The atmosphere froze for a few seconds.
The corners of Dương Khánh Vĩ's mouth twitched.
He looked at Hoàng Tuân, not knowing what to say...
"At a time like this, you're still thinking about gaining fame?"
He couldn't help but complain to Hoàng Tuân.
"No, I’m not, I’m not that idle."
Hoàng Tuân calmly explained, gesturing for Dương Khánh Vĩ to look at the chaotic crowd below:
"Imagine, even if there are leaders in this world, with life-threatening dangers that could appear at any moment, do you think it's that easy to control so many people?"
"I have my ways." Dương Khánh Vĩ firmly answered Hoàng Tuân’s question.
"Hey, it's not that I don't trust your ability. I just think if they had hope... like seeing a progress bar for success, wouldn't they have a better mindset?"
"What do you mean?"
"It's like when you download a game, there's no progress bar, just a spinning circle. Not knowing when the download will finish, most people will give up in hopeless waiting."
Hoàng Tuân used an analogy, seriously speaking to Dương Khánh Vĩ.
He stretched out both index fingers, touching the tips to form a not-so-straight line...
"But if there’s a progress bar, it’s different. When you can see the progress bar, your spirit is much better than without one."
"For example, I am the progress bar. When I get to Trần Hưng Đạo High School to resolve the curse, the progress bar will end. If they can know the situation is just halfway, it’s giving them hope to wait!"
Dương Khánh Vĩ listened to Hoàng Tuân.
He felt something was off but couldn’t pinpoint it.
Thinking it through, he felt it was somewhat reasonable.
He glanced at Hoàng Tuân’s current appearance.
Noticed that the other was already on the bike, ready to leave, waiting for his response.
"Alright, I’ll trust you this time. What do I need to do?"
Dương Khánh Vĩ took a deep breath, agreeing to this nonsensical action.
"It’s not too difficult, very simple."
Hearing Dương Khánh Vĩ agree, Hoàng Tuân smiled, then told him his thoughts.
"You just need to use it to synchronize the news into everyone's heads after I leave, including mine of course. Then I’ll tell you about my situation, and you relay it to them as if you’re the narrator..."
Hearing the word "narrator."
Dương Khánh Vĩ couldn’t help but feel a sharp pain in his liver...
He wondered if choosing this strange boy was a bit too hasty.
"No need, I can project the synchronization of your surroundings."
Dương Khánh Vĩ said.
"Huh? Like a horror livestream? Your crystal ball is that powerful?"
Hoàng Tuân was surprised, glancing at the transparent ball in Dương Khánh Vĩ's hand.
"Stop the nonsense, I lent you those two items earlier, you must carry them with you. Whether you succeed or not depends on them." Dương Khánh Vĩ ignored Hoàng Tuân, switching the topic to his two cursed items.
"The disc-shaped item has a warning function. A minute before the rules appear, it will heat up. The temperature isn’t low, you can feel it very clearly. If it heats up, it means your location is very dangerous, and you need to leave quickly."
"The second cursed source, resembling a gourd, allows you to escape from the sight of the eerie entities for a short time and not become their target. You can understand it as being invisible to them. The way to use it is to open the cap."
Dương Khánh Vĩ briefly explained how to use the two cursed items.
Under normal circumstances.
These two cursed sources should be able to avoid most dangers.
As long as Hoàng Tuân wasn’t foolish enough to touch the rules, he should be able to safely reach Trần Hưng Đạo High School...
"Are both of these escape-type cursed sources? Any offensive ones?"
Hearing Dương Khánh Vĩ’s description, Hoàng Tuân couldn’t help but ask.
"Offensive type?" Dương Khánh Vĩ was stunned for a moment, then paused for two seconds before saying: "How can there be an offensive type cursed source? Don’t tell me you don’t know that eerie entities can’t be killed. Stop thinking about these things. Pack up and go!"
"Alright."
Hoàng Tuân casually replied.
At this moment, he remembered the two cursed sources he had.
Although the axe could chop eerie entities, its basic function was to improve his physical abilities, which matched what Dương Khánh Vĩ said, and strong physical abilities could help in escaping.
