Chapter 053 Horror Mashup (08)
At this point, the boy suddenly stopped, opened the cup slowly and drank a sip of water like an old man.
"And then what? Why did everyone call her a ghost girl? Wasn't the theater in good condition? Why was it locked? Why did our school move to another campus?" The boy next to him couldn't wait to ask, speaking very quickly, like a machine gun.
When the narrator paused, Xie Chi sorted out his memory and memorized every detail.
The narrator sighed and continued, "After Jiang Wei set the fire, she locked the door of the theater. Everyone was dancing on the dance floor at the time, and no one noticed it. The theater was also in a remote location. By the time other people in the school found out and rushed over, everyone in the theater had burned to death. No one had left."
"Oh my god, the school hunk and his new girlfriend are dead too?!" The boys who heard the story felt it was a bit dreamy.
"That's not certain." The narrator rolled his eyes at him.
"Eh..." The boy said with a bitter face, "How can I dare to find a girlfriend in the future? If I cheat, they will burn me to death. This is too scary! After all, I am a man. I may make the same mistakes that all men in the world will make."
Xie Chi: “…”
"Brother?" Xie Chi called secretly.
"Hmm?" Xie Xinglan responded softly.
"I put it in my mind. If you split off and have a body, and you cheat on me." Xie Chi paused, with a look of real sadness on his face, and sighed: "No matter what the reason is, I will burn you to death. I even think that burning you to death is a bit too easy for you."
"..." Xie Xinglan gritted his teeth, "This assumption is not true."
Xie Chi smiled, and his pretended sadness disappeared, his expression was pure and gentle: "So it's just a hypothesis."
The narrator continued, "That scene... you really can't imagine it. There were burnt corpses everywhere, their faces were unrecognizable, and there were more than a hundred people dead..."
A boy asked: "What about Jiang Wei's parents?"
The narrator said: "After Jiang Wei's parents paid all their money, they left this sad place and went far away. The school survived the most difficult time and rebuilt the theater."
"Isn't that great? If everything is back to normal, then why did our school move to a new campus?"
The boy's tone suddenly became mysterious, and he said in an official tone like telling a story: "Everyone thought it was over, but this is just the beginning."
…
Jiang Wei burned to death all the people who were in the theater at that time, and the originally magnificent theater was also burned into ruins with only broken walls and ruins.
After the charred body was processed and claimed, the school waited for public opinion to die down and began to rebuild the theater, hoping to let time bury the past.
The grand theater was built quickly, exactly the same as the original one, and everything seemed to be on track until one night, when a young couple wanted to find a place to be intimate after evening self-study and slipped into the empty grand theater.
At the moment of passion, they were reluctant to part, when suddenly a bell rang in the theater. The sound of the bell continued to echo, eerie and distant, making people tremble in their hearts.
The girl was distracted and subconsciously looked at the ornate clock on the wall of the auditorium. The time showed 10:17 pm.
She was wondering why the clock rang at an unexpected hour, when she suddenly saw a burnt and festering face appear behind the boy !
The timid girl screamed and fainted on the spot.
A chill suddenly ran up the boy's spine. He turned back slowly and stiffly, but there was nothing behind him.
The boy thought it was just a false alarm. He was breathing heavily and cursing, and was about to carry his unconscious girlfriend out. Suddenly, a beautiful and mysterious piano sound was heard in the theater.
"Who?!" The boy thought someone was playing a prank, so he left his girlfriend and looked around the theater. Finally, he walked onto the stage to check the piano, hoping to find out who was playing a prank on them. But when he got closer, he was so scared that his legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
There was no one sitting on the piano, but the piano keys were being pressed and played spontaneously, producing deep and pleasant music.
…which happened to be the same piece of music that had been playing when the theater caught fire.
The boy was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat. On his retina, the piano suddenly caught fire. The flames spread rapidly, and the sharp edges of the piano melted in an instant, turning into a black shadow.
Dark red blood gradually appeared on the pure white or dark black piano keys. The blood first dyed the keys red, and then flowed into the piano little by little along the gaps between the keys.
