Lu Ban pushed open the door and heard the noise in the bar suddenly disappear. It was as if the place had suddenly stopped operating and there was silence.
If it were before, Lu Ban might have been a little apprehensive, worrying whether there were some strange rules here, but in this world, where mystery and the supernatural are declining, it is just opening a door.
It's fine.
He leaned into the bar and found that the lights were not on and it was pitch black.
Only a little moonlight leaking in through the window allowed Lu Ban to see part of the bar clearly.
He tried to get closer to see more clearly.
"Anyone there?"
Lu Ban asked again.
No response.
He took two more steps.
At this time, Lu Ban discovered that it seemed as if a pair of eyes were looking at him.
The eyes were located behind the bar, like a peeper, with the figure hidden in the shadows, and only the eyes were glowing as if reflecting the moonlight.
There was another pair of eyes, right next to the table. It seemed to belong to a figure, but in the dim environment, the outline of the other person could not be seen at all. It was like a puddle of mud, giving people a creepy and shuddering feeling.
Suddenly, Lu Ban discovered that in the bar, beside the tables, on the chairs, on the stage, and in front of the bar, countless eyes opened and looked at him. The bodies of these eyes were unclear and blurry, as if a group of monsters of unknown shape had gathered in the bar.
"Hello?"
Lu Ban greeted him and took another step forward, looking for the light switch.
"Feel sorry."
Suddenly, a response with a strong local accent came from behind Lu Ban, and he turned around immediately.
A young man wearing a casual T-shirt and shorts and with thick hand hair appeared behind Lu Ban. He was holding a bottle of beer in his hand, and looked like a waiter serving drinks to the guests.
"What would you like to drink?"
He asked Lu Ban.
“Are you guys still open here?”
Lu Ban looked into his eyes and asked calmly.
"Of course we're open. Would you like a cup? Today we recommend the Long Island Iced Tea."
He answered matter-of-factly, raising the beer bottle in his hand.
Lu Ban looked back in the direction of his movement and found that the strange environment just now suddenly disappeared. The place was brightly lit, and tourists and local residents were drinking happily. Behind the bar, the bartender was wiping the glasses, obviously not paying attention to Lu Ban's appearance.
Dynamic music sounded in his ears. Lu Ban looked at the lively scene in the bar and didn't know which one was real.
"Lu Ban."
Drizzt's voice came from the door. Lu Ban saw Drizzt and Xia standing outside the door, looking at him strangely.
"I think you'd better come out."
Drizzt persuaded, he did not step into the door of the bar.
Lu Ban did not listen to Trist. He quickly found the couple he saw during the day among the tourists. He exchanged a few words with the waiter and then walked towards the couple.
"How are your friends?"
Lu Ban asked directly.
There were two huge beer mugs on the table for the couple. They were obviously a little drunk. Their faces were flushed. They fell on the chairs, looking a little sleepy and their eyes were blurry.
"friend?"
The girl was a little confused. It took her a while to understand what Lu Ban said. She burped and straightened up slightly.
"Monica is in the hospital. Haha. She's in the hospital."
The girl smiled, scratched her head, as if she remembered something, and looked at Lu Ban again.
"She's fine. She's fine."
As the girl answered, the movements of her hand scratching her head became more and more rapid, as if her head was very itchy and there were ants or spiders crawling on it.
"She was very lucky to survive."
The boy seemed to wake up, he said, and picked up the wine glass on the table again. Even though there was not even a drop of wine in the glass, he still raised the glass and gulped air into his mouth as if it was full of sex.
If there were an Oscar judge present, he would definitely give the golden man to the boy in front of him for his outstanding acting skills without props.
"Very good. Very good."
On the other side, the girl seemed to have finally stopped scratching her head, but there were many more hairs between her fingers, like a cancer patient undergoing radiotherapy.
She seemed to think that was not enough and continued scratching, and this time, more hair fell off.
“Very good, very good!!!”
She screamed like a drunk or a mentally ill person who had lost her mind.
Lu Ban approached the other person and saw that the girl's hair was constantly being pulled off and becoming thinner, revealing a mottled scalp covered with bloodstains, which was shocking.
"Are you okay?"
Lu Ban asked, but the girl didn't respond at all and just kept scratching her head.
At the door, Trist saw the bar with bright lights and music playing, which made him feel even more eerie.
He was sure that it was quiet and soundless here just now, but everything before him denied Trist's cognition.
Where on earth is this place?
Trist saw Lu Ban walk up to a man and a woman and seemed to be talking about something.
After thinking for a while, Drizzt looked at Xia beside him.
"Wait outside the door. If anything happens, run and go to the hotel to find Chen Danshen and He Youwu."
"Um."
Xia didn't say much, she trusted Trist's judgment.
Drizzt walked into the bar. The more cheerful the music that filled the room, the weirder it felt to him.
In particular, he took a closer look at the people in the bar who were having fun.
These people looked like they were drinking and chatting, but that was just the first impression.
Trist observed that some of them seemed to have lost their minds, with their eyes rolled back and twitching constantly, while others were talking nonsense and seemed to be talking fluently, but in fact, not a single sentence could be made coherent, like a broken tape recorder, and others were pretending to eat, shaking their knives and forks at the empty plates.
"You want to go for a ride with trigonometric functions in the ocean? My god, this paradox can be used to make bread. If you ask me, the best time to sleep is when red dolphins and elephants are flying in the sky together."
Passing by a man who was talking incoherently, Trist came behind Lu Ban.
"We better get out of here."
Drizzt reminded.
"Do you want to eat too?"
In front of him, the man picked up the empty plate and spoke to Lu Ban as if begging.
"Your condition is not right."
Lu Ban said that the girl next to him had almost lost all her hair. She raised her head, her eyes were sunken and filled with crimson tears. The blood gradually flowed down from her nostrils, corners of her mouth, and ears, reflecting the bloody scalp.
When Trist saw the white bones on the scalp, she scratched the flesh and exposed the bones.
Dangdangdang——
The time bell rang.
"Come together, come together."
The man stood up anxiously and rushed towards Lu Ban.