Chapter 41 A Happy Event in the Mountain Village 1 There is a ghost! Run away!

——"He chose the haunted house, haha, he's so brave!"

——"He's so brave, you should be proud, right?"

——"It's okay, I'm very patient. The most beautiful things look best when they fall from the highest place, what do you think?"

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Different from the luxury of the pirate ship and the mystery of the maze, it can be seen that the amusement park has put some thought into the haunted house ride. The eerie black house, tattered cloth strips, and skulls sprinkled with red paint are piled everywhere, creating a perfect atmosphere.

"Boss, boss, this haunted house looks like a Western horror house with ketchup flying everywhere..." Su Ming stuck close to An Rao, and it seemed that if there was any disturbance, he would just jump onto An Rao with a roar and hang on to him.

"There are no coffins, no embroidered shoes, and no Black and White Impermanence. Those skeletons represent Western horror, right?" Su Ming kept comforting himself, "Right, right, right!"

"Young man," Shi Yirou patted Su Quail's shoulder and said with a wicked smile, "What do you see in front of you?"

"Ah! I don't want to look, I don't want to look, I don't want to look!" Su Ming screamed, covered his ears, closed his eyes and squatted down.

There was actually nothing in front of us, just the routine long queue and staff busy checking tickets.

However, the staff member was wearing a short ancient costume made of coarse linen, which looked unlucky from a distance. It can basically be confirmed that it is a Chinese haunted house style.

"White burlap, ancient Chinese clothing, eerie black tiled buildings, and pale bamboo lanterns," An Rao said with a wicked smile, leaning over to whisper in Su Ming's ear, "What style do you think it is?"

“Ah!!!” Su Ming had a look of despair on his face, and rushed towards Shi Yirou again, “Sister Yirou, save me!”

"How about...you don't want to go on this ride?" Shi Yirou pulled Su Ming's arm and suggested "gently".

"Wow, how can that be possible... I'm worried about my eldest brother..." Su Ming wanted to cry but had no tears. He forced himself to find a way out and quickly got down. Then, with a look of despair, he followed An Rao and Shi Yirou towards the queue for entry.

That's the good thing about children: they listen to advice.

This is already the third area of ​​amusement projects. Except for those ignorant players who have been brought through the game by spending points, there are no newcomers in the team. The vast majority of players are like death row prisoners who are about to be executed. They queue up silently and numbly. No one is willing to waste time on ineffective socializing - anyway, these neighbors who are met in the queue will almost die after entering the game.

In the slowly crawling line, everyone was as silent as zombies, trying hard to memorize all the rules of the haunted house. In contrast, the ghost-costume staff at the ticket gate seemed much more enthusiastic, lively and popular. Just like the previous two projects, the staff here checked tickets enthusiastically while bowing to express their gratitude and waving their hands to send blessings to every player entering.

An Rao and the other two were no exception. As they followed the team forward, they carefully read the rules of the game. The rules of the haunted house were also very appropriate. The rules were written crookedly on a thin black wooden board with red paint. From a distance, it looked like a large piece of blood written by a dying person with his fingertips dipped in blood. The wet blood slowly fell, as if a tragedy had just happened.

Haunted House Game Rules:

1. This ride is not suitable for tourists with heart disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, or pregnant women. People with disabilities who are unable to walk should be accompanied by healthy family members.

2. The ghosts in the haunted house are all played by the staff or sound and light effects. It is forbidden to beat the haunted house staff.

3. Please integrate into the atmosphere of the haunted house and refrain from creating chaos.

4. There are no babies or laughter in a haunted house.

5. Please follow the staff's instructions throughout the process.

6. It is forbidden to destroy any items in the haunted house.

7. Any outside lighting equipment is prohibited in the haunted house.

8. Please try not to get injured or bleed. If you bleed, then ■■■■■.

9. To ensure the safety of tourists, it is forbidden to look back during the game.

10. There are ten rules in total, and there is absolutely no eleventh rule.

11. There is no second rule!

This "Haunted House Play Rules" is very standard. In other words, if it were placed in an ordinary amusement park, it would be a very normal play rule. The play rules state that the ghosts in the haunted house are played by the staff, so beating the staff is prohibited. In order to prevent a riot, players need to blend into the atmosphere of the haunted house and obey the instructions of the staff. It is also prohibited to turn on the flash lighting in the haunted house, which is also a requirement for playing haunted houses in general amusement parks. Most importantly, in order to create the horror and weird atmosphere of the haunted house, this rule even went to great lengths to write the nonsense in Articles 10 and 11.

But if the assumption is that the rules of the amusement park are all true, why does the "Haunted House Rules" dare to write this? If it is really just the staff acting or just the sound and light effects, it does not fit the murder setting of this amusement park at all. Just think about the pirate ship and the maze, and you will know that the ghosts in the haunted house can only be real ghosts.

So what exactly do the five blacked-out words in Article 8 of the Haunted House Rules mean? Will they directly overturn Article 2?

Otherwise none of this would make sense.

"Hello," the staff member at the entrance fence, who was wearing a mourning-like work uniform, bowed deeply to An Rao with a smile, "It takes 300 points to play in the haunted house!"

"Okay," An Rao stared at the staff who was earnestly swiping his wristband to deduct points for him, and suddenly said, "I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend you, but it seems that you forgot to put on makeup."

"Ah?" The staff member looked up in astonishment, touched his face subconsciously and said in confusion, "No, this is the makeup of our haunted house staff..."

