Midnight Bookstore

Chapter 140 - Tick-tock!

Chapter 140: Tick-tock!

It was pitch-black, and one could not see their fingers even if they stretched out their hands. The sticky feeling around them was so clear that it was difficult for Zhou Ze to distinguish whether it was an illusion or reality.

This was considered a very high-level treatment. This meant that this ghost’s depth and skill had already reached a level. It was not the kind of ordinary person who would walk into his own bookstore.

Zhou ze remembered that when Madam Bai had invited him and Xu Qinglang to a banquet, she had also used a similar ability. It was difficult to distinguish between virtual and real. At that time, Xu Qinglang had eaten many dishes made of flies and earthworms.

Wang Baogang might not be the behind-the-scenes existence. He was not qualified. After dying for such a short period of time, it was impossible for him to become so powerful. This also meant that the person who had killed Sun Qiu and made her soul incomplete was also another person.

Zhou Ze slowly spread his arms. The swaying feeling around him made him feel as if he was walking in outer space. It was as if gravity had been completely sucked away at this moment.

However, as Zhou ze spread out his nails, the black smoke dispersed in all directions. The thick black blood around him began to retreat rapidly, as if he had met his natural enemy.

Step by step, he had reached this day. The current Zhou Ze was no longer the same as before. Even in such a situation, he still exuded a calmness and confidence.

Clang

A crisp sound rang out,

a broom fell to the ground,

the color of blood completely disappeared,

the dormitory was completely empty.

Zhou ze turned around and looked behind him. The dormitory door was open. Outside, there was a pair of black leather shoes quietly placed there.

It was as if a person was standing in front of him,

after a short while..,

the leather shoes moved on their own and began to walk out. No, they ran out.

Zhou ze rushed out and chased after the leather shoes down the stairs. The leather shoes ran faster and faster, but Zhou Ze’s speed was not slow either. In fact, Zhou Ze deliberately slowed down his pace, waiting to see where this pair of leather shoes would lead him.

He was only one soul away from becoming a formal official, but the problem was that this one percent share gave him an incomparably huge existence. Zhou ze even guessed that the person who controlled everything behind the scenes, even if he was not as good as the old madam Bai, would not be too different.

After all, the blood and the feeling from before wasn’t too different from the time when Madam Bai held the banquet. In terms of quality and resonance, the difference wasn’t too big.

“Tick… tick… tick… tick…”

This was the sound that the leather shoes made when they moved. Zhou Ze didn’t notice it before, but now he did. Why was the sound that the leather shoes made when they moved “Tick Tick”?

As he walked, Zhou Ze suddenly realized that after taking a detour, he followed the leather shoes back to the dormitory that was used as the utility room.

The leather shoes walked in, and Zhou Ze followed them again.

Only..,

this time..,

this dormitory was no longer a utility room, nor was it a sea of blood. Everything had become very ordinary. There was a dry quilt on the bed, and a washbasin and a plastic cabinet under the bed, toothbrush and towels were neatly placed on the other side of the sink.

This was a dormitory with students living in it.

Zhou Ze looked at the changes in his surroundings and a smile appeared on his lips. He did not know what the other party’s purpose was, but the other party had captured a dormitory and used it as a training hall.

Zhou Ze waited for a while. This time, there was no sea of blood, nor was there any “Gulu Gulu Gulu”sounds. Everything seemed very quiet, as if he had walked into an ordinary dormitory.

However, anyone with half a brain could see that this place was unusual. Not to mention why there was no one in the dormitory when the lights were off, it meant that it was early in the morning outside the window,

why was there still sunlight shining in?

“SH… sh… sh… sh… sh…”

The sound of friction came from the tiles on the balcony.

Zhou Ze was just about to walk to the balcony to take a look, but he immediately stopped. Because the thing that was making noise on the balcony had already climbed in.

Yes..,

he was crawling.

This was a boy..,

the lower half of his body had been cut in half, leaving only the upper half. He was crawling on the ground with both hands. His body was covered in blood, especially where he crawled past. There were thick blood stains that made one’s scalp tingle.

The boy tilted his head and looked at Zhou Ze as he crawled.

He seemed to be sizing up Zhou Ze. He was filled with curiosity towards Zhou Ze, but he did not stop crawling towards Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze slowly squatted down and looked at the boy in front of him.

“I. . .”

The boy opened his mouth, but when he was about to speak, blood started gushing out from his mouth. He could not stop at all. He looked at Zhou Ze. His mouth kept opening and closing, but he could not make any clear sound.

He seemed to be a little anxious, but the more anxious he was, the more he could not make a sound. In the end, it even became something like a dog barking!

Half of his body was trembling, and he was angry,

he wanted to speak, he wanted to tell Zhou ze something, but he couldn’t do it!

