The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 250 - 170: Facing It_2

Chapter 250: Chapter 170: Facing It_2

A string of question marks floated through the comments. So, ordinary people have no solution if they encounter this kind of situation, right?

"Everyone need not worry. The chances of encountering ghosts and monsters in everyday life are minimal, similar to winning five million in the lottery or daydreaming.

As long as you don’t do something as reckless as I did by entering such an obviously problematic place, you’ll never encounter ghosts in your lifetime."

Zhou Yuan came to the corridor corner, turned, and his steps suddenly halted.

In the empty corridor, a female ghost in white clothes with disheveled hair and a hideous face floated, her lower half twisted in an inhuman way as if she had been hit by a tremendous force, dripping blood constantly.

Drip, drip, drip.

The sound of water droplets was exceedingly clear in the silent environment, reaching every viewer’s ears. Coupled with the terrifying scene on the screen, many people shuddered, scared witless.

[A ghost that was recently born, died because she ran a red light, harbored resentment towards the truck driver for not yielding to her at the moment of death.]

Good grief, running a red light and still holds a grudge.

Zhou Yuan inwardly clicked his tongue, calmly taking out five talismans: "Audience friends, this is a real ghost. Isn’t it very scary?"

He threw a talisman, which exploded in mid-air, releasing a wave of spiritual energy that blasted the charging female ghost away, making her form much more disorganized.

The female ghost let out a roar and rushed forward again. These low-level ghosts only acted based on instinct and didn’t even know how to avoid harm, blindly attacking upon sensing human breath.

Zhou Yuan continuously flung the remaining four talismans, and when the final talisman exploded, the female ghost screeched and vanished into smoke.

"Although it looks very scary, it’s just a low-level ghost, solving it poses no difficulty."

Zhou Yuan’s tone was calm. This composed, relaxed demeanor of a master made the viewers in the live stream go wild, continuously sending gifts and tips without pause.

[Mission "Live Stream" completed]

[Mission Reward 1: Experience Points*300]

[Experience Points: 1850/1900]

The system prompt sounded in his ear, unbeknownst to him, the number of viewers in the live stream had reached 100,000.

After all, live streaming exorcism was very new to most people, and as soon as they heard about it, they all rushed in to join the fun.

Zhou Yuan glanced at the comments when he had the chance and discovered many suspected extraordinary people speaking up.

"Why is Source God live streaming? Damn, he’s making a killing this time."

"Holy crap, how much in tips did he get? Please, stop tipping, seeing the Holy Crow Church people make money makes me feel worse than dying."

"Report him, quickly report his live stream!"

"Anyone want to team up for an offline reality expedition?"

Besides a group of naysayers clamoring to report the live stream, many others stood by Zhou Yuan, speaking up for him.

"Don’t bother trying to report; the rules are fully relaxed now, paranormal live streams are fine."

"You guys are just sour. If you have the ability, start your own live stream, or can’t you manage that?"

"Not attractive enough to be a streamer, jealous of the streamer’s popularity."

"Feeling bad for the streamer. After becoming famous, he’s attracting all sorts of demons and ghosts, sigh."

Zhou Yuan responded to the comments:

"As streamers, that’s how it is. Viewers just need to keep tipping, but we streamers have to consider many things: creating content, PK battles, chatting, managing, editing clips, enduring unfounded insults from haters... Handling all these things meticulously is essential to becoming a better streamer."

After smoothly quoting classics, Zhou Yuan stopped paying attention to the comments and continued moving forward.

Ten minutes later, he found a second ghost wandering in a room and killed it using a spiritual talisman.

Only one ghost remained.

Zhou Yuan sensed that the final fierce ghost was in a room on the top floor.

He was about to head to the stairwell when, unexpectedly.

A long-shut room door nearby suddenly made a noise.

Bang!

Something heavily slammed into the door with great force, shaking off thick layers of dust.

Zhou Yuan was startled by the sudden noise, his expression turning serious, because in his perception, there was nothing in there!

