Ghost Baby

Chapter 2: Mommy’s great son.

Tang Ning was completely confused by the overwhelming amount of information.

Ghost bus, game, ghost baby, dungeon, seven days survival…
I seem to have seen these words before?

In a flash, Tang Ning suddenly remembered the game agreement of the card game app on his phone, which he had not even read carefully because it was too long!
Tang Ning said in disbelief: [Did I enter the dungeon because of that card game?!]

[Yes.]

Tang Ning, who was filled with regret, hurriedly asked, “Can I quit the game?”

A cold male voice sounded in Tang Ning’s mind, cold and inhuman: [After players quit the game, they will die suddenly on the spot due to long-term irregular work and rest and weak physical condition.]

Tang Ning: “?”

[Winning the card game can avoid a dead end. Do you want to quit the game?]

Tang Ning found that he had no choice at all.
He didn’t dare to quit the game to see if the sudden death the system said would really be verified. All this weirdness had made him full of fear of obeying the system’s words.

He forced himself to calm down and check the person in front of him. Was this Mo Yunchu the NPC in the dungeon? This NPC and he seemed to be in a relationship? But he was straight…

[Players please note, try to avoid breaking your character in the dungeon. Following your character will help increase your chances of survival. If you violate your character, you may be suspected by the NPC, triggering a series of chain reactions.]

Tang Ning has always been afraid of strong people. He carefully asked in his heart: [What chain reaction?]

[Including but not limited to sending you to a mental hospital for treatment, becoming hostile to you, etc.]

Tang Ning realized the importance of following your character: [Then what is my character?]

The cold male voice paused, [You are weak and delicate, clinging to strong men like a dodder. You are fickle, still in touch with your ex and seducing other men.]

Tang Ning was greatly shocked, [Am I, am I that bad?]

The male voice ignored him.

Tang Ning could only look at Mo Yunchu nervously. Mo Yunchu’s dark and deep eyes were like the sea under the night sky, and the pupils were shining with a little light from the lights of cars, just like the moonlight sprinkled on the sparkling sea, with a deep affection that could drown people.

Even though Tang Ning had seen countless handsome men and beautiful women in the entertainment industry, he was stunned by Mo Yunchu’s impeccable handsomeness.

Tang Ning didn’t know how to play the role of Mo Yunchu’s lover. He was a well-known wooden beauty in the entertainment industry and his acting skills were poor. However, he knew that he must not look into Mo Yunchu’s eyes in this situation, otherwise it would be like a close-up of the eyes, a public execution.

Tang Ning lowered his eyes in panic, and threw himself into Mo Yunchu’s arms, holding Mo Yunchu with both hands, and his ear pressed against Mo Yunchu’s chest. He could clearly hear Mo Yunchu’s strong heartbeat, and the rapid heartbeat due to his throwing himself into his arms seemed to show a person’s sincerity.

“I love you too.” Tang Ning lied softly.

The rapid heartbeat calmed down, and a large palm pressed on his lower back. Perhaps it was because the game gave him a delicate body, Tang Ning could feel the thin calluses on his palm even through the fabric, rough and warm, burning him to death.

Tang Ning bit his lower lip and subconsciously wanted to leave Mo Yunchu’s embrace, but Mo Yunchu wrapped his arms around his waist, leaving him no way to escape.

“Don’t move, let me hold you.” Mo Yunchu whispered, his tone sounded a little tired. Although Tang Ning didn’t know what Mo Yunchu had been through, thinking about Mo Yunchu’s job, fatigue should be the norm.

Tang Ning resisted the awkwardness and snuggled in Mo Yunchu’s arms. Mo Yunchu had a warm woody scent, a delicate and gentle fragrance, and a faintly spicy aftertaste. Compared to the other cold and terrifying environment in the car, Mo Yunchu’s embrace was like a shelter. Although the strong arms shackled Tang Ning’s freedom, they also prevented the arrival of danger.

Smelling that special woody scent, Tang Ning’s fear slowly dissipated. When his tense body began to relax a little, Mo Yunchu suddenly lowered his head and buried his tall nose in the crook of Tang Ning’s neck. He took a deep breath and said in a low, slightly obsessed voice, “What a nice smell.”

As he spoke, the warm breath was all exhaled on that delicate skin, as if it turned into an all-pervasive desire that penetrated into the texture. Tang Ning’s shoulders trembled uncontrollably. He didn’t even know why he was reacting so strongly. Was it because of the “delicate body” setting in the card?

The crook of his neck was lightly pink. Although Mo Yunchu hadn’t done anything yet, Tang Ning felt like he was being bullied.

