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◎Test of Courage◎
The man with glasses scratched his head in frustration. When they first saw this photo, they actually thought Gao Kai was playing some kind of courage test game again, and that the things outside were also photoshopped in by him.
When they called Gao Kai but no one answered, and he didn't even reply to their messages, they decided to go to his house and see if he was joking. If he was joking, they would let him treat them to a meal. If he wasn't joking...
As a result, when they arrived at Gao Kai's house, no one responded no matter how they knocked. Fortunately, they knew where Gao Kai's spare key was.
When they opened the door, their first feeling was very cold, which made all three of them shiver at the same time.
However, Gao Kai has always preferred a very cold environment, so the three of them still didn't take it seriously.
The entrance hall was dark and there was no light on in the living room. Only a little pale light shone from under the crack of Gao Kai's bedroom door. There was also an indescribable strange smell in the air, which seemed to be there and not there.
The three of them looked at each other and saw fear in each other's eyes.
Li Min, the man with glasses, took a deep breath, mustered up his courage, and pushed open the bedroom door.
In the bedroom, the pale light came from a cell phone that had fallen by the door. The screen was still on, and on it was a photo of the ghost outside the window.
They turned on the light and found Gao Kai lying on his back on the floor not far from the bed. His eyes were closed and his body was a little stiff.
"I was the one who called the police at that time." The short-haired girl said.
The short-haired girl, also known as Wu Cheng, said, "When I called the police, I said the person wasn't breathing, so the ambulance and the medical examiner came, mainly to conduct a death investigation. However, they ultimately confirmed there were no external injuries. We even showed the police photos, but they told them not to believe it."
Wu Cheng sighed as she spoke. Although they knew that there must be something unusual about Gao Kai's death, just like what the police said, who would believe it?
"We are very sure that Gao Kai would not die suddenly because he did not have any underlying diseases, did not stay up late, and was not obese."
The three of them ruled out all possible causes of sudden death, and finally could only guess that it was the ghost they encountered when playing the courage test game.
[It was really a bit too sudden]
There's definitely something wrong with that photo.
[I might have said it was photoshopped before, but after watching the live stream, it's definitely real!]
The police may also think it's weird, but they have no evidence.
[A lot of people die suddenly every year, but if you really encounter a ghost, just ignore what I said.]
That day, the four of them went to a haunted building in the suburbs together. It was actually a popular spot on the Internet. Usually, many people went there, but that day, there was only their group.
The sky was a little cloudy at that time, and it seemed like it was about to rain. There were not many trees around the haunted building, and there was a small river not far away.
The four of them even joked that if there weren't frequent rumors of ghosts here, there would probably be a lot of people camping here.
"There are two graves next to the haunted building." Wu Cheng recalled the scene at that time.
There were tombstones in front of the two graves, but there were no words written on them. A few people took a look and left, feeling that it was a bit unlucky.
At this time, Li Min, who had been silent nearby, suddenly spoke up and added, "Kaizi didn't just leave. At that time, he was holding a stone from somewhere in his hand. Maybe he was in a bad mood, so he hit the two tombstones with the stone and said that the grave must be empty. He was just trying to scare people."
Gao Kai was seen throwing stones by Li Min, so Li Min said something to Gao Kai, saying that he should respect the dead and should not do that no matter whether the stone was empty or not.
Gao Kai didn't take it seriously, and he even said with a grin that it was just a scare tactic.
Wu Cheng looked at Li Min in shock: "Did Gao Kai even smash someone else's tombstone?"
Wu Cheng was almost laughing out of anger. Gao Kai didn't listen to the taboos before going there at all. They were going there to play a game of courage, not to cause trouble.
But it was too late to say anything now, they could only continue to talk about what happened that day.
After entering the haunted building, they found it was even more dilapidated than it looked from the outside. There was a thick layer of dust and spider webs everywhere. It was evening when they went there and the light was very dim.
The four of them only brought two flashlights, and the light was not very sufficient, after all, they were playing a game of courage.
They took a quick look with their flashlights and saw an incense table placed in the middle of the hall on the first floor. On the table were several rotten and blackened apples, and the smell was pungent.
But before the four of them came, they had never seen this thing in any videos or posts about this haunted building.
"We thought someone had put it there on purpose to scare people. After all, although many places are said to be haunted, in the end they are mostly man-made."
