Chapter 30: Yin Fate (Twenty-four)
Song Yanchi actually had the same question.
But he soon realized that his questions were totally unnecessary.
Because Qiao Yuan took out a red veil from somewhere, the long veil was embroidered with golden silk thread, and the length almost reached her chest. After covering her delicate face, Qiao Yuan's hands naturally fell to her side, and the wide sleeves covered her fair and beautiful hands. Although the wide skirt covered her legs, from the way she walked, Song Yanchi and Su Yan could already guess how the other walked——
My legs were so stiff that I couldn't bend them, and I could only walk by crawling on the ground.
Just like that female ghost.
The chill seemed to have spread to the hearts of the two people along with Qiao Yuan's actions, and also frightened the people in the live broadcast room:
[Damn it, while I was just going out to get a glass of water, the female ghost came into the room so quickly?! Why didn't the other two run away? ]
[There is an honest person upstairs, everyone come and bully him]
[Don’t even mention the honest people. Even I felt chilled after watching the whole process.]
[Now that live streaming has developed to this point, are there even female ghost perspectives? ]
[Silly kids, that’s the anchor]
[…Sister Qiao is dead? Noooooooooooooooo, Zhou Lian, I hate you]
[No, I mean this is the host’s costume]
[Zhou Lian, I hate... huh? ]
[xs, the above post explains my mental journey very well. If I hadn't been staring at it just now, I would have really thought that a female ghost had come]
[How can someone dress up as a female ghost so well? It's hard not to suspect that she has practiced in escape rooms]
[Has she really never been a ghost?]
[This acting skill...it's not unfair that she kept me in the dark]
[This acting is horrible. Fortunately, it is a second personality. If Sister Qiao in real life is like this, it would be too horrible.]
[I think Sister Qiao is like this in real life too. Maybe everything in reality is just her disguise.]
[I was actually worried that Zhou Lian would find out that she was pretending to be a ghost. I should be worried about Zhou Lian’s mental state in the future.]
[Sister Qiao said there would be ghosts tonight, so she dressed up as a ghost]
[I am still trembling across the screen, thank you all for saving my life]
[Why are ghosts so scary even if they don’t show their faces? I’m definitely going to have a nightmare tonight.]
[Who just said that Sister Qiao was a cosplayer? Is he mute now?]
[I guess he was so scared that he hasn’t reacted yet]
[I was the one who suspected Sister Qiao just now, woohoo, I apologize, how could I not trust Sister Qiao]
[Clicked accidentally, the evil spirits retreated, and the whole family was safe]
[When did Sister Qiao get the equipment? Why do I remember that she didn’t have a veil before?]
[You didn’t look carefully at first glance. Sister Qiao clearly took the veil in the afternoon, and it seemed that there were also shoes. At that time, some people wondered what Sister Qiao did with those things]
【? So what did she do with those things? Did she already know that Zhou Lian would have this plan?】
[Woc, Zhou Lian came up with this plan only after meeting Granny A Gu, could it be that Sister Qiao has evolved to the point of being able to predict the future?!]
[Sister Qiao thought of this before Zhou Lian? She could predict this?! Or did I miss something...]
[My CPU is burnt out]
[I am poking at my system like crazy, asking why other players have super powers]
【Tell me the result】
[Is there any result? Has the game been secretly upgraded without my knowledge?]
[I can’t help but ask my own system]
[I got a reply. The system automatically recommended the nearest mental hospital to my home. What does this mean?]
Su Yan swallowed her saliva and it took her a long time to find her voice: "Ms. Qiao, Miss Qiao, are you still you..."
If you listen carefully, you can hear the trembling in her voice. She didn't want to ask this kind of question, but Qiao Yuan's actions just now really made her feel like she was possessed by a ghost, or replaced by a female ghost.
Her powerful imagination even allowed her to imagine that perhaps after the veil was lifted, the face underneath was no longer Qiao Yuan's, but the face of a female ghost. The real Qiao Yuan had been replaced the moment the veil was covered...
