28 Cave 12|| Death

His sight was also submerged in darkness——

The cave should have been freezing cold, but at this moment, due to the extreme tension, people could not feel the slightest bit of coldness. Instead, their palms were sweating constantly.

In this endless darkness, people's senses become extremely sharp, every slight sound can be infinitely amplified, and the inner fear is also magnified tens of millions of times in this dark environment.

Yan Shuang felt that the air around him was filled with a strong smell of blood, as if he was the only one left in an empty theater.

He rubbed his hands together repeatedly to relieve the anxiety caused by the environment.

At this moment, a breeze happened to blow from behind, passing around his neck, and the wind was mixed with the familiar woody scent. He slowly relaxed, and Jing Ning was right next to him.

Even Yan Shuang himself didn't realize that just smelling the perfume Jing Ning often wore could make him feel safe in a place where he could face death at any moment. Later, he thought that this was probably the added value of a good bottle of perfume!

Jingning: ...

"whee."

A little girl's laughter suddenly rang out.

Yan Shuang almost jumped up from her chair.

Then came the laughter of more girls and the rustling sound of singing.

Yan Shuang turned his head, looking for the source of the sound.

"On the stage." Jing Ning, who was standing next to him, lowered her voice and whispered in his ear.

"You heard it too?" Yan Shuang turned his gaze back to the front. It was still as dark as ink, without a shadow at all.

"Um"

It seems that the performance has begun, which is different from Chen Rujing's situation.

"The bride is getting married!" The girl's voice was light and ethereal, yet revealing a hint of wanton cunning.

Suddenly, the sound of suona and gongs and drums rang out, but this time the sound was very different from before. It was no longer the deafening, irritating noise, but became gentle and rhythmic, beating out a melodious melody that flowed through the air without any aggression.

As the music played, with a "click", the lights suddenly came on, illuminating the entire stage.

Yan Shuang subconsciously narrowed her eyes slightly to adapt to the sudden light.

When his gaze returned to the stage, he noticed five girls in red corduroy tops gathered around the sedan. They all had pigtails and wore cloth shoes, a look reminiscent of the 1980s. The five girls seemed to be whispering to each other, but Yan Shuang couldn't hear clearly from the distance.

At the same time, the sedan chair tilted forward slightly, and a pair of red cloth shoes appeared under the long fixed cloth barrier.

If you don't look carefully, it would be difficult to notice this detail.

"There is someone in the sedan." Yan Shuang turned and said to Jing Ning beside her.

However, Jing Ning did not respond to his words, but reminded him solemnly: "Liu Hu is missing."

Yan Shuang quickly looked towards the first row, and sure enough, Liu Hu, who was supposed to be sitting in his seat, was nowhere to be seen. He remembered the strong smell of blood in the darkness again.

Too fast!

Disappeared without any sound!

Yan Shuang looked at the others. Lin Haichen noticed his gaze and nodded slightly to him. It seemed that he noticed it too.

Old Man Li sat quietly in his chair, his eyes fixed on the center stage. He wondered what this scene brought back to his mind. Xu Yaoyu huddled timidly, while Tian Yiyi looked at him and moved her mouth to say something, but due to the distance between them, she gave up.

Lei Daoquan and Chen Rujing couldn't figure out what was going on. One was in trouble and the other was careless.

Only Ye Qi, looking at her disappearing boyfriend and warned by Lin Haishen's eyes, fidgeted in her chair.

Just as everyone was stunned by Liu Hu's disappearance, the five girls on the stage suddenly stopped whispering and looked in unison towards Yan Shuang and the others. Their eyes were empty, but the corners of their mouths were strangely raised, revealing a sinister smile.

"Fuck!" Lei Daoquan blurted out.

The girls turned their eyes to him at the sound of the voice and stared at him intently.

Even if he was a bit naive, he realized something was wrong. The girl on the stage didn't look alive. His previous ease vanished in an instant, and a chill ran from the soles of his feet to his brain.

Lei Daoquan was terrified. He didn't dare make a sound, for fear of attracting the girl's attention. He tightly shut his mouth and even breathed cautiously, fearing that any movement he made would be noticed by the girl.

The girls slowly withdrew their gaze from the audience, but the smiles on their lips became more and more wanton, as if they were very satisfied with the audience's reaction.

"Red wedding dress, blood-stained dress, the bride cries, the groom laughs..." Along with these lyrics, the girls' voices suddenly became sharp and harsh, making people tremble all over.

"The coffin is used as a sedan chair, and we worship heaven and earth on the road to the underworld..." Their singing sounds like it comes from the underworld, with a hint of chill that makes people shudder.

Just like that, the girls opened their mouths mechanically and repeated this weird song over and over again. Every line of the lyrics was like a heavy hammer, hitting people's hearts hard and making them breathless.

After an unknown amount of time, the creepy singing finally stopped. However, the strange melody seemed to still linger in the air.

Mentally prepared, Yan Shuang was ready to be scared by these girls, and it turned out to be just as he expected.

"The auspicious time has arrived, and the bride is about to worship heaven and earth!"

Worship heaven and earth?

Who to worship?

Where is the groom?

Yan Shuang had three questions in her mind.

The curtain was slowly lifted, but the pair of hanging feet remained motionless.

There was indeed someone else in the sedan, "Oh no!" Yan Shuang shouted in her heart.

Because the sedan chair was placed sideways, the people could not see the person inside clearly. They only saw a pair of feet wearing red cloth shoes. The feet were obviously much bigger than the shoes, and they were forced in, making the shoes bulge out.

The girls cheered and circled around the sedan chair.

"Boom, boom, boom" the drum hit three times.

Calm returned to the stage, and the five girls disappeared as if they had never appeared, leaving only a lonely sedan chair.

"Is this... is this over?" Lei Daoquan asked in a trembling voice. However, there was a dead silence all around, no one responded to his question, and Yan Shuang couldn't be sure whether this strange show was really over.

Yan Shuang tilted her body slightly and looked at Jing Ning, wanting to get a definite answer from him.

Only Ye Qi, who had long been unable to sit still, stumbled towards the center of the stage.

The others remained seated without moving. Ye Qi, who was standing in the center of the stage, lifted the sedan chair barrier with trembling hands.

Because the singing just now had a huge impact on Lei Daoquan, he couldn't help but remind Ye Qi, "What are you doing? Didn't you hear those women just say that it was a coffin?"

Ye Qi looked at the sedan chair indifferently and stood there quietly.

"Let's go and take a look." After hearing Jing Ning's words, several people stood up and walked towards the sedan chair.

"He's dead—Liu Hu is dead!" Lei Daoquan screamed, obviously very upset. He said, "He died in the sedan chair—"