Chapter 005: Close the Curtains When Sleeping
The moment Lin Xi saw the note, she felt like laughing. This was more like a set of rules between two sisters living in the same room than a set of rules in a strange story. The note had two different handwritings, one very childish and the other more formal.
Most of the words were written by the children themselves, but there was one line in the middle, "Sisters should take care of their younger brothers and sisters," which was obviously written in a different font, a more formal font.
There were even some characters that the child didn't know how to write, so they used pinyin. For example, she didn't quite understand the word "work and rest." Not only did she write it crookedly, she also wrote the word "息" directly as "Xi." Then, underneath this "Xi," the word "息" was written in a neat handwriting.
Not only that, there were also typos. The word "整" (neat and tidy) was too difficult for a child to write, so it was written incorrectly. The typo was crossed out, and the correct word was written underneath. Several other characters were also in the same situation, such as the word "睡" (sleep) in "睡" (sleep) and the word "窗" (curtain) in "幕 (curtain)" (window), which was written as "在". These were all corrected one by one by the more neat handwriting.
The last sixth rule is even stranger. After reading so many rule-based ghost story novels, Lin Xi has never seen one that says "I haven't thought about it yet, I'll talk about it later."
Apart from these, the rules here are relatively simple. Aside from "older sisters should take care of younger siblings," these are all very simple rules to follow. For Lin Xi, it's not a difficult task. Lin Xi wanted to go back and think about the previous rules. When she took out the previous note from her pocket and was about to read it, she suddenly received a message.
This message exploded directly in his mind. It was a clear female voice: "Draw the curtains! Draw the curtains when you go to bed!" The voice was particularly anxious. Lin Xi understood at this moment that this was the rule of the ghost story live broadcast room to immediately separate the audience's reminder function.
Lin Xi didn't expect the news to appear so directly in her mind, nor did she know why this news suddenly appeared, but the other party's tone was anxious, so she subconsciously stood up and walked to the bay window on the north side of the room, reached out and pulled the curtains directly. After doing all this, she pulled a chair and sat down.
After she sat down, she thought about it carefully and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. She looked up at the camera floating in front of her and couldn't help but put her hands together and bowed in gratitude.
The rules were truly unusual, each one brimming with murderous intent. Perhaps the most challenging part wasn't "older sisters must take care of their younger siblings," but rather the seemingly mundane details hidden within them. First up was "close the curtains when sleeping." This seemingly ordinary rule had nearly cost Lin Xi her life.
Generally speaking, when people see this, they think that "sleeping" refers to sleeping at night, but in fact, people don't only sleep at night, they also sleep in the afternoon. When people see sleeping, they preconceivedly think that this must be the case, but does this sleep necessarily mean that the person in the room is asleep? What if the key to judging whether the person in the room is sleeping is not the person in the room, but the hands of others...
For example, at the hands of those two ghosts who are parents.
She had just been outside, telling "Mom" to "go back to the room and rest for a while." From her perspective, Lin Xi might have just come back to sleep. Otherwise, why couldn't she just rest in the living room like Dad and the other two children? Resting in the room meant taking a nap.
If the mother made such a judgment and Lin Xi did not close the curtains, she would most likely die.
Lin Xi sat down, still thinking about this matter, but her eyes accidentally swept across the curtains, which froze her blood. This room faces north, and it is evening now. After the curtains are drawn, the room is very dark, and it is difficult to see outside.
The curtains on the bay window are either blackout curtains or thin fabric curtains that can block out light. Obviously, because this room faces north and does not get sunlight, the family does not think it needs particularly good curtains. But just now Lin Xi saw the living room and study, the curtains there are two layers, and there is a layer of gauze inside. Even the living room and study have such good curtains, but the curtains in the two daughters' rooms are used very casually.
Lin Xi wanted to say: OK, OK, this is how it goes, you are a ghost and still favoring boys over girls. He made his two daughters, one older and one younger, squeeze into one room, leaving a study room for them so they wouldn't live separately, and gave them a north-facing room while his son lived in the sun-facing room. And she didn't believe that his son's room was covered with rubbish curtain fabrics.
Of course, these have nothing to do with what is happening now. The reason why Lin Xi's blood froze was that at this moment, he could vaguely see an outline outside the curtain - the outline of a human head. There was a long neck connected to the head, and it looked like... a long piece of soft plasticine cylinder with a circle pressed on it.
