Chapter 32 Fantasy Amusement Park (14)
Su Yue looked at the number plate silently without saying anything.
Cang Zhi didn't move either.
The deputy manager in charge of the warehouse seemed to like the current atmosphere of "punished employees remaining silent because the warehouse was haunted". He blinked his cloudy and yellow eyes and revealed a rather evil smile.
"Do you have any questions?" the assistant manager asked. "I'll do my best to answer them."
"Indeed," Su Yue said, "I'm curious, do you only have warehouses after No. 500?"
Deputy Manager: “…”
"Get down quickly!" the deputy manager roared.
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Su Yue and Cang Zhi once again came to the row of old elevators. Before going down, the manager took out a small windup alarm clock with an expressionless face, set a one-hour countdown, and threw it to them.
Although Su Yue was still a little uncomfortable with the dark elevator environment, he had become more accustomed to it after riding it for the second time and even had time to observe the surrounding environment.
In general buildings, even the underground elevator shafts will undergo some degree of repair, because there are rooms underneath. However, the elevator shaft under the warehouse is almost completely original, with only a simple layer of steel plates laid to prevent the underground soil from collapsing.
Those huge steel frames extended and stood upright in the soil, like the claws of a crustacean.
The elevator was descending very slowly. Su Yue had not yet evolved the skill to estimate the descent speed while sitting in the elevator, so the only thing he could judge was that the speed of yesterday's elevator was about the same as today's, and it also took about 5 minutes to reach the bottom.
In other words, today's Warehouse 521 and yesterday's Warehouse 520 are probably on the same floor.
Warehouse No. 521 is as dilapidated as Warehouse No. 520. It looks like an old classroom in an old school. The door is a little green in color, and there is a tattered wooden sign hanging on the door with "Warehouse No. 521" written in red pen.
Speaking of which, the entire warehouse is completely different from the other buildings in the amusement park. Even the staff dormitories in the amusement park are well decorated, and the employees' meals are also very good. But only this shabby warehouse, except for the fact that the exterior looks okay, is completely a dilapidated building that looks like it has been neglected for a long time.
To be honest, even the European castle-style exterior wall has many cracks caused by uneven paint application, but most of those cracks are covered by the ivy.
Su Yue pushed open the door of warehouse No. 521.
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Compared to Warehouse 520, Warehouse 521 is smaller and the lighting is dimmer. There are also many shelves in the room, and they are all filled with books.
There is a small wooden table in the middle of the room, and an old round stool is placed opposite the wooden table. Because there are too many bookshelves, the table is leaning against the bookshelves, and when you sit on the round stool, your back can completely touch the bookshelves.
There was a TV on the table. This TV was the same old one as the one in Warehouse No. 520, square and a bit bulky. The only light source in the room was a small light bulb hanging down by an old wire, almost touching the TV, flickering weakly.
Next to the TV, there was a square box. Su Yue went over and fiddled with it.
"This looks like a projector." Su Yue said.
The projector was very old-fashioned, even before the VCD era, and it played traditional videotapes. There was also such a TV in Warehouse No. 520, but the TV was casually thrown into a junk box in the corner. In Warehouse No. 521, the TV and the projector became the protagonists.
"It looks like we should be sorting the books, but it doesn't matter if we can't finish it." Su Yue looked back at the vast bookshelf and said firmly, "Why don't we just mess it up?"
Su Yue did the same thing when he sorted out the warehouse last time, and no danger occurred. They also got some clues related to the amusement park, so Su Yue decided to do the same this time.
Cang Zhi certainly had no objection.
"There are videotapes there." Cangzhi pointed to the cardboard box under the table where the TV was placed and said.
Su Yue hummed, and was about to reach for the box when Cang Zhi had already taken the initiative and dragged it out. Inside the cardboard box were a number of videotapes piled haphazardly. These tapes were very old, not only covered in thick dust, but also with many torn plastic wrappers. Sticky notes of different colors were stuck to the transparent casings of the tapes.
Su Yue first picked up a green box at random and handed it to Cangzhi. Cangzhi took out the cassette and put it into the projector, then turned on the TV.
The TV and projector seemed to be pre-connected, and even the channel was selected. As soon as the videotape was inserted, crackling snowflakes appeared on the TV screen. Su Yue and Cang Zhi held their breath and waited quietly for the picture to appear.
Swish——
Without any warning, a twisted and hideous ghost face appeared in the middle of the screen, with a pair of deformed hands holding the face, and an extremely shrill ghostly scream pierced the entire small room.
Accompanied by a shrill ghost cry, the ghost face almost rushed out of the TV screen, and all the gaps between the small room and the winding bookshelves were almost filled with the screams, as if the bookshelves and walls were shaking.
If someone is a little timid, they will scream and run out of the room just by hearing this scream.
Su Yue walked over with an expressionless face, and then pressed the "Stop Play" button on the projector without any fluctuation in his expression.
The screen made a "hissing" noise, the ghost face twisted twice, and the sound was also stuck. A black and white snowflake screen line appeared in the middle of the face, where the nose should be.
Then the projection stopped and the ghost face suddenly disappeared.
Su Yue stood there, staring at the TV for a long time.
It lasted so long that Cang Zhi was worried that something had happened to him and was about to go over to check it out when Su Yue finally frowned and sighed, "Are all the things in this amusement park so noisy?"
Cang Zhi: “…”
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The ghost screaming videotape should not be a real clue. If there really is a clue, Su Yue really can't bear to watch it. The sound can't penetrate the eardrum, let alone the brain membrane. He can't bear to listen to it for ten minutes.
He took the videotape out and replaced it with another one, this time with a blue sticky note on it.
The videotape was put into the machine, and there was another burst of snow on the screen. Then, accompanied by a shrill scream, the ghost face appeared in the center of the screen again.
