After Shi Xi greeted the hostess, he began to eat without any psychological burden, eating quickly and elegantly.
Before the recording session, Yu Xiaoqian didn’t even eat a few snacks in order to look good in her dress. Now she realized that if she’s hungry, she can’t even run away if a ghost comes!
The other guests thought so too.
Seeing them eating hard, Yun Fan looked at his sister and asked her with his eyes, what should we do now?
Yunzhi gave her brother a look that said "be patient" and called a pianist to play a soothing song: "Everyone, eat slowly. The banquet tonight is still long."
She can afford to wait for a meal. When the prey is full and relaxed... the game will become more interesting.
You know what, if you ignore the weird atmosphere of the villa, sitting on the edge of the cliff, listening to music and eating delicious food, the experience is very good.
If this was a restaurant, Shi Xi would be willing to come here a second time.
But this is not a restaurant. After finishing the meal, we have to return to the gloomy atmosphere.
Shi Xi took a sip of juice - the program crew didn't prepare any red wine at all, and the bottle was filled with grape juice. She pressed the corners of her lips with a napkin and looked up at Yunzhi.
Yunzhi sat at the head seat at the dining table, lazily shaking the juice in her wine glass. Noticing that everyone was full, she raised her chin towards the pianist, signaling him to start playing dance music.
As soon as the song changed, the Yun siblings left the table. Yunzhi walked towards Lu Xiu and stretched out her right hand wearing a black glove: "Can I invite you to dance with me?"
Shi Xi remembered that in the comics, Yunzhi invited the character played by Ji Mingxu, and Yunfan invited... her.
"Sister Shi, can I invite you to dance?" A bony hand was stretched out in front of her. The skin on the wrist was thin and pale, and blue veins could be seen.
Shi Xi raised her eyes and saw a pair of extremely beautiful eyes. Yun Fan was standing in front of her with a harmless smile on his lips.
"I can't dance," Shi Xi didn't offer his hand, but sincerely suggested to him: "Neither of us likes dancing very much. I think you can dance the first dance with your sister."
The smile on Yun Fan's face froze, and he quickly adjusted his expression and said aggrievedly: "Sister Shi, don't reject me."
Of course Shi Xi had to refuse. According to the plot of the comics, the Yun siblings were not inviting dance partners, but selecting prey.
Shi Xi's mind was clear, but her hand uncontrollably rested on Yun Fan's hand, as if an invisible rope had tied her wrist, forcibly changing her choice!
The biting cold spread from the palm of his hand upwards, and Shi Xi felt like he was holding a dead hand frozen in the refrigerator.
Looking at Yun Fan's eyes again, Shi Xi didn't think they were beautiful, but rather eerie. This guy was indeed not right, he was not an NPC arranged by the program team at all.
Since he is not a human, Yunzhi is most likely not a human either. How many ghosts are there in this villa?
Where does the power to control herself come from? Is it Yun Fan, or some other "person" she can't see?
Shi Xi had many questions in her mind, but she was not panicked. She had seen many strange things, not just this one. Even if she was told that this was actually a comic book world, she would not panic.
"I knew that Sister Shi wouldn't refuse me. Come with me." Yun Fan blinked cunningly.
Shi Xi was controlled by an invisible and powerful force and followed Yun Fan to the center of the rooftop, where there was a shallow circular groove that was used as a dance floor.
She turned her eyes and saw Lu Xiu being led by Yunzhi. There was no trace of blood on his face and his thin lips were pressed into a straight line. It was obvious that he was not doing this willingly.
These brother and sister are quite good at forcing others to do things.
Shi Xi has been fighting against the power that controls her, but to no avail. She hasn't figured out the current situation yet, nor does she know the strength of the brother and sister, so she didn't rashly summon the undead.
He danced reluctantly with Yun Fan. When he stopped, applause broke out all around. Shi Xi saw that his eyes and lips had turned a bright red.
He let go of Shi Xi, his voice filled with evil pleasure: "Sister Shi, I'm glad to dance with you. Tonight's banquet has officially begun."
Yun Fan and Yun Zhi left the dance floor, and Shi Xi and Lu Xiu became the focus of the whole audience.
Yunzhi took out an hourglass from somewhere and played with it nonchalantly: "You have five minutes. Once the countdown ends, you will become everyone's prey."
Shi Xi moved her fingers, and the power controlling her disappeared.
She glanced at the people standing next to the dance floor. Everyone was wearing a mask and had unfriendly looks. It was impossible to tell with the naked eye whether these people were NPCs playing evil spirits or real evil spirits. To be sure, she had to check them one by one.
Shi Xi looked straight at Yunzhi: "If we are not caught, you can't choose the next batch of prey, right?" If so, the others are safe for the time being.
"That's right, I advise you not to waste time." Yunzhi said in a low voice and was about to turn over the hourglass.
At this time, the system suddenly reminded Shi Xi: [Shi Xi, go to the study on the third floor! I detected some unusual movements there, maybe there is the answer you want! ]
"What's the hurry?" Shi Xi raised his eyebrows and stopped Yun Zhi: "Be polite and let me get my bag first."
Yunzhi: “?”
Shi Xi went back to get her bag and calmly took out a flashlight.
