I Got My Cheat Skill by Acting My Way into a Horror Protagonist Role Chapter 18

Before I... I used to love playing hide and seek the most.

I'd run and jump, I loved being the seeker the most, being able to chase people everywhere...

100, 99, 98, 97...

There was a large section in the middle that was unreadable.

Xiao Gui'an squinted his eyes hard, continuing to decipher.

(Scratched out)(Scratched out)(Unreadable)... I don't like this counting spot, I can't get down from here, it's easy to fall, but sister said only here (blurred)(scratched out). Prevent me... see...

96, 95, 94, 93...

...They made me hide underneath again, summer is so hot, I feel like I can't breathe, my whole body itches, I want to scratch...(Scratched out)(Scratched out)

Sister went to play with A Min and Fatty again today, they didn't take me...

"Wait, who?" Xu Zisheng slightly frowned, repeating, "Wang Hengkai?"

"What, you know who that is?" Xiao Gui'an looked at him.

Xu Zisheng said with a calm expression, "That's the kid playing with knives. I saw the name on his homework when we were having a friendly exchange."

Xiao Gui'an didn't want to know what kind of exchange this "friendly exchange" was, so he continued reading.

92, 91, 90, 89...

I don't want to play anymore, I never want to play again, (scratched out)(blurred) I hate, hate...

Hate——

The originally distorted words seemed stained with more bloodstains, carrying deep hatred and despair, black and foul-smelling.

So uncomfortable, so hot... I feel like I can't breathe...(Scratched out)(Scratched out)

Something... crawling... densely packed...

If only I could be like sister... once again (blurred)(blurred)...

If only we could swap places...

88, 87, 86, 85...

Why... why... why isn't the one playing the game me?...

Mom, where are you? Sister (scratched out)... little...(scratched out) so uncomfortable...

Xiao Gui'an shuddered, as if seeing something. He leaned closer, almost twisting his neck off, trying to identify what might be a name.

"Xi... no... Zhen... not that either"

"...Xiao Qiao?"

"Mmm—"

What was that sound?

Before Xiao Gui'an could figure out what the faint sound coming from beside him was, he lost his balance due to relaxing his grip after recognizing the words, his feet slipped, and he fell sideways.

"Thud—"

Just as his head was about to hit the sharp protruding metal sheet on the other side, something cold gently supported him.

It wasn't exactly supporting, more precisely, it cushioned the impact.

Making his head shift slightly, avoiding being cut open.

Xiao Gui'an instinctively thought Xu Zisheng had supported him and said, "Thanks..."

But when he looked up, Xu Zisheng was on his other side. Even if he wanted to help, his arm wasn't that long.

The other person seemed to see something that made his expression change, directly grabbing Xiao Gui'an's leg and dragging him out without hesitation. Xiao Gui'an's head still inevitably hit the ground.

"Ouch!"

Then he saw a purplish-blue small face staring eerily at him. The glass shard in the other's hand stabbed down fiercely, then passed just one millimeter from the tip of Xiao Gui'an's nose.

Xiao Gui'an: !!!

Cold sweat immediately broke out on him.

Originally, the other had planned to sneak out to scare them and take the opportunity to ambush them. Who would have thought Xiao Gui'an could slip and directly press the little girl who had just crawled out back down.

Xiao Gui'an rubbed his bumped head, while Xu Zisheng on the other side weighed the glass shard in his hand, found it quite handy, and gripped it.

"Let's continue playing hide and seek..."

The little girl crawled out from under the metal sheet, her hair disheveled, smiling. Her unfocused, dilated pupils stared tightly at them, but her legs moved nimbly as she darted over.

She pulled out a longer glass shard from behind, a full one and a half meters long, much taller than the little girl herself.

This wasn't the posture for playing hide and seek.

The other waved the long glass piece like a long sword, faintly able to hear the sound of cutting through air.

"Big brother, are you going to play with me using that little piece of debris?"

The little girl smiled maliciously, clearly looking down on the small fragment in Xu Zisheng's hand.

Xu Zisheng grabbed Xiao Gui'an by the collar and tossed him aside.

"Wait, how can you fight her with that! Don't charge..."

Xiao Gui'an shouted anxiously, then his eyes widened slightly, his throat as if choked, the next words disappearing in his mouth.

Because he clearly saw that Xu Zisheng's other hand behind his back had already, at some unknown time, tightly gripped that blood-stained rusty axe.

Xiao Gui'an: Oh this—

The little girl clearly didn't understand the dangers of the world yet.

Nor did she know how dirty the heart of the person facing her was.

Glass against axe.

Which one would break goes without saying.

"Clang—"

The ghost child girl clearly encountered this situation for the first time. The glass long sword in her hand couldn't withstand Xu Zisheng's axe strike at all, shattering into pieces on the ground.

