The dead bodies were pierced through by the phone lines. They were pieced together to protect the cursed object in the middle.
Lee Huo, who had consumed his big brother, had completely lost control. He could not tell who the person before him was. Black mist swirled around his fingers, it appeared to be able to burn souls.
He attacked randomly. The dead bodies in the hole were smashed to pieces. The damage caused by the black mist was shared equally among all the ghosts in the hostel.
While Lee Huo distracted the cursed object, Han Fei closed his eyes to focus on controlling the paper doll.
The memory in his mind was slowly dyed red. The horror that the paper doll had experienced started to affect Han Fei. If he had not died so many times during the manager mission, he would have broken down already.
The deaths had tempered his will. Han Fei gritted his teeth. Ignoring the illusions in his mind, he forced the paper doll to crawl deeper into the pile of dead bodies.
Lee Huo attacked from the front while the paper doll invaded from the back. The cursed object that was buried deep underground had exposed its biggest weakness, it could not move freely.
After the dead bodies were smashed open, the paper doll charged into the middle of the pile.
At the center of the pile of dead bodies was an old man. He was shriveled and his body was entangled by the red phone lines. His murky eyes were filled with pain and regret.
'It's not a cursed object? It's a person? '
Han Fei could not stop now. If he delayed any longer, Drake would die.
The arrow had to be fired. Han Fei gave the paper doll one last order, it had to attack the entangled phone lines.
The smell of blood filled the room. With a scary smile on its face, the paper doll poked its hands into the old man's chest.
The paper doll did not follow Han Fei's order. Instead, it seemed to be attracted by something. It laughed soundlessly as its hands sliced a large hole in the old man's chest.
Then its body was soaked in blood and it jumped into the old man's chest.
At that moment, all the ghosts in the hostel froze.
Moments later, the paper doll pulled out a beating heart from the old man's chest. All the phone lines were connected to the heart. The heart was the source of all the phone lines in the hostel!
The monster started to slow down. The paper doll was so excited that it wanted to swallow the heart. It took Han Fei quite some effort to stop it.
An old lady's sobbing echoed in his wounded heart, she appeared to be the cursed object that Han Fei was looking for.
"Li Huo! Enough! Stop fighting! They were on the same side! Li Zai! Take your brother away! "
Han Fei shouted. Li Huo was a hothead, and he was even ready to fight with the paper doll.
He had to control the paper dolls and stop Lee Huo at the same time. If he was not careful, he might be accidentally killed by these ghosts.
Under Han Fei's urging, Lee Huo's body slowly changed. The black fog on his hand spread out. When the fog dissipated, the tall and thin ghost appeared.
When Lee Zai appeared, Han Fei sighed in relief. He focused his attention on the paper doll to bring the heart to him.
But to his surprise, once the heart moved, all the cursed ghosts inside the hostel would feel pain. They appeared to be connected as one.
'Drake's condition is quite bad, he can't take this anymore.' Han Fei did not want to lose this worker. He held Weep's hand and jumped into the pit.
'The way to break the curse is to destroy the cursed object. But this thing can distribute the damage. Even if I kill it, it'll drag the others down with it.' Just as Han Fei was frowning, the severely shrunken old man slowly turned his neck to look at Han Fei.
"Don't kill her, it's all my fault, I can help her redeem herself."
The old lady's voice came and went like her soul was about to leave her body. This was just her last moment.
"You can help her redeem herself?"
"I am the owner of this hostel, my wife of 40 years lives in this heart." The old lady said in a pleading tone, "We used to run this hostel together but I fell ill and she took over the management."
"Where is she now?"
"I don't know. One night, when I woke up, I realized I was not at the hospital but on this street. I was very afraid until I found this hostel. " The old lady crawled on the ground, trying to get closer to the heart. "At the time, there was no one at the hostel. I stayed here to run the business. I wanted to wait for her to return but she never did. Until one night, I received a call from her …"
"Why would she call you?"
Han Fei understood. The old lady used to run a hostel before she died of illness at the hospital.
When he woke up, he was already in the cryptic world. But the old lady's situation was unique. After entering the cryptic world, he still retained the memory of his wife and the hostel.
"I was so excited when I received her call, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to hear her voice anymore. I told her that I wanted to see her but she said it was not time yet. She told me to wait. " There was a trace of gentleness in the old lady's eyes. "I listened to her, I waited for her but I was afraid that one day she would show up … Actually, it was enough to call her every day."
"We talked about our past, there were endless things to talk about."
"She was still as bad-tempered as before. Sometimes, I wanted to hang up but the next day, she would still stay by the phone."
"With her accompanying me every day, I'm not that afraid anymore."
"But then, as the number of customers increased, she suddenly told me that she was afraid because she felt like she had changed. She heard too many despairing, scary, and unimaginable things.
"She sounded like she was in pain. I knew she was in pain so I tried to console her but she refused to see me.
"Until one night, she called me to tell me that she was leaving and that she might not even be able to make phone calls anymore.
"Can you imagine the pain I felt? I couldn't understand it. I told her that I had given up everything but that I wanted to see her one last time.
"That day, she agreed. She told me to carry the phone into the hostel's basement.
"Walking down the basement that was filled with wires, I continued to chat with her. I asked her where she was. But she told me to turn around … "
The wrinkles on the old man's face squeezed together. His eyes dimmed.
"When I turned back to look, I realized that the phone line had already been cut. The voice did not come from the phone but from my heart."
"I called home every day but the call never went through. I kept talking to my longing.
"When a person's obsession reaches a certain level, it will change. My longing morphed into a curse and attached itself to the hostel's phone.
"My longing went out of control. There was no kindness left in my heart. I knew there was no hope in this world, just like how my wife never answered my phone."
The old man's face was covered in tears. He started to cry like a child.
Han Fei had no idea how long the old man had been trapped here, perhaps there were many more souls like the old man in the cryptic world.
"Sir, honestly, I have no idea whether there is hope or not in this world." Squatting on the pile of bodies, Han Fei looked at the old man silently. "But if there is no hope in this world, then let me be your hope."
He signaled for the paper doll to place the heart back into the old man's chest. "I will return your longing and kindness to you and you will return my friend to me."
The old man, who was prepared to die, had a complicated expression on his face when he heard Han Fei's words.
The heart that was connected to all the phone lines was beating inside his chest. The old man gripped his chest and pulled back all the phone lines. Every line carried the voice of the dead.
"Brother!"
Firefly ran to Drake's side. Drake, whose body was about to dissipate, touched Firefly's face. Then he crawled toward Han Fei. His remaining eye was filled with unprecedented gratitude.
"You don't need to thank me." Han Fei used Soul-Depth Touch to help Drake up. "There is no need for gratitude between family."
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