Chapter 013 Red Ghost (12)
When Yan Jing arrived at Xie Chi's place, Xie Chi was completely wet, his shirt was soaked and stuck to his body, revealing his good figure.
"Brother Xie! Over here!" In the dark night, Yan Jing held the phone between his neck and waved frantically in the taxi.
Xie Chi ran over, stuffed himself into the taxi, took the tissue handed to him by Yan Jing and wiped himself casually, the crystal clear water rolled down his lips, making him look a little lewd.
The driver couldn't help but take a few more glances in the rearview mirror.
"How is it?" Although Yan Jing asked eagerly, his eyes could not hide the joy. He just received a prompt from the APP. Xie Chi must have made a major discovery.
Xie Chi asked the driver to drive back to the company building. He avoided answering Yan Jing's question and asked directly: "I have a branch line. Are you interested? If so, I will share it with you."
Yan Jing's face was filled with astonishment. Xie Chi just casually shared such a precious thing from the branch quest with him?
"No, no, no, I'm not interested." Yan Jing shook his head repeatedly. "I know the rules. The difficulty of the main quest of a horror movie is based on the quality, but the side quests are not necessarily the same. They can be of any difficulty. I'm too weak. Although it has a high probability of dropping something, I have to live to get it! And this was discovered by you, Brother Xie, why should I have a share of it?"
Xie Chi thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Then after we go back, I will go down to the elevator shaft to find the female ghost's body, so that the main storyline can be completed and you can leave the horror movie."
"Master, turn around." Xie Chi changed his mind and told the driver to drive to the street. He wanted to buy some tools to get the bottom of the elevator down into the elevator shaft.
Yan Jing was stunned for a while, then lowered his voice: "Brother Xie, send me away... Are you planning to stay here alone to do the branch line? No, this is too dangerous! You don't have any means to save your life!"
He was worried and hoped to persuade Xie Chi: "Brother Xie, you are so talented, don't waste your time. This is only your first film. You will have many opportunities in the future. It is better to be safe. No one knows what the situation is in that branch line. We have no experience at all. When the main line is finished, you can come back with me. There is a long way to go. You will definitely be the first, and you don't need those points from the branch line..."
Xie Chi chuckled: "I really can't wait, not even a minute or a second."
He wants to run towards his dream every minute and every second, and will not forgive himself for choosing a steady and moderate way to survive here. He is destined to chase after danger in order to get his brother back.
Yan Jing knew that he couldn't persuade him anymore, and rubbed his hair irritably: "Fuck, you took me with you and shared the side quest. Brother Xie, it's a good thing you're a straight man and didn't flirt with me, otherwise I would have turned gay..."
Xie Chi paused while wiping his hair, coughed twice, and looked out the window as if nothing had happened.
Yan Jing's imagination ran wild, and he said with a silly smile: "No matter how ugly you are, I won't mind you. After all, I'm blind. I don't look at the face, I only look at the world view."
The driver couldn't help but take another look at the handsome guy in the rearview mirror, and sighed in his heart that this was really the real-life version of "not knowing how beautiful your wife is".
[Hahahaha I don’t really look at faces, my boyfriend just happens to be handsome.]
[The little brother is not handsome at all, I just like him just by chance. 】
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At 9:50 pm, the two finally bought the tools and rushed back to the company building.
Before they even entered, Jiang Rui's intermittent sobbing could be heard. Zheng Ming, whose hand was broken, was extremely irritable and cursed: "Why are you crying when the person is dead!"
"Someone's dead?" Yan Jing asked in surprise.
Xie Chi walked in quickly. When Zheng Ming saw Xie Chi, he stopped cursing and looked sullen.
Xie Chi frowned slightly: "What's going on?"
Zheng Ming pointed at Jiang Rui, who was crying and had swollen eyes on the sofa, and shrugged his shoulders. "Just over an hour ago, Zhang Bin went out to have dinner with her, and on the way back, it suddenly rained heavily. They happened to pass through a dark alley, and a masked man with a knife jumped out and tried to rape her. She ran away, and Zhang Bin was old and couldn't run slowly, so he was stabbed to death."
Jiang Rui looked dazed and her whole body was shaking. When Zheng Ming narrated what happened, she covered her ears as if to escape and tears flowed down her face.
Yan Jing felt cold all over: "What kind of fucking probability is this? Not only did he have to hide from ghosts, but he also had to hide from people, and he was actually killed by someone..."
[This scene is a bit weird.]
[It has nothing to do with the main storyline. Is it just to make up the time? ]
[Maybe they felt that too few people died, so they wanted to harvest a wave before the end? 】
Xie Chi vaguely caught a glimpse of something.
"What's wrong with your face?" Xie Chi glanced at the two or three Band-Aids on Zheng Ming's face.
Zheng Ming spat: "I'm so damn unlucky ! I slipped on my way back and hit my face on a rock!"
Yan Jing immediately agreed: "I'm unlucky too! When I went to the toilet yesterday, the toilet drain suddenly sprayed water out for some reason, and it all sprayed on my butt! And the steamed buns I had this morning had stones in them! I bit into them so hard that my teeth almost fell out!"
Xie Chi: “…”
Bad luck…
Xie Chi suddenly opened his eyes and curled the corners of his lips slightly. He knew what was wrong.
