Chapter 1507: Chapter 912: Ghost Script
This is definitely the Source Ghost; the clues Munan desperately left were targeted at it!
In the final moment, Yang Xiao saw clearly that this guy was wearing a bloody work uniform, and on his feet was a pair of worn-out safety shoes, the shoe tips severely damaged, exposing the steel plate hidden inside.
This guy’s outfit looks like that of a factory worker, and his death is very similar to the worker who was brutally killed by the machines. But the characteristics don’t match; the worker who died tragically had no arms, yet this guy had arms.
As Jiang Qingluan rushed into the office, she was shocked by the gruesome scene before her eyes. A bloody corpse was slumped in the chair in an extremely bizarre posture, the neck broken, head drooping horrifyingly, with wounds all over the body that were chilling.
The deceased was Liu Yang; Jiang Qingluan stayed behind to examine the body while Yang Xiao and Chen Nang took a quick look around the vicinity but could not find any trace of the other teammate, Shu Shuang.
"Look here," Jiang Qingluan had already removed Liu Yang’s coat, exposing the chest and abdomen which were almost pierced into a beehive.
"I picked up these scissors on the ground." Jiang Qingluan raised the scissors in her hand.
The scissors were an old-fashioned stainless steel kind, large in hand, covered in bloodstains, with bits of flesh still stuck on the blade.
Moving closer, Yang Xiao leaned over to examine the wounds on Liu Yang’s body. Most were stab wounds, but the real fatal injury was due to the neck being twisted.
A ghost wouldn’t do such boring things; these are completely two different murder styles. The twisted neck reminded Yang Xiao of the so-called Headless Ghost.
During the site survey, they also found a piece of rope and a roll of medical tape.
Following the trail of dragged blood along the hallway, they moved inward and found a small room that was also bloodstained. More importantly, they found a women’s coat, which was Shu Shuang’s, also covered in bloodstains.
"Looks like we all underestimated her," Jiang Qingluan said, holding two empty medicine bottles that were found in the inner pocket of the coat.
Connecting all these events, it’s clear what happened in the office tonight. Shu Shuang harbored resentment due to Liu Yang’s repeated bullying, used the opportunity of going out to buy medicine to treat injuries to secretly buy medicine for Liu Yang. After the drug’s effect kicked in, she controlled him, tortured him brutally, and finally delivered him to the Headless Ghost to be killed.
But from the looks of it, after Liu Yang was killed by the ghost, Shu Shuang couldn’t escape her fate either.
"Two fools..." Chen Nang clutched Shu Shuang’s coat, the unbearable experience of almost being set up to die by foolish teammates resurfacing.
Given the situation, those two were still exhausting their minds in internal strife. Their manpower was already insufficient, and now with their loss, adding up the three, only five survived.
According to the employee handbook, at least three people must stay in the company during the day, meaning only two can go out tomorrow to find clues.
Although they have not yet found Shu Shuang’s body, everyone has already assumed she’s dead; leaving the office tonight is a dead end.
"This is..." Chen Nang noticed a red phone under a table.
The phone had a red casing, identical to the one Jiang Qingluan threw out to lure the ghost away.
The instant the phone screen lit up, chills ran down Jiang Qingluan’s spine; the screen froze on the message page.
These were messages she had once sent to Liu Yang because the phone was originally with Liu Yang.
The messages included methods of the Headless Ghost’s murders and some survival tips.
Her intentions were good, hoping to help Liu Yang and Shu Shuang get through the night, but the bad part was that the messages also included tonight’s password to open the door.
Now it’s clear that the phone she discarded was picked up by a ghost. It used the phone to impersonate her, tricked Shu Shuang into opening the door, and then killed her after she had controlled Liu Yang.
Now that it’s happened, dwelling or regretting is pointless. Yang Xiao reassured Jiang Qingluan not to overthink it; even without her phone, Shu Shuang might not have survived the night.
From the moment she chose to kill Liu Yang, it was no longer under their control; these two people were simply not meant to survive in the Nightmare World. They underestimated the complexity and horror of this world.
"Let’s start checking the intelligence." Jiang Qingluan took a deep breath and put away the phone.
The three gathered and began to verify the intelligence obtained tonight.
Yang Xiao obtained the original script of the Yinren film in the scriptwriting room, while Jiang Qingluan managed to, with Chen Nang’s cooperation, acquire a paper from the ghost pocket of the Door-knocking Ghost.
The matter was indeed as they had suspected; it was also a commitment letter, but the contents were more specific, showing phrases like his death was an accident, it’s unrelated to the crew, I will keep silent, and so on.
"The deceased was not a worker, but an actor from the film crew. He died due to an accident on the film set." Yang Xiao recalled the Source Ghost’s attire and continued, "His role was a worker, and... most likely the ghost in the film."
Yang Xiao’s words were understandable; Chen’s Strange Film Industry makes horror movies where ghosts actually exist, and Yang Xiao speculates the Source Ghost was the actor portraying the ghost in the film.
With clues, they reviewed the script again. Yang Xiao’s past occupation was a script-kill writer, needing a certain level of scriptwriting skills so he would interpret the script more professionally.
