Chapter 0480 – Classmate, it should be class time now, right?
Tables, chairs and worn-out figures were moved away, and a few tourists walked in the middle of the freshly cleared passageway.
”Old Yang, come over here!” Wang Yan saw Yang Chen standing alone at the back and opened his mouth to urge him, he didn’t realize that Yang Chen’s heart had already set off ten thousand wild waves at this moment, and was in the middle of a fierce ideological struggle.
”What are you two in a hurry for?” Yang Chen shouted at Wang Diem, his message hadn’t been sent out yet, and he was about to persuade Wang Diem and Li Xue to come back, when the wall light beside him suddenly flashed.
”Lights?” Yang Chen seemed to suddenly realize something as he frantically ran towards Wang Yan and Li Xue, “Retreat to my side! Quickly! It’s going out!”
One of the wall lights in the passageway began to go out, faster than the previous two times.
When Li Xue heard Yang Chen’s voice, she immediately ran towards Yang Chen’s side, but Wang Yan was farther away from them and only got halfway there before the wall lights around him went out.
The passageway was plunged into darkness for the third time, and what made Yang Chen feel uneasy was that they were now right at the junction of the outer area and the middle area, and no one knew what kind of monsters were hiding on that side of the hole in the wall, which was an unknown area of Lingdu.
”The haunted house owner turned out the lights when I was about to name the five ghosts, would he have sensed that someone had guessed the identities of the five ghosts, and if that was the case, then the person who had been killed this time would most likely be me. Of all the visitors, that high and mighty Bai Qiulin was the hardest to deal with, other than that it should be me. Having visited the haunted house many times, I’ve already figured out the haunted house owner’s routine, and he’ll definitely treat me as a big problem in his heart and focus on targeting me.” A strong sense of crisis welled up in Yang Chen’s heart, he was not prepared to sit back and wait for death, he stood up, grabbed Li Xue and shouted towards the other side of the passageway, “Wang Yan! Come to me!”
Shadows swayed in the darkness, liquid dripped from the top of his head, and a shadow darted and crawled over the top of his head.
”What is it?”
Wang Diem, who was halfway running, felt a damp and cold aura greet him, he stared blankly at the top of his head, his pupils slowly adapting to the darkness, and while he was trying to get a clearer look at the shape of the monster, his shoulder was suddenly tapped.
Body shivering, Wang Diem subconsciously turned his head to look, there was nothing there.
”Who is behind me?”
A drop of cold liquid fell into his neck, Wang Diem was shocked, not waiting for him to get back to his senses, his shoulder was tapped again, this time he could clearly feel a hand on his shoulder.
”Gotcha!”
Wang Diem was short-tempered and not good at reasoning or thinking, but he was physically fit and reacted quickly.
When that hand didn’t pull away, he directly grabbed it, and the other party intentionally scared him at a time like this, making Wang Diem a little angry in his heart.
He moved roughly, grabbed that hand and threw it forward with all his might.
His arm swung, and that hand was also yanked to his eyes at once.
Five slender fingers clasped together with Wang Diem’s, and then looking back, there was the white palm, and a jagged, as if cut out with a kitchen knife, fracture.
It was a severed hand, cut off from the wrist, and at that moment the hand was being tightly grasped by Wang Diem in his palm.
”A hand?”
Thoughts froze for a second before Wang Diem was overwhelmed by fear!
”Where did the hand come from?!”
In the darkness, he desperately flung his arms, a breath held in his throat, and as he was about to scream out, the broken dolls around him seemed to come to life as if they were all shining down on Wang Diem.
Completely dominated by fear, Wang Diem couldn’t tell which way to go, he yelled and ran instinctively toward the place where there were no mannequins.
”Wang Diem!” Hearing his companion’s voice, Yang Chen immediately took out the cell phone in his pocket.
As he slid the screen and turned on the flashlight, liquid dripped from the ceiling, and thick darkness gathered above his head, transforming into a face with a hollowed out skull slowly closing in, as if it was ready to wrap Yang Chen’s head completely.
With all his attention on Wang Yan, Yang Chen did not see the dark shadow above his head, instead, Li Xue next to him let out a scream as she desperately moved backward and sat on the ground, her body leaning against the wall, constantly moving backward.
Seeing Li Xue’s reaction, Yang Chen realized that he was also being targeted: “The person the haunted house owner really wanted to attack was me?”
The light from the cell phones in the passageway flashed haphazardly, and darkness coalescing into monsters appeared in large numbers.
”All don’t panic! The darkness will only last for a while!” Yang Chen dodged to the side as he held up his cell phone to protect Li Xue.
Footsteps sounded in the passageway piled with clutter, and there were tourists in the darkness who began to flee in a certain direction.
