Mystery: I can change things in books

Chapter 23 Acting Alone

The informant said that the top brass of the police station had withdrawn all the police officers from Tietan Street. Judging from the current situation, he was indeed not lying...

Samantha thought to herself, but did not relax her vigilance: long before she entered Iron Carbon Street, she had already put on a hood to make herself invisible.

This is a magical item called the "Invisibility Hood", which can only be used at night and can make the user invisible.The negative effect is simple: you can't speak, and once you speak, the effect disappears.

Even with the help of the "invisibility hood", Samantha is ready to escape at any time.

Fortunately, the journey went smoothly and she successfully entered No. 1350 Tietan Street.

There was a pungent burning smell in the air, and there were obvious traces of charcoal on the stairs.

Samantha pinched her nose and came to the second floor. The place was in a mess and the smell was even worse than on the first floor.

The corridor on the right has been burned to the point of being unclear, it is all black, and there is a yellow warning tape hanging outside.

Samantha reached out and raised the cordon and walked in. When she came to the door of Room 216, the old wooden door was gone. The room was full of things that were burnt and could not recognize their original shape.

She took out a compass from her arms. This magical item is called the "Guide Compass". It can help the user find extraordinary items within a certain range. The negative effect is that using it for more than 15 minutes will cause disorientation.

A burst of fluorescence emitted from the surface of the compass, illuminating the dark room.The pointer rotated slowly, and finally pointed to the center of the room like a magnet.

Samantha glanced at the middle, and there was something like a tree trunk there, and she could barely make out the human shape:
A burnt corpse, no doubt!
How could a corpse...

She instinctively sensed the abnormality, reached into her pocket with her left hand, and pinched a charm.

This is the "Teleport Spell", which corresponds to the extraordinary characteristics of the "Traveller" and allows the user to teleport long distances through the spiritual world.

She was ready to escape from this place.

But now, as if attracted by a compass, the corpse suddenly twisted its blackened skeleton, and the charred head turned strangely. Finally, the pair of empty eye sockets looked directly at Samantha!
In the hollow eye sockets, there is a pair of cold, black eyes without eyelashes.

Samantha felt that she was pinned to the spot by an inexplicable and strange force. Her legs felt like they were filled with lead and she could not move forward at all.

She suddenly heard a hoarse voice, and then countless complicated and useless knowledge was poured into her mind.

The spirituality that Samantha can now mobilize cannot reach the minimum required to use the "Teleportation Spell", and she must find other methods.

"Water mist" is equivalent to Samantha's passive ability. As long as she activates her spirituality to turn it on, it will always exist and continue to consume her spirituality.

Now Samantha cannot use the "Teleportation Spell", but she can increase the spirituality infused into the water mist.

Two blue flames suddenly rose from the empty eye sockets. The flames burned, and the pieces of flesh on the head that had been burnt to carbon peeled off piece by piece. Soon the head turned into a gloomy skull.

The skull was trying hard to open its mouth, trying to say something.

Samantha closed her eyes, mobilized her whole body's spirituality, and poured into the mist surrounding her body.

The water mist suddenly grew larger and wet Samantha's clothes.

But not enough!The water mist only increased her defense ability, and her only means of escape was the "Teleportation Spell"!
The skeleton burned with a strange phosphorus fire. From top to bottom, every inch it burned turned into white bones. The hard charred flesh immediately lost its attachment and fell to the ground, turning into a puddle of black water.

Samantha increased the spirituality poured into the water mist, which not only did not make the situation better, but also caused her to lose more spirituality.

It was getting harder and harder for her to concentrate, and the sound seemed to burst her brain.no……

With no way to retreat, Samantha forced her instinct to take off the "invisibility hood" and let go of the "guidance compass".

The hood was taken off, and Samantha's figure was revealed in reality. If there were a third-party observer, they would find that opposite the skeletal corpse just now, there was only a fluorescent compass that suddenly appeared in mid-air. Now Only the user of the fluorescent compass can be discovered.

The "Guide Compass" also dimmed instantly, the fluorescence on the surface disappeared, replaced by a layer of black.

The air around Samantha was momentarily still. For a moment, the only moving thing in the house was the mostly skeletal corpse in front of her.

After stopping the spiritual infusion of the two magical items and the water mist, Samantha finally regained some spirituality.

The second before she lost consciousness, she poured all the spirituality she could mobilize into the "Teleportation Spell" that she touched with her fingertips.

"The Traveler's...door!"

Samantha whispered a spell in ancient Hermetic.

Unspeakable unknown things suddenly appeared all around, and everything in front of me gradually became illusory and transparent. The top of the head was no longer the ceiling, but the sky beyond the top, and there were several bright and pure rays of light in the sky.

Samantha came to the spirit world, and she flew towards Tingen with the guidance of instinct.

Now, she is no longer in the room.The skeletal corpse lost its target and suddenly turned into a puddle of black water, melting into the floor.

On the outskirts of Tingen, Samantha's figure left the illusion and returned to reality.

It was still dark, and everything was black.

Samantha's clothes were wet with sweat. She struggled to stand up from the grass. She had a splitting headache. There seemed to be a voice in her ears that could not be eliminated. She knew whose voice it was, but she didn't dare to think about it.

Her enemies have always been humans or mutated monsters. This is the first time she has encountered a corpse that can move and turn into bones.

What's even more frightening is that the white bones caused her a strong sense of fear, which she had never experienced before. She didn't even have a chance to become angry at that time. She only had fear, which could not increase her strength or speed at all.

In a trance, the sky suddenly brightened. Just now, Samantha's eyes were dark, but now she could clearly make out the woods and grass in the distance, as well as the huge windmill behind her.

Samantha let out a breath, tried to ignore the murmurs in her ears, and walked towards the country road.

If other high-sequence Beyonders turned on their spiritual vision and looked at Samantha at this time, they would find a cold, black eye without eyelashes behind her.

She reached out to stop a passing carriage and wanted to return to her temporary residence in Jinwutong District.

The whispering in her ears became faster and faster. She blocked her ears with her hands, but the sound became louder and louder. She felt that her blood vessels were beating with the bumps of the carriage.

Samantha squeezed her eyes shut, sweat dripping down her cheeks.

She lowered her voice and tried not to sound shaky: "Change to the tequila bar."

She wanted to go directly to Jason. She knew that Jason owned the "Resurrection Serum".

But she didn't know if she could survive until then.

(End of this chapter)