Even After My Death
Chapter 174 - 134 Huo Ziheng is Awake (Extra for Votes)

Chapter 174: Chapter 134 Huo Ziheng is Awake (Extra for Votes)

Huo Ziheng was dead.

The atmosphere of the team had clearly become more silent and tense than before.

It wasn’t until everyone, under the leadership of Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou, successfully emerged from the mountain range that the oppressive feelings in their hearts began to dissipate somewhat.

They came to a wide river, the water churning rapidly, the sound of the currents roaring, and under the bright moonlight, the river’s surface was sparkling.

"Ah! Is that the safe house?" Yuan Wei suddenly raised his hand and pointed ahead.

A small house appeared before everyone, situated at the foot of a mountain a few kilometers away.

It was already dark, and in normal circumstances, that small house would have been invisible, but the person inside had turned on the incandescent light, making it bright and conspicuous in the vast darkness.

The moment Jiang Ning stepped out of the forest, she had noticed that small house and, turning her head towards Qi Xingzhou who nodded silently, she walked with him upstream along the river.

Now, without Jiang Ning mentioning it, everyone began to head towards the safe house. After walking for two continuous days, seeing the end point of victory visibly lightened their spirits. Yuan Wei and Ling Bo, along with a few other young men, even surpassed Jiang Ning and Qi Xingzhou, as if they could not wait to enter the safe house in the next second.

The audience in front of their screens also breathed a sigh of relief:

[Ah, they finally made it to the safe house]

[They’ve walked for a whole two days; they’ve finally arrived. It’s kind of like a different kind of Long March, right?]

[What kind of Long March is this? The Long March was 25,000, a hundred or a thousand times tougher than this!]

[Cough cough, it’s just a metaphor, don’t get worked up. For these guests who are normally pampered, walking such a long mountain road for the past two days is not easy either. Ordinary people couldn’t endure it.]

[Hurry hurry, after getting to the safe house there’ll be food and drink and even rooms to stay in. More importantly, I want to know who the other mystery guest of the production crew is!]

[Right, the production crew mentioned there are two mystery guests, I’d forgotten... No wonder the safe house light is on.]

[Known fact: All these guests entered the Virtual World on the same day. One of the mystery guests, who was well-acquainted with Jiang Ning and knew that she was participating in this variety show, left the safe house alone after not waiting for Jiang Ning for a day, crossed the great forest to find her and the other guests.]

[The other mystery guest in the safe house chose not to set off together and stayed alone in the safe house, could it be a girl?]

[Hmm, that’s not impossible.]

The viewers in front of the screen made various guesses about the mystery guest in the safe house, but at that moment, they suddenly found that the previously stable live broadcast room split in two.

[!!!]

[What’s going on!?]

[None of the other guests have acted alone, have they? Why is there suddenly an extra live broadcast room? Could it be...!!!]

[Hahaha, it must be! Someone is separated, Huo Ziheng! He has gone solo!]

The viewers watching the live stream suddenly became excited, quickly sharing the live broadcast room with their friends and families, not wanting them to miss out on this rare, epochal scene.

The popularity of the live broadcast soared suddenly!

And the production crew did not disappoint everyone. The camera of the newly split screen was turned on, focusing on a room number.

[Room 7! Isn’t that the room Huo Ziheng went into for an afternoon nap after having lunch on the yacht that day!]

[Hahaha, thrilling!]

[Quick, quick, push the door open!]

[The production crew really knows how to stir things up!]

The audience was rubbing their hands together in excitement.

And the production crew lived up to the expectations, as a man’s hand appeared in front of the camera, fingers bent, knocking on the door, the sound muffled.

"—Thump thump—"

"—Thump thump—"

The rhythmic knocking startled Huo Ziheng awake from the darkness, his eyes flying open as he sat up abruptly!

His heart in his left chest thumped wildly, his breathing was rapid, and the terrifying sensation of being on the brink of death caused a cold sweat to flow all over his body.

Gasping for air, his mind was filled with the pain of falling into the abyss before his death, being pierced by tree branches, blood gushing out.

Huo Ziheng curled up in discomfort, raising his hand to cover his abdomen, and then... Huo Ziheng looked down at his hand, his expression suddenly froze.

He wasn’t dead?????

How was that possible!

He distinctly remembered Huo Miao’s hands pushing him, pressing against his lower abdomen and pushing him outward, then, like a torn piece of cloth in the wind, his body plummeted rapidly, landing on a broken tree, the trunk piercing straight through his body.

That real, painful sensation of the body being impaled was so vivid and agonizing that the mere thought of it made Huo Ziheng tremble.

Just then, the knocking on the door snapped Huo Ziheng out of his painful recollections, and at the same time, a gentle male voice came from outside the door, "Mr. Huo, are you awake? May we come in?"

This voice sounded incredibly familiar to Huo Ziheng.

A glimmer of recognition flashed through his mind but before he could grasp it, the information vanished.

"Come in." Huo Ziheng spoke.

As he spoke, he realized how dry his throat was as if he hadn’t spoken for many days.

The room door was pushed open from the outside, and the first thing that caught his eye was a dark camera. Huo Ziheng paused, and then the next second, he saw the middle-aged man behind the film crew, smiling like the Maitreya Buddha.

Huo Ziheng was stunned again, "Director Shen?"

The person who had just been speaking to him outside the door was Shen Zha. Could it be that he was saved by someone from the production crew?!