He was extremely angry, and half of his body was rolling on the ground, hitting the tiles with his fists.

Zhou ze reached out and used his finger to point at the blood stains on the ground, and then he gently drew a picture on the tiles.

The meaning was..,

you Can’t say it..,

you can write it.

The boy was stunned for a moment. It was as if he had just realized that there was such a method. He immediately nodded and used his finger to smear his own blood stains on the ground. He prepared to write on the ground.

But just as he wrote a horizontal line..,

“Crack!”

The boy’s index finger directly broke off.

The boy was stunned,

zhou Ze’s gaze also focused,

but the boy was not convinced. He used his ring finger to continue writing. But this time, he did not even manage to write a single stroke. The ring finger just touched the ceramic tile and directly broke off.

The boy used his thumb. His thumb broke off,

the boy used his pinky. His pinky broke off,

in the end..,

the boy was desperate. He raised his arm,

he held up his only middle finger,

he kept roaring.

This middle finger was his, but it was another existence, mocking him.

The boy looked at Zhou Ze and then looked at the cupboard on the side.

It was made of iron and divided into eight compartments. This meant that each of the eight people in the dormitory could use a kitchen cabinet to store their own things.

The boy’s gaze was fixed on the cabinet at the bottom. Zhou Ze walked over and opened it.

“Creak… Creak…”

What was revealed was a leg, and there was something else inside. It was as if a piece of clothing had been folded neatly and placed there.

But in reality..,

this was a person’s..,

lower body!

The boy desperately crawled towards the cupboard, and the two legs in the cupboard were constantly moving, as if they were responding to each other. However, the entire lower body was folded too neatly, in this narrow space.., it could not move at all, nor could it walk out by itself. It could only anxiously kick and squirm non-stop.

This was a very strange scene, enough to make one’s scalp go numb.

Just as the boy was about to touch his feet,

suddenly,

as if something was dragging the boy behind it, the boy was pulled back to the balcony. The boy kept struggling, roaring, roaring, and rolling up and down on the tiles.

But he was like a fish on a chopping board. All his struggles seemed so pale and powerless.

Zhou Ze stood up and chased after him. But just as he took a step, the view in front of him began to retreat desperately,

the next moment..,

zhou Ze found himself standing at the door of the dormitory,

and the dormitory..,

had returned to its original appearance.

There was no blood, no boy, and no angry roars.

What was the meaning of this?

Zhou ze found it hard to understand. This dormitory was like walking into a movie theater that was showing a ghost movie in the middle of the night. Every time he came in, he would always have a new experience.

“Tick… tick…”

The familiar voice sounded again,

he turned around,

as expected..,

the pair of leather shoes appeared in the corridor behind the door again.

Zhou ze finally understood this time, why the footprints of the leather shoes were so dense outside this dormitory. He seemed to be doing the same thing over and over again.

Taking people away,

bringing people back,

and then waiting here for people to lead them away again,

and then bringing them back again.

Just like a waiter running the hall,

objective You Came?

Yo, sir, take care.

The leather shoes seemed to be waiting for Zhou Ze to turn around and look at it before it started to leave.

It was another “Tick-tock”sound. Zhou Ze walked over, but this time, the doubts in Zhou Ze’s heart could not be solved. The first question was, why was this pair of leather shoes walking..,

was it the sound of “Tick-tock”?

Shouldn’t it be the sound of “Clap-clap”

Or the sound of “Wipe-wipe-wipe”?

Zhou ze stretched out his hand, and the black fog at his fingertip began to release, directly wrapping around the pair of black leather shoes.

Like a net being cast down, it finally caught the fish.

Slowly..,

the owner of the leather shoes began to reveal his true appearance. He continued to walk forward, continuing to emit the sound of “Tick tick tick”

With his stubbornness,

with his persistence,

he continued to walk forward.

“Tick-tock… Tick-tock…”

His head,

half Rotten,

upside down,

half of his head hit the tile floor again and again

“Tick-tock… Tick-tock…”

He kept jumping. Every time he landed, it was his head hitting the ground,

his hands reached into the leather shoes and kept swinging back and forth.

He was actually walking with his head,

but his hands were supporting the leather shoes as he walked forward step by step, pretending to be walking with the leather shoes.

The crew cut said that when Wang Baogang was alive, he liked to wear leather shoes and a suit when he went for ward rounds. He thought of himself as a teacher, not a so-called dormitory manager or fighter.

So..,

even after his death,

he would still maintain his dignity,

even if..,

he walked with his hands in leather shoes.

“Tick-tock… Tick-tock…”

Sun Qiu said that he saw Wang Baogang’s head slowly sliding down from the wall above the balcony,

including the fact that Wang Baogang was walking with his head nodding,

there was a reason,

because the crew cut had also said that when Wang Baogang jumped off the building,

it was the head,

that landed first.