Chapter 30: A Family Should Be Neatly Together (Part 2)

But the viewers in the livestream room were urging them urgently, and nine o’clock should have been the climax of the story plot, so the viewers kept pushing.

Seeing Captain Sun return to the redwood sofa after finishing his cigarette, where he sat without playing on his phone and merely closed his eyes to rest, while Chen Yi on the other end had closed his eyes even earlier, seemingly asleep, the three gradually became restless again and began secretly filming around the room.

Dabao said quietly, “It’s still early. Either Dabao ends the stream, or we go look inside the other houses in the village. Let’s see what everyone thinks.”

He said they would see what everyone thought, but it was really about seeing whether the top ten big brothers and sisters on the ranking list were willing to spend money to arrange it for them.

But before the money could start pouring in, Chen Yi, whose eyes had been closed, opened them. His cool, clear voice sounded inside the room. “It isn’t safe outside. Don’t go out.”

“Huh? You heard that?”

Dabao had not expected Chen Yi to be in his livestream room. He simply thought he had spoken too loudly and been overheard.

While laughing awkwardly, his eyes darted around, clearly still wanting to leave.

Gifts swished across the livestream room one after another.

Some people also left comments.

[This NPC is so annoying. Today’s script gets minus 100 points. What kind of horror livestream doesn’t explore?]

[Did he pay the streamer? Coming in to farm presence at a time like this?]

[Aaaaah! Little brother’s voice is so nice. Can you turn the camera? I want to see my crush.]

Dabao did not turn the camera, but of course he also did not go out.

His intuition told him that he could not cross the line. Leaving the room was this young man’s limit, and that burly man listened to the young man. Even if he wanted to go out, the burly man would probably stop him.

He was afraid he would have to wait until the two of them really fell asleep.

Thinking this, Dabao planned to make one more round in the room and then end the stream first.

He slowly wandered around the room, filming the old redwood furniture, the table coated with greasy dust, the blue-eyed doll with the broken head, and the cutting board and kitchen knife.

When he returned to his seat and filmed all three of their faces into the camera, just as he was about to say they would see everyone later, the comments in the livestream room made his pupils suddenly constrict. The hair on his back stood on end.

[Run!]

[Dabao, run!]

[Aaaaah! It’s too dangerous! Dabao, be careful, don’t give yourself away! I called the police!]

[Dabao, look at the screen. Give me an expression. If this isn’t scripted, I’m calling the police right now.]

[Dabao, Big Fish, Xiao Qiu, stay steady no matter what. Don’t let the other side realize that you’ve realized it!]

Amid the flood of comments crazily spamming at them to run, along with questions about whether this was real or fake, one long comment that was being repeatedly copied and spammed appeared before Dabao’s eyes.

[1. The photograph under the cutting board shows a family of five. The owners of the house are a middle-aged man and woman, and the children are two daughters and one son. The two men appearing in the photo do not match the two men appearing on camera at all.

The owners of the house left in a hurry. The cooked food wasn’t put away in time, and they didn’t even have time to eat.

These two people don’t look or carry themselves like mountain villagers at all. In southwestern mountain villages, the ultraviolet rays are strong, and the local genes are naturally darker. They are too pale and too clean, completely out of place in this room’s environment.

Although mountain villagers are frugal, they still turn on lights at night. Only this household has its lights on. There could be many reasons for that, but combined with the deductions before and after, the streamer is in great danger. If this isn’t a staged script, I hope you call the police immediately. To make sure the streamer sees this, please have others keep copying and spamming it to remind the streamer.]

The truth was in the details.

The four clues gathered together and gave everyone a new guess.

Why were there no other people in this village?

Why were the people appearing in this house not the original owners?

And what were that bloody kitchen knife and cutting board used for?

Perhaps, maybe.

They had not seen a ghost, but they had seen true “demons.”

Their thoughts sprouted flying wings. In a short time, they soared through clouds and wind, flying toward an unbelievable distance.

These two people… They couldn’t be murderers, could they?

The kind of blood-soaked butchers who had killed the entire village?

They might have occupied this village and be preparing to do something illegal. If Dabao and the others had barged in like this, would they be killed to silence them?

Just like the other people who had disappeared from the village?

