"Ever since Magus left," Mrs. Manas sounded anxious and angry.
Mrs. Manas sounded anxious and angry. She complained, "You never trained your Higher Consciousness again. Do you regret it now?"
If Mrs. Manas was a real person, Lin Sanjiu would have covered her mouth. After she failed to pick up the communication device with her Higher Consciousness, she really didn't want to hear Mrs. Manas' "I told you so" lecture.
The corpse was blocking the communication device, and there was a wall on the other side. Lin Sanjiu didn't want to get close to the corpse, but her Higher Consciousness was not good enough to perform delicate maneuvers such as turning, dodging, and picking up. The only thing she could do was to send her Higher Consciousness out like a tidal wave and blast away all the enemies in front of her.
But now, she couldn't do that. She didn't want to take the risk of destroying the communication device.
Like the long cry of a bird in the middle of the night, the communicator beeped once more. The sound waves reverberated in the darkness, and it seemed to be a little more anxious than the previous times.
This was the fourth time the communication device rang, but she was at her wit's end. Gritting her teeth, Lin Sanjiu walked forward.
"Stop!" Mrs. Manas bellowed, "That's not an ordinary corpse. It's a pocket dimension creature! You heard the pocket dimension's warning. You can't let it get close to you. Stop now! "
"What do you think I should do?" Lin Sanjiu roared back in her mind. When she heard Ji Shanqing's call, she was already in a state of panic.
"Think of something, think of something …" Mrs. Manas was so angry that her voice was flustered.
She thought of using [Unfinished Painting] to attract the communication device, but the drawing was too fast. Lin Sanjiu wasn't sure if she could catch the communication device before it entered the painting. [All Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix] could only attract enemies, but it couldn't attract anything. She could use [Tornado Whip] to whip the communication device up and smash it into pieces …
After the fifth call, the night fell into a dead silence. Lin Sanjiu's heart clenched. Just as she held her breath, the sixth call rang. She let out a long sigh of relief.
She was afraid of contacting her grand prize, but now, she was afraid that her grand prize wouldn't be able to reach her.
Even though it was a little wasteful, there seemed to be only one solution left.
Lin Sanjiu turned to look at Ryuji. The latter was still sitting in the bushes with his mouth half open. He seemed to have asked, "Is that a phone call?", but she had no time to respond.
[Pygmalion Choker] … He could only use its precious five minutes to get the communicator.
Just as she was about to open her mouth to speak to Long Two, the seventh call came to an abrupt halt.
The echoes still lingered in the night, leaving faint hallucinations in people's eardrums.
The grand prize must be disappointed and anxious, right?
Lin Sanjiu bit her lip, and her fists trembled slightly at the sides of her body. This tormented her even more than the physical pain. Her family, her friends, her companions, her Ji Shanqing, had once again passed by her in that fleeting moment.
The corpse shook slightly, as if it had sensed the change in the communicator.
Just as she felt her nose tingle, the communicator, which had been silent for a while, suddenly rang again, and the blue light abruptly jumped into the night.
"He didn't give up!"
Lin Sanjiu exhaled a long, shaky breath. With gratitude in her heart, she walked toward the corpse. She couldn't care less. At worst, she could just deal with whatever came her way. Right now, the most important thing was to talk to her grand prize.
The corpse was still standing in the same spot. Its crooked back and shoulders were empty. At first glance, it looked like it was headless. Before Lin Sanjiu could finish her step, the back of the figure suddenly let out a series of bone-chilling cracking sounds. It was as if he had become even shorter.
The sound made Lin Sanjiu pause for a moment.
Then, Lin Sanjiu saw the figure curl even deeper. Then, with a beep, the call from the communicator was cut off.
"Huh?"
She stared at the corpse and the communicator in a daze. She thought she would see nothing but darkness, but the blue light was still flickering.
"That means …" Lin Sanjiu felt that her brain couldn't process what was going on.
It was as if the night had frozen. Not a single sound could be heard. This half a second felt like an eternity until the corpse suddenly let out a soft yawn. It sounded like a gust of wind blowing out from a deep hole that had buried countless people alive.
Then, a clear voice that Lin Sanjiu had not heard for a long time broke the silence, "Sis, sis?" Lin Sanjiu was startled by the voice.
"It's the grand prize!
It's really the grand prize! "
In that short moment, countless thoughts flashed through Lin Sanjiu's mind. "Ji Shanqing seems to be fine. Maybe he's still fine and it was just a false alarm. Since he took the initiative to contact me, it means that his war is coming to an end or has already ended."
Lin Sanjiu didn't realize that her feet were rushing toward the communicator. She didn't even hear Mrs. Manas's voice.
"Sis?" Ji Shanqing's voice sounded a little ragged. Lin Sanjiu didn't know if it was because he had just gone through a battle or because he was anxious. "Can you hear me?"
Just as Lin Sanjiu was about to blurt out the words "I'm here", the corpse in front of her turned around abruptly and aimed one of its shoulders at her. It took a step toward her. This was the first time Lin Sanjiu heard it speak since it appeared. It happened to interrupt her conversation with the grand prize.
"The person who killed me …"
A hoarse and deep voice came from the corpse's dry and withered vocal cords. If Lin Sanjiu couldn't make out the words, she wouldn't even think that it was a human, let alone a man or a woman. "The person who killed me … is here …"
Lin Sanjiu was shocked when the shoulder with gray hair appeared in her vision. For a moment, all the words she wanted to say were stuck in her throat. She stopped abruptly and threw herself to the side. She rolled away from the corpse. Even though she was agile, she still felt a gust of air brushing past her back, leaving behind a lingering sense of decay.
As soon as she dodged the corpse, she turned around and yelled into the communicator, "Grand Prize!"
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