After running for a distance without hearing Ke Shufan's voice beside her, Xiao Bai's heart was filled with confusion.
Could it be that the other person had been silently devoured by the ghostly entities?
Gnashing her teeth fiercely, when Xiao Bai couldn't help but turn her head back, her face instantly revealed an expression of shock identical to Ke Shufan's.
Why...
Why hadn't the four ghostly entities attacked Ke Shufan, who had completely lost the ability to move?
At the same time, Ke Shufan herself was also feeling incredibly astonished.
That faint spiritual body, because it was attached to her, could be seen with the help of a prop, but she couldn't discern its form.
Could it be...
Just then, as if something had occurred to her, Ke Shufan's face showed a strange expression, and she reached into her pocket.
Sure enough, she touched something round and hard.
It turned out to be a glass eyeball.
At this moment, the eyeball was shrouded in a mysterious light, and she could see wisps of spiritual energy emanating from the glass eyeball, forming a spiritual body around her.
Why would the eyeball that fell off the puppet still be in her pocket?
Could it be that the destroyed puppet was still using its last strength to protect them, the participants?
Could the spirit attached to the puppet truly be the real soul of the child?
In this manor full of evil spirits and vengeful ghosts, the only benevolent soul quietly guarding everything...
Also, the only power protecting the participants...
But soon, she immediately noticed something ominous.
That was, amidst the roars of the surrounding evil spirits, the already faint spiritual body attached to her was continuing to weaken!
Relying solely on attachment to a glass eyeball, this soul's power couldn't last much longer.
Thinking of this, Ke Shufan hesitated no longer. Although her ankle hurt so much she couldn't walk, she still crawled and scrambled toward the edge of the manor!
The four ghostly entities, lingering close behind her, constantly shifted into terrifying forms and repeatedly extended their ghostly claws.
But whenever the ghostly claws touched the faint spiritual body on Ke Shufan, they seemed to be burned by something and quickly retracted.
At the same time, that faint spiritual light visibly dimmed.
Although Xiao Bai couldn't see the spiritual body on Ke Shufan, seeing this situation, she could sense that Ke Shufan must be carrying something that could restrain the ghostly entities.
Though she didn't know exactly what it was, at this moment, it was their last hope for survival in this world.
Pain...
So painful...
The pain in her ankle, the cuts on her hands and feet—every step required immense willpower...
But the spiritual body attached to her still exhausted its last bit of spiritual power, desperately resisting the four ghostly entities.
"Tongtong..."
Thinking of this child, Ke Shufan's nose suddenly felt a bit sore, and she couldn't help raising her hand to wipe away tears.
"Shufan! Shufan!"
A warm hand appeared before her eyes again, and through blurred vision, she saw Xiao Bai's figure once more.
"Hang in there, we're about to leave this place!"
"Xiao Bai... wuwuwuwu... Sister Bai..."
Xiao Bai could have escaped while the four ghostly entities were缠住 her, but instead, she was waiting for her.
Ke Shufan's tears surged forth again.
Not from fear, but from being moved.
"Stop crying! If you keep crying, I'll leave you!"
Before she could speak, Xiao Bai frowned impatiently, ignoring the piercing pain in her ankle, and directly pulled her up, rushing toward the red circle like lightning!
But at this moment, the spiritual body on Ke Shufan was reduced to a faint, almost invisible shadow. A ghostly hand emerging from the black mist suddenly grabbed her injured left foot.
It was the butler!
The moment the withered ghostly claw seized her, Ke Shufan let out a scream. Her caught foot was instantly wrapped in black energy, leaving deep, bone-exposing black marks!
At the same time, the last faint shadow on Ke Shufan lunged at the opponent, and the ghostly hand, as if burned, quickly retracted.
Crack.
With a soft sound, the glass bead in her pocket also developed a crack.
Its power could no longer sustain the spiritual body.
Meanwhile, the four ghostly entities seemed to realize that the other participant pulling Ke Shufan had no spiritual protection. Two of them flickered and lunged at Xiao Bai.
At the same time, Xiao Bai pulled out all the exorcism talismans she carried and slapped them fiercely behind her.
Bang bang bang!
With several sounds, sensing the evil spirits' aura, the exorcism talismans exploded into flames in midair, but they only blocked the two ghostly entities for a second or two. The golden flames were instead suppressed by the evil spirits' power, turning into a sickly green!
But using that one or two seconds, Xiao Bai dragged Ke Shufan and lunged forward fiercely, rolling down the slope!
Countless sharp stones scraped against them painfully. The ghostly entities, held back by the last trace of the spiritual body and a few exorcism talismans, soon broke free. Wisps of black mist converged from all directions.
Like living venomous snakes, they coiled around Xiao Bai and Ke Shufan.
But at the same time, the two finally rolled to the bottom of the slope, where the faint red glow of the night was within reach.
However, their bodies, entangled by the black mist, were slowly being pulled back toward the four ghostly entities by a massive force.
At that moment, a surge of survival instinct, from somewhere unknown, drove Xiao Bai to extend her last right hand, straining with all her might to reach forward.
But she was still a little short of that red circle.
Her fingernails desperately scraped against the stones, leaving trails of blood. With this slight leverage, Xiao Bai's body miraculously shifted forward a bit, and then her fingertips... finally touched the red light!
At the same time, a long-awaited prompt abruptly sounded in her mind...
"Congratulations to all participants for completing this story's mission and leaving the manor. The story is concluded!"
"Surviving participants of this story: Xiao Bai, Ke Shufan!"
"Deceased participants of this story: Ye Xiaomei, Chen Cailing!"
"Beginning teleportation out of the supernatural world..."