Metaphysics Live Stream, Going Viral Across the Internet Ch. 20

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He pushed the door open and found all the staff lying on the floor.

Sweating all over, muttering nonsense like they were possessed.

On the big screen was a live feed showing Shen Huo and the others being chased by black monsters with red eyes. At that moment, a huge ghost face pressed against the screen, scaring the assistant director into screaming nonstop. The comments on the screen were all "Ghost!"

The assistant director crawled and scrambled, screaming for help as he escaped the recording room. His voice woke everyone from their sleep.

When the director team got up and saw the terrifying monsters in the video, they fell silent.

Fear and disbelief.

Director Wang wiped his face and shouted, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and find them!"

If something really happened, the live stream getting shut down would be the least of their worries. All the money he invested would go down the drain, and they'd be facing a lawsuit over deaths.

Director Wang organized everyone to search the entire hotel, inside and out, but they couldn't find a trace of Shen Huo and the others.

They were truly missing.

The assistant director rushed to find the guide, hoping he could help bring them back.

The guide showed up, glanced at the video, stayed silent for a moment, then shook his head.

"Don't look anymore. They're not coming back."

"What do you mean 'not coming back'?" the assistant director hurriedly asked.

"They were taken by the things in the mountain, sacrificed to the mountain god. They can't come back!"

The guide's eerie voice echoed, his eyes like evil ghosts sending chills through everyone.

Director Wang's face grew even darker.

The room fell into a deadlock.

Just as dawn broke, the walkie-talkie crackled with the voice of the night watch staff.

They found them.

But they came back on their own.

Everyone was relieved, except the guide, whose expression remained grim.

The assistant director noticed and quickly asked, "Isn't it good that they're back?"

The guide stayed silent a moment, then said darkly, "You came in at the wrong time. The ghost town in the rain is unclean. Anyone who disappears in the hotel and then comes back is no longer human."

The tour guide's words were so creepy that the whole place went dead silent.

Director Wang just thought the tour guide's line was weird as hell, but all he cared about was that no one got hurt. At least he wouldn't be dealing with a wrongful death lawsuit.

He didn't take it to heart, but while the speaker might've said it without thinking, the listeners definitely didn't hear it that way.

Director Wang wasn't too bothered, but the other staff? That was another story.

The place was dead quiet. The staff all exchanged looks.

All the weird stuff that happened earlier had already drained them.

A few more rounds of that and they wouldn't even feel like filming anymore.

Honestly, if it weren't for the director offering high pay, no one would risk coming to a haunted place like this.

They had families to take care of—parents, kids, the whole deal. The only reason they agreed was because the higher-ups swore up and down there wouldn't be any danger to their lives.

And now? First night in and they already saw a ghost—and now the guest wasn't even human anymore. What were they supposed to film?

Saving their own lives was way more important!

Especially that batch of staff who fainted earlier—first thing they said when they woke up:

[There's a ghost in the hotel!]

"Ghost! There's really a ghost!"

One of them described what they saw, face pale as a sheet.

"I saw that thing, all black, hanging upside down from the ceiling, a bunch of red eyes staring at us. Its neck was super long, like a snake, wrapping around us! They even smiled at me, spitting out this gross, muddy sludge from their mouths, and said they were in pain, begging me to help them!"

The staff's description was crystal clear—he even described how many moles were on that thing's face without missing a beat.

"It's those villagers! It has to be them, coming back for revenge!"

"I don't wanna die, I've got a whole family to take care of!"

"I'm not doing this for your money anymore, I'm going home!"

...

If one person said they saw a ghost, it might sound like a lame excuse for slacking off.

But when a whole group claimed they saw vengeful spirits? That was serious.

If there were really ghosts, who cared about the money? They'd be lucky just to stay alive.

The tour guide said anyone who came down the mountain wasn't themselves anymore—if they weren't ghosts, then what were they?

That one line planted a seed of doubt in everyone's minds.

So when Shen Huo came down from upstairs, the whole crew instinctively got on edge.

They were scared he might suddenly turn into some kind of terrifying monster.

Which led to a very obvious divide between everyone else and Shen Huo and Wu Tong, like two sides of a war.

Even though everyone was busy doing their own thing, chatting and laughing like normal—

The truth was, the second Shen Huo or Wu Tong crossed that invisible line, everyone would immediately lock eyes on them until they backed off again.

Shen Huo finished listening to the story and went back to sipping his milk.

He thought the hotel milk tasted great and couldn't help taking another sip.

With that little white milk mustache on his upper lip, he looked a bit silly, but not in a bad way—more like cute, like you'd want to pat his head.

Wu Tong thought of her own cat back home—all fluffy and dumb—and couldn't help thinking, So cute.

She held back her twitching fingers.

"I'm serious, Uncle Shen, say something already. Everyone's treating us like freaks now! Those monsters are already hard enough to deal with, and now we've got this whole group treating us like the enemy. Getting attacked from both sides isn't exactly fun."

Shen Huo stayed calm and said, "Chill. Some people are even more panicked than we are."

Right as he finished, the muscle guy across from him couldn't take it anymore and started threatening the director's team to let him go.

"I'm telling you, I quit! I'm going back! If you don't let me, I'll sue you for unlawful imprisonment!"

And the guy looked even more terrified than Shen Huo and his group—who'd literally just survived a monster attack.

But...

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