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Chapter 206 Peeping at the Door (Part 7)

Chen Kun was so frightened that his face turned pale, even more so than when he had encountered the Peephole Strange Creature in the laboratory.

His mouth was agape, but he couldn't make a sound, retreating backwards subconsciously.

The long-haired woman in the gray dress continued to climb the stairs stiffly, her movements bizarre. As she neared the top, the odd scent of medicinal liquid grew stronger.

Chen Kun, with a look of terror on his face and mouth wide open, turned his head and saw that not far behind him was the restroom on this floor, albeit the women's restroom, while the men's restroom was either upstairs or downstairs.

"Screw it, to the women's restroom!"

At this point, Chen Kun couldn't care less; he darted into the restroom, passed the washbasins, entered a stall at random, and concealed himself, leaving just a crack in the stall door to spy on any movement outside.

The atmosphere was eerily silent, the sound of the woman ascending the stairs barely audible. Only by straining his ears could he catch the occasional faint noise.

After about a minute, the woman climbing the stairs first came into view of Chen Kun's eyes.

Of course, he had by now switched off his flashlight and was watching the woman before him in the vague light of the night.

The distance was too great to see her face clearly, but Chen Kun was also grateful he couldn't, as just the sight of the woman walking was enough to assure him her appearance could not be pleasant.

It might be quite terrifying, actually.

Chen Kun mentally filled in the woman's appearance until she walked past the staircase and instead of continuing upward, she slowly passed the restroom door and walked into the hallway of this floor.

Chen Kun thought she would keep going upstairs, but seeing this, he stiffened for a moment. After hesitating, he couldn't help but push the stall door open gently and stealthily stepped out.

Reaching the restroom door, he didn't dare to leave. Peeking out, he quietly glanced down the hallway.

In his line of sight, the woman in the gray dress swayed as she neared the open door of the laboratory. Continue your journey on My Virtual Library Empire

Chen Kun immediately had a bad feeling, his heart leaping to his throat, wanting to warn Yan Junze but not knowing how.

A few seconds later, he watched helplessly as the woman entered the open laboratory door and did not come out again.

...

Yan Junze had not heard anything from Chen Kun, but he still waited a bit longer. When he felt enough time had passed for Chen Kun to have escaped if possible, he went to the door of the equipment room.

At that moment, the Peephole Strange Creature was still standing at the door, silently watching him.

Yan Junze thought for a moment and, after grasping the doorknob, he did not close the door—doing so might have made it impossible to reopen. Instead, he chose to pull the door open.

As the door opened, the Peephole Strange Creature vanished.

The dim and cold laboratory appeared before him, suddenly feeling very unfamiliar, without a single beam of light penetrating the gloom.

Yan Junze stepped out of the equipment room and immediately looked towards the laboratory's door that led to the hallway.

The door was closed!

He walked over and tried to open the door, but it was in vain; it seemed to be locked tight.

Could it be that Chen Kun didn't follow his instructions to block the open door before leaving?

Turning his head to check other parts of the laboratory, he shuddered suddenly. There, by the back corner near a row of equipment, stood a man in black.

The man, facing away, was not completely still; he was quietly and gently shifting his feet, sidestepping towards the window.

The man was moving along the wall, so it wouldn't be long before he reached the spot where Yan Junze stood.

After a moment of surprise, Yan Junze made out the man's clothes and appearance, surely, it was the Peephole Strange Creature itself.

As it turned out, once the equipment room door was closed from inside, it couldn't be opened again, unless someone from outside helped open it. And if the equipment room door was opened, the Peephole Strange Creature would appear in the room outside.

One could infer that, if the door was closed, the creature would very likely appear inside the equipment room as well.

In any case, under these circumstances, it would appear.

The mission background stated clearly that this creature was waiting for a chance at Resurrection. It never intended to just die like that but was looking to use someone else's body to come back to life.

This point must be heeded.

Now, Yan Junze guessed that maybe as long as he avoided making contact with the creature, it might prevent it from using his body to resurrect itself.

Beyond this, he couldn't think of any other method at the moment.

But if the situation turned wrong, he would immediately choose to Rewind and remain in this room to think of other methods. Only in a truly critical moment would he probably Rewind to the moment before he entered.

The Peephole Strange Creature kept approaching. Yan Junze observed how it always moved along the wall or slid across the instruments near the wall. Its gait was oddly "geometric" in nature.

So, he didn't try to mimic the creature's wall-hugging method to avoid it but instead stepped towards the center of the lab.

He figured that place was somewhere the creature couldn't reach.

However, just as the thought occurred to him, the man in black who had been moving along the wall suddenly darted to the right side of an instrument and then vanished from sight.

Yan Junze immediately looked around.

Suddenly, he discovered that right behind him, in front of a row of instruments that was nearly touching him, the man in black had appeared as if he had just sidled out from beside the instruments, still closely sliding past them, only an arm's length from Yan Junze.

And as Yan Junze noticed this man, he reached out his hand, about to grab at Yan Junze.

With the ashen fingers nearly touching Yan Junze's back, he quickly stepped forward and turned to face the man in black.

He glanced at the side of the instrument where the man had emerged but found nothing unusual there. The creature had just been moving in front of him a moment ago—how did it suddenly get behind him?

Yan Junze remembered it circling around another instrument, and the next time it appeared, it was beside the instrument right behind him.

Indeed very strange.

There was no choice but to keep away from these instruments.

However, apart from the tightly arranged instruments, there wasn't much space to move around in the lab.

The man in black moved horizontally to a half-man-high instrument, turned a corner, and in the next second, appeared beside the experiment table to Yan Junze's right, very close, reaching out to grab him.

Yan Junze immediately dashed forward, reaching the equipment room door in a few steps. The door was open, so he simply leaned his back against the wall right by the door.

At that moment, the man in black did not choose to navigate between instruments but instead returned to the side of the wall, facing the wall, and slid towards Yan Junze's direction.

Yan Junze thought fast, quickly reaching out to pull the equipment room door towards him. He didn't close it all the way but left a crack, then turned to watch the man in black sliding toward him.

In his conjecture, now that there was a crack in the door, the Peephole Strange Creature might be naturally drawn to it, wanting to peer through the gap and therefore give up on approaching Yan Junze.