Chapter 74

"Cole?" Louis called his lover's name softly.

There was silence. After scaring the real Louis, the Louis in the photo returned to the posture of standing and looking at the photo, and did not move.

The other photos were also quiet, as if they were just ordinary pictures, even the black and white doll stuck on Louis' arm fell into silence.

It seems that sacrificing a person can make these weird things quiet down for a while.

Louis was not pleased with this conclusion.

"Cole!" Louis' courage finally returned. He stood up and threw himself on the photo and took pictures frantically, wanting to call out his lover.

The photo did not respond.

Louis stared at the photo in front of him blankly. Suddenly, his expression twisted. He looked around the room for something to destroy. Finally, he set his sights on the isolation tape. It was set up to prevent tourists from getting too close to the painting and to block other people's sight. The metal pole was not fixed to the ground and was easily picked up. Louis swung it and smashed the heavy base hard against the glass covering the photo.

The blow did not break the glass, but left a long scratch on it.

Louis took a deep breath, swung the pole and hit the glass on the photo again and again. Finally, there was a cracking sound and the glass broke.

"Let Cole out! Otherwise I will tear up all these photos!" Louis threatened loudly.

The mysterious photograph of their house was not protected by glass, and Louise did not choose it because she was afraid that if she tore it off Cole would never get out again. Instead, she chose other works that were already in the museum.

The room was quiet and the threats seemed to be of no use.

Seeing this, Louis smashed the glass again desperately. Finally, he pulled the photo out of the glass and pretended to tear it apart.

Just as he was about to exert force, the doll on Louis' arm suddenly opened its eyes and let out a shrill scream. Then its arm seemed to melt, covering Louis' shoulders and spreading to his face.

A burning sensation appeared where the doll's skin was in contact, and Louis' hand trembled in pain, and the photo fell to the ground.

On the opposite wall, the fake Louis in the photo gave this side a mocking smile.

Then, this strange photo disappeared, along with the wall that was blocking it, revealing the arched door that should have been there.

"No--" Louis rushed over and stretched out his hand to grab the disappearing photo, but unfortunately he was still a step late this time, and the photo disappeared along with Cole.

Louis lay on the ground and cried bitterly. Half of the black doll's body had melted and was gradually eroding Louis' body.

It was at this time that a large number of viewers gathered in the live broadcast room and saw a messy ground, a few bloodstains, and Louis whose body was partially eroded by the black doll.

[Oh my god, is this the first victim? ]

[No, he is the second one. The previous one was pulled into the world of the photo.]

[That photo is not a photo in the museum, but a strange photo that suddenly appeared. ]

[There have been so many live broadcasts, all of different weird types, is there no unified standard? ]

[You are treating it like a factory assembly line, and you have a unified standard. ]

[There is a unified standard, and it is a "life-threatening" standard. This is the unified standard.]

[Maybe not. At least Bai Yixin doesn't care about his life.]

[It’s hard to say. He calls himself a businessman, but who knows if the items he trades include life or something like that.]

[It is usually included. ]

[Is it normal to talk about weird things? Even weird things are not normal. 】

[I want to ask if the person lying on the ground is finished. Look at that weird doll. Its body has merged into his.]

【I guess it won’t work. 】

【Louis, oh my god!】

【Does anyone know him? 】

[I know a super nice guy, where is his lover? ]

[If you mean the guy with short hair and well-developed muscles, then most likely he is gone.]

[Really? That's too bad.]

[Wait, this is a man, right? The one who disappeared before was also a man.]

【This is America, it’s very open.】

【Well, I don’t discriminate, after all, this is not mainstream. 】

[Sexual orientation is basically innate, and there is no distinction between mainstream and non-mainstream. ]

【He stopped moving.】

【It's over.】

[Wait, he's not dead yet, look, he's still breathing! ]

[The black doll has completely entered his body. I'm afraid he can't survive.]

[May God bless him, Amen. ]

Louis fell to the ground. He felt his whole body was hot, his ears were buzzing, and his head was beginning to feel dizzy.

"Cole..." Louis whispered his lover's name.

His current condition is like a severe cold, but surprisingly his hands and feet are very strong.

Louis stood up slowly. Because of the dizziness, he was unable to stand steadily at first. Instead, he held onto the wall and looked around.

The world is shaking slightly.

Looking at his arm, the doll was gone, but his left arm and shoulder had turned into gray skin, looking like a black and white photo that had lost its color.

"Hehehe~~" the doll's laughter echoed in his mind.

Louis patted his head, took a few steps forward and stepped out of the archway.

No, he had to go back. Cole was in the photo and he had to go find it.

