NOVEL NEXT “It’s weird. It’s so hot now. Why is there no flies?” I said, “And there is no maggots on those bodies.”
The audience kept complaining in my live stream room.
[Come on. I’m eating.]
[Cover me, bullet screen!]
As expected, someone covered it with dense bullet screen. But immediately other viewers abused them.
[I curse that those who covered the screen would have a son with no penis.]
At that very time, Tang Mingli suddenly said, “There is something down here.”
Covering his mouth and nose, he picked up a broken leg of a chair and pushed the bodies of those things aside, then picked out a diary.
It was written: Hebdomad recipe for room 304.
We leafed it through and found that at first it was all ordinary dishes, but someone elided the menu with a red pen, and wrote after that: scalding rats, raw cockroaches, and something like that.
I felt my stomach was revolting. I swallowed some saliva to try to press down the acid.
After thinking for a while, Tang Mingli said, “I got it. This An Shibing got abused in this apartment. The nurse who took care of him fed him with snakes, bugs, rats and ants instead of normal food, and tortured him to death. So he came to take revenge and killed all of them before his first seventh-day.”
I frowned, “Why would the nurse abuse him?”
“Look at the files I gave you. The nurse who took care of him is called Yang Yang. When she was little, her father got divorced with her mom for a mistress. Her mom couldn’t take it and hung herself in front of her. So she hated all heartbreakers.”
Now I understood. I nodded. So the female ghost I had chopped before was not Yang Yang. Well, would Yang Yang’s ghost also be around here?
The bullet screen kept flashing.
[I have ever heard about that apartment. But I never expected there’s such inside stories.]
[Perfect reasoning. Mr. President is both drop-dead handsome and smart.]
[Camgirl, what are you waiting for? On such a dark and windy killing night, why not push over Mr. President and do something to him?]
Fortunately I didn’t see the screen, or I’d spit out blood on spot.
A wind blew from nowhere, making the windows creak, which frightened both of us.
Suddenly a broken glass on the desk flew up and smashed directly towards me. Tang Mingli pulled me and threw a kick at the glass. Then it fell on the ground and broke into pieces.
Then the furniture of the whole room began shaking sharply. We were both startled. Tang Mingli was worthy of a kung fu practitioner. He cried, “Move!”
We immediately ran towards the door. Meanwhile, all stuff in the room kept smashing at us, especially the bodies of those snakes, bugs, rats and ants were poured over my head. I was busy dodging it but didn’t notice that a sharp iron rob was shot right towards the back of my head.
“Watch out!” Tang Mingli pulled me and turned around. That sharp iron rod bruised his shoulder, leaving a deep wound on the skin.
I was startled. But he pushed me and cried, “Run!”
I gritted my teeth and then ran like hell while dodging those flying furniture. Tang Mingli covered me up. He kept jumping and kicking, as swift as a swallow. He’d break a piece of furniture with each of his move.
Bang!
The door was slammed shut. I gritted my teeth and knocked into the door. I broke the corrupted door and rushed out.
I couldn’t keep my feet and fell forward. I found an iron rob inverted into the ground was directly pointed at my forehead.
If I fell onto it, I’d be dead meat.
At the very moment, a hand pulled me up. Due to the inertia, I fell into his arms.
The male body odour of Tang Mingli crushed into my nose, making me a little turned on.
I was shocked and jumped away like a startled car, and said in an embarrassing tone, “Thank…Thank you…for saving my life.”
There was kind of blush on his face. He hemmed and then said, “As long as you are OK. If you die, who would catch the ghost with me?”
I lowered my head and laughed off the awkward situation.
I dare not looked into his eyes. He was too handsome and outstanding, while I was queasily ugly, and also had no degree, no real estate and no money. We belonged to different worlds.
That made me self-abased.
I bit my lower lip and said to myself, “Yuan Junyao, stop complaining. Even if you are a blade of grass meant to be treaded on by people, you must live with dignity.”
