HLnovel Chapter 232 Theme Competition: Breaking Free (1)
Chapter 232 Theme Competition: Breaking Free (1)
"Beep—The contestant has completed the haunted house experience. The team has accumulated 380 million views and 90 million star tickets for their work."
Congratulations to the Shide Guyuan Wine team for advancing to the next themed competition! Please participate again after a week's rest.
Since it's a themed competition, there won't just be one match; the elimination process will continue until only ten teams remain.
There are currently 300 teams remaining, which means this themed tournament is expected to have several more rounds.
Gu Shijiu came out with Shi Qi this time, and her head was still buzzing afterward.
"This script is so strange." Gu Shijiu had encountered ghosts and monsters before, but this was the first time she had encountered one that could affect her mental state.
Shi Qi's face was also a little pale: "It's clear that even entering the script can't guarantee safety. We still need to be more careful in the future."
Gu Shijiu wholeheartedly agreed: "It's a good thing we're together this time, otherwise I wouldn't know what to do."
She still hasn't figured out that messy plot.
"Haha, if all else fails, just collapse the whole building." Shi Qi ruffled her hair.
Even in the live stream room, which the two people couldn't see, the viewers were still discussing it.
"How exactly does one ascend to immortality? Can someone with a bad mind achieve success in cultivation?"
"6187 is finally fighting alongside the captain this time, haha. What were they doing before?"
"6187 did a great job this time, otherwise, with that IQ, he would probably still be wandering around in the stairwell right now."
"It's also possible that he might demolish the building in a fit of anger. That big boss is quite formidable; he might get injured."
"Then we'll have to ask the Dark Creatures for help, they're better at that."
"My mind is already not very sharp, and now I have to suffer from mental pollution. What am I going to do?"
"Speaking of which, this script should have been written by Dark Creatures. The highest scorer this time is the contestant from the Ghost Realm section."
"Haha, I saw it. He recruited all the weird and wonderful things in the building and made them the building managers."
"Am I the only one wondering which world they came from? They're quite adaptable. The players in the next section are clearly very unfamiliar with this environment."
"This world is so strange. I have never met any immortals who came from here before. This is the first time."
"Indeed, we can ask them later. Aren't there going to be interview programs before the semi-finals?"
......
A week later, Gu Shijiu drew a script again, this time called "Breaking the Cocoon," a campus drama.
The male protagonist, Wu Yihai, comes from a blended family. His mother died when he was young, and his father remarried shortly afterward.
His stepmother, Xiang Lanlan, seemed to care for him meticulously on the surface, but in reality, she did not like him. Wu Yihai suffered a lot as a child.
In retaliation, he subjected his stepmother's daughter, Xiangyang, to school violence.
However, after seeing Xiangyang remain resilient and strive to live despite adversity, Wu Yihai began to reflect on himself.
Afterwards, Xiangyang died unexpectedly, and Wu Yihai felt regret and guilt.
Because of this experience, he truly understood the meaning of life and overcame his rebellious adolescence.
From then on, he worked hard, got into a good university, started his own business while in school, and grew into a person who is useful to the country and society.
During this process, Wu Yihai also found love...
What follows is a lengthy account of her love story and entrepreneurial journey, nearly a thousand words long.
The script doesn't seem difficult. Gu Shijiu's eyes lit up: "Is it going to be a campus romance?"
Shi Qi looked at the script and felt something was off: "Which character do you think you would be?"
Gu Shijiu thought about her fate as an extra and felt somewhat uncertain.
The two of them entered the script at the same time.
After regaining consciousness, Gu Shijiu's first sensation was that her body was sliding down, and she heard a loud cutting sound beneath her feet.
Fortunately, she was already used to an unlucky start, and immediately used her hands and feet to brace herself against the wall next to her to stop herself from falling further.
What is this thing? Gu Shijiu felt like she had never seen it before.
She felt like she was inside a container, completely dark and unable to see anything.
After a while, Gu Shijiu's eyes adjusted to the darkness.
She looked down and saw two machines running beneath her: a cutter and a mixer.
If she fell in, she would be turned into mincemeat, which frightened her so much that she climbed up two more steps.
