Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 41 Part 2

The best method would be to drain the “water” filling the room—with the water gone, things floating on the water’s surface would naturally sink to the bottom. And the only exit that could let the water leave was the secret door connecting the inner and outer rooms.

That secret door was blocked by a circle of candles outside, like a plug stopping the water flow—come to think of it, that Planchette Pen had indeed mentioned that Haunted House No. 71 hated fire and related concepts. Using open flames like candles could have a repelling effect.

However, this plan was completely rejected by Pu Han. His reason was that abominations can also evolve, and in the process of evolution, they gradually overcome their weaknesses. Using something that Haunted House No. 71 disliked when it was at Pyre level to deal with it not only wouldn’t be effective, but might even provoke its anger.

…Of course, whether it’s still afraid of fire now is unknown, but the past No. 71 was definitely afraid.

So Xu Turan picked up the candlesticks placed in the outer room one by one and moved them into the ritual room. And just as she had guessed—as the illuminated area in the ritual room grew larger with more candles, the gloomy atmosphere in the room became weaker and weaker. She even noticed that in a corner surrounded by firelight, a huge shadow was curling up.

And the moment she moved all the candlesticks into the inner room, that shadow, like lightning, slipped out through the gap she left.

With its departure, the corpses floating in the air finally fell to the ground one after another. Xu Turan cautiously stood by the secret door, and as soon as she saw the corpses fall, she immediately closed the door behind her and went forward to search carefully.

It must be said that this experience was definitely not a good one… Those people all died from drowning, and although the corpses were still fresh without signs of decay, their manner of death was still somewhat frightening.

Xu Turan wasn’t afraid, and even felt some regret and pity for them in her heart. But when it came to actually searching the bodies, she still felt a bit of resistance.

“You, why did you have to raise such a big fish? Got drowned, didn’t you,” she muttered while searching one of the corpses, her fingertips suddenly touching a sealed small bag.

She took out the bag and opened it, finding a notebook inside. It was full of records about past rituals—it seemed that before this ritual, they had made many attempts, but all failed for various reasons.

Some were due to incorrect quantities or placement of ritual materials, some were due to problems with the drawn runes. And several times, it was because candles were mistakenly placed in the ritual—it seems those faint flames had saved them more than once. Unfortunately, it still couldn’t stop their steps towards courting death.

A page in the middle of the notebook had been torn out, and Xu Turan took out the paper with the incantation she had picked up earlier, which matched perfectly.

…Although the rules paper had emphasized not to pick up things that don’t belong to this time and space, Xu Turan still quietly tucked this notebook into her clothes. Unfortunately, it could only exchange for 5 points of Courting Death Value, which can be said to be quite shabby.

Xu Turan shook her head secretly, just about to bend down to search another corpse, when her ears suddenly caught a strange sound.

A scratching sound, like someone desperately clawing at the wall.

Xu Turan paused her movements, alertly looking back, her gaze falling on the tightly closed secret door behind her.

If she hadn’t heard wrong, that sound was coming from behind that door.

…Who could it be?

Xu Turan frowned.

She had just come in from the room outside. She remembered very clearly, there was nothing outside…

Ah, wait.

Xu Turan clapped her hands, finally remembering.

She had left the Planchette Pen outside.

Almost as soon as the heavy secret door was pushed open, that fountain pen slipped in sheepishly.

It seemed to be in a very bad state, its originally bright and shiny pen body had become much duller, the cap had become more crooked, and the nib had even started to leak ink, with red ink dripping down along the gaps of the cap.

Not only that, it also seemed very angry. As soon as it came in, it frantically bumped its nib against the wall, making tock-tock-tock sounds. Xu Turan was even a bit worried that it might damage its nib.

“Okay, okay, it’s my fault—I’m really sorry, I didn’t mean to leave you outside,” Xu Turan apologized responsibly: “I really didn’t think you couldn’t even beat the past Pyre level No. 71…”

Planchette Pen: …

After a brief pause, it started bumping against the wall even more frantically.

Xu Turan couldn’t be bothered to pay much attention to it. After apologizing perfunctorily, she turned around to continue searching for clues. However, the Planchette Pen seemed to have a bone to pick with her and floated directly in front of her. Whichever direction Xu Turan looked, it would sway in that direction, making Xu Turan feel annoyed and distracted.

If it were usual times, she would just grab the pen and stuff it into the silver paper. But at this moment, she couldn’t forcefully delete this pen’s role—her “Confusion” becomes stronger the more abominations it covers. This pen’s actual level is not low, and if she kicks it out of the coverage range, the confusion effect on No. 71 would be reduced, and no one knows what would happen then.

And even if Xu Turan activated her active skill, it would only keep it quiet for a while, and would slow down her own progress… She thought for a moment, and simply said directly:

“What do you want to say?”

The Planchette Pen fell to the ground, not even removing its cap, and directly used the dripping red ink to scribble on the ground:

【I have fulfilled your request.】

【It’s your turn to keep your promise.】

“Request… oh, you mean that plan.” Xu Turan folded her arms, righteously saying, “Sorry, I actually didn’t look at the rules paper much afterwards, and I don’t know how far you’ve progressed… How about this, after I get out, I’ll personally check the plan situation, then have a small summary meeting with them. If there’s no problem, I’ll give you an answer then, how’s that?”

After saying this, she turned her head to look at the corpse in front of her again, but suddenly felt a pain in her palm.

She looked down and saw that several cuts had appeared on her palm, seemingly out of nowhere.

Those wounds were small and thin, wriggling like worms on her palm, with red blood seeping out, forming a line of small words.

【You’re toying with me】

Xu Turan: …

She was silent for a moment, then looked at that fountain pen again. It had somehow floated up from the ground, with glaring red ink dripping down along the pen body, as if it were bleeding.

A beeping alarm sounded in her mind. Xu Turan stared at the fountain pen for a while, then suddenly smiled: “Oh, you’ve just realized?”