Haunted House
The barrage was silent for a while before it became dense again.
[…There’s something.]
[It does fit the description of Gothic in textbooks, eh, but how do they know that the real thing is like this? It must be made up.]
[It's pretty good...but why is the style so eerie? Haha, it's worthy of being called Exile Galaxy.]
Lai Yuanjia gritted his teeth and felt as if his face was burning.
It seemed that projection simulation technology was used near the cliff. After entering a range of one hundred meters, the sky seemed to dim, dark clouds rolled in, and lightning struck.
When we got off the sightseeing bus, the oppressive feeling brought by the castle became even stronger.
The interstellar world has suffered a great loss of civilization, and this poverty is all-encompassing, including the construction industry.
The Gothic-style castle restored by Shang Jingyan is truly something that StarCraft audiences have never seen before.
The tour guide noticed his embarrassment and said in a more cheerful tone: "The attraction we are going to visit later is called 'Haunted House'. It is the first of its kind jointly created by Shang Dao and Xue's Cultural Tourism. Currently, there is only one such attraction in the entire universe."
Lai Yuanjia's comments instantly became dissatisfied.
【? What a big tone. 】
[You can’t just do any project and call yourself groundbreaking. I admit that the castle is beautiful, but that’s it.]
[Haha, anchor, go in and take a look. If they can come up with something new, I will eat the optical brain on live broadcast! ]
Lai Yuanjia went to the ticket office with a gloomy face.
Before buying the tickets, you actually have to sign a lot of agreements, which require you to be an adult and confirm that you have no history of heart disease, etc., to avoid danger from being stimulated.
"What a stunt..."
Lai Yuanjia muttered and paid the money reluctantly.
The tour guide said: "The first ten tourists who pass the haunted house challenge can get a free ticket and get a copy of Director Shang's autograph on the spot."
Jiang Yuran was not far away, and his eyes lit up when he heard this: "Director Shang is here too! Brother, we must get into the top ten!"
There was talk among the tourists, and the mood was clearly running high.
The second floor of the castle.
Shang Jingyan was watching the crowd of tourists on the first floor from the window. When he heard footsteps, he asked, "You guys are here?"
The visitors were Pei Yi and You Yao. Shang Jingyan invited them to be the first group of tourists to the haunted house.
Pei Yi also had a small bag on his chest, hanging right on his chest. Shang Jingyan took a closer look and saw the zipper being slowly opened from the inside, revealing two white rabbit ears.
"It always wants to come out, so I just let it stay here." Pei Yi coughed lightly and said a little embarrassedly.
You Yao looked around and asked, "When do we start? Are the ghosts in this castle really the same as those in "Evil God"? "
Shang Jingyan: "It's different. Visitors below can also see the introduction of the story of this haunted house first, and then they can learn the whole setting as they explore."
Many of the guests here must have seen "Cthulhu", and if the show is just a complete copy of the movie, the level of surprise will definitely be greatly reduced.
In fact, Shang Jingyan rewrote a simple script for the haunted house.
The story takes place after the timeline of the movie. The evil god and her lover return to the bottom of the sea, but the castle where they once spent their honeymoon is still shrouded in strange phenomena.
A Frankenstein who was fired from the institute bought the castle and conducted underground experiments here. To the outside world, Frankenstein disguised the castle as a hotel to screen and deceive ignorant guests.
The tourists "acted as themselves" and became the prey secretly targeted by Frankenstein.
In order to create an ideal atmosphere, haunted houses usually limit the number of visitors at a time, and Shang Jingyan is no exception.
The castle is so big that there is more than one route, and each route can only accommodate a team of five people at a time.
However, Shang Jingyan does not intend to ban live streaming. She believes that the publicity effect of live streaming can offset the negative effects of "spoilers".
After listening to this, You Yao became interested: "Director Shang, don't just go in with the two of us, you can come too."