As for chopping eerie entities.
He had tried it before...
In terms of physical damage, it didn’t cause much harm to the eerie entities.
But those 24 insects...
They never showed any help in escaping.
And it seemed to be the opposite?
Every time he encountered an eerie entity, he could feel the insects in his body becoming irritable.
Continuously urging him to advance and fight...
"Could it be that the demonic insects aren’t a cursed source?"
Hoàng Tuân thought to himself, but then shook his head, regardless of what the insects were, his current purpose wasn’t to think about them.
This problem.
He’d think about it later when he had time...
"Alright, I’m leaving now. Remember what I told you."
Hoàng Tuân grabbed the handlebars of the bicycle, turning to tell Dương Khánh Vĩ.
So he wouldn’t forget to “broadcast” for him.
"Got it, go quickly, be careful on the road, if anything happens, I’ll contact you, you must follow my arrangements."
Dương Khánh Vĩ replied.
Then.
He saw Hoàng Tuân take something that looked like an mp3 player out of his backpack, press a few buttons, and put it in his jacket pocket.
No.
It really was an mp3 player.
Because Dương Khánh Vĩ could hear the music starting to play from Hoàng Tuân’s pocket...
"Where did you get that? What are you doing?"
Dương Khánh Vĩ asked Hoàng Tuân with a numb mind.
"Playing background music, don’t you know that in a situation like this, you need lively background music to set the atmosphere?"
Hoàng Tuân answered.
His expression seemed to say that this was a very normal thing...
Before coming to this world, he anticipated that mobile phones might be affected by eerie entities and become useless, so as a precaution, he brought an outdated mp3 player.
It seemed.
The current situation undoubtedly showed that his decision back then was correct.
In case communication tools were destroyed, the mp3 player could still turn on and play music normally.
In horror stories, there had never been a ghost that dared to do anything to an mp3 player.
Right?
Hearing the low-quality music from Hoàng Tuân’s pocket, Dương Khánh Vĩ was somewhat speechless, thousands of words of curses eventually condensed into one sentence.
"Are you always like this?"
"Don't tell me you’re planning to install some blinding lights on that bicycle..."
Hoàng Tuân raised his hand to stop.
Cutting off Dương Khánh Vĩ’s suspicion: "No, no, don’t worry too much, I’m leaving now!"
Finished.
Hoàng Tuân stopped talking to Dương Khánh Vĩ.
He grabbed both handlebars with both hands, placed his right foot on the pedal, and pushed forward, gradually disappearing into the darkness.
Leaving Dương Khánh Vĩ a handsome back...
Watching Hoàng Tuân’s wobbly riding skills, Dương Khánh Vĩ always felt that this boy seemed completely unfamiliar with riding a bicycle, if he hit a small stone on the roadside, he might fall halfway.
Alright.
In fact.
It’s not that Hoàng Tuân was unfamiliar with bicycles.
It’s that he had never ridden one at all...
How could someone born with disabilities ride a bicycle?
The wobbliness was because he was now learning to ride it!
But thanks to his fairly good talent, Dương Khánh Vĩ didn’t realize he had never ridden a bicycle.
It seemed like a missed issue...
No way.
Hoàng Tuân didn’t want it either.
Blame it on Trần Hưng Đạo High School being too far from Nam Hoa Tower, running all the way there would probably tire him to death.
The bicycle was a last resort.
...
…
After Hoàng Tuân left.
Dương Khánh Vĩ was no longer idle.
Although it was hard to understand why Hoàng Tuân requested him to broadcast the situation, he still did as promised.
The crystal ball placed in front of Dương Khánh Vĩ gradually glowed...
And at the same time.
The chaotic crowd not far away also heard Dương Khánh Vĩ’s voice in their ears.
"Everyone, please calm down first, I have something very important to tell you."
"I believe everyone has noticed that this place is continuously producing eerie entities, and there are even victims appearing now."
"I am someone from the real world to save you."
"For everyone to survive safely until the end, I have a few things to tell you..."
The situation wasn’t much different from what Dương Khánh Vĩ guessed.
