The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle-Chapter 218 - 173: Su Buxian’s Visit Here

In the dimly-lit corridor, countless rooms were tightly shut, devoid of light, with visibility extending only about two meters around.

Ethan Dawn and Penelope Bloom walked together.

The former was tense, while the latter's eyes were solemn.

"This place, what exactly is going on? It was hard enough to reach the second floor, but it feels like we've entered a ghostly corridor where we just keep going in circles..."

Ethan Dawn was shivering slightly.

They had been separated from others and had stepped into what was so-called the second floor, yet they couldn't find their way out, with only the dark environment and one sealed room after another...

Penelope Bloom was the calm one who spoke, "The others are probably in the same situation, and it seems the exit is inside one of the rooms. We'll have to try each one."

Some doors wouldn't budge, while others revealed a variety of things once opened.

The walls, strange paintings, and bandages, pulsating pus bags embedded in the wall...

Filled with the abnormal and the horrific.

The dark corridor echoed their heavy footsteps.

They cautiously approached a door.

"This door seems like it can be opened..."

Ethan Dawn paused briefly and reached out to push the handle.

The door creaked open, revealing a gap leading into pitch darkness, where nothing inside could be seen!

But the next moment!

A rapid whooshing sound suddenly burst forth!

Countless bandages surged out from within, wrapping towards both of them!

"Be careful!"

Penelope Bloom's expression hardened as she suddenly stretched out her hand and pulled out a blade... releasing Spiritual Energy to slice through the bandages!

At that moment, the corridor lights flickered, and a Bandaged Man, wrapped entirely in bandages and standing in a space smeared with bloodstains, stared intently at them with an eerie gaze.

"It seems this is an entity we must fight."

"After all..." Penelope Bloom looked around at the corridor, the walls on both sides had somehow become sealed again: "There's no escape now."

In other locations, many players faced the same predicament.

Each encountered a variety of doors, revealing a completely different abnormality upon opening.

...

Meanwhile, in the little girl's room, Su Qi also watched this scene unfold through the phantasmal images.

"Tentacle Man really knows how to... draw inspiration."

"These abnormalities seem like illusions, but they possess tangible substance, lethal power, and traits, and there are familiar faces among them."

For instance, the Bandaged Man.

The first one to fixate on him when he entered the apartment, who he then stuffed into a refrigerator.

Then there was the captured Split Mouth Woman and the Swollen Man.

"That's right," the little girl nodded: "These were all tenants who once lived in my father's apartment. Since my father kept parts of their bodies stored in the apartment, they could be used as material."

"And they... are Spiritual Bodies constructed by rituals, lacking self-awareness, but much stronger than before."

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"That's evident." Su Qi watched as players were separated by the corridors, engaging in combat.

"That guy is really a researcher after all..."

After all, it had taken Tentacle Man less than ten days to create an artificial lifeform... a Pollution composite, which helped him successfully draw the attention of those terrifying Pollution Monsters and reach the heart of the collapse.

"Pollution, rituals, isolation, abnormality... looks like he's been through a lot."

"And..." Su Qi looked at the little girl: "You haven't vanished like you did at first. He couldn't bear to give up on you in the end, it seems he made a lot of effort."

He remembered that the little girl he saw on the third floor had only a head... and a spirit-like consciousness, only capable of communicating through abnormal means, but now she not only had a body, but could also talk and move.

"However," Su Qi looked at her: "Your current body is still in bad shape, isn't it."

He didn't even need to use a question mark to see.

Merely from the stitching marks on the little girl's body, and from the scent beneath the doll appearance... all indicated her current condition.

The fresh stitching suggested that she had to be taken apart often.

Inside the doll was a smell of blood and decay.

More importantly, the little girl had barely moved since the beginning, her body like it had rusted, completely incapable of moving like a normal person, all movements extremely awkward.

"I didn't expect Big Brother Su Buxian to notice..."

The little girl struggled to lift her arm.

She touched her own abdomen.

Like ripping a layer of covering fabric, inside was flesh imbued with an abnormal aura, various neurological tubes connecting it.

This was unmistakably Tentacle Man's handiwork.

Aside from her head, her body's external appearance was that of a doll, but in reality, it was filled with abnormal flesh, simply stitched over with a less terrifying façade.

"At first, that pocket watch... could remove the contamination from the flesh, then with my father's neurological surgery, I was given life... Until now, I have gradually been able to move, only needing to replace my body every week, and I can control all of the rituals and pollutants of the Last House."

"My father is amazing, right?"

The little girl showed a relaxed and proud smile.

Su Qi didn't speak, but he saw a mixture of heaviness and reluctance in her smile.

It seemed... the legacy of history was still present.

He had to admit Tentacle Man had succeeded in 'reviving' his daughter, and she could talk and stay by his side, but she was no longer a normal person, not even human anymore, but a puppet attached to this building.