Catastrophe Containment Facility
Chapter 467 - 465: Night of Fear

Chapter 467: Chapter 465: Night of Fear

When Gu Dafei heard this, his eyebrows shot up happily, and he was about to stuff the amulet into his pocket.

But his hand was held down, and Lin Huan, narrowing his eyes, said meaningfully, "I have spent a great deal of energy making this amulet. If you want to take it, you must pay."

"How... how much?" Gu Dafei asked hesitantly, thinking that the other party’s ploy seemed a bit like a scam.

"Look how golden this amulet is—it’s made of real gold. I’ll only charge you ten thousand yuan for the material cost for now. If you survive tonight, you’ll need to pay me an additional ninety thousand yuan, a total of a hundred thousand yuan for your life. That’s a reasonable deal, right?"

Clenching the amulet tightly, Gu Dafei said, "Reasonable, very reasonable. As long as I can survive tonight, I’ll give you anything you want!"

Afterwards, Lin Huan gave him some more advice before finally letting Gu Dafei go home.

Watching Gu Dafei’s lonely figure, Lin Huan derisively curled his lips and said, "An amulet for concealing Qi, how could I, Detective Lin, possibly make such a thing..."

He turned and returned to his room, opening a drawer filled with various types of amulets.

While they did look quite attractive, that was all they were—merely attractive.

For the wealthy, he gave out ones made of ’gold’; for those without money, they were white; girls got pink ones; the elderly received ones with a classic design...

No matter who came, Lin Huan could ’make’ an appropriate amulet quickly, with a single unit cost definitely not exceeding ten yuan.

However, Lin Huan indeed had stuffed something special into the amulet for Gu Dafei, otherwise, how could he secure that ninety thousand yuan balance?

...

Upon returning home, Gu Dafei took a deep breath.

He did not immediately follow Lin Huan’s instruction to hide under the bed, instead, he began to set up various ’evil-repelling items.’

He prepared some of everything that folk legends might consider useful.

And from other ’masters,’ he had bought various miraculously effective items.

Despite almost being driven mad by that woman, he hadn’t lost his reason and wouldn’t blindly trust Lin Huan. With his own multiple arrangements, the woman surely wouldn’t appear again tonight.

After finishing the setup, he hung the amulet around his neck and crawled under the bed.

The space under the bed hadn’t been cleaned in a long time, and as soon as he got in, he was covered in dust.

But he didn’t mind; if it could save his life, these were mere trifles.

"This amulet actually smells quite good," he remarked.

Gu Dafei took a few deep whiffs of the amulet. Perhaps due to the physical exertion from bustling about earlier, he soon fell into a deep sleep.

...

The chime of the early morning clock sounded like a signal, and the pitch-dark room immediately felt more sinister.

The evil-repelling items that Gu Dafei had placed did not add a sense of security, but instead, added a bizarre aura to the room.

Footsteps sounded on time, and although described as footsteps, they seemed more like the sound of a basketball hitting the ground. The noise drew nearer swiftly, soon reaching the door.

The face of the man under the bed was pale as death, his eyes unblinkingly fixed on the door.

Creak... squeak...

The locked door silently opened, and none of the so-called evil-repelling items had any effect.

Then, an upside-down woman with a bizarre posture leaped in.

Her hair was dyed a dark red by fresh blood, her limbs moving erratically as her body leapt up, supported by her head.

Seven days ago, she fell headfirst from the rooftop, and as a result, as a Resentful Spirit, she could only walk in this manner.

The first thing her head-down position revealed was the man under the bed.

The corners of the woman Resentful Spirit’s mouth curled into a cruel smile. After accumulating strength for seven days, she finally had the chance to appear in front of this man and avenge herself on the foul man who had tormented her before her suicide.

After killing this person, she would be able to disappear contentedly.

Indeed, in her heart, Gu Dafei was even more detestable than the man who had dumped her and driven her to contemplate jumping off the building.

"Hiding under the bed, do you think you can escape, only playing these little tricks?"

Now, in the dead of night, even if moonlight streamed in, she could only see the pale face of the man under the bed.

This made the woman Resentful Spirit somewhat puzzled. Even in the depths of night, shouldn’t his long face be alarmingly pale?

However, the woman Resentful Spirit didn’t care too much. Could she, a Resentful Spirit, really be scared by a normal person?

So she leaped to the edge of the bed, her four limbs contorting wildly, looking very frightening.

But before she could drag the man out, a head rolled out from under the bed, its lifeless eyes staring straight at her, seemingly issuing a silent accusation.

Suddenly, a head rolled out, and the woman Resentful Spirit almost turned and ran.

However, upon closer inspection, she realized it was just a plaster dummy head, no wonder she felt something was off about its whiteness.

She, a Resentful Spirit, shouldn’t be scared of such a thing, but she was frightened by the sudden appearance of the head.

This caused the woman Resentful Spirit to laugh wryly— it seems even as a Resentful Spirit, one could still be fearful.

"That disgusting man isn’t here, huh. So where is he right now, come out, I want to..."

"Ah! Ah! Ah!..."

The woman Resentful Spirit let out a piercing shriek, her long hair standing on end from fright, all because the scene before her was too horrifying.

The plaster head had started to move on its own.

These things came together into black, chaotic limbs, and the multitude of eyes growing on the limbs made the woman Resentful Spirit’s scalp tingle.

Then, these eyes started moving at once, staring down the woman Resentful Spirit!

"What is this thing?"

The woman Resentful Spirit was nearly scared to life, feeling an inexplicable fear flooding from her brain all the way to her heels, spreading through her mind like wild grass.

In front of her, this mass seemed to be the natural predator of Resentful Spirits, born specifically to hunt beings like her.

It wasn’t just the plaster head, but the evil-repelling items in the room, and even the house itself, seemed to be alive, beginning to ooze black pus.

She had a strong feeling that she might be inside the stomach of a Monster that devoured Resentful Spirits!

This feeling made her lose all concern for Gu Dafei, and screaming, she ran out with her body turned upright; she never wanted to return to this terrifying place, it was too horrifying for spirits.

After she left, the room gradually returned to normal.

A man wearing a long coat and a detective hat emerged from the shadows in the corner of the room.

"With this little trick, she should not dare to come back and harm this person again, ninety thousand yuan in the bag."

This man was none other than the president of the Supernatural Detective Agency, Lin Huan!