However, when I turned around, there was no photography exhibition area. Behind me was a long corridor, and at the end of the corridor I could see the statues placed in the room over there.

Turning around and looking to the other side, the exit in the other direction is also the exhibition hall of the statue.

He seemed to be trapped in a corridor of space. No matter which direction he walked, he would enter the statue exhibition hall and the photography area would disappear.

Louis walked forward holding onto the wall. His dizzy head made it difficult for him to think calmly, and he could only rely on instinct to move forward and leave.

The statue exhibition area was very quiet. There were six statues placed on both sides of the exhibition hall. Louis had no intention of looking at them. Instead, he turned around slowly and wanted to go back to the corridor and walk back to the photography exhibition area.

Then I turned around and saw that the door behind me led to the oil painting exhibition area.

Looking forward, the door in front also leads to the oil painting exhibition area. The corridor leading to the photography exhibition disappears.

"Ha...haha." Louis cried and laughed, "Give him back to me..."

As he was speaking, a woman in a short skirt ran over. It was Liz.

Liz looked even more destitute than before. She had lost her high heels and her handbag while running. The once sophisticated and fashionable girl now looked like a refugee. When she saw Louis, she was not surprised but terrified.

Especially seeing that a lot of Louis' exposed skin turned gray.

"Ah——" Liz slammed on the brakes, kept a safe distance from Louis, and looked at him.

Louis' eyes were blurry, and everything he saw was a little double and blurry. He could only roughly make out that there was a girl in front of him, who seemed to be a tourist.

"My lover has disappeared..." Louis said in a hoarse voice, "Please call the police for me, thank you."

Liz stared at him with wide eyes, confirming that he didn't seem to have any offensive power, but looked like he was about to die. She said, "Don't you know what happened? There's no way to call the police now, and there's no signal on the cell phone. Everyone is trapped here."

Louis' eyelids twitched. He had no idea about this. His cell phone was running low on battery, so he hadn't considered calling the police in the first place.

He thought that the only place where strange things happened was the photography exhibition hall where they were, but now it seems that it was the entire museum.

"How unfortunate." Louis said with a smile.

Liz looked at the statues around her; they were all motionless and seemed to have no intimidation.

Looking at Louis in front of her, there was no threat. Liz, who was already tired from running, sat down slowly on the rest chair in front.

He didn't notice at all that the human-shaped statue behind him suddenly turned its head slowly and stared at him.

"It's unfortunate," Liz whispered. "It's so unfortunate. I will never go to any art museum again after I leave here."

Louis looked up at him, and the scene in his vision gradually became clear. Then he found that he was seeing a very unusual picture. There was a black smoke lingering on the statue behind Liz, and the smoke was gradually becoming thicker.

The statue, wrapped in black smoke, was reaching out its hand, as if it wanted to strangle Liz from behind.

"Be careful behind--" Louis shouted.

Liz was startled, and then immediately turned her head, seeing the statue's hand reaching out to her neck. She screamed and ran towards Louis.

The statue was so angry when it saw its prey running away that it actually crawled down from the pedestal. Although it was a plaster statue, its limbs twisted and looked as soft as real skin. The humanoid statue lay on the ground, crawling with its limbs twisted like a spider.

Such a weird scene frightened Liz so much that she screamed again and almost cried.

Louis saw the isolation tape next to him, picked up a pole and lifted it up. Liz hid behind Louis.

When the statue crawled in front of the two of them, Louis raised the pole of the isolation tape with both hands and smashed it hard on the head of the plaster statue.

With a bang, the plaster statue's head fell to the ground and rolled a long way.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the headless plaster man twisted his body again. When Louis saw this and wanted to smash the pole down again, the plaster man reached out and grabbed the pole, and with one force he squeezed the hollow pole until it was deformed.

Louis' face turned pale, and just as he was about to resist, a baby's scream came from his mind. The next second, Louis saw his arm, which had turned gray, also emitting black mist. He subconsciously waved his hand to brush off the black mist, and the arm wrapped in mist touched the plaster statue in front of him.

Then Louis saw two groups of black mist colliding with each other. In the end, the black mist on the plaster statue was defeated and was slightly dispersed. Then the plaster statue slowly cracked, and finally broke into two halves, and this time it was completely motionless.

Louis was stunned.

He looked at his gray-skinned arm in surprise, not quite understanding what was happening.

"Weird parasite." Kailett's voice rang out.

The half-skeleton boy stood at the front entrance and said, "Should I say it's lucky or unlucky? You, who are parasitized by the monster, have the power to destroy the monster. But at the same time, you, who are parasitized by the monster, will die young if you are not careful."