Chapter 063 Horror Mashup (18)
The weak ghost heard the crisp clapping sounds and ran towards this side, with footsteps getting louder and louder.
Xie Xinglan ran across the light and shadow.
At the same time, Ren Ze secretly ran to a place far away from the weak ghost, and You Jing broke a large part of the glass.
He was feeling proud when a pale hand grabbed his ankle.
You Jing looked down in horror and found that the hand... was sticking out from a piece of broken glass.
The hand climbed up along his ankle, and then, a huge pulling force came from the glass, and in an instant, You Jing's entire foot was pulled into the glass.
You Jing clapped his hands immediately, and the hand immediately retracted into the mirror.
You Jing turned around and ran, but found in despair that the ground was covered with broken glass, which became the medium of the ghost.
He...has nowhere to hide.
Three shots will wear out your phone quickly.
Ten seconds later, You Jing felt a little itchy on the back of his shoulder.
He was nervous and quickly touched the back of his shoulder while running away, but felt a cold finger.
You Jing froze in place, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
When he kicked the glass, the shards inevitably fell on his shoulders...
A complete hand stretched out from the broken glass somewhere on his clothes...
Yu Jing took off his shirt and used the prop hanging around his neck.
He only has a few seconds...
In the small room where the guests were, the woman angrily yelled into her phone, "Cancel! The difficulty is out of control! Cancel!"
Her hands were shaking so badly that she could hardly stand.
That was her only son!
"Do you want all the newcomers to die? Why do you play word games when you know it's so difficult? Is that enough?!" The woman was almost crazy.
Shen Yi frowned and looked at her: "Calm down, this short video is not an APP deliberately playing word games, but the form of the word game is originally a hint, suggesting the existence of contradictions."
At the moment when her son's life was at stake, the woman no longer had any fear or respect. She turned a deaf ear to Shen Yi's words and just screamed into the phone: "If my son can't get through, there's no way anyone can get through! That's why I say cancel it! If you don't want all the new talents to die, cancel it immediately!"
Another guest also looked on with embarrassment. What the woman said was indeed the truth. At the moment, it didn't look like anyone could pass this short film. Moreover, You Jing's selection of this token was an accident and was not within the original considerations of the variety show. The difficulty was indeed unbalanced.
The density of logical thinking is so high that those who are not specialized in this field may not be able to get through it, let alone the newcomers who have only been in the field for a month or two.
The atmosphere was extremely tense, and the three guests' phones suddenly rang.
[It has been monitored that the actual challenge difficulty of the third part of the variety show "Horror Medley" "Hide and Seek" is higher than expected, which is not conducive to the survival of new talents. Now the guests are invited to vote, and no abstention is allowed. If two or more people choose to continue, the short film will continue. If two or more people choose to stop, the short film will be stopped and the variety show ends here. ]
You Jing's mother immediately pressed the stop button, looked at the male guest beside her, and said in a trembling voice: "Save my son, press the stop button! You can ask for any benefit! I can give it to you!"
The male guest in the middle awkwardly avoided her gaze and looked at Shen Yi, who was usually the most arrogant yet fair.
Shen Yi was silent for a few seconds: "Forget it, stop it, it's indeed too much, there's no need to continue, it's not fair to them, it's a pity to die."
The woman was so excited that she was about to cry and kept expressing her gratitude, but Shen Yi didn't care.
The three of them pressed stop.
Shen Yi looked at Xie Chi running towards the weak ghost on the screen, but a strange look flashed in his eyes.
Xie Chi seems to have an idea?
It coincided with his own. He should have realized the opposite rule, and he was going to catch the weak ghost.
It is possible for him to pass the level. APP is a stage where capable people should be allowed to show their talents. Sudden termination is unfair to Xie Chi who has a clue.
Shen Yi suddenly changed his mind and pointed at the screen and said, "How about this, he continues and the others stop, ok?"
The woman saved her son's life, and her mind instantly returned to normal. She looked up at this young man who might be even better than her son, and a hint of jealousy flashed in her eyes.
