How to Stop the Villain from Going Crazy
Translator: Fuyu
Chapter 7 - How could she think that being chased by a psychopath wasn't scary?! (1)
After Bo Li returned to her tent, she couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
Erik definitely wasn't an ordinary person. Ordinary people didn't have such terrifying resilience. She felt even more unsettled by the fact that he could clearly talk, but chose to remain silent like a serial killer in a horror movie.
Bo Li couldn't help but wonder if her transmigration was triggered by something she had done, but she couldn't think of anything. She had merely tossed her backpack into the trunk, lied down in the back seats, turned on a random movie, and watched it while waiting for her friends to arrive.
It was a slow-paced old movie. She watched it for a while before drifting off to sleep. By the time she woke up, the movie was half over.
She only remembered seeing a man wearing a long black coat and a black top hat. His face couldn't be clearly seen under the brim of the hat. He was standing behind a dressed up lady that was slowly putting on black leather gloves.
Just when she thought this was a 19th century romance film, the man suddenly grabbed the lady's neck from behind with a lasso and strangled her without hesitation.
In the next scene, the lady was found in a boiler. Her head was boiled to a pulp. The hem of her lace dress floated in the water like fat congealed on the surface of soup.
Bo Li: "..."
At the time, she paused in ordering takeout on her phone. It was at this time that she finally noticed the movie's title, Phantom of the Opera.
Bo Li: "?"
She looked up the title online and found out that this was the horror movie version of Phantom of the Opera. It was filmed in the 1970's, and the director added many blood splattering scenes.
In the original work, the male protagonist fell in love with a ballerina at the Paris Opera. While teaching her singing skills, he threatened the theater manager to replace a popular soprano with her in the next performance.
Of course, the soprano refused the theater manager's request. And so, when the soprano was performing, the male protagonist used an unknown method to make her croak like a frog in public, and she fell to an all-time low.
Whereas in the movie, the male protagonist strangled her with his lasso and threw her into the boiler.
In the original work, although the male protagonist kidnapped the female protagonist, locked her in an underground maze, and forced her to be with him, once she kissed him, he gave up on his extreme thoughts and was willing to let her be with the supporting male character.
In the movie, the male protagonist was more like an inhuman monster. When his true face was exposed, it wasn't as simple as taking off his mask. He tore off his face.
Until the end, he wasn't moved by the female protagonist. He was ready to end in mutual destruction.
Of course, in the movie, the female protagonist didn't kiss him. Instead, she burned him to death in the underground maze.
However, like most European and American horror movies, this movie wasn't scary at all.
Bo Li watched the movie for a while before opening a food delivery app.
To be fair, this movie was above average. Horror movies made in Europe and the United States were always like this. There was no sense of psychological oppression, only shots of fake blood and explicit scenes.
However, that was only true if she was an audience in a normal world. If she transmigrated into a horror movie version of Phantom of the Opera, that would be much more terrifying than being in an East Asian horror movie.
After all, in East Asian horror movies, as long as she didn't violate the taboos regarding supernatural entities, she could continue living in peace.
In contrast, there were a myriad of ways to trigger death flags in the world of European and American horror movies. For example, having a silent younger brother living at home, her mother cheating on her father, going camping, having a picnic in the park, going to a party with her boyfriend and kissing, etc.
Doing any of those things could lead to being hunted down by a psychopath.
The more Bo Li thought about this, the more creeped out she got. She would never say that European and American horror movies weren't scary!
Her life had been too peaceful before. How could she think that being chased by a psychopath wasn't scary?!
It took a long time for Bo Li to suppress her panicked heartbeat.
Even if Erik wore a mask, knew how to sing, do ventriloquism, and could perform magic tricks, it didn't mean he was a theater ghost, much less a theater ghost from a horror movie.
Besides, what if she had transmigrated into the original work? Actually, never mind, that wouldn't make much of a difference.
The male protagonist in the original work was also a lunatic. He threatened to blow up the Paris Opera if the female protagonist refused to be with him.
The male protagonist in the musical version seemed like he was a bit more normal, but he was abnormal too. He hypnotized the female protagonist, kidnapped her, and almost killed her fiancé by hanging him.
The only difference between him and the original version was that he didn't have the intention of blowing up the opera house, but who knows what he might do when pushed to his limit?
Bo Li could only comfort herself that the original owner's name was Poli Clermont. This place was a circus not the Paris Opera. It had nothing to do with the Phantom of the Opera.
Anyways, even if Erik was the theater ghost, he wouldn't blow up Paris for her. Thinking of this, she peacefully closed her eyes.
T/N: Next part will be posted at 10:15 PM EST.