Nightmare Shuttle

Chu Yi left the house and walked towards the pier.

The sky was dark by the roadside, with gloomy dark clouds piled up in the sky, the kerosene lamps were scattered on the arched eaves, faintly revealing scattered flickering shadows, and everything around him was blurry, only the dim light of the moon showed a bar of bright silver.

Chu Yi walked to the beach, there was no one standing on the sand that stretched for miles.

The wind blew on his face and poured into his clothes. It was very cold. His eyes stung from the salty sea breeze, and he began to feel uncomfortable.

He walked slower, stopping and pausing every few steps as if struggling to continue.

The world behind him was lively and full of laughter.

They passed by hand in hand with bright smiles on their faces.

But there was one person, he was standing in the shadows, just watching the excitement of everyone, as if far away from everything. Standing at the edge of the sea, looking out.

Chu Yi finally stopped by the shore.

The lights under the shadows of the cloud were dim, and the sea gently polished the stone and sand.

Chu Yi turned his head to the right and saw the figure standing alone. He was the only man in the vast wasteland. He stood with his head half-lowered, and in his hand, he seemed to hold a small picture.

The man seemed to sense his figure and slowly looked up.

Chu Yi was about to speak, but before he could say anything, his body moved first.

Faster and faster!–

Harder and harder!

His body broke through the limits and he flung himself across the sand.

The man's arms opened and a smile formed on his lips.

Chu Yi's mind seemed to explode, and at the last moment, hesitation lifted off from the ground, and slammed into his body, stretching his arms around his neck.

The man took two steps back under the force of his weight. Then, he stabilized his long legs, raised his hands, and bent them around his thighs, directly hugging his legs and wrapping them around his waist.

In the icy world, the dim light behind Ruan Quixi flickered, his eyebrows and eyes were smeared with shadows, but his voice was low and sultry in his ears.

Like a helpless sigh.

Slowly his breathing subsided and a soft cry echoed in the silent night.

"Ok Cut! "

"This one's good."

Chu Yi immediately patted the rogue hand that pinched his ass enjoying the soft feel. He struggled to get down and an assistant immediately wiped the sweat from his face.

For the first time, Chu Yi started to appreciate the hard work of actors. Just a few simple scenes like this, actually took five takes before they could get the approval.

The sun broke through the fog in his mind, once again proving its might. The sky wasn't dark and the ultraviolet rays scorched the earth mercilessly. It wasn't even midday and he was already panting from the heat.

The director came up from behind and wanted to pat his shoulders, but was avoided. His hand hung a bit embarrassingly, so he could only use it to wipe away the sweat from his greasy forehead. He handed him a camera, "Our screenwriter wants to have a discussion, so we'll pause filming for a break." 

"The villagers here have an ancestral Hall, live stream it, to keep the public and introduce the island. Granny Li volunteered to show you the way. "

They met Granny Li at the entrance of the village, she still held a kind and all-knowing look on her face, the weirdness and darkness of last night nowhere to be seen. The live stream audience that had been mostly forgotten, streamed into the platform and sent out a few enthusiastic barrages.

Granny Li pulled the shawl around her folded neck and slowly hobbled over the small dirt path, "Our village has been on this island for generations and I can testify that there are many good things here, I feel gratified that you would choose our island to shoot your big city movie."

Chu Yi looked at the camera and pretended to unintentionally ask, "Does your island get food from the ships that dock every month?"

The old lady looked at him thoughtfully, "Yes, you see because of our islands....conditions... it's hard to raise a few livestock."

Chu Yi: "Oh."

They fell into silence and the atmosphere became embarrassing for a moment. Granny Li seemed to think of something and spoke again,

"It wasn't always like this. In fact, in the beginning, our island was very rich. But it's unknown when but the weather began to change and then there became a shortage of food. Some people will pick up those small animals that have just died from the heat and take them home to eat. As a result, it is said that everyone who ate the meat of those animals became crazy and jumped into the sea."

The old woman laughed and paused before continuing: "Those people were drowned in the sea in front of everyone's eyes, and no one could get close to them to save them. Moreover, their bodies never surfaced, as if their bodies had been filled with lead and they sunk to the sea. I was just a young child when it happened but half the village died that day. It is said that at night, their crazy laughter can still be heard on the night of a full moon."

Some particularly cowardly audience covered their pounding hearts and looked left and right in shock before they kept swiping on the screen. Accompanied by the flying barrage, they felt that they are not alone,

[As expected from an Isolated island, this eloquence, this rhythm control, Fuck, scared me to death !]

