In the midst of a rapid descent, Chu Huai suddenly looked up as if sensing something, and a concave floor tile came crashing down towards him!
Unable to dodge in time, he was about to protect his vital parts, but Jin Tianyi rushed forward and covered him with his body like a flour-wrapped dumpling.
As the falling object hit, Chu Huai’s breathing became difficult and his heart nearly jumped out of his chest. Then he heard Jin Tianyi’s muffled groan.
“Are you okay?!” he asked.
Jin Tianyi shook his head and hugged him tightly, without leaving any gaps, afraid of losing Chu Huai.
With a “plop,” the sofa fell into the water, and icy drops splashed on Chu Huai’s face.
It was pitch black all around, extremely cold, with a faint smell of blood and a strong stench in the air.
“Help!” Luo Ziyang’s cry for help came.
Jin Tianyi and Chu Huai were sitting on the sofa earlier, and now it acted like a raft, floating on the water. Luo Ziyang, however, was unlucky and fell directly into the water.
He couldn’t swim and soon choked on some disgusting water, his life hanging by a thread.
Jin Tianyi made a decisive decision and jumped in to save him. “Don’t come down, wait for me here,” he said to Chu Huai.
“I know.” Not being able to swim, at this time, Chu Huai would not pretend to be strong and cause trouble for Jin Tianyi.
With his eyes adapted to the darkness, Chu Huai looked around and, using the faint light from above, reached for a few long planks from the water’s surface.
With keen hearing, he followed the direction of Luo Ziyang’s cries for help and slowly paddled the raft towards him using the planks as oars.
Jin Tianyi was dragging Luo Ziyang towards them, who was in a state of shock, but as Chu Huai prepared to pull him up, he saw a violent disturbance in the water behind Jin Tianyi, something was churning under the surface!
“Behind you! Be careful!” Chu Huai’s eyes widened in alarm.
“My foot! My foot!” Luo Ziyang cried out in terror as a pair of hands wrapped around his ankle, pulling him down rapidly.
In just a few moments, his face had disappeared beneath the water, and bubbles were surging up.
As he surfaced, Luo Ziyang despairingly said to Jin Tianyi: “Abandon me!”
If they continued to struggle, Jin Tianyi would also be unable to escape the fate of being dragged down by ghosts.
It was not worth it for him to die, so why should he drag others down with him?
Without a word, Jin Tianyi held his breath and suddenly sank beneath the water, with a clean and swift movement, right in front of Chu Huai’s eyes.
As he disappeared, a huge panic struck Chu Huai, and he gasped for breath.
Then he heard the sound of a knife plunging into flesh, accompanied by the eerie screams of the ghosts.
The pressure under Luo Ziyang’s feet suddenly lessened, and Chu Huai immediately pulled him up, looking at the churning water with a heart that was tightening.
Then, with a “pu” sound, the water’s surface broke open, and Jin Tianyi emerged from below, waving a pale ghostly hand at him with a smile.
His body was soaked in water, his hair dripping with blood, and his face was handsome and unique, with sharp edges and corners, like a ghost or a god.
“What the f*ck…” Chu Huai was scared half to death by him, and almost cursed, but he remembered his character, so he just coldly pulled him up.
Jin Tianyi laughed: “How could I die?”
Chu Huai replied: “You stink.”
Jin Tianyi came up and joked: “If I passed out, would you still have to give me artificial respiration?”
Chu Huai checked on Luo Ziyang’s condition and said: “Don’t flatter yourself.”
Jin Tianyi laughed again and leaned over.
Three people squeezed onto one sofa. Seeing Luo Ziyang gasping for words and turning purple, Chu Huai didn’t hesitate to take off his relatively dry clothes and cover his head with them.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and at this point, they couldn’t care less about fake breasts or not.
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Unaware that he was being seductive, Chu Huai asked with a furrowed brow: “What should we do next?”
“When the enemy comes, we block; when the water comes, we use the soil,” Jin Tianyi said in a deep voice. “I’m beginning to feel that even if we know the truth, it won’t help us escape. Maybe this is just…”
An unsolvable horror movie.
Chu Huai admitted: “The ghosts’ attacks are illogical and without any pattern. We are very passive.”
Chu Huai had watched a lot of unsolvable horror movies in his apartment, and the tenants who survived these movies relied on two things.
One factor is sheer luck. If Xiao Luo hadn’t killed Gao Yuan, the ghost would still be in the phase of killing people in order. According to the order, Xia Yu would be the first unlucky person to die, while the last one in the order would be like a koi fish, an existence that brings good luck.
Therefore, the description of the unsolvable horror movie in the apartment is – three parts effort, and seven parts fate.
