Chapter 21
The sun was slowly rising.
A black DiDi was parked on the side of the road and two Reapers got on.
The DiDi was making its last trip before going home after working all night. As soon as Lian Xi and Lie Chen got into the car, the driver looked at them in the rearview mirror. The car started and the driver sitting in the front row smiled and said, “Are you going out this early or have you been out all night?”
Of course Lord Black Reaper would not pay attention to him and Lian Xi was not also good with words.
But after a few seconds, Lian Xi still bit the bullet and replied, “Just going home now.”
The driver nodded and looked at them: “You young people have such a rich nightlife.” He assumed they went to party at a nightclub all night and were just going home now.
Lian Xi let him assume that.
Seeing that the driver was about to continue chatting, his scalp felt numb. He felt that this kind of thing was more difficult than dealing with ghosts. Suddenly, the mobile phone in his pocket rang. He opened it.
It was a WeChat message.
[Xu Lang: Lian Cheng, I took a look at your live data over the past few days and it’s better than before. Last night it was pretty good. ]
Taking this opportunity, Lian Xi hurriedly lowered his head to reply, and stopped paying attention to the driver: [Hmm…]
Xu Lang responded in seconds, a little surprised: [Did you not sleep, or just woke up?]
[Did not sleep.]
[Is it convenient to talk on the phone?]
Couldn’t be better: [Yes. ]
The next second the phone rang and the driver in the front row had no choice but to shut up.
Xu Lang: “Hehe, your live broadcast data hit a new high last night. Not bad, Lian Cheng.”
Lian Xi laughed. From a dozen audience members to more than one hundred, it was indeed a record high.
Xu Lang: “I have arranged a very good recommendation for you tonight. Prepare it and do some special live broadcast effects.”
Hearing this, Lian Xi said: “Don’t waste the recommendation on me.”
Xu Lang smiled: “What waste? I am very optimistic about you. This is all of DouYa’s best homepage recommendation spot tonight. Don’t waste this opportunity and keep working hard. I remember the first time Hydrogen got this recommendation three years ago. In one night, he gained 300,000 fans and received tens of thousands of gifts.”
Lian Xi’s lips moved, he didn’t say much.
…Tens of thousands of RMB in one night.
I really want it ah.
***
A man always had to have dreams.
When he was in kindergarten, Lian Xi wanted to be kindy’s choir conductor because everyone liked to be friends with the conductor and talk to them. But unfortunately even though Lian Xi practiced singing songs at home for a week, when the day came for the teacher to choose the conductor, she didn’t let the children vote but instead picked the child directly.
That child’s father was the deputy dean of the Su City Yuan Hospital.
Later, Lian Xi wanted to be a scientist, an astronaut, and then a millionaire…
People always have to have dreams. You see, didn’t he rely on demolition money to become a millionaire?
So now, Lian Xi still has a lot of dreams.
So even if the chance was minute, what if he really happened to get tens of thousands of RMB gifts tonight?
With excitement and nervousness, at 8 o’clock in the evening, the mute studio officially started broadcasting.
At the computer desk, the handsome young man breathed slightly, and he opened the live studio seriously. The next second, he saw that the number of viewers in the live broadcast room rose from 100 to one thousand in an instant! Then, without giving anyone a chance to react, swish, swish, the number of fans has risen to 10,000!
Lian Xi: “!”
Su Jiao: “!”
Lie Chen stood by, his arms folded.
He really couldn’t understand what these two humans were excited about.
Su Jiao: “Goddamn, this is too powerful, you are going to become a major host!”
Lian Xi was actually very excited but his cold and indifferent face was still very calm and didn’t show any fluctuations: “It’s still very early…”
With the attention of more than 10,000 viewers, the live broadcast officially began.
[Who is this host, Lian Cheng? I’ve never heard of him.]
[He was recommended on the homepage. Who’s play does he primarily broadcast?]
[Wow, the host was recommended on the homepage tonight, that’s awesome. Should I also try to be a major host? I watched this guy when only had 300 fans!]
[The host usually plays Ma Chao and Sun ShangXiang, on the national server. ]
Lian Xi silently added: Thank you, I can also play Zhu GeLiang and Zhao Yun.
The live broadcast room was very lively but Lian Xi seldom spoke. At most he might make two noises in a game. Slowly, there were fewer and fewer people in the live broadcast room. Even if a new audience member clicked in from the recommended spot on the homepage and watched the mute broadcast for a few minutes, they would feel bored and run away.
Slowly, only a few thousand people remained in the live broadcast room.
[Host, say something, you are not really a mute live broadcast room, right?]
