Welcome to the Nightmare Live - Ch 15.1

Decai Middle School

[Hahahaha​​haha, why was he caught so soon!]

[Hahahahahaha I declared that I will live in this live room from now on. It has brought me so much happiness to me.]

[Hahahahahaha why is it so funny to watch the anchor rollover? Hahahahah!]

[I wanna see what story he is going to make this time hahaha!]

Inside the corridor.

The temperature in the air dropped sharply, and the icy cold air penetrated into the skin, infiltrating the heart.

Zizi, zizi—

The harsh sound of electric current echoed in the empty corridor, scratching the eardrum like a thin, sharp needle.

Before he knew it, that face had completely changed back to its original appearance.

Under the flickering light, that terrifying face was coated with a layer of blue-grey light, the curvature of the corners of the mouth was exaggerated and eerie, and the skin was white as if swollen. A pair of pure black pupils stared straight at him. The cold gaze full of maliciousness was like gangrene attached to the bones, snaking up his back.

The young man was standing a few steps away, looking calm and expressionless.

He took a deep breath slowly——

Then turned around and ran away!

“……”

Question marks and ellipses floated across the barrage.

[?]

[???]

[That’s it? That’s it?]

As a swindler who cherished his life, Wen Jianyan always firmly believed in a life rule.

As a real man, when it’s time to be cowardly, be cowardly!

Wen Jianyan look ahead and ran like mad.

It was as if he was not running away, but rushing towards a better tomorrow with big strides.

Not only was he caught lying in front of the main boss, but the other party also had strength that he could not compete with. At this time, he only had the last magic weapon at the bottom of the box——

Escape!

Behind him, the smiling face was like a shadow.

From the corner of his eyes, Wen Jianyan saw that Xu Yuan’s face appeared in the glass window beside him from time to time, and a pair of dark eyes were staring straight at him.

Approaching him step by step.

The face drew closer, the distance between them slowly and irreversibly shortened.

The corners of the pale and twisted lips rose strangely, and the facial features became more and more similar to Wen Jianyan.

Wen Jianyan’s heart skipped a beat.

He found that the speed of the other party’s assimilation this time was much faster than the last time. In just a few tens of seconds, the face was already seven or eight points similar to his.

But it doesn’t matter, it’s almost here.

Wen Jianyan gritted his teeth and took off his coat while speeding up.

He rushed towards the stairwell with large strides, and suddenly raised his arm——

The coat was thrown upward and smashed precisely at the light bulb above his head with a bang!

“Crack!”

The clear sound of glass shattering sounded!

Fragments of the hot bulb scattered, and the red-burning wick quickly dimmed. The next second, the only light went out, and the entire corridor was plunged into darkness.

Wen Jianyan stood in the darkness, his chest heaving up and down quickly, and his heart was thumping in his chest cavity.

“……”

There was dead silence in his ears.

Nothing is catching up anymore.

Well, it looks like he made the right choice.

Wen Jianyan let out a long sigh, leaned against the cold wall a little out of strength, and gasped for breath.

According to his previous experience in dealing with Xu Yuan, the other party is mostly inside the mirror, and only after robbing the identity of a living person can she move outside the mirror.

Wen Jianyan noticed the state of the anchor when he was on the fourth floor before. Judging from his increasingly stiff and deformed face, Xu Yuan’s time outside the mirror is most likely limited.

Therefore, in order to be able to leave the mirror all the time, she must constantly seize other people’s identities.

Obviously, the time limit for the unlucky anchor had arrived and he was the next victim to be targeted.

Fortunately, however, there is a time lag in between.

Since Xu Yuan wants to get his identity, she must give up the identity of the anchor first. So during this time, she returns to the mirror.

And Wen Jianyan seized this opportunity.

The premise that the mirror can reflect the object is that there is a light source, so if the light source can be made to disappear, the other party cannot move.

