Chapter 111
Peter looked at Xiao Pan and asked, "Do you want to hide?"
Xiao Pan noticed that Peter's face was a little pale, and he couldn't help but feel a little funny. He didn't expect Peter to be so timid. He didn't expose his brother's last stubbornness, and even kindly arranged:
"Let's set up a control group. Peter, you go hide, and I won't. Let's see if we can trigger a different storyline."
This time, Peter didn't act like a tough guy and finally hid himself carefully in a cabinet. It was definitely not because he hadn't recovered yet.
Looking at the camera, Peter emphasized in a low voice: "Control group, understand?!"
The audience looked at each other lovingly: "Ah, right."
The countdown is over.
Ghost Child: "Brother, I'm coming to catch you."
Pan Xinyang had no idea of the horror that was about to come, and even imitated the ghost child's tone: "Come on, come on, come to me!"
He wanted to see how else he could be scared here.
The candles in the room flickered and suddenly went out at the same time.
In silence, an indescribable chill spread upwards from the soles of my feet.
An unknown nursery rhyme sounded, "Patta, Patta!" followed by the sound of bare feet stepping on the ground and the anxious cries of a child.
"Big brother, big brother, where are you?"
"I'm here to catch you."
Oh, at first I still called him “Big Brother”.
One cry after another, from the initial playfulness it became more and more anxious, and the "big brother" in the ghost child's mouth had become "mother" without knowing when, and every word he said was full of tears.
"Mother, mother, where are you?"
"Mom, it's so dark and cold here!"
"Mother, mother, why?"
Pan Xinyang lowered his head to control the computer, trying to turn on the flashlight: "Why?"
The moment the light came on, he saw pools of blood-red footprints on the ground and long trails of blood left by the child crawling.
"Mother, why didn't you give birth to me?"
A child, no, not really a child, he hasn't even been born yet. Thinking of this, Pan Xinyang's scalp suddenly felt numb.
"So, are you still human?"
As his ankle was touched by a cold and lifeless little hand, the child's distorted laughter sounded in Pan Xinyang's ears.
"Hehehe."
"Big brother, I caught you."
"There's a punishment for failing the game, big brother, can you please lend me your body?"
"Hehehe, mom is being bullied by bad guys, I want to go help her."
"After that, I'll come back and play games with you, big brother, okay? You play with me, I like big brother, we can always be together, okay, hehe."
I could feel something crawling up and touching my legs, as if I was being wrapped around by a cold snake's tongue.
"Fuck! Don't come over here!" Pan Xinyang roared like a fierce man.
"Hehehe~"
The candlelight ignited again without wind. Under the flickering light, messy handprints appeared on the walls of the bridal chamber, like the result of children's graffiti out of extreme boredom.
The tumbler Gululu that had fallen to the ground before began to spin in the room. The magnified shadow formed by the pinhole image was reflected on the wall like a ghost, echoing the bloody handprint.
Another childish laugh that gave people goose bumps.
"Big brother, let's play games today!"
Without waiting for the child to finish speaking, Pan Xinyang rushed out the door, even forgetting his good brother who was hiding in the closet.
Outside the house, Pan Xinyang breathed in the fresh air deeply. Seeing that there was no messy thing chasing him, he slowly exhaled. The next second, he lowered his head and saw a small purple handprint on his ankle.
Pan Xinyang:……!
As for Peter, who was placed in the closet, although he could not see, he could hear, and he heard it very clearly: the sound of it chasing him, the sound of him leaving, and the sound of himself being unable to escape even if he had wings.
Although there is no sensory stimulation, but in the claustrophobic room with the sound effects of the underworld... the friendship boat can be overturned at any time.
On the other side, Lu Tian pushed the non-existent detective hat and directly visited the famous detective. It was obvious that he was also an old fan of the famous detective. He pushed open the dilapidated door.
The scene inside the house was a mess. The tables and chairs in the wedding hall were tilted to one side and the big red wedding characters had fallen off. Red lotus flowers were hanging crookedly on the beams. Oh, no, the red round hydrangeas once again made people have some ominous imaginations.
Lu Tian also gave the audience some psychological counseling: "Yes, that's right, these are all psychological hints. If we don't believe in the main character, he won't be able to scare us."
Suddenly, someone patted Lu Tian on the back.
Lu Tian turned his head in some surprise, still thinking in his mind that he seemed not to hear the footsteps just now.
"You finished the investigation so quickly, did you find anything?"
Turning around, there was no one behind him. Lu Tian frowned: "Xiao Pan? Peter?"
Did they do it on purpose?
