Chapter 0008 Black Friday
”Three entries and three exits, main room and ear room, east and west rooms, copious corridors, hanging flower curtains, Ruyi door, upside down lintel, Lei Gongzhu …… This haunted house details are well done, modeled after the ancient courtyard, quite a sense of immersion.” Gao Ruxue walks around within the scene with a relaxed look, and from time to time will comment a few sentences.
”Sister, we are in a haunted house, not in a Suzhou garden, can you consider my feelings?” Empty mansion, gloomy atmosphere, soul streamers fluttering, paper money flying, the haunted house in Heshan’s eyes is completely different from Gao Ruxue’s place, he is cautious, afraid that something will suddenly drill out of the shadows of the corners, “It’s better to hurry and find the exit, I have a feeling of foreboding.”
”Since you’re here, let’s have a good visit, we’re playing with a haunted house, you don’t want to be played with by a haunted house.”
”Do you remember the haunted house owner said before he came in that he told us to find the exit within fifteen minutes, I always feel that the man is wilful, if we can’t escape within fifteen minutes, something horrible will definitely happen!” Heshan tried to persuade Gao Ruxue, but unfortunately the other party didn’t care.
”There are only a few ways to scare people in a haunted house over and over again, at the most, it’s just for the staff to pretend to be ghosts and chase us around, we’re not even afraid of the dead, would we still be afraid of the living?” Gao Ruxue walked aimlessly through the tour corridor and casually pushed open the door of the ear room on the left.
The venue of the Underworld Wedding was a standard courtyard structure, the main room was for the elders and the head of the family, the compartments were for the eldest and the descendants, and the ear rooms were located on both sides of the main room, where the underlings and maids lived.
Pushing the door, tables and chairs were tipped over inside the house, the bedding on the beds was torn and the cotton wool was scattered, and there was a white damask hanging in the middle of the room beam.
”Senior sister, I will take over outside, you pay attention to safety ……” Heshan did not finish his words before he was dragged into the house by Gao Ruxue, he bitterly looked at a face, looking at the windless, slowly fluttering and swinging white damask, his body is a little stiff.
”A bit interesting, the white silk is one point five meters from the ground, this height can’t hang anyone at all, the table and chairs tipped over, there are still traces of struggle left on the ground, the haunted house is deliberately creating an illusion of forced suicide. The ear room is inhabited by maids, the severe ghosts don’t even spare the subordinates who have no blood relationship with this family, it seems that they are preparing to torture everyone in this mansion to death.” Gao Ruxue looked calm, a hint of excitement hidden in the corner of her eyes, “The haunted house is very finely designed, there might be other eggs hidden.”
She rummaged through the box, and as soon as she lifted the bedding off the bed, there was a papier-mâché female doll lying underneath the tattered quilt.
”A paper person lying on a living person’s bed?” Gao Ruxue casually threw the paper man aside and lifted the bedpan, nothing was empty underneath.
”The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, it’s me who overestimated this haunted house. Let’s go, the exit is not in this house.” She waved her hand and took big steps towards the outside.
Heshan who was left alone in the house looked at the paper doll on the ground and felt his teeth chattering, probably because of the angle, he actually felt that the paper doll was smiling at him.
”The copper chicken bleeds, the paper man opens his eyes …… Wait for me! School sister!”
The door of the ear room re-closed tightly, and the white silk in the room stopped fluttering.
”Can you keep your voice down, what are you screaming for? A big man is wimpy like a girl.” Gao Ruxue gave Heshan a blank look and stopped at the edge of the veranda.
”It’s not that I’m a wimp! This place really makes me very uncomfortable, the longer I stay the stronger that uneasy feeling becomes, as if the most feared thing in my heart is being hooked out!”
Being said so by Heshan, Gao Ruxue froze for a moment, she also sensed that something was wrong.
The most important thing for a forensic doctor was a steady heart and steady hands, but when she was talking about Heshan just now, her tone had obviously become much more impatient, which had never appeared anywhere else.
”Could it be that I’m afraid? The things in the haunted house are known to be all fake, so why should I be afraid?” A crack appeared in Gao Ruxue’s mental defense, neither of them had found a reason to be afraid, and the seeds of fear were taking root under self-doubt and mental suggestion.
”You say this place doesn’t really harbor anything unclean, right? This haunted house of his is built on a mass grave or converted from a hospital building ……”
”Shut up! Our school’s underground morgue is not scarier than this place? You’re also a medical student, why are you such a wimp?” Gao Ruxue’s mouth didn’t care, but the speed of her speech was getting faster and faster, she sat next to the railing of the veranda and looked around, the ancient mansion, the spirit hall, the dead trees, the paper money all over the ground, these things weren’t very scary: “What the hell am I afraid of?”
Both of them were so attracted by the eerie surroundings that they didn’t pay attention to the background track that had been playing on a loop.
This forbidden song called “Black Friday” had, in a subtle way, entangled itself above the two men’s hearts, like a dark river washing over their souls, dragging them step by step into a bottomless abyss.
”Xiaoshan, how long have we been in here?”
”I don’t know, but I feel like we definitely won’t be able to run out within fifteen minutes!”
”Don’t panic, I thought about it carefully.” Gao Ruxue couldn’t be bothered to pat the dust, and directly walked towards the other side of the veranda: “This haunted house doesn’t have anything to be afraid of, the main thing is that the boss has been giving us negative psychological hints, from the time we entered the haunted house, he has been emphasizing on the following words: mass graves, live burials, female ghosts, etc., and he wants us to scare ourselves, and what’s even more cunning about this person is that he has set a time limit, but didn’t say exactly what we would encounter, which causes us to pressure ourselves and send our minds to brainstorm the scariest things.”
”So what do you think we should do now? This haunted house doesn’t always feel like any other haunted house.” Heshan was a very honest lad, and he believed whatever his schoolmate said.
”There’s nothing wrong with your feeling, a normal haunted house would have professional actors pretending to be ghosts, using a whole bunch of equipment to create a gory and scary scene, and then letting us go through the experience step by step. But this haunted house didn’t do that, he created the scenes and let us explore freely without guidance or constraints, who knows what will happen next.”
”I see what you mean, it’s the unknown that’s scary.” Heshan looked like he had an epiphany.
”At this point in time, it can only be explained this way.” Gao Ruxue frowned slightly and imperceptibly, “Alright, let’s get ready to go to the next room.”
The ear room was adjacent to the main room, this was where the head of the family resided, pushing open the wooden door, sackcloth and mourning robes were thrown around the room, a lacquered wooden pavilion was placed in the middle of the hall.
The red coffin, in the center of the white paper pasted with a large happy word, on each side of the neat row of paper people kneeling.
They had names written on their backs, their faces were painted with colored makeup, and their eyes seemed to have a godly look with different expressions, as if they were secretly staring at the two people at the door.