Vol.3 - Chapter 9 – Yushuo's decision

The next morning.

The moment Bai Yushuo opened her eyes, the script for the second scene immediately flooded her mind. She lay in bed, slowly digesting the contents of the script, and then began to consider what to do next based on her previous thoughts.

As she emphasized to Ye Xiang, shooting a real horror film requires teamwork. It can't be done by herself alone; she must collaborate with Li Weisi, Cheng Xuesong, and others. According to the current script, it was not difficult to determine which actors were newcomers. It seemed that there were only two newcomers. One was naturally Jiang Zhe from yesterday, and the other was a girl named Qian Xiaoxue, who wore glasses and had many pimples on her face. These two people also needed to work together. The next step was to start gathering information.

After finishing her usual morning routine and leaving the house, she looked at the neighboring house. The weather today was also gloomy, and the weather forecast said it was a sign of an approaching typhoon. However, this was just a phenomenon created by the horror film to set the atmosphere. But under this dark sky, the house appeared even more eerie and sinister.

"Zhihui?"

A voice came from behind, and Yushuo immediately smiled and turned around, saying, "Uncle Zhao?"

In front of her was a man in his fifties wearing sportswear, who seemed to be jogging. He slowly ran up to Yushuo and continued running in place in front of her, asking, "Just woke up? Did someone new move into that house you were looking at?"

"It seems so. But I haven't seen this new neighbor."

"Well, I retired early and have been jogging past here these past few days. Occasionally, I see someone from the window."

"You've seen them? Uncle Zhao?" Yushuo continued to ask, "What does that person look like?"

"Wearing a black coat, it looks like fur, and also wearing a hood that covers the face tightly. They intentionally lower their head. When I jogged past, I took a quick glance..."

"When did you see that person?"

"It was yesterday, um, around this time. I haven't seen them since. It feels strange. Do you think someone weird is hiding in the house, dressed like that and deliberately covering their face?"

"Can't tell if it's a man or a woman?"

"Can't tell. Zhihui, you live next to that person, so be careful."

Saying that, he ran off into the distance.

Yushuo watched his figure gradually disappear and then went to school.

After Yushuo walked away, in that house, in the window that Li Weisi saw, the coat hanger was perfectly placed with the cloak.

Perfectly... placed...

The atmosphere of Christmas was already very strong. Not only were all the shops on the street advertising Christmas promotions, but even in the school, students were starting to decorate Christmas trees. Many people hoped that this gloomy weather would turn into a snowy day, so they could have a white Christmas.

However, in Yushuo's heart, she only hoped that it wouldn't turn into a bloody Christmas...

When she entered the classroom, many students noticed her and came over to talk to her. Especially Tang Yincheng, played by Li Weisi.

"Zhihui, how are you planning to spend Christmas?"

"Zhihui, yesterday's math homework was difficult. Did you solve it? It was that geometry proof question. Also, the English reading comprehension was difficult. I checked the answers and got many wrong..."

"Ask Yincheng. He's better than me in math and English."

Just then, Fang Xiyu, who had fewer lines, also known as Cheng Xuesong, spoke up, "Zhihui, did you watch the news this morning?"

"No, I left immediately after breakfast. Is there any big news?"

"There was another missing person case near your house. The same thing happened a few days ago, right?"

"Yes, I know. Yincheng mentioned it."

At this moment, Tang Yincheng's expression changed, "Really? I haven't watched the news. The previous missing person was an eighteen-year-old female student. What about this time?"

"This time, a male college student went missing. The locations of the two disappearances are very close, and the timing is also similar, around midnight."

Around midnight!

The original script described An Zhihui's mental state like this:

(Midnight? Wasn't that the time the neighbor came back last night? Later, I heard that crying sound. I have always had the ability to perceive the dead, and I am very clear about this. Moreover, the previous disappearance happened around the same time the neighbor moved in at midnight. And it happened near my house, plus what Uncle Zhao said this morning...)Taking into account the genre, character introductions, story settings, and name correspondences, the translated text is as follows:

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Based on all the clues, in the original script, An Zhihui had already developed a strong sense of unease towards this mysterious neighbor. However, she couldn't tell anyone about her psychic abilities. If the new neighbor was a dangerous person, her own safety would also be at risk.

"Where is the location?" Yushuo immediately said a line that was not in the script, "Where are the places where those two people disappeared?"

With this line, she instantly deducted 5 death tickets. However, Yushuo didn't mind at all. For her, this was a valuable sacrifice, and she would deduct even more tickets in the future.

