I Created the Myth of the Old Ruler

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In the darkness, all sounds became exceptionally clear.

Lu Juan could hear the howling of wild cats in heat downstairs, the noise of someone's house, and the chirping of insects that were covered up by the noise of the day.

The most clear is the heartbeat.

The normal human heart rate is 60 to 100 beats per minute, 500 beats, less than 10 minutes, neither short nor long.

Lu Yi carefully counted his heartbeat, concentrating on it, and gradually, he found that the surrounding sounds disappeared.

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Everything is silent, only the sound of my own heartbeat proves the fact of being alive.

Suddenly, Lu Jian found that his heartbeat seemed to slow down. He had just counted to one hundred, but it felt like several minutes had passed.

It is normal for the heartbeat to slow down due to the relaxation of the body, Lu Jian tried to persuade himself with this.

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In the slowing heartbeat, Lu Yi felt that his consciousness became blurred.

squeak--

At this moment, the cabinet next to the wall seemed to make a noise, as if something had knocked out of the cabinet door, accompanied by a slight opening and closing sound.

what is it

Lu Yi was startled suddenly, leaned towards the cabinet consciously, and almost opened his eyes to check.

But after the sound of opening and closing, the world fell into silence again, as if what happened just now was just a superfluous illusion of Lu Jian.

He clenched the crowbar tightly in his hand, waiting for a possible attack, but feeling nothing.

In the huge space, only Lu Yi's heartbeat was left, which kept slowing down.

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Is my heartbeat so slow?

How long has it been?

If the heartbeat continues to slow down, will he die?

It seems that along with the slowdown of the heartbeat, Lu Yi's brain also began to lose its function.

prickly——

At this moment, a sharp, high-pitched, heart-piercing scratching sound resounded from the head of the bed above Lu Lian's head.

Prick, prick, prick——

The scratching sound continued, right next to Lu Trim's ear, getting closer and closer, and finally, the sound was interwoven with the almost disappearing heartbeat, as if scratching on Lu Trim's scalp!

It seemed to be scratching Lu Lian's head and pulling out the contents!

Prick, prick, prick——

"do not care!"

Lu Jian is no longer ready to continue this task. If this continues, he may not see the sun tomorrow at all.

Holding the crowbar tightly, Lu Juan was about to open his eyes, trying to find a way to hit the thing that surrounded him.

But it wasn't until this time that Lu Yi realized that he couldn't open his eyelids at all.

Not only his eyelids, but also his hands, legs, and body couldn't move. He seemed to be pinned down by something, and he couldn't make any movements at all.

"!!!"

The scratching sound became louder and faster.

Lu Jian tried to struggle, but kept his original posture. He felt something scratching the board behind him, under the bed board, and the sharp thing repeated again and again, endlessly.

Prick, prick, prick——

In such an extremely weird and tense situation, Lu Jian suddenly felt that his left hand could move a little.

He moved his fingers, trying to ease the tension in his body.

The next moment, he touched a warm, soft and delicate hand.

Lu Yi suddenly felt that his tension disappeared, and his whole body relaxed, as if he could wake up from this nightmare reality at any time.

The scratching sounds around him seemed to disappear as well.

Lu Jian breathed a sigh of relief.

The next moment, some kind of terrifying thought hovered from the bottom of his heart.

"I live alone...this hand...whose is it?!!"

A greater sense of disobedience rose from the place where the hand touched him, and Lu Juan felt trembling all over, accompanied by the fingertips of that hand gently brushing his forearm, upper arm, neck, and cheek, this trembling feeling more and more obvious.

In this state, what makes Lu Jian admire is that even now, he is still counting the heartbeats accurately.

"Four hundred and ninety-six, four hundred and ninety-seven... five hundred!"

The moment he counted to five hundred, Lu Jian felt that all the pressure on him suddenly disappeared.

The next moment, Lu Jian woke up.

He opened his eyes and found that he was lying on the bed with the crowbar in his hand lying on it, not in his hand.

