Chapter 79: Transmigrated as a Fraudulent Male Streamer (3)
To tell the truth, the real Cen Yu was a bit scared upon hearing this.
However, the Cen Yu he was playing in this round was a pure atheist, so theoretically speaking, he wouldn’t believe a single word out of Little Le’s mouth.
A big, burly guy like Little Le hid behind him without an ounce of shame, trembling as he pointed toward a spot in the living room.
“…Brother Cen, right over there.”
Cen Yu didn’t even need to look at the bullet chat to know the stream was definitely urging him to go check it out.
Could it be that those “vagrants” had decided to stop acting like quiet spectators and were going to spring up to hurt people?
Uncertainty drummed in his heart, and he silently cursed the script the System had chosen for him—his only options had been between running into ghosts or getting entangled with men.
The living room was deathly quiet right now. Holding the flashlight in one hand, Cen Yu slowly picked his way through the broken glass toward the sofa… As he drew closer, he saw those few “vagrants” still squatting pitifully in the corner, their bodies having turned almost translucent.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Cen Yu caught the faint sound of something chewing.
Tracing the light of his flashlight over, he discovered a stooped figure in tattered clothes squatting next to the dummy, hunched over it as if gnawing on something.
Cen Yu threw a glance at the bullet chat and suddenly noticed someone dropping a crucial piece of information—
[THOSE CLOTHES! I’VE SEEN A PHOTO OF THE FIRST OWNER! HE WAS WEARING THOSE EXACT CLOTHES!!]
[FUUUUCK PROTECT ME BULLET CHAT PROTECT ME!!!]
[…AND THAT THING… ITS FEET HAVE BEEN ON TIPTOE THIS WHOLE TIME…]
Seeing the chat, Cen Yu immediately looked over at the figure hunched over the dummy, gnawing on whatever it was. Sure enough, just as the viewers had noted, the thing’s heels hadn’t touched the ground once, as if something were holding him up!
If Cen Yu remembered correctly, legend had it that only hanged ghosts walked on tiptoe all the time.
The light from Cen Yu’s flashlight wasn’t dim at all. He immediately clicked the flashlight off and crouched onto the ground. Although the livestream was still running, the screen was now pitch-black, revealing nothing.
——Could it be that he was going to get killed right after arriving in this world?!
Cen Yu didn’t dare move a muscle.
Crouching in the corner with Little Le, he listened to that constant crunch, crunch sound.
Perhaps the thing finally realized that what it was gnawing on wasn’t a real person.
With a spit, it spat the plastic in its mouth onto the floor. Then, hollow footsteps echoed through the empty living room… Sensing trouble, Cen Yu fumbled through his pockets, but could only find the paper talismans that the protagonist shou, Pei Hengyun, had shoved onto him earlier.
Desperate times call for desperate measures!
With that thought, Cen Yu hurled the paper talismans with all his might in the direction of the footsteps.
“ROAR!”
In the dark, the thing let out a raspy roar, clearly injured by the paper talismans.
Cen Yu immediately shoved Little Le, and the two prepared to circle around the sofa and bolt out of the villa… But right at that moment, the backup phone in Cen Yu’s pants pocket suddenly rang.
He had already set it to vibrate, but unfortunately, the phone was pressed tight against his thigh. In a place this quiet, it inevitably made some noise.
Not good!
Cen Yu panicked, trying to think of what to do.
Suddenly, the sound of a car pulling up outside echoed through the villa, followed by someone opening the car door and stepping down—
“Little Yu.”
The person spoke in a voice that wasn’t loud, sounding exceedingly gentle.
“I saw that you hadn’t come back yet. Did you run into some trouble?”
The moment Cen Yu heard the voice, he knew who had arrived—
The protagonist shou, Pei Hengyun, an art teacher. Unlike the staunch atheist Cen Yu, Pei Hengyun was extremely faint-hearted and terrified of ghosts.
