Chapter 6: Be Yourself (1/2)

After being sold out by the blabbermouth Chu Fu, Bai Yan did not panic.

He lifted his head and angrily fought back, “Why are you like this? I didn’t say anything when you took away my puzzle and the clothes. Now, you still want to wrong people. I’ll tell you this. When I got that puzzle, it was already like that! I can’t say for sure but that puzzle may naturally have one less piece than the others!”

Bai Yan’s ire scared the man. He suspiciously glared at Bai Yan and seeing that his expression remained unfazed, his trust in him increased to 80 percent, yet at the same time, his anxiety also grew.

During this matter of life and death, the man didn’t flare at another person anymore.

Despite warning that he would flip the table over many times before, flipping the table didn’t give him any benefits. The man had integrated into society for many years and had already known that one shouldn’t use the hard approach all the time. If the situation calls for it, they should act soft, especially in cases of asking for help.

Since this matter concerned his precious life, the man suppressed his irritation and softened his tone to the best of his abilities, “Earlier, this brother has been unfair to you. Think about it carefully, did you leave the puzzle elsewhere? If we are able to survive this, this brother will owe his life to you.”

“……”

Faced with the man’s embarrassing defeat, Bai Yan also didn’t want to push him too far. He deliberately hesitated for a moment and frowned, pretending to look around the area as though he was genuinely trying to recall where he had left the puzzle.

By this time, there was only one minute left on the clock before the game concluded.

Feeling that trouble would suddenly arise if he delayed any longer, the man picked up the puzzle piece that Bai Yan had pushed towards him with sweaty hands, and without even taking a look at it, he pressed it onto the jigsaw.

It wasn’t until the man had let go of the piece that Bai Yan beamed, saying, “That’s right, old brother. I also forgot to tell you one other thing. The puzzle that I gave you also has a ghost on it.”

“What?”

The man immediately set his sights on the last piece of the puzzle, which was the chair.

If it were just a chair, there was no reason to be afraid of it. But looking at it more closely, there was something odd about the chair’s color.

Without this piece, it didn’t seem like anything. But once it was assembled, the figure of a person being flattened and its body and limbs forming the chair’s entire body could be seen.

The scariest thing that the man saw was that at the back of the chair was a person’s face, telling him that this was not just his imagination.

“You actually dare to harm me!”

The man trembled in rage. He wanted to jump out of his seat and exact his revenge on Bai Yan. But when he tried to get up, he found that he couldn’t move an inch from his chair no matter how much strength he put in.

What’s happening to me? Why can’t I get up?

The man was unwilling to give up. Using all the strength in his body, he struggled to lift himself, but the more he tried, the deeper he sunk into his seat. He looked like a lump of playdough being pressed, desperately being squeezed into the chair.

Immediately, a terrifying thought struck his mind.

He lowered his quivering head and discovered in despair that his legs had unexpectedly twisted around. A pair of small hands keeping them bound to the chair.

Recalling the distorted face on the puzzle and recalling the dead junior high student, the man let out a miserable shriek.

He figured it out. He completely figured it out!

The puzzle’s ghost was on the chair. As long as he didn’t sit on the chair, he wouldn’t die.

If he had found this piece a little earlier, if he knew this a little earlier…

Deep down, the man knew that there was no chance for him to get out in one piece. He bitterly looked at Bai Yan, spitting out profanities, “You son of a b*tch! Who the f*ck are you! Why the f*ck would you harm me!”

“Old brother, I’m called Wang Ze. As for the why… Ever since I entered the game, I felt that you weren’t pleasing to the eye, so I plotted to get you killed on the inside. Does that count?”

Being glared at viciously by the man, caused Bai Yan’s mood to be particularly good.

Originally, he didn’t intend to tell the man his name. People like Lei Feng(1), also never revealed their names when doing good deeds. He couldn’t flaunt himself as a hero. But when doing evil deeds, he still acted a bit modestly and simply left behind his good friend’s name. In that way, his death wouldn’t have been so sullen.

Since they were both dead people anyway, at least now, he was going to have a companion join him.

And so, out of the goodness of his heart, he reminded him, “Older brother, on your way down to hell, don’t forget who sent you there. If you call out the wrong name, I wouldn’t be able to answer back!”

“Fine! Wang Ze!” The man squeezed this name through his teeth, “Wang Ze! This daddy will remember you. This daddy will have you know that when I become a ghost, I won’t let you get away!!!!!”

During all this yelling, half of the man’s body was already pulled into the chair, looking comically funny yet terrifying.

With 30 seconds left, the man’s entire body was pulled into a chair. Chu Fu stared wide-eyed as the man’s head didn’t join with the back of the chair, instead, it intertwined with the girl’s head and formed a bigger, sturdier human chair.

“You…You you you you you…” Chu Fu looked at Bai Yan in terror, stuttering and unable to speak a single word.

“You what you? Pretty girl, what do you want to say?”

“N-Nothing at all. I’m fine. I don’t have any problems.” Chu Fu quickly shook her head left to right.