Chapter 3: The Bloodcurdling Ghost Building
I got fibromas all over my face, one of which pulled my eyebrows down, looking very gross.
No wonder Yin Shengyao hated me so much.
I washed my face and then I got stunned, since the fibroma on my chin was gone!
I looked at myself in the mirror. It was indeed gone.
Could fibromas be self-healing? No way.
Could it be…that wisp of black smoke when doctor Zheng’s ghost was killed?
Could the ghost smoke cure fibromas? It turned my world upside down, but meanwhile it gave me endless hope.
For those twenty years, I had been dreaming of curing those fibromas. Was there any girl who didn’t want to look pretty?
Heiyan TV paid daily. When one reached a certain amount of reward for one time, one would receive extra reward. So my reward plus the shared revenue, it was 1,100 in total. After I exchanged it for money, I went to the hospital and paid 1,000 for the medical fees.
When there was a patient at home, it would be like a bottomless pit.
When I was thinking where I was gonna have a live stream after I came out of the hospital, a white Maybach made a perfect drifting and stopped right before me.
I was a little surprised and looked at him warily.
A young man wearing a gym suit came out of the car. He was tall and cute, wearing a pair of sunglasses.
For now, I extremely hated and guarded against such rich and cute guys.
“”Are you that horror camgirl? ” he asked while looking me up and down.
I didn’t like the way he looked at me, and said in a cold voice: “How do you know? Shouldn’t the website keep it classified?”
“I’ve got my way to get your basic information.” He smiled.
I was raged, “What do you want?”
“Don’t be mad. I just want to know when you are gonna have a live stream next time.” He said.
“Why ask?” I asked him.
“It’s simple. I want to see what a ghost looks like with my own eyes.” The man said, “I’ve watched a lot of horror live stream. But only you see a real ghost.”
I said in a cold voice, “Proposal rejected.”
“I can pay you 100,000.” The man stopped me, “and I can get your brother into the VIP room, with 24 hours nursing.”
I stopped, and asked him with my head tilted, “Seriously?”
“Of course.” The man said, “Give me your card number. I will transfer you the money right now.”
I gave him the card number suspiciously. In an instant the 100,000 was into my account.
Even if I hated rich people, I wouldn’t hate money.
“My name is Tang Mingli. Nice to meet you.” The man said, “Have you picked the place for your live streaming tonight? If not, I’ve got a good suggestion.”
He handed over a file to me. I opened it. It was a private apartment for the aged in the suburbs. Five years ago, the owner received over ten old people.
But on a full-moon night, they all hung themselves in their own rooms, even some paralyzed in bed died. And the two nurses on duty that night were both found dead in the dean’s office on the top floor. They were stabbed to death. And the owner of the apartment killed himself by cutting his wrist.
The police closed the case by claiming that the owner killed all of them and then committed suicide. This case caused uproar in the whole city. Everyone knew it.
Then that apartment became a ghost haunted building. No one dared to take it over. So it was left vacant all these years. In a few months it would be pulled down.
I thought it was kinda interesting. So I made an appointment with Tang Mingli and then went home. When I entered into the alley, some villains surrounded me.
I recognized them. They were the local bully. In here, they had done all evil things except killing people. God knows how many young girls they had raped.
I looked at them watchfully. In theory, they wouldn’t be attracted to me.
“Chun, it is her.” A guy with a ferret face pointed at me and said, “She is that freak I told you.”
That guy called Chun wore a beach shirt, with a cigarette in his mouth, said, “Remove her mask.”
I tried to run away, but they caught me back and ripped off my mask. My face full of fibromas was exposed before them.
That guy called Chun was frightened, “Such a fucking ugly freak does exist!”
“Haha, dude, didn’t you say boss Li has some pervert guests from Southeast Asia who like playing deformed girls? Isn’t she perfectly to their taste?”
On hearing that, I couldn’t stop shaking. I struggled and shouted for help. That ferret face threw a punch into my face while saying some dirty words. I was nearly knocked out.
“Take her away.” Chun said ruthlessly.
At this very moment, a white Maybach stopped in their way.
Tang Mingli got off the car. He said with a wicked grin, “Let her go.”
Chun laughed and said, “Wow, where does this Adonis come from? What? You wanna be a hero? But she is not a beauty. Are you also interested in malformed women?”
Before he finished his words, Tang Mingli already threw his punch into his face. That man called Chun fell onto the ground. He shouted angrily, “What are you waiting for? Beat him!”
Tang Ming seemed to have learnt kung fu before. With only a few moves, those people were all knocked down, groaning while rolling on the ground.
I squatted, covering my face. He came to me and asked, “Are you all right?”
“Go away. Don’t look at my face.” I yelled at him, with my tears down.
Why? Why would I always meet such terrible things?
After a moment’s silence, Tang Mingli picked up the mask and the hat for me and said, “Let me drive you home.”
I got a punch in the face, so I felt quite dizzy. He took me home. After seeing my shabby house, there was kinda of gloomy things in his eyes.
I sat on the couch, said to him with my head down, “Thank you.”
“Don’t mention it. Do you need some rest?” He asked.
I shook my head, “It’s OK. I can do it.”
“OK. Then I will come pick you up later.” He didn’t say much and then left. I tried to clean the tears on my face.
“What’s the big deal even if I am ugly? What’s the big deal even if I am as lowly as the weed?”
“I want to live, I want to live well, I want to live better than anyone else.”
I went out. I went to butcher Niu who specially killed chicken and sheep for others in the market and borrowed a knife from him. That knife had been with him for years. He had killed numerous lives with it.
The knife used for killing lives bore heavy evil spirit, which was specially used to deal with ghosts.
Then I went to a dog shop and asked for some dog blood from the boss, and then cut a peach branch. Everything was prepared for the live stream tonight.
At dusk, the setting sun colored the sky into shining red. This time Tang Mingli drove a Land Rover. On seeing my equipment, he couldn’t help laughing, “Junyao, you do like a master now.”
He then added, “A mystifying master.”
I frowned. “Why does show some intimacy? We are not than familiar, are we?” But on thinking he was gonna change a VIP room for my brother, I could only take it.
We drove before the apartment. It was all old houses in this area. And the residents had already moved away. On the wall was written a big vermeil word “DEMOLISH”.
I opened my live stream room and changed the room name–Horrible Nursing Home, the massacre five years ago uncovered.
With an explosive and eye-catching name of my room, I could attract more audience.
Maybe because it was a big success the first time I had a live stream, Heiyan TV immediately put me on the front page. And in less than two minutes, I had got hundreds of audience, and the number had been increasing.
I gave a close-up of the apartment, and told the history of it. Then the number of the audience was over 1,000, and I even got a bunch of gifts.
I felt really happy. Then I started to introduce Tang Mingli: “This is today’s guest. His name is a secret. But I can tell you he is a kung fu master.”
[Wow! So cute! This jade pendant represents my heart!]
Just another anthomaniac! She sent a jade pendant which was worth 100. A hundred!
I curled my lips. People with pretty faces were always popular.
I hung up the phone on my neck. Then I walked in first, taking my flashlight.
Suddenly Tang Mingli stopped me, and murmured, “Wait. Someone is in there.”
[Wow! Highlight at the beginning! This is killing it!]
[A cute guy! Wow! I like him!]
That girl sent another jade pendant. I muted my phone immediately.
Tang Mingli shushed me. We walked inside quietly, suddenly heard a woman sobbing.
I was startled and looked inside and found some villains were trying to rape a young and pretty nurse.