MTL - Top Horror Novelist-Chapter 28

The man seemed to have unknown power, and his golden-brown eyes were enough to make one drown in it.

Chi Yiyin shook his head, and then relied on willpower to find his sanity from those eyes, and looked away.

He leaned back, sank into the cushion behind him, and distanced himself from the man.

"Though I don't know what's going on."

Chi Yiyin made a helpless expression, and spread his hands to the man, indicating that his palms and shoulders had already been bandaged: "But I'm sure I don't have the habit of sleepwalking, sir, I still want to thank you for bandaging and treating me." take me back..."

As he spoke, he looked around the room before continuing: "Come back here."

The man raised his eyebrows and heard the meaning behind Chi Yiyin's words.

He slowly stood up straight with his hands in his pockets, leaned lazily on the bedpost behind him, and looked at Chi Yiyin with a chuckle: "Do you recognize this place?"

certainly.

Chi Yiyin's eyes darkened, and she didn't lessen her vigilance towards the man in the slightest.

He was already sure that he had returned to the Ma's mansion.

No matter the decoration or style of this house, it is consistent with the overall style of the Ma family, and the faintly visible scenery from the window, black and white eaves and walls, is full of the simplicity and magnificence of the Hui style mansion.

Thanks to the three-dimensional model of the mansion that Chi Yiyin built in his mind, he can easily tell which part of the mansion it is from the scenery outside the window, and from an architectural point of view, this room on the second floor should be It's in the main house behind the banquet hall.

And the only ones who can live here... are Master Ma and the three younger brothers and sisters of the Ma family.

The man seemed to be the master here, which made Chi Yiyin have great doubts about his identity.

He could exclude the three children of the Ma family, but the remaining one... No matter how you look at it, the man doesn't look like Master Ma.

Chi Yiyin looked at the man with some doubts in his eyes.

However, the smile in the man's eyes grew stronger, as if he saw what Chi Yiyin was thinking, he smiled and nodded slightly to him: "You are smarter than I thought, Chi Yiyin."

"Are you guessing my identity?"

The man laughed softly: "You can call me Master Ma, or—father."

He bent down, approached Chi Yiyin and looked at him, his voice was mellow and magnetic: "You are here to fulfill my wish, remember? Chi Yiyin."

Chi Yiyin: "..."

The audience before the live broadcast: [! ]

[Fuck, shameless! Where did he come from, fork out, fork out! Isn't this taking advantage of the anchor? ]

[Horse, Master Ma? ? ? Master Ma who looks like this? Good guy, let alone the question of whether I believe it or not, just say that if Master Ma really looked like this, believe me, the popularity of this dungeon will definitely break through the live broadcast hall long ago. ]

[Grass, if I knew Master Ma was like this, I would definitely go to this dungeon once even if I died! Face control heaven, death is also willing! ]

[It's so weird... When he just scanned the camera, I actually felt a sense of loss being abandoned by the world. Let me do anything, as long as he can keep watching me. ]

[you say! What wish do you say! I am willing to do it for you! ]

The studio went crazy, but Chi Yiyin sneered in his heart.

Just kidding, it's not that he hasn't seen Master Ma.

Whether it is the plot triggered in the dungeon or the truth seen in the nightmare, Mr. Ma is a short and fat middle-aged man, who looks like a fat rice dumpling when he wears an old-fashioned mandarin jacket made of silk material. If this person in front of him wanted to pretend to be Master Ma, he would really have picked the wrong person to imitate.

Chi Yiyin glanced up and down at the man.

...At the very least, cut off the leg by 30 centimeters first.

The man didn't care whether Chi Yiyin believed him or not, and the system didn't refute him, and even reminded him in Chi Yiyin's ear: [Trigger the key NPC, Master Ma. Is the plot "Master Ma's Wish" started? 】

Chi Yiyin: ...his previous conclusion may be wrong, the system is simply deceiving players.

system:【…】

[Do you want to start the plot "Master Ma's Wish"? 】

The system urged Chi Yiyin a few more times, showing an urgency that he had never felt before, as if he wanted to finish the work immediately so that he could leave this room as soon as possible.

Chi Yiyin directly rejected the system without any hesitation.

For some reason, he actually felt that this time the system did not gloat over his choice to seek his own death, but instead had a hint of running away.

Before he could figure out what was going on, the man pointed to the cabinet next to him: "There are the new clothes."

The man's words made Chi Yiyin realize another thing that he had neglected.