This time, there were clear footsteps behind him. Lu Tian turned around suddenly but didn't see the person he was looking for: "Who is it? Come out quickly!"
When Lu Tian pushed aside the red silk blocking his way, although he didn't see anyone, he saw the sneakers of the person hiding behind from afar.
"Hey, you two aren't done yet, are you?"
Lu Tian moved forward quickly, fiddling with his hands. However, just as he pushed aside the red silk that blocked his view, the pair of shoes he had seen before disappeared out of thin air.
It was so fast that Lu Tian even suspected that he was having an illusion.
However, the next moment, the same pair of feet appeared again without any sound in the direction of the farthest diagonal line.
"Pan Xinyang, is that you? I saw you, come out and stop making trouble."
There was a hint of nervousness in Lu Tian's voice that he himself didn't even notice, but before he could get close to the feet, they disappeared again.
This time it really disappeared before his eyes, and at the same time, footsteps sounded behind him again.
As the sound got closer, he felt a chill and someone suddenly patted his shoulder.
The sound of opera began to sound in the lobby at some point.
Lu Tian moved his lips: "Don't keep hinting at me. It's all fake. I'm not afraid of it."
Lu Tian suddenly remembered the plot of the movie "Double Happiness". At the beginning of the movie, when the hero was about to wake up, a female ghost covered with a red veil approached the hero silently from behind, and her pale and cold arm with crimson nails attached to the hero's neck.
If I remember correctly, there was nothing behind him.
What I was leaning against just now was a wall.
The next moment, the imagination in my mind merged with the scene in reality.
A flash of bright red entered my peripheral vision, and a soft, harmless voice rang out: "Husband, the auspicious time has arrived."
In Lu Tian's pupils that shrank into needle points, he saw the red silk being blown away by the cold wind, and the ghost bride standing at the farthest point, with her red veil lifted. Her beauty's makeup was not as good as that of a lotus, and the wind from the water palace was filled with the fragrance of pearls and jade (note). She was wearing a bright red dress, but her embroidered shoes were stained with scarlet, her feet were covered with blood, and tears of blood were dripping from her eyes.
Lu Tian gritted his teeth and rushed out of the hall at a speed faster than the 100-meter sprint at the sports meeting. He looked back and saw that the ghost bride was standing there and did not catch up with him.
The corners of his robe moved without wind, and his empty eye sockets stared at him, full of resentment, as if he was looking at a dying man.
The hunter who has set his sights on his prey lets the prey run freely, but in the end the prey still cannot escape the trap set by the hunter.
Frightened by his own imagination, Lu Tian felt dizzy and saw the red corner of clothes again.
And Xiao Pan, who voluntarily stood by the wellhead and fell into it with his head tilted back, as if committing suicide for love.
How can it be voluntary?
Lu Tian saw the fear in Pan Xinyang's eyes, and he blurted out "Xiaotian, save..."
Save what? Save me or save my life!
However, he didn't have time to say the rest of the words. The moment Pan Xinyang's body was completely swallowed by the dry well, all the sounds disappeared.
"Xiao Pan!"
Lu Tian rushed to the well, but it was empty.
Not only was Lu Tianren frightened, but the audience was also dumbfounded.
【???】
[Fuck, isn't it?]
[Where's Xiao Pan? Was he really taken away by the ghost bride?]
[No way, is this for real? ]
It was obvious that Lu Tian's expression was a little stiff at the moment. His heart was no longer as strong as it had been after the successive shocks of the ghost bride and Xiao Pan incidents.
He just didn't want to admit defeat and was still making a final, futile struggle.
Lu Tian's voice was a little hoarse, but he still tried to explain it scientifically: "There must be a secret door downstairs. I even suspect that where Xiao Pan is now should be the correct exit to the outside world."
However, before looking for Xiao Pan, he had to rescue another companion.
Peter's shouting could be heard from a distance in the room.
Lu Tian quickly approached the source of the sound, pushed open the door and shouted loudly: "What's wrong, Peter? What happened?"
However, what was seen was Peter yelling and gesticulating at the empty air, looking as if he was possessed by a demon.
However, after he saw Lu Tian, Peter not only did not move forward, but instead retreated warily, his eyes full of suspicion and fear.
"Ahhh, go away, don't come near me."
"I'm a virgin, be careful or I'll spill my blood on you!"
As he spoke, Peter pointed a dagger at his wrist threateningly.
Lü Tian: ...
Lu Tian quickly retreated to a safe distance, fearing that if he moved forward again, Peter would really hit him. If the hand was too heavy, he would be sent away again.
