Trembling At A High Altitude - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: The Heavens Are Jealous Of A Gifted Person

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

It was the white-collar woman, and the girl’s turns after the woman in the sunglasses made her decision.

They had the same number of points, but the white-collar woman gave the girl the opportunity to pick first.

Although the teenage girl didn’t want to alight with the spectacled man, she chose to alight with him at the second stop in the end anyway, because she found people like the pretty boy too frightening.

Meanwhile, the white-collar woman chose to alight at the fourth stop with the pretty boy.

After everyone made their choices, they entered the filming phase.

Everyone received instructions from the director in their earphones. They were to place their covered bamboo sticks on the table in front of them and move as a group to a bus stop nearby.

There wasn’t any sequence to follow this time. All of them walked over together.

Mrs. Guo kept her eyes on Li Teng the whole time, afraid that he would play tricks again.

Although she felt that Li Teng had no counterattack chance, she had to stay on her guard, nevertheless.

Her son, Guo Zhipeng, had died in Li Teng’s hands the last time precisely because he had been careless. She mustn’t repeat his mistake.

The others subconsciously looked in Li Teng’s direction too. They wanted to know whether he, in a hopeless situation like this, had any more unconventional ways of saving himself from the jaws of death like what he had done the other time.

Soon, something which astounded and mystified everyone occurred!

Li Teng actually picked up the bar chair beside him again when he got up!

Then, upon confirming that there weren’t any instructions from the director to put it down coming from his earphone, he openly stole the cafe’s bar chair once again.

The pretty boy asked Mrs. Guo perplexedly, “What does he intend to do?”

“I don’t know,” replied a livid Mrs. Guo. She honestly couldn’t figure out Li Teng’s true intentions behind taking the bar chair this time.

In truth, even when she had been watching the video playback of how her son had died on the terminal, she had been rather puzzled when she had seen Li Teng taking a bar chair with him when he had left the cafe table.

It was only at the end of the video that she had realized that it had been exactly because of Li Teng’s chair that Guo Zhipeng had died.

Even so, what was the purpose behind him taking the bar chair this time?

Did he intend to jab her to death with the chair, too?

What a joke!

In Mrs. Guo’s opinion, if Li Teng could also launch a counterattack on her and kill her with the bar chair this time, then she might as well just live-stream herself eating sh*t and be done with all of this instead of doing so much.

But why was he taking a bar chair with him again?

When Gao Fei, the woman in the sunglasses, the white-collar woman, and the others saw Li Teng picking up the bar chair again, they couldn’t help but find it strange, too.

They hadn’t understood his actions the last time, and they didn’t understand this time, either.

They felt as though their IQ would take a huge beating from Li Teng if he successfully killed Mrs. Guo with the bar chair this time.

Or perhaps, he was just bluffing?

Upon seeing Mrs. Guo’s stern and somber expression, the rest felt that at the very least, Li Teng’s psychological tactics had worked.

It was obvious that Mrs. Guo’s confidence had wavered slightly. She didn’t look as confident as to how she had been just now.

However, could the slight wavering in one’s confidence make up for the huge difference in a human and a ghost’s capabilities?

Mrs. Guo simply couldn’t figure out the meaning behind Li Teng carrying the bar chair with him. A brief moment later, she made a decision—she picked up the bar chair that she had been sitting on, too.

So what if you have a chair? This old woman here has one, too!

At the very least, she mustn’t lose to Li Teng in terms of their attitudes for now.

Upon noticing how Li Teng’s action of picking up a bar chair had frightened Mrs. Guo and led to her also picking one up, the others couldn’t help but laugh.

Gao Fei laughed, especially exaggeratedly.

In his opinion, Li Teng was doomed this time. Nevertheless, Li Teng had used his unique sense of humor to play Mrs. Guo, an experienced actress, for a fool and scared her into a panic.

Li Teng was truly intelligent. No one could understand what he was planning, and neither could anyone guess his true intentions.

Just a simple little action of his had caused his opponent great panic and wild speculating.

In this aspect, Li Teng had already won.

“What a shame.” The woman in the sunglasses sighed.

Li Teng had been born in the wrong times, and he was terribly unlucky.

Under the director’s orders, all of them headed to the bus stop, the starting point of their filming for this scene together.

The pretty boy carried Mrs. Guo’s bar chair for her. Meanwhile, Mrs. Guo watched Li Teng, who was walking with a bar chair in his hands, closely, as though she was afraid that Li Teng would lift his chair and smash her to death with it on the spot.

Of course, should Li Teng really do that, it would achieve nothing more than just venting a moment’s anger. There was a very big likelihood that the accompanying crew members would stop him. Even if he did succeed, Mrs. Guo would also be revived at no cost, while Li Teng himself would be dragged off and turned into a wax statue right away for seriously violating the film studio’s rules.

Thus, the likelihood of Li Teng doing so was very low, unless he had a moment of stupidity.

After Mrs. Guo looked at Li Teng a few more times, she suddenly sensed something amiss.

Li Teng wasn’t walking properly. Rather, he was mumbling to himself as he walked.

Mrs. Guo deliberately went a little nearer to prevent herself from overlooking any of Li Teng’s ploys. At last, she heard clearly just what Li Teng had been mumbling.

“Bar chair, oh, bar chair, you’re the most effective at vanquishing ghosts and demons. You’ve helped me slay a wicked demon the other time. Please help me to vanquish the demonic granny this time, too. I know that with death comes peace1, but may there be bloody holes on the demonic granny. We leave the fortress together with the colors of dawn2, and I swear never to return unless the demonic granny is dead. You must not have seen the waters of the Yellow River surging to the heavens3, rushing toward that endless sea of red…”

Even after she listened seriously for a while, Mrs. Guo couldn’t tell whether there was any special meaning to Li Teng’s mumbling.

Wasn’t this standard of poetry too low even for doggerel?

The meaningless pondering made Mrs. Guo restless and perturbed.

“Hot folk songs are what we hope for, and singing as you walk is the most carefree1…”

By the end of his mumbling, Li Teng had even lapsed into soft singing.

When she heard the tune, Mrs. Guo almost launched into a square dance1.

“This guy is crazy!”

Mrs. Guo hastily fled to the side, in case she fell for Li Teng’s tricks.

When the others heard Li Teng’s baffling mumbling and singing, they couldn’t help but speculate inwardly, trying to understand just what kind of special meaning there was to his actions.

Was he able to put a curse on Mrs. Guo and kill her by doing this?

…

After they crossed a street, under the director’s instructions, they pushed a door open.

They reached another street after they went through the door and passed through a hidden alley.

The area nearby the cafe they were at earlier had been set up like a city’s bustling central district.

However, after they passed through the hidden alley and reached the streets on this side, the surrounding setup looked very run-down. A harsh and desolate atmosphere descended upon them.

The street lamps at the roadside were dim and faint. They emitted the buzz of electrical sparks every once in a while, building up the mysterious atmosphere unique to horror films.

The temperature also dropped a few degrees in an instant. It was as though ghosts would come charging out at them the next moment, leading to people perishing under their claws.

Everyone continued forward. The dim street lamps turned even darker.

A chilly gust of wind blew over from the small forest at the roadside and even carried over wailing-like sounds.