Giving Interstellar Players a Horror Ghost Game Shock - Chapter 61

After instinctively greeting it, Ye Yuxi fell into deep thought.

Sh1t! No, this isn’t right!

According to her settings, ghosts couldn’t leave the house! Unless…

She quickly turned to check the digital screen, and sure enough—

Ji Yu’s sanity points: 0

Oh no.

They were screwed.

At that moment, the game’s cold, mocking system notification rang out:

“A member of ‘Streamer Invincible Squad’ has reached sanity points 0, triggering a special condition. Congratulations! You have unlocked the hidden event: No One Survives.”

“The vengeful spirit can now temporarily leave the house by using its marked victim as a medium. Run for your lives!”

Ye Yuxi went completely blank.

As the game’s designer, she had seen all kinds of horror scenarios—

But she had never seen this one before!

Because in all her test runs, her sanity points had never dropped to zero, so she had never personally experienced this mechanic!

In a flash, she bolted to the driver’s seat, frantically mashing the button to close the door while yelling at her teammates, “Does anyone here know how to drive? Get over here and switch to manual mode, or we’re all dead!”

The three battered teammates turned in unison to stare at the antique vehicle, their expressions as blank and pure as a newborn’s.

“…Huh?”

“……”

The chat was just as stunned by the sudden turn of events.

【Wait, this car still needs manual driving? Even starships are fully automated these days!】

【I heard that way back, there was some law requiring all citizens to be trained in manual driving once they became adults… but that’s just what I heard. I never actually trained for it.】

【I’ve never even heard of that.】

【Guys, whether it’s manual or not isn’t the issue here! The issue is that this hidden event is way too unfair! I was just getting emotional, thinking they were finally going to survive as a team, and now they’re about to be wiped out?!】

A team wipe was not an option. Ye Yuxi slammed the gas pedal, drifting wildly—she was not going down without a fight.

For some reason, the damn door just wouldn’t close, leaving the three passengers in the back with a clear view of the thing that was supposed to be crawling, but was somehow keeping pace with the car.

“Why is it crawling so fast?! That’s not scientifically possible!”

“Ghosts aren’t scientifically possible in the first place!” Liu Yuling’s palms were sweating.

She instinctively tightened her grip on the camera before suddenly realizing—this was a perfect shot!

Without hesitation, she raised the camera and snapped several rapid photos of the pursuing ghost doll.

Ji Yu and Wang Yuze turned their heads in unison, looking at her in pure disbelief.

Seriously?! You’re still thinking about taking pictures at a time like this?!

Thinking back on it now, while Miss Y had been coasting through the game and Ji Yu had been a coward, while Wang Yuze had been charging ahead recklessly—Liu Yuling was actually the only one taking the game seriously.

No wonder she was the one who triggered the hidden plotline. True gamer indeed!

Ji Yu had already selectively erased all his earlier doubts about her skills.

At this moment, he just wished he could be permanently bound to her in every future horror game. Even if his nerves rusted from fear, he’d still scream at the top of his lungs: “Sister Yu! Carry me, I beg you!”

Of course, Miss Y seemed pretty badass too…

As Ji Yu realized the ghost wasn’t actually catching up, his fear lessened, and his scheming instincts kicked in.

He knew Miss Y was Liu Yuling’s friend. If he bound himself to Liu Yuling, wouldn’t that naturally bring him closer to Miss Y too?

……

Ye Yuxi had just gotten her driver’s license in her past life and was still in her beginner protection period. She never expected she’d have such a talent for high-speed driving—specifically, the talent of not crashing.

After drifting through the streets twice, the ghost’s time limit was up.

Black bl00d oozed from the doll’s eyes as it stared at the vehicle with seething hatred. It had come so close to catching them so many times, yet it had failed every single time.

In the end, it had no choice but to crawl reluctantly back toward the mansion.

With that, the ‘Streamer Invincible Squad’ could finally proceed to the game’s final evaluation.

Liu Yuling’s heart ached as she submitted the photos.

