Welcome to the Nightmare Live - CH 53

Chapter 53: Wife, our child has been swapped

Fukang Private General Hospital.

The cold black letters were particularly dazzling under the dim light.

Wen Jianyan felt a creepy coolness slowly climbing up his spine.

He couldn’t help recalling the words Ji Guan said to him at the end of the last instance — “Fukang Private General Hospital is near my home.”

Whether it was the mirror similar to Decai Middle School or the medical records from Fukang Private General Hospital, it seemed that they faintly revealed a dangerous message to him:

These instances came from the real world and were somehow connected to each other.

After realizing this, Wen Jianyan’s hair couldn’t help but stand on end.

Signing a soul contract with the weird “Nightmare Live Room” to become the anchor, and then being forced to enter instances full of death and weirdness, all this was enough for Wen Jianyan to feel troubled, but now it might even be possible that these horrific instances actually exist in the real world?

This possibility was so terrifying that he hardly dared to think about it.

However, in any case, the timeline of these instances should be different from the real world. Although in Decai Middle School and Antai Community the exact date wasn’t mentioned, it was clearly mentioned in Fukang Private General Hospital.

The day they entered the instance was April 24, 2014. According to Ji Guan’s description, Fukang Hospital had been abandoned since then.

That being the case, the timeline of the Antai Community should be before that.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

Everything that happened here, even if real, existed only in the past.

In any case, the most important thing to do now was to find the other two soul-locking altars before the other anchors.

He returned the medical record to Su Cheng, and briefly described the information he found in the living room.

Su Cheng frowned slightly: “It means, there is more than one team of anchors collecting soul-locking altars now?”

“Right.”

“However, don’t we all have the same purpose of collecting the soul-locking altar?” Su Cheng showed a puzzled expression on his face: “No matter which anchor collects the soul-locking altar, it must be returned to Granny Wen, so that she could suppress the evil spirits again. In that case, does it matter who gets it?”

“Of course the points are different.”

Wen Jianyan shrugged: “Of course, there are also props.”

According to the system prompt, there were a total of five hidden items in this instance of the Antai Community. There was only one legendary hidden item in all instances below level A, but the number of difficult and normal items was not fixed.

If the soul-locking altar in 1304 was a hidden item, then there was a high probability that the other soul-locking altars were also hidden items, and those might be difficult or even legendary.

With the increase in understanding of the relevant mechanisms of the Nightmare live broadcast room, Wen Jianyan gradually realized how rare the props of level difficult and above were.

All hidden items above the difficulty level could be taken out of the instances and used as props.

Moreover, according to the difficulty of the instances, even if the rarity was the same, the grade of the props would have a heaven-and-earth difference.

The difficult item Wen Jianyan obtained from Decai Middle School “Xiao Jie’s Teeth” could withstand the damage from a single monster for a minute, while the doctor’s certificate obtained from Fukang Hospital could allow him to escape a certain mortal attack directly, and gave him a golden body for one minute.

This was almost as if giving him an extra life.

And that was just a C+ level instance.

Difficult-level props found in level B instances, even if the anchor didn’t use them himself, and sold them on the black market after leaving the instance, they could get an almost astronomical sum of money.

So, the reason these anchors were so fanatical could be explained.

Su Cheng: “Then let’s go…”

Before he could finish speaking, the mobile phones in their pockets buzzed twice at the same time, which was particularly clear and piercing in the deadly silent space.

Wen Jianyan and Su Cheng were startled.

They looked at each other and took their phones out of their pockets.

The main line task had been updated.

Seeing his main line task, Su Cheng frowned slowly: “I…my main line task is to find a second anchor beside you and me within an hour.”

His identity card was that of a cowardly and timid teacher. After entering another world, he was terrified and always wanted to stay with a big group.

However, according to the information provided by Wen Jianyan just now, the other anchors in this instance had already formed a competitive relationship with them, and there might be conflicts after they met…

It was a little tricky.

Su Cheng sighed, raised his head, and looked at Wen Jianyan: “Has your main line task been updated? What is it?”

“……”

Wen Jianyan stared at his mobile phone screen expressionlessly and slowly read the newly updated ID card information again.

[Under the guidance of Granny Wen, you entered another world together with others. Although you encountered many unimaginable crises here, relying on your own luck, you still narrowly escaped death again and again.

You had never imagined that you would be able to enter a world full of supernatural beings in person and that you would have the opportunity to shoot all of them and subvert the worldview of all mankind. Therefore, in order to make your videos more credible, and to make yourself the most popular anchor in the supernatural area, you decide to hold a soul-calling ceremony in 1306.]