The annual New Year’s film shoot is a bit like the world complaining about too many residents wasting resources and simply reaping a wave of indiscriminate harvest.
Of course, the world also gives vitality. Residents can survive by their own cunning and treachery, but when people step on each other, humanity is ultimately lost.
Most of those who come out of the New Year’s film are the ones with the hardest and coldest hearts in the apartment, like the former building manager of the apartment.
If it wasn’t for Jin Tianyi’s dislike of him and his assassination, how many more lives would have been lost in his hands?
After going through so many instances, Chu Huai has always been puzzled.
If, as Old Yue and the residents said, they entered the horror world because they committed sins and did not receive the appropriate punishment, so the world acts as a “justice executor” to judge them through instances, then why does the world subtly force them to do evil?
The world doesn’t give those with a conscience a way out, but instead, the more ruthless killers live, the more they thrive.
Chu Huai used to think that the horror world was a judgment ground for sinners and also worried about some unknown sins he had committed, but gradually he realized that if he used the appropriate words, the horror world was like… a demon’s awakening pool.
The world was originally collected with evil people.
Its actions not only did not make the evildoers wash away their sins but also made them more evil.
Killers are highly respected, deceivers have a broad stage, and the wicked have everything they need, while the righteous are reduced to fish meat.
If the first one or two instances still had a hint of love and goodness, what about later?
When those who became demons finally completed their own instances and returned to reality as they wished, what kind of bloody storm would they bring?
They were brought here in the name of goodness, but what was created was evil.
The essence is completely contradictory.
Chu Huai keenly sensed an unusual flavor in it.
Perhaps they are not here to atone for their sins.
Chu Huai suddenly turned his head and looked at Jin Tianyi, then quietly lowered his eyelids.
What role is he playing in this?
Coming back to his senses, Chu Huai didn’t expect to find such a long river beneath the villa, covering an area of about four to five hundred square meters.
The water in the river was tinged with a faint red color.
Jin Tianyi had a hunch and suddenly said: “Do you remember the birch tree we saw outside the villa before?”
Chu Huai nodded. The birch tree was growing luxuriantly.
Jin Tianyi continued: “Birch trees like to use corpses as nutrients. I heard it from my grandmother, not sure if it’s true or not. But now, it seems that the soil in this area is moistened by this small river underneath, which obviously contains blood and a heavy sense of death, supporting my grandmother’s words.”
He paused: “Perhaps we will soon see a lot of… skeletons.”
As soon as he finished speaking, their sofa hit a solid object.
It was too dark for Chu Huai to see anything, so he asked: “What is it?”
“The ground,” Jin Tianyi replied after a moment of silence.
Chu Huai was surprised at how he knew, but as he turned around, he met a pair of eyes with a grayish-blue tint.
Those eyes were elegant and magnificent, like some priceless gemstone, but also like a vortex in the deep sea, ready to suck people in.
Jin Tianyi was also surprised. He thought Chu Huai’s attention was all on the object in front of them, but he didn’t expect him to suddenly turn around.
The person’s face in front of them looked very unfamiliar with those sparkling eyes. Chu Huai felt danger and instinctively wanted to step back, but Jin Tianyi pulled him back.
“It’s me,” the grayish-blue color disappeared, and Jin Tianyi whispered.
With a familiar tone, Chu Huai suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Damn, he was too sensitive, and he was almost scared by Jin Tianyi.
A person’s eyes are both beautiful and terrifying, especially when in the dark, with a pair of spinning eyes. The whites and blacks of the eyes, the ever-changing pupils, easily made people’s hearts palpitate.
Chu Huai stared at him with a smile that wasn’t a smile, while Jin Tianyi shamelessly leaned closer and whispered: “I’ll be honest with you when we get back, like taking off one piece of clothing with every lie.”
Chu Huai: “…How come he feels like he’s going to win no matter what?”
Luo Ziyang was the first to jump off the sofa, touching the ground with his feet. He was so moved that he almost shed tears. Then…he stumbled over a skull by his feet.
If it weren’t for Jin Tianyi’s quick hand to grab his clothes, he would have fallen into the water again.
It was a platform located on the left side of the river, not too high above the water’s surface, but the water couldn’t reach it.
Chu Huai squatted down and felt around, then said in silence for a moment: “Including the one kicked by Xiaoyu, there are seven skulls in total.”
The number seven is too sensitive for them now.
The three of them continued to walk forward, and every so often, they came across seven skulls placed at equal distances.
Chu Huai sighed, realizing they didn’t find a way out as they had hoped, but instead entered the “exhibition hall.”
Jin Tian felt along the wall for a while and then his expression changed: “There are dates on the wall.”
