Chapter 42 The Attacking Dad 5: The Daughter's Guardian Angel

Hello, I heard that this place allows you to get revenge on your bullies in the virtual world, is that right?

Shortly after Qi Yutong sent the message, the other party replied.

Yes, that's right, my friend. Do you want to take revenge yourself? Do you want to crush those who bullied you? Do you want to repay every bit of pain you've endured? The nineteenth level of hell, your most loyal companion, is where dreams come true, where nightmares end. My friend, what are you waiting for?

[Don't miss out! For only 9.9 yuan, fulfill your dream of revenge!]

The language that popped up in the dialog box was very unconventional, which was in stark contrast to the name of the "Nineteen Levels of Hell" live stream room.

Qi Yutong had expected the other party's reply to be in a dark and aloof style, but she was surprised to find it so energetic.

Her previously tense nerves involuntarily relaxed, and a hint of a smile appeared in her eyes.

For some reason, even though she was a complete stranger to the host of the live stream, Qi Yutong felt very at ease just by reading the texts he sent.

Recently, Qi Yutong and her father have become much closer. Her father helped her transfer schools and enrolled her in a day school, picking her up and dropping her off in the morning and evening, and they also have an hour of heart-to-heart talk every night without fail.

Qi Yutong witnessed Qi Wang's transformation and was very grateful for her father's efforts.

Even though she was in a new environment and everything seemed to be going well, she would still wake up from nightmares in the middle of the night.

She kept telling herself to forget everything, that it was all in the past and that they would never hurt her again.

But in those bizarre and fantastical dreams, the hideous appearance of those four people was ever-present.

"You can't escape!!!"

"Hehehe, you're our toy, how could we let you escape so easily?"

"Want to get rid of us? Dream on."

The voice she tried so hard to forget kept echoing in her dreams. While tormented by these nightmares, Qi Yutong suddenly realized that she had only pretended to forget; in fact, she had never forgotten at all.

The hurt those people inflicted on her is deeply etched into her soul. Even after the deep wounds heal, they leave thick scars that remain even if she ignores them, reminding her of what happened.

Qi Yutong tried hard to avoid internal conflict and told herself that she should look forward and not remember unimportant people.

But in the end, she discovered that she couldn't forget it at all.

Just as she was caught in a vortex of internal conflict and unable to escape, Qi Yutong saw the live stream of the 19th level of hell.

When Qi Yutong saw the video of the victim turning the tables and retaliating against the bully, her pent-up pain suddenly found an outlet.

She saw the registration portal for the live stream, through which all victims of bullying could contact the host of the live stream.

The host of the live stream said that in the nineteenth level of hell, bullies can be punished, and victims can take revenge themselves, giving their pain a perfect outlet.

Forgiveness brings no redemption, forgetting brings no relief, only revenge can bring rebirth.

When Qi Yutong saw this passage, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning. Her soul seemed to have found a way out of the chaos she couldn't find.

However, Qi Yutong hesitated before contacting the live stream.

Her father has sacrificed so much for her, all he wants is for her to be an obedient and well-behaved child. She has already disobeyed her father's wishes so many times. If she wants to take revenge this time, will she become a bad child?

She didn't want to disappoint her father.

So after much deliberation, Qi Yutong finally mustered up her courage and asked Qi Wang for advice.

"If I want revenge, will I become a bad kid?"

Her father's answer was completely unexpected.

Qi Wang said, "If you repay evil with good, how will you repay good?"

"If even saints can't do it, how could ordinary people possibly do it?"

Dad said that she was the one who was hurt, and whatever she wanted to do was right.

After receiving her father's affirmation, Qi Yutong's last bit of concern disappeared, and she immediately contacted the host of the live stream.

Even if it's just revenge in the virtual world, she wants to exact a severe vengeance and give herself an outlet for the pain she's endured.

The host of the live stream didn't waste any words with her; he simply gave her a link and told her that if she clicked on it, she could get everything she wanted.

Qi Yutong clicked on that link.

...

Wang Chuhong huddled in a corner, trembling with fear. She looked around in terror, afraid that something horrible might suddenly leap out from the dark corner.

She had no idea what was going on.

That day, she and Li Yanni went to the arcade and saw a haunted house called the Nineteenth Level of Hell at the entrance. Out of curiosity, Wang Chuhong led Li Yanni and the others inside.

However, the nightmare began the moment she stepped into the haunted house.

Wang Chuhong and Li Yanni got separated, and the footsteps behind her made her think it was a prank.

