Chapter 174: Spirit Exploration Live Room
Yuan Chi stood in a daze in the warm wind, not knowing how to react for a moment.
The scene before my eyes is so magical!
"Boss Xu...Boss Xu?"
He spoke timidly, somewhat unsure of the current situation. Was this breakfast referring to him? Or was it the monster behind him?
Thinking of Xu Zhiyan's love of money and greed, Yuan Chi called out the game panel and stammered, "Money! I haven't paid yet!"
Hearing Qian’s call… no, Yuan Chi’s call, Xu Zhiyan immediately turned around and revealed a formal smile.
"How can I accept your money when the monster on your back hasn't been dealt with yet?"
He said sorry, but his body was honest.
Xu Zhiyan pushed the paper money in his hand forward and stuffed it into the transparent monster's arms. He ignored the other party and squatted beside Yuan Chi. He called up the interface and muttered to himself.
"The vehicle wear and tear is 20,000 yuan, the time wasted on finding the way is 10,000 yuan, plus the follow-up fee is 40,000 yuan, a total of 70,000 yuan. Since this is our second transaction, based on the pleasant experience of the first transaction, if you don't pay in installments, I will give you a 99% discount, a total of 69,300 points."
After counting, Xu Zhiyan looked at the dozen paper money that Yuan Chi had bitten in his mouth before, and felt guilty, so he just treated it as a gift.
"Oh, and there's also paper money worth 50 points, but since you've already spent 100,000, I'll just treat it as a gift. Alas, there aren't many businessmen with a conscience like me these days. I didn't even charge interest on the 50 yuan I lent you."
Yuan Chi's face turned pale as he listened. His family's assets were almost emptied, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch for a moment.
"No... no installments."
Although it seems to be only a few hundred points cheaper, but every little bit counts!
I happily earned nearly 70,000 points.
Xu Zhiyan was in a good mood having made 100,000 yuan in one night.
"The money has been paid. I'll tell you about the gift later."
As a businessman who provides high-quality services, he spoke first without Yuan Chi reminding him, pointed to the sky which was turning pale, and explained why the gifts would be distributed late.
"I'm not sure if Xiao Tou Ming can still appear in the room after daybreak, so let him take care of the things on your back first. After that, we can talk about the rules of the giveaway. What do you think?"
The main reason he took this into consideration was that Bai Jin's portrait was delivered yesterday afternoon, but when he opened the photo he did not see the person.
So is there a possibility that Xiaotong can only appear at night?
How could Yuan Chi disagree? The wound on his back felt strangely itchy. He wanted to scratch it with his hand, but he couldn't find anything.
"Okay, all right, you have the final say!"
He nodded frantically, indicating that they could start now.
Xu Zhiyan received the signal and turned to look at the paper money floating in the air.
“So this black monster is on your menu?”
He was really curious whether the transparent monster in front of him could eat other monsters. If it could, that would be great. He had not forgotten the power it displayed after eating the transparent fusion monster yesterday.
The air froze for a moment, and no one knew what Xiao Tou Ming was thinking.
Suddenly, Xu Zhiyan felt the wind blowing past his ears, and a cold hand pressed against his back, pushing him towards the corridor.
After being stunned for a moment, Xu Zhiyan took two steps in confusion and spoke in doubt.
"...You don't need me to be there?"
Although no one answered, and the only sounds in the living room were Yuan Chi's suppressed cries of pain, Xu Zhiyan guessed and thought that this was probably what Xiao Mingming meant.
He thought of the human-skinned Buddha and carefully expressed his guess: "Could it be that he cannot be watched by humans when eating?"
After saying that, considering the time, Xu Zhiyan nodded without further hesitation and walked towards the master bedroom.
"Come to the bedroom and call me when you're ready."
"Bang--"
The door of the master bedroom was closed, and the only people left in the living room were Yuan Chi lying on the ground and the invisible monster.
The air, which had just warmed up, turned cold again.
Without Xu Zhiyan's voice, Yuan Chi was a little nervous, but considering what the other party had said before, that one cannot watch the monster while it is eating, he just closed his eyes obediently.
As time went by, the air became heavier and the light outside the window grew brighter.
After waiting for a few minutes and seeing no attack from the monster, Yuan Chi became a little panicked and raised his head to ask something.
