Chapter 200

Haunted Chronicles was a mega interactive live reality show produced by VisionStream, with a focus on scientific truth-seeking.

Most shows involving ghosts and spirits were usually pretty bloody and violent and got scrutinized pretty hardcore by the TV regulatory body.

But Haunted Chronicles was a different breed. Sure, it spun tales of ghostly figures, but what it’s really digging at were deeper social issues.

The main tone of the show was science and education, so the content of the program was also uplifting. VisionStream was all in on Haunted Chronicles, throwing a truckload of cash at it.

That’s why the big cheese director had the guts to invest in setting up Satan’s Lair.

Today wasn’t the premiere of the show, just the six guests shooting the trailer.

The trailer was a no-brainer, just each guest taking a stroll through Wicked Woods.

But they never saw it coming. During the shoot with the first guest, all hell broke loose.

The backstage crew had to scramble.

It was a team effort, but they managed to get a hold on Eileen!

They pulled off a daring rescue of a crew member who was on death’s door.

The guy was nearly scared to death, and the rest of the crew got a good fright too.

The director glared at Eileen, barking, “Are you out of your mind? Look at what you’ve done to him!”

The spooky sound effects and lights of Satan’s Lair were switched off, and the lights in the workspace were turned on.

Things were bright and the people around Eileen were just regular crew in regular clothes.

It was then that Eileen finally let out a sigh of relief.

The director stared at Eileen and snapped, “Can you even continue shooting?”

Eileen, trembling, managed to say, “I need to make a call.”

The director scowled and said impatiently, “Make it quick!”

Eileen pulled out her phone and called Ophelia from a corner, but there was no answer.

again but still,

remembered how Ophelia had sweet-talked her into signing onto

mocking her when they signed the contract, telling her the

Eileen went silent.

felt like she had been played. Ophelia

the director started hurrying her.

her phone

director glanced at her and asked, “You sure you’re okay this time?”

the verge of tears but could only nod and say, “I’m

“All departments, get ready,

was back in the bone-chilling Satan’s Lair.

director backstage was watching the slender figure on the monitor with

just a bit too fast.”

swiftly manipulated the infrared jib

shifted from Eileen’s calm collected back and long

on the screen, the set fell into eerie silence.

and asked in disbelief, “Am I seeing things? Is she

a moment before saying slowly,

closed, her steps hurried, her body

one end of Wicked Woods to the other like a

frowned, clearly unhappy. “Do we need to do another take?

the injured crew member still

director, “Yeah, let’s do another take, you tell her.”

is going to cost us. I think this is fine. We can fix her eyes

was

finished

as if she had just been fished out of the

down on the couch across the room, still haunted by those

nightmarishly

dead silent, the fluorescent light overhead blazing.

to feel nervous

told herself to stop thinking about it!

she pulled out her phone,

she opened WhatsApp, she saw 99+

everyone was

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