Chi Shen and Li Xu have returned to the haunted place of the mobile home.
The two were looking at the "bloodstains" on the ground, but unexpectedly they met the security guard Xiao Wang.
As someone who had just emerged from the death game, Chi Shen noticed Xiao Wang the moment he caught up with him. Although Xiao Wang had tried hard to make his footsteps lighter, this was a concrete floor, and no matter how light his footsteps were, they would still make some noise unless he took off his shoes and walked in socks. Moreover, it was too quiet here, and in late autumn there was not even the sound of insects, so any sound was very obvious.
Under the cover of his and Li Xu's footsteps, ordinary people may not be able to detect the footsteps, but Chi Shen can detect this little bit of unusualness. This ability was developed after he entered three copies of the death game. He had to develop it because it was a copy where you had to listen to the footsteps to judge the distance between ghosts and yourself. In that copy, you can't see ghosts, you can only hear the footsteps of ghosts. Fortunately, he quickly mastered the listening skills and survived in that copy.
He also taught this skill of listening to sounds to his teammates at the time, so that everyone who followed him and listened to him passed the copy.
At that time, he just simply wanted more people to survive. Only by uniting together could everyone survive through the copy. However, he soon stopped thinking that way. There was always a huge gap between ideals and reality. He fell into that gap, and then climbed out after being shattered to pieces.
The incongruous sound of security guard Wang's light footsteps made Chi Shen realize that someone was following him, so he discussed with Li Xu to see if the person following them was someone who came in to play like them, or someone who created this haunted phenomenon. The two communicated on the phone and quickly decided on a plan, one from the front and one from the back, to block him!
Guilian also volunteered to go and take a look. Today, when Guilian saw Chi Shen was about to go out, he was the first to jump up from the coffee table and said that he wanted to combine work and rest. Senior high school students are still allowed to take sabbaticals, so he also wanted to go out for some fresh air. Chi Shen thought about this month's electricity bill and agreed.
The weather was too cold and it was a construction site, so the regulations were not strict. Security guard Xiao Wang was not wearing a security uniform, but a large cotton-padded jacket. Guilian did not recognize him as a security guard at first glance, so the subsequent events happened.
After reaching a consensus with Xiao Wang over a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes, the two began to collect materials from the haunted scene again.
"This blood is syrup. This is the blood bag commonly used in film and television dramas." Li Xu squatted on the ground and looked at the "bloodstains" on the ground.
Chi Shen was also holding a flashlight. Li Xu was fully equipped and this flashlight was given to him by Li Xu. He illuminated the entire shape of the bloodstain. The bloodstain spread out in a splashing manner, some on the wall and some on the ground.
Li Xu looked at the "bloodstains" and closed his eyes. He retreated to the door and walked back in. This time his walking posture was shaky and he seemed like he would fall down at any time.
"If someone walked in like this and came here..." Li Xu stood on the blood-stained ground and fell against the wall. "He was drunk, so he leaned here for a while. Someone approached him from behind and took a sharp fruit knife..."
The temperature in the aisle seemed to drop by two degrees, and it gradually became colder as Li Xu spoke. The wind from outside the aisle blew in, lifting the hem of Li Xu's clothes.
Li Xu seemed to feel a little cold, and he lowered his voice, as if he was telling a story that could not be told, and whispered: "Cut the throat with a knife."
Chi Shen was holding a flashlight, and while Li Xu was talking, he followed the bloodstains to the end of the aisle.
"The knife cut the artery, and blood splattered all over the wall and the ground," Li Xu's voice was hoarse and strangely erratic. "The victim wanted to shout for help, but it was too late. The knife cut through the artery and the trachea. No matter how he called for help, all he could hear was the gurgling sound of blood bubbling from his neck. Soon, he fell down. He was still thinking about the fact that he hadn't received his wages yet and that Wang Laoer hadn't paid him back for the card he owed him... At this time, he also saw the face of the person standing behind him. It was Wang Laoer's face. Wang Laoer stepped on the blood on the ground, walked out with a smile, and the knife in his hand dripped blood..."
"Someone just casually splashed it here," Chi Shen pointed at the direction of the bloodstain, "If the throat was cut, the starting point of the bloodstain shouldn't be so low. This mark would only spray along this mark if the throat was cut while he was lying on the ground. But if the throat was cut while he was lying on the ground, the bloodstain wouldn't spray so high."
