Chapter 1119: I really didn’t mean it!
The Liang family brothers directly entered the building, the others followed closely behind, while Ma Feng stayed outside the building for a while as he looked at the missing person notice.
”The name Jiang Ming is somewhat familiar, it seems like Jiang Jiu’s child is named this, is the haunted house owner sort of spoofing him?”
The missing person notice was accompanied by a photo, but the child in the photo Ma Feng had no impression at all.
After several people entered the building, the child on the notice suddenly blinked, seemingly greeting another “person” in the distance.
A low shadow appeared in the corner of the wall, and the faint smell of blood wafted in the air as he followed the crowd into the hallway, closing the door to the entrance of the building in the process.
”This place is too quiet, isn’t it?!” When people were in an absolutely quiet place, sometimes they would even be frightened by their own voices, Liang Er and Liang San were very curious about how the haunted house owner did it.
Everyone was a professional, they checked this scene little by little, and were surprised to find that not only were there no stereos or players installed in the building, there wasn’t even any surveillance, and other than the very perfunctory installation of a few low-quality light bulbs that might go out at any time, there was no high-tech equipment to be found in this entire sub-scene.
”Didn’t the internet say that the special effects in this haunted house are movie level? With just these few light bulbs? Lying to ghosts?” Now not only Fu Bole, even Ma Feng felt that Chen Ge’s haunted house was in vain.
”Not installing any high-tech equipment but creating movie-level horror special effects is a very scary thing in itself.” Zuo Han was clear that he was telling the truth, but others sounded like he was making excuses for Chen Ge’s haunted house.
However, there were powerful people in those haunted house designers, Liang Er and Liang San blocked the hallway, both of them were full of doubts: “The walls and handrails are all real, there is no soundproofing material applied, and even less high-tech devices, so how did he create this spooky atmosphere? There wasn’t even an echo when we spoke, it felt like the sound was directly eaten by something after it came out of our mouths.”
”Don’t scare yourself, the principle of this thing might be the same as magic, look and feel magical, after solving the mystery you will realize that it’s nothing more than that.” Fu Bole clapped his hands, “Everyone, as Ma said before, let’s split into three groups and start searching for the ragdoll remnants, one group will be responsible for the first floor, and all of the later scenes will proceed in the same manner.”
He finished speaking and walked next to Ma Feng himself, the meaning was obvious, he was going to be in a group with Ma Feng.
”The mole hasn’t been found yet and you’re rushing to group up? I’ll see you guys die without even knowing how.” Zuo Han shook his head towards Teacher Wang, “The three of us together, don’t get involved in their business.”
The people from the Hanjiang Forensic Medicine School didn’t get involved, and the other twelve people split into three groups.
Ma Feng, Shangguan Qinghong, Fu Bole and Wei Chaochao were in one group; Xiao Sun, Liang Er, Liang San and the middle-aged woman from Amnesia City were in one group; Qin Guang, Sister Snake and the couple from Xinhai were in one group.
The twelve of them were still in the middle of the same building, only they were searching different floors separately, and the three groups were not far apart from each other.
Feeling that the haunted house was nothing in vain, Fu Bole led Ma Feng and the others into the second basement floor, while Sister Snake and Qin Guang and the others entered the third basement floor.
Liang Er and Liang San, on the other hand, directly started searching up on the first floor, both of them were big and fat, tall and strong, they felt safe with their group.
”You guys go to the room on the left, we’ll go to the right, let’s not interfere with each other, and you guys don’t just come over.” Liang Er swept a glance at Zuo Han and warned.
”Exactly.” Zuo Han led Heshan and Mr. Wang into the long corridor and started looking for clues from the inside out.
”Brother, do you really think they are haunted house actors? I don’t feel quite like it, the aura on those guys is very special.” Liang San inquired in a low voice.
”We are here to pass the haunted house, what do we care about the others, we just need to fulfill Mr. Ma’s request.” Liang Er stopped at the door of the first room at the corner of the building, there was a wooden sign hanging beside the wooden door, on the sign was written a sentence – if something happens, please repeatedly tug on the rope of the lamp next to it.
”Not allowed to knock on the door, instead, we have to tug on the lamp cord, is it because we are afraid of attracting ghosts and monsters if we make a knocking sound” Liang Er grabbed the lamp cord, “Just now, that actor called Wu Jinpeng seemed to have said that making a sound would attract ghosts, but we have been talking all the way, and we haven’t seen any ghosts appearing, ah? ”
”This place is so quiet, could it be that ghosts have actually appeared? It’s just that ghosts don’t make sounds, so we don’t have a way to find them for now.” Liang San’s brain was also flexible.
”Whatever, let’s take a look first, the first sub-scene of all haunted house scenes should be the easiest, nothing too scary will appear here, or else the back won’t be able to bring a sense of excitement to the visitors.” Liang Er said tugging on the light rope.
As soon as he moved his side, the lights in the room were turned on.
After trying several times repeatedly, nothing unusual appeared.
