Chapter 29: Haunted Hill House (29)
The interruption of the live broadcast signal made the last means of communication between the program crew and the outside world ineffective.
The audience was stunned when they saw the screen suddenly lose signal and go black.
The fear that had been slowly accumulating due to the anomalies that kept appearing in the camera finally reached its peak at this moment.
Humans fear the unknown.
Waiting brings fear.
As a result, the video platform ushered in the most bizarre event in history——
A live broadcast program with the main screen and split screens all black quickly climbed to the top of the list on the homepage of the video platform with an unstoppable momentum, relying on the rapidly increasing topic volume every second.
Millions of viewers who subscribed to the program were anxiously watching the black screen of the program, and an anxious face was reflected on the black screen of each mobile phone or computer.
They were either praying silently or anxiously discussing with other viewers in the comment section to relieve their impatience and fear.
On social platforms, many people who had been following the live show just for fun were almost scared silly.
"I am a firm believer in the script. From the beginning till now, no matter what you say, I can find the corresponding props and techniques to prove that the monsters that appear in the camera are manipulated by humans. But now I am very suspicious... Is the director of this program a lunatic? The screen goes black??? Are they pursuing realism too much? There is no need for that, buddy. Isn't it enough for me to believe it?"
"At this point, are there still script parties? The Binhai City government has even gotten involved, brother. So many people have been alarmed, even the rescue team has gone, how could this be a script?"
"But didn't the authorities and the rescue team report that they didn't find anyone on Mount Guishan? And the geologist said that the scene in the footage wasn't Mount Guishan at all. Doesn't that prove that this show is just staged? Maybe they just found a small hill somewhere and started filming."
"Speaking of the authorities... Haven't you noticed that the authorities haven't released any updates on the search and rescue progress for several hours? I saw several influencers who were filming the scene say that it seemed like there was a sudden storm over Guishan, and a lot of cars just came to reinforce Guishan. Now all the influencers who were filming over there have been driven out, and all the highways and rural roads leading to Guishan have been blocked, with roadblocks set up and people guarding them, and no one is allowed to pass."
"The latest news is that Haiyun Temple suddenly asked all tourists to leave and temporarily closed the temple. They said they had some internal rituals to perform."
"Holy crap! Is this true? If this is true, it would be incredible. It feels like a storm is about to come. Is this part of the script? The director is so awesome."
"I've been patient, but I still want to curse. When you saw the live broadcast signal was interrupted and the official didn't report it, shouldn't you be concerned about the safety of the production team? What if something really terrible happened? Those of you who are still questioning the script, let me ask you, what kind of big shot does the director have to be to get the official to cooperate with him in acting!"
"When the live broadcast signal was cut off just now, I was watching the live broadcast main screen. It was really terrifying! I was so scared that I didn't have time to take a screenshot. Didn't you see that behind all the people in the production team, there was a blood-red shadow! They were talking to others normally as if they couldn't see it. The last second before the signal was cut off, a bloody face directly hit the camera, which scared me so much that I rolled off the bed and my heart almost jumped out of my chest."
"The program hired internet trolls? Make it up. I'll continue to listen to your story."
"No, I saw it too. I was originally squatting on Brother Yan's split screen, and I couldn't see any figures on his split screen, so I ran to the main screen, and then I saw it too! There really was a blurry blood-red shadow following each person, and those shadows didn't speak or move, they followed wherever they went, just standing quietly behind them and staring at them! I originally thought that my myopia had worsened again, but just now I communicated with other people in the comment section, and then I realized that several people who were watching the main screen had also seen that scene."
"If what you said is true, I have an idea. There was a saying before that ghosts and monsters are actually a kind of magnetic field polymer. The magnetic field they carry is different from ours, and it will affect circuits and signals. Do you think that the sudden black screen of the live broadcast is due to this?"
"Stop arguing, let's see for ourselves..."
Seeing that the topic under the tag was becoming a heated argument and the topic was becoming more and more off-topic, variety show celebrity Goose Brother suddenly appeared in the topic.
Brother Goose, who was staying at home alone, looked at the screenshots on his computer, wiped his face in despair, and silently repeated "Amitabha Amitabha, ghosts, please don't come to me" three times to cheer himself up. Finally, he mustered up the courage and pressed the send button.
The latest updates of the big V immediately appeared in front of all the discussants.
