Only Player

Chapter 172 Face to Face
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The car stopped in front of an abandoned building. The surrounding ground was overgrown with weeds and littered with garbage.

It was eight o'clock in the evening and it was already dark. There were no lights around the abandoned building. The darkness was a bit depressing, like a corner forgotten by time, standing lonely and strangely in the night.

Behind the broken doors and windows was pitch black, like a huge mouth of the abyss ready to devour its prey. It seemed as if something was lurking behind in the shadows, waiting for its prey to fall into its trap.

With dark vision, Zhou Yuan could see things clearly in the dark without any lights. He looked up at the abandoned building in front of him and could feel a hint of evil spirit emanating from it.

[A residential building that has been abandoned for more than ten years has been left here because the demolition notice has not been issued. Without popularity, foul air has spread, and ghosts born in the tide of the extraordinary have occupied this place, but the evil ghosts inside are just three small Karamis that can be easily suppressed.

Abnormal creatures in the current area: 3]

[An event has been detected, and tasks are being generated...]

[Task name: "Live Broadcast"]

[Task goal: The number of viewers in the live broadcast room reaches 10]

[Task time limit: 2 hours]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points*300]

Zhou Yuan glanced at the task panel and immediately took out his mobile phone to start the live broadcast.

Because of the large number of basic fans and the support of a promotional team led by Gu Chacha and others, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room reached more than 5,000 within just five minutes of the broadcast.

"Live broadcast of catching ghosts? Is this true or not?"

"The anchor is so handsome. I have a younger brother who has been abroad for two years. He is now in Sydney. I miss my younger brother in Sydney so much."

"Have you ever considered the charity industry? Donate a few playgrounds and use British money to set up my primary school."

"Hurry up, hurry up, I want to see the female ghost!"

Zhou Yuan looked at the comments floating in the live broadcast room and said calmly, "Don't worry, don't worry. As a senior Beyonder, I want to tell you an iron rule here - don't rush when facing an abnormal situation, and be prepared."

He took out a table from his storage ring and placed it in front of him, then took out a stack of yellow paper and a cinnabar brush.

"Ohhh! It's live drawing of talismans!"

“Is the host also a Taoist priest?”

"I know that those Taoist priests have real skills. I will quit my job and go to Longhu Mountain to become their apprentice!"

Zhou Yuan waved his hand and explained, "I'm not a Taoist priest, and what I'm going to draw is not an orthodox talisman. It's something I figured out myself. As long as I inject my own power into the tip of the brush, no matter what I write, it can burst out with supernatural power and cause damage to ghosts and monsters."

"so."

He changed the subject and revealed an impeccable business-like smile: "Family members, if you give me a rocket, I will write your name on the talisman. Rounding it off, it's almost like you fight the monsters yourself!
The number of talismans is limited, first come first served, the most authentic live broadcast of catching ghosts, the only one in the world!"

This operation is actually not new. As early as the old century before the Third World War, many frontline soldiers in war zones would adopt this method - as long as they paid money, they could draw the patterns and words they wanted on the shells.

Zhou Yuan waited for a moment, and immediately the screen showed animations of countless rockets rising, one after another, causing the phone to freeze.

"Thanks to [Professor Yang, the Magnetic Storm Dharma King] for the rocket, thank you Professor Yang. Thank you to [The Sheep is Dead Below the Pigeon] for the super rocket, thank you, thank you, the boss is generous. Thank you to [Reformist Electronic Cigarette Litang Wang Dingzhen] for the super fire, the host is neither a reformist nor a traditionalist, the host does not smoke..."

Zhou Yuan read out a bunch of reward IDs, and then began to quickly draw talismans and inject spiritual power into them.

A total of fifteen talismans were drawn, which were definitely more than enough to deal with the little ghosts. In order to make the boss feel that he was getting good value for money, Zhou Yuan deliberately lowered the strength of the spiritual power so that the ghosts would not be killed in just a few strokes.

"OK, the drawing is done. Next, I will go into this haunted building alone and clean out the evil spirits inside."

Zhou Yuan picked up a flashlight and walked towards the abandoned building, answering questions from the audience as he walked.

The operation team composed of Gu Chacha and others made the live broadcast screenshots and other information into chat records and forwarded them to the Penguin group. With the rapid spread of the information by the majority of netizens, the number of people in the live broadcast room had exceeded 3 and was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was only a matter of time before it reached 10 viewers.

