Global Ghost Stories: I'm Investigating Ghosts in My Nightmare!

Chapter 1 Lu Yueqi

"Hello everyone, good evening! Today is another live stream featuring horror stories that everyone loves to watch!" In the dark room, a cute girl wearing a white sweater and a ghost-shaped hat greeted the viewers on the computer.

She seemed to be a very popular streamer, with comments constantly scrolling across the screen.

Good evening, Qi Yue!

"It's time for our Qiyue-chan's favorite long water time again."

"A streamer who reads horror story comments every day won't have a future. Quickly broadcast content that people like to watch."

"Are people actually watching Qi Yue's live stream to hear scary stories?"

"Indeed, fast forward to the main part, I can't wait to see the streamer's hilarious gameplay."

"How can you talk like that? Our streamers need to be skilled and good-looking, and they also need to tell scary stories. Qi Yue-chan is the best!"

"It's good, I love it, and I'll keep watching!"

……

Lu Yueqi, also known as Qiyue by the audience, looked at the barrage of comments scrolling across her computer screen and laughed, "All you people do is slander me all day long. How am I just padding my playtime by reading comments? I carefully researched all these horror stories. And to the one who said I'm bad at games, don't let me run into you in any shooting game or MOBA game. You'll regret it!"

The live stream was quite lively, with viewers offering flattery and then playfully retorting.

"Alright, alright, I'm going to start the first story of the day. You've all almost forgotten about your important business." Lu Yueqi swept her bangs forward to cover her eyes as much as possible, trying to look like a female ghost, but this female ghost looked a little too cute and silly.

Lu Yueqi deliberately lowered her voice and played some scary background music to create an atmosphere.

"This ghost story is said to be the origin of all strange events. Legend has it that at night, sleeping people are targeted by a nightmare-like monster. It enters your dreams, and if you have a nightmare, it slowly, slowly turns that nightmare into reality. Eventually, the nightmare completely enters the real world, killing its creator and thus breaking free of control to infect the entire world… They are endless, living off the fear in people's hearts. As long as people still have fear, one day they will come knocking, and then…"

"pat-"

A sudden, unusual noise shattered the atmosphere of the story.

"Huh?" Lu Yueqi turned her head and found that the door to her room had been open at some point.

"Why did the door behind the streamer open?"

"Are they family members of the streamer?"

"Is there really someone behind the door? Then why don't they come in?"

"Maybe they didn't come in because they saw that Qiyue-chan was live streaming?"

"But I was staring at the screen the whole time, there was no one behind the door."

……

Lu Yueqi was no longer in the mood for live streaming. She stared intently at her bedroom door, cold sweat beading on her forehead.

Although she is a streamer in the paranormal category, she is still quite afraid of these things. So she always locks her room before going live. She remembers clearly that she closed the door and locked it from the inside when she came in. There was no one else in her house. How did the door open?
"I think I've heard of a story before, where someone was watching TV in the middle of the night when the door suddenly opened. He went out to check but didn't find anyone. However, when he returned to his room, he found his own body lying on the bed, horribly mutilated. He approached his body to see what had happened, but the door suddenly closed and he couldn't open it no matter what he did. That person then disappeared..."

A long barrage of comments scrolled by.

"Hey upstairs, I'm easily scared, don't scare me."

"Don't be afraid. According to him, that person disappeared. Where did he get this story? Horror stories are all fake. There are no real ghosts."

"Too."

"But Qiyue..."

"It's an act, isn't it?"

……

The comments continued to scroll.

Lu Yueqi took off her headphones and slowly stood up, her whole body trembling as she walked towards the switch for the ceiling light, her phone shining in the light.

"Huh? Why is the light broken?" Lu Yueqi anxiously pressed the switch, but the light still wouldn't turn on. In the dark room, only the cold white light from the computer and mobile phone provided Lu Yueqi with a little bit of visibility.

"Ding--"

"what!"

The notification sound startled Lu Yueqi, causing her hand to tremble and the phone to fly out of her hand. Fortunately, the phone wasn't broken; it lay quietly on the floor, its display on the lock screen.

Lu Yueqi shakily squatted down to pick up her phone, swiped it open, and looked at the messages on it.

"Don't turn around, stay behind you. And don't try to peek behind you with your eyes."

It was a message from an unknown number, and Lu Yueqi was unsure what to do. What if the message was something strange sent to mislead her?

Lu Yueqi felt like she was going to collapse. Although she was always afraid of ghosts, she was also a staunch atheist and did not believe in ghosts or monsters. She just loved to think about and was very afraid of those terrifying things, but she never thought that it would actually happen to her.

"Click!" The computer screen went dark for a moment after a period of flickering, then lit up again.

Lu Yueqi quickly covered her head and closed her eyes, pretending that she couldn't see anything.

