When A Destructive Wolf Joins An Escape Game

Telling ghost stories in an infinite instance, there has never been and never will be another kind of destructive wolf like this in either the past or future. 1

At first, the players pricked up their ears to listen and watch as the night scene slowly grew darker. The storyteller over there has no intention of stopping to talk and gradually, some of them couldn’t stand it anymore. Luckily, Gu Mozhi made up such a long story for himself that his sleepiness also came up, so he took the initiative to end the night’s bedtime story before everyone stepped forward to stop it.

“There’s a lot more to say, but let’s stop, lest you fall asleep with fear at night.” Gu Mozhi boldly said.

The young girl clutched the corner of Gu Mozhi’s coat and nodded with a tense little face. In fact, she has been too scared to sleep, the only way she could feel at ease is to be around big brother.

Gu Mozhi closed his mouth, the mourning hall fell quiet again. Although the silence of the mourning hall is scary, it is much better than the mourning hall that tells ghost stories. 2

He didn’t bother the players who were shivering and cowering together. He leaned against the wall and closed his eyes. Everyone looked at his sleeping face speechlessly, this guy scared them well enough and ended up falling asleep himself …… but they let him go and didn’t dare to argue, for the fear that Gu Mozhi would start telling ghost stories again. Moreover, Pinkhead was gazing at them like a tiger watching its prey3not far away. Gu Mozhi and Pinkhead were in the same group.

The sound of the rain became louder, the cold wind blew in, everyone shivered and went deeper to hide. In the entire mourning hall, apart from Pinkhead’s group of four4, the remaining fourteen people were not worried of being crammed and were all nestled at the back door.

At this point, they couldn’t think over how to escape in case of danger when they were all crammed together. At the very least, being with a large group of people was psychologically comforting.

There was no clock in the mourning hall, and the night was stretched on infinitely. Unknowingly how long it took, but everyone was getting sleepy. The young girl drowsily fell to the side, Gu Mozhi abruptly opened his eyes, reached out, and grabbed her, so that she wouldn’t knock her head on the ground.

The young girl fell into his arms and slept soundly. Gu Mozhi looked down at this big-hearted little child, but didn’t push her away, and let her sleep against him.

He turned his head to look out the door. He can’t see the outside that much from his angle, and could only vaguely see a small piece of the street scene.

The outside of the mourning hall wasn’t a courtyard but a bluestone street and alley, with old houses on both sides. At night, it looked like a monster with fangs and claws, without the slightest light. In fact, the whole street was lit only with candles from the mourning hall. Aside from that, it was the clear moonlight.

It was definitely rainy weather, but the dark clouds didn’t cover the moon, which was very rare.

Gu Mozhi looked at the corner of the mourning hall, the group of players who were scared into quails also began to appear sleepy. Also, after receiving so much fright, their mind couldn’t function any longer. Although their hearts were still scared, they couldn’t help but yawn and sleep.

In the entire room, only the Pinkhead was still keeping watch in silence. Before Gu Mozhi fell asleep he vaguely heard him and the female college student discussing who will hold vigil in a low voice. At four o’clock, he will exchange with the female college student to keep vigil. Fortunately, Pinkhead has a watch, which makes it convenient to arrange many shifts.

Afterward, Gu Mozhi remembered that he was supposed to be on vigil. But Pinkhead didn’t mention it when they saw him asleep. If it was an ordinary person, they would have been unhappy and felt they had suffered a loss.

Regardless of his thought, Gu Mozhi still yawned, closed his eyes, and went back to sleep. The most important thing is to protect them during the day and not to let him stay up all night.5

With that, the hands of the watch slowly turned to three in the morning.

“huala- huala- huala- “6

The sound of the water outside the room grew louder and louder.

The bored Pinkhead lowered his head and fiddled with his fingers to pass the time, looking at his surrounding from time to time.

“Huala–” the sound got a bit louder.

Pinkhead turned his head to look outside the room, this rain won’t become a rainstorm and flood the room, right?

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Incorrect!

He instantly stood up and approached the entrance. Although the rain fell on the ground and merged into a “brook” long ago, it didn’t make any sound. There was no drainage or large flight of steps in the vicinity. Thus, the clattering sound was unrelated to the rain.

The sound is getting louder. Actually, it’s not that it was getting louder, in fact, it was getting closer!

Pinkhead cautiously went to the side of the entrance, poked his head out, and looked over towards where the sound was coming from. At the end of the long street, he saw an indistinct object slowly approaching.

that…, what is that thing?!

“oh……” Gu Mozhi smelled a scent in his sleep, he slowly opened his eyes and sniffed hard.

The scent was growing stronger and stronger.

Gu Mozhi touched his stomach, he was hungry.

Gu Mozhi was about to follow the scent and look towards the entrance, when Pinkhead suddenly rushed over with a jolt and nudged the sleeping female college student, shouting, “Wake up! Something’s coming!”

His voice woke up not only the female college student, but also the others in the room. In this kind of place, no one dared to sleep deeply, as soon as there was a movement, they all woke up but didn’t realize what was happening for a while.

Seeing that the young girl was also awake, Gu Mozhi let her go, stood up, and walked towards the entrance. There was a rain shed at the entrance of the mourning hall. Gu Mozhi stood under the shed and looked in the direction of the scent. At this moment, that “thing” was moving even closer.

Gu Mozhi’s eyesight was good, he saw what it was, and immediately frowned and turned his head back to the room.

