Chapter 40: Murderous White Curtain

The ruined house isn't large; because it's been unattended for years, a lot of weeds have grown inside, some even half a meter tall.

The wooden walls look slightly damp, and a rotten, moldy smell emanates from them.

"Brothers, as you can see, this ruined house has been abandoned for a long time; even these weeds are half my height."

Liu Tianyi points at the weeds inside and begins to describe them, occasionally spotting some bowls and chopsticks, which he also picks up and introduces one by one.

Although they're just ordinary items, after the passage of time their description of the bowls, chopsticks, tables and chairs becomes surprisingly engrossing.

Soon, Liu Tianyi walks through the inner courtyard of the ruined house and enters the main hall.

The hall's floor isn't tiled but muddy, giving a slippery feel underfoot, which makes city‑dweller Liu Tianyi somewhat uncomfortable.

In the hall, many cloth strips and cobwebs hang; if you were alone, they would indeed be unsettling.

Even with a cameraman and two girls accompanying Liu Tianyi, he still feels a bit uneasy walking this path.

He can't tell if it's an illusion, but he constantly feels the interior is considerably colder than outside.

"Do you all feel a tingling sensation on your backs?"

Liu Tianyi asks the people beside him.

"I'm fine, just find the floor here hard to walk on."

The girl who had spoken with Liu Tianyi earlier jokes.

The cameraman looks around, inexplicably uneasy, his camera shaking continuously, causing the lens to wobble.

"Hey, come over here quickly."

At that moment, a previously silent girl shouts to the group.

The others look toward the voice and see, on the corridor leading into the inner rooms, a slightly yellowed White Curtain hanging there.

"Huh? Why does this White Curtain look like someone's hiding inside?"

Liu Tianyi asks curiously.

"Yanzi, be careful someone might step out and grab you."

The woman standing beside Liu Tianyi teases the girl who found the White Curtain.

"That won't happen; I'm a staunch materialist."

Yanzi giggles, walks to the White Curtain, grabs it with one hand, then turns and makes a funny face for the group.

However, she expected everyone to go along with her words to keep the livestream lively.

But when she looks back, she only sees terrified looks.

"You all? What's going on? Trying to scare me on purpose?"

Yanzi looks at the group in displeasure, and is met with a single scream.

"Ah!"

Another woman in the group lets out a shrill scream and then runs toward the exit.

The scream acts like a chain reaction, prompting Liu Tianyi and the cameraman to also run outside.

"What the…?"

Seeing this, Yanzi feels uneasy and instinctively looks behind herself.

There, on the White Curtain she's holding, a strange pale face has appeared, staring at her.

"There really is someone inside… no, it's a Ghost."

Yanzi lets out a scream and tries to flee.

But it's already too late; the White Curtain suddenly seems alive, beginning to coil around Yanzi's body.

It's just a piece of white cloth, yet now it acts like a cutter; as the curtain wraps, flesh and blood continuously peel off Yanzi.

The blood stains the White Curtain, leaving many crimson spots on the ground; as the curtain twists, soon Yanzi is bound like a rice dumpling. The figure that had been inside the curtain, after successfully trapping Yanzi, walks outward.

Shortly after, the bound Yanzi is hoisted up; as the curtain twists, the spot soon contains only a blood‑stained white cloth.

"Hoo‑hoo‑hoo!"

"What exactly just happened?"

Liu Tianyi rushes outside, panting heavily, his heart still racing as he looks back at the ruined house.

"Yanzi is still inside; should we go back and look for them?"

After exiting the ruined house, they seem to regain some composure, and the first woman out asks.

"This script is kind of interesting," many viewers comment in the livestream.

Liu Tianyi also notices this, but knowing it isn't part of the script, he now has no desire to investigate further.

At this moment, a bullet comment in the livestream catches everyone's attention.

"Host, I suggest you get down the mountain quickly and find a place to hide."

"As for Yanzi, I think you should leave her alone; she's probably already dead."

"Dead? No, even if it's a script, is it necessary to go that far? Leaving Yanzi alone here." A viewer asks.

"Bro, the script's cool, but there's no need to add that into the bullet comments."

Liu Tianyi ignores those viewers and instead asks the earlier comment that urged him to leave.

"Bro, do you know what's going on?"

At this moment, in Dajing City.

Yang Jian is lying in his dorm; with nothing to do, he had just, at the invitation of his mischievous friend Zhang Wei, watched Zhang Wei's spirit‑search livestream.

However, he notices the stream shows no real Fierce Ghost; the place in Dachang City is now very safe.

So he quickly exits Zhang Wei's stream, and during that time he sees Liu Tianyi's livestream.

Recalling that the village where the Red and White Double Evil appeared is called Kui Mu Lin Village, which sounds similar to the mountain's name, he clicks to enter.

Unexpectedly, in this livestream he actually sees a Ghost.

Although it was only a few seconds of footage, Yang Jian can be sure it was a real Fierce Ghost, not some prop effect.

When he heard Liu Tianyi's question, Yang Jian thought for a moment and typed: "Just listen to me, leaving is the right thing, also remember to call the police; after that, if you can get off that mountain, the rest won't concern you."

Liu Tianyi looked at the live‑stream chat, then glanced at the Ruined House, appearing very hesitant.

However, soon he dared not hesitate any longer.

While they were discussing outside the Ruined House, inside it a strange figure had already emerged.

Although the sky was rather dark, making the shape hard to see, Liu Tianyi can be sure it was definitely not Yanzi.

Without hesitation, the three of them immediately ran along the mountain path toward the distance.

It seemed their luck was too bad.

They had just been running down the mountain path for a few minutes, still unable to shake the figure that had come out of the Ruined House, when another chilling sound echoed through the forest.

Liu Tianyi listened closely; it seemed to be the sound of a double-reed horn.

"Brother Liu, should we follow?"

The cameraman's hand, holding the Camera, kept shaking as he asked tremblingly.

The sudden sound might have been a living person, but after what just happened, he believed it was something terrifying.

It should be noted that it was already night, and a double-reed horn sounding out of the dark mountain at this hour seemed eerie no matter how you thought about it.

(End of chapter)