TL: Hua
Suddenly, a cluster of electric sparks exploded from the TV, and the screen’s image also drifted out with horizontal twisted ripples, but it was only unstable for a moment and immediately returned to normal.
Happy Dawson smiled as usual and didn’t seem to take the insult seriously. Wen Zheliu guessed that since the Midnight Happy Show started, the curses and swear words he received from past players had never ceased. A mere NMSL can’t cause him any mental harm.
“It seems that our friends are a little rebellious this time!” Happy Dawson widened his pitch-black eyes, gently shook his index finger, and murmured with emotion, “Since you are so reluctant to see me, then the future programs will be hosted by Mr. Butcher!”
After finishing speaking, he twisted his body pretentiously, sobbed a few times in a pretentious manner, and then the whole person just suddenly disappeared in front of the camera.
“Ah!” The butcher yelled in panic, “Where did Happy Dawson go?! Happy Dawson is gone!”
Immediately, there were boos of disappointment outside, and the screen became a mess. The “dog” barked and ran around, the butcher hacked and rummaged around with the bloody knife, and even the camera lens was constantly shaking and bumping. Only the mutilated corpse lay there quietly on the ground, and a dislodged and tattered eyeball quivered and fell out of the eye socket.
“Happy Dawson!” The butcher shouted Happy Dawson’s name full of emotion, but the voice felt very rigid and scripted in the players ears. “Let’s call him out together!”
He proposed so and, at the same time, held up the blood-stained sharp knife in his hand, so the town’s inhabitants also began to call out the name en masse. The chanting was in unison, like a regular undulating ocean, almost shaking the impenetrable canopy of the night.
“—I’m here!” Suddenly, the sound of Happy Dawson’s laughter appeared off-camera. The person on the screen quickly turned around, only to see him poking his head out of the female player’s belly torn open by the “dog” and waving happily to everyone, saying, “It’s great to see how much the audience likes Happy Dawson. Happy Dawson is so happy!”
The town’s residents screamed in surprise as he agilely emerged from the woman’s torn body. The butcher, him, and the human-headed dog then stood in the bloody puddle laughing and making all sorts of comical mechanical gestures, and together they shouted, “Midnight Happy Show, Happy Life! Thank you for watching this episode, see you tomorrow!”
The applause outside was incessant, but the players inside the room were chilled all over.
A reality show that only lasted forty minutes seemed to last as long as four hours. More importantly, they saw a threatening hint in these absurd, bizarre, and weirdly disgusting forty minutes.
Failure to pass a level is no longer just a simple matter of death. In the first world, whether it’s the eyeless monsters or the final boss, Jenny, it is simply a matter of being killed. But if you fail in the second world, besides death, you will be caught in this damn reality show in front of you and forced to experience all kinds of strange tortures and horrific killing methods just to entertain a group of lunatics.
Everything is reversed. In this world, the mentally ill are the applauding spectators sitting in the Colosseum, while normal people become the objects of caged entertainment.
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Happy Dawson, whose face was soaked with blood, said in high spirit, “At the end of the show, it’s time to enter the review time of the previous episode!”
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“In the last episode of our wonderful program, this man brought us unparalleled happiness, so what kind of a guest will we welcome in the next episode? Let’s start contacting them!”
Wen Zheliu frowned and hurriedly looked at the pale-faced Li Tianyu. At this moment, the engraving on her hand was already flickering, emitting a faint but noticeable light.
Priority notice marking… She will be selected as the guest of the next episode!
Li Tianyu broke down and started tugging at her own hair while shouting, “No, it’s not me! It can’t be me!”
The old-fashioned telephone in the living room suddenly rang, and the high-frequency, piercing sound further stirred everyone’s tense nerves. Chen Feiluan grabbed Li Tianyu’s hand and said anxiously, “Tianyu, don’t answer it!”
The engraving on the back of Li Tianyu’s hand suddenly glowed bright red, causing her to yell, clutch her wrist, and curl up on the sofa in pain.
Behind them, Happy Dawson said unhurriedly, “You still haven’t answered the phone; why don’t you answer the phone? Oh! A disobedient child seems to have been punished!”
The more Li Tianyu resisted, the brighter the engraving became, roasting her flesh with a frightening sizzling sound. Her face was covered with excruciating sweat and tears. She gritted her teeth tightly and let out a seething “he he” sound from her throat.
Before her health dropped to 85%, she could no longer bear the severe pain of being burned, so she pressed down on the phone and forcefully picked it up. Li Tianyu held the microphone with sweat dripping from her long eyelashes. She gasped for breath and trembled as she stared at the TV screen, and at the same time, Happy Dawson was also watching her through the screen.
Everyone held their breath, and through the microphone, they heard a man’s hoarse and excited voice asking, “Hello? Hello, are you the real guest of the next episode of “Midnight Happy Show”?”
