Chapter 10: Haunted Hill House (10)
Through a door, several people in the woodshed could clearly hear the "huffing and puffing" sound coming from outside.
It was like the heavy breathing that rolled out of the throat of a wild animal when it was excited.
Bai Shuang knew she had done something wrong and was so scared that her whole body was shaking uncontrollably, but her tears kept flowing uncontrollably, washing away her originally delicate makeup.
Her eyes, with pupils constricted due to fear, turned from the wooden door to look at Yan Shixun, with deep fear and a cry for help.
Don’t... let the unknown monsters outside the door rush in, save me, save us!
However, the thing outside the door didn't give Bai Shuang much time to react.
Under the pale moonlight, the thing looked ferociously excited. It swung the heavy, rusty axe in its hand high in the air, and then chopped it hard at the wooden door.
“Crack!”
The sharp axe stained with blood immediately split the fragile wooden door, and a gap appeared on the wooden door as wood chips flew.
The shadow of the thing outside the door fell into the woodshed through the narrow gap.
Bai Shuang covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from making any sound. An Nanyuan's chest was heaving violently, and she could hear nothing except her own frantic heartbeat.
The smile on Yan Shixun's lips grew bigger and bigger.
He grinned with his light red lips, and the madness suppressed under his calmness trembled as he wanted to break free from the restraints and fight that thing wantonly.
Under such excitement, Yan Shixun's perception was also heightened to the sharpest level.
Through the gap in the wooden door, he could see the huge and swollen bright red figure of the thing. Above it, red shadows kept jumping and beating, like a body that had been skinned alive, with the blood vessels and muscles throbbing clearly visible, and the blood still flowing.
Yan Shixun leaped to the side nimbly with his slender body, picked up the rotten firewood stick standing in the corner and shook it in his hand, without making any sound the whole time.
That thing couldn't see what was inside the wooden door, but it could sense the fear coming from it.
It laughed a rough, hoarse laugh in excitement, and then swung the axe again.
“Bang——!”
The wooden door shook violently, almost falling apart on the spot. The originally narrow and long gap also caused wood to fly everywhere as the axe chopped down. After being enlarged again, the hole could even allow a grown man's fist to pass through.
A shadow swayed in front of the cave entrance, and then a bright red head came to the entrance, and looked inside with an excited smile, using its cloudy eyeball that was completely exposed against the red color.
Bai Shuang accidentally made eye contact with that eyeball. After experiencing all the weird things that happened tonight, her psychological defenses were finally overwhelmed by this horrific scene that was beyond human cognition, and she could no longer suppress her screams.
Annan Yuanze's lips were trembling, his clothes were soaked with cold sweat, his mouth was wide open but it seemed as if his vocal cords were being grasped, he was so frightened that he couldn't even make a sound.
The creature did not see Yan Shixun who was hiding in the corner of the woodshed out of sight of the cave entrance, but it was very satisfied with the reactions of the young man and woman.
So it stood up while making an excited "huffing" sound, and swung the axe again, trying to split the wooden door completely in one blow.
Just as Bai Shuang and An Nanyuan were watching the last protective barrier about to be destroyed and facing the impending danger and death with infinite despair in their hearts, Yan Shixun's eyes suddenly became stern. In his eyes, all the movements of the thing he saw through the wooden door entrance turned into slow motion frames.
Finally, the axe fell again.
The time is now!
In a flash, Yan Shixun's muscles tensed up instantly and he rushed towards the wooden door.
The firewood stick in his hand was made into a beautiful flower, pointing straight at the cave entrance, getting closer and closer to the axe that was falling again.
Metal overcomes wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire overcomes metal, the five elements of heaven and earth overcome and give birth to each other.
Yan Shixun shouted in a stern voice: "Push and move the two Qi, and merge them into one to become the truth. Use the command of wind and thunder, and quickly meet Huang Ning. The mist changes, and the roar is as fast as lightning. It will come as soon as you hear the call. Quickly make the Yang sound, and capture!"
