Chapter 213: Levi’s Group Admission

Chapter 213: Levi’s Group Admission

Levi sat in the living room, staring at his phone for more than half an hour.

His curious yet panicked face was reflected on his phone screen.

He felt as if he was being watched.

It wasnt like passive surveillance, where certain apps collect data through your search history, key logs, and things that you mention by mouth.

Really, it wasnt uncommonmany American shows feature plots where secret agents eavesdrop on sensitive information through a tapped phone.

Levi knew this because after his girlfriend added a certain item to his online shopping cart, it was all that was recommended to him days later.

But it was different now.

It was a paranoia that haunted himsomething terrible was observing his every move from inside his phone. Even if he taped the camera and microphone or replaced his phone, it was still there.

Levi felt that he had encountered something weird, and it was all because he applied to join that damned group chat.

When he was young, he would stay at his grandfathers house in the countryside during the summer and the winter. Despite being in the modern era, many still maintained ancient customs that had been passed down for centuries.

Mystical customs, like fortune-telling rituals, were common in the countryside, and many jobs involved these mystical things.

Levis grandfather was a well-known sage in their hometown.

He is said to have encountered divinity, but Levi has never seen his grandfather encounter anything for that matter. Most of the time, all he does is tell fortunes, reads Feng Shui, and hosts funerals.

He had the idea of passing these skills on to Levi, but it was boring to him. After learning some bits and pieces, he no longer paid attention to them, and they were sealed in the dusty crevices of his brain.

It wasnt until the nights became long and urban legends began to manifest into reality that videos, forums, and chat groups about urban legends naturally began springing up on the Internet like mushrooms after a spring rain.

Levi never thought of himself as attractive or capable, and the Internet was an escape for him.

Soon, he unknowingly became well known in his corner of the Internet as [MASTER LEVI].

After gaining a certain reputation, he simply quit his job and opened up an online shop, and he mainly sold amulets, prayer beads, exorcism charms, and other products.Điscover new chapters at novelhall.com

As for whether those trinkets work, he didnt know.

If anything, the people buy it for their peace of mind. If they really did encounter an urban legend, they might even chalk it up to the urban legend being too strong or that their trinket was too weak.

In short, urban legends are just a tool for him to make money and pick up girls.

When he wasnt maintaining his online store, he would browse through certain websites, using things he did not necessarily understand to deceive people.

In half a year, he used urban legends to go through four or five girlfriends; when he was satisfied, he would make love to them; when he got bored of them, he would simply say, Fate does not allow us to be together. If we continue, there will be consequences.

He wasnt a very good person.

However, such days ended abruptly half a month ago.

One evening, half a month ago.

The sky was strangely dim, and underneath the dark sunset, the sky seemed to be filled with a weird atmosphere.

As soon as Levi returned home after going out to retrieve materials, he made himself a simple dinner and then sat alone in the living room. He mixed cinnabar, spread out a stack of yellow paper, and followed what his grandfather taught him loosely until late at night.

He was like a vampirethe later it was, the more energetic he was.

After making a batch of amulets, he turned on his computer and was prepared to browse through websites to see if there were any beautiful girls he could target.

Logging into the forums, he noticed a message abruptly being sent to him.

100 2/3 Cats? Who is this? And why did they send me an invitation to join a group chat?

Hah! he smiled. An urban legend group chat made by the Universitys students? There must be a lot of females for me to catch in there!

He accepted the invitation with zero hesitation.

[MASTER LEVI HAS JOINED THE GROUP CHAT.]

[YOU CAN NOW CHAT WITH EVERYONE.]

[internetperv01: A newcomer? M/F? Any nudes?]

[internetperv01 has been banned from the chat group for 1 hour.]

[StreetLoner: @MASTER LEVI, dont pay attention to him I dont know how that guy keeps coming back.]

Levi was speechless. This was the first time he had encountered someone taking the initiative.

[StreetLoner: You arrived just in time . Today happens to be the night of urban legends for this group, so youll be able to hear our admin tell us stories about the urban legends in this city.]

[MASTER LEVI: Oh!]

Urban legends? He sneered. I know them like the back of my hand.

Levi breathed a sigh of relief: I knew it.