"Are you sure? It's boring for me to play in a haunted house." Shang Jingyan shrugged.
She was very brave, and few haunted houses could really scare her. Moreover, this haunted house was designed by her, so it was not a surprise to her.
Pei Yi smiled and said, "That's just right because I'm timid. I won't be scared when I'm with Director Shang."
He held his chin and suddenly came up with a suggestion, "How about... we blend in with the tourist group?"
Shang Jingyan thought for a while, his eyes lit up: "This is a good idea."
You Yao: “…”
For some reason, I felt a chill down my spine and wanted to light candles for the tourists in her group.
Pei Yi: "But there's no guarantee that some tourists will recognize you. What should I do?"
"Don't worry about that. I have enough experience." Shang Jingyan did what he said and went into the staff locker room. He came out a moment later and looked very different.
She tied her hair up, put on a pink sun hat, changed her clothes into a princess style, covered half of her face with pink sunglasses, and wore a mask on her chin.
His whole temperament changed completely, even his walking posture changed from being carefree to being proud.
Pei Yi didn't even recognize it at first sight. He held the rabbit in his arms, and both he and the rabbit were dumbfounded.
Shang Jingyan was too used to the surprised looks of others. He raised his chin and smiled, "Surprising, right? Actually, it's normal. If I know nothing about acting, how can I better guide the actors?"
The entrance to the route Lai Yuanjia was assigned to was on the basement floor of the castle and the end point was on the top floor.
The tour guide suggested that he form a team of four, but he thought it would affect the live broadcast and refused impatiently.
“Squeak—”
The heavy wooden door creaked shut. Lai Yuanjia looked closely and saw an underground palace in front of him.
He was standing in a long passage made of dark stone bricks, with torches burning on both sides, and the light was dim. This seemed to be the underground prison of the castle, with iron-barred cells on both sides.
The light was dim, and one could only vaguely see the dirty beds and quilts in the cells; the original white base color was almost invisible. In several rooms there were skeletons still in chains.
Danmu and Lai Yuanjia had just been introduced to the concept of a haunted house. Now that they entered the house and saw the scene, they couldn't find anything wrong with it.
They had never seen this thing before! And why did it look like it was really fun?
Due to years of disrepair, the stone bricks under Lai Yuanjia's feet were loose and cracked, and there were dark red and brown stains in the cracks.
Tick, tick, the sound of dripping liquid coming from nowhere kept echoing around.
There are always aspects of reality that cannot be replaced by holographic games. In such aspects, the boundary between fictional scripts and reality seems to be further blurred.
"What's there to be afraid of? You're amazing if you can make me open my eyes a millimeter wider..."
Lai Yuanjia stopped nitpicking about concepts and instead attacked the people in the Exile Galaxy for exaggerating.
The corridor became narrower and narrower, and one had to turn sideways to pass through. The material of the floor and walls had changed, becoming metal like the one in the hospital, but it was rusty and damaged, and looked extremely strange under the dim green light.
Lai Yuanjia couldn't help but think of this picture:
When there were still people in the cells, people in the cells on opposite sides could reach out their hands through the gaps in the bars and touch each other's arms.
He was frightened by his own imagination and tried to remain calm.
[Shh, this is really getting scary.]
[Is this the haunted house? Is it really the first of its kind in the Exile Galaxy? I still find it a little unbelievable...]
[What is the end? I don’t even dare to look at it! ]
There were noises coming from the cell ahead, as well as a lot of breathing sounds.
Lai Yuanjia and the others had never experienced Shang Jingyan's horror movies, and knew nothing about the various horror routines. He had begun to sweat coldly, and his feet seemed to be stuck by glue. He continued to walk only to save face.
Suddenly, he stopped.
It seemed like something was touching his back.
And gradually, grabbed his clothes!
【Master, anchor, please look back. 】
[Ahhh, host, what is that? ? ! ]
[Oh my god, what kind of underworld NPC is this? ! ]
Lai Yuanjia swallowed and turned his head slowly.
