Chapter 76

Negative 19th floor.

The four surviving players stood in the corridor, looking at the only iron door with an inexplicable expression.

There were eleven people when they came in, but now, not even half of them are dead.

What's more terrible is that they have to share a room with Liu Xiyu again.

Liu Xiyu had no idea what the players were thinking. She stared at the iron door in the middle of the wall, feeling a little excited and a little scared.

In her previous dreams, she had only been to the negative 17th floor.

This was her first time to the negative 19th floor.

In her dreams, the floors in the cellar were very jumpy, and she was also confused and had no backbone at all. She just followed the flow of people.

Every time she played the game, every time she stepped into a room, she felt extremely terrified when she saw the hideous ghosts. And those games were weirder than each other. She couldn't figure out how to play them at all. Fortunately, there were many faceless monsters in front of her every time.

She had a vague premonition that if there were no smart faceless monsters, she would definitely die.

Liu Xiyu didn't know what it would be like to die in a dream, but even in a dream, she was afraid of death.

However, when she saw the iron door in front of her, an extremely clear voice suddenly appeared in her mind. The voice told her that as long as she entered this door, she could leave the cellar forever and no longer have repetitive, cyclical nightmares.

Although she couldn't remember the games on the previous floors, she had some vague impressions.

But this completely unfamiliar negative nineteenth floor was completely unfamiliar to her.

Liu Xiyu couldn't tell whether she was looking forward to it or afraid.

Now she wanted to go in immediately to get rid of the repetitive dreams. However, she had a hunch that if she went in, she would definitely see something she didn't want to see.

However, she also had a hunch that if she didn't go in, she would have the same nightmare in two days.

She would walk through the desolate and cold park alone, buy a ticket from the ticket seller, and enter the horror cellar.

Then, she would meet a new group of faceless people, and after a simple conversation, she would go through the levels with them. When almost all the faceless people died, she would arrive here again, then suddenly wake up and repeat everything until she had completely cleared the game.

"... I don't want to have this dream again!"

Although Liu Xiyu had never been hurt by a ghost, not even a strand of her hair had been pulled off by a ghost.

However, she had witnessed the death of many faceless people and always felt something was wrong. Although those faceless people had no faces and looked as scary as ghosts, they were born like humans in other places. Seeing them being tortured by ghosts, she felt a little uncomfortable.

"I won't go in this time... I will come here again next time..."

Liu Xiyu muttered softly, gently cheering herself up.

This time, she didn't wait for the black fog behind her to catch up, nor did she wait for the players to go in and explore the way first. For the first time, she mustered up the courage and pushed the door open by herself.

"Squeak--"

The heavy iron door was opened.

Behind the door was a clean mahogany table. On the table, there was nothing except a black and white photo.

Bloodstains, severed limbs, screams... all the bloody and horrible things did not appear in this room, but the players' expressions did not relax.

Because, this is a posthumous photo.

Compared with the previous levels, this silent room brought more pressure to everyone. Nothing means it is difficult to find clues.

Liu Xiyu stood in front of the photo in a daze, motionless, as if stunned.

Bai Yan was confused and did not want to touch this suspicious photo rashly, but Tom, the surviving player, walked forward and tried to touch the photo--

"Don't move!"

Liu Xiyu suddenly shouted: "Don't touch my mother's photo!"

Tom's hand stopped in mid-air and froze. He quickly retreated to the door and dared not move.

Liu Xiyu's words made the players understand that there was something going on here. Liu Xiyu's mother's posthumous photo... It was almost the end, and this room was really her home court.

Everyone was wondering what use Liu Xiyu would have in this level, but Liu Xiyu didn't care about that. She didn't even think about how to pass the level.

Now, all her energy was focused on this photo.

Liu Xiyu knew about the posthumous photo. She had seen this kind of black and white photo on TV. Only when someone died would there be such a photo.

However, her mother was not dead, she just disappeared. This was just a dream, it couldn't be true!

Liu Xiyu was shocked and couldn't accept the scene in front of her.

The mother in the photo smiled at her, as gentle as a real person.

I don't know why, even though I knew it was fake, when I saw the photo of my mother, Liu Xiyu's nose was sore and she couldn't help but cry.

She had a lot to say to her mother, but after her mother disappeared, her father couldn't find her no matter how hard he tried.

Even in her dreams, she couldn't dream of her mother. All she could see was this photo...

In the dream, Liu Xiyu's emotions changed very quickly.

There seemed to be no other danger in this room, and she no longer had any fear of ghosts in her heart. She reached out to the photo and wanted to take it away.

Even if it was a dream, she didn't want to leave her mother's photo in this place. She wanted to carry the photo with her, just like she put the photo of her mother under her pillow before going to bed every day.