Lu Jian sat up.

Everything in the room is as usual.

The door of the cabinet was closed tightly, the head of the bed was clean, and there was nothing weird around me.

Lu Jian felt his heartbeat, and it was very fast, as if he had just run a hundred meters.

"I just... fell asleep?"

He actually fell asleep in such a dangerous and weird task?

Lu Jian has always felt that he is a cautious person who makes decisions before acting.

I didn't expect to have such a big heart.

"Uh, but counting heartbeats in a dark environment, maybe it's really hypnotic... that's right."

Lu Jian thought of the task, he picked up the flashlight, turned it on, and got out of bed.

The shadows under the bed became more and more intense, and in the deep darkness that even the light of the flashlight could not dispel, something unusual seemed to be conceived.

It was very quiet all around, without any sound.

Lu Jian leaned over, the ground was cold, and the bed board was squeezed, making a creaking sound.

He poked his head under the bed.

Underneath the empty bed, there is only accumulation of dust, and...

That ridiculously dressed Lanlanlu doll!

The moment he saw the eyes with heavy makeup, the sound of scratching sounded again, this time, from the inside of Lu Jian's skull, smashing his brain, obliterating his reason, and reaching the end of the abyss.

Prick, prick, prick——

Something weird is about to burst out of Lu Jian's brain!

"!"

At the moment that thing exploded, Lu Jian opened his eyes.

He heard the chirping of insects outside the window, the high-pitched howling of cats, and the sound of drops of water dripping from the tap in the bathroom hitting the sink.

He came back to reality.

At least here is the world he is familiar with.

Lu Jian didn't know what happened just now, what was the source of those voices, and how he had another dream in the dream.

He turned on the light.

Curiosity drove Lu Jian to the bedside, he bent down, took a deep breath, and prepared to look under the bed again.

It is true that dying is addictive, and curiosity cannot be given up either. Now Lu Jian just wants to see what is under the bed.

He shone it with a flashlight.

Garlic, crucifixes, hundred dollar bills, and lots of salt.

Other than that, there is just a thick layer of dust.

However, on the dust, there seemed to be traces of some kind of creature crawling over.

This trace seems to be struggling from outside the bed towards where it should belong, and it seems to be trying to break through the shackles of darkness and wriggle outward. Looking along these traces, Lu Jian found that it disappeared in the area illuminated by the light, and no one knew it. The final destination of these traces.

Is it a cockroach? mouse? Or...that funny-smiling Muppet?

Eighty points of sanity told Lu Jian that the area ahead should be explored later.

He sat up and looked at his phone, it was twelve thirty.

Thirty minutes have passed since that period of experience just now?

He felt incredible.

500 heartbeats, 30 minutes, if my own heartbeat is okay, then this frequency is too low.

For such a long time, the body lacks oxygen, so he should have died long ago... Lu Jian didn't dare to think about it.

All demons and ghosts are idealistic things.

One's own consciousness is also idealistic.

Therefore, as long as you don't care about it, ghosts can't hurt you!

As expected of me.

While thinking of this, he saw that the font on the phone screen was distorted and turned into cold system text.

[Congratulations on completing the task]

【Start settlement now】

[Mission Exploration Degree: 30%]

[Mission completion status: mediocre]

[With your eyes closed, you couldn't see the reality of this room, but anyway, after saying hello, you are now friends. 】

[Get Silence Points: 100 points]

[Get novice guide task reward: Inherent skill: Desperate]

[Obtaining career rewards: a video that cannot be opened at night]

【Settlement completed】

【Have you been inspired, do you have a strong creative impulse? 】

[Choose to complete career development tasks and get advanced rewards]

【Welcome to the quiet place again】

The words gradually faded away, and Lu Juan subconsciously looked at the dark shadow under the edge of the bed again.

At this moment, a notification sound came from his mobile phone.

Lu Yi hurriedly opened it, and he saw that a video file suddenly appeared in his mobile phone memory.

The file name is: [a video that cannot be opened at night].