Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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At this moment, Cheng Jia also arrived in the vicinity of the film set by taxi.
The journey was very smooth; no ghosts approached him. Only passersby looked at him with a mixture of astonishment and pity, as Cheng Jia was covered in too many talismans, giving him a mysterious air.
When Cheng Jia got out of the car, the driver glanced at his back, a look of astonishment suddenly appearing in his eyes. Just as he was about to warn him, the driver suddenly seemed to be frightened by something and immediately drove off.
“Thanks to Master Gu’s talismans, everything will be fine now.” Cheng Jia breathed a sigh of relief, feeling very excited.
At this moment, a pitch-black ghost was attached to a distance behind him. This ghost had a ferocious expression and was extremely terrifying, the kind that could scare passersby to death.
“The other ghosts are too cowardly, all waiting for that opportunity, not daring to make a move immediately… This gives me a chance. Maybe I can have that person’s soul all to myself.” The more the ghost thought about it, the cleverer it felt.
After all, there were quite a few ghosts here, and most of them were still asleep, which was its chance! As for that human, although he had some skills, he was in a weakened state and probably couldn’t exert his full strength… which gave it an opportunity.
The ghost didn’t think that Gu Wuji, who could only exert part of his strength, was trash. It still had some basic vigilance. Since it wanted to deal with someone like Gu Wuji, it naturally had to use its full strength.
Moreover, it was going to use the entire film set as a game; everyone inside was its pawn, so the human would definitely be unable to defend himself.
The ghost quietly followed Cheng Jia into the film set and immediately felt the cold atmosphere. It was in a hurry. Had another ghost made its move before it?
It had to find a human to possess as soon as possible. Anyway, with its special ability, once it could touch Gu Wuji’s vital parts through someone else’s body, everything else would be a piece of cake.
Originally, Cheng Jia was the most suitable candidate, but Cheng Jia was too cautious. Not only did he stick close to Gu Wuji almost all the time, but he also covered himself with talismans when he went out, as if afraid that other ghosts would get close to him. This made it impossible for the ghost to find an opportunity! So it could only follow Cheng Jia to this film set.
But everyone around was coincidentally wearing the talismans that Gu Wuji had given them, making it impossible for the ghost to get close. It kept hitting walls everywhere and became anxious. It finally managed to possess a staff member with great difficulty.
To outsiders, the staff member’s body only paused for a moment, and there was no difference from before.
But where others couldn’t see, the staff member sneered, “This is enough. After possessing this body, my power has increased. If this continues, everyone in this space can become a puppet possessed by me…”
Moreover, when its power increased to a certain level, it could even directly disguise itself in someone’s appearance. So it was not afraid of not being able to fool Gu Wuji.
….
“Master Gu, are you alright?” Cheng Jia rushed forward, and everyone else stepped aside when they saw him.
At this time, Gu Wuji and the female ghost were still having a persuasive exchange. After finally finishing filming, the female ghost had come to regard Gu Wuji as a confidant and wanted to have a deeper conversation with him.
The actress playing the female lead, Rui Yiling, had been taken to rest earlier; she had been too traumatized.
Everything seemed to have returned to normal. Everyone looked at Min Lei, who was possessed by the female ghost, talking to Gu Wuji with a joyful expression… they couldn’t see anything wrong with her at all. Who could be so happy when possessed by a ghost?
Gu Wuji was still excited; he hadn’t expected this female ghost to be so passionate about acting, even wanting to communicate with him. Afterwards, the female ghost left Min Lei’s body, satisfied. Min Lei immediately fainted and was anxiously taken to see a doctor by the staff.
The next scene to be filmed was between Gu Wuji and Cheng Liangmiao. Just as the director was about to speak to them, Cheng Jia suddenly rushed over and pulled Gu Wuji aside to talk.
Cheng Liangmiao frowned even more upon seeing this. Although Gu Wuji’s acting was decent enough for the film, his attitude was truly appalling. He was already arguing with the actress during filming, and now he was doing something even more inappropriate on set. Cheng Liangmiao couldn’t stand it.
“Master Gu, are you alright? I’ve investigated the rumors about this place!” Cheng Jia asked anxiously, telling Gu Wuji everything he had found.
“I see.” Gu Wuji felt a sudden disappointment upon hearing Cheng Jia’s words. It turned out the female ghost’s agitation was only due to her resentment towards the scumb*g, not her passion for acting.
“It’s alright, it’s all over now.” Gu Wuji reassured Cheng Jia, who finally relaxed. Master Gu wouldn’t lie to him; the female ghost must have been mostly dealt with! Truly worthy of being called Master Gu.
But at that moment, the lights in the room suddenly dimmed, plunging the entire space into complete darkness. Everyone was startled. It was still daytime; even if the lights were broken, it couldn’t possibly be this dark!
A chilling aura suddenly enveloped everyone, not just a physical cold, but a bone-chilling cold that instilled a deep-seated fear.
“What’s going on?!”
“Wait, the door suddenly won’t open!”
“Me too, my phone isn’t working either.”
The director quickly came out to calm everyone down, as there were far too many people in the space, and a stampede would be disastrous.