Li Tianyu’s scalp exploded, and she screamed almost in the blink of an eye. Her ear and half of her face against the microphone turned into flowing liquid in an instant, and she was sucked into the microphone at once!
“Hold her!” Wen Zheliu shouted hastily.
He Qin’s long knife was as swift as a lightning bolt, cutting the telephone line under it with one slash. Bai Jingxing shook his silver bow, and the arrow resembling a meteorite suddenly blew up the phone body to smithereens. Chen Feiluan leaped up, and with just one punch, the screen was smashed into a cracked spider web.
Wen Zheliu clenched his cane tightly; Du Zijun loaded his gun; Xi Ling set up his crossbow; Lin Miao pulled out a soft sword, trembling with a cold front, from his waist; Xie Yuanyuan also hastily pulled out his hidden sword from his sleeve. The movements of the eight people were almost synchronized, and in an instant, they were fully armed and heavily shielding Li Tianyu from Happy Dawson!
All the team members who joined this time were either star players or top players; even Xie Yuanyuan, who loafed around most of the time, had a special physique. Their long-term gaming and real-life experience made them adapt to the mental pollution brought by the Midnight Happy Show very quickly, and they soon entered a fight or flight mode.
“My face… I can’t get my face out!” Li Tianyu gritted her teeth angrily, trying to separate herself from the microphone; however, Happy Dawson was only surprised for a moment and then snapped his fingers cheerfully.
“If you think that this will prevent me from inviting the guest to the next episode, you are very wrong!”
Li Tianyu screamed in horror again. Wen Zheliu hurriedly turned around and found that even though the phone line was cut off, the microphone suction effect still hadn’t faded. Li Tianyu’s skin was like melted flesh-colored mud that was being transmitted in a steady stream toward the other end of the phone.
Quicker than words can tell, Li Tianyu hurriedly shouted in desperation: “Stand-in butterfly! Stand-in butterfly—!”
A flash of purple light appeared on the spot, and she was immediately pushed to the ground away from the microphone. On the other side of the screen, a fluttering purple butterfly appeared at the scene of the Midnight Happy Show, and the butcher immediately chopped it in half.
There were boos all around.
[Item Name: Stand-in Butterfly]
[Grade: c]
[Activation type: Instant activation]
[Cooldown time: none]
[Attack Power: None]
[Effect: The moment the player activates this item, it will materialize into a purple butterfly as a substitute, taking 100% of the damage for the player. This item is a one-time-use item.]
[Equipment Level: 10]
[Item introduction: A butterfly that flew into the window of his heart.]
Li Tianyu was still in shock, but Happy Dawson was taken aback when he saw the butterfly and then laughed wildly.
“So unruly! Too rebellious, too rebellious!”
The TV screen immediately sizzled, bursting into countless dense static particles. After returning to normal, the only thing left on the screen was a human-headed dog making ha-ha-ha laughter and a corpse, but the host and his assistant were nowhere to be seen.
Everyone was startled. Wen Zheliu warned: “I can feel it…they are coming for us.”
“Be alert.” He Qin spat out two words. The long sword in his hand was emitting a frightening chill under the light.
Li Tianyu quickly swallowed the red medicine, restored her health and stamina to full strength, then drew out the gun at her waist and looked around nervously like a frightened bird.
In the silence, the closed door of the reception room was suddenly knocked on several times.
The floor of the entire hotel is covered with thick carpets, and it is normal not to hear footsteps. Facing the dangerous knock on the door, the players were all silent. All they could hear was the ticking of the wall clock and their own heartbeats thumping in their ears.
There were three more knocks on the door, and the surrounding area was completely silent. These three knocks almost shook the entire hotel.
“Is it him?” Li Tianyu hissed, “Is he here to get me?”
Chen Feiluan reached out to stop her, saying, “Don’t move; I’ll go over and take a look.”
There is a peephole on the door of the reception room where you can see outside. Chen Feiluan walked slowly and silently, then tapped open the cover with his finger.
He carefully moved his face closer to take a look, but strangely, the peephole was actually pitch black.
This isn’t right. Normally, the hallways of hotels should be lit all night with wall lamps. When they gathered in the reception room, Chen Feiluan took a quick glance and counted a total of twenty-two crystal wall lamps on both sides. Could it be that Happy Dawson turned off all these lamps or broke them?
He had doubts and couldn’t help but get closer, but no matter how he looked, the cat’s eye was completely blinded with darkness, and he couldn’t see the scene outside the door at all.
Is this actually…
He suddenly thought of a possibility; his pupils constricted suddenly, and his scalp exploded instantly!
Across the wooden door, Happy Dawson said softly, “Hi, I saw you…”
So scary!!!! Happy Happy Dawson~
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So scary
Thanks for the chapter
Too scary
thank you for the update 💖
I read that past midnight, I shouldn’t have 😱
Thank you for the update!