Chapter 50#
The Storyteller (Part 2)#
The name “Night Voyage” was taken from an ancient encyclopedia, which originally covered astronomy, geography, and all walks of life. The founding concept of the magazine back then was also to create a modern and interesting popular science magazine, with numerous columns covering various industries. However, Duan Shi was not interested in these when she was a child. She liked reading the “Bedtime Stories Collection” at the end of “Night Voyage” the most.
These bedtime stories were submitted by readers and then selected by the magazine. Reading those words across a century felt like talking to predecessors again.
Her first meeting with Song Zhang was in her grandfather’s study. Song Zhang came to visit, and the lively and active boy broke into the study, only to fall asleep while reading. The book pressed under his arm was the 45th issue of “Night Voyage” that she had just dug out yesterday.
“I thought he was a thief at first, but later I felt that a thief wouldn’t be that stupid.”
Duan Shi’s handwriting recalling the past was gentle.
They were childhood sweethearts and quarrelsome lovers in the eyes of outsiders. They sat one behind the other in elementary school, were desk mates in junior and senior high school, and were on the same campus in university.
When they were passionately in love, Duan Shi often threw tantrums and asked Song Zhang to tell her bedtime stories to coax her to sleep. After telling stories for a few years and running out of stories, Song Zhang began to make up stories. Boys’ brain circuits were always strange.
He made up a story about a colorful dung beetle pushing dung and falling into a pit, laughing like crazy himself. Duan Shi was speechless, “Would anyone really laugh until they almost pass out because a colorful dung beetle fell down?”
Very ordinary trivial matters of love became the only memories from which she drew warmth when her husband became increasingly indifferent and never came home again.
Ye Sheng read very fast and finished reading these diaries in more than ten minutes.
Ning Weichen played with the bloodstains on the table with a quill pen. There was a dark bloodstain in the center of the table, which had long dried up and coagulated into the table, and couldn’t be removed no matter what.
Ning Weichen played for a while and threw the quill pen aside: “Brother, do you want me to tell you some news?”
Ye Sheng put the diary back in the drawer and said lightly: “What news?”
Ning Weichen lowered his eyes and said: “The male protagonist’s head placed on this table was not taken away from the haunted house by the police. Because as soon as they touched it, the skull turned completely into bloody water. The forensic doctor said it was because it had been soaked in a special potion.”
Ye Sheng’s gaze fell on those dark bloodstains and frowned.
In such a haunted house with a B-rank anomaly, the forensic doctor’s words could not be trusted at all.
At this time, a man suddenly pushed the door open and entered, his voice loud and triumphant.
“The official live broadcast room stopped broadcasting, saying it would be edited into a documentary later. I think it’s normal. The platform just shows everyone the surveillance video of the room, and the sound is so small, what popularity can there be.”
“Why do I still have a mobile phone? Because I was tipped off before I came, so I specially hid one in the sole of my shoe, hehe, risking my life to broadcast live for you guys.”
The man was named Black Sheep, a small streamer on the Xingyun platform. He was usually famous for various “bizarre” gimmicks. He had been banned by the platform for half a year but still didn’t change his ways.
His live broadcast style was to do whatever it took to get famous, even if it meant notoriety: hitting on beautiful girls, randomly pulling passers-by into the camera, and pranking innocent tourists.
The bullet screen comments were birds of a feather with him.
“There are no girls in our room, all big men, otherwise I wouldn’t have failed to stir up some trouble for the brothers last night.”
Black Sheep winked, the fat on his face trembling.
“I’m already at Luohu Mansion, this time it’s definitely not scripted. Brothers, spam 666.”
After Black Sheep pushed open the door, he looked up and saw Ye Sheng and Ning Weichen. The words asking for gifts got stuck in his throat. The two young and powerful people in the room made his height of only 1.6 meters seem even shorter.
Ye Sheng pursed his lips and looked cold. After finding no clues here, he left decisively and went to the next place. Ning Weichen came here for him, so he took a long stride and followed with a smile.
