Chapter 49 – Devil Exchange

Translator: Yuzu

“Eh, do you know Wang Jingyi?”

“Pfft, who doesn’t know her! Why? Does the police suspect that she killed Li Da?”

“Haha, you don’t say, she’s quite suspicious! But that’s not what I’m talking about.”

“Then what is it?”

“Did you see yesterday’s grade rankings? Hasn’t she always been one of the top in our department? She was at the bottom of the class yesterday! Oh, my God! And you don’t know, a few days ago she looked like she’s aged a decade, but today she’s back to her teenage skin! It’s as if she’s been possessed!”

“Eh! You don’t say! In today’s open class, I was in the same classroom as her, and the teacher asked her a question. That question was particularly simple that even I could answer it. I don’t know what’s wrong with her. She stood for a long time without answering.”

Along the way, there was always someone chattering and gossiping non-stop; three or two people got together to talk about gossip.

This was the fourth time that Xiao Chen had heard someone say the name Wang Jingyi today.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen paused. He couldn’t help but whisper her name, with a somewhat trance-like expression, “Wang Jingyi.”

Xiao Chen felt the air around him freeze, and a wind from nowhere stirred his bangs. Xiao Chen was wearing thick glasses, with his bangs blocking his eyes. The wind blew, making these eyes exposed.

Xiao Chen subconsciously blocked it with his hand.

The sun’s light shone directly on his hand, warming it.

“Hey, Xiao Chen.” A boy suddenly turned out from the corner. His eyes lit up when he saw Xiao Chen, his hands hugged Xiao Chen directly in his arms, and raised his eyebrows, “Let’s go! Something’s come up for you!”

Xiao Chen held his glasses up and consciously pushed them, narrowing his eyes.

Something was wrong.

“Hey,” the boy’s name was Wang Yeze. He was in the same class as Xiao Chen, but they hadn’t actually said more than ten words together. They weren’t so close that they could hook up, “Xiao Chen, let’s go! Let’s go eat!”

Xiao Chen raised his eyebrows and glanced at him. His eyes were rippling but transparent. The latter’s eyes subconsciously dodged a bit… Xiao Chen sneered and stared at him quietly, without speaking.

Wang Yeze was embarrassed to be looked at. Xiao Chen was clearly wearing glasses. He couldn’t even see Xiao Chen’s expression, but somehow being stared at by him would give him a feeling of naked shame, as if there was no way to hide those dirty thoughts in his heart.

Wang Yeze seemed to still want to say something. His hand that was hooked around Xiao Chen’s neck suddenly accidentally touched something, and his hand instantly trembled. He felt a piercing coldness all over his body as if something had invaded his brain. He shuddered and let go of Xiao Chen in shock.

Xiao Chen coldly looked at Wang Yeze.

Wang Yeze withdrew his hand, gritted his teeth, and clenched his two hands into fists. He dryly laughed, “Fine, fine, if you don’t want to go, I’ll find someone else.”

After saying that, Wang Yeze fled the scene. He only took three or four steps and then glanced back at Xiao Chen quietly, with a somewhat unpredictable expression.

Xiao Chen pushed his frames back and stared at Wang Yeze’s back in contemplation.

Wang Yeze was a bit fidgety on his feet. Although he had just done his best to hide his inner anxiety with a smile, the hands around his neck were tense. His left eyelid was unconsciously throbbing, and he even made multiple attempts to arch his nose and scratch his cheek.

He was lying.

That was the first thought that came to Xiao Chen’s mind.

According to a study by Feldman, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, the average person lies at least 25 times a day. These lies may have good intentions or even be nothing more than one small thing, but the lies are present in almost everyone.

Even a person who was extremely good at lying would feel ill in the process of lying.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen subconsciously touched the pendant on his neck, and his gaze went over to the path that Wang Yeze had turned to just now.

This path was narrow, and there were very few people walking on it. It only led to one place – the library.

Once again, Xiao Chen thought of the strange tree under the library.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen paused and unconsciously started walking in the direction of the library.

Wang Yeze’s footsteps stopped. He was breathing heavily, and his expression still showed some residual shock.

He clenched his fist.

What was going on? Why is this Xiao Chen’s character somewhat different from the character of Xiao Chen in the movie?

Wang Yeze clenched his teeth, his face slightly twisted.

Calling out in exasperation, ‘System, what’s going on? How could this NPC have such a strong mental power.”

A yellow dot slowly condensed above Wang Yeze’s head, and a bunch of garbled-like things vaguely appeared on the yellow dot.

‘The system doesn’t know. The player is asked to solve it on their own.’

Wang Yeze couldn’t help but gulp after hearing the System’s reply and cursing a few words under his breath.

He wasn’t from this world! This was a movie world! A horror film called The Devil’s Game!