A biting cold feeling poured down from my head.
He looked up at the simple low table in front of the sofa, his heart beating wildly.
There! Although he couldn't see it, he was sure that the invisible monster was sitting on the table!
Yuan Chi wanted to lie down and pretend to be dead, but considering the rising sun, he finally couldn't help but speak and asked about the remaining services.
He paid, this is the service content!
He has the right to ask about progress!
"…Have you eaten yet?"
However, after holding it in for a long time, Yuan Chi could only be forced to utter one sentence.
Help! This is so scary!
Without Xu Zhiyan, the aura of the transparent monster in front of him changed instantly, as if it had turned into some terrifying beast. The coldness it exuded alone indicated that it was very impatient.
Yuan Chi was about to cry.
He always felt that the monster in front of him would eat him too.
Suddenly remembering Xu Zhiyan's trick of using paper money to coax the monster, Yuan Chi glanced at the paper money that had just been thrown at him, and instantly came back to life.
He grabbed the paper money that was still stained with saliva, and raised it with both hands respectfully while lying on the ground.
"You...you need this, right? You can take my share too!"
After saying this, Yuan Chi breathed a sigh of relief.
This should be fine, right?
Contrary to expectations, the temperature dropped again in an instant, especially the money that Yuan Chi handed over, the half that was hanging in the air was actually frosted.
This action seemed to make the monster in front of him even more furious!
“…”
Shit! How could this happen?
Yuan Chi quickly let go, his heart was in turmoil. He couldn't understand why the monster in front of him seemed to get even angrier after he handed over the paper money?
But...but he used the same method as Xu Zhiyan!
Not long ago, after Xu Zhiyan handed over paper money, the monster thawed in the blink of an eye and became extremely docile. He saw it all, so why did the temperature get even colder after he handed it over? !
Yuan Chi was puzzled.
Just when the whole atmosphere was frozen, a muffled voice came from the direction of the bedroom.
"Are you ready? It's almost dawn."
It was Xu Zhiyan who had been waiting in the master bedroom and was getting a little anxious.
The sound seemed to trigger some kind of switch.
The transparent monster, which had just fallen into some kind of low pressure again, no longer sat there waiting to die.
Before Yuan Chi could react, he felt a weight on his body, as if a cold foot stepped on his shoulder.
“Puff—cough cough cough…”
Without being able to catch his breath, the unlucky player who was almost trampled to death in the living room coughed violently.
The next second, something even more outrageous happened.
He didn't know if it was because the wound was invaded by the rule monster, but he actually felt many hands pressing on the black monster and pulling it out!
No wonder the transparent monster wanted to step on his shoulder, it was looking for a fulcrum?
Yuan Chi opened his mouth wide and breathed in as much air as possible.
For some reason, he suddenly understood the other party's silence.
“…”
So the transparent monster doesn't eat the black monster? But why not tell Boss Xu directly? A good friend brought a bad breakfast, and although he was touched, he had to throw it away?
It's not okay to pull it out like this! He had already tried to pull it out on the way here, but it hurt as soon as he used force.
That kind of pain is not pain in the physical sense. It is more like something has taken root in the soul, and once it is torn, it will hurt.
If it is really pulled out, he will die, right?!
His mind was in a mess and Yuan Chi didn't know whether to stop.
Suddenly, he felt a weight on his shoulders and a lightness on his back - the black monster was actually pulled off!
...No, it doesn’t hurt?
Yuan Chi, who was lying on the ground, had a look of shock in his eyes. The pain he felt was very vivid. His shoulder, which had been stepped on, was particularly painful, but he did not feel as if his soul was being torn apart from beginning to end.
“Pah—”
The torn black monster was picked up by invisible hands like a pool of oil and thrown onto the table.
The black monster at this time was no longer the size it was at the beginning. It looked not much bigger than a human. It was wriggling, and its surface was covered with a layer of sticky black film.
The outlines of human heads kept pushing up the black film, then falling back down. In a short while, seven or eight faces appeared in a circle.
What does it mean to feel a real chill down your spine?
Yuan Chi touched his back and found that the place where he thought it was a wound was extremely smooth and there was no injury at all.
