Chapter 280: Midnight Haunted House 68
Lisa Ballroom, as the name suggests, this should be a replica of the scene from the 1920s and 1930s.
Because it was a second-level haunted house, Su Qingyun decided to travel light. She only carried a backpack over her work clothes and did not bring any peach wood sword or goose feather arrows.
Ye Jian had a special fondness for the Jie Ling Kou, and among the equipment that Su Qingyun prepared for them, he chose this one.
The tears of the cow that can see vengeful spirits are a one-time product, and Su Qingyun replenished some stock from the administrator.
In order to make it easier to use talisman paper quickly when catching ghosts, Su Qingyun drew some in the dormitory in advance and also brought a long rope made of red thread and copper coins.
Xu Xinghe chose a cinnabar inkwell. He said that after research he knew other uses for this thing.
Just use the ink fountain as a bow and the ink line as the bowstring and pull it directly. The cinnabar on the line will be ejected to form a sealing barrier.
The mission did not specify the exact location of Lisa Brother's dance hall, but fortunately the black business car sent by the administrator had an identification function.
After entering the destination command, it helped Su Qingyun select the place he wanted to go from many addresses.
A few minutes later, the three arrived at a triangular section of the road.
The tram tracks in the middle of the road were enough to prove that this place was indeed the location of the Lisa Ballroom they were looking for, as it was full of Shanghai flavor at night.
But this block is now deserted, with only garbage all over the ground and no living people.
This time Ye Jian took the lead, and the three of them slowly walked towards a street corner.
After walking for about five minutes, I saw a billboard made of welded steel frames erected on an arched door. Five large characters were written on the billboard: Lisa Ballroom. Next to the billboard was a portrait of a woman with her arms and legs exposed. At this time, the billboard and the portrait were already in tatters, and it seemed that they had been abandoned for some time.
"Even if we find wine here, can we drink it?" Su Qingyun asked.
Ye Jian looked up at the archway and said with a smile, "I only promised to find him some wine, but I didn't say I wanted to find him new wine."
Besides, as long as wine is well sealed, it should never expire.
Otherwise, how could a wine like Nv'erhong be buried in the ground for eighteen years?
The three of them went up the stairs, and Su Qingyun was the first to mark the door. After she finished, Xu Xinghe and Ye Jian went over and pushed the door open.
The moment it was pushed open, a foul smell rushed out from inside.
Xu Xinghe and Ye Jian fanned themselves with their hands, then slowly turned on the lights on their shoulders.
It was dark inside, which was to be expected; it was a deserted neighborhood and naturally had no electricity.
Xu Xinghe skillfully took out a few candles from his backpack and lit them, then placed the candles on the left and right sides of the room.
Although the candlelight cannot allow everyone to see the whole picture, with the help of the body light, they can still get a general idea.
Inside the dance hall, there was a big hole in the dome, and scattered moonlight leaked in from the hole, casting a pale spot on the floor covered with half an inch of dust.
The revolving light in the center of the stage had long lost its glass cover, and half a faded red velvet curtain was still hanging on the rusted iron frame. The wind came in through the broken window frame, making the cloth rustle, as if someone was sobbing in the dark night.
There is a piano in the corner. Three of its strings are broken, and the dust on the keys can leave clear fingerprints.
When the piano lid was opened, a skinny cat, not much bigger than a mouse, was curled up inside. When it saw the light, it scurried under the stage - where there were piles of rotten sofa springs, mixed with half-burned cigarette butts and faded fabrics.
On the wall behind the stage, there are several posters of stars. These posters are now full of holes caused by insects, and you can barely make out a golden phoenix embroidered on the slit of the cheongsam.
Most of the colorful tiles on the dance floor were cracked and creaked when stepped on. In order to prevent Su Qingyun from falling, Ye Jian did not let her go onto the stage.
The three of them walked around the stage and headed backstage.
The backstage was even messier than the stage, with overturned tables and chairs, a broken makeup mirror and some dusty cosmetics.
On the clothes rack at the back of the dressing room, the dancers' dresses were hung in a mess, but there was only one white tulle dress covered in a glass cover.
The three men took a look and saw that there was nothing unusual, so they retreated back to the hall and began to seal the windows on the first floor with black tape.
There are no windows on the first floor at all, probably for the purpose of sound insulation. Those windows that look like windows only have an outer shape, but Su Qingyun and the others still sealed them as required.
After doing this, the three of them went up to the second floor along the stairs on the side.
The second floor should be the VIP room, which is divided into private rooms.
Ye Jian leaned against the window and slowly pushed open the door of the first private room.
There was a table and two sofas inside, and he saw what he was looking for against the wall.
Because it was a wine cabinet.
He entered the private room first and picked up a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet. Only half of the wine was left, so it must have been opened.
Ye Jian looked at the label on the wine bottle. It was a wine he didn't recognize at all. He opened the bottle cap, smelled it, and then made an unpleasant expression.
"This doesn't look like serious wine."
Su Qingyun, who was checking what was under the sofa, couldn't help but ask after hearing what he said, "Is there anything serious about drinking?"
"Of course, decent wine has a wine aroma, and irregular wine has a pure alcohol smell."
Xu Xinghe helped Su Qingyun translate, "He said this is a blended wine."
"Do you want to take it back to the administrator?"
Ye Jian put the wine back where it belonged and said, "Forget it, don't make the administrator drunk. We still have two days."
The first room yielded nothing.
They went to the next room.
There is a bed in this room, a large Western-style bed with a small table lamp at the head of the bed. There is also a wardrobe, but there is nothing on the bed. It feels like someone took away all the bedding before it was abandoned.
With the experience from the previous times, Ye Jian was no longer willing to crawl on the ground and rummage under the bed. He asked Su Qingyun to stand in a safe place, and then he and Xu Xinghe lifted the bed.
There wasn't much under the bed except an unsmoked cigar and a dusty handkerchief.
Xu Xinghe threw the two things into the trash bag.
The three of them turned and looked at the wardrobe.
Because it was a two-star haunted house, Ye Jian and Xu Xinghe were both very relaxed. Ye Jian even asked Xu Xinghe if he should guess what was inside the wardrobe before opening it.
"What could be in the closet?" Su Qingyun felt that these two people were too childish.
Even if there is anything in the closet, it is only clothes.
"I guess there's a corpse." Ye Jian said.
"Then I guess there's a ghost."
Su Qingyun, "..." Is it necessary for these two people to guess such creepy things.
Unexpectedly, the two people said something that made Su Qingyun shudder.
"Su Qingyun, you open it."
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