The more they thought about it, the more terrifying it became. Even Dabao, who was bold, broke out in a fine cold sweat. The other two were even worse, their teeth chattering and their fingertips trembling.

Because they themselves knew best that everything before them had not been deliberately arranged. They had simply heard that this place was haunted by ghosts and rushed over at the news.

Their previous livestreams had gone too smoothly. They had made no preparations at all before appearing here, wholeheartedly believing that ghosts did not exist in this world, yet forgetting that there were beings more terrifying than ghosts.

The people in the other households in this village must have been taken by these two and…

“Go, go…” Xiao Qiu was the least brave of the three and was already tugging at Dabao’s sleeve.

Big Fish was still relatively calm and forced down his fear. “No. We can’t provoke them. Maybe they think we don’t know anything, and we can leave safely?”

“C-can we?” Xiao Qiu’s tears were already coming out. The more he thought about it now, the more frightening it became.

Dabao licked his cracked lips, stared fixedly at the two people “asleep” on the sofa, and said, “Do you still remember the route we took into the village? Start backing toward the door now. I’ll count to three, then we run outside together. We’ll meet on the road beside the cornfield at the foot of the mountain. Come on, three…”

Before he could count the second number, Chen Yi suddenly opened his eyes and sat up.

Part of him found it funny, while another part of him was somewhat impatient. “We’re not…”

“Aaaaaaaaah!!”

Often, in an extremely oppressive environment, a person’s mind needed only one scream from someone nearby to collapse.

The three squeezed together, blocking the doorway.

Xiao Qiu’s tears were about to fall. Dabao and Big Fish were so frightened that their fingers shook. Their usually nimble fingers were out of control, and they could not even manage the motion of opening the door.

Finally, with a click, the door opened.

Dabao’s eyes lit up. He kicked the door open and was the first to rush out.

Outside the house.

Under the moon.

In the courtyard.

A tall, refined figure appeared before them. It was shockingly the person who had been sitting on the sofa behind them just a moment ago.

Behind them.

Inside the house.

On the sofa.

The sleeping burly man was startled awake. Rubbing his forehead, he looked coldly at the three people who had disturbed his pleasant dream.

A hungry wolf in front and a fierce tiger behind.

These people who courted death and were not even afraid of ghosts were now so frightened their legs went weak, their entire bodies shaking like sieves.

The viewers in the livestream room also went crazy.

[So exciting. It’s scripted, right? It has to be scripted, right? Dabao is about to become legendary!]

[Call the police!!]

[Holy crap, I’m going to watch this from the bathroom. Please, nothing can happen!]

[The camera’s shaking so much I’m going to puke. Dabao is so panicked. He can’t really have run into trouble, right?]

[Help!! Security uncle, come save them!!]

Chen Yi had been in the livestream room the whole time. Although his eyes had been closed and he had not been watching the content, the three people’s muttering still traveled through his earbud into his ears.

Part of him found it funny, and another part of him was rather impatient. After blocking the three people’s path, he once again tried to explain, “I told you, we’re not bad people.”

His words stopped.

Chen Yi’s expression abruptly changed as if he had become another person. He turned to look in another direction, his tone brief and commanding. “Captain Sun, tie them up!”

Chen Yi had completely lost the mood to indulge their nonsense.

In the next second after the stench appeared, it swept over overwhelmingly. It was the strongest scent of contamination Chen Yi had ever smelled.

At some point, the bloody moon altar disc overhead had fully condensed, and at this moment it burst with crimson light, blocking out the moonlight.

It was both an instinct to feed and the deepest malice toward Chen Yi and the others. The moment it awakened, it used all its energy.

The aberration domain descended.

Blood-colored moonlight shrouded the land.

The three people enveloped by this sinister light immediately became strange. The fear and tension on their faces receded like the tide, and their eyes instead became blank and slack.

Soon, red threads filled the whites of their eyes. Their eyeballs bulged as if they had seen something terrifying, and their expressions gradually twisted.

In truth, in the eyes of Chen Yi and Captain Sun, the world before them had not changed much.

The moon was bright like a silver plate. The mountain breeze blew gently, carrying the coolness of night.

The village’s local dogs had all returned to their own homes, and the chickens, ducks, geese, and fat pigs had also fallen asleep.

It was an extremely ordinary rural night.

