I Rule Fortune-Telling Livestreams-Chapter 129: Bloody Mary
The moment he connected, Northeast Mary cried out, "Streamer, my roommates and I ran into something evil! It’s an emergency, you have to help us!"
With that, he turned the camera to a mirror in front of him. Three index fingers were pressed against its surface, flanked by two bright red candles.
Through the gaps between their fingertips, a faint trace of blood was visible on the mirror.
The three young men behind him all had their fingertips pressed to the mirror, their heels trembling from standing on tiptoe.
It was impossible to tell how long they had been like that, but looks of agony were already etched on their faces.
Northeast Mary explained to the viewers, "These are my three roommates. The one in the long-sleeved shirt is Xiao Wen, the one in the short-sleeved shirt is Xiao Zhang, and the one in the tank top is Xiao Li."
The moment the camera focused on him, Xiao Wen, the one in the long-sleeved shirt, rolled his eyes in disdain. "Are you kidding me, dude?! I told you to call the police, what the hell are you doing? Why are you on a call with a streamer? While you’re busy with a streamer, what’s supposed to happen to the three of us?"
Xiao Zhang, in the short-sleeved shirt, yelled, "I can’t take it anymore! My hand’s gonna be crippled if I have to keep pushing like this! And I’m still on my tiptoes! AHHHH! It hurts so much! If I lower my feet, our fingerprints will be stripped away! Get off the call and call the police to save us!"
Northeast Mary had been genuinely terrified, but after successfully connecting to the stream, he calmed down and couldn’t resist scolding them. "Why the hell would you play Bloody Mary?! Now your hands are stuck and you’re scared? What were you thinking before?"
After a moment’s thought, he added, "You guys are paying the one-thousand-yuan Divination fee yourselves! My entire monthly allowance is only a thousand yuan. I don’t have the money!"
The viewers were stunned by the scene unfolding before them:
[Holy crap, they’re playing Bloody Mary at 11 PM. The ignorant truly know no fear!]
[I tried the Bloody Mary thing when I was a kid, but nothing happened. No Mary ever showed up to grant my wish.]
[I actually managed to summon Bloody Mary once. She granted one of my wishes, and now my health is completely restored. You think I’m the chosen one or what?]
[Whoa, you really are the chosen one. Making a wish to Bloody Mary and not ending up dead? Badass!]
[Doesn’t matter if the game is real or fake. The smart thing to do is just not play cursed games!]
Northeast Mary and his three roommates were bored that evening and decided they wanted to play some supernatural games.
Xiao Li suggested playing Bloody Mary, and Xiao Wen immediately chimed in, "Yes! I’m in! This kind of spooky game is way more exciting."
Northeast Mary was a fan of Shen Zhiyao and was somewhat wary of things involving ghosts and spirits, so he tried to talk his roommates out of it.
But his roommates didn’t listen. Instead, they just laughed and called him a coward right there in the dorm room.
Northeast Mary ignored them, went back to his room, put on his headphones, and started playing a video game.
This left the three stubborn roommates to play the infamous and terrifying game of Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
Bloody Mary is an extremely dark Western horror game that spread quickly among the public due to its simple rules.
They lit two candles and smeared a tiny bit of cinnabar on the mirror.
With all that prepared, they began to chant the incantation: "God accept Queen Mary, God please accept our request, please Mary accept our request..."
They repeated this phrase for a long time. At first, they thought it was just boring.
But soon, a red reflection began to appear in the mirror.
Xiao Li said, "Holy shit, look at the mirror! It’s turning red! We successfully summoned Bloody Mary!"
Xiao Wen lowered his voice and said, "We only get three wishes, and they can’t be too big. They have to be things Mary can actually do. We can ask her questions, but nothing too out of line. Got it?"
Xiao Zhang’s voice trembled slightly. "Got it. But... this Bloody Mary we summoned is real, right? This isn’t just a prank you two are pulling, is it?"
The three of them asked in unison, "Bloody Mary, is that you?"
The fingertips of the figure in the mirror traced across the glass, finally writing a single word: "Yes."
The three young men looked at each other, a hint of delight on their faces.
Xiao Wen asked, "Mary, can you grant our wishes?"
Mary traced on the mirror again, finally writing out one word: "Possible!"
They only had three chances to make a wish from Bloody Mary. Xiao Li went first. "Mary, this year I want a girlfriend and hundreds of millions in wealth. Can you do that?"
Mary’s finger traced across the mirror again. Xiao Li thought she was going to write ’Possible,’ but then she added a prefix, spelling out ’Impossible.’
Seeing that Mary couldn’t grant his wish, Xiao Li was so dejected he nearly cried.
"It’s fine, it’s fine," Xiao Wen said, callously comforting his friend. "Mary probably means she can help you find a girlfriend this year, but she can’t give you a billion-dollar fortune." Then he started on his own wish. "Mary, I want to pass my graduate school entrance exams."
Mary’s finger traced on the mirror, finally writing a single word: "Granted."
Seeing that Bloody Mary had responded to both of their wishes, Xiao Zhang couldn’t wait to make his own. "Mary, I write books on ’Persimmon Novel.’ Can you make me a Hall of Fame-level author?"
Mary wrote two words in the mirror: "Can not."
Xiao Wen said, "I feel like this Mary isn’t all that great. Becoming a Hall-of-Fame author is a pretty small request, and she can’t even grant that. What kind of knock-off Mary is this? Fucking idiot!"
Xiao Li agreed, "Yeah, seriously! She can’t grant any of our wishes. This Mary is a total moron!"
Mary’s writing hand suddenly froze.
They had no idea they’d said the wrong thing. They just assumed Mary’s hand was getting sore from all the writing, so they started making small talk with her.
They asked, "Mary, how did you get inside the mirror?"
Mary wrote on the mirror: ’Shards of glass pierced my whole body. I was sucked in.’
"What era are you from?"
Mary answered: ’The World War II era.’
"You’ve asked enough questions! It’s my turn, my turn! Mary, how old were you when you died?"
Mary traced on the mirror, first writing a ’1,’ then adding a ’6’ after it.
"Sixteen years old... so young!"
"Mary, did you go to school?"
’I did.’
"Mary, Mary, I have a request! I want to date you!"
The three of them went back and forth, one after another, asking more than a dozen questions.
The longer it went on, the faster Mary’s fingertip moved. Then they realized she wasn’t carefully writing anymore. She was just smearing blood on the mirror, faster and faster, until soon the entire surface was covered in it.
Only then did the three of them realize the gravity of the situation and hastily began chanting the dismissal spell.
But even after chanting it dozens of times, it had no effect. In fact, Mary only smeared the blood with greater and greater force.
The three of them tried to pull their hands away, only to find they were stuck!
Terrified by the scene, the three of them started screaming, which startled Northeast Mary, who had been in the middle of his game.
Northeast Mary’s first thought was Shen Zhiyao. He immediately jumped into the livestream to snag a divination slot, and luckily, he got one.
By now, the mirror had grown calm. Only a red light from within it continued to flash. The three of them had their faces pressed almost completely against the glass, so terrified they didn’t dare to even breathe.
The fingertip in the mirror was still smearing blood on the glass. Soon, Mary’s finger had worn through skin and flesh. Tiny bits of meat began to flake off, a particularly horrifying sight.
At that same moment, their own fingertips began to sink into flesh, and the three of them screamed in pain.
Shen Zhiyao’s cold voice cut in. "Stop!"
On camera, the hand in the mirror stopped pulling their fingertips in. The three young men gasped for breath, panting heavily.
