Chapter 1 Hearing the Sound

Hearing the strange noises upstairs, Shen Wei didn't rush up to investigate. Instead, he found a safe place to read the script.

In the original script, Shen Wei and his live streaming 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. The script now showed that he survived the game and escaped the teaching building.

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

The original ending of him escaping the ghost school disappeared, and a subsequent plot appeared. In this sequel, Shen Wei discovered clues about Yang Chen's disappearance in the teaching building. These clues pointed to the eerie dormitory building, and Shen Wei was killed by a strange monster while exploring the dormitory.

"Youzi, can you tell if the thing making noises upstairs is human or a ghost?"

Shen Wei tentatively asked his Evil God Right Hand.

"I'm 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 me more lifespan..."

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

After thinking for a moment, Shen Wei decided not to ask it and go up to take a look himself. Even if it was a ghost, it might hold some clues about how to survive. If he missed it, he might be doomed.

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

"Where did that corpse go? It was just here. No, I have to get out of here..."

Thinking this, Shen Wei rushed upstairs. But he suddenly felt faint footsteps behind him, and the sound seemed to be very close.

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

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

Just as Shen Wei was slightly distracted, he suddenly felt a bone-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, rolling a long distance.

"This guy has a physical body. He's fast and strong, and he has no martial ethics, launching a sneak attack..."

As Shen Wei was complaining madly, countless gray threads suddenly appeared in the empty air. These gray threads, like spiderwebs, wrapped around Shen Wei.

Shen Wei spun the long knife in his hand, cutting off the bizarre black lines one by one, which resembled thin tapeworms.

The severed gray lines fell to the ground, making sharp hissing sounds, as if they were alive.

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

Hearing the Evil God Right Hand's warning, Shen Wei directly used the explosive power of the long knife in the Yin-Yang Umbrella to blow up the exposed invisible monster into a pile of minced meat.

But it seemed that the knife's power couldn't kill this strange thing. The gray lines, carrying pieces of flesh, kept wriggling on the ground, eventually reassembling. It seemed it wouldn't be long before the thing revived.

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

While running, Shen Wei tried to calm himself, thinking 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 NPCs of the haunted house. You need to act scared, but don't be really scared. Remember, remember.

"Is this how Rule Eight should be understood? 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 shocked and a little scared. They sensed it, so they awakened. Now that I've calmed down, they can't detect me for the time being..."

Almost in an instant, he ran to 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 live streaming crew.

"No wonder you hardly see any other staff members in the Rule Anomaly of this death theater. It turns out they all died here before they could even get to the teaching building. There's another parasitic gray line in the dormitory building. It's also killing people. Could there be any screenwriters and directors among these dead people? If they both die, then wouldn't the script be impossible to change? If that's the case, then I'm in trouble..."

Shen Wei suppressed the unease in his heart and walked to each room on this floor, observing in front of each door. After checking all the corpses lying in front of the dormitory doors, Shen Wei's heart finally calmed down.

Looking at the work clothes they were wearing and the credentials they carried, there were no screenwriters or directors here. In other words, if Shen Wei could find the director to change the script, there was still a glimmer of hope.

"Perhaps creatures can be like this. These two kinds of lines from different dimensions also have their own sense of territory. They are two different races. Maybe I can use this point to make them kill each other, making myself safer."

"For example, when the gray lines attack, they will show themselves, exposing some lines. Judging from this, is the resurrection of the corpses related to these lines? But the color of the lines here is gray, which is different from the black lines in the teaching building. Also, the objects that the two kinds of lines parasitize are also different. The black lines seem to be parasitizing human souls or ghosts."

"The gray lines parasitize the corpses, controlling their actions and giving the corpses certain strange abilities. They may come from the same space, but they are different species. Those who are not of my kind must have different intentions. If they don't have contradictions, then they are likely to appear in the same place and wouldn't be so clearly wary of each other like they are now. I have to make good use of this..."