Dark matter silently encroached, but the room was empty, not even a shadow of a ghost.

Zhou Yuan frowned, fully on alert. What was that?

The viewers in the live stream were equally frightened, with many crying out that they were about to have a heart attack.

Zhou Yuan stood there waiting for a long time, but nothing attacked. Just as he turned to leave.

A ghastly pale face suddenly appeared in front of him, bleeding from all seven orifices, staring directly at him, inches away!

Zhou Yuan’s whole body jolted, instinctively throwing a full-strength punch at the expressionless face.

The next second, thunder roared, airwaves exploded, and the entire abandoned building shook violently from the impact, remaining glass windows shattering simultaneously.

Zhou Yuan’s iron fist was caught by a hand.

"Hahahahaha!"

A perverse laugh echoed, and Zhou Yuan stared in shock as the ghostly figure morphed into the form of Chen Guangxi.

Damn it!

Zhou Yuan’s vision darkened. He had come here to exorcise ghosts to avoid her, but she still found him!

"Did you almost get scared to death?" Chen Guangxi grinned, very pleased with Zhou Yuan’s reaction.

Zhou Yuan’s expression twitched: "You came all this way just to scare me?"

"Of course not."

Chen Guangxi smiled, showing her phone playing the Night City reality show!

"What’s this?" Zhou Yuan pretended to be ignorant, acting like he didn’t know a thing.

"The Night City reality show from Strand Kingdom."

Chen Guangxi clicked on the video, showing Wang Zhen being asked the final question.

Zhou Yuan quietly closed the live stream, watching until the end before saying: "What’s wrong with it? Any issues?"

Chen Guangxi looked at him meaningfully: "Do you really want me to spell it out?"

In the silence.

Zhou Yuan knew he was done for, sighed: "Alright, what do you want to say?"

"You came here to avoid me, not really to live stream."

Chen Guangxi saw through everything, "Are you so afraid to face me?"

Zhou Yuan lowered his head; caught red-handed, he became a bit flustered.

"If you face me bravely, I’d definitely look at you in a new light, but now, I’m quite disappointed." Chen Guangxi gazed at him calmly.

Hearing this, Zhou Yuan panicked: "It’s not like that, I just..."

Chen Guangxi extended a finger, placing it on his lips: "Shh, don’t explain, I know you too well, Zhou Yuan. The reason you subconsciously avoid me is that you haven’t figured out whether these feelings are friendship, camaraderie, or something else entirely.

Perhaps you just like someone like me because you’re love-starved, and it wouldn’t matter if it were someone else. Or maybe you’re just used to having me around, afraid of losing me after failing, or maybe it’s just your hormones...

In any case, come find me once you truly sort out these emotions."

Zhou Yuan stood there dazed for a long while, suddenly feeling quite deflated: "I get it."

Chen Guangxi sighed: "You don’t get a damn thing."

"Huh?"

"If you really got it, you would’ve confessed just now."

Chen Guangxi shook her head, saying with an old-soul tone, "You really don’t understand anything, still a little kid."

Zhou Yuan felt utterly defeated, realizing for the first time that he never really understood Chen Guangxi or her thoughts.

"Let me give you a hint."

Chen Guangxi twirled her phone, casually saying, "In my hometown, people usually call me [Princess Golden Dragon]."

"..."

Zhou Yuan stiffened like a statue. So, the one who became Princess Amy, the outsider, was you?

Then hadn’t I already blown my own cover long ago?

"I’m touched that you’re willing to save the world for me."

Chen Guangxi patted his shoulder, consoling, "So don’t be discouraged, you still have a chance."

"... Are you giving me hope, trying to string me along as your simp?"

"I don’t like simps, Zhou Yuan."

Chen Guangxi smiled, turning to walk away, "Think it over slowly yourself. I’m going home to play games."

"Wait!"

Zhou Yuan called out, mustering his courage to ask, "Can we still duo queue?"

Chen Guangxi waved her hand: "Log on when you come back."

Thus, Zhou Yuan smiled again.