Chapter 2472 — A Fright for Everyone
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"I do not know. You may try, but if you die, you will not come back to life," Jiao Yazi said.
"..." Wei Zhao was speechless.
"Eh? Where am I?" Suddenly, Wei Zhao heard Wang Xinyan's astonished voice...
Wei Zhao hurriedly returned from the space of the jade pendant to the outside, only to see a completely different scene! The desolate village was still that same desolate village, the skeleton on the ground was still there, and the small bag Wei Zhao had emptied was still there as well—only the scene behind him had changed beyond recognition!
Not far away were Han Jingyi, You Panhu, Kang Jinglong, and also Huang Mao and Zi Mao, and faintly the lights of the expedition vehicle could be seen in the distance. This place had returned entirely to normal, no longer in its former illusory state.
Beside him, Wang Xinyan was at that moment looking around with a puzzled gaze, but when she saw Wei Zhao standing right beside her, she suddenly let out a breath of relief.
"Xinyan, are you all right?" Wei Zhao asked hurriedly.
"I... I am fine..." Wang Xinyan shook her head and said, somewhat strangely, "Wei Zhao, I remember getting out of the car just now, and after that I do not remember anything. How did we walk so far? And on the ground... why is there a skull?"
Wang Xinyan was, after all, a medical student. Though seeing a skull frightened her a little, it was not enough to make her legs go weak.
"It is fine. We ran into a ghost wall earlier and could not get out, but now it is all over..." Wei Zhao said. "Let us go. We should head back."
"A ghost wall?" Wang Xinyan's heart gave a jolt. She remembered nothing of what had happened before, and now it seemed certain that nothing good had occurred.
"Yes, haha, but it was nothing. It is all over now." Wei Zhao did not want to explain too much to Wang Xinyan, lest she be frightened and overthink things. After all, Wang Xinyan had earlier lost her mind, so she had experienced comparatively little of these terrifying things.
"All right." Wang Xinyan did not want to stay in this haunted place either, and nodded.
Han Jingyi and the others were also quite astonished. Earlier they had watched Wei Zhao walk off, and then in an instant he had vanished from sight; now, all at once, Wei Zhao could be seen again, and they were taken aback.
Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan walked over. Kang Jinglong sat on the ground, still ashen-faced and not yet on his feet, while You Panhu was looking at the suddenly changed scenery nearby with some astonishment, uncertain and alarmed.
"Where is that ghost?" You Panhu glanced at Wei Zhao.
"I scared it off." Wei Zhao clearly did not wish to explain further—the matter of the jade pendant was all the more something he could not tell You Panhu!
In truth, even now Wei Zhao had not recovered from the shock. The jade pendant had always been his greatest secret; apart from himself, only Jiao Yazi, who was part of it, knew. How this ghostly thing had come to know was simply inconceivable.
What was most terrifying was that it could also enter, and had taken up residence inside, leaving Wei Zhao utterly helpless.
"Scared it off?" You Panhu was stunned. "You scared it off?"
"Yes. That ghostly thing fears elixir fire. The moment I condensed elixir fire, it fled. Actually, you could have scared it off too," Wei Zhao said.
"...Then why did you not say so earlier..." You Panhu was somewhat speechless. Had he known, he would not have been so afraid, and would not have had his calves cramping for so long for nothing.
"I had not tested it out earlier either," Wei Zhao said. "All right, let us go back. That Zi Mao subordinate of yours is probably about to die, is he not?"