He fell seriously ill for unknown reasons, Jiang Rui and Zhang Bin encountered gangsters, Zheng Ming broke his hand and fell down, and without exception, they all had... bad luck.
The female boss hired these temporary workers not just to appease the anger of the female ghost.
Xie Chi sneered: "It turns out that from the moment we were bitten, we were all petri dishes for the poisonous insects."
"What do you mean?!" Zheng Ming said in horror.
Xie Chi said calmly: "Do you remember what the female boss said to the Gu worm when we went to sign the contract on the first day of entering the horror film industry?"
Jiang Rui had stopped crying, and the three of them shook their heads in confusion.
"The female boss said, little darling , it's time to eat." Xie Chi supported his chin with one hand and said calmly, "I thought the food of the Gu worm was our blood, but it's not."
"What...what is that?" Zheng Ming's lips trembled.
"It's luck." Xie Chi's tone was calm, with a cold look between his eyebrows.
"The poisonous insect feeds on people's luck, so it can bring its owner incredible luck." Xie Chi smiled sarcastically, "It's a thing that harms others and benefits itself."
The three of them broke out in cold sweats, unable to believe what they heard.
Xie Chi: "Our luck was sucked away by the poisonous insect, which led to everything that happened to us later."
"Everything that happened?" Yan Jing grasped the key words.
Xie Chi's eyes, which were always clear and peaceful, suddenly became deep and cold: "Do you really think that it is because of the strong Yin energy during the Ghost Festival that the ghosts are less restricted and their strength has greatly increased, so they can come to kill us?"
His tone was light and lingering in everyone's mind, unable to be shaken off. A shadow gradually enveloped the hearts of the three people.
Zheng Ming was on the verge of collapse: "Xie, Xie brother, what... do you mean?"
Yan Jing was the first to understand, his face as pale as paper: "Bad luck brings us to ghosts! We are encountering ghosts because our luck has been sucked away by the poisonous insects!"
"No wonder the female ghost only attacks us and not other people working in the company! It's not about the Ghost Festival at all! It's luck! The female ghost can't kill normal people at all. Only super unlucky people like us who have been bitten by the poisonous insect can be killed by her!"
"Ordinary people with normal luck will never encounter a female ghost in the elevator! Only we will encounter her!"
Zheng Ming fell to the ground with a thud, his face pale. Jiang Rui could no longer cry and sat on the sofa in a daze.
It is an old saying that bad luck will lead to ghosts. They knew it early on, but if Xie Chi hadn't mentioned it, they would never have connected ghosts with poisonous insects.
Xie Chi smiled: "The female boss hired temporary workers. Her fundamental purpose was not to appease the anger of the female ghost. She was attracted by the luck of the temporary workers."
"The batch of temporary workers who die every year are the source of the female boss's luck. The Gu worm is like a converter, sucking away the temporary workers' luck and converting it into the female boss's luck."
"The female ghost is just the most suitable killer and cover for the female boss."
"This is also the reason why the female boss never thought of moving out even though she knew there was a ghost in this building. She needed the female ghost to kill people for her."
"She got everything she has today by stepping on the corpses of countless temporary workers."
Yan Jing was completely exhausted: "Every time one of us dies, the female boss's luck will be improved a little, that's for sure..."
【What the hell, it suddenly fell. 】
[This movie has such a complete plot!! I haven't seen a movie where the actors explored it to this extent in a long time! I don't know if this movie is good enough, it's perfect, damn. ]
[Is this a plot bug that has been fixed by the little brother? After all, didn’t the APP say that if the little brother found the female corpse and brought it up, the main storyline exploration degree would be 100%? ]
Xie Chi's phone received a new message notification——
[The plot progress has been updated. You are the first to explore the unspoken plot outside the main plot, making the film more complete. After the filming is completed, you will receive an additional 20 points as a reward. ]
Xie Chi put his phone back into his pocket and took the tools to tinker with the elevator.
With a persistent low-grade fever and being caught in the rain, Xie Chi coughed twice, and his hands that were holding the tools felt a little weak.
Xie Xinglan took the initiative to come out for the first time, and his tone did not allow for discussion: "Xiao Chi, you go to sleep."
Xie Chi squatted in the elevator and smiled, his eyes shining slightly: "Brother, this is the first time I've been sick since I was a child."
Xie Xinglan said gently, "I know, it must be very uncomfortable."
Xie Chi shook his head, his voice so low that it could not be heard: "No, it feels really good."
Xie Xinglan was slightly surprised.
Xie Chi's eyes were full of tenderness: "When I was little, I always thought that if I got sick, they would abandon me. Now that I have a brother who loves me, I have the right to be sick."
"I'll leave it to you." Xie Chi said with a smile.
Xie Xinglan really wanted to hug his Xiaochi.
…
Xie Xinglan worked for a while but saw no results, so he put his tools down.
He obviously underestimated the hardness of the bottom of the elevator.
Xie Xinglan leaned outside the elevator door, holding a cigarette and thinking for half a minute, and suddenly he had an idea.
He walked slowly to the center of the building and shouted loudly, "Ghost Baby, are you there?! I'll lend you my black blood!"
