novelraw Chapter 205 - 206: The Out-of-Control Pen
Chapter 205 - 206: The Out-of-Control Pen
[Oh, the Pen Spirit. That explains it. One of my neighbors played it too and had a string of bad luck for years afterward.]
[So young and reckless! They’ll mess with anything!]
[They have no sense of reverence. When something like this happens, you can only say they brought it on themselves.]
[Curiosity killed the cat...]
Su Nian nodded, gesturing for her to continue.
"I... We weren’t really thinking back then. We were just curious and wanted to give it a try. We had no idea so much would happen afterward. If we had known, we never, ever would have played."
The girl’s eyes were filled with regret, but it was useless now.
"When the game started, the four of us had already prepared our questions."
"Four?"
It wasn’t just Su Nian who noticed the number; the online viewers noticed it too.
[The most likely possibility is that the other girl is... gone...]
[Curiosity killed the cat!]
[Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!]
[Such a young life. What a shame.]
"Yes. Shanshan is... gone."
Obviously, "gone" in this context meant she had passed away...
Su Nian nodded and didn’t press for details.
The girl continued her story, her voice choked with sobs. "The rules of the Pen Spirit game state that you’re not supposed to ask questions about the spirit itself, like who it is or where it’s from. So we all just asked some harmless, everyday questions, like if I would get into college, or what age I’d get married."
"When the pen first started to move, we all thought it was amazing. But at the same time, we suspected one of us might be moving it on purpose. All four of us asked a question following the same format, and we got an answer for almost every one. Then it was Shanshan’s turn. Her first question was, ’At what age will I find a boyfriend?’"
"But then, something strange happened with the pen. It started scribbling wildly, pressing down really, really hard. My hand wasn’t pushing it at all, so I thought my roommates were messing around and got a little annoyed. But they all swore they weren’t doing it."
"The pen just kept scribbling, on and on. We didn’t dare let go. Our hands were aching, but we had read the rules beforehand, and no one dared to release their grip."
"Shanshan thought it was really strange, so she asked another question about herself. The pen stopped for a moment, then started scribbling wildly again. We were all getting scared and confused. We didn’t know if someone was deliberately moving the pen, or if it was really... the Pen Spirit..."
"But Shanshan had always been bold. She asked a third question: ’Will I get into grad school? Draw a check for yes, an X for no.’ But the pen just paused, then started scribbling erratically again."
[This Shanshan girl has such bad luck!]
[Could she have done something unintentionally to anger the Pen Spirit?]
[She didn’t get a single question answered, but she was the first to die. How tragic.]
"At that point, we were all confused and even more scared. We were mainly worried that it was angry. So we decided we should hurry up and send it away. But Shanshan got mad. She let go of the pen on her own."
"She started shouting and yanking at our hands, trying to make us let go too. But after she let go, the most terrifying thing happened. The pen stood up on the paper all by itself and started scribbling frantically!"
[Holy shit, that’s fucking intense!]
[See? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!]
[Exactly. They read the rules beforehand and still went crazy like that. You can only say she deserved it.]
The girl’s face grew pale. "And that very night, we realized there was an extra girl in our dorm room..."