The Days of a Player-Character in a Bizarre World - Chapter 16

“Holy crap, Queen A’You, don’t tell me I was right?”

Is it really that juicy and exciting?!

Fu You was speechless. She looked up at her, then looked down again and said, “I swear, if you put that brain of yours to use on your studies, it’d be so much better. Stop thinking about these useless things.”

Ren Jiyu shrugged. “Okay, I was overthinking,” she said. She glanced to the side of Fu You and seemed to have noticed something. She asked,

“Hey, where are your two little friends? Why aren’t you together today?”

“…” Fu You didn’t say anything. She just looked up at Ren Jiyu, looking like she had something to say but didn’t know how to start. Just as she was about to speak, she was drowned out by the voices of other students.

“Big news! Quick, check the forum!”

The students around them quickly took out their phones and clicked on the forum:

“No way, someone else died in that classroom? Their head is missing, too. That’s so terrifying!”

“Holy crap, how many people have died this month?”

“At least six or seven lives. This time, a girl died again?”

“Quick, quick, go check it out!”

The classroom instantly became a buzz of activity. Everyone took out their phones and started reading the forum, not missing a single detail. Fu You was no exception.

She took out her phone, only to realize that the battery had died, and it had automatically shut down.

“Holy cow, Queen, are these your two friends?”

Ren Jiyu’s jaw dropped. Before Fu You could answer, she handed her phone over.

She didn’t know who posted the thread, but every picture was clear and un-pixelated. You could clearly see that the victims’ hearts had been gouged out. Their bodies were covered in bl00d, and their heads were missing.

The sight was something that an average person wouldn’t be able to handle, and there was no blur effect.

Fu You could tell right away that they were Suo Xianglu and Wu Ledan. She was there that night, so it wasn’t hard for her to figure it out.

As for why Ren Jiyu thought so, it was because Suo Xianglu and Wu Ledan were always with Fu You. The three of them were like conjoined twins and had never been separate like this before.

They were people who did everything together.

Seeing Fu You holding the phone and staring at it for a long time, looking a little dazed, Ren Jiyu reached out and waved her hand in front of her.

“A’You, what’s wrong? Do you know what happened to them?”

Fu You shook her head. She pulled out her chair and sat down, then handed the phone back to Ren Jiyu. She reached into her drawer for her phone’s charging cable and said as she looked,

“I just heard that they saw some post and wanted to go to that abandoned classroom to play the planchette game. They even asked me to go with them, but I was a little scared, so I didn’t play.”

The highest level of lying is to mix a little truth with a little lie.

If she were to say that she had been in her dorm the whole time, that would be unrealistic because the main entrance on the first floor of that building and every hallway had surveillance cameras. As for whether the cameras were on or broken, she didn’t know.

In any case, if the cameras did happen to catch her, or if they caught her suddenly disappearing, she had already thought of a plan: she would just say that she didn’t know. The place was haunted, so it would be normal for a ghost to disguise itself as her.

It was a good thing that she had always loved watching scary movies and horror shows. It was also a good thing that she was a little brave and often played escape rooms. Otherwise, she probably would have been crouching on the stairs, crying with her head in her hands.

If people found out that their Queen was like that, she would lose all her prestige.

She looked at Ren Jiyu’s eyes. To make her story more believable, she added, “After I came out of that building, I went to find that junior because I was scared. I didn’t go back to the dorm and stayed at his place for a night.”

Just as she expected, Ren Jiyu’s attention was immediately captivated.

“What?! You… you actually went to his dorm? Wow, A’You, you’ve really changed. You’re not honest anymore. When did you two start being so close?”

Ren Jiyu stood up excitedly, her hands on the desk, leaning in toward Fu You. She was smiling broadly, a very flirtatious, gossipy look on her face. “You’re not allowed to give me some half-assed excuse. You went to his room and spent the night together. Something must have happened between you two. Tell me!”

Fu You thought, I’d love to have something happen, but he didn’t agree!

At this moment, Fu Lu, who was sitting in his classroom, suddenly sneezed.

Fu You said a couple of random things to brush off the subject. Although she was making things up, it wasn’t a complete lie because nothing had happened between them, and they weren’t together.

But she couldn’t guarantee what would happen later…

Ding-a-ling~

Ren Jiyu still wanted to get more information, but the class bell rang. As soon as the teacher walked in, the classroom instantly became quiet again.

As soon as the class bell rang, the teacher left, and the classroom erupted. Fu You’s phone was fully charged. The next class was physical education. Fu You unplugged the charger, put it in her drawer, and went to the gym with Ren Jiyu.

