Chapter 13: Haunted Hill House (13)
Liu Yiyi was quickly handed over to the emergency personnel accompanying the program crew, and her injuries were identified.
The reason she lost too much blood and fell unconscious was the hideous cut on her lower back. If the cut was even a little deeper, it would have caused irreversible damage to her kidneys and spine. If that had happened, Liu Yiyi would not have been able to hold on until the morning when Yan Shixun kicked open the door and found her and gave her first aid.
Even the emergency personnel gasped when they saw the wound: "Director, I'm afraid she needs to be taken down the mountain immediately. Ms. Liu can no longer continue to participate in the next show."
Zhang Wubing, who was waiting outside, sighed dejectedly, "Do you think I don't want to send her down? Brother Yan has already said that she can't go out, so I can only help her treat her wounds first, and then send her to the hospital immediately after Brother Yan says that she can go down the mountain."
The emergency personnel did not know Yan Shixun, they only knew that he was an unknown person. Seeing Zhang Wubing obeying Yan Shixun's orders and respecting him, they were confused.
Fortunately, although Liu Yiyi was seriously injured, for some reason, not only had the bleeding stopped, but her vital signs were also stable. As long as the emergency personnel bandaged the wound well to prevent infection, there would be no major problems.
Upon hearing this result, Zhang Wubing guessed that it was Yan Shixun who took emergency measures immediately when he approached Liu Yiyi in the morning. Since he met Yan Shixun in college, he knew that his brother Yan knew some unscientific life-saving methods.
Zhang Wubing's heart finally settled down.
If Liu Yiyi really got into trouble here, it would definitely be a fatal blow to the show... Thanks Brother Yan!
"What did you see when you were cleaning the wound?" Yan Shixun stopped the first aid worker and asked her.
The first aid personnel were confused, but still described the cut on Liu Yiyi's lower back in detail and professionally.
It was a wound caused by an axe.
Yan Shixun made a judgment immediately.
He remembered the thing in the garden early yesterday morning that had dragged an axe and attacked the woodshed.
After being injured by his stick, the thing ran away. The one who had been squatting outside the woodshed for the whole night looked very similar to the first thing, both of them were like a piece of blood-red human flesh with the skin peeled off, but it didn't have an axe in its hand.
The one who attacked them first was probably not the same one who had been waiting for them all night. The one who had injured Liu Yiyi with an axe and nearly killed her was the one who had attacked them in the woodshed first.
Yan Shixun recalled that when he kicked open Liu Yiyi's door, it was locked from the inside and had not been damaged. And judging from the way Liu Yiyi struggled to crawl from the bed to the door, it didn't look like she opened the door to put the thing in.
Instead, it was as if the thing appeared directly in the room. Liu Yiyi fled in fright, but was hit by the thing with an axe halfway. However, the thing did not kill her completely, but left her lying on the ground and bleeding to death.
If he had not stopped the bleeding from Liu Yiyi's wound in time and removed the strong foul smell from her body, it was foreseeable that the ignorant crowd would come to look for her if they still hadn't seen Liu Yiyi by breakfast time, and all they would see would be a corpse that had bled to death.
You could have killed him with just one axe, but you chose to use a troublesome and volatile method... Why?
Yan Shixun lowered his eyes to look at the bottle of wine in his hand, and suddenly realized - maybe, it was for exchange.
Liu Yiyi drank blood of unknown origin, and that thing would require Liu Yiyi to pay the price with her own blood.
Even that thing was able to appear in Liu Yiyi's room without her opening the door, because she drank the stale blood, completed the "cause", and owed the thing the "result".
Therefore, the condition that the door cannot be opened from the outside after nightfall and nothing can enter the room unless the person in the room actively opens the door will become invalid.
After all, paying back debts is the default rule.
The reason why that thing found Liu Yiyi instead of anyone else was because when going up the mountain, Liu Yiyi jokingly said, "I am a ghost."
The word "ghost" stimulated something in the villa, causing it to target Liu Yiyi.
But if Liu Yiyi had not been too indulgent, and had remembered Yan Shixun's reminder, instead of opening the door to ask the old butler for red wine at night, giving that thing an opportunity, the attack on her would not have come so quickly and severely.
