The video on the camcorder was still playing. It was unclear whether it was due to the lighting or some other reason, but the video was getting blurry like it was being shrouded in darkness.
The man's words in the video attracted the interest of the others. Under their constant questioning, the man told them about something that had happened to him.
When he was young, there was also an altar at home. The altar was placed directly opposite the living room door, and it was covered with a thick black cloth.
Before the man's grandfather died, he told his family that no matter what happened after his death, they should not open the altar. When it was time for his burial, they should bury the altar directly inside their coffin.
Due to the issue of the inheritance, the family had a falling out after the grandfather's death. The argument soon turned into a physical fight, and during the fight, the altar was toppled over.
The adults argued until their faces were red. No one cared about the toppled altar. Instead, it was young Xiao Sun who glanced curiously at the altar.
Then Xiao Sun did something that no one expected. He turned toward the altar and shouted, "Grandfather."
The voice scared the adults who were fighting over the inheritance. They all stared at Xiao Sun, but the young Xiao Sun was squatting before the altar. His eyes were glued to the altar like his grandfather was hiding inside it.
There was a saying in the countryside that children could see ghosts. The adults thought that the old man was angry, so they quickly replaced the altar. In the end, according to the will, they sold the old house and buried the altar together with the old man's ashes.
That was the end of the story, but the man's tone changed. On the day of the old man's burial, Xiao Sun, who had seen the things inside the altar, disappeared.
It was like he had evaporated from the world. No one knew where he had gone, and no one knew what he had seen inside the altar.
In the video, after listening to the man's story, the friends were not only not afraid, they even started to encourage the owner of the ancestral home to open their own altar.
Under the influence of alcohol, the few of them made a ruckus as they walked towards the corridor.
Some of them were holding wine glasses, some were holding phones, and some were recording with a camcorder.
It was raining heavily outside the old house, and the few stopped next to the altar.
The fat man who had walked past the altar earlier stood at the front. He reached out to pull back the black cloth on the altar and used his chubby hands to grab the altar's door.
Just as Fatty was about to open the altar, a flash of lightning flashed through the window. All the lights in the room suddenly went out.
At the same time, just as the few tourists were focusing on the video recording, the lights in the real world also went off!
Reality and the recording were synchronized. Screams came from the recording, and the tourists in real life were also screaming. Everything was like a replay.
There was the sound of the shrine door opening in the darkness. After a few seconds, the lights in the video and in reality returned at the same time.
In the video, the seven friends gathered in the corridor were stunned. They realized that the door to the shrine had been opened.
The seven of them looked at each other and then at the fatty. The fatty was confused and said that he did not use any strength at all and that he was not the one who opened the altar.
When he saw this, Chen Ge shouted at the tourists around him, "Get out of the way!"
He looked at the end of the corridor. In the dark corner, the lonely altar had been opened!
"When was it opened?"
"I have no idea!" The police officer said with a helpless expression. "When I was here last time, this wasn't there."
The video was still playing. The camera was attached to the suitcase, and the suitcase was stuck between the bed and the cupboard, making it difficult to remove. Chen Ge's group could only temporarily ignore the altar and continue to watch.
When the light returned to the room, the group saw that there was nothing inside the altar. They all thought that the legend was a lie, so they returned to the main hall.
They played for a while longer and felt bored. They cleaned up the room, piled the bottles and various trash in the corner, and then returned to their rooms to sleep.
The camera was taken away by one of them. He returned to his room, which was the room that Chen Ge's group was in.
The man said goodnight to the camcorder and turned it off.
The visitors thought that was the end of the video, but after a while, a new video appeared.
The man, who had been calm earlier, was curled up inside the quilt. His shaking hands held the camera that he had just turned on.
Just as the visitors had no idea what he was doing, the man sneaked the camera out from under the quilt, and the camera was aimed at the bedroom cupboard.
The lights in the bedroom were not on, and the room was dark. The cupboard in the video did not look that scary, but it was not closed tightly, so there was a gap.
The video stopped, and at that moment, an eye suddenly flashed in the cupboard!
The video was shaking. It was clear that the man hiding inside the quilt was afraid, and he was forcing himself not to make a sound.
The man was sure that there was something hiding inside the cupboard. He kept the camera aimed at the cupboard, but the eye did not appear again.
After a while, the camera seemed to be running out of battery. The man held the camera with one hand and reached for something with the other, but at that moment, the video suddenly shook like the man had touched something.
Then the man's hand that held the camera slowly turned, and he aimed the camera at himself.
The video showed his face, and it also showed the other face inside the quilt.
The man wanted to scream, but the messy black hair strangled his neck and stuffed into his mouth.
The camera dropped, and the video stopped at the door. Following the direction of the camera, they could see the altar that had been opened at the end of the corridor.
After watching the video, the surrounding visitors broke out in cold sweat.
Since they knew that the strategy was useless, all the visitors turned to look at Chen Ge. He seemed to have become the center of attention.
"The most dangerous thing in this scenario is the altar. Normally, the visitors would not open it, but in Hell mode, someone helped us open it." Chen Ge turned around and realized that everyone was waiting for him to continue. "I'm just a volunteer. Can you guys have your own ideas?"
Of the seven-member group, six were spies, and the only visitor had become the group leader.
Chen Ge wanted to find out more information. These 'visitors' were still useful, so he had to pretend that he did not notice them. "The video did not tell us what was inside the altar, but the reason why this house is in this state must have something to do with the altar. The key to escape should be on the altar as well. If I remember correctly, one of you is a detective, and he can find the location of a clue after entering a new scenario. "
"I'm a detective." The man with the glasses raised his wristwatch to look at it. "The clue is hidden inside the altar …"
The few visitors walked out of the bedroom and came to the end of the corridor.
The man with the glasses shone the light into the altar. They bent down to look, and they realized that the inner walls of the altar were filled with the word 'death' that had been carved out with fingernails.
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