He was a murderer about to be executed! He didn’t know why he’d been chosen to come here by someone named System, but he did know that if he couldn’t complete the mission, he’d be sent back and put to death!

How willing he was.

The only content of his mission was to find the Devil’s Bride and kill her.

The movie “The Devil’s Game” is about a college where strange things happen frequently.

The male student who died in a park with a completely unrecognizable face, the young girl who aged overnight, the bully who went into a manic knife-wielding murder spree ……

Wang Yeze, who has seen the original movie, knows that the source of all these evils comes from the withered wishing tree at the school library.

Anyone filled with bitterness or malice has to write a wish on a red cloth with their own blood and hang the fabric on the top of the wishing tree to awaken a devil, who will appear on earth and grant their wish.

And as the price for summoning it, these people would also need to exchange their most precious things for an equal price.

Wang Yeze gritted his teeth at the thought of this. It was because he had seen the original story that he found his mission even stranger.

Searching for the Devil’s Bride?

There’s only one Devil in the world, and that’s Satan, the one summoned by the wishing tree. But he didn’t even know that this Devil actually had a bride in this movie.

That’s weird!

Who’s the bride?

Wang Yeze began to recall the plot like crazy.

In this movie, the main character is Zhou Ming. The main supporting characters are Xiao Chen, Wang Jingyi, and Wang Yeze……. After the truth is revealed, only Zhou Ming is left alive. He burns down the wishing tree to prevent the Devil from coming to earth again.

The only reference to the Devil’s origins is very simple; this Devil was once a human. He traded his life with the previous Devil as the price for granting his wish. He became the new Devil, and for the rest of his life, he had to be chained to the Wishing Tree, granting wishes for greedy humans and looking for a chance to escape.

But throughout the movie, it was never stated at all what the wish the Devil once redeemed was.

——What is your wish?

——I, I hope he gets better! And never be locked up in that little room again.

——Well, what would you trade for it?

——I… I don’t know what I could trade.

——Your life!

“Doctor! Doctor!” The woman’s screams were piercingly loud throughout the hospital. Her legs trembled, and her hands clung to the wall as if she had been frightened. She rushed out of the ward, but before she could run a few steps, she fell straight to her knees in place and shouted at the top of her lungs, “Someone help me! Somebody help!!!”

“My son’s illness has struck again! Somebody do something!!!” The woman was shouting down the corridor like a crazy person. It was the middle of the night, and there was no one at all in the hospital.

Her voice directly turned on the sound switch in the hallway.

A group of nurses on duty rushed out in a flurry, “What’s wrong? What’s wrong with the patient?”

The woman gasped and pointed her trembling fingers at the door as if she was choking and didn’t speak.

The nurses look at each other. Seeing this, the head nurse leaned into the isolation window, intending to see the situation inside.

Her eyes widened, and she was in a state of shock.

The usually quiet and gentle boy inside was sitting on the bed without moving, speaking, or doing anything drastic. He was just sitting there quietly as usual, like a decoration.

Of course, if the room wasn’t as if some beast had swept through it. There were countless traces of tables and chairs smashed. It was hard for her to imagine that someone who was just like the image of a noble son would go crazy to this extent.

No! Not only that!

The head nurse’s eyes widened as if she had seen something else. Her pupils constricted, and her eyes filled with such horror that even the hand gripping the isolation window trembled.

The boy’s right hand had broken a finger, and the wound at that broken finger was bleeding continuously!

What’s even worse is that the severed finger was just right there in the boy’s hands!

But his expression was flat from start to finish, without the slightest fluctuation of emotion, like it wasn’t even him who was injured, and he couldn’t feel any pain.

The head nurse’s breathing became shaky, and her eyelids couldn’t stop fluttering.

This patient was the most special in the entire hospital!

He has a very rare form of bipolar disorder in this world!

Thinking of this, the head nurse immediately shouted to the other nurses in the back, “Quick! Go get the keys!”

The boy lifted his head slowly, eyes squinting as if trying to see through the isolation window.

The head nurse swallowed and waited a little anxiously for the nurse who ran to get the keys.

Suddenly, the boy’s mouth quirked upwards, showing his teeth. His neck tilted to the side, looking well-behaved and secretive. His eyes seemed to fall directly on her through the window, making her shudder.

“Sister!” A child’s clear voice sounded at the end of the hallway, breaking the weirdness.

The nurse turned back with a jolt.

A boy stood around the corner, his fingers gripping the corner of the wall, his watery eyes wide and innocent, gazing at the scene before him.

“What’s going on in there, sister?”

In the room, the boy’s originally emotionless expression seemed to crack instantly as if he heard the noise outside, and his breath was slightly constricted.

No, don’t let him see me like this right now!

——You are my medicine. The only light, the only salvation that can soothe my anxious heart and help me drive away my loneliness during these long, lonely years.

Please, don’t abandon me!