Chapter 1127 – A Little Game in the Darkness
The sound-activated lights went out, and the hallway was instantly plunged into darkness.
When Ma Feng came out of his room with his own cell phone, he froze for a moment.
He stomped his foot and shouted again, but the voice-activated light above his head didn’t come on again.
Raising his phone, he shone it at the location where the voice-activated light was located, and the bright light emanating from the phone was slowly becoming dim.
”What’s going on?”
There was a figure vaguely approaching by his side, Ma Feng lowered his voice and turned around to ask, “Sister Snake?”
”It’s me, Sun Xiaojun.” A familiar voice sounded by his side, but the appearance of his teammate didn’t bring Ma Feng any sense of security, instead, it made him more and more impatient.
”Have you noticed that the bright light of your cell phone is dimming?” Ma Feng stretched out a hand to hold onto the wall, the darkness making him feel uneasy.
”So your cell phone’s bright light is constantly dimming as well! It seems to be a problem with our eyes, scared me, I thought it was my cell phone that was broken.”
Hearing Sun Xiaojun’s words, Ma Feng’s frown deepened, and there weren’t many normal people among the tourists traveling with him.
He followed his memory and swept around with his cell phone, looking for Shangguan Qinghong and Sister Snake.
With every shake of the cell phone, the light dimmed by one point.
”Brother Ma, Shangguan Light Hong, I think it’s better for us to exit this scene first.” Sister Snake stepped out from the room next to her, “I can’t imagine someone daring to create a completely dark scene in a haunted house, this is no longer visiting a haunted house, it’s pushing the limits of physiological and psychological endurance, we’ve all underestimated the madness of the haunted house owner.”
Sister Snake said as she stepped towards the way she came, she didn’t want to stay here for a moment.
”However, if we don’t look for the secret passage in this scene, then we will have to go to the Maternal and Child Health Center next door, the hospital is definitely the place with the most dead people in the town. The fact that the haunted house owner arranged these two scenes at the end means that they should be about the same level of horror.” Shangguan Light Hong also walked out from the room behind Ma Feng, he seemed to be searching for something just now, “Besides, we’ve already delayed some time in this scene now, by the time we run to the other scene, maybe the black fog will spread over, and the difficulty will increase by then.”
”There’s no comparison at all between visible and invisible terror, you guys better listen to me.” Sister Snake revealed her domineering side, no matter what Shangguan Light Hong said, she was stubbornly ready to leave.
Although Shangguan Light Hong’s thoughts were different from Sister Snake’s, he was still more inclined to trust Sister Snake’s judgment at times like this.
The trio returned the same way with Sun Xiaojun, the bright light from the cell phone had only been able to illuminate one or two meters in front of them without realizing it.
After taking a few more steps, the three of them’s cell phones seemed to run out of power at the same time, and the bright light disappeared without warning.
Darkness descended, without a trace of light, the three tourists as if their bodies were frozen, all froze in place.
”Don’t panic! The four of us are holding each other’s hands, the exit is not far away, let’s get out of here first!” Sister Snake became the backbone of the team at the critical moment, in fact, she rarely spoke anymore since she entered Chen Ge’s haunted house, she had been observing Chen Ge’s haunted house, and the more she looked at it, the more frightened she became.
Regardless of the gameplay, or the scare point settings, Chen Ge’s haunted house was different from the haunted houses on the market, and he had taken a route that regular people simply couldn’t replicate.
Sister Snake also vaguely understood why Chen Ge’s haunted house was so popular, but she felt that she understood too late.
”Don’t move around! Everyone put your hands out and grab onto each other! People become weak and helpless in the middle of the darkness, and the four of us should never be separated again!” Sister Snake was very strong and directly began to give orders, “I hope everyone can understand that we are just visiting a haunted house and no danger will occur! Don’t ever disorganize yourself!”
Although Ma Feng was a bit unaccustomed to listening to other people’s orders, he still honestly followed what Sister Snake said and grabbed the wrists of the people around him in this situation.
”Everyone needs to get used to the darkness, because with the loss of sight, the other senses will be more active, and the haunted house owner will most likely scare us through other rarely seen ways, such as sound and touch.” Snake grabbed the hands of the two men around her as well, “Who’s on my left?”
”Me.” Shangguan Qinghong’s hands that were wet with cold sweat were sticky, he was a little embarrassed, but Sister Snake didn’t care about that.
”Who’s on my right?”
”It’s me.” Sun Xiaojun answered softly.