Fortunately, Qiao Yuan quickly lifted the veil, revealing Su Yan's all-too-familiar face. It did not have the gloomy and hideous look of a female ghost, and it also dispelled some of the chill in Su Yan's heart.
Qiao Yuan looked at Su Yan and said, "It's me again. How's my performance?"
Su Yan's pale face was a sincere affirmation of Qiao Yuan's acting skills: "Very good, I, I thought you were really possessed by a ghost..."
Qiao Yuan was relieved: "That's good. This is my first time playing a ghost, so I don't have much experience."
Although she was not afraid of ghosts, she was afraid of death. When the female ghost first appeared, Qiao Yuan was worried that the car would overturn or cause trouble, so she kept staring at her closely, and thus she was able to deeply imprint every move of the female ghost in her mind.
Su Yan: “…”
Wait, this is called having no experience for the first time?
Song Yanchi's attention was elsewhere, on Qiao Yuan's veil: "Where did this come from?"
He had heard from Qiao Yuan that the wedding dress was obtained from the fake world created by the ghost, but what about this veil?
Qiao Yuan followed Song Yanchi's line of sight and said, "This, I borrowed it from a villager this afternoon."
These things were of no use to the married villagers, but when they heard that Qiao Yuan needed them for her wedding, they immediately lent them to her and said she didn't have to pay them back.
There is also a pair of embroidered shoes, which are now on her feet.
Although he was thinking about keeping a distance from Qiao Yuan at that time, in order to avoid each other, Song Yanchi had to pay more attention to Qiao Yuan's movements. Therefore, he knew that during the few hours that Brother Chen gave everyone a holiday, Qiao Yuan had been running around outside.
Su Yan also remembered that Qiao Yuan had indeed borrowed these things in the afternoon. Although she was curious at the time, the nervousness of being alone with Zhou Lian at night overwhelmed her curiosity. Therefore, she did not have time to ask at that time. So did Qiao Yuan borrow these just for tonight?
No, Qiao Yuan clearly knew what Zhou Lian was going to do only after her, how could it be...
Song Yanchi figured it out before Su Yan: "You have been planning to pretend to be a ghost for a long time."
Qiao Yuan knew that Song Yanchi was smart, so she didn't find it strange that he could guess it so easily. Moreover, the subsequent plan still required Song Yanchi's cooperation, so she was very straightforward and said, "Yes, I was thinking about pretending, and I was thinking about how to find time to play two roles."
I didn't expect Zhou Lian to be so thoughtful and offer a plan.
Song Yanchi couldn't help but think of what Qiao Yuan had said before that would please Zhou Lian and Grandma A Gu.
Now it seems, who is obeying whose wishes?
Su Yan was completely stunned because she was thinking about the conversation between Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi. She missed her college life more than ever before. What did failing a course mean? What did not earn enough credits mean? What did occasional conflicts between roommates mean? This intrigue was almost too much for her to bear.
Song Yanchi finally asked the question he had always wanted to ask: "You really don't have a split personality?"
"Are you still Qiao Yuan?"
The gap between this copy and outside the copy is too big.
Qiao Yuan: "? What dual personality?"
Although it was a rhetorical question, it had already answered Song Yanchi's question.
Song Yanchi frowned, he didn't expect that he would make a wrong judgment.
Qiao Yuan didn't have time to say anything more. Time was tight and she needed to finish the scene before dawn: "Okay, now let me assign the roles to you two."
If Qiao Yuan's idea of playing a ghost had already shocked many people in the live broadcast room, then the conversation between Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi just now was no less than a bombshell.
[Did you hear that? She actually had a plan to pretend to be a ghost before...]
[My mother asked me why I was kneeling to watch]
[I thought prediction was the limit, but I didn’t expect that they had a plan in place]
[Who said there are no tailors in the village? Isn’t Zhou Lian one? He has also made wedding dresses for others.]
