Chapter 478 - 487
The blurry figure drew closer and closer. The old man’s heart trembled, and he glanced back at the lake behind him.
He desperately tried to analyze the situation. ’If that thing in front of me gets me, is there any chance of survival?’
’But if I escape into the lake, things might be different. After all, I can swim. As long as I’m careful, I should be fine, right?’
The old man weighed his options again and again as he watched the eerie figure get nearer and nearer.
He finally made up his mind: he would jump into the lake and use his swimming skills to escape.
The online viewers watched as the old man, who had just come to his senses from being in the water, seemed to go mad, turning to jump back into the lake.
[What’s wrong with the old man?]
[He’s definitely been bewitched by that ghost!]
[Damn, this ghost is so vicious!]
[It’s gotta be that pitch-black ghost. That one looks terrifying!]
[Don’t worry, don’t worry, the police will be there any second!]
The old man hesitated, but seeing the strange, dark figure now only a hundred meters away, he grit his teeth and resolved to jump into the lake.
"Without abandon, without attachment. Without action, without self. Settle!"
At the critical moment, Su Nian made her move.
Su Nian’s expression was placid, her lips set in a straight line. She recited the phrase without a trace of emotion, but her eyes were incredibly resolute, filled with righteous energy.
And when Su Nian recited what seemed like an ordinary phrase, it carried an aura that could clear one’s mind.
Su Nian’s slender, fair index finger tapped lightly on the table, and in time with her words, it let out a clear DING.
The old man, who had been on the verge of jumping into the lake, suddenly snapped out of it. He looked again, and there was no dark figure by the shore.
The old man shuddered, understanding in an instant. He scrambled away from the water’s edge and ran toward the phone.
Everything that had happened tonight was simply too horrifying. Although the old man’s head was still a bit foggy, the words Su Nian had just spoken allowed him to hold on to a final thread of clarity.
Seeing another dark figure waiting for him up ahead, the old man hesitated, but then he remembered that what he had just seen was nothing but an illusion.
He grit his teeth, squeezed his eyes shut, and charged forward, arriving once again in front of his phone.
His hands trembling, he grabbed the phone and turned to run. This place was just too damn creepy; he didn’t dare stay a second longer.
[Thank god the streamer stepped in. If she hadn’t, the old man would’ve been killed by that ghost!]
[This ghost creates illusions to make people jump into the lake themselves!]
[You don’t think the female ghost was killed by it the same way, do you?!]
[Aren’t you guys curious? How did this ghost die?]
[I heard from that other netizen earlier, the female ghost’s cause of death was different. But what’s the deal with this pitch-black ghost?]
Just then, a police car drove up.
Its flashing red and blue lights were piercing and conspicuous.
The viewer who had called the police, combined with the precise location provided by Su Nian, allowed the officers to arrive quickly.
It was at that exact moment that the viewers in the livestream chat clearly saw the pitch-black figure that had been sitting on the old man’s shoulders.
It slowly peeled itself off his body and gradually sank into the ground.
[Holy crap, so that’s the thing! What the hell is that?!]
[Oh my god, that’s terrifying! That thing almost got the old man killed!]
[Could that leg bone belong to it?]
The police who responded to the call arrived to find a panicked old man frantically gathering his things.
They wanted to approach him to understand the situation, but the old man kept his eyes squeezed shut and wouldn’t say a word to them.
The old man now suspected that even these police officers were an illusion, surely here to harm him.
He kept his eyes closed, refusing to even look at the police, just silently chanting, "Heavens protect me, you can’t see me! You can’t see me!"
The police: ???
They didn’t get it. Not at all.