in normal condition, without any signs of decay or other strange occurrences.

She took out a thin jacket and draped it over herself, covering her figure that was visible beneath her pajamas.

"This is the Ghost Realm. The size of the Ghost Realm depends on the strength of the ghosts. A weak Ghost Realm is just an illusion, but a strong Ghost Realm can form an alternate dimension or even interfere with reality."

After putting on her coat, the woman took out a hair tie and tied her hair into a ponytail to prevent her long hair from interfering with her at the crucial moment.

After doing all this, she calmly introduced herself, "Nie Moli, a sophomore majoring in psychology. Although I don't know how you got into the girls' dormitory and even into my room, we're both in an unsafe situation right now. Shall we cooperate?"

Nie Moli?

He didn't recognize the name, but Mo Jiang didn't care too much. He readily agreed to Nie Moli's invitation.

"Yes, I need more information here."

Nie Moli remained calm, which, besides demonstrating her strong mentality, suggests she had anticipated what was happening here and must possess information about this ghost realm.

The other party has information, and I have the strength to fight against demons, so there is naturally a basis for cooperation between us.

Mo Jiang needs information, preferably to kill that female ghost, so he can return to the modern world in peace.

Nie Moli also needs a powerful helper, as she clearly has no way to deal with the female ghost here.

"The old girls' dormitory had to be reopened because of the large number of students admitted this year. I am currently the only one living in room number four on the fourth floor of building four. Legend has it that a very strange murder case once occurred here."

"And it seems I became that unlucky one, the target of that female ghost."

Building 4, fourth floor, number 4...

Upon hearing this number, even though Mo Jiang didn't usually pay much attention to it, he felt that this number shouldn't exist.

Even if schools aren't that particular, they should generally change extreme numbers like 444.

"How do we deal with that female ghost?"

Although Mo Jiang burned a female ghost, judging from the reaction in the bathroom afterward, he most likely killed a clone or something else; it was definitely not the original.

He has the power to fight female ghosts, but if he can't find the female ghost's true form, it's like throwing a punch at the sky—he can't hit anything but air.

"I don't know. There's a pattern to how ghosts kill people. In the bathroom, the pattern is that if you look in the mirror for more than 30 seconds, your body will stiffen unnaturally without you noticing, and then the ghost will come out of the mirror and kill you."

"The dormitory area is a kind of safe zone, but it's not always safe. As more and more dilapidated areas appear, the safety will gradually decrease."

The ghost's killing depends on whether the person has triggered the killing rules, and at the same time, the dormitory is gradually becoming unsafe.

Mo Jiang's gaze fell on the doorway, the dormitory gate. "Have you ever tried leaving the dormitory?"

Nie Moli was taken aback, then shook her head. "No, the door is locked. I've been trapped here for over a day, maybe even longer. My phone is dead and I can't check the time. Hunger and fatigue have slowed my reactions, and I didn't have time to process the murder rules in the bathroom."

"The door is not impossible to open."

Upon hearing that the door couldn't be opened, Mo Jiang smiled, placed his hand on the doorknob, and instantly activated his Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, using a force exceeding fifty tons to directly dismantle the dormitory door.

"It can be opened with just a little force!"

136. Infiltrating the girls' dormitory, preparing for a speedrun...

The doorknob, along with the lower half of the dormitory door, was torn off. Nie Moli had spent a considerable amount of time testing the door's structure and concluded that it was probably harder than steel, making it virtually impossible for humans to force it open.

However, this conclusion was soon overturned by a mysterious man who appeared in her room.

Nie Moli carefully picked up a fragment and examined it. After the door was damaged, it seemed to have lost its strange properties. The material of the fragment was the same as that of an ordinary dormitory door, with no change at all.

The old women's dormitory was built decades ago. The doors in the dormitory were ordinary wooden doors, which could be easily broken open by not only adult men, but also women who were not afraid of getting hurt.

This man is incredibly strong.

Nie Moli glanced outside the room; the chilling aura hadn't dissipated, and even the walls of the corridor were covered in mold.

She frowned slightly. "It seems that simply leaving the room isn't enough to leave the Ghost Realm. We need to figure out the rules of this place."

"So, your psychology department even teaches what to do if you encounter a ghost?"

Nie Moli paused for a moment, then replied casually, "Of course, schools don't teach this. It's a family tradition, but until today, I always thought it was something fabricated."

Then she changed the subject, "And what about you? That power you just experienced, and the flames that came out of your palm, were no ordinary things."

"Yes, I am a Taoist priest. As a Taoist priest, some of my methods for dealing with ghosts and monsters are obviously quite reasonable."

Mo Jiang's teacher is Zhang Sanfeng. If Mo Jiang wanted to, it wouldn't be difficult for him to become a Taoist priest.

The Nine Yang Divine Skill was a technique he began practicing after consulting a teacher. From a certain perspective, what he said was entirely true and reasonable.

The other party wasn't lying, but they were hiding something.

As a psychology student, and a top student at that, Nie Moli has her own methods for detecting lies, making it undoubtedly difficult to fool her with a lie.

Seeing that Mo Jiang hadn't lied, Nie Moli felt a little relieved.

It's not for any other reason than that in the ghost realm, ghosts can appear in any form and in any way.

Ghosts can deceive, or rather, they tell a lot of lies. When ghosts speak to humans, they often tell lies to lure them into the abyss of despair.

Now that the door had been opened, the two tacitly left the room to explore the outside world. The walls inside the room were already covered in mold after the door was forcibly opened.

This scene alone makes one feel that the room might be more dangerous than the corridor.

The corridor lights were dim and flickering from time to time, making one wonder if they would suddenly go out halfway through.

This old girls' dormitory is a U-shaped building with a staircase at each of the two apexes and the middle of the bottom for going up and down.