[Zhou the tailor, right?]
[Fuck, the person who swore earlier that he had a dual personality has been slapped in the face]
[So she is really pretending in the real world? ]
[Sister Qiao = Qiao Yuan?! ]
[Damn, who said she was a newbie? Could it be that she has participated in several dungeons and pretended to be like that to lower people’s vigilance?]
[I have the same guess]
[No, I started watching from Sister Qiao’s novice dungeon. Unless she entered the dungeon again in the past few days, this is her second dungeon.]
[Everyone, stop discussing this. We have all heard Sister Qiao... oh no, should we call it Director Qiao's plan now?]
[God tm Director Qiao hahahahaha]
[I am as completely dumbfounded as Su Yan. Is this a plan that a human could come up with?]
[I even opened Qiao Yuan’s Baidu Encyclopedia and looked at her name. She is a star and an actor, but I didn’t see any singer in her title.]
[She didn’t even graduate from a professional school, how can she act so well?]
[Tailor Zhou, Tailor Zhou, you are in trouble]
[If Tailor Zhou loses this round, it’s not unfair, he just lost to God]
Because of Li Lei and the female ghost, Zhou Lian did not return to his room, but went to Brother Chen's room again, turned off the lights, opened the curtains and looked out.
Although Zhou Lian himself did not drink, Brother Chen, who had drunk several glasses and was now drunk on the bed, could guess how strong the wine was. While he was mocking Brother Chen for not even being able to control his drinking, he also felt a dark jealousy in his heart.
Why can the other party lie here unconsciously, while he is now afraid to sleep because of the ghost and has to stay here to keep watch. It is also thanks to the fact that he has become accustomed to this kind of life in the dungeon, otherwise Zhou Lian feels that his body is on the verge of collapse.
According to his experience, the closer the countdown to the dungeon approaches, the less likely it is to be Christmas Eve.
However, until now, everything outside was calm, which made Zhou Lian couldn't help but feel suspicious.
I don’t know whether the so-called female ghost of Grandma Agu was restrained by her, or whether Su Yan was successful.
Zhou Lian hopes it is the latter.
After discovering that Qiao Yuan had deceived him, the pity he had originally had for him to kill him completely disappeared. Although he didn't want to admit it, Zhou Lian found that he was secretly afraid of him. Fortunately, he was the first to win over Granny Agu, another key NPC.
Zhou Lian thought that Granny Agu had another way to avoid the female ghost, otherwise she wouldn't be able to walk around so carelessly. Although she didn't tell him, she at least gave him the talisman paper, and Zhou Lian had already pasted it on himself.
Even if Su Yan didn't succeed, Zhou Lian still left an extra talisman. Qiao Yuan didn't know that he had seen through her true face, and he didn't show any abnormality in front of her. As long as he waited until daytime, he would always find a chance to get close to Qiao Yuan, and then...
Although Zhou Lian's eyes behind the frame were fixed on the window, the corners of his lips were already raised, and his confident smile was reflected on the window.
When he gets out alive, he will choose his companions from the barrage and forums.
His live broadcast room has accumulated quite a number of people, some of whom have seen through his true face, but can do nothing about it except cursing and praying not to run into him. There are also some people who are similar to him, who either worship or admire him and want to become his companions.
Before, because Zhou Lian had A Dao, he had no plans to find other companions, but now that A Dao is dead, he naturally has to find the next one.
Because the live broadcast comments could not be seen in the copy, Zhou Lian naturally did not know that there were already several warning comments in his live broadcast room, some of which were from people who had wanted to contact him: [No kidding, run away]
[Brother, you have met your match this time]
[From Sister Qiao’s live broadcast room. I can’t bear to watch any more.]
[LS, I also came from Sister Qiao’s live broadcast room. I like to pursue excitement and want to experience the shock of the first-person perspective]
[No, I can't even be their opponent]
[I listened to your talk and went to Qiao Yuan's live broadcast room to watch it. Now I just want to say one thing: brother, why did you mess with her?]
