"Three entrances and three exits, main room, side room, east and west wing rooms, walking corridor, hanging flower curtain, ruyi door, hanging lintel, thunder pillar … The details of this Haunted House are not bad, replicating an ancient Siheyuan. It's quite immersive." Gao Ru Xue walked around the scenario with a relaxed expression. She would occasionally comment.
"Senior, we're inside a Haunted House, not a Suzhou Garden. Can you please consider my feelings?" The empty house was thick with eeriness. The ghost flags and paper money fluttered in the wind. The Haunted House in Heshan's eyes was completely different from Gao Ru Xue's. He was cautious, afraid that something might jump out from the shadows. "We'd better find the exit, I have a bad feeling about this."
"Since you're already here, why don't you take a good look around? We're visiting a Haunted House, so don't get tricked by it."
"Don't you remember what the boss told us before we entered this place? He told us to find the exit within fifteen minutes. I have a feeling that the man is up to no good. If we can't escape in fifteen minutes, something scary will happen!" He San tried to persuade Gao Ru Xue, but the latter did not seem to care.
"There are only so many ways to scare people. At most, they'll have the workers dress up as ghosts and chase us around. We're not even afraid of the dead, so why would we be afraid of the living?" Gao Ru Xue wandered aimlessly down the corridor and pushed open the door to the left side room.
The Minghun venue was a standard Siheyuan. The main room was for the elders and the family head, the side room was for the eldest son and the younger generation, and the side rooms were on both sides of the main room for the servants.
Pushing the door open, the tables and chairs were toppled over, the mattress was torn, and the cotton was scattered. There was a white silk hanging in the middle of the room.
"Senior, I'll wait outside, be careful …" Before Heshan could finish, he was dragged into the room by Gao Ru Xue. With a bitter face, he looked at the white silk that swayed even though there was no wind, and his body was frozen.
"Interesting, the white silk is 1.5 meters above the ground. At this height, it's impossible to hang someone to death. The tables and chairs are toppled, and there are signs of struggle on the ground. The Haunted House is purposely creating the illusion of a forced suicide. There are maids living in the side room, and the evil ghost won't even let go of the servants who are not related by blood. It looks like she's prepared to torture everyone in this mansion to death. " Gao Ru Xue's expression was calm, but there was a trace of excitement hidden in her eyes. "The design of the Haunted House is very detailed. Perhaps there are other hidden surprises."
She rummaged through the drawers and cabinets and pulled the bedding off the bed. Under the tattered quilt was a girl doll made of paper.
"A paper doll lying on a living person's bed?" Gao Ru Xue casually tossed the paper doll aside and lifted the bed board. There was nothing underneath.
"The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. I have overestimated this Haunted House. Let's go. The exit isn't in this room. "She waved her hand and strode outside.
Heshan, who was left alone in the room, looked at the paper doll on the floor. His teeth chattered. Perhaps it was because of the angle, but he felt like the paper doll was smiling at him.
"The bronze rooster is bleeding, the paper figurine is opening its eyes … Wait for me! Senior sister! "
The door to the side room was closed again, and the white silk in the room stopped fluttering.
"Can you be quieter? What are you screaming for? A man like you is acting like a girl. "Gao Ru Xue rolled her eyes at Heshan and stopped at the edge of the corridor.
"It's not that I'm afraid! This place really makes me uncomfortable. The longer I stay here, the stronger the feeling of anxiety. It's like the thing that I'm most afraid of has been drawn out! "
Gao Ru Xue was startled when she heard what Heshan said. She also noticed that something was wrong.
The most important thing for a forensic doctor was to have a steady heart and a steady hand, but when she mentioned Heshan earlier, her tone had become more agitated, and this had not happened before.
"Am I afraid? I know everything inside this Haunted House is fake, so why should I be afraid? " A crack appeared in Gao Ru Xue's mental defense. Neither of them could find the reason for their fear. Under the influence of self-doubt and psychological suggestion, the seed of fear was growing.
"Do you think there's really something unclean hidden in this place? This Haunted House is built on top of a mass grave, and it was converted from a hospital … "
"Shut up! Isn't our school's underground morgue scarier than this place? You're a medical student after all, so why are you so scared? " Gao Ru Xue did not seem to mind, but she spoke faster and faster. She sat next to the railing and looked around. The old house, the mourning hall, the dead tree, the paper money on the ground — these things were not that scary. "What am I afraid of?"
Both of them were attracted by the eerie environment and did not pay attention to the song that kept playing in the background.
This taboo song, Black Friday, had unknowingly wrapped around their hearts. It was like a dark river washing away their souls, dragging them step by step into a bottomless abyss.
"Xiao Shan, how long have we been in here?"
"I don't know, but I have a feeling we won't be able to escape in another fifteen minutes!"
"Don't panic, I've thought about it." Gao Ru Xue ignored the dust and walked to the other side of the corridor. "There is nothing to be afraid of in this Haunted House. The main problem is that the boss has been giving us negative psychological hints. Since we entered the Haunted House, he has been emphasizing terms like mass grave, living burial, female ghost, and so on. He wants us to scare ourselves. The cunning thing about this man is that he has set a time limit, but he did not tell us what we will run into. This causes us to put pressure on ourselves and make our minds think of the scariest things."
"Then what do you think we should do now? This Haunted House feels different from other Haunted Houses. "Heshan was an honest young man. He believed whatever his senior said.
"You're not wrong. A normal Haunted House will have professional actors to play the ghost and use a lot of equipment to create a gory and scary scenario, and then we'll have to experience it step by step. But this Haunted House doesn't do that. He has created the scenario and allowed us to explore it freely. Without any guidance or restriction, no one knows what will happen next. "
"I understand what you're saying. The unknown is the scariest." Heshan looked like he had understood something.
"At this point, that is the only explanation." Gao Ru Xue frowned imperceptibly. "Alright, let's prepare to move to the next room."
The side room was next to the main room. This was where the head of the family lived. Pushing open the wooden door, the room was littered with mourning clothes, and there was a lacquered coffin in the middle of the hall.
The red coffin had a large 'Xi' character pasted on white paper in the middle, and there was a row of paper mannequins kneeling on both sides.
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