The Five Thunder Talisman characters scattered in the air and transformed into golden characters, which appeared in the air and connected into a long and endless golden halo, with lightning flashing in it from time to time.
As the last syllable was uttered, circles of golden light instantly surrounded the firewood stick in Yan Shixun's hand and then merged with it.
Lead thunder into wood to generate fire to drive away evil spirits.
Under the sharp axe, the originally rotten firewood stick suddenly became as hard as black iron, and lightning jumped on it.
There was a crisp "clang!" sound when it came into contact with the axe, but it did not stop the attack.
The axe was smashed into pieces, but the firewood stick stretched straight out of the hole and rushed towards the thing outside the door.
“Sizzle!”
It was like a red-hot iron touching flesh. The moment the firewood stick came into contact with the object, a sizzling sound was heard and a puff of black smoke rose up.
Yan Shixun had a crazy and wanton smile on his lips. He used the firewood stick as an extension of his fingers, shaking it up and down to draw talisman patterns on the thing.
"ah--!"
The creature felt pain, let out a shrill scream, and dropped the broken axe in its hand. It turned around and staggered using its hands and feet, and ran away quickly, away from the firewood stick that it feared.
Only the thick burnt smell and black smoke remained, still lingering around the woodshed.
The hole that the thing had originally split open to catch its prey became a way for it to hunt. And the strangers who should have been terrified became the ones that made the monster tremble with fear.
Through the hole left in the wooden door, you can see that the garden is quiet. After the red monster disappears, the rose bushes with clusters of flowers are still beautiful under the moonlight.
If it weren't for the smell still lingering in the air and each of their hearts still beating wildly, they would not have realized that what had just happened here was not an illusion, but a real life-and-death situation.
Bai Shuang trembled as she took her hand away from her mouth. Her carefully drawn eyebrows and eyes had become messy under the wash of tears. The fear just now had not yet dissipated, and she was still shaking violently.
But she still struggled to turn her head and look at Yan Shixun.
The young man holding the firewood stick was tall and slender. He stood behind the wooden gate and was almost in close contact with the monster, but he did not feel even a trace of fear.
The sharp long eyebrows were slanted, and the eyes were narrow and upturned, all of which were wanton and wild.
The cold white moonlight coming in from the cave entrance sprinkled into Yan Shixun's eyes. He noticed Bai Shuang's gaze and turned around to look at her. His eyes, which still had the madness yet to fade, were bright and sharp.
Not only Bai Shuang, but also the live broadcast audience who faced Yan Shixun's sharpness could not help but hold their breath, staring blankly at this handsome young man whose actions were far beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.
The battle scene that lasted only a few seconds has completely captured the hearts and thinking abilities of the audience.
Human beings will be impressed by the strong, and will also admire and pursue the strong.
Yan Shixun undoubtedly fits most people's understanding of strength. His top-notch appearance, which is extremely competitive even in the entertainment industry full of handsome men and beautiful women, made many viewers who were waiting in front of the live broadcast feel excited at this moment.
——Mom, I think I’m in love.
This man is so crazy and strong that it's exciting!
"Are you scared?" Yan Shixun raised his eyebrows and said to Bai Shuang who was standing there in a daze: "Stay in the woodshed for one night and go back when it's daybreak."
After all the ups and downs, Bai Shuang's brain had already stopped working. When she heard Yan Shixun's voice, she just nodded randomly in a daze.
Anyway, she already understood that in this strange villa, as long as she listened to Yan Shixun and followed him, she could survive.
But the audience who had been squatting in front of Annan's split screen began to get restless again.
The reason was simple: the main screen of the live broadcast program, which was originally black, suddenly captured the picture!
In the pitch-black villa, under the cold moonlight, an aging face full of wrinkles and dark spots, with a resentful, sinister and ferocious expression, slowly appeared on the main screen.