Damn this stupid camera’s awful stabilization!

It was just a tiny bit of camera shake! Just a tiny bit! How did all the pictures turn out this blurry?!

If only she could have used her personal AI assistant to take the shots, that horrifying doll wouldn’t have ended up looking like a glitched-out mosaic!

Submitting the photos for additional rewards was a lost cause—their final hope rested on the NPC baby girl they had rescued.

Summoned by the system, the NPC father and NPC brother appeared outside the car, took the baby from them, and left after offering their heartfelt thanks.

Liu Yuling’s lips twitched as she looked at the two modeled NPCs—whose facial detail was about on par with Miss Y.

She really couldn’t understand it.

Where did all the money from Yuxi’s last game go?

Sure, background NPCs that only appeared once didn’t need to be that well-designed, but wasn’t this a bit too much cost-cutting?!

Shaking her head, she pushed aside these stray thoughts.

The four of them huddled around the digital screen, holding their breath as they awaited the results.

“Congratulations, ‘Streamer Invincible Squad,’ on completing the hidden storyline. Your reward: an additional 10% bonus on top of the original mission bounty.”

“Hooray!” Ji Yu was the first to clap like a seal.

Sure, in this round, he was the one getting slaughtered while his teammates did the killing…

But!

They were a team! So this was their collective achievement, right?!

However, after a moment of celebration, Ji Yu’s smile began to fade.

He realized that the other three weren’t smiling at all.

“W-What’s wrong?”

Liu Yuling propped her chin up and sighed. 

“We only got temperature proof and blurry photos this time—not even a single hair off one of those dolls. That means we only get 30% of the original bounty. And 30% plus 10%… Guess how much we actually earned?”

“…What?” Ji Yu did the math, and his excitement instantly deflated.

Just as they were feeling frustrated, thinking all their effort had been wasted, the system suddenly issued a new prompt.

“Since the hidden storyline was triggered, the team will receive an additional puzzle-solving reward calculation.”

“Question: How many ghosts were present in this location?”

Ji Yu blanked for a second, then blurted out, “There were nine dolls, so… nine ghosts?”

“Incorrect. Two attempts remaining.”

“Huh? That was just a random guess! That doesn’t count!” Ji Yu panicked.

Wang Yuze furrowed his brows, thought for a moment, and said slowly, “The one that chased us should count too, so… ten?”

“Incorrect. One attempt remaining.”

“What the hell?! How are we supposed to answer this?!” Wang Yuze was on the verge of breaking down.

Both of them turned to Liu Yuling and Ye Yuxi at the same time, their gazes full of desperation.

Ye Yuxi could only shrug.

Answering her own puzzle would basically be cheating.

Liu Yuling furrowed her brows in deep thought, muttering under her breath.

“The dolls… replaced the daughter’s identity… The father, the brother… The parents…”

Her eyes gradually brightened as she connected the dots, linking the scattered pieces of information together.

“I got it! It’s two! There were only two ghosts in that entire house!”

Ji Yu’s eyes widened. He recalled all those ghost dolls and shadowy figures and shivered.

What kind of joke was this? How could there be only two?! They were doomed—

“Correct! Congratulations, Player ‘Jade Willow,’ for earning the hidden bonus for ‘Streamer Invincible Squad’! The prize pool will increase by 150%!”

“?!”

Ji Yu stared dumbfounded at the screen, then whipped his head toward Liu Yuling. His gaze was one of pure reverence, as if he had just witnessed the one true god.

“!”

Liu Yuling was usually pretty calm, but even she couldn’t help clenching her fists in excitement.

This round was an absolute blast! She had unlocked a hidden achievement—how satisfying was that?!

The chat exploded in celebration, as if they had just watched their own teammate crack the final mystery.

【HOLY SH*T, SISTER YU IS UNSTOPPABLE!】

【HOLY SH*T, SISTER YU IS UNSTOPPABLE!】

……

【Alright, enough with the spam! Can someone explain to this little newbie here how the hell she figured that out?!】