So upon learning that Cen Yu was an outdoor exploration streamer dealing with the supernatural, he had immediately bought him a ton of paper talismans, bottled black dog’s blood, and the like… It was just a pity that Cen Yu was an atheist who didn’t believe in any of it.
Every time, Pei Hengyun had to slip them into his pockets on the sly.
Hearing that it was Pei Hengyun, Cen Yu thought to himself—
Is this novel going to end in Chapter 1? Cause of death: the protagonist shou accidentally gets killed by a ghost?!
Just as he was thinking, he heard Pei Hengyun add—
“It’s so dark here, I’m switching on the lights.”
Switching on the lights? What lights?
Before Cen Yu could process it—since the villa’s power grid had been gone for ages—the entire villa was suddenly illuminated as bright as day.
A massive lighting wattage left nothing in Cen Yu’s vision except a blinding white glare.
The monster also let out an “Awoo” sound, seemingly fleeing up to the villa’s second floor.
Cen Yu covered his eyes, remaining like that until someone walked over, bent down to turn off the livestream on his phone, and patted his shoulder. “…Little Yu, I told you this place was really haunted.”
Crouching behind the sofa, Cen Yu covered his eyes to recover for a bit, but still couldn’t adapt to the sudden light.
He instinctively reached out his hand, and Pei Hengyun, the man with the gentle voice, held it.
“I’ll take you outside first,” Pei Hengyun said.
Cen Yu couldn’t see a thing right now, having nearly been blinded by Pei Hengyun’s lights… He could only grip the other’s hand and let Pei Hengyun lead him out.
As for Little Le?
“Little Le, sorry to trouble you to walk out on your own,” Pei Hengyun said with a pleasant smile.
Although Little Le couldn’t open his eyes either, he didn’t dare linger for another second… Once the three finally left the haunted villa, Pei Hengyun switched off the portable searchlight in his hand and let out a sigh at Cen Yu.
“I told you this villa was haunted.”
He opened the car door, gesturing for Cen Yu to get in first.
Cen Yu kept one hand over his eyes… He carefully observed Pei Hengyun, noting that his demeanor was gentle and his complexion fair. Though his features were quite exquisite, perhaps because his gentle aura left a stronger impression, anyone meeting Pei Hengyun for the first time would simply see him as a mild-mannered man.
“There are no ghosts in this world!” Cen Yu remembered his persona, instinctively arguing back.
Pei Hengyun didn’t seem surprised by Cen Yu’s reaction. He looked toward the abandoned villa ahead. “Then what were you two hiding from just now?”
What else could it be, a ghost, obviously!
Cen Yu thought to himself, but on the surface, he still insisted, “…That was a vagrant.”
“A vagrant dressed exactly like the first owner?” Pei Hengyun waved his phone, having clearly been watching Cen Yu’s livestream the entire time.
Flustered into annoyance, Cen Yu snapped, “He was deliberately dressed like that.”
“By posing as the first owner, he scares you guys away so he can live here normally without anyone daring to come close!”
“Then what was he eating just now?”
“He’d been starving for too long,” Cen Yu dug his heels in. “Of course he’d want to eat anything.”
Pei Hengyun cast a glance at Little Le, who was sitting in the back seat trembling like a leaf from the scare. “Let me drop Little Le off first,” he said to Cen Yu. “Little Le looks pretty shaken up.”
As Pei Hengyun spoke, he started the engine.
It was currently summer, and as an art teacher, Pei Hengyun happened to have free time, which was why he could come pick Cen Yu up at night.
As he drove, his fingers tapped against the steering wheel a few times. “Little Yu.”
Pei Hengyun looked at him with a gentle smile in his eyes. “My old high school class monitor invited me to a class reunion. Little Yu, do you want to go?”
Cen Yu would go, of course, but according to Cen Yu’s persona, he was definitely bound to decline.
As if reading right through Cen Yu’s thoughts, Pei Hengyun added—
“I have an old classmate running a streaming platform.” He threw a meaningful glance at Cen Yu’s phone. “It seems to be the very platform you’re on.”