[I was really scared, I thought about the time I almost drowned to death as a child and that feeling of slowly losing consciousness still haunts me today. Imagine voluntarily jumping in!! It must be a ghost!]

[Ah ah ah! Stop talking, stop talking, stop! I'm afraid of ghosts!]

[Hey, Hey, can you guys stop, a science student here, those people probably experienced illusions from the rotten meat and jumped into the sea. Although unfortunate, we still have to believe in science]

The granny smiled at him kindly and continued to walk. When they arrived at the ancestral Hall, he was a bit surprised to see that they weren't the only ones standing there.

It wasn't a pleasant surprise however, the familiar greasy and discomfiting man approached him once he recognized his presence. A few others, presumably players also glanced this way. 

He stood before Chu Yi, ignored his cold face, and reached out a hand as if to shake. Another slender, wheat-colored hand directly grabbed his wrist with an unquestionable force. Arescio looked at the man on the opposite side, motionless and unwilling to give in.

The man's slender palm was extremely powerful, and Arescio struggled but was unable to break free from his grasp.

He tilted his head and the smile on his lips only grew wider, "Is this necessary, even a shake is too much?"

"Dirty things should not be touched" The man's low and magnetic voice was filled with a smile but not a smile.

The man looked human on the surface but his hand was as cold as it had just come out of the ice cellar. A cold breeze attracted their attention, the person in question had already walked past the two of them and stood before the building.

He always felt that this building gave him a very strange feeling. It was tall and had been built for a long time, with an air of solemnity and the faint smell of incense. But inexplicably, he just couldn't ignore the faint irritability in his heart, always feeling that something was not right.

The forest was not far away and the trees resembled people standing in the woods and he could only see the blurred outline through the thick fog. 

Granny Li ignored the tense air between people and pointed to the building, with a crooked finger, "This is our village's ancestral Hall, it contains the lineage of all the people who ever lived on the island. You can go in and look at will but remember to pay respects before you leave."

The light of the sun shone down onto the old woman's face, covered under the eaves of the building, her figure blurry, even her shadow was elongated by the sun, making her look less human-like.

The door to the temple slowly creaked open untouched and the dark hall lit up slowly. Chu Yi was the first to enter the hall, and he could smell the strong odor of incense. The incense burner in front of the mounted slates was also full of incense ashes that had not been brushed away 

Footsteps rang out behind and slowly all the people entered the main hall, there were red hangings everywhere, and it looks extremely festive and lively, unlike the somberness of most halls.

However, in the dim and faint light, covered by the smoke of the lit incense, those red decorations looked extremely eerie.

Painted figures covering the walls, from all directions, aimed their gaze at the only living persons in the hall.

The barrage that was still a bit lively suddenly became stagnant.

[ .....?]

[Is It just me or do these paintings seem to be looking at us]

[Dont scare me @%$& believe in Confucius! I believe in Confucius!]

The temple is not large, and the structure is very simple. There are incense and some religious statues in the middle, next to a huge merit box and the ancestral slates. There seemed to be something engraved on the merit box, but because the distance is too far, Chu Yi could not see it.

The door slammed shut behind them, startling everyone. It wasn't any supernatural force, Arescio stood by the door, hand still on the handle with a strange smile. "The wind might blow out the incense so let's close it."

The ancestral hall albeit filled with dust and smoke was beautifully decorated, the walls and ceiling were full of painted figures, depicting the daily life of the villagers vividly, and each villager had a different posture. Different people, different costumes, each face has its unique characteristics, you could tell at a glance that they are different people, painted vividly as if these people would leap out of the wall in any second.

In addition to the characters in the murals, there are farmland houses, chickens, dogs, and livestock, and even the curling smoke rising from the roof and the mountains behind are all carefully depicted.

The people who followed him into the hall looked around for a few seconds before glancing at each other in tactic understanding.

In the next second, these people walked over to the wall and began smashing frantically, the drywall wall was unable to withstand the force and within a few moments, a large hole was smashed into the wall. Arescio came up from behind and seemed to find Chu Yi's expression very interesting, and laughed softly.

"Are you curious?"

Chu Yi glanced at through hooded lashes, "As long as you let me touch you, I'll tell you why I'm doing this."

That kind of wet eyes, like a poisonous snake, spitting out a forked tongue, and like a sticky snail, it can't be shaken off, and it slowly crawls on the skin.

[It's so terrifying... The earl's eyes seem to be swallowing him...]

[Same... I feel like I was violated by his eyes... So disgusting, so disgusting, so disgusting! ]

[Ah, ah, YiYi, don't let him touch! It's a bit perverted! Chu Yi be careful ah ah ah ah! ]