Metaphysics Live Stream, Going Viral Across the Internet Ch. 15

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The rest of his sentence trailed off, too quiet to catch. Zhai Hongyun just knew from his tone that Fengdu was something his shixiong avoided talking about at all costs.

Back at the stairs, Shen Huo and Wu Tong had finally caught their breath. On the floor, Ma Xi slowly started to come to.

"Where... am I? Ugh—what is that smell?! Gag!"

She looked down and saw the mess she'd thrown up—some colorful, pixelated-looking sludge—and Wu Tong immediately felt guilty.

Once Ma Xi was done dry-heaving, she noticed the two of them standing nearby.

"Why are you here?" she asked, glaring at Shen Huo with obvious disgust.

Wu Tong quickly jumped in. "Sister Ma Xi, you were possessed just now! You grabbed a kitchen knife and started swinging it around. It was terrifying! Shen Huo saved you—don't you remember?"

Ma Xi's face went pale as her memories came rushing back.

She had been possessed.

She'd stayed up late, hoping to boost her popularity, and was in the middle of her skincare routine when she heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" she'd asked, not looking up.

"Sister Ma Xi, Director Wang asked me to drop something off for you. Please open the door."

Still wearing her face mask, Ma Xi hadn't noticed how weird and hollow the voice sounded—or the creepy shuffling on the wall right after.

She opened the door.

No one was there.

Just a bowl of raw rice on the ground with three incense sticks poked in and burning.

"Incense in raw rice?" Shen Huo frowned, turning to Wu Tong. "Think back. When you opened the door earlier, did you see something like that?"

Wu Tong paused, thinking. "I think so... but I was so scared, I didn't look closely. Does it mean something?"

Shen Huo's face turned grim. He took a deep breath.

"Back in your hometown, during ancestor worship, did your family ever do anything called 'pouring water rice'?"

Wu Tong nodded. "My grandpa used to do that. I even asked him about it when I was a kid."

He said that pouring rice was actually meant for the lonely wandering spirits without anyone to worship them, hoping that when people burned incense for their relatives, those spirits wouldn't cause trouble. But every place has different customs, so he didn't know if it was the same elsewhere.

"But what does that have to do with raw rice stuck in incense?"

"That's called standing incense, also known as attracting evil spirits. The incense on top is for the vengeful and furious evil ghosts to consume. But it's taboo to place it where living people are, especially near rooms where people let their guard down the most."

"The evil ghosts and demons smell the incense and come to feed on it. When the incense burns out, the ghosts, only half full, get hungry again, and the living people inside that room become their target."

Ma Xi's face turned ugly because Shen Huo was right.

As soon as she opened the door, things got creepy.

The room temperature dropped instantly, the lights flickered a few times, then went out.

Outside in the hallway, red lights flickered. She thought those were lanterns hanging there, but then she felt something was off — wasn't the light too dim?

So she turned on her phone and shone the light on the ceiling, and her heart dropped halfway.

Those things moved toward Ma Xi following the light.

They were a bunch of pitch-black creatures, with flesh-colored skinless faces, crazy long necks like snake people, staring coldly at Ma Xi.

Suddenly, she felt a chill behind her.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a half-creepy ghost face near her shoulder.

The next second, she found herself tiptoeing uncontrollably, and her eyes stung like a pair of strong hands were forcefully clawing at them.

Everything went dark instantly.

She could feel that ghost controlling her body, but trapped in her consciousness, she couldn't get out no matter what.

Then, her whole body felt super tired, especially both arms twitching and aching. She heard lots of laughter in her ears, the kind that was painfully sharp.

Suddenly, she smelled a disgusting stench so bad she couldn't stand it, and then everything went black.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw Shen Huo and Wu Tong.

After finishing her story, Maqi couldn't help but vomit a lot.

The main culprit, Wu Tong, feeling guilty, moved close to Shen Huo and quietly asked, "Aren't you an idol? You seem to know a lot about these weird things?"

"I lived with my grandpa when I was a kid. He told me about this stuff," he said.

Wu Tong noticed a change in Shen Huo's eyes.

That look held a lot of stories.

Since it was someone else's private business, Wu Tong didn't pry and quickly changed the subject.

"Hey, Shen Huo, earlier you said the raw rice stuck in incense wasn't feeding evil ghosts. Do you mean some of the things we encountered were man-made?"

"Who would be so bored as to mess with evil spirits outside your room?" He rubbed the red mole on his finger and mouthed quietly, "Someone wants us dead!"

The two girls thought about everything they'd been through, plus what Shen Huo said, and they couldn't help but suck in cold breaths.

Who would be so cruel to do this to them, and why?

Ma Xi couldn't accept it and shouted loudly.

"I'm done recording, I want out!"

She originally wanted to shoot a show, hoping to get famous, but now she had to risk her life.

What use was fame without a life?!

Ma Xi's breakdown hit Wu Tong hard — she'd also been chased by ghosts and monsters. She patted Maqi's back.

"Sister Ma Xi, if you go back now, it's basically suicide. I'm telling you, those things that chased us are right behind the door. If you open it and look at the ceiling, I bet all those creatures hanging there are those monsters."

Ma Xi's face turned pale, her body shaky, completely losing the fierce aura she had before.

"What do we do now? I don't want to die, wuu huu..."

Ma Xi started crying softly, and Wu Tong glanced at Shen Huo, but Shen Huo was keeping as far away as possible, like avoiding a virus.

Wu Tong twitched the corner of her mouth.

She could only resign herself to comforting Ma Xi.

With Wu Tong's comfort, Ma Xi's mood calmed down a bit. She wiped her red, swollen eyes, and out of the corner of her eye, as if she saw something, she pointed at the door behind Shen Huo and asked,

"There are words on that door!"

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