Chapter 0697 – Wind Chimes
Zhang Jingju was very nice, he should be the most innocent actor in the whole haunted house.
In fact, he also wanted to scare the tourists like the other coworkers, his mind recalling the hotel owner’s appearance and thinking about those perverted little games.
But after all, it was his first day on the job and he wasn’t mentally prepared, and when he saw the miserable appearance of the tourists, he was a bit intolerant.
”Come in, this is your haven.” Zhang Jingjiu thought in his heart that even if he couldn’t scare the tourists, he should at least let them feel his sincerity, this is the basic quality that a person working in the service industry should have.
The female was a little hesitant, but the male had long since become a scared bird.
”Don’t go over!” The male student took a step back with every word Zhang Jingjiu said.
”I really didn’t mean anything else, I just feel that you guys are too pitiful.” Zhang Jingjiu searched for how it was so difficult for him to do something good when he just wanted to do something good.
”Wang Diem, how about believing him for once?” The female got up from the ground and whispered.
”Haven’t you had enough lessons? The employees in this haunted house are either wolves in sheep’s clothing or devils hiding in the bodies of the living! How dare you be naive enough to trust them?” The male student, dragging his tired body, retreated to the “kennel” across the street from the hotel.
The woman, noticing her companion’s departure, hurried to follow.
Seeing the two tourists ran into the “kennel” sub-scene, Zhang Jingjiu face bitter, do not know whether to cry, or should laugh: “Wolves in sheep’s clothing? A devil hiding in a living person’s body? It seems that I have seriously lowered the average business ability of the haunted house staff.”
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”Wang Diem, I really can’t run anymore, let’s rest for a while.” Wang Diem’s girlfriend was holding onto the wall, unable to catch her breath, and for the first time she realized that visiting a haunted house was such a tiring thing.
”It’s not time to rest yet, this house gives me a bad feeling.” Wang Diem had now honed his intuition as he scanned everything in the small courtyard, his eyes finally resting on a wooden dog kennel.
”We haven’t seen any houses built for pets in any other scenes, there must be something wrong with this place.”
Wang Yan felt as if there was a fire burning in his chest, but he didn’t dare to stop, no place in the scene was safe, and if he stopped, he would be entangled in more things.
He took a breath and lay down in the “kennel” and looked out.
The hotel across the street was lit up, but the haunted house staff hadn’t gone far; they were probably luring them in on purpose.
The street was dark, but they could vaguely see dark shadows, as if someone was standing on the side of the road waving at them.
The hotel was not safe, nor were the streets, and now that their own physical strength had reached its limit, they could no longer run.
”How about we give up.” Wang Diem’s girlfriend spoke up, her eyes moist and the makeup on her face blurred with fear.
”I’ve come to visit this haunted house many times, I’ve never stood and walked out of it, now the visiting time is almost up, just hold on a little longer and we can carry through, it’s too bad to give up now.” Considering that his girlfriend was already physically exhausted, Wang Yan decided to hide in this room for the time being.
”I’ve been in so many empty houses before and they were all fine, I hope I’m overthinking it this time.”
Closing the door to the yard, Wang Diem and his girlfriend entered among the kennels.
The door of the room opened and the wind chime hanging on the door made a sound, as if it was notifying the owner of the house that someone had come in.
”Hanging wind chimes on the door is quite literary.” Wang Yan looked inside the house, the room was that kind of imitation Japanese structure, a narrow corridor in the center, on both sides was one room that was separated, the ground was paved with flooring, and a few pairs of slippers were thrown at the door.
”Wang Diem, do you smell an aroma? It seems like the smell of air freshener.” Wang Diem’s girlfriend tugged at Wang Diem’s clothes and moved her feet carefully, “Other haunted houses will specially make some odors in order to accentuate the sense of horror, but this haunted house is good, fearing that the tourists will be uncomfortable, and spray so many air fresheners.”
”Wait!” Wang Yan suddenly stopped walking, he looked back at his girlfriend, “What did you just say?”
”This house is spraying a lot of air fresheners ……”
”I told you there’s something wrong with this house! Return the same way, let’s go somewhere else.” Wang Yan had just entered the house, and before he could go inside, he directly turned around and prepared to leave.
”What’s wrong with spraying air fresheners?” Wang Diem’s girlfriend hadn’t gotten the point.
”There is no air freshener smell in any other house, only this house has it, and the smell is also very strong, which means that the other party is intentionally trying to use the air freshener smell to cover up the original smell in the house!” Wang Diem’s forehead had broken out into a cold sweat: “Last month, when Dr. Liu gave a public lecture, he cited a case where the suspect, after murdering and splitting the body, hid the body in his home and transported it out part of the way every day. He was worried that the stench in his home was too heavy, and then he purchased a large amount of air freshener to cover up the stench of the body. Later, after the police found the body, Liu forensic pathologist found that the odor of air freshener lingered on the body, and followed the trail, which led to the capture of the suspect.”
Wang Diem never expected that what he learned in class would be practiced during a visit to a haunted house.
It wouldn’t have been a big deal if it had been any other profession, but the point was, he was studying forensics.
”You said the air freshener was to cover up the corpse odor?” Wang Diem’s girlfriend also panicked, visit a haunted house, maybe it will also involve a murder, who can stand it.
”It’s not necessarily to cover up the smell of the corpse, it could be to cover up other odors.” Wang Diem was no longer the cranky rash man he used to be, after experiencing a heavy blow, he had already transformed his body.
Pulling open the door of the room again, the wind chime made another shrill sound.
At first, Wang Diem didn’t think there was a problem, but just as the wind chimes were about to disappear, a very weak male voice came into Wang Diem’s ears.
”Save me, take me away with you.”
Standing in the doorway, Wang Diem looked back at the darkened corridor, and there were no other men.
”Did you hear a man’s cry for help?” Wang Diem inquired his girlfriend, and the other shook her head.
”Is it because I’m too nervous that I’m hallucinating?” He backhanded the door and prepared to close it, and as the door panel touched the wind chime, the man’s voice reappeared.
”Don’t leave me here! Help me!”
Convinced that a man was begging for help, Wang Diem raised his head and looked in the direction from which the voice had come.
”Wind Chime?”
The man’s voice seemed to be coming from the wind chime, and Wang Yan reopened the door and reached out to grab the wind chime.
He shook it gently, and a man’s face appeared faintly on the inside of the wind chime.