Chapter 1
Granny Gu suddenly laughed for no reason.
The sound of her laughter was much clearer than his speaking voice, and sounded more like a child's laughter. An old lady with a hoarse voice like old bark rubbing against sandpaper suddenly laughed out a child's laughter as clear as a silver bell. This scene was really weird and scared everyone in the room.
Jiang Qi noticed that the largest and most exquisite doll on the cabinet suddenly moved, and the whole doll turned sideways and didn't look at Granny Gu, as if it was disgusted.
"What are you laughing at?" asked a short-haired woman in a neat work suit among the crowd with a bad look on her face.
"I'm sorry, Miss Zhao, I just suddenly thought of something happy." Grandma Gu's lips curled up into a smile and she tapped the ground with her cane, sometimes heavily and sometimes lightly.
"Aren't we going to have a test? What's with the turtle soup? Start quickly." Yu Gui urged dissatisfiedly.
"Let's start now." Granny Gu looked at everyone and said, "Today's test is very simple. You just need to play turtle soup with me here. If you can hold on until 12 o'clock without being scared and leaving, you will pass."
"Today is the Ghost Festival, a day when the gates of hell are wide open. Don't blame me for not warning you. There may really be something bad in this room. I can't guarantee what will happen in the next few hours. If you want to leave, you can leave now. If you want to continue, the assessment will start now."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Yu Gui had an expression like an old lady playing tricks on him, not believing it at all.
But if one really didn't believe it or had some ulterior motive, who would come to this strange place at this time to accept such a bizarre test?
Jiang Qi looked at Yu Gui and felt that he was acting a little too aggressively.
"What is turtle soup?" Yu Gui asked.
Zuo Si couldn't help rolling her eyes. She had been annoyed with this impatient and talkative middle-aged man for a long time.
"Turtle soup is a situational riddle. The person who asks the question tells a story, and we can keep asking questions, but the person who asks the question can only answer yes or no until we guess the truth of the story." Zuo Si said.
"Thank you Miss Zuo for helping me explain." Granny Gu glanced at Zuo Si and said, "This is a very interesting intellectual game. I believe everyone will have a lot of fun tonight."
"Then I'll ask question 1 first."
"A man has a birthday, and all his friends come to celebrate for him. They turn off the lights, light candles, and sing birthday songs. When the candles are blown out and the lights are turned on again, everyone except the birthday man is dead. Why is this?"
Jiang Qi couldn't help but shudder when he heard this, not because of the question, but because after she finished talking about the question, Granny Gu grinned with a malicious smile.
That smile was as if she was looking forward to turning off the lights and then turning them on again to be the only living person in the room.
But except for Jiang Qi, the bystander, no one present noticed Grandma Gu's strange smile. Everyone was thinking seriously.
"Does the person celebrating the birthday have any grudge against other people?" Zuo Si asked.
"No grudge."
"There is a debt dispute between them. The person having the birthday owes a lot of money to others, so he wants to kill them and not pay them back." Zhao Si guessed.
“There is no debt dispute.”
"Could it be an emotional dispute?" another woman, Zhuang Gui, guessed.
"no."
"Have they been friends for many years?" Zuo Si asked.
"yes."
…
Gradually, the other three men also began to ask questions.
Some of the questions raised were very relevant, while others were completely off topic. Granny Gu patiently answered them one by one. Ten minutes passed, and the six people had no clues, let alone finding the reason.
Jiang Qi was not interested in Turtle Soup. He had played it with his classmates in the drama club when he was in college. Turtle Soup had a variety of topics, some of which were reasonable, but most were outrageous. This was a game that could not be played with normal thinking.
Often the more outrageous the question, the closer it is to the truth of the matter.
Anyway, Jiang Qi is not very good at playing.
Jiang Qi was still remembering the furnishings in the candy store.
It can be seen that the original owner of this candy store was a girly person who loved dolls very much. There were various supports on the wall, and on the supports were all dolls of different sizes, hair colors, skirts, and big eyes.
Short hair, long hair, curly hair, princess cut, ponytail, double ponytail, braid...
The dolls here have all the imaginable hairstyles for girls.
These dolls not only have exquisite hairstyles, but also exquisite skirts. Jiang Qi took a closer look and found that the workmanship of these skirts was very delicate. The lace patterns and directions on each skirt were different. The only common feature was that they were all very beautiful.
If these skirts were enlarged in proportion and made into children's clothing or adult princess dresses, they would definitely be very popular.
Jiang Qi may not know about others, but Wang Erya and Jiang Wanwan must like it very much.
"I know!" Zuo Si suddenly said loudly, startling Zhao Si who was standing next to him.
"The birthday man's friends have cheated on him together before, right?"
