Chapter 008: Red-robed Ghost (07)
Just as Zhou Wen was about to raise his head, he suddenly felt a burning pain in the back of his shoulder. He howled and desperately reached for his left shoulder with his right hand, but he felt something... eye-shaped on his left shoulder.
The eye on the left shoulder blinked, and its eyelashes brushed across Zhou Wen's palm, bringing a terrifying itch.
There's an eye on his back!
"Eye of Satan!" Zhou Wen suddenly came to his senses, screamed, and tried to pick at the eye. A piece of flesh was instantly peeled off, and his back was covered in blood, but the eye was still firmly embedded in his flesh.
Another drop of warm, sticky water dripped from the top of the elevator.
Zhou Wen finally remembered what Xie Chi said, and raised his head stiffly and slowly. The next second, a pair of cold, pale hands suddenly hung down from the top of the elevator, strangled his neck, and lifted it up little by little. Zhou Wen was hung up like this!
Xie Chi looked at Zhou Wen's eyes that were about to burst, smiled slightly, and raised his head.
He successfully saw the appearance of the female ghost.
The female ghost was hanging on the top of the elevator, her bright red skirt was stained with blood, her belly was sagging, her abdomen was cut open, and it opened downward like a clam shell. Half of her intestines were dangling in the air, and it seemed that they could fall out at any time.
Under her dirty black hair was a rotten face and bulging eyeballs. There was no black in her eyes, only gray and muddy whites.
"Help... Help!" Zhou Wen struggled to squeeze out the words. After a few breaths, his face turned purple like an onion due to suffocation.
Xie Chi remained indifferent, with a blank expression, as if the terrifying female ghost in front of him and the corpse at his feet did not exist.
The eyes on Zhou Wen's back blinked faster, flashing a mysterious and faint red light, unpredictable and evil, like the red dot on a radar. Once it found its prey, it would stare at it immediately and would not stop until the prey died.
"Eye of Satan, is that the name?" Xie Chi remembered that Zhou Wen had just called out this name.
"Satan." Xie Chi understood the meaning of this word, and his mind became clear immediately. He chuckled, "Since it is a sacrifice to Pia, I will not disturb Pia from enjoying it."
He took off his bloodstained white gloves, stepped back calmly, glanced at the dying Zhou Wen, and smiled sincerely: "Thanks to your initiative and dedication, I can see the ghost clearly."
"Don't be sad. Although you are dead, your spirit of selflessness will live forever ."
The female ghost put her hand on Zhou Wen's belly. In a few seconds, Zhou Wen's fate would be the same as Zhang Lan's, whose body was still warm.
Zhou Wen shed tears of blood, and only until his death did he finally understand that the man in front of him was more terrifying than a ghost.
At the last moment, his retina reflected the filth and blood in the elevator, and the well-dressed young man with a smile standing nearby.
…
Audiences outside of horror movies have already gone wild:
[Fuck, Zhou Wen just died like that? ! ! ]
[Fuck, it’s only the first night, and Zhou Wen has already been played to death by himself. ]
[You deserve it for not being as skilled as others. It's really shameful for your mother to be defeated by a newcomer. 】
[Wow, he's a bit...perverted, but I like him.]
[He reacted too quickly, fuck, he was on your back without anyone noticing, my scalp tingles just thinking about it, he has a deceitful face ahhhhh. ]
[I'll watch you die with a smile on my face. Damn, this contrast is so perverted! ]
[What kind of mental quality does this newcomer have? Damn, he spent so much time on the same screen with a ghost and completely ignored him. ]
[He must have offended Zhou Wen's agent by doing this to Zhou Wen... It feels quite troublesome. ]
…
At the same time, outside the elevator, the newlyweds were in chaos.
The dark-skinned man pointed at the elevator door and said in a trembling voice: "Why did this door suddenly close..."
"Brother Zhou and that newcomer would never close the door on their own initiative. After all, no one wants to stay in a closed elevator, so it could only be... a ghost." The new female employee's lips trembled as she spoke.
"So what should we do now? Should we do something...?"
"But there's a ghost inside..."
The newlyweds were in a panic, but Yan Jing sat calmly on the side. He even wanted to cross his legs, but he felt it would be bad to be too proud, so he held back.
With a "ding dong" sound, the elevator door suddenly opened.
The newlyweds held their breath for a moment, involuntarily clamped their shoulders together, and their bodies stiffened.
They saw the gentle and refined new man come out, took a deep breath, and said with a heavy face: "Your Brother Zhou...is dead."
“What?!” the newcomers exclaimed, their faces turned pale. Their only veteran actor, Zhou Wen, died on the first night.
Yan Jing was also stunned. He was not worried about Xie Chi at all, but he did not expect that Zhou Wen was actually dead.
Xie Chi remained silent for a few seconds at the right time before he said in a low voice, "He died heroically in a desperate fight with the ghost."
[Fuck, ahhhhhh, it's so dark, who in your mother's eyes can beat him. ]
[Fuck, this is so perfect. ]
【Hahahahahahahaha, I am dying of laughter, heroic sacrifice, self-sacrifice.】
After Xie Chi finished speaking, he ignored the newcomer's collapse and roar, and walked up to Yan Jing: "Come on, let's go to the monitoring room on the first floor."
Yan Jing immediately stood up and followed, asking in a low voice what had happened in the elevator just now.
The mobile phone APP suddenly rang——
[The plot progress has been updated. The actors' first day of work has ended and they are officially off duty.]