Wen Jianyan raised his hand and rubbed the small blood marks on his cheeks that had been scratched by the glass fragments. The pain was minimal under the action of adrenaline, and he could only feel the warm and sticky touch when the blood flowed across his cheeks.

He adjusted his breathing.

It was fine so far.

Finally caught up.

The human skin portrait in the pocket is heavy.

In fact, at the moment when he was just blocked by Xu Yuan, Wen Jianyan had the idea of ​​handing over her “face” to the other party so that he could escape the disaster and complete the task, wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds?

However, the idea was quickly rejected by him.

This is not enough.

If that person with an inverted face was really “Xu Yuan”, Wen Jianyan would never hesitate.

But the problem is that now this “Xu Yuan” has absolutely nothing in common with the one in the diary. According to the information revealed by the audience in the barrage, Xu Yuan is now the most difficult monster in the entire instance.

Her aggression is too strong.

All the monsters Wen Jianyan has seen since entering the instance have a core obsession as the driving force.

Xiao Jie’s obsession was to “help her mother”, while the obsession of that person with an inverted face wants to “take Xu Yuan’s identity”, but what about Xu Yuan?

Take back her face?

Normally that should be the case.

But… Wen Jianyan always felt that something was not right, so he didn’t dare to draw conclusions so easily.

After all, according to the information he had obtained from another anchor, the reason why they went back to the fourth floor was that the anchor whose body was occupied by Xu Yuan led them there.

She repeatedly seized the identity of a living person, left the mirror, and led more people to the fourth floor.

——This is not something that a ghost who wants to take back their identity would do.

If Wen Jianyan’s intuition wasn’t wrong, even if he just returned the human skin portrait, it wouldn’t do anything to save his life.

Although the task will be completed, the person will also be gone, which is too worthless.

So, after a quick weighing of the pros and cons, Wen Jianyan decided to settle for the next best thing and risked going to the stairwell to cut off the light source.

Although the mission has not yet been completed, at least his life is safe.

After groping around in the corridor, Wen Jianyan slowly stood up.

After losing the only light source, the entire corridor seemed to be immersed in bottomless darkness, and nothing could be seen.

Wen Jianyan asked tentatively in his mind:

“Does the light from the live broadcast interface count as a light source in the instance?”

【No】The system’s flat and cold voice sounded: 【Live broadcast interface can only be seen by the host, so it can’t create real light in the instance.】

That’s good.

Wen Jianyan calmed down and opened the live broadcast interface.

As soon as the interface was opened, all the clanging sound that had been blocked rang together.

【Ding! The number of people online in the live broadcast room exceeded 10,000!】

【Congratulations to the anchor for his achievement: Popular Newcomer King

Wow, the popularity of your live broadcast room is steadily increasing. Although you are just a newcomer, more and more viewers are pouring into your live broadcast room, deeply impressed by your charm! Sending you to the throne of the popular newcomer king in this instance!

Please make persistent efforts to create a more exciting and novel live broadcast experience for the audience! 】

Wen Jianyan redeemed some points for survival time. The remaining points now, plus the reward points should last until the end of the instance without any problem.

That being the case, he had enough points to hide from the old witch. But he can’t slack off right now. He had to wait for the instance to end automatically.

Wen Jianyan let out a breath slowly, the pressure brought by the 20-minute survival time in the beginning was too great, so he was in an extremely tense state from the beginning. Now he can finally not be afraid all the time that he would die violently in five minutes.

He opened the backpack.

The Hand of Guidance and the Concealment Robe that he had purchased before were all used up, and now the entire backpack is empty, which also makes the apple seedling icon in the upper right corner look extraordinarily lush.

The following two lines of small print look particularly clear and eye-catching.

【The second stage of growth has been achieved】

【Unlock conditions have been met】

Wen Jianyan: ?

He remembered that in the first stage, there seemed to be no unlocking of this program?

