CH 37

The girl's body temperature fermented in her arms, warm and soft, with a sweet milky fragrance. She closed her eyes and sniffed greedily over and over again.

–clatter

Another door opened.

"Let's go!" Qi Yan yelled and took the lead in.

Everyone scrambled forward, but Jiang Yu's legs seemed to be rooted, motionless. She saw a little light behind the door, and the space opened up again, leading to the known, leading to freedom.

As long as it's not a completely dark and enclosed space, even a little light to see the nearby things clearly is enough, enough to tie the giant beast in her heart.

Today is an improvement over a few years ago, and one day she will overcome it.

"Sister, it seems that we have reached the first level. We..." Cheng Suran raised her head, looked around, and through the dim light from the door, she saw her dull and absent-minded face clearly, and her heart skipped a beat.

Could it be...

…that her sister is really afraid of ghosts?

But those were all fake ghosts, they just appeared and then disappeared, never getting close to them.

She remembered that at the hotel this morning, she asked her sister if she was afraid of ghosts, and the woman immediately said no, as if she was afraid that she would be laughed at if she answered late. But unexpectedly, she became afraid when they arrive. She is obviously afraid but still doesn't admit it, she wants to save face and loves to show off.

Isn't she too cute?

Cheng Suran couldn't help snickering, she saw another side of her sister again. Thinking that this was something that Chaohua fans couldn't see, she became even happier, and couldn't help but feel a little proud in her heart.

"Shall we go in?" She resisted the urge to pinch Jiang Yu's face.

Everyone else went into the next room, only the two of them stood there holding each other stupidly, and Qi Yan's voice came from behind the door: "What is the fourth cinema? 'Coming Soon'? Oh oh, and  a sign of 'Alone' should be placed here."

T/N: Coming Soon and Alone are Thai horror movies

They are decrypting.

Cheng Suran couldn't wait to join in, and was also a little afraid of the gloomy environment with few people, so she took Jiang Yu's hand and urged: "Let's go, sister, if you don't go there, they're going to pass."

Jiang Yu remained motionless, her arms wrapped around her tightly, like a one-piece sculpture.

Those cold and charming eyes also lost their spirit.

"Sister?" Cheng Suran called her carefully, with a restrained teasing look in her eyes, "Are you okay? Say something, okay? Don't scare me..."

She is also afraid, even more so when she is separated from the large group. Although she knows in her heart that it is a fake ghost, in a dark and unknown environment, fear is an uncontrollable instinct. But with Jiang Yu, who was so frightened that she lost her reaction, it might be a very serious situation.

"Elder sister…"

Cheng Suran looked up and saw that Jiang Yu seemed to have lost her soul, she couldn't smile anymore, and a trace of regret arose in her heart.

She hasn't figured out the situation yet, just to satisfy her own selfish desires, she insisted on asking her sister to accompany her. In case something does go wrong...

She didn't dare to think about it, and became more and more frightened.

Jiang Yu suddenly came back to her senses, hugged the girl's hands tightly, and said in a low voice, "It's okay, let's go."

"Sister?" Cheng Suran looked at her happily, but her nose turned sore, "Are you really all right? Then what happened to you just now, it's a little scary."

Jiang Yu tilted her head and smiled, and stroked the hair on the back of her head soothingly, "I just remembered something, I got too distracted."

"Then are you still afraid of ghosts?"

"I'm not afraid."

She is afraid of the dark, afraid of being imprisoned.

This made Cheng Suran doubtful.

The first level is an "L"-shaped closed space, with a cold white dark light cast from the ceiling. Although it is gloomy, it is much better than the small room where she can't see her fingers, at least she can see the surroundings clearly.

Each door represents a cinema, and there is a rectangular groove inlaid on the side of the door. They need to put the corresponding horror movie posters on it according to the prompts, and only when you put them all correctly can you go to the next level.

Jiang Yu walked slowly step by step with Cheng Suran in her arms. When she passed the second cinema, Bai Lu was holding a wooden poster and putting it into the groove. The door slid open with a "swipe", revealing a bloody zombie face, suddenly springing out.

"Ah!!!"

Everyone screamed and backed away, and accidentally bumped into Jiang Yu. She staggered and nearly fell, but was held up by Cheng Suran.

The girl stood in front of her, propping one hand against the wall, forming a small space around her.

Breathing each other's breath, warmth flows into their blood along the air.

She was too tall, Cheng Suran tried to hold her in her arms like she did to her, but no matter how hard the girl tried, she couldn't hold her, instead she looked like an octopus entangled with her.

Cheng Suran doesn't know if it's an illusion, but the moment she hugged Jiang Yu, it seemed that she also felt the other person's strong desire, not physically, but mentally.

Before she had time to capture this subtle feeling, it was soon washed away by the atmosphere of the game.

The lights flickered, and the zombies disappeared. The wall clock on the wall automatically rotated a circle, the lights went off and on again, and the door of the largest projection hall "clicked" to open again.

"Come on, come on." Qi Yan took the lead in greeting and entered the next room.

Leaning her back against the cold wall, Jiang Yu took a deep breath and broke out in a cold sweat. When she recovered, she realized that she was actually being protected by the kid in the corner of the wall.

Looking up, she met her worried eyes.