[Now we are entering the free time again. To avoid the audience getting impatient, the daytime will pass at 3.0 times the speed. Actors, please manage your time well and return to the company on time before the next work. 】
"3.0 times the speed, what the hell." Yan Jing couldn't help but complain, "Fortunately we went to bed at night, otherwise we would have to investigate and catch up on sleep in the few hours we have during the day..."
Xie Chi calculated that the working hours are from 10 pm to 5 am, seven hours, and the daytime is seventeen hours. If the speed is 3.0 times, that means they have more than five hours of free time.
Time is short and he has a lot to do.
…
Arriving at the monitoring room, Xie Chi sat in front of the computer and skillfully began to play the elevator video of Zhang Lan's death.
Yan Jing couldn't help, so he sat aside and couldn't help asking, "Brother Xie, what happened between you and Zhou Wen in the elevator?"
Xie Chi said lightly: "He was killed by a ghost."
Yan Jing was stunned for two seconds, and was extremely surprised: "Brother Xie, did you see a ghost?!"
He hurried over to ask.
"Yeah." Xie Chi responded softly, "It's a female ghost. I'm sure she's the red-dressed ghost in the title."
Yan Jing's heart was beating violently.
The video was retrieved, and disappointingly, there was only Zhang Lan in the picture, as the female ghost seemed to be unable to be captured by the camera.
Unable to capture the photo, Xie Chi thought about it and decided to just draw it himself. He pushed Yan Jing and said, "Give me the paper and pen next to you."
Yan Jing hurriedly reached out and handed it to him.
Xie Chi took the paper and pen and asked casually: "You said you saw a ghost hand before. What does a ghost hand look like?"
Yan Jing was stunned for a few seconds, and then tried to recall: "It was the hand of a female ghost, with good skin...long fingers and red nail polish."
Xie Chi hummed, "The female ghost hand I saw in the elevator was also like this, so it should be the same ghost. So far, there are only two ghosts in horror movies. The female ghost in the elevator can only kill people in the elevator, but it seems that she can also cause trouble outside the elevator."
"The other one is the ghost baby we saw last night. The ghost baby can move freely in the building. At present, it is stronger than the female ghost. As long as we don't fall for the female ghost and don't get close to the elevator, we can avoid the risk."
Xie Chi spoke calmly, his hands moving without stopping.
Yan Jing nodded repeatedly, and his chaotic thoughts instantly became clear.
Because he was blind, his ears were extremely sensitive. He heard the sound of the pen gently scraping against the paper and asked, "Brother Xie, what are you writing?"
Xie Chi: "Drawing ghosts."
Yan Jing couldn't sit still any longer: "Fuck, Brother Xie, you can also draw?!"
Xie Chi said casually: "The level of a soul painter."
Yan Jing breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, it's okay, otherwise it would be too depressing."
[Fortunately he is blind and can't see it, hahahahaha. ]
[This guy is fooling people again. I am dying of laughter. ]
After a few minutes, a female ghost appeared on the white paper.
Although it was just a sketch, the hideous and terrifying appearance of the female ghost was vividly portrayed on the paper.
Xie Chi searched for the basic facial features from the ghost's distorted face, restored the direction of the skin, and drew a possible outline of what the ghost might have looked like before she died - she was a beautiful young woman.
She has fair skin, a plump figure, long hair, big eyes, thick lips, and a black mole above the corner of her mouth.
Pregnancy is very likely before birth.
Xie Chi circled the word "pregnant" in emphasis.
The way Zhou Wen and Zhang Lan died was almost exactly the same. Their hearts and lungs were stuffed into their stomachs, making their stomachs bulge like pregnant women.
The ghost girl's belly was also cut open, and her belly was loose. If she was really pregnant, she should be pregnant for a long time, and the baby in her belly was gone.
Xie Chi twirled his pen thoughtfully. That ghost baby that was only as tall as his knees... was most likely a female ghost's child.
Now all he has to do is find out what happened in this building eighteen years ago and he should be able to solve the mystery.
Xie Chi spoke to Yan Jing in a concise manner.
Yan Jing racked his brains for a while and suddenly got excited: "Brother Xie, is this true? The female ghost who was pregnant with the ghost baby was originally a mistress. The original female boss was jealous of her, so she invited her to the building and killed her in the elevator. Then, she still felt unsatisfied, so she cut out the baby in her belly with her own hands, raised poisonous insects on the living baby, and let those disgusting insects bite the baby to death."
Xie Chi did not comment, staring at his healed index finger in a daze.
Yan Jing's guess seemed logical, but it missed a crucial link - what exactly is the function of this Gu.
Xie Chi felt that things were not that simple.
With a "plop" sound, without any warning, a drop of blood dripped onto the painting in Xie Chi's hand and slowly spread.
Xie Chi raised his hand and touched it in disbelief. He... was bleeding from the nose.
It was the first time in his twenty-one years of life that he had a nosebleed.
Xie Chi was a little confused: "Mirror, what does it mean when a normal person has a nosebleed for no apparent reason?"
"Is it because of a sore throat? The weather is too dry?" Yan Jing thought this question was ridiculous. "Or maybe it's leukemia? That's pretty scary."
Yan Jing scratched his head: "What do you mean by a normal person? Brother Xie, you sound as if you are not a normal person..."
Xie Chi took a piece of paper to wipe off the blood and frowned slightly. As a PET 1.0, he would never get sick, and getting angry would never happen to him.
But without any external force, he actually... had a nosebleed.
Xie Chi realized something and suddenly looked at his index finger.
