Chapter 003 What a good kid
This house is facing north and south. Lin Xi didn't know what time it was. She was standing in the corridor. There was a staircase not far behind her and an elevator on the side. She only remembered that the house number was 403 and the house next door was 404.
After opening the door to room 403, the entrance light came on. The four people inside were standing slightly back, not illuminated by the entrance light. Behind them was a long shadow, with only a faint light leaking in from the balcony.
These four people, a couple with two children. The couple didn't look very old, around 35 or 36, and the children weren't much older either, around 7 or 8. I guess this is what the note said: mom, dad, son, and daughter.
But this note mentioned a family of five, and if you counted yourself, then there were indeed five people. The two children were about the same age, and Lin Xi couldn't tell who was older. But if you analyzed the content on the note, then your role should be the older sister, and the other two should be the younger siblings.
Just now, she thought she didn't have time to analyze outside, but now Lin Xi felt that it would be better to analyze outside before coming in. After all, she was young and had a good memory. She remembered that it said that the elder sister was trustworthy... Now she thought it was nonsense. She was that elder sister, so how could she not be trustworthy?
And she has to satisfy all of her brother's requests and her sister's wishes, which is really a bit outrageous.
She once again looked at the family of four across from her. She had to admit, they were all quite good-looking. The mother was young and beautiful, the father was handsome, and the two children were also delicate and delicate, like the children sitting under Guanyin. Their looks were barely comparable to her own.
They were good-looking, but one couldn't look too closely, especially not at their eyes. The moment Lin Xi observed their eyes, she felt the uncanny valley effect kick in. They were all smiling, but the problem was that only the corners of their mouths were raised, with no facial texture being affected at all, and there wasn't even a hint of smile in their eyes.
It was the most obvious fake smile. No matter who saw it, they would get goose bumps.
Lin Xi thought of the fourth sentence on the note again. She remembered that the general meaning was that there was only one living person in the house, and no one else was trustworthy. Then the answer was clear. The people smiling in front of her were all dead.
Lin Xi didn't know what others would do, but she subconsciously said, "I'm back, please make way."
Not only the four ghosts in front of them were stunned, but the audience in the live broadcast room were also stunned, because they really didn't expect that Lin Xi could be so brave.
As Lin Xi chose his talent in the dark world, the real world also underwent a dramatic change. A live streaming app inexplicably appeared on people's phones, computers, televisions, and even on large outdoor screens, and began automatically playing. At first, everyone thought it was a prank or a virus.
The app boasts 100 livestreaming rooms, large and small. Each is titled "Sweet Home," and the host's name is displayed in the lower left corner. Each host uses their real name, and some are not just from their own country; many are from other countries.
People clicked in to check it out out of curiosity, only to see a dark scene. Soon, a single line of text appeared on the screen: Welcome to the Rules Strange Talk Live Room. Comments began to roll over the live room, and everyone was initially in disbelief:
What software is this? Is it a virus?
[It's quite interesting. What does this virus do? It just makes us see a black screen? ]
[Oh my goodness, I'm tired of all the weird rules and stories. Don't think adding a live broadcast room will make it trendy, right?]
Some people even called for the software to be shut down immediately, but the live streaming app stayed on the phone and could not be turned off. Then, someone suddenly discovered: [No way, maybe it’s true. I found that I can log in to this app without an internet connection, and I can interact with you in real time. Unless these comments are a lie, otherwise... this app may really have a problem. ]
[Don't scare me, I'll just turn off the internet and try... Holy crap, it's actually true!]
[It's really scary. I'm using my old home computer, not even plugged in an internet cable, and I can still access this app.]
Many netizens realized that there was something wrong with this app and reported it to the Internet police. However...
The department was also in a headache. Because this app appeared not only on their own personal electronic devices, but also on important devices within the agency that were not connected to the Internet. The higher-ups conveyed the order to quickly investigate. Late at night, the agency quickly investigated the people in the live broadcast room, and even someone went to Lin Xi's home to investigate.
When they found that Lin Xi did not respond, the agency staff chose to break in, and then found that there was no one there. After that, they confirmed that the person named Lin Xi in the live broadcast room was this Lin Xi. In fact, they were not sure at the beginning, but now that Lin Xi was missing, she was directly matched with the anchor in the live broadcast room.
