Chapter 0925 – An Adult’s Breakdown in a Flash
Ah Li held the wooden box and walked at the end of the group.
He was honest and loyal, not as sensitive as Xiaochun, he just vaguely felt that something was not quite right.
”Why does the name Lin Si Si always pop up in my mind, is it because I took his painting? It can’t be, it should be a psychological effect.”
Walking in the long dark corridor, Ah Li couldn’t control himself and began to think wildly, his memory seemed to be covered by something, and in a trance he saw a thin boy standing not far away.
It was hard to see his face, he had no visible injuries, but his clothes were torn, the zipper of his school bag was ripped, his hair was wet and his face was covered in mud.
The numbness of the boy was even more heartbreaking compared to his dirty body.
”You ……”
”What for?” The photographer slugger was startled by Ally, “Is there something wrong with you?”
”No, nothing, sorry.” Ah Li hurriedly apologized, he looked around, there were no children at all, but what made him feel strange was that the obviously gloomy and scary scene brought him a sense of familiarity, as if he had been here before, “Did I come to this place when I was a kid? Or have I dreamt of it in my nightmares?”
Arriving at an unfamiliar place and suddenly feeling a sense of familiarity in his heart is a situation that many people have encountered before. If it were an ordinary attraction, it wouldn’t matter, but this is the third basement level of a haunted house, an “unopened area” that doesn’t even have any lights installed.
As soon as he started to think about it, all the gruesome images of the kid cornered in the classroom, pushed into the toilet cubicle, with a twisted face grinning at him, splashing ink and sewage, appeared in his mind again.
”Enough!” Ally shouted violently, sending a few people in front of him into shock.
”Randon, what’s wrong with your friend? Messed up my camera.” The cameraman slugger was disgruntled.
”Little brother, are you alright?” Liu Hei frowned and looked at Ah Li, because he was on a live broadcast and he still had to maintain his demeanor.
”I don’t know, it just feels like I’ve been to this place before.” Ah Li chattered divinely, “I might have dreamt about it, didn’t a news report say before that many awakened vegetarians had dreamt about this haunted house during their coma? I have a feeling that those media aren’t all talking nonsense.”
”Ahem!” Liu Carry interrupted Ally as he gave a quick gesture to the cameraman, and the slugger mindfully shifted the camera.
Removing the pickup on his collar, Liu Shoulder whispered at Ah Li, “We’re here to fight fakes, understand? There has to be a limit to your showmanship.”
Liu Shoulder changed his face like a book, he had just complimented Ah Li in the dormitory, and in the blink of an eye, he changed his tone.
”It’s true!” Ah Li still wanted to say something, but Liu Cheng was too lazy to listen, he signaled Lan Dong to come over, “Teach your friend properly.”
Putting the pickup back on, Liu Shoulder returned to normal, he walked in front of the camera, calmly explaining to the audience that that was just a hiccup just now.
The camera was purposely moved away, the sound became smaller, and all the anomalies sparked even more discussion among netizens.
Looking at their own live room there are a lot of people talking about the news and Chen Ge’s haunted house, Liu carried more upset: “Just now my friend was just joking, we do not take it seriously, we have been holding a playful mentality in the visit, now we have to officially start to fight the fake.”
Chen Ge’s haunted house is scary or not, in fact, there is no need for Liu Cheng to say more, the light internal atmosphere has proved everything, even if Liu Cheng has been gagging, he can’t weaken that kind of horror.
”A haunted house that relies on selling hits, cheating tourists and fooling the audience also wants to be a big hit?” Regardless of whether it was true or not, Liu Shoulder first had to put a few hats on Chen Ge’s haunted house to put himself on the moral high ground, as if by doing so he had an extra sense of mission and would never be afraid again.
”No more ink, I’m going to reveal its true colors in front of everyone today!” Liu shouldered his emotions, he had just finished saying this when the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
This was his private cell phone, not many people knew the cell phone number.
Liu Shoulder hesitated for a while and slowly pressed the answer button.
Before he could react, the male assistant’s hysterical voice came from the other side of the phone.
”Brother Carry! This haunted house is really haunted! The top of the head! All the ghosts are lying on the top of their heads!” The male assistant seemed to be running wildly, unable to catch his breath.
”Where have you been running? Whose cell phone is this?” Liu Carry’s heart stuttered, he had just put the pickup on, and now everyone in the live room heard the male assistant’s voice.
”I was saved by other tourists! You quickly go back! There’s no way out of this haunted house! It’s too late if you don’t leave! Don’t come over! Help! There are ghosts everywhere! There are ghosts everywhere!”
The male assistant’s hoarse cries smacked Liu Hei’s face so hard that the corners of his eyes twitched and he immediately hung up the phone.
He had come to the haunted house to fake it, and now it made it seem as if he was publicizing the haunted house in front of the entire audience.
”This assistant of mine is too pompous in his acting, so I’ll let you all have a laugh ……” Before Liu carried on, the photographer’s cell phone kept vibrating.
Someone sent him a voice, the photographer clicked on one without thinking much, then the male assistant’s voice reappeared.