However, when she turned around to scold them, she saw two paper effigies.

That's right, paper effigy.

It was still the cheap, rudimentary kind, like a paper effigy made by simply pasting rough paper onto bamboo strips.

The paper effigy has rough facial features, and its mouth opens and closes, revealing rows of serrated teeth.

The teeth of those paper effigies were covered with blood-red bits of flesh, making them look as if they had just eaten something.

Wang Chuhong thought the two paper figures were props from the haunted house. She was frightened, and after the initial fear, she was filled with anger.

Already in a bad mood, Wang Chuhong walked up and was about to kick the two paper figures.

"What the hell is this? Playing tricks, do you want to die?"

In a fit of rage, Wang Chuhong kicked the paper effigy. Her foot passed right through the effigy's body and was firmly clamped by the bamboo-woven bones inside.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

She let out an angry roar and stomped harder, but a sharp pain shot through her ankle.

Wang Chuhong clearly saw countless sharp teeth suddenly emerge from the paper effigy's bamboo body, which closed tightly together and bit off her ankle.

"ah!!!!"

A piercing scream rang out. Wang Chuhong thought it was her imagination, but when she looked down, she found that her foot was broken at the ankle. The wound was uneven, and the white bone fragments were clearly visible to her.

Her foot was broken by the paper effigy.

Realizing this, Wang Chuhong let out a desperate scream, collapsed to the ground, and Yan Lei's nose was running with snot.

Her feet... her feet...

However, that wasn't the scariest part. The scariest part was that the two paper figures suddenly moved.

They walked step by step toward Wang Chuhong, looking down at her.

"Hehehe, so you've finally met your match."

"Wang Chuhong, you're nothing special after all..."

The paper effigy emitted two young female voices, but in this environment, their voices sounded particularly eerie and terrifying.

Wang Chuhong was screaming incessantly when she suddenly heard the paper effigy speaking, which terrified her even more.

"Don't come any closer!!!"

In the past, Wang Chuhong never believed in any gods or ghosts, or the idea that there are gods watching from above. She thought those were just ways to fool poor people. If families like hers believed in ghosts and gods, they would have been swindled out of all their money long ago.

But when she actually faced the ghost, Wang Chuhong was so scared that she wet herself. She dragged her crippled leg and kept backing away, screaming as she retreated.

"Don't come any closer!!!"

How could this be? She just went into a haunted house out of boredom, how could she have encountered a real ghost?

Wang Chuhong broke down.

Ignoring Wang Chuhong's screams and roars, the two paper figures limped closer to her.

"Hehehe, Wang Chuhong, don't you recognize us?"

"Hehehe, didn't you say we were timid and that you did that to help us build our courage? Why are you scared when it's your turn?"

The mouths of the two paper figures opened and closed, uttering words that Wang Chuhong could not understand at all.

Terrified, Wang Chuhong couldn't care less about what they meant. She cried out, "You've mistaken me for someone else! I don't know you! I don't know you..."

She's just an ordinary high school student, how would she know anything about paper effigies? They must have mistaken her for someone else!

The paper figures were stunned. They looked at each other and suddenly realized something.

"Oh, we look different now, it's normal that you don't recognize us."

"I don't know if you'll recognize me in this state."

As she spoke, Wang Chuhong clearly saw the facial features on the paper effigy's face begin to melt and deform, quickly turning into two unremarkable faces.

The face looked somewhat familiar, but Wang Chuhong searched through her memories and couldn't match them with anyone in her past.

Upon noticing the blank look on Wang Chuhong's face, the two paper effigies' expressions instantly changed.

"Tsk, you can't even recognize us? I was going to let you go because you looked so pitiful, but who told you to be so spineless? You can't even recognize us?"

One of the paper effigies with a high ponytail rolled its eyes and suddenly seemed to remember something.

"Oh dear, I forgot, you don't seem to have ever seen us in our normal state..."

"How about this? Don't you recognize it?"

Blood suddenly gushed from the other person's face, and his once full head became pitted and scarred.

In an instant, she transformed into a terrifying sight.

When Wang Chuhong saw the paper effigy, her pupils constricted, and a memory she had forcibly forgotten flooded her mind.

Two years ago, she was just a junior high school student. Because a girl stole her boyfriend, Wang Chuhong was furious and launched a fierce revenge against the other girl.

Locking her in the toilet was a common occurrence; they cut her hair into a mangy style, threw her clothes in the trash, tore up all her homework, poured red ink on her head during class, and splashed dirty water from mopping the floor on her after class...

