Chapter 11 – Don’t buy ‘real leather’ from from an unknown source

TL: Cloe
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The toilet incident has come to an end, but the game is still ongoing. At 7:50 pm, everyone gathered in the living room on time.

“There is still one minute until my package will arrive.” Huang Lu mumbled as she glanced at her watch.

It was still raining outside and the wind was blowing noisily. Huang Lu opened her phone anxiously and checked her purchase again.

According to the results of yesterday’s discussion, she bought a category two safe item: An ordinary leather bag. Compared to those flashy Category 1 and Category 3 items, the introduction of the leather bag is very brief, and the whole bag gives off the half-dead atmosphere of an item with bad sales.

Description: A packable leather bag.

When there were thirty seconds left until the clock struck eight, the barrier covering the entrance of the package delivering hole began moving on its own without any wind. Amidst a grating sound that made one’s teeth ache, the first package was “spat out” through the opening.

After throwing the package, the ghost retracted its hand as if in a hurry.

Lin Huai the culprit: ……

Everyone looked at each other, but no one went up to take the package.

Then came the second, third… After the eleventh package was spat out, the blood-red entrance closed quietly, and the white baffle re-covered the entrance with a snap.

In this extremely quiet atmosphere, Lin Huai was the first to walk over. He stretched out two fingers, picked up a T-shirt wrapped in a black plastic bag, and made a silent mouth gesture to the plastic bag.

“Bang.”

Just with one breath, the package, which was still twisting slightly, immediately calmed down obediently because of the dangerous smell.

Lin Huai’s smile had a bit of tenderness in it as he squatted on the ground and turned his gaze to everyone else: “Are you guys not going to come and get your packages?”

Then everyone gathered around as if waking up from a dream, and picked up their own packages according to the name on the list. After tearing open the black plastic bags, a dazzling array of daily necessities were piled on the ground. Huang Lu counted them one by one according to the shopping list given by everyone, and said after a long while: “They are all correct.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Even though the towels and toy dolls piled together on the floor didn’t have any supernatural changes, none of the players had any intention of using or touching them. Huang Lu noticed that everyone was a little tired and said: “Alright, next let’s……”

“Zi——Zi la- la——”¹ static noises

But at this moment, the TV suddenly started to flicker. A hoarse sound of an old man started to ring out from it: “It’s 20:00 in Beijing, hehehe. Congratulations to all the players who survived the first day…”

“Let me count the number of people left. One, two, three ……. ten people. Seems like everyone is a good kid, and there weren’t many who broke the rules…… This old man is very happy ah……”

“There are still three days left, I hope everyone can abide by the rules and pass this game oh…… But of course, even if you don’t survive this game, you can still leave this building intact as meat paste. By the way, meat paste is bio-waste oh!”

“Next, please continue to actively buy things or find the mole. PS: Please remember to take the purchased items back to the room at night, otherwise unpredictable things will happen.” The TV flashed a couple of times as if acting cute, “And the little friend of yours from earlier has already gone to the bio-waste…… Let me see where she flowed²Flowed like jam or sm bc like… Meat paste. Meat sauce 😀 to?”

If there was a person on Earth whose sole purpose is to make people unhappy, then this old man must be the leader of them. Chu Tian walked towards the TV with his wrench before everyone’s face could turn any paler.

In a second, the TV screen turned off as if frightened.

Chu Tian poked the TV with his wrench a couple of times but didn’t receive any response. He regretfully said: “I still have a couple of questions neh.”

Everyone, who had long been accustomed to his brave actions, were silent.

Lin Huai stared at the TV with a thoughtful expression.

“Then that’s pretty much it for today.” Huang Lu said with a headache. She picked up her leather bag which she bought from the ghost APP and decided to go upstairs.

As for the wrapping paper and receipt in the package, she threw them on the coffee table.