After finally verifying his identity, he dragged the skeptical Peter back to the yard.
Lu Tian also learned the truth of the matter from Peter's somewhat confusing narration. It turned out that after Pan Xinyang was scared away, Peter finally prepared himself mentally and came out of the room. The room was full of bloody handprints, but he did not see any ghost doll. Thinking that it was not advisable to stay here any longer, Peter quickly left the house.
At this moment, he saw Lu Tian's back running quickly. He hurriedly chased after him and asked Lu Tian: What are you going to do?
Lu Tian didn't look back, but just ran forward and told him to follow. He found a safe passage ahead. Peter, whose mind was still a little confused, didn't think much about it. It happened that he didn't want to stay here any longer, so when he heard Lu Tian say there was a safe passage, he immediately followed.
Who knew that he followed him all the way to the woodshed. Just as he stepped into the woodshed, the door suddenly slammed shut behind him. Only then did he realize that Lu Tian, who was standing in the middle of the room, was in a very strange state.
There was a stiff sound of "click, click". Lu Tian still didn't look back. Just when he was about to take a look, the other party's head suddenly turned 180 degrees.
That wasn't Lu Tian's face, it was the paper figure with a weird smile on its face that I saw before!
What follows is a story of Peter being trapped in a room, haunted by ghosts and monsters, until the real Lu Tian arrived and rescued him...
Climbing down the patio, the two found the hidden door.
After looking at each other, Lu Tian and Peter stretched out their trembling hands and pushed the door open.
"Xiao Pan, you are in there, right?"
"Xiaotian, Peter, you are finally here."
"What happened to you just now?"
"I don't know either. I just felt a force behind me, and when I came to my senses, I was already standing here," Pan Xinyang said as he rubbed his arms covered with goose bumps.
Alone in a room with a coffin and the mysterious existence inside the coffin, and having persisted until now and still been able to communicate with Lu Tian and the others, Pan Xinyang felt that he was already very good.
Carefully crossing the formation on the ground and coming to the center, the three of them looked at the coffin with the Double Happiness logo on it.
"Ah? Have you searched all over Xiao Pan?"
"not yet."
"Then let's take a look together. Maybe there's an exit mechanism here."
At this moment, the three of them tacitly agreed not to act separately. They just searched around. Both the floor and the walls were solid. Even the exit they had just entered was blocked by a stone door again and could not be pushed open at all.
Lu Tian looked at the coffin in the center with an ugly expression.
Pan Xinyang's voice was already a little weak at this time, and his eyes were wandering as he said, "It shouldn't be in here, right?"
A muffled knocking sound suddenly broke the silence.
“Boom boom boom!”
"Where does the sound come from?"
"Fuck, if I heard correctly, it's in the Xi coffin!"
Seeing that only one in ten viewers were still experiencing the immersive mode, Lu Tian and the others also looked grim. If they hadn't been unable to find an exit and leave, and hadn't been concerned about their reputation, they would still not have asked for help.
If they hadn't been live streaming, they would have given up like the others who had quit.
The heart-wrenching thumping sound continued.
Pan Xinyang's face was completely pale, completely devoid of blood. He spoke weakly, his psychological defenses clearly broken: "Xiao Tian'er, how about I become your grandson?"
Can't he just admit that he's a coward? It's just pressing a call button, and he accepts being laughed at.
The regular knocking sound was not knocking on the wooden board, but knocking on his heart.
"Don't be so scary."
Lu Tian's expression was equally grim, but he still managed to bite the tip of his tongue hard, trying to maintain composure despite the pain. He made a seemingly rational analysis: "Don't be afraid, the exit is just behind us. This is our last hurdle."
It's nothing more than being scared by the NPC deliberately hidden in the coffin. It's even possible that there is no NPC inside, just a synthesized image.
"This is the last darkness before dawn!" Lu Tian rolled up his sleeves. He could see that Xiao Pan was not in good condition at the moment, so he asked Xiao Pan to step back a little, and then looked at Peter, the most experienced medical student present.
Peter: ??? Why should we look at him?
Lu Tian smiled and said, "Come on, let's open this lid."
With that last bit of stubborn persistence, Peter finally suppressed his trembling and stepped forward.
But he arrived at the backboard first.
This way, even if there is something, he won't be able to see it at first.
After a moment of silence, Lu Tian still took on everything: "I'll push you and you'll support me, and we'll pull together."
When he heard the sound of wooden boards moving, Pan Xinyang squatted on the ground, covering his ears and eyes. Even though he knew it was fake, the fear at this moment still overcame his reason, immersing him in an atmosphere of extreme fear.