While officials were investigating, a change occurred in the livestream room. The screen went from black to a picture. Lin Xi also appeared in the livestream room. The audience watched her from a third-person perspective and saw her greet the audience.
While the other anchors looked nervous, only Lin Xi looked calm and composed... or a little silly.
In her live broadcast room, visitors sent a lot of comments. Some asked the host what was going on and why this APP appeared on their phones; some asked if it was true or not, and whether there was really a ghost story; some said that Lin Xi was very beautiful and the most attractive among the hosts, and stayed in the live broadcast room; but some people recognized Lin Xi...
[What's going on? Is it really Lin Xi? Why did Lin Xi go in? ]
[No, are you serious? Lin Xi is already miserable enough, and now she's being dragged into this kind of live broadcast?]
[No! I don't want to see Lin Xi die! A classmate had an accident not long ago, I don't want to see a second one get into trouble!]
The number of people in Lin Xi's live broadcast room gradually increased, and many viewers from other live broadcast rooms also poured in. Lin Xi felt that her movements were relatively fast, but someone was faster than hers, and for some reason, the mechanism had been triggered, leading to death. The live broadcast room played the entire scene of the anchor's death, including the scene where he was ripped out of his chest and heart by the ghost story...
Just one minute after the anchor's death, his live broadcast room went dark and was quickly closed. His live broadcast room could no longer be seen on the homepage.
At that time, the visitors to his live broadcast room were stunned. A lot of comments floated by, all of which were:
[No?! Seriously?!]
[Can such a scale be released? Where are the administrators? Where are the Internet police? Why don’t they cover this up?! ]
[Ahhhhh, this is too scary! Tell me we're filming a movie! Tell me now!]
However, a few minutes later, netizens discovered that the live broadcast app was still on their phones, and the vast majority of viewers had begun to believe: This might be true. They didn't know what would happen if these anchors died, but subconsciously felt that it would not be a good outcome.
Back to Lin Xi's live broadcast room, after Lin Xi said "I'm back, please make way", the comments in the live broadcast room went crazy:
[Miss Lin Xi, what are you doing?! Don’t do this to yourself! You will really die!]
[I testify that the host in the neighboring livestream room somehow triggered something and is now dead...]
[I have a feeling... Miss Lin Xi is about to get into trouble.]
However, to everyone's surprise, the few guys in front of them who looked less than human actually gave up their space. However, they each moved aside, and the gaps they left behind didn't look like a passageway, but rather like a circle, trapping Lin Xi himself.
After Lin Xi finished speaking, she did not immediately go in. Her next action was very natural. She reached out and placed the key on the small tray with the lucky cat on the shoe cabinet at the door, and then opened the shoe cabinet.
Her eyes wandered over the shoes in the shoe cabinet. There were many shoes in it, but Lin Xi was looking for slippers. Just kidding, what was the name of this ghost story dungeon? It was called Sweet Home, and the quest required her to become a member of this family. In other words, this was her home.
When you get home alone, what's the first thing you do? Of course, put your keys away and change your shoes. You can't walk around the house in your outdoor shoes, right?
Lin Xi was actually a somewhat careless person, sometimes she would forget to change her shoes. She would just walk into the living room with her shoes on and sit on the sofa. When her parents were still around, her mother would shout her name at the top of her lungs, and say, "Hey, the eldest lady is back. What, don't you have to clean this house?"
When she was with Shen Sangning, she would occasionally forget. Then Shen Sangning would pinch her ears and scold her, and then she would order her to mop every spot she stepped on. Lin Xi rarely did this, but it still happened occasionally.
But today she remembered it clearly. Who would enter the house without changing shoes?
Lin Xi found a pair of slippers of her own size, took them out of the shoe cabinet, put them on the ground, then took off her shoes and stepped on them. Lin Xi felt that these were probably slippers for her. In addition to this pair of slippers, there were actually two other pairs in the shoe cabinet, one for children, probably as a spare for the two children at home, and the other pair was very clean and had never been used. Lin Xi guessed that it was for the guests.
After changing his shoes, Lin Xi did not forget to put the shoes he took off back into the shoe cabinet.
She is such a good child.
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