The four of them determined their positions, and they stood in a row, with Sun Xiaojun on the far right and Ma Feng on the far left.
”Let’s get closer, just like this and walk straight through, I specifically checked when we came here, the haunted house owner is probably worried that there are clutter in the darkness that will trip us up, the hallways are still clean, let’s just feel free to boldly walk forward.”
Several tourists listened to Sister Snake’s words and began to walk forward, but within a few steps there was a problem.
”Have you guys heard a very ear-piercing cat call? This sound seems to have been there since we came in, and it feels like it’s getting closer and closer to us.” Shangguan Qinghong had just finished saying this when he suddenly felt his leg being rubbed by something, the smooth fur caused goosebumps to instantly rise on his body and his body directly froze in place, “My leg was touched by someone!”
The four of them were holding hands, and when one of them stopped, the others could only stop as well.
”Are you sure it’s human? Didn’t you step on something yourself?”
”It looks like hair! Really!” With darkness in front of his eyes, Shangguan Qinghong had no idea what had just touched him, and based on that feeling on his leg, countless horrifying images instantly flooded his mind.
”Don’t stop! Keep moving forward!” Sister Snake tugged on Shangguan Light Hong’s arm, “It was just touched, it’s not like there’s a piece of meat missing, what are you ghosting about?”
Compared to Snake Sister, Shangguan Qinghong was a bit like a new daughter-in-law who had been angered, and he wasn’t willing to refute Snake Sister’s words at a time like this, and deep down he knew that Snake Sister was right.
The catcalls in his ears grew stronger and stronger, and other sounds began to be mixed in with the catcalls, such as the sound of the security door slowly opening, the sound of fingernails scratching across the iron handrail, and so on.
”I feel as if this cat call is urging us to run for our lives, maybe there are a few cats around us right now that are surrounding us.” Sun Xiaojun habitually began to analyze.
”This is the first time I’ve heard that a haunted house can still have cats as actors.” Sister Snake shook her head, she couldn’t see anything in the darkness, “The cat calls were recorded in advance, there are at least dozens of stereo playback devices installed in this scene, in order to create a step-by-step atmosphere through the increasingly ear-piercing cat calls. Just now Shangguan light Hong touched should be fake cat hair, haunted house boss so designed to increase the degree of realism. With the loss of vision, the world is no longer real, we can easily be misled, at times like this everyone must be calm!”
The four people said calm on their lips, but actually walked very slowly, and it was only in contrast to them that they could better see how courageous and difficult it was for Chen Ge to run wildly in the darkness at that time.
”How come we haven’t gotten there yet? I remember that the exit is not this far away from us!” Shangguan Qinghong’s calves were weak, he was getting older and his forehead was now covered in cold sweat, he was a bit unable to carry on.
”In the darkness, we will gradually lose our sense of distance, time and orientation, all we can do now is to be firm in our hearts, don’t waver, just keep moving forward.” Sister Snake’s constant encouragement of others was actually a disguised encouragement of herself.
The exit never appeared, hope gradually shattered, and despair began to eat away at the hearts of the tourists.
The tourists became more and more vulnerable, and right at this moment, an extremely sharp cat cry rang out between the shoulders of both Shangguan Qinghong and Sister Snake!
It was as if a cat was giving them a warning with its life in the last moments of its tragic death!
The sudden scream startled Shangguan Light Hong, who was already on the verge of collapse, and he followed suit, then his body instinctively loosened its grip on his teammate’s hand, and he raised his arms to touch his ears.
”Don’t let go!” Sister Snake was also startled, but she quickly regained her composure and shouted towards Shangguan Qinghong.
”It feels as if that cat died right on my shoulder.” Shangguan Qinghong took a deep breath and swung his arms from side to side, grabbing the hand next to his body.
”Cut the crap! Hurry up and grab our hands, stay in formation and keep moving forward!” Sister Snake was a bit angry, her anger was more to hide the fear in her heart.
”But I’ve already grabbed your hand ah?” As soon as Shangguan Qinghong said these words, everyone froze for a moment, followed by an indescribable fear that wrapped around each and every one of them.
”You …… have grabbed my hand?” Sister Snake raised her own hand to her eyes as she jerked around backwards, but couldn’t see anything, “Be careful! There’s a haunted house employee standing beside us!”
At this moment, the one who was most torn in his heart was Shangguan Qinghong, he was unable to let go of his hand and unable to let go of his hand, the most crucial thing was that he now very much wanted to know whose hand was it that he was grasping?