@爱看节目同饭的鹅哥: Give the goose a way out, I need to go to the bathroom! ! After seeing these screenshots sent to me by fans, I now sit on the bed leaning against the wall, not daring to go anywhere, not even leaving space behind me, for fear that something will stand behind me without making a sound! (Friendly reminder: Those who are timid or have heart problems should not click on the pictures! Curiosity kills the cat!)
The dynamic accompanying pictures include several screenshots of the live broadcast of the program guests and staff taken from different angles. At a glance, you can tell that they are screenshots of the split screens of each guest and the main live broadcast screen.
Big V Goose Brother picked out a few of the best-taken pictures from the private messages that were bombarded to him by frightened fans and released them.
From these screenshots, you can clearly see that behind each member of the program crew, there is a human-shaped bright red shadow standing.
They said nothing, but stared intently at the living people in front of them. Their red eyes, which were as empty as glass beads, were filled with strange desires, but they were patient, as if they were waiting for the opportunity.
However, the people in the program crew could not see these ghosts at all. Even when they were facing each other, their expressions were normal and relaxed, and they were not aware that they were in the living room at all.
It is already filled with ghosts with malicious intent.
However, perhaps through the lens, or perhaps because of the black stone slab against the background of the lens, from these carefully selected video screenshots, everyone who sees the pictures can easily see these ghost images.
Curiosity is human instinct, and rebellious psychology is also common.
Many people didn't know about the existence of this program, but they just clicked on the tag and saw the updates of the big V Goose Brother. Some viewers of this program also felt something was wrong when they saw Goose Brother's still desperate tone.
But the two reminders added by Goose Brother at the end made many people who didn't want to click on it suddenly have a rebellious mentality - you said you don't want to click? I just want to see what it is!
When those who saw the big V's post clicked on it out of curiosity, they almost gasped for breath and were almost frightened to the point of cardiac arrest.
Many people were so frightened that they screamed subconsciously, and threw their phones away with shaking hands.
By the time a few people reacted and managed to calm themselves down, their hearts were still beating wildly.
“What the hell! What the hell! Ahhh!!”
"Mom, I want to go home! Aaaaaaaaah!!"
"Ouch, my cabinet moved. I don't want to play anymore."
“…I turned over silently in the bed, lying on my back. After looking at these pictures, I feel safer with my back against the bed, huh.”
"Brother upstairs, maybe there is one hiding under your bed (Devil Whisper)"
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh shut up!!”
"No, wait! Have you noticed that Bai Shuang An Nanyuan and the others don't know anything about this? What should I do? I'm so anxious that I'm about to cry. The live broadcast signal is disconnected and the program team hasn't responded even after I tagged them in the comment section. Is there any way I can tell them about this now?"
"Oh my god... my brother and the others are in danger now! Those things might do something, help! Someone come and save them!"
Brother Goose looked at the rapidly increasing number of comments under his post with eyes that were dark from not sleeping all day, and nodded tiredly but with satisfaction.
——I can’t be the only one who is scared to death. Come on, we are all viewers of this show, so of course we can share the happiness and watch the screenshots together.
Then, as if he was frightened and became neurotic, he glanced around quickly, and after confirming that there was no red ghost standing next to him, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to wrap himself tightly in his little quilt, replying to those fans who were so anxious that they were about to cry.
"I also sent the screenshots to the rescue team and officials. They have people at Guishan. After seeing the pictures, they will definitely find a way to pass the message to Guishan. Don't worry."
After seeing Goose Brother’s reply, everyone who followed this show breathed a sigh of relief.
Indeed, this is the best solution at the moment. They can only watch in front of the screen and worry, but the rescue team on the scene is the one who can really solve the problem.
However, the relieved audience did not know that the officials who received the screenshots were also very anxious.
Not only the audience of the show but also the Taoist priest of Haiyun Temple discovered the ghost in the live camera.
Some viewers can only vaguely see red blurry shadows in the screenshots, but some viewers can directly see clear ghost shadows in the camera. This is because many people still have innate spirituality or are still young, so they are more sensitive to the existence of these ghosts.
However, the Taoist priests, who were good at catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, realized the seriousness of the matter after they discovered the abnormal scene of a sea of blood in Yan Shixun's split screen. They specially left a Taoist priest with his Yin Eyes to guard in front of the live broadcast, keeping an eye on the ghosts in the villa. They found something wrong at the first time and immediately sent a warning to the team of Taoist priests in Guishan.