—While the injury was properly treated, his clothes were also changed.

Although it was a lot more comfortable for him to be able to change into clean clothes, if someone else did it when he was unconscious... Chi Yiyin frowned in disgust, and his gaze at the man also sank.

"Did you change my clothes for me?"

The man shrugged his shoulders and said innocently: "Could it be that you would prefer those servants outside to come and change for you? I don't care."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and the thick carved door of the room opened in response.

Chi Yiyin looked up, and it happened that the faceless servants outside the gate heard the sound and turned their heads to look this way.

The pale faces without facial features and their stiff movements made them feel weird and uncomfortable.

Chi Yiyin silently looked away.

Such a comparison seems to be much better - at least "Master Ma" has a face.

But at this time, he also realized that maybe the man's current identity is "Master Ma", but he is not Ma Yuze's real father, nor is he like other NPCs mapped from the copy, but similar to the players, also Played the role of Master Ma.

It's like all of their players are "sisters".

He remembered very clearly that he fell in the thick fog outside the Ma's mansion, and it happened to be early in the morning.

And according to the progress of the dungeon, Master Ma should have just returned to Ma's house at that time. Perhaps it was at that time that the man found himself in a coma and brought him back.

—Although Chi Yiyin didn't know why the other party had such kindness.

After all, men do not seem to be kind and kind.

Besides... Judging from past experience, isn't Master Ma a dungeon boss? Could this be played by anyone else as well?

In the sight of the man leisurely looking over, Chi Yiyin didn't show his guess, but just nodded to him, and then lifted the quilt to get out of bed.

Luckily he was still wearing pants.

Chi Yiyin sighed silently, thinking that this was the only good news.

He was naked from the upper body, his good figure was obvious, thin but not weak, covered with thin muscles, slender waist and long legs.

His skin is fair and delicate because he hasn't seen the sun for a long time, but his smooth muscles show the strength he possesses, and will never let others dare to ignore his existence. And the bandages tied on his chest and shoulders also added a bit of beauty to him.

The room was covered with a thick cashmere carpet, and when Chi Yiyin stepped on it with bare feet, it was like stepping on clouds. Even if he didn't like the Ma family, he still lamented that the Ma family was indeed rich in financial resources back then. What shocked him even more was that the system restored everything back to the truth.

It's like seeing it with your own eyes.

Luxurious luxury is indeed alluring. Maybe it was because of this that Master Ma did not hesitate to sell his daughter in order to keep his wealth.

Chi Yiyin paused before walking to the cabinet pointed by the man.

His shirt and coat were neatly folded, without even a single wrinkle, clean and tidy.

Instead, Chi Yiyin was stunned.

He remembered very clearly that he was scratched by Jingcha's rabbit, his clothes were covered with blood and ashes, and now the pain on his shoulder reminded him that it was not his imagination.

But the clothes before his eyes were intact, and there were no traces left after the battle.

This is…

Chi Yiyin turned around suspiciously and looked at the man, but the man just shrugged, raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

Immediately, shoes and socks appeared on the carpet next to Chi Yiyin.

"Don't worry, your injuries and clothes are handled in this way. I'm not interested in men, so don't be so strict with me."

The man saw Chi Yiyin's vigilance, but deliberately misinterpreted his thoughts, and answered his question with a casual joke: "Strictly speaking, I'm not interested in the entire human group, so don't worry, I It’s just Master Ma.”

After that, he lazily pointed to the door of the room, and asked Chi Yiyin: "It's already dawn, aren't you going to meet your competitor? Fulfill my... or Ma Yuze's wish."

Chi Yiyin took a deep look at the man, then looked away again, bent down to pick up her clothes, and dressed neatly again.

The odds and ends of his blazer were neatly put aside, including his notebook and brooch.

When reaching for the footless bird brooch, Chi Yiyin's hand suddenly paused.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that there was a golden light flowing and flashing in the sapphires that made up the whole footless bird brooch.

When he calmed down and looked again, there was nothing there.

From behind the man's gaze, Chi Yiyin did not reveal any more flaws, and immediately pinned the footless bird brooch to the collar of the suit again. After tidying up, he turned around and walked towards the man standing at the door.

The other party was wearing a black windbreaker with one hand, as if waiting for him to go out together.

When Chi Yiyin looked over with questioning eyes, the man didn't hide anything, and said, "Let's go, I'll go down with you. Don't worry, when I carried you back yesterday, someone had already seen us, there is no cover necessary."