Nie Moli's room is located in the lower left corner of the dormitory building, which is the innermost corner on the left. However, no matter which staircase you take down, the path required is the same length.

"Go straight ahead and take the stairs in front. The middle stairs are usually locked."

The two walked side by side, so that Mo Jiang could react quickly and know what had happened, preventing Nie Moli from suddenly disappearing while walking.

You should know that in many supernatural and terrifying ghost movies, the person walking behind suddenly disappears.

As they were walking, a sudden cry made them stop in their tracks.

“There was crying.”

Nie Moli succinctly stated what she had heard.

"And it was the sound of a baby crying."

Mo Jiang added expressionlessly.

It's impossible not to feel uneasy when you suddenly hear a baby crying in such an environment.

The baby's cries suddenly rang out, and then the lights went out. He turned around and saw a dark, empty corridor. The sound was coming from the corner at the end of the corridor.

"Should we go take a look, or turn back?"

Mo Jiang doesn't know much about the supernatural genre, and he rarely plays supernatural horror games. There are many reasons for this, but the biggest reason is that most supernatural horror games are puzzle games.

He didn't like that type of game; he preferred games like Doom where you didn't need to think about anything and just wiped out everything in front of you.

The Man of Destruction kills demons; it's that simple.

Without hesitation, Nie Moli made her decision quickly and stepped forward.

Mo Jiang walked alongside her, and ahead of him, the baby's cries grew louder and louder, constantly penetrating his ears.

The baby's crying was irritating, and whether it was because of the ghost or not, Mo Jiang felt as if his nerves were being cut by a dull knife.

Turning the corner of the corridor, he saw a basket on the ground with a baby lying inside. The baby's body was wrapped in a white towel, with only its head showing. Its face did not look abnormal; it looked like a newborn child with its eyes closed and its features not yet fully developed.

The baby looks perfectly fine, but the fact that he/she is in a haunted place, in a ghost realm, is the biggest problem.

The moment he saw the other person, Mo Jiang grabbed the crying baby through the towel and pulled him in front of him.

"I ask, you answer. If you can't speak for ten seconds, I'll throw you into the toilet and let you experience the hellish start of a vocational high school girls' toilet."

The baby was still crying, and crying even harder.

"Wow..."

The crying sound made the second (eight) extremely sharp, like the sound of fingernails scratching glass, which made people's hearts go cold.

"Crying!?" Mo Jiang raised his voice, "Crying counts as time!"

If he hadn't forgotten his phone, Mo Jiang would definitely have started a countdown for this baby right now.

The punishment for failing to answer within the time limit is to be burned to ashes.

His bandit-like interrogation method had a very bad consequence: the entire dormitory building was shaking slightly, and then all the closed doors in the corridor opened.

It was like someone had kicked the door open; the door slammed against the wall with a loud bang.

The baby slowly opened its eyes, its pupils beneath its eyelids resembling blood-red amber, and its distorted features revealed a ferocious smile.

At the same time, the cradle containing the baby turned into a human corpse in the blink of an eye, with all four limbs gone and the internal organs inside the chest and abdomen ripped out and scattered on the surrounding ground.

Nie Moli could hear clearly that something unseen was emerging from the opened rooms and approaching them.

Mo Jiang also sensed something and smiled at those unseen things.

His smile was ferocious and malevolent, far surpassing that of the infant.

"Hey, you guys want to fight?"

The blazing, domineering flames burned silently, instantly reducing the infant ghost to ashes.

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Author's note: Thank you to [Haibin] and [Feibai] for the donations.

137. It wasn't me who was forced to be locked up with you; it was you who were forced to be locked up with me.

The flames on the Mo River suddenly blazed in the darkness, and the infant ghost's sinister smile froze on its twisted face before turning to ashes and vanishing.

However, this did not resolve the crisis; instead, it seemed to stir up a hornet's nest.

An invisible chill emanated from the open doors on both sides of the corridor, like a tidal wave.

The air became viscous, and the lights came on again, but this time they flickered as if there was an extreme malfunction.

In an instant, a chilling wind howled through the corridor, the temperature plummeted, and the mold on the walls spread like wildfire, oozing even more dark red, foul-smelling slime. From the wide-open dormitory doors on both sides, one could hear rustling crawling sounds, heavy dragging noises, and even more suppressed, inhuman whimpers and roars.

Something is coming.

Nie Moli's voice trembled almost imperceptibly; she had realized the rules of this place. "Shouting and horseplay are not allowed in the dormitory. We have broken the rules."

She quickly pulled a talisman from her pocket. The talisman made a slight "sizzling" sound when it fell to the ground, as if it had landed on a red-hot iron plate.

In less than two seconds, the talisman spontaneously combusted and turned to ashes.

"This thing won't last much longer, let's go!"

"Don't run," Nie Moli guessed that there might be another rule in this place that prohibits running in the corridor, and violating it could lead to even more terrifying consequences.

As she spoke, Nie Moli tried to pull Mo Jiang away, but she couldn't manage to move him.

Mo Jiang could feel countless malicious gazes fixed on him.

He sensed that the entire corridor was filled with distorted, invisible entities that were slowly and steadily pressing in, bringing a chill that even began to erode his body.

A chilling aura, like needles pricking his bones, entered his body, only to be neutralized by the violent Nine Yang internal force.

"unnecessary."

Mo Jiang had no intention of running away. Firstly, he and the ghost could harm each other, and to him, the ghost was just an opponent whose true form was difficult to capture.

When he is able to fight with ghosts, fear will never appear in Mo Jiang's body.

As long as it's not a one-sided fight, he's never been afraid of anyone in a life-or-death struggle.

Another point is to take this opportunity to test the strength of the demon.

Mo Jiang snorted coldly, his eyes filled with even more ferocity.