Mo Yunchu whispered into Tang Ning’s ear, “Okay, the car has stopped, we can get off now.”

Before Mo Yunchu let go of his hand, Tang Ning immediately pushed him away with his elbow, then bent down to pick up the phone at his feet. After doing this series of actions, he didn’t dare to look at Mo Yunchu. His long eyelashes trembled violently, like a butterfly that had escaped from a spider web and was desperately flapping its weak wings.

But the moment he got the phone, he was worried that his overreaction just now would ruin his character and anger Mo Yunchu, so he turned his face, which was covered with a sickly red, and looked at Mo Yunchu carefully.

He saw Mo Yunchu pick up the rag doll on the seat.

At that moment, Tang Ning felt like he was falling into an ice cave, and the blood on his face disappeared completely. His tone suddenly rose and he said, “Throw it away!”

Mo Yunchu was stunned for a moment and put the rag doll back in its place.

“Let’s go.” Tang Ning didn’t dare to look at the strange doll. He pulled Mo Yunchu’s clothes in fear, pulling until his knuckles turned white. He urged with a trembling voice: “Hurry…”

Mo Yunchu put on a mask and a cap, and gently wrapped his trembling hands with his slender and powerful hands.

Tang Ning didn’t dare to look at the doll behind him, nor did he dare to look at the passengers in front of him. He felt that everything in this car was extremely strange. Only Mo Yunchu’s warm palm gave him the strength to keep going.

After getting off the car, Mo Yunchu took Tang Ning to a villa area.

Tang Ning was stunned.

It was not because the villa in front of him was so luxurious, but because there was a cemetery built on the back hill of this villa area.

[System, is this Mo Yunchu’s home?]

[Yes.]

Mo Yunchu noticed Tang Ning’s dull gaze and asked with concern: “What’s wrong?”

“There is a cemetery on the back hill. Don’t you think it’s a bit unlucky?” Tang Ning whispered.

“When I bought it, there was no cemetery here yet. And aren’t you a supernatural adventure blogger, Xiao Ning? You don’t believe in these things?” Mo Yunchu said with a smile.

Tang Ning: “……?”

[……System, my character is a supernatural adventure blogger?]

[Yes.]
The cold male voice calmly added: [Your channel has a series of reviews of haunted houses around the world, a series of reviews of methods of encountering ghosts, and a collection of reviews of horror games. In order to maintain your character, you’d better update your videos in the next seven days.]

Tang Ning’s face turned pale. He felt that if he was a little more vulnerable, he would jump off the building. [……Can you not update? I’m really afraid of this kind of thing.]

The male voice was silent for a while, [It’s OK as long as Mo Yunchu doesn’t doubt you.]

Tang Ning heaved a sigh of relief. Mo Yunchu seemed easy to talk to. He said to Mo Yunchu, “I wasn’t afraid before, but doing this for a long time really makes me a little nervous. Plus, the headlights kept flickering today. I don’t know why I got scared.”

He said this with real emotion. As he saw the swaying shadows of trees not far away, Tang Ning subconsciously tightened his hand, which was held by Mo Yunchu. His eyes were filled with panic, like a little bird that would be scared by the shadow of a bowstring at any time.
Poor and cute.

Mo Yunchu looked at Tang Ning’s trembling eyelashes, “Maybe it was because it rained just now, so there was a little problem with the headlights.”

Tang Ning hummed. He always felt like something was staring at him from behind, but when he mustered up the courage to look back, there was nothing.

When they arrived at the villa, Mo Yunchu asked Tang Ning to take a hot bath to relax.

Tang Ning had been sweating in the car before, and he wanted to take a bath first. Mo Yunchu considerately helped him get some clothes to change, put water at the right temperature, and even prepared a relaxing scented candle for him.

After Tang Ning took off his clothes, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. There were shocking scars on his body, some blue, some purple, and some dark red, covering a large area of ​​this originally flawless white skin, looking like he had been abused.

Looking more closely, they were all marks left by the ghost baby attack.

But thinking about the setting of the Princess and the Pea, it seemed reasonable to feel a small pea through more than twenty layers of velvet bedding.

Tang Ning gently touched the wound, and it didn’t hurt much, but it looked scary. He breathed a sigh of relief and lay in the bathtub. The warm water diluted the fear of today. Tang Ning felt the long-lost comfort, his tense nerves relaxed, and sleepiness came over him. The hot mist on the water surface steamed, and a faint red appeared on Tang Ning’s pale face.

His body was too white, and any color would make him look particularly attractive.

Tang Ning was half asleep in the bath, when he suddenly heard the sound of the doorknob being turned.

