AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 815 - 376 "The Contractor’s Bedroom

Chapter 815: Chapter 376 "The Contractor’s Bedroom

Images of "home" flickered through his mind...

In the spacious living room, the TV was playing a scene from "Water Moon Cave Heaven" where Dou Dou shattered the Blood Ruyi, causing the entire Water Moon Cave Heaven to be encased in ice.

In the tidy kitchen, clean dishes and utensils were neatly arranged in the cabinets.

The cozy bedroom had the bedding folded neatly, and the computer on the desk next to the bed was playing the scene of Lele entering Happy Planet.

Many clothes hung on the clothesline outside the balcony, gently swaying with the breeze...

A very normal and ordinary home, yet he always felt an inexplicable disharmony...

He quickly realized that apart from him, there seemed to be no one else in this home; the kitchen had all sorts of utensils and dishes but no food, not even a bag of rice. The clothes hanging outside the balcony had dried long ago, losing the texture of the fabric due to wind and sun exposure. The TV shows playing in the living room and bedroom seemed more like creating an illusion of "someone" being there.

He felt the house’s indifference and was overtaken by a sense of loss and confusion, looking around like a lost child.

His eyes became slightly moist, a sour feeling spreading in his heart, but it was at this moment that he suddenly understood the source of that disharmony—the place had a house, at least it looked like one, but there wasn’t a single person!

Rather than a "home," it felt more like a cage, a prison, a kind of... exile from the world!

「Boom——」

The images flashing in his mind disappeared, and his attention refocused on the rust-stained iron door in front of him. The rust marks on the door resembled a face that was both crying and laughing, mocking, weeping, watching something in madness...

[Little friends, playing hide and seek~ One, two, hide away~]

[A nice little courtyard~ Hide your bodies, brothers and sisters...]

The childish nasal voice of a little girl humming a nursery rhyme echoed in Lin Yi’s ears, and suddenly he felt the sensation of being touched on the back of his hand, as if a cold little hand had gently been placed on his...

The next moment, his hand hovering in the air in front of the iron door was gently pushed onto it.

Throughout the process, Lin Yi’s mind was in a daze, watching passively as his palm was pushed against the door by this invisible force.

When his palm made contact with the door, his consciousness fragmented into countless granules of sand, penetrating through the non-existent "crack" of the iron door, seeping into the world behind it...

As soon as he stepped through the door, a deep roar resounded in his ears, and at the same time, the visage of a terrifying giant bear appeared abruptly before Lin Yi’s face, as if lunging at him with an exaggerated nearness!

[Roar——!!]

The bear’s coarse white fur shone with a cold luster like rough armor. Its body was unimaginably large, each muscle appearing like rolling boulders underneath the skin, containing the power to destroy everything. Its eyes were small but shone with a fierce and mad gleam, and it opened its blood-stained maw wide at Lin Yi, revealing rows of sharp, yellowed fangs. Saliva dripped from between its teeth, and its fetid breath blasted Lin Yi’s face like a bellows...

But just as it was about to pounce on Lin Yi, a wave of golden energy surged out like a powerful tide, suppressing the white bear’s form.

"Don’t be afraid, I am here." The Night Watchman’s voice resounded in Lin Yi’s ears in real-time, but Lin Yi couldn’t locate the Night Watchman’s position, and the golden waves were also emanating from his own body.

"My will stays in your consciousness through the power of the ’Holy Hall’ accompanying the surge of energy... Take a look at this room."

With the disappearance of the white bear’s visage, a supersized white plush bear toy appeared on the chair beside the bed in Lin Yi’s view.

"That thing just now... couldn’t have been this stuffed bear, right?"

"It’s hard to say it’s not. Everything in this bedroom needs to be treated with extra caution." The Night Watchman’s voice echoed in his heart.

Lin Yi pursed his lips in silence, subconsciously touching the back of his hand, which felt ice-cold, as if he had just applied an ice pack.

"’02’, did you feel anything unusual when I entered the door?"

"Unusual? I thought you were ’invited’ in. Isn’t that the case...?"

Lin Yi fell silent for a moment, then confessed, "I’m not clear about that either..."

Yet he thought again of the feeling of being ’led’ by "someone" to push the door open before entering, and muttered subconsciously, "Perhaps... it can be considered as such? Never mind, let’s not worry about that now, here..."

"This is the ’bedroom’ I talked about earlier. Does it look like the one you’re looking for?"

Lin Yi’s premonition at the door wasn’t wrong; behind the rust-stained iron door was indeed that bedroom decorated in powder blue, looking very cozy.

The last time he appeared here, he saw the stuffed bear and the photo frame, but before he could take a closer look, he was pulled out of the Layers by the Night Watchman, sensing impending danger.

"Yes... it’s here." The Night Watchman’s tone had the feel of a doomed expedition scholar in tomb exploration films upon discovering some kind of treasure, saying, "Oh~that’s it~."

Receiving confirmation from the Night Watchman, he inwardly breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn’t help quipping cheekily, "In that case, about the reward we agreed on earlier, or rather, the ’final payment’...?"