”Stay where you are and don’t run around! Stop!” Yang Chen heard the tourists’ cluttered footsteps and finally realized that something was wrong, he guessed that the haunted house owner might have already noticed that some tourists had found out that there were ghosts mixed in the ranks, so this time the lights were turned off in order to disrupt the tourists’ ranks and create a more favorable environment for his own employees.
Yang Chen hissed, but Wang Diem, who had already been frightened and panicked, didn’t even listen carefully, he desperately flung his hand, but what made him even more scared was that the broken hand was exerting itself, and grabbed him by the death.
The ten fingers were interlocked, as if they were glued to his palm.
There was the approach of a monster on the ceiling, the dolls around him seemed to come back to life, heads rolled on the floor, and Wang Diem stood alone in the middle of a pile of clutter; he had completely lost the ability to think.
The sound of footsteps came from his side, there were tourists in the group fleeing towards the distance, Wang Diem turned sideways and backwards, he couldn’t think of anything else, he followed that footsteps backwards, trying to rush out from the encirclement of the mannequins and the monsters above his head.
”Who’s running? Crouch down on the ground! Lean against the wall! All stay where you are!” Tiger and Nan shouted back, realizing that someone in the group seemed to be purposely messing with the group to start a panic.
The dark shadows shifted, the wall lights never came on, and Wang Diem ran into the middle area, chased by mannequins and monsters.
He followed the tourists in front of him and had no idea how long he had been running, and was under the impression that he had passed several corners and now could not go back.
After his mood calmed down, Wang Yan had some regrets, but he had no other choice.
The power on the palm of his hand was getting stronger and stronger, he was studying medicine, and the touch brought by that hand was exactly the same as human skin, only there was no temperature, as if it was a dead man’s hand.
Stifling his head to avoid the mannequins and the monsters overhead, Wang Diem suddenly heard Bai Qiulin’s surprised voice with anger in front of him, “Who is it? Who is where!”
Immediately after that, he heard a scream from Xiao Li, who Wang Diem was well aware had been following Bai Qiulin.
”What happened? What have they encountered again?” Ahead was a corner, and Wang Diem came close enough to see that there were two people lying diagonally in the corner.
Little Li was passed out in front, unconscious.
Bai Qiulin lay behind, still conscious, and he was waving at Wang Diem.
The monster that attacked the two tourists could not be seen around, Wang Diem’s heart was weak, he didn’t dare to go over there, nor did he want to go to save the two people, only now he didn’t know where he had run to, and it was easier for him to go out alone without staying with the two tourists.
After hesitating for a second or two, Wang Diem gasped and bent down, ready to crouch down next to Bai Qiulin and inquire about the situation.
With his legs bent down, Wang Diem looked at Bai Qiu Lin, his mouth opened, and before he could say the words he had conceived, he saw Bai Qiu Lin’s spine suddenly bend to ninety degrees! The all-too-familiar head fell directly onto Wang Diem, blood began to ooze from the seven orifices, and an incomparably horrible face locked eyes with Wang Diem, his mouth repeating a phrase over and over again.
”Give me back my hand!”
Wang Diem was so scared that he almost fell to his knees, his body tilted, the words in his mouth stuck in his throat suffocating his whole face purple.
Eyelids upturned, Wang Diem finally realized why Xiao Li fainted.
……
With his body moved and his eyes dazedly opened a thin slit, Wang Diem saw several doctors in white coats standing around him, and they were still holding their school cards as if they were talking about something.
”Where am I? Is this a hospital?” Wang Diem looked back with all his strength and realized that he was lying on a hospital bed with clean sheets, while Xiao Li was casually thrown on a wooden board.
”You’re awake.” Four doctors gathered around Wang Diem’s hospital bed, from Wang Diem’s point of view, it was really a bit shocking.
”Am I …… not visiting a haunted house?” Wang Diem wasn’t sure, he was so dumbfounded by the shock that it took him half a day to remember who he was.
”We are the doctors in the haunted house, you fainted, it was a few of us who woke you up.” The few doctors looked very kind and talkative, and they seemed to treat Wang Diem with extra kindness.
In the haunted house in the western suburb of Jiujiang, a few doctors who were wrapped tightly all over their bodies treated themselves very kindly, which gave Wang Diem a creepy feeling.
”Thank you.” He looked at the several doctors carefully, not daring to move a muscle: “Can I leave now?”
”Of course, keep your school license, don’t lose it.” The doctor in the lead took Wang Yan’s school license and gently placed it in his hand, “There’s no problem with combining work and rest, but everything has to be done in moderation, go back to school after your visit and have a good class.”
The leading doctor seemed to have not said these words to anyone for a long time, he was quite emotional, and there were a few points of happiness in his heart: “I did not expect that one day, I can still see them, and I can still say these words to them, this familiar scene, how do you let me have a kind of hot tears in my eyes?”
