Top Horror Novelist - Chapter 2

The air pressure in the carriage was extremely low, as if the smell in the air was not one of blood, but the smell of smoke from gunpowder.

Someone died at the beginning, but they had yet to even enter the instance location…

Such a bad start made the remaining people wary and suspicious of each other, and the old players also began to re-evaluate the degree of danger this time around.

But no one paid much attention to the dead player, all of them had started preparing to get off the train because of the broadcast announcement.

The moment she saw the dead person, the female player already knew that her proposal to help each other pletely failed.

With the murderer unknown, the remaining ten new and old players have lost all trust in each other.

Embarrassed and flustered, she wanted to push away the dead body and get up. After all, based on her understanding of the game field, it was best to follow the rules.

The radio said to get off within one minute, so if she didn’t get off in time after the train stopped, maybe what was waiting for her would be death.

But the more anxious she was, the easier it was to make mistakes. Instead of getting up, she fell back into the pool of blood in a plete mess.

The others ignored the female player’s plight with indifference, and the male player who had just quarreled with her snorted heavily, mocking her naivety.

The male player then immediately turned around and took out a… long dress from the luggage bag?

Chi Yiyin, who had been observing the others calmly, raised his eyebrows, surprised by the behavior of the male player.

What surprised him even more was that the male player looked left and right like a thief, then hid in a corner and changed into the long dress.

The expression on Chi Yiyin’s face turned indescribable. For a while, he couldn’t tell whether it was the male player’s hobby or for other purposes.

But when everyone was getting ready to get off the train, Chi Yiyin turned around and walked towards the female player who was still struggling. While walking, he took out a pair of leather gloves from his pocket and put them on slowly.

“Get up, it’s cold on the ground.”

Chi Yiyin bent down slightly, stretched out his hand to the female player, and said with a light smile, “It’s time to get off the train.”

The female player didn’t expect Chi Yiyin to help her.

She froze for a moment, then pursed her lips, and handed Chi Yiyin her hand.

Chi Yiyin didn’t seem like someone who would have a strong physique, he looked more like a nobleman who would sit in a study for a long time, with a slender waist and long legs, and a tall figure.

It wasn’t until he moved that others discovered that under that elegant and well-dressed suit was a powerful body.

He picked up the corpse’s collar with one hand, threw it to the side, then grabbed the female player’s hand with his other hand, and pulled her up easily.

The whole process was like flowing water, and Chi Yiyin didn’t let a drop of blood splash on himself.

The other words he said may be mixed with truth and falsehood, making it difficult to understand the truth.

But there was one saying that is absolutely true.

——He hates getting blood on himself.

Chi Yiyin’s appearance matched very well with his obsession of cleanliness.

Whether it was the female player closest to Chi Yiyin or other players who were paying attention to him in secret, they were all quite surprised at his power for a while.

Chi Yiyin felt several gazes looking at him, and the female player thanked him repeatedly after standing firm.

“Thank you for your help twice, my name is Tong Yao, how about you?”

However, Chi Yiyin merely bypassed her and looked out the carriage window behind her, frowning slightly.

After waking up, Chi Yiyin always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with his vision, but he couldn’t put it to mind as to what it was.

Only now did he realize by parison that what was wrong was the place outside the carriage window.

Even if he sat by the window, he couldn’t see the scenery outside clearly, whether it was mountains, rivers or forests, they were just blurred blocks of color. But at that time, he just thought in mon sense that it was foggy outside.

Only now he suddenly realized that when the train was broadcasting, the scenery outside the window instantly became clear.

There were a few small western buildings mixed in the middle of the Chinese-style buildings, fashionable women wearing cheongsams with permed hair, and women in old-fashioned hairpin skirts. Men in long gowns or suits, small newsboys selling newspapers, and black smoke faintly drifting from the windows.

This was clearly the era from a century ago.

They had arrived at Gushu town.

But not the Gushu town from his timeline.

This town, or the time of [Dear Home], was stuck in the last century.

