Chapter 1122 – White Orphanage
”The red raincoat appeared on the station platform, everyone grab a look and see if there are any clues left on the platform.” Fu Bole and several other haunted house designers searched carefully around the station platform, and they quickly discovered something.
There were two figures, a man and a woman, on the back of the station platform on Long Street, and the figures of these two people were etched on the platform, which seemed to be a freeze frame of memory.
There was also a water stain on the underside of the platform, in which a male student in a school uniform and a female teacher with a red umbrella were faintly visible.
In the corner of the stop sign there are also some words carved out by hand, askew, the person who left these words may be immersed in a kind of childish, simple happiness.
”Love, from meeting.”
”I missed the last train, but waited for you.”
”Can you let me take you home?”
These crooked words seem to be able to evoke memories of youth in the viewer, simple, clumsy, yet beautiful.
”How could such a gloomy place have such words carved into it? Is there a cruel and horrible story hidden behind the simple first love? Is all the beauty just padding that will be viciously torn apart at the last moment, creating despair through contrast?” Sister Snake’s haunted house seemed to have had a similar theme, she touched the black skull on her arm as if she was caught up in memories, this was a woman with a story.
”The style of this street is completely different from the other buildings, it is logical that there should be tons of scare points, but we didn’t see anything scary.” The unsettling premonition in Zuo Han’s heart grew stronger, as if now was the last calm before the storm.
”Don’t check the station, let’s go to the next place immediately!” Zuo Han looked at the black fog that was chasing towards them behind him, and decisively called on the others to run towards the other side of the street together.
”Must get out of here, the Underworld Tire Scene broke all the laws I summarized before, any experience can’t be used for reference here, why on earth is this happening?”
Everything happened very suddenly, it was as if there was an invisible black hand behind the scenes driving everything in the underworld.
”Less than fifteen minutes after the opening, it’s about to enter the third stage, all the ghostly actors in the four star scene are starting to storm out, with the three of us the chances of escaping are zero.” Zuo Han understood that he had encountered the worst situation, “Those haunted house designers can’t be relied on, if they don’t change their views immediately, they might ‘disappear’ in the next sub-scene, how on earth am I going to break out of this situation?”
Wracking his brain, Zuo Han’s forehead quickly broke out in sweat, he was now under great pressure, both facing an unknown and terrifying enemy, and bringing along a group of pig teammates and the haunted house actors hidden within.
With internal and external difficulties, he really couldn’t think of a good way to cope.
”It’s too rushed! This four-star scene didn’t give me any buffer or time to think at all.”
After the red raincoat left, the buildings on both sides of the street didn’t have that }human feeling, and it was just like an ordinary street.
The tourists easily left the long street and arrived at the entrance of an orphanage with black and white as its main colors.
The rusty iron gate was half-open, and }people’s nursery rhymes were coming out from somewhere.
The orphanage looked as if it had been abandoned for a long time, but in the yard there were children’s clothes hanging out to dry, and on the ground there were freshly dug pits that seemed to have been used to fill in something.
Traces of human activity could be seen everywhere in the orphanage, but visitors couldn’t find a single person.
The wind chimes hanging on the eaves swayed gently, and Zuo Han pushed open the door to the hall.
Slightly sad music emanated from a certain room, and at the end of a dining table stood a dilapidated shrine.
”This is a private orphanage, there would never be a shrine present in a public welfare organization.” Teacher Wang looked at the shrine and thought of something he had encountered in the past, “Some founders of private orphanages believe in blessings, and they will make offerings of plaques in their rooms, but this is the first time I’ve seen an orphanage that puts a shrine directly in the hall like this.”
Walking past the long wooden dining table, Mr. Wang’s face gradually became ugly.
The shrine was densely written with the word square fish, which was very scary to look at.
”This was gouged out with a little bit of fingernail, those dark black patches on it are blood stains, they have grown together with the wooden boards, it’s very strange, it feels as if someone has been repeatedly digging out the words on the shrine for several years.” Teacher Wang was a bit puzzled, “Do you need to pay such a big price in order to make a haunted house prop?”
”It’s not necessarily made by Boss Chen himself, he has provided clues for many murders, I suspect that some of the items in this haunted house of his were brought back directly from the murder scene.” Zuo Han said quietly, these topics belonged to internal secrets, so he was not willing to let too many people know.