【The Calm Before the Storm】
[The horror film written, directed and acted by Director Qiao will be released soon. Minors or the timid should watch it with a companion.]
…
Immersed in his thoughts, Zhou Lian naturally could not hear the sincere cries in the barrage.
He was called back to his attention by the sound of the door.
It sounded like something rubbing against the ground, and was particularly obvious in the quiet atmosphere.
Zhou Lian suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and looked out the window vigilantly.
There was a red figure standing at the door. Because he was covered by a red veil, his face could not be seen clearly. One could only see his back slightly bent and his wide sleeves hanging at his sides. He was only one step away from the door.
It looks particularly terrifying at night.
Zhou Lian recognized it as a female ghost at first sight. After all, he had put the clothes on her himself.
As if noticing his gaze, the other party slowly turned his head.
Even through the veil, Zhou Lian could feel a pair of malicious and cold eyes staring at him, which made his hair stand on end. The coldness seemed to have penetrated into the bones and his blood turned cold. He seemed to be able to imagine the pale and distorted face under the veil.
The female ghost is coming!
The other party appeared at the door so quietly and discovered him!
Damn it, Su Yan really didn’t get anything done!
Zhou Lian cursed in his heart.
Although he had prepared himself mentally for the other party to come again tonight, when he actually met him, Zhou Lian found that he still couldn't suppress the fear in his heart. Under the other party's real gaze, Zhou Lian felt the cold sweat on his forehead sliding down to his chin.
After the female ghost found that he was lying by the window and observing, she took a step towards the window. The sound of her footsteps rubbing against the ground was like a heavy hammer hitting his heart.
Keep calm, keep calm...
Zhou Lian bit the tip of his tongue, and finally used the pain to temporarily come back to his senses. He avoided the gaze of the female ghost, and then quickly took a few steps back, as if this would distance him from the female ghost.
He knew that the female ghost would come in soon, so he prepared to turn around and run to Brother Chen to use Brother Chen to delay time.
Just wait until daybreak, which will soon arrive...
Zhou Lian was thinking so, but before he turned around, he found that the female ghost who was about to walk to the window paused, then turned around very stiffly and walked in the opposite direction, getting farther and farther away from his room.
Zhou Lian: ???
What is going on? !
Zhou Lian stared at the back figure in shock.
However, although the female ghost was getting farther and farther away, Zhou Lian did not dare to open the window and could only stay close to the window.
Due to limited vision, he could only see the female ghost pass by the room where Li Lei and Gui Lanlan were, and then continued to move forward.
And that was Qiao Yuan's room.
Zhou Lian understood that the female ghost was attracted to Qiao Yuan.
Needless to say, it must have been Su Yan who completed his plan.
When he realized this, Zhou Lian's tense heartstrings relaxed slightly.
Because of the angle and the fact that there was a room between them, he could only see the female ghost stop in the room where Qiao Yuan and the others were. After a while, she disappeared. Then a panicked cry rang out in the room: "Why is she here..."
It was Qiao Yuan's voice. Although there was a distance between them, one could still hear the panic in it.
“Get out of the way!”
It was Song Yanchi's voice. The other party remained calm at this time, which made Zhou Lian secretly curse in his heart that the other party was still pretending to be cool at this time.
There was also a faint crying sound mixed in, which was probably from Su Yan.
Soon the room became very quiet, so quiet that it was even a little scary.
Having experienced similar scenes, Zhou Lian was able to imagine what was happening in the room.
Because the ghost's attention had shifted to Qiao Yuan, Qiao Yuan was the first target of the ghost. Judging from his reaction, he was clearly unprepared for the ghost's attack.
That’s true. After all, the other party still thought that the female ghost’s attention was still on him.