He saw a person with long hair and wearing a blue and white hospital gown grabbing his clothes!
"Save me...save me..."
The man's appearance made it impossible to tell his gender, his voice was intermittent, and his breath was weak. His long hair covered his eyes with bloodshot eyes, his teeth had all fallen out, and his skin had collapsed, making it impossible to tell whether he was a human or a ghost.
The hairs on Lai Yuanjia's back exploded, and he shouted, "What the hell?!"
He suddenly pulled out the corner of his clothes and ran forward.
More and more hands stretched out from behind the fence, all wearing hospital gowns, with ulcerated skin and some with peeled nails.
“Save me…”
"Help, help."
"Save me! ..."
"Don't go, don't go..."
“Save me!!”
The cries for help from the NPCs were like mountains and waves, one layer upon another, and the resentment and prayers in them almost overflowed.
[This is crazy, really crazy. What kind of dream builder would go to the trouble of creating such an attraction offline! ! ]
[I’m going to shout for help too! 】
[I can hardly tell the difference. I almost thought it was real! ! ]
"Fuck it, don't touch me, don't touch me!!"
Lai Yuanjia's mentality collapsed. Although he knew rationally that they were all special effects makeup, he still felt that his body was stained with those dirty things.
The further we ran, the more advanced the facilities became. The iron-barred cell was transformed into a ward with one side covered with translucent glass, but the bloodstains on the ground became fresher and fresher.
There were countless hands patting on the glass, and only the figures inside could be seen vaguely.
Some patients were calling for help, some were screaming, and some were banging their heads against the glass like crazy, with hazy traces of blood flowing down.
[What the hell is this place! ! ]
【Ahhh this is simply mental pollution! 】
[I would feel crazy if I walked here! ]
Lai Yuanjia could no longer maintain his dignity and ran to the end like a madman. At the end was a staircase, and he rolled and crawled out of the underground palace, his heart still pounding.
He could barely figure out that he was in front of the first floor of the castle, right next to the lake, which explained the dripping sound.
There is still a long corridor in front of me. It seems that from the moment I enter, the haunted house has been using the narrow terrain to give people a sense of oppression.
He gritted his teeth and walked up. Halfway through, the corridor turned into a transparent glass. Below was a dark water surface, and there seemed to be fluorescent creatures floating in it.
[I am so afraid of this kind of unclear water! ]
[I don’t dare to watch anymore, but I want to continue watching. Damn, this haunted house must be poisonous! ]
[Host, why don’t you leave here? I just connected to the star network of the Exiled Galaxy and searched it. The dream builder named Shang Jingyan is really talented! ]
"I won't leave!" Lai Yuanjia felt even more angry and embarrassed when he saw that the comments on the forums had turned against him.
He walked with weak legs, holding on to the wall. Suddenly, black tentacles stretched out from under the water and slapped the glass violently!
“Aaaaaaah!!”
Lai Yuanjia's nerves were already stretched to the limit, and he was frightened by this and screamed loudly.
Through the glass, one could see the water surface rippling, as if there was a huge ferocious beast underneath, restless and trying to break out of the cage.
The black tentacles are covered with colorful fluorescent patterns, which make people think of keywords such as poisonous and deep sea.
Bang, bang, bang!!
The tentacle with the suction cup knocked harder and harder, and the glass began to make slight cracking sounds and cracks appeared like snowflakes.
Lai Yuanjia was so frightened that he almost fell to his knees. His brain could no longer distinguish that the cracks were just special effects on the light screen. He clung to the wall with howling sounds.
But he didn't expect that the next moment, he would suddenly feel a wet and slippery touch on his palm!
“Ahhhh!!——”
Lai Yuanjia screamed at an even louder volume, as if it was going to pierce the eardrums.
With a loud clang, the wall, which was originally in the shape of a wire mesh, now had a crack on it. The tentacles broke through the obstacles and grabbed his wrist.
