Nightmare Apostle

Chapter 699: Chapter 544: Killing Someone by Borrowing a Knife

Crouching down, Yang Xiao peered through the gap in the middle of the box. Thanks to the dim light, he saw clearly—a body was hidden behind the table, curled up tightly because of the cold. The half-visible, pale face was his own!

Indeed, finding the body allowed for recognition. To some extent, the rag doll hadn’t lied to him.

Stretching his hand through the gap in the box and barely touching his own body, Yang Xiao suddenly shuddered violently. His body was very cold, nearly frozen stiff, and at this rate, within one to two hours, he would be dead from the cold.

Moreover, while touching the body, an eerie sensation spread from the bottom of his heart. There was a strange connection between him and his body, making Yang Xiao sure that he could take back control of his body. However, the precondition was that he needed time and to not be disturbed by external forces during the connection process. He roughly estimated, the entire process would need at least 10 minutes.

But now he was facing another problem. The rag doll was pushing him hard, and if he didn’t respond for long, the rag doll would definitely become suspicious.

"What’s up? Found any clues?" Just as he was thinking, a message hit. The rag doll also knew it was a critical moment and was monitoring Yang Xiao closely.

"Not yet, have you noticed anything?" Yang Xiao was stalling.

"No, but I... I’m about to freeze to death, you have to hurry up," the rag doll urged. free𝑤ebnovel.com

Before Yang Xiao could reply, suddenly, he heard a loud "bang" sound a few shelves behind him, as if a bottle had fallen to the ground.

At that moment, unable to help it, he tensed up. He quickly stood up, pushed the box in front a little closer together to block the gap that revealed his body, and then cautiously walked toward the source of the sound. Through two rows of shelves, Yang Xiao saw water stains and glass fragments on the ground, and there was also the smell of alcohol in the air.

An alcohol bottle had been smashed. Yang Xiao quickly found the spot on the adjacent shelf where alcohol was stored. There was a full row of alcohol bottles, but at the very edge, one bottle was missing.

Needless to say, the bottle that fell to the ground had been originally placed here. Alcohol bottles do not just fall without reason. Yang Xiao suspected that someone, or perhaps a ghost, had slipped in.

Frog Ghost couldn’t turn invisible, burnt ghost had a smoky smell, so if it were a ghost, then it could only be sick ghost. As for a person... it was most likely that guy who had driven Qu Muzhi into a corner, Prisoner No.44.

"Where are you? Have you found the body?" the rag doll sent another message.

Yang Xiao retreated a few steps to hide behind a shelf and texted back, "I heard a noise. Has someone come in?"

"No, hurry up and search. We don’t have much time!"

The rag doll was very anxious, but it was this very sense of urgency that gave Yang Xiao a bad premonition. Suddenly, he thought of those rag dolls on the morgue slabs. As he quietly circled around the front shelves and looked toward the door from another direction, the ominous feeling in his heart became reality—the place where the rag dolls had been placed was now empty, the rag doll was gone!

It was not a ghost or someone else that had come in. The rag doll had come to life, and it had sensed that my body was hidden in this room!

As the accomplishment was within reach, the rag doll finally tore off its disguise, turning completely "bad," and was about to fight him for the body.

The feeling he had when he touched the body told him that in order for the rag doll to fully occupy his body, it needed to kill him first.

Based on the current situation, Yang Xiao roughly predicted the rag doll’s target. It needed to use him to find the body, and as soon as it confirmed the location, it would immediately act to kill.

The rag doll had mentioned before that "bad" was among them, just like the rest of them, which meant "bad," like the other teammates, could be killed. To safely retrieve his body, he had to eliminate this rag doll.

The next second, catching something out of the corner of his eye, Yang Xiao observed through the gaps in the shelf. Soon, he saw a box not far away being quietly shifted. The rag doll was there, and after observing for a moment, what puzzled Yang Xiao happened—the path of the rag doll’s movements nearly mirrored his own earlier path.

No, the creature was pretending to be blind; it could see!

To be exact, this rag doll, just like Yang Xiao and the others, could see immobile inanimate objects but was blind to certain ghosts and teammates.

To confirm what other abilities the rag doll might have, Yang Xiao took a syringe from the shelf behind him and threw it forcefully into the distance. With the sound of the syringe hitting the ground, the box that was being moved suddenly stopped.

"Hiss—"

Yang Xiao hid himself again, taking a sharp intake of cold breath. The rag doll could also hear; now he was in big trouble. This meant that the conversations between him and Qu Mu earlier had been overheard. The rag doll had long known it was exposed, yet it made no move, just waiting for this moment.

The phone screen lit up, "Where are you?"

It was the rag doll, clearly becoming impatient. Yang Xiao pretended to be calm, continuing the cat-and-mouse game, "Still searching, don’t rush."

"I think I can give you some advice. Which places have you searched?" the rag doll feigned innocence.

"I’ve already searched about half the area. I’m close." At this moment, both knew the other’s cunning strategies but kept an unspoken understanding.