He only now realized that if he hadn't had Xu Zhiyan's help and hadn't been able to quickly get rid of the monster, he would have been wrapped and swallowed by the monster in front of him.
Cold sweat instantly flowed down my forehead.
Yuan Chi took a deep breath and opened his mouth to call Xu Zhiyan out.
"May--"
Just as he opened his mouth, the remaining few words were pressed back into his throat by a cold hand.
The black monster on the table suddenly began to struggle, as if countless hands were pulling it.
“Shua——”
The kitchen doors and windows, which no one had touched, were all opened in the blink of an eye.
Yuan Chi watched helplessly as the black monster was carried to the window by an invisible group of "them" and thrown out of the open window.
The hand covering his mouth loosened.
Yuan Chi was extremely nervous.
So you really didn't want to eat it but you couldn't refuse your friend's kindness and had to pretend to eat it?
This time he staggered to his feet and stood still, not daring to say anything rashly.
Probably dozens of seconds passed.
“Pah—”
Yuan Chi was slapped on the back of his head. He was caught off guard by the sudden attack and staggered, almost getting embedded in the wall.
“…”
Shit, what does this mean?
He covered his head and stood firm. After thinking for a moment, he realized that what the transparent monster meant was that everything had been dealt with and Xu Zhiyan could be called out.
Yuan Chi felt miserable.
Now that things have come to this, he can only ask Xu Zhiyan to come out obediently.
Feeling the temperature around him changing again and looking at Xu Zhiyan walking towards him, Yuan Chi felt extremely complicated.
We are all players, so why are we treated differently?
On the other side, Xu Zhiyan, who didn't know the specific situation in the living room, walked over and saw Yuan Chi standing there intact. He didn't show it on his face, but his mind was calculating.
It turns out that the little transparent one can really eat monsters?
Judging from Yuan Chi’s previous performance, this black monster is created after the player violates the rules, and will only entangle people who violate certain rules.
Can we do some other business in the dungeon, such as exorcising rule monsters for other players?
It not only allows the unknown people to feel the warmth of takeout, but also allows them to make a lot of money from the players.
A total win-win situation!
Seeing that Xu Zhiyan was curious about the exorcism process, Yuan Chi hesitated for a long time, and despite the low pressure of the transparent monster, he talked about the exorcism method.
However, considering the slap on the back of the head he had just received, he concealed the whereabouts of the last monster.
Just then, daybreak broke.
Xu Zhiyan, who was listening with great interest with his arms folded, suddenly felt a cool breeze.
Something is missing.
As the first rays of sunlight shone through the window in the morning, the two players in the living room realized that the transparent monster had disappeared.
Yuan Chi also breathed a sigh of relief after discovering that there was no change in his body.
After collecting the intelligence, Xu Zhiyan followed his promise and informed Yuan Chi of the contents related to the Human Skin Buddha, especially the need to stare at the other party and then leave the sight.
At this point, all transactions are completed.
Seeing that Yuan Chi was fine, Xu Zhiyan yawned and started to drive away the customers.
"The deal doesn't include you staying here for a day. If you want to stay here for a day, you have to pay more."
Putting his thumb and index finger together, he made a money gesture.
Yuan Chi immediately shook his head frantically.
He was now tired, sleepy and hungry, and had just been slapped by an invisible monster, so he wasn't feeling well.
"No, no, Boss Xu, it's daybreak now. I can send a message to the landlord to ask for the specific address."
Xu Zhiyan nodded, with a somewhat regretful expression.
It is still unknown whether there is any dangerous content in the daytime in the copy, so it is understandable that the customer plans to go back.
Yuan Chi said that he would call a taxi if he needed it at night. He has seen how unreliable the live broadcast rooms here are, and he is afraid that he will end up in some super remote ghost hunting location again.
Before leaving, Yuan Chi stood at the door, looking at Xu Zhiyan, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.
"how?"
Xu Zhiyan was a little confused by the look on his face.
"That monster... I mean, what exactly is that transparent monster?" Yuan Chi couldn't help but ask this question.
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyan leaned against the shoe cabinet, thought for a while, and then spoke.
"A very cute, well-behaved and obedient transparent 'them'? Although they are very strong and seem very powerful, they should be mutants. Overall, they are still relatively stable friends."
