In the following days, everyone stayed indoors and watched horror movies in their own rooms.
Chu Huai watched the movie with a heavy heart.
The identity of the ghost parasitizing his body had been exposed, but he was trapped in the horror world and couldn’t continue the investigation.
He remembered the Blood Moon Werewolf instance before, where Jin Tianyi had sent the little boy back to reality, still holding onto a glimmer of hope that he could also temporarily return to reality to uncover the truth. However, Jin Tianyi informed him that only the apartment manager had this privilege.
The apartment manager was assumed to be the one who had completed the most instances.
Chu Huai could only set aside this concern for the time being.
The TV show had already progressed to where A and B were going to Room 439 to investigate, but Chu Huai was absent-mindedly watching.
Based on the information that had been revealed earlier, B was going to die in Room 439.
As the audience, Chu Huai had more knowledge than the actors who were immersed in the story, so he could predict what would happen next, including B’s fate. But the actors, including B, could not.
However, the plot suddenly took a turn.
B, who had a shrewd appearance, suddenly grabbed his stomach with an urgent look of pain and said to everyone: “I can’t hold it anymore! I need to go to the bathroom!”
A frowned impatiently: “You’re dropping the ball at a critical moment. Aren’t we supposed to go to Room 439? Can’t you hold it?”
Chu Huai understood that it was likely a requirement of the main plot that the actors had to go, so A was urging B based on his impulsive and brainless character.
B smiled wryly: “I really can’t hold it! Otherwise, could C go with you?”
He pulled C beside him and then hurriedly ran to the bathroom.
C’s face changed slightly, but he clearly didn’t fully realize the danger.
Chu Huai was startled and suddenly focused, staring intently at the screen.
Three minutes later, C died. C took B’s role and died for him. Afterward, B operated frequently and managed to avoid danger. By the end of the movie, only B, out of the six main actors, survived.
Feeling inspired, Chu Huailai had been watching a lot of movies lately, most of which were “wipeout films”. This movie, called “Abandoned Hotel,” had someone survive in the end.
Chu Huailai realized that there were some underlying rules to follow when filming. B must have found out about the danger in some way and used this method to escape, sacrificing C in the process.
Suddenly, the door rang. Chu Huailai went to open it and found Jin Tianyi.
Jin Tianyi’s gaze fell on the TV and he was surprised: “You’re also watching this? I just wanted to talk to you about it.”
Chu Huailai pointed to a basket of DVDs and said: “According to what you’re saying, the death rate in movies shouldn’t be that high, but why are all the movies here about everyone dying?”
“Except for this movie, ‘Abandoned Hotel,'” Chu Huailai added.
Jin Tianyi responded enigmatically: “Because the world doesn’t want the residents to discover the rules and thereby increase their survival rate.”
Chu Huailai realized: “So they’re also trying to scare us?”
“Right,” Jin Tianyi nodded: “these movies are selected and arranged in the residents’ rooms by the world.”
Chu Huailai nodded, then asked: “So why did they keep this movie, ‘Abandoned Hotel’?”
Jin Tianyi took the remote from him, and their hands accidentally touched. Chu Huai pulled his hand back and rubbed his fingertips subconsciously.
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“Right,” Jin Tianyi confirmed: “This movie was made by our apartment last year, and at that time, five out of six people were inexperienced newcomers.”
Jin Tianyi explained: “The world did not confiscate the rights to his apartment film, so this movie was preserved and gave us some inspiration.”
Chu Huai sneered: “Inspiration? Let the other five clueless newcomers die for him? It’s unfortunate for the newbies to have someone like him as their Floor Leader.”
Chu Huai had his pride and disdain to use such means to benefit himself at the cost of others.
Chu Huai’s eyebrows lifted slightly. “From his actions, he obviously knew the plot beforehand, but instead of trying to change it to save his teammates, he repeatedly pushed them to the ghosts and sacrificed them to save himself.”
Jin Tianyi’s heart trembled.
He and Chu Huai had always shared the same philosophy, that it was best to benefit oneself and others, but if that was impossible, the bottom line was to benefit oneself without harming others.
Guardians always protected people like Chu Huai, who were forced to enter the world due to karmic debts rather than committing crimes.
But at this moment, Jin Tianyi looked at Chu Huai and asked himself, what would he do if Chu Huai became a demon one day?
Jin Tianyi laughed suddenly.
He would still help him with all his might and send him back without reservation.
“What are you laughing at?” Chu Huai leaned over curiously.
Jin Tianyi was like an iceberg, and all Chu Huai could see was a small corner exposed above the water. The hidden part was too much, making him feel that this person was extremely unreal.
He was someone who could be trusted unconditionally but also easily respected from a distance.
Jin Tianyi suddenly leaned over and sneered: “Do you want to know what happened to the Floor Leader in the end?”
Chu Huai shrugged. “Did he come back to reality alive?”
Jin Tianyi motioned for him to come closer.
After hesitating for a moment, Chu Huai leaned in curiously.
Jin Tianyi chuckled softly. “He was killed by me in the next copy.”
Jin Tianyi smiled lightly. “That was when I first entered the apartment, and he tried to sacrifice me as he did before, but in the end, he was the one who got sacrificed.”
“Damn, a counter-kill? Awesome!” Chu Huai exclaimed, his obsidian-like eyes shining brightly.
As the two were talking, without warning, Chu Huai felt a sharp pain in his brain.
Bloody words appeared.
[233 Apartment 2020 New Year’s Horror Film: Villa Horror]
[Film introduction: Seven young people rent a villa in the suburbs to spend a wonderful weekend, but terrifying things keep happening. What is the truth behind it?]
[Film time: Starts this Friday night and returns on Sunday at noon.]