Under his puzzled gaze, a line of small words popped up on the screen:

【Detecting that the host is out of danger, the system is automatically unlocking it for you】

Wen Jianyan: ??

Wait?

Wait???

He suddenly had a very ominous premonition.

No way?!

Wen Jianyan hurriedly opened the backstage again and looked at his remaining points in a panic — the next second, the numbers on it came into view, which suddenly made his eyes go blank, his breath suffocated, and he almost had a cardiac arrest.

【Remaining points: 0】

Wen Jianyan: “………………”

After working hard for half a day, he returned to the pre-liberation period overnight.

I am your uncle!1He is cursing

Wen Jianyan was dizzy with anger. He stared at the apple seedling, and almost put himself on a ventilator.

After finally earning enough points to ensure that he could clear the instance, the result was suddenly destroyed by this loser thing.

What luck!

Under his furious stare, a small tip slowly emerged from the top branch of the apple seedling, green and round, only the size of a fingernail.

Wen Jianyan was stunned.

He frowned and reached out to poke the icon.

A line of small print appeared.

【The Fruit of Lies】

Wen Jianyan was startled.

In the Old Testament, the human beings in the Garden of Eden were deceived by the devil who turned into a snake to eat the forbidden fruit. All desires, disasters, greed and destruction began with this lie.

This is a novice gift customised by the system according to his soul quality.

Indeed…

Unique.

Just as Wen Jianyan was muttering, the sound of footsteps came from overhead, and a faint light swayed, gradually illuminating the dark stairs.

Not good, light source!

Wen Jianyan suddenly came back to his senses, and his expression froze.

Su Cheng held the flashlight he forgot to return in his hand and walked down the stairs step by step.

His heart was as heavy as his pace.

Although he understands intellectually that the senior anchor’s approach is the most efficient and safest. He is just an NPC, even if he is coaxed into a dangerous place and sacrificed, it doesn’t matter.

But…

Whenever Brother Xu Wen who went into danger alone in order to find his younger sister, even when he encountered danger, his first reaction was to protect these “students”, flashed in his mind, Su Cheng’s heart couldn’t help but faintly ache.

He didn’t think that was the right thing to do.

Whenever he thought of himself who didn’t stand up and stop loudly at that time, Su Cheng regretted it so much that he wanted to slap himself.

Anger and remorse collided in his heart, causing him to turn away without hesitation.

The group of senior anchors were guarding in front of 408, and Su Cheng couldn’t go in to find him, so the only thing he could do now was to try his best to help Xu Wen fulfil his wish——

To find his sister.

Su Cheng took a deep breath and his eyes became firm.

At this moment, he suddenly noticed that he had walked into darkness unknowingly.

The lights in the stairwell on this floor at some point actually went out.

Too dark.

It was like being alone in a swamp, with an impenetrable heavy darkness in front of you. The sound and the light disappeared together, leaving only an uneasy abyss of nothingness.

Su Cheng stopped in surprise.

What happened?

What exactly happened here?

Before he could figure out why a black figure suddenly rushed over from the darkness and pressed him against the wall!

“Eh…!”

Su Cheng’s breathing stopped, and his pupils instantly tightened in shock and fear.

The flashlight was brutally snatched away.

In the next second, the only light source disappeared, leaving only bottomless darkness in front of him.

No!

Need to escape!

Su Cheng gasped in horror, his back was firmly pressed against the hard wall, and he struggled desperately with all his strength, until——

“Quiet.”

A deliberately lowered voice sounded in his ears. A clear voice with a slightly hurried enunciation, everything seems so familiar.

“…!”

Su Cheng slowly widened his eyes, and his tense limbs relaxed little by little.

He took a deep breath and whispered cautiously, almost in disbelief, “Brother XiaoWen…?”

“It’s me.”

After hearing this familiar answer, Su Cheng’s eyes became hot and he almost shed tears:

“I, I thought—”

“Me too.”

Wen Jianyan interrupted him and said quickly.

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