Chapter 2 Welcome Party (Part 2)
Mu Yu's heartbeat suddenly became very fast.
At this moment, the host on the stage said something and the audience burst into applause again. The thunderous applause was like the sound of a forest being blown by a strong wind, clattering from far away to near until it was deafening.
The black shadow in front of Mu Yu seemed to have completely merged into the surrounding darkness.
For a moment, Mu Yu couldn't even make out the outline of the humanoid object. Everything in front of him seemed to turn pure black and he couldn't see anything clearly.
His Adam's apple rolled, and he closed his eyes and opened them again.
His fingers moved stiffly and tapped the phone screen lightly. The screen lit up and the faint light illuminated Lao Er's face from bottom to top, forming a long triangular beam of light.
Very old-school horror movie style.
Fortunately, Mu Yu was probably too nervous just now and didn't see clearly - the person in front of him really had the appearance of Lao Er, and also had the silly temperament that was unique to Lao Er when he was confused.
Unfortunately, Mu Yu was sure that this person was not the second brother.
I can’t really tell what’s wrong, but it just feels wrong.
It's like a weird thing wearing the skin of a dick.
Mu Yu took a deep breath and tried to stay calm: "...It's okay, I might have been dazzled just now."
He glanced at the second one.
The third and eldest brothers both raised their lips slightly and looked at the stage intently, as if they had not heard the conversation between the two of them at all.
Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.
What's going on?
Mu Yu straightened his body, remained silent for two seconds, and then leaned forward again.
The person sitting in the front row was the League Secretary, who had just come in at the last minute before the show started.
The league secretary was a girl with a cute bun. Mu Yu asked softly, "Miao Miao?"
The secretary of the Youth League turned his neck like a snake and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"
Mu Yu immediately leaned back in his chair: "It's okay."
The huge Xinlian Theater and the crow-like students.
Nearly 3,000 spectators, the host on stage, and the performers preparing to go on stage—
Mu Yu seemed to be transported to a world that was exactly the same as reality, yet completely different. Was he the only alien in this world?
All the pores on his body exploded wildly.
Suddenly, an angry roar came from the left side of the audience.
"Are you guys teaming up to play a trick on me? The writings on these two pieces of paper are completely different. Are you blind and you say you can't tell?! This is not funny at all!"
"I'm leaving. This crappy welcome party—" A tall and strong figure stood up and hurriedly threw away the two programs in his hands.
The next second, the dark shadows on his left and right suddenly jumped up and threw him onto his seat. The boy's angry curses instantly turned into distorted and strange whimpers, and a stream of liquid flew up like a small fountain.
Before Mu Yu had time to be surprised that he actually had a friend, his face changed and he stood up immediately.
"what?"
"Where are you going, Old Four?"
"Hey, you're blocking me."
The roommates made the usual complaints.
A chill ran up Mu Yu's back.
He heard himself answer quickly with a tense voice: "It's nothing... I just suddenly felt like going to the bathroom, don't worry about me."
He quickly squeezed to the left side of Area C, causing countless dissatisfaction in the middle. Those students seemed to have completely ignored the sound of broken bones and groans coming from the dark corner, and concentrated on playing the role of the audience.
Before Mu Yu arrived, a boy in the back row also noticed the unusual situation and ran down the aisle in the middle of Area C, trying to pull the two students apart: "What the hell are you doing? Let him go. Are you crazy? What are you doing!"
His voice was shaking violently.
Mu Yu successfully squeezed to the place where the accident happened. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the scene in front of him and his brain stopped working for two seconds.
A boy was slumped in a seat, with large splatters of blood on his chest and cheeks, his neck had been bitten in half, and his head was tilted to the side.
The two people who pounced on him continued to bite him, like two wild beasts devouring their prey.
Thick blood continued to flow out of his blood vessels. The boy's mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out. He only spit out blood and his body twitched slightly.
No one around cared at all, everyone was looking forward to the show starting.
The boy who came from the back seat covered the man's neck with one hand and used the other hand to pull the two people, trying to stop them in fear: "You are crazy, damn, I am not dreaming, damn, these are fucking zombies--"
He raised his head and shouted to the people around him: "Why are you all sitting down——"
Before countless "audiences" around turned their heads, Mu Yu stepped forward and covered his mouth forcefully.