After the show "Horror Medley" that Xinrui participated in is over, the surviving Xinrui will be invited to film a movie together. If this person is alive, she will sooner or later become the biggest stumbling block for her son. It would be better for her to die in hide-and-seek...
The woman immediately smiled and said, "Of course."
She watched You Jing escape from the game of hide-and-seek, and she relaxed completely.
Shen Yi tapped the table with his long fingers, weighing the subtle differences and abilities of Xie Chi's two personalities. He came up with an idea and said, "Well, it's really unfair for me to make the decision for him without permission. So if he passes, I have a prop that suits him and I'll give it to him as compensation. The difficulty is too high, but they only give him points as rewards. The production team is not very kind."
The smile on the woman's face became a little stiff, and she could only nod in agreement, sneering in her heart, thinking that it would not be that easy.
The male guest asked, "Is it the weapon that the evil spirit has possessed?"
The male guest knew this because Shen Yi never bothered to hide the props he got, and the process of choosing props was open to all the audience. The weapon was obtained by Shen Yi in a horror film called "Blade of the Evil Spirit", which was of good quality, but it seemed to be too demanding on its owner.
Shen Yi did not hide it, and said with a little regret: "Yes, the evil spirit is too strong, I can't control it, but he may be suitable."
The guests nodded.
He had a certain understanding of Shen Yi. Shen Yi was extremely arrogant, and he only had himself in his eyes. He was an absolute egoist, who liked to deal with the strong and despised the weak. But he was not good at it. He would admit anything he thought directly. He was very frank and hated beating around the bush. Of course, he did have the capital to be proud. So he could clearly see Shen Yi's disgust for You Jing, who was a damn fool. Shen Yi looked down on people like him who had no ability.
Shen Yi seemed to admire Xie Chi very much. He could understand that, after all, if this newcomer could come out alive, he would have a promising future.
Shen Yi opened his mobile phone backpack and looked through it for a while. After finding it, he sent the props to the APP party.
After receiving the information, the APP party will immediately explain the situation to all viewers.
Shen Yi looked at Xie Chi sprinting on the screen and said in a barely audible voice: "Little guy, don't let me down. An excellent PET 1.0 will not die in this crappy short film."
…
[All those who were at the third level stopped, and only Xie Chi was left. For those who didn’t enter the third level, the third level was directly closed...]
[This is so unfair. The new player died in the third level, and no one cared. You should have some shame if you call a halt at this time!]
[How can there be absolute fairness? The one in front must be a child. ]
[My goodness, which guest did Xie Chi offend? Why did they harm him so much and wanted him to die? They treated him so specially and left him alone in there...]
[Needless to say, it must be You Jing's mother. After all, Xinrui and she will be filming a movie together later. It would be better to kill her as soon as possible to pave the way for her son.]
[Although I don’t understand the plot, I know I can pass it! ]
…
At this moment, in the short film, Xie Xinglan was still running, and Xie Chi had no idea what was happening outside the field. His mind was flashing back to the conversation between him and Xie Xinglan.
Xie Xinglan had said before that the weak ghost was too weak, so weak that it was no different from a human being. He then said that in this game of hide-and-seek, the weak ghost was like a person with a "ghost identity".
He had tested his boss before, asking him what would happen if he was chased by a ghost, but the boss avoided the question and he was very confused. Now he seems to have the answer.
——In this game of hide-and-seek with reverse rules, the weak ghost is a person with a "ghost identity", and he is a person with a "human identity".
The rules of the game of hide-and-seek in the real world are mostly like this - one person plays the ghost, several people play the prey, and whoever is caught by the ghost will become the new ghost to catch others.
So when he was caught by a weak ghost, the ending was not death, but...he was replaced by a weak ghost!
A light bulb went off in Xie Chi's head, and he knew why the weak ghost was crying!
