Chapter 31: A Noisy Night (1/2)

After seeing these choices, Bai Yan unexpectedly had the guts to relax and let the dust settle for a bit. The third ghost has finally appeared.

“Since the three ghosts had shown up in this specific apartment complex, doesn’t that mean that the other two players also live here?”

Bai Yan lowly mumbled to himself as he stared at the three choices in front of him, “Right now, the three ghosts have come out. This round of the game has three players in it. If every person has a corresponding ghost, then that would make sense. Following this train of thought and analyzing the situation, if I just pretend to not see it, it could possibly go away on its own, but the text strongly emphasized the narrow slit by the window, saying that if the ghost baby turned sideways, it could get in. If I didn’t do anything, wouldn’t it enter tonight?”

“In this game, doing good deeds would result in ghosts dealing with you, then what about wrongdoings? Will the consequence be the ghost stirring up some trouble?”

Bai Yan thought about the choices again, including the one where Wu Jingang would ruthlessly die, making his heart feel roused. But dwelling on each of them for a while, he ultimately didn’t move his hand towards that option, instead, he picked the safest one.

The game was played in a considerably strange way. Maybe this time, he could experiment if he could resist the ghost inside this game.

Since Bai Yan still had four resurrection coins left, he couldn’t help but think about border-lining wooing death.

When he was saved during the old granny incident, his body particularly felt sore, but this constant ache surprisingly made him feel a bit happy since it took away his boredom.

With these thoughts filling his mind, he didn’t hesitate and pressed ‘B’ on the screen.

Immediately, the game took over his body, and Bai Yan happily darted to the kitchen, grabbing a long staff. He rushed towards the window, where the ghost baby stood from the other side, fixing its bitter gaze at him.

Upon seeing this, Bai Yan quickly opened the window and violently smashed the baby with great force. After a few swings, the ghost baby fell from the ledge and dropped three stories down, emitting the echoes of a fallen heavy object.

After driving away the ghost baby, Bai Yan slowly extended his neck and peaked down. The ground was messily splattered with fresh blood. The ghost baby seemed to have fallen to its death.

Bai Yan heard himself exclaim from alarm and promptly closed the window shut. After he once again laid on his bed, he finally got back control over his body.

“Option B was great! The ghost baby wasn’t hard to handle at all.” Picking the right choice, Bai Yan couldn’t help but feel a bit depressed. He was ready to justify himself but didn’t think that the ghost baby would be so useless.

Before closing his eyes, Bai Yan carelessly glanced back at the window, and on it was only a long streak of blood. The ghost baby apparently wouldn’t be coming up again.

Wait a minute. What was on the window resting on its stomach?

Bai Yan immediately put on his eyeglasses that he had put down and found out that the ghost baby had sneakily crawled up again, not knowing when it came up. It firmly adhered to the glass panes of the other side, still using its pitch-black eyes to bitterly stare at the people inside. The scene made Bai Yan feel that this situation was far from good. This time, the expression on the ghost baby’s eyes seemed to have increased the chilliness it had brought in, making Bai Yan get goosebumps all over his body.

After intently staring at each other for a half a minute, Bai Yan was still contemplating if his choice was correct or not. But gradually, he felt that something was amiss. He sensed that his body was once again not under his control. He slowly walked over to the window and pulled the window open, little by little. This time, the app had nothing to do with commanding his body.

He watched the ghost baby unhurriedly climb on the window and got close to it using its tiny bloody hands.

Afterward, Bai Yan saw darkness prevail in his sight. He soon saw that the ghost baby was suddenly upside down, still lying on its stomach on the glass with malicious eyes trailing him. But, this time, he and the ghost baby were face to face and were uncomfortably close. The ghost baby’s face looked bruised through the window, the only thing separating them was a thin layer of transparent glass.

When did the ghost baby become upside down when it climbed up?

An epiphany quickly flashed through Bai Yan’s mind. The sudden weightlessness he felt came from his feet.

Bai Yan quickly realized that the one that was upside down wasn’t the ghost baby but was him all along.

A second before dropping from the window, Bai Yan saw the darkness beyond the windowpane and noticed for the first time that observing from outside the window was unexpectedly frightening in its own way.

The third floor.

The second floor.

The first floor.

There wasn’t enough time to think about it as his head kissed the ground. He smelled the strong odor of blood after he fell in a split second, not knowing if this blood was from the ghost baby or was from himself.

Amid his painful huffs of breaths, Bai Yan’s heart was fully satisfied as he returned to the time he was selecting a choice.

Looking at the three identical choices from before, he gazed at the ghost baby, when its eyes weren’t as sinister as he saw earlier. This time, Bai Yan had chosen to follow his brain.

He originally assumed that the ghost baby was nothing but a weak chick, incapable of crawling up the window again after being shot down. He was even ready to ridicule it in his dreams. This was proof that the ghosts in the game’s world were forever powerful, extremely terrifying, and shouldn’t be provoked.

After pressing Option C, Bai Yan remotely laid down and closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep.

Although he felt that he and the ghost baby had shared eye contact for a long time, quietly pretending to be asleep just made him look more suspicious.

However, the ghost baby merely ate the whole front, staring at him as he pretended to sleep. The powerful ghost baby surely felt his recognizable fear. But since Bai Yan wouldn’t interfere with its plans, the ghost magnanimously spared him and didn’t sacrifice him to the heavens.

He laid on the bed for a few seconds and then heard the distinct burst of rubbing sounds from the glass on the outer window. Soon, the sounds became weaker and it seemed as if the ghost baby was crawling somewhere else.

After experiencing an extremely disturbing storyline, Bai Yan could’ve stayed awake from excitement, but the satisfaction he got from the fulfillment of his cravings urged him to sleep. Unconsciously, Bai Yan slowly drifted off to sleep until 2:30 AM, when he was rudely awoken by the aggressive barks of a dog across the hall.

“Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark”