Chapter 15: Haunted House on the Mountain (15)
After An Nanyuan's split-screen live broadcast all night last night, the popularity of this live broadcast program on the video platform has continued to rise. Its position has also risen from the most inconspicuous corner to the latest recommendations of the platform with the rapid increase of hundreds of thousands of viewers, attracting more people to click on the video platform to watch.
But the unexpected incident during the program team's live broadcast this morning and the male actor's bizarre and thriller split-screen live broadcast were what really ignited the popularity of this program.
It was early in the morning before going to work or school, and many people habitually took out their phones on the road to check the interesting news of the day on social platforms. Then they were surprised to find that on the real-time hot list, more than a dozen hot tags were related to a travel variety show called "Heart-beating Travel Around the World for 99 Days".
And the label at the top is #deadresurrection#.
Many big Vs in variety shows and the entertainment industry are discussing this travel variety show under the tag. There are also many viewers who have returned from video platforms, and passers-by who clicked in out of curiosity due to the tag... the traffic is pouring in like crazy.
The one with the highest number of likes was a variety show celebrity who first discovered this travel variety show and sparked discussion. The audience also habitually regarded him as the base camp for discussing this variety show, and they posted their discoveries from the live broadcast in the comment area and uploaded screenshots and videos.
@爱看节目同饭的鹅哥: Thanks for the invitation. I'm in bed and I'm already pissing like crazy. This travel variety show is really addictive. From last night when I saw something that looked like a ghost in the live broadcast to now, I was so scared that I woke up the old man at the village several times, but I didn't dare to get out of bed to go to the toilet.
Finally, the day dawned, and when I finally mustered up my courage, I saw another split-screen shot... What the hell is that! Ah! Why is there a monster squatting at the door? How can it come out of the soil and rush directly at people! Is this also a script? This can't be the curtain, right? I was so scared that I just pulled my feet back into the quilt. Now I strongly suspect that there is also a monster squatting outside the bedroom door! !
This unfortunate big V was indeed scared to death. The live broadcast screenshots below the post also made many curious people who clicked in to understand why the big V was so emotional.
In the picture, blood-red arms stretched out towards the screen, staring silently at the outside of the screen with only black holes left in their eye sockets...
"Ahhh! Thank you, Brother Goose. I was scared to death too."
"It's so funny. If you hadn't told me this was a live variety show, I would have thought it was a promotional video for a horror game. I was just wondering who could have produced such a good video."
"Fuck, fuck! Do you call this a script? Are you blind? When the camera is focused on that red thing, you can even see the rotten teeth in its mouth clearly, okay? And when that thing moves, there is no trace of mechanical tracks at all. Whose props can be so realistic?"
"I was supposed to go to school, but I just asked for leave. I seriously suspect there's a monster squatting outside my door! It didn't make a sound all night, just squatting there until dawn, waiting for the moment you go out and let down your guard... I don't even dare to go out now."
"…I was even worse off. I watched it while taking a shower, and I didn't dare close my eyes while washing my hair. I felt like if I closed my eyes, all those monsters would jump out of the screen."
"Brother Goose, be reasonable, if you're really that scared, just turn it off."
The big V replied to this comment with tears in his eyes: "No, I've tried it. This variety show is simply addictive. I can't help but turn it on after turning it off, wanting to see what will happen next. I'm scared but can't stop watching it. I cried too."
This reply from the big V immediately touched the hearts of many people, and they all liked it.
"I also!"
"Add 1!"
"Why are you still on the social media platform? The main live broadcast screen of the show is open, and several split screens are also open, including the one called Yan Shixun. Aren't you going to watch it?"
"Go quickly! I'm about to cry because of the old man in the villa. Go and post more comments and save the child!"
"It's started? Here it comes!"
…
Inside the villa, under the command of Zhang Wubing, the staff gradually resumed their original working status, debugged the live broadcast equipment, and aimed it at the guests in the restaurant.
Although the program process went wrong, and the originally normal and relaxing travel variety show had so many accidents in less than a day, even one guest went crazy and had a mental breakdown, and another tour guide was seriously injured and is still in a coma. But the show must go on.
And the most important thing is that the old butler is always watching by the side.
Since they knew what happened last night and learned about the difficult situation from Yan Shixun, the staff were quite afraid of the only native old housekeeper in the villa, and were more cautious when the old housekeeper was around. They didn't want the old housekeeper to notice anything unusual, so they continued to work at a normal pace.
But even so, no matter where everyone went, they could vaguely feel the old butler's cold gaze watching them from behind, as if he was looking for something they did when they were alone.
On the surface, the guests and staff seemed to be doing fine, but only they themselves knew the anxiety and fear in their hearts.
Zhang Wubing looked at the ever-increasing number of subscriptions to the program on his mobile phone, but he looked worried and couldn't be happy.
The entire villa was shrouded in a depressing atmosphere. Only Yan Shixun sat at the dining table with a normal expression.
But unlike yesterday's dinner when he was ignored by everyone, now all the guests were looking at Yan Shixun nervously, as if they were going to make a decision based on his attitude.
One of the guests even said to the old butler who was serving breakfast to everyone, "No need for my portion. I'm not hungry."
However, Yan Shixun seemed to suddenly not understand the expressions of others, and asked curiously: "If you don't eat, aren't you hungry?"
Under the gaze of everyone, Yan Shixun calmly picked up the cutlery and prepared to enjoy his breakfast.
The guest who guessed wrong blushed: "But didn't you say that we can't..."
"The meat tastes great." Yan Shixun interrupted him and said to the old butler, "It's a pity that we didn't provide the human meat we had yesterday, but it seems that this tastes better than human meat. What's its name?"
The old butler, who was about to leave, stopped and turned to look at the fearless young man with a gloomy look.
After a while, he said in a rough and hoarse voice: "Then you have to ask her yourself."
“But I guess it should be called a contradiction.”
After leaving some meaningless words, the old butler walked into the kitchen and disappeared from everyone's sight.
The guests were left looking at each other, and then at Yan Shixun in confusion, not knowing what to do.
"Why are you looking at me?" Yan Shixun was puzzled. "Won't you be hungry if you don't eat? We don't know when we can leave here. Besides, isn't it a little late to be scared now? Didn't you have dinner last night?"
"Will all these things be okay?"
"If I eat, I'll become like Liu Yiyi... I'm fine with starving for a few days. I usually lose weight this way to look good on camera anyway."
Yan Shixun sneered: "Eat. How can you have the energy to run if you are not full?"
After hearing Yan Shixun give the correct answer in person, the guests finally calmed down and ate their breakfast in peace.
But Yan Shixun's gaze passed over everyone and looked towards the kitchen with the closed door.
The old butler's reaction and reply confirmed his guess.
After discovering the almost causal exchange in Liu Yiyi, Yan Shixun felt the contradiction in it.
If the old housekeeper wanted to exchange with something in the villa and achieve a certain purpose by making living people eat flesh and blood, then why not enforce it? Can't they just arrest all the members of the program team and force them to eat flesh and blood?
Why did he first mix human flesh in the dinner to trick the guests into eating it, then disguise the blood as red wine for Liu Yiyi, and then pretend to be Zhang Wubing to trick him into opening the door at night?
After going through so much extra trouble and still abiding by the rule of not actively entering the room at night - what are the things in the villa afraid of?
The reason why inhuman things can stay in the world for a long time is that they have unfulfilled obsessions. Especially the words said by the blood-red humanoids captured by the split-screen camera taken by the male actor, which made Yan Shixun more certain that the things in the villa were definitely not good.
And if we consider the rumors about Guishan, it is very likely that they have been here for a hundred years.
Being able to maintain its existence for a hundred years, with constant rumors of disappearance or death of passers-by, shows how deep the obsession of those things in the villa is. In order to achieve their goals, they would never mind using some cruel means, instead of acting according to their own rules as if they were restricted by something like now.
Yan Shixun suddenly thought of Bai Shuang.
Unlike Liu Yiyi who was injured by an axe in the room, Bai Shuang left the room last night but did not suffer any substantial harm, nor did she come into contact with human flesh or blood. Instead, she was tricked into singing in the garden by dressing up through the illusion created by the mirror.
With the comparison between Liu Yiyi and the male actor, no matter how you look at it, what Bai Shuang suffered was too light for this weird villa.
Why?
Yan Shixun could only think of one possibility——
The woman who caused hallucinations to Bai Shuang and him last night was the opposite of the old housekeeper. In fact, the old housekeeper was afraid of that woman.
Otherwise, the old butler would not have mentioned "ta" and "contradiction" just now, but only told Yan Shixun to ask it himself, and was unwilling to give a direct answer, as if "ta" was something that the old butler hated and feared.
Judging from the footage captured on the live broadcast main screen last night showing the old butler walking through the living room but stopping in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room without leaving, the old butler is most likely in the same group as the blood-red human-shaped flesh mass that hurt Liu Yiyi in the villa, while the woman in the garden who did not dare to go to the villa is in another group.
The woman didn't dare to go to the villa, and the old housekeeper did not leave the villa and went to the garden. The rose face in the garden was afraid of the woodshed, and the woman possessed by white frost fell next to the woodshed.
It seems like a logical chain that is linked together.
In fact, it was that woman who forced the old butler to act according to certain rules.
After this test on the old butler, the missing part from last night was filled in, and Yan Shixun suddenly figured out the whole thing.
Since the thing that stopped the male actor outside the villa and prevented him from going down the mountain was similar to the thing that appeared outside the woodshed last night, it now seems that the thing that prevented them from leaving was most likely something from the old butler's faction.
As long as he can make good use of the woman that the old butler is afraid of, he will most likely find a glimmer of hope and lead the entire program crew away from the ghost mountain full of resurrected evil spirits.
The guests quickly finished their breakfast and retreated to their rooms. Gradually, Yan Shixun was the only one left in the restaurant. He sat upright in his chair, his slender and strong body, and fell into a long and silent contemplation.
Even the audience in front of the live broadcast main screen couldn't help but become anxious when they saw Yan Shixun's silence, fearing that he had seen something strange, just like the actor who had a mental breakdown.
It was not until the porridge in the blue and white porcelain bowl beside Yan Shixun had completely cooled down that he blinked his eyes and regained his spirits.
He chuckled meaninglessly, picked up the bowl of porridge and drank it all in one gulp, then stood up and prepared to go to the fourth floor.
When they checked in yesterday, the old housekeeper explained that the fourth floor was leaking due to the recent rainy season and was uninhabitable, and he also refused everyone's requests to check in.
But judging from the malicious intent that the old butler has already revealed, this is definitely just an excuse.
On the fourth floor, there is something that the old butler doesn't want anyone to know.
Moreover, the old butler himself might not be able to go to the fourth floor.
——Yesterday, An Nanyuan explored the entire villa, including the fourth floor, during his free time before dinner. However, the old butler never showed up on the fourth floor to stop him, which seemed to contradict the old butler's actions that he wanted to conceal.
Yan Shixun thought of the scene he saw in his hallucination last night, where the woman in cheongsam was dressing in front of the mirror.
The room she was in was obviously consistent with the style of the villa, but it was much larger and more exquisite and luxurious than the rooms assigned to the guests.
If it was not a fictional illusion but a re-enactment of a scene from a hundred years ago, then judging from the view outside the window revealed by the fleeting glimpse, the room should be on the third or fourth floor.
But the four rooms on the third floor are occupied by Bai Shuang and An Nanyuan on the left, and Liu Yiyi and Ding Qian on the right.
When Liu Yiyi had the accident in the morning, Yan Shixun took the opportunity to look at four rooms, but none of them was the same as the one he saw in the hallucination.
In this case, it can only be the fourth floor.
Moreover, in the split-screen picture of An Nanyuan exploring the villa, Yan Shixun also saw the extremely feminine and luxurious decoration in a room on the fourth floor, and the old-fashioned lipstick box on the dressing table.
——It was exactly the same as the exquisite lipstick box he saw in his hallucination, with the two words "Xi Shuang" engraved in small calligraphy.
Yan Shixun had a hunch that he would find information about the woman on the fourth floor and understand why she and the old butler were wary of each other.
“Squeak…”
Even though the gilded handrails are still luxurious, they still cannot hide the old look of the wooden stairs.
When Yan Shixun stepped on it, he groaned as if he could not bear the burden.
The audience who had been waiting in front of Yan Shixun's split-screen live broadcast didn't know why, but at this moment they suddenly felt nervous. They all stopped discussing Yan Shixun's excessively good looks, and even stopped posting comments. They stared at the screen, fearing that something would suddenly jump out from the side in the next second.
But perhaps because it was daytime, the things that the audience were afraid of did not appear.
Until Yan Shixun reached the junction of the third and fourth floors and passed by the damaged and old Buddhist shrine——
The Guanyin statue originally enshrined in it suddenly moved without wind, fell from the lotus seat, and rolled in front of Yan Shixun, blocking his way to the fourth floor.
Yan Shixun subconsciously lowered his eyes to look.
The gold plating on the Guanyin statue has long been corroded by the passage of time, becoming dull and damaged, and the pure bottle in her hand has long disappeared.
Only his slightly drooping, half-open eyes still revealed the mercy and compassion of gods and Buddhas, as if he was looking at the child he blessed for a long time and wanted to continue to give him protection.
The Guanyin statue finally stabilized and stood still, facing upwards.
However, at the moment when Yan Shixun's eyes met the Guanyin statue's, the Guanyin statue's compassionate eyes slowly closed.
Guanyin closed her eyes and did not save the world.
Before Yan Shixun could react, the next second, a terrified female scream suddenly came from the third floor.
“Ahhhhhh!!!”
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