Didn't I not want to see her play adventure games? Why is she back?
Yu Nan didn't sit in the gaming chair, but squeezed onto the same sofa with Zhu Yao, staring blankly at the screen.
The familiar game screen seemed to bring her back to her senses, and Yu Nan asked hesitantly, as if seeking confirmation, "Tell me, do ghosts exist in this world?"
"No," Zhu Yao said decisively, "Otherwise, why haven't you shown up yet? Is there a ghost? Please show yourself!"
Yu Nan almost shouted out loud.
The book says: Don't talk about people during the day, and don't talk about ghosts at night.
Do not gossip about others during the day, or you will cause trouble; do not talk about ghosts at night, or strange things will happen.
“See? No response,” Zhu Yao shrugged. “I told you there couldn’t be ghosts in this world.”
The book says: Those who do not believe in ghosts and gods will go to the Hell of Tongue-Pulling!
Yu Nan was about to cry.
The two were standing very close when Zhu Yao accidentally kicked Yu Nan's shin.
Yu Nan screamed in fright, jumped up, grabbed Zhu Yao's neck, and sat on Zhu Yao's lap.
"I'm sorry..." Zhu Yao looked at her weakly, "I shouldn't have kicked your leg..."
If she had known that Yu Nan would react so strongly after being kicked, she would have controlled her foot and kept it still.
"It's...nothing," Yu Nan said, her face pale. She hugged him even tighter, her body trembling like a leaf.
Zhu Yao didn't dare to kick the landlord out, so she had no choice but to let her hang there like that, making it look like she was carrying Yu Nan in a princess carry.
Yu Nan's waist is also very slender, so thin that it can be grasped in one hand; her long-term irregular work and rest schedule makes her very light.
"Um..." Zhu Yao seemed to realize something, "Are you scared?"
Yu Nan nodded frantically.
Zhu Yao had a vague idea.
"Did you just watch something about ghosts and spirits?"
Yu Nan looked grief-stricken and nodded even more vigorously.
"Is it absolutely necessary to see this? Do you want me to look at it for you?"
Yu Nan was overjoyed and almost agreed. Then she remembered that the novel was a lesbian novel, and she couldn't let Zhu Yao read it.
I almost came out!
Zhu Yao watched as Yu Nan nodded halfway, then started shaking like an electric fan.
She didn't understand, but didn't ask any more questions, and simply changed the subject to games.
What should I say?
"This game..."
Zhu Yao spoke slowly, gathering the most profound impression in her mind, and then blurted out...
"There are so many lesbians in this game!"
As soon as she said that, Zhu Yao regretted it.
What did I just say?!
The two women fell silent. As deeply closeted lesbians, they dared not say anything.
"Haha, yeah," Yu Nan broke the silence with a dry laugh, "After all, it's a game made by Venezuelan anime fans. I heard they really like this kind of thing in the anime world!"
"Really?" Zhu Yao feigned surprise. "I thought anime was like Pikachu."
"Actually, I've also watched anime and manga," Yu Nan said, not even knowing what she was talking about. "I've watched Detective Conan."
"What a coincidence, I've seen a bit of it too," Zhu Yao replied mindlessly.
An awkward silence fell between them; neither spoke, and they simply stared at the game on the screen.
At this point, the female protagonist, Jill, begins to talk about her ex-girlfriend.
Zhu Yao: "..."
Yu Nan: "..."
Zhu Yao thought to herself that she shouldn't have chosen this game in the first place.
"By the way," Zhu Yao decided to change the subject again, "if you're afraid of ghosts, what about the dark route in Lost Garden?"
“Making games is different from playing games,” Yu Nan said with a smug smile. “The horror games I make are really scary.”
It's so scary that even I don't dare to play it.
"A good game designer doesn't have to play games."
Yu Nan gave an example: "If I am good at math, I can be a numerical designer and design a particularly difficult BOSS, but that does not mean I can definitely beat that BOSS."
