Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi locked eyes, their expressions suddenly freezing.
At this moment, it was impossible for the dead person to have been killed by a ghost.
The two rushed downstairs, with Jin Tianyi checking on Gao Yuan’s body, while Chu Huai held his suspicions and silently observed Luo Ziyang and the fat guy.
Luo Ziyang met his scrutinizing gaze without flinching, while the fat guy looked nervous and kept his head down, with his toes pointing outwards, subconsciously wanting to run away.
Luo Ziyang’s palms were sweaty, he didn’t want Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi to discover his dirty deeds, so he calmly explained the situation and then shouted at the fat guy: “Did I not say it like this? Did you find anything special?”
The fat guy was in a panic and was frightened by the sudden shout, not even hearing what was asked, and just blurted out: “I, I don’t know anything! Really!”
Luo Ziyang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi’s gazes met in the air, and they both blinked, indicating that they had already figured out the answer.
Luo Ziyang’s reaction was too obvious. Looking beyond appearances to the essence of things, the fat guy had no motive, while Luo Ziyang did.
Chu Huai looked down at his index finger, feeling a complex mix of emotions for a moment, unsure whether to shed tears of gratitude or to viciously beat him up.
How could there be such a selfless and foolish person?
Luo Ziyang twisted his hands nervously: “Xiao Ling, Shen Jie, why aren’t you saying anything?”
The fat guy seemed afraid that Luo Ziyang would be unhappy, muttering: “I was woken up by Brother Luo’s scream, it was, it was just like what Brother Luo said…”
Everyone’s expressions froze in an instant.
Chu Huai’s heart skipped a beat.
Under the confusion and disorientation, the fat guy forgot he was acting and called out “Brother Luo.” Before he could realize his mistake, Jin Tianyi quickly pretended to be angry and punched him in the face. “Shut up! Useless waste! Stop talking so much!” The fat guy was overwhelmed and saw stars, barely able to stand as he leaned on the couch. In a split second, everything turned blood red.
After the redness dissipated, the fat guy collapsed on the ground, eyes closed and a thin, almost invisible bloodline on his neck buried beneath layers of fat. In the blink of an eye, a living person was gone.
Luo Ziyang was gasping for breath, looking terrified. The word “replacement” surfaced in everyone’s mind – [Actor Jin Wenzhou was removed from the role due to the director’s dissatisfaction.]
The seven-person play had lost a character due to the fat guy’s mistake, but the director couldn’t just delete the role since they had already filmed so much. The bloody letters continued to appear – [The previous scene was cut, and his unfinished role will be taken over by a ghost double, while the remaining three actors continue to have a happy performance.]
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Ghost double? Luo Ziyang’s eyes widened in disbelief. Something had changed. The “fat guy” on the ground suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight at the three standing people.
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“It’s a variable. It may even secretly trip up the directors for the sake of the “excitement” of the play and connectedness with them,” the stunt ghost mechanically repeated the fat man’s words.
Jin Tianyi quickly got into character, as if nothing had happened, and approached Luo Ziyang with a loyal embrace, comforting him with words that had a hidden meaning: “I didn’t expect your girlfriend to ‘accidentally’ die here, but it’s okay, Xiaoyu, you still have me and Shen Jie, we’ll be with you all the way.”
Luo Ziyang’s body stiffened, panicked and wanted to run away. The boss clearly knew!
He looked at Chu Huai, who was standing not far away. Chu Huai smiled lightly at him with his black and white eyes, full of acceptance and understanding, conveying silent comfort and clearly expressing his stance.
Luo Ziyang’s eyes turned red in an instant.
Yes, even though Jiao Jiao and the boss were so clever, how could he deceive them?
Even if he did, they still chose to accept him…
Luo Ziyang was like a child who had done something wrong and only after a long while, he got to the point, saying: “I saw a pair of eyes in the car before. Just now, I had to pee and got up to go to the bathroom. I counted the paintings on the second-floor wall and found an extra pair of eyes, then I realized that something had happened.”
His mention of this point happened to remind Chu Huai that he and Jin Tianyi had also seen a pair of eyes in the car before.
Jin Tianyi was slightly surprised: “You saw it too? Do you remember roughly when it was?”
Luo Ziyang tried hard to remember and after a while, gave a time that was almost the same as when they encountered it with Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi.
So it could be almost certain that the eyes that were monitoring Luo Ziyang, were not the same as those that were monitoring Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi.
Chu Huai rested his chin in one hand and said: “Everyone was still alive then, no one had turned into eyes, so whose eyes were they?”
“And there’s not just one pair,” Jin Tianyi frowned, silent for a moment, and said information that they had been neglecting: “There is more than one ghost in the villa.”
Chu Huai was shocked.
The hand that dragged Xia Yuchao into the toilet was a ghost’s hand, they couldn’t see the ghost’s appearance clearly, the one who killed Zhang Yan was a long-haired ghost on TV, these two might not necessarily be the same, but the ghost that attacked Jin Tianyi was definitely not the one on TV.
Chu Huai suddenly said: “Could it be that there are seven of them?”