He found a small indentation in a corner and felt the carved words.
Chu Huai asked eagerly: “What year?”
“It’s 1963 here,” Jin Tian replied.
Luozhiyang, who was in front, also began to feel around and exclaimed: “I have 1956 here.”
Jin Tianyi went to the back and said: “1970.”
The three of them instantly understood what was happening and immediately ran back to where they had originally climbed onto the platform.
Feeling the “2012,” Chu Huai joked: “So we are the 2019 contestants.”
Every seven years, these seven people must have characteristics consistent with greed, rage, lust, and so on, as implied in the painting.
This villa was beautiful on the outside but rotten on the inside, and perhaps the deaths of the next group were to allow the previous group to rest, to maintain some kind of fragile balance.
Perhaps at the very beginning, seven people with complex conflicts like them rented the villa to have fun but ultimately killed each other due to irreconcilable conflicts hidden beneath the calm surface of the water, all of them dying here.
The curse had begun.
The ferryman was now trying to hand them the oars.
The wall in front of Chu Huai suddenly began to seep blood, but he couldn’t see it.
He was now no different from a blind person.
The blood seeped quickly but without a sound.
Jin Tianyi, beside him, saw it and instantly became enraged. He only had time to block the wall with his body and push Chu Huai aside.
The wall behind him cracked, and a ghostly hand pierced through Jin Tianyi’s body.
Time stood still.
Warm blood splattered onto Chu Huai’s face, like some kind of crawling, terrible insect that consumed him in an instant, devouring his flesh and bones, and scattering his mind.
“Jin Tianyi!!” Tears welled up in Chu Huai’s eyes as he howled like a beast.
He saw those beautiful eyes that had once sparkled with hope, but he also saw the hand that destroyed that hope.
At this moment, he finally knew that the person in front of him was more important to him than life without him even realizing it.
Not far away, Luo Ziyang didn’t know what was happening, but his heart sank to the bottom of the valley, terrified. Jiao Jiao directly shouted the name of the boss. Wasn’t this the same as being wiped out for breaking character like Fatty?
No! This can’t happen!
Luo Ziyang rushed over while supporting himself on the wall.
The Ghost Hand disappeared.
Jin Tianyi fell down weakly, his pupils dilated, and was hugged by Chu Huai, who had gone crazy.
Chu Huai was cold all over, losing his sanity, and his expression was crazy. He only viciously repeated one sentence: “Didn’t you say you wouldn’t die…?!”
He only lived for a little bit of hatred, always acting on impulse, never thinking about becoming anyone’s shackles, let alone hoping that anyone would care about him.
But Jin Tianyi directly put him in his heart.
The kind of thing he had never owned before hit him in the face. He felt very unfamiliar and very scary, scarier than a flood or a beast.
No, it’s impossible! It cannot end like this!
Chu Huai instantly regained his senses.
He clearly shouted Jin Tianyi’s name, but he was not wiped out immediately like Fatty, so there must be a way to save him!
It cannot end like this!
Jin Tianyi’s night vision was blocked when he entered the instance, but after falling underground, he received a bloody message.
[Would you like to use your life to exchange for the restoration of your night vision ability? Note: If you choose to exchange, you will gain the ability to perceive danger around your partner and your own night vision ability. Same-life-same-death will be automatically lifted, and if one party dies, the other will not have to be buried.]
He made the exchange, a guaranteed win. If anything happens, Chu Huai doesn’t have to die with him.
He won’t die either, he will just fall into reincarnation and forget about him.
Luo Ziyang came over, saw the scene in front of him, and his blood ran cold.
Jin Tianyi was dead.
Chu Huai cried out Jin Tianyi’s name and was about to die too.
Luo Ziyang couldn’t stop the tears from flowing and sat down on the edge of the platform in despair.
Is it really over?
Chu Huai was unusually calm, waiting silently without saying a word.
Luo Ziyang thought he was going crazy and wanted to go up and persuade him with a few words. Chu Huai shook his head at him, and his face appeared somewhat cold and rigid.
Sure enough, a line of bloody words suddenly appeared in his mind – [Actor Chu Huai, would you like to use one ‘N shot’ to return to the beginning of this scene?]
Someone beats Jin Tianyi up for me!!! 😡
Thank you for the update! ❤️
So the ‘N shots’ are like no-go’s when filming a movie where they have to redo the scene? That’s actually a handy thing to have in a situation like this one.
Oh my goodness, I was this close 🤏 to start crying right in subway
Thank you for your translation 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
I knew it! I was thinking N shots would NO shots, as in they didn’t happen. Though I hadn’t thought it would rewind the current scene, but maybe blur a mistake or something. 🤔
Thanks for the chapter(s).