The blood quickly spread over the piano keys. "Tick, tick," was the sound of blood dripping down the keys to the ground.
The boy was so scared that he cried for his parents and ran out crawling, but was pulled back by a charred hand that stretched out from nowhere.
He fell down in the middle of the stage, shitting himself.
Countless ghosts suddenly appeared on the huge stage.
The ghosts were transparent and dressed in gorgeous and expensive gowns. They danced in the raging fire to the sound of the piano, like emotionless puppets.
…
The narrator paused to drink water again, and Xie Chi took the opportunity to pretend to be curious and asked: "The time on the wall clock shows 10:17. Did Jiang Wei set the fire at 10:17 at night?"
The boy chuckled twice and said, "You are quite smart, my senior said so."
Xie Chi immediately asked again: "All those who died in the theater at that time became ghosts on the stage? Jiang Wei became a ghost? The charred ghost hand that dragged the boy back and the ghost face that scared the girl should be Jiang Wei, right?"
The boy immediately became unhappy and yelled, "Don't steal my lines!"
He felt as unhappy as if Detective Conan was about to speak but someone suddenly snatched his line away.
"Who told you to waste your time?" Xie Chi curled his lips, "You're not letting anyone guess."
Xie Chi poked the man and urged: "What happened to the boy who was dragged into the center of the stage? Did he die?"
The other two also looked at the narrator eagerly.
The boy shook his head: "He wasn't dead, but when he was found and rescued, he was already unconscious."
He looked a little scared, and came closer, whispering, "The senior said he was later sent to a mental hospital!"
"Ah? Has he gone crazy?" Someone gasped.
Xie Chi remained silent.
"This isn't the most bizarre thing!"
The boy immediately said, "A classmate who was familiar with that boy secretly revealed that before he was sent to the mental hospital, he was only repeating a few sentences every day."
Xie Chi asked: "Which sentences?"
The boy said, "He claims to be the messenger of the ghost girl Jiang Wei, and blesses the human world on behalf of the ghost girl."
"Blessing?" Xie Chi felt that he had grasped the key point.
The boy explained, "It's basically like this: if you have someone you want but can't get, you can choose to open the door of the theater alone at 10:17 in the evening, carrying a thing of your loved one. As long as you can pass the test of the ghost girl, she will grant you love."
"No matter whether that person loved you before or not, he will love you forever, live for you, die for you, and never change his mind. This is the blessing given by the ghost girl to those who pass the test."
Xie Chi finally understood why the story required "You have a deep crush on a girl." He should challenge the test of the ghost girl later.
"What happens if the challenge fails?" Xie Chi hurriedly asked.
The boy said: "Of course you will die if you fail. You will become the new dead soul on the dance floor , dancing to the piano music every night when a new challenger arrives."
Xie Chi said: "Then the ghost girl isn't that bad, after all, the reward is eternal love, so using her life as a bet doesn't seem too exaggerated?"
The boy shook his head and said, "If only it were that simple. She does more than just this. She also enjoys testing the love between boys and girls in the school."
Of course, she was extreme and willful, and she randomly matched couples. She wanted it but couldn't get it during her lifetime, and she didn't believe that there was everlasting love in this world. After her death, she had to test human nature and give others eternal love. It really seemed like an immature girl's idea.
Why does she need to maintain the order of love? I met and trusted the wrong person. Why do I think that everyone in the world is like this?
But he was too lazy to judge other people's lives, and this did not bring him any inspiration or disgust.
Everyone has his or her own way of living. That is other people's freedom and has nothing to do with him or her.
The boy sighed, "Yeah, it's quite sad. She doesn't kill innocent people indiscriminately, and she's not a particularly bad person. She's just particularly obsessed with testing others. She wouldn't hurt people for no reason. She doesn't just do this, she's also keen on testing the love between boys and girls in the school."
The people around were surprised: "A test?"