From this perspective, if he had not discovered the problematic meat in the kitchen yesterday and let everyone eat human flesh without any precautions, it would be equivalent to everyone owing the "fruit", and even if the door was locked, it would not be able to resist the things in the villa.
They could only be slaughtered and completely wiped out.
At this moment, Yan Shixun was deeply aware of the deep malice towards the living people that were peeping at him from the darkness in the villa.
But there was one thing Yan Shixun didn't get an answer to. That was——
What is the purpose of doing such trivial but special exchange things for the things in the villa?
If he could know their purpose, he would find a way to leave here.
"Xiaobing, give me all the footage of Liu Yiyi taken after the game ended last night." Yan Shixun wanted to see if he could find the reason from the footage.
After finally settling Liu Yiyi down, Zhang Wubing was able to free up time to explain the situation to all the staff and guests.
However, Zhang Wubing discovered that there was one missing guest?
"Is he in the room and hasn't come out yet?" Zhang Wubing subconsciously looked up at the actor's room.
Now that Liu Yiyi has gotten into trouble in the room, Zhang Wubing would rather have the guests stay together to increase safety than leaving them alone in the room.
The guests looked at each other and spoke hesitantly: "He seemed to be frightened by Sister Yiyi's appearance just now. He said he wanted to quit the show and went down the mountain without taking anything."
"!!! What?" Zhang Wubing was stunned, and immediately called the staff anxiously to go out and look for the actor.
Zhang Wubing didn't expect that there would be someone so stupid!
Yan Shixun had clearly reminded everyone implicitly yesterday. He also told them on the phone this morning not to run around and to stay calm in the face of possible accidents that might occur during the show. But how dare this person pretend he didn't hear it!
Zhang Wubing originally wanted to call Yan Shixun, but Yan Shixun sat down on the sofa leisurely and said slowly: "It's too late."
"The moment he stepped out of the villa's door, it was too late for anything. But there's no need to look for him, he will come back on his own."
"Brother Yan, what does this mean..."
Zhang Wubing had just asked half of his question when he heard an extremely shrill scream coming from outside the villa door.
All the guests and staff were trembling with fear. Bai Shuang and An Nanyuan quickly approached Yan Shixun, standing close to him and behind him as if they wanted to seek his protection.
The next moment, the door of the villa was pushed open.
The actor staggered in from outside with a pale face, as if he was frightened to death by something terrifying.
"Ghost, ghost!!!"
The guests were shocked when they saw the actor's miserable appearance.
And their respective split screens have already recorded the actor's extremely frightened look.
The audience who were waiting in front of the live broadcast felt as if a bucket of cold water had poured down their heads at that moment. The malice of the things in the villa seemed to penetrate the screen and wrap around them, making it impossible to escape.
Those sinister and spooky eyes looked at them, saying to them—
Don’t be impatient. I will come to find you after everyone in the villa is dead.
I want your blood, your flesh, and then I will put on your skin and live in your place.
And the flesh and blood of your family and friends will become my favorite delicacy...
Many viewers screamed and hurriedly exited the live broadcast room.
When they were no longer facing the screen and finally could no longer sense the malice, they realized that their clothes were soaked with cold sweat and they got goose bumps all over their bodies.
Just now, many people felt as if they were so close to that evil intent. It seemed as if the next moment, the things in the villa would come to them through the screen and devour their flesh and blood.
Yan Shixun frowned because the male actor said the word "ghost".
The actor, who was frightened to the point of having lost his mind, seemed to be mentally ill. His brain and the bottom line of his reason were completely destroyed. He tried to tell everyone what he had seen with chattering teeth, desperately trying to seek a sense of security.
"There's no way to get down the mountain! No matter which way you walk you'll end up in front of the villa. There are ghosts and corpses in the woods. There are corpses walking around!"
The actor gasped for air, like a fish that couldn't breathe because of water: "We're done, all done! No one can leave here, ha, ha ha!"
The actor was crying and laughing, his terrified face covered with mud and dead leaves from falling outside, and now covered with snot and tears, looking miserable.
"We all have to die here! No one can escape, no one can leave the grave of the dead!"
The guests looked at the actor who had gone crazy only to run out and come back, with shock and fear on their faces.
Everything in the villa fell silent for a moment.
Only the actor's crazy laughter was particularly creepy in the deathly silence.
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