Chapter 504 - Key Detail! (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“The first ending, Xiao Bu was taken away by the woman in the red raincoat and became her daughter; the second ending, Xiao Bu was turned into a sculpture, becoming the artist’s creation. These two were undoubtedly bad endings.” There was a helplessness in Fan Chong’s voice. “The save reloaded, and Xiao Bu woke up again in her room. I controlled her to begin the game for the third time.”

Fan Chong was a gamer lover, and this game had a weird attraction to him. He was both afraid and curious about it. “Unlike before, I chose to turn to the East Street, which was comparatively older. The buildings on the side were gray, the walls were spotted, and the roads were complicated.

“The game was incredibly free. It was an open world where deadly traps were laid everywhere. As the player, you have no idea what kind of scary things you might run into or how you will die.

“After playing the game for some time, I realized a problem. In this game, humans are scarier than ghosts. Running into ghost might not mean absolute death, but running into a human definitely led to death.” Fan Chong shared his thoughts.

“The game maker’s thoughts are rather narrow. Perhaps this is related to his personal experience.” Chen Ge told Fan Chong to continue. “What happened to Xiao Bu on her third try?”

“I controlled Xiao Bu to wander the street. When she passed past an apartment building, a very thin man ran out from the stairs. He seemed to be in a hurry to leave the town. If this was any other game, this would have been a very normal NPC, but in this game, as long as the character was alive, there had to be something wrong with them.

“The person ran past Xiao Bu, and a window appeared. ‘Why would they need so many children? Damn, the police are coming. I knew I should not have accepted this case.’

“After the man left, two choices appeared on screen again—enter the stairs or continue moving past the building.

“Due to curiosity, I chose to enter the stairs. The apartment’s corridor was filled with rubbish, and the place looked old. I controlled Xiao Bu to get to the rooftop and realized that the door to the rooftop was open.

“There was a small garden on the rooftop, but all the vegetables and flowers were all dead. There were several large water tanks next to the garden. They were perhaps used by the tenants to pickle stuff, and each water tanks had a large boulder resting on top of them.

“Initially, I did not think too much of it. The rooftop was windy, so perhaps the boulders were used to stop the lids from flying away. However, when I passed the one of the tanks, there was another window on screen. ‘Xiao Bu heard the sound of a phone coming from inside the water tank.’

“I knew I had probably triggered some kind of event. I controlled Xiao Bu to find the tools to move the boulder away.” Fan Chong’s expression became sad. “You have no idea what is inside the water tank.”

“Is it a boy?” Chen Ge’s expression also changed. This third story was exactly the phone spirit’s story! The poor boy that was stored inside the water tank at the rooftop, that was the phone spirit.

Fan Chong looked at Chen Ge with surprise and then nodded. “There was a boy whose body got twisted when he was shoved into the tank. The boy was hugging a phone.