Chapter 0469: It’s about to start!
Yang Chen finished walking a few steps forward, he felt a cold wind gusting behind him, and when he looked back, he realized that all the other tourists were standing still, including Wang Yan and Li Xue.
”What are you guys standing still for? Together!” Yang Chen wasn’t very bold, he was just a bit more rational compared to the others.
”According to the haunted house owner’s character, the most dangerous place might be the safest place, you judged based on common sense that the one painted white was the corpse transportation passageway, and you should have switched to another one. But I think the path you chose is the truly dangerous one, we can’t use normal thinking to figure out the haunted house boss’s design.” Bai Qiulin opened his mouth once again, his voice was cold, making it uncomfortable to listen to, but there was no denying that he had a point.
”Then what do you say to go?” Wang Diem’s tone was rather impulsive, the three of them had put in so much effort, but in the end, they only got a share of one photo, which made him very upset.
”It doesn’t matter which way we go, what’s important is that we can’t be separated.” Magazine editor Ah Nan walked out, “As long as the twelve of us stay together and don’t panic when things go wrong, there’s still a good chance of getting through.”
He looked at the spherical object bouncing up and down in the depths of the corridor, and his expression became not too natural: “The experience time is thirty minutes, we can go in and take a look at both passages, there’s no need for us to have disagreements because of these trivial matters.”
Ah Nan mediated from this, Bai Qiulin looked at the three medical students, as if talking to himself, “It’s really strange, why do the three of them have to lead us down that path?”
His voice was so low that only Fan Da De, Fan Cong and Xiao Li beside him heard him.
Led by the three students from the School of Forensic Medicine, the twelve tourists officially entered the middle of the passageway.
The lights on the walls flickered on and off, the faint odor of formalin wafted in the air, the passageway got narrower and narrower, the stains on the ground became more and more, and it was unknown what it was, it felt sticky when stepping on it, making people a little uncomfortable.
”Brother, why don’t we just go out.” Fan Cong had bitter words in his heart, he really didn’t know what kind of crazy his brother was smoking, why he had to bring him to this place for a break.
”Don’t be afraid, there’s brother.” Fan Da De himself didn’t even realize that when he spoke, his expression was tense and he felt like a thief who had entered someone’s home.
Wet handprints began to appear on the walls, and the ceiling overhead seemed to have gotten much lower, the tallest Fan Daode could easily touch the roof with a single reach.
A few people walked a dozen meters farther in, and slowly Nan realized that something was wrong: “Wait a minute first, we’ve already walked towards the inside for a long time, how come it feels like the distance between that throbbing spherical object and us hasn’t shortened?”
By him saying that, the other few people also reacted as if that was really the case.
That spherical object bouncing up and down in the depths of the passageway seemed to be constantly moving as well, always keeping a distance from them.
”It’s not too late to turn back.” Bai Qiulin stood in the middle of the group, himself in a safe position, “You all know in your hearts, that’s probably not a ball-shaped object, but a human head that’s jumping by itself, this must be a scare point designed by the haunted house owner, just waiting for us to take the bait ourselves.”
Bai Qiulin’s experience in visiting haunted houses seemed to be very rich, he stuck one hand in his pocket and didn’t take it personally, he talked about the matter, “Imagine for a moment, when we are attracted by the jumping human head and keep walking towards the inside of the passage, that head suddenly accelerates and jumps towards our side, will it catch us off guard? If other monsters were to assist from the side at this time, the twelve of us would most likely be directly dispersed, and the group would be completely split up.”
Ah Nan nodded, agreeing with Bai Qiulin’s words, and shouted towards the tourists behind him, “Everyone must stay close, don’t run around, getting together is the safest thing to do.”
”It’s useless for you to say this, everyone understands the reasoning, but when we really wait for fear to strike, it’s not reason that governs us, it’s instinct, the body will react before the mind.” Bai Qiulin’s tone was cold, but what he said made it impossible to find a reason to refute, “If my guess is good, continuing forward, there may be a fork in the road, and the passageway will become more and more complicated, and human heads and ghosts will appear at that time. The haunted house wants to amplify the fear in everyone’s heart, and will surely try to do everything to separate us, the fork in the road appears, and everyone will flee in haste when they are frightened, and will probably enter among the different forks in the road, the road here is complicated, and once you go in, it may be very difficult to come out again.”