Is that so? An Rao looked at the perfectly normal human face in front of him and frowned slightly. Did the second rule of the "Garden Guide" that "the puppet staff will never have human faces, please identify carefully" fail here?

Or do the ghosts in the haunted house look like humans? So the staff with human faces are actually ghosts? That doesn't matter. I didn't intend to treat NPCs as humans anyway. An Rao silently lowered his head to adjust his wristband and walked into the fence with Shi Yirou and Su Ming.

The moment the gate closed, the grey cement floor of the amusement park disappeared, and was replaced by the yellow dirt road commonly seen in rural areas. It was covered with dust and gravel, various garbage thrown by people, and feces left by passing chickens and ducks. It looked dirty and depressed.

In front of him was a small village. An Rao raised his head and looked up along the distribution of the village. In addition to the black cottages built against the mountain, there were layers of mountains as far as the eye could see. The whole person and even the whole village were surrounded by mountains. Combined with the bleak sunlight that was exactly the same as that in the amusement park, people had a very uncomfortable and restrained feeling.

The houses in the village are all black wooden structures, which look simple and backward. Obviously, this village has not been well developed because it is bounded by the mountains, and there is almost no trace of modernization here. What is more special is that these black rural houses are more or less dotted with red decorations, which is very unique in the lush green forests, but it looks a bit weird in the setting of a haunted house.

"Boss, where should we go?" Su Ming looked around. "Shouldn't a haunted house be just a house? How did it become a ghost village?"

"It's better to ask someone than to guess by yourself. Let's find an NPC to ask for directions." Shi Yirou said as she walked towards the nearest cottage.

"Damn it, boss! Sister Yirou is even more reckless than you!" Su Ming whispered to An Rao in amazement.

The village house in front of me is not big. There is an old man sitting in front of the house, smoking a pipe while checking the herbs drying in the yard. He keeps muttering something, but I can't hear it clearly.

"Hello, uncle..." Shi Yirou leaned over and called out, but she didn't know what to say. In fact, they didn't know what to ask. They couldn't just ask the uncle where the haunted house was.

Fortunately, the old man was a conscientious NPC, and did not let everyone be embarrassed for long. He raised his head from his herbal medicine stall, and looked up and down at the three people in front of him with a pair of cloudy eyes. Then he took out the pipe from his mouth and knocked it on the ground twice, saying, "Hey, you are the distinguished guests who came from the city to attend the wedding of the eldest daughter of the Zheng family, right?"

The three of them kept silent in tacit understanding, not daring to respond casually.

The old man did not blame the three younger generations for their rude attitude. He pointed along a dirt road beside the yard with his pipe in hand and said, "Go along this road until you reach the center of the village. The house with the most red silk and red lanterns is the Zheng family!"

"Uncle, is there any happy event in your family?" Shi Yirou looked at a pair of big red flowers tied with red silk hanging on the gate of the courtyard, and pointed to a pair of red bamboo lanterns hanging on the lintel and asked.

"No, no, that's the rule in our village. If someone's family has a wedding or something, the whole village has to help out, so we'll hang red and white things!"

"The relationship between neighbors in our village is really good!" Shi Yirou praised sweetly.

"Of course. Our Happy Village is not big, but we have lived together for generations. It's natural for us to help each other when something happens!" The old man squinted his eyes and took a puff of cigarette. He was very proud of the friendly atmosphere of his village.

Wow, the name of this village has a good meaning.

"Uncle, what kind of grass are you drying here?" Su Ming asked curiously, pointing at the half-dried grass that almost covered the entire yard.

No wonder An Rao smelled a strange fragrance as soon as he walked here. It turned out to be the smell coming from the grass that was drying in the yard.

"Oh! You city kids have almost lost track of nature. This is not grass, it's called prickly lettuce, and it's very useful for stopping bleeding!" The old man was speechless at the ignorance of city people. After answering, he said nothing more and started puffing on his pipe again.

It seems that this is about the amount of information about this NPC.

"Thank you, uncle." An Rao thanked the uncle, then took Shi Yirou and Su Ming and walked in the direction the uncle pointed.

It seems that the haunted house should be the Zheng family who are celebrating their daughter's wedding.

"Boss, boss, a girl is getting married in this deserted village. The boss won't be the bride, right..." Su Ming rubbed his arms covered with goose bumps tremblingly.

In a haunted house where a wedding is held, the boss is most likely the bride. The ghost wedding dress is the most classic plot in Chinese horror. An Rao's heart sank. He had never watched any ghost movies, so his knowledge of Chinese horror was almost zero.

"I'm afraid this haunted house is not simple," Shi Yirou whispered, "A wedding in a haunted house, the boss is most likely the ghost bride that Su Ming mentioned. No matter what the circumstances, the ghost bride is very difficult to deal with, and there are the most rules and taboos for weddings, funerals and ghost affairs."

"I think so too," Su Ming hugged An Rao's arm tightly and said tremblingly, "What about embroidered shoes, red nails, paper wedding dresses, my god..."

"You know a lot."

"I am both afraid and love to watch it." Su Ming, who is addicted to being a good person, has already started to get scared.

"If it's just the ghost bride, it's fine. I'm just afraid that the ghost bride is just a cover." An Rao said. The real boss in the pirate ship is the Duchess. In the maze, besides the maze itself, there are also faceless ghosts who kill people without blinking an eye. If there is only the ghost bride in the haunted house of the third level, it would be too simple.

"We're here." Shi Yirou said.

This village is indeed quite small. It didn’t take long to walk along the small dirt road to reach Zheng’s house.