"Like eating monsters and burning paper money?"
After saying this, he seemed to have thought of something and added another sentence.
"Anyway I like it a lot."
“…”
Yuan Chi had a strange expression after hearing this.
This thing doesn’t eat the black monster at all, and doesn’t like the paper money he gave it, so how does Xu Zhiyan get along with the monster?
But seeing the other person smiling, Yuan Chi didn't know how to remind him.
Finally, before he left, he advised in a cautious tone: "Boss Xu, that... doesn't seem to be as simple as you think. Anyway, you should be careful."
After saying this, as if he was afraid of being retaliated against, Yuan Chi went out, closed the door in one go, and disappeared in a flash.
Xu Zhiyan, who was standing inside the door, was still smiling as before, and didn't seem to think much about Yuan Chi's words at all.
Returning to the living room, he casually took out a piece of compressed biscuits bought from the system mall from his backpack, and threw a handful of free candies into the hot soup, which tasted pretty good, and made a simple meal.
After eating, Xu Zhiyan came to the master bedroom, sat on the bed and looked at the contents of the mobile phone live broadcast room and the task panel.
[The first round of live broadcast of soul hunting has ended and the settlement is in progress. Please wait. ]
Putting down his phone, Xu Zhiyan stood up, walked to the table, reached out to wipe the black and white portrait placed among the candles, and began to mutter to himself.
"The little transparent one is not complicated. It is really well behaved."
"I like well-behaved creatures."
His slender white fingertips slid from the edge of the photo frame to the center, and he smiled twice.
"I really like being friends with Xiaomoyun." No way!
Ever since he entered the house and was completely sure that the little transparent thing was indeed the ghost slice brought by the portrait, Xu Zhiyan became extremely defensive.
When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong!
His client is not a fool, so how could he split into slices with such low intelligence that can't even understand complex sentences?
After the last experience of being baited with blood, Xu Zhiyan had a series of conspiracy theories in his mind when faced with this kind of honest and well-behaved slice.
Could it be the blood guy? Or some other slice of the self that can split?
I have clearly walked around the city, but the progress of the safe house is still a question mark. I don’t know whether the current detection system can completely detect the specific location of the safe house.
Letting go of the portrait, he sat on the bed, hugged the pillow, his thoughts racing.
The little transparent man is a bit like the Bai Shaoye in the previous copy, but not completely. It is currently impossible to tell whether this is a new bait, or a person who was really sliced up due to lack of intelligence, or just part of the sliced up part... He plans to stabilize the little transparent man first, while exploring the copy and looking for a safe house.
While I was thinking, the game panel popped up.
[Congratulations to the players who survived this round of live broadcast and entered the next round of live broadcast! ]
[Main Quest [Part 1]: Start the live broadcast of ghost hunting. ]
[Task 4: Become a popular anchor in the Soul Tan live broadcast room]
[Progress: 0%]
[Note: Congratulations on completing your first round of live broadcasts. This proves that you have the basic qualifications for live broadcasts, but this alone is not enough! As a live broadcaster, how can you not pursue popularity? Please complete a live broadcast with a popularity value of more than 10,000 as soon as possible! ]
[Reward: Points reward (tiered distribution)]
[Reward analysis: First place: 88888 points / Second place: 66666 points / Third place: 11111 points / Fourth place: 0 / Fifth place: -11111 points... and so on)]
When watching the front, Xu Zhiyan didn't think there was any problem. Everything was within his expectations. After all, it was a live copy, so it was normal to see the popularity.
But when he saw the reward analysis, his breath was taken away.
"Hmm? Negative points? Losing points?"
He could hardly believe his eyes and read the contents over and over again to make sure he was not seeing things.
After a long silence, Xu Zhiyan suddenly sighed.
"I haven't gotten rich yet, maybe it's because I'm too conscientious." He really couldn't think of such a level where you pay for points even if he racked his brain.
I just took a look at the live broadcast rooms. After one night, five of the sixteen live broadcast rooms were closed.
That is to say, there are still eleven players left to participate in the second round of live broadcast tasks. According to the method of the main system, the seventh most popular character will have 88,888 points deducted. So for the remaining four people, wouldn’t the points deducted start from 100,000?
