Chapter 2: A Ghost in My Camera
Maybe because the name of my live stream room was cool and eye-catching, a few audiences clicked into my room very soon and even sent a few pieces of bullet screen.
Bullet screen meant they left their real-time comments that flew across the screen like bullets.
[Live stream of a ghost? Not just by adding some ambient terror again?]
[The camgirl’s username is Horror Camgirl? Show us your face. Let’s see how horrifying you look like. ]
[Ditto. If she is really horrifying, I will give her a sword. ]
Audience could send gifts to hosts on Heiyan TV. Sword was one kind, worth 50 yuan each. I wanted to show my face but hesitated when I touched it.
They would be scared away. I’d better not do it.
With my mobile phone in one hand and flashlight in the other, I focused the camera on the plague of the clinic which was painted with blood-like dark thing.
I started to talk, “Here we are at the famous Sunshine Clinic. Three years ago, Dr. Zheng, the owner of the clinic, operated an abortion surgery on a girl who died dure to massive haemorrhage during the surgery. Doctor Zheng’s license was revoked. He was too devastated to live and hung himself in the operating room. Rumour said the clinic had been haunted since then. Someone saw Dr. Zheng walking around in the clinic with a scalpel and he killed a hobo who broke in by mistake. Now let’s go inside and have a look. ”
I stepped forward and gently pushed open the mottled wooden door.
Audience started to send real-time comments again.
[Her voice is so sweet. She must be a pretty girl!]
[Please show your face!]
I felt a little bitter in my heart. I also wished I could have been beautiful.
I scanned the hall with my flashlight. Behind the broken counter was a glass shelter. The glass shelter reflected my face, although for a second on the camera, the bullet screen flooded in.
[Wait, what did I see? Is she wearing a hat and mask? ]
[She is such a mystery. She is either too ugly or too beautiful.]
[Are you idiot? If she is beautiful, why would she do a ghost live stream?]
[Everybody stop! I think I saw two shadows on the glass]
[Don’t scare me! Why did I see nothing!?]
I was not sure if the audience were scared or not, but I was, a lot! I looked into the mirror again with my flashlight. It was only me.
I was relieved. The audience were wrong.
“Now, let’s go have a look in the toilet. It is said the hobo was attacked by Dr. Zheng’s ghost in the toilet.” I said while opening the door.
It was an infusion room. A few cots scattered in the room. I sniffed and then said, “It smells like blood.”
I looked around the room with the flashlight, startled, “Why is there blood here?”
One of the cots was stained with blood which was dripping from the steel net, down to floor.
I touched it. It was blood.
I gasped, “Blood. Real blood!”
[I guess it is pig blood. She set it up.]
[You are faking a ghost scene. It must be it. I’ve seen a lot of tricks like this.]
I was so scared that I didn’t have the mood to care about the bullet screen at all.
Of course it wasn’t me.
I wanted to run away when a message alert popped on. Someone sent me a gift!
It was “a glass of wine”, worth 50 cents. It wasn’t too much but was still money.
Gritting my teeth, I kept talking with a trembling voice, “The rumour says Dr. Zheng cut off the hobo’s arms and legs in the toilet and dragged him onto the cot to kill him brutally. When the police arrived, they even couldn’t stand the sight of it. Some even threw up on the spot. ”
A creaky sound!
I stopped talking and looked back. The door of the toilet opened.
[Holy crap! What kind of special effect is that?]
[You idiot. Someone must be hiding on the other side of the door. When she walks in, her partner will dash out to spook us. ]
Two more message alerts. I got two glasses of wine.
My legs were shaking with fear, but for money, I could do this!
I gasped and walked towards the toilet carefully.
[Your voice is beautiful. I like your gasp. A gift for you!]
I got a sword, worth 50 yuan, worth of 50 times parcel delivering!
Under the temptation of money, I plucked up my courage and then walked into the toilet.
The toilet was big. There were 3 cubicles and one huge mirror on the wall. The mirror was spotted with stains.
I walked into the room on tiptoe and when I was trying to pick up a piece of broken glass as a weapon, I found a scalpel.
The scalpel was rusty, full of black stains, but still sharp.
[Nice prop! A gift for your hard work.]
Another sword!
I took a deep breath and pushed open the door to the first cubicle.
It was dirty and smelly. I scanned the cubicle and saw nothing, then I moved to the next one.
Grunting…
I couldn’t help trembling and looked at the face basin. I heard something coming out from the tub. But it was impossible because this place had been cut off water for years.
As I looked down into the sink, the door to the second cubicle opened silently behind me. A shadow in a white robe slid out.
When the audience watched this from the mirror, the bullet screen flooded in.
[LOL, there comes her partner.]
[Great makeup. A sword for you.]
[Wait, why is he floating?]
[He must have wheels on his feet.]
When I looked up, I saw the shadow of a man in a white rope floating behind me in the mirror. But when I turned around, on the camera which was facing the cubicle behind me, nothing was there. When I looked back into the mirror, a terrifying shadow was in it.
[Oh my god! What great special effect!]
[Five swords for the special effect!]
[Excellent effect! On my knees.]
[Hey guys, do you really think it is kind of special effect?]
“It’s not!” I yelled out in terror! I put my phone into my shirt pocket. The camera faced the front. I grabbed the scalpel and stabbed the shadow in the mirror.
With a click sound, I pierced through the mirror and stabbed right into the forehead of the ghost shadow.
With blood trickling from the forehead, the ghost in the mirror made a spooky smile on his face.
“Ah!” I screamed. My neck was strangled by something and my body was hung up in the air.
Dozens of audience flocked into my room, and bullet screen surged.
[The ghost is real! Somebody call the police!]
[Are you stupid? What would you tell the police? Someone got attacked by a ghost?]
[The camgirl is so…so brave. She even dares to stab the ghost with a scalpel.]
[Any ghostbuster help her?!]
I struggled to breath. No! I couldn’t be so unlucky! It was my only first to make live stream and I would die for it?
Message alerts kept popping on. I got so many gifts. I gritted my teeth. I couldn’t die because I still had my brother to take care of.
I pulled out the jade pendant that I was wearing around my neck and threw it at the ghost. He screamed miserably and turned into a strand of black air, got into my nose.
I fell down on the floor and started to cough violently.
[Is the ghost dead?]
[Hell no! She is really something!]
[Camgirl, no, master, you have my knees!]
I struggled to my feet, grabbed my jade pendant, ran out of the clinic like hell, and turned off the live stream.
When I got home, I unbuttoned my shirt and found a dark purple handprint on my neck.
Jinx!
I checked my Heiyan account and found that I got a bunch of gifts worth more than a thousand and 5000 followers for just one night.
It was incredible for a newcomer.
I only earned a little more than 1000 even if I worked my fingers to the bone to wash dishes for one month.
Tonight was a great success. If I could do this often, I would get famous. Besides getting gifts from the audience, I may get sponsors. By then, I would make a lot more money.
I pursed my lips. I had nothing to lose but my pathetic life. The worst thing would be death. It was no big deal.
I touched the jade pendant on my neck. I got it from my grandma. She said a Taoist priest gave it to me when I was 3 years old. He wanted me to keep it all the time because my life was miserable and this pendant could block out evil things.
I had had it with me for 20 years and it saved my life today.
I heaved a long sigh, took off the mask, and showed my horrifying face.