Chapter 14

     Many staff members of the program team saw the scene of Jiaming giving the amulet to Tang Niannian from the monitor. They firmly believed that the amulet could ward off evil spirits.

     After Shi Xi recommended Wuyou Temple, they all memorized the address carefully, thinking that they would go to the Taoist temple to pray for peace after finishing their work. They surrounded Shi Xi and asked about the business hours of the Taoist temple and whether there were any precautions…

     “Send a representative to collect questions and ask Xiaoshi in the group. Don’t pester her like a swarm of bees. Now go to work!” The director said, and everyone could only disperse reluctantly.

     Shi Xi also planned to leave, but was stopped by the director.

     “Xiaoshi and Jiaming stay for a while.”

     Tang Niannian said goodbye to the two: “I’m leaving first, let’s have dinner together another day!”

     Shi Xi smiled at her: “I hope we can receive good news when we meet again.”

     There were only three people left in the conference room. The director unscrewed the thermos cup and drank a sip of water. He pondered for a moment: “Xiaoshi, the owner of the recording venue is my friend. After this happened, he was worried about continuing the business. Can the Taoist priest of Wuyou Temple exorcise evil spirits? I want to ask him to help.”

     Shi Xi asked: “Is there any reward?”

     “Yes,” the director said: “As long as the problem can be solved, the reward is not a problem.”

     “I see, I’ll help ask.”

     Director: “Okay, I’ll wait for the reply.”

     Shi Xi called Zhang Qingxuan, but the call didn’t go through, so she sent a message to tell him the whole story and let him see the reply.

     The director also gave them the first prize, 10,000 yuan each, and a year-round escape room card.

     Shi Xi shook the card and curled her lips: “In order not to waste this card, I will definitely help the female ghost move.”

     Shi Xi went home to rest happily with the wig in her hand and the card in her pocket.

     At night, the topic of this variety show not only did not drop, but even higher.

     The old topic was replaced by a new one, and a topic with Shi Xi’s name was clearly listed in the fifth hot search.

     #Xiao Shi is a high-energy player of escape room#

     This topic is cool, showy, and high-energy!

     Shi Xi knew with her knees that netizens must have counted her wonderful performance in the variety show, such as her fearlessness when facing evil ghosts, and her calmness when exposing the undercover.

     Shi Xi happily clicked in, and saw——

     Well-known funny blogger: 【How big is the disparity among escape room players? Some are “humiliated” by NPCs, and some are “humiliating” NPCs. 】

     There are already 150,000 likes. Shi Xi saw the word “humiliation” and felt something was wrong.

     But she still opened the video.

     In the eerie music, four escape room NPCs appeared in the screen one by one. They played the roles of doctors, nurses and patients respectively. Everyone had a creepy smile on their faces, performing the feeling of neurotic evil spirits.

     Video narration: 【This is the evil spirit F4 of Siren Hospital. As long as they enter their sight, no player can survive. 】

   【Fear, screaming, crying, begging for mercy——】

     Every time a word pops up in the video, it will be accompanied by a scene where the guests are scared away by the evil spirit F4.

   【They are the rulers of Siren Hospital, but… after that player appears, nothing can go back! 】

     The style of the video suddenly changes, and Shi Xi appears arrogantly with a shovel.

   【Threat, intimidation, teasing, ignoring——】

     The evil ghost F4 who once scared the shit out of the players was frightened by Shi Xi, trembling, sitting in front of the computer obediently filling in the password, covering himself with a quilt with a peaceful face, and being fooled around…

   【Yes, the evil ghost F4 of Siren Hospital was ruled by this player! 】

     At the end of the video, Shi Xi carried a shovel and covered the two NPCs who pretended to be dead with a quilt.

 

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     Netizens’ comments:

   【Arrogant, too arrogant. 】

   【Player Xiaoshi: As long as they enter my sight, no NPC can escape. 】

   【Evil ghost F4 rules Siren Hospital, Xiaoshi rules you, OK! 】

   【What kind of stupid video is this, I can’t get out of it, hahaha, this artist can obviously make a living with her face, but she has to rely on stupidity? 】

     Some people’s focus has strayed a lot.

   【I have been browsing the topics related to this variety show for a whole day. I just want a wig link. The wig worn by the player is so natural. You can’t tell that she is bald at all. Poor people with this hairline really need it. 】

   【What? Is she bald? Where can I watch it? 】

   【The live broadcast of pointing the way to the abandoned temple and the video of the little monk changing clothes on a certain audio, carrying a candied haws to drive away ghosts is also a famous scene of the show! 】

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     Shi Xi quietly withdrew from this topic.

     Then she went to watch the excitement of the program group.

     Some netizens asked who was the planner of this episode on the official account of the variety show. The idea of the opening was great, and it felt like entering an infinite flow game. The director replied that it was Shi Xi’s idea, and then he was caught by netizens and asked to respond to the real cause of the live broadcast accident.

     Shi Xi watched the excitement and didn’t mind the trouble. She commented: “Everyone, help the director think of a solution.”

