Chapter 32 Part 1: Midnight Sacrifice

This was a narrow, suffocating dark environment.

Anyone who came here would immediately notice the dust flying everywhere.

Cobwebs hung from the highest edges.

Only a faint glimmer of light projected through the sealed window, illuminating two blurry, distorted black shadows.

The camera trembled.

The man holding the phone took a step back, his face covered in fear.

The other end of the phone seemed to be scrolling with lines of floating comments.

The shaking screen seemed to transmit the other party’s nervous expression along with it.

He glanced at the phone in terror——

They had long gone dark.

Those comments were just something he hallucinated.

During these long few days, Xun Bin had regretted countless times why he decided to take this job.

Two days ago, he was just a horror exploration streamer with not much fame and barely some followers.

The places he usually visited were also abandoned hospitals and the like.

Xun Bin also hoped that one day his popularity could reach the level of those big UP owners, but there had never been a suitable location waiting for him to be the first to discover.

Until he received a private message from an un followed account.

The other party firmly told him that in the abandoned school in the capital city, there was something “that would surprise him.”

In some kind of state he didn’t understand, Xun Bin hesitantly opened a web search for the address the other party provided.

As a result, he actually discovered some terrifying things.

The old school district in the city had been abandoned for eleven years.

And its past history was glorious.

Whether it was the number of jumping incidents or the number of murders, it far exceeded ordinary people’s imagination.

It was as if it had always been an unlucky place, where human activity shouldn’t exist.

But this wasn’t the key point; the key was its recent abnormality.

After a rough investigation, Xun Bin ecstatically confirmed that this was the new location he was looking for to make him famous.

So, after posting on his Weibo that he was going to explore this place, he hastily packed his equipment and directly drove to the city.

He didn’t think too much about why no one had explored this excellent location first, nor did he consider why the city was tightly sealed off.

He was just carried away by the future in his imagination, trying every means to sneak in through the loophole…

He regretted it.

This place was simply hell.

Xun Bin was completely scared out of his wits by the eyes painted on the walls, the dolls giggling at him, and the faceless students sitting in the classrooms.

He had even forgotten he was live streaming and completely didn’t have the state of mind to consider it.

He didn’t dare touch anything here.

He had an illusion…

This place was toying with him, like a cat toys with a mouse.

They had deliberately let him in, but with malicious interest, wouldn’t allow him to die before his spirit collapsed.

He didn’t know how he had survived these two days.

His phone livestream had only flickered once since he entered, not affected otherwise.

But he didn’t know why he completely couldn’t make a call out.

It was as if… as if someone allowed him to spread his fear through the internet, but didn’t allow him to try to ask for help.

Half an hour ago, he had been closely followed by a pair of red dancing shoes.

It was as if they were playing a game of red light, green light with him.

Once he turned his head, the dancing shoes would stop moving.

But as long as he didn’t look at them, they would tiptoe closer, pushing his spirit to the brink of collapse.

Xun Bin stumbled away from a corridor, trying to shake off the dancing shoes, when he completely didn’t expect to run into this scene——

“I hope you’ve noticed those unusual things happening lately.”

This was a young man’s deep voice, carrying a hint of oppressive annoyance.

“I don’t know why you came here.”

Another voice was very low, as if the speaker completely didn’t want to be noticed by anyone.

“Get lost.

You know, I won’t cooperate with you, or let you eat me—considering we both care about one person.”

Through the crack in the door, it could be seen that the second voice clearly came from somewhere inside a cabinet.

And the first young man speaking was expressionlessly looking at a certain spot.

The fingers hanging at his sides twitched nervously.

Drops of blood dripped from his soaked cuffs.

Blood loss reaching this level would be fatal for an ordinary person.

But considering that these drops of blood, when they hit the ground, immediately corroded the already rotten floorboards, leaving several smoking black holes, this guy had clearly deviated from the normal range.

Xun Bin desperately tried to force himself to walk away from here.

But fear climbed up his back from behind.

It seized his throat, stopped his breathing, forcing him to stay where he was, listening to this obviously abnormal conversation.

“Is that so?

