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FV CH 1
by ValiesGhost Baby
Chapter 1: Congratulations on getting the “Princess and the Pea” card
Tang Ning was looking at the task list given to him by the “Urban Legend” program team. “Urban Legend” is a web variety show that uses the investigation of supernatural events as a gimmick and scaring guests to tears as a highlight. It is a relatively popular variety show. Inviting Tang Ning as a guest this time will give Tang Ning more exposure.
Although Tang Ning is very afraid of horror and supernatural things, he still signed the contract.
Looking at the task list given by the program team, Tang Ning frowned.
Jinsong Bus Station alone at midnight to take the last bus
The supernatural investigation of this program is the ghost bus. In the urban legend of the ghost bus, a young man got on the last bus and fell asleep after getting on the bus. As a result, when he arrived at the station, he found himself waking up in a mass grave. There was a lake next to the mass grave. There was a crashed bus in the lake, and a pungent smell came from it. The young man firmly said that he took this bus to get here.
At this moment, Tang Ning was standing at the Jinsong Bus Station with cameras set up around him. The bus station was deserted and he was the only one standing there. The people from the program team didn’t know where to hide.
It was a bit boring to wait alone, so Tang Ning decided to play a game.
He opened his phone and found a new game app. The app was a delicate card with a black background and a gold border. There were white skeleton hands, ghost faces and other horror elements around the border. The four characters “Card Game” were also dripping blood in red letters. The style was weird and absurd, but also revealed a decadent beauty.
Tang Ning guessed that this was a new game that his assistant had downloaded for him.
Tang Ning didn’t have any other hobbies, except playing games. Although he was not very good at it, he spent a lot of money. In some games, he could often feel the joy of spending money, which was very stress-relieving for Tang Ning.
However, the assistant had never downloaded such a game that looked like it had some horror elements. Tang Ning hesitated for a moment, and clicked on this game with a try-it-out mentality.
The game popped up a long game agreement. At a glance, there were words like “ghost”, “death”, and “player”. There were too many words, Tang Ning was too lazy to read them, so he just scrolled to the bottom and chose to accept.
[Please draw your card]
The back of a pure black card appeared on the phone screen, indicating that you could click on the card to draw, just like a normal card game.
Tang Ning clicked on the card draw button, and the card flipped over. The dark gold frame, red background, and light gold color outlined a picture of a sleeping beauty. The wet princess slept on more than 20 duck down quilts. Her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she was trapped in a nightmare. Under the piled-up quilts, there was a tiny pea hidden.
[Congratulations on winning the “Princess and the Pea Card”]
[Princess and the Pea Card 1: You are delicate and weak. Even through 20 duck down quilts, you can still feel a tiny bean]
[Princess and the Pea Card 2: There is a prince who has been looking for the real princess. You are delicate and weak, and you will definitely attract the prince]
Tang Ning found the style of this card to be quite beautiful.
[Do you want to enter the game?] [Yes] [Yes]
Tang Ning couldn’t help but laugh when he saw these two options. He felt that this game was quite naughty. There was no chance to refuse. Thinking of this, Tang Ning happily clicked [Yes].
The moment his fingertips touched the screen, a bus suddenly drove over from afar. The appearance of the bus was a bit old, and the lights were dim. When it started, there was almost no sound. The sight of it driving through the night was a bit mysterious.
Tang Ning didn’t expect the program team to find such an old-fashioned bus that was outdated by the times. What’s more, this broken bus was still running. He looked down at the time, and it was exactly midnight. The game page on the phone screen seemed to be stuck.
On the black background, bloody red words “System loading” appeared. Then no matter how he clicked, it didn’t change.
Tang Ning put away his phone and got on the bus that was parked in front of him.
The lights were very dim. As soon as he got on the bus, Tang Ning felt a chill, as if the air conditioning in the car was turned on very low. He didn’t expect the air conditioning in this old bus to be so powerful.
Tang Ning looked for the camera out of habit, but the production crew hid it well. He looked around but couldn’t find it. However, he looked at the other five passengers on the bus. Most of them had their heads down, not playing with their phones, and were motionless. They looked like dedicated extras.
One of them was wearing a cap and a mask, and looked up at Tang Ning. The moment this passenger stared at him, Tang Ning’s scalp went numb for no reason, and he had a strange illusion that he was being stared at by a predator.
This made Tang Ning look away in panic.
Tang Ning originally wanted to sit in the single seat by the window in the first row, but the atmosphere of the extras behind him was very good. Tang Ning always felt that if he sat in the front row, the extras would raise their heads and stare at him in the next second.
This thought made Tang Ning’s back cold, and he thought the air conditioner should be turned up a little higher.
But saying to turn up the air conditioner right away would make him look like a fussy person, and he might get scolded.