When I was about to say something after taking a deep breath, Tang Mingli’s expression suddenly changed. It was like he was staring at something behind my back.
A shiver ran down my spine. When I turned around, I saw a thin old man, with a walking stick, wearing a gloomy smile, was staring at us at corner of the corridor.
I swallowed some saliva and asked, “Did…did you also see him?”
Tang Mingli was totally dumbfounded, and nodded subconsciously.
I took out my phone and looked at the bullet screen.
[What the hell! A ghost! A ghost! I see a ghost! It’s a real ghost!]
[Holy shit! It’s more thrilling than watching a horror movie. It nearly scared the shit out of me.]
[Scared the shit out of me +1.]
My hands shook. The ghost showed itself.
Ordinary people couldn’t see a ghost. But the ghost could show itself to frighten people. And the souls of those frightened people would be damaged. Taking advantage of that, the ghost would either hook away their souls or possess their bodies.
That thin old man made an extremely weird smile at us and then went upstairs.
I asked, “Should we follow him?”
“Of course! Why not?” Tang Mingli picked up his peach sword, “Today I can try my sword with him.”
I hesitated and took a look at the bullet screen.
[Go after him. This is exciting! I wanna see how the camgirl bust a ghost.]
[Camgirl, if you can slay that son of bitch, oh no, son of ghost bitch, I will reward you five crowns!]
[You’re super rich.]
[Moneybag, I wanna make friends with you.]
My eyeballs nearly popped out. Five crowns! Five thousand!
For the five thousand, I could do anything, be it busting a ghost or what.
I hung my phone and said righteously, “This ghost has taken away so many people’s lives. I don’t have any special kills, but I will risk it all to fight that ghost. Partner, let’s do this!”
Then we followed that thin old man to go upstairs. But the strange thing was that it seemed there was never an end of it.
Tang Mingli suddenly stopped me, said, “Look!”
I raised my head and found it was written “fourth floor” with blood on the wall.
“We entered nowhere?” I was a little tired and held the handrails to take a rest. Suddenly someone grasped my arm with an ice cold hand.
I screamed and moved backwards. Suddenly I missed my step. The stairs collapsed and I fell down hard.
Painful! Piercingly painful!
It felt like all my bones were taken to pieces. I felt so dizzy. Tang Mingli called me through that broken hole upstairs. But suddenly he screeched, like he was being dragged away by something.
It aroused a panic in my live stream room.
[The camgirl got injured. Call the police!]
[I just called the police. But they said it was a nuisance call and would call to account.]
[Are you nuts? Don’t tell them it was a ghost. Tell them the building collapsed and someone got hurt!]
I struggled to my feet, “No, I can’t pass out. Tang Mingli is in danger. I can tell he is from a noble and powerful family. If he dies here, his family will put the blame on me.”
I raised my head and suddenly saw a pale face.
That was a young girl, wearing a nurse uniform, with blood all over her body. Numerous nails pierced through her limbs, nailing her down on the back of the stairs.
[Ah! It freaks me out! I was so scared that I even threw my phone.]
[Little girl, don’t be afraid. Where are you? I’ll go soothe you up.]
[Is it that nurse Yang Yang?]
[Hell no! This is exciting! Even more exciting that playing horror games. Camgirl, come on. Five jade pendants for you.]
The nurse was staring at me. I made my blood freeze and I dare not move a bit.
She twisted, trying to get rid of it. I mustered up my courage and asked, “Do you…want to take revenge?”
The nurse nodded. I took a deep breath and asked, “So if I pull out all these nails, then you’ll be free?”
The nurse nodded again. And then I said, “I can help you pull out all the nails, but you can’t hurt me.”
She nodded again.
[Camgirl, all ghosts are liars. You can’t listen to her. Once she is set free, she’ll kill you first.]
[Right, camgirl. One shouldn’t have the heart to harm others, but must be vigilant so as not to be harmed.]