Chapter 58

     As a mature NPC, Hei Zi knew that he should bravely crawl out and show his best skills to scare the players to death.

     Hei Zi glanced at Shi Xi, and after recalling the famous scenes of Shi Xi killing NPCs in the escape room variety show… he felt that he didn’t want to be brave.

     “Xiao Shi actually got out of the play, it’s rare.” Ji Mingxu pointed at Hei Zi who looked tangled, and asked Shi Xi: “Is this NPC your acquaintance?”

     Shi Xi said: “I was once involved in the intersection of time and space by a mysterious force when I was doing a ghost hunting live broadcast. This ghost looks very similar to a teammate at the time, and I’m not sure if it’s him.”

     Ji Mingxu: “So you are still in the play, what kind of complicated setting is this?”

     Shi Xi’s words once again brought back Hei Zi’s memory of the escape room variety show. He swallowed nervously and finally made up his mind – he wanted to crawl back!

     Keeping back when faced with difficulties is also a quality that a mature NPC should have!

     Hei Zi supported himself on the ground with both hands and silently retreated to the locker, leaving several winding bloodstains on the ground with his fingers.

     Everyone except Shi Xi showed an expression of disbelief.

     Qiao Qing had just been frightened and was still in shock. She lowered her voice and asked Ji Mingxu: “Teacher Ji, what is this operation? Why are you crawling back?”

     “How should I put it? I have been recording this program for so long, and this is the first time I have encountered such a situation.” Ji Mingxu looked at Shi Xi and touched his chin: “The killing power of Xiao Shi is too great.”

     “I didn’t do anything just now.” Shi Xi said innocently. She took two steps towards the locker, bent down and held Hei Zi’s wrist, and her peach blossom eyes curved: “But I plan to do something now.”

     Hei Zi trembled and quickly retreated into the secret passage. Even if it was a big devil, he couldn’t chase into the secret passage.

     At this moment, Heizi felt a hand holding his ankle. He thought it was a colleague hiding in the secret passage urging him to climb up quickly, so he lowered his head and said, “Xiaoming, don’t urge me, I’m busy running away!”

     No one responded, but Heizi felt the hand holding his ankle pulling down, trying to drag him down!

     Fortunately, Shi Xi pulled him, so he didn’t fall. It was too dangerous, Heizi cursed, “Xiaoming, why are you pulling me? What if I fall?”

     No one responded, but Heizi heard the assistant director’s voice through the headset: “Heizi, who are you talking to? Xiaoming just left, and now you are the only one in the secret passage.” 

     Who is holding his ankle now?

     Hei Zi recalled the conversation he had heard through the public channel before. The colleague in charge of the utility room said that there was a ghost in this room.

     At that time, he thought it was his colleague’s improvisation, but now… he felt that the hand holding him was unusually cold, not like a living person.

     Hei Zi’s heart was beating fast, and he quickly stretched out his other hand in front of Shi Xi, and said in a trembling voice: “Xiao Shi, I request to wrap up early!”

     Everyone was shocked again.

     Ji Mingxu: “Wow, this is the first time I have encountered such a situation.”

     Liu Ziyu held his forehead: “Are you so afraid of her?”

     “Yes!” Hei Zi was very anxious: “Xiao Shi, quickly pull me out to finish the shooting, please!”

     Liu Ziyu felt very desperate. This was a player that even NPCs would actively take the initiative to end the game. How could he possibly compete with her?

     Shi Xi didn’t pay any attention to Liu Ziyu. She saw Hei Zi’s panic in his eyes, and combined with what he just said, she probably guessed what happened.

     Shi Xi said coldly, “Since you’re dragging your ‘colleague’ and won’t let him go, why don’t you just finish him off together?”

     The ghost hiding in the secret passage heard this and immediately let go of Heizi and ran away.

     Shi Xi asked Ji Mingxu to help pull up Heizi, who was frightened and weak.

     After leaving the cupboard, Heizi’s pounding heart finally settled down a little. He said to Shi Xi in a trembling voice, “Xiao Shi, I seem to have been caught by a ghost on my ankle just now.”

     Shi Xi: “Aren’t you wearing a peace charm?”

     “I forgot to take it out when I was washing clothes, and it was damaged. I didn’t have time to ask for a new one,” Heizi said, “I really didn’t expect that I would be caught as soon as I took it off.”

     “…” Shi Xi stamped the finishing stamp on his hand: “Go to a crowded place to rest, you can get off work soon.”

     Heizi felt more at ease when he heard this.

     With Xiao Shi around, there will be no trouble.

     Shi Xi’s hands were stained with blood plasma again. She said while washing her hands: “Three ‘ghosts’ have already finished filming. If we have a mirror relationship with the ghosts, there should be three more ‘ghosts’ who have not appeared.”

     Ji Mingxu nodded: “At present, they have not filmed a single scene successfully. As long as we finish the movie before them, we will win.”

     After Qiao Qing adjusted her mood, they took their positions and started to reshoot from the place where Hei Zi disrupted.

     This time there was no NPC interference, and the filming went particularly smoothly. The plot came to a turning point-

     In order to appease Shi Xi and Ji Mingxu’s emotions, Qiao Qing told them that there was a talisman paper in her room to keep them safe, and asked them to go with her to get the talisman paper.