”Tricked?” Liang Er frowned, grabbed the door handle, and pushed hard.
The dilapidated door of the room was pushed open by him, but before he could take a closer look at the interior of the room, some sort of change suddenly occurred in the corridor.
There was a strange smell wafting in the air, as if the rotting odor of a corpse was mixed with the smell of fresh blood, and vaguely, they felt as if something was approaching.
”Be careful, the ghost might be coming over, don’t run around when you get there, just follow me.” Liang Er was quite good enough, his words were addressed to Xiao Sun.
”The first actor of this haunted house disappointed me, I don’t know if the next one can be something new.” Liang San entered the house, the first thing he saw was broken wine bottles all over the floor, but the sharp edges of the shards were worn away, probably for fear of hurting visitors.
In the midst of the debris lay a woman, she was bruised all over her body, except for her face and hands, her body was covered in patches.
Those patches had grown right into the flesh, and it was very scary to look at.
”Actor? Or a prop?” Liang San grabbed the woman’s arm, the touch coming from his fingertips was very different from human skin, he was just about to let out a sigh of relief when he suddenly saw the mirror hanging in the bathroom.
That mirror was facing the doorway, and at that moment, there was also a pair of unfamiliar eyes sizing him up in the mirror.
”Someone!” Liang San threw away the woman’s arm and jerked back to look.
At his words, several others also hurriedly turned back, and all of them saw a man’s face sticking out from the doorframe there!
The five features were twisted, he seemed to be lying on the doorframe physically as if he was rotten, his black eyes were filled with malice and curses.
Xiao Sun stood at the end of the line, he was the closest person to the door of the room, originally he was recalling what scare points there were in this scene when he suddenly heard Liang San’s voice.
He subconsciously turned around, and as a result, he almost brushed up against that face.
His face instantly became even paler, and Xiao Sun took a few steps back, almost bumping into Liang Er’s stomach.
”When did this thing appear!” Xiao Sun’s voice was trembling, he was terrified.
”I don’t know, didn’t hear a single sound, it just appeared without warning.” Liang San stroked his chubby chin, “There’s something about this haunted house!”
”Should we tell the others about this information?”
”Let’s wait for a while first.”
Liang Er and Liang San began to study the monster outside, they found that this rotten man was just a mannequin, and there was nothing highly technological installed on his body.
”Someone should have moved him over here, I suspect it’s someone from the Hanyue Academy of Forensic Science, they’re on the same floor as us and very close to us.” Liang San glanced towards the depths of the corridor, at this time, Zuo Han and the others were in the middle of the room at the deepest part of the corridor, they had not come out yet.
”They are highly suspected, but if it’s not them, then it’s worth thinking about, we also run a haunted house, there are some things we might be able to learn.” The Liang brothers’ mentality was still okay, they weren’t completely hostile to Chen Ge’s haunted house.
Just as the two of them were talking, the middle-aged woman suddenly spoke up, “Have you guys realized one thing?”
”What is it?”
Liang San and Liang Er looked towards the house and saw that the middle-aged woman was pointing at the woman on the ground.
”Her hand wasn’t in this position just now.”
”What are you trying to illustrate? That the mannequin moved on its own?”
”No, I have a feeling that there should be a secret room in this house, and that they replaced the woman’s pose while we were all just now having our attention drawn to the monster outside the door.” The middle-aged woman spoke slowly, “They should be trying to make us feel a sense of urgency to step forward, the ghosts and monsters will move silently at any time, and will appear beside us in any scene, any place, this should be the biggest selling point of this scene.”
”Makes sense.”
”Not a bad idea, it’s a pity that his haunted house met us today, we are all top haunted house designers, the moment he lifts his butt, we know what kind of fart he wants to let out.” Liang San’s eyes moved to the house, “Everyone look around the house, there might be secret passages hidden here.”
Liang San wanted to figure out how Chen Ge moved the mannequins silently, he wanted to steal these things and go back to use them in his own haunted house.
”What’s your name again? Don’t be idle, have a good look around, we don’t always have to follow the rhythm of a haunted house when we visit it.” Liang San looked at Xiao Sun who was still dumbfounded, thinking that Xiao Sun was stunned.
”I think it’s better for us to follow the flow of the haunted house, what if something happens if we mess up like this?” Sun Xiaojun’s true inner thought was, if you guys mess up like this, my already small amount of scripts will all go to waste.
”Didn’t Boss Chen claim that the scene is fully open and can be freely explored by tourists? Today, I’ll let him know that bragging has a price to pay, pretend in front of the tourists and forget about it, in the eyes of us practitioners, a haunted house is just a well-designed toy.”
The two brothers began to search the room, Xiao Sun also symbolically rummaged around the house, he had followed Chen Ge for a short period of time, many of the employees did not know each other, and many of the secrets of the scenes were not clear to him.
Every time he asked Chen Ge what he should do, Chen Ge said to let him be himself, he later went to seek advice from Lao Zhou, who gave him a speech about how clear water comes out of the hibiscus, and how natural it is, saying that he didn’t need to be taught at all.