”Liu Carry! Run! Trust me! The ghosts are around you! They’re right beside you!”
The corridor was quiet, so the male assistant’s voice was especially shrill, and the guy was in a hurry, calling Liu Shoulder by his full name.
”Turn off your cell phone, let’s explore the haunted house wholeheartedly.” Liu Shoulder’s face was a bit worse, if it wasn’t for the camera being there he would have flipped out long ago.
”Okay, Brother Carry.” The strong man verbally promised to turn off his cell phone, in reality he didn’t do that, this strong man has a delicate mind, he knows the male assistant very well, and it is clear that the other party is not acting, but is really almost scared crazy.
Stealing a message back to the male assistant, the burly man put his cell phone on mute and stuffed it into his pocket.
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”Liu carry! I won’t harm you! Talk back!” Grasping a female cell phone in his hand, the male assistant ran wildly through the narrow passageway, his hair disheveled, tearstains hanging from the corners of his eyes, and his voice muffled from shouting.
”Stop howling! Are you trying to get us all killed?!” In front of the male assistant was another student couple, a middle-aged man and a very elegant female tourist, and it was the middle-aged man who had just spoken.
Shadows surged in the long corridor behind them, and footsteps could be heard getting closer and closer!
”This way!” The middle-aged man spotted an open classroom at the corner of the long corridor, and without much thought he pulled the woman behind him to hide in it.
The student couple was also ready to run towards the classroom, but just then the male assistant put his best foot forward and accelerated past the student couple.
After he rushed into the classroom, he gritted his teeth and slammed the door of the classroom!
”Crap! Open the door ah! We even lent you our cell phones and you’re doing this to us?!” The student couple knocked hard on the door of the room, but the male assistant directly unlocked the door.
The footsteps of} the people were approaching, and the student couple had no choice but to leave, and the footsteps were attracted away from them.
”Luckily I was decisive, or else even if I hid here, I would have been surrounded, and no one could escape.” The male assistant subconsciously did something like that, in the four-star scene, he seemed to have torn off his usual disguise and exposed his true self.
Panting heavily, the male assistant tightly grasped the cell phone that the student couple lent him and rested with his back against the door of the room, “I’m also doing this for everyone’s good, by the way, I haven’t thanked you guys yet, how do you two call yourselves?”
”You can call me Lao Zhou, this is my girlfriend Duan Yue.” The middle-aged man was very enthusiastic to introduce his girlfriend to the male assistant, he seemed to enjoy doing this kind of thing, but the female tourist was a bit upset.
”Brother Zhou, just now I was being chased by a ghost, thanks to you guys for stepping in to save me and letting me join you.” The male assistant seemed to have forgotten what he had just done, he knew that it was dangerous to be here alone, so he wanted to pull some strings with Old Zhou and Duan Yue.
”I should, one more person is more, I also didn’t expect this haunted house to be so scary, it turns out that all the ghosts and monsters are above the head, as long as you look at them upside down you can spot them.” Old Zhou inhaled a deep breath of cool air.
Next to him, Duan Yue was disdainful: “One more person with more power? Just now this guy directly blocked the door to prevent those two students from coming in, this kind of person ……”
”If he didn’t do that, all of us would be besieged here later, he also has a hard time.” Lao Zhou these few sentences said to the heart of the male assistant: “I understand you, experienced more, also see through, nothing is easy in the world of adults, ask who does not want to be an innocent child forever?”
”Brother Zhou, still you understand me!” Desperate, frightened and exhausted, in this situation, the male assistant felt a trace of long-lost warmth from Old Zhou.
Old Zhou patted the male assistant’s shoulder and gave him encouragement, “I saw you on the phone just now, I wanted to ask if your people received your reminder? We must hurry to join up with the larger group before we can do so, it’s too scary to be alone in this haunted house.”
”Don’t worry, Brother Carrier probably didn’t answer because he was on the air, but I got in touch with the cameraman and he returned my message.” The male assistant opened the mailbox with a text message from Mastodon – I also feel that this haunted house is not right, we will talk about it in detail later!
”So, they already believe it’s you who’s using this phone to contact them.” Old Zhou’s words were meaningful, and before the male assistant could react, Old Zhou had already blocked the classroom doorway.
”Brother Zhou, what do you mean by this?” The male assistant felt a little bad.
”I understand you, and I hope you can understand me as well.” Blood seeped out from underneath his shirt, a hideous wound emerged, Old Zhou’s face was as pale as paper, “You have to know that nothing is easy in the world of adults, just ask who wouldn’t want to be an innocent child forever?”
The withered hand grabbed at the male assistant, at this time the male assistant’s eyes were almost glaring out of their sockets, he didn’t have a trace of strength in his legs, he sat down on the ground, but then he bumped into something.
Slowly turning back, a female body that had been pieced together was hanging behind him.
Unable to utter a single word no matter what, the male assistant trembled until his eyes rolled up and he planted himself heavily.
Old Zhou picked up the cell phone in the palm of the male assistant and memorized the phone numbers of Liu Cheng and the photographer, then he used this phone to send another message to the photographer: “Come and meet me quickly! I seem to have found the way out!”