After a moment's hesitation, driven by her survival instinct, she decided to temporarily heed the instructions on her phone. Trembling, she picked up the phone and slowly stood up, not daring to even turn her neck, her eyes fixed straight ahead. "Don't be afraid, I'm coming to your door to open it now. Remember, don't turn your head, and don't look around." A new message popped up.

Open the door?
Lu Yueqi felt something was wrong; this was like a scene from a horror movie, leading her step by step into the abyss.

According to the horror movies and ghost stories I usually watch, opening the door is equivalent to actively welcoming ghosts into the house, leaving me with nowhere to escape.

"Snap—" The computer screen suddenly went dark, plunging Lu Yueqi into complete darkness, with only the light from her phone screen flickering.

"What should I do? What should I do?" Lu Yueqi was so anxious that tears welled up in her eyes.

The unfamiliar phone number sent her several more messages, but she didn't read them. She was afraid that if she opened her phone, a ghost face would pop up on the screen.

Seemingly, the other party was getting impatient, and the phone rang, displaying a phone number on the screen.

Should I answer it?

Lu Yueqi looked at the two options below the number, "Connect" and "Hang Up," and couldn't make up her mind for a while.

On the one hand, the other party probably wasn't lying to her about not turning around, at least so far she hadn't encountered any danger. But on the other hand, it's not certain whether the other party is still "human," since "ghost calls" often happen in horror movies. Even if someone was kind to her before, they might turn into a ghost wanting to kill her the next second.

After a while, Lu Yueqi decided to rely on herself to get out of danger first.

She silenced her phone, then turned on her flashlight and walked toward the bedroom door. Since she couldn't turn her head to look at the ghost, could she just keep looking straight ahead as she walked into the living room?

Staying in the bedroom all the time would be a certain death sentence; only by going out could one survive.

Lu Yueqi thought to herself.

She steeled herself and slowly opened the door, breathing a sigh of relief when she saw the familiar living room ahead.

I had only just relaxed for a short while when a white light appeared behind me, and the bedroom light turned on by itself.

As Lu Yueqi watched the lights in her house turn on automatically one by one, she couldn't help but shudder.

"Come on, Yueqi, come and see the new drama I found recently."

She heard her best friend calling her name from behind.

In a panic, Lu Yueqi covered her ears with both hands and hurriedly ran towards her front door.

"boom!"

Just as they were about to reach the door, it suddenly slammed shut, as if something was trying to break in.

Lu Yueqi quickly stopped in her tracks. She was completely confused; was the ghost outside the door or behind her?
correct!

Lu Yueqi suddenly realized that since she couldn't turn around to look, she could take a selfie with her phone's camera to see what was behind her.

She frantically switched her phone to selfie mode and pointed it at herself.

The ghost behind him was a head taller than him, with messy hair covering its face except for its mouth, and its white clothes were stained with red liquid.

The moment Lu Yueqi's camera was pointed at it, a smile gradually appeared on its lips, revealing its teeth, with bright red blood sticking to them.

"Hehe, you see me."

"Ah—" Lu Yueqi could no longer hold back and cried out in despair.

Her legs went weak and she knelt on the ground. She hadn't expected that she would still be so reckless. She thought that turning her head would trigger the dead end, but she didn't expect that the real dead end would be seeing the ghost. She just couldn't turn her head because the ghost couldn't appear in front of her.

Lu Yueqi recalled the warning in the previous text message: "Don't look around." It turned out that the other person had said that because doing so might cause her to see the ghost.

In that brief moment, Lu Yueqi thought of many things, and tears began to flow uncontrollably from her eyes.

"Waaaaah, am I going to die...?"

"boom!"

The door finally broke open, and a figure rushed in, picked up Lu Yueqi, covered her eyes, and ran straight out.

"What are you spacing out for? You know you've triggered a dead end, so you're not going to resist? Black Words, this is yours to handle."

Suddenly, a phantom appeared behind the man, then gradually solidified into a physical form. The lights that were originally on in the room began to flicker because of its appearance, and when it was fully revealed, the room was plunged into darkness again.

This creature, known as "Black Words," is not much different from a human, except for a large hole in its heart. It is dressed in a black suit and holds a book in its hands, looking like a refined gentleman.

"Hmph, you have to come to me for such a small trouble. Little Baiyu, you still need to practice more." Hei Yan glanced at the evil spirit in front of him and revealed a contemptuous smile. He muttered incantations, and soon a powerful suction force spread outward from the book in his hand.

The evil spirit panicked and tried to escape, but Hei Yan grabbed it by the hand: "Although it's not very nutritious, it's still a good snack."

The evil spirit was quickly sucked into the book. Hei Yan gently flipped through a few pages, found the newly added page, tore it off, crumpled it into a ball, and swallowed it.

"Hmm, really not much nutrition." As soon as he finished speaking, Hei Yan's body gradually turned into a phantom and disappeared into the darkness.

On the other side, Bai Yu carried Lu Yueqi out and threw her into the back seat of the car, then got into the driver's seat and drove away into the night.

(End of this chapter)