The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 146 - 111: The Spirit of the Contract

Chapter 146: Chapter 111: The Spirit of the Contract

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Muscle demon? What the hell is that?

The nine main characters of the movie looked confused.

"Oh my God, you ignorant groundhogs, I really want to kick your butts with my boots."

Zhou Yuan rolled up his sleeves, bent his arm, and showed off his bicep, "I’m a boxer, does that make sense to you?"

"I know a few boxers, but they don’t have this capability." The officer gazed at the hole in the wall. He knew full well that only a shell could cause such damage, humans were definitely incapable of such destruction.

"I’ve trained in mysterious Oriental martial arts, ever heard of ’Qigong Destruction’?"

Zhou Yuan wiped his nose, posed like Bruce Lee, and fired a few punches into the air with a swift "ah-da-ah-da," forceful and intimidating.

"..."

The officer was silent for a moment, then he holstered his pistol.

Ancient Oriental martial arts, he had heard a bit about them. It was said that there was a kind of mysterious Qigong that could give someone superhuman combat abilities.

"In any case, I chased the attacker away. From now on, everyone needs to be careful. He might come back."

Zhou Yuan suggested, "Why don’t we all rest in the lobby downstairs? If we encounter danger again, at least we’ll have each other’s backs."

In horror movies, the main characters always love to split up for no good reason, which usually ends up getting them killed one by one by the killer.

"I can only sleep in my own bed." The doctor was the first to refuse.

"If he dares to come again, I’ll make sure he never leaves." The officer patted the pistol at his waist.

Alright then... Zhou Yuan felt helpless. It seemed the main characters were also under the horror movie’s dumb plot device curse, still unwilling to stick together.

Or, they each had their own separate agendas.

"Alright, good night everyone."

Zhou Yuan yawned and walked towards his room—on the bed, Ding Yi, who was hastily disguised as Fang Qing, looked over with wide eyes.

"Wait a moment." A man with a goatee called out to him, "The room needs to be patched up, otherwise rain and cold wind will get in."

"Oh oh, okay, what should we do?"

"I remember there are boards in the storage room on the second floor." The plumber said.

The group brought the boards from the storage room on the second floor and nailed up the holes in the room’s walls, then each went back to their rooms to rest.

"These people are really carefree, aren’t they afraid at all?" Zhou Yuan complained.

"The officer didn’t go to bed, but sat by the bedside, repeatedly disassembling and wiping his gun. His eyes were terrifying, as if he was determined to kill someone." Fang Qing reported what she had just observed.

"Hmm..." Zhou Yuan fell into deep thought, pondering.

According to the movie plot, the officer was always the first to die. But because of his appearance, the plot had gone haywire, so this time the killer came for him first.

If everything went as normal, the killer should appear in the officer’s room... so the officer was waiting for the killer? The person he wanted to kill was the killer?

Thinking this through, the officer must have known the killer’s true identity, or at least the truth of the situation...

After a brief contemplation, Zhou Yuan opened the game store and bought an item.

[Name: Micro Camera Set]

[Quality: Regular]

[Effect: Micro camera the size of a grain of rice, 4k ultra-high-definition image quality, charges for five minutes, three-month standby time, 10 per pack, comes with monitoring display equipment.]

[Note: When these cameras became ubiquitous, the number and quality of works on 18x websites skyrocketed.]

[Price: 1000 Star Coins]

"Install these cameras in everyone’s rooms, and put the remaining one in the hallway." Zhou Yuan handed the box to Fang Qing.

Fang Qing immediately set to work, installing the cameras in each of the main characters’ rooms.

Zhou Yuan held a mobile phone-like display device, observing everyone’s actions.

The officer sat upright by the bed, cleaning his gun.

The nun knelt by the bed, with a "Bible" spread open on the bed. She held a cross and was muttering prayers to God.

The judge, doctor, butcher, model, plumber, goatee teacher, and busty blonde streetwalker were all resting in their beds.

A few minutes later, the judge suddenly opened his eyes, carefully got up, and went to his door, listening intently.

After confirming no one was outside, he opened the door and tiptoed to the model’s room.

With a gentle push, the door opened, clearly it wasn’t locked.

The judge softly closed the door, greeted by the model’s passionate kiss.

"Can we really watch this for free?" Fang Qing clicked his tongue as the two started to undress.

"The judge and the model have a thing going on, they dated a long time ago, and now old feelings are rekindled." Zhou Yuan wasn’t very surprised.

In the movie plot, these two characters always died together, sometimes even naked in bed, anyone could guess their relationship with a bit of thought.

"Previously, the plot was presented through Ding Yi’s perspective, so many clues weren’t dug up, we always found out too late after people were dead. Let’s try something different this time, maybe we can change the plot."

"What do you plan to do?" Fang Qing asked.

Zhou Yuan stroked his chin and said, "If we go the straightforward route, we’ll tie them all up and interrogate them one by one. If they don’t talk, we’ll use force until they do.

If we go the normal route, I’ll socialize with them, but it’ll take a lot of effort, and the answers might not even be true.

If we go the weird route..."

Zhou Yuan glanced at Fang Qing, "We’ll do a convincingly fake act."

"Hmm?"

Zhou Yuan said, "You go scare the crap out of them."

·

In the nun’s room.

The nun was praying when she suddenly felt a chill, the room’s temperature plummeted, and the light flickered as if short-circuiting.