"Good afternoon, guests. This time, I'd like you to explore a place that hasn't been opened in decades. No one has ever been inside."
"So I'd like you to help take a look at what's in there."
When the afternoon livestream began, the actor playing the butler gave them their task as usual.
He, too, had only been told by the director that afternoon that the script had changed, and his lines had been revised at the last minute.
[Here we go, here we go! The final boss is here.]
[Probably a hidden map.]
[Can't wait to see what's inside!]
The butler led everyone up to the fourth floor and stopped at a door. Strangely, there was a padlock on it. Who used such an old-fashioned lock on a door these days?
In fact, this wasn't the previous lock. They didn't have the key to the original, so Wang Xiang had someone saw it off and replace it with a new one for show.
He hadn't dared send anyone into this storeroom to look around. Su Li had specifically asked to come here, which meant there had to be something wrong with it. He had glanced inside from the doorway, and it seemed to be full of mirrors.
The butler took out a key and unlocked the padlock.
The guests went inside. Since there were no cameras in there, two cameramen followed them this time.
Upon entering the storeroom, the first thing they saw was mirrors of all sizes.
There were also plenty of complete skeletons in here!
The guests couldn't help shuddering. The production team was really ruthless. They had even brought in skeletons.
Su Li looked closely. These were all real bones, and there were quite a few vengeful spirits here, too.
Ghost Doll had followed them as well, though no one else could see her. Beside Su Li, she said, "My lord, these should be the Manor's servants from back then."
Su Li smiled. He hadn't expected so many extra gains.
The comments were already pouring in:
[So many mirrors.]
[So this morning really was just the setup.]
[Those skeletons are so creepy.]
[What boss is in here?]
[Sure enough, mirrors plus skeletons really create a horror atmosphere.]
Chen Zhuo muttered, "They didn't tell us what we're supposed to do. I don't see any NPCs in here, either."
Then he asked Su Li, "Brother Su, could there be some kind of mechanism here, too?"
The other guests all looked at Su Li, hoping he would come up with an idea.
Over the past two days, they had all come to regard Su Li as reliable, and he had clearly become their mainstay.
Su Li looked around. "There should be some kind of hidden room, just like this morning. The boss is inside."
"Then let's look for mechanisms or hidden doors first." An Hui immediately agreed with Su Li's idea.
The many mirrors reflected everyone's figures, looking rather eerie in the dim surroundings.
Suddenly, Song You noticed an unfamiliar figure beside her in a mirror.
"Ah..." She took a step back.
"What's wrong?" Su Li and the others immediately asked.
"J-just now, there was a white figure in the mirror!" Song You was very frightened.
[I think I just saw it, too.]
[Oh my god, that's so scary.]
[Seeing a ghost in a mirror is the scariest thing!]
"So that's why the production team put so many mirrors here. This kind of scare really tests your nerves," Su Li analyzed, resting his chin on his hand. The gem on the black ring on his left middle finger was scarlet.
Then he comforted her gently. "Don't be scared. Just try not to look in the mirrors."
Song You quietly agreed. She thought Su Li was such a gentle person, still comforting her at a time like this.
[Su Li is so gentle with Youyou. I'm jealous.]
[Li Bao is nice to everyone.]
[Such a stark contrast to Meng Chichi and Liu Jinjian.]
[To the commenter above, Youyou isn't someone who causes trouble for no reason.]
Su Li drew that vengeful spirit into the ring on his left hand.
This was another ring he had made using his magic power, emotional power, and special materials. He had given it a very simple, straightforward name: the Ghost Ring.
It could take ghosts inside and keep them there to be refined.
It could be called a spatial ring specifically for holding ghosts.
Some of the vengeful spirits here were hiding in mirrors, while others possessed the bones. He could draw them out one by one at his leisure.
Ghost Doll watched the whole process as the vengeful spirit was casually drawn into the ring before she could even act. She still had something of a child's disposition and couldn't help being curious.
Noticing Ghost Doll's curious gaze, Su Li smiled and asked her somewhere the cameras couldn't capture, "Are you curious about this ring?"
"...Yes!" She nodded.
"They aren't dead yet. They're just waiting in here for me to turn them into little candies." Su Li pointed at the Ghost Ring.
"Little candies?"
"That's right. For Xiaoxue and Xiaohan to eat." Su Li's tone was gentle.
But Ghost Doll certainly didn't believe he was truly gentle. Xiaoxue and Xiaohan? She remembered those were Su Li's two terrifying dolls.
They actually ate ghosts?!!
She was even more glad she hadn't resisted yesterday.
Just then, An Hui noticed Su Li standing off to one side with his head slightly lowered, his lips seemingly moving.
He walked over. "Xiao Su, what's wrong?" He thought Su Li had been frightened just now.
"I'm fine, Brother An. I was just thinking about where the mechanism might be."
A cameraman's lens had inadvertently swept past Su Li just then, and some viewers were puzzled by his actions:
[What's Su Li doing over there?]
[He looks like he's talking to someone.]
[It can't be the production team. They aren't even wearing microphones for the afternoon livestream.]
[Actually, ever since I watched the livestream on the first day, I've felt that Su Li was different from the others...]
Only after learning that Su Li was fine did An Hui relax.
Su Li collected another vengeful spirit from a mirror and was about to head toward his next target.
Then he heard Cheng Sirong's voice nearby. "Come look, everyone!!"
She pointed at a skeleton in front of her. "Its head moved just now! It nearly scared me to death!"
Everyone looked at the skeleton and was just about to examine it closely.
But then it suddenly turned its head, facing them with its empty eye sockets!
The guests were so frightened that they backed far away.
Even more horrifyingly, its body began to move as well, making creaking noises, and then it actually stood up!
Before they could do anything, they heard more creaking sounds from moving bones.
Five skeletons slowly rose to their feet around them!
[Aaaaaah!!]
[Oh my god, that scared me to death!]
[What is this, an undead army?]
[Skeleton soldiers, huh?]
[How are those skeletons moving? It doesn't look like they're controlled by strings!]
[Has technology advanced enough to make motorized skeletons now?]
Wang Xiang was already trembling as he watched this unfold on the screen. Thank goodness he hadn't dared go inside.
An Hui panicked at the sight as well and instinctively asked Su Li, "Xiao Su, can we drive them back with some kind of prop? Like this morning?"
Su Li pretended to scan their surroundings, then pointed somewhere and told them, "Look over there!"
Everyone looked where he pointed. A doll with pitch-black eyes was hanging there.
[There's a doll here, too?]
[I remember there wasn't a doll there before?]
[This is getting more and more supernatural.]
Yes, he had just had Ghost Doll hang it there. It was one of the dolls she controlled.
"Wait here. I'll get it."
An Hui ran over, took the doll down, and handed it to Su Li. "Xiao Su, what does this do?"
"I'm only guessing, too."
The skeletons around them gradually closed in.
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