Chapter 477 - 486: Dilemma
The old man stepped firmly into the water, yet his expression showed no hint of anything wrong, as if this were a completely normal act.
In the darkness, the viewers could still hear the old man muttering to himself.
"The road... where’s the road? Why can’t I find it?"
The confusion in the old man’s voice made it sound even more terrifying to the viewers.
[Holy crap, the old man’s been bewitched by a ghost! He just walked straight into the water. Is he trying to commit suicide?]
[I’ve already called the police, but it’ll take them a while to find this location!]
Su Nian’s voice was perfectly level and calm as she said, "About three kilometers down Shiqing Road, next to Jade Lake!"
[Okay, okay, I’m on it!]
The viewer hastily jotted down the information and dialed the police again.
Hearing this, a local viewer frowned in confusion.
[Shiqing Road isn’t far from my house... How come I have no memory of this lake?]
Another viewer chimed in.
[I know about this lake. Now that the host mentions it, I remember! This lake really is near us, and it’s notoriously cursed!]
[Hurry, hurry, tell us the details!]
Many viewers echoed the sentiment, and the user named ’I Love My Home’ began to recount the story.
[When I was little, my family lived in the village, and my friends and I loved to play by this lake!]
[The lake just looked different back then, so I didn’t recognize it at first. We used to go there all the time to catch fish and shrimp, until one day, a major incident happened in the village.]
[I heard there was this psycho who killed a girl and... butchered her, hacking out all her bones. And if that wasn’t enough, he wrapped her skeletal remains in cloth, put rocks in the bundle, and sank it to the bottom of the lake!]
[That caused a huge uproar at the time. The most sinister part was that every year after that, a child from the village would drown. Mind you, this was all about 30 years ago.]
The story this viewer told did match the details about the female ghost’s remains, but what about the charred ghost?
The old man continued walking along the bottom of the lake, feeling more and more uneasy as he went.
As he walked this "path," he felt an icy chill all over his body, especially in his knees.
But just then, Su Nian’s knuckles tapped rhythmically on the table, making a TAP-TAP sound.
The sound instantly jolted the old man to his senses, and he shivered from a sudden chill.
The viewers, who had been watching helplessly as he walked into the lake, saw him freeze, as if he had suddenly snapped out of a trance.
He was about to reach the deeper part of the lake when he suddenly looked around in a daze. A look of terror crossed his face, and he immediately started running frantically toward the shore.
"I already found your remains for you, didn’t I? Why are you still trying to harm me? Why are you still trying to harm me?!"
The old man had never personally experienced anything supernatural, but he’d grown up hearing similar legends.
This was clearly a case of Walking in Circles. The thought terrified the old man. He had actually believed he could walk out of this place safely.
’I can’t believe it. I already found her remains, and the ghost is still doing this to me.’
The old man was terrified. He no longer trusted the female ghost and could only scramble back in a panic. But as he ran, something felt wrong again. He sensed that someone was standing up ahead.
Sure enough, the old man froze, not daring to move. He stood trembling in the frigid lake water, now truly understanding what it meant to be caught between a rock and a hard place.
Standing on the shore was something with an obscured face. From its shape, it looked like a person.
But after all the bizarre things he had experienced that night, the old man suspected it was something else.
Behind him, however, lay the deep water of the lake. It was very deep. He was a decent swimmer, but he wasn’t sure if his old body had what it took to survive if he waded back in.
The viewers watched as the old man made it halfway back, but then he suddenly stopped moving again.
From the viewers’ perspective, however, they couldn’t see what was on the shore. All they could see was the old man’s expression slowly stiffening with terror.