Chapter 008 Use your brain

Shen Sangning just looked at Lin Xi, the confusion in her eyes deepened, as if asking Lin Xi: What should I do with this long-necked monster?

Lin Xi didn't know. She had lived as a human for more than 20 years. Now she was just an ordinary human, not a ghost catcher. How could she know what to do with the long-necked monster? But the four monsters in front of them became timid since Shen Sangning appeared. Even a trace of human fear appeared on their weird faces.

Through this scene, Lin Xi clearly understood: these guys are definitely not Shen Sangning's opponents.

So she felt relieved and signaled Shen Sangning to let go of the long-necked monster. Although Shen Sangning was confused, she still responded to Lin Xi's instructions and let go of her hands. The mother role of the long-necked monster immediately retracted her neck, pretending that nothing had happened, and continued to eat awkwardly.

Without Lin Xi's instructions, Shen Sang Ning stayed where he was and waited.

Lin Xi thought the commotion was over, but she didn't expect the entire house to stir, and the four ghost faces in front of her looked even more terrified. Lin Xi didn't understand what was happening at first, but the next second, the chair seemed to have its own thoughts, suddenly extending shackles to bind Lin Xi's legs, and black tentacles emerged from the floor, clawing at Shen Sang Ning's legs.

How could Lin Xi let his wife be tied up by tentacles? She asked Shen Sang Ning to come back. After Shen Sang Ning disappeared, the changes in the house subsided in an instant. The shackles that bound Lin Xi's legs also disappeared.

After thinking about it, Lin Xi understood that it was the one he was worried about before - there were only five people in the house. It seemed that this house could only allow a maximum of five people. Once this number was exceeded, if the family members did not clear out the extra people, the house would act on its own.

Lin Xi was shocked and thought of a possibility: home is alive.

Lin Xi didn't have the heart to drink the soup she hadn't finished. The four ghosts in front of her couldn't do anything to her and Shen Sang Ning anyway, and there was no need for her to be hypocritical with them. She simply put down her bowl and chopsticks, said "I'm done eating", and got up to leave.

She walked very fast and returned to the room in a short time. She closed the door, pulled a chair, found a pen and a piece of white paper from the table, then took out the note from her pocket and spread it on the table.

After doing all this, she felt it was not enough, so she stood up again and grabbed the big-eyed camera.

She was...really caught.

This was a bit beyond Lin Xi's expectations. She didn't expect that the Big Eyes Camera was a real thing. After all, in the novels she had read before, this kind of camera was virtual. She did this just to give it a try, but she didn't expect it to really work.

The Big Eyes camera felt strange in the hand, soft and squishy, a bit like the playdough we used to play with as children. When Lin Xi held it in her hand, the camera was slightly deformed by the size of her palm.

Taking it in my hand, I discovered this thing was truly amazing. It was just... an eyeball. While it was several times larger than a normal human eyeball, it still looked very similar to a human eyeball. The pupil moved, and it was even covered with an eyelid, allowing it to blink.

When looking into the big eyes, Lin Xi felt a chill.

She released the big eyeball, and it slowly floated up. After trying several times, Lin Xi finally mastered the pattern and put the big eyeball in a position facing the table before it stopped.

Lin Xi's memory wasn't exactly great. Aside from a few important items, she'd forgotten some of the less important ones. Now that she'd taken it out again, she'd memorized them all by rote. She'd also written down the bedroom rules nearby, even recreating the font and correcting any errors to ensure she'd missed a single detail.

Forest

Xi switched to a new sheet of paper and, writing, began to speculate to Big Eyes. She was speaking to Big Eyes, but she was actually trying to share it with the audience in the livestream. She knew she wasn't the smartest person, but there were definitely smart people in the livestream. At the very least, three cobblers are better than a wise man; they could always come up with something special.

By then, the remaining two kind-hearted people will be able to sort out their information and send messages to themselves.

Lin Xi wrote the words "Sweet Home" directly on the blank piece of paper. She kept saying, "I suspect this house is also a ghost story. Because when there were six people in the restaurant just now, it was the whole house that moved, not the four ghosts. Of course, it may be that I am overthinking, but I think my guess is more likely."