The weak ghost not only wants to save the fat man, she also wants to get out of the game forever! There is no contradiction between the two! The weak ghost catches the fat man, the fat man becomes a weak ghost, and the weak ghost naturally becomes a human!
It was like he and the weak ghost had exchanged identities! The weak ghost wanted to get rid of his "ghost identity" and leave the game!
At this moment, Xie Chi almost figured out everything.
The owner of the live broadcast room who used money to lure him into playing hide-and-seek in the glass maze is a weakling.
The owner of the live broadcast room was most likely an ordinary person before. Out of curiosity, she played the hide-and-seek game of summoning spirits. She successfully summoned the doll ghost, but was caught by the doll ghost during the game. She did not die, but the rules of the hide-and-seek game in the real world were the same - she exchanged identities with the doll ghost, and she became the doll ghost that caught people, while the doll ghost completely got rid of its ghost identity and became a human.
This is the price of losing in the game of hide and seek.
The game is over, and the owner of the live broadcast room, who is a doll ghost, is trapped in the doll. If she wants to get rid of her ghost identity and become a human again, she can only lure new people to join the hide-and-seek game. If she catches Xie Chi, she will get rid of her ghost identity and leave the game, and Xie Chi will become a new weak ghost, trapped in the doll after the game. If Xie Chi wants to get rid of his ghost identity and become a human again, he will only make the same decision as the owner of the live broadcast room - to lure the next innocent person to join the hide-and-seek game.
But due to the existence of strong ghosts and opposite rules, it becomes impossible for weak ghosts to catch prey.
The strong ghost will always kill the prey before the weak ghost can catch it, allowing the weak ghost to see hope again and again, and then fall into despair, but in order to leave, he has to lure new prey.
This is a vicious cycle, in which the strong ghosts slaughter at will and reap the profits. They are like an emperor who holds all the power and controls the lives of the weak ghosts at will, making them run around and cheat people for them, providing them with a constant supply of food.
In this cycle, if the strong ghost is in a good mood one day and is pleased by the performance of the weak ghost, he may even allow the weak ghost to catch the prey, turn back into a human and leave, because the previous weak ghost's exit from the game means that the prey becomes the new weak ghost.
There will always be a weak ghost in the glass maze. The owner of the live broadcast room may be the first one or the thousandth one .
It doesn’t matter. What matters is that this game has continued to this day without an end.
The ghost was extremely powerful, probably because he had killed so many innocent lambs and his strength had greatly increased.
From this perspective, it’s not quite right to describe the weak ghost as kind, after all, she allows innocent people to join the game for her own selfish desires, but it becomes clear if we phrase it another way – the strong ghost is a threat, while the weak ghost is a help.
The relationship between prey and weak ghosts is mutually beneficial.
The weak ghost catches the prey and successfully escapes from the game. The prey also escapes the pursuit of the strong ghost because the strong ghost is the mirror image of the weak ghost. Once the prey changes its identity to become a weak ghost, the strong ghost cannot kill him.
The strong ghost is playing a game of hide-and-seek with its prey. Within the limitations of the strong ghost, it can only catch prey with "human identity" rather than weak ghosts with "ghost identity". So once the prey becomes a weak ghost, the previous weak ghost is out of the game, the prey no longer exists, and Xie Chi loses his "human identity" being chased, and the strong ghost cannot kill him according to the rules of the game.
Being too clever can backfire. In this short film, the smarter and more capable people are, the easier it is for them to be caught. If Xie Chi had not been so vigilant and had been fooled by the weak ghost, exposing his position to it, he might have had a better chance of survival. If Xie Chi had weak legs and a poor sense of direction, bumping into walls with every step, the weak ghost would have easily found him by listening to the noise.
And those who appear in this short film happen to be relatively smart and nimble people, and they are more likely to lose their lives than ordinary people.
In the game of hide-and-seek between Xie Chi and the strong ghost, the strong ghost caught Xie Chi, and the ending was Xie Chi's death. The weak ghost continued to lure the next innocent person to join the game, starting a vicious cycle.