Because it’s you, Jealousy, I’m not surprised.”

“You don’t know me at all.”

The young voice retorted coldly.

Hearing this, the young man smiled contemptuously.

He raised his hand, licked his fingers clean of the still constantly dripping blood, then shook his hand and said slowly, “But what if this matter is urgent?…

Oh, I see.

You couldn’t have not received the master’s message, could you?”

He raised an eyebrow, as if provoking.

The cabinet was silent for a moment.

The next second, something abrupt happened.

With a “creak” that sounded especially loud in the silent midnight, the cabinet door was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

A slender, weak figure crawled out.

It was almost impossible to see what he did, but the originally calm and collected young man had already flown back with a muffled groan, crashing into the abandoned decorations behind him, causing a series of clattering sounds.

He tried several times to stand up, and then, was grabbed by the neck and lifted up.

“Never, in front of me, boast about the master.”

The young man wearing washed-out school uniform said word by word.

A twisted emotion flashed in his eyes.

It seemed these words were his weak point, tearing through his calm surface, making him come out of his curled-up corner and release his suppressed aggressiveness.

“You know you’re badly injured right now.

We could kill you, right?

I know what you’re talking about—the master’s banquet.”

The room fell into silence.

After the two faced off for a few seconds, he finally released the hand choking the young man, letting the latter cover his throat, coughing, and fall back to the ground.

The young man continuously watched his every move with cold eyes, showing not a shred of pity for the other’s appearance.

The young man covered his neck, where obvious strangulation marks had already formed.

He hadn’t even caught his breath yet when he started laughing maniacally.

His laughter almost shook the dust from the corners and windows of the room.

But the young man completely didn’t care that his wounds had split open again; he just kept laughing heartily, as if it were something uncontrollable and enjoyable.

“I know we’re all a bit strange.”

Jealousy calmly interrupted his laughter, his tone completely flat.

He raised his hand and counted his fingers, as if counting the number of these freaks.

“Gluttony, Lust, those within.”

He suddenly stopped his voice and wrinkled his nose: “Disgusting.”

“Ha.”

The young man gasped, turned over, and said slowly, “It’s good to know we all need one person.

We’ll do anything to keep him, given the chance, even if it means… doing things not in line with our original nature, even sharing with you doesn’t matter, as long as he stays in our world.”

“Wait.

I don’t agree, you guys should be perverts,” the head in the young man’s arms snickered.

“I think what you meant to say was pervert.”

“Shut up.”

Jealousy lowered his head, saying gently, “I didn’t ask for your opinion.”

“But there’s one guy who betrayed.”

Gluttony’s expression suddenly turned extremely gloomy.

He took a few steps closer to the young man and rolled up his shirt, which was completely soaked in blood.

“Look at the wounds on me.

Do you think any guy from the Supernatural Management Bureau could do this?”

“So, it’s Sloth.”

The young man watched for a while, then suddenly uttered a strange term, as if this word could correspond to a specific person.

“That’s right.”

The corner of Gluttony’s mouth twitched, as if desperately trying to conceal his anger.

He pulled his arm back, unable to bear displaying this symbol of his failure any longer.

“Now, are you still going to refuse to join forces with me?

Now, turn off your domain, immediately leave here with me.

The banquet is about to start.

If he’s going to do something, it will definitely be at this moment!

He might ruin all our plans—”

“He doesn’t seem like the type to betray.”

Jealousy said flatly, scrutinizing Gluttony as if he were the one lying.

As his words fell, the table beside Gluttony suddenly exploded.

Several pieces of wood fragments flew and scratched Jealousy’s cheek.

But the latter didn’t even blink, letting the fragments explode and insert into the dirty wallpaper behind him, causing the wall to tremble with a lingering sound.

“I am not—lying—!”

The entire teaching building shook in anger.

Xun Bin almost fell to the ground, making a sound that would get him discovered.

“I was just raising a doubt.”

Jealousy said expressionlessly amid the shaking.

Gluttony was consumed by anger.

This completely didn’t need to be reminded with words; anyone with eyes could see that his power had spiraled out of control and exploded.

