"Chat, can you tell me more about the cult?" Xievian asked. While paying attention to the chat, he kept himself busy looking for clues inside the room.
After seeing that there didn't seem to be anything else, he left and went looking for more outlines of the shapes he saw on the locked door.
There were four doors but five sisters. He wondered, if the other three doors contained one of the sisters, where was the other one?
Chat:
Yuyu: I don't know much about the cult. But I heard some conspiracy theories that it was the child of God cult.
Sisi: Of course it's them. That cult has been sketchy since day one!
Lilith: They don't seem very active now.
Animatronics: That's for the best.
(More chats.)
Child of God Society? Xievian had heard of it before. Maybe around 8 years ago, they were all over the news. Terrorism, murder, and human sacrifices.
Suddenly, they went radio silent. This is the first time Xievian heard of them for a while.
Xievian jogged fast as he surveyed every nook and cranny of the mausoleum. He could feel it, something was awakening the moment he opened the first door.
He found another angel. It looked absolutely wrecked and the shape outlines were missing.
He bent down and checked the broken statue. He tried to gauge what destroyed it but it seemed to have just shattered on the ground.
Also, he could keenly feel an intense murderous gaze behind him. Was there another person beside him inside the mausoleum?
He glanced at the chat, they didn't notice anything amiss, meaning there wasn't anything behind him.
He stood up and continued searching. He encountered a few ordinary walking corpses and just shot them. People in the comments said that they felt like they were watching a zombie shooting game, but great plot, they said.
He didn't know if there were conditions where the corpses will move but they seemed to be totally random.
He found a third angel statue. Fortunately this one only had a missing head and the diamond outline was still there.
He rushed back to the door with the diamond mark. He noticed that the hall looked off. Cracks started forming everywhere as if something was threatening to break free from those walls.
It wasn't a good feeling.
Finally, he found the diamond door. He used the outline to open it and he readied himself for an attack.
But when the door opened, it was silent.
He looked around and saw a closed coffin with a note on top of it.
Another note? Who was leaving these?
He walked towards the note, picked it up and read it for the chat.
[I am Ruby, I am Sally's big sister and her playmate. That's all my identity. Sally's playmate.
I don't hate Sally, but I just feel a bit left out. I don't have any definite identity other than being her playmate. I grew up, that's all I have known. To make Sally happy, entertain Sally, and love Sally.
I love Sally. She is the only person who showed me that I wasn't just bound to one identity. She would praise me for my drawing skill. She let me promise her that once I became a great artist in the future, I would paint her beautifully. With that, I saw my path, I wanted to become an artist. A very successful artist.
Sally loves to play hide and seek with me. That's our bonding time. We have each other. Sometimes third sister will join us but third sister is usually with big sis. So Sally and I would just play.
Everything was heading for the better after mommy and daddy adopted us.
It wasn't until one of our hide-and-seek games, Sally vanished.
Sally, where are you?]
"Sally again?" Xievian couldn't help but voice out his thoughts, "What happened to Sally? Well, let's make an outline of the timeline. The note before was from Annie, basically she said that Sally suddenly turned wrong. Did she vanish first, or did she become strange and then disappear?"
Xievian didn't dare open the coffin. His body is starting to feel the strain from all the action. He wanted to conserve his energy because he felt like it was just starting.
He kept the note in his pocket. Just as he was about to leave the room, his live chat once again warned him.
Chat:
Gundam: Host! Host! There's someone at the door!
Lilith: Gosh, I almost fainted the moment I glanced at the back cam! What was that!
Sisi: Just looking at it then suddenly seeing a hollowed eyed woman looking silently at host almost made me feel like shitting my pants.
(More chats)
The moment Xievian turned back, although he expected to see something, he never could have steeled himself for what the thing looked like.
It is a long haired girl. Just like what the chat said, her eye sockets were empty and her jaw was dislocated in a weird angle. By saying she's a girl, at that point Xievian was just assuming. She looked barely humanoid, if anything else, she reminds Xievian of an ostrich. She had long, lanky legs that were very disproportionate to her body. She stood around 9 feet tall and Xievian needed to look up to meet her face.
Xievian felt the hunger but adrenaline won. He threw his axe at the monster, but it passed through. Xievian regretted his impulsive action but realized one thing. This one was a ghost. This is the first ghost that he saw here at the mausoleum.
The moment the axe hit the other side, Xievian took out the ghost talisman and threw it at the monstrosity.
When the talisman came in contact with the ghost, it let out a deep roar. It sounded more like an animal roar than anything else. Xievian expected it to attack him, but the monster fled the moment it took damage.
This time, the livestream did not blur the ghost. A lot of people in the chat felt cold. They called another acquaintance to watch the livestream with them, thus, Xievian's views skyrocketed.
[Ding! Congratulations for gaining 200,000 views. +10 Life Points]