After he communicated with everyone through the crystal ball, most people subconsciously listened to him.
Even those who didn’t.
It was only a few people in a state of panic not knowing what to do...
Dương Khánh Vĩ first revealed his identity.
To gain everyone’s initial trust.
Then, he mixed truth with lies, weaving words for everyone to do what they needed to survive well.
It must be said.
His ability to lie and deceive people.
Was indeed much better than Mộc Giang...
When he wasn’t blowing smoke in others’ faces, when speaking he seemed to give others an inexplicable sense of trust.
Even if someone raised doubts and objections.
He could quickly reason those words in his mind, then answer with his heart...
"In other words, as long as we hold on until that person resolves the issue at Trần Hưng Đạo High School, we can leave this world?"
A middle-aged man in the crowd asked.
"Yes, I can absolutely guarantee this. Each of you is smart, you must understand clearly that arguing and doubting each other will not help our safety."
Dương Khánh Vĩ explained.
To show his sincerity, he now took off his shirt, fully exposing those horrifying wounds in front of everyone.
"These wounds on my body are all to prevent this disaster from happening, I hope everyone can cooperate well, this is not a joke, if we lose, we will all die here."
"As for that person’s situation, I will synchronize his scene into your minds to prevent anyone from doubting that I’m deceiving you."
As soon as Dương Khánh Vĩ finished speaking.
He began trying to connect with Hoàng Tuân’s situation.
Then the surroundings around him were synchronized into everyone’s minds from a third-person perspective.
This way.
It was a bit like directly projecting VR into the brain...
Soon.
As the image in the mind changed from blurry to clearer.
The image of Hoàng Tuân carrying a big backpack began to appear in everyone’s mind...
Becoming clearer and clearer.
And the background music playing from the mp3 in his pocket...
"Why is there music here?"
Someone couldn’t help but ask.
But he was elbowed by the person next to him.
"Don’t make noise, look closely, I still feel this person looks a bit familiar..."
The person who said this used to be the owner of a vegetable stall not far from Hoàng Tuân’s residential area.
He saw Hoàng Tuân’s silhouette.
He always felt like he had seen this boy in his memory, but for the moment couldn’t recall.
...
“Is that Hoàng Tuân?”
Lê Na was in the crowd.
She was surprised to see the synchronized image in her mind. After parting ways with Hoàng Tuân, she intended to find him, but because their storylines didn’t match.
As a result, she couldn’t find him.
Lê Na never thought
The person going to Trần Hưng Đạo High School to break the curse would be Hoàng Tuân...
“Didn’t he say before that he wanted to be a passerby in this script? Why is he participating now?”
Lê Na thought.
And not far from her.
Dĩnh Phúc, who was separated after arriving at Nam Hoa Temple with Hoàng Tuân, also stared blankly at the wobbly figure riding a bicycle.
He didn’t expect in just a blink.
Hoàng Tuân got on a bike, embarking on a path to save the world...
"What is this strange person doing..."
Dĩnh Phúc mumbled to himself.
In a corner of the crowd.
A young man wearing an oil-stained apron also looked at the image in his mind with an unexpected expression.
Seeing the person who once pointed an axe at him, now appearing in this scene.
He didn’t know what to say for a moment.
Should he cheer for him now?
Or remain silent...
Nguyên Thoại’s mind was very conflicted.
...
At this moment, Hoàng Tuân was on the way back to Trần Hưng Đạo High School.
Not having too many calculations in mind.
Although he had previously acted in an uncomposed manner.
But deep down, he knew the level of danger he would face on the way wasn’t simple.
The idea for Dương Khánh Vĩ to synchronize the broadcast.
In fact, it wasn’t because he really wanted to be a hero...
According to Hoàng Tuân’s theory.
In a horror or action movie, when there’s a scene where the "Savior" is stared at by everyone simultaneously.
Most of those characters would end up succeeding...
Even if there were accidents.
There could be a plot twist of coming back to life.
What he wanted.
Was that kind of scenario with a power boost from the plot.
Otherwise, he might encounter real terrifying incidents on the way.
That’s all...