The boy "wuwuwu" stared at him with wide eyes, seemingly not understanding what he was doing.
Mu Yu covered his face more tightly, and his back was covered with cold sweat.
He looked around vigilantly to make sure that the boy's shouting did not lead to worse consequences, and immediately looked at the two people who were still eating the living person.
Maybe his brain was stimulated, but he suddenly recalled one of the rules he had just seen on the program.
...are you crazy?
Forget it, they are all crazy, it doesn’t matter if he goes a little crazier!
Mu Yu prepared himself mentally and said to the two students who were busy eating a living person, "...it is forbidden to open food and drinks with strange smells in the theater. Have you forgotten?"
As soon as he said this, the boy whose mouth he covered looked at him in despair with a look that said, "The whole world has gone crazy."
Food and drink with strange smell? What? The person being chewed? ? ?
Does the peculiar smell refer to the strong smell of blood? ?
Mu Yu's heart was beating fast.
Is it useful? Or is it useless?
His nerves were stretched to a taut string.
The two students paused.
The boy whose mouth was covered by Mu Yu was stunned.
Is it really useful?!
Mu Yu stared at them, raised his hand, shook the crumpled program in his hand, and warned: "You are breaking the rules."
…The two men opened their mouths, raised their heads and looked at him.
Mu Yu was about to vomit.
These two people have the most normal student faces.
But at this moment, his face was covered with the smell of blood, with pieces of meat hanging between his teeth, and his eyes were cold and lifeless.
The evil spirits in the world are nothing more than this.
...If he hadn't reacted in time, the second, third, and eldest brother would have bitten him to death and eaten him?
How many people in this audience are predators and how many are prey?
Mu Yu took deep breaths to calm himself down.
wrong.
He quickly reviewed in his mind all the rules on both sides of the program he had just glanced over.
As long as you "don't let people around you notice your abnormality", it seems that you will not attract these people's prey.
Even if predation occurs, the rule of "no opening of food or drinks with strange smells" can restrain them.
The focus of this strange situation does not seem to be on these "audiences", but where is it?
"Please find the monster generator as soon as possible and destroy it."
Monster generator?
"Hey, hold on for a moment, I'll call 120 right away—"
The boy next to him wanted to help the man who collapsed on the seat to get up, but the man was completely motionless and shaking violently: "Fuck, brother, don't do it, hold on!"
On the stage, the melodious accompaniment has already sounded.
The first performer appeared on the stage in her best attire, with the microphone standing quietly in front of her.
Mu Yu's heart skipped a beat and she pressed the boy's shoulder: "Keep your voice down, the show is about to begin."
The boy's mentality has collapsed: "At this time, you——"
Seeing that the situation was not right, Mu Yu grabbed the man's chin and twisted his face fiercely: "We have to abide by the 'rules', don't you understand yet?"
The sharp pain in his jaw silenced the boy.
Mu Yu is shorter than him, just a little bit shorter.
A handsome face and a pair of black-framed glasses made him look like a dull and obedient boy, but his cold face and stern words made the boy dare not move at all.
And almost at the moment when Mu Yu's last syllable fell, screams came from the front row.
The two turned around and saw a boy rolling down the stairs.
To be precise, his two legs fell off his body, and his whole body broke into three parts and rolled forward and backward, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
The next second after he screamed, his head fell off his neck like a ripe melon, and blood spurted out.
Mu Yu clearly felt that the boy next to him was shaking violently under his palm.
…
The spotlight fell on the beautiful singer in gorgeous costumes, who sang a pleasant song, melodious and ethereal like the music of heaven.
The entire circular auditorium was filled with terrifying scenes.
In Area A, which faces Area C across the stage, a beam of light suddenly lit up, which seemed to be the light emitted by the flashlight mode of a mobile phone.
Unfortunately, the light didn't stay for more than 0.1 second. Something came out from the ground, extinguished the light, and knocked the man down.
Mu Yu blinked rapidly.
On the right side, in area B, you can vaguely see another person rolling down the stairs in four stages.