Zhou Yuan knew that he was safe, so he no longer paid attention to the number of people. While exploring various parts of the abandoned building, he taught the audience about ghosts and spirits.

“After the rise of the supernatural tide, people who had strong obsessions before death have a high probability of becoming ghosts and spirits. However, the spirits at this time usually have no independent consciousness and can only act on instinct.

The instinct of ghosts is to eat people."

Zhou Yuan spoke in a calm tone, and the lifeless environment around him made the atmosphere in the live broadcast room become gloomy and silent.

"Ordinary people's physical attacks cannot hit ghosts, but may cause ghosts to go berserk. So when you encounter a ghost without independent consciousness, the best way is to run away quickly."

At this time, the barrage asked: What if I can’t run away?

Zhou Yuan laughed: "If you can't run away, then you'd better think about the things that made you angry and make the resentment in your heart even stronger. Then you may become a fierce ghost after you die, and have a chance to take revenge on the fierce ghost who killed you."

A string of question marks floated across the barrage, which means that there is no solution for ordinary people?
"Don't worry, the chances of encountering ghosts in daily life are not high. Winning five million in the lottery is like daydreaming.

As long as you don’t do something stupid like me and walk into a place that’s obviously problematic, you’ll never encounter ghosts in your life.”

Zhou Yuan came to the corner of the corridor, and as he turned the corner, his steps suddenly paused.

In the empty corridor, there was a female ghost floating there, dressed in white, with disheveled hair and a hideous face. Her lower body was twisted in an inhuman way, as if it had been broken by some huge impact, and blood was dripping down continuously.

Tick, tick, tick.

The sound of dripping water was extremely clear in the silent environment and reached the ears of every audience member. Combined with the horrifying scene on the screen, countless people shuddered and were frightened.

[A ghost who was born not long ago died because of running a red light. Before he died, he resented the truck driver for not letting him.]

Wow, running a red light is justified.

Zhou Yuan was secretly shocked and took out five talismans calmly: "My dear audience, this is a real ghost. Isn't it scary?"

He threw out a talisman, which exploded in mid-air, releasing a psychic shock wave that blasted the female ghost that was flying towards him away, and her body became much more dispersed.

The female ghost roared and rushed forward again. This kind of low-level ghost only acts on instinct and does not even know how to seek benefits and avoid harm. Once it senses the breath of a living person, it will pounce on him.

Zhou Yuan threw out the remaining four talismans one after another. When the last talisman exploded, the female ghost screamed and disappeared into thin air.

"Although it looks scary, it's just a low-level ghost. It's not difficult to deal with it."

Zhou Yuan spoke in a calm tone, and it was this deep and composed attitude of a master that made the audience in the live broadcast room frantically give 6, and the gift rewards never stopped.

[Task "Live Broadcast" completed]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points*300]

[Experience value: 1850/1900]

The system's prompt sounded in my ears, and before I knew it, the number of people in the live broadcast room had reached 10.

After all, live broadcast of exorcism is something extremely new to most people, and as soon as they heard the news, they all came to join in the fun.

Zhou Yuan took the time to glance at the comments and found that there were many comments that looked like those from Extraordinary People.

"Why is Yuanshen live streaming? I guess he made a lot of money from this."

"Fuck, how much money did you give as a reward? Please stop giving me rewards. It makes me sad to see the people of the Holy Crow Cult making money. It's more painful than killing me!"

"Report, report his live broadcast room immediately!"

"Is there anyone who wants to team up to do the real offline broadcast?" Except for a group of people who sang a different tune and clamored to report the live broadcast room, more people stood on Zhou Yuan's side and spoke for him.

"Don't even bother trying to report it. The rules are now completely relaxed, and there is no problem with supernatural live streaming."

"I think you guys are jealous. If you have the ability, go and start a live broadcast yourself. You can't do it, right?"

"I don't have the host's looks, but I'm jealous of the host's popularity."

"I feel sorry for the anchor. After he became famous, he attracted a lot of demons and monsters. Sigh."

Zhou Yuan responded to the barrage:

"We anchors are like this. The audience just needs to keep giving tips, but we anchors have a lot to consider, such as live streaming, PK, chatting, operation, slicing, and enduring the unwarranted abuse from the haters... Only by doing these things in an orderly manner can we become a better anchor."

After quoting classics skillfully, Zhou Yuan no longer paid attention to the content of the barrage and continued to move forward.

More than ten minutes later, he found the second ghost wandering in the room and killed it using a psychic talisman.