”The haunted house owner has provided clues for many murders?” Teacher Wang subconsciously asked back, “I did also hear that it’s not peaceful lately, and that there’s an extra informant in the Hanjiang City Branch, and that informant is the owner of this haunted house?”
”Teacher, you no longer have any contact with the bureau because of that incident in the first place, so you don’t know too well, this haunted house boss is very ……” Zuo Han thought for half a day and didn’t know how to describe it, “His parents disappeared, and for the purpose of investigating This case, he hardened the old cases of twenty years ago in Hanjiang are turned over, this kind of person I do not know how to describe, anyway, it is four words, respect and far away.”
”All the old cases from twenty years ago can be overturned?”
”Yeah, actually this is not the most terrible.” Zuo Han’s voice pressed even lower: “He has provided several clues of heavy cases for the police of Hanjiang and solved many cases, but the case of his own parents’ disappearance has not made any progress at all, I suspect that there is a big problem here, and the matter of his parents’ disappearance is definitely not simple.”
”Do you actually keep visiting his haunted house because of this matter?” Teacher Wang thought highly of Zuo Han, and felt that he was one of the best students at the Hanjiang Forensic Medicine School, he felt that Zuo Han was different from other children, and was definitely not the kind of student who was greedy for fun.
”I’m afraid I’m not qualified to investigate the case of his parents’ disappearance.” Zuo Han looked at the shrine in front of him, “I can’t see through him at all, I don’t know what’s going on in his mind at all, I don’t even dare to meet his eyes sometimes. I tried to simulate and analyze his psychological condition and character, and the conclusion I came to made me feel scared. He possesses a sanity and calmness that surpasses normal people, as well as an exaggerated ability to adapt and an extremely high IQ.”
”Are there similar character comparison parameters in the database?”
”No. He is a monster. Being able to design so many subtle and horrifying scenes on his own, being able to find countless hidden clues to serious cases, compared to him, no one is qualified to be called a genius.” Zuo Han’s hand gently stroked over the shrine, his fingertips traced over a name: “The more I know, the more scared I am, and the more scared I am the more curious I feel. I want to find out the truth, and if possible, I’m also going to use my last vacation before graduation to come work for him.”
”The top overall student in the School of Forensic Medicine ran away to work in a haunted house?” Teacher Wang wondered if he had heard wrong: “You’re a lot smarter than me, what you lack is just experience, if he’s really as powerful as you say, I’m afraid you won’t find anything useful even if you come here to work part-time.”
While the two were chatting, a wooden door in the side hall was pushed open and a gray-haired old man carrying a thermos stepped out from it, he also froze for a moment when he saw so many people standing in the hall.
”Are you here to adopt a child?” The old man’s voice was trembling, he was in poor health and seemed as if he would faint the next moment.
”Still out as a haunted house actor at your age? This haunted house is dark-hearted enough.” Fu Bole walked up to the old man, “We’re not here to adopt a child, we’re here to look for something, have you seen this?”
He took out the picture of the rag doll from his pocket and waved it in front of the old man.
”Never seen it, if you’re not here to adopt a child then get out of here, this town isn’t peaceful, if you don’t leave, you’ll never leave, I’m afraid.” The old man coughed a few times and was about to leave when Ma Feng, who had been in the crowd without saying anything, suddenly stood out.
”Wait a minute! Have I seen you somewhere before?” Ma Feng had taken over Jiang Jiu’s job, and in order to understand Chen Ge more deeply, he had watched the video of Chen Ge challenging his own haunted house overnight, and the old man in front of him seemed to have appeared in the video, but he couldn’t recall.
”I’ve always stayed in the orphanage to take care of the children and have never left this town, how could you possibly have seen me? Could it be that you’ve been here before?” The old man was the obsession that Chen Ge had brought back from the Virtual Future Land haunted house by challenging it, and together with him were his grandson, the wind chime ghost, and the costume red dress.
”It’s possible that I’ve misrecognized them.”
”You can never dare to recognize the wrong person in this town, the acquaintance you are looking at is not necessarily him, it is likely to be something else that impersonates him, although they have the exact same face and voice, their hearts are completely different.” The old man suddenly coughed violently, as if he had just given away the secret of heaven with that sentence, “Hurry up and leave, don’t stay here.”