“Calm down.”

“I know, calm down.”

Gluttony warned himself.

He took a deep breath, then suddenly rubbed his temples and groaned in pain.

“Don’t tell me I’m acting like that disgusting, unruly guy Wrath now.

The person I least want to see next is him.”

“Warning me is useless.”

Jealousy said.

“I strongly agree with you killing him before he gets close to the master.”

Hearing this, Gluttony snorted: “You’re really ridiculous, and also very slow.

I don’t know why the master hasn’t given up on you yet…

By the way, this is my first time meeting you.

After all, in the game, there are rules that no boss can visit other floors.

But I’ve heard many players mention you.”

“Last time I saw the master, he told me to get lost.”

“So you plan to obediently obey?”

Gluttony raised an eyebrow.

But Jealousy just smiled at him, the meaning clear—absolutely impossible.

Then, without even frowning, as if this matter completely hadn’t troubled him at all, he just fell into thought: “Do you think…

Sloth will see the master early and contact him?

Considering he’s the most cunning among us.”

The air was silent for a second.

It seemed like something in the air was solidifying, breathing becoming more and more difficult, bringing a thick, suffocating feeling.

“Anyway, we’ll know why soon enough.”

Gluttony said, “But first, we need to get rid of the uninvited eavesdropper.”

As his words fell, Xun Bin felt his blood solidify.

Cold air spread up from the soles of his feet.

He heard a sound coming from behind him.

A sense of ominous premonition hit him.

He slowly turned around and saw the dancing shoes stopped right behind him—they were too close.

Closer than ever before.

It was as if they had also been observing him from behind for long enough.

Xun Bin’s body stiffened.

He turned and immediately tried to run away.

But for some reason, an unknown force made him lift his head and take another look through the door crack.

He found that the two people who had been talking had somehow at some point turned their heads.

Two pairs of eyes were looking straight at him, expressionlessly meeting his gaze.

“—”

He panickedly stepped back a few steps.

There was a buzzing in his ears.

Cold sweat immediately flowed from his forehead.

Behind him came the sound of slight air movement.

No no no no, please don’t let it be—

Xun Bin turned around, his face frozen.

Because the young man whose shirt was completely dyed blood-red was standing right behind him.

“Where do you want to go?”

He smiled gently at him.

“The moment I saw you watching, I felt my privacy was violated.

A bit disgusting.”

In his terrified gaze, Gluttony had already teleported in front of him, placing his pale, slender hand on his neck.

With a crisp “crack” sound, the human’s head neatly spun one hundred and eighty degrees.

Gluttony blinked and theatrically released his hand, letting the heavy body fall to the ground, kicking up a choking cloud of dust.

The phone fell onto the floor.

Gluttony stepped away from the body and simultaneously disgustedly kicked away the pair of red dancing shoes.

A woman’s scream seemed to echo in the air.

“These things make me sick.”

He glared at the red dancing shoes.

“I didn’t come here specifically to transform things.”

Jealousy pushed the door open and walked out in his casual shoes, also ignoring the body on the floor.

He wrinkled his nose at the whispering in the air.

“Okay, this is indeed my domain… but I hate these subordinate freaks.

I’ll shut down this level of the game and go with you to the gathering… the master’s gathering.

I absolutely won’t miss it.”

“Even if there might be a problem?”

“This is not my concern.”

As long as he could see the master, everything else was secondary for Jealousy.

“But I still have one question.

Why did you let that irrelevant person in?

You know the master doesn’t like us overstepping our bounds.”

Gluttony threw a suggestive glance towards the streamer’s body.

He had killed someone first, and then thought of the rules Yu Ziyu had given them.

He looked quite hypocritically obedient.

“He committed a fault.”

Jealousy said flatly.

He walked towards the body lying on the ground, then stepped on it.

He leaned down and looked into the dead man’s eyes.

Those terrifying grayish-white eyeballs were usually in a wandering state, but at this moment, they were staring unblinkingly at the rigid dead person’s eyes, appearing even more terrifying.

His cold gaze searched for something.

“It seems we have another voyeur.”

“…”