”Pulling so much, it’s just your own vision.” Wang Diem was stifled in his heart, on his side, he was kindly bringing other tourists along, sharing the experience summarized by the seniors, and guiding the way, how come there were still people who kept singing the opposite tune to himself.
”Indeed, these are just my own visions, but I hope that everyone will be prepared in advance, and if there are forks in the road that appear ahead, please make sure that you are all pumped up and gather around me.” Bai Qiulin was clearly competing with Yang Chen and the others for the team’s right to speak.
Wang Yan wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Yang Chen, “He’s also doing it for everyone’s good, there’s no need to care so much.”
Yang Chen had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, he smelled the familiar odor of formalin in the air, his eyes swept over the tourists, and he always felt that something was not quite right, “When I came to visit before, it seems that a similar situation has occurred ……”
Continuing to walk forward, the walls on both sides of the passage began to appear a sealed iron door, rusty, looking some years old.
”Where did Boss Chen get all this stuff?”
The human head bounced up and down in front of them, keeping its distance from the few of them, and after another minute or so of walking, an intersection appeared in front of them.
The passageway on the left was painted white, with various words written in blood on the walls; the passageway on the right was unpainted, but the human head turned in, still bouncing on the ground; the passageway directly in front of them was also unpainted, but the door to one of the rooms in that passageway was open.
”This is simply a labyrinth, it’s only been a minute or so since we came in, and we’ve already encountered two forks in the road; if we continue on, we’ll easily get lost.” Fan Dade was a wayfarer, he was the strongest in size but acted the most abashed, and had been talking to Fan Cong and Lao Zhou beside him in an attempt to distract himself.
”I still suggest following the human head, firstly I can assure you that I once heard my senior say that after getting lost in the underground corpse vault, taking the unpainted passageway, one hundred percent of the time you can come out, this was designed before the construction of the corpse vault; secondly, don’t complicate things too much, we’re only here to visit the haunted house, not to go on a wild adventure, this human head is equivalent to a guide. ” Yang Chen insisted on his opinion.
”I think we should take a look inside that open door first, we might be able to find useful clues.” Nan didn’t help Yang Chen this time.
”I don’t care what choice you guys make, I just want to remind you guys not to stay at the intersection for too long, it’s really dangerous here.” Bai Qiulin didn’t bother to look at Yang Chen and Ah Nan, his gaze was always focused behind him, as if something was slowly approaching in that deep passageway.
He didn’t say anything particularly scary either, but it was such a small action that made the few people around him turn around to look at the passageway.
There really seemed to be something moving in the deep, dark passageway, and there was more than one!
”I don’t know that I’ve already gone this far.” Fan Da De gave a dry laugh and tugged his brother towards the front of the group, the two of them had been the ones to break the back before.
”That …… interrupts.” Tail beside Anan raised his hand, this little girl had a particularly nice voice, and just based on her voice and appearance it was impossible to guess her real age.
”Have you guys found a problem, that human head has been moving, but I just observed the surrounding area and didn’t find a mechanism on the wall to manipulate it. And you guys look at its trajectory, straight up and down, it doesn’t look like it’s being pulled by a silk thread.” Tail observed meticulously.
”I suppose there’s a drive mechanism inside? Maybe the haunted house owner is watching us snickering on the monitor right now.” Xiao Li shrugged his shoulders, he himself was an employee of Virtual Future Paradise, he knew more about the park’s entertainment equipment, and knew that with the current science and technology he could do a lot of seemingly impossible things.
”Look closely, you guys.” With the cutest expression, Tail said the words that made the other tourists the most uncomfortable, “The amplitude of the up and down bouncing is actually different, less like there is a program installed inside, and more like there is an unseen person patting that head up and down, or maybe it’s the head itself that’s bouncing.”
A few tourists hadn’t even slowed down from the ghostly shadows in the deep passageway behind them before their attention was focused back on the head in the passageway on the right, and after looking at it for a long time, it really felt like the head was jumping by itself.
While jumping, while laughing, the distance is vaguely closer.