[How about the host sing a song? ]
An old audience member: [Host, last night person that spoke, was that your housemate? Sing a song with him. If you sing a song with him, I’ll send you a plane.]
A plane? !
One hundred dollars!
Lian Xi’s eyes lit up.
But he quietly looked back at the Lord Black Reaper who was sitting on the sofa and who, on a rare occasion, hadn’t gone to work.
Forget it, he doesn’t need this hundred dollars.
Lian Xi: “He doesn’t like singing.”
[Wow, the voice of the host is very nice, please talk more.]
[Very good, I’m paying attention to the host! If your housemate doesn’t like to sing, then host, please sing a song yourself.]
Lian Xi was about to say that he also didn’t like to sing when the audience said: [If you really don’t want to sing, you can tell us a story. Anyway, you are so strong in the game, killing and torturing, you should show us a different side of yourself. Tell us a story and I will give you a plane.]
Lian Xi suddenly felt spirited. He thought of something and slowly spoke.
“Then… I’ll tell you a story.”
[Tell us!]
[Sending a blood bottle to the host! Come on!]
Lian Xi was quiet for a moment, manipulating the characters in the game, then gently opened his mouth to tell a story.
“I heard this story from a college housemate. My housemate was from Yan City in JiangSu. His middle school was Yan City Middle School. Their school was very large and had many campuses. Among them, the middle school campus was located in Yan City District. It was an old campus that was established in the last century and has a long history of 93 years.”
[Oh, I’m from Yan City! Listening!]
[There’s a good sense of being swept into the story!]
Outside the room, his short housemate passed by after taking a shower. Hearing that Lian Xi was actually telling a story, he felt curious and came over to sit.
Lord Black Reaper also raised his head from the reaper record. He looked at Lian Xi. From his perspective, he could just see the smooth chin line of the youth.
Lian Xi said quietly: “Yan City is the revolutionary base of the New Fourth Army. There was a two-story building on the old campus of Yanzhong. It was a small two-story building. Many famous generals have lived there, such as General Chen Yi. So this building is also called Chen Yi Building by the locals.”
“The old campus has a lot of flowers and plants, and many trees of the towering kind. Even if the sun is strong in summer, unless the sun hangs directly above your head at noon, you can walk comfortably on the campus. Many places are not exposed to the sun at all and they are all blocked by tall, ten-metre trees.”
[I have personal experience of this. The host doesn’t seem to be making this story up. The flowers and plants in Yan City are extremely luxuriant, and there’s many bad memories of giant mosquitos.]
[I’m a local too! I agree, it’s a memory I don’t want to recall +1]
Slowly, the number of people in the live broadcast room increased again.
Lian Xi glanced at the bullet screen. After the game was over, he didn’t play a new game but put down his phone and told the story seriously.
“Every school has many horror legends. The simplest and the most widely spread one is that every school is built on a cemetery. First, you can use the student’s righteous energy to suppress evil, and secondly, because cemetery grounds can be bought cheaply. The school does not care about it.”
“My housemate told me that when he was in junior high school, there was a horror legend that was popular in the school.”
“He said that there are ghosts in the small woods behind the ZhengBei Tower…”
[A fucking ghost story?]
[My pants are all off, you tell me it’s a ghost story?]
“At that time, my housemate was only in his first year of middle school. He was a boarding student. Each dorm had eight people. Six first years and two older second year students. The two older students secretly told them that the first floor dormitory’s windows were actually broken. If you used your hand and gently pushed them, the iron bars would actually bend. If someone was thin, they would climb out. So they would often climb out at night to play.”
“After they said this, the six first year students got very excited. They immediately wanted to go out and play. That night, after the lights were turned off, they secretly ran to the first floor together. As the two second-year students said, the window railing was broken, however even though they used force to bend it for a long time, it only bent a little.”
“In the end, there was only enough room for the two second-year students, my housemate, and a thin man with glasses. Only them four managed to climb out.”
“There were security guards patrolling at night but there were too many trees, flowers and plants in Yan City. In September when school just started, it was a very hot summer. The security guards were not willing to patrol the places with lots of flowers and plants, as they were full of mosquitoes and insects hidden in the tall grass and trees. So they quietly ran to the ZhengBei Building and all the way into the woods.”
[Are there woods behind the ZhengBei Building? This elder sister who graduated ten years ago has forgotten all about it.]
[Host, keep going, keep going!]
“Four kids. They ran and ran into the woods. Then my housemate and the other first year suddenly started to feel scared.
“What if we get found out by a teacher?”
“Are there really ghosts here?”
