Chapter 303: Locust Tree Hotel 21
“Mm, okay.”
Lu Qingyuan agreed.
This made Chu Yian look at him with extreme surprise, because if their positions were reversed at this moment, she would definitely refuse. After all, she had inherited Bai Sinian’s shameless virtues and, when faced with a big problem, would prioritize sacrificing her teammates.
So, when Lu Qingyuan agreed to venture with her even without any direct benefit, Chu Yian’s gratitude multiplied infinitely in her heart.
It almost whitewashed Lu Qingyuan’s previous two rounds of inhumane actions.
“Teacher Lu, you’re really too good.”
Inside the arcade, various game machines emitted fragmented sounds.
There were many people inside.
The NPCs who originally lived in the Hotel and the players who had completed their tasks were lively and bustling, dispelling the terrifying atmosphere of the Rule-Based Strange Talk game.
When Chu Yian first started playing the things here, she was full of caution, timid and hesitant.
She felt like someone (the game) was always trying to harm her.
After more than an hour, with the experience time almost over, she finally managed to experience a little bit of fun in this round of the game. Looking at the space-pod-like VR game cabin in the center of the game area, she couldn’t help but want to try it out.
“That one? It looks quite terrifying when it spins.”
Lu Qingyuan glanced at it, then shifted his gaze to another facility that looked like a car. “How about we play that one instead? It’s similar to the space pod.”
Chu Yian was not an unreasonable person, nor would she mock Lu Qingyuan over such a small matter.
After all, everyone has things they aren’t good at.
Moreover, she compared the two projects and found that they did seem quite similar.
This VR game was indeed very popular; they even had to queue for a few minutes before it was their turn.
The two sat on the car-like prop. As it started, Chu Yian brought up the seatbelt issue. Even though it was just a car model, she insisted on wearing a seatbelt.
Someone nearby, finding it troublesome, waved off the employee who came to help with the seatbelt.
“I’ve ridden this thing eight hundred times; it’s not going to throw me off. Why bother with it? It’s a waste of my time.”
Chu Yian didn’t hear what the person said. She was wearing VR goggles, turning her head around like a country bumpkin.
“Teacher Lu, move your head! There’s scenery all around!”
As soon as she finished speaking, the game started.
At this moment, a group of dinosaurs appeared before her, and she was sitting on a roller coaster. The dinosaurs suddenly stopped eating grass and started eating meat, chasing the roller coaster wildly.
It was a bit thrilling.
Chu Yian instantly became excited.
Just as she was watching herself weave through mountains to avoid the dinosaurs, the roller coaster suddenly plunged headfirst, and then they plunged into a blood-red seabed.
When the blood-red scene appeared, Chu Yian felt something was off.
When pale hands appeared near the roller coaster track, Chu Yian’s face was even paler than those hands.
“Teacher Lu!”
Chu Yian reached out towards Lu Qingyuan beside her, trying to grab him, but she couldn’t find him for a long time. When she finally managed to grab a hand, it was dry, shriveled, and as cold as pork from an ice cellar.
This wasn’t Lu Qingyuan!
Chu Yian recoiled as if shocked by electricity, frantically and tremblingly trying to remove the VR goggles from her head.
However, the device was stuck to her head as if welded, not budging an inch. And the apparatus, which had only been subtly bumpy, suddenly began to shake violently, as if trying to throw off the person sitting on it.
At this moment, the seatbelt was a lifeline.
Chu Yian was held in place by the seatbelt during several violent jolts.
However, sounds of wailing ghosts filled her ears, and the hand in the VR goggles had already climbed onto the track. With disheveled hair, a pale yet black-veined hand, and a gap in its messy hair, an eye filled with black pupils stared gloomily at her… Chu Yian closed her eyes in terror, her body trembling uncontrollably from fear.
Even closing her eyes was useless.
The eerie sounds pierced her eardrums, and the machine shook violently as if to scramble her brain. Most terrifying was the sudden drop in ambient temperature; with each breath, her body temperature seemed to decrease a little.
Chu Yian regretted her carelessness just now. One wrong step, and she felt her life would be lost here.
However, at this moment, the screams in her ears vanished, and the machine beneath her also stopped.
The person beside her helped her remove the VR goggles, and Lu Qingyuan supported her as they left the game. He looked solemn, his expression tense, “Are you alright?”
Chu Yian’s lips were trembling now, “I was almost scared to death.”
“It’s okay, it’s over now.”
Lu Qingyuan held her and gently stroked her head.
This action almost completely blocked Chu Yian’s view with Lu Qingyuan’s body. However, through a gap, she still saw a large amount of blood on the ground not far away.
Although Chu Yian was scared, her gaming spirit remained.
She held Lu Qingyuan’s arm, craning her neck to look at the bloodstains.
She saw a person lying in a pool of blood, their body folded and overlapped at the waist, their head split open by sharp metal. The blood was mixed with grayish-white viscous fluid, which looked exactly like brain matter.
That was the person who had been thrown out.
Chu Yian was secretly afraid, yet also relieved that she had insisted on wearing a seatbelt beforehand.
“Oh dear, how did a perfectly fine person end up like this?”
“This VR must be a death game. A perfectly fine person goes in, and they’re gone as soon as the cabin opens.”
…Several voices came from the side, but they didn’t sound like they were discussing the dead person in front of them. Chu Yian looked in the direction of the voices and saw that the space pod, which she had initially wanted to play, was surrounded by many people. Hotel staff were carrying a corpse out of it.
That was the customer who had just gone in to play the game.
His body was curled up, and though he had only recently died, his corpse was already stiff.
His pupils were constricted, his fingers twisted together, and his face showed an expression of terror, as if he had been scared to death.
Chu Yian looked at the person’s appearance, still feeling a lingering fear.
Two narrow escapes from death, this was… too terrifying.
Chu Yian walked out of the arcade, feeling both relieved and weak-kneed, profoundly realizing that nowhere within the Hotel was safe. Her hands were trembling when she wrote her review.
Lu Qingyuan looked at her, and originally only wanted to give some pointers, but now he took her review and paper from her.
Chu Yian’s review for today was written by Lu Qingyuan!
Teacher Lu, adhering to the principles of professionalism and objectivity, described the situation of the arcade, specifically raising safety concerns and ordering rectification.
Chu Yian looked at the homework he had helped her write. Every time she wrote a review, she would shower it with praise. After seeing Lu Qingyuan’s truthful review, the hypocritical trial sleeper still wanted to change the critical remarks.
But changing the review would compromise its high standard.
Just as Chu Yian was racking her brains trying to figure out how to change it, Lu Qingyuan had already submitted it for her.
Chu Yian:…Mainly, it was the disadvantage of being uncultured. She wished she could have praised it a bit more!