In the live broadcast room, the audience who were cursing the system just now fell silent for a long time after hearing this.
[…Damn, why do I feel like what Xiao Baiwan said makes sense? ]
[Maybe it's because of the comparison. Compared with the shitty rules of the main system, I actually think Xiao Baiwan's fee is quite cost-effective? After all, he really helped. ]
[Pfft, although Yuan Chi's wallet was emptied, he also gained corresponding benefits. From this point of view, Xiao Baiwan is indeed a 'conscientious' businessman. ]
[Is this the beauty of contrast? ]
[Damn it, every time I see the main system and Xiao Baiwan, I always feel like it's a tit-for-tat showdown between capitalists.]
[Hahaha, the capitalists don’t even know who they want to tattoo on their backs. ]
[Hang up the street lamps! Don't let any of them run away! Hang up all the street lamps! ]
After checking the new tasks, Xu Zhiyan remembered that there were side quests. After clicking on them, he found that the side quests actually had a ranking.
[Who is the most popular? Start the popularity contest! (Click to view the popularity rankings)]
[First place: Live broadcast room 02]
[Second place: Live Room No. 08]
【Third place: Live broadcast room No. 05】
[Fourth place…]
As expected, Xu Zhiyan ranked first.
But when he wanted to click to receive the reward title, the side quest gave a new rule prompt.
[Who is the most popular? Let’s start the popularity contest! (Round 2)]
[Note: It is detected that you have successfully completed the first round of popularity competition! Now the second round of popularity competition is open for you! Only the most popular anchor is the real king of popularity! Come on! ]
[Tip: The second round of live broadcast popularity accumulation time is [22:00 to the next day 5:00], during this time, you can explore multiple ghost hunting locations. ]
[First round of rewards: Popularity King (title) has been awarded]
[Second round reward: Popularity King (cloak)]
[Reward Note: How can a true popular player only win one game? When the dungeon is settled, the player with the highest total popularity will take his or her own reward.]
[Example: The first round of rewards has been given to Live Room 02. If Live Room 02 fails to get the Most Popular Award in the second round, the second round of rewards will go to someone else. In the subsequent settlement, if Live Room 02 is the Most Popular Award, he can only take the rewards that belong to him...]
Xu Zhiyan pinched the bridge of his nose and cursed the main system eight hundred times in his heart.
What kind of side quest is this? It was the first time he knew that this kind of multi-round side quest actually required the final settlement before the reward could be obtained.
According to the example, if he wants to get the title of Popularity King, he must become the most popular anchor in the live broadcast room at the time of settlement...
This is simply provoking conflicts between players.
There is only one reward, and only the person who comes first in this round can get it.
But the new branch quest mechanism gave the other losers hope of getting rewards. After all, it was only the first round of live broadcasts. Although his popularity was relatively high, he was only broadcasting in the novice area.
Once everyone moves into the recommended position with better traffic, the few hundred popularity points left in the first round can be caught up with a little effort.
And the level specifically states that players can not only participate in a ghost hunt.
As long as you are brave and strong, you can explore any place you want in one night. Simply exploring spiritual locations can win by quantity.
After closing the game panel, Xu Zhiyan lay back on the bed, wondering whether the subsequent live broadcast should focus on quantity or quality.
It's hard to decide.
He checked the time and found it was still early. After hesitating for a moment, he decided to save some medicine and simply fell asleep with the quilt in his arms to replenish his energy naturally.
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
A white, smooth skull poked out from the door of the master bedroom. It was Little Knuckles.
Xu Zhiyan, who had just gotten enough sleep, was still playing with his phone in bed.
Hearing the knock on the door, he looked up at Little Gristle and asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Is there a problem with the inventory?"
They raided the Human Skin Buddha's lair last night. Time was tight, so all the things they took were piled up in Yaya's backpack. There was not much to do during the day, so he asked Xiao Cui Gu to take inventory and see if there was anything that could be sold, so that they could exchange them directly for money from this world when there was a chance.
“Ka-ka-ka.”
Xiao Ke Gu walked in dragging a plastic bag. He opened the bag and dense white bones were revealed.
“…Fuck.”
Xu Zhiyan was confused and leaned back subconsciously.
[Master! These are the human corpses killed by Human-Pigsy before the store closed.] Little Grit held up his little note.