Both the boss and the teacher said so, and Xiao Sun was helpless.
He sighed softly and pretended to walk around the room.
While everyone else was searching around the mannequins, he absentmindedly rummaged through various items in the house, muttering under his breath, “The man at the door scared me when he came over, this haunted house is indeed scary.”
Glancing towards the door with a palpitating heart, Xiao Sun suddenly realized that the mannequin man’s sight seemed to be staring at a certain place.
”He’s looking at the bathroom mirror?” Xiao Sun entered the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror, “There’s a face lying in the doorway, it feels even more scary from inside the mirror.”
Xiao Sun looked at the mirror for half a day, his eyes slowly narrowed, “The man’s eyes are resentful with fear, he seems to be afraid of something, and his line of sight isn’t exactly facing the mirror, it’s going to be slightly downward.”
Dragging his palm on the lower end of the mirror, Xiao Sun slowly exerted force, when the mirror moved, a drop of blood slid across the surface, followed by a snail shell falling out from behind the mirror.
”Snail? A man-even is afraid of snails? Forget it, I’d better stop guessing, this snail shell has cobwebs on it, it should be something from a long time ago.” Xiao Sun threw the snail shell aside, but just then another snail shell fell out from behind the mirror.
”What is it?” Little Sun was curious and grabbed the edge of the mirror, trying to take it down, as he moved more and more, one snail shell rolled out from behind the mirror.
”What are you doing?”
”Why are there so many snail shells?”
Several other people in the room noticed the abnormality and also entered the bathroom, and before Xiao Sun could answer their questions, they saw the originally closed wall next to the mirror open to one side, revealing a door painted with blood-colored snails.
”Secret passage?!” Xiao Sun and the Liang brothers spoke in unison, all of them hadn’t entered the haunted house even a few steps away and ended up finding a secret passage in the first room of the first sub-scene!
Liang Er and Liang San were feeling excited, having finally found the secret passage in the haunted house, this would be of great help both for clearing the level and for figuring out Chen Ge’s methods.
Xiao Sun, on the other hand, was dumbfounded, he had heard Chen Ge say that there were nine secret passages among the nine sub-scenes, and that these nine secret passages could lead directly to the hidden scenes, and that the remnants of the ragdoll’s body were hidden among the hidden scenes, but the only person in the entire haunted house that knew the location of all the secret passages was Chen Ge, and Xiao Sun didn’t know where the secret passages were exactly.
”It’s over, I seem to be in trouble.” Xiao Sun maintained the posture of holding up the mirror, his brain was racing, he came here to mess with the tourists, but the moment he came up, he helped the tourists to find the secret passage, but instead, he saved the tourists a lot of time.
”Awesome, Little Sun, can’t see that you’re quite meticulous, this mechanism was not even discovered by us professionals.” Liang Er patted Xiao Sun’s shoulder and pushed open the door with the painted snail.
The temperature dropped once again, and behind the door were steps leading deep underground, which could not be seen at a glance.
Being praised by the tourists, Xiao Sun was also suffering in his heart, and before he could think of what to do next, he saw Liang Er, Liang San and the others turn on their cell phones to illuminate themselves and enter the middle of the secret passage.
”Hey! Pay attention to safety ah! Don’t act alone!” Xiao Sun wanted to stall for time, but those confident haunted house designers didn’t give him that chance, and all three of them, including the middle-aged woman, started down the secret passage.
Cold, dark and dead, that horrible feeling could no longer be described as eerie, it was far beyond the scope of the game.
The secret passage looked very long, but they unknowingly reached the end.
A pure black iron door appeared in front of them, the door emitted a faint odor of disinfectant water, and there were still black lines surging vaguely on it.
Everything in the secret passage was horrifying, only the words please close the door as you please written next to the iron door somewhat spoiled the atmosphere.
”Guess what will be behind the door? Ragdoll remnants? Or a haunted house surveillance room?”
”I’m guessing some haunted house actors are in there doing their makeup.”
”Wouldn’t it be easier to open it and see?”
Liang San pushed the heavy black iron door open, and boundless black mist instantly surged out, directly engulfing these lucky tourists.
When the black iron door closed again, only Sun Xiaojun was left alone in the secret passage.
Rolling his throat, Sun Xiaojun saw something behind the door, and he directly sat down on the steps.
”Something big has happened, those three people haven’t even experienced a one-star scene, and entered directly into the black mist world of the Underworld Tire without any mental preparation at all!”
This is just like a patient who has an uncomfortable throat and thinks he has a cold, just arrived at the hospital before registering, and was directly shoved into the crematorium by a minivan expedited.
”Red High Heels is in there restoring the memories of the Underworld Fetus, trying to become the Fierce God, and she surely can’t imagine that there will be tourists who will go straight to her in the opening five minutes!”
Just thinking about what might happen, Xiao Sun felt his scalp go numb: “I really didn’t mean to do this ah! Can’t! I have to hurry and contact Boss Chen!”