Let me tell you a secret: the mortal world and the mundane realm are not the same place.
You may be in the mortal world, but there is also another you in the mundane realm.
Be careful. Don't let the you from the mundane realm find you, or you'll be replaced and reduced to ashes.
Don't believe me?
Who am I?
I am the... of the Mundane Realm
"Your Majesty!" An attendant came to report. "A great many of your subjects have snuck off to the mortal world!"
Panshu lay there peacefully, without even opening his eyes. "Someone is guarding the way. They can't get out."
The attendant said in a hollow voice, "Guess why I said 'subjects' and 'people.'"
The people of the Mundane Realm need a teleportation array to reach the mortal world. The array is guarded, so the people can't come and go as they please.
Someone guarding the array had secretly taken the people to the mortal world!
Panshu slowly opened his eyes. "Who would do something so foolish?"
In the Mundane Realm, you're immortal. Why run off to the mortal world and suffer all eight kinds of hardship?
...Wait!
The Mundane Realm was formed from primordial chaos. The more people there were in the Mundane Realm, the less primordial chaos remained.
Conversely, if there were no people left in the Mundane Realm, it would return to chaos...
Gasp!!!
This is bad!!!
Fei Lanxi also thought this was bad.
Because he'd seen a ghost again!!!
But why again?
He hadn't seen a ghost before... had he?
Panshu was an eyewitness to the scene where Fei Lanxi saw a ghost.
Fei Lanxi shouted, "Danger! Run!"
Panshu: ...I'm not the one who needs to run. The so-called "ghost" you're talking about is under my command.
[Coming soon: What Kind of Ghostly Variety Show Is This? Follow the author's page to save it]
Qu Weizhi joined an adventure variety show that featured one ordinary guest per episode.
The livestream chat was full of fans of the other guests, with messages about pretty girls and handsome guys flooding the screen.
Only Qu Weizhi stayed huddled alone at the very back of the group, like an invisible person.
With just ten minutes left in the filming, a viewer casually remarked, "That whatever-her-name-is actually managed to hang on till the end. How does she have the nerve to... Holy crap?! What just happened?!"
"What do you mean, what happened?"
"You didn't see that just now?! I'll try again. Don't you dare blink. That Qu Weizhi... Look, look, look! Did you see it?! Wasn't that...? Wasn't it?!"
"...Maybe. It was probably just a coincidence, right?"
"Let me try. That Qu Weizhi... Holy crap?!!"
"I want to try too! Hey, Qu Weizhi, you... Ahhh! That's terrifying!!!"
For the last few minutes, the screen was filled with screams and cries of "That's terrifying!" Some accused the production team of faking it, and others even shouted for help.
The staff wanted to shout for help too.
Qu Weizhi became inexplicably famous. The production team, both startled and scared but eager to ride the buzz to even greater fame, hurried to film a second episode.
This time, the livestream viewers were all itching to test the paranormal incident from last time again. But the guests accidentally trespassed into a restricted area, and the situation quickly became perilous.
Through the camera, the viewers saw the guests huddled together in a corner. Only Qu Weizhi stood motionless where she was.
"What just happened? What's going on?"
"Why do the guests all look so scared? What's in front of them?!"
"What could it be? Didn't you see... Qu Weizhi hasn't even moved."
Just then, Qu Weizhi looked at the camera and spoke her first words since the show began: "Black out the cameras for two minutes."
The cameras went black on command, and the livestream instantly cut to black.
But the chat still worked, and the screen filled with viewers cursing the production team for cutting the feed without warning!
What kind of ghostly variety show is this?!
The production team wanted to curse too!
Nobody had touched any of the controls in the livestream monitoring room before the feed went black, and all the drones at the filming location showed that they were operating normally.
Even if something really had malfunctioned, there was no way every camera could have broken at the same time, right?!
What kind of ghostly variety show is this?!
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[Reading Guide]
The characters in this story include both men and women. Their actions serve the plot and do not represent the author's endorsement of any particular worldview.
Hope you enjoy the story. If it's not for you, please stop reading in time. I beg your pardon, everyone Orz
Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.
Back Before My Children Were Sent Away [The 1970s]
Life in the Seventies: There's No Way to Take It Easy
The Labyrinth of the Cage
What Kind of Variety Show Is This?
Transmigrated to Ancient Times, I Became My Own Backer
The Supporting Character Becomes the Beloved Real Heiress
Max-Level Expert Drops into the Wasteland by Mistake
Back to the '90s to Start a Company