After raising it, he seemed to have thought of something, took out a pen and crossed out the word "Master" and changed it to "Brother Xu".
After being called master for a while, Xu Zhiyan felt uncomfortable, so he ordered all the monsters with higher intelligence in the safe house to learn from Tianluo Butler and call him brother.
Although Little Brittlebone is one of the few top students in the safe house, he has been a low-level undead creature for too long and has not yet fully adapted.
However, as an undead spirit, it seems to be able to sense the emotions of the bones.
"Hmm? And then?"
Xu Zhiyan looked at Xiao Ke Gu, who was suddenly hesitant and pulling the bag with an expectant look on his face, with a complicated expression.
...Hey, why can he see the expectation from his skull? Is it his problem or the problem of the little bone!
As if he had made a great decision, Little Brittle Bone finally raised the note.
[They want to be buried, can we help?]
When Xu Zhiyan was stunned, the barrage of comments in his live broadcast room quickly appeared. This white skeleton seemed to have touched upon the strange sexual fetishes of some people.
[Good! Cute! Ah!]
[…It’s kind of cute. I want to raise one, but this monster plus the summoning container shouldn’t be cheap. I’m so jealous.]
[This White Bone Demon can actually empathize with bones? This is completely beyond the scope of ordinary monsters, right? ]
【Wow, wow, wow, so cute】
【You upstairs????????????】
[…People can’t, or at least shouldn’t. ]
[Holy crap! Holy crap! So scary! A pile of bones can actually write!]
[Very weak. Yesterday, when Xiao Baiwan and the Buddha statue were staring at each other, this little bone demon came out and was frightened to his knees. He is really timid.]
[Trading force for intelligence, it's worth it. 】
Inside the room, Xu Zhiyan scratched his hair and nodded at Xiaocuigu's anxious expression.
"But we can't delay the live broadcast."
He is such a good boss who pampers his employees!
The little crispy-bone chicken nodded like pecking at rice, and almost shook its head down, then immediately held up the note with the new plan.
[Master (crossed out) Brother Xu! I listed option 1.]
[There are no surveillance cameras in the city. When we go out at night, we just need to throw the bones near the police station. I will sort them!]
The bones of the victims were all piled together, making it impossible to tell who was who.
But as an undead creature, Little Brittle Bone has extremely high talent in this regard. Most importantly, it has no fingerprints. Even if someone wants to know who threw it, they won’t be able to find it on Xu Zhiyan’s head.
"Well, then you go ahead and fight, and we'll go out and do some good deeds tonight."
Watching Xiao Ke Gu happily dragging the bag away, Xu Zhiyan reluctantly got out of the bed.
He has to prepare for the next live broadcast.
After eating something casually, the hardworking anchor Xu tidied up his appearance, took a colorful videotape, went to the second bedroom, and started the live broadcast in advance.
[Wow! The host is up so early!]
[Although it’s already past four o’clock, it seems like we won’t be able to search for spirits for a while, right?]
[It’s okay, I just like pretty anchors, it’s nice to watch them for a while!]
[Hehehe, yesterday’s live broadcast was great! But I felt the second half wasn’t as interesting as the first half, so formulaic…]
[There are so many bad habits. It’s good that the anchor can still speak normally when he arrives at the ghost-hunting location. What do you want a bicycle for? Didn’t you want to run away yesterday when the cabinet moved?]
Xu Zhiyan held his chin up and looked at the live broadcast room filled with barrages of comments, with a gentle smile on his face, but his heart was in turmoil.
Something is wrong.
This group of people are the ones who watched the live broadcast last night, but he is just a small anchor now. When he went off the air yesterday, he did not announce in advance what time he would go on the air again today. The copy is not like an infinite game with a large traffic. As long as he is popular enough, he can start the broadcast at any time and there will be people watching.
That's why he chose to start the show early in order to fulfill his plan.
According to his observation, people in this city have to work, and there are many people on the road during the day. People who watch live broadcasts may have some free time, but they are so free...
Who would be waiting in the live broadcast room for him to come online?
Or in other words, who is watching his live broadcast?
"I'm a full-time anchor. After resting during the day, I can now go online early to chat with everyone."
