Chapter 052 Horror Mashup (07)
You Jing came out of the story "Broken Finger", with a hint of complacency hidden on his gentle and handsome face.
No matter how much his mother reminded him to be graceful, to be superior, and not to compete with those who were destined to be short-lived, he was, after all, just a young man in his early twenties who liked victory and the fame and applause that came with it.
His mother originally didn't want him to participate in "Horror Medley" because for him, the cost-effectiveness of his participating in the show was not high. If his mother took him to make movies, he would definitely earn more points than this, and he might even get new props. He also understood this, but he wanted more fans and to be admired by more people. "Horror Medley" was a perfect opportunity.
You Jing returned to the room where he had initially chosen things, and the complacent smile on his face suddenly froze.
In the dim and depressing room, a set of piano keys was suspended in the air, slowly rotating and emitting a dazzling white fluorescence.
You Jing's face was full of disbelief. He quickly glanced around the room. The severed finger had completely faded away and was particularly inconspicuous among the pile of things. It seemed that it had been taken away.
Someone got there first?!
You Jing realized something and suddenly looked down at his phone. An interface popped up on the APP. Below the story "Broken Finger" on the interface, there was a new column - "Ghost Girl's Ball".
[The second level "Ghost Girl Dance" has been opened. Should actor You Jing enter immediately? ]
The moment the sign popped up, You Jing's blood ran cold. There was actually someone faster than him?
Is it Ren Ze? How is that possible? Although that guy has some special skills, his force is low, so he can't be that fast.
Could it be... Xie Chi?
An equally gentle and refined face suddenly appeared in You Jing's mind.
You Jing's breathing became rapid, and he could not help thinking about the time before he linked the app. It was a major exam in high school. He had always been the top student in the grade, and his mother was very satisfied. Until that time, he performed poorly due to physical reasons and ranked second in the grade. When he went home that night, his mother beat and scolded him, did not let him eat dinner, and punished him to stand at the door all night.
No, he can't be second!
Fear flashed across You Jing's eyes.
That person must have sacrificed his character to gain time. You Jing forced himself to stay calm. According to the rules of "Horror Variety Show", the faster you are, the higher the score is not necessarily the case. It also depends on the specific operation and performance.
You Jing sneered and felt relieved. He had already adapted to the rules. The man was only a little faster than him in the first round. What did that mean? There were still many rounds to come.
You Jing did not hesitate any longer and joined the challenge of the next level.
[To be honest, Jing Shen kind of disappointed me. He passed the test, but he was very... mediocre and flustered. He doesn't deserve the word "God".]
【In competitive variety shows, second place means nothing. 】
[This is just the beginning, there is no need to be so arbitrary, aren't you afraid of being slapped in the face later? ]
[Tsk, Jingshen? Mama's boy, he loses his cool instantly when he's away from his mom. ]
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When Xie Chi opened his eyes again, he found that he was lying on a bed, which was very close to the ceiling.
Xie Chi sat up.
With a "click", a desk lamp suddenly lit up in the dark room. Xie Chi could see clearly that he should be in the school dormitory, and there were bunk beds.
The desk lamp illuminated the scene inside the room. This was a four-person boys' dormitory. Besides him, there were three other boys in the room. The faces of the three boys were dark under the desk lamp with average lighting.
Xie Chi looked down at his body. Although he was lying on the bed, his clothes were properly dressed. He wore a blue and white short-sleeved shirt and pure blue pants.
It looked like a school uniform, and this time his role was a student. Xie Chi reached for his phone, turned on the screen, and used the light from the phone screen to shine a light on his chest. There was a school logo, and below the logo were the four big characters "Beilu High School".
High school student.
There was a label on the bed: Xie Chi, Class 6, Grade 2.
A sophomore in high school.
Xie Chi was thinking when he was suddenly hit by an orange.
"Chi, come down quickly, the old witch is gone and didn't come in to check the dormitory! Let's continue telling ghost stories!" The boy who threw the orange urged in a low voice. His eyes were particularly bright in the night, with a hint of excitement.
Xie Chi held the orange in his hand, crawled out from under the quilt, held the ladder, and jumped lightly onto the ground. He pulled a chair with a backrest from the side, sat on it with his legs apart, and rested his chin on the backrest, waiting to hear the ghost story.
The other two boys in the dormitory also quickly came over, their faces full of sneaky excitement, and each of them looked extremely young.
"They are so green." While waiting, Xie Chi secretly sighed, "I was much greener than them back then, when I was in the first year of high school."
"..." Xie Xinglan said calmly: "I am only twelve years old in the first year of high school. I am not young, but very young. I am less than 1.5 meters tall. There is a scale on the wall at home where I measured my height."