Except that it stank beyond description.

After cultivating, this was the first time Captain Sun had smelled the scent of an aberration. He gagged several times before barely adapting to this “biochemical poison” that seemed to gather all the foulest smells under heaven. Supporting himself against the wall, he walked toward the door.

Captain Sun executed Chen Yi’s order without hesitation. At the same time, following Chen Yi’s gaze, he raised his head and looked into the sky.

He actually saw it!!

He vaguely saw the aberration’s physical form Chen Yi had described. It floated in the air, a red mass, faint and indistinct, slowly falling downward.

Captain Sun was a little nervous, and his hands tying the rope were uneven in force. “Can I touch it now?”

Chen Yi nodded and answered with certainty, “You can.”

Captain Sun smiled crookedly, just like Captain Ye had when he first heard this answer.

When the bloody moon altar disc descended, Chen Yi did not make a move.

Holding a peachwood greatsword, he stood to the side to cover the formation. On one hand, he was protecting Captain Sun, who was directly clashing head-on with an aberration for the first time. On the other hand, he was also watching over these three people and making sure nothing happened to them.

There was another point too. This was the main reason they had come this time.

The aberration that had taken five lives was said to be a thousand-year-old long-haired zombie. Although Chen Yi had not sensed any other aberration aura so far, perhaps zombies were different from aberrations? He still had to keep guarding against it.

Once the aberration appeared, these three ridiculously bold young people no longer needed to be tied up. They were already shaking like sieves and deeply trapped in the aberration domain.

Seeing that some of them had already started bleeding from the nose, Chen Yi sighed helplessly.

If you always walk by the river, how can your shoes never get wet?

Never mind this era of Spiritual Energy Revival. Even in normal times, if one kept going to bad places, then even if one did not run into an aberration, one might encounter some other danger.

For the sake of views, these young people truly did not care about their lives.

Chen Yi did want to give the three of them a lesson, but he was not a judge or a security officer, so this was not something he should do. Thus, with a flick of his finger, a faint white light appeared beside him.

Light Spell.

The seven miscellaneous techniques unlocked at the fifth level of Qi Refining were very practical, completely sufficient in the early stages.

This Light Spell in particular had very obvious killing power against aberrations. It also possessed an extremely outstanding ability to drive away contamination.

As the light shone, the three people who had already sunk deep into contamination brightened at the face and gradually came back to themselves.

Perhaps because this aberration was very strong, in just this short while, it was no longer only nosebleeds and bloodshot eyes. Blood had also begun to flow from their eyes and ears. In the end, once a mouthful of essence blood was spat out, a person’s vitality would be gone. They would sink deep into contamination and either die or become a living ghost.

Chen Yi held the light in his hand, his gaze sweeping over the faces of the three who were slowly regaining themselves. Then his eyes paused, meeting Dabao’s relatively clear gaze.

This kid’s face was clean, and his eyes were clear too. He did not look as though he had been contaminated.

Of course, he was still afraid. His lips trembled as he looked at Chen Yi’s clear, bright features. Finally, he opened his mouth. “What is that?”

His gaze moved upward. Chen Yi followed his line of sight and saw one red-clothed figure after another emerging from the bloody moon altar disc.

The red figures seemed to be dressed in red bridal robes as they floated in midair, but in their eyes without any whites was the greatest malice in the world.

Their sharp hair whipped wildly behind them. Their dark nails were long and sharp like those of beasts, even curving inward into a terrifying arc.

Different from when he had first seen them this afternoon, the women who had clearly been unconscious wandering souls now had expressions on their faces. As if they had “come alive,” they tilted their heads and looked down at the group beneath their feet. On their deathly pale faces appeared greedy expressions.

All were delicious feasts.

The dreadful blood-colored floating shadows brought the pressure of something at the top of the food chain. It was like insects encountering birds, unable to struggle free and only able to passively await death. That fear descended over their heads.

Within those eyes without whites were endless coldness and malice. In a daze, one could even see the woman stretch out her crimson tongue and lick once around her lips.

The Light Spell Chen Yi had casually released was clearly unable to fully protect the three infected people within such dense contamination.

Aside from Dabao, the red threads in the other two’s eyes bulged. They were still immersed in hallucinations, unable to completely wake up.

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