What malicious intent could NPCs possibly have? C5.1

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Chp5. part1

Pei Han threw down the axe, grabbed the bedside lamp, and ripped off the cord.

The cord was still plugged in, and he held the exposed end of the wire towards the  woman in white against the wall.

With a crackling sound of sparks, the overhead light flickered, and the pressure on Ning Ge’s neck suddenly eased.

The woman in white’s shadow flickered a few times and disappeared.

Ning Ge saw Pei Han approach, bent down, scooped her up under her legs, and placed her on the bed.

After coughing violently for a while, Ning Ge finally caught her breath.

“How do you know electricity can kill ghosts?” Ning Ge asked him, her voice still a little hoarse.

“I’ve killed many similar things before.”

Pei Han sat down beside her and answered patiently.

“That wasn’t a ghost at all, it was just something the system created to scare people. In other words, it was just a program.”

Ning Ge thought, Oh, a program. Just like me.

Ning Ge rubbed her neck. “It was fine at first, but then I thought she might be using telekinesis to kill, and then she actually started using telekinesis to kill.”

“She used telekinesis to kill in the movie,” Pei Han said, a little surprised. “Such a famous horror movie, haven’t you seen it?”

Ning Ge shook her head. “No.”

Ning Ge understood. “So she couldn’t kill me at first because I didn’t know her at all. Unlike the Ugly doll, who had scissors in their hands and whose methods were obvious, I had no idea how she was killed, so she couldn’t do anything to me.”

“Exactly,” Pei Han said. “The rule seems to be that if you don’t want to, she can’t kill you. So I have another guess, if you could have shifted your attention and stopped thinking about her, maybe you would have been fine.”

But when someone’s choking you, who can shift their attention elsewhere?

The two were silent for a moment.

Ning Ge thought: It’s all because of the thought.

The thought of killing with her telekinesis had taken root, and she actually started killing with it.

A flash of inspiration struck Ning Ge.

She forgot about the pain in her neck and sat bolt upright in bed.

“I think I know the pattern of their occurrence—it’s the thought. The arising of a thought.”

Ning Ge said, “Because of the horror movie posters on the wall, ever since the newspaper in room 202 was torn down, everyone’s thoughts have been misled by the posters, starting to wander into thoughts about horror movies.

The posters themselves don’t kill, they’re bait, a malicious guide, luring our thoughts towards horror movies. It’s this kind of thought that summons the characters from those horror movies.”

“But there’s a problem. Everyone’s been having all sorts of wild thoughts, and these things don’t appear immediately when we start ‘resting.’ Doesn’t that mean there’s an even harder condition to meet for them to appear—”

Pei Han completely understood her meaning and picked up where she left off.

“There are two people in the room, and both of them have to have the same thought at the same time.”

“That’s right, that’s why the bracelet insists on assigning two people to a room.”

Ning Ge asked him, “Do you remember what you were thinking when the doll appeared in the previous round?”

Pei Han frowned in thought, “I don’t remember very clearly. What about you?”

This question was far too difficult.

The thoughts in an ordinary person’s mind are like a flood carrying all sorts of things, surging in and rushing away every minute, wave after wave of chaos.

It’s unlikely to be possible to recall exactly when and what you were thinking.

Ning Ge seemed to remember that she was thinking about that ugly doll at the time, but she couldn’t be sure.

“What were you thinking about before that woman came out?” Ning Ge asked.

Pei Han thought for a moment, “I think I was thinking about her poster.”

Ning Ge vaguely remembered something, “I think I was thinking about her too.”

The two of them had the same thought at the same time, colliding like a thunderbolt, and suddenly, a female ghost fell from the sky.

Pei Han lowered his head and pondered, “I think you’re right, that’s very likely.”

Ning Ge nodded.

Ning Ge thought faster than Pei Han because her reasoning had a fulcrum that Pei Han lacked.

Pei Han had only seen three posters in total, but Ning Ge knew exactly what was on the posters in all five rooms.

Ning Ge knew that the shark that emerged from room 201 wasn’t on the posters, meaning it might have nothing to do with the posters.

“Are you feeling better?” Pei Han stood up and reached out to pull her along. “If you’re feeling better, let’s go to room 201.”

Ning Ge got off the bed with his help and asked, “Why go to room 201?”

Pei Han replied, “Because the shark that appeared in room 201 is different from the others. The masked man, the doll, and the woman in white all appeared after the people in the room saw the poster. The shark didn’t. Nobody saw the shark poster.”

Ning Ge couldn’t help but glance at him, This Pei Han, you’re quick-witted.

The two of them didn’t wait for the break to end and crawled through the hole in the wall into room 201, eager to verify their earlier thoughts.

The young woman and boy in room 201 were sitting on the edge of the bed. The little boy was much more composed, still clutching the shark tooth Pei Han had given him.

Ning Ge entered and immediately asked, “We wanted to ask if you remember what you were thinking before that shark appeared? Were you thinking about sharks?”

The young woman said, “I was thinking about it, but I don’t remember when. Everyone was talking about horror movies, and my mind was filled with all sorts of movies I’d seen. That shark movie is a classic.”

“I was thinking about sharks,” the boy said confidently.

“My mom’s strict, she doesn’t let me watch horror movies. I’ve never seen any, except for this one, which I secretly watched once. You were all talking about horror movies, and all I could think about was that scene of the shark eating people alive.”

Pei Han and Ning Ge exchanged a glance.

The idea was correct.

Pei Han checked his bracelet, and the “rest” time was over.

He asked Ning Ge, “Shall we try again?”

When everyone arrived at room 203, Pei Han said, “We think we’ve found the pattern, but we need to do one more round of experiments.”

Owen asked, “Is there anything we can help with?”

“Nothing,” Pei Han said.

However, while the other rooms were empty, Pei Han and Ning Ge went to look at the two posters that hadn’t been unveiled yet.

Ning Ge knew he wanted to confirm that there really weren’t sharks in those two posters.