Xie Chi choked and quickly changed the subject: "...This school has pretty good conditions. There are four people sleeping in the dormitory, no one sleeps in the lower bunk, and there is air conditioning."
Xie Xinglan laughed.
Xie Chi sensed the teasing in his words and snorted, "You've watched me grow up, so you know all my dark history, Dark Night Emperor, huh?"
This time it was Xie Xinglan who coughed violently a few times.
"Is the development game fun?" Xie Chi raised his eyebrows slightly, "Your brother Xiao Chi is now handsome, long-legged and tall, the dream of 900 million girls."
Xie Xinglan said lazily: "Nine hundred million girls will find that their dream lover is being bullied by me in bed."
"..." Xie Chi began to close his microphone and pretend to be dead.
Seeing that everyone was gathered, the boy who threw the orange pretended to cough twice to attract the attention of the other three: "I'm going to start talking, don't interrupt me, otherwise the ghost girl will pester you, hehehe."
The boy laughed a few times and was immediately laughed at and scolded by the other two boys.
At the same time, Xie Chi's phone rang.
【Please follow the instructions of the APP for this story. 】
[Your character is a sophomore student at Beilu High School. ]
[In this story, the character's personality is not important. Actors are welcome to play freely. The only thing you need to pay attention to and insist on is: you have a deep crush on a girl. ]
[Requirements for this story: Survive. ]
[Act 1: The origin of the ghost girl. Please listen to your roommate's story quietly and then move on to the next act.]
【The first act officially begins. 】
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The boy lowered his voice and said, "Weren't you curious about why the theater in the old campus of our school was locked? I happened to know a senior who just graduated a year ago and is now a freshman. She told me about this."
The boy's face was mysterious under the lamp: "The school forbids students from spreading rumors. If the leaders hear it, they will be punished. So you should thank me for knowing the truth."
The faces of the three people listening to the story were full of impatience.
The boy kept the audience in suspense for a long time, then he finally got to the point with a chuckle, saying, "This story all started at the graduation dance two years ago."
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Beilu High School is a key high school, but it is not a rote teaching high school. It focuses on the all-round development of students and the liberation of their nature. Therefore, Beilu High School has always had a lot of various activities. The annual graduation dance of Beilu High School is famous for its grandness, which makes countless lower grade students yearn for it. They can't wait to skip the long, boring and tiring high school study life, attend the dream dance, and then enter the next stage of life.
The protagonist of the story is Jiang Wei, who was the school belle and top student of that year. She had excellent grades, a pure appearance, a wealthy family, and was multi-talented. It could be said that she was almost perfect. She had the qualities of a little princess, but she was not overbearing at all and had a very good relationship with people.
Jiang Wei is best at dancing and her dream is to become a dancer.
Jiang Wei has a boyfriend, who is the school hunk of the same class and also a top student.
The school hunk can play the piano and Jiang Wei can dance. When the sun sets, students can always hear the pleasant and affectionate piano music and see Jiang Wei dancing in the dance room or piano room.
This relationship was envied by all the students at that time.
From any angle, Jiang Wei was a winner in life, until a fire...
Due to the negligence of the nanny, the house caught fire. Jiang Wei was the only one at home at the time. Jiang Wei, who escaped from the fire by chance, had her face completely destroyed. The current medical technology could not make Jiang Wei recover from such severe burns. No matter how much money she spent, it would be in vain. Jiang Wei was destined to live with a horrible face every day from then on.
During the days of emergency treatment in the hospital, her boyfriend only came once. He came with flowers in his arms, but when he saw Jiang Wei's burnt face, he fainted instantly. He came in standing, but was carried out lying down.
Her boyfriend never came again since then. Jiang Wei was eager to go back to school to see him and confess her inner pain to him. At this time, only her lover's affectionate eyes and moving words could soothe her broken heart.
After struggling on the brink of death several times, Jiang Wei finally escaped from the clutches of death. She recovered quickly, but the wounds on her face and heart were difficult to heal.
She always wore a black veil and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hospital, looking down. Under the lace veil, her eyes were full of sadness.
She always looked like this for the whole afternoon, from the bright sunshine to the dusk, without moving.
The haggard parents knew she was waiting for a boyfriend to show up.
They were about to graduate and had agreed to study abroad together, and were full of hope for the future.
Jiang Wei always asked him why he didn't come to see her.
The parents knew that their daughter was a delicate flower in a greenhouse, a crystal in an ivory tower, fragile and beautiful. At this time, she could not withstand any more blows. They could only choose to lie again and again, saying that the college entrance examination was coming soon and the boy was very busy and had no time to see her.
The day Jiang Wei returned to school was just a few days before the graduation dance.