"What the hell is this?" Su Yue muttered, and went over to press the ghost screaming videotape.
"It seems we can't just pick up any tape and put it in there," Su Yue said. "I guess most of the tapes will be full of this screaming guy. Watching him for too long will definitely cause psychological problems."
"..." Cang Zhi looked at him silently, as if he was speechless that he could still make jokes without any obstacles at this time. Then Cang Zhi cooperated and said, "Okay, let's find the pattern."
Su Yue picked up the box and turned it over, and all the videotapes fell to the ground with a crash. It looked like there were dozens of them.
There were dozens of videotapes, and considering the time it took for the old TV to respond and the time it took for the broken projector to load, it took two or three minutes to play each tape.
In an hour of guarding the warehouse, he couldn't even play each tape, let alone choose the correct one to read the content.
"The colors of these labels should have a meaning," Su Yue said, "and the numbers."
There is a small piece of sticky note on the transparent cover of each videotape. The color of the sticky note is different, but not every tape is different. In addition, the note also has a number written on it.
Su Yue and Cang Zhi sorted them out separately. The sticky notes were divided into five colors: red, blue, yellow, green, and black, but they soon discovered that the sticky note on one of the videotapes was pink.
That pink color looked very similar to an ordinary red sticky note. It seemed that the videotape had just been left outside for too long and the sticky note paper had faded due to contact with the air. But when he looked at the videotape number, 521, Su Yue suddenly felt that he must have found the right one.
521 is the warehouse number, and the theme of this amusement park seems to be love. From the style of each amusement facility, to the name, to the warehouse number, nothing is not related to love.
"Try this one." Su Yue held the videotape between his thumb and index finger and handed it to Cang Zhi who was walking over to the projector. "I hope it won't scream anymore."
Cangzhi put the videotape into the projector. After a brief flash of snow, the picture appeared on the TV screen.
It was a garden, the weather must have been nice, the willow branches were swaying in the breeze, and a little boy and a little girl appeared in the picture holding hands.
Although the picture quality is very poor and it is in black and white, you can still see that the two children are very cute and beautiful. The time recorded in this videotape must also be very beautiful and worth remembering.
It doesn't matter whether he feels nostalgic or not. It's obvious that they opened the correct videotape this time. Su Yue breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, he didn't have to be disturbed by the ghost's screaming. Cang Zhi picked up the remote control next to the projector and walked back. Su Yue stopped when he was about to sit down on the round stool.
——Because they both discovered that there was only one stool in the room.
In fact, it has been discovered a long time ago, but we are only now realizing how serious this problem is.
Two people cannot sit on the same stool.
Su Yue and Cang Zhi looked at each other in silence for a few seconds. Cang Zhi pointed at the stool and said, "Sit down."
"No, you sit down too." Su Yue said. Although the other party was a puppet, Su Yue was still very good to Cang Zhi. At least he would not do such a thing as sitting on the stool while Cang Zhi squatted beside him and watched with the remote control.
Cang Zhi looked at the stool silently: "This one can't hold two people."
An idea suddenly popped up in Su Yue's mind: "How about I sit on your lap?"
Pause for one second.
Cang Zhi seemed stunned.
Su Yue: "..."
Su Yue shuddered and shook his head quickly: "Forget it. This is too weird."
Even though the other party was a puppet, Su Yue had never had such close contact. In the end, the two decided that Su Yue would sit on the chair and watch while Cang Zhi would stand behind him.
Because this chair was a small round stool without a backrest, Cangzhi put his arm around Suyue's shoulders, which made it more comfortable for him to stand up. However, Suyue soon discovered that he didn't seem to be putting any weight on him.
Perhaps the doll itself doesn't feel tired, so it doesn't need to rely on anyone. Putting its arm around someone's shoulder is probably just to comply with Su Yue's request.
They continued watching the tape.
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There is no sound in this videotape, as if it were an old silent film. However, looking at the things that appear in the picture, such as the cars on the side of the road, or the state of the buildings in the background, it does not feel that old, perhaps a video from 20 or 30 years ago. Perhaps the videographer deliberately used this black-and-white silent film recording technique to create a sense of atmosphere.
The video tape probably tells the story of a boy and a girl who were childhood sweethearts. They always held hands, ran laughing across the gravel path in the garden, and watched the stars together by the lake. Their families knew each other and always took them out to play together. The little boy and the girl were innocent and had a lot of fun.
Su Yue recalled the work log he saw in Warehouse No. 520. The director mentioned "sister" in his own records. They later speculated that these were not brother and sister, but the director's affectionate name for his lover, because the entire park was related to love, as if it were a memorial park.
Are the little boy and girl in the picture the head teacher and his "sister"?
Su Yue was thinking about this when he suddenly felt something strange.
He quickly pressed the pause button and turned back.
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He saw nothing. The bookshelves were so close that they almost touched his back. The convection between the bookshelves created a draft that carried a faint sound through the small room of the warehouse. The gaps between the books let light in, and that light seemed to be something spying.
Su Yue coughed, and his voice formed a faint echo. A breeze blew through the hall, and some soft-cover books on the bookshelf were flipped, and the pages made a fluttering sound.
Since he had found nothing, Su Yue turned his attention back to the TV and pressed the play button again. The moment the picture started to move, his eyes froze on the ground.
The small light bulb casts the viewer's shadow on the ground, the small round stool, Suyue sitting on the small round stool, and Cangzhi standing on Suyue's right.
There is also a head-shaped shadow on Su Yue's left, peeking out from behind his shoulder.
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"Azhi." Su Yue calmly squeezed Cangzhi's hand without looking back. "Did you notice? Someone is watching TV with us."
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