"Three entrances and three exits, the main room, the ear room, the east and west wing rooms, the winding corridors, the hanging flower curtains, the Ruyi door, the inverted lintel, the Leigong pillar... The details of this haunted house are well done. It imitates the ancient courtyard house and it is quite immersive." Gao Ruxue walked and stopped in the scene, looking relaxed and commenting from time to time.

"Senior, we are in a haunted house, not visiting Suzhou Gardens. Can you consider my feelings?" The empty house was filled with gloomy air, with soul flags fluttering and paper money flying. The haunted house in Heshan's eyes was completely different from Gao Ruxue's. He was cautious, fearing that something would suddenly emerge from the shadows in the corner: "Let's find the exit quickly. I have a bad feeling."

"Since you are here, enjoy the tour. We are in a haunted house, so don't let it fool you."

"Do you remember what the owner of the haunted house said before he came in, asking us to find the exit within fifteen minutes? I always feel that the man is mean and if we can't escape within fifteen minutes, something horrible will definitely happen!" Heshan tried to persuade Gao Ruxue, but unfortunately the other party didn't care.

"There are only a few ways to scare people in a haunted house. The most they do is ask the staff to dress up as ghosts and chase us around. We're not even afraid of dead people, so how could we be afraid of living people?" Gao Ruxue wandered aimlessly in the corridor and casually pushed open the door of the ear room on the left.

The venue for ghost marriages is a standard courtyard structure. The main house is where the elders and the head of the family live, the wing rooms are for the eldest son and the younger generations, and the ear rooms are located on both sides of the main house, where servants and maids live.

Pushing the door open, I saw that the tables and chairs in the room were overturned, the bedding on the bed was torn and the cotton wool was scattered, and a white silk was hanging in the middle of the beam.

"Senior sister, I'll meet you outside, please be careful..." Heshan was dragged into the house by Gao Ruxue before he could finish his words. He had a bitter face, looking at the white silk that was swaying slowly without wind, his body a little stiff.

"It's quite interesting. The white silk is 1.5 meters above the ground, which is not enough to hang someone to death. The tables and chairs are overturned, and there are traces of struggle on the ground. The haunted house is deliberately creating an illusion of forced suicide. The maid lives in the ear room, and the evil ghost doesn't even let go of the servants who are not related to the family. It seems that it is preparing to torture everyone in this mansion to death." Gao Ruxue's expression was calm, with a hint of excitement in the corners of her eyes: "The design of the haunted house is very detailed, and there may be other easter eggs hidden."

She rummaged through the boxes and drawers, and pulled aside the **'s bedding. Under the worn quilt lay a paper doll.

"A paper man lying on top of a living person?" Gao Ruxue threw the paper man aside and lifted the bed board. There was nothing underneath.

"The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment. I overestimated this haunted house. Let's go. The exit is not in this house." She waved her hand and strode outside.

Heshan, who was left alone in the room, looked at the paper doll on the ground and felt his teeth chattering. Maybe because of the angle, he actually felt that the paper doll was smiling at him.

"The bronze chicken is bleeding, the paper man is opening his eyes... Wait for me! Senior!"

The door of the ear room was closed tightly again, and the white silk in the room stopped fluttering.

"Can you please keep your voice down? Why are you screaming? A grown man is acting like a cowardly girl." Gao Ruxue gave Heshan a look and stopped at the edge of the corridor.

"It's not that I'm a coward! This place really makes me uncomfortable. The longer I stay here, the stronger the feeling of uneasiness becomes. It's as if the thing I fear the most in my heart has been brought out!"

After hearing what Heshan said, Gao Ruxue was stunned for a moment, and she also realized that something was wrong.

The most important thing for a forensic doctor is to have a steady mind and steady hands, but when she mentioned Heshan just now, her tone became obviously much more impatient, which had never happened in other places.

"Am I scared? I know everything in the haunted house is fake, so why should I be scared?" A crack appeared in Gao Ruxue's psychological defense. Neither of them could find the reason for their fear. Under self-doubt and psychological suggestion, the seeds of fear were taking root.

"Do you think there's really something unclean hidden in this place? This haunted house was built on a mass grave, and it was converted from a hospital building..."

"Shut up! Isn't the underground morgue in our school scarier than this place? You're a medical student, so why are you so cowardly?" Gao Ruxue said she didn't care, but her speech speed was getting faster and faster. She sat by the railing of the veranda and looked around. The old house, the mourning hall, the dead tree, and the paper money all over the ground were not very scary. "What am I afraid of?"

Both of them were attracted by the gloomy environment and did not pay attention to the background music that was playing on a loop.

This forbidden song called "Black Friday" has subtly entangled the hearts of the two people, like a dark river washing over their souls, dragging them step by step into the bottomless abyss.

"Xiaoshan, how long have we been here?"

"I don't know, but I feel like we won't be able to get out within fifteen minutes!"

"Don't panic, I've thought about it carefully." Gao Ruxue didn't bother to brush off the dust and walked directly to the other side of the corridor. "There's nothing to be afraid of in this haunted house. The main reason is that the boss has been giving us negative psychological hints. From the moment we entered the haunted house, he has been emphasizing words like mass graves, living burials, and female ghosts. He wants us to scare ourselves. The more cunning thing about this person is that he set a time limit, but didn't say what we would encounter specifically. This causes us to put pressure on ourselves and use our minds to imagine the scariest things."

"So what do you think we should do now? This haunted house always feels a little different from other haunted houses." Heshan is a very honest young man, and he believes whatever the senior says.

"Your feeling is correct. In a normal haunted house, there will be professional actors playing ghosts, using a lot of equipment to create bloody and terrifying scenes, and then let us experience them step by step. But this haunted house doesn't do that. They created the scenes and let us explore freely. There are no guidelines or constraints, and no one knows what will happen next."

"I understand what you mean. The unknown is the most terrifying thing." Heshan looked as if he had suddenly realized something.

"At this point, this is the only explanation." Gao Ruxue frowned slightly: "Okay, let's go to the next room."

The ear room is adjacent to the main room. It is where the head of the family lives. When you push open the wooden door, you will see hemp mourning robes thrown inside the room and a lacquered wooden pavilion in the middle of the hall.

The coffin was red with a big "囍" character pasted on white paper in the middle, and a row of paper people were kneeling neatly on each side.

They have names written on their backs, their faces are painted with makeup, their eyes seem to be bright and have different expressions, as if they are secretly staring at the two people at the door.