However, when the Taoist priest, who was staying outside the boundary of Guishan with some rescue team members, received the news and wanted to rush into Guishan, his face changed drastically.
——Guishan, we can’t get in!
Those trees that seemed to be planted in a disorderly and barbaric manner were now like a complete strange formation. No matter how the Taoist priest tried to advance left and right, he would be blocked from entering Guishan by the tall trees that blocked out the sky.
There are death gates everywhere. If ghosts and gods do not respond, there will be no door to life.
"Master Ma, the radio signal of the first team entering the mountain has been cut off, and there has been no response when calling them."
The captain of the rescue team who stayed behind held the communicator and said seriously, "Please contact Taoist Song and his team urgently to ask if it is an equipment problem or an accident and whether they need reinforcements."
Taoist Priest Ma stepped on the tree trunk and jumped upside down from the air. He dodged the branches blown by the strong wind like the legendary martial artist and landed firmly next to the captain of the rescue team.
Before he could even catch his breath, he immediately started to make a fortune with his hands, but soon shook his head.
The rescue team leader frowned and said, "Master Ma, I meant to contact you by phone, not this kind of..."
"This is faster than a phone call, and you don't have to worry about no signal. It's convenient."
Taoist Priest Ma frowned tightly, and looked at Guishan with a vigilant look: "But no, Guishan... disappeared. No matter whether it is electronic signals or divination, there is no response."
"The worst possibility is that Guishan is no longer in the world of the living."
His voice was very low, as if he was talking to himself, so the rescue team leader couldn't hear clearly: "Could it be that the possibility that Master Uncle mentioned before is true? Not only is there Gui Mountain, but there is also Xiangyin's Ghost Mountain..."
The mountain was clearly right before their eyes, yet at this moment it seemed infinitely far away, the distance between life and death that the living could not cross.
"Captain! Look, the tree has changed!" The rescue team member next to him exclaimed, "Am I dazzled?"
Everyone watched helplessly as the lush trees on Guishan Mountain quickly turned black and withered, spreading from a point to the surface. At the same time, the most common fir trees turned into tall locust trees in the blink of an eye.
"The Sophora japonica tree... there's a ghost there, looking for a replacement."
Taoist Priest Ma’s heart sank.
…
Outside Guishan, there was chaos.
However, the guests and staff who were in a state of panic in the wine cellar had no idea that there was still a rescue team on the mountain who had not given up trying to rescue them, nor did they know what kind of fear and collapse the rescue team members were experiencing at that moment.
At this time, the guests were in the wine cellar, surrounding the male singer in the oak barrel, at a loss.
Originally, at a distance, everyone thought that the oak barrel contained wine based on their normal cognitive inertia.
However, after getting closer, they could clearly smell the smell of blood that had not spread in time in the cold.
The foul smell rushed straight into the brains of several guests, causing them to inhale it into their noses without any preparation, and then they began to retch reflexively.
It's like the smell of a dead body that has been exposed to the scorching sun for more than ten days, which will make people involuntarily have a lot of bad emotions and associations.
Ding Qian turned pale and rushed to a far corner to retch. She didn't care that the wall was covered with dust and held on to the wall so that her body, which was too weak to stand up, would have a place to support itself.
"Ding Xi, are you okay?"
A young male voice sounded beside Ding Qian, and he stretched out his arm next to Ding Qian, pretending to be worried about her and wanting to help her.
However, the voice without any ups and downs in tone carried an eerie chill that penetrated the bones.
But Ding Qian, who was so frightened that her legs were weak, had no time to pay attention to these details. After seeing the scene in the oak barrel, she felt her stomach was sour and she wanted to vomit it out. However, because she had eaten little in the morning, she couldn't vomit anything. She could only tremble and dry heave. Even her eyes were misty and her vision was blurred.
She quickly glanced to the side and roughly recognized from the man's clothes that he seemed to be the young and handsome assistant director of the program team.
I guess he saw her coming here alone, so he came over to ask out of job responsibility.
Ding Qian thanked him and held the man's arm without thinking too much.
I don’t know if it was because he had stayed in the cold wine cellar for too long, but that person’s body temperature was also very low. Ding Qian shivered when she first touched him.
The young and handsome staff member, in a corner where no one noticed, supported Ding Qian, with the corners of his mouth stiffly raised, a smile without any real meaning. Even the skin around his eyes, which were gradually turning red, was slightly raised because of this smile.
