Zhao Yijiu Screams (?)

Yu Xing suddenly said something she had never said before, as if a character had added lines on their own.

Zhao Yijiu was stunned for a moment. Something seized the opportunity to disrupt his mind and forcibly suppressed the truth he was about to touch.

He was somewhat dazed, feeling as if he had forgotten something, but Yu Xing was right in front of him, and Zhao Yijiu instinctively replied, "Perhaps I have indeed seen her before."

His cold tone, coupled with his seemingly muscular physique, gave off an overwhelming sense of security in the darkness.

The girl with curly hair in the room couldn't help but glance at him twice.

"Really...?" Yu Xing blinked in confusion, then gave a smile that said, "I'm nervous and scared, but also a little happy." "Maybe this is fate!"

Zhao Yijiu did not want to deny this statement.

The encounter between people is indeed fate, and there is indeed something called destiny in this world. The power that his brother Zhao Mou obtained in the deduction belongs to the destiny system.

If it weren't for fate, he and Yu Xing wouldn't have chosen to start their Deduction Test in the same place.

But this Yu Xing in front of me... seems a bit strange.

After that, Assistant Hao introduced their test content and left, while the remaining few people and ghosts began to discuss grouping.

Zhao Yijiu had barely spoken when he broke the original script; he, who had previously been ignored, was now being approached by the curly-haired girl.

"Hey, cool guy, how about we Group One up? I'm a pro at haunted houses, I'm really experienced!" The long-haired girl smiled at him and extended an olive branch.

A hint of disdain and doubt appeared in Zhao Yijiu's eyes.

Shouldn't she have said that to Yu Xing?

[Being noticed is always the protagonist's privilege. You did a great job attracting the attention of the only remaining human supporting character in this story. Actually, that's the right thing to do. In the previous script, Yu Xing, as the second male lead, stole too much of the spotlight. This time, you have to reclaim that spotlight.]

The narration suddenly started playing in his mind.

Zhao Yijiu: "..."

That incessant chatter is so annoying.

He thought the narrator was talking nonsense, but the narrator didn't seem to realize this. Since the topic had already come to this point, the narrator seemed to have suddenly come up with another idea and suggested...

[Actually, if Zhang Shuya survives, she has a lot of room for growth. She could easily become a regular supporting female character. You know what audiences want to see? They want to see interactions between the main character and the female character.]

[You could save her, repay her life with your body—it's a cliché, but it always has an audience. Yu Xing, the second male lead, is too complicated; he could easily ruin the whole plot and is an unpredictable factor. You'd better avoid having too much contact with him.]

[As long as you and Yu Xing don't become close, he won't have the status of the second male lead. No matter how strong his actual abilities are, he can't interfere much more in this movie. Zhao Yijiu, this is a good opportunity to completely overturn the script and create a story that belongs to you.]

"Impossible," Zhao Yijiu retorted coldly in her heart.

He was already somewhat unhappy.

What idiot is this narrator spouting?

Putting aside the fact that Zhang Shuya is indeed this long-haired girl, and whether she can adapt to the life of a deducer after surviving, even if she could, why would the narrator make him get together with Zhang Shuya?

Ha, isn't that the kind of sex-selling plot only found in low-quality domestic horror movies?

He wouldn't mind saving one more person, but he would never have any other thoughts of getting close to that person until their performance was deemed satisfactory by him.

As for staying away from Yu Xing... that's a joke.

Zhao Yijiu said, "Sorry, I'm in Group One with Yu Xing."

Everyone present probably didn't expect that the quiet and gloomy young man would take the initiative to invite the newcomer, a handsome but cowardly and incompetent young man.

Yu Xing's eyes widened in surprise, then she smiled, "Okay, let's divide it like that."

Zhao Yijiu found Yu Xing's reaction rather strange. In his imagination, Yu Xing would either pretend more thoroughly, pitifully begging for his protection, or try to cause trouble, such as teasing him about why he made this choice, or whether he had ulterior motives.

Perhaps he's overthinking it.

The narrator calmly recounts the story.

[Okay, our protagonist has made his choice. No wonder some viewers say there's a lot of bromance between the protagonist and the second male lead. No matter what you think, the result the audience sees always leaves room for speculation. You do seem to favor the second male lead. If you want to reverse these reviews, you should really find a female lead.]

Zhao Yijiu silently told the narrator, "Stop talking nonsense and shut up."

Narrator: "..."

After that, they went in pairs to different areas of the factory to find batteries.

Zhao Yijiu and Yu Xing soon disappeared from sight of everyone else. He walked ahead, while Yu Xing lagged half a step behind him, and a silence settled between them.

It seems like he was the one who initiated the conversation with Yu Xing before.

There was no particular reason, he just felt inexplicably sorry for Yu Xing being chosen, and besides, her face was indeed pleasing to the eye; who doesn't like things that are pleasing to the eye?

So before he realized that the ghost was stronger than he had imagined, he had planned to help Yu Xing.

This time, however, even though he was more experienced and stronger, he didn't intend to speak up again.

He was curious; what would Yu Xing say if he didn't get a chance to speak?

Time passed second by second.

Yu Xing seemed somewhat uneasy, glancing at him frequently, opening her mouth only to swallow back her words. If someone else had seen him like this, they would definitely have asked, "What exactly are you trying to say?"

But Zhao Yijiu didn't ask.

Finally, just as they were about to find the first battery, Yu Xing couldn't hold back any longer.

Aren't you scared?

"Hmm?" Zhao Yijiu glanced at him, expressing her doubt in a rising tone.

"I mean, it's pitch black in here. The company must have deliberately made it like this. The atmosphere is so eerie. Aren't you scared?" Yu Xing pointed to her legs. "My legs are shaking. I'm even more scared when you don't say anything. I'm always afraid you'll disappear at any moment."

"Oh," Zhao Yijiu replied casually, glancing out of the corner of her eye at a battery lying in front of a mouse hole by the wall.

Yu Xing once pretended to be scared and screamed here.

His eyes lit up, and he quickly bent down and grabbed the battery before Yu Xing.

Sure enough, a pale blue hand reached out from the hole and gripped his wrist tightly.

Zhao Yijiu paused for a second, her lips pursed slightly, then she suddenly raised her voice. "Ah! A ghost!"

To be honest, he's not suited for acting. Those two exclamations, which should have contained intense fear, shock, and terror, were rendered into a monotonous, mechanical reading by him.

But he at least changed the original script.

Yu Xing froze on the spot.

For a fleeting moment, Zhao Yijiu glanced at Yu Xing's face, and her blood ran cold.

Yu Xing stood there stunned, her eyes vacant, her chest flat and still, like a puppet caught off guard and not being properly manipulated.

Although... Zhao Yijiu was trying to verify this point, when she actually caught that empty gaze, a surge of fear still welled up inside her.

He guessed that his perception had been distorted all along. Those feelings of almost remembering something but then suddenly forcibly forgetting it, even though they would soon be erased, still left a trace in his powerful mental strength.

The more times you do it, the deeper the impression becomes.

The person beside him was not Yu Xing.

Zhao Yijiu's heart skipped a beat, and his hand trembled slightly in a place no one could see.

If it's not Yu Xing... then what could it be?

Was the Zhao Mou we saw earlier the real Zhao Mou?