In the game of hide-and-seek between Xie Chi and the weak ghost, no matter whether the weak ghost catches Xie Chi or Xie Chi catches the weak ghost, the ending is that Xie Chi becomes the weak ghost and the previous weak ghost leaves the game and leaves.
Now all the rules and clues are hinting that he must become a weak ghost in order to survive in the maze.
If Xie Chi is still a weak ghost after the game time is over, he will never be able to get out of the short film, because ghosts are equivalent to dead objects. No matter how similar their physical qualities are to humans, they are not in the same dimension as humans.
Therefore, Xie Chi catching the weak ghost is only the first step. Catching the weak ghost means that he is out of danger of being hunted by the strong ghost, but it does not mean that he wins the game. If he cannot find a way to completely kill the strong ghost within the specified time, he will be lost in the glass maze forever and become the new slave of the strong ghost.
It had to be so! But he had no choice!
In just over ten seconds, Xie Chi figured everything out, and the powerful ghost began a new round of pursuit.
The narrow space caused great trouble to Xie Xinglan every time he tried to dodge.
The powerful ghost was everywhere. He might jump out from the mirror at any time to block his way, or he might reach out to grab him from the mirror beside him. Under the dark green light, there was the afterimage of the powerful ghost's changes.
Xie Xinglan would hide if he could, but if he couldn't, he could only clap his hands.
They are not creatures from the same dimension and have no power to fight at all.
On the distorted mirror, there is a distorted ghost face. The ghost face expands and expands on the mirror, swaying closer and closer, robbing life.
Xie Xinglan was like a thief who nimbly dodged under dense infrared sensing.
The difference is that the infrared rays in the museum are emitted from fixed positions, but the ghost's next attack is almost untraceable.
Xie Xinglan could only stare at the mirror intently, identify the ghost as quickly as possible, and then predict the ghost's next move and dodge it nimbly.
Finally, at the next turn, I saw the weak ghost who had followed the sound at the end of the road.
Xie Xinglan sprinted a hundred meters, his long legs like a shadow, and the weak ghost also ran towards him in surprise.
The strong ghost stretched out almost his entire body in front of Xie Xinglan and reached out to grab him, as if wanting to destroy his immediate hope. However, he was too close and the inertia was too strong for Xie Xinglan to stop, so he clapped his hands again.
The strong ghost that stood between the weak ghost and Xie Xinglan disappeared.
Xie Xinglan grabbed the weak ghost without hesitation.
His clothes were torn, his body was covered with scars, his hair was messy, and he looked fierce and sinister.
The next second, Xie Chi's face on the dark green mirror began to change.
His skin used to be warm and white, but now it was pale and exuded a cold and dead silence. His slightly chestnut-colored hair turned into a depressing pure black. His lips were red but dry, and his eyes were as black as ink yet had a mysterious glow. It was easy for people to associate him with the vampire Count who gained immortality by sucking human blood.
His clothes also turned as black as night.
【Little Fairy, your whole body changes. 】
【Turning into a ghost also depends on appearance. 】
[The one who is going to catch people later has to look a little scary. 】
[If I saw a weak ghost like this in the maze, I would probably want to fall in love with him instead of running away. ]
At the same time, the appearance of the weak ghost that was chasing him before also changed, a change that was completely opposite to Xie Xinglan's.
She stood there, completely like a sculpture, but her face began to turn red, and the long hair that had covered her face fell behind her head, revealing a delicate and plain face of a young girl. Her originally empty eyes gradually regained their spirit, and her cold body warmed up again. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before she completely transformed into a person who was no longer a human. Of course, this time would not be short, as she had been a weak ghost for too long.
Xie Xinglan stared at her in silence, as if thinking about what he should do next.
He raised his head slightly, looking at the countless reflections of himself in the mirror, his eyes cold.
The ability of a strong ghost is to transform into the mirror image of a weak ghost. Now that he has become a weak ghost, the strong ghosts naturally transform into their own mirror images. Among the countless selves, there is a strong ghost.
