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"He Anyao, go to bed right now!"

Cai Yi twisted open a door, pushed He Anyao inside, and called out.

He Anyao was so scared that she couldn't even speak clearly: "I...I'm so scared, I...I can't sleep."

Cai Yi opened the door, walked over, raised his hand as if to strike He Anyao on the back of the neck.

He Anyao succumbed to Cai Yi's embrace.

Caiyi put her on the bed and covered her with a blanket.

After Jiang Li entered, Xiao Baihua immediately closed the door.

"Come in quickly, and don't speak!"

Caiyi lifted the covers and addressed them, and the two of them crawled under the covers, covering themselves completely.

Thankfully, the bed is big enough to comfortably accommodate all four of them.

"Shh, don't talk."

Xiao Baihua subconsciously held her breath, and Jiang Li also looked nervous and dared not make a sound.

brush--

The faint lights were all extinguished, and the thick darkness enveloped the entire villa.

Da da da

The sound seemed especially eerie in the quiet villa.

knock knock knock

Jiang Li was so startled by the knocking that she almost jumped up, but Cai Yi, who was already prepared, held her down firmly.

The knocking continued for a while, then stopped.

Da da da

The footsteps fade away.

Xiao Baihua breathed a sigh of relief, but just as she was about to speak, Cai Yi covered her mouth.

Sure enough, a short while later, the knocking sounded outside their door again.

Xiao Baihua's eyes widened, a hint of fear flashing in them.

Wen Ye and his three companions, who were on the other side of the Thorn Rose Villa, also heard the commotion from Cai Yi's side.

Wen Ye's eyes were filled with fear. Were those designers brain-dead?

Using the rose bushes outside the door as a starting point is already ridiculous enough.

They're still designing such realistic horror games now.

Shen Changfeng glanced at Wen Ye, who was already trembling, and gave Ming He and the others a look.

Three people—Shen Changfeng covered Wen Ye's mouth, Ming He and Tan Shaojie held down his hands and feet, and the four of them hid under the covers, trembling.

They knew some of the plot, but they didn't expect it to be so terrifying and realistic, so they were all a little scared, but they could still bear it because they thought it was just a game.

Wen Ye's eyes were filled with anger, but the anger vanished abruptly the next second.

knock knock knock

The four of them held their breath and dared not move.

After the sound continued for a while, it fell silent. The crowd did not relax, because the game designers had added a one-minute silence period for the evil spirit at the doorway to increase the horror of the supernatural game.

The night passed peacefully, and all eight people survived to the morning unharmed.

Apart from He Anyao, the other seven people all had obvious dark circles under their eyes.

Caiyi patted his belly and said, "This game is designed to be too realistic!"

"You're still hungry?"

"And you all have very dark circles under your eyes."

Xiao Baihua glanced at Cai Yi with amusement: "After all, it's a holographic game, so it'll definitely be very realistic."

This was the first time Jiang Li had ever encountered such a realistic game; she felt like she was in another world.

He Anyao was glaring angrily at Cai Yi: "How dare you hit me?"

Caiyi: "I'm just worried that if you cry at night, you'll attract ghosts~ Don't be angry~"

As he spoke, Caiyi picked up a piece of bread from the table and stuffed it into He Anyao's mouth.

This is what Xiao Baihua and Jiang Li found in the kitchen.

He Anyao: "Hmm, it's quite delicious. I want the chef to make it for me too."

"Take a picture and send it to the chef later."

Xiao Baihua: "This is a game, why are you sending it to your chef?"

He Anyao: "I forgot."

Caiyi frowned. She had checked her pockets yesterday but didn't find a phone: "Where did you get your phone?"

He Anyao pointed to the four people sitting on the sofa opposite her and said, "That gentle-looking boy gave it to me."

"This phone is pretty nice, so I took it."

Caiyi didn't think they were that kind-hearted.

Jiang Li: "Are you guys really that kind? You actually gave us phones. But phones aren't really that useful in the game, are they?"

Shen Changfeng chuckled: "It will be useful."

"Take a picture of the villa with your phone and you'll see."

Upon hearing this, He Anyao curiously took out her phone and started taking pictures around. The next second, the footsteps that appeared in the photos startled He Anyao so much that she dropped her phone.

"what--"

She screamed in terror.

Caiyi caught the falling phone with quick reflexes.

She picked it up and looked through it, and found that the photos taken by the phone were different from what they had seen.

In the photos of the villa, there are many unseen footsteps, faint and unreal.

Caiyi turned on the camera and followed the footsteps to a basement. She carefully turned the handle and gently pushed it open.

creak

The jarring sound of the door opening made their teeth ache, and the blast of dust that hit them made them cough uncontrollably.

Jiang Li glanced around the room: "This place must be about two hundred years old. Many things have been eaten by insects."

"It has traces of medieval history."

Cai Yi and the others looked around carefully, while He Anyao stood at the doorway, her face filled with panic: "This is where the most footsteps are..."

"Won't this attract evil spirits?"

Caiyi used his phone to illuminate the painting and finally found a picture where a spider web had formed.

The painting is an oil painting, depicting a girl who is surrounded by bright red roses. The girl is about six or seven years old, with curly hair, looks like a doll, and has cute freckles on her face.

It's likely that the villa's owner, Aria.

Xiao Baihua: "Two hundred years... can a painting still look this new?"

This painting was pulled out from under a spider web; how could it not have faded at all?

Cai Yi: "Perhaps an evil spirit is attached to this painting, protecting his portrait of his daughter."

He Anyao: "Can you please not say such terrifying things so calmly?!"

She strode downstairs.

It's very dark here, no light can get in, it's eerie. Downstairs, the sunlight shines through the glass, it's much warmer and more normal than up here.

Caiyi and the others hung the painting back in its original place, cleaned up the cobwebs nearby, and then went downstairs.

Wen Ye and the other three were playing cards downstairs, but He Anyao was nowhere to be seen.

He Anyao stood in the rose bushes they had visited yesterday, looking at the roses in the sunlight. She leaned closer to smell them; the fragrance was rich and intense.

She reached out to break off a rose, but the thorns deterred her.

"Everything in ghost stories is dangerous."

Cai Yi appeared behind He Anyao without her noticing.

"Weren't you scared enough to even think about backing out?"

He Anyao shook her head: "I've already agreed to play with you, how can I give up halfway?"

Caiyi: "I'm really scared, let me help you get out."

He Anyao hesitated for a moment, but then shook her head and said, "It's okay, just knock me out like you did yesterday."

Caiyi couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Alright, if you're scared, just say so. You can talk to Xiaobaihua too, she knows a little bit of martial arts."

When the two returned to the villa's living room, a quarrel had already broken out inside.

Wen Ye: "Yesterday was only the first day, it wasn't very scary. Tonight will be very exciting?"

Are you sure you don't want to admit defeat?

Jiang Li: "I think you're the one who's scared, otherwise why would you keep telling us to admit defeat?"

Wen Ye, enraged, said, "You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences. You deserve to be scared to death tonight."