Fan Da De wiped the sweat from his forehead, he felt that standing in the middle of the group was also a bit unsafe.
”Ignore that head for now, let’s go straight and see what’s in that open door.” Nan looked at Yang Chen: “According to your guess, the human head is a haunted house guide, then when we come out after exploring the room, the human head will most likely still be waiting for us outside, so there’s no need for us to leave in a hurry.”
”I also think it’s better to enter the room and take a look first.” Tiger’s Teeth rarely spoke, and when she did, she spoke on behalf of the three editors who had all decided to enter the room to explore first.
Yang Chen had wanted to hold out for a bit, but after hearing Tiger’s Tooth’s voice, he didn’t voice another opinion.
That beautiful editor-in-chief’s voice was mature and warm, completely different from Tail’s style, and it was a little bit like Chen Ge, which made Yang Chen feel that the other party might be a deeply hidden dark belly big sister that couldn’t be easily messed with.
”Then it’s decided.”
The twelve tourists carefully walked across the intersection and crowded outside the open door.
It was a wooden door that had been gutted at the lower end and the panels were covered in scratches.
There were also two words written crookedly in pen next to the door – Paradise.
”Paradise in the Paradise Haunted House?” Yang Chen walked in the forefront, he reached out and touched those deep indentations on the door panels, some of which still had bloodstains and some black-brown impurities remaining amongst them, “These traces can’t all be dug out by people, can they?”
After entering the underground corpse vault, everything brought him an incomparably real feeling, sometimes he would even forget that he was visiting a haunted house.
Pushing open the door of the room, the room was filled with all sorts of miscellaneous items, some bottles and jars were displayed on the shelves, and there seemed to be all sorts of organ models soaking in the yellowish liquid.
”What kind of paradise is this?”
The space inside the room was narrow, and there was no way for all twelve tourists to get in, and Anan said to the few tourists behind him as he entered the room, “You guys just stay outside, don’t ever run around, and wait for us to come out before we move in together.”
The three students from the School of Forensic Medicine and the three editors entered the room, Xiao Li followed them in order to complete the task explained by Mr. Mu, and when they entered, Bai Qiulin naturally guarded the doorway.
Fan Dade is relatively timid, he dragged his brother and Lao Zhou crowded together: “We don’t go in, wait for them to finish looking, we follow them on the line.”
After saying this, he also smiled shyly at Lao Zhou: “We don’t often come to this place, when we walk in, let’s walk together.”
”No problem.” Old Zhou this person looked and felt very good, warm, generous and very quick.
In the eerie, dark corpse vault passageway, Fan Da De was surrounded by Old Zhou, Duan Yue and Bai Qiulin, he felt very secure, these few people were much more reliable than those youngsters in the room.
”Luck is really good this time, it’s kind of like reporting on the thighs, maybe we can really pass the pass.” While Fan Da De was stealing joy in his heart, his younger brother Fan Cong developed a bad premonition.
The fat on his body gently trembled, Fan Cong glanced towards the way he came, and the wall lamp in the distant passage went out at some point.
What made him feel even more afraid was that the wall lamps were going out from far away, and every so often, they would go out.
The passageway was getting darker and darker, and the thing hiding inside seemed to be getting closer and closer.
”It seems like something is really coming.”
……
Yang Chen and Nan entered the house to look for clues, but they rummaged around for half a day and didn’t find anything except for getting two hands of dust.
”The haunted house owner would never have wasted so much effort to build a useless room for nothing, the house must be hiding a big secret.” Nan led the two female editors through the middle of the shelves, “This place looks like an abandoned warehouse.”
On the other side of the shelves were piled up some tables, chairs and badly torn society costumes, Ah Nan walked over and picked up a costume, he was surprised to find that they were wet, as if someone had just come out of the water and then walked through them with a wet body.
Putting down the costume, Nan put his hand under his nose and he smelled a strange odor.
”This doesn’t seem to be water.” While Nan was thinking alone, Tigress walked to the innermost part of the warehouse, she opened the cabinet in the corner and looked through the weirdly styled paintings inside.
Tails followed at the very back, the road had been blocked, she leaned against the printer next to her alone, as if she had touched the switch inadvertently, and a matching fat human face was vaguely revealed in the printer.