"Yes."
Zuo Si was so excited that he was in high spirits: "Besides being blind, he must have other disabilities, right?"
"Yes."
blind?
It turned out that while he was absorbed in studying the dolls and wall decorations, the group had already guessed that the birthday man was blind.
Jiang Qi glanced at the clock on the wall and found that it was already 8 o'clock. They had been playing Turtle Soup for nearly an hour. The level of this group of people was really not that good.
Seeing that Zuo Si was close to the truth, Jiang Qi turned his attention to Zuo Si.
"That disability of his was caused by his friends, wasn't it?"
"Yes."
Zuo Si stood up immediately. "The disabled part is his hand, right? He is missing a hand."
"Yes." Granny Gu nodded with satisfaction.
"I know the reason!"
"The birthday man and the others were indeed long-time friends, and they tricked this man into losing his hand due to an accident."
"The situation was that one person had to lose a hand, but they lied to him that everyone would lose a hand. Since this person was blind, he didn't know whether others had cut off their hands. In order to save everyone, he cut off his own hand and thought that everyone had cut off their hands."
"It wasn't until this birthday when everyone turned off the lights, sang birthday songs for him, and applauded to celebrate that he realized that he was the only one who had lost his hand, so he killed everyone in a rage!"
Everyone else was stunned.
"Xiao Zuo, you are really good at this!" Zhao Si praised.
"That's roughly it." Granny Gu nodded, thinking Zuo Si was right. "The truth is, these people are all friends who grew up in the same orphanage. One time, they agreed to go hiking together, but encountered a mudslide and got trapped on the mountain. In order to survive, they decided to chop off each other's hands and eat each other."
"Everyone knows the result. Only the blind man who was celebrating his birthday was tricked into having his hand chopped off. The rest is just as Miss Zuo Si said."
Zhao Si took a deep breath and said, "This guy's friends are such bastards. Even though they wanted to survive, they took advantage of him because he couldn't see and tricked him into cutting off his hand. He deserves it!"
"He really deserved it." Granny Gu smiled. "The reason everyone survived after only one person's left hand was because everyone secretly hid food when the hand was chopped off, except the blind man. If both the hand and the food were eaten and the rescue team didn't come, then the blind man might have lost more than just a hand."
Everyone shuddered after hearing this.
The doll in the blue skirt on Jiang Qi's left suddenly moved. Jiang Qi looked at it. It still had the standard smile and big watery eyes, but this smile seemed to have a hint of sarcasm.
Valley Song
Then the doll in the blue skirt stretched and yawned, as if she was tired of watching everyone playing turtle soup.
There really is a ghost in this house.
Jiang Qi looked at the doll in the blue dress, as if to see if it could make any more anthropomorphic movements, but the doll in the blue dress stopped moving and its smile turned into a normal smile, as if it were an ordinary doll.
"Miss Zuo Si answered correctly, so she deserves a reward. Please wait downstairs for a moment, I will go upstairs to get the reward." After that, Granny Gu walked upstairs slowly with her cane. The cane hit the wooden stairs with a dull thud, and soon the sound disappeared, and no one could hear any movement upstairs.
Hearing that he would receive a reward, Zuo Si was in a good mood. He began to leisurely observe the decorations in the house and even picked up any pretty dolls he saw and played with them.
"You know what, the dolls in this room are pretty nice." Zuo Si picked up her favorite short-haired blonde doll with a pink floral dress and lace, and put it in her arms, apparently wanting to take the doll away directly.
Kick the ghost directly into the arms. Most horror movie actors don’t dare to do this.
"You're really worthy of being called a suicidal lady." Jiang Qi sighed.
"Why are you moving the dolls in this room? Haven't you heard that this store is haunted? Be careful not to attract unclean things back." Yu Gui scolded, and couldn't help but move his chair away, not wanting to get close to Zuo Si at all.
Zuo Si was also unhappy with Yu Gui: "Don't come here if you're timid. If you're afraid of ghosts, why did you apply for the Supernatural Horror Fans Association?"
Yu Gui was choked and speechless.
Xun Si, a frail young man standing beside him, tried to mediate: "Ms. Zuo, Mr. Yu has good intentions. It is better to believe it than not to believe it."
Yu Gui looked at Xun Si: "Do you know me?"
Xun Si smiled flatteringly: "Of course I know him, Mr. Yu, you are really a forgetful person. You sponsored our laboratory and I am a researcher in the laboratory."
Granny Gu was still upstairs and hadn't come down yet, so Xun Si's words got everyone talking. Xun Si wasn't the only one who knew other people, and everyone started introducing themselves.
Yu Gui is the boss of a real estate company. He has done good business in the past two years and made a lot of money. He is considered the most successful among the six.