[Ahhh help me, I'm scared to death just watching the live broadcast!! ]
[Fuck! This Galaxy Exile project is really novel, I admit it, I admit it!]
[Ahhhhhhh! Streamer, I won't accompany you anymore. I'm leaving! ]
Lai Yuanjia could no longer bear it, and he screamed and crawled as he ran for his life along the corridor. Under his feet, every step was accompanied by the sound of shattering glass, and the tentacles went crazy, chasing him all the way.
He didn't know where he ran to, but when he saw a half-open door, he was overjoyed and rushed in and slammed the door shut.
It was dark and quiet inside the door, with a musty smell, but Lai Yuanjia couldn't care less at the moment.
Lai Yuanjia was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but when he turned around he heard a sharp scraping sound.
The special effects lightning outside the castle suddenly flashed brightly, illuminating the scene in the room clearly.
A man in a white coat wearing a gas mask with countless tentacles extending and wriggling from under the mask gave him a kiss on the cheek, holding a prop electric drill in his hand.
Lai Yuanjia couldn't catch his breath, and tears burst out: "Ahhhhh!!"
The Jiang brothers and sisters were not so arrogant and chose to form a team at the entrance.
They formed a group of three strangers, two men and one woman. Judging from their aura, they were not a couple, but just friends.
The girl was particularly eye-catching. She was wearing a princess-style short skirt and had a lollipop in her mouth. She was very tall, estimated to be about 1.75 meters tall.
"That girl is so cute, sexy and sweet." Jiang Yuran whispered to Jiang Yubai.
Jiang Yubai knew that his sister had a socializing problem and was making friends everywhere, so he just complained, "Just don't scare people with the way we look later."
The team's starting point is at the side door of the castle, and once inside is the castle's hall.
The Jiang brothers and sisters also started a live broadcast in the group, specifically for group members to repo.
Unlike in the movies, there are a lot of miscellaneous items placed in the hall, which block the view and force the tourists' forward route to become a snake shape.
As Jiang Yubai walked, he unconsciously arched his back and grabbed the corner of his sister's clothes.
He found that the three passers-by he randomly matched seemed to be very brave. The girl in the princess dress walked in the front, strolling as if she was walking in her own garden.
The clutter in the hall also looked scary. There was a vase with a doll's head instead of flowers in it.
Suddenly, as they passed a screen coming from the east, they heard a noise.
“Hehe…”
A string of laughter echoed in the empty castle.
"Fuck!" Jiang Yubai blurted out a curse in Chinese and was so scared that he almost cried. Jiang Yuran didn't dare to move.
“La, la, la… hehehe…”
The sound came near and far, singing a song, occasionally accompanied by the tapping footsteps of children.
"one two three……"
Jiang Yuran suddenly realized something, and his scalp started to tingle: this girl's voice was counting their number!
[As expected of Master Yan! 】
[Damn, it's so scary, but I really want to go! Isn't it more exciting than a roller coaster? ]
[This sound also appeared in the skit, and was recycled in the castle. It's twice as scary. 】
“I don’t want to listen to that bastard’s chanting!” Jiang Yuran covered his ears, his heart beating fast, and he pulled his brother and ran.
At this moment, the girl in the princess dress said to her two friends leisurely: "Oh, look, the head is gone."
Jiang Yuran couldn't help his curiosity and looked back, and sure enough, the doll head in the vase was gone!
Jiang Yubai's legs went limp: "..."
You were sent by the staff to scare us!
The blond boy also shuddered violently: "Thank you so much, I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't told me!"
The group moved forward rapidly amid the strange singing and laughter. After finally getting out of the hall, they saw a T-shaped corridor before them.
One left and one right, two directions are available.
Jiang Yubai was about to be frightened when the commentator suddenly said, "Look, there are words on the corner!"