They didn't care much, but Gao Kai said something unpleasant to the rotten apples and poked one of them.
The apple rotted even more when touched, and even black liquid oozed out. Gao Kai casually pushed the apple to the ground with a look of disgust on his face.
Wu Cheng and the other two immediately told him off and told him not to touch anything.
At this point, the three of them realized that Gao Kai had done too many suicidal things.
Wu Cheng sighed and said, "Our game of courage is played in groups. The tasks and groups are drawn by lot. Wang Yu and I are in a group. Our goal is to take a photo on the fourth floor. Gao Kai and Li Min are in a group. They are going to take photos on the sixth floor."
Wang Yu is another girl in the foursome.
In order to ensure that the courage test game could be completed at the same time, Gao Kai and Li Min went upstairs first. When they reached the second floor, they called Wu Cheng and Wang Yu who were still on the first floor to set off.
Wu Cheng and Wang Yu held each other and walked very slowly because they were afraid of touching the wall and handrails.
"I originally thought that this kind of haunted building would have a lot of people coming to explore and sign "I've been here" or something like that, but the walls are very clean." Wu Cheng said, not noticing that Li Min's face next to him turned pale.
The fourth floor was empty and the windows were not installed. Wu Cheng and Wang Yu carefully moved closer to the edge to take pictures.
Maybe it was because they were too nervous, but they always felt like someone was standing behind them when they were taking pictures. However, there was nothing on the fourth floor, let alone someone.
After taking the photo, both of them felt their hands and feet getting cold, but Wu Cheng followed his inner voice and turned back.
There is nothing behind me.
But when she looked down at her feet, her hair almost stood up.
If they had taken half a step back just now, they would have fallen down.
The two of them just thought that they hadn't paid attention just now, and quickly took a few steps forward to avoid stepping on air.
After Wu Cheng finished speaking, Li Min finally spoke. His first words were, "You just said that the staircase walls you saw were clean, but what I saw seemed different..."
"Kaizi and I walked to the corner of the second floor. There was a graffiti on the wall there. It looked like it was drawn by a child. It was a man and a woman holding hands. There was also a sun and grass painted next to it. The background looked a bit like the haunted building we were in."
After hearing this, Wu Cheng and Wang Yu's faces instantly turned paler than before.
The two looked at each other and saw confusion and horror in each other's eyes.
"Impossible!" Wu Cheng's voice tightened. "When we went up, the wall at the corner of the second floor was just a bare concrete wall, without any graffiti."
Wang Yu nodded vigorously, his voice trembling: "Yes! We can see it clearly, there is definitely no painting!"
Wu Cheng and Wang Yu were very sure that there was nothing, but Li Min was also sure that there was something.
There is only one possible explanation for this unexplained discrepancy.
That is, from the moment Gao Kai smashed the two wordless tombstones outside with stones, the haunted building they stepped into was different from the haunted buildings that others entered.
Because of Gao Kai's behavior, Li Min, who was in the same group with Gao Kai, also saw something.
[Only the boys saw it. Could it be because of the tombstone and the apple?]
[Except in movies, I have never seen such a suicidal person]
[Every operation leaves me speechless]
[This is the fear that you won’t be able to see ghosts]
【And then what?】
Li Min calmed himself down, put the graffiti issue aside, and continued to talk about what he and Gao Kai encountered when they went upstairs.
He and Gao Kai realized something was wrong when they reached the fourth floor. The stairs became narrower and the light became dimmer as they went up. The flashlight could only illuminate a small area in front of them.
When he reached the fourth-floor platform, Gao Kai suddenly stopped and listened with his ear tilted.
"What?" Li Min's heart tightened.
"Shh! Listen..." Gao Kai lowered his voice, with an excited yet nervous expression on his face, "Is there a child laughing?"
Li Min held his breath. There was dead silence all around, with only the sounds of their own heartbeats and breathing.
"What's so funny? Don't scare yourself." He said this, but his back felt a little cold.
Gao Kai seemed to have heard something. He ignored Li Min and quickened his pace to the fifth floor, muttering to himself as he walked, "It seems to be over there."
Li Min had no choice but to follow.
The fifth floor was similar to the fourth floor, empty and dilapidated. Gao Kai's goal was clear, and he went straight to the stairs on the sixth floor.