Lin Xi was sure it was a head, or her "mom's" head. She heard the head whisper, "Lin Xi, are you asleep?" Her mother's voice was still gentle. Lin Xi opened her mouth, but in the end, no sound came out. She couldn't let her mother know that she was not asleep.
After a minute or two, the head retracted and there was no more sound outside the window.
Lin Xi swallowed. The kitchen and their room both faced north. The kitchen was open and had a window, and her side also had one, but there was also a guest bathroom in between. In other words, while "Mom" was cooking in the kitchen, she stuck her head out of the kitchen window, her neck stretching ever longer until she reached her window and asked these questions.
If my mother sticks her head over and sees that I didn't draw the curtains to sleep, but was holding a piece of paper and doing something unknown, she might trigger the mechanism and kill me.
Thanks again to the helpful kind-hearted person who saved my life.◆
Lin Xi waited for a while, and after confirming that "Mom" had no plans to come over to mess with him again, he looked at the camera and thanked her again, speaking in a pure anchorman's tone: "Thank you for the useful information sent by the kind-hearted person. I hope the other two kind-hearted people will follow the example of this kind-hearted person and send me more important information at critical times."
Lin Xi couldn't see what was happening in the livestream, let alone the comments floating around. She didn't know if the kindhearted person had heard her thanks. But the fact that the kindhearted person had given her such a crucial reminder proved that they were most likely watching from inside the livestream.
Following Lin Xi’s thanks, the barrage of comments in the live broadcast room also ushered in a new round of explosions.
A kind person stepped forward and said: [No need to thank me, I was just turning on two devices and saw the tragic death of the anchor in another live broadcast room, so I thought of sending you a reminder.]
Many visitors responded with, "What's that? Can the streamer see our comments? What's going on?"
The kindhearted person above was also confused: [Huh? Don’t you have one? I have a prompt box here where I can send SC to the streamer, and the streamer will definitely receive it. But it seems that I can only send one to a fixed streamer.]
The so-called SC is a paid private chat barrage, which allows fans to communicate with the anchor, and the anchor can also get a certain amount of compensation. If Lin Xi knew this was the case, she would definitely applaud the live broadcast room App: You are really good at learning, you have learned all the functions, why don’t you just open the reward function?
However, this function is only available to the three viewers who were given the reminder function. Other visitors also responded:
[No, no one has this function. ]
Lin Xi, in the livestream, seemed to be on the same page as everyone else. She simply explained the rules of the game from the beginning, including the possibility of drawing talents. She didn't mention her own talent, simply brushing it off by saying, "Blue sky and white clouds are nothing to mention."
Lin Xi was not guarding against the audience, but what if the ghosts heard what she was saying? Moreover, she told the audience about the strange rules because she wanted the remaining two kind-hearted people to know, so as not to send random messages and waste opportunities on unimportant things.
But what Lin Xi said not only shocked the ordinary audience in front of the screen, but also stunned the relevant departments. For the general public, the most important thing is not the second or third point, but the first point: the same batch of anchors died, and the ghost story will come.
Lin Xi’s live broadcast room was once so crowded that even Lin Xi could not be seen. It was full of:
[This is a lie, right? A strange story about the rules is coming?!]
[There is a limit to teasing people. The movie is well made, but there is no need to say such things.]
[No, so many people have died in the live broadcast room next door, how long can the remaining ones survive?! ]
If a strange rule story really happens, we won't be able to deal with the guy who makes heads fly off.
A visitor exited the live broadcast room and went to the homepage to check. The original 100 live broadcast rooms have now shrunk by more than half, and it has not been half an hour in the game. Some anchors died because they entered the house with shoes on, some anchors triggered the mechanism in the living room, and some were killed because of the name problem.
A family of three was killed. Some kind-hearted people in Linxi also saw it. Because he didn't draw the curtains, "Mom" caught him and realized he wasn't sleeping and was deceiving her, so "Mom" bit off his head.
Various unexpected ways of dying were played out in the live broadcast room.
At this moment, sharp-eyed netizens noticed that Lin Xi, who had just finished explaining the rules, made some incredible movements. She kept muttering, "Soul, come back..." Her voice was very soft, but the camera on her eyes picked up the sound very well, and the audience in the live broadcast room could hear it clearly.
[No, what is she doing? ]
[Miss Lin Xi seems to be... summoning spirits?]
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