Chapter 338 'Birthday'
"It seems that relying solely on the information obtained from these people is not enough. This guy who revealed the information cannot be completely trusted." Shen Lin looked at the five people in front of him.
Although it seems that this is a team that supports each other, judging from the way they sit upright but very wary of each other, they are basically in a state of harmony and separation.
There are many versions of the Decameron story, many of which have rules and endings in which only one person can survive at the end of the story.
Under the high pressure of fear, as the tenth day approached, they began to worry about man-made disasters in addition to attacks from evil spirits.
These five people have more or less hidden secrets from each other, perhaps about the weirdness of this area, or their insights into the ghost itself. They carefully hide it in their hearts as a hope for a comeback.
They all hope that they are the last one alive, so it is impossible to expect them to tell them.
"Judging from their situation, joining the story is safer than wandering outside. There won't be much of a problem until the story's ghost laws are fully triggered."
This is undoubtedly good news. In a place where ghosts are everywhere and the horror is highly uncertain, it is obviously much better to concentrate on dealing with one ghost than to devote all your energy to many aspects.
Even Shen Lin cannot cope with all the situations in this strange area under such circumstances. He is still just a beginner in this terrifying world. He may be able to survive by hanging on, but it is absolutely impossible to live openly.
There is a huge difference in nature between humans and ghosts.
Ghosts are immortal, which is a natural advantage.
In the process of fighting against evil spirits, many things can go wrong in horror, but you can't make even one mistake. Just one mistake is enough to kill you.
They didn't seem to have much time to rest. Each of the five people took a break and tried their best to rest, but with little effect. The sudden fear under high pressure was not so easy to overcome.
In the Ghost Mother Incident, Shen Lin also relied on the advantage of being a prophet, plus many times of psychological construction to force everything out of him.
The current situation is obviously much more complicated than the ghost mother incident.
A few people rested for a while and then started to go back on the road. They seemed to dare not stay in one place for a long time. The specific reason was not clear. Shen Lin could only attribute it to being alert in scary situations. Maybe they had a keen sense of being in this scary place. If you stay in a certain position for a long time, some weird problems will occur.
They didn't explain this, and Shen Lin didn't ask any more questions.
During the march, these people did not communicate too much. They could basically say one or two sentences without any nonsense. It seemed to be a way to maintain physical strength.
"It's almost time, Huiqing is ready to start. Newcomer, what's your name?" Xu Jiarong, who had been talking to Shen Lin, spoke up. He looked at Li Huiqing, who was looking embarrassed, and looked at Shen Lin.
"Shen Lin." Shen Lin responded truthfully.
"Listen carefully to Hui Qing's story. Next is you. I hope you don't fool around, otherwise don't expect anyone to save you." Xu Jiarong's eyes showed a warning look. Shen Lin, the new entrant, was very important to them. It is an uncertain variable, especially at this critical moment on the eighth day. If they were not afraid of what impact killing him would have on the situation, they would not have any hesitation.
"Okay, you guys take a break, I'll start." Li Huiqing emphasized.
"While the story is being told, I hope you will not interrupt or do anything to interrupt the story."
"What will happen if I interrupt?" Shen Lin asked.
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"I don't know." Li Huiqing shook his head, with a dangerous light in his eyes.
"Someone did this at first, and they all died. I don't know whether they died of accidents or interruptions, so I hope you won't commit any suicide attempts."
Shen Lin nodded. Interrupting or not interrupting had no effect on him. He was not stupid enough to provoke this ghost.
"no problem."
Li Huiqing turned around and slowly began to tell.
"This story comes from an urban legend, and its authenticity is no longer reliable. It is brief enough, but its spreadability is unexpectedly wide."
"It all started with a birthday."
"On the boy's 12th birthday, his parents held a grand birthday dinner for him and invited all his friends."
"In folk customs, 12 years old constitutes a cycle. In order to welcome the arrival of the year of birth, each birthday must be grand enough to suppress the evil spirits of the year of birth."
"It all had a wonderful beginning, but it ended in a not-so-good ending."
"At the end of the birthday dinner, the parents proposed to shoot a video for the boy as a souvenir of this special day."
"The boy agreed, and they began to wander around every corner of the house introducing their happy times, ending on his bed."
"He jumped several times on the bed to express his joy, but he seemed to hit somewhere, causing his head to bleed. This also indirectly caused him to lose balance and fall off the bed. When he was sent to the hospital, he had no heartbeat. He died. Already."
"Such a tragedy made it difficult for the parents to accept everything. They sealed up a lot of things and even moved to try to get rid of this painful memory. It wasn't until they had their second child a few years later that they slowly got over it. I came out of this shadow."
"After they came out of the shadows, they began to open the dusty things to miss their son, and finally turned to the video tape. They shed tears and looked at all the happiness in it, until that tragic scene happened."
"It's just that everything under the camera seems to be different from what they saw at first."
At this point, Li Huiqing paused deliberately and glanced at several people with strange eyes, which added a bit of gloominess to the already weird situation.
"Under the camera, a bloody hand stretched out from nowhere, grabbing the boy's hair, up and down, until his head started to bleed, and then he ruthlessly abandoned the boy. At the end of the video, there was a strange picture His face was just looking at the couple, as if he was staring at them."
"I named this story "Birthday" and the narration is over." Li Huiqing clicked the end, indicating that he could speak, but there was no sound. Shen Lin found that the remaining people stared around nervously until everything was over. It took a long time before he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Telling stories is inherently dangerous. Otherwise, if they wouldn't do this, what danger would there be?" Shen Lin narrowed his eyes slightly.
If the story is not up to standard, someone will die on the spot? This possibility cannot be ruled out, but according to what was said before, the person who died if the story was not up to standard should be the storyteller. It has nothing to do with them, so they should not be so wary.
What could that be? Telling the story would lead them into another crisis?
Chapter completed!