The crowd managed to quiet down, but they already had a vague sense of what was happening. This was definitely haunted! What were they supposed to do?!
Cheng Jia, terrified, grabbed Gu Wuji’s sleeve. “Master Gu, what… what do we do?!”
“It seems a ghost has appeared.” Gu Wuji’s face darkened. “But I can’t sense its presence… Could it be possessing someone? We must find this ghost to solve the problem.”
Although Gu Wuji had never encountered anything like this before, for some reason, the thought popped into his head. He hadn’t known before, but now he did; it was something he had known in the past, so it subconsciously surfaced in his mind.
“Um, um.” Cheng Jia nodded tremblingly.
“You wait here and stick these talismans on yourself properly. No matter who comes to you, don’t take them off. Even if I call you, don’t.” Gu Wuji warned.
This sentence was more terrifying than a line from a ghost movie. Cheng Jia shrank back in a corner in terror, frantically regretting that he had come to this place.
Gu Wuji planned to search the room to find out where the ghost was, and also to give everyone some more props and talismans to prevent innocent people from suffering.
….
“What’s going on?” A person huddled trembling in a corner, when someone suddenly approached and patted him on the shoulder.
The man was nearly scared to death, but then he heard the voice and realized it was his colleague, so he breathed a sigh of relief. “Don’t scare me.”
“No, I’m just a little scared myself.” Although the colleague’s tone was slightly different from usual, there was nothing particularly strange about it, so it didn’t attract the man’s attention. “Can you use your phone for lighting?”
“Of course not, everyone’s phones are dead. This place must be haunted.” The staff member was utterly terrified.
“Take a look, maybe it’ll work?” His colleague’s voice seemed to carry a hint of enticement.
The staff member’s mind seemed to suddenly go blank; his hand then reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone, pulling the talisman from his bag out with it, which slipped to the ground.
“I told you it wouldn’t work.” The staff member sighed after pressing the talisman but then heard no more of his colleague’s voice. Suddenly, he froze, abruptly turning his head—
….
Having learned from his previous experience, Cheng Liangmiao stood still. Then, he heard footsteps, and a figure appeared beside him.
Cheng Liangmiao frowned; his subconscious told him that being touched by this figure was definitely not a good thing. He slowly took a few steps back, but the other person suddenly pursued him.
…Something’s wrong!
At that moment, a bone-chilling cold seeped into his bones from the ground, making Cheng Liangmiao unable to move. His face turned extremely pale.
But then, a figure suddenly rushed out from behind him, and the figure in front, seeing the danger, turned and left.
Cheng Liangmiao looked at the dark figure beside him. Even though he couldn’t see the other person’s face or figure, he felt a sense of familiarity and peace. He looked over excitedly, wanting to say something, but didn’t know how to begin.
It was the first time he had felt so confused about how to communicate with someone, and his feelings were very complicated.
The figure wasn’t as conflicted as he was. It quickly stuffed something into Cheng Liangmiao’s hand and left, disappearing from his side.
Cheng Liangmiao clutched the object in his hand, suddenly feeling a sense of desolation. He had missed the most suitable opportunity to communicate with the other person… He should be thanking the other person now.
However, since the other person was here, it proved that he was also one of the people trapped in this space!
The first person that came to Cheng Liangmiao’s mind was naturally Gu Wuji, but because of some kind of prejudice in his heart, he rejected it after a few breaths.
….
Gu Wuji wandered around in the space for a long time without catching the ghost. He only felt that the yin energy in the space was getting stronger and stronger, and the people around him were becoming more and more silent, like walking corpses.
“It seems everyone has been controlled by that ghost.” Gu Wuji shook his head. “Under these circumstances, that ghost’s power has reached its peak… It will probably approach me soon.”
“How is the situation?”
At this moment, a voice suddenly rang out behind Gu Wuji; it was none other than Austin’s voice.
But his voice carried a hint of something different from usual, though only those very close to him would notice.
Austin then slowly reached out and patted Gu Wuji’s shoulder, the movement extremely natural, but if the lights were slightly brighter, Gu Wuji would have seen the distortion in its expression.
“No problem.” Gu Wuji said, turning around and leaning into Austin’s arms with complete confidence, as if he had completely let his guard down because of his trust in Austin, exposing all his weaknesses.
‘Austin’ was extremely excited at this moment, as if it could already see itself killing Gu Wuji. It didn’t even have time to think about why Gu Wuji and Austin were so gay; perhaps they really were having an affair.
In short, it had to seize this opportunity to attack Gu Wuji! It never expected things to be so simple.
Gu Wuji was still softly speaking, “After all…” before he could finish, Gu Wuji suddenly reached out and restrained ‘Austin,’ who was about to reveal its true form, taking out a rope and binding it.
“After all, I’ve caught this ghost, and it even delivered itself to my door. Not bad at all.” Gu Wuji gave the ghost a friendly smile.
The ghost stared at Gu Wuji in astonishment, completely bewildered as to how it had been exposed. “You—”
Then it watched helplessly as Austin suddenly appeared beside Gu Wuji.
Ghost: “…”
Damn it!! It actually chose a ghost to disguise itself as!!
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