 

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   【Catch Xiao Shi surfing the Internet! I think there was an equipment failure during the live broadcast, and the incredible images you saw were caused by the failure. 】

  【The director can respond that all this is the effect presented after the careful planning of the program group. 】

   【Is it magnetic field chaos or radio wave interference? The specific reason still needs to wait for expert research, let us go into science together! 】

   【There is only one truth, the player Xiaoshi is actually a magician, and everyone just saw a perfect magic show~】

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     Netizens diverged their thinking and became more and more ridiculous. What the truth is seems to be unimportant. This live broadcast accident has been listed as one of the N unsolved mysteries in the entertainment industry, just like the unexplained metaphysical events in history.

     The director was so happy that he sent a private message to Shi Xi: “Xiaoshi, your method is so smart. It helped the program team a lot! I owe you another favor!”

     Shi Xi, who just came to join in the fun: “I am also very happy to help the program team.”

     System: 【You are starting to have my style. 】

     Shi Xi: “Who are you scolding for being immoral?”

     【……】

     Late at night, everyone had discussed Shi Xi’s magic shovel and Jia Ming’s amulet from the unsolved mysteries, and believed that these two were artifacts to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.

     At this point, this variety show has completely gone viral. Shi Xi has attracted a large number of fans with her unique high-energy gameplay and acting skills.

     Seeing the number of fans soaring, Shi Xi felt that she was about to become popular.

     The system is very proud: 【I told you a long time ago that I will definitely let you reach the peak of your life! 】

     Shi Xi also felt a little incredible: “Although the process is very unethical, the effect is unexpectedly reliable.”

   【I am reliable~A new task is coming! 】

   【New task: Save the players;

     Details: During the recording of the escape room variety show, the evil spirits in the abandoned hospital marked several players with blood seals. At midnight, the players returned to the hospital again in their sleep,

     Punishment: Can’t laugh (one week),

     Reward: Spell talent +10%. 】

     “The ghost girl called these players back to the abandoned hospital, and the game was really restarted,” Shi Xi paused: “Why is the punishment still the same? How much do you want me to stop laughing?”

   【This is not important, I believe you can complete this task perfectly! 】

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     “Jiaming… my new friend…”

     There was a voice whispering in his ear. Jiaming frowned in his sleep, sweating profusely, and his mind had regained clarity. He wanted to wake up but couldn’t. It seemed that a heavy piece of ice was pressing on his body, cold and heavy.

     A cold hand slowly grasped his neck, and sharp nails traced on the blood vessels.

     “Finally found you… Come and play with me… Come back to the hospital with me…”

     Jiaming felt suffocated when his neck was suddenly pinched, and he woke up screaming. He gasped violently and looked around in a daze, and found that he was not in the bedroom at home, but in a familiar and terrifying place.

     Abandoned hospital.

     The fear was like a group of tiny ants, crawling up from the soles of his feet.

     “Jiaming?” Jiaming’s heart almost stopped when he was called out of the blue. He mustered up the courage to look back and saw that it was Brother Hu who called him.

     Brother Hu was even more flustered than him, grabbing the hem of his pajamas with both hands: “Are you the real Jiaming? You are not a transformed one, are you? How about we exchange a secret code, who is the number one ghost detector?”

     Jiaming: “… Xiao Shi.”

     “Right, right.” Brother Hu felt relieved.

     Soon, two more people appeared in the hospital lobby – the actor and Lu Lanlan, with fear and panic on their faces.

     “Why are we back again?” Brother Hu guessed in a low voice: “Is it because we are too scared that we sleepwalked here collectively?”

     Jiaing looked at everyone: “Except Lu Lanlan, we have all been stamped with the blood seal.”

     Lu Lanlan looked very weak, with big dark circles under her eyes: “I was stamped with the blood seal too. Because the location is secret, I only found out last night.”

     Male actor: “No wonder you didn’t go to the meeting during the day. You must have been scared.”

     “In this case, we all came here because we were stamped with the death seal…” Jiaming took a deep breath: “Don’t think too much, let’s run!”

     “I’m afraid you can’t get away.” The evil laughter of the female ghost rang out in the hospital.

     Lu Lanlan screamed: “Jiaming, she’s behind you!”

     For some reason, this time they all saw the female ghost clearly. She had long hair and a pair of eyes wide open, as if they could never close. What’s even more weird is that her hair kept falling down, and these hairs began to crawl around when they fell to the ground.

     The horror of facing the evil ghost is indescribable. Everyone present was in a state of fear and confusion, unable to tell whether this was real or a dream.

    “Everyone’s here, that’s great,” The female ghost laughed creepily as her hands tightened around Jiaming’s neck. “Let’s keep playing.”

     Brother Hu’s tears fell: “Sister Ghost, we have no grudges against you. If you hate us for bumping into you, then we will apologize to you, please forgive us!”

     Brother Hu regrets it now. If he had known that something would really happen, he should have put everything aside and gone to Wuyou Temple to ask for a peace amulet!

     Jiaming closed his eyes, suggesting that he should be calm: “You can make requests, sweep the graves, burn incense and paper, we can do it, as long as you let us go.” 

     “I don’t want any of these, I just want to play games,”

     the female ghost floated up in the air and looked down at everyone, her face was extremely cold-blooded: “You can run now, but you will die if I catch you.”

      “Play games, right?” 

     The door of the hospital was kicked open, and Shi Xi walked into the hall leisurely with a shovel, her beautiful eyes full of smiles: “Add me.” 

     The female ghost’s face suddenly changed, her eyes were horrified: “I didn’t invite you at all! How did you appear in my nightmare!!!” 

     “So what?” Shi Xi said righteously: “I came uninvited.”