As soon as the clown finished speaking, everyone was in an uproar.
At this moment, both the person who got the red ball and the person who got the black ball had their faces changed drastically. Some looked disappointed and lost, some were relieved to have survived the disaster, and some looked devastated and incredulous. These people were naturally the unlucky guys who fell from heaven to hell in an instant.
Xiao Tangqiu: "..."
really!
He knew that he and Tang Mianmian were not so lucky!
Tang Mianmian's expression was hard to describe. He glanced at Xiao Tangqiu with a look of resentment: "You're such a bad mouth!"
Xiao Tangqiu: "...blame me."
It was clearly the clown who went back on his word, how can we blame him for his bad mouth?
"You just said that whoever got the red ball would enter the haunted house! How could you go back on your word?" The handsome boy who had been feeling smug about getting the black ball immediately started yelling.
Although the others didn't dare to shout directly, their expressions clearly showed the same meaning.
The clown laughed strangely: "This is my playground! I make the rules!"
The handsome boy suddenly felt a lump in his chest and his face turned red. The others also looked ugly and aggrieved. Although they were very resistant to the clown's deception, they had to bow their heads under the eaves.
However, except for Xiao Tangqiu and his group, the others who did not have the opportunity to enter the haunted house were obviously disappointed.
"Alright! Those who didn't get a black ball will have another chance next time! Those who did, come with me!" The man holding the map drew the black ball. He put the map away and began organizing the haunted house exploration team. "Grab your flashlights! Get ready to go!"
This group of people had obviously prepared for the haunted house exploration, and each of them had a flashlight. However, since not everyone could enter the haunted house, the remaining people had to reluctantly lend their flashlights to Xiao Tangqiu and the others.
Tang Mianmian took the flashlight tremblingly, looked up at the haunted house in front of her, which was already full of eerie horror without any sound or light effects, swallowed hard, and silently hid behind Xiao Tangqiu.
Xiao Tangqiu glanced at Tang Mianmian but said nothing. Although the two of them had experienced several dungeons together, this guy was still as timid as ever.
At this moment, the door of the haunted house slowly opened.
A cold wind blew out, and Xiao Tangqiu instantly felt a chill running up along his tailbone. He got goose bumps. It was pitch black in front of him, which made him feel ominous. Tang Mianmian silently shrank behind Xiao Tangqiu again.
The leader had already gone in with a flashlight, and Xiao Tangqiu also dragged the pale-faced Tang Mianmian in. However, the handsome boy was still resisting: "I don't want to go in..."
The guy turned around and tried to run, but when he turned around, he was faced with the clown's painted face. The clown grinned at him, with the corners of his mouth almost reaching the corners of his eyes.
He was so frightened that he took a few steps back and fled into the haunted house in a panic.
“Ahhhhhh!”
He bumped into Tang Mianmian, startling her so much that she started screaming, "Ahhhhhhh!"
The two screamed one after another, and finally Xiao Tangqiu couldn't bear it anymore: "Why are you screaming?"
Tang Mianmian stopped and glared at the boy: "What are you yelling about?"
The boy trembled and said, "Just now...that clown just now...was so scary..."
Tang Mianmian rolled her eyes: "Isn't that clown always like that?"
"No! That clown..."
Seeing that the boy was still trying to argue, Xiao Tangqiu quickly interrupted him: "Stop arguing and leave quickly. The people in front have already left!"
Apart from the three of them, the other four were from another team. They were walking in the front and did not stop because of the shouting of Tang Mianmian and others. Instead, they walked forward on their own. At this time, they had gradually widened the distance between themselves and the people behind them. If Xiao Tangqiu and others did not catch up, they would probably fall behind.
Xiao Tangqiu quickened his pace to catch up, Tang Mianmian hid behind Xiao Tangqiu, and the boy hid behind Tang Mianmian. The three of them maintained this formation and soon caught up with the vanguard.
Once deep into the haunted house, Xiao Tangqiu could clearly feel that the surrounding temperature had dropped by several degrees. There was no light source in the haunted house. Although there was a flashlight, it could not illuminate all the darkness. No one knew what was in the darkness, but this unknown darkness was the most terrifying.
However, because there was someone in front of him, he was not particularly scared. Moreover, compared to the "scary ghosts" in ordinary haunted houses, he was more afraid of ghosts that took his life. This made him cautious and alert to his surroundings, for fear that something deadly would jump out.
From time to time, bursts of girls' screams came from the front, and Xiao Tangqiu quickly became alert. However, every time he walked to the front, he found that nothing happened. There was no mechanism that suddenly popped out, and no scary "ghosts" jumped out.
There was only a pile of broken and moldy wood, and some dusty and damaged props - a skull with a big hole in the eye socket, plastic eyeballs rolling all over the ground, only half of the bone frame left, a chipped red axe, and a broken mirror.
What's so scary about these things?
The deeper Xiao Tangqiu went, the more puzzled he became. After countless times of hearing screams, preparing himself mentally - finding nothing, he breathed a sigh of relief - hearing screams, preparing himself mentally... after this process, he gradually became numb and even began to suspect that they were not in the same haunted house as the four people before them.
Even Tang Mianmian and the boy, who had been cautious and startled at the beginning, became calm and used to it. They even forgot their previous grudges and started to complain together: "What! It's not scary at all!"
"What are those people up ahead yelling about? They're not scary at all! What a bunch of cowards!"
"There's a big hole in the skull's eye socket just now, it looks like it has two different sized eyes, hahahaha..."
"The axe looked very blunt, and the staff didn't even bother sharpening it."
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