No wonder he smelled soot before, it turned out to be a coal-burning train.

Such a rare experience made Chi Yiyin felt a little novel. He took off his blood-stained gloves and threw them into the trash can. Then he took out the notebook and pen in his pocket and quickly recorded his feelings at the moment.

Tong Yao, who didn’t get a response for a long time, looked at Chi Yiyin’s movements and felt quite odd. Everyone else was preparing to get off the train, but he was racing against time to write something…

However, Tong Yao didn’t have the extra time to be curious.

As the train braked heavily, everyone rushed forward under inertia. But before they could stand firm, the radio sounded again.

[We have arrived at Gushu Town. Survivors, please get off the train. Now the countdown begins, 60, 59…]

In an instant, both old and new players rushed towards the train door.

There was a loud sound of “Bang!” and the train door automatically banged open violently, and everyone rushed to the train door fearing they would be out of time.

Chi Yiyin, who was standing at the end, immediately fell into a disadvantage.

Tong Yao originally ran to the front of the carriage anxiously, but after realizing that Chi Yiyin was not moving, she slowed down and turned around to pull Chi Yiyin to run together.

“In a minute, those people in front may do some tricks, we really have to hurry up.”

Tong Yao stretched out her hand to pull Chi Yiyin, but he quickly avoided her.

Her hands froze in the air, suddenly embarrassed.

We?

Chi Yiyin captured Tong Yao’s subconscious use of word, and knew that he had guessed Tong Yao’s character correctly. He had gained Tong Yao’s initial trust and was classified by her as one of her own.

In the next second, Chi Yiyin nodded slightly to Tong Yao with apologetic eyes: “Sorry, I have a habit of cleanliness and don’t like being touched by others. Also, I need to check the dead body, this is the only chance to know who the murderer is. You go first.”

Tong Yao didn’t expect Chi Yiyin to think about finding the murderer when time was so limited. However, before she could persuade him, she saw that Chi Yiyin had already taken out a handkerchief and wrapped it in his hand, squatted down and flipped the corpse in a pool of blood.

The sound of3 the countdown was mechanically cold, instantly grabbing everyone’s heart, so nervous that they couldn’t breathe.

[40, 39…]

Tong Yao turned her head to look at the train door where everyone was trying to squeeze out.

None of the players wanted to try the consequences of time-out for themselves, because it could well… represent death.

On the platform, a figure in a long gown was already waiting outside the train.

Tong Yao bought the recorded and broadcast materials of this instance before and knew that it was the housekeeper who came to pick up the elder miss home. And what the housekeeper hated most was not being punctual.

If you didn’t get off the train as soon as possible, not to mention the unknown punishment of the train, it was already terrible enough to leave a bad impression on the housekeeper at the beginning of the instance.

The most correct choice now was to follow along and squeeze towards the door. But even if Tong Yao knew this, she still felt that her feet had taken root, and she couldn’t move her footsteps away from Chi Yiyin.

[35,34…]

Tong Yao gritted her teeth, turned around quickly, and decided to give herself 20 seconds to wait for Chi Yiyin.

“I’ll help you. What are you looking for? You tell me, hurry up.”

Chi Yiyin looked at the dead body in an orderly manner, then stepped over the pool of blood, stood at the front of the toilet door and looked in, but refused Tong Yao’s help.

“Divide the labor and cooperate. You go smash the window, and I will find clues.”

Chi Yiyin lifted his eyelashes and glanced in the direction of the train door with a smile: “When God blocks the door, I can open a window by myself.”

Tong Yao was shocked.

In the game field, it’s best to follow the rules, but the rules didn’t say you can smash windows…

Without raising his head, Chi Yiyin already knew of Tong Yao’s hesitation, and immediately waved his finger at the car window casually: “Have you ever seen an old-fashioned coal-burning train with a window safety hammer?”

The rules were hidden in the details, right in front of you.

But if you still couldn’t see nor guess it, then sorry, you can only be an obedient fool.