“Maybe we had better go back.”
“The two second-year students told them that if they wanted to see a ghost, it was very simple. All they had to do was find the thickest tree in the small wooded area, face it closely, and then countdown silently in your heart for one hundred seconds. After a hundred seconds, if a ghost appears, it will pat you on the shoulder. At this time, you can’t look back. You can ask the ghost a question and the ghost must answer you honestly. After he answers, he will ask you to look back at him. But no matter how much he intimidates you or entices you, you cannot look back.”
“So then they found the thickest tree, covered their faces… and started the countdown.”
[… Host it’s the middle of the night, maybe it’s better for us to play games…]
[Sending the host a plane! Keep talking, I love it!]
[The voice of the host sounds so good, the ghost story is not scary anymore.]
In the room, Su Jiao hugged Lian Xi’s pillow and swallowed.
Lord Black Reaper calmly leaned against the sofa with one leg crossed. He leaned back against the sofa with his single eyelids slightly closed, as if he was casually listening to the story.
Lian Xi: “100, 99, 98…
“Finally, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
“My housemate shouted, has anyone slapped you on the shoulder?!
“The other three people shook their heads, each covering their faces and daring not to take their hands away, saying that no one had patted their shoulders.
“The four children waited so fearfully for a few minutes. There was still no movement, only the wind whispering “hu-hu” behind them.
“My housemate and his friend were scared. Suddenly, the two second years laughed.
‘No way! You guys actually took it seriously?’
‘I’m laughing to death, new students are so stupid.’
“My housemate felt very angry in his heart. He had been scared by them so much in the middle of the night. The two second-year juniors had been pretending to be serious all night, the whole way they had told them a lot of scary stories about previous students who had encountered ghosts. But it turned out it was all fake. The other first-year student wearing glasses was also very angry. He let go of his hands and wanted to go back.
‘You guys are so boring! Chen Kai, let’s go, forget about them. ‘
The two first years made up their minds never to pay any more attention to the second years and decided to go back to their dorm room. But as soon as they turned their head around… suddenly! Two gloomy faces appeared extremely close in front of their eyes, the whites of their eyeballs were almost touching their eyelids!
The two juniors slowly turn their heads towards them. They looked at them with a grin and asked, ‘Hehehehe…. Didn’t we tell you guys not to…. Turn your head around?’”
In the live broadcast room.
[…]
[…]
[…]
[I’m unfollowing.]
[I’m unfollowing this scary host.]
[Host 88888.]
Lian Xi: “…”
You guys were the ones that told me to tell a story ah!
Seeing that more and more people were unfollowing him, and even the audience members who promised to send him planes had disappeared, Lian Xi felt a pain in his heart and hurried to try and save the situation: “It’s a fake story obviously, they were just trying to deceive them. And anyway it’s not scary. My housemate said it was all just a dream. The next day when he woke up, he found out that they only had six people in a dorm, the two second years were completely made up and didn’t even exist.”
[Host if you sing a song, I won’t unfollow you.]
[Sing, sing! ]
Lian Xi: “…”
How can it be so difficult to be a host!
After the broadcast, Lian Xi was sweaty and clammy, feeling that he had experienced a catastrophe.
His short housemate still had lingering fears: “The story you told sounded so realistic, it was a bit scary however it turned out to be a dream.”
Lian Xi glanced at him: “It was really just a dream. It’s just that when my housemate discussed this dream with his other five housemates the next day, four of them found it quite funny. Only the thin housemate with glasses didn’t speak. At lunch time, the housemate with glasses quietly grabbed my housemate and told him…
“He said he’d had it too. The exact same dream.”
Su Jiao:” …… “
***!
Su Jiao: “Boring! I’m going, I’m going! I’m going to bed!”
In the quiet room, only Lian Xi and President Lie were left. For some reason, President Lie did not do his duty to go out to catch ghosts and reincarnate them as usual. What is even stranger is that Lian Xi did not ask him about it.
After finishing the broadcast, Lian Xi closed the live broadcast room and soon his WeChat notification popped up.
He clicked to open it.
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: How’s things going, host? My national server Zhu GeLiang list is ready and it will end in August. Can I have a national standard next month?] {Sorry, I don’t know what’s happening as I don’t play the game. Anyway this is a client asking him a question about a job.}
Lian Xi lowered his head, silently watching the flashing messages on the phone screen.
[Lian Cheng: OK, it’s already done. ]
[Gaming client – Fried squid: OK, then after getting the national standard at the beginning of next month, I will pay you the remaining balance. Hey, don’t stop working hard at the end of the month, you really saved this brother. By the way host, the ghost story you told tonight is quite interesting, did you really make it up? I am from Yan City, and I feel quite immersed in your story.]
