Chapter 248: Strange Arrival 15
[Old Liu]: Latest news, the warrior who tried to emulate Huang Fei Hu last night failed. Neither the black dog blood peach wood sword from the East nor the cross holy water from the West had any effect on these things.
[Ba’er Eagle]: That warrior really went?
[King]: Is that person alright now?
…All the players who saw this message were asking about the warrior’s current situation and what happened at the scene. Chu Yian quickly scrolled down and found the message from the person with the ID ‘Old Liu’ again.
[Old Liu]: The person is gone. We gathered a total of thirty-three people. Some understood Bagua Liuyi, some were priests. To be safe, we even prepared firearms and ammunition to attempt a ‘physical transcendence,’ but not a single method worked. Of the thirty-three people, only three returned.
[Peerless Beauty]: So the rest all died?
…[Old Liu]: Yes. As soon as the eerie entity confirmed that we could see it, we were instantly killed, without any ability to fight back.
[James]: Then how did you and the other two survive?
[Old Liu]: That’s because the three of us kept a clear head at the time and never explicitly acknowledged the existence of the eerie entity. We also had an item that could temporarily hide us from the eerie entity, but that item is useless now. I’m only online this time to warn those of you who want to kill eerie entities for points. For the last two days, hide well. Five points is already very good; don’t lose your life.
It seems people only learn from their mistakes.
Just as Chu Yian was about to say that this wasn’t stupid, someone else spoke up.
[Wealth in Danger]: How do we know everything you’re saying is true?
[The Wise]: Exactly. It’s said that in Huang Fei Hu’s round of the Hide-and-Seek game, many people also opposed fighting back, but everyone saw that as long as you rushed out to confront the hunter, even if you died, you got a consolation prize of points…
[I Want Points]: Some people earned more failure points in that round than I did, which is indeed a bit enviable.
[Wealth in Danger]: Unless Huang Fei Hu comes and tells me personally that the eerie entity can’t be killed, I won’t believe it…
Chu Yian looked at the confident people above and couldn’t help but shake her head.
These people are rushing to their deaths; they can’t be saved. She wondered how the people speaking were still online and hadn’t died yet.
Reading these group messages is less productive than watching a competition or reading a book.
Chu Yian lay on the sofa, doing nothing all day. When she opened the group again before going to bed, over a dozen people were planning to cause trouble on the last day.
They even had a bit of cleverness, thinking of causing trouble in the last few minutes of the game.
If they could kill the eerie entity, they would profit; if they couldn’t, they could just hide for a few minutes and clear the game. Their calculations were loud and clear; she hoped they would succeed.
She drank the milk Teacher Lu brought her and went to bed!
Chu Yian burrowed into her covers and suddenly realized her sleep had been exceptionally good these past few days. “Teacher Lu.”
“Hmm?”
The person beside her responded quickly.
Lu Qingyuan had already changed into his pajamas and gotten into bed.
Chu Yian felt the movement beside her, turned her head, and met Lu Qingyuan’s eyes. Her nose was filled with the cool, sandalwood scent after his shower.
Lu Qingyuan’s gaze on her made the surrounding atmosphere seem to grow ambiguous and sticky.
But this was an eerie world; horror and eeriness were the main themes.
Chu Yian lowered her voice and asked, “Have you felt any movement from ‘that’ these past few nights?”
“No.”
Lu Qingyuan reached out to smooth her slightly messy hair. “Sleep now. With me here, that thing won’t dare to come…”
Chu Yian nodded at his words, a strong wave of drowsiness washing over her.
In the dark room, the eerie entity patiently awaited its prey’s slumber. Then, like every night before, it pulled her into its embrace.
Lu Qingyuan pulled her hand to his waist, his fingers lightly tracing her spine, shoulder, neck, all the way to her lips. His fingertips gently caressed them until they turned crimson. Then, tiny, dense kisses landed on her brows, the bridge of her nose, her lips, her neck.
Sucking and nibbling, moving downwards… The eerie entity had completely acquired a taste for it, indulging in ‘devouring’ his beloved prey in this manner.
Game Day Ten
Chu Yian woke up to find herself rolled into Lu Qingyuan’s covers again. The only difference was that her skin had thickened, allowing her to agilely roll out and pretend nothing had happened.
She stood up and stretched, just about to go to the kitchen to see what was for breakfast, when something suddenly fell at her feet.
Chu Yian looked down and saw it was her amulet.
She bent down to pick it up, and just as she was about to put it away, she suddenly noticed something wasn’t right. All four corners of the amulet had burn marks, the originally sharp corners were now rounded, with a gradient from black to scorched yellow. Chu Yian’s expression immediately turned grave.
There was still an eerie entity around here!
But didn’t Teacher Lu say there were no traces of an eerie entity? Could that thing have secretly attacked her last night?
Thinking of this, she quickly put the amulet away.
Today was the last day of the game; she had to survive.
Because her amulet was burned, Chu Yian’s plan to make a lavish breakfast to thank Teacher Lu turned into a simple meal of plain congee, preserved vegetables, and eggs. While cooking, she also sent a message to Zhu Shen, “Are you alright these past few days?”
“I’m fine, Big Chu. I haven’t run around anywhere; I’ve been in my rented room every day researching dishes. (Image 1 Image 2)”
“Good that you’re fine. Stay put.”
As Chu Yian was sending messages, Lu Qingyuan had already entered the kitchen and placed the bowl of congee she had served on the table.
At his call, Chu Yian sat down in the living room.
Just as she was about to tell Lu Qingyuan about her amulet, the congee at her lips scalded her, making her hiss.
So hot!
“Are you alright?”
Lu Qingyuan stood up, cupping her face with one hand and touching her lips with the other.
“N-no, I’m fine.”
Chu Yian smiled at him, but her heart was pounding.
That congee was so hot. Wasn’t Teacher Lu afraid of the heat? He didn’t even blow on it when he ate.
Wait, Lu Qingyuan had used his hands yesterday to directly carry two steaming hot bamboo steamers that had just come out of the oven—two!
Was that something a normal person could do?
It was just a small detail, yet it suddenly sparked an incredible suspicion in her about Lu Qingyuan—could Teacher Lu be an eerie entity?
No way.
If Teacher Lu were an eerie entity, she would have died many times over. How could he be so enthusiastic about helping her, even inviting her to stay at his home? Perhaps Teacher Lu just had a naturally special fate, and his body was different from ordinary people?
Why couldn’t he be?
A special fate should still mean he’s a person, right? Would a person not be afraid of heat because of their fate? What if he was an eerie entity among eerie entities? What if he was an eerie entity who didn’t follow the usual path, toying with his prey before killing them? What if the destruction of the amulet was because of him?!
Chu Yian simultaneously chastised herself for suspecting someone who had been exceptionally kind to her because of one unusual action, while the seed of suspicion made her extremely uneasy.