Even though he had doubts about this group of viewers, Xu Zhiyan still performed his duties as a host diligently.
"Everyone came so early today. Have you finished your work? Did you slack off?"
[It’s done, it’s done. It’s already been done.]
[Just waiting to watch the anchor live! ]
[Host, how many gifts do you need to give to meet offline? (Salute +10)]
[Why don’t you give up? I think this anchor may look good, but she is a serious ghost hunting anchor, not a flirtatious anchor!]
[I think so too! The host is so smooth when exploring the spirit! I like it!]
[It would be a shame if she didn’t sell herself after growing up like this.]
[Ah, the upstairs is too vulgar]
[Where is the host going to search for ghosts today? I can’t wait!]
Looking at the uneven comments in the live broadcast room, Xu Zhiyan did not find any flaws in the conversation.
The responses from these viewers are all too normal! Moreover, the content of his live broadcast room is no different from that of other new anchors. If the broadcast is good, he will praise it, if it is not good, he will scold it, and from time to time there will be some obscene male comments.
There were too few clues, so Xu Zhiyan simply stopped thinking about it and just treated this group of audiences as ordinary people.
"I've actually already thought of a location for today's ghost hunt, but I'm not sure if you guys want to see it."
As he spoke, he held up the videotape in his hand.
"Has anyone heard of this? The Death Tape!"
The reward for the live broadcast of the death tape was too tempting for him to give up this side quest, but now it involved a popularity contest.
Anyway, when the live broadcast enters a mysterious place, the system will take over the picture and automatically increase the popularity.
So Xu Zhiyan decided to take the initiative and trick the audience into following his pace. In this way, at 10 o'clock in the evening, he could enter the video tape and broadcast live to earn popularity.
Do the branch line and the main line together to save time and effort!
But the audience didn't buy it.
[What is this? What videotape? I’ve never seen it before…]
[I have never heard of this supernatural event.]
[Where did the anchor get the videotape? Are you afraid to go out so you don’t want to see us?]
[This cover is indeed quite old and scary, and has a sense of age.]
[There is no information about the director, just pictures, which is a bit weird.]
[But this video is not as scary as some of the buildings, right?]
Seeing more and more suspicion in the live broadcast room, Xu Zhiyan stole a glance at the panel.
No content appeared, which means that this videotape is not enough to become a complete ghost hunting location.
But it doesn't matter, he had already thought of an excuse.
"I wonder if you have ever heard of the Buddhist supplies store on Liuyin Road that only appears at midnight?"
Xiao Ke Gu was not experienced in house-raiding for the first time, so he took everything, even old newspapers from ten years ago, and took a thick stack of them.
Xu Zhiyan happened to find some information about the missing people near the Buddhist supplies store ten years ago.
He adjusted the angle of the light and took a mirror and placed it horizontally on the table.
The white light shone upwards from below, which was particularly eerie and terrifying.
"It is said that ten years ago there was a Buddhist supplies store on Liuyin Road, where an evil Buddha made of human skin was enshrined. The evil Buddha had eight hands and three heads. He would catch people passing by at night, peel off their skin, and stick it on his body mixed with blood..."
Xu Zhiyan picked up the old newspaper he had prepared in advance, moved closer to the microphone and lowered his voice. With the addition of the weird lighting, it was as scary as it could be.
[Ahhhhh, anchor, please stop talking!]
[The grass is scary]
[Help, I need rescue...]
[Look how scared you are. Why are you so cowardly to watch a ghost-hunting live broadcast? Can you please get out of here?]
[Hiss——regardless of whether the story is true or not, the host’s atmosphere is really amazing. I feel a chill down my spine and have goosebumps.]
After waiting for a while, Xu Zhiyan finally saw the message he wanted.
[I remember! I remember this Buddhist supplies store!]
[Is it true? Can you tell me more?]
[Half a year ago, I heard from an old man in my family that if you want to buy Buddhist supplies, you must not go to Liuyin Road to buy them. They also said that someone got lost in the area.]
[Oh my god! Is this actually true?]
In such a big city, even if it is old news from ten years ago, if it can be reported in the newspaper, it will definitely cause a sensation and there must be people who vaguely remember some of the news.
Xu Zhiyan had already seen the name of the Buddhist supplies store appear on the task panel.