[Lian Cheng: Well, it’s fake, meaningless.]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: It’s okay, it’s pretty interesting. You can tell more ghost stories in the live broadcast in the future. Next time, I will send you a plane.]
[Lian Cheng: Did you find it interesting? ]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: Yeah it was fun, why? ]
[Lian Cheng: Then why don’t you look back now.]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: …]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: Hahaha, are you trying to scare me [doge]]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: Let me tell you, people have been trying to scare me since I was a child, I am not afraid of anything! Let me make a video for you to see if there are any ghosts behind me. ]
A six-story residential building in Yan City, JiangSu.
In a small narrow room, a young man with a flat head was sitting in front of the computer with a blue light shining on his emaciated face. He grinned and looked at the words of the King of Glory host on WeChat which was deliberately trying to scare him. He smiled nonchalantly. He turned on the phone camera and planned to take a video to show the little host to see how bold he was. Then bit by bit…
He turned his head.
Crunch.
Crunch.
In the dimly lit room, you could hear the sound of a needle falling. Turning around, the smile of the flat-headed youth suddenly froze on his face.
He saw a pair of feet…
He raised his head and suddenly stopped when he saw a man in black behind him.
In the dark light, the man’s profound and beautiful features are as sharp as a knife. He curled the corners of his lips and smiled gently.
“You should go to reincarnate.”
The flat-headed young man’s eyes widened. Before he could recover, he turned into a ray of white light and dissipated in the air.
At the same time, Su City, hundreds of miles away.
The Lord Black Reaper who had been sitting on the sofa quietly for several hours slowly closed the reaper record in his hand. His slender legs landed on the ground and he stood up.
Lie Chen looked down at his colleague and raised his eyebrows: “Let’s go, go out to work.”
Lian Xi obediently got up and changed his clothes.
When two people went out, Lian Xi said: “You look happy?”
Lie Chen: “Do I?”
Lian Xi nodded:. “You do.”
This Deep-fried Squid contacted Lian Xi last month about playing Zhu GeLiang. So Lian Xi added him as a WeChat friend. He had been appearing in Lian Xi’s live broadcast room in recent days. After Lin Xi finished his list this morning and contacted him on WeChat, his mother replied. It was only then that Lian Xi found out that the Deep-fried Squid had died suddenly from overwork three days ago.
Even though he didn’t gain much on the live broadcast today, however he still caught a ghost who had forgotten he died and didn’t go to reincarnate. So it was still an achievement.
But President Lie waited for this ghost for several hours!
Within this time, President Lie can usually catch three ghost or more.
Lian Xi: “You are very happy just because you returned a ghost?”
The black-clothed man with the cold face put his hands in his pockets. Hearing this, he laughed in a low voice, “Oh, yes that’s indeed a happy thing.”
Lian Xi didn’t understand it. “Why then?”
“Why?” The man looked back at him, his deep eyes flashing with dark teasing light: “Because, this is not a ghost belonging to Su City.”
Lian Xi was taken aback, and it took a few seconds to react, and then: “…”
It is said that a wife is better than a concubine, and a concubine is better than sneaking around outside!
Do you dare to say that you’re excited now because you stole a job from Yan City’s ghost official?!
Lian Xi quietly took a look at the Lord Black Reaper next to him and wondered in his heart; If one day you have a partner, will you still go out sneaking every day?
Lord Black Reaper’s low voice sounded: “Are you scolding me?”
Lian Xi: “?!”
The young man looked calm and raised his head: “No.”
Lord Black Reaper smiled, “Oh, remember, communication is not only by language and words… but by using the heart.”
Lian Xi: “…”
Black Reaper is so handsome.
Black Reaper is so powerful.
Lord Black Reaper has boundless mana, and is better than an immortal!
……Did you hear that?
Lie Chen looked at Lian Xi meaningfully, and Lian Xi also looked at him.
The two looked at each other and smiled at each other.
At the same time, after Lian Xi and Lie Chen left home to go to work, a bedroom door slowly opened in the top corner of the house corridor. A short housemate with a facial mask stood inside the door. He raised his hands and smoothed the folds on the mask while looking at the door of the house. After a while, he snorted coldly: “I think you’re just an oil-covered pig, you ass kisser!”
“I can’t live in this place anymore.”
The short housemate bit his lip, cursing inexplicably while taking out his suitcase and beginning to pack his things.
“I want to move back to school! Can’t live! Can’t live here anymore!”