The boy said, "The ghost girl's shadow hangs over the entire Beilu High School. She is always lurking in the dark. She has her eyes on all the men and women who fall in love in the school. She will regularly capture a pair of deeply in love couples and bring them to the theater to have them take tests separately to prove their true love for each other."
Xie Chi asked: "What if we fail?"
The boy said, "If you fail, you will become the ghost girl's messenger, just like the boy who went to the mental hospital, talking nonsense and conveying the ghost girl's will to more people, letting them know the ghost girl's existence, and take the initiative to participate in the test and gain love."
Xie Chi suddenly realized: "So the boy who entered the mental hospital did not pass the test of the ghost girl? His love with the girl was rejected by the ghost girl?"
The boy nodded wildly: "That's it."
Xie Chi asked: "Are there many people going there?"
The boy said, "A lot. In just one month, seven or eight students disappeared. They were all people who had a crush on someone but couldn't get the crush. They went to participate in the challenge and never came back. I heard that someone saw them joining the ranks of the dead souls and dancing in the middle of the dance floor late at night."
Xie Chi sighed secretly. The love between these boys and girls was much purer and more passionate than that in society, but it was also easier for them to go to extremes and suffer the consequences in the end.
The boy thought hard and said, "It seems that there are three or four couples who have gone crazy. They all failed the test of the ghost girl. I have never seen anyone succeed."
Xie Chi nodded: "So that's why the school decided to move the campus quickly?"
The boy said, "Yes, those students all came from well-off families, and many of them transferred to other schools. Not many stayed, so gradually less and less people knew about it. Moreover, the school and society kept suppressing them, because it had a bad influence. I heard from my senior that no one dared to fall in love at that time, and no one dared to be in love with each other, for fear of being spotted by a demon girl and taken to the theater, and finally went crazy."
The boy joked: "The students' grades at that time were even better."
Xie Chi: “…” The ghost girl is suppressing the love of high school students online.
The boy said, "The school quickly moved the campus for the sake of student safety, and this kind of thing has not happened again. But in the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed, and a group of students have left, and even fewer people know about it."
The two boys next to them showed expressions of "I see". One of them touched his chin and said, "This devil girl is too paranoid. There is no such thing as single-minded love in the world. Even if I like a girl very much, I will take a few more glances at a beautiful girl wearing black stockings."
"You're a slut!"
The three of them started to play around.
The man said angrily, "I am telling the truth! How dare you say who you can love for your whole life? I think it is so boring to love only one person for a lifetime. There are so many beautiful girls waiting for me to sleep with them."
The man chuckled a few times: "If the biological world really encourages monogamy, then why are there only one or two eggs produced each time, but tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of sperm at a time?"
"Men do have the ability to make many women pregnant at the same time. After all, an egg can usually only combine with one or two tadpoles. If we calculate based on the number, I can even make women all over the world pregnant with my child."
Xie Chi was caught off guard and his pupils trembled, his expression was extremely embarrassed.
【Hahahaha, Chizi is shy. 】
【The duck is so cute. 】
Xie Chi said silently: "Brother, are all kids nowadays so... open-minded?"
Xie Xinglan also had a headache with these naughty kids: "If you don't have ears to listen, let me take your place."
"No, no." Xie Chi coughed twice, "I just think that according to what they said..."
"What?"
Xie Chi had a blank expression on his face: "According to what they said, if we were together, we would be..."
"Um?"
Xie Chi's face turned red, which was rare for him: "It's just a pure waste of sperm."
Xie Xinglan coughed violently again.
A few naughty kids continued: "Animals have several wives... I am right. When I have money in the future, I will also have a mistress. Isn't that what we did in ancient times?"
The other two children laughed and nodded.
Xie Chi's phone suddenly rang——
[The first act is completed, and the second act will begin in thirty seconds. ]
Xie Chi coughed twice.
The three people's attention was drawn to him and they all looked at him.
Xie Chi supported his chin with one hand, his expression deep: "Humans are animals, yes, but they are trying to get rid of their animal nature. Their sex is not just for having children, or rather, it is not for having children at all."
"What else?"
Xie Chi's expression became more serious: "And love."
