Trembling At A High Altitude

This time, he closed the distance by another five centimeters, leaving only 2.45 meters between him and the treasure chest at the closest point.

Five minutes later, he still came back defeated.

Five minutes of running had earned him over three hundred Time Index points, but compared to the consumption of a 1000-point Energy Drink, he had a net loss of nearly seven hundred points.

However, Li Teng felt that his maximum running speed seemed to have improved.

This was very fast training and progress, it just came at the cost of some Time Index points.

He had previously earned quite a few Time Index points, which were more than enough for his consumption.

Feeling this improvement, Li Teng turned around and bought another Energy Drink, gulping it down in one go.

Then, it was another five minutes of sprinting at full speed.

No, it was five minutes and ten seconds.

With his body pushed to the limit of full-speed running, his stamina also increased.

Challenge after challenge, failure after failure.

But, with each attempt, he got closer to the goal.

At eleven fifty-nine in the afternoon, a mist suddenly descended and enveloped him, transporting him back to the big house.

"It's about to start."

As Li Teng snapped out of the daze from the teleportation and sat up abruptly on the bed, he saw Liu Yin's face filled with fear.

Liu Yin had rushed over upon hearing the noise in Li Teng's bedroom, to find him inexplicably back on his bed.

As Liu Yin's words ended, the time also just passed twelve noon.

At this moment, both of their breaths were involuntarily held.

Their heartbeats seemed to have stopped at this moment as well.

Even though Li Teng now had more endurance than the average person, he wasn't completely unshaken in the face of the unknown fear.

After twelve o'clock today, there were no searchlights outside, no sounds of tanks moving, no bullets firing into the big house.

There were no thundering hoofbeats of the Bear Rhinoceros either.

The surroundings became eerily quiet.

Only the light outside the window, in an instant, turned pitch black, as if night had suddenly fallen.

Every day's fear seemed to be different.

What would today's fear be?

"Behind you..."

Li Teng and Liu Yin spoke almost at the same time.

Behind Liu Yin, Li Teng saw a ghostly figure, a disheveled female ghost stretching out her Ghost Claw and gripping Liu Yin's throat from behind.

At the same time, Li Teng also felt a cold sensation on his own neck.

He struggled to resist.

But, his body couldn't move at all.

This was clearly a supernatural force, even more overpowering than what they faced the previous two noons, leaving them completely powerless to resist.

Two ghosts, each gripping the necks of Li Teng and Liu Yin, lifted them like puppets and brought them into the living room.

Then they placed them on the sofa.

To be precise, two ghosts sat down first and then placed them in their embrace.

A screen suddenly appeared on the darkly decorated wall opposite them, like a movie being projected.

A horror movie akin to "Saw" began to play.

Their bodies were completely stiff, including their eyelids, immobilized by a supernatural force that left them unable to move a muscle, unable even to turn their heads or close their eyes to avoid watching.

Except for their mouths, which could still move and scream in agony.

"Don't tell me we're just being forced to watch a horror movie today? That seems rather childish," Li Teng was unfazed, having been an aficionado of horror movies, horror TV shows, and horror novels.

He was familiar with nearly every horror trope out there; by the end, no horror movie could scare him anymore.

Perhaps for the faint-hearted, like Liu Yin beside him, being forced to watch a horror movie was extremely terrifying, but for Li Teng, it was unlikely to have any effect whatsoever.

Li Teng was clearly pleased too soon.

This was no ordinary horror movie.

When characters in the movie were strapped to an autopsy table and the villain wearing a clown mask began sawing off their legs, their legs and leg bones immediately felt the excruciating pain of the saw's cut, and as they screamed in agony, they watched helplessly as their legs were severed by thin air and dropped onto the ground in front of them.

That pain was truly, intensely satisfying.

Of course, after a brief moment, the legs that had fallen to the ground floated back and reattached to their bodies, to ensure they could fully experience the stimulation of the next episode's torments.

Knowing that the torture inflicted on the characters in the movie would also be experienced by themselves turned the horror film into a truly terrifying ordeal.

This kind of experience was incomparable to any so-called 4D or 5D movies in the real world.

So when another character in the movie was placed on the autopsy table and the villain with the clown mask approached with a scalpel, Liu Yin began to scream in advance.

The movie did not disappoint them, the next scene depicted the character being vivisected.

Anticipated terror is worse than unexpected terror because it terrorizes your psyche before moving on to your body.

As the character's body was cut open with the scalpel in the movie, their bodies were also sliced open by thin air, with wounds identical to those in the film and pain no different from a real incision.

Li Teng couldn't help but recall the scene where he had been brutally tortured by the Black-hearted Doctor.

What was worse, the plot of the movie became increasingly horrifying, with more densely packed scenes of terror.

And they had to watch this movie until midnight the next day.

It was only half-past twelve in the afternoon right now.

It was going to be another long day.

...

Elsa and Gao Fei were undergoing the same scene.

Guo Haopeng and his wife, who had hidden in the Hunting Cabin, were directly transported back to the main house by two blobs of white mist and then dragged by their necks to the living room couch by ghosts.

Huang Xun played a smart trick this time; just before twelve o'clock, he deliberately provoked Luo Bijiao, even actively fighting back, only to be beaten to a bloody pulp by Luo's "Wishful Flying Palm" and a various mixture of punches and kicks, resulting in deep unconsciousness.

He thought he might escape the ordeal.

But after twelve o'clock, he immediately woke up from his deep unconsciousness, fully recovered from all injuries, and then was dragged by his neck to the couch alongside Luo Bijiao by a ghost.

Under the setting of the script, all attempts to escape the noon torture were impossible.

Actors who had been tormented by Liu Shiyuan's scripts were obviously not the first.

Otherwise, Liu's infamous "perverted" reputation wouldn't have spread to other directors.

Thus, the script was already well-developed, precluding any loophole exploitation.

The director could even stay in another Time Bubble with the same Time Index as the script, enjoying the plot while simultaneously adjusting the script, immediately plugging any potential loopholes that could allow the actors to escape.