Watching her beloved toy shatter like that, she completely froze.

And Xu Zisheng slowly revealed a friendly smile to her, holding the axe that had chopped up who knows how many ghosts, adding salt to the wound without any concern, "Children shouldn't play with glass shards. It's best if I help you dispose of them."

He picked up one of the broken fragments, weighed it in his hand, then put it in his pocket.

"You..." This instantly made the child feel wronged. The purplish-blue color faded from the ghost child girl's face, and her eyes became somewhat more focused.

Having lost her weapon, she clearly didn't want to confront the somewhat scary-looking Xu Zisheng anymore. The entire ghost rushed out to the other side.

Xiao Gui'an and Xu Zisheng surrounded her, but the other seemed somewhat too agile, as if she had many feet moving. They tried many times but couldn't catch her.

Then just like before, they chased all the way to the security booth on the other side of the residential building.

Sure enough, Uncle Zhao in the security booth stood up again.

Xiao Gui'an somewhat understood the Tang sisters' feelings now.

Wasn't this opponent just plain cheating?

He felt he couldn't swallow his anger if he couldn't catch that little girl.

"You even broke the child's toy, you..."

The pressure around Uncle Zhao was even lower, the churning ghost energy making people's spines chill.

"Hah, that's not something a child should play with. It's naturally best that it broke..." Xu Zisheng's words were full of concern for the other, but his eyes were deep and dark.

When views differ, even half a sentence is too many.

Just moments ago Xu Zisheng had said he didn't have much time to waste, but when he actually encountered it, he still confronted the other.

One held a blood-stained rusty axe in his hand, the other ghost held a metal baseball bat, and they clashed together.

This kind of scene was truly rare.

Xiao Gui'an originally wanted to go to the security booth to catch the ghost child girl, but he was also attracted by the two of them.

"Bang—"

"Boom—"

Ghost Uncle Zhao looked old, but his moves were actually quite methodical. Honestly speaking, just being a security guard was somewhat wasting his talent.

And when Xu Zisheng went crazy, the madness and evil on his face were no less than that of a ghost. He looked thin and weak, but when he swung the axe, the veins and muscles on his arms all bulged out.

The thought of catching the ghost child girl was thrown to the back of his mind. Xiao Gui'an obediently watched from the side as the two guys went back and forth for several rounds. They constantly shifted positions, back and forth, each move fierce and sharp.

Xiao Gui'an watched with great interest. If he had sunflower seeds, he felt he could start cracking them.

From his perspective as a third-rate actor, this fight scene was much more exciting than those martial arts films claiming to carry on national heritage.

Impressive!!

So that move could be countered that way! Really broadening my horizons!

Oh ho, he jumped up, took off!

There were no wires here!

Hiss, he could still dodge even when it was that close, Brother Xu has such good waist strength!

Xiao Gui'an's eyes were shining brightly, clearly forgetting what environment he was currently in.

The proxy system mechanically and calmly reminded, [Host, please pay attention to the mission]

"Right, right!..." Xiao Gui'an shuddered, bypassed the two fighting guys, pressed against the outside of the security booth, and forcefully tugged at the door lock. It wouldn't open.

The little girl clearly still looked down on Xiao Gui'an. Her face that had just returned to normal became scary again. Bluish-black nails grew from her hands, and a cold, terrifying aura emanated from her body.

She felt she could handle it again, as long as she didn't have to face that other scary big brother.

Xiao Gui'an shivered, but felt he couldn't lose momentum.

Glancing at Uncle Zhao and Xu Zisheng who were too busy to pay attention to them, he decided to use his ghost transformation state a little. He borrowed somewhat from the 'Scavenger' he encountered yesterday and the ghost images he had learned about before.

Xiao Gui'an's face pressed tightly against the window, then slowly transformed in the somewhat confused, unfocused pupils of the ghost child girl.

His originally normal face gradually began to change. Blood color spread across Xiao Gui'an's eyeballs. Two deep tear marks extended from both sides of his mouth, as if his face had been peeled open alive, vaguely revealing flesh and teeth.

Densely packed black stitches tightly sewed up the wounds on both sides. The stitching wasn't neat, instead appearing twisted and eerie.

Slightly opening his mouth, only a small half of his tongue trembled slightly inside, the other half seemingly cut off alive.

Deep in the oral cavity, there were layer upon layer of secondary teeth, constantly squirming, as if wanting to chew and crush something.

"Good child, eat you..." Those eyeballs pressed tightly against the glass window stared fixedly at the ghost child girl inside, carrying extremely thick malice and desire to devour. His throat slightly undulated, as if making excited swallowing sounds of some foul, sticky fluid, emitting low growls.

Ghost child girl: !!!

Help! A ghost wants to eat a child!!!