The old man was wearing a short shirt and coat that didn't fit the modern style. The layers of clothes were soaked in blood. There was a mouthful of phlegm stuck in his throat, and he was wheezing and making a sound like a broken bellows.
He ignored the live broadcast equipment set up in the living room and walked straight past the camera, heading towards the living room and the floor-to-ceiling window on the other side of the screen.
The audience rushed to the live broadcast main screen for inquiries, but was suddenly confronted with this face. They were so scared that they threw their phones away.
[Is that a human or a ghost? Why is there so much blood on his clothes? Holy shit! If there really is a script, I would admire this show. The level of realism and horror is much scarier than domestic movies!]
[Those aren't age spots on this old man's face, they're corpse spots! Is he alive or dead?]
[Wait, this seems to be the old housekeeper from this afternoon. He has been there since the show started, I know.]
[I can’t do it anymore. I was almost scared to death by the red monster sticking its head out of the wooden door hole in the split screen. I’m leaving! You guys keep going.]
[? I just came across this from a social media platform. Is this a live broadcast of a real-life horror game?]
…
Zhang Wubing, who was huddled in his quilt and shivering, was almost frightened to tears.
He hiccuped a little and tremblingly sent a screenshot of the live broadcast to Yan Shixun: [Brother Yan, it seems that this old man has come to find you, what should I do? ]
Yan Shixun lowered his eyes and looked at the picture on the screen, then raised his head and looked at the hole in the wooden door with an interested smile.
It seemed that I could see through the hole and see the resentful face standing behind the floor-to-ceiling window in the villa's living room.
Bai Shuang and An Nanyuan, who were frightened pale by the recent incidents, sat down carefully near Yan Shixun after confirming that there was no danger to their lives and no monsters.
Fear took away too much physical and mental strength. After they relaxed, they felt a heavy fatigue rising up from deep within their bodies.
Bai Shuang and An Nanyuan no longer care about their idol star identities, let alone the safe social distance they had maintained in the past to prevent scandals.
The two who had just escaped death leaned against each other with their backs to each other, and stayed beside Yan Shixun, nodding their heads, and slowly fell asleep...
Yan Shixun folded his arms across his chest, leaning against the brick wall in the woodshed, his eyes half open and half closed, as if he was patiently waiting for something.
Until the first ray of light appeared on the horizon.
The audience, who had been squatting anxiously in front of the live broadcast with the few people for the entire night, finally breathed a sigh of relief and fell exhausted into their beds.
[Finally the day has come. This is the longest night I have ever spent.]
[Didn’t Yan Shixun always say to wait until dawn? It’s safe now, right?]
[It’s safe, it’s safe, huh… No show or movie has ever made me so nervous, I’m scared to death.]
Bai Shuang and An Nanyuan also woke up one after another.
"It's daybreak?" An Nanyuan looked at the light coming out of the cave entrance and said in surprise, "We can go back now!"
Bai Shuang recalled her experience that night and almost cried again: "That's great, finally there are no more of those things."
As they talked, they prepared to walk towards the wooden gate.
But Yan Shixun, who was standing beside him, stretched out his arm and stopped him.
"Stop." Yan Shixun slowly stood up and opened his half-closed eyes completely: "It's daylight, but there are still shadows outside."
The two were stunned.
Yan Shixun picked up the firewood stick next to him, raised it high, and then chopped it down with swift movements.
“Crash!”
The wooden door shattered with a sound.
At the same time, a scream was heard from the shadow outside the woodshed created by the angle of light.
"ah--!"
In front of several people, the red thing shaped like a human lost its light-blocking device and was exposed to the sunlight. It twitched and struggled, but was still burned into a ball of black smoke by the sunlight.
The mountain wind blew away and everything disappeared.
Bai Shuang and An Nan's originally relaxed nerves became tense again, and they broke out in cold sweats and felt a sense of fear.
Yan Shixun threw the firewood stick back into the woodshed, then walked out first.
"Let's go."
He smiled and glanced at the two people next to him: "Now you can go back and catch up on some sleep."
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