Chapter 502: 502

Fan Chong was very unstable; it was obvious that this had affected him deeply . “Boss Chen, the game is really too much . Whenever Xiao Bu dies, I feel like she’s looking at me like I’m the one who killed her . “

Taking a breath, Fan Chong took out his phone . “Whenever I clear the game, I record the game process so that I can select a different route to go for a different ending next time . “

Swiping on the screen, Fan Chong opened the note on his phone—it was filled with words . “Unlocking all the achievements in the game, the system awarded me with Mommy’s Pajamas, and the key to the basement was found inside the pajamas . It was after the discovery of the key that the name of the main character was changed to Xiao Bu .

“The entrance to the dungeon was hidden behind the closet at a friend’s home . After using the key, the style of the game changed completely . I’ve told you what happened next . I controlled Xiao Bu to go through the dungeon, and she saw a bus stop . To evade the red monster, she was forced to get on the bus . “

So far, it matched what Fan Chong had said earlier .

“The bus started its engine and moved on the road . Xiao Bu, in her mother’s pajamas, wandered up and down the bus . Some time later, the sound of a child crying come from the game . Then, two options came on screen: Find the source of the crying or ask the driver .

“The first time, I chose to ask the driver . However, when I reached the driver’s seat, I realized that the bus had no driver . In fact, the whole bus was empty . The crying became louder and it felt like it appeared next to my ears and not from the game .

“The bus soon reached its first stop—Li Wan City . A line appeared on screen then: I have to leave this place .

“I controlled Xiao Bu to leave the bus . She turned back to look, and the scary part happened . The windows were filled with human faces, and they stared at me through the computer screen . Before I could react, a red shadow appeared . It was the scary woman in a red raincoat . To evade her pursuit, I ran into the nearby Li Wan City .

“The city was the map where the main character did her mission . The building and layout were all the same, but the style had completely changed . From a city filled with warmth and sunlight, it turned into a city of fear, dullness, and terror .

“The woman chased after me . I controlled Xiao Bu to run down the street . Words kept popping up—Help me! Help me!—but there was no one in the city . In the end, I was forced to hide inside an old building with no other escape .

“The woman got closer and closer . The screen focused on her face until it was fully dominated by it . The sticky hair parted to the sides, and the woman revealed her real face . Her eyes were filled with blood, and her mouth was sewn shut . It looked so scary .

“A very scary smile issued from the computer, and then a sentence appeared on screen—Xiao Bu has become her new child .

“Xiao Bu’s head was covered by the red raincoat woman’s hair, and I lost control of her . “

Fan Chong took a deep breath after that . The image was too scary, and just thinking about it made him scared .

“Was this one of the bad endings?” Chen Ge got a bottle of water from the worker and handed it to Fan Chong .

“Compared to the other endings, this might be the best one . ” Fan Chong did not reach for the water . His face was pale as he continued his story .

“After Xiao Bu was taken away, the screen went dark . The sound of children laughing and crying came from the computer, and then a row of gray words appeared—Why did you kill me?

“The handwriting was like the child’s dark and helpless eyes . It made me feel so guilty . After a long time, the words disappeared, and the screen returned to normal . Xiao Bu woke up in her own room, wearing her mother’s pajamas . “

At this point, Chen Ge raised his hand to interrupt Fan Chong . “Sleeping in her own room? Meaning after the character’s death, the game reloaded at the bedroom?”

“Yes, she was lying in bed, like what had happened earlier was just a nightmare . The sun outside the window was still shining . People hurried to work, and they greeted each other . ” Fan Chong did not think too much of it . “The game restarted . I controlled Xiao Bu to enter the dungeon and got on the bus, but this time, I made a different decision . “

“You chose to search for the child’s crying on the bus?” Eastern Jiujiang was different from Western Jiujiang . All the ghost stories seemed to be connected, and the trigger of one would create a domino effect . Therefore, Chen Ge memorized everything Fan Chong said—he felt like the game was hiding a very important clue .

“Yes, I controlled Xiao Bu to walk to the last row on the bus . She found an old school bag . Then a sentence popped up—Xiao Bu found a wet phone inside the bag . Xiao Bu activated the phone, and then a few more windows popped up . It looked like Xiao Bu was reading the content of the phone . “

“There was a phone inside the bag? At the last row? What did it say?” Chen Ge remembered Xiao Gu say that there had been a high-schooler at the last row on the bus, and the student had kept hugging his bag . His hand had been inside the bag like he was holding something .

“I’ve jotted it down . These few words were the reason I came to find you today because I think this has gone beyond just a simple game . There has to be something more . ” Fan Chong passed his phone to Chen Ge . Three paragraphs were written on the note .

“1st September, my mother and I moved into a new apartment . Our neighbor is a young man who lives alone . He rears a large dog . It looks so tame—its name is Xiao Bu .

“7th September, when I came back, I saw the neighbor walking down the stairs hugging a big black plastic bag . He looked so sad and said the pet that he had looked after for so many years had left him . The dog seemed to have ingested some poison and died at home .

“At the end of October, the young man moved away . The landlord found a fridge filled with dog meat in his home . The neighbor must have been devastated when Xiao Bu died . “

The three sentences might look normal, but upon closer inspection, they read so weirdly . The neighbor carried a large bag down the stairs, saying his pet was dead, but then the landlord found a fridge filled with dog meat . Then what was really inside the man’s plastic bag on the night of 7th September?

Fan Chong slid the display downward . “I checked the news around Jiujiang in September, and there was indeed a similar murder around the time . And the crime scene was in Li Wan City as mentioned in the game . ”