Xun Si is a researcher and a doctoral student as he said. He published a paper some time ago. He has been very proud of himself recently and has been appreciated by his boss.
Zhao Si is the sales manager of a cosmetics store. She has good performance and just bought an apartment last month using her savings of many years. She is doing pretty well.
Zhuang Gui is a full-time housewife who married a rich husband and often bought cosmetics from Zhao Si. Zhuang Gui is unlucky because her rich husband cheated on her and had a mistress, who gave birth to a son and almost succeeded her.
Why do we say that she almost succeeded in getting promoted? Because her rich husband is now a deceased husband. When the deceased husband was traveling with his mistress and her son, the car broke down on the highway and fell off a cliff, and they all died.
Jian Gui, the most low-key and taciturn person, is an ordinary accountant who has just lost his job due to the bankruptcy of his company. He is the only unlucky one among the six.
Based on what he saw in Zuo Si's book, Jiang Qi knew where Zuo Si's good luck came from, and he didn't need to guess where other people's recent good things came from, except Jian Gui.
Either he hired an irregular Kumantong like Zuo Si, or he used other evil methods.
Even for Jian Gui, who seemed to have no good things happen to him, Jiang Qi felt that he was probably not very clean.
Ben Jiangqi has seen through all the villains.
After the six people finished chatting, it was already eight forty. Grandma Gu went upstairs to get the gifts and had been waiting for more than half an hour but had not come down yet. Everyone was getting a little impatient.
Zuo Si got up with the doll in his arms, walked to the stairs and shouted upstairs: "Grandma Gu, have you found your gift? If not, forget it. Do you still want to play with the turtle soup?"
No response.
Zuo Si felt something was not right, so he leaned over and looked upwards, only to find that there was no light at all upstairs.
"Something doesn't seem right." Zuo Si said to everyone, "There's no light upstairs. Could Granny Gu have left or gone to sleep?"
"Is this damn old woman playing tricks on us?" Yu Gui said angrily, standing up and about to open the door and leave.
He turned the door handle hard, but it wouldn't turn.
The door is locked.
Seeing this, everyone's faces looked unhappy.
"What does this mean? Locking us in here?" Yu Gui kicked the door hard, but the door of good quality did not move at all.
Zhao Si took out her cell phone to call the police, but was horrified to find that there was no signal.
No one had any cell phone signal.
Everyone finally began to realize that something was not right.
"Go to the second floor!" Jian Gui was the first to react.
Zuo Si was still holding the baby.
Jiang Qi watched with great interest from the side. He felt that it was time, time to set off the haunting.
How do horror movies usually play out in situations like this?
Turn off the lights!
The originally bright incandescent lamp suddenly flickered as if the current was disturbed.
"Ah!" Zhao Si screamed.
Now that there are screams, the next thing will be a paranormal event.
"Hahahahahaha~" The doll in Zuo Si's arms suddenly burst into laughter, and its laughter was exactly the same as Granny Gu's. Zuo Si was so frightened that he quickly threw the doll out.
All the dolls laughed together.
More than 100 dolls and more than 100 clear laughters like silver bells combined together created a very terrifying sound effect. Everyone didn't even care about being afraid and covered their ears in pain.
"Go upstairs, go upstairs quickly!" Jian Gui ignored everyone else and was the first to run upstairs.
The others followed, and the laughter stopped abruptly when everyone stepped onto the stairs.
The blue-dressed doll that was thrown out by Zuo Si stood up from the ground, very unhappy, and snorted coldly: "Coward, you only know how to run, how boring."
Then the doll in the blue dress fell to the ground, and the largest doll in the red dress on the middle shelf moved.
The doll in the red skirt jumped down from the shelf and touched the hem of her skirt in a very leisurely and elegant manner. Two lines of blood and tears appeared in the doll's eyes, and her mouth showed her sharp teeth hidden in the cotton. After making a few fierce expressions, she retracted her teeth and blood and tears, feeling very satisfied.
The doll in the red dress hopped upstairs, and all the dolls moved, jumped down from the shelves in a very stiff manner, and followed behind.
The doll army is out.
Jiang Qi looked at the jumping figure of the doll in the red skirt and actually thought that this doll ghost was quite cute.
How to say it, if Jiang Qi himself were a character in a horror movie, he would definitely be very scared.
But once he became a spectator, the kind that even ghosts couldn't see, things became interesting.
Is it fun to watch people scream?
Fun.
Is it fun to watch scary ghosts?
Fun.
Is it fun to see ghosts adjusting their own clothes and managing their facial expressions before scaring people?
Quite fun.
"Horror books are indeed interesting. A world where only players get hurt is achieved." Jiang Qi sighed and followed.
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