The situation on the sixth floor was even worse.
It seems that this place was not completed before it was abandoned. There are not even basic wall partitions. It looks like a huge empty shell.
The wind poured in through the hole without a window frame, making a low whistling sound. According to the plan, they needed to walk to a corner near the edge to take pictures.
Just when Li Min found the right angle and was about to let Gao Kai stand over, Gao Kai stopped moving again.
He stared straight at a load-bearing wall not far behind Li Min, his eyes wide open, and his face showed an expression of concentration mixed with confusion and weirdness.
"Kaizi? What are you looking at?" Li Min felt uneasy and turned back to follow his gaze. The wall was bare, with nothing on it.
"Wall," Gao Kai murmured, his voice vague, "something seems to be moving on the wall..."
Li Min's scalp tingled and the flashlight swept over suddenly.
The wall flickered under the flickering flashlight, and there was nothing on the wall except a small crack!
"Are you dazzled? Let's finish the shooting and leave!" Li Min's voice was a little trembling. He just wanted to leave this damn place as soon as possible.
He felt that the environment was not scary, but Gao Kai was very weird now.
Gao Kai seemed not to hear anything, but took two steps forward, getting closer to the wall, muttering, "No, it wasn't like that just now, there's a painting..."
His subsequent words were unclear.
Li Min looked at Gao Kai's distraught appearance, and there was only fear in his heart. He stepped forward and grabbed Gao Kai, almost dragging him back a few steps.
Gao Kai stumbled as he was dragged along, and seemed to regain consciousness a little, but his eyes were still a little dazed. He pointed at the wall, his lips trembling, "There really was something there just now."
Li Min ignored Gao Kai's words, took a casual photo and pulled Gao Kai towards the stairs.
Gao Kai didn't insist anymore, but he kept looking back as he went down the stairs, as if there was really something on the empty wall that he couldn't take his eyes off.
The two rushed down from the sixth floor in a panic and saw Wu Cheng and Wang Yu squatting at the stairs on the fourth floor.
Li Min seemed to have just realized something. He said, "When Kaizi saw Chengzi and Xiaoyu, he seemed to have said something about being pushed down."
At the time, Li Min didn't hear clearly and thought Gao Kai meant that squatting at the stairs was too dangerous. But now he wondered if he had seen something.
Perhaps they were frightened, and after the four of them reunited, they didn't even have the energy to ask each other about what had happened. They just wanted to escape immediately, and they stumbled down to the first floor.
When passing the center of the first floor, Wu Cheng subconsciously scanned with a flashlight, and the incense table with the rotten apple on it was gone!
Even the rotten apple that Gao Kai had dragged to the ground disappeared without a trace. There was only thick dust on the ground, as if there had never been anything there.
This silent disappearance is more suffocating than being seen.
The four of them didn't dare to stay and rushed out directly.
Li Min's car was parked on the side of the road. They ran over quickly and opened the car door in a panic, just wanting to leave this damn place as soon as possible.
Just as Li Min opened the driver's door and was about to get in, he felt a strong sense of being watched.
He suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the haunted building, his eyes passing over the various plants and falling on the two lonely tombstones without any words on them.
Right next to one of the tombstones, a woman stood silently.
She was wearing an old-fashioned dress, as if it was made decades ago. The fabric was gray and almost blended into the night.
Her hair was spread out on both sides and her hands hung at her sides. She just stood there quietly, next to the cold stone tablet, her body stiff and motionless.
Li Min was absolutely certain that the woman was looking at them!
"Get in the car!" Li Min's voice changed. Several people were frightened and crawled into the car. The door was closed and locked.
The car sped along the bumpy dirt road, raising clouds of dust, and there was dead silence inside the car.
Li Min gripped the steering wheel tightly, his eyes glancing uncontrollably at the rearview mirror.
In the mirror, the haunted building and the two grave mounds quickly shrank in the twilight, but in that shrinking scene, the gray figure of the woman next to the tombstone was still clearly visible.
She didn't move at all, still maintaining the posture of leaning against the tombstone with her head lowered.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but as the car moved, Li Min even felt that the lowered head seemed to tilt at an angle very slowly.
It seemed that no matter how far away, the woman could see him.
【Author’s words】
[Please][Please] I will update tomorrow at noon, I have a cold
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