What exactly do these two sentences mean?
'This world is awakening', with a bit of postmodern philosophical and mysterious feeling, but Lin Mo preferred to understand it literally. The 'world' mentioned above refers to this absurd and bizarre nightmare world.
What does 'it' that opened the door for the spirit of the pen refer to? Lin Mo was quite puzzled.
Suddenly, there were even more questions.
Unable to figure it out, Lin Mo decided not to think about it anymore. If necessary, he would find an opportunity to ask the spirit of the pen tomorrow.
After pondering for a moment, Lin Mo temporarily put aside this matter. He took another look at this room, and it seemed there was nothing of value left.
Walking to the corridor, closing the door, Lin Mo decided to leave the second floor.
404 might be a room number, so Lin Mo planned to first explore the fourth floor of this building.
Arriving at the stairwell, Lin Mo first listened for any movement by pressing against the safety door.
It was quiet outside.
Wrapping the military coat tighter around himself, Lin Mo hoped that the face spider was wary of the pale ghost shadow. Only then would he have a chance to get to the fourth floor.
Otherwise, with the face spider's crawling speed, there would be no way to escape its pursuit.
Moreover, Lin Mo now had a pencil and a diary in his hands, what was there to fear?
"It's a pity that I searched the entire second floor and couldn't find a single handy weapon. Even a fruit knife would have been fine," Lin Mo muttered.
Then he quietly pushed open the safety door.
First confirming the situation outside, the face spider was not at the second floor stairwell entrance. Peering down, Lin Mo quickly pulled his head back.
The monster was below.
It was actually laying eggs.
There were already several white egg sacs below, some of which were already wriggling, as if baby spiders were about to hatch.
Lin Mo even saw an egg sac that had been laid on a corpse's belly.
The corpse was covered in spider silk, its belly already swollen and bulging, appearing semi-transparent. Several palm-sized spider offspring could be seen wriggling inside.
"What kind of monster is this exactly?"
Lin Mo had never seen such a scene before, but now it was an opportunity. He slowly walked out, not making the slightest sound, then headed towards the third floor.
However, Lin Mo overlooked one thing.
He could be quiet, but the pale ghost shadow behind him was not under his control.
Bang!
The stair railing made a noise.
Lin Mo's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately ran upwards.
Whether or not the pale ghost shadow did it intentionally, this noise definitely alerted the face spider. Lin Mo had to speed up.
Sure enough, the face spider's hissing came from below, followed by the sound of it crawling upwards.
The sound of eight spider legs rapidly hitting the ground was quite jarring. Because this thing was so large, the stairs beneath kept transmitting vibrations.
The most troublesome thing was that Lin Mo couldn't look back.
That way, he would fall into the pale ghost shadow's trap.
Estimating that the other side deliberately alarmed the face spider to make Lin Mo instinctively look back.
Lin Mo could only endure it and speed up, but even until the fourth floor, the face spider hadn't truly caught up.
Only after entering the corridor and closing the safety door did Lin Mo catch his breath heavily.
It seemed that his previous judgment was correct. The face spider was indeed wary of the pale ghost shadow. Otherwise, with its terrifying mobility and speed, Lin Mo would have been caught on the third floor.
"Thank you," Lin Mo said.
These words were meant for the pale ghost shadow. He didn't know if it could understand or if it would get angry.
Anyway, Lin Mo was quite happy.
The pale ghost shadow wouldn't actively help Lin Mo, and even wanted to kill him at all times, but this time Lin Mo had borrowed the pale ghost shadow to intimidate the face spider.
And it worked.
This should be what's called fighting poison with poison.
The fourth floor looked brighter than the second floor, and there were even corridor lights.
However, there were bloodstains everywhere on the floor.
A pungent smell of blood permeated the air. Lin Mo felt something sticky under his feet. Looking at the soles of his shoes, he saw they were somehow stained with dark red blood.
This place was clearly not ordinary.
Lin Mo resisted the urge to retreat back to the stairwell. No matter what, since he had come this far, he might as well check out room 404 to see what was there.
Feeling the chill behind him, with the pale ghost shadow accompanying him, Lin Mo felt a bit more confident.
"403... 404..."
Lin Mo stopped at the door of room 404, first listening for any movement inside, then turned the handle. With a click, the door actually opened.
He didn't expect it to be this easy.
Opening the door, Lin Mo first peeked in to check, and after confirming there was no danger, he walked in.
The room was very dim. Vaguely visible in the center of the room was a table, the kind made by joining two large tables together, covered with a white cloth.
A corpse was laid out on the table.
On the nearby wall hung numerous things, but due to the poor lighting, they couldn't be seen clearly.
After getting closer, even though Lin Mo couldn't feel fear, the scene he saw was still too shocking.
It was a completely dismembered corpse.
The skin and muscle tissues were separated. The skin was pulled open with many small fish hooks, only connected at the back. The abdominal cavity was completely opened, the internal organs neatly removed and placed in trays on the side.
The limbs had been sawed off and similarly placed aside, neatly arranged.
The eyeballs, teeth, and tongue were the same.
It felt like the person who did all this had obsessive-compulsive disorder, was cold-blooded and cruel, and was proficient in human anatomy and dissection.
This completely dismembered corpse was unrecognizable, and Lin Mo had a strange feeling about it, though he wasn't sure if it was just his imagination.
Looking closely, on each dismembered organ, strange characters were written in black ink.
Mysterious and unknown.
There was a sense of oppression.
As if looking at it for even a moment longer would cause one's mind to collapse.
Lin Mo had only glanced at it for a few seconds but already felt an inexplicable dizziness. He quickly averted his gaze.
Checking other parts of the room, Lin Mo walked to the wall and was once again shocked by what he saw.
On this wall hung dozens of bloody ears, neatly arranged.
Each ear was pierced by a fish hook and hung there. They were of different sizes and colors. Looking carefully, one could see that these were all left ears of humans.
These seemed to be someone's collection.
Lin Mo immediately thought of the first corpse he encountered when he entered the nightmare world last night.
His neighbor.
This neighbor had been brutally killed, disemboweled, and his left ear had been cut off, its whereabouts unknown.
Without a doubt, the neighbor's ear should be one of these collected items.
"If one ear represents one life, then this serial killer has taken out at least 37 people," Lin Mo counted the number of ears and made a judgment in his mind.
This was quite extreme.
In this building, this person would definitely qualify as the number one killer, and also a serial killer with a collection habit.
The person didn't seem to be on the fourth floor at the moment, but this might be their lair, and the killer could return at any time.
To figure out the secrets hidden in room 404, he would have to wait for the owner to return.
However, he certainly couldn't wait in this room. Lin Mo wasn't sure if this serial killer would be intimidated by the pale ghost shadow. If not, it would be troublesome.
Retreating from the room the way he came, closing the door, Lin Mo opened the room next door.
Waiting next door, he would be able to hear any movement immediately.
Most importantly, it was safe.
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