Jiang Yuran lowered his head and looked carefully, only to see six crazy words written in blood-red liquid:
"Don't stay, run! ! ——"
The font and punctuation marks are all tilted to the lower right, the last character is almost invisible, and the comma is stretched out as a long line, as if the person was originally writing while standing, but was dragged away by something and could only struggle to leave this message.
Jiang Yuran rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and said decisively: "Then let's choose the left side!"
Princess Dress nodded very happily: "Okay, okay."
[With Director Shang’s personality, I think he’ll be scary wherever he goes. Get ready to face the wind (dog head).]
[Director Shang: Since you are here, of course you need to be cared for in all aspects and have a full experience. ]
[That girl is really brave. Her two friends turned pale, but she was still fine. I'm so envious! ]
Sure enough, after walking a few steps, a "surprise" appeared in front of me. A person wearing a blue and white hospital gown and with octopus tentacles wrapped around his head walked towards me crookedly and pounced on anyone he saw!
The scene suddenly became a mess. Jiang Yuran said, "Mom! Brother, save me!"
She was so startled that she jumped up on the spot and ran to find Jiang Yubai with her arms outstretched, thinking that she was hugging her brother, but in fact she was hugging the octopus man.
Jiang Yubai: “?”
Octopus Man NPC: “?”
Jiang Yuran: “……?”
She felt something was wrong with the touch, opened her eyes, and was faced with the mouthparts on the octopus man's hood, and took a breath.
Jiang Yubai grabbed his sister and screamed, "Why are you still standing there? Run!"
It was the NPC's first time to act as a ghost and he was not familiar with the job. Only now did he realize what was going on and started chasing after him again with his fangs bared.
[Hahaha, I am dying of laughter. NPC: This is so sudden. I was molested at work.]
[Why is it scary and funny at the same time? Hahahaha!!]
[Have you ever watched that rubbish anchor named Lai Yuanjia? It was so funny that he was scared to death, so satisfying. That one is a horror movie, this one is a comedy.]
Shang Jingyan who was observing secretly: "..."
How can a haunted house be turned into a comedy?
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Since StarCraft had never had the haunted house NPC industry, Xue Jiang had no time to train employees and had already used robots as much as possible.
However, for NPCs that need to change flexibly and perform chase scenes, it is better to use real people as much as possible.
Although the Jiang siblings were afraid, their progress was not slow. Shang Jingyan watched them advance little by little and prepared to take a shortcut - she had to reach the finish line early and be ready to sign autographs for the tourists.
"I'm leaving first. Tell them not to be afraid," she said.
Pei Yi and You Yao: "..."
How can I not be afraid when one person is missing while walking in the haunted house?
Shang Jingyan walked alone in the corridor without changing her expression. The haunted house really didn't have much appeal to her. 90% of the attraction depended on creating the atmosphere, and if the script was known, the only scares left were various jump scares.
She took out her laptop and sent a message to the anonymous account from last time: [Did I do well? ]
To be a director, you have to be good at climbing up the ladder and extorting money.
The concept of the Zhenwutuan is "return to reality". From this perspective, Shang Jingyan's haunted house project has attracted so many tourists from holographic games to offline play, which can be said to be as good as it can be.
It would be a waste if he didn't cheat me out of this money. Shang Jingyan almost had "Give me a bonus" written on his face.
There was silence from the other end, and then the money came.
"Your account has received: 100,000 star coins."
Shang Jingyan was actually also testing the bottom line of the Zhenwu Group, to see how much praise and preferential treatment the other party could give her.
After receiving the money, Shang Jingyan didn't mind saying something nice: "Thank you very much, I will continue to develop the next stage of the project."
[Okay.] The other party was very taciturn, only replied with one word, and then said, [We will eventually find our way back to flying.]
Shang Jingyan raised his eyebrows and slowly replied: [We will eventually find our way back to flying.]