And what Chi Yiyin hated the most is being obedient.

When Tong Yao followed Chi Yiyin’s fingers, she suddenly realized.

It’s true!

She had clearly seen the safety hammer before, but subconsciously ignored the contradiction between the two eras that did not match, and skipped it directly.

[25,24…]

Tong Yao didn’t dare to delay, and rushed forward to the window immediately.

Chi Yiyin, on the other hand, was concentrating on checking the toilet, not worried about how he would get out in less than 30 seconds.

When he woke up and heard the quarrel between Tong Yao and the male player, he began to profile Tong Yao’s character in his heart, and by helping Tong Yao and observing her reaction, he figured out her character.

He anticipated Tong Yao’s reaction and psychology, and guessed her next few steps.

Therefore, the plan he made from the beginning was that Tong Yao would help him plete the final escape.

Besides, Chi Yiyin didn’t want to squeeze through the door with a group of people.

Not to mention that other people would bump into him in a crowded place, and he hated being in contact with people. The danger was too high, he was the farthest from the train door, and did not have any advantage. Besides, walking at the back, it was easy for others in front to do underhanded methods to trick him.

Besides, Chi Yiyin was really curious about who it was that could kill someone in full view and yet quietly disappear.

If he didn’t take advantage of this only opportunity to find out, maybe the next person to be killed without anyone noticing would be him.

Since you are playing chess, you need to know who the person on the opposite side of the board is, what cards they have, what to do next, and how the opponent will move in the next ten moves.

Recklessness is not Chi Yiyin’s style, he prefers to plan ahead.

——Obviously, the murderer didn’t expect that there would be someone like Chi Yiyin in this train.

Although the time was short, it was enough for Chi Yiyin to see the truth clearly.

The dead player was fatally wounded in the neck, and his throat was cut with a fishing line, so a lot of blood spurted out.

As for the fishing line, it was arranged behind the toilet door.

Few people would carefully check whether there was a fishing line on the door frame when they were in a hurry to go to the toilet, not to mention that in a dimly lit bathroom, the fishing line wouldn’t reflect light and was difficult to detect.

As soon as someone entered, their throat would be slit.

It wasn’t a perfect kill, the line was still in the bathroom. However, the murderer wasn’t afraid that someone would find out, because the murderer was very clear that no one would be eager to meddle in their business.

Even if the dead were exposed, no one would waste time looking for clues.

It’s a pity that because of Chi Yiyin, the murderer miscalculated.

[19…]

After exiting from the toilet, Chi Yiyin carefully stepped over the pool of blood, not letting the blood stain his leather shoes.

He looked at the handkerchief on his hand that was now stained with blood, frowned, and threw it away.

“Come here!”

Tong Yao had successfully smashed open the train window, and shouted at Chi Yiyin, pulling his neck: “There are only a few seconds left.”

The train door was already a mess. A player deliberately blocked the door when getting out of the train, consuming the time for the people behind to run out before they managed to get out of the train. 

The three or four people behind were so anxious, and everyone wanted to be the first to rush down, but instead they all crowded at the door.

After hearing the sound of Tong Yao smashing the glass window, whether it was the person crowded in the door or the person who had already got out of the train, they all looked over in astonishment.

An unshaven man stood on the platform, looked up at the train window now with no glass in astonishment, and then saw Chi Yiyin who calmly wiped his fingers and walked towards the window.

There was even a faint smile on the other’s lips, as if he was not affected by the tension of the countdown at all.

Tong Yao, an old player, propped up on the window, but turned her head to look back and forth anxiously, like Chi Yiyin’s attendant.

…Yes, everyone, including him, didn’t realize it at all, maybe they could leave from the car window.

The man stared blankly at Chi Yiyin, but was influenced by the countdown ing from the train. He watched Chi Yiyin nervously, his heart beating wildly, wondering if Chi Yiyin could jump down before the countdown was over.