Both of them completely ignored Black Sheep, but Black Sheep didn’t feel humiliated or angry, instead he breathed a sigh of relief. Heaven knows that when those two passed by him, he almost couldn’t hold his phone steady. Black Sheep was broadcasting live on Weibo. Besides his own fans, there were many tourists coming and going. He turned on the front camera, and the two figures flashing across the narrow screen stunned the passers-by in his live broadcast room who were just there for the bizarre haunted house.
[??? Streamer, who were the two people who just passed by you?]
[Show me the faces of those two people just now, and I’ll send you gifts!]
“???” Black Sheep was a person who would do anything for popularity. It was the first time he saw such overwhelming bullet screen comments in his live broadcast room and was dumbfounded. However, he was a fence-sitter and would do whatever made money. He was immediately delighted, feeling that he had found the password to wealth.
“Really?” Black Sheep’s small eyes burst with light, rubbing his hands: “Those two handsome guys look tough to mess with, but for your likes and gifts, I’m willing to risk my life.”
Ye Sheng went to Duan Shi’s bedroom.
Duan Shi’s room was neat and clean, with a stack of books neatly placed on the bedside table. Only the dressing table was very messy, with bottles and jars tipped over randomly, and a lipstick even broken on the table. Ye Sheng didn’t know much about girls’ cosmetics, but looking at those randomly placed pens, palettes, and brushes, he could still guess that Duan Shi’s mood should not have been calm when she sat here putting on makeup.
This should be the last time she put on makeup. Who was she putting on makeup to see?
Ning Weichen bent down, looked at her collection of books, and said: “Brother, one book is missing here.”
The books were placed vertically, and one was pulled out. Ye Sheng went over and pursed his lips.
Duan Shi was a person with mysophobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She would definitely put things back after taking them. Unless, she never came back.
Ye Sheng said: “Let’s go downstairs.”
When Ye Sheng went downstairs, a group of people were surrounding the refrigerator to study it. After the power was turned off, the refrigerator seemed to still seep a faint chill, and the door couldn’t be closed no matter what, as if it was broken. Thinking that black plastic bags were once placed inside, a group of people shuddered.
Xia Wenshi found nothing by the lake and returned to the living room: “We also studied this refrigerator last time and found nothing. Do you have any clues?”
There were about forty people in the living room on the first floor now. After looking at each other, everyone decided to sit down and exchange information properly.
“We tried to fish in the lake with bamboo poles, but found nothing.”
“We also checked the kitchen, it was clean.”
Liang Qingqing said: “Actually, everyone has always been curious about how the woman dismembered the man back then. After all, the male owner of this villa was tall and much stronger than the female protagonist.”
Investigating what happened on the night of the dismemberment was the most critical task for everyone in the Luohu Mystery event. While everyone was actively discussing the issue, only Black Sheep squatted alone in the corner, secretly adjusting his phone camera. After the official live broadcast room of the Xingyun platform was closed, basically everyone interested in Luohu flocked to him.
The popularity was unprecedentedly high.
To ensure that the event had no traces of a script, the platform only left one host in the Luohu area. The other staff of the live broadcast event watched him broadcast alone on Weibo and could only turn a blind eye, treating it as a warm-up.
Black Sheep dared not speak, typing.
“I’m broadcasting quietly, you guys just make do with watching. I just heard some news, you want to see those two, I heard they are freshmen at Huaian University.”
[Wow, Huaian University, top students.]
[Strive for a hundred days, I want to go to Huaian University [Rose]]
[Show me the handsome guy show me the handsome guy show me the handsome guy show me the handsome guy!! [Twisted] [Crazy] [Struggling] [Roaring]]
[So many people.jpg]
[A room full of handsome men and beautiful women, is this really a supernatural show not a dating show?]
[Streamer, how did you sleep on the first night?]
[Here @Huaian University, I want them to be the protagonists of this year’s promotional video!]
Black Sheep picked a few bullet screen comments to reply by typing.