***
Chapter 21
The sun was slowly rising.
A black DiDi was parked on the side of the road and two Reapers got on.
The DiDi was making its last trip before going home after working all night. As soon as Lian Xi and Lie Chen got into the car, the driver looked at them in the rearview mirror. The car started and the driver sitting in the front row smiled and said, “Are you going out this early or have you been out all night?”
Of course Lord Black Reaper would not pay attention to him and Lian Xi was not also good with words.
But after a few seconds, Lian Xi still bit the bullet and replied, “Just going home now.”
The driver nodded and looked at them: “You young people have such a rich nightlife.” He assumed they went to party at a nightclub all night and were just going home now.
Lian Xi let him assume that.
Seeing that the driver was about to continue chatting, his scalp felt numb. He felt that this kind of thing was more difficult than dealing with ghosts. Suddenly, the mobile phone in his pocket rang. He opened it.
It was a WeChat message.
[Xu Lang: Lian Cheng, I took a look at your live data over the past few days and it’s better than before. Last night it was pretty good. ]
Taking this opportunity, Lian Xi hurriedly lowered his head to reply, and stopped paying attention to the driver: [Hmm…]
Xu Lang responded in seconds, a little surprised: [Did you not sleep, or just woke up?]
[Did not sleep.]
[Is it convenient to talk on the phone?]
Couldn’t be better: [Yes. ]
The next second the phone rang and the driver in the front row had no choice but to shut up.
Xu Lang: “Hehe, your live broadcast data hit a new high last night. Not bad, Lian Cheng.”
Lian Xi laughed. From a dozen audience members to more than one hundred, it was indeed a record high.
Xu Lang: “I have arranged a very good recommendation for you tonight. Prepare it and do some special live broadcast effects.”
Hearing this, Lian Xi said: “Don’t waste the recommendation on me.”
Xu Lang smiled: “What waste? I am very optimistic about you. This is all of DouYa’s best homepage recommendation spot tonight. Don’t waste this opportunity and keep working hard. I remember the first time Hydrogen got this recommendation three years ago. In one night, he gained 300,000 fans and received tens of thousands of gifts.”
Lian Xi’s lips moved, he didn’t say much.
…Tens of thousands of RMB in one night.
I really want it ah.
***
A man always had to have dreams.
When he was in kindergarten, Lian Xi wanted to be kindy’s choir conductor because everyone liked to be friends with the conductor and talk to them. But unfortunately even though Lian Xi practiced singing songs at home for a week, when the day came for the teacher to choose the conductor, she didn’t let the children vote but instead picked the child directly.
That child’s father was the deputy dean of the Su City Yuan Hospital.
Later, Lian Xi wanted to be a scientist, an astronaut, and then a millionaire…
People always have to have dreams. You see, didn’t he rely on demolition money to become a millionaire?
So now, Lian Xi still has a lot of dreams.
So even if the chance was minute, what if he really happened to get tens of thousands of RMB gifts tonight?
With excitement and nervousness, at 8 o’clock in the evening, the mute studio officially started broadcasting.
At the computer desk, the handsome young man breathed slightly, and he opened the live studio seriously. The next second, he saw that the number of viewers in the live broadcast room rose from 100 to one thousand in an instant! Then, without giving anyone a chance to react, swish, swish, the number of fans has risen to 10,000!
Lian Xi: “!”
Su Jiao: “!”
Lie Chen stood by, his arms folded.
He really couldn’t understand what these two humans were excited about.
Su Jiao: “Goddamn, this is too powerful, you are going to become a major host!”
Lian Xi was actually very excited but his cold and indifferent face was still very calm and didn’t show any fluctuations: “It’s still very early…”
With the attention of more than 10,000 viewers, the live broadcast officially began.
[Who is this host, Lian Cheng? I’ve never heard of him.]
[He was recommended on the homepage. Who’s play does he primarily broadcast?]
[Wow, the host was recommended on the homepage tonight, that’s awesome. Should I also try to be a major host? I watched this guy when only had 300 fans!]
[The host usually plays Ma Chao and Sun ShangXiang, on the national server. ]
Lian Xi silently added: Thank you, I can also play Zhu GeLiang and Zhao Yun.
The live broadcast room was very lively but Lian Xi seldom spoke. At most he might make two noises in a game. Slowly, there were fewer and fewer people in the live broadcast room. Even if a new audience member clicked in from the recommended spot on the homepage and watched the mute broadcast for a few minutes, they would feel bored and run away.
Slowly, only a few thousand people remained in the live broadcast room.
[Host, say something, you are not really a mute live broadcast room, right?]
