Chapter 79: Wechat Moments
(Wechat Moments: a social networking feature within the WeChat app where users can share text, photos, videos, and links with their friends)
Bai Cha typed the content and clicked send.
[gbx]: I have a feeling that if we can find his name, we might be able to deal with him. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense that no one remembers his name.
[Wang Siyao 9.1]: You make a lot of sense.
[Wang Siyao 9.1]: You wait, I’ll continue to help you find out information. At least find a more detailed address. It seems like some people might still remember that kind of information.
[Wang Siyao 9.1]: I’ll go to the school tomorrow morning to find the counselor. I refuse to believe that the school records don’t have it!
Bai Cha’s heart stirred.
This was indeed a way.
After only a brief thought, she typed a line.
[gbx]: I’ll go tomorrow too!
[Wang Siyao 9.1]: Okay!
[Huang Jingyi 1.15]: I’ll take a day off tomorrow and go too.
[Zhang Lining 6.7]: Damn it, I can’t take a day off. I have a very important project tomorrow.
[gbx]: You don’t all need to come with me. Siyao can just accompany me, or actually, I can go by myself.
Seeing one roommate was one thing, seeing more would increase the possibility of being exposed.
Actually, she could not go and just let her roommates look for clues.
But she always felt that perhaps some clues had to be found by the player themselves.
After all, if NPCs could provide so much help, players could just try to please the NPCs.
Besides…
If she didn’t interact with her former friends, how could she maintain her father’s trust?
It was really not easy.
After agreeing on a meeting place, Gu Baixue finally had time to search for her ex-boyfriend’s account.
She had deleted his account long ago, so when searching for it now, her face still showed a hint of disgust.
Fear was one thing, but her ex-boyfriend’s actions were truly disgusting.
Just like her roommates were frantically cursing the ex-boyfriend, how could there be such a person?
Fortunately, the other party’s account didn’t have the “non-friends cannot view Moments” setting.
Bai Cha first clicked on the other party’s profile picture. That pure black background, was it really pure black?
The picture was loading a bit slowly.
When it reached 100%, the originally black background suddenly changed, and a distorted human face with a hideous expression popped up.
Bai Cha screamed and threw her phone away.
Her mind was frantically recalling the face she had just seen.
That ex-boyfriend had never shown his face in her dreams.
She had carefully tried to discern the appearances of others when acting in her dreams, but unfortunately, they were all too distorted.
It didn’t seem to match the faces of those in the dream, yet it also seemed to match.
Equally ugly.
Tsk.
What a thing.
Bai Cha sat on the sofa, and it took her a long time to recover.
The cool moisture emanating from behind her gradually made her feel at ease.
She turned her head and pursed her lips.
“Can you watch it with me?” she asked cautiously.
The water vapor diffused, and Father Gu’s figure appeared, standing there motionless.
But a trace of color returned to Bai Cha’s pale face. She smiled and picked up her phone again.
The phone screen was still showing that picture. The ghost face seemed to be smiling at her. Bai Cha held the phone a little further away, clicked back, and then entered the other person’s Wechat Moments.
The Moments was full of ghost pictures.
Bai Cha frowned, took a deep breath, and clicked on the first one.
Darkness was the overall tone of the picture. She had to turn the phone’s brightness to the maximum to barely make out the structure in the picture.
Ghostly shadows flickered.
Almost every corner, if you glanced at it suddenly, would reveal a hideous face smiling at you.
In the very center of the picture, in the distance, there seemed to be an altar.
Bai Cha watched with her facial features scrunched up, occasionally looking away at the person behind her before daring to continue looking at the picture. At the same time, her fingers gently zoomed in on the altar in the middle.
Whoosh—
A ghostly shadow flashed across the picture.
But this was clearly a static image.
Bai Cha screamed again in fright, almost dropping her phone.
When she calmed down and looked again, she found that all the ghostly shadows were closer to the phone screen.
And because Bai Cha had zoomed in on the middle of the picture, the ghostly shadows that were originally lurking in the corners had also gathered in the middle.
[Damn it, what is that?]
[So freaking eerie] [Scared the crap out of me, I screamed too]
[Don’t look anymore, will it pop out of the phone if we keep watching?]
Bai Cha also felt a little scared to keep watching.
She swallowed hard and forced herself to look again.
On the altar, a Buddha statue sitting on a lotus flower was calmly gazing at the camera.
This Buddha statue looked very familiar.
The Buddha statue in the previous instance looked exactly like this. It couldn’t be a coincidence, could it?
After looking a few more times, the ghostly shadows drew even closer.
Bai Cha finally couldn’t help but go back, then threw the phone onto the table. Her face didn’t recover for a long time, full of surprise and uncertainty.
Buddha statue…
This evil god should indeed be targeting her.
And she had already deeply offended these things in the previous instance.
If the evil god was related to her ex-boyfriend, then it wasn’t hard to understand why her ex-boyfriend had become that kind of thing.
Including the ex-boyfriend’s desire to kill Gu Baixue, it might not have been without the evil god’s guidance.
The reason?
The originally somewhat simple and clear storyline suddenly became chaotic.
Bai Cha glanced at Father Gu behind her. Was Father Gu’s death just an accident?
Was Father Gu’s much stronger power only because his obsession was to protect his daughter?
She didn’t quite understand what the power system of ghosts was. But according to the folk legends she had heard in reality, only those with deep resentment, or whose obsession was truly extreme, could transform into powerful vengeful ghosts.
The former didn’t seem to apply to Father Gu. So what was the reason for the latter?
What made him feel that his daughter needed protection? So he craved powerful strength to become stronger?
And… was Father Gu’s strength fixed every time an instance started?
If Father Gu possessed memories every time an instance started, and if this was actually a small world. Although it was in a cycle of reincarnation, what if the protagonist possessed the memories of every reincarnation?
He watched countless people playing his daughter appear and be killed again and again.
Then his current strength could be well explained.
But returning to the initial question, was his death really just an accident?
And was Gu Baixue only targeted by her ex-boyfriend, which brought about her death?
Or was she targeted from the beginning, which was why her ex-boyfriend died?
These two causal relationships were completely different in nature.
Perhaps she had been looking for a while and was clearly thinking deeply. Father Gu finally spoke.
“What are you thinking about?”
Bai Cha came back to her senses and pursed her lips.
“Dad, did you… really die in an accident? That picture on the phone just now… it’s so weird. Do you know what exactly my ex-boyfriend is?”