It was as if this human skin did not belong to him in the first place and he just put it on himself.
In the panic, no one noticed when Ding Qian ran away. They were also trying hard to suppress their nausea and hiccups.
"Wait, he seems to be still alive. I saw the artery in his neck just jumped!" The male guest who bravely approached exclaimed and quickly turned around and called for help: "Quick, hurry up and save him! He may still be saved!"
Although the staff and male guests nearby were reluctant to pull someone out of a barrel full of rotten blood, human life was at stake, so they suppressed their nausea and hurriedly pulled the unresponsive male singer out of the oak barrel of blood.
It was unknown how long the blood had been there; it had become sticky and smelly, and had turned into a viscous paste.
As the male singer was pulled out, the blood stuck to his body and stained the hands of other people.
Everyone vomited several times out of reflex, and their annoyance towards the male singer was almost at its peak.
Another male guest was accidentally hit in the eye by the splattered blood. He immediately felt a stinging pain in his eyes and quickly stepped back without caring about anything else and wiped his eyes with the cloth of his clothes.
"He looks like he's drowned." Looking at the male singer who was dragged out and laid on the ground, someone asked in confusion, "Look at his bloated stomach, just like those people who choked on water and drank too much water."
The male singer was completely unconscious at this time. His body temperature was as cold as ice. Only his extremely weak breathing and the rise and fall of his chest proved that he was still alive.
His face was pale and blood was constantly flowing from the corners of his bloodless mouth, and his stomach was bulging just as the man had said.
The drowning man drank water, but the male singer drank...
Thinking of this, everyone's faces turned pale and they subconsciously took two steps back.
They all saw what happened to Liu Yiyi after she drank the blood in the bottle.
Liu Yiyi is still lying in the emergency room with a high fever due to infection caused by secondary injury. But if it weren't for Yan Shixun, she wouldn't even have the chance to lie in the emergency room and receive first aid.
But now, Yan Shixun was not next to them.
——If Yan Shixun was here, he would definitely realize from the connection between the bottle of blood filled with wine that the old butler gave to Liu Yiyi and the oak barrel in the wine cellar that was supposed to contain wine but was filled with blood that the old butler wanted to feed to the program crew, that the flesh and blood in his hand was most likely stored in the wine cellar.
However, Yan Shixun was in another space on the fourth floor controlled by a fierce ghost at this time. He was unable to contact the people in the wine cellar and was unaware of this matter.
Everyone raised their flashlights and scanned the surroundings vigilantly, fearing that the monster that seriously injured Liu Yiyi would also appear in the wine cellar.
"Let's hurry up. It's so dark in the wine cellar. It would be bad if there really is something in there."
An Nanyuan shuddered, and the scenes from the horror movies he had seen replayed in his mind again. Perhaps the ghosts were hiding behind the oak barrels or in the shadows behind the corners, watching them quietly when they were anxious, with mocking and malicious smiles, fantasizing about the delicious taste of their flesh and blood...
An Nanyuan was so frightened by his own imagination that he screamed "Ah ...
Zhang Wubing was so frightened that he could almost hear the "crackling" sound of each of his bones colliding with each other, but everyone was looking at him, anxiously waiting for him to speak and agree immediately, so he knew that now was not the time to act stupidly.
He nodded stiffly: "H...Okay."
Everyone immediately lifted up the male singer, preparing to carry the heavy singer, who had drunk so much blood, up the stairs together.
Bai Shuang suddenly exclaimed: "Where's Sister Xixi?"
"Isn't she right next to us..." The person who spoke subconsciously raised his hand and pointed to the side, but when he turned his head to look a few beats late, the words in his mouth were stuck.
At some point, Ding Qian was no longer standing next to them.
"Where do you want to go, everyone?"
Suddenly, a cold question was heard in the darkness.
Everyone was startled and immediately pointed their flashlights in the direction of the sound.
But then I saw the young and handsome assistant director slowly walking towards me from the corner with a strange and stiff smile on his face.
That face should have been full of youthful vitality at this age, with a sunny and well-behaved smile. But at this moment in the darkness of the wine cellar, this smile that seemed to be torn apart by skin and flesh only made the people who saw it feel a chill rising directly from the feet to the top of the head.
"Is it because I haven't treated you well enough? Is it because the food and drinks here don't suit your taste?"
The assistant director slowly approached the crowd and spoke without any fluctuation in tone: "That won't do. The boss is not here, so I should be the one entertaining you all. If you are not satisfied, the boss will kill me when he comes back."