Wang Chuhong didn't think she had done anything too outrageous; after all, it was her fault for being so blind as to steal her boyfriend.

Who knew this person was so psychologically fragile? All I did was strip her clothes off and take some photos with my best friend, and she jumped off the building.

What's even more outrageous is that the person didn't jump earlier or later, but just when she came out of the dormitory, and landed right in front of her.

The kind where the head is facing down.

The human skull is the hardest bone in the body, but even the hardest skull cannot withstand the impact of falling from the eighth floor.

The girl died on the spot, and Wang Chuhong was also frightened. She stayed at home for half a month before returning to school.

She hadn't recognized the paper effigy's face just now, but now, with its face covered in blood, its skull caved in, and blood gushing from its mouth, Wang Chuhong's memory was awakened.

"Zhang Feifei, it's you!"

Wang Chuhong recalled the name of the paper effigy in front of her, but... but she had already jumped off a building and died two years ago, so how could she be here?

"Wow, that's rare indeed, Miss Wang. You really are exactly the same as before. You can't recognize me when I'm normal, but you recognize me when I'm different. So this is your taste."

"Jingjing, if you change your appearance too, our Miss Wang will definitely recognize you."

Tang Feifei turned around and spoke to another paper effigy, which immediately responded.

"Alright, alright, isn't that just a matter of a word?"

Wang Chuhong saw that the face of the other paper effigy had also changed.

Her originally ordinary face began to swell rapidly, her head became three times the size of her previous head, and her facial features became distorted and deformed.

Her mouth opened and closed, and dark green algae mixed with filthy water sprayed out.

"Miss Wang, do you recognize me?"

Wang Chuhong: "!!!"

She recognized him.

This person is Sun Jingjing, a junior high school classmate who jumped into the river and died. When she was pulled out of the water, it was several days later, and her body had been soaked until it was bloated.

Wang Chuhong never saw Sun Jingjing's body, but she heard about Sun Jingjing's tragic condition from her classmates.

Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing have been dead for two years. How could they be here? In this haunted house?

Not only did they show up here, but they also broke her leg...

Wang Chuhong seemed to have thought of something, and a smile that looked more like a grimace appeared on her face.

"Tang Feifei, Sun Jingjing, I was young and ignorant back then, and I may have done some really bad things, but I've since reformed. Besides, you committed suicide back then, it has nothing to do with me..."

She didn't do anything too outrageous back then, it was just a childish prank. Maybe it was a little bit excessive, but couldn't they retaliate?

Why would someone be so angry as to commit suicide?

One jumped off a building, the other jumped into a river, and people blamed her for their deaths. She was very wronged, wasn't she?

What's even more outrageous is that they died two years ago, and instead of seeking revenge then, they're coming to cause her trouble now. This is just too much!

These were all her inner thoughts, but in the live broadcast room of the nineteenth level of hell, all of Wang Chuhong's inner thoughts appeared in the form of pop-up windows on her head.

The viewers in the live stream were so angry when they saw this that they unleashed a string of profanities that were censored by the system.

[No way, this person is so vicious! She bullied someone to death, and instead of feeling any remorse, she thinks the other person was weak?]

Disgusting, absolutely disgusting! Bullies deserve to die; they show absolutely no remorse!

[They say sorry, but what they really think is, those two paper doll girls deserve to severely punish the bullies!]

[Exactly! These bullies are like leeches that can't change their nature; they shouldn't be given the chance!]

The viewers in the live stream were outraged and started showering the streamer with gifts, demanding that the streamer punish the bullies.

Biting off her foot was too lenient a punishment; she should have been torn to pieces so she could experience the pain of being hurt.

Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing can see the gifts sent in the live stream, and these gifts will be converted into their power, allowing them to exist for longer and use their power more effectively.

They both really did die two years ago.

At the moment they decided to commit suicide, they truly felt that there was no future for them. The pain overwhelmed them, and they felt that they really couldn't go on living.

But they regretted it the moment their lives ended.

How wonderful it is to be alive... Only by living can there be a future... Pain won't last forever... Only by living can there be hope...

Their consciousness was plunged into darkness, and after an unknown amount of time, they heard a gentle voice.

"Do you want revenge?"

Do they still have a chance?

After realizing that he had regained consciousness after falling into darkness, his chaotic mind gradually cleared, and the word "revenge" lingered in his mind.

Yes, revenge.

