Chapter 0354 – They are the ghosts!
The vermilion courtyard door was pushed open, and two children with blood-red face paint jumped and ran in.
The two of them sang a nursery rhyme, blood sliding down their cheeks, and it was only when they got close enough to see clearly that the blood-red face paint wasn’t painted on their faces, but carved into their flesh.
”Don’t come over!” Wang was paralyzed, his hand went back to grab something to block his body, but his fingertips touched something cold, he subconsciously glanced back, that body model that originally had the lower half of its body buried in the earth, he didn’t know when it had already burrowed out, and crawled directly to his side!
”Ah!”
Wang called out Cat Sister’s name, loudly begging for help.
But Sister Cat was now unable to protect herself, and the ghostly figure soaking white in the water tank had run out, dripping water droplets on the ground, her swollen face facing the two tourists in the courtyard.
The sharp female voice was about to pierce her eardrums, Cat was scared out of her wits, abandoning Wang and running out of the mansion like a madman.
The lanterns on both sides of the street emitted red light, and the village, which originally looked just a little bit eerie, completely changed its appearance in just a few minutes, almost as if it had come to the netherworld!
Two face-painted children chased them out of the compound, }people’s nursery rhymes lingering in their ears as Cat fled in a panic on her hands and knees.
”Help!”
Being a haunted house tester to be scared to cry out for help in a haunted house was something that Sister Cat definitely did not expect before she came, the more she ran the slower she got, the sedan chair ghosts behind her gradually closed the distance, despair and fear almost swallowed her up.
”Why hasn’t this road come to an end? Someone help me!”
Turning a corner, Sister Cat suddenly saw a large red life dress standing in the middle of the road.
The dress stood straight up in the middle of the road, and after discovering Sister Cat, it rushed towards her without saying a word.
Her voice was already muffled, and she could only run as hard as she could.
People who work hard don’t have bad luck, and Sister Cat saw a little light in the midst of her deepest despair!
Right at the end of another street, there were a few dim oil lamps, the flames were weak but dispelled the darkness.
”That should be the exit!”
Sister Cat ran as hard as she could towards where the oil lamps were, but as she ran she suddenly felt something strange, those oil lamps didn’t seem to be fixed on a certain room, they seemed to move on their own!
”These oil lamps seem to be floating in the air?”
Behind her was being chased by monsters, Cat Sister couldn’t think about more things, she ran forward another dozen meters away, only then did she finally see the true face of those oil lamps clearly!
A pale human face floated behind the oil lamps, and each oil lamp was bitten by a human head in its mouth!
Sprinting with all her might, Cat Sister’s brain was already on the fritz, and her body rushed forward a few more meters under the influence of inertia.
Just as she was about to crash into the human headlights surrounded her, a hand grabbed her.
”Follow me!” The man’s voice was cold as he grabbed Sister Cat and entered an old mansion next to her before jumping out of a window at the back of the mansion.
”You are?”
”Don’t talk, it’s dangerous here.”
Listening to the voice with a bit of familiarity, Cat Sister allowed the other party to drag her through two streets, shaking off those monsters before the two stopped.
Hiding behind the door, Cat Sister quietly sized up the person who had saved her in the midst of danger.
Her heart skipped a beat when her gaze moved upward and she saw the face.
”Bai Qiulin?!”
”Keep your voice down.” Bai Qiulin spoke viciously, “What? Surprised to see it’s me?”
Cat’s brain was a mess, she took a step back, “Lan said on the phone ……”
”Saying that I caused her harm, right?” Bai Qiulin said coldly, “You’ve all been tricked by the dirty things in this haunted house.”
”Filthy things?” Sister Cat looked at Bai Qiulin suspiciously, just now when the five of them went to look for Zhang Lan together, the coffin-carrying ghost crossed the coffin in the middle, forcibly dividing the group.
At that time, Sister Cat’s entire attention was attracted by the coffin-carrying ghost and the sedan chair ghost, and she didn’t see what happened over at the corner of the street.
”You may not believe the next thing I say, but these are all true.” Bai Qiulin’s hoarse voice was a bit uncomfortable to hear, “That couple that was with you were actually ghosts!”
”You’re saying that Old Zhou and Duan Yue are ghosts?” Sister Cat’s eyes widened, she really couldn’t accept this fact.
”This haunted house has been open for a long time, and there have always been legends of hauntings.” Bai Qiulin’s pupils trembled, “About a few months ago, there was a couple whose love couldn’t be supported by their families due to various reasons, and the two finally decided to martyr themselves, and the place they chose was this haunted house.”
”Martyrdom?!” Cat Sister’s body was pressed against the wall, and she was already a bit unsteady.
”It really wasn’t much at first, but slowly more and more tourists saw that couple, and after they died, their ghosts were still there, wandering amongst the haunted house all the time!” Bai Qiulin’s voice was very scary: “Huang Xing was deceived by that couple, I wanted to go and save him, but it was too late.”
”But on the phone, Zhang Lan said that you were the one who was harming her, and in the end, she even asked for help …… toward Old Zhou,” Cat was interrupted by Bai Qiulin before she finished.
”You guys are really hopelessly stupid! When you received the call, couldn’t you all have used your brains to think about it? Why would the phone hang up only after Zhang Lan happened to call out for Old Zhou to save her? If they had the ability to hang up the phone, why did they have to wait for Zhang Lan to deliver the message that I was the murderer before acting?” Bai Qiulin became more and more agitated as he spoke, his voice becoming slightly louder.
Sister Cat had already been spared, feeling as if what Bai Qiulin said made sense.
”At that time, I just wanted to take the opportunity to tell Zhang Lan about all of this, and I specifically avoided Old Zhou and his wife, but Zhang Lan misunderstood me and thought that I was trying to harm her.” Bai Qiulin looked grave: “I did all this out of good intentions, but I didn’t expect that I would be used by that ghost couple instead!”
Every time Bai Qiulin opened his mouth, he deepened the fear in Cat’s heart, and she was already starting to falter, “So the two of them are the ghosts.”
”It’s not safe here, I’ll send you out first.” Without giving Sister Cat a chance to continue thinking, Bai Qiulin had already opened the door to the mansion.
The two of them ran a dozen meters down the street, and just as they arrived at the street entrance, they saw two figures slowly appearing around the corner under the reflection of red lanterns.
These two people were none other than Old Zhou and Duan Yue!
”Sister Cat?” Old Zhou was slightly stunned, his expression changing within zero seconds, he pointed his finger at Bai Qiulin with an anxious expression, “Quickly leave him! That person beside you is a ghost!”
Old Zhou’s voice directly shattered Cat’s mental defenses, both sides were saying that the other side was a ghost, who should be trusted at this time?
Feet unconsciously stepped forward, Cat Sister was still more inclined to trust Old Zhou.
”Don’t go over! That ghost couple is lying to you.” Bai Qiulin stood in place, his tone tense, as if he was scared himself.
Hearing Bai Qiulin say this, Sister Cat hesitated again, her legs trembling.
”Come over here quickly! Sister Cat!” Old Zhou shouted hoarsely, as if he had suddenly remembered something: “That crazy person ran out of the mental hospital! He chopped off his own hand! You can see his left hand!”
On one side was the husband and wife ghosts who had been martyred in the haunted house, and on the other side was the madman who had just escaped from the mental hospital after chopping off his own hand, and Cat stood in the middle of it, and she was almost completely broken!
”Who among them is lying? And who am I supposed to believe?”