Nightmare Assault

Chapter 379: Videos

The group was instantly reminded of the female ghost who chased after Wei Jingting last night. The female ghost was stalking Lee Maoshen when he proposed. Based on Wei Jingting’s description, he could sense the ghost’s anger through the screen. Fatty had a bad feeling. He suspected those people had done something horrible to make her hate them so much.

Banana Wolf’s group clearly came to the same conclusion. Banana Wolf continued, “According to Yu Youwei’s colleague, Lee Maoshen was quite handsome, but he had a terrible personality. He was arrogant because he was a popular internet celebrity. He assumed every woman wanted to be with him. Ever after he got together with Yu Youwei, he still harassed some models in their company.

“Some couldn’t stand him and tried to warn Yu Youwei. However, Yu Youwei didn’t really listen to them. If anything, she berated them in private, saying that they were just jealous of her.

“Plus, these harassed women would receive strange emails at midnight.” Banana Wolf paused for effect. “They were mostly senseless videos with strange content. However, the women who received them were so scared that some refused to stay at the company too late.”

“Are they videos captured by Lee Maoshen?” Fatty asked excitedly. He had a feeling that the pieces were falling into place. Lee Maoshen got famous from taking supernatural vidoes. They figured that out earlier.

“Yes.” Banana Wolf nodded. “The harassed models connected with each other and realised it was Lee Maoshen who was scaring them. Then, they called the police.”

The travellers felt better after hearing that.

“What happened after that?” Chu Jiu pressed.

“The police found Lee Maoshen’s home. They entered his home, but he was not there. Instead, there was a woman there.”

“I suppose so.” Banana Wolf thought of something. He took out a laptop from his bag. The computer looked old. The screen was cracked in a few places. He placed the laptop on the table. “We copied these videos that Lee Maoshen sent to the women. Just… take a look at them.”

Jiang Cheng’s eyes lit up. He didn’t think Banana Wolf’s group would find so many things in one afternoon. Fatty and Chu Jiu joined him around the laptop. There was more than one video.

They clicked on the first one.

The screen shook before settling down. The lighting was bad. It should be taken at night. It appeared to be in a residential lot. The place was large but old. Jiang Cheng felt like the furniture that appeared on screen could go to a museum. The walls had black spots like mould.

The scene kept changing. A new set would appear after every seven seconds. It felt like a documentary, trying to set the scene with many angles. The angles were varied. Some were taken from the ceiling. They were reminded of the ghost Wei Jingting mentioned. Could the different camera angles be the ghost’s alternating perspectives?

Then, they realised it couldn’t be. If the videos were really the ghost’s perspective, Lee Maoshen wouldn’t have sent them out. He was a horrible man, but he was not dumb. The videos were cut and joined together.

Eventually, someone appeared on screen. It was a tiny woman. Due to the angle, the viewers couldn’t see her face. The woman walked to the bedroom in her pyjamas. She sat on the bed and rubbed her nose and her temples. Then, she lay down to sleep. Her actions were stilted. It was very unsettling.

“Why doesn’t she switch off the lights if she’s sleeping?” Fatty whispered.

Chu Jiu explained, “That’s nothing. I also sleep with the lights on. Many girls do that to feel safer.”

“But you wouldn’t keep your kitchen and bathroom lights on, right?” Jiang Cheng interrupted. The two were startled. Then, they took a closer look. The woman walked all the way from the living room, and she left all the lights on. When Fatty opened his mouth to say something, the screen went black.

The laptop didn’t break because the progress bar was still going. The bedroom lights… went out. In fact, all the lights in the house went out.

Chu Jiu’s face tightened with stress.

They could see the woman’s silhouette in the bed. It felt like they were watching a black-and-white film. The camera automatically turned on the night-vision mode. The video paused at that angle for a long time. If not for the moving progress bar, they would have thought the video had frozen.

Just as someone was about to move, Chu Jiu’s eyes focused. Then, her body shook. She saw a hand reach out from an inconspicuous angle. There was someone hiding under the bed!

Fear wrapped around Chu Jiu. She was instantly reminded of her first night when she was visited by the ghost under her bed. The same thing was happening in the video. After the dark shadow crawled out, it slowly moved onto the woman’s bed…

The video ended there. However, Chu Jiu still hadn’t shaken out of it. Her body couldn’t stop trembling, no matter how hard Fatty tried to comfort her. In the end, Jiang Cheng had to scare her again before she stopped.

“That was… me.” Chu Jiu pointed at the screen. Before she could finish, Jiang Cheng clicked on the next video.

The video was still taken at night. The subject was the same woman, but the video was taken at a cafe. The cafe’s lighting was softer, so the travellers could get a rough view of her face. She was young, around 20. However, she looked listless. If not for the bad pixels, Jiang Cheng felt like he could see her dark circles.

There was another table of customers near her. However, the angle was strange because the angle cut their heads off. Only their bodies could be seen on camera.

The woman curled up her body and hugged the cup. She kept looking around with worry.

“She’s waiting for someone,” Jiang Cheng concluded.

On the table, across from the woman, was another cup.