Chi Yiyin frowned, and asked, "Is it a boy wearing a rabbit sweater?"

The man nodded and said with a smile, "Remember to thank me."

Chi Yiyin: ...?

But he soon realized what the man meant.

The room he woke up in was indeed Master Ma's master room, just above the living room where he had been fighting with Jing Cha for most of the night last night. Walking down the gilded escalator, he saw the mess that remained in the living room.

And the players who gathered at dawn.

Jingcha was the first to look up at Chi Yiyin who was walking down, his eyes were gloomy, and he wished he could fight Chi Yiyin again now to decide the winner.

But Chi Yiyin keenly found that Jingcha's image was a bit more embarrassing than the last time he saw him yesterday.

The knife he stabbed yesterday was Jingcha's heart, but he never touched Jingcha's face. Not for other reasons, but because non-fatal injuries are completely unnecessary in a life-and-death battle other than wasting time and energy.

But now, there are a few blood-red long scratches on Jingcha's face, and a bluish-purple mark can be seen on her neck, as if someone has strangled her neck.

And when Jingcha saw the man next to Chi Yiyin, his eyes became even more angry, almost bursting into flames.

Chi Yiyin raised her eyebrows in surprise, but a smile appeared in her eyes.

Combined with what the man said just now, what else is there to understand?

The man picked up Chi Yiyin outside the mansion last night. When he brought him back, he met Jingcha who was waiting at the gate. Jingcha wanted to kill him while he was unconscious, but was restrained by the man instead.

Chi Yiyin couldn't help laughing.

Jing Cha is smart, knowing that no matter how far he goes, he will eventually return to the Ma's mansion where the dungeon is located, so he guards the gate and prepares to find a chance to kill him.

It's a pity that the only thing Jingcha didn't expect was the existence of the variable man.

Although Chi Yiyin didn't predict that the man would appear.

"Why, have you been caught by a cat?"

Chi Yiyin looked at Jingcha with a smile, his voice was calm and curious, as if he really had no malice at all: "Your face is not very pretty."

Jingcha stared at Chi Yiyin coldly, and ground her teeth bitterly.

But he looked at the man with more guarded eyes, worried that he was by Chi Yiyin's side, so he didn't dare to say a word.

Jingcha is very aware of her own strength, so after the battle last night, she is more aware of the threat posed by men.

An existence that can lock his throat with one blow and make him lose all mobility... Which monster is this on the morning star list?

He was sure that even among the hundred people on the list, none of them could do this. This person was too dangerous.

Jingcha had no choice but to swallow his anger, looking at Chi Yiyin as if he wanted to eat him raw, but Chi Yiyin just ignored him lightly.

This made him feel humiliated, his chest heaved violently and his hands were shaking, but he could only forcefully suppress his urge to call out the rabbit.

And the players who had gathered around the crystal chandelier in the living room to look at the dead body of the female student also followed the prestige.

The first time Tong Yao saw Chi Yiyin, he almost cried with excitement: "Mr. Chi! That's great, I found out that you weren't in the room this morning. I was really shocked."

Li Li stared stiffly at Chi Yiyin slowly from the hanged corpse.

His eyes lost all light, and the confidence he had when persuading Chi Yiyin last night was gone, as if he lost everything overnight, including his hope for the future.

Li Li's eyes were full of lifelessness, as if he had already decided that his action had failed and he could no longer leave the dungeon.

His clothes were still stained with blood and mud, and there were cuts and tears everywhere. The wounds under the clothes were even deep enough to show the bones, but they had not been properly treated, and the bleeding was simply stopped.

When Li Li looked at Chi Yiyin, he opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something to him, but in the end he only had a wry smile.

Chi Yiyin noticed Li Li's complicated eyes looking at him, and also realized that his companion was not by his side.

He already knew it in his heart.

It seems that the couple had a hard time at Mrs. Ma's place last night.

He deliberately pointed the two men who had the intention of killing him to Mrs. Ma's room, knowing that they would definitely ignore Ma Yuze because of their personalities. They were extremely utilitarian and purposeful, and they could do anything to find clues to pass the level.

Because of this, it will definitely offend the woman in wedding dress who cares about her mother.

With the help of Ma Yuze, Chi Yiyin easily solved the two of them.

Even if Li Li survived by luck, he would not have the courage to do more under the nightmare brought by the woman in wedding dress.