Rubbing his head, he turned back to the bathroom.

Releasing his bladder, he came out of the bathroom and passed through the living room. For some reason, his head couldnt help but glance in the direction of the door again.

The living room was dark, with just a dim light coming in through the windows cast by the street lamp. The outline of his door seemed strangely distorted.

The story that he saw in the group chat traced through his mind again, and he felt a little uneasy.

Turning around, he grabbed a handful of the amulets he had made from the coffee table in the living room and hurriedly went back to his room, stuffing them under his pillow as he fell back asleep.

After that night, he suffered from a severe cold and was bedridden. All he could do was rely on the remaining food he had left in his refrigerator.

Three days later, his condition improved, and he left the house. As soon as he went out, he smelled the strong scent of incense candles. In the empty corridor, there were wreaths on the wall and a few wisps of ash that sprouted out from the paper money that was being burnt, carried along by the soft breeze.

The corridor seemed gloomy, and inadvertently, he could hear weeping.

Soon, he learnt that there were deaths in the corridor. Three people died over the last three days, and the first to die was a young man named Xiao Zhang, whose corpse tightly held a handful of crumpled banknotes.

As the auntie spoke to him about the news, he broke out in a cold sweat on the spot before running home and leaping straight into his computer desk. He hurriedly logged into the forums, attempting to find the group chat.

However, it was as if the group chat had evaporated into thin air.

Levi could feel his heart sink to the floor.

That night, he was plagued by a nightmare; he dreamt that he woke up in the middle of the night and saw a strange woman lying beside him in his bed, with the moonlight illuminating her.

She was wearing a white dress and laid face up like a corpse. Her face was paler than her dress.

W-who are you?

She didnt answer. Her body rose as she was suspended in mid-air and slowly moved towards him.

He could feel his bones turning into slush, and he couldnt move.

The stiff corpse was suspended over him, with her face still facing upwards. Her arms hung limply, and her hair hung over his face. A putrid stench could be smelled emanating from her body.

And she turned over.

As soon as he saw her pale face and cloudy eyes, all he could hear him say was, How much money do you have left?

Waking up from that nightmare, he began piling up his amulets, prayer beads, and other trinkets he had at home like a nest. They kept him company every night, and he found it difficult to fall asleep.

Every time he fell asleep, he could see the face of that wretched woman.

He spent several days in fear until he received an invitation to join the group again.

[100 2/3 Cats has invited you to join a group chat.]

[Confirm] [Deny]

His heart thumped against his chest, and his pupils shrank slightly. Before he could click on [Deny], his cursor seemed to be controlled by a strange force, forcing him to click on [Confirm].

[You have successfully joined the University Urban Legend Group Chat (REVIEW). You can now chat with everyone.]

The group chat was lifeless. Even though there were more than two hundred users, their profile pictures were all grey, but only his profile picture and 100 2/3 Cats were displayed.

Just as he was about to leave the group chat in a panic, he received a message from that strange user.

[100 2/3 Cats: @MASTER LEVI, congratulations on passing the preliminary offline review. Now, you are in the second review group! Please edit your profile so it matches your identity.]

[100 2/3 Cats: @MASTER LEVI, we will finalise your entry into the group very soon. There are currently 19 users ahead of you.]

He didnt know what to do.

A week later, he was almost desperate.

He tried everything to get rid of that group chat of his nightmares, but it seemed to inch itself back into his life in weird ways.

And the list was counted down by two to three users per day. As of yesterday, there were only two people left to be reviewed.

In other words, either today or tomorrow, he will be audited by that weird group chat.

And in his suffering, the sky turned dark.

Levis cell phone vibrated slightly like the devil himself was calling to him.

He picked up his phone and peeked at the message, and a crazed smile appeared on his face.

[@MASTER LEVI, you will undergo your second review tonight. Please head to the slaughterhouse in the southern suburbs at midnight and stay there alone until dawn.]

A slaughterhouse aha, hahaha!

Levi felt numb, and his head began to ring. He felt like a death row prisoner waiting for their execution.

That slaughterhouse was abandoned three years ago due to a strange incident.

Rumour has it that a group of animals keep humans in captivity in the dark crevices of the slaughterhouse.