"Come, stand in front of the background." The senior in the ill-fitting school uniform picked up the Polaroid camera from the table and urged the visitors to stand on the left side of the projector. "I'll count to three, and we'll all laugh together."
The senior pressed the shutter button. His finger pressed on the shutter, and the camera kept flashing.
In the darkened studio, the camera flashes were blinding, and the group had to cover their eyes.
"Alright, the pictures are done. I'll go see if the doctor has arrived. Come and distribute the pictures, one for each of us. Other than that, be careful not to touch anything in the room. " When the senior spoke, the camera kept spitting out pictures. He picked up a random one and shoved it into his pocket. Then, he placed the camera on the table and left.
The air conditioner in the room was set to a low temperature, and the exposed skin could feel the cold breeze caressing them.
The boy called Chui Ming and Lee Bo supported each other to the edge of the table. They picked up the pictures on the ground. "We'd better follow their instructions. There are many puzzle-solving stages inside the abandoned school, and the clues are usually hidden inside these small props."
Chui Ming had experience with this before. Last time, he had failed to collect the props, and it had caused the situation to crumble.
Picking up the pictures, Chui Ming distributed them to the group, but he suddenly stopped when he was halfway through.
"Why is there an extra picture?"
Chui Ming was standing at the back of the group with Chen Ge. Currently, only Chen Ge did not have a picture, but Chui Ming still had three pictures in his hand.
Not counting the one that belonged to him and the one that belonged to Chen Ge, there would still be an extra one.
"There's something wrong with this picture! F * ck! Quick, look! " Lee Yuan screamed and pointed at the picture in his hand. "When we were taking the picture, there was an extra person in it!"
When the visitors heard that, they lowered their heads to look at the picture. To their shock, when they were taking the picture earlier, there was an extra person next to Xue Li!
She was wearing a Nightmare Academy uniform, and her face was pale. Her eyes stared straight at the screen, and her head leaned lightly on Xue Li's shoulder.
"F * ck! I didn't notice it at all! " Xue Li kept patting her shoulder. She was such a ladylike person, but now she was cursing.
Chen Ge stared at the photo for a while. "It's not CGI. In other words, when the photo was taken, the employee who hid in the room ran out."
The senior was the one who had chosen the spot for the photo. The color of the wall behind him was different from the rest of the walls. Upon closer inspection, there was a spot that was slightly protruding outwards.
"I don't want to stay in this room anymore. Let's go out." Xue Li hugged Lee Yuan like a bullied koala.
"Don't go out casually. Listening to the staff is the safest." Chui Ming reminded him, "No matter how scary the plot is, you won't run into anything too scary when you're going through the plot. If you don't follow the plot and wander off on your own, the ghosts in the various scenarios will all come out. That will be the real despair."
"Alright." Xue Li leaned on Li Yuan's shoulder and tossed the photo aside. She was too timid to touch it.
Her beautiful eyes unconsciously glanced at the screen of the projector, which was playing a movie that Xue Li had never seen before. The main actors were a few students, and they wore the tags of the photography department. The movie was shot in this room.
"Look at this movie, it's so weird."
Everyone turned to look at the projector. On the screen, the people from the photography department were cleaning the room. Suddenly, one of the students found a dusty videotape at the deepest part of the cupboard.
The members of the photography department huddled together, and they were all curious. They decided to see what was inside the videotape.
There was no sound in the movie; it was like watching a pantomime, but the actors' acting skills were on point. They used their body movements to convey the plot.
In the movie, the students shoved the videotape into the projector, and then something strange happened.
The visitors stood inside the photography department, and the people in the movie stood inside the photography department to watch the movie.
They were in the same position, and even the angle of view was the same, but the people watching were different. This kind of visual consistency could easily create an illusion.
After adjusting the projector, the movie started to play. It was a recording of an event organized by the school.
The video was short, only one minute long. After the students watched it, they started to argue.
Since the movie had no sound, the visitors had no idea what they were arguing about.
After the students finished their argument, they replayed the video.
At the forty-fourth second, one of the students pressed the pause button. He pointed at the corridor at the corner of the projector and said something with a scary expression.
The movie zoomed in, and the visitors slowly got a clearer look. During the school's event, a shadow flashed in the corridor.
The students started to argue again. Some of them probably did not believe it and thought it was just a recording accident.
They had a disagreement, and several students walked out from the photography department. In the end, only the student who discovered the shadow was left standing in the room.
The student replayed the video again and again, trying to prove something.
Strangely enough, every time he replayed the video, the shadow in the corridor would become clearer, and a person's face would appear.
The person in the corridor seemed to be slowly approaching. When he replayed the video for the third time, they could see a woman with a pale face and blood all over her body.
The visitors became more and more focused. The movie switched back and forth between the student and the projector. Finally, at the fifth time, the face in the corridor became clearer!
The ferocious facial features made the students feel uncomfortable, and the tourists' hearts were in their throats.
The student in the movie started to get scared. His hands were shaking as he prepared to play the video for the sixth time.
Once again, the video reached the forty-fourth second, but this time, the person in the corridor had disappeared.
The student scratched his head and moved his face closer to the screen. He studied the corridor in the corner. At that moment, the screen that was hanging on the wall peeled off, and a scary face appeared behind it!
"Bang!"
Before the visitors could scream, the door to the photography department was pushed open. Once the senior appeared, he screamed, "Run! Run! Didn't I tell you not to touch the things inside the room? "
Before the visitors understood what was going on, Xue Li suddenly felt her hair ruffled. She turned to look, and a scary face that should have appeared in the movie was standing behind her!
"Ah!"
Scared out of her wits, Xue Li dragged Lee Yuan and ran as fast as she could. The other visitors were also in a panic. Only Chen Ge carried his backpack and took a deep look at the innermost wall of the photography department and the projector.
"One opened the door to attract attention, and the other used the opportunity to come out through the workers' passageway. The timing is perfect. They must have practiced this many times. This Nightmare Academy is not to be underestimated."
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