The APP that has been silent for too long finally rings——
[You have temporarily acquired the "ghost identity" and become a weak ghost. The weak ghost and the prey exchange identities. It takes time for the strong ghost to regain control of the weak ghost. In the next hour, if you cannot find a way to completely kill the strong ghost, you will be controlled by the strong ghost and become its slave, and you will never be able to leave.]
Xie Chi thought to himself, "As expected."
Xie Xinglan leaned against the glass, his eyes gradually falling on the bright . He picked up the scissors and examined them carefully. They were just very ordinary pairs of scissors, nothing special about them.
"Xiaochi, what should we do?"
Xie Chi pondered for a few seconds: "Use the tip of the blade to scratch your hand or poke yourself."
Xie Xinglan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Damage corresponds to rescue, right?"
Xie Xinglan squatted down, opened the scissors, and pointed the sharp tip of the blade at his palm. The tip of the blade touched Xie Xinglan's hand and continued to go deeper, but no blood flowed out. The scissors blade seemed to pass through Xie Xinglan's palm out of thin air.
Xie Xinglan paused, and he touched a piece of paper somewhere on the tip of the blade.
Xie Xinglan took out the note.
The note was folded neatly and was very small, only as big as a fingernail. Xie Xinglan unfolded the note and saw only two ugly words "Glass" on it.
This should be the clue to completely defeating the ghost.
Xie Xinglan stood up and frowned: "Glass?"
Could it be that there is something mysterious about a piece of glass?
Xie Chi also thought of this: "Brother, shall we go look for him?"
"Okay, what about these scissors? Do you have them with you?"
"Well, maybe it's lethal to ghosts?" Xie Chi was a little confused.
Xie Xinglan brought it with him.
Without the threat of the powerful ghost, Xie Xinglan began to explore the mirrors in the maze one by one. He touched dozens of them but found nothing.
Several minutes passed.
Xie Xinglan frowned and said, "Xiao Chi, at normal speed, I can't check all the glass in an hour. Even if I finish, there will probably not be much time left."
Xie Xinglan pondered, "The clue is that being too clever is the opposite of being smart. The fixed way of thinking is what we are doing now, so there must be something wrong with the direction."
Xie Xinglan was staring at the ground.
Xie Chi looked at the ground unintentionally from his perspective, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "Brother, it's the ground! The ground is also glass ! Foggy glass! According to the stereotyped thinking, what we are touching must be the mirror placed vertically in the maze, but there is also glass under our feet... and it is foggy glass that makes things more obvious."
Xie Xinglan’s gaze suddenly tightened.
"Why are all the other mirrors transparent, but the glass under our feet is foggy...? If there is nothing underneath, why is it foggy?"
Recalling the clues and details one by one, Xie Chi suddenly understood: "The hide-and-seek range is the area where the glass maze is located. I always thought that this sentence refers to the existence of the mirror world, but what if... there is another mystery under our feet?"
Xie Chi said: "Too clever is too clever! Our initial idea was to smash the glass, then we decided not to smash the glass, and now our subconscious idea is not to smash the glass, but now the strong ghosts can't threaten us, so it doesn't matter if the glass is smashed! This is also a fixed mindset! Under the fixed mindset, we subconsciously think that the previous conclusion of not smashing the glass is correct, but the conclusion is time-limited! Not breaking the glass was correct before, but it is wrong now! Because strong ghosts can't kill weak ghosts! We are safe now!"
"Those scissors are not for killing ghosts! Those extremely sharp scissors are for fear that we can't break the glass, so they let us smash the ground!"
Xie Chi felt the horror of a fixed mindset. Under normal circumstances, if they continued not to smash the glass, their end would be to waste an hour and gain nothing, and then they would never be able to leave.
Xie Xinglan took off his clothes, clenched his fists, wrapped his hands with the clothes, and hammered them hard on the ground.
Several panes of glass shattered, revealing a bloody basement beneath the foggy glass.