There is only one left.

Zhou Yuan sensed that the last evil ghost was located in a room on the top floor.

He was just about to go to the stairwell when he saw this.

The long-sealed door of a house next door suddenly made a noise.

Boom!
Something hit the door with great force, and the thick dust on the door fell off.

Zhou Yuan was startled by the sudden movement, and his expression became serious, because in his perception there was clearly nothing there!

The dark matter invaded silently, but there was nothing in the room, not even the shadow of a ghost.

Zhou Yuan frowned and became extremely alert. What is that?
The audience in the live broadcast room were equally frightened, and many of them said they were going to have a heart attack.

Zhou Yuan stood there waiting for a long time, but no attack came. But just as he turned around and left.

A pale, eerie face suddenly appeared in front of him, with blood coming out of all seven orifices, staring at him straight, very close!
Zhou Yuan's whole body suddenly shook, and he subconsciously punched with all his strength, hitting the wooden face.

The next second, thunder roared and air waves exploded. The entire abandoned building was violently shaken by the shock wave and the remaining glass windows all exploded.

The iron fist that Zhou Yuan swung was caught by a hand.

"Hahahahahaha!"

A devilish laugh sounded, and Zhou Yuan widened his eyes in surprise, watching the ghost in front of him transform into the appearance of Chen Guangxi.

Grass!
Zhou Yuan's eyes darkened. I came here to exorcise ghosts just to avoid you. Why did you find me here?

"Were you almost scared to death?" Chen Guangxi grinned, very satisfied with Zhou Yuan's reaction just now.

Zhou Yuan's expression twitched: "You came all the way here just to scare me?"

"of course not."

Chen Guangxi raised his mobile phone with a smile, and the video playing on it was the Night City reality show!

"What's this?" Zhou Yuan asked knowingly, pretending to know nothing.

"A reality show in Night City, the Kingdom of Stellan."

Chen Guangxi clicked on the video to play, which was the last question "Wang Zhen" was asked.

Zhou Yuan calmly closed the live broadcast and said after watching it: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Chen Guangxi looked at him meaningfully: "Do you really want me to say it?"

In silence.

Zhou Yuan knew that it was all over, and sighed: "Okay, what do you want to say?"

"You came here to avoid me, not to broadcast live."

Chen Guangxi saw through everything, "Are you so afraid to face me?"

Zhou Yuan lowered his head, feeling a little helpless after his little thoughts were exposed.

"If you face it bravely, I will definitely look at you with admiration, but now, I am actually quite disappointed." Chen Guangxi looked at him calmly.

Zhou Yuan became anxious when he heard this: "It's not like that, I just..."

Chen Guangxi stretched out his index finger and blocked his mouth: "Shh, don't explain, I know you very well, Zhou Yuan, the reason why you subconsciously evaded is because you have never figured out whether this feeling is friendship, comradeship or something else.

Maybe you just like me because you lack love, so it doesn't matter if you change someone. Maybe you are just used to me being around, so you are afraid of losing me after failure, or maybe you are just horny...

Anyway, come back to me when you have really sorted out these emotions."

Zhou Yuan was stunned for a long time, and suddenly became depressed: "I know."

Chen Guangxi sighed: "You know nothing."

"what?"

"If you really knew, you should have confessed directly just now."

Chen Guangxi shook his head and said in a condescending manner, "As expected, you still don't know anything, you little brat."

Zhou Yuan was completely numb. It was at this moment that he realized that he had never understood Chen Guangxi in depth and did not understand what she was thinking.

"I'll give you a little tip."

Chen Guangxi turned her phone around and said casually, "In my hometown, people usually call me the Golden Dragon Princess."

"..."

Zhou Yuan was as stiff as a sculpture, so the outsider who became Princess Amy was you?

Wouldn't I have already self-destructed?

"I'm touched that you're willing to choose to save the world for me."

Chen Guangxi patted his shoulder and comforted him, "So don't be discouraged, you still have a chance."

"...Are you trying to give me hope and keep me hooked to be a licker?"

"I don't like to be a dog licker, Zhou Yuan."

Chen Guangxi smiled, turned around and walked out, "You can think about it slowly. I'm going home to play games."

"Wait a moment!"

Zhou Yuan called her over and mustered up the courage to ask, "Can we still play together?"

Chen Guangxi waved his hand: "I'll wait for you to come back and log in."

So Zhou Yuan smiled again.

(End of this chapter)