"Boss! Teacher Han! Look behind you!"

Xiao Du ran to several other tourists, panting and looking a little pale.

"Behind?" Guo Miao glanced behind him. There was nothing strange in the dark and depressing corridor.

"Puppet! The puppet is chasing us!"

After hearing Du Chaojin's shout, the crowd, who had finally walked a few meters inside, stopped again.

"Could you have seen it wrong?" Song An comforted Xiao Du softly, but he moved towards Guo Miao.

"No! They really moved!" Xiao Du took a breath and said, "Come and see for yourself. When we first saw those puppets, they were at the end of the left passage. Now they have run to the junction of the left and right passages!"

"Don't panic." Teacher Han said calmly, "Dolls can move by themselves. I saw them three years ago. It was a haunted house in Japan with dolls as the theme. The small dolls were equipped with various mechanical parts, which could move by themselves and change their facial expressions. Four-fifths of the large dolls were props, and the remaining one-fifth were actors mixed in."

"Is it a real person acting?" After hearing what Teacher Han said, Xiao Du became even more confused, and he himself began to feel uncertain.

"When I first came in, I noticed the puppets in the left passage." Teacher Han folded his hands in front of his chest. "Those puppets are one-to-one with real people, as if they were made from molds of real people. You have to understand one thing. The puppets used as ordinary props, including those in our Tian Teng Hospital, have physical and facial defects. The cost of a perfect puppet is too high, about 30,000 yuan, and it needs a top master to carve it. Few haunted houses can afford it."

"Then why would his haunted house invest so much money in making such dolls?" Ye Xiaoxin was taking notes in a small notebook, and no one knew what she had written.

"It's simple. This means that those dolls are a very important scaring point in his haunted house!"

Han Qiu Ming stroked his chin, his eyes fell on Ye Xiaoxin through the thick glasses: "Live actors mixed in with the lifelike puppets can have miraculous effects at critical moments, just like what happened to Xiao Du just now. At first glance, it seems that the puppet is moving by itself, but in fact it is the actor mixed in with it who is moving the puppet forward. If we hide in the dark and observe secretly, we may be able to see this scene."

Song An beside him also nodded: "Teacher Han is right about this. Our Tian Teng Hospital also tried a similar scary method a year ago, but unfortunately the puppets were too fake and were seen through by tourists at a glance."

"So that's how it is." Xiao Du suddenly realized and his face looked a little better: "I was really scared just now. Those puppets were so realistic that I thought they could move by themselves."

"You can tell it's impossible just by thinking with your feet." Teacher Han said firmly, and his words made sense: "If time wasn't limited, I would hide in this house and record the process of the actors moving the puppets for you."

"Okay, let's keep going and find the recorder first." Guo Miao always felt that things were not that simple, but he couldn't find a reason to refute Teacher Han.

"Old Guo, we need to pay attention to two things about that recorder." Teacher Han said he was not afraid, but in his heart he was already deeply wary of Chen Ge's haunted house: "Mr. Chen hid our recorder in the third ward scene in advance. He must have made sufficient preparations. There must be something scary waiting near the recorder."

"I know that without you telling me." Guo Miao walked in front. The bedding was piled up randomly on the ground. Stepping on it felt strange, as if stepping on bundles of hair.

"This is just the first point. I have another thing to tell you. Do you find the game rules he made are strange?"

"What's strange about that?"

"Finding the recorder doesn't count as clearing the level. You have to take the recorder out of the third ward for the game to end."

"That tape recorder is ours, so isn't it normal for us to take it out now?" Xiao Du interjected.

"I feel like you all underestimated the insidiousness of the owner of this haunted house." Han Qiuming took out a glasses cloth and wiped his glasses. His lenses were very thick. "The recorder itself should be the switch that triggers the scene. In other words, from the moment we find the recorder, all the horror settings in this scene will appear. Before that, we are safe."

"That's true, but no one can guarantee it." Song An is the strongest, but not the bravest.

"In short, I personally think that there is no need for everyone to be afraid now. The most important thing is to understand the surrounding environment and remember the path. After all, his haunted house is an open scene with a complex internal environment. Only in this way, when we find the recorder and all the ghost actors in the entire scene go berserk, can we escape as quickly as possible." After Han Qiumin finished his analysis, regardless of whether others believed it or not, he believed it himself.

"That makes sense. No matter how scary a haunted house is, it's just the living people causing trouble. As long as we stay calm and don't put ourselves overly into the situation, we won't feel scared." Ye carefully stuffed the notepad into his trouser pocket against his thigh.

Han Qiuming was somewhat excited to get Ye Xiaoxin's approval, and the only trace of fear in his heart slowly dissipated. When he was about to quicken his pace and walk with Ye Xiaoxin, his clothes were grabbed by someone. He turned around and saw that the tactless person was the youngest Du Chaojin.

"Teacher Han, look there." Everyone turned and looked outside the third ward. In the middle of the iron gate of the third ward, stood a female doll in school uniform. She wore a school badge around her neck, lowered her head, and her joints were twisted and slightly deformed.

In the moment they were distracted, the puppets came closer to them.

"It's normal. This is the most basic psychological technique. Chen is probably hiding in the monitoring room and giving instructions to the actors. He wants to use the puppets that keep approaching to put pressure on us, because when people are impatient, they are more likely to feel fear and anxiety."

Han Qiu Ming told Xiao Du not to be afraid: "Fake is fake. I used a similar trick a few years ago. Don't worry, these puppets will never dare to get within five meters of us. Five meters is a safe distance. Once the puppets get too close, the actors will not be able to operate. I can guarantee you with my nearly ten years of experience in the industry."

After he finished speaking, he ignored Xiao Du and ran to Ye Xiaoxin's side, commenting on the various arrangements in Chen Ge's haunted house.

"This guy." Guo Miao sighed and said to the people around him: "Follow me closely, don't touch anything in the corridor casually, and don't enter the ward alone."

"Okay." Xiao Du followed at the end of the team. He didn't notice that when he took a step, the puppet outside the door also moved.