I Was Once a Streamer Too

"Four?"

Seeing the Strange Man in a hospital gown hold up four fingers, Huang Hu felt as if he were having a heart attack.

His chest ached, his head felt heavy, and if he weren't currently livestreaming, he would have tossed his phone aside and bolted.

Calm down! This is a House of Horrors! Those are just Haunted House Actor! It's fine, it's fine!

Huang Hu tried his best to convince himself, but his body had already betrayed him; his calves were trembling uncontrollably.

Usually eloquent and quick-witted, he found himself unable to utter a single word. A bone-chilling cold surged from all directions, and he could sense that the four figures before him were something truly extraordinary.

Even those born with severe deformities could not possibly possess such grotesque physiques as they grew up.

Their limbs were twisted like braided dough, their bones warped; some had their eyes gouged out, leaving only hollow, pitch-black pits, while others had eyes filled entirely with whites that would twitch and roll from time to time.

The four patients moved forward in a line, and as the light distorted, Huang Hu finally realized that none of the four had The Shadow!

"Don't come over here!" he shrieked. All of Huang Hu's composure from earlier had vanished; he realized that the person he had been acting against in the room wasn't Li Xu at all, but a Haunted House Actor.

Once this realization hit, another question surfaced in his mind—where had Li Xu gone?

He recalled the call Li Xu had made to him earlier. On the phone, Li Xu's voice had sounded completely different, as if he had truly run into serious trouble.

"Li Xu has worked at the House of Horrors for so long; he's a veteran prop master. If he felt