Li Xu looked haggard and constipated: "...There's no need to be so serious."
"I was afraid that you would misunderstand that there was a real haunted place," Chi Shen showed a very relaxed smile, and looked around in the corridor leisurely, "This is too childish. The person who arranged the crime scene was not rigorous. If they were to cut the throat from behind, they would cover the person's mouth first and lift the neck to make it easier to start—"
Chi Shen's tone was obviously normal, but Li Xu found it strange. He loosened his collar and asked, "Why do you sound so experienced?"
"I've seen a lot..."
Li Xu raised his head: "?"
"I like ghost stories, so I have seen a lot of stories of this type, and I have also done some research, so I know a little bit." Chi Shen felt a cold wind passing by his ears. It was Ji Xingchen reminding him. He had to use a more euphemistic way to express what he had done so that Li Xu would feel more at ease.
The cold wind around his ears disappeared, and Chi Shen touched his ears. He always felt that his ears were a little itchy.
Li Xu didn't ask any more questions: "Let's go see the next one."
——
In the security room.
Xiao Wang still felt a little cold. He found that no matter how much he put on, he couldn't get warmer. The chill seemed to penetrate into his bones, making him unable to sleep.
He took out his phone and checked. The weather forecast showed the temperature was 11 degrees. He was puzzled for a long time. How could 13 degrees be so cold? Wouldn't his two cotton coats be enough?
If you can't sleep, just go out for a walk, Xiao Wang thought. I don't know what happened to those two people before. I didn't expect that such a haunted place could still attract people. I should ask for more money, or charge an entrance fee to let people in. Maybe this is also a way to make money?
While thinking about something, Xiao Wang picked up the flashlight and suddenly heard the sound of something heavy being dragged outside the door.
The sound came from far away and came closer, like something very heavy and hard being dragged on the concrete ground, making a heavy and harsh sound.
What on a construction site could make such a noise?
This is exactly the sound that steel used to build a house makes when it is dragged along the ground!
Xiao Wang immediately became furious. Well, those two men looked gentle and not poor, and were educated people. They said they came to see the haunted place, but they turned out to be here to steal steel. Fortunately, he was not asleep, because he had to catch these two men!
Picking up the first point, Xiao Wang immediately opened the door and rushed out. Then, he was stunned.
Under the pale light of the flashlight, he first saw spots of blood dripping, and a huge axe covered with new and old bloodstains, then old and tattered clothes, and... no head above the neck.
He immediately turned around and went back to the security room, muttering to himself: "This joke tonight was a bit too much. Even the headless corpse was brought here. Who did this boss offend?"
"No, that must be fake. Maybe the head of a plastic mannequin in the mall was broken off and placed here."
Xiao Wang frantically comforted himself: "It must be fake, just like the blood on the bloody shirt is chicken blood. This model must be moved here to scare people. It's definitely not a ghost."
The sound of the heavy object being dragged rang out again, this time getting closer and closer to the door of the security room. A faint voice rang out from outside the door: "Have you seen my head?"
——
This construction site only leveled the land and built prefabricated houses for the workers to live in. Even the prefabricated houses were only half built, with some materials still piled on the open space. Now a doll was placed on those materials.
It was a latex doll the size of a newborn baby. When the flashlight was shone on it, there was a strange light in the doll's eyes. It looked at the two people approaching, and drops of red traces dripped from its clothes.
As a horror game planner, Li Xu shuddered when he saw this situation. He hesitated for a moment, and then saw Chi Shen walking over calmly.
"...Aren't you afraid at all?" Li Xu suddenly felt that the employee he hired was a little unusual. It was not a coincidence that he could write a plot like a girl wearing a floral skirt and driving a invincible car to defeat the God of Wealth!
"A little bit." Chi Shen felt that he should adapt to the local customs, so he spoke the truth, "This material seems to be piled unsteadily. I'm a little afraid that I will fall down."
Li Xu: ...We are not talking about the same kind of fear at all!
While Li Xu was hesitating, Chi Shen had already climbed to the top of the pile of materials. He didn't want to be the brightest guy on the construction site, he just wanted to take the doll down.
This doll suddenly appeared here yesterday. Even the security guards didn't know how it appeared. After it appeared, the red liquid began to drip along the building materials of the room. It didn't stop for a day. The doll couldn't hold so much water. Because it was too weird, the security guards who patrolled once an hour didn't know who put it there. It was too high, so no one touched it for the time being and just left it there.