[How about the host sing a song? ]
An old audience member: [Host, last night person that spoke, was that your housemate? Sing a song with him. If you sing a song with him, I’ll send you a plane.]
A plane? !
One hundred dollars!
Lian Xi’s eyes lit up.
But he quietly looked back at the Lord Black Reaper who was sitting on the sofa and who, on a rare occasion, hadn’t gone to work.
Forget it, he doesn’t need this hundred dollars.
Lian Xi: “He doesn’t like singing.”
[Wow, the voice of the host is very nice, please talk more.]
[Very good, I’m paying attention to the host! If your housemate doesn’t like to sing, then host, please sing a song yourself.]
Lian Xi was about to say that he also didn’t like to sing when the audience said: [If you really don’t want to sing, you can tell us a story. Anyway, you are so strong in the game, killing and torturing, you should show us a different side of yourself. Tell us a story and I will give you a plane.]
Lian Xi suddenly felt spirited. He thought of something and slowly spoke.
“Then… I’ll tell you a story.”
[Tell us!]
[Sending a blood bottle to the host! Come on!]
Lian Xi was quiet for a moment, manipulating the characters in the game, then gently opened his mouth to tell a story.
“I heard this story from a college housemate. My housemate was from Yan City in JiangSu. His middle school was Yan City Middle School. Their school was very large and had many campuses. Among them, the middle school campus was located in Yan City District. It was an old campus that was established in the last century and has a long history of 93 years.”
[Oh, I’m from Yan City! Listening!]
[There’s a good sense of being swept into the story!]
Outside the room, his short housemate passed by after taking a shower. Hearing that Lian Xi was actually telling a story, he felt curious and came over to sit.
Lord Black Reaper also raised his head from the reaper record. He looked at Lian Xi. From his perspective, he could just see the smooth chin line of the youth.
Lian Xi said quietly: “Yan City is the revolutionary base of the New Fourth Army. There was a two-story building on the old campus of Yanzhong. It was a small two-story building. Many famous generals have lived there, such as General Chen Yi. So this building is also called Chen Yi Building by the locals.”
“The old campus has a lot of flowers and plants, and many trees of the towering kind. Even if the sun is strong in summer, unless the sun hangs directly above your head at noon, you can walk comfortably on the campus. Many places are not exposed to the sun at all and they are all blocked by tall, ten-metre trees.”
[I have personal experience of this. The host doesn’t seem to be making this story up. The flowers and plants in Yan City are extremely luxuriant, and there’s many bad memories of giant mosquitos.]
[I’m a local too! I agree, it’s a memory I don’t want to recall +1]
Slowly, the number of people in the live broadcast room increased again.
Lian Xi glanced at the bullet screen. After the game was over, he didn’t play a new game but put down his phone and told the story seriously.
“Every school has many horror legends. The simplest and the most widely spread one is that every school is built on a cemetery. First, you can use the student’s righteous energy to suppress evil, and secondly, because cemetery grounds can be bought cheaply. The school does not care about it.”
“My housemate told me that when he was in junior high school, there was a horror legend that was popular in the school.”
“He said that there are ghosts in the small woods behind the ZhengBei Tower…”
[A fucking ghost story?]
[My pants are all off, you tell me it’s a ghost story?]
“At that time, my housemate was only in his first year of middle school. He was a boarding student. Each dorm had eight people. Six first years and two older second year students. The two older students secretly told them that the first floor dormitory’s windows were actually broken. If you used your hand and gently pushed them, the iron bars would actually bend. If someone was thin, they would climb out. So they would often climb out at night to play.”
“After they said this, the six first year students got very excited. They immediately wanted to go out and play. That night, after the lights were turned off, they secretly ran to the first floor together. As the two second-year students said, the window railing was broken, however even though they used force to bend it for a long time, it only bent a little.”
“In the end, there was only enough room for the two second-year students, my housemate, and a thin man with glasses. Only them four managed to climb out.”
“There were security guards patrolling at night but there were too many trees, flowers and plants in Yan City. In September when school just started, it was a very hot summer. The security guards were not willing to patrol the places with lots of flowers and plants, as they were full of mosquitoes and insects hidden in the tall grass and trees. So they quietly ran to the ZhengBei Building and all the way into the woods.”
[Are there woods behind the ZhengBei Building? This elder sister who graduated ten years ago has forgotten all about it.]
[Host, keep going, keep going!]
“Four kids. They ran and ran into the woods. Then my housemate and the other first year suddenly started to feel scared.
“What if we get found out by a teacher?”
“Are there really ghosts here?”
“Maybe we had better go back.”