They lost their lives at a young age, lying in eternal rest underground, oblivious and unaware, with all the beauty of the world no longer connected to them.

They were not killed by Wang Chuhong herself, but they were driven to their deaths by her.

They had no chance to take revenge in the past, but now that someone has given them that opportunity, how could they not seize it?

Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing returned to the human world and entered the live broadcast room of the nineteenth level of hell.

They didn't see the owner of the live stream, but they heard a voice telling them that this place could dispel their resentment, and that they could be reincarnated once they had successfully taken their revenge.

When they were still human, they had no way to take revenge, but now that they have become ghosts, they have the opportunity to take revenge themselves.

However, the voice also told them that they could not kill anyone; that was the only bottom line. Apart from that, as long as they didn't cross the line, they would be fine.

Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing appeared before Wang Chuhong in the form of paper figures.

The moment they saw her, an endless surge of hatred welled up in their hearts.

They had such bright futures ahead of them. At the age of thirteen or fourteen, the prime of their youth, their lives were frozen in time.

They died at the age of fourteen, but Wang Chuhong grew up safely to the age of sixteen.

On what grounds?

Didn't Wang Chuhong keep saying that she was just playing games with them at that time?

"Look at you guys, why can't you take a joke?"

"It was just a prank, why did you take it seriously?"

"Oh dear, you guys are so funny, you can't even play this game properly, it's so boring."

"Why tell the teacher? I already told you it was just a game."

"Oh dear, if you don't like this game, let's play another one."

...

Wang Chuhong kept insisting that it was a game, and even when her teacher tried to educate her, she persisted in calling it a game, eventually becoming even more brazen in her insistence.

Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing suffered a lot of torment. At first, it was physical, but after the teacher warned Wang Chuhong not to use violence, Wang Chuhong was subjected to mental torture.

For two fourteen-year-old girls, the mental torture was enough to drive them insane, especially when Wang Chuhong came up with a method from who-knows-where to take their photos.

The two girls were completely devastated.

...

Now everything starts over, and the roles are reversed. They are the players, and they set the rules of the game, while Wang Chuhong has become a toy.

Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing stood on either side of Wang Chuhong, looking down at her with bright smiles on their faces.

"Don't you love playing games? We're here to play games with you, are you surprised? Aren't you excited? Aren't you happy?"

Facing two extremely terrifying faces, the mental shock Wang Chuhong experienced was unimaginable. Her expression changed drastically, and she staggered backward.

She lost a leg the moment they met. If the game continues, will she have any chance of survival?

"No, I'm not playing anymore. We're not on the same wavelength. I don't want to play..."

Wang Chuhong cried and screamed, refusing their so-called game.

They're ghosts. If she plays games with them, how will she survive?

However, just as Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing couldn't refuse her back then, Wang Chuhong can't refuse them now either.

Wang Chuhong watched helplessly as the two paper effigies with the faces of Tang Feifei and Sun Jingjing approached her, then grabbed her arms without explanation and dragged her up from the ground.

“Miss Wang, why are you being so distant with us? You were so ‘good’ to us before, we should repay you properly.”

"That's right, Miss Wang, come with us, we'll make sure you have an unforgettable time..."

"No!!!"

...

Qi Yutong opened her eyes.

When she saw the old, worn-out classroom, she was a little taken aback.

Wait a minute, wasn't she sleeping at home? Where am I now?

Is she dreaming?

Qi Yutong pinched her arm hard, and the pain reminded her that this was not a dream.

Qi Yutong: "!!!!"

No, she just clicked on the link the streamer gave her, how come she was in a different place as soon as she opened her eyes?

Just when Qi Yutong felt that her worldview had been turned upside down, she saw someone appear in front of her.

She would recognize that person even if he were ashes.

Qi Yutong's expression changed instantly, and at the same time, a mechanical voice, neither male nor female, sounded in her ear.

Welcome to the nineteenth level of hell. Your player identity has been confirmed, and your target for revenge has been identified. A sleepless night awaits you. Have a wonderful night.

Qi Yutong was stunned. Her eyes widened in disbelief, as if she couldn't believe what she had just heard.

Isn't this technology developing a little too fast? How can a person's consciousness enter a virtual world when she's completely unaware?

Or is this actually a playground built by beings in a higher dimension?

No matter what it is, as long as the other party gives her a chance.

An opportunity to take revenge personally.

Qi Yutong smiled sweetly and walked towards Hao Jiajia.

"Long time no see, my dear friend, it's great to see you here."