“Bad emotions?” Chu Huai’s mind flashed with inspiration and he couldn’t wait to look further down.
The next book was “Jealousy is the Motivation for Progress”, followed by “Eugenie Grandet”…
Chu Huai browsed through them, lost in thought.
Including the previous “Lost Paradise”, there were a total of seven books on this shelf.
The first “Lost Paradise” could imply lasciviousness and represents Xia Yu. If that’s the case, then the remaining six books should correspond to the other six actors.
The second book: “Don’t Let Bad Emotions Control You”, should refer to anger.
Teddy’s character is impulsive, easily angered, and thoughtless, as evidenced by the painting in front of his room. The painting shows a man with a red face, hair standing on end.
According to the news on TV, the slut died first and Teddy should be the second to die. He corresponds to the second book, which means… the order of the books on the shelf is likely to be the order of the actors’ deaths.
Chu Huai’s eyes lit up.
So… “Jealousy and Passion are the Motivation for Progress” refers to jealousy.
The face of the sailor-suited girl flashed through Chu Huai’s mind. She was the third.
“Eugenie Grandet” refers to stinginess. Who is stingy?
Chu Huai thought of the painting between Jin Tianyi’s room doors, feeling a slight sinking in his heart.
The man in the painting was holding a coin, clearly a symbol of greed.
So Jin Tianyi died fourth?
The fat guy, fifth, was stupidity. Luo Ziyang, sixth, was laziness.
And himself…
Chu Huai’s hand paused on the yellowed booklet “First-time Instructions,” his face alternating between red and white, feeling a bit embarrassed.
Could it be that he was thinking what he thought he was…?
But the other six people’s roles were more or less sinful, why did he have to be this kind of ghostly thing?
Chu Huai quickly scanned the booklet and silently put it back, his emotions complex.
He felt slightly relieved, if his guess was correct, he didn’t have to worry about Jin Tianyi and Luo Ziyang’s safety for the time being, as Teddy and the sailor-suited girl were with them.
He felt that his thoughts were a bit unethical and sighed helplessly.
Chu Huai was about to go and inform everyone of his discovery when Luo Ziyang hurriedly ran in and pulled him away.
He looked frightened and gasping for breath: “Teddy… he… he’s dead, hurry and go see!”
Chu Huai was shocked, he had specifically instructed the other residents to gather together when he searched each room earlier. How could Teddy… be dead?
As he walked to the door, he suddenly heard a slight sound coming from the bookshelf, causing him to pause in his footsteps and look back.
It turned out to be just a book falling off the shelf.
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The hand landed on the seven books that Chu Huai had looked at earlier and swapped the third book: “Jealousy is the Driving Force of Progress,” with the fourth book: “Eugenie Grandet.”
It made a few more adjustments to the remaining books.
The ghostly hand finished its work and waved towards the open door, seeming to be mocking the residents’ foolishness, as if bidding them farewell.
Those people were not far from death.
Rushing into the living room, Chu Huai thought the scene would be very bloody, but in fact, Teddy was just leaning on the sofa with his head tilted, looking like he was asleep.
There were no traces of blood or any signs of ghosts having been there, only a small puddle of water on the table from the glass on the coffee table splashing.
The sailor uniform girl and the chubby boy were so scared that they fell to the ground, shaking like sieves.
Chu Huai remained calm and went to check Teddy’s breathing, and found that he was already dead.
Jin Tianyi also rushed over and exchanged a glance with Chu Huai, instantly understanding what had happened. He asked rationally: “Did you see any ghosts?”
Luo Ziyang remained calm and immediately shook his head, confirming that he did not.
Chu Huai pulled the two people on the ground up, and when they saw Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi, a glimmer finally appeared in their dilated pupils.
The chubby boy hesitated for a while before saying: “I think he, he might not have been killed by a ghost.”
Chu Huai frowned and waited for him to continue. The sailor uniform girl spoke for him: “He, he seemed to have a heart attack and may have died suddenly.”
Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi exchanged a look, clearly not believing this explanation.
The chubby boy explained with lingering fear: “We were watching a movie before, and then he suddenly said something like ‘so fast, no, please stop, begging you, stop’, and both Zhai Yu and I thought he was joking around with the car, so we didn’t take it seriously. And then…”
The chubby boy stuttered, and Luo Ziyang impatiently added: “And then he started holding his head and screaming, crazily hitting his head on the coffee table, clutching his chest and gasping for air, his face turning red. We were scared, thinking he had a seizure, and immediately went to hold him down, but he suddenly leaned back on the back of the sofa, convulsed a few times, and died…”
Chu Huai looked at the other two present, and they both nodded vigorously, affirming Luo Ziyang’s words.
Jin Tianyi suddenly said: “You said you were watching a movie just now?”
Luo Ziyang was startled: “Yes!”
Chu Huai was inspired and pretended to be angry, saying: “With all that’s happened, you still have the mood to watch a movie?!”
“We just wanted to relieve the tension and comfort Teddy…” Luo Ziyang quickly reacted this time, defending himself and subtly nodding toward Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi.
Indicating that they had received the bloodline mainline prompt to do so.
When Luo Ziyang received the mainline prompt earlier, he had a vague feeling that something was off. Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi were not around, so he was just about to find an excuse to call them down when Teddy had an accident.
“Who turned off the movie?” Chu Huai asked.
The screen behind them was pitch black.
“Turned off?” The chubby guy couldn’t believe it, quickly turning around to look and muttering unconsciously: “It’s impossible. With something like this happening, we don’t have the time to turn off the movie…”
“We only watched for about ten minutes, so it’s impossible for it to have finished playing and exited automatically…”
Hearing this, everyone looked at each other in confusion.