Speaking of being delicate, Tang Ning didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that the soft clothes on his body were too rough for him to bear. Every inch of his skin was protesting the fabric that wrapped around his body.
Especially protesting the disposable underwear he bought for the sake of convenience. It seemed to have left red marks on the edges.
Tang Ning endured the discomfort and walked to the last row of the bus to sit down by the window. The seats on this bus were padded. Although the light was dim, Tang Ning could vaguely see the brown dirt.
Tang Ning sat down and took out his phone. He wanted to watch some silly videos to relieve his mood, but the phone showed no signal.
Tang Ning had no choice but to put down his phone and look up. When he looked up, he saw a child who had appeared next to the ticket machine. It was really a small child, probably only two or three years old.
In the dim light, it was hard to tell whether it was a boy or a girl, and the little face looked blue. Tang Ning thought the production team was really fooling around. How could they invite children to be part of the show, especially on a bus? A bus is not land. What if the child didn’t stand firmly and fell?
Wait, Tang Ning suddenly realized that this old bus was driving very steadily. It was not stable like driving on a cement road, but light and floating, as if it was being lifted up by something and flying. This realization made Tang Ning feel a little weird. Before he could think about it, all the lights in the car suddenly went out, and the bus fell into darkness.
Tang Ning’s heart skipped a beat because of the sudden darkness, but he tried to calm himself down. He knew that the production team had used a similar method before, and the female guest was scared and screamed wildly. Three seconds later, the production team turned on the lights maliciously.
He counted three times in his mind. The lights lit up one by one, as if the darkness just now was just because of some temporary problems with the lights.
At this time, the extras should scream to create a terrifying atmosphere.
Tang Ning was desperately hoping that the passengers would scream as he expected. He was eager to hear the sound. From the moment he boarded the bus till now, the bus had been eerily quiet.
But all the passengers remained silent, just like they had been at the beginning. The only exception was the child who had been standing next to the ticket machine. He had stood next to the single seat by the window in the first row.
The seat Tang Ning had wanted to sit in at first.
The child was wearing a green embroidered Hanfu and black shoes, and her feet seemed to blend into the shadows.
The child’s eyes were pure black, with large pupils, staring straight at Tang Ning. Tang Ning’s scalp was numb. How could he describe this look? It had nothing to do with the most commonly used word “innocent”, but instead had a kind of cold cruelty.
The next second, the lights went out again, and darkness surged in like a tide.
Three.
Tang Ning’s mind kept popping up those big dark eyes, and he had the illusion that he was being stared at even in the dark.
Two.
Staring closely, staring closely.
One.
The lights came back on, and under the dim light, Tang Ning saw that the child who was originally standing in the first row had suddenly appeared in the fourth row!
In the darkness just now, the child moved three seats in his direction, and the big black eyes were still staring at Tang Ning without blinking.
Tang Ning didn’t dare to look into those eyes. He moved downwards in panic. Then, Tang Ning’s heart seemed to stop.
Because he suddenly found that the child was not wearing Hanfu, but a green embroidered shroud.
It was a shroud for the dead.
The lights went out again.
Panic and darkness overwhelmed Tang Ning. Tang Ning’s legs shook unconsciously. He didn’t notice how many rows there were on the bus he was sitting on. But the first two times the lights went out, the child had stood in the middle back of the bus, only three or four rows away from his current seat. So when the lights came on again, the child should be near him.
Thinking of the child in the shroud appearing next to him, Tang Ning’s heart seemed to be strangled by an invisible hand, making it difficult for him to even breathe.
Tang Ning grabbed his phone and turned on the flashlight at a speed he had never seen before. The blinding light penetrated the darkness, seeming to hurt the child’s eyes, and a shrill cry rang out in the car. The cry instantly stretched Tang Ning’s tense nerves to the extreme. The hand holding the phone trembled slightly, and the light beam swept around randomly.
No matter how Tang Ning swept the flashlight, he could not illuminate the figure of the child. The shrill child’s cry continued, sometimes far away, sometimes close, coming from all directions. When it was closest, it seemed to be right next to Tang Ning’s ear!
Where? !
Where? ! !
Tang Ning’s eyes widened. When the lights came back on, the crying disappeared. Everything seemed to be just Tang Ning’s illusion, but Tang Ning did not feel that he had survived a disaster, because he knew that every time the lights were turned off, the strange existence would be one step closer to him—
“Mom.” A child’s voice with a strange tone rang out.
Tang Ning followed the sound and lowered his head stiffly. He saw the child standing at his feet.
It was a pale little face with dense corpse spots. Under the strong light of the flashlight, the pure black eyes could not see a single light.
Tang Ning was almost unable to breathe. Then, he discovered something even more terrifying – it turned out that the child was not wearing black shoes.
There was nothing under the empty pants!
It had no feet!