The knot in his throat trembled, Shangguan Qinghong whispered, “I, what should I do?”
The air seemed to be frozen, none of the four tourists opened their mouths, and in the end it was Sister Snake who recovered first: “Keep going forward!”
Right now, there was still hope to leave only by going forward, once they messed up the direction, it would all be over.
”You want me to hold this unknown hand and walk all the way?” Shangguan Qinghong’s heart was about to jump out of his chest, he felt a burst of coolness coming from his palm, it wasn’t a living person’s hand at all, it felt like he was holding a piece of frozen meat.
”This is all we can do now, just bear with it.” Ma Feng also opened his mouth to persuade, he held onto the wall and slowly moved his feet, “The darkness has made us lose our vision, but even if we can’t see, the location of the exit won’t change, so as long as we aren’t interfered with by external objects, we can definitely walk out.”
Just as Ma Feng finished his sentence, a cold sensation suddenly came from his fingertips that were holding onto the wall, and a piece of ice seemed to have formed on the wall.
”Eh?”
He bent his fingers and stroked the raised piece on the wall.
”This curvature and touch …… is a bit like a nose and mouth!”
There was an icy human face on the wall!
The finger popped right back up as if electrocuted, and Ma Feng subconsciously moved away from the wall and dodged towards the side.
But the hallway was that wide, and he hit Shangguan Light Hong at once.
At this moment Shangguan Qinghong is tense a string, he is in a completely dark haunted house holding the hand of the ghost, inside scared to death.
His entire attention was on that hand, the slightest breeze would blow up, not to mention that Ma Feng suddenly bumped into him.
The two men whose ages added up to almost eighty shouted at the same time, and there was a constant collision sound in the darkness, which was not at all like four people walking side by side, it was more like a group of people clustering the four of them blindly in the middle.
In the midst of the pushing and shoving, Sister Snake was knocked down, and she was incomparably anxious inside.
Sitting on the ground, she clutched her clothes tightly with both hands, desperately trying to get her bearings.
It didn’t matter if they were arguing, it didn’t matter if there was a ghost following the group, as long as they knew the right direction sooner or later they could walk out, but after some pushing and shoving, Sister Snake’s only hope was dashed.
She sat down on the ground, feeling that the exit was to her left, but then feeling that the exit was to her right.
”It’s over ……”
Ma Feng and Shangguan Qinghong were also a bit disorganized as they both shouted Sister Snake’s name and reached out to feel around in the darkness.
”Sister Snake? Is that you?” Shangguan Light Hong had long since loosened the hand that he had grabbed earlier, he didn’t even dare to move too much for fear of accidentally messing with the haunted house actors that might be around him.
Hearing Shangguan Qinghong’s voice, Sister Snake didn’t even have the strength to answer right now, she wanted to shrink into a corner and blend into the darkness peacefully by herself.
”There’s no light around at all, we can’t see it, it’s logical that the haunted house employees should not be able to see it either, could it be that they are also wearing night vision devices?” Ma Feng had seen big waves in the end, although he was also a bit confused now, he still endeavored to try and use his knowledge to break the game, “If we can grab the haunted house actors’ night vision devices, then this scene will be no difficulty for us!”
”Brother Ma, can we still rob people’s equipment when playing haunted house?” Sun Xiaojun’s voice floated from not far ahead.
”Of course, the owner of this haunted house robbed a lot of things when he came to play in our paradise.” Mentioning the past made Ma Feng’s teeth itch with hatred, and the fear in the bottom of his heart was dispelled quite a bit, “The four of us mustn’t separate, you guys come over and grab my hand.”
Ma Feng reached out his hand towards the place where Shangguan Qinghong and Sister Snake made the sound, and a moment later, two cold hands gripped Ma Feng’s hand.
Without waiting for him to react, another piercing catcall rang out, the doors of all the rooms in the floor were all opened, and Ma Feng felt his arms being pulled by a force, and he couldn’t resist in time before he was yanked into a door!
”Ah!”
”Ma? Brother Ma!” Shangguan Qinghong immediately shouted when he heard the screams, he groped towards the spot where Ma Feng had just stood, his fingertips touched soft skin and something sticky and blood-like, “Brother Ma?”
Hands unfolded towards both sides, Shangguan Light Hong was surprised to find that standing in front of him at this moment was a monster with a body so fat that it was deformed!
He no longer dared to speak, his fingers were trembling, he silently put one hand under his nose, and as a result, he smelled a strong smell of blood.
”Who is …… this?”