Defying Fate: The Unstoppable Eileen

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.

but still, no answer.

Ophelia had sweet-talked her into

her the

Eileen went silent.

she had been played. Ophelia couldn’t get through

minutes later, the director started hurrying her.

but to put away her phone and walk

director glanced at her and asked, “You sure

on the verge of tears but could only nod and say, “I’m fine…”

director picked up the walkie-talkie and called out, “All departments, get ready, the lights

later, Eileen was back in the bone-chilling Satan’s

director backstage was watching the slender figure on the monitor with satisfaction,

a bit too

command, the cameraman swiftly manipulated the infrared jib camera, changing

camera gradually shifted from Eileen’s calm collected back and long

on the screen, the set fell into eerie

he was seeing things. He rubbed his eyes and asked in disbelief, “Am I seeing things?

for a moment before saying slowly, “Yes, she’s walking…with

closed, her steps hurried, her body

of Wicked Woods to the other like a bat out

we need to do another take? She needs to open her eyes at

about the injured crew member still backstage who hadn’t yet recovered.

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

a while, she said seriously, “A reshoot is going to cost us. I

director was speechless.

finally finished the

in sweat, as if she had just been fished out of

on the couch across

nightmarishly terrifying!

silent, the fluorescent

started to feel nervous

told herself to stop thinking about

she pulled out her phone, planning

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