In area D on the left, a man tried to escape, but was grabbed by the collar and hair from behind. Dozens of dark shadows around him sucked him in like a whirlpool and swallowed him up completely.
Sweat broke out on Mu Yu's palms and his brain quickly analyzed the situation.
The three situations seem to correspond to three different death outcomes.
1. If they could let the "audience" around them notice their abnormality - it seems okay to talk to themselves or dance alone, but when they try to communicate with these "audience" and want them to recognize the abnormality, these people will be "awakened" from their self-identity, and then they will be eaten as food by these people.
Mu Yu glanced at the two students just now.
They had returned to normal, sitting back in their seats with blood on their faces, staring at the stage in ecstasy.
...After the "audience" wakes up, others' restraint and accusations against them will not attract their hunting, but after they return to their "self-identity", you have to be careful.
They can apparently be awakened an unlimited number of times.
2. If someone makes loud noises or moves around after the performance begins, the part of the body that violates the rules will fall off, and the result will of course be death.
3. Turn on the flashlight on your phone - probably also including strong light such as the flash emitted when taking pictures, which will attract something underground. There is no doubt that the final result will still be death.
Judging from the description of the rules on the program, it seems that rules one and three will apply throughout the entire process, while the second rule only applies during the stage performance.
Mu Yu didn't look back, but continued to observe the situation in the audience, whispering: "Don't move, don't shout, if your phone is not in vibrate mode, adjust it quickly, turn off the flash, and then take the opportunity to carefully read the rules on both sides of the program while this song is playing."
"Also, calm down."
He slowly loosened his hand.
The boy didn't say anything else.
But Mu Yu heard the sound of sniffing.
A song, about three minutes long, seemed to last three hours.
After the performance, Mu Yu noticed that a few figures in the audience began to walk towards the bottom of the audience seats.
It seems that there are still several surviving "partners".
He pulled the boy and said, "Let's go too, hurry up."
After the party officially begins, the interval between programs will become very short.
*
Mu Yu sent messages while running.
During the performance just now, he didn't dare to send a message to Lu Chongnian and Ye Sui rashly.
Although he knew very well that Ye Sui's phone was always in vibrate mode, and Lu Chongnian should be the same, what if?
What if these two people inexplicably turned on their cell phones tonight? If the ringing made a loud noise, it would be considered "making loud noise" - judging from the first rule of the "Xinlian Theater Usage Rules", this possibility is very high - then it would be over.
His three roommates have been infected and turned into black shadow spectators, but what about these two?
Lu Chongnian must be there, and Ye Sui should have arrived a long time ago, but I don’t know which audience area he is sitting in.
Also, what is the situation outside the Xinlian Theater now?
Mu Yu dialed 110 and put the phone to his ear, but heard no sound, not even a busy tone, as if the signal was blocked.
Maybe it was because he had watched too many horror movies and read too many horror novels, so he was not surprised at all.
Even after he ran down the auditorium and arrived under the stage, neither Lu Chongnian nor Ye Sui responded to his message.
The tall man who was standing in the last row of Area C just now also came down. Mu Yu walked closer and found that it was not Lu Chongnian at all, but a completely unfamiliar face.
There were only about six or seven people gathering quickly, and Ye Sui and Lu Zhongnian were not among them.
Mu Yu's heart sank.
There were only a few people among the three thousand spectators who were still normal. The probability that Ye Sui and Lu Zhongnian were among the latter was too small...
Moreover, in the current situation, it is unclear who is in a safer situation and who is in a more dangerous situation between them and the remaining nearly three thousand people.
On the stage, the host finished his introduction and the second singer came on stage.
The tempo was too fast, and everyone stopped at once when the music started.
Before they even had time to say a few words, some people cursed softly and some looked anxious.
At this time too—
A hand patted Mu Yu's shoulder from behind.
A panting voice accompanied by a familiar and pleasant voice sounded softly behind him.
"You're running too fast, squad leader."
Mu Yu was stunned.
At this moment, he got goose bumps all over his body, his heart stopped beating, and his head felt like it had exploded.
He turned his head and opened his eyes wide.
The tall boy looked down at him, a familiar handsome face, a familiar light smile.
"Twenty-nine days."
"haven't seen you for a long time."
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