She put away her laptop and undid her bun as she walked, letting her long white hair fall down. However, the light was too dim to see clearly and she accidentally got caught by a hairpin, with part of her hair blocking her eyes.
Shang Jingyan had no choice but to walk slowly in this position, fighting with his hair. There was a corner in front of him, and the green light was flashing, as if a monster would jump out at any time, and then -
"Ah! Shit, there's a ghost!"
Suddenly, a scream was heard out of nowhere, but it was not from Shang Jingyan, but from an... NPC.
What a coincidence, it’s the octopus man again.
Shang Jingyan: “…”
She thought about her current appearance, with disheveled hair and strange movements, and suddenly realized: she looked a bit like a ghost.
The octopus NPC was so scared that he stuck to the wall. Shang Jingyan raised his hand and said, "Don't be afraid. I am a human."
In order to show peace, she took the initiative to slowly move around it.
When she walked away, the octopus NPC took out his light brain and shouted at the main control console: "This is so scary, when did a new NPC appear in area B01? Why didn't you tell me in advance?!"
The main control desk was confused: "What did you say? We didn't add it?"
Octopus NPC: "..."
What the hell, what did she just encounter? !
On the Star Network at this time.
Many of the first batch of tourists who entered started live streaming, but most of them would be so scared after a few minutes that the camera would change randomly. The background noise was filled with meaningless screams and nothing could be captured clearly, causing netizens to become more and more curious and itchy the more they watched.
Only Lai Yuanjia, as a professional anchor, had a built-in stabilizer on his optical computer, which allowed him to record his appearance clearly.
Because the contrast between the before and after was so great, the people in the exile galaxy felt relieved, and for a while the topic #赖元嘉脸slap# was pushed to the top of the platform's hot topics.
[Hahaha, this time I hit a wall, didn't I? I'm annoyed by his arrogant attitude. He was just born in the main star system, but he acts like a feudal aristocrat.]
[Who designed the "haunted house" attraction? It looks so exciting and special! ]
[Not a designer, but a dream builder. It is one of the projects in a theme park developed by an IP of a dream builder in the Exile Galaxy. The name of the IP is "After Marrying the Evil God." ]
[Who says remote galaxies can’t come up with new concepts? Our director Shang’s work is unique in the entire universe! ]
Many netizens from remote galaxies who had been disgusted by him before came to watch. The comment section turned into a sea of joy, and people from the exiled galaxies also took the opportunity to promote him.
[Our director Shang’s films are great! Getting started guide: [link]]
[I really want to play it! I haven't been to Exile Galaxy yet. Are the rides there so cool? ]
[It wasn't like this before. Master Yan found the new leader of the Xue family, and the two sides worked together to develop a new concept.]
[It is said that a Chinese-style haunted house will be developed later. Ah, I didn’t make an appointment. If more are opened, I can play in it! ]
In the haunted house.
Lai Yuanjia didn't know how he escaped from the room. He also knew that his reputation must have begun to collapse like an avalanche, but he had no time to care.
He was breathing heavily and really didn't dare to go any further, but he was unwilling to be branded as a coward who couldn't make it through, so he came up with an idea and started looking for the door to the employee passage.
Then I can just say that I accidentally took the wrong path. The castle won’t be able to say anything!
[Uh, host, I don’t think this is a good idea. It will take away from the fun of the game.]
[People from our main galaxy should be more well-mannered when they go there! ]
[Host, don't worry. I know you are scared, but you can't think of such stupid ideas even if you are scared! ]
This time even the barrage of comments began to disagree. I wonder what kind of weird train of thought Lai Yuanjia has.
Lai Yuanjia was so excited that he didn't care what was being said in the comments. He had found a small door hidden under the curtain and began to pull the door lock hard.
At the same time, Shang Jingyan was passing by in the employee passage separated from him by a wall.
Shang Jingyan: “?”
What's going on?
Fake haunted house: being chased by NPCs.
Real Haunted House: Tease NPC.
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