“The two second-year students told them that if they wanted to see a ghost, it was very simple. All they had to do was find the thickest tree in the small wooded area, face it closely, and then countdown silently in your heart for one hundred seconds. After a hundred seconds, if a ghost appears, it will pat you on the shoulder. At this time, you can’t look back. You can ask the ghost a question and the ghost must answer you honestly. After he answers, he will ask you to look back at him. But no matter how much he intimidates you or entices you, you cannot look back.”
“So then they found the thickest tree, covered their faces… and started the countdown.”
[… Host it’s the middle of the night, maybe it’s better for us to play games…]
[Sending the host a plane! Keep talking, I love it!]
[The voice of the host sounds so good, the ghost story is not scary anymore.]
In the room, Su Jiao hugged Lian Xi’s pillow and swallowed.
Lord Black Reaper calmly leaned against the sofa with one leg crossed. He leaned back against the sofa with his single eyelids slightly closed, as if he was casually listening to the story.
Lian Xi: “100, 99, 98…
“Finally, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
“My housemate shouted, has anyone slapped you on the shoulder?!
“The other three people shook their heads, each covering their faces and daring not to take their hands away, saying that no one had patted their shoulders.
“The four children waited so fearfully for a few minutes. There was still no movement, only the wind whispering “hu-hu” behind them.
“My housemate and his friend were scared. Suddenly, the two second years laughed.
‘No way! You guys actually took it seriously?’
‘I’m laughing to death, new students are so stupid.’
“My housemate felt very angry in his heart. He had been scared by them so much in the middle of the night. The two second-year juniors had been pretending to be serious all night, the whole way they had told them a lot of scary stories about previous students who had encountered ghosts. But it turned out it was all fake. The other first-year student wearing glasses was also very angry. He let go of his hands and wanted to go back.
‘You guys are so boring! Chen Kai, let’s go, forget about them. ‘
The two first years made up their minds never to pay any more attention to the second years and decided to go back to their dorm room. But as soon as they turned their head around… suddenly! Two gloomy faces appeared extremely close in front of their eyes, the whites of their eyeballs were almost touching their eyelids!
The two juniors slowly turn their heads towards them. They looked at them with a grin and asked, ‘Hehehehe…. Didn’t we tell you guys not to…. Turn your head around?’”
In the live broadcast room.
[…]
[…]
[…]
[I’m unfollowing.]
[I’m unfollowing this scary host.]
[Host 88888.]
Lian Xi: “…”
You guys were the ones that told me to tell a story ah!
Seeing that more and more people were unfollowing him, and even the audience members who promised to send him planes had disappeared, Lian Xi felt a pain in his heart and hurried to try and save the situation: “It’s a fake story obviously, they were just trying to deceive them. And anyway it’s not scary. My housemate said it was all just a dream. The next day when he woke up, he found out that they only had six people in a dorm, the two second years were completely made up and didn’t even exist.”
[Host if you sing a song, I won’t unfollow you.]
[Sing, sing! ]
Lian Xi: “…”
How can it be so difficult to be a host!
After the broadcast, Lian Xi was sweaty and clammy, feeling that he had experienced a catastrophe.
His short housemate still had lingering fears: “The story you told sounded so realistic, it was a bit scary however it turned out to be a dream.”
Lian Xi glanced at him: “It was really just a dream. It’s just that when my housemate discussed this dream with his other five housemates the next day, four of them found it quite funny. Only the thin housemate with glasses didn’t speak. At lunch time, the housemate with glasses quietly grabbed my housemate and told him…
“He said he’d had it too. The exact same dream.”
Su Jiao:” …… “
***!
Su Jiao: “Boring! I’m going, I’m going! I’m going to bed!”
In the quiet room, only Lian Xi and President Lie were left. For some reason, President Lie did not do his duty to go out to catch ghosts and reincarnate them as usual. What is even stranger is that Lian Xi did not ask him about it.
After finishing the broadcast, Lian Xi closed the live broadcast room and soon his WeChat notification popped up.
He clicked to open it.
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: How’s things going, host? My national server Zhu GeLiang list is ready and it will end in August. Can I have a national standard next month?] {Sorry, I don’t know what’s happening as I don’t play the game. Anyway this is a client asking him a question about a job.}
Lian Xi lowered his head, silently watching the flashing messages on the phone screen.
[Lian Cheng: OK, it’s already done. ]
[Gaming client – Fried squid: OK, then after getting the national standard at the beginning of next month, I will pay you the remaining balance. Hey, don’t stop working hard at the end of the month, you really saved this brother. By the way host, the ghost story you told tonight is quite interesting, did you really make it up? I am from Yan City, and I feel quite immersed in your story.]