“What do you see?” The female college student asked nervously as she pulled the young girl to stand not too far from her.

“Ghost.” Gu Mozhi looked back at her, “A female ghost who isn’t clean.”

Female college student: “???”

Fortunately, the conversation there wasn’t loud, so the others didn’t hear it. Those who woke up also noticed the unusual sound of water. Each and everyone was so nervous that they crammed towards the corner again.

Pinkhead who saw the situation couldn’t help but gave them a supercilious look: “What’s the use of cramming there? That thing will block you to death as soon as it comes, you can’t escape.”

They were like hiding in a dead end. He really doesn’t know what they had in mind.

Pinkhead has a point, but only several people dare to leave that corner. After all, if something filthy was going to come in later 7, it will have to come through the only entrance. Who would dare approach that door?

After a while, people came one after the other to the right corner of the entrance. The sound of water was coming from the left side of the street while the right side feels a bit safer. Almost everyone was close to the entrance, in case the female ghost entered and went directly to the coffin, they will have the opportunity to escape from the entrance.

In contrast, Gu Mozhi stood at the entrance with a big grin and frowning his eyebrows. No one knows what he was thinking. Pinkhead and the female college student have retreated to the side. At the very least, they dare not to directly block the middle of the way. After the young girl was held for two steps, she suddenly broke away from the female college student’s hand and trotted to Gu Mozhi’s side, clutching the corner of his coat.

Gu Mozhi lowered his head to look at the young girl: “You ……”

“Big brother.” She nervously stuck onto him, “I– I will protect you!”

Big brother can’t be left standing alone in the most dangerous place to fend off the enemy!

Gu Mozhi paused and went along with her.

As the sound of water grew closer, the restless crowd became more agitated. There was some commotion among the group of people hiding in the corner of the entrance, and after a while, a few players slowly moved together to the entrance and probed to see what was going on outside.

The unknown is the most frightening thing of all, and they wanted to see what was coming over so that they could be mentally prepared.

By now, the female ghost had come very near, just ten meters away. She was dressed in dirty white and swollen, like a corpse that had blistered for a long time. Noticing the movement at the entrance of the mourning hall, she slowly looked up and gave a twisted smile to the few people probing their heads out.

“Ah…!!!”

That face scared a few people. This was definitely not a living person, this was really a ghost!

Almost instantly, a player took the road and fled. He subconsciously rushed out of the entrance and ran in the opposite direction of the female ghost, directly into the rainstorm.

However, before he could get out much further, he let out a guttural scream. In a few moments, he fell to the ground and there was no longer any movement.

All these changes took merely ten seconds, and no one reacted at all. The player who was probing at the situation with him was stunned. After coming back to their senses, they almost rolled away from the entrance8.

Isn’t this too unusual, how did he die after running out? Could it be that there was something wrong with the rain?

The player’s corpse was not far away, and even an ordinary person could see that there were no traces of corrosion on the body under the bright moonlight. However, Gu Mozhi saw patches of dark spots slowly emerging from the place where the rain hits, just like an ink pen pointing on an empty sheet of paper, haloing into a large area.

That’s ……

“What’s that thing on his body?!” The Pinkhead with good eyesight was astonished.

“It’s a livor mortis.9 ” Gu Mozhi replied.

The female college student’s eyes widened, she was a bit near-sighted and completely missed the fact that there were dark spots. At this moment, she was glad that fortunately, she didn’t see it. Otherwise, she might have been scared.

This rain was too unusual. It looks like they couldn’t run out of the entrance and could only stay inside the mourning hall.

The players heard their conversation and became more restless. And that sound, as if it was made by walking on water, was finally close at hand, making the people distressed.

The atmosphere gradually became heavy, one step, two steps, clattering. The female ghost walked to the front of the entrance and stopped.

Everyone hid in the distance, wishing to be further away from her. Even Pinkhead and the female college student couldn’t help but take a few steps back and retreat to the corner. Only Gu Mozhi was still standing in place, surveying her with a weird look of excitement and disgust. They don’t know what he was thinking.

“Excuse me, may I come in?” The female ghost stood in front of the entrance with her head hanging low and hoarse voice.

No one dared to answer her, afraid that after agreeing, the other party would come in and go on a killing spree. They had heard many ghost stories, all of which said that dirty things shouldn’t be easily allowed to enter the door.

For an unknown reason, Gu Mozhi also didn’t speak.

The atmosphere was suddenly in a deadlock, the sound of the wind and rain outside the room gradually fierce up, the whistling night wind blew the crowd cold. The female ghost suddenly raised her head and stared dead ahead at Gu Mozhi, asking again, “Excuse me, may I come in?”

They thought there would be silence again. But who would have thought that Gu Mozhi would coldly speak: “You may not.”

 

Footnotes

Gu Mozhi is one of a kind even among other demonsIt means that everyone prefers silence over hearing the ghost stories made up by Gu MozhiHis fierce gazes were also the cause why everyone let Gu Mozhi sleep and didn’t argue with Himthe group includes Pinkhead, Gu Mozhi, the female college student, and the young girlit is believed that daytime was much more dangerous than it is at night“哗啦——哗啦——哗啦——” this directly translates to huala. It is the sound of something crashing/splashing.“something filthy” refers to the female ghost Frantically trying to escape or be away from the entrancea discoloration that occurs on the body of a dead person