Liu Xiyu picked up the photo frame, and the moment she touched the photo frame, she seemed to hear a voice——

That voice was very familiar to her. She had heard it countless times since she was a child. It was her mother's voice. She would never make a mistake!

"Wish..."

"...My wish is that I hope my daughter will never be killed by a ghost!"

The voice was fleeting, and it only rang in Liu Xiyu's ears for a moment. It disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

Her tears fell on the photo frame and flowed down along her mother's photo.

She didn't understand what this sentence meant. When she heard the familiar voice, she just felt wronged. If my mother was in a dream, why didn't she meet me? Does my mother know that I really miss her...

Liu Xiyu held the photo and lowered her head and sobbed softly. Bai Yan and others didn't hear the voice just now, but only heard Liu Xiyu crying all the time, and they felt a little puzzled.

Before a few people could analyze anything from Liu Xiyu's crying and the posthumous photo, the scenery in front of them suddenly changed.

When the dizziness passed, they inexplicably appeared in front of a ticket office. Tom disappeared, but Liu Xiyu was still crying in front of them holding the photo.

Then, the sky began to break.

Bai Yan lowered his head quickly. The return button was displayed on the App, which meant that Liu Xiyu was about to wake up.

When Liu Xiyu woke up, the dream world would undoubtedly be destroyed. Although the last level was unexpectedly simple, the three survivors were only surprised and clicked the return button.

After the three left, the world suddenly tore apart. Liu Xiyu rubbed her eyes, turned over, and sat up straight from the bed.

"Mom..."

Liu Xiyu wiped the tears from her face. She actually cried when she fell asleep just now.

She raised her hand to turn on the light, and the warm light made her feel better.

She took out a photo from under the pillow. This was a family portrait of their family of three.

Dad, mom, and her.

In the photo, she stood between her dad and mom, smiling very happily.

During the day, Dad was busy with work, and the rest of the time he was outside asking people to find her mom. At night, he was also busy with her mom's affairs.

Every night, she could only feel a little safe with the family portrait as a pillow.

Liu Xiyu looked at the photo and recalled how happy the family of three was when her mother was still alive. At that time, not only her mother, but also her father was not as haggard as they are now.

Her mother disappeared. Not only her, but her father has also aged a lot during this period, and his hair has begun to turn white.

Looking at the photo, Liu Xiyu gradually lost consciousness.

She stared at her mother in the photo in a daze. Her mother was still as beautiful as ever. She was wearing a beautiful dress and holding her hand. Her mother was looking at her in the photo with loving eyes. Perhaps she felt her mood. The mother in the photo suddenly turned her eyes and looked straight at her...

Looked at her...

Liu Xiyu felt very moved, but she was only excited for a moment, and she suddenly realized, how could the eyes of the people in the photo move?

She bit her lip and looked at her mother in the photo. Her mother was looking straight at her with a weird smile on her face.

What's even weirder is that in the photo, her mother's face is pale and her eyes have become very scary. Liu Xiyu moved her eyes. The person in the photo seemed to have life. Wherever her eyes looked, her mother's eyes also looked in that direction.

Her mother had been paying attention to her...

The woman in the photo kept moving her eyes, because Liu Xiyu soon stared at the photo and did not move.

However, she stared at Liu Xiyu, and her weird smile became bigger and bigger. She was slowly sticking her head out of the photo. Perhaps, in a short time, she would be able to come out of the photo...

Liu Xiyu saw this scene, and her hands began to tremble violently, but she still did not throw away the photo.

She remembered the dream, and the photo in the dream.

She felt a chill on her back, and turned her head with a sense of something, but found that at some point, the head in the bottle, the teacher with inverted facial features... the monsters in the dream, all came out of the dream one after another, and they surrounded the bed, blocking the bedside completely.

Liu Xiyu realized something, and a trace of terror flashed in her eyes. She was still holding the photo in her hand and shrank back into the quilt, but when she saw her hiding in the quilt, the ghosts in her dream all leaned over to the quilt and got closer and closer to her.

Endless fear devoured Liu Xiyu's heart. She wanted to shout, to ask for help, to eat people... Slowly, she looked at her mother with a strange smile in the photo, and suddenly she was not so scared.

Gradually, she had a strange smile on her lips that was exactly the same as the woman in the photo.

She lowered her forehead and stretched her neck towards the photo. In the blink of an eye, she disappeared in the room, and the ghosts in the room also disappeared without a trace. The room was quiet, and there was no one in the room.

Without anyone holding it, the photo swayed and floated on the bed, lying quietly in the middle of the quilt, motionless.

In the photo, the girl and her mother were pale, with the same strange smile on their faces.

They turned their heads gloomily towards the man on the far left of the photo and stared at him until midnight, when the sound of a key opening the door was heard from outside.