Based on what happened to Ah Dao, Qiao Yuan's fate was probably similar, because his throat was crushed and he could no longer scream, so he could only let himself be manipulated. And Su Yan was so timid that she must have fainted from fear.
Song Yanchi was probably holding his breath like he did at that time, thinking about how to escape from the ghost girl. After all, speaking out at this time would be a blatant way to attract the ghost girl's attention. The relationship between Song Yanchi and Qiao Yuan was obviously not yet at the point where they could rescue each other.
Zhou Lian's heart was still beating fast because he was still in shock, but the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up again, and his pupils trembled a little with excitement.
If he wasn't afraid of the female ghost and being hurt by mistake, he would have wanted to watch from a close distance and see Qiao Yuan die with his own eyes.
Zhou Lian sighed with regret and couldn't help but beat his chest in his heart. After all, such an opportunity only came once.
Forget it, as long as Qiao is willing to die, he doesn't want to ask for anything else.
Compared with him, Qiao Yuan is still one step behind.
He was looking forward to the dawn more than ever before.
What Zhou Lian didn't know was that two of the three people he was thinking about were sitting on the roof.
The night breeze was blowing. Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi were already sitting on the eaves of their house. Qiao Yuan had already lifted her veil and was looking up at the sky. Her eyes were moving and her profile was exquisite. Any shot of her could become a wallpaper.
However, what ruined the mood was the look of regret that flashed across her face, and the words she said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I'm sure Zhou Lian must have thought I was dead now. Maybe he's regretting not being able to see my death with his own eyes, and is beating his chest in his heart."
"Alas, the performance is so short, and this is my first time hanging on wires."
She has been active in variety shows most of the time, and even in TV dramas and movies, she only plays small roles with few lines, and she doesn't need to use wires. Unexpectedly, this time she realized her dream in the dungeon, and it felt better than she imagined.
Qiao Yuan thought of something, turned to look at Song Yanchi, and praised him, "Your hands are really steady. Have you really never been suspended by a wire before?"
Hearing Qiao Yuan's words, Song Yanchi became angry and said, "No! You are the first one!"
There was a long strip of cloth made of a bed sheet next to his hand. Every time his peripheral vision fell on the strip of cloth, Song Yanchi couldn't help but pause, and his mind couldn't help but think of Qiao Yuan's deployment at that time -
After preparing the necessary props, Qiao Yuan and Song Yanchi went around to the back of Zhou Lian's room and climbed onto the roof.
Song Yanchi himself occasionally does rock climbing, so climbing up to the roof is very easy for him. However, he did not expect that Qiao Yuan seemed to be more experienced than him and climbed up in a few steps. Both his posture and movements were very professional.
Before he could think about it, Qiao Yuan ordered him again. Qiao Yuan took out the long strip of cloth she had made before leaving the room, tied a noose around one end of the strip, and held the other end in Song Yanchi's hand. With the help of this temporary wire, she landed in front of Zhou Lian's room as if she had suddenly appeared, then untied the wire and signaled Song Yanchi to take it back.
Then, after attracting Zhou Lian's attention and deliberately scaring him, he walked towards his room, asked Song Yanchi to move to another roof, and used a similar method to hang her back on the roof.
After Qiao Yuan's figure disappeared from her sight, Su Yan in the room started playing the recording, which was also the sound Zhou Lian heard.
If Song Yanchi hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been hard for him to imagine that this was a plan that Qiao Yuan came up with in just half an hour.
Not to mention Zhou Lian, Song Yanchi felt that if he encountered such a situation, his first reaction would be that Qiao Yuan would definitely die.
However, what Song Yanchi did not expect was that he actually agreed involuntarily and was assigned the role of hard labor.
Although he doesn't have his suitcases carried by his assistant in the real world, he has definitely never played such a role.
Just as Song Yanchi was lost in thought, Qiao Yuan indicated that the time was almost up and prepared to slide down from the eaves.
As soon as she touched the ground on tiptoe, she felt a cold gaze falling on her.
