Horror Game: What to Do If You're Too Handsome — Part 15

Then his wife was named Chen Lingyi, a Huadan singer.

Troupe Leader Wang took a fancy to Chen Lingyi, lured her into the troupe leader's office, and violated her.

An Xinghe said he was very familiar with this part of the plot.

He often saw it on certain websites that phones warned were risky to access, yet people insisted on visiting anyway.

An Xinghe was not good at foreign languages, but he could tell that the female lead inside was speaking Japanese.

However, Chen Lingyi chose suicide!

He Song Sheng, who loved his wife deeply, wanted to use his family's inherited forbidden art to revive her. But because he was not strong enough, he was killed by the backlash of the forbidden art.

His reluctantly revived wife also became a spider-like monster!

The Peach Wood Hairpin An Xinghe had found was originally a token of love He Song Sheng had given Chen Lingyi. She loved it dearly.

Troupe Leader Wang stole the Peach Wood Hairpin. When Chen Lingyi anxiously searched for it, he lied that he had found it and asked her to come to his office to retrieve it.

That was what led to the tragedy.

The Soul-Returning Rebirth Formula was the forbidden art He Song Sheng had used to revive Chen Lingyi.

An Xinghe took out the [Tooth Fall Rebirth Formula] he had previously found at Dentist He's house and discovered that it looked exactly like the [Soul-Returning Rebirth Formula]!

And both could be taken out of the instance!

An Xinghe carefully put away the two prescriptions. They might just give him a surprise when the instance was settled.

Afterward, following the routine from the original game, An Xinghe tried to awaken Chen Lingyi, who had already become a ghostly creature.

He struck the bronze gong that signaled the troupe's opening.

A soft, melodious female voice drifted over:

"Half-veiled, she toys with crimson gauze,

Peach blossoms secretly scatter, suffusing the red dawn."

She was singing Tang Xianzu's The Purple Hairpin!

Yet the sinister, eerie tone in her voice made one's blood run cold!

However, An Xinghe merely smiled disdainfully and began singing loudly:

"La la la, la la la, I'm a little newsboy! I sell newspapers before dawn, calling as I walk..."

The female voice seemed stunned by An Xinghe!

This was a horror set! Didn't he think singing that song was completely out of place? Why wasn't he singing Mixue instead?

As if trying to spite An Xinghe, the female voice raised her pitch:

"The one who finds the hairpin shall meet a fragile flower,

The hairpin's worth in Luoyang falls low."

An Xinghe refused to be outdone and switched songs:

"The great river flows eastward! The stars in the sky gather at the Big Dipper! Hey hey hey hey, the Big Dipper! A bowl of wine for friends bound by life and death!"

The female voice raised her volume again:

"A down-and-out man in Jiangzhou meets the Sima..."

"Use the nunchucks now, ho ho ha hey!"

The female voice finally stopped. Faintly, a "Fuck" drifted over from the distance.

An Xinghe smiled disdainfully.

"That was it? I was about to sing you Eighteen Touches!"

"Reach out and touch the dark silk by sister's cheek, drifting like clouds across the sky. Reach out and touch sister's forehead, full and enticing..."

Livestream chat.

[An Xinghe was incredible this time! All sense of fear is gone!]

[The only thing left in my head is The Newsboy's Song.]

[Ghost: You've rendered me speechless.]

[The ghost is probably losing it!]

[Ghost: Here, take the microphone. You be the ghost!]

[Everything is competitive these days. Even being a ghost isn't easy!]

Was I Too Harsh on the Ghost?

The female voice stopped, replaced by a string of hurried "tap tap tap" footsteps!

Having read the original work, An Xinghe knew these were the footsteps of the spider-like monster Chen Lingyi had transformed into.

Only, those footsteps sounded rather angry.

An Xinghe could not help but complain:

"We only sang a couple of folk songs together! Is there any need to get this angry? Ghosts should be more magnanimous!"

"We're both artists. Why can't we understand each other?!"

Livestream chat.

[The ghost is probably about to go insane with rage!]

[If I were the ghost, I'd risk my entire ghost life just to make An Xinghe regret this!]

[Do you count as someone making art? At most, you're making artists!]

[You can make that kind of joke on this broken road?!]

[Why do I suddenly feel like cheering for the ghost?]

[Me too!]

Using the sound to determine the female ghost's direction, An Xinghe charged toward her with a wicked grin!

Face your fears, brat!

The livestream viewers went insane when they saw An Xinghe's move!

[No way?! An Xinghe is going to fight the female ghost head-on?!]

[Why isn't he running?!]

[Run my ass! Ordinary players should run right now, but don't forget An Xinghe still has the Scissors given to him by the Slit-Mouthed Woman!]

[So he's really a kept-man warrior!]

[Looking at An Xinghe's smile, I suddenly feel sorry for the female ghost! That smile is way too lewd!]

[Humans can't, or at least, they shouldn't.]

[Humans can. At the very least, they should try.]

[Something's wrong with you upstairs!]

Hearing An Xinghe running toward her, the ghost also sensed that something was seriously wrong!

Shouldn't he be running for his life? Why does it feel like I'm the prey?!

To be safe, the ghost stopped in a huge room and hid herself in the darkness.

She quietly waited for An Xinghe to arrive.

Less than five minutes later, An Xinghe reached the room as well.

Since it was nighttime, An Xinghe could only vaguely make out the things around him.

They were all props like wooden puppets and opera costumes.

That meant this room was the troupe's original prop room.

No wonder it was so large.

At the same time, An Xinghe knew the female ghost was in this room!

So he was in no hurry. He began rummaging through the prop room for anything useful!

And he really did find something!

[Name: Small Spotlight]

[Type: Quest-related]

[Quality: Dilapidated]

[Special Effect: Can provide illumination]

[Can be taken out of the scenario: No]

[Remark: This spotlight once fell in love with a mortar. Until one day, it saw an explosive shell smoothly slide into the mortar's barrel, and it lost its dreams.]

In the original work, the ghost Chen Lingyi had become was afraid of light!

The protagonist had also used light to suppress Chen Lingyi.

But An Xinghe did not immediately turn on the spotlight. Instead, he carefully held it in his hand and continued searching the room.

As An Xinghe's search area gradually expanded, the female ghost's range of movement gradually shrank.

Until, as the female ghost backed away, one of her hands accidentally knocked over a table!

An Xinghe immediately smiled.

"I heard you."

The next second, a huge mass of blackness flew toward An Xinghe!

An Xinghe had long been prepared. The Scissors in his hand stabbed straight forward!

However, the Scissors did not pierce the female ghost, but a wooden table!

An Xinghe froze for a moment.

Do ghosts know how to use tactics now too?