The blood shadow stood quietly behind Hu Zi.
A bloody hand reached out toward the back of his head.
Drip.
A drop of blood fell onto Hu Zi's neck.
He shook his head, narrowly missing those bloody hands.
"No! There's the smell of blood!"
Something unusual came from above.
Lu Fei crouched and dodged to the side, taking several quick steps to distance himself before turning to look back.
"What the hell!"
The sight startled him.
The bloody figure made his eyes widen in shock.
"Has it come back to life?"
But when he turned his head to look again.
The mangled corpse was still lying in the bushes.
"Could it have turned into a ghost so quickly?!"
Huzi quickly tightened his belt and pulled out a few ghost-repelling charms again.
The blood shadow was oozing blood from its entire body. Its tattered eyes stared at Huzi as it charged towards him step by step.
Huzi hurriedly threw out a ghost-repelling charm and then swung his knife with all his might.
But the blood shadow flickered and vanished.
"Scared off by me, Master Hu?"
Huzi said this, but he did not dare to let his guard down. After all, this corpse and the blood shadow were both extremely eerie.
With the boss not around, he could only rely on himself.
He gripped his knife, vigilant of any movement around him.
The building was deathly silent.
The night wind carried a strong smell of blood.
A cold chill came from behind.
"Here it comes!"
Huzi quickly turned around and slashed with his knife.
However.
The large knife only cut through the air.
"It really runs fast..."
Before Huzi could react, a pair of bloody footprints appeared beside him, quietly moving forward.
Unaware, Huzi stepped right onto the footprints as he moved.
In an instant, a crimson light spread from his feet to his entire body.
He felt his whole body stiffen, and his body no longer responded to his commands.
"What's going on?"
Huzi strained with all his might, but only his eyeballs could move.
He watched helplessly as he walked step by step toward the dark, abandoned building.
Every step he took left a bloody footprint behind.
"Am I possessed by a ghost? I'm such an idiot. I couldn't help, and now the boss has to worry about saving me..."
Huzi broke into a sweat, desperately thinking of a way to break the curse.
"I can't even move. There's no way I can get any child's urine... What else, what else..."
Stepping onto the unguarded concrete stairs, he climbed floor by floor, watching himself get farther and farther from the ground, his heart in turmoil.
If he were to fall, he would surely be shattered like the corpse below.
"Right, true yang splash..."
Huzi desperately moved his tongue.
But his teeth were tightly clenched, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't bite it.
"This is the end..."
There were only a few more floors to the rooftop, but the higher his body went, the deeper his heart sank.
Woof!
In the darkness, a low bark suddenly sounded.
"Heizi?! Heizi, save Brother Hu..."
Huzi's eyes lit up again.
Then, Xiaohei's Hu Zi-like black head poked out from a corner, looked at Huzi, and then dashed over, biting his foot.
"Ow! That hurts!"
Sharp fangs pierced the back of Huzi's foot, causing him to hop in pain while clutching his foot.
"I said Heizi, can't you be a bit gentler... Wait, I can move! Great, Heizi, you're awesome!"
Huzi was so overjoyed that he wanted to hold Xiahei and shower him with kisses.
"Where's the boss? What's happening with the boss now?"
Xiahei couldn't answer, his dark eyes gazing upward in fear.
Huzi felt a chill on the top of his head and looked up, shivering at once.
At the top of the stairs, a head was looking down at them.
He couldn't see the person's face clearly, but he could feel the bone-chilling intent to kill.
"I was just worrying that one person's blood wouldn't be enough to sustain the formation, and now someone has come to deliver themselves! It's truly heaven-sent!"
The old, ghostly voice murmured, echoing down to them.
"What, what have you done to the boss?"
Hu Zi felt cold sweat trickle down his back; he held the ghost-head saber tightly and forced himself to stare at the shadow.
"What a deep bond between master and servant. I'll send you to meet him right away!"
A cold laugh echoed, and a fine red line descended from above.
The line emitted a faint red glow.
Hu Zi recognized it.
In the underground casino, that Blood Web Array used this kind of red line.
He had heard from the boss that this thing was even more powerful than steel wire, capable of slicing a person in two with a light touch.
"Let me tell you, Hu Zi isn't someone who gets scared easily!"
Hu Zi still wanted to put up a fight, but he saw Little Black turn and run downstairs. He stomped his foot and quickly followed.
A man and a dog, running for their lives down the stairs.
That sly dog, Xiaohei, left Huzi behind.
The red line chased after Huzi.
Huzi's back was ice cold; he didn't even dare to look back.
He ran down the stairs in one breath, rolling and crawling out of the abandoned building, and continued to run outside for a long time before Xiaohei finally stopped.
The fact that the dog stopped indicated that the crisis was temporarily over.
Huzi looked back, halted, and leaned on his knees, drenched in sweat and panting heavily.
"Xiaohei, you are so disloyal! The boss is still upstairs, and you ran faster than a rabbit!"
Xiaohei panted, rolled his eyes, as if to say 'You ran too.'
"I wonder what's happening with the boss right now!"
A man and a dog, staring at each other with wide eyes.
Huzi realized that this time he had met a tough opponent.
It might not be so easy for the boss to get away.
"How can I help the boss?"
Wiping his sweat, Huzi was anxious.
Little Black barked once and ran towards the back of the building.
"Hey, Heizi, there are ghosts over there too!"
Huzi followed Little Black, but after only a few steps, he suddenly felt something following him.
He quickly slung the ghost-head knife behind him and turned around abruptly.
A trail of bloody footprints was right behind his feet.
"Damn it! Not again!"
He was so angry that he hacked at the footprints on the ground with his knife, but his blade was always a step too slow; the bloody footprints easily circled behind him again.
Fortunately, Little Black ran back and started biting fiercely at the air behind him.
The bloody footprints failed to take advantage of the situation and, after circling around the man and the dog, formed a circle and then suddenly disappeared.
"If you follow me again, I'll chop you to pieces!"
Huzi brandished his knife. After some show of force, he prepared to head to the back of the building with Little Black.
There had to be a reason why Little Black went there.
But as he took a step, he found that his feet wouldn't move.
Looking down, he was shocked.
His feet had already sunk into the ground.
"What's going on now?"
Woof! Woof woof!
Xiao Hei let out an urgent bark.
Not only did Hu Zi's feet sink, but Xiao Hei's as well.
The ground surrounded by bloody footprints had turned as soft and mucky as a swamp; the more they struggled, the faster they sank.
"Heizi, stop moving!"
Hu Zi tried to pull Xiao Hei out but couldn't.
It felt as if countless ghostly hands were gripping them from beneath the soil.
The bloody footprints were slowly approaching them, step by step.
Xiao Hei's ears drooped, and he whimpered in terror.
It bit the footprint, and the footprint seemed to hold a grudge, moving behind it.
"Get away! Don't touch it!"
Huzi swung his knife desperately to drive it away, but he could not stop the speed of the bloody footprint.
The footprint was about to step on Xiaohei's body.
Just then.
Voices came from not far away.
"Brother Bei, someone seems to be over there!"