She wrote "5 people" on the slip, but then continued, "But there's another problem. Ningning was next to me in the room before, and there were six people in the house at that time. But the house didn't attack me or Ningning. In other words, certain conditions must be met for this to be triggered."

Lin Xi twirled the pencil, and the bunny pendant on it jingled. Bunny decorations weren't something Lin Xi liked, no matter how she thought about it. This was a "sisters' room," and older sisters were supposed to take care of their younger siblings, so perhaps this was just the younger sister's preference.

If it were elementary or middle school, Lin Xi would have really liked this style. But brother loves it, even the pen body is pink, so adorable. Even the paper she just pulled out is from her sister's sketchbook, with pink cartoon figures stuck on the top and bottom. This type of pen is quite difficult to spin, but Lin Xi was a self-proclaimed bad girl back then, so spinning a pen was a piece of cake for her. She would spin it unconsciously while thinking.

Lin Xi pondered, unable to figure out the reason. Could it be that six people had to be in the same room for the mechanism to trigger? But that was too strange. If that were the case, each room could hold five people, and this house could accommodate twenty or thirty people. Perhaps it was to make everyone realize there were more than five people in the house? But then, Shen Sang Ning disappeared right in front of the ghosts, so she must still be nearby. Anyone who wasn't an idiot would know that there were still six people in the house.

She wasn't good at reasoning to begin with, and a ton of questions plagued her. Lin Xi decided to put that aside for now and look at the rules of "Sweet Home." Honestly, the rules were pretty friendly. When Lin Xi was reading novels before, she'd seen the protagonist encounter situations where "two of these rules are wrong," or even conflicting rules. If she encountered that kind of situation, she'd just give up.

Because she's a piece of shit.

The remaining few rules, such as caring for family, maintaining a good sleep schedule, having only one living person, and fulfilling the wishes of younger siblings, were relatively easy to understand and could be taken literally. Furthermore, with Shen Sang Ning by her side, those four ghosts were no match for Lin Xi. Caring for family, younger siblings, was irrelevant and unimportant.

The most crucial one is the last one. Lin Xi was stunned when he saw it.

【9.————————】

Even now, Lin Xi wanted to ask a few questions. No, the organizer of the Rules Talk Live Room should come out and discuss the rules. Why can this rule be a row of dashes? But in fact, this long string of symbols does not look like dashes. They are located in the middle of the number 9 and a little bit lower, just like "_". But because the whole is relatively close to the middle, Lin Xi thinks it is a dash.

This symbol was so strange that even Lin Xi didn't know if it was a rule. If it was a rule, what did it mean? Did I have to fill it in myself? Or was there a rule originally, but it was hidden by something?

Lin Xi copied this onto a piece of paper and wrote "Help" underneath. Her message was that she didn't understand and asked anyone with clues to come and help her. However, there had been no responses, proving that the kindhearted person didn't know the answer and hadn't gotten it from other livestreamers.

Lin Xi muttered to herself for a moment, and after a while, her door opened. She stuffed all the notes into her trouser pockets and turned her head to see her "sister" walk in. She was a little timid, even more timid than Lin Xi.

After all that had just happened in the restaurant, it was only natural for the little sister to be afraid of the older sister on Lin Xi's body. She walked in timidly, her steps stuttering, and then went to the door of the closet and took out a set of pajamas. After doing this, she turned her head and looked at Lin Xi who had been staring at her: "Lin Xi, aren't you going to take a shower?"

Lin Xi shook her head: "I'm too tired today. I don't plan to take a shower. I'll go to bed later."

It was obvious that the bathroom had other rules. Going in without knowing anything about it was courting death. As long as she didn't want to go, she wouldn't go, especially since showering took an incredibly long time. But everyone has three urgent needs, and sooner or later, Lin Xi would have to go. Lin Xi's philosophy was: if she could delay her death, she would.

She is no longer afraid of the four ghosts. Who allowed them to do nothing to her wife?

There was a small alarm clock on the desk, and the time read 7:15. By the time her sister came back from the shower, it was already 7:45. Her hair was wet; if she were a human, she'd probably catch a cold. But she was a ghost, and Lin Xi wouldn't suddenly become a saint for no reason. However, there was one rule in the bedroom: older sisters had to take care of their younger siblings.

Even if Lin Xi didn't want to, she had to blow-dry her "sister's" hair.