It's just a little strange. The writing on this location is very dim. At first glance, the names are different from those of other ghost hunting locations, and the distance is also wrong.
[Buddhist supplies store that you should not approach at night]
【Distance: 0.0km】
Looking at the distance column, Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, but then he thought...
It seems like he confiscated everything from the Buddhist supplies store, including candles, incense, bronze statues, and wooden statues. Except for the huge human-skin Buddha, he brought everything that could be moved. So there seems to be nothing wrong with the location determination?
[Wait, what does this Buddhist supplies store have to do with videotapes?]
[…I saw ghost marriage written on this videotape, anchor, please don’t tell me, is the human-skinned Buddha going to star in it?]
Seeing this line of words, Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but smile.
"The person who gave me this videotape said that he found it near a Buddhist supplies store. It is said that the outer layer of this videotape was originally human skin, but after he got it, it became an ordinary videotape."
This is pure nonsense.
But it doesn’t matter. With the addition of the Buddhist supplies store as a ghost hunting location, it means that if the anchor gets other supernatural news, as long as it is recognized by the audience, it can be converted into a usable ghost hunting location.
The locations where ghost hunting is done are usually places where supernatural events have been passed down by word of mouth.
Weird talk, weird talk, needs someone to talk about it.
Sure enough, after Xu Zhiyan made up a story with great emotion, a new ghost hunting location appeared on his game panel.
【The Death Tape That Cannot Be Watched】
【Distance: 0.0km】
"Since everyone is interested, let's tentatively watch the death tape at ten o'clock. If we have time after watching the film, how about we go outside and explore?"
Everything was back on track, and Xu Zhiyan smiled with a relaxed look on his face.
Now that the location has been decided, he will now select some knowledgeable guys from the audience to get more information about the videotape!
"So, does anyone know the story of 'Ghost Marriage'? It is said to be an anti-feudal theme."
[Me me me! I watched this with my dad when I was a kid.]
[Similar to the above, I still remember a little bit of the plot...]
…
The sun sets and the world falls into darkness.
As the time approached ten o'clock, Xu Zhiyan arranged the videotape player that he had borrowed from the landlord upstairs, set up the mobile phone stand, and adjusted the camera to point at the TV.
Instead of inserting the videotape rashly, he went to the master bedroom.
When I came back yesterday, the candles were out. Considering that the little transparent one was not aggressive, I simply did not light any candles today.
"I might be gone for a while, wait for me at home."
Xu Zhiyan spoke softly to the portrait. The scene was quite horrifying. If someone saw it, they might suspect that the dead person was his lover.
After briefly explaining, he returned to the living room.
The introduction on the videotape had been watched repeatedly. In the past few hours, he and the audience in the live broadcast room had carefully studied the entire plot to ensure that they were fully familiar with it.
“Dang-dang-dang…”
The eerie chimes of ten o'clock rang out.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Zhiyan confidently inserted the videotape into the machine.
There was snow on the TV screen.
The hissing sound is annoying.
Back on the sofa, the moment the content appeared on the screen, Xu Zhiyan’s extremely calm eyes went dark.
“Squeak—”
The door to the master bedroom opened.
A gust of wind blew by, and the snowflakes on the TV began to tremble.
…
For this branch line, Xu Zhiyan made a lot of preparations.
He felt that he might become the unlucky heroine who was caught for a ghost marriage, or he might become the policeman who took the heroine's place in the ghost marriage and finally killed the dead ghost.
But when he opened his eyes again, he saw a pale dead face and was stunned for a moment.
That's not right.
This script seems to be wrong in some way?
Looking at Bai Jin's familiar face in the coffin, Xu Zhiyan found himself clinging to the edge of the coffin.
"Something's wrong...why am I here?"
He didn't care why it was Bai Jin lying inside. When he saw this face, he felt almost no fear. His mind was full of unexpected identities.
But when he looked around, Xu Zhiyan found himself in a mourning hall, and he became even more confused.
Both the male and female protagonists are dead ghosts encountered in the later stage of the film. Looking at the layout of the mourning hall now, the dead ghost has not yet passed the seventh day. He will have to be buried, dug out, and then married... The male and female protagonists have not arrived at the village yet.
Isn't he the hero or heroine?
Then who is he?
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