When a man crowded in front of the train door saw this, he immediately gave up going through the door and ran to the window instead.

He stared at Chi Yiyin fiercely, trying to seize to get off the window that the other party found and successfully dug.

What is moral and immoral, living is the absolute truth!

Tong Yao also saw the person running over, and immediately became so anxious that she subconsciously protected the train window, lest Chi Yiyin’s way of out be taken away by others.

In the tension of everyone in the audience, Chi Yiyin, the party involved, turned out to be the calmest.

 [5,4… ]

His steps were smooth, even the distance between each step was exactly the same, which made his walking posture look extremely elegant and relaxed.

Chi Yiyin chuckled and glanced at the man who rushed towards him, not taking the other’s murderous aura to heart at all.

He raised his long legs, and taking advantage of his figure, he stepped on the window frame with his well-crafted leather shoes. Immediately, with a sudden force, his slender figure was already squatting gracefully on the window sill.

Chi Yiyin glanced back at the man, whose face was reddened with a smile, and jumped down as light as a butterfly fluttering its wings.

Not only did he not panic at all, he even had time to snatch someone’s coat from the seat and put it on his arm, then grabbed Tong Yao’s arm and jumped out of the train window together.

The coat swung open in his hands like a blooming flower, and it covered Tong Yao’s body accurately.

The corners of his dark blue suit fluttered behind him, and his silver-gray hair curled in the wind, a dazzling smile in his eyes.

Chi Yiyin already had an excellent appearance that was enough to amaze anyone, and in such light and powerful movements, it seems that he was as beautiful as a dream.

Everyone looked at Chi Yiyin, whether they were on guard against him or not, they were so amazed at this moment that they forgot to breathe.

The man on the train was still desperately stretching his hands forward and threw himself at the window, with a grim expression on his face.

But the countdown had jumped to the last second.

[1.]

Chi Yiyin’s leather shoes hit the ground.

The countdown had just ended.

On the train, there was an abnormality.

The train window that had been smashed by Tong Yao instantly returned to its original shape, sealing the man who hadn’t gotten out of the train in time.

The last person who came down from the train door still had half of his foot on the steps, and the transparent barrier quickly spread outside the entire train. While sealing the door, it also sharply cut off half of that person’s foot.

Caught off guard, the man lost his balance and fell to the ground.

The man inside the train also hit the window.

He slapped the train window in horror, couldn’t help looking back frequently in anxiety, and yelled for the people outside the train to save him.

But in the next second, an invisible force grabbed the man inside the train, and he was slowly lifted into the air. He could only panic and desperately paddle his limbs to break free.

The person who fell on the ground struggled to look back, and the instantly severed leg was still spraying blood. He was stunned, and the severe pain gradually spread.

Then he realized that half of his foot…was no longer on his body.

The foot that fell on the step behind the car door was still wearing his familiar looking shoe.

If it’s not his foot, whose is it?

“Ahhhhhh!!!”

The man cried out in excruciating pain.

At the same moment, the man inside the train was crushed instantly by an invisible hand.

“Spurt!” with a sound, blood spurted out and smeared the train windows.

Everyone outside the train was startled, and then their hearts beat wildly.

Only Chi Yiyin turned back unhurriedly after standing still, and looked up at the train.

After seeing that all the blood was blocked in the train by the windows and did not splash out, he hooked his lips and smiled.

“Fortunately, I jumped in time.”

Chi Yiyin smiled lightly, with a gentle voice: “Otherwise, this suit will be ruined.”

No one expected that Chi Yiyin would have such a calm reaction when he escaped death at the last second.

Even smiling.

Immediately, many people looked at Chi Yiyin in shock, and some even had plex, dim eyes.

There were still eleven people when they got on the car, but one died on the car, and one was killed and the other was injured when they got off the car.

Before entering the instance, there were only nine people left. Among them, the one who lost half of his foot was automatically put into the death camp by the old players.

Such a situation gave the old players a heavy feeling.

