"Why don't I go first! You guys said there was crying coming from the walls, and it reminds me of a story." Song Mengmeng, who hadn't spoken until now, suddenly spoke up: "Have you heard Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat'?!"
"Oh dear, who doesn't know this story! It's just..." After Zhuo Xi's interruption, Zhou Qian had finally come to her senses and was clearly annoyed at her earlier lapse in composure.
It's all Zhao Suisui's fault!
She wouldn't have lost her composure if she hadn't said she heard crying!
They completely forgot that this was a live broadcast. That kind of sound could very well be a sound effect or something made by the production team to hide it from them!
This is incredible!
She actually fell for it!
So her tone was rather harsh at this point, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she heard the crying she had just heard again. She was about to lash out, but then she noticed that the expressions on the faces of everyone around her, including Zhuo Xi, who had been so calm just moments before, had also changed.
"W-What's wrong? Did you hear that crying too?!"
"Actually, I heard that there might be another version of Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cat!" Among the guests with grim expressions, Song Mengmeng, who was clearly cute but insisted on telling a ghost story with a serious face, easily attracted the attention of many viewers outside the venue. However, she seemed unaware of the powerful impact of this contrast, continuing to maintain a smile and ignoring the clear sobbing that even the viewers in the live broadcast room could hear, stubbornly and earnestly continuing to tell the story.
"There was once a couple who loved each other very much. They met at school, fell in love, and soon reached the stage of discussing marriage!"
Originally, this should have been a very happy story, but the problem is that the little girl's family is very poor. Not only can she not provide any help to the boy's future, but she may even add a lot of burden to him!
Because the families of the girls living in impoverished mountain areas cannot abandon them!
Therefore, given this reality, the boy's parents would definitely not agree to their marriage!
In order to be together, the boy tried many ways to persuade his parents to agree, but he failed in the end!
Fortunately, the boy's grandmother liked this girl very much, despite her poor family background, because she was exceptionally kind and ambitious! She gave the couple all the support she could, the most precious of which was a wedding house.
However, the old man's good intentions did not earn him the understanding of his son and daughter-in-law, who still tried every means to prevent the couple from being together.
Things gradually spiraled out of control. Perhaps it was an argument that was no different from any other, but the angry mother eventually concluded that the girl was too promiscuous and had seduced her usually obedient son.
Right there in the new house, the mother raised the wooden stick in her hand at the unprepared little girl!
The boy, completely unprepared, watched as his beloved lay in a pool of blood. And the one who brutally murdered her was none other than his mother!
This cruel reality almost drove the boy crazy.
But an even crueler choice was yet to come. He lost his lover, so his father and mother knelt before him, begging him to forgive his mother just this once. After all, he had already lost his lover; did he have to lose his only mother as well?!
Therefore, the family chose to keep it a secret!
They chose to destroy the evidence!
They announced to the public that their relationship was strained and the wedding was called off! And the girl, because of the breakup with the boy, left the city!
They destroyed the girl's body, melted it down, and mixed it with the last of the cement and sandpaper to make bricklaying material!
So from then on, the sound of a girl crying and screaming in pain could be heard constantly in that new house! Perhaps out of guilt, or for some other reason, the parents eventually secretly invited a Taoist priest to cover the entire wall with thick talismans to ward off evil spirits!
So the girl's soul was sealed within that wall, tormented daily by incantations and formations, slowly eroding her last vestiges of consciousness and spirit until nothing remained!
Song Mengmeng told the story very clearly and understandably, word by word!
At first, everyone thought it was just a story, but as she continued to tell the tale, many of the audience members, especially those in the house, began to get restless.
Could it be...?
"You, you really told that story so well, it really made me feel like I was there, hahaha!" Zhuo Xi chuckled dryly, trying to ease the awkward atmosphere. Before he came to participate in this program, he had naturally learned about what had happened in this house.
If he remembered correctly, the story Song Mengmeng was telling was clearly a veiled reference to the landlord of this house!
But this is a live broadcast! Even if she wants to make up a story to increase the horror atmosphere of the show, telling such a story that is so immersive could easily cause big trouble for the show!
What Zhuo Xi could think of, the program's director naturally could as well.
The production team still remembers how arrogant and domineering that couple was when they came to the show to cause trouble. If the show continues to be broadcast like this, wouldn't that be handing that couple leverage over them?!
But when the director tried to cut off the signal as instructed by the director, he was horrified to find that the signal was out of control again and he couldn't cut it off at all!
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