Chapter 18: A Doubtful Point (1/2)

Among the villa’s family of four, only the younger son had exhibited the most normal behavior.

Although the younger son was fond of reading horror novels and didn’t like talking at all, compared to the Gu couple, who enjoyed eating rotten mice meat, and the older son, who acted as a basket case, this is a relatively melancholic child.

Not to mention that yesterday afternoon, the younger son had asked An Qing to read him the horror story of a ‘Door-Knocking Ghost’ as if this was him discreetly giving them a tip.

Originally, Bai Yan thought that it was merely an information-giving NPC, but now, it seemed that this was not the case.

Based on the bitter lessons by the older players in the forum, no matter how cute and harmless the ghosts looked, they wouldn’t think twice when they started violently killing people. Therefore, when the younger son asked An Qing to tell the ghost story, it was not a chance to give them a hint, but it was just a clever ruse for a cat-and-mouse chase.

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When Bai Yan and Lu Tianyi attentively pricked their ears up to gather more information, Liu  Kui was trapped all alone and panicking in the props storage room.

In addition to the master’s ax, this props room also held the club members’ beloved decapitating tools, including sharp saws, glistening iron chains, used one-sided knives… Looking at these, one by one, Liu Kui felt slightly lightheaded, his heart uttering a never-ending stream of curses.

But before he swung the ax, the door suddenly burst open.

“Sir?”

“I wanted you to come back quickly. How come you didn’t come back after finding it? Anyway, give me the ax quickly.”

“Yes.” Liu Kui meekly responded. He remained on guard but still obediently handed over the ax to the master.

He tried to explain himself as he saw the master’s unchanging displeased look, “Sir, I found the ax as per your request but this door isn’t functioning correctly, and when it closed suddenly, I couldn’t open it from the inside. So in the end, I was trapped in here with no way out.”

“Oh.” The master felt the weight of the ax in his hand and as he turned around and raised his hand to the door.

Now, both of them were trapped like mice.

“Sir, what are you doing?” Seeing the master abruptly close the door, Liu Kui finally realized that something was amiss. He cautiously took a step back, subsequently bringing himself closer to a sickle lying on the ground, ready to pick it up to defend himself at a moment’s notice.

The master did not react to Liu Kui’s alarmed and frightened question.

As a matter of fact, he felt strange at the moment. With an ax in his hand, a strange yet nostalgic sensation flowed into his whole body. As he reminisced about the familiar touch of his faithful ax, his hand started to tingle with excitement. His body clearly yearned to chop a person up and cut down his head. Chopping off a head again would’ve been a wonderful experience.

He missed the marvelous feeling of beheading someone.

But since he joined the club, he had never personally cut someone up?

The master was still a little confused but deep down, he always felt that he had forgotten something important. But in any case, he stared at the driver as if he were a delectable plate of rat meat and thought that it wouldn’t be so wrong for him to chop the driver up into tiny pieces.

As a result, the master gradually raised his ax and swung it powerfully at Liu Kui.

Liu Kui was ready for this and immediately picked up the sickle he was close to, smoothly blocking the master’s swinging ax and quickly kicking him to the wall in one fluid motion.

Seeing that the master was weaker than him, Liu Kui’s eyes flashed brightly, brimming with cruelty. Since the master decided to kill him and the two would have already shown their true colors by now, no matter what he did now, he would be fired.

Rather than being miserably chopped up by the master, he would prefer for the game to kill him instead. Liu Kui evilly raised his sickle and wanted to grab this opportunity to kill the master while he was still down so that he won’t be able to cut his head off.

However, as soon as he drew near the sickle, his face suddenly morphed into incessant dread——the sickle stuck on the master’s body had no traces of blood in it!

In front of Liu Kui’s fearful eyes, the master’s eyes eerily turned white. It slowly pulled out the sickle stuck on its body and with an ax at hand, it started brutally chopping up Liu Kui…

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More than 10 minutes had passed but there were still no signs of the master and Liu Kui.

Lu Tianyi and Bai Yan quietly exchanged a few words, thinking that something might have happened to them.

And so, they immediately left the screening room together and quickly found the room following the master’s instructions, finally standing in front of the door with a painting of a saw.

The club was situated in an old-fashioned building, so as a result, the wall’s sound insulation was not very good. Through the iron door, the two could hear weird sounds of meat being chopped up.

Meat chopping?

Upon hearing this sinister sound, Lu Tianyi instantly thought of something terrible.