The first day passed, except for getting the information that “the rules cannot be violated” and one person dying, there was no other progress. After discussing it until eleven o’clock, everyone decided to go to bed and recharge their batteries to wait for tomorrow’s shopping.

“I must grab the most expensive item tomorrow…” Before leaving, Lin Huai heard Sha MaTe muttering to his phone.

After arriving in the room, Lin Huai and Chu Tian both fell asleep as soon as they touched the pillow. Ye Xian put aside the small fan he bought and prepared to sleep.

Just as he closed his eyes, he was tapped on the forehead by the person next to him.

“?”

“It’s nothing, I just want to remind you of something.” Lin Huai lay next to him and looked at him, with a smile in his beautiful peach blossom eyes, “Don’t touch the T-shirt I hung in the closet tonight if you have nothing to do.”

Ye Xian was confused as Lin Huai continued to stare at him: “Oh…… Why?”

“Nothing much, I’m afraid you’ll be beaten to pieces by it.”

Ye Xian turned to the other side. Chu Tian, ​​who was lying on the other side, was holding a pillow and sleeping soundly.

…Lin Huai didn’t know why, but he suddenly felt a little redundant…

late at night.

“Shua, shua, shua……”

In her sleep, the slight sound of fabric rubbing against the ground woke Huang Lu up from her sleep.

She had always been a light sleeper and was used to being a 996 person. Apart from the fact that she no longer had lush hair, she also no longer had the luxury of sleep. Hair can be saved with ginger shampoo, but sleep cannot. In the game, this ability to confuse black and white was even more developed, making her even more vigilant in her sleep.

It can be seen that as long as you pay, you will definitely be rewarded. Except for Wang Zhaojun’s singing³Wang Qiang, commonly known by her courtesy name Wang Zhaojun was known as one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. So basically this sentence means that his singing is so good that it’s unscientific, there are many real-life experiences that can prove it.

Huang Lu opened her eyes slightly. The room was still dark, but the wind blew open the curtains, and the bright moonlight poured into the room.

It was supposed to be a beautiful sight, but she suddenly remembered that she didn’t open the window before going to bed.

The hair all over her body stood up instantly, and she heard the beating of her heart and the sound of panting.

In a place where she can’t see, the leather bag she bought was struggling to crawl towards her bed.

“Ha…ha…ha……”

The brown leather during the day has now turned flesh-pink, and with the strange cry, the cyan veins on the leather bag jump. The zipper opened and its teeth-like elements on the zipper opened and closed, moving around her feet.

As if dissatisfied that its size wasn’t big enough, the leather bag ‘thought’ about it and turned inside out. Something like human skin stretched out, and the human-shaped skin, with a face without facial features. It crawled accurately towards Huang Lu.

Huang Lu’s whole body was stiff. At this moment, she had no way to escape, so she closed her eyes.

There are many cases of people escaping by pretending to be dead. She prayed silently that the bag would leave her alone. The cold sweat from her back soaked the bed.

Please leave, please leave, please leave…… She chanted repeatedly in her heart. Suddenly, she remembered the description of the bag from the app.

“Real leather, big capacity.”

Big capacity…… Does it mean that even a human can fit in it? 

Or… Is this bag originally made with human skin??

As her thoughts headed towards a wild direction, Huang Lu felt the human skin ‘bag’ stopped right next to her, its slippery and greasy ‘hand’ pressing down on the bed next to her. It didn’t have a heartbeat or warmth, but she could feel that the ‘person’ was standing next to her, staring at her with its head tilted.

She was forced to show off her heroic spirit of remaining unmoved despite the storm, silently counting the numbers in her heart.

“One, two, three……”

When she counted to five hundred⁴Woww… That’s some patience right there, the ‘human skin’ finally stopped ‘staring’ at her, and the rustling sound came again. The ‘human skin’ crawled along the bed and gradually toward the window.