Does this person know her situation? And why do I listen to her so much? Yunzhi was furious. She couldn't stand it any longer and turned the hourglass over. She stood on the piano and said, "If you keep going so slowly, I guarantee that in five minutes you won't have a single bone left."
Shi Xi ignored her and gave Lu Xiu a look, asking him to follow her. Shi Xi asked Zhang Qingyu and Teacher Zhuang to stay behind to secretly protect the others and check how many ghosts there were in the villa.
As a result, as soon as Shi Xi and Lu Xiu ran, the other guests caught up with them.
Lu Xiu took off his suit jacket and threw it aside, loosening his tie while asking, “You are safe now, but how could you catch up with us? You are too big a target.”
Ji Mingxu laughed brightly: "With both of you not here, I feel insecure!"
"Those two siblings are real ghosts..." Shi Xi paused and said his guess: "Or they are ghosts in comics. In any case, they are very dangerous."
Ji Mingxu's smile froze on his face: "No way, here we go again, are we in trouble recently?"
Yu Xiaoqian asked anxiously: "Are you doing this for show effect? Your acting is so good, I can't tell the truth from the lies!"
"When the main episode is broadcast, if this part is not cut out, it will definitely be regarded as a show effect, but we are not doing it for a show effect, little girl, those siblings are real ghosts! We encountered evil spirits when we recorded the last episode!"
Ji Mingxu spoke like a tongue twister, very quickly: "I said that the production team couldn't find an NPC that looks so close to him. So, the housekeeper must not be a human either!"
"Director, can you hear me? Turn on the lights!"
There was no response from the director, as if the connection had been cut off.
Yu Xiaoqian and Zhang Xiuming were so frightened that they didn't know what to say. They just ran after them for fear of being left behind.
Director Song was the calmest among them: "Where are we going now?"
"study."
While Yun Fan was leading the way, Shi Xi memorized the layout of the villa and knew where the study was.
In less than three minutes, Shi Xi brought them to the study on the third floor. The last time they passed by, the door of the study was wide open, but now it was half-closed.
After everyone entered the study, Shi Xi locked the door, and the system reminded again: [Desk! ]
Shi Xi walked to the desk and the white flashlight beam swept across the table. She saw several comic drafts spread out in a mess!
Ji Mingxu had good eyesight and immediately saw the title on the draft: "Chapter 5, Lu Xiu's death?!"
"What does this mean? Isn't the title of the fifth chapter of the comic called 'Hunting Game'? And in the original plot, Lu Xiu's corresponding character only suffered minor skin injuries!"
Shi Xi rubbed the lines on the manuscript paper: "The ink hasn't dried yet, the cartoonist left in a hurry."
Everyone felt horrified instantly.
Lu Xiu's face turned even worse: "The cartoonist of "Cliff Party" is in this villa?"
Yu Xiaoqian's fingertips trembled: "So is this cartoonist a human... or a ghost?"
"Could the previous plot changes be because the cartoonist was revising the manuscript?" After Director Song made this assumption, the study room fell into silence. The whistling sound of the wind outside the window became clearer and clearer, as if hundreds of people were lying outside the window and howling.
Shi Xi had already arranged the drafts in order. She read them quickly and found that the content of this chapter had been changed a lot.
The comic draft is very rough, with messy and sharp strokes, giving off an intuitive sense of gloom and oppression. The story begins with an axe breaking open a wooden door, with the broken wood almost piercing through the paper and poking the viewer's face.
In the next room, a butler with sinister eyes burst in. He was no longer elegant, his eyeballs almost popped out of his sockets, and his mouth was grinning like a venomous snake, revealing fangs like a row of nails.
Continuing to read on, Shi Xi noticed something scarier than the ghost butler in the picture: "Look, does the room in the comic look like this study?"
Everyone quickly compared the details and were shocked to find that the painting was indeed a study!
"So..." Ji Mingxu's voice was hoarse: "These things are about to happen here...to us!"
The system quickly explained to Shi Xi: [I didn’t know the content of the comics in advance, I just detected some unusual movements in the study! ]
Shi Xi knew that even if the system did not remind her to come to the study, they would be influenced by this drawing and come here.
"We may have become puppets of the cartoonist for some reason. She can control our behavior by changing the drawings, but her control over us is limited, otherwise we wouldn't be so free," Shi Xi said, looking at Lu Xiu: "We definitely have the opportunity to change the plot."
Lu Xiu nodded to her: "I know."
The hunting countdown should be over, but there was no movement outside, so they hurried to read the entire content on the draft.
In the comics, the butler broke into the study and targeted Shi Xi and Lu Xiu.
The two told the others to run away quickly, but they did not run away. Instead, they joined forces to attack the butler. This physical attack could not hurt the ghost butler. He came in front of the two like a ghost. In the end, in order to protect Shi Xi, Lu Xiu was pierced through the chest by an axe and fell in front of Shi Xi, bloody.
Even though they knew there was a chance to change the plot, seeing this scene still made everyone feel distressed.
Suddenly, Zhang Qingyu rushed in through the door and told Shi Xi: "Junior Sister, the only ghosts on the rooftop are the brother and sister... and the third ghost is coming!"
"Bang!!" Everyone heard a horrifying noise and saw with their own eyes the sharp axe blade breaking open the wooden door!
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