“It’s not that I don’t want to show you, it’s that if my phone is discovered, I’m done for.”
“The first night was just so-so, many people had nightmares, but I slept very comfortably.”
Black Sheep looked up and saw Ye Sheng and Ning Weichen walking down the stairs out of the corner of his eye, and quickly typed.
“People are coming, not chatting anymore.” His phone for outdoor shooting had been specially modified. The lens would protrude during shooting and rotate 365 degrees, with a very wide viewing angle.
He didn’t know if it was his illusion, but the moment he got the camera out, the young man standing next to the cold-faced cool guy seemed to glance at him casually. A pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes contained a cold smile, and the corners of his lips curled up.
Black Sheep was terrified and held his breath.
However, the young man looked away and said nothing.
Black Sheep was covered in cold sweat, thinking to himself that he was overthinking.
However, just with this glimpse of the two, Black Sheep’s live broadcast room had already exploded.
After Ye Sheng took off his mask, he attracted countless eyes when he went downstairs.
Xia Wenshi sat on the sofa waving happily at him, his eyes lighting up: “Little Ye, come here quickly, how was your investigation on the third floor?”
Ye Sheng walked over and said calmly: “Didn’t find anything. But found the female protagonist’s diary. She should really have had depression in the later stage, and her mental state was not good.”
Xia Wenshi nodded, looking a little emotional.
“I didn’t expect deep affection in youth to come to this step.”
After everyone was busy for a day and didn’t come to any conclusion. When it was time to eat, they began to discuss cooking.
“The organizer also put some rice and vegetables inside. We can’t eat bread for four days. While the vegetables are still fresh, let’s process them.”
Luohu Mansion was very large, and the villa had three kitchens. The one who proposed this was a girl, and she soon won the agreement of many people.
Ye Sheng was not used to crowded environments. He could cook, but he didn’t plan to help in the kitchen, nor did he plan to stay for dinner. There were bread and water in every room, and he could solve it with those.
Black Sheep’s [First-person perspective takes you to see Luohu Mystery] went straight to the Weibo hot search.
And the following tag was #Huaian University Freshman Handsome Guy#.
Ye Sheng’s first two times out of the circle were short-lived, but this time, it was a real big platform event.
The views soared. The Huaian University freshman group was also dumbfounded when they saw the hot search tag.
[We have such a handsome guy in our class? Is he in the group? Why do I feel like I’ve never seen him?!]
Countless people were paying attention to this event.
After Andrew analyzed and investigated the third deceased whose legs were cut off, he confirmed that the murderer was the same person as the previous two cases. He organized the information and prepared some potions, contacted Butler Li intending to send them to Ning Weichen, but learned from Butler Li that Ning Weichen was not at home now and was participating in an event in a closed place.
Andrew was stunned: “Event??”
Butler Li: “Mm.”
Andrew looked astonished and incredulous.
Butler Li also very thoughtfully sent him a live broadcast room link.
Andrew: “…………” He didn’t know what reaction the ability users of the Ning family specializing in the fourth section would have when seeing their young master on the internet platform.
“It’s really nonsense.” Andrew smiled bitterly.
Butler Li said: “From the moment the young master planned to enroll in Huaian University, it was already nonsense.”
Andrew said: “Back then, the high-level officials of the Non-Natural Bureau asked the young master to go to the First Military Academy for systematic executor training for a month, but the young master refused directly. It seems that the young master really treats that kid differently.”
Butler Li thought of his contacts with Ye Sheng and smiled elegantly: “Andrew, our Young Madam should also be extraordinary.”
Ye Sheng just wanted to wait for the host to start the event at eight o’clock. Unexpectedly, an accident happened when a group of people were cooking. The first to scream was a girl. The washed vegetables in her hand fell all over the floor, and she slumped on the ground.
The boy cutting meat next to her was scared.
“What’s wrong with you?”
The girl pointed at the refrigerator door with trembling fingers and said: “I just saw something in the refrigerator.”