"Well, it should be near Pingshan Town." Xuesong said this and quickly took out his phone to open Google Maps. Then, he showed it to Yushuo, "It should be around here. It's quite close to your house, less than two kilometers away."

"Both of the missing persons disappeared in this location?"

"Yes, because there are surveillance cameras nearby. But according to today's news, it seems like these two people evaporated from the surveillance area. One camera captured them going in, but the other camera didn't capture them coming out. There are no other roads to avoid the surveillance and leave. So, initially, the police believed that it wasn't a disappearance but that the female student stayed somewhere along this road. However, now there has been a second disappearance case."

The fact that the surveillance footage couldn't capture anything didn't surprise Yushuo.

She already had an idea in her mind.

During lunch break, after finishing her lunch, she quickly left the cafeteria. Then, she took out her phone and sent a text message to Li Weisi (Tang Yincheng). After that, she left the school. The lunch break at this high school was very generous, lasting for two hours, which was enough.

Now, it was a blank period in the script, so the deduction of death tickets would be relatively less. She had to make good use of it.

The missing people had nothing to do with her, and it was impossible to prove whether the new neighbor was the culprit. So, going to the police would be completely useless. Then, what should she do?

Naturally, she had to make good use of her psychic abilities.

Yushuo had no shortage of death tickets. For her, intelligence was the top priority, and it was worth taking some risks to gather information.

"Zhihui!"

At this moment, Li Weisi hurriedly ran over and asked, "Where are you going? Did you send me a text message to meet at the station? Couldn't you just tell me directly?"

"I don't want others to know about this matter." Yushuo replied, "Song Jun has been following you, so I had to send you a text message."

"What's the matter? Is it that serious?"

"I'm going to the places where those girls disappeared."

"What... What did you say?"

"Listen to me, Yincheng." Yushuo cleared her throat and modified the script's setting for An Zhihui's psychic abilities. She said, "Actually, you might not believe it, but I have the ability to communicate with the dead. In standard terms, I have the physique of a psychic medium."

Li Weisi performed an appropriately astonished expression, "Ah? Zhihui, are you joking?"

"What I said is true. Listen to me, this is how it happened. Yesterday..."

To save time, Yushuo explained everything concisely, including the voices she heard last night. Li Weisi's expression became more and more exaggerated, and in the end, he even touched Yushuo's forehead and said, "Are you okay? Are you running a fever?"

Li Weisi knew that what she said was true, but according to the plot, he had to act this way. If he believed her immediately, it might lead to a retake. This balance had to be handled well.

"Never mind, I know you can't believe it right away." Yushuo saw the bus approaching the platform and said, "I suspect that the new neighbor has a problem, so I have to investigate. Take advantage of the current..."

After the bus stopped, Yushuo quickly got on. Li Weisi also followed immediately. Inside, there were two empty seats, so she sat down immediately.

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"Zhihui, you're too mysterious. It's hard for me to believe you right away..." After Li Weisi sat down, he said, "But why did you tell me all this? Do you need my help?"

He perfectly portrayed his concern for An Zhihui and a kind of respect for not completely denying her words. It had to be said that Li Weisi did a great job in portraying the character of Tang Yincheng.

"Now that those two people have disappeared, I want to go and see what happened there."

"What do you mean?"

"The deceased often linger in the place where they died. If they really died there, then I can summon them to possess me through my psychic abilities. You know, the so-called spiritualist meeting? A psychic medium allows the soul to possess them, creating a channel for communication between the dead and the living."

"What... What are you talking about? Zhihui! Are you serious? Aren't all those spiritualist meetings just scams?"Though he said so, Li Weisi was not surprised at all. He had anticipated that Bai Yushuo would make such a choice. Therefore, when he received the text message, he knew what she was going to do. She would use the script's blank period to go to the crime scene for a séance, and his job as a living person was to listen to the words of the dead, to obtain crucial information from them!

Of course, the downside of doing this was that if one was not careful, it could lead to overtime and a significant deduction of the death redemption ticket. Moreover, the greatest danger of being a medium was that the spirits could not leave one's body. The flaw of cursed objects was that the curse would revive over time, but being a medium was even more terrifying. Over time, it could lead to evil spirits possessing one's body, and that would be a point of no return! Therefore, being a medium was also referred to as having an "evil spirit constitution".

However, since Bai Yushuo had made up her mind, he, of course, was ready to risk his life to accompany her!

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