Today’s P.E. class was swimming.

While changing into her swimsuit in the locker room, Fu You took out her phone and logged onto the forum.

When she clicked on the forum, most of the posts were about “looking for a relationship,” “looking for friends,” “confessions,” “calling people out,” or “looking for people or things.” There wasn’t much to see.

After scrolling for a while, she found it truly boring. How could these people find this interesting? She subconsciously got ready to turn off her phone, but a post caught her attention:

[Summoning the ghost spirit can help you solve your problems!

Friends, this is my personal experience. I just finished my exams last week, and my curiosity drove me to try a seance game at school to see how I did on my exams.

The back of our school is a private cemetery with many people buried there. It is said that our school was once a mass grave, where many people who died were directly thrown here. That’s why there are so many ghosts and spirits. So I wanted to go to a particularly eerie place to play this game.

So, I went to that abandoned classroom in Chongde Hall. It is said that there have been many supernatural events there ever since it was built, like the old, broken radio singing on its own, a piano room next door mysteriously playing piano music, and the lights staying on at night even though no one is there, and so on.

I’m very brave, so I went alone at night and played the game by myself. And I really did encounter a supernatural event. Although I didn’t see anything, the old radio turned on, and I heard piano music later on. Then I asked a question, and the ghost spirit really answered me. It said that my grades had improved, and my ranking had also gone up this time. Then I followed the procedure to send the ghost spirit away. On the fifth day, when the grades came out, guess what?

That’s right! I really did improve. My ranking also went up, just like it said. It really didn’t lie to me!

Finally, I’d like to give a small piece of advice here. When you summon the ghost spirit, you must not ask it how it died or anything related to death or bad luck. After you’ve asked your questions, you must follow the procedure to send the ghost spirit away. Otherwise, you will have bad luck later, or there might even be more serious consequences!!!]

Fu You was stunned. This post must be the one Wu Ledan had seen on the forum.

The ID of the person who posted this thread was ‘Likes Rain.’ When she clicked on the profile picture and the homepage, there was nothing to be seen. There were no other posts besides this one. The gender and age were all missing, and the profile picture was completely black. She couldn’t make out anything from it.

Fu You guessed that it was a newly registered account. The signature was the default one, and the post had been made recently.

The more she looked at the profile picture, the more she felt that something was wrong. This picture gave her a very uncomfortable and stifling feeling. She clicked on the picture to enlarge it, and she could barely see some white and red dots.

Since she could see something, she thought her phone’s brightness might be too low. So she turned the brightness all the way up, went back, and clicked on the picture again. She felt like she was mentally prepared, but she was still startled and almost dropped her phone.

It was a naked woman hidden in the darkness. She was not properly clothed, and her body was covered in stitched-up wounds, looking just like a puppet with long, loose hair.

Her body, head, and long black hair, each part alone, were perfect and beautiful. But this corpse was clearly not from one person. It was made by stitching together perfect body parts to create the beauty the creator desired.

To Fu You, it didn’t look beautiful at all. It was more terrifying and unnatural. In short, it had nothing to do with beauty.

Although probably no one else would enlarge the profile picture and look at it as carefully as she did.

But she noticed that something was missing from the body. She looked closer and saw that the woman’s beautiful face was missing a pair of beautiful eyes.

For some reason, Fu You reached up and touched her own eyes. In that moment, she actually felt that her eyes should belong there.

Coming back to her senses, she shook her head hard, slapped her forehead, and muttered, “What are you thinking? Why would you have a thought like that? Are you crazy?”

Fu You’s eyes went back to the picture. She was about to click the back button and stop looking, but then the woman in the picture unexpectedly smiled. “Was she smiling just now?“

She frowned slightly. The woman should have had no expression. She had looked very carefully, so how could she have missed a detail like that?

She loved mysteries and suspense, so she believed that she wouldn’t miss a detail like this. She didn’t think about it anymore. Her eyes moved. The place where the woman was lying wasn’t that abandoned classroom?

Because she saw the podium next to the woman’s head. There was an old-fashioned radio on it. It was dark gray and hard to notice. Next to the radio, there seemed to be a person sitting.

She wasn’t sure if she had seen it wrong, but the picture was already at its maximum size. It couldn’t get any bigger, and even if it could, it would be blurry. The picture only showed a small part of the scene. Fu you could only see the person’s legs and a bloody hand resting on the radio.

“A Fu You, what are you looking at? A handsome guy? You’re so engrossed!”