Luo Ziyang voiced everyone’s thoughts: “Is it a problem with the movie?”
Jin Tianyi remained silent, moving quickly to the front and preparing to play the movie again, but was stopped by the chubby guy’s hand: “If it really is a problem with the movie, then let’s not play it again. Zhang…Teddy is already dead, if we watch again and something happens…”
The chubby guy’s legs were shaking uncontrollably. He didn’t want to die like Teddy!
The sailor-suited girl also nodded, looking like a scared bird.
Jin Tianyi gentlemanly brushed off the chubby guy’s hand: “Okay, I’ll watch it. Those who are afraid can avoid it.”
Chu Huai and Luo Ziyang stayed behind without any scruples.
They had their own considerations. The copy of the apartment was not without rules to follow. Generally speaking, after the ghost kills someone, the task-taker will have a brief period of safety. Teddy had just died less than five minutes ago, so the safety period had definitely not yet passed.
Chu Huai glanced at his watch. Teddy died around 9 o’clock.
Xia Yu died at 5:30, with a gap of three and a half hours. So they shouldn’t encounter any danger for the next two hours.
Plus, Chu Huai knew the correct order of deaths, with the sailor-suited girl being next, so the three of them were safe for the time being.
As Chu Huai pondered, the movie began to play. The three of them quickly watched the first twenty minutes, but didn’t notice anything unusual.
Jin Tianyi furrowed his brow in distress.
It was a period war movie about friction and warfare between two small countries.
Chu Huai said: “Play it again, at 0.5x speed.”
“Okay,” Jin Tianyi replied.
On the second viewing, when the soldiers on the screen began to beat the drums, Chu Huai suddenly spoke up: “Stop!”
The pause was at seven minutes and eight seconds.
Luo Ziyang couldn’t see anything wrong and asked: “What’s the problem?”
Jin Tianyi gestured for him to stay quiet and pressed play.
The drumming sound of “Dong Dong Dong” echoed, hitting the three of them’s hearts.
Chu Huai tapped his fingers to the beat of his heart on his trouser seam.
When the segment ended, Chu Huai said to Jin Tianyi: “Play it again, at normal speed this time.”
The drumming sound echoed once more, and this time Chu Huai placed his hand on his heart.
Luo Ziyang didn’t understand what was happening.
Chu Huai listened intently with his eyes half-closed. Sure enough, his heartbeat completely overlapped with the initial drumming sound.
The drumming got faster and faster, and Chu Huai’s breathing became heavy and rapid, and symptoms of chest tightness and chest pain began to appear, with cold sweat sliding down his forehead.
He was a little bit in a trance.
Jin Tianyi saw that something was wrong with him and immediately threw the remote control away and rushed over to shake him awake, his expression filled with worry.
Chu Huai forced a smile at him, indicating that he was okay, but his lips were still pale and he was weak.
After a moment, he finally said: “Teddy died from the sound of the drums.”
“Teddy represented rage, and one symptom of being angry is a rapid heart rate,” Chu Huai continued.
Jin Tianyi poured him a glass of warm water and added: “The sound of the drums initially matched the human heartbeat, but as the drums got faster, so did the heart rate. When Teddy said ‘stop’, he was actually calling for the drums to stop, but unfortunately, no one realized it. His heart could not handle the extreme stress in such a short amount of time, which directly caused his death. So to you, it looked like he died of sudden cardiac arrest.”
Luo Ziyang shuddered and broke out in a cold sweat.
If it weren’t for Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi, they wouldn’t even know how the person died, let alone understand it.
The drums on the screen were still ringing, and Luo Ziyang seemed to see a violently beating red heart in front of him.
Chu Huai casually glanced at the screen and suddenly something crawled up from the bottom of the screen, which Luo Ziyang also saw and immediately hid behind Jin Tianyi.
The black hair kept spreading on the big screen, and a pale face gradually occupied the entire screen.
That face had no eyes.
The ghostly face smiled creepily at the three of them.
“A snap,” the villa lost power, and the house was plunged into complete darkness.
The terrifying image of the ghost’s face remained in Luo Ziyang’s mind, and his voice trembled: “It won’t crawl out of the screen, will it…”
Jin Tianyi knew nothing would happen, but he suddenly couldn’t see Chu Huai and still felt a palpitation.
Chu Huai was trying to find the other two in the darkness when a hand stretched out in front of him. The hand was long and the knuckles were clearly visible.
Chu Huai recognized it as Jin Tianyi’s hand and blushed, silently putting both hands behind his back and looking away.
“Give it to me.” In the darkness, Jin Tianyi’s voice was low and pleasant.
Luo Ziyang thought he was talking to him and was confused: “What should I give you?”
Jin Tianyi’s fingertips curled inward, urging him on.
Chu Huai’s fingertips also moved inexplicably, hesitated for a moment, and then slowly extended forward. He was about to withdraw it when he felt embarrassed, but Jin Tianyi quickly grasped his hand.
Chu Huai was startled and was about to pull away, but Jin Tianyi held on tightly, chuckling.
Luo Ziyang said: “Boss, how can you still laugh at a time like this?”
“It’s none of your business,” Jin Tianyi replied.
The third wheel kills romantic
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Chu Huai’s actions and reactions are really weird and seem to have no logic. Also, I’m still wondering what happened with the twin male infants in the last arc… After the two ‘parents’ were killed, they suddenly…. weren’t mentioned again at all. I have to assume that the group of ‘players’ left them behind when they left the house, to die of exposure and starvation, which wouldn’t take long for infants only a day old. I can’t imagine the mind-controlled ‘zombie-esque’ villagers breaking into the house would have thought to take them and care for them.