【Main line task 1: Hold a soul-calling ceremony in 1306 (Time limit: One hour)】

【Main line task 2: Shoot the soul-calling ceremony, the duration should not be shorter than ten minutes】

Wen Jianyan: “……”

Damn it, isn’t it clearly telling him to court death?

Is your brain having a problem?

In the “Integrity First” live broadcast room:

[Hahahahahahahahahahaha, Oh my God, what a task!]

[I can’t stop laughing, did all the other anchors who get the paranormal investigator ID card get this task?]

[Hahahahahaha I don’t know, other anchors who got this ID card never lived this long…]

[I understand now why… In this role, if one is able to survive a task, they will get a more terrible task next hahahahahahaha!]

After listening to Wen Jianyan’s main task, Su Cheng was also silent.

“In this world…” He stared at the young man standing in front of him, and his expression slowly cracked again: “Is it really possible to be such a pure idiot?”

Wen Jianyan: “…”

To tell you the truth, I would also like to know the answer to this question.

He took a deep breath, raised his hand to wipe his face, and forcibly suppressed the swear words in his heart that were enough to be blocked by the platform: “Although this task is really tricky, it shouldn’t be a big problem.”

After all, the group of anchors just fought in here, and all the paper figurines in 1306 had basically been cleaned up once…

It shouldn’t be too dangerous, right?

Wen Jianyan lowered his head, glanced at the soul-calling ceremony recorded on his identity card, and concluded:

“It’s quite simple. It doesn’t feel like a very professional ceremony. It’s quite half-baked.”

The corner of Su Cheng’s mouth twitched:

“…If we were in real life right now, it probably wouldn’t really work.”

But this was another world!

Not to mention holding such a half-baked soul-calling ceremony, even if you yell a little loudly, there might be a dozen ghosts coming out to chase you around!

This main task simply didn’t want people to live!

Soon after, under the reminder of the ID card, Wen Jianyan gathered all the props required for the ceremony and arranged them one by one in the living room.

Su Cheng stood aside, holding up his mobile phone, ready to start recording at any time.

Wen Jianyan glanced at Su Cheng, who nodded to indicate that he was ready.

So he began to carry out the ceremony according to the procedure.

The young man deliberately lowered his clear voice. The strange words with unknown meanings came out of his mouth, swirling around the room like spells.

The countdown was steadily and continuously changing.

【08:21】

He didn’t know if it was an illusion, but Su Cheng felt that the temperature of the air around him seemed to drop a lot, and a layer of goose bumps slowly appeared on his arm under the long sleeve.

“Zzzz…Zzzz”

The image on the screen began to become unstable, and many snowflakes appeared on the screen.

【07:12】

【Ding! It has been detected that the conditions are met, and the hidden branch line is opening——】

The mechanical sound of the system rang in the ears of both of them at the same time, but this time the scene did not change as it did last time but remained as it was before.

Just a scalp-numbing cracking sound came from the bedroom, not far away.

Su Cheng could almost imagine how the paper figurine, whose stomach was stuffed with human organs, sat up stiffly and slowly got off the bed.

“Tap tap.”

“Tap tap.”

There was the sound of footsteps rubbing against the ground as if they were slowly approaching the door.

Su Cheng unknowingly pointed the camera at the door of the bedroom and swallowed uncontrollably.

“Squeak—”

There was the sound of the cabinet door being opened.

It seemed that something had been taken out of the cabinet.

“Bah—”

There was a harsh sound as if some kind of sharp metal object was being dragged and colliding with the ground, making a frightening friction sound.

【05:45】

A little cold sweat oozed from Su Cheng’s forehead. He subconsciously takes a step back. His heel hits the wreckage of the sofa on the ground, making a slight sound.

The voice resounded in the dead silence of the room, like a hammer suddenly dropped on someone’s ear, making one’s scalp numb and their heart constrict.

The system voice sounded again:

【Congratulations to the anchor for triggering the scene: Memory kill】

【Please find all the body parts of the child hidden by the male owner.】

In the next second, a tall figure slowly appeared at the door of the bedroom.

The paper man had a stiff smile on his face, his body was stained black and red by blood, and he held a long axe in one hand. The blade of the axe was dragging along the ground, making harsh sounds.

He said incoherently:

“Wife, our child has been swapped by it. It has eaten our child, and I can’t find him.”

He raised up that pale face with a pervasive smile and stared at Wen Jianyan, who was not far away.

The paper man dragging the axe approached slowly, step by step, and asked in a crazy tone that made people feel chills all over:

“Did you hide it? Hand it over now,”

“If we open its belly, we might find our child.”

The corners of the paper man’s mouth were raised strangely:

“Don’t you think so? Wife.”

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