Zhu Yao realized: "Just like a horror novelist doesn't have to believe in ghosts and gods, a mystery novelist doesn't have to have killed anyone."
"Bingo!" Yu Nan gave a thumbs up. "You can play some of my other games sometime."
"Has it been released?" Zhu Yao asked curiously.
To her recollection, none of the games Yu Nan had created were horror games.
"Not yet... it's still a work in progress." Yu Nan, who was digging holes everywhere, was a little guilty. "But it's very close to completion."
Zhu Yao nodded and saved the game she was playing.
She played games for too long today; she needs to go back and update her novel.
Seeing that Zhu Yao was about to leave, Yu Nan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Are you going back?"
"Okay," Zhu Yao nodded. "Let's go eat together first, I need to get back to work."
Yu Nan wished time could slow down so she could spend more time with Zhu Yao, but the moment of parting always had to come, and finally, she had to face the empty house.
Suddenly I realize... the room isn't empty at all, it's actually quite lively...
After gritting her teeth and reading the first three chapters, Yu Nan found nothing about herself and wondered if she had been tricked by Lang Dao'er.
[YuMiao]: rnm, refund my money!
[Wolf Knife]: ? ? ?
[YuMiao]: I checked, I'm not there.
[Wolf Knife]: Where are you looking?
[Yu Miao]: Chapter Three
[Wolf Blade]: ...
[Wolf Knife]: You have to look ahead.
[Yu Miao]: Just tell me where I am.
[Wolf Blade]: ...?!
[Wolf Knife]: You're scared, aren't you! You don't dare to look!
[Yu Miao]: ...Give me back my game!
[Wolf Blade]: Don't worry, President Yu, just read the latest three chapters.
[Yu Miao]: Is it scary?
【Wolf Knife】: Bedtime reading, not scary at all.
Yu Nan clicked on the latest three chapters with some skepticism, praying that there wouldn't be anything scary inside.
She saw the description of the villa's outer courtyard, and it really did look just like her own home!
However, since the interior design of his own home was modeled after the game, it's possible that the novel's author was also a NieR fan.
Dao'er is probably being paranoid.
[Yu Miao]: I saw it. It's just that the decorations are similar. Maybe the author also likes NieR: Automata!
[Wolf Blade]: ...
[Wolf Blade]: Sister, please read these three chapters first.
【Wolf Blade】: You don't even have the courage to read three chapters?
[Yu Miao]: ...
[Yu Miao]: Tell me what's good to get?
[Wolf Knife]: With you, your house, and the fishing cat...
[Wolf Knife]: You'd better take a look yourself, lest your players turn from fans to haters and sneak up on your doorstep.
Yu Nan immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, thanked Lang Dao'er, and gritted her teeth to continue reading.
When describing Yu Nan's villa, Zhu Yao devoted a great deal of ink to it—from the decoration to the layout, she vividly depicted it as a place with bad feng shui, heavy with yin energy, and where ghosts gathered.
Yu Nan became increasingly alarmed and frightened as she looked at the film.
Holy crap, white flowers that bloom at night absorb the moon's yin energy, causing people to become delirious and have nightmares!
Holy crap, my kitchen is actually a place of ill omen, easily breeding evil spirits!
Holy crap, my bedroom is a breeding ground for corpses! It will make the person living there sick and haunted by evil spirits!
Holy crap, basements are places where yin energy gathers, you can't stay there for long! It'll bring you bad luck!
Holy crap, the elevator activates the feng shui, making the whole room even more gloomy!
The novel also says that such a house must be very quiet.
Yu Nan's hands began to tremble slightly; she wanted to move tomorrow—no, right now.
She wanted to get as far away from this ominous place as possible.
She felt surrounded by ghosts, chattering and plotting how to kill her.
Holy crap, there's a vengeful ghost sealed at the basement entrance, a female ghost in red with white hair, that sounds terrifying!
Yu Nan completely forgot that she had dyed her hair white.