Tang Ning was screaming madly in his heart, but he couldn’t make a sound. He wanted to stand up and run away, but in extreme fear, he had no strength at all. The next moment, the lights went out again, and darkness swept through the car again.
The child’s crying turned into a giggle. The cold little hand pressed on Tang Ning’s calf, as if it weighed a thousand pounds. It flexibly climbed onto Tang Ning’s body and climbed from the calf to Tang Ning’s waist in an instant.
Every place touched by the little hand exuded a piercing pain, as if the skin and flesh were about to be peeled off.
Tang Ning had never thought that he would experience such a terrible thing one day. He was shaking with pain. The overwhelming fear made his throat and stomach ache. His limbs were extremely weak. He wanted to pull the ghost baby off his body, but he was like a ghost who was paralyzed in bed and couldn’t move. The phone slipped from his hand and hit something and lost its light.
The world he could see returned to darkness again.
The cold little hands climbed up from his waist. Just when the little hands were about to touch Tang Ning’s neck, a slender and strong hand lifted the ghost baby crawling on Tang Ning’s body like a chicken. The ghost baby who had been giggling before seemed to have encountered something extremely terrifying. Its mouth opened to an incredible size and let out a loud cry of extreme fear.
The hand loosened and the ghost baby fell on the seat and trembled.
This series of changes happened in just three seconds. Tang Ning couldn’t even get away from the scene of being attacked by the ghost baby. The lights came on again.
Tang Ning looked up blankly and saw the man who saved him took off his mask and cap, revealing an extremely handsome face.
He had Western bone structure and Eastern skin, a classic temperament, deep and charming eye sockets, and a rare pure black pupil color. Perhaps it was because of the dim light in the car, the eyes were deep in the shadow of the brow bone and mysterious and dangerous.
The narrow phoenix eyes curved and the young man smiled at Tang Ning.
He was originally impeccable in appearance, and every curve of his eyes and eyebrows seemed to have been carefully designed when he smiled, bringing out the advantages of this face to the extreme, making people feel good about him.
All the oppressive feelings disappeared, as if the nervousness and uneasiness caused by the eye contact just now was just Tang Ning’s illusion.
The handsome young man sat down next to the terrified Tang Ning. His voice was low, gentle, and full of charm. “Xiao Ning, are you still angry with me?”
Tang Ning did not know the young man in front of him, and did not know why he said this to him. His mind went blank. With trembling hands, he grabbed the edge of the young man’s clothes. “There is a ghost…”
The young man asked in confusion: “What?”
“…a ghost doll.” Tang Ning’s eyes were red, and his fingertips were shaking. It seemed that he would cry in the next second.
“Are you talking about this rag doll?” The young man pointed to the place next to Tang Ning.
Rag doll?
Tang Ning turned his head stiffly and saw a rag doll lying quietly beside him. It was a very tattered rag doll without legs. Two black buttons acted as eyes, staring straight at him.
In an instant, the fear of being stared at by the ghost baby came again. Tang Ning seemed to have lost all his strength and fell on the young man. His breathing was trembling, and his chest kept rising and falling. The thin shirt was soaked with cold sweat, outlining the slender and clear outline of his shoulder blades, like a butterfly falling into a net.
Mo Yunchu lowered his eyes and saw Tang Ning’s slender neck. A faint fragrance rushed into his nose, and the sweat made the fragrance more intense.
It smelled so good.
“No… I don’t want to record the show anymore!” Tang Ning grabbed the corner of Mo Yunchu’s clothes, and looked up at Mo Yunchu with tears in his eyes. He just wanted to go home now, just wanted to end this nightmare.
Mo Yunchu said gently: “I’m sorry, Xiao Ning, I know you are still angry. I shouldn’t have missed the date with you because of the recording. I promise there won’t be a next time, okay?”
His slightly calloused fingertips gently stroked the corners of Tang Ning’s eyes, wiping away Tang Ning’s tears.
Tang Ning didn’t understand what the man was saying. His eyes were soaked with tears and he was confused and lost. He cried, “What?”
Mo Yunchu looked at Tang Ning. His eyes were very gentle at this moment. “I love you, Xiao Ning.”
[Ding – System loading completed]
“What’s that sound?”
[Ever since taking that haunted bus, Tang Ning’s life has changed dramatically.]
A cold male voice announced in Tang Ning’s mind:
[The ghost baby has been following him everywhere. It will only temporarily subside when he meets his boyfriend Mo Yunchu. But his boyfriend Mo Yunchu is a big star and can’t always be with him…]
[Newbie game: Ghost baby]
[Difficulty: E-level]
[Main quest: Survival! Players who survive in the dungeon for seven days will clear the level!]
[Advanced quest: Seal the ghost baby! Players can clear the game early if they seal it]
[Game starts]
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