Chi Shen climbed up on a pile of materials and grabbed the doll, and pulled out a small transparent tube hidden behind the board. Behind it was a mineral water bottle with half a bottle of plasma in it.
Chi Shen threw the doll and the mineral water bottle down, and Li Xu hurried to catch them, and the sticky blood plasma splashed all over him.
"This is a very detailed arrangement." Chi Shen said, "I suspect that the person who did this used to run a haunted house."
Li Xu was also looking at the doll. The doll's eyes were very lifelike, yet they also glowed with a faint green light. One look at them seemed to suck people in.
"This doll..." Li Xu handed the doll over, "It's very strange, her eyes seem to be always looking at me."
Chi Shen picked up the doll and looked at it, then reached out his hand, and as Li Xu stared in amazement, he popped out the doll's eyeballs, then shone a flashlight into them for Li Xu to see.
The doll's eyeballs are also made according to the structure of human eyeballs, so that the eyeballs can rotate in the doll's eyes and adjust different angles. Unlike real human eyes, the upper half of the eyeballs are flesh-pink and close to the eyelashes, so that the doll can make a blinking motion, but at this moment Li Xu only felt even more terrified.
The way Chi Shen shone the flashlight looked a bit like a perverted researcher, and Li Xu subconsciously turned his gaze away from his eyes.
——He dug out the eyeballs with his hands, and he was so skilled at it, it was really scary!
"Come and see."
Chi Shen, however, paid no attention to his boss. He just came over with his eyes and pulled Li Xu to look at him.
Li Xu had no choice but to look over, and under the light of Chi Shen's flashlight, the glowing eyeball disappeared. Under the light, there was only an ordinary plastic eyeball, which even looked a bit inferior.
Why doesn't it look weird?
Li Xu looked at the other eye on the doll again. That eye was still glowing dark green and seemed to be looking at him with resentment. He asked him why he dug out one of its eyeballs.
"This is fluorescent material. Paint a circle in the pupil as the background color." Chi Shen moved the flashlight away a little and handed the eyeball over. When the light was weak, the faint green color also appeared, glowing with a faint green light.
Although Li Xu was a little reluctant to take it, he didn't want to show his weakness, so he took it, shone the flashlight on it and then moved it away, shone it on it and then moved it away. After trying several times, he finally found that it was indeed a fluorescent material.
"The person who made this doll is really talented." Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems that I was overthinking it. Was this doll designed to be scary?"
"It might be taken out of a haunted house," Chi Shen said, with some regret in his tone, "The horror environment here is all man-made, there are no natural ghosts."
Li Xu put the eyeball back into the doll's eye socket. The doll without an eye looked even scarier. The missing eye looked at him like an abyss, so he put it back. This time Li Xu sighed: "It seems like another wasted trip."
Chi Shen tilted his head and looked at him: "Do you really want to see a ghost?"
The girl in the floral dress lying on Li Xu also raised her head and looked at Li Xu's face. The little girl who was pulling his clothes also looked up at him.
Li Xu sighed: "I always feel that this game is missing something. I want to find a ghost to ask. Maybe it's because I haven't experienced it myself, so I can't find the feeling."
Chi Shen lowered his eyes slightly. Ever since Li Xu asked him to submit the main plot plan, he had been working on this together with Ma Caijin. Up to now, he had submitted five versions, but Li Xu had rejected them all.
He had found it strange before. Logically speaking, someone like Li Xu, who could develop a horror game by himself and sell it well, should have a general idea of the story in his mind. It shouldn't be him and Ma Caijin who wrote everything. It turned out that the boss himself hadn't figured out how to make this game?
So, were all the work he and Ma Caijin did in vain?
This won’t do. This game is related to his job, and he has to help his boss.
Chi Shen raised his eyes slightly and looked at Li Xu with a smile: "Then do you want to experience it and see a ghost?"
Li Xu also raised his head from the doll, with an expression of disbelief: "You also have a way to do this?"
"some."
Chi Shen looked at the ghosts on Li Xu's body.
"Do you want to see a child, an adult, a ghost that looks like a ghost, or a ghost that looks like a human?"
Li Xu: "Are there still so many to choose from?"
Chi Shen nodded.
At this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from the direction of the security room: "Ghost——!"
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