The only thing that surprised Chi Yiyin was the number of people in the living room.

Tong Yao, Li Li, Jing Cha, middle-aged people.

Another one turned out to be a player with a broken leg who had lost contact with him since getting off the train.

The young man's broken foot had been bandaged indiscriminately, but his face was still dying, and his face was pale, as if he would pass out at any moment.

Before Chi Yiyin appeared, it was Tong Yao who cared for him.

"Mr. Chi, he arrived at the house this morning. I just passed by and heard a knock on the door, so I let him in."

Tong Yao noticed that Chi Yiyin was looking at the young man with a broken leg. She was a little apprehensive, and tried to explain to Chi Yiyin: "He just wants to live and won't harm others like others, really."

The young man with a broken leg is also very knowledgeable about current affairs. He saw that Tong Yao who rescued him was actually following Chi Yiyin's order, so he forced his eyes open, stood up with the wall, and turned to Chi Yiyin who was standing on the stairs. Bow and salute.

"I'm Chu Yueli. Thank you Mr. Chi and Ms. Tong for saving their lives. Please rest assured. I just want to clear the copy and leave this ghost place. I won't do anything extra."

Fearing that Chi Yiyin would not help him, he still tried his best to show his worth, saying: "To be honest, I found Ma's house all the way from Gushu Town yesterday, and collected a lot of information about the dungeon. I would like to send it to you." To Mr. Chi."

Chi Yiyin is not interested in the life and death of other people, but as long as it is harmless to him, he doesn't bother to bother.

Especially since this person is not malicious.

He just nodded, and then said lightly to Tong Yao, telling her not to worry.

Immediately, Chi Yiyin turned to look at the man, nodded and silently said to him: Thank you, I do owe you once.

The man lazily didn't take it seriously, but walked down the stairs first, sat down on the only high-back chair that was still in good condition, and looked at the few remaining players gathered in the living room.

It seems that for him, this place is not a battlefield of life and death, but a movie theater.

He sat in the front seat with a great view, waiting for the good show to unfold.

Whether it's the NPCs with their own thoughts in the dungeon, or the players who risk their lives for high rewards, they are just actors on the screen to him. He will applaud the interesting plots, but never Slightly saddened by their deaths.

He is isolated from this world, watching with cold eyes.

The sudden appearance of the man also surprised other players.

"Excuse me, are you...?"

Tong Yao looked at the man hesitantly, then looked up at the few people left around, as if hesitating, could it be that there were other newcomers in the mix, which led to another random capture and placement event for free live broadcast?

The man's answer surprised everyone except Chi Yiyin.

"Don't you all come here for my wish?"

The man raised his head and looked up at everyone: "I think you have already received inquiries from the system and chose to fulfill my wish. It is I who entrusted you to solve the Ma family's affairs and return to peace."

Jing Cha's eyes widened in an instant: "Are you kidding! You, Master Ma?"

Even Li Li, who had lost all his thoughts, looked at the man in surprise. He did not expect that the rumored Master Ma would have such an image.

Only Tong Yao immediately looked at Chi Yiyin subconsciously. After seeing Chi Yiyin nod, she hesitated for a moment, and then stepped forward and said, "I'm afraid Master Ma has misunderstood, I did not agree to finish the work." your wish."

The man propped his cheek with one hand, crossed his long legs, raised his eyebrows and looked at Tong Yao.

The invisible coercion made Tong Yao tremble a little, but when she thought of what Chi Yiyin had told her before, she mustered up her courage and said, "I'm sorry, I can't ignore Miss Ma's own will and force her to accept this family. .”

The man lifted his lips and laughed, but raised his eyes to look at Chi Yiyin on the stairs.

Chi Yiyin stood where Ma Yuze had once stood, and the quarrel between the two sisters that night seemed to resurface before his eyes.

After reading the ins and outs of the Ma family's marriage from the newspaper outside the house, Chi Yiyin finally heard the content of the quarrel between the two sisters clearly in the picture of his memory.

At the beginning, when the officials approached Master Ma, Master Ma thought that the other party wanted to marry his younger sister, so he wanted to sell his younger sister impatiently.

Mrs. Ma, who was still a mother, realized that something was wrong, and desperately tried to stop the marriage and save her sister from the fire pit.

The younger sister accused her mother of being biased and blocking her good marriage, so she didn't see her well.

