The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 142 - 109: None Survived

Chapter 142: Chapter 109: None Survived

The disfigured woman recounted that she had a 13-year-old daughter named Ding Yi.

Ding Yi was an ordinary person without extraordinary abilities, but she was aware of the existence of supernatural power. As a result, she became an enthusiast of mysticism, self-studying a series of esoteric techniques such as the Six Yao and Six Ren, Mei Hua Yi Shu, Qimen Dunjia, astrology, tarot card divination, and had a fervent fascination with supernatural phenomena.

Three days ago, Ding Yi had an accident at school.

According to the surveillance footage in the classroom, Ding Yi came into the classroom during lunch break, seemingly wanting to retrieve something from her desk hole. As she searched, a look of evident confusion crossed her face, and she pulled out a transparent DVD case from the desk hole.

Opening the case, inside was a white DVD.

Perhaps because the object appeared at school, she mistakenly thought a classmate had put it in there, so she ignored her mother’s previous warning: if she found something that did not belong to her and was very strange, or received inexplicable mail without a signature, never to touch those things, as they could be dangerous abnormalities.

Taking advantage of the empty classroom during lunch break, she inserted the DVD into the classroom’s main computer to see what it contained.

At the moment the movie started playing, the surveillance footage in the classroom twisted and became filled with static and noise. Ding Yi screamed as she was sucked into the screen by a mysterious force and disappeared.

Afterward, an old-fashioned horror movie began to play on the big screen.

The movie’s setting was the classic snowbound mansion, taking place in a countryside villa in England in 1996.

The plot unfolded with nine protagonists receiving a mysterious letter one day, inviting them to a gathering. The letter mentioned a name—"Maeve."

Each character had a different reaction upon receiving the letter: shock, unease, composure, calm, hysterical laughter, and muttering cryptic words...

A week later, the nine people arrived one after another at the villa where the gathering was to take place. A torrential downpour made the villa an isolated island, soaking a few latecomers to the skin.

Aside from the nine protagonists, the villa was empty, yet a lavish meal was prepared on the dining table, and hot water was ready in the bathtub. The nine seemed unperturbed by this, taking baths and then heading to the dining room to dine.

At this moment, Ding Yi appeared on the screen wearing her school uniform, her face filled with fear. From this point on, the movie’s perspective locked onto Ding Yi.

After lunch break ended, students began entering the classroom one by one and saw this strange movie.

By this time, the movie plot had progressed to a killing spree by a maniac, with blood and severed limbs flying about, causing many to feel uncomfortable.

In the end, all nine protagonists died, leaving only Ding Yi. She looked at the approaching killer in terror and cried out for help to her classmates beyond the screen.

The students present were utterly befuddled, having never encountered abnormalities. Their first instinct was to think it was a prank.

It wasn’t until the next scene, where Ding Yi was captured and brutally tortured to death by the killer, that the students realized something was wrong and hurriedly called for a teacher.

When the teacher arrived in the classroom, the movie started playing from the beginning again.

The teacher attempted to pause or shut down the movie, but the mouse and keyboard couldn’t control the computer; in the end, he forcibly unplugged the power, causing the movie screen to disappear.

After calling the police, the Control Bureau swiftly took over the matter and notified the disfigured woman.

For the past three days, the Control Bureau attempted various methods to assist Ding Yi in escaping.

The attempted solutions included, but were not limited to, narrative intrusion, spatial teleportation, bloodline summoning, and various arcane rituals, as well as the use of some Strength-appropriate abnormal items.

After all the solutions involving supernatural power failed, the investigators changed tactics and began directing Ding Yi’s actions.

Ding Yi could communicate with the external personnel, but her memory did not retain, resetting to the moment she first entered the movie every time it started.

Under the investigators’ directions, Ding Yi tried to escape the villa, but soon after leaving, a figure in black holding a sharp knife emerged from the rain and caught up to her, killing her.

Escaping was not an option, so the investigators sought to uncover the truth, but Ding Yi, being just a thirteen-year-old girl, found it too difficult and failed repeatedly.

Seeing her daughter killed over and over again, the disfigured woman’s heart broke. In desperation, she applied to the Control Bureau for an abnormal item.

——[Abnormal 5562: The Bloody Handprint Left by the Maniac]

Its essence was a broken wooden board imprinted with a fresh bloody handprint. Anyone who saw this bloody handprint would turn into a crazed, violent maniac.

She showed this abnormal item to Ding Yi, who immediately turned into a bloodthirsty maniac, killing all nine characters in the villa. Just as she killed the last one, a shadow holding a sharp knife appeared and killed her.

Confirming there was a hidden character in the villa, the investigators directed Ding Yi to blow up the gas and destroy the entire villa.

Ding Yi ran frantically out of the explosion range, gasping in the rain on the open ground. Immediately afterward, a shadow wielding a sharp knife emerged from the nearby woods and killed her.

Thus, all attempts ended in failure.

The disfigured woman was nearly in despair. With no other options, she sought help from her enemy.

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