Finally, the coffin lid was moved away little by little, revealing a gap.
Something seems to be stirring in the darkness?
The three people's heavy breathing echoed in the silent room.
No, not three, but four.
Without any warning, the entire coffin suddenly disintegrated into pieces. In the basement, a continuous drizzle suddenly began to fall. Mixed in the drizzle were large pieces of paper money floating down the ground, drifting like snowflakes.
Music that sounded both happy and sad started playing. In the last second it was the joy of welcoming the new year, and in the next second it turned into funeral music. The two sounds switched without any warning.
What appeared in front of Lu Tian and Peter was not the exit, nor was it the NPC who suddenly appeared and gave them the final scare.
Instead, it was a smaller coffin placed inside the previously split wooden coffin.
It’s not like the Double Happiness pattern that was pasted on the coffin before.
A thick, fishy smell filled my nose, and large patches of dried blood were splattered on the smaller coffin.
In addition, there are densely packed sealing talismans with strange patterns on the small coffin, which are ominous.
"Sizzle—"
The strange sound rang out again in the small space.
"Sizzle—"
The source of the sound was still in the coffin, as if the person inside was using her long nails to scratch the wooden boards that trapped her again and again.
"Gurgle."
A ball rolled out from somewhere and stopped not far from Pan Xinyang.
In the drizzle, the red and white paper money were floating around, bouncing up and down.
Gurgle, the ball bounced and rolled beside Pan Xinyang. In Pan Xinyang's almost out-of-focus eyes, it seemed as if it was being played and patted by invisible little hands, all the way to Peter, who was stiff and dared not move.
"Snap, snap, snap."
As the ball bounced, the splashing rain soaked Peter's trouser legs.
The laughter of the children trapped in the room before seemed to ring in his ears again: "Big brother, do you want to play ball with us?"
Peter stared at me with his blue eyes wide open, not daring to make a sound. His whole body silently expressed his resistance. As if someone saw something from his eyes, the ball rolled again and came to Lu Tian's feet.
Along with the sound of the ball hitting the wood board, the sound of nails scratching the wood board in the coffin became more rapid, and anxiety spread throughout the space.
Based on the clues found in the previous search and the background introduction before entering, everyone has roughly guessed the main storyline.
It's also a tragedy.
The woman who originally had a happy life was coveted by someone because of her beauty and was forcibly abducted, and her once happy family was broken up.
The husband was persecuted, and the bride in her wedding dress had no choice but to compromise. Even if she had to give herself to someone, she could not die because she was already three months pregnant.
It is the fruit of her love with her husband.
She wanted to give birth to the child and watch him grow up healthily, so she was willing to live in disgrace for this.
Unexpectedly, on the wedding night, the thief who kidnapped her not only defiled her, but also humiliated her and the unborn baby for fun despite her desperate pleas.
She was subjected to all kinds of abuse, and the entire bed was stained with blood. She no longer had any desire to live.
A foot of red silk.
One corpse, two lives.
The ghosts of the bride and the fetus linger, transforming into evil spirits to seek revenge...
Peter also looked at Lu Tian almost for help: "Xiaotian, I also admit defeat. I thought too simply."
His clothes were already wet, perhaps from sweat or drizzle, and Lu Tian could feel his body rapidly losing temperature.
On the screen, countless fans were leaving messages asking them to give up.
"Are you going to admit defeat?"
It was just psychological horror, nothing more than stimulation of the five senses, and just a game. It was a little scary... but not enough to make him admit defeat.
Gritting his teeth, Lu Tian hoarsely shouted one word: "Open!"
"Peter, stay with Xiao Pan. Close your eyes. It's okay. Wait for me to open the door and we'll go out!"
This was his choice, and there was no need for Lu Tian to let his friends be frightened with him. Just like he said, there was only this last door left. Even if there was something behind the door, it would only be a momentary scare, and after that, they could leave.
A real man never gives up!
It's just a haunted house, he won't be scared to tears.
Raising his hand to wipe the "rain" off his face, Lu Tian was about to open the door.
Peter didn't hide. Even Pan Xinyang, who was squatting on the ground, shrank his body and moved slowly to the side of the coffin with his feet turned inward.
Peter: “Our three brothers’ slogan is.”
Xiao Pan gave a weak smile: "Good brothers should be neat and tidy."
After exchanging a glance with his two buddies, a smile appeared on Lu Tian's lips.
[Well, it's quite exciting and thrilling, even though it's just a haunted house adventure, it's really not a place where you need to die heroically.]
