The female ghost on the screen suddenly lunged right up to the camera, revealing a gaping, bloody maw. Wu You jumped and burrowed straight into Lu Rui's arms.
Su Fengzi was already used to this sort of thing. As a horror game streamer, jumpscares like this were all in a day's work. Still, it had given him a tiny fright-he just wasn't admitting it.
Pei Yanchuan let out a startled "Awooo!" Ye Chu hadn't been frightened by the ghost, but Pei Yanchuan gave him quite a scare. He thought Pei Yanchuan was about to turn into a wolf again out of nowhere in the middle of the night.
Pei Yanchuan shifted a little closer to Ye Chu, mumbling, "Ye Chu, you don't have to be scared. If you are, you can hide over here with me..."
Ye Chu chuckled. He was this scared, yet he still wanted to protect him?
Toward the end, the movie shifted from horror to mystery. The supposedly supernatural incidents turned out to have been deliberately staged. The protagonists solved the mystery, uncovered the truth, and drove home the message-the usual movie formula.
"Just as expected." Lu Rui stretched. "You'll never get a genuine ghost in a China horror movie."
"True. Spirits and hauntings have been banned since the founding of the country," Wu You said, sitting up straight as well. "But do any of you believe in ghosts and gods?"
"Of course not," Pei Yanchuan said solemnly. "I'm a staunch materialist."
Ye Chu nodded too. "No. I'm a Party member."
Party members didn't practice religion.
"Oh." Wu You yawned. It was getting late. "I could go either way, but I always burn incense and pray before something important. Before my college entrance exams, for example, I asked my mom to burn a stick of incense