The school was very considerate and, taking Jiang Wei's situation into consideration, specially changed the graduation prom into a masquerade ball. At that time, all graduates would wear masks and only show their eyes.
This was the goodwill of the school, and Jiang Wei was very grateful. She had never been in society and had never experienced the evil of human nature. She believed that everyone in this world was kind, upright and honest.
Until she met the classmates from a few months ago. They seemed to have changed their faces. The gossip and the contemptuous and mocking eyes almost overwhelmed her. The thick black veil could not resist their viciousness.
Jiang Wei cried to her parents countless times, saying that she had never hurt these people, and countless of them had even received her kindness, but in the end they hurt her mercilessly and hit her where it hurt the most.
The parents felt helpless about life and could only hug Jiang Wei and comfort her over and over again , while they cried silently. They aged countless years overnight and half of their hair turned white.
Jiang Wei cried and asked countless whys.
Her parents could only tell her with tears in their eyes that being excellent is wrong, and being different is wrong.
The root of the hurt is jealousy.
Jiang Wei didn’t understand at the time until she found her school idol boyfriend.
She lost her face and almost everything, including the envy of her classmates and her dream of becoming a dancer. Jiang Wei humbly regarded her boyfriend as her last straw, trying to get a little love from him to prove that the world was still worth it. However, she saw with her own eyes that the boy who always refused by saying he was busy, kissed another girl in the piano room where they used to chat and be intimate.
Jiang Wei froze, and the blood in her body turned cold instantly. She felt like she had fallen into a bottomless ice cellar and would never be able to climb out.
She had spent countless nights fighting with death, looking forward to the day when she would see her boyfriend again, which was why she managed to survive. But when she saw him again, it was such an ironic scene.
She used to think that this love was unique and she was the only one, but at that moment she realized that if she lost any of her original qualities, she might be abandoned, because her boyfriend liked "the beautiful, rich, smart and versatile Jiang Wei" and not just "Jiang Wei".
The girl was poor, stupid and had nothing, but her face was as beautiful as a flower, which was enough to make her boyfriend fall in love again. He hypocritically and affectionately confessed to the girl the love words he had once said to him.
His love was so cheap, but she once regarded it as a treasure.
She was like a funny clown, witnessing the deep affection of others. She finally understood what jealousy was like as her parents talked about it. It turned out that those people had also been jealous of her.
Jealousy was so sour and bitter, surging and sweeping, driving her crazy, especially when that bad girl gave her a provocative look.
How dare she?! How can she compare to me?!
No, Jiang Wei thought distraughtly that she had lost her beautiful face forever.
She was indeed no match for this beautiful girl, and her pride was trampled underfoot.
Why did she have to go through this?! She didn't do anything wrong, why should she be punished?!
At that moment, Jiang Wei had countless questions in her mind.
She went mad and rushed up to question him. The disgust in her boyfriend's eyes and his unhesitating favoritism and protection of girls completely extinguished her kindness and hope that was already burning with jealousy.
That was the last straw that broke her back.
Jiang Wei said sorry to her parents, and that was the last time she cried. She gradually smiled distortedly. If she didn't live well, no one else would live well. If kindness is exchanged for disfigurement and betrayal, then will people full of malice live forever?
She had had enough. She suddenly believed that human nature was evil.
Her parents found that Jiang Wei had become a completely different person after returning from school. She no longer cried or complained, and her eyes were full of indifference and gloom.
She seemed to be planning something, she refused to speak, and she looked like she was breaking away from the world. She even expressed great hostility towards her parents uncontrollably at certain moments.
Her parents' panic did not last long. One bright morning, Jiang Wei went to the graduation dance and never returned.
On the day of the graduation ball, she appeared wearing a black veil and a black dress, like a black widow, mourning for the dead future and the lost love.
Ominous and eerily holy.
Everyone despised and mocked it, but they couldn't help but want to explore it.
In the middle of the dance floor, her boyfriend and the girl were dancing gracefully. They were such a perfect match, attracting envy.
Jiang Wei stood by the door, her eyes lifeless, and the corners of her mouth gradually curled up into a cold and evil smile, like a demon from hell.
They should pay for the pain they have caused others.
There are many crimes in this world, and the criminals cannot bear the punishment, but they do deserve to be punished.
It was they who killed Jiang Wei, not the fire.
Jiang Wei died in their betrayal and ridicule.
So she could only reluctantly take action herself to retaliate against those who had hurt her.
She went out, carrying several barrels of gasoline that she had prepared long ago, and set fire to the theater where the ball was being held. She then burned herself to death, letting the raging fire and the subsequent death devour everything in the past.
The world is not worth it.
