Chapter 111: A Series of Frights
Chapter 111: Chapter 111: A Series of Frights
The production crew got out of the car, shouldering their camera equipment and trying to hold back laughter.
After the camera operators had all disembarked, two more people emerged from the vehicle.
One of them had a pigtail sticking straight up, their face caked in white foundation. They had two thin, curved eyebrows drawn on, and circles had been traced around their eyes in black, then filled in with white. Their eyelids were smeared black, a single highlight was dabbed on, and the whole look was completed with huge red lips.
The other was in a furry gorilla costume, complete with a pink bow on its head and a pair of pink shorts.
[Everyone, step aside! That’s my dream lover right there!]
[Production crew, can you please act like human beings?! If you can’t, at least pay me. I’ll use the money to send you to a class on how to be a decent person.]
[What did it do wrong! It just wants to scare me to death in the middle of the night so I can finally get some sleep.]
[Go in, go in! I want to see the Monkey King get scared!!]
The production crew was buzzing with excitement! This time, they would redeem themselves!
They absolutely could not let Gu Zhao scare them! They were going to be the ones to scare her!!
They marched to the front door, full of conviction, and prepared to open it.
The elephant off to the side saw this large group of people carrying heavy equipment, about to go inside and bully Gu Zhao!
It was angry!
It strode right out of the shadows.
It blocked their path.
The crew members screamed in fright, "AHHH, an elephant!!"
The online viewers were startled, too.
The elephant swung its trunk, shooing them away.
The crew members scattered in a panic. While the elephant was busy chasing some of them, another staffer quickly opened the villa’s front door. "Quick! Over here!"
"Everyone, get inside!" someone urged.
The crew scrambled and tumbled into the villa, slamming the door shut as soon as everyone was inside.
Outside, the elephant stomped its feet in frustration.
’But it didn’t dare break the door. What if it did, and Xiangxiang thought it was being destructive and refused to take care of it anymore?!’
The crew members who had taken refuge in the villa breathed a sigh of relief.
Then they realized they had relaxed too soon.
"Wh-what... what is that..." a crew member stammered, staring at a shadow by the second-floor railing.
From a distance, the shadow looked to be about Gu Zhao’s height. It was standing by the railing.
"Is... is that one of our guys?" someone asked tentatively.
There was no response.
They raised their cameras and inched closer.
But before they could get there, the figure suddenly leaped from the floor above!!
The entire crew was scared stiff.
Instead of crashing to the floor, the figure charged right at them!
"AHHHHHHHH!" The crew shrieked, and one of them instinctively lifted a camera to shield himself.
[AHHHHHHHHH NO! GET ME OUT OF HERE!!]
[Godspeed, Mr. Cameraman! But please, just don’t make us watch anymore! AHHHH!]
[I screamed right in sync with the crew! Somebody save me!]
It was Little Eagle, a creature with long black hair and the face of an eagle, and it shoved its face right up to the camera lens.
Before they could even recover, the crew noticed yellow paper beginning to drift down around the room...
"AWOOOOOOOO... WOOOOOOO..."
A mournful wail echoed through the house.
The crew was on the verge of a breakdown. ’We were wrong! We won’t try to scare anyone anymore!!’
’This is all the director’s fault! Can’t we just drag him over here?!’
Hearing the commotion, the elephant outside began to knock anxiously on the door with its trunk.
THUMP, THUMP, THUMP...
"Wooooo... wooooo..."
Then there was the falling yellow paper... and the long-haired eagle-creature crawling ominously across the floor.
The crew was genuinely on the verge of tears.
"Gu Zhao, help us!!"
’Dignity? What was dignity! They were just a bunch of poor, miserable workers!’
Several of them ran frantically toward Gu Zhao’s room, while others bolted for Gu Xulin’s.
Because the rules stipulated beforehand that the guests weren’t allowed to lock their bedroom doors, they pulled them open with ease.
The next second.
"AHHHHHH!" The ones who entered Gu Zhao’s room came face-to-face with a floating balloon of a bald man.
[I’m speechless! Why is there so much creepy stuff today!]
[I’ve bought one of those balloons before! You really can’t just leave it floating around. It followed me to the bathroom once and nearly scared the crap out of me.]
[Hahahaha, this is the only group that didn’t get scared by the production crew. I just checked the other streams, and everyone else got pranked.]
Gu Zhao was woken by the noise. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the pale-faced crew members.
"Are you guys okay? If so, could you please move a bit? You’re stepping on it."
"It’s in a bit of pain."
Her words made the crew members tremble in fear. There’s a saying that children can see... unclean things...
’Could it be...’
The crew members instantly felt a chill creep up their shoulders.
"Is... is it still here?"
Gu Zhao replied, "Of course."
Gu Zhao glanced down at the tail of the little pink snake they were standing on.
The little snake looked up at her with a wronged expression.
They all scrambled backward, and Gu Zhao seized the chance to scoop up the little snake.
The crew saw it and froze for a second. "You were talking about *it*?"
They were actually relieved to see it was just a snake...
Gu Zhao asked, "What else would I be talking about?"
The group that had run to Gu Xulin’s room came scrambling back out, their eyes wide with terror as they pointed at the room. "It’s full of poop!!"
Gu Zhao: ??!!!
The viewers: ?!!!!
Gu Zhao was the first to run in. Just as they’d said, the room was covered in poop everywhere except the bed.
[I never knew you were this kind of person, Gu Xulin! Pooping all over the place!]
[Brother Lin, for my sake, would you be willing to go poop on the doorstep of someone I hate in the middle of the night? It doesn’t have to be this much, just one pile would be fine!]
[Oh my god! This scene is just too shocking! Gu Xulin, what on earth are you up to?!]
[Gu Zhao: I’ve never seen such a "magnificent" sight in my life... I feel bad for her for a second.]
Gu Zhao fell silent for two seconds, then crouched down and touched it with her hand.
The viewers: !!
The crew: ?!!
Gu Zhao poked it. "It’s fake. Just soggy cardboard shaped to look like it."
Gu Xulin also woke up then. He had slept exceptionally well, and he especially enjoyed waking up to the speechless expressions on the crew’s faces.
The production team was utterly defeated.
Big Eagle, Little Eagle, and the Tibetan Mastiff all looked at Gu Zhao, reluctant to leave.
While Gu Zhao was comforting them, a few crew members went outside to see the elephant, curiously petting it all over.
’How do they even raise a creature like this! It scared the heck out of us.’
The elephant looked at them, confused.
’Why are they suddenly petting me... Should I swat them or not...’
Uncle Fu would be sending people to take the animals back to the manor, so Gu Zhao wasn’t worried. After saying her goodbyes, she and Gu Xulin left with their suitcases.
The production crew had all just assumed the elephant belonged to Gu Zhao. But as soon as she stepped outside and saw it, she looked completely baffled. "Whose elephant are you?"
Everyone: ??!
’It’s not yours!?’
The crew members currently petting the elephant silently retracted their hands.
"I belong to you!" the elephant said in a cutesy, high-pitched voice. It tried to give a little wiggle, but its body barely moved.
"You bought me!"
Gu Zhao suddenly remembered the elephant she had bought online!!
"Brother! The ten-cent elephant I bought online actually found its way here on its own!!" Gu Zhao exclaimed.
Gu Xulin: ??
[I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! Isn’t that supposed to be a scam?]
[If this is real, then I’m about to get rich! I’ve bought so many one-cent and ten-cent elephants online! When are mine going to show up?!]
[Monkey King, your luck is just too insane! I order a pair of socks online and they send me the wrong size, but you manage to get a whole live elephant?]