The crying was so real.
But it wasn't over yet. The lights in the venue flickered several times and then went out again.
Before they could say anything, a spider-web-like lightning appeared on the big screen, accompanied by a rumbling thunder and the lights came on again, and someone in the crowd screamed.
“Ahhhhh!!!!”
Everyone looked at him, only to see him stretching out his trembling hand and pointing in the direction of the podium. Following his direction, gasps and screams erupted.
The woman who had previously been sitting on the stage with her back to the crowd, humming a lullaby and crying, was now hanging from the ceiling of the podium with her back to the crowd.
Her feet swayed in the air, the amplitude of which was so consistent with her messy black hair.
"Someone's dead!" someone exclaimed.
"This is not the real world at all, how could people die!" Some people still had some sanity left.
As soon as these words came out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "That's right, this is not the real world at all, how could someone die here!"
It’s all because of this light, this sound, this…
"Ah! She fell down!"
Under everyone's surprised gaze, the rope hanging the woman snapped and the woman's body fell straight to the ground.
【I don’t dare to watch anymore! 】
【Ahhh, what's going on! 】
Even though they knew that "death" did not exist in the virtual world, faced with such a situation, everyone subconsciously closed their eyes and dared not watch the scene on the stage.
Fortunately, the woman did not really fall to her death on the stage. When she was about to touch the podium, her body instantly turned into several fiery red butterflies, flapping their wings and flying away, and finally turned into particles and disappeared.
At this time, the big screen on the stage officially started playing the long-prepared clip.
The wheels of the suitcase scraped across the ground, making a noise that was particularly prominent in this narrow alley. Seeing this vaguely familiar suitcase, the fans of Nightmare Games were the first to react.
[Isn’t this the scene from the official clip that was released earlier? ]
I have a bold guess.
[Look at Teacher Lizi. Does the butterfly on her head look familiar?]
[Oh my god!]
Yu Yuan had recovered from her stiffness. She looked at Nari and asked jokingly, "You had a hard time tonight, didn't you?"
Nari felt embarrassed by what she said, and lightly touched the tip of her nose with her right index finger: "No, no."
As for why Yu Yuan was so stiff before, it was naturally because when the lights were turned on for the first time, the person sitting next to her was not Nari, but a fake doll made to look like Nari.
The others were far away and naturally didn't notice it, but the people sitting on Nari's left and right who were close by definitely noticed it. At the same time, they all received a private message from the organizer asking them to "keep it secret."
There was no problem in keeping it confidential, but they were not professional actors, so their performance was not natural enough.
Fortunately, no one noticed their abnormality.
When the lights came on for the second time, the real Nari came back, and the doll was deleted by Nari in the darkness, leaving only another "stand-in" on the stage.
After talking about Nari’s “busy” night, it’s time to talk about the big screen.
The man pulling the suitcase walked through the alley, leaving behind the rats that hurriedly crawled through the sewer hole and the barking of dogs coming from somewhere. Behind the alley, there was a very old-fashioned residential area.
The blue and white exterior walls are mottled, and the iron windows of every household are embroidered in a uniform reddish-brown color, yet they still firmly hold a yellowed air conditioner outer box.
The camera moved upwards, as if the audience had become the person pulling the suitcase, and everyone subconsciously raised their chins.
The residential building in this old campus has about ten floors. Through some of the open windows, you can see people inside. Someone is watering flowers with the green watering can peeking out. Someone is hanging clothes to dry. Dozens of clothes have to be squeezed into such a small window, and I don’t know if they can dry.
Just when I was obsessed with this rich atmosphere of life, the cell phone in my pocket rang. The ringtone was a cheerful song, but the lyrics were not very clear due to the sound quality.
I lowered my head and pulled out the thick phone without a case from my pocket. It showed that the caller was "Aunt Liu" and the number was 537-55***444.
"Hello?" I answered the call and immediately heard a familiar voice on the other end.
"Hello! It's me, your Aunt Liu! Have you arrived? I'm already at the iron gate downstairs!" The not-so-standard Mandarin with a rustic flavor immediately made people construct the image of Aunt Liu, whom they had never met, in their minds.
As it turned out, everyone was right. Aunt Liu did have curly hair, which seemed to have been dyed and had a slight purple-red hue.
He was wearing a black floral top with black tapered cropped trousers and a pair of old black cloth shoes, and was standing at the dark yellow iron gate.
I approached with my suitcase. She saw me, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped forward and asked, "Are you... the new resident of Sunset Red Apartments?"
I nodded, and Aunt Liu said "oh" and then took out her mobile phone to show me. Inside was a photo of a rental contract with my ID photo, signature and red fingerprints on it. My name is Xu Weiyi.
"Is the information correct?" Aunt Liu asked, and I nodded.
"That's fine. I'll tell my son." She said as she led me inside: "The room is on the fourth floor, room 402. Here's the key..."
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