The walls on both sides were a bit slippery, and when Gu Shijiu touched them, they felt like cement.
"This can't be a cement mixer truck, can it..." Gu Shijiu thought to herself.
No wonder she felt she'd never seen one before; she'd only ever seen those big trucks on the road, who knew what they were like inside?
Seeing her body sliding down again, she quickly gripped the inside of the mixer truck with all her might, and after a few muffled thuds, she managed to deform the inner wall.
After several indentations, Gu Shijiu finally got himself stuck.
Just as she was about to continue climbing, the lid above her head was removed, and she could hear voices coming in.
"Boss, it seems the person hasn't fallen yet!" The voice sounded a little panicked.
Then came the sound of footsteps, and a man holding a long stick shoved the person who had just spoken aside: "What can you do?"
As he spoke, he poked Gu Shijiu with a wooden stick.
Although Gu Shijiu didn't know what had happened, the other party who wanted to drag her down and stir things up must be an enemy.
Thinking of this, she tried her best to hang on the inner wall with one hand and grabbed the stick that was being extended with the other hand and pulled it down sharply.
After a scream, the person holding the stick was thrown directly into the blender, and minced meat flew everywhere.
Those outside were quite frightened and didn't react for a moment. Gu Shijiu took the opportunity to pry open the inner wall and climbed out of the filling port on the roof step by step.
At that moment, a long knife was extended again; it belonged to the man who had spoken at the beginning.
Gu Shijiu jumped out with the knife in hand and casually threw the man into the cement mixer truck as well.
After the people were reduced to a pile of minced meat, so badly mixed in with the cement that they were unrecognizable, she remembered that she should have kept one alive to ask about the situation.
The mixer truck's exhaust outlet faced an open space, surrounded by several gasoline drums and piles of dry firewood.
Those two were probably planning to set the car on fire after they were done.
But Gu Shijiu didn't understand what kind of strange ritual this was.
She did want to drive the car away, as it seemed to be worth some money, but after studying it for a long time, she still couldn't drive it away and had to give up.
Gu Shijiu took a few steps, but couldn't tell which way to go, so she sat down on the ground, feeling worried.
She looked so disheveled that it startled everyone watching the live stream.
His entire body was covered in cement and blood, and there were pieces of flesh and bone fragments hanging on his hair and clothes.
She knew without looking in a mirror that this image didn't seem suitable for walking in a crowd;
I had no choice but to get back onto the cement mixer truck and search around until I finally found a cell phone.
The phone was locked. Gu Shijiu tried unlocking it with her fingerprint one by one, and finally unlocked it on the third try.
Wow, I'm so clever! Gu Shijiu gave herself a thumbs up.
She spent the entire night meticulously examining her phone, inside and out, and finally found some useful clues.
Every day, many people send messages to curse this character, and some people even send photos of themselves proudly showing off after damaging her books and desk.
This arrogant move actually made things easier for Gu Shijiu.
She planned to find these people after she got to the school and use the same methods on them.
The character has no father, only a mother with whom he has very little contact.
Every time we contacted her, all she did was scold her and nothing else. She grew up with her maternal grandparents.
After entering high school, I lived at the school dormitory.
Apart from one roommate named Zhang Qian, most of her other roommates liked to bully her, and those who could turn a blind eye were considered kind.
Zhang Qian wasn't very popular at school either, but the two encouraged each other and looked forward to their lives after getting into university.
However, school bullying will not disappear just because they are resilient. Because they have been bullied so badly recently, the character has been staying at Zhang Qian's house for the past few days.
But today, it seems that Zhang Qian has run into trouble.
Just two hours ago, I received a text message on my phone telling me not to go home, but to stay in the dormitory.
After that, there was no further news, and the phone lines were blocked.
However, the character seems to have returned to Zhang Qian's home, because there is an unfinished message in the dialogue box.
【Qianqian, your house is a complete mess. All the cabinets and drawers are open. It looks like a thief broke in.】
Someone is knocking on the door outside. They don't seem like a good person. What's going on? Should I call the police?
That's where I left off; they were probably brought under control back then.
After racking her brains, Gu Shijiu finally concluded that her role was Xiang Yang.