She waited another one thousand seconds ⁵Damn, that’s 16,6 minutes- I would have accidentally fallen asleep Q-Q. which was an extremely long time, so long that she counted nine hundred and ninety-nine dozens of times. After counting to nine hundred and ninety-nine for the last time, she opened her eyes slightly in silence.⁶Uh… I guess she kept starting over and over again to count to 1000?

The room was once again dim. She saw no trace of the human skin ghost and couldn’t help but let out a long sigh of relief at the comfort of her lucky escape.

It’s like a nightmare…… Also, didn’t we buy a ‘safe’ class item?

With such doubts, Huang Lu, who was exhausted, moved her fingers.

But suddenly, there was a wet “plop” as something fell from the ceiling.

Huang Lu slowly looked up and saw the human skin without facial features, it was hanging on the ceiling lights and staring at her.

She screamed and tried her best to wake Ni Xiao, who was sleeping next to her. But Ni Xiao was sleeping like the dead, no matter how she pushed her, she remained unconscious.

Fear spread in her heart. Huang Lu stumbled down from the bed, and the human skin moved along the ceiling, following her as if it were alive.

Perhaps because of panic, the door handle that used to open easily with a turn is now as heavy as a stone. Moments before the human skin wrapped around her face, Huang Lu finally opened the door.

The villa was silent at night. Maybe someone heard the noise, but obviously, no one wanted to go out and risk being killed.

Or perhaps, the ghost isolated other people’s consciousness so that no one could hear them.

The game’s trick is to attack one person at a time. She also once woke up from a deep sleep, only to find that her roommate who was still lying next to her last night had been beaten to pieces by the ghost.

But she didn’t expect that this time, it would be her turn.

Huang Lu ran down the corridor in panic. Because of fright, she forgot how dangerous it was outside of her room at night. All she could think about was escaping from this corridor.

Next to her room was Chu Tian and Lin Huai’s room, and next to their room was the staircase. The moment she saw the staircase, she tripped and fell onto the ground.

“AH——！”

Before she had time to react or lament Murphy’s Law⁷“Mrs. Murphy’s law” is a corollary of Murphy’s law, which states that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong while Mr. Murphy is out of town.”., the “bag” had already attacked her and swallowed her entire calf.

The severe pain hit her like a storm and when she was in despair, the door in front of her opened.

The young man with black hair and black eyes was wearing pajamas, yawning, and looking at her from top to bottom.

“LIN HUAI!!”

She had no time to ponder on why Lin Huai was still awake and desperately begged him to help her.

Lin Huai, whom Huang Lu had pinned all her hopes on, paused when he saw the greedy human skin.

And then he closed the door.

Huang Lu: ……

She closed her eyes again in despair. When she was ready to face death, the door opened again.

The young man in a T-shirt held a black pajama and slammed it onto her calf. The moment the fabric touched the human skin ghost, it curled up into a ball and let out a miserable cry.

She had never heard such a shrill scream, as if all its life had been sucked away. The human skin ghost quickly dried, turned black, and eventually became a shriveled mass.

…and it finally fell onto the ground in despair.

Huang Lu gasped for air, her eyes red. The black-haired young man squatted down, stretched out his two slender fingers to pick up the human skin, and flicked the black charcoal-like object away.

“It’s alright now oh.” He said as he showed the  shriveled mass to Huang Lu, “See……?”

Huang Lu’s eyes rolled up and fainted.

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  static noises
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  Flowed like jam or sm bc like… Meat paste. Meat sauce 😀
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  Wang Qiang, commonly known by her courtesy name Wang Zhaojun was known as one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. So basically this sentence means that his singing is so good that it’s unscientific
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  Woww… That’s some patience right there
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  Damn, that’s 16,6 minutes- I would have accidentally fallen asleep Q-Q
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  Uh… I guess she kept starting over and over again to count to 1000?
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  “Mrs. Murphy’s law” is a corollary of Murphy’s law, which states that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong while Mr. Murphy is out of town.”.