Chapter 38 - Horror Variety (3) (2/2)
Xiao Liu nodded. The three of them followed the source of the sound and went over to the bedroom on the first floor to see Ji Yun Xiao holding onto a note and reading its contents out while the cameraman filmed next to him.
“Why are you guys here?”
Seeing the three of them walk in, the cameraman was very surprised. He gently mouthed some words. Ji Yun Xiao also heard them and looked up. When he saw Cheng Zhi Chu, his expression was both a little surprised and happy.
“The director said the signal isn’t good and can’t hear your voice so I came in to check.”
Xiao Liu made a gesture for the cameraman to pause filming: “I also couldn’t hear anything outside, so I didn’t know what was going on inside.”
“What? But the director is speaking to us right now. You can come and listen.”
The cameraman took off his headphones, adjusted the sound to the highest, and handed it over to Xiao Liu. The people in the room could hear the directors voice.
Xiao Liu was very confused. He put on his own headphones, but still couldn’t hear anything.
“When you film, you must…….ssss——–”
However, at this moment, a harsh sound came from the headphones and the directors voice became more and more strange. Following the sound of white noise, it changed into the sound of a child crying.
“Wu, wuwuwu…………….”
The cries came very suddenly, and it was particularly hair-raising hearing it in this dark and creepy environment. Everyone present was surprised. Xiao Liu revealed a very confused expression and said: “Did the director prepare something like this?”
At this moment, Cheng Zhi Chu inadvertently glanced at the painting on the wall. The painting was of a child sleeping while leaning against a tree. He clearly recalled that when he came in the child’s eyes were closed but, at some point in time, the child’s eyes had opened and was watching them quietly.
What’s going on?
Cheng Zhi Chu’s scalp went numb. He was clearly in the real world and this isn’t an instance so why would these supernatural phenomena appear?
He wanted to tell himself that this was just the special effects the program had prepared beforehand but when he saw Xiao Liu and the cameraman’s scared expressions, his heart immediately sank. He suddenly had a bad feeling.
“What’s going on here…….Could there really be a ghost here?”
Xiao Liu was a little panicked. Just as he was at loss, a hand suddenly appeared from outside the bedroom door. It didn’t reveal its body and just made a gesture while a hoarse voice said: “There’s a problem.”
“What is it?”
Xiao Liu walked over but, just as he took one step out of the room, the hand quickly pulled him out and he disappeared past the door. A few seconds passed and a horrifying cry was heard from just outside the door followed by a large amount of fresh blood splattering onto the floor.
“There’s a problem.”
“There’s a problem………..”
The hoarse voice repeated the same phrase over and over again. Its tone was monotonous, like a something that was recorded in advance.
“Thud, thud, thud………”
Along with this strange repetition of words, there was also the sound of something heavy falling onto the ground and rolling.
A bloody human head rolled from the same direction that Xiao Liu had disappeared in. Its expression was contorted and pale, and he looked like one of the staffs that had entered the villa earlier!
“There’s……a problem………”
“There………”
The human head opened its mouth and it gradually stopped talking. With blood oozing out of its mouth, its eyes were wide open and staring at the people in the room.
“Dead………Dead person!”
The cameraman fell onto the ground and his camera also smashed against the floor. With his face void of colour, he cried out: “G-ghost! There really is a ghost! Ghost!!”
Bi Xi Xing and Ji Yun Xiao were shocked. Cheng Zhi Chu also felt a chill through his body. He said a quick “run” and went straight for the window. When he wanted to open the window to escape, he discovered that the window didn’t move an inch. He even tried to smash open the window with the camera, but it just made a dull “thud” before rebounding back and falling heavily onto the ground.
【Initiating reality instance: Horror Variety.]
【Level: ?]
【Difficulty: ?]
【Players: 1]
【Background introduction]
【Your sister was selected to participate as an audience of a variety show but, because of an injury, she couldn’t make it so as her brother you went in her stead to have a close interaction with the star Ji Yun Xiao]
【The extremely pleased you followed the other fans to Ji Yun Xiao’s outdoor filming site at a villa were a death had occurred. The young painter Zhou Luo Chen had committed suicide in this mansion 12 years ago and the reason behind this still remains a mystery.]
【Here, you accidently discover that your friend Bai Yi and the villas owner Bai Xi Xing are cousins, and Zhou Luo Chen also used to be their art teacher. However, you don’t know if Zhou Luo Chen’s suicide was related to these two brothers, nor do you know the full inside story behind Zhou Luo Chen’s suicide.]
【This place gives you a very bad feeling. You don’t like the scent of rose in the air and you also hate the aquarium in the living room. In addition, you are worried about Bai Yi, so you wanted to hurry back but at this moment, there suddenly were traces of ghost activities in the villa.]
【You find out that you can’t get out.]
【Also, the ghost here seems to like you very much. It wants to make you stay.]
【Main task: Leave this villa alive.]
【Your special mission: Collect the photo and kiss the boss. If you don’t complete the special task, you will not be able to leave the instance even if you complete the main tasks.]
Fuck, why is he suddenly in a reality instance? Wasn’t it said before that there hasn’t been anyone who has done it before? Why did he have to run into this situation?! Also, clearly Ji Yun Xiao is also a player and similarly in this place, yet why didn’t he receive the task as well? The description said that there was only one player and that’s he himself!
Cheng Zhi Chu’s expression changed, and his mind was filled with questions. When he wondered what it meant by the ghost liking him very much, he saw a few bloody red lines of words appear on the glass.
<We meet again, Zhi Chu.>
<I’m very happy to see you again.>
<I love you.>
<I love you>
<I love you I love you I love you…..>
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Bai Yi’s Diary (Part 38)
Suddenly remembered that I used to learn painting.
(There was a sketch in the diary. It was a picture of Cheng Zhi Chu in a boyfriend shirt sitting on the bed with bare legs. His face was flushed, and he was unbuttoning the shirt with wet, watery eyes. Next to him was a sentence:
“Brother Bai Yi, please comfort me…….”)
[The Cheng Zhi Chu in the instance felt a sudden chill.]