"Sister, why don't you quit? I think that you are not in a good state..." The girl frowned, her face puffed up slightly, and her whole body glowed with warmth under the gloomy cold light.

Panting for breath, Jiang Yu stared at her with lowered eyes for a while, then gently pushed her away, and straightened up, "There is no reason to give up halfway."

She walked to the next room with heavy steps, Cheng Suran chased after her to help her, but she pushed her away again. At this time, Bai Lu came out of the cinema and waved to them, "Hurry up, the movie has started."

She grabbed Jiang Yu's wrist and dragged her in.

Inside is a small cinema. This level requires watching a short horror movie related to the theme. There are nine seats in total. Everyone is full in the middle row and the back row, leaving only three seats in the first row.

"Little sister, you sit behind me, and Sister Yu and I'll sit in front." Bai Lu pulled Jiang Yu to sit in the first row.

She is in the middle, Jiang Yu is on the left, and there is an empty seat on the right.

Cheng Suran didn't listen to her, and just sat on the right seat.

Bai Lu: "..."

The video played for about five minutes, and the curtain emitted a weak white light that illuminated their faces, brightening their eyes, and Cheng Suran watched absent-mindedly. For some reason, she always had a bad feeling and was a little anxious.

After the playback was over, the room fell into darkness again, and something could be vaguely felt coming in.

Cheng Suran looked at Jiang Yu subconsciously, and shouted through the crowd: "Sister..."

She got up and was about to go, but in the darkness, she tripped over someone's foot and nearly fell. When she raised her head, a red light flashed, and the grimace with bony and rotten eyes facing her, screaming shrilly.

"Ah!"

She was so frightened that she fell down on someone's body.

"Ah, ouch—" it was Bai Lu.

This time the NPC haunted for a long time, and there was more than one, and the auditorium was filled with howling ghosts and wolves, screaming and screaming...

Jiang Yu closed her eyes, her whole body was stiff, fragmentary images flashed in her mind, there was thunder, lightning, and a small broken house in the mountains and forests... The little girl was locked in the gloomy and dark wooden house alone, crying hoarsely, crying dry tears, with bugs biting her feet.

There was the sound of cursing, the sound of wicker waving through the air, people came and left, but they didn't take the little girl away, they just wanted to leave her in that cabin.

"Sister..." Someone hugged her, patted her lightly, and shook her, "The ghost is gone, it's all right, sister, let's go to the next level."

She smelled the familiar scent of milk.

The projection hall returned to its dimly lit state. This time, everyone stayed around and surrounded Jiang Yu. As the leader, Qi Yan also felt something was wrong, "Hey, Jiang Yu, what's wrong with you? Is it because you're scared or you don't feel well? Are you okay? How about I tell the staff..."

"No need," Jiang Yu slowly opened her eyes, stood up, pushed Cheng Suran away, continue to the next level."

The light was dim, and her face was a little blurry, and she couldn't see any expression, but it was faintly ruthless. After saying this, she walked ahead and stepped into the next room.

Cheng Suran hurriedly followed.

Everyone exchanged looks worried and at a loss, but have no choice but to follow into the room.

This level requires a single-player mission first. Eight cards with the same pattern on the back have been placed on the long table. Everyone draws one card. After flipping through, whoever draws a white card will be the one to do the solo mission.

Everyone is sorted by the first letter of the last name to determine the order of drawing cards.

"I'll count to three, let's play together, one, two, three!" Qi Yan's voice fell, and she quickly turned over her own cards.

Blue.

Lu Zhiqiao: "I'm red."

Lu Wei: "I'm purple."

Cheng Suran: "Green."

Everyone looked around, each reporting their colors, and finally their eyes fell on Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu looked at her own card, didn't speak, and silently put it on the table, picked up the bloody dummy head and the clue paper, and turned to go to the long dark corridor.

—she drew white.

"Sister!" Cheng Suran stopped her, reaching out to snatch the head, "I'll go, I..." She wanted to say that she was not afraid, but when the words came to her lips, she subconsciously felt that she shouldn't have said that, so she changed the sentence, "It’s my first time playing this kind of game, and I want to experience doing single-player tasks.”

"Follow the rules of the game." Jiang Yu saw through her thoughts at a glance, and avoided her hand.

Her tall figure gave people a sense of oppression, and her eyes were cold and determined, without the slightest fluctuation; irresistible.

Everyone fell silent.

Jiang Yu walked past Cheng Suran and stepped into the dark corridor. The range of light behind her became smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely, leaving only the fluorescent colors inlaid on the walls on both sides.

The surroundings were silent, and the impenetrable darkness surrounded her, like a giant beast in her distant memory, lurking in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to devour her.

She can beat herself. Every few years, there will always be a little improvement, and by this year, it should be a complete victory.

The end of the corridor is just ahead, there is a coffin there, as long as she opens it and puts the dummy head in, she can get the decryption key and complete the single-player mission.

However…

Her heartbeat is getting faster and faster, and her footsteps are getting heavier and heavier.

In the confined and desperate space, fear and anxiety pressed on her shoulders like a mountain. Jiang Yu felt cold all over, had difficulty breathing, couldn't control her hands and feet, and trembled more and more. The cry of the little girl played in a loop in her mind.

Finally, she reached the coffin.

She raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, and suddenly her eyes went dark and she lost consciousness...