[The script has been delivered to the mailboxes of the residents’ floors, please check.]
[Please note that the characters are fixed and cannot be exchanged.]
[End of announcement. Wishing a happy new year to the residents of Apartment 233 :)]
Chu Huai looked up and met Jin Tianyi’s gaze. “I feel a great hostility in that expression.”
Jin Tianyi sneered. “There’s good news though. From the film introduction, it’s not a hopeless massacre-type horror film. There is a ‘truth’ to the film.”
Chu Huai nodded.
Three days later, they entered the world of the film.
Friday night.
The night was thick, the neon lights were dazzling, and this was the busiest bar district in A city.
Jin Tianyi was dressed in brand-name clothes, wearing black-framed glasses, and his messy hair gave him a youthful and naive vibe despite his deep facial features.
His character was… a gigolo who only lived off women.
The character’s name was Zhou Ling.
Zhou Ling came from a poor place and took out a loan to go to college. He intended to study hard and make a name for himself, but gradually succumbed to the paper money and luxury of the big city, and developed a habit of comparing himself to others.
He spent money recklessly but had no corresponding earning ability. He had no skills, but luckily had a particularly outstanding face and skills in bed. He decided to take a chance and secretly hooked up with the owner of a gay bar.
Since the script for the residents was confidential to others, even if he tried to share it, the other residents could not see the words on the script. Furthermore, the instructions at the end of the script stated that residents cannot communicate their roles with others, so Jin Tianyi was not sure which resident was the gay bar owner who supported him.
But it shouldn’t be Chu Huai, since this sugar mommy was a woman, and she had just sent him a gray message with extremely vulgar content, which made him feel disgusted and his body shiver.
The purpose of this world was to create information asymmetry and increase the difficulty of the film.
In the film, task performers must first satisfy their character conditions before communicating, which can be said to be full of obstacles.
The sound of the gray message alert suddenly rang.
Your sweetheart: “Dear, have you arrived yet? I’ve been waiting so lonely.”
Jin Tianyi’s face stiffened, he had a headache.
At this stage, the story is still introducing the character settings to the audience, and the main plot has not yet been revealed. The bloody words only remind him to go to the bar to pick up ‘his sweetheart’.
The beginning of the story is Zhou Ling’s birthday on Saturday, and his female boss rented a villa for him. Zhou Ling invited several of his college classmates to go with him.
Apart from character information and the opening plot, the script only has some instructions, so for now, he can only follow them to pick up the person.
But the eerie tone of “your sweetheart” made him even wonder if he had to provide some bizarre service.
The character settings in the film are extremely exaggerated, and Jin Tianyi can understand it, after all, it is to attract the audience’s attention.
ZL: “I’m almost there.”
After replying, Jin Tianyi looked up at the bar in front of him.
He walked in and immediately attracted many ambiguous looks.
“Little Zhou, came to find Sister Shen again?” The bartender smiled.
Jin Tianyi: “Yeah, where’s Sister Shen?”
He still had the basic information about the sugar mommy, the person’s name was Shen Huai, young and beautiful, hot-tempered and straightforward.
“Over there.” The bartender cracked some melon seeds and pointed to a group of people not far away.
Someone was pole dancing there.
The person in the crowd was slender and tall, probably about 1.8 meters tall, with hot and sexy wavy long hair and a front convex and back curled white skin.
From afar, Jin Tianyi couldn’t see the face clearly.
He walked over and the person holding the pole turned around and smiled at him. Jin Tianyi’s phone fell to the ground instantly.
He almost couldn’t help laughing.
It was Chu Huai.
Jin Tianyi originally thought that his role was crappy, but compared to Chu Huai, he didn’t even have the qualification to complain.
He secretly reminisced about the gray letter he received earlier, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily lifted.
The world is so amazing, tsk tsk. No wonder Chu Huai kicked him out in a fit of anger after reading the script that day.
Chu Huai saw Jin Tianyi and felt like he wanted to die.
Damn it, the world even gave him a pole dancing skill just to fit the plot.
He had been dancing around this pole like a fool for half an hour, and he was originally happy that Zhou Ling would come and pick him up so he could be done, but now…
Fuck.
His character was a cross-dressing bar owner with a little money to mess around.
He was very infatuated with Zhou Ling and thought of him as his “soulmate”.
This world is a piece of crap.
Although he thought so, Chu Huai still smiled at Jin Tianyi and said: “Honey.”
Jin Tianyi walked over and squatted down to help him put on the seven or eight-centimeter high heels, stealing a glance at his chest and whispering: “Is it real?”
Chu Huai laughed, “It’s still there, what do you think?”
Jin Tianyi raised his eyebrows, looking a bit disappointed.
Chu Huai was stunned for a second.
After returning from the last copy, Chu Huai was bored and curious, so he found some novels describing homosexuality to read. When he came across some chaotic descriptions of bisexual big-breasted men taking on a submissive role, he was shocked and began to doubt whether he could keep up with the times.
So much so that Jin Tianyi’s expression now gave him some strange associations.
After Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi left together, in the dark corner of the bar, a person in black with a face as white as paper held a walkie-talkie and spoke with a cold and mechanical voice: “Virgin and Greed have left the bar and are about to go to the villa.”
Those codenames!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Virgin is probably Chu Huai right? They did say that Jin Tianyi’s character was greedy for easy money so I think so he should be Greed. 🤔
Thanks for the chapter(s).
Lmao what messy things is Chu Huai reading?? 😂
Thank you for the update!
Ahahaahah, I think chapter doesn’t need any comments. It’s masterpiece
Thank you for your translation 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
…This is Cabin in the Woods isn’t it? Lol.
Cabin in the woods?? 🤔