The mother was trembling with anger, but she told her younger sister in tears that there had never been an official who asked to marry a businessman's daughter among scholars, farmers, businessmen, and said that the official's son was dying of illness, and his heart could be punished, and this marriage was impossible. Row.

The younger sister was astonished, and then tried her best to persuade Master Ma to marry her, saying that anyway, her reputation was ruined and no one wanted her. If she didn't marry this time, she might have to immerse her in a pig cage in order to maintain the reputation of the Ma family.

Therefore, Master Ma dispelled the last worry.

He may have had a little tenderness for this proud daughter, at least he hesitated about her life or death. But under the persuasion of my sister, this trace of warmth also disappeared.

Ma Yuze overheard this outside his father's study, so he went to question his sister, and asked her loudly why she wanted to harm him, isn't he her sister?

But the younger sister said: "I don't have a sister who has committed adultery with a man and should be soaked in a pig cage."

It was this sentence that stimulated Ma Yuze to reach out to her beloved sister for the first time, but it caused the tragedy of the death of her younger brother.

The images of that year seem to remain on the walls and in the air, and in the ups and downs of the morning light, everything reappears in a trance.

In front of Chi Yiyin's eyes, everything looks like a flickering and broken TV screen. Magnificent mansions and deserted and dilapidated haunted houses appear occasionally. open.

All the truth about the Ma family was slowly unfolding before his eyes.

The tragedy that unfolded in this house was never the rumored copy of Master Ma who lost his wife and children in grief, but Ma Yuze who really lost everything.

A life of youth, a future with infinite possibilities, dearest family members, even life... She lost everything.

Even though she turned into a ghost and killed all those who forced her to death in revenge, she was still bound by the guilt in her heart, unable to leave the mansion that carried all her pain, and could only wander day and night, confused and not knowing where to go.

The guilt towards his mother and younger brother kept Ma Yuze in **** all the time, unable to escape.

If anyone here is asking for help from outsiders, it will only be one person—

Ma Yuze's ghost, perhaps without her realizing it, has been asking passers-by for help, wanting to leave the place that caused her pain.

It's like someone who is about to commit suicide and wants help.

But no one reached out to her, no one would stop to listen to her story.

The female ghost appeared in the player's boudoir, wanting to show the player the truth of the past.

But they will always ignore the newlywed who is struggling and trying to escape. They will only persuade Ma Yuze, that is your father, that is your home, and you should live in harmony with your family.

Players can see many things, but in the end, there is only a box of gold ingots that can be accommodated.

They have a lot of time, but they are unwilling to spend a minute listening patiently to the female ghost.

Because of this, they are doomed to miss the truth.

Chi Yiyin's hand holding the gold-plated escalator tightened a little bit, and his mind suddenly brightened.

In the first place, those people simply chose the wrong question and therefore never got the right answer.

The purpose of this dungeon named "Dear Home" is not with Master Ma at all, but with Ma Yuze.

Everything is viewed from the perspective of Ma Yuze. It is ridiculous that in the past twelve years, the player's self-righteousness and the system's deliberate guidance made the player ask the wrong question and no one cleared the level.

Because the problem... is escape.

Ma Yuze wants to leave here, before she loses her last sanity and memory, and is truly driven mad by **** and becomes a ghost.

Chi Yiyin raised his eyelashes and looked at the man, who happened to meet his gaze.

The man hooked his lips and smiled lightly: "Have you made your decision, Chi Yiyin?"

"I think so, Master Ma."

Chi Yiyin's voice was calm but powerful: "I won't fulfill your wish, because that would be a **** for a tiger. What I want to fulfill is the wish of the female ghost Ma Yuze, and I will take her away."

As soon as these words came out, the room was full of astonishment.

Li Li also looked at Chi Yiyin in disbelief, and murmured, "You clearly have the advantage, what are you talking about, Chi Yiyin?"

But everyone soon felt a hot feeling in their chests.

When they quickly reached out to touch it, they found that it was the red envelope that was hot.

The content of the letter has changed.

【Father with evil intentions, mother who died of hatred, younger siblings who were jealous, pre-determined marriage—this is the home you cannot escape from. 】

The audience before the live broadcast were also surprised to find that the name of the live broadcast room had quietly changed.

The fake coat peeled off, and the word "Dear" turned into powder and peeled off, replaced by the real name of the copy that had been covered up all along.

—[A home that cannot be escaped].

The man raised his head and looked at Chi Yiyin for a moment, then finally smiled slowly.