OVTTGTBE Chapter 36

Kiss

Kiss

After the bell was fastened, the DM mentioned a few more rules to pay attention to. Bai Yao only remembered not to make loud noises and not to drop the bell, but nothing else.

However, seeing that the others all nodded and said they remembered the rules, Bai Yao had no choice but to nod along.

Next was the script-reading time. Bai Yao held up the electronic candlestick in his hand and quickly read through the contents of the first stage. Then, he quietly turned his head.

The DM was sitting very close to him, his slender hand only two palms away from Bai Yao’s candlestick. He pinched the old-fashioned smoking pipe, facing the 12 characters sitting on either side of the table.

Following this hand, Bai Yao gradually glanced at the person’s arm. The sleeves of the white gown were very large. Because the light was too dim, he couldn’t see what clothes the person was wearing inside. The collar of the gown also happened to cover the clothes underneath.

Looking further up, Bai Yao discovered that the pair of eyes hidden behind the ghost mask were staring at him emotionlessly.

Although he knew it was a real person pretending, Bai Yao still shuddered in his heart, and his back felt prickly. He quickly lowered his head, pretending to continue reading the script.

“Have you all finished reading?”

The DM stood up, holding the armrests on both sides of the chair. “The hour has come. Butler Lao Li, please begin–”

Butler Lao Li was the role Tao Lin had chosen. Tao Lin lowered his head, holding up the candlestick light, and began to recite his lines, sentence by sentence.

Bai Yao was the last person to speak in this segment.

After he finished expressing his lines according to the script, the DM responded, “Madam says that he didn’t enter the ancestral hall yesterday. But the mirror used as the eldest young lady’s dowry is missing, this is a major matter, because… although the eldest young lady is already married, her husband’s family specifically requested that mirror as dowry.”

His tone was eerie, making Bai Yao’s hair stand on end. His memory system was even a little confused–had he heard this voice before?

When he had voice chats with Liu Yucheng before, had Liu Yucheng ever used this voice?

“In the evening, I saw the maid sneaking into the master’s room.”

Bai Yao continued to recite his lines, and this segment temporarily came to an end.

Next was the team-searching-for-evidence segment, led by the DM, who took everyone to another room.

Bai Yao wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the group activity to compare his height with the DM.

The DM did seem very tall, and his voice was also very familiar, but because he had been sitting the whole time, Bai Yao couldn’t determine if this person’s height was really 190+.

“According to your status in the family, line up. The master stands first, the madam stands second, followed by the second young lady, the butler, the rest can line up behind the butler however you like, but the scholar who is lodging here must stand at the very end.”

The DM sat in the chair, casually propping up the smoking pipe with one hand.

With no other choice, Bai Yao could only go over and line up first.

The evidence-searching room was also pitch black, and much colder than the room they were in before. The only source of lighting was the faint glow of the electronic candlesticks in their hands.

There was an altar on the table, with three incense sticks inserted. Bai Yao didn’t dare to look closely at all, lowering his head and following Zhang Yifang in front of him.

“Are you scared?”

He heard Li Jinyang speak behind Tao Lin, his voice a little trembling.

“You’re scared?” Xia Zhixi put her hand under Li Jinyang’s hat and grinned. “I love this kind of atmosphere. This store is decorated nicely.”

“It’s good that you like it,” Li Jinyang said through gritted teeth.

Bai Yao suddenly felt reassured—so Li Jinyang was also pretending before. It seemed that he wasn’t the only one who was scared.

When the DM passed by Bai Yao, Bai Yao remembered that he still had to observe this person’s height. But he was wearing a mask, and the mask also had a white wig, so he couldn’t visually estimate his exact height.

By the time Bai Yao thought of comparing the height of their shoulders, the DM had already walked to the middle of the room and sat down on the rattan chair.

The clues to be found were paper notes, 12 in total, which when pieced together would form a letter.

Bai Yao found a piece of paper under a wooden box, with a sentence he couldn’t understand written on it. While the others were searching for evidence, he walked back and forth in the room with the electronic candlestick, taking the opportunity to observe the DM.

The hand, and the wrist, were very similar to Liu Yucheng’s. But the voice was uncertain, and the height was also uncertain. If it really was him, was he working here?

“The DM is very professional, the lines he says really have that feel.”

“Let’s come to this store again next time and have him lead us again.”

“Okay, let’s ask him later if we can add him on WeChat.”

The two girls were whispering again. Bai Yao thought the DM should have heard them, but he just sat in the rattan chair, holding the old-fashioned smoking pipe in his hand, neither participating in their chitchat nor speaking, barely making any extra movements.

This segment took a long time. After about half an hour, there was only one last piece of paper left.

Bai Yao was already a little impatient with searching. He walked to the table, wanting to turn over the ashes in the incense burner to take a look, because the incense had already burned out long ago. And the altar held a memorial tablet, which was obviously a prop, so Bai Yao wasn’t as scared.

“Don’t touch the incense burner, it’s dirty.” The ghost mask turned its head to look at him, speaking to indicate: “The clue isn’t in there.”

“Oh.” Bai Yao nodded and turned to look elsewhere.

“I found it, it’s here!” Li Jinyang moved away a wooden puppet in the room. “It’s actually in the puppet’s mouth, hidden so well.”

With all 12 pieces of paper gathered, the group returned to the previous room and sat at the table to analyze them.

Through the next few rounds of dialogue, Bai Yao began to feel more and more scared. It wasn’t just because a cold wind started blowing in the room, making his skin crawl; as the timeline of the script moved forward, the sound effects in the room became increasingly eerie, and he could even hear a woman’s scream.

“The eldest young lady was poisoned and arranged to have a ghost marriage.”