Wang Diem also felt strange, these doctors in white coats in front of him were particularly nice to themselves, but they were nasty to Xiao Li who was also stunned.
”Several people, haven’t we met somewhere before?” With a puzzled tone, Wang Diem looked at the size of the man at the head of the group and vaguely felt as if he had seen them somewhere.
The leader of the doctor’s smiled, his eyes were loving, “In fact, a few of us ……”
Coughing softly, another older doctor next to him waved his hand, “Don’t cause trouble for Boss Chen.”
”Alright.” The tone of the doctor in the lead was a bit low.
Wang Yan had absolutely no idea what these doctors were talking about as he grabbed the school license plate, “I am indeed a student of the Jiujiang School of Forensic Medicine, could it be that a few of you are seniors from our school? It’s not right, today is Wednesday, every Wednesday morning, the School of Forensic Medicine will uniformly arrange to have a big class, it’s impossible for a senior to come to do part-time work.”
”Freshman year? Wednesday?” The doctor in the lead froze slightly, his sword brows slowly screwed together, “You’ve reminded me, this student, if I don’t remember wrongly, it should be class time now, right?”
The doctor’s tone became serious, and Wang Yan’s calves trembled, becoming even more confused.
He suddenly had the feeling of facing his school’s director of instruction, his voice was weak and understated, “Today the new scene of the haunted house opened, I came here with a few classmates who skipped class to visit.”
Wang Yan didn’t know what he was afraid of, and this fear was completely different from the kind of fear he had before.
”Skipping class?” The head doctor nodded, his entire face instantly tensed up, the atmosphere in the room became extremely grave, a deep chill emanating from the four doctors, “Skipping classes since freshman year? Aren’t you afraid of being discovered by your teachers?”
”I don’t think so, this is also my first time to skip class ……” Wang Diem stammered, getting more and more scared.
”You don’t scare him.” That very kind voice sounded again, the doctor who opened his mouth was older: “OK, I’ll send you away from the scene, hurry back after the visit, don’t delay the afternoon class.”
This doctor finished and shouted towards the side, “And you, don’t play dead, leave together.”
Xiao Li, who was lying on the ground, slowly opened his eyes, smiled awkwardly, and climbed up from the ground, “I’ll leave now, excuse me.”
Xiao Li and Wang Diem helped each other out of the ward, looking at the intricate passages outside, both of them did not know where to go.
Picking a random direction, the two of them felt like they wouldn’t take long before they were transported back here again.
”You guys follow the road to the left, when you meet the fork in the road, take the one in the middle, and then enter the second room, there is a closet in the room, push it open, and the secret passageway out is behind the closet.” The older doctor patiently pointed out the way for Xiao Li and Wang Yan, making sure that the two had memorized the path before shaking his head and returning to the room, closing the door.
”Thanks a lot, guys!” Xiao Li excitedly tugged Wang Yan to run towards that road, finally able to leave this haunted place, the task explained by Mr. Mu had long been thrown to the back of Xiao Li’s mind, he was now thinking of hurrying up and leaving, “Older brother, what’s your background ah? How do I feel that those few haunted house actors are familiar with you, they seem to know you?”
”I don’t know.” Wang Yan shook his head, always feeling that something is not quite right, “It’s really strange, haunted house actors also advise people not to skip classes, now the quality of group actors are so high? This is too positive, right?”
”Anyway, I owe you a favor today, when the new paradise opens in Jiujiang’s eastern suburb in a while, it will definitely be hard to get a ticket at that time, buddy I can help you get a few tickets for free.” Little Li patted his chest and guaranteed.
”New Paradise in the Eastern Suburbs?” Wang Yan shook his head, “Forget it, you follow me closely, let’s go out first.”
”Okay!”
The two ran all the way to the room that the doctor said, there was a big mortuary pool in the room, and there was a big hole in the center of the pool, which was filled with viscous liquid, constantly bubbling upwards, as if there was something hidden in the hole.
”This is the cabinet.” Xiao Li and Wang Yan combined their efforts to push the cabinet open, and behind it was a dark passageway.
……
Several doctors stood in the room, and the tallest doctor at the head looked at the oldest one with a hint of an unnatural look, “Elder Wei, what are you doing giving them the secret passage to the core area? That secret passageway has been installed by Xiao Chen with a dozen dolls and various mechanisms, I’m scared just looking at it.”
”Skipping classes since freshman year, it’s getting more and more unruly, I really don’t know how Xiao Zheng manages the school! One day I have to go back and take a look no!” The doctor called Elder Wei drifted into the room alone.
The other doctors looked at each other and looked at the oldest doctor, “Elder Wei, if we do this, won’t something happen?”
”Something happen? With me, Wei Jiuqing, as long as there is still a breath left, I can resuscitate him! I just want to use this student’s mouth to tell the other students of Jiujiang Medical University that this is what happens when you skip classes!”