Chapter 76: Wish (1/2)

-19th Floor.

The four surviving players stood by the hall, staring at the iron door in front of them with indescribable expressions on their faces.

When they first came here, there were 11 people, but now, less than half of the dead were left.

What was even worse was that they were about to enter the same room as Liu Xiyu.

Liu Xiyu hardly knew what the players thought of her. She just fixed her gaze at the iron door at the center of the wall, feeling somewhat excited but also somewhat afraid.

In her previous dreams, the furthest she’s been was on the -17th floor.

It was also her first time coming to the -19th floor.

In her dream, the floors in the cellars kept jumping, and she was also confused by this. She didn’t have a backbone and only knew how to follow the stream of people as they moved.

But, she also had the same feeling that if she didn’t enter, she would still have the same nightmare after two days.

That she would also walk through the desolate park alone, getting a ticket from the ticket master and entering the dreadful cellar.

After that, she would once again come across a new set of faceless monsters, exchanging a few simple words with them and trying to break through the barrier with them. Once nearly all of the faceless were dead, she would once again reach this place and suddenly be awakened the next second, repeating everything as before until she completed the game.

“… I don’t want to repeat this dream again!”

Liu Xiyu has never been injured by these malicious ghosts before to the extent that they had never pulled out even a single strand of her hair.

However, she witnessed the many deaths of these faceless monsters and always felt strange. Even if those monsters didn’t have faces, she still grew to fear them just as much as she feared the ghosts, but they were still people from another world. She would also feel uncomfortable watching them be tortured by the ghosts.

“If I don’t go now… I’d still go back to this place next time…”

Liu Xiyu gave herself a pep talk in whispers, trying to psych herself up.

This time, she didn’t wait for the black mist to trail behind them and also didn’t wait for the other players to enter. For the first time, she summoned her courage to take the lead and pushed the door open.

“Creak——”

The heavy iron door opened.

What appeared beyond the door was a clean Mahogany table, and apart from the black and white picture arranged on top of the tables, nothing else was there.

Bloodstains, broken limbs, sharp screeches… Every bloody and terrible item was nowhere to be found inside the room. Yet, the players’ expressions didn’t loosen up.

Because this was a picture of the deceased(1).

When the last player had entered, the iron door closed by itself.

Compared to the previous games, this room’s atmosphere made everyone feel an immense amount of pressure. There was nothing there, which meant that it would be difficult to find some clues.

Liu Xiyu stood there and just blankly stared at the photo, her entire being stood motionless as if she were startled by something.

Bai Yan was still unclear of their current situation, so he didn’t want to touch the suspicious photo rashly. But, Tom, on the other hand, this surviving player walked towards it and tried to touch the picture——

“Don’t touch it!”

Liu Xiyu abruptly yelled, “Don’t touch my mom’s photo!”

Tom’s hand was frozen midair, then he quickly recoiled back to the door, not daring to make another reckless move.

Through Liu Xiyu’s words, every player was able to decipher this place’s story. The posthumous photo of Liu Xiyu’s mother… was at the end, so this room must have been her real home.

Deep down, everyone was trying to figure out how useful Liu Xiyu would be in this game. However, Liu Xiyu paid no mind to them. At this moment, she wasn’t thinking of clearing the game.

Right now, all of her energy was centralized on the photo.

Liu Xiyu knew what posthumous photos were. She’s seen these black and white pictures on TV. Only if the person was dead were their photos to be decorated like this.

But, her mom wasn’t dead, she was only missing. This was also merely a dream, so this couldn’t be true!

Liu Xiyu’s heart shook in its entirety and couldn’t accept the image in front of her eyes.

Her mother was smiling prettily in the picture and was as gentle as the real one.

She didn’t know why, but she knew that it was fake. But, seeing her mother’s picture, Liu Xiyu’s nose first turned sour as her tears began to flow involuntarily.

She still had a lot left to say to her mom, but she suddenly went missing, and no matter how hard her dad searched, they couldn’t find her.

Even in her dreams, she still couldn’t find her mom. It was only this picture where she saw her again…

Inside her dream, Liu Xiyu’s emotions rapidly transformed into something else.

No other danger seemed to be in this room, and her heart had also learned to stop being terrified of ghosts long ago, so she reached out her hand to the photo, intending to take it away.

Even if it were a dream, she still didn’t want her mom’s photo to be left in this place. She wanted to bring this picture with her, much like how every day, before she went to sleep, she would place her mom’s picture under her pillow.

Liu Xiyu grabbed the picture frame, and the moment she touched it, she seemed to have heard a voice——

That voice sounded awfully familiar, she’s heard it countless times while growing up. It was her mom’s voice, there’s no doubt about it!