Chapter 0032 – It seems like it’s really haunted
Monkey hid alone on the second floor staircase, always paying attention to the movements around him.
Standing at the corner, he could see both the third floor and the second floor’s hallway entrance, so no matter which direction the killer came from, he could escape as fast as possible.
The lights in the scene seemed to have dimmed even more, and the eerie background music in the darkened hallway made people panic in their hearts.
Monkey pinched himself hard and then took a deep breath, as a medical student he knew very well that mild pain and sufficient oxygen could calm people down quickly.
”There’s a problem with the timing of the monster’s appearance, Old Zhao had just realized that there was an eighth person mixed in amongst us when the monster accelerated and rushed over, this shouldn’t be a coincidence.” He recalled everything that had just happened in his mind, “After Old Zhao realized that there was one more person, everyone panicked, at this time if Brother Feng could take out his cell phone and look at everyone’s face, then he would definitely be able to find out the eighth person, and we missed the first opportunity. After the monster rushed in, if everyone could stand still and not be scared by it, the crowd wouldn’t have been dispersed, we missed the second chance.”
Monkey sighed softly, “Although everyone was scared when the monster rushed in, they weren’t so scared that they ran away, all of it was because of the first person who ran away, he started this and disturbed our thinking, if I’m not wrong, the first person who ran away should have been the one who came out of the crowd in excess. Just now I heard Xiao Hui’s scream, she was the second one to escape, closest to that person, this can also prove side by side that my guess was not wrong.”
He wore a bitter smile on his face, guessing right is one thing, being afraid or not is another, hiding alone in such an eerie environment, it felt like his back was cold, “The monster and the eighth extra person are cooperating with each other, utilizing the fleeing mentality and the herd mentality to let the fear spread, breaking us up and then breaking us down one by one. Is it really necessary to rise to the level of strategy just to scare individuals?”
Monkey was very smart, but he was also very timid, and usually never dared to go in and out of the lab alone in school, “I’m going to hurry up and tell Feng and the others this news, and then rendezvous with them.”
Taking out his cell phone, the faint light of the screen shone behind him, and he suddenly winced, “How did this muppet get into the stairs? Didn’t I throw it on the third floor aisle?”
Monkey didn’t dare to turn on the flashlight for fear of attracting monsters, he cranked up the bright light of the screen and aimed it at the wall, where a tattered mannequin lay flat on its back.
”Did someone accidentally kick it downstairs when they were running just now?” Thinking about it, the monkey could only come up with this one explanation, the ragdoll had a note stuffed inside its body and didn’t have any mechanical parts, so it definitely couldn’t be remotely remote-controlled, “It looks kinda scary.”
This rag doll in addition to a little worn out, there is no particularly scary place, but is to see more will appear a strange feeling, as if it is alive.
Monkey himself also felt puzzled, he gazed at the muppet on the ground, feeling that it was not a doll, but a poor, still a little girl with a few grievances.
”It must be an illusion, I’m going to stay away from this thing, playing a haunted house is going to give me a whole mental problem.” Monkey dialed Peak’s number, and a cell phone rang in the hallway on the third floor.
”He’s on the third floor? Or did he accidentally drop his cell phone just like Old Zhao?”
The phone ringing in the haunted house inexplicably became more terrifying.
Monkey didn’t hang up the phone, put the phone into his pocket and quietly came to the third floor, he hid at the entrance of the hallway and looked inward, Brother Feng’s cell phone was thrown on the corridor.
”Old Zhao and Brother Feng’s cell phones aren’t on them, we can only try the others.” Monkey stood alone at the entrance of the third floor staircase, looking at the empty corridor and the doors of the rooms on both sides that were blown open and closed by the wind, his legs weakening in fear.
He frantically swiped the screen, rummaging for the others’ phone numbers, but just at this time, his cell phone suddenly rang with a jolt.
”Groove! What the hell!” Looking down, someone called him, “Shi Ling? What’s she looking for me for? Could it be that she’s alone now too?”
In front of girls, Monkey always acted fearless, a common problem for most hot-blooded youths, “Shi Ling, did you get separated from everyone? Where are you now? I’ll go look for you.”
”I was locked in a room on the third floor, I didn’t see the exact door number clearly, you guys hurry over here, this room isn’t quite right!” Shi Ling was a very quiet girl, at this moment, her tone was urgent, she looked like she was about to cry out, and she didn’t know what exactly she had encountered.
”Speak slowly, how did you get locked into the house? The single rooms on both sides of the corridor shouldn’t be able to be locked ah?” Monkey said as he made his way down the hallway, trying to pinpoint Shizuku’s location through the sounds.
”I don’t know, after I ducked in and closed the door, I couldn’t open it anymore! And this room is different from the others, there are two muppets sitting side by side in the middle of the room!”
”Sitting?!” At the mention of the muppets, Monkey’s sweat hairs stood upside down, he knew very well how evil the muppets in this haunted house were.
”Come on you guys!” Shi Ling’s voice grew shrill, seemingly on the verge of losing control.
”Immediately! You stay away from those dolls first, do what Heshan said before, and don’t touch anything in the house, I suspect that doll ……” Monkey suddenly stopped in the middle of his sentence, and he stared blankly in front of him, where a rag doll lay flat on its back half a meter away from the tip of his toes.
He almost resisted the urge to smash his cell phone and moved in front of the rag doll.
”Long hair, expression of agonized self-reproach, looks different from the ragdoll in the hallway, feels much more mature than that one.” After saying that, the monkey’s own eyes widened, “Hell, why can I analyze so many things from a ragdoll? Am I hallucinating from being scared? Or is this muppet too realistically made? It always feels like they are like living beings and possess their own emotions as well.”
”Now is not the time to think about this, as long as the muppets in front of me are different from the ones in the staircase, at least it means that these muppets won’t be able to move on their own, things haven’t gotten to the worst yet, my priority now is to save Shi Ling.” Shaking his head, the monkey cheered himself up, “I’m purely scaring myself, if it was the muppets in the building that came after me, how could she have appeared in front of me? It should have followed behind me, it seems like this is just a trick of the haunted house owner, there’s no need to be scared at all.”
After he finished speaking he sheepishly glanced behind him, “I told you, there’s no need to be …… at all.”
Monkey’s gaze was frozen in a meter behind him, and the rest of his half-sentence was held back raw, because there was a muppet lying quietly.