     Shi Xi and Ji Mingxu did not doubt it, and followed Qiao Qing to her room.

    As they walked, Shi Xi suddenly noticed that Qiao Qing’s shadow was a little strange, as if it had two heads!

     She was frightened and pulled Ji Mingxu’s sleeve, motioning him to look at the ground.

     The two looked at each other, suppressed the fear in their hearts, and quietly retreated.

     At this moment, Qiao Qing stopped and laughed softly: “I was discovered by you.”

     Qiao Qing prepared her emotions and turned into a ghost when she turned back. After seeing the scene behind Shi Xi and Ji Mingxu, her expression collapsed and she screamed: “Ghost, ghost is coming again!”

     According to the plot, Liu Ziyu had been quietly following Shi Xi and Ji Mingxu. He thought Qiao Qing was scared by him, so he quickly raised his head and said: “Look carefully, it’s me.”

     “Your acting skills are not good enough to make me scream!” Qiao Qing finished complaining, and shouted louder: “The ghost is behind you!”

     Everyone looked back and saw a ghost NPC holding a knife standing silently behind Liu Ziyu, and another NPC standing at the stairs with a camera in his hand.

     Liu Ziyu stepped back, his face pale: “They are well prepared this time, they won’t be scared by me again.”

     Shi Xi smiled and walked forward: “Then I will challenge them.”

     As soon as the voice fell, the two ghost NPCs suddenly carried the camera, turned around and ran, running very fast.

     “They were not scared away by me,” Shi Xi explained calmly, “We have more people, they dare not rush, they just run after finishing the filming. Anyway, their script does not need to be carefully crafted, and they need to catch up with our progress urgently.”

     Everyone: “…”

     Ji Mingxu shook his head sympathetically, “The Strange House NPC is so cowardly, why is it a bit sad?”

     Director Song frowned, “It’s okay to let them have a scene, but I’m afraid they will keep coming out to make trouble and deliberately delay our progress.”

     Shi Xi thought without thinking, “As long as they come again, we will deal with them first, and then slowly shoot.”

     Director Song nodded in agreement, “Whoever comes to disturb us again, we will deal with them first.”

     Liu Ziyu looked at Ji Mingxu and asked in a low voice, “Brother Ji, are we still recording a variety show like this? It seems that we are completely focusing on filming a movie.”

     Ji Mingxu: “Well, forget it.”

     At this time, the general director of the variety show was sweating, “Who proposed to make this episode a movie theme?”

     Deputy director: “It’s your idea.”

     The general director was silent.

     The players were discussing to continue filming when the phone in the living room suddenly rang, with a piercing ring tone that kept repeating.

     The director flipped through the script and once again suspected that there was something wrong with his memory: “There was an incoming call segment, how come I didn’t know about it?”

     “No,” the assistant director thought about it, and his face turned pale in an instant: “The landline in this room is broken, how can the phone call come in?!”

     Hei Zi, who had just taken off his makeup, was also shocked when he heard this conversation: “Director, I told you that there was something wrong with this house. I was really grabbed by a ghost at that time. It was not an illusion, and it was not a show effect!”

     The NPC who had encountered evil in the closet huddled up and said aggrievedly: “I also said that it was really not a show effect.”

     “Zizi…” After a burst of noise, the screen in front of the director flashed a few black and white lines, as if it was interfered with by something.

     Hei Zi shuddered again, his voice was hoarse: “Look, even the equipment has failed, you still don’t believe it? Your wooden building is very weird, this call… maybe it’s from a real ghost.”

     The phone in the living room was still ringing like a life-threatening call, and the chief director’s back was full of cold sweat: “Filming paused, broadcast quickly, inform everyone not to answer this call!”

     “Okay!” The assistant director picked up the microphone of the broadcast and glanced at the monitor. The black and white lines in it had disappeared. He saw Shi Xi standing in front of the TV cabinet and answered the phone calmly.

     “Welcome to shoot here.” A strange laughing voice came through the receiver, and the sound was so loud that everyone in the room could hear it.

     This time everyone had to believe that this house was haunted!

     The entire program group fell into a silent panic, and even the players did not dare to speak.

     Everyone held their breath and looked at Shi Xi nervously.

     Please, you must have a good attitude and stabilize the ghost’s emotions! Everyone thought so.

    “Is that what you call a welcome?” Shi Xi retorted, “Do you know how tiring it is to work the night shift? Do you know how much effort and dedication the director and actors put into each shoot? You’ve disturbed our work repeatedly. That’s not called a welcome, it’s called causing trouble for others.”

     “If you really want to welcome us, wait until we get off work, ok?”

     “Oh my god, this is over!” The chief director dropped his jaw in shock and wanted to cry.

     The living room fell into a strange silence. After a while, the phone ghost, who was stunned by Shi Xi’s retort, replied, “Oh, okay.”

     Shi Xi hung up the phone, raised her eyelashes casually, and said to Director Song, “It’s solved, we can continue shooting.”

     Chief Director: “???” Is this okay?

     The assistant director said blankly, “Did Shi Xi treat the real ghost as a trouble that interfered with the shooting? She is worthy of being a big devil player. Even if a real ghost sneaked into the game, she is at the top of the food chain.”