He opened his hazy eyes, and through the misty glass, Tang Ning’s slightly distracted gaze fell on the bathroom door.

The sound of the doorknob turning stopped.

Tang Ning thought he had heard it wrong, so he lay back down. After a while, a clearer turning sound was heard, and it kept turning. The sound was very clear, as if it was meant for Tang Ning to hear.

A drop of cold water fell from the top of his head and hit Tang ning’s face, and the coolness penetrated his skin.

Is it leaking?

Tang Ning, who was half asleep in the bath, raised his head and looked at the ceiling above his head. There was no shower head directly above him, and there was no sign of a leak.

Tang Ning wiped his face and saw red water stains on his fingertips, like… blood was spread by the water.

The fragrance was still warm, the heat was still thick, but at that moment, Tang Ning felt a chill all over his body.

The sound of the doorknob being turned became more urgent, even making the door slam. There were only him and Mo Yunchu in this villa, and Mo Yunchu couldn’t keep turning the doorknob without saying anything, so who was standing outside the door at this moment?

Tang Ning called the system in panic.

[Find Mo Yunchu.]

Tang Ning quickly picked up his phone. After entering the dungeon, his phone had changed a little, such as Mo Yunchu’s contact information. Tang Ning typed tremblingly: [Can you pick me up in the bathroom?]

He didn’t even dare to call Mo Yunchu to communicate, fearing that the noise he made would alarm the guy outside the door.

His red fingertips carefully wiped the glass door covered with a layer of white mist. Tang Ning looked through this area at the bathroom doorknob.

Perhaps because the door couldn’t be opened, the doorknob was no longer turned. The bathroom returned to silence, so quiet that Tang Ning could hear his breathing.

Did he leave?

Tang Ning stared at the door handle without moving. He heard the sound of running water, which seemed to come from the sink.

Tang Ning wiped the mist on the glass door with his palm to create a larger circle of white space. He did not see the faucet leaking from the sink, but he smelled a fishy smell.

Tang Ning’s eyes moved down from the sink, and the sight made him tremble all over!

The entire floor of the bathroom was covered with bloody handprints!

The most dense bloody handprints were in the crack of the bathroom door! From the crack of the door to the bathtub, the dense bloody handprints gradually became sparse, and the bloody handprint closest to the bathtub was only about 20 centimeters away!

Tang Ning retreated in horror, but there was a wall behind him, and he could not retreat at all. His butterfly-like shoulder blades kept trembling against the wall, and his curled and crossed legs were like a mermaid’s tail.

The water surface was constantly swaying, and the sound of the surging water in the bathtub seemed to stimulate the bloody handprint’s forward speed. The bloody handprint that was originally slowly emerging flashed quickly at this moment. The handprint was very small, the size of a child, as if a child was crawling quickly on the ground and crawled to the edge of the bathtub in an instant!

“Don’t come over!” Tang Ning smashed the scented candle on the bathtub shelf at the bloody handprint on the ground. A sharp cry sounded, and the cry echoed layer by layer in the bathroom.

The bloody handprint that was originally only on the ground now covered the entire wall!

The blood dyed the bathtub red, and the water surface filled with blood reflected Tang Ning’s collapsed face.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and all the blood disappeared completely. The warm water in the bathtub was clear and transparent, and the tiles on the ground were white and flawless, as if the scene just now was just Tang Ning’s illusion.

It was Mo Yunchu!

Mo Yunchu is here!

Tang Ning seemed to have found his backbone. He quickly stepped out of the bathtub and put on his bathrobe. He didn’t even have time to fasten his belt before he was ready to open the door for Mo Yunchu. He even forgot that he had locked the door. He turned the door handle but it didn’t open, then he remembered that he should unlock it first.

“Ding~” The phone on the bathtub shelf rang with a message.

The bathroom door was still knocking, but more hurriedly.

Tang Ning didn’t want to pay attention to anything at this time. He just wanted to open the door and welcome Mo Yunchu.

He unlocked the door with trembling hands.
The moment the door lock opened, Tang Ning heard a giggle.

It was a happy laugh, the laughter of a child after a prank was successful.

The temperature in the bathroom dropped in an instant, and Tang Ning’s fingertips lost their warmth. In the cold wind blowing in, Tang Ning suddenly thought of some details he had overlooked—

if the person standing outside the door was Mo Yunchu, why did he only knock on the door without saying anything?

Who sent him the message notification tone just now?

If it was Mo Yunchu who sent the message, then who was standing at the door?

Tang Ning stood stiffly by the door. When the door opened automatically, he saw a familiar nightmare standing in front of him.

The ghost baby with a blue face stared at him with its big black eyes and opened its blood-red mouth. “Mom.”