”Hey!” Fu Bo Le reached out to grab the old man, but just as he was about to grab the old man’s arm, the old man dodged in a very weird position, everyone didn’t see it clearly, and only Fu Bo Le maintained his action of grabbing the air.
The door to the side hall was left open, but the old man went in and disappeared.
A very bad feeling spread in everyone’s heart, Fu Bo Le subconsciously walked towards the side hall.
Standing outside, they could hear the children’s laughter, but after pushing open the door, there was no one in the side hall, and there were just some toys thrown randomly on the floor.
”There is definitely something hidden in this orphanage, and think about it, the rag doll that Boss Chen asked us to look for is so worn out, a doll like this would definitely not be played with by a normal person’s child, it’s most likely the toy of an abandoned child.” Wei Chaochao tried to analyze, “All the children adopted from the orphanage are homeless children, there is a high probability that the rag doll we are looking for is hidden here.”
Everyone felt that Wei Chaochao had a point, only Zuo Han frowned and said nothing.
”What’s wrong? Do you have a problem with what I said?” Wei Chaochao was a very intelligent person, but his intelligence was only limited to certain aspects.
”You’re thinking a bit one-sided, if you look at the entire scene to see it, the probability of the rag doll being hidden here is very small because there are still a lot of scenes behind that have not been explored.” Zuo Han voiced his opinion.
”Then what do you mean?”
”I think the orphanage is something that Boss Chen intentionally used to cover up, the probability is that this place is a trap, we’d better not delay here for too long.” Zuo Han knew that those people wouldn’t necessarily listen even if he said it, so after he finished speaking, he directly walked away with Heshan and Mr. Wang and started rummaging through the clues.
”Don’t let him sway the military, let’s explore as we see fit.” Fu Bole and Wei Chaochao saw the same thing, and they carefully searched for the rag doll in the scene according to their previous grouping.
The black fog drifted across the streets and slowly surrounded the orphanage.
Zuo Han was ready to withdraw and rush to the next scene, while those haunted house designers insisted on staying in the middle of the orphanage scene.
The two sides disagreed and eventually split up.
Zuo Han led Heshan and Mr. Wang to leave, while the others continued to explore in the gradually thickening black fog.
”This is an orphanage, but we haven’t seen a single child.” Wei Chaochao stood at the entrance of the side hall, “Could we have been tricked by that old man?”
”That old man ended up going into the side hall, have you checked the side hall?” Fu Bole and Qin Guang stood next to Wei Chaochao while the others were searching the kitchen and backyard.
”Checked them all, didn’t find anyone, it was like he disappeared after he entered the side hall ……” Wei Chaochao said here, suddenly his eyes lit up, “The side hall is connected to the backyard, we have a preconceived notion that he went to the backyard, in fact there is another possibility – the side hall has a secret passage!”
The three of them entered the side hall again, and the toys on the floor were arranged differently than before.
”Someone moved something here!” Wei Chaochao was the first to notice the problem, and before his words fell, he saw a short figure running past the place where the backyard and the side hall were connected: “Stop!”
Wei Chaochao and Fu Bole directly rushed over, they didn’t care about Qin Guang behind them and chased the figure into the utility room in the backyard.
Pushing open the wooden door, in front of them was a dilapidated offering table with an odd photo on it.
The old man in the photo had his back to Wei Chaochao and Fu Bole, and seemed to be holding something in his arms.
”The back of the person in this photo looks a bit familiar.”
Qin Guang, who was left alone in the side hall, was about to walk out when he suddenly heard the sound of a leather ball flapping in his ears, and he turned his head to look.
There was a toy ball in the middle of the side hall that rolled into the hall by itself, and bizarrely, there seemed to be something hiding in the shadowy corner.
The ball rolled into the darkness and then would be kicked out again, as if two invisible children were playing a game.
The corners of his eyes twitched, and without saying a word, Qin Guang directly left the side hall and ran to join the others.
When he left, a little boy in red clothes with scarlet eyes walked out from the corner.
”It’s a very simple and happy thing for me to watch them scare people, why is it so hard when it comes to me? Why?”
As the boy in red grew progressively more violent, the door to Room 1 on the first floor of the Quiet House slammed heavily against the wall, and a woman in a red raincoat stepped out of the building with the fury of being deceived.
Blood filaments tumbled, and blood-red rain fell again in the midst of the boundless black mist.