Before the program crew could ask questions about the abnormal behavior of this previously low-key and reliable assistant, they
In the tall and spacious wine cellar with no visible boundaries, one crashing sound after another rang out from the boundless darkness.
It echoed in the empty underground space, so chilling and chilling that it made everyone shudder with fear.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
…
In the oak barrels that rolled to the ground, blood-red arms and dry bones broke through the barrel lids and crawled out of the barrels slowly.
Under the flickering light of the flashlight, the blood-red monsters straightened up little by little, with their skinless arms hanging dangling, and slowly walked towards the program crew from the darkness on all directions.
There were even chunks of blood-red flesh that were no longer recognizable as human beings. They struggled to get out of the bucket and crawled on the dusty ground towards where everyone was.
"Perhaps, if you taste it carefully, you will like it."
The assistant director's voice was soft, but it carried a venom and malice that penetrated deep into the soul.
It was so cold and chilling that it seemed to come from the mouth of a dead person, urging death.
Everyone was so frightened that they couldn't stop shaking. They kept retreating and huddled together, but they could only watch those withered bones and ghosts getting closer and closer...
Everyone's spirit was on the verge of collapse, and their pupils shrank into points.
Finally, Zhang Wubing, who had been holding on, was frightened and burst into tears. He only remembered shouting out of his survival instinct: "Brother Yan! Brother Yan, help me! Ahhhhhhh!!!"
…
At this time, Yan Shixun was in the hostess's bedroom on the fourth floor, facing the female ghost in the blood-red mirror.
"I thought you needed to be introverted for a while, but I didn't expect you to recover so quickly?" Yan Shixun raised his sharp eyebrows and pretended to be surprised: "Should I praise you for being a famous actor in the old Shanghai city a hundred years ago? You are amazing."
Xi Shuang: “…”
Ever since Yan Shixun snatched the rose gold hairpin from her in the corridor just now and threw the female corpses and bones down the stairs one by one, turning them into a pool of flesh and bones, Xi Shuang realized that she might not be able to kill this arrogant guy and use him as fertilizer for her rose garden.
Yan Shixun continued to use the departure of his wet nurse to stimulate her, causing her to re-experience the fear and resentment from the depths of her soul that had never been healed or forgotten in the past hundred years.
So, in a rage and helplessness, Xi Shuang simply turned around and got into the mirror, intending to use this space to trap Yan Shixun, slowly wearing away his willpower and spirit until he collapsed.
——But Xi Shuang, who had never met someone like Yan Shixun, did not expect that there would be another possibility.
That is, she was enraged and collapsed first.
"Don't go! Where are you going?"
In the mirror, Xi Shuang just turned her head and wanted to retreat, but Yan Shixun made a gesture with his hands and reached into the mirror, quickly grabbing Xi Shuang's long hair.
Xi Shuang was silent for two seconds, then exploded in anger: "Let go!"
In anger, Xishuang's long black hair danced wildly, looking particularly terrifying.
However, Yan Shixun's expression did not change at all.
“I don’t have such plans for the time being.”
Yan Shixun was surprised by the mirror-like touch, as if it was the entrance to another world. But he showed no sign of it, and continued to act as recklessly as usual, not caring about Xi Shuang's anger.
"But since you're out now, why not chat?"
Yan Shixun pulled Xi Shuang's long hair out of the mirror. His slender fingers, which were used to making hand seals, flexibly and quickly wrapped the long hair around the letter in his other hand, and then tied a knot flexibly.
After doing all this, Yan Shixun finally let go of his hand, propped up his cheek and said to Xi Shuang in a leisurely manner: "Nanny said that you mistook me for the bandit who killed you a hundred years ago. I am a good person with an innocent heart, but you wronged me so much that I wanted to commit suicide by hitting my head against the mirror. However, you let me see so many memories of the past. You see, even the bandits had several people and were very lively. You have been hiding here alone for a hundred years, painting your eyebrows and lips every day to recall your lover. Aren't you bored?"
"Let's chat. I'm bored staying here anyway."
Xi Shuang was originally furious because of Yan Shixun's behavior, even her beautiful phoenix eyes turned red with anger.
However, when she heard Yan Shixun say what the nanny told him, she was stunned, and the redness in her phoenix eyes quickly faded away.
"Nurse..."
"What did she say to you?"
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