He made his guess: “At the beginning, there were no eyes on the painting. Can we assume that there were actually eyes on the painting? The painting is like a dwelling place for the eyes, and the eyes temporarily left the painting to complete some ‘task’. So the seven pairs of eyes are lurking in the villa, or they have already been secretly monitoring us in some corner before we entered the villa…”
Luo Ziyang swallowed his saliva nervously: “Then why do more pairs of eyes appear on the painting when we lose a person? Doesn’t that mean that the eyes of the dead person have taken over the dwelling place of the original eyes?”
Jin Tianyi said: “Have you ever heard of a parable about a ferryman? It is said that a ferryman who didn’t want to ferry people anymore gave his oar to the next passenger who came up, and then secretly left. The passenger had to replace him and became the new ferryman, but he also didn’t want to do this hard job, so he set up a trap for the next person who needed to cross the river.”
Luo Ziyang finally understood: “You mean those eyes are like the ferryman in the parable, and we are the passengers!”
Chu Huai nodded: “Yes, who knows, when all seven of us die here, those seven ghosts will complete some ‘mission’ and be completely released, and we will become the new scheming ferryman, waiting quietly for the arrival of the next passenger to trap them.”
Luo Ziyang instinctively shrank his neck, looking horrified.
Chu Huai’s words were euphemistic but the meaning was clear. Luo Ziyang thought carefully and realized that it was indeed possible. If the seven of them died and their eyes were locked in the painting, wouldn’t they take over the responsibility of those seven ghosts?
If “Villa Horror” were to be remade soon, they would become the seven ghosts who had to kill the next batch of seven residents?
Luo Ziyang asked: “So the ones attacking us now are the seven people from the previous batch who died at some unknown time?”
Chu Huai nodded with a faint smile. This speculation was most likely correct.
These seven people may not necessarily be residents, but they may also be the legacy of the curse.
And it is very likely that they satisfy the characteristics that each of the seven people has, such as jealousy, greed, and rage.
The body double ghost said: “This is only your speculation…”
Chu Huai looked at him strangely, suddenly had an idea, smiled and expressed his agreement with his opinion, then raised his eyebrows at Jin Tianyi, implying something.
Jin Tianyi just stared for a few seconds, then replied with a meaningful smile, obviously having come up with an idea.
Fatso is no longer a tenant, but a substitute ghost. They… have no guilt about killing ghosts.
It’s better to take action first than to keep this ticking time bomb.
The film has such high freedom, and the motive for murder is just a randomly fabricated thing. In this horror movie where there’s a high possibility of no solution, it’s too easy to reasonably kill an “actor”.
They could even pretend to accidentally kill someone, then act full of guilt, and it wouldn’t violate the character’s personality.
If there’s no motive, just make one up and do it themselves. Anything is possible.
The substitute ghost was still digesting the task from “above” and thinking about how to lead the tenant to death in a reasonable way, completely unaware of the agreement that Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi had reached in less than ten seconds.
The substitute ghost hung his head, with a sinister and eerie light in his eyes.
…
So, half an hour later, when the sky was getting bright, Chu Huai threw the bloody blade in his hand, stumbled back, his back against the cold wall, trying to squeeze out some unbelievable tears, staring at the corpse on the ground, murmuring: “I didn’t mean to… you suddenly appeared behind me, I… I thought it was a ghost! I was defending myself! I…”
“Xiao Ling…” Chu Huai looked at Jin Tianyi, who was holding a bloody wrench.
In fact, he had just shouted “ghost” while it was still dark, and then Jin Tianyi cooperatively smashed the back of the substitute ghost’s head fiercely, knocking him unconscious, and then he inserted a knife, not feeling reassured.
After being tortured for more than twenty hours, Chu Huai stared at the substitute ghost’s corpse on the ground, feeling a sense of revenge against the world for no reason.
The substitute ghost died with his eyes wide open, filled with disbelief and resentment.
Chu Huai and Jin Tianyi stopped plundering the role of “Jin Wenzhou,” and with the official death of the character, the substitute ghost, as the substitute, naturally could no longer stay in the movie.
When Luo Ziyang heard the commotion and rushed over, he saw the scene of Jin Tianyi comforting Chu Huai on the sofa with gentle words.
“Miss Shen, it’s not your fault, and it’s not mine either. If there’s really retribution, let it fall on me.”
“Believe that he won’t blame us underground.”
Seeing Luo Ziyang, Chu Huai struggled to get up, looking weak: “I accidentally killed someone, I’m sorry.”
Jin Tianyi lowered his eyelids and apologized sincerely: “I’m also responsible for this, I’m sorry.”
Luo Ziyang: “…” How come he feels like that’s not the case?
How is it that when he blinked, these two had already solved such a big problem without him knowing…
The faint light of dawn arrived on Sunday morning. They had just breathed a sigh of relief when a seismic sound came from the ground, and then the floor of the living room where they were suddenly sank!
Like the hole in Alice in Wonderland, they fell into it along with the sofa.
Wow, murder. Again
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At least this time it was a ghost. Don’t care about the bad guys.
Thanks for the chapter(s).