The DM stood in front of the table, saying in a deep voice: “That mirror may have been taken into the coffin with her. Next is the solo evidence-searching segment.”

The solo evidence-searching segment was the highlight of this script. The content wasn’t difficult: go to the eldest young lady’s corpse and retrieve the mirror.

The DM demonstrated the etiquette process for everyone, as well as the lines to say when seeing the eldest young lady’s corpse.

After confirming that everyone remembered, he continued: “This segment doesn’t follow the previous order. The scholar who is lodging here goes first, the madam goes last, and you can decide the remaining order yourselves.”

Bai Yao was stunned.

Him, last? Why? Was there a special rule involved?

The DM took a black cloth strip and walked to the scholar, who was the girl who had said she wanted to add him on WeChat earlier.

“The location of the joint burial cannot be known, so you must each be blindfolded. I will guide you to the front of the joint burial coffin. Remember, no matter what happens, the bells on your feet must not fall off.”

The DM blindfolded her, cautiously holding her sleeve and leading her out.

Bai Yao pursed his lips, feeling scared in his heart, while his mind kept wandering—observing the height difference between those two just now.

That girl’s height was probably around 160; and the DM’s shoulders looked much higher than hers.

“Ahhh!!!”

Before long, a scream came from outside, followed by a burst of running and the sound of bells.

“Damn,” Li Jinyang instantly freaked out after hearing it. “The NPCs won’t suddenly attack us, right?”

Bai Yao wasn’t doing much better than him, forcing himself to say: “They shouldn’t hurt us.”

After a while, the DM came back alone. The girl didn’t return.

“Unfortunately, in the process of running away, the bell unfortunately fell off, so she can’t come back.”

The DM held the black cloth strip in his hand, his tone calm: “Next.”

Next to go was Xia Zhixi. Although they didn’t hear a scream, she also didn’t return.

Then came Zhang Yifang, a few other people who had shared a ride, Tao Lin, and Li Jinyang.

Everyone didn’t return.

By the time Bai Yao was waiting alone in the room, he couldn’t sit still at all, pacing back and forth in the room.

When there were many people in this room just now, he clearly didn’t feel scared; but now that only he was left, plus the endless, repetitive, looping horror sound effects, Bai Yao was breaking out in a cold sweat.

Damn it, he wouldn’t play horror scripts no matter what in the future. How could Li Jinyang play this kind of script when chasing a girl? He should find a romance script to play, something sweet and sour, wouldn’t that be better?

“It’s your turn.”

The DM walked into the room, still holding the black cloth strip in his hand, stopping about three meters away from Bai Yao.

Bai Yao walked closer to him, turned around, and had him blindfold him.

“Don’t tie it too tight, I’m afraid I won’t be able to take it off when I run away later.”

“Mm.”

The deep voice was very close to him.

Bai Yao clenched his fists and asked softly, “How long have you been working as a DM here?”

“Not long.”

After he was tied up, Bai Yao felt a pair of hands holding his shoulders, the movements very gentle.

“Turn around, walk forward slowly.”

“Turn right after exiting the door, watch out for the threshold under your feet.”

Unable to see anything, Bai Yao walked very carefully, almost inching forward little by little.

He had specifically paid attention to observing that when this DM took others out just now, he was holding onto other people’s sleeves, obviously avoiding physical contact.

Heh, how come it turned into holding shoulders when it came to him?

“Are you scared?” the DM suddenly asked him.

Bai Yao thought he was asking about the upcoming solo segment, forcing himself to put on a brave front: “How could I possibly be scared.”

“Enter the room, watch out for the threshold under your feet.”

The DM exerted a little force on his hands, signaling him to turn left.

This room was obviously brighter than the previous two rooms, even with the black cloth covering his eyes, Bai Yao could vaguely see the orange light around him.

“What should I do now, can I take off the cloth strip?”

The DM’s hands loosened, and Bai Yao had no choice but to stand in place, not daring to move rashly.

Not hearing a reply, the lights in the room suddenly went out, and Bai Yao instantly fell into darkness.

What was going on, was this also part of the solo segment?

Before he could even wonder, he was encircled in someone’s arms from the side.

At the same time, a pair of cool, large hands cupped his face, and two warm petals pressed against his lips.

The warmth turned into wetness, the process of prying open his mouth so skilled that Bai Yao felt flustered.

He wanted to push this person with an extremely strong sense of intrusion away from his side, but his arms were tightly encircled, and he was being held in this person’s arms like a large doll, unable to exert any strength at all.

Bai Yao didn’t know how long the two of them stood there kissing. Even though he was extremely resistant in his heart, the lust hidden in his body was still skillfully teased by this person.

He struggled a few times, but that large hand clasped his fingers, and there was something sandwiched between their palms.

Cool, thin and long, it was the old-fashioned smoking pipe he had been holding in his hand.

That person finally let go of Bai Yao, wiping Bai Yao’s lips with his thumb. After a few seconds, the lights around him lit up again.

The surroundings were deathly silent. Bai Yao directly reached out, wiping his mouth while tearing off the black cloth covering his eyes.

This was a room that could be considered ordinary. In the middle was only an elaborately decorated bed. The DM from just now was gone.

Two NPCs playing corpses were sitting side by side on the bed, staring at Bai Yao with wide eyes.

Bai Yao: “…”

Two NPCs: “…”

Who turned off the lights just now?

Why was the script different from before?

Crap, we were accidentally seen sitting up by a player! Now we can only continue sitting and pretending to be a zombie!

“Let’s… let’s pause for a moment.”

Afraid that they would suddenly jump up and chase him, Bai Yao had no choice but to say this to them.

He angrily pulled open the door of this room and shouted in the hallway, “Where’s the DM from just now? Get out here!”

It seemed that slap in the laboratory was too light.