Chapter 0924 – Being upright is not afraid of a crooked shadow
The atmosphere in the 413 dormitory became weird, Ah Li was Lan Dong’s best friend, naturally he couldn’t help the haunted house to intentionally scare Lan Dong, he should have really seen the ghost shadow just now.
Are there really ghosts in the world?
Liu carried shook his head, driving this unrealistic thought out of his mind, he wasn’t too convinced by what Ah Li said and reached out to pick up the cell phone on the ground.
”A few years ago I had seen a similar small program in the cell phone mall, presumably one that could add ghosts to normal shots, and at the time there were a lot of people who downloaded this software to spoof their friends around them.” The camera was still on, and Liu Carry picked up the phone and aimed it at Blue Winter.
There was nothing lying on Lan Dong’s neck, instead, there was something strange about the wall behind him, and the mass of nailed humanoid stains seemed to be moving.
”There’s clearly nothing on his neck.” Liu Shoulder showed everyone, “It’s all a lie.”
”Brother Shoulder, I’ve used that small program you mentioned, but it has been taken down by all the major mobile malls, do you know why it ended up being blocked by all the platforms?” Xiaochun somehow somewhat resented Liu Shoulder, maybe she didn’t like that kind of pretentious greasy uncle too much.
”Why?”
”Some people really saw ghosts with that little program, such a reason the major cell phone malls would definitely not explicitly say so, but I have a friend beside me who has experienced it personally.” Xiaochun glanced at the camera lens, “Carry brother, I know you don’t believe in ghosts and monsters, you can not believe, but you can not disrespect, especially …… in this kind of place.”
”Girl, you’re not very old, but you’re quite talkative.” Liu Cheng did not take it seriously.
”Our relationship is not yet so familiar that you can call me girl.” Xiaochun was a sensitive person, she wasn’t much of a talker, but the more such a person was the more she was able to notice the subtle changes around her.
Since the beginning of entering this haunted house, she realized that everyone’s emotions were being deliberately guided, and the latent dark side of their personalities were slowly being exposed, this haunted house was like a labyrinth that one would fall deeper and deeper into.
”Outside the haunted house in the sunshine, everyone was peaceful and calm, how come they changed after coming in? Is it because there’s something wrong with the background music? Or is the scene rendering too depressing?”
Haru didn’t know what to say about such a haunted house, the good side was that people who had been repressed for too long in reality could come to the haunted house to vent their frustrations, be their truest selves in this dark and scary underground, and then put on their masks again to try to live their lives after they left; and the bad side was that the process of metamorphosis was doomed to be full of shrieks and scares.
”Psychic APP?” the people in the room were arguing, Lan Dong touched his neck and sat on his knees on the bed, “Just now when Ah Li shone on me, I did feel a chill in my neck, as if a pair of invisible hands were pulling out my head. Later when Carrying Brother shone me, that feeling disappeared.”
”There can’t really be a ghost, right?” The photographer, Mighty Man, muttered in a low voice, he was a professional photographer and normally wouldn’t open his mouth to speak during the video recording process unless he really couldn’t help it.
”I don’t know if there are ghosts in the world, but I can be sure that there is someone in this haunted house who is pretending to be a ghost, and he is probably hiding behind the monitor right now looking at the screen and snickering.” Lan Dong glanced towards the corner of the room, “He wants to see us make a fool of ourselves, but I’m not going to let him get away with it!”
Lan Dong jumped down from the upper bunk, “Let’s go, I now have the keys to the key rooms of the haunted house, the next step is just to open these rooms one by one, and we should be able to pass the haunted house without any problems.”
”No more searching? I just took a general look, it seems that school bullying happened in this dormitory, and the boy who was bullied is called Lin Sisi, the owner of that cell phone.”
”Ah Li, what we’re looking for is the art club, don’t be distracted by irrelevant things.” Lan Dong tensed his face.
”But I just looked at my cell phone, and there are a few text messages in it that are related to the art club.” Ally opened Lin Si Si’s cell phone and tapped on a message.
”Sender Teacher Bai – Lin Sisi, from today you’ll be living in the 413 dormitory, get along well with your classmates and don’t let your parents down.”
”Sender Painter – Lin Sisi, why did you hide a knife under your pillow? Don’t you know you have a habit of sleepwalking?”
”Sender Painter – Lin Si Si, what is your favorite color? Deep red? Or dark red?”
”Sender Painter – Lin Si Si, I’ve seen your paintings, welcome to the art club.”
Ah Li showed the text message to everyone: “This Lin Si Si is one of the members of the Art Club, and we can figure out a few clues from their text message exchanges. The president of the Fine Arts Club should be a painter, this club is definitely not a hobby club that only paints in the ordinary sense, they are most likely a group of crazy people. I have a hunch that this mission we drew is not as simple as it is literally written.”
”Much to worry about.” Lan Dong didn’t finish listening to Ally’s words before directly interrupting, “The mission was drawn and can’t be changed, our priority is to find the art club as soon as possible within the limited time.”
”Wait!” Ah Li did not follow Lan Dong outside, he lifted Lin Si Si’s bedding and opened Lin Si Si’s closet, and finally found a handmade wooden box on the lower level of the cabinet, “Lin Si Si is a member of the Art Club, there is likely to be oil paintings hidden in his room.”
The wooden box that Ah Li found was almost the same as the one they had used to draw the mission outside the haunted house, it should have come from the same person’s hand.
Opening the lid of the box, a faint smell of blood drifted into the tip of his nose, the box had been very roughly stuffed with a folded oil painting.
”Folding it like this hurts the painting very much, forget it, the haunted house owner probably doesn’t know anything about art, this painting is just a prop that can be replaced at any time for him.” Liu carried unfolded the painting and took a look at it, even if they were just amateurs they were still shocked by the scene in the painting, the upside down painting, the blood red and the blankness formed a strong contrast that made people palpitate.
The canvas didn’t know what kind of material was used, and it was very cool to the touch.
After unfolding the whole painting, the creases on it were slowly recovering, just like a human’s skin could heal itself after being cut.
”Ah Li, you did a great job.” Liu carried them into the haunted house for ten minutes and finally found the first painting.
”Let’s go, we still need to find twelve more oil paintings before we can do so.” Lan Dong left the dormitory without looking back, Ah Li carefully put the oil painting back into the box, as he re-covered the lid, the image of Lin Si Si being beaten inexplicably surfaced in his mind, the skinny kid was begging for mercy, but there was no response.
Wincing, Ally looked around, “Don’t come looking for me, I’m just an errand boy.”
His eyes moved and at the sight of the wall, Ally froze again, “How come there’s a piece of the humanoid stain missing from the wall? It seems like Winter sat there a while ago.”
He developed a very bad premonition, subconsciously taking out Lin Si Si’s cell phone and aiming it at Blue Winter to take a picture, everything was normal on Blue Winter, only the shadow was a bit conspicuous askew.
”There’s no dirty thing following the past, it seems that I’m overthinking.”