And Tong Yao turned her head slowly, and stared blankly at Chi Yiyin beside her.

One person was crushed into bloody flesh, another had half of his foot cut off, even he himself almost failed to jump off, and turned into a mess of blood and flesh. But this person didn’t feel scared at all, instead he cared about such trivial things as clothes?

Cleanliness… Ha, fuck cleanliness! She had never seen anyone with an obsession for cleanliness like this!

Chi Yiyin turned his eyes and looked at Tong Yao with a smile: “Are you okay?”

This man was still smiling…

Crazy, absolutely crazy!

Tong Yao watched Chi Yiyin’s eyes lose their light, and her teeth chattered unconsciously. She subconsciously took a step back in fear, wanting to stay away from Chi Yiyin.

But Chi Yiyin raised his eyebrows, stepped forward half a step, and raised his hand to tighten the coat he had just put on Tong Yao.

“Put this on.”

Chi Yiyin bent down slightly, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: “You’re  ‘elder sister’, right? Seeing that the person waiting over there is dressed neatly with a meticulous hair, he must have requirements for being neat. Do you think, you want him to see yourself covered in blood?”

Tong Yao looked at this handsome face close at hand, and then looked at the housekeeper, who was waiting not far away.

As Chi Yiyin said, the housekeeper’s gown didn’t even have a wrinkle on it, and his hair was taken care of so that there wasn’t a single mess.

And the blood on her body obviously shouldn’t be the way a lady from a prominent family should dress.

She had yet to think of a way for herself, but the young man in front of her thought of it for her, and he thoughtfully helped her cover it from the moment she got off the train.

Although Tong Yao was still afraid of Chi Yiyin who had downplayed life and death just now, her fear was weakening.

She didn’t want to betray the kindness of others, and because she really needed it, she quickly took advantage of Chi Yiyin’s tall and slender figure, and quickly put on her coat to block her messy appearance.

“Thank you, thank you.”

Tong Yao murmured, and thanked Chi Yiyin with plicated eyes.

It was at this moment that the housekeeper, who had been standing still like a wax man before, also moved after the countdown, looking gloomily in Tong Yao’s direction.

It’s like a program that woke up periodically.

The housekeeper didn’t seem to see the blood all over the floor at all, just like the blood and minced meat slowly sliding down the car window.

His eyes slid over everyone, and his eyes were not like looking at living people, but at dead things.

Obviously the housekeeper had the same appearance as a human, but when the rest of the people looked at the housekeeper, there was a kind of fear akin to looking at a humanoid. A cold tingling sensation spreads along their arm, and the hair stands upright.

Chi Yiyin calmly took half a step back as if nothing had happened, and distanced himself from Tong Yao again. Then he turned around, raised his hand to smooth out the folds on his suit, and looked at the housekeeper with a decent smile but with no warmth.

The housekeeper also bowed deeply to everyone: “Miss, it’s hard to go to school outside, I wele you home. The master and madam have been waiting for you for a long time.”

“Oh, the two young masters and young miss are also clamoring to see you.”

(T/N: It’s actually young master & two young miss. But further chapters indicate the opposite. So, I will change it to suit the further chapters. It is likely the author’s typo.)

The housekeeper raised his head and looked at everyone from bottom to top with gloomy eyes and a strange smile: “Everyone in the house misses you very much.”

“Miss.”

[You have a strict father, a loving mother, and lovely and lively younger brothers and sister. You are the young miss of a prestigious family, with numerous servants, countless treasures, and the envy of everyone.]

[But are you really happy? Sister, please write to me and tell me the truth aboumt your dear home.]

It was properly placed in the red envelope in the inner pocket of the suit by Chi Yiyin, and on the card he had flipped through, all the words that had been printed out instantly disappeared.

New words appeared on the card stroke by stroke, pressing the indents, as if someone was holding a pen and currently writing on the card.

Only the handwriting was as red as blood.

The wet blood drips along the card, blurring the writing.

No schedule for now, but I will try to update at least twice a week.