Chapter 1 The Haunting Sound

Hearing the eerie noises from upstairs, Shen Wei didn't rush to investigate. Instead, he found a safe spot and started reviewing the script.

In the original script, Shen Wei and his livestream team were all wiped out in the ghost school's teaching building. But now, the ending had changed. All of Shen Wei's teammates were still dead, but Shen Wei's fate, who was originally supposed to die on the second floor of the teaching building, had changed. It showed that he survived the game and escaped the teaching building.

Just as Shen Wei was about to further examine his ending, the text on the script suddenly changed.

His original ending of escaping the ghost school disappeared, replaced by a subsequent plotline. In this new plot, Shen Wei discovers clues about Yang Chen's disappearance in the teaching building. These clues point to the eerie dormitory building, and Shen Wei is killed by a strange monster while exploring it.

"Yuzu, can you sense whether the thing making sounds upstairs is human or a ghost?"

Shen Wei tentatively asked his Evil God Right Hand.

"Sorry, I can't answer your question. The lifespan you prepaid me was used up when I saved you. If you want me to answer this question, please pay with more lifespan..."

Hearing the Evil God Right Hand's shameless response, Shen Wei was immediately annoyed, but the situation was critical, and this wasn't the time to argue with it.

After a moment's thought, Shen Wei decided not to ask and go see for himself. Even if it was a ghost, it might hold clues to survival. Missing them could lead to eternal damnation.

Just as Shen Wei was about to leave the floor, he suddenly noticed that one of the corpses hanging in the doorway was missing. This discovery scared him into a cold sweat.

"Where did the corpse go? It was just there. I have to get out of here..."

With that thought, Shen Wei dashed upstairs. But he suddenly felt faint thumping footsteps behind him, and the sound seemed to be getting closer.

Shen Wei stopped and turned around, but strangely, there was nothing behind him.

"This thing is invisible. It's tracking me. I wonder what triggers its killing intent..."

As Shen Wei's mind wandered, he suddenly felt a chilling coldness coming from behind.

"Kid, watch out! It's at your six o'clock!"

With the Evil God Right Hand's warning, Shen Wei raised the Yin-Yang Umbrella, narrowly blocking the attack.

The powerful force sent Shen Wei flying, tumbling a long distance.

"This guy has a physical body, incredible speed, and immense strength! And he doesn't play fair, ambushing me..."

As Shen Wei frantically complained, countless gray threads suddenly appeared in the empty air. These gray threads, like spiderwebs, wrapped around Shen Wei.

Shen Wei spun the long saber in his hand, slicing apart the strange black lines that resembled slender tapeworms.

The severed gray lines fell to the ground, emitting a sharp hiss, as if they were alive.

"Kid, run! You can't fight it! Many of the corpses hanging in the dormitory doorways are waking up again. If we don't leave, we might be surrounded, and the consequences will be unimaginable..."

Hearing the Evil God Right Hand's reminder, Shen Wei directly used the explosive power of the long saber in the Yin-Yang Umbrella, blasting the exposed invisible monster into a pile of minced meat.

However, it seemed that his blade couldn't kill this strange thing. The gray lines writhed on the ground, carrying pieces of flesh, and were reassembling. It seemed it wouldn't be long before the creature revived.

"What the hell is it? Is it something that truly exists in another dimension, or something created by human imagination, existing only in the script in my hand? If it's the latter, perhaps I can think of ways to restrain it..."

Shen Wei ran, trying to calm his mind and think of a countermeasure. To his surprise, the terrifying corpses parasitized by the gray lines didn't chase after him.

Rule Eight: There are no strange things here. Everything is played by the haunted house's NPCs. You need to act scared, but don't be really scared. Remember, remember.

"Could Rule Eight be interpreted this way? We shouldn't be afraid, because those gray lines can sense the fear in people's hearts. When I saw those corpses upstairs, I felt shock and a little fear. They sensed it, so they woke up. Now that my mood has calmed down, it can't detect me for the time being..."

Almost instantly, he reached the fourth floor. The scene on the fourth floor still made his scalp tingle. The dormitory doors here were still hung with corpses, lying in disarray. The corpses were colorful in death, and judging from the work clothes they were wearing, they were members of the death livestream crew.

"No wonder you hardly see any of the other staff in the rule anomalies of this death theater. It turns out they all died here before they could even get to the teaching building. There is another type of parasitic gray line in the dormitory building, and it is also killing people. Could there be any screenwriters or directors among those who died? If those two die, won't the script be unable to be changed? If that's the case, then that would be terrible..."

Shen Wei suppressed the unease in his heart. He went to this floor and observed each room door by door. After checking all the corpses in front of the dormitory doors, Shen Wei's hanging heart was finally relieved.

Looking at the work clothes they were wearing and the certificates they were wearing, there were no screenwriters or directors here. That is to say, if Shen Wei finds the director to change the script, there is still a glimmer of hope.

"Perhaps living beings can be like this. These two types of alien space lines also have their own territorial awareness. They are two different races. Maybe you can use this point to make them kill each other, so that I am safer."

"For example, the gray lines will be exposed when they are used for attacks. According to this, is the resurrection of the corpse related to these lines? It's just that the color of the lines here is gray, which is different from the black lines in the teaching building, and the objects parasitized by the two lines are also different. The black lines seem to be parasitizing human souls or ghosts."

"The gray lines are parasitized on the corpse, controlling the corpse's actions, and giving the corpse a certain strange ability. They may come from the same space, but they are different varieties. Those who are not of my race must have different hearts. If they don't have any conflicts, then they are likely to appear in the same place and will not be as distinct as they are now. We must make good use of this..."