[Lian Cheng: Well, it’s fake, meaningless.]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: It’s okay, it’s pretty interesting. You can tell more ghost stories in the live broadcast in the future. Next time, I will send you a plane.]
[Lian Cheng: Did you find it interesting? ]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: Yeah it was fun, why? ]
[Lian Cheng: Then why don’t you look back now.]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: …]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: Hahaha, are you trying to scare me [doge]]
[Gaming client – Fried Squid: Let me tell you, people have been trying to scare me since I was a child, I am not afraid of anything! Let me make a video for you to see if there are any ghosts behind me. ]
A six-story residential building in Yan City, JiangSu.
In a small narrow room, a young man with a flat head was sitting in front of the computer with a blue light shining on his emaciated face. He grinned and looked at the words of the King of Glory host on WeChat which was deliberately trying to scare him. He smiled nonchalantly. He turned on the phone camera and planned to take a video to show the little host to see how bold he was. Then bit by bit…
He turned his head.
Crunch.
Crunch.
In the dimly lit room, you could hear the sound of a needle falling. Turning around, the smile of the flat-headed youth suddenly froze on his face.
He saw a pair of feet…
He raised his head and suddenly stopped when he saw a man in black behind him.
In the dark light, the man’s profound and beautiful features are as sharp as a knife. He curled the corners of his lips and smiled gently.
“You should go to reincarnate.”
The flat-headed young man’s eyes widened. Before he could recover, he turned into a ray of white light and dissipated in the air.
At the same time, Su City, hundreds of miles away.
The Lord Black Reaper who had been sitting on the sofa quietly for several hours slowly closed the reaper record in his hand. His slender legs landed on the ground and he stood up.
Lie Chen looked down at his colleague and raised his eyebrows: “Let’s go, go out to work.”
Lian Xi obediently got up and changed his clothes.
When two people went out, Lian Xi said: “You look happy?”
Lie Chen: “Do I?”
Lian Xi nodded:. “You do.”
This Deep-fried Squid contacted Lian Xi last month about playing Zhu GeLiang. So Lian Xi added him as a WeChat friend. He had been appearing in Lian Xi’s live broadcast room in recent days. After Lin Xi finished his list this morning and contacted him on WeChat, his mother replied. It was only then that Lian Xi found out that the Deep-fried Squid had died suddenly from overwork three days ago.
Even though he didn’t gain much on the live broadcast today, however he still caught a ghost who had forgotten he died and didn’t go to reincarnate. So it was still an achievement.
But President Lie waited for this ghost for several hours!
Within this time, President Lie can usually catch three ghost or more.
Lian Xi: “You are very happy just because you returned a ghost?”
The black-clothed man with the cold face put his hands in his pockets. Hearing this, he laughed in a low voice, “Oh, yes that’s indeed a happy thing.”
Lian Xi didn’t understand it. “Why then?”
“Why?” The man looked back at him, his deep eyes flashing with dark teasing light: “Because, this is not a ghost belonging to Su City.”
Lian Xi was taken aback, and it took a few seconds to react, and then: “…”
It is said that a wife is better than a concubine, and a concubine is better than sneaking around outside!
Do you dare to say that you’re excited now because you stole a job from Yan City’s ghost official?!
Lian Xi quietly took a look at the Lord Black Reaper next to him and wondered in his heart; If one day you have a partner, will you still go out sneaking every day?
Lord Black Reaper’s low voice sounded: “Are you scolding me?”
Lian Xi: “?!”
The young man looked calm and raised his head: “No.”
Lord Black Reaper smiled, “Oh, remember, communication is not only by language and words… but by using the heart.”
Lian Xi: “…”
Black Reaper is so handsome.
Black Reaper is so powerful.
Lord Black Reaper has boundless mana, and is better than an immortal!
……Did you hear that?
Lie Chen looked at Lian Xi meaningfully, and Lian Xi also looked at him.
The two looked at each other and smiled at each other.
At the same time, after Lian Xi and Lie Chen left home to go to work, a bedroom door slowly opened in the top corner of the house corridor. A short housemate with a facial mask stood inside the door. He raised his hands and smoothed the folds on the mask while looking at the door of the house. After a while, he snorted coldly: “I think you’re just an oil-covered pig, you ass kisser!”
“I can’t live in this place anymore.”
The short housemate bit his lip, cursing inexplicably while taking out his suitcase and beginning to pack his things.
“I want to move back to school! Can’t live! Can’t live here anymore!”
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