Chapter 0730 – Serial Shock
”Come on, all stand in front of the background.” The senior, wearing an ill-fitting school uniform, picked up the Polaroid camera on the table and urged the tourists to stand on the left side of the projector, “I’ll count to one, two, three, and we’ll all smile together.”
The senior pressed the camera shutter, his finger pressed down on the shutter without lifting it, and the flash kept lighting up.
The camera flash looked so blinding in the darkened photo department that several people covered their eyes.
”Okay, the pictures are done, I’m going to see if the doctor is here yet. You guys come over here and divide up the pictures, one each, and also be careful not to touch anything in the room.” While the senior was talking, the camera kept spewing out pictures, he picked up one at random and stuffed it into his pocket, then put the camera on the table and left.
The air-conditioning in the room was turned down so low that the skin could feel the cool whooshing wind blowing through the exposed skin.
The boy called Cui Ming and Li Po held each other close to the edge of the table and picked up the photos on the floor: “We’d better do as they say, there are many puzzle-solving levels inside the abandoned school, and the clues are hidden in these small props that are usually there.”
Cui Ming had an experience, last time he seemed to have failed to pay attention to collecting props, leading to the situation collapsing in the end and having to give up.
Picking up the photos, Cui Ming distributed them to the crowd, and halfway through the distribution, he suddenly stopped.
”Why is there an extra one?”
Cui Ming stood at the very back of the group, Chen Ge was the only one without a photo at this time, but Cui Ming still had three photos left in his hand.
Not counting his own one and the one belonging to Chen Ge, there would still be an extra one.
”There’s something wrong with this photo! Crap! You guys, look!” Li Yuan exclaimed, pointing at the photo in his hand, “There’s an extra person on top of the group photo!”
Several tourists looked down at the photo when they heard that, and they were very surprised to find that there was an extra person next to Xue Li when the group photo was taken just now!
She was wearing a set of Nightmare Academy’s school uniform, without a trace of blood color on her face, her eyes staring straight at the screen, her head gently leaning on Sherry’s shoulder.
”Holy shit! I didn’t notice it at all just now!” Xue Li kept slapping her shoulder, she, a person who was usually so ladylike, unexpectedly burst into foul language at this time.
Chen Ge stared at the photo for a while, “It’s not computer synthesized, which means that the employee who hid in the room ahead of time ran out when the photo was taken.”
The location where the tourists took the photo was chosen by the senior, the wall behind it was not quite the same color as the rest of the walls in the room, and after a closer look one could find a location where a piece was slightly raised outwards.
”I don’t want to stay in this room, let’s go out.” Xue Li hugged Li Yuan like a bullied wombat.
”Don’t just go out, it’s safest to listen to the staff.” Cui Ming opened his mouth to remind, “No matter how scary the plot is, you won’t encounter anything too scary while going through the plot, once you don’t follow the plot and run around on your own, all the ghosts and monsters in the various scenes will all come running out, and that’s when it’s truly desperate.”
”Okay.” Xue Li leaned on Li Yuan’s shoulder and threw the photo to the side, she was too timid to touch this thing.
Pretty eyes unconsciously swept to the projector curtain, the movie playing on it Xue Li had never seen before, the main actors were a few students, they wore the sign of the photography department, the movie shooting site happened to be this room.
”You guys, look at this movie, it’s so weird.”
Everyone looked to the projector, and on the screen the camera department was cleaning up, when suddenly one of the students found a dusty videotape in the deepest part of the cabinet.
The members of the photography department gathered around, all looking curious, and they decided to see what was being filmed on this videotape.
The movie had no sound, it was like watching a mime, but the actors were on the line and conveyed the plot with their physical movements alone.
In the movie, the students shoved the videotape into the projector and a very strange scene ensued.
The haunted house visitors stood in the camera department and watched as the people in the movie stood in the middle of the camera department watching the movie.
The same position, even the viewing angle was the same, except that the person watching had changed, and this visual consistency could easily give people the wrong impression.
After adjusting the machine, the movie began to play, and the video recorded a certain event organized by the university.
The video was short, only one minute, and after a few students watched it, an argument suddenly broke out.
Since there was no sound in the movie, visitors had no idea what they were arguing about.
After the students finished arguing, the video was replayed again.
At the forty-fourth second of the video, one of the students pressed the pause button, and he pointed his finger at the hallway in the corner of the projector and said something with a horrified look on his face.
The movie screen zoomed in and the visitors slowly got a better look at a figure flashing through the hallway while the school was hosting an event.
The students argue again, presumably because some don’t believe it and think it might just be a filming accident.
They disagreed and several students walked out of the photography department, eventually leaving only the student who spotted the shadow still standing inside.
That student played the video clip over and over again, trying to prove something.
Strangely enough, every time he repeated the playback, the figure in the side hallway became a little clearer, and gradually a person’s facial features emerged.
The person in the hallway seemed to be slowly approaching, and when he played it for the third time, it was already obvious that there was a pale, blood-covered woman there in the hallway.
The visitors watched with increasing concentration as the movie screen switched back and forth between the students and the projector screen, and finally on the fifth playback, the face in the hallway became clear!
The hideous features made the student feel uncomfortable and the visitors’ hearts lifted.
The student in the movie began to get scared as he shook his hands and prepared to play it a sixth time.
Once again the tape played to the forty-fourth second, but this time the figure in the hallway disappeared.
The student scratched his head and put his face in front of the curtain as he scrutinized the hallway located in the corner, just then the curtain hanging on the wall came off and a hideous, horrible face appeared behind it!
”BOOM!”
Before the visitors could scream, the door of the photography department was pushed open, and that senior screamed miserably just as soon as he appeared, “Run! Quickly! Didn’t I not let you guys mess with the things in the house!”
Before the several tourists could understand what was going on, Sherry suddenly felt her hair being ruffled, and she turned around to see that a hideous and horrifying face that should have appeared in a movie was now right behind her!
”Ah!”
With her mind broken by fear, Xue Li tugged Li Yuan and ran desperately towards the outside, several other tourists were also in a mess, only Chen Ge carried his bag and took a deep look at the projector and the innermost wall of the photography department.
”One person opened the door to attract attention, the other took the opportunity to come out through the staff passageway, the timing was stuck just right, it must have been rehearsed many times, this Nightmare Academy really can’t be underestimated.”