"Brothers united, their strength is unbreakable!"
"Open it for me!"
The three of them said in unison, and after taking off all the talismans, they exerted force together.
The wooden board finally loosened, and in the corner of my eye, I saw a familiar bright red.
Lu Tian's eyelids twitched.
It was as if I could hear my heart beating so fast that it seemed like it was about to jump out.
He had prepared himself to be frightened by the NPC. As the coffin was completely opened, what appeared inside was not the NPC, but a red dress and a split spirit tablet.
Under the spirit tablet is a yellowed key. Obviously, it is the prop to pass the level. However, if you want to get the key, you must move the spirit tablet away first.
There was no reason to give up at this point, so Lu Tian stretched out his hand cautiously, while the two friends beside him put their hands together and muttered slogans such as: Buddha bless you, Taoist Master is above, Namo Amitabha, Guanyin Bodhisattva bless you, etc., trying to comfort themselves.
Lu Tian moved the spirit tablet away little by little, and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, nothing happened. His fingers continued to move downwards, but even though Lu Tian was careful enough, his fingers accidentally touched the red wedding dress the moment he picked up the key.
It was icy cold, and had an indescribable touch. It didn't feel like clothing fabric, but more like... human skin, or rather, the skin of a dead person.
A kind of terrifying ghost from the mother planet era that Lu Tian had seen in the previous information popped up in his mind again - a ghost that peeled off human skin.
My mind went blank, and at this moment, changes and noises appeared again in the dark basement.
“Click, click!”
There was the sound of mechanisms and gears turning, and a wall was pulled open to both sides, revealing an iron door that was locked tightly with a padlock, and a faint light coming from behind the iron door.
Maybe it is an exit to freedom, or maybe it is a new trap and hell.
The three of them stared at the gap in the middle of the exit, but their feet seemed to be nailed to the spot and they could not muster the courage to move forward.
Through the gap, they saw a woman in red wearing a wedding dress, a red veil on her head, holding a spirit tablet in her hands, facing them.
Her belly bulged slightly, and she moved slightly amid the children's laughter. In front of the door, a ball bounced playfully, as if saying, "You can't escape."
Finally, Lu Tianqiang's back became hunched.
The repeated experiences wore away Lu Tian's last bit of courage, even though he knew that as long as he inserted the key into the door, the female ghost would disappear and they would return to the human world.
However, I no longer have the courage to take that step.
He dejectedly pressed the distress button on his wrist. When the staff arrived, the three young men were lying straight in a row like coffin lids.
Lu Tian muttered to himself: "I'm so stupid, really."
Pan Xinyang cried and begged: "Grandpas, thank you for coming to rescue my grandson and bring him home."
Staff: ...
As for Peter, he kept making the sign of the cross in front of him: "Amen, Lord, Buddha, Bodhisattva, a devout believer repents here and will do one good deed every day from now on. Please bless me, all the great gods, and keep the evil things away!"
Staff: ...Okay, it seems that there shouldn’t be any big problem, and they don’t have to worry about being blackmailed by the three brothers.
In front of the monitor, the previous employee had already anticipated this outcome. He smiled and shook his head, saying, "It's still too naive. I couldn't bear it even earlier than I expected!"
They didn’t walk far from this haunted house!
I just don’t know what expressions would be on the faces of the three brothers when they find out that there will be NPCs chasing them and taking their lives later.
In the live broadcast room that was still operating normally, a group of StarCraft netizens also saw the miserable battle situation of the three brothers.
As early as the moment when Lu Tian finally touched the red wedding dress with the key, as he experienced the inexplicable tactile feedback, the last audience member who had been 100% immersed in the film realized that something was wrong and silently lowered his index.
This audience member later expressed his gratitude for his foresight more than once, otherwise, he would have been lying down after the final killing of the red veil.
It really takes psychological horror to the extreme.
"Tell a joke. I'm not afraid of anything."
"It really goes in vertically and comes out horizontally."
"Good brothers should be in good order. Even if they fall to the ground together, they should be in good order!"
"Chinese horror, so terrifying."
Although it was not what the three brothers had hoped for, the video of the three idiots breaking into the haunted house spread rapidly on the Star Network at a speed they did not want.
The comparison pictures of the three brothers before and after entering the haunted house have also become a hot topic on the Internet.
#The slap in the face comes too fast like a tornado#
"I was still scared at first, but seeing the anchors go from disdain to fear, screaming louder than me, I suddenly wanted to laugh."
"Then, I laughed and started crying. It was dark, but I was alone at home."
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