Chapter 17: The Guardian Steals
From another point of view, Gu Yun and Wang Lu did an excellent job of fulfilling their duties as the haunted house staff, and as soon as they stood at the door, the tourists were frightened and fled.
"Looks like you're scared too much, right?"
Wang Lu looked at the empty haunted house, and suddenly felt a little cold.
Gu Yun had already put away the prop knife, and he was a middle-aged uncle who didn't even have a puppet costume and mask gone, and the combination of the two of them should be completely out of touch with horror.
This melancholy made Wang Lu want to light a cigarette, but he saw the no-smoking sign at the entrance, which made him even more melancholy.
"Is it that scary?"
He turned his head to look at Gu Yun, but he was suddenly frightened and took a few steps back, and what caught his eye was a chicken head maskβthe killer who was chasing him in the nightmare.
Wang Lu's back was against the window, but his right hand touched a very viscous liquid.
In the dark green light, he saw blood stained with his palms.
"What's wrong?"
The ghost spoke to him, but his voice seemed to have been specially processed and became intermittent.
Wang Lu turned to look, the blood from nowhere flowed to the floor, a pair of pale palms propped up the ground, in the corner of the wall, an eye that appeared at some point was quietly staring at them, at the same time, the door of the haunted house "knock-" closed and locked.
At this moment, he finally understood why the tourists were scattering and fleeing.
It's not them who are terrified, it's this haunted house.
"You two, it's a soul slayer, I can smell your breath......"
An all-black shadow appeared in front of the two of them, his voice was gloomy and hoarse, and before Wang Lu could react, the black shadow smirked and penetrated his body, running directly towards Gu Yun.
"I don't like the exorcist coming to my territory, but I'm going to give you a chance...... cough cough cough ββ! β
The black shadow was about to repeat the old trick through Gu Yun's body, but was intercepted by Gu Yun in the air with one arm, Gu Yun grabbed his neck with one hand, and directly slipped the black shadow into the air.
"Heroes spare their lives!"
The atmosphere changed suddenly, his arms, eyeballs, and blood disappeared at the same time, and Wang Lu realized that it was tap water on his hands, and the terrifying atmosphere that had not had time to brew took a sharp turn, and quickly disappeared in the black shadow's plea for mercy.
Looking at the struggling black shadow, Wang Lu inexplicably felt a little happy.
Brother, you've found the wrong opponent.
As soon as Gu Yun let go, the black shadow knelt on the ground and coughed violently.
"Gu Yun, what kind of monster is this?"
"Seems to be called a dream-eater."
Gu Yun happened to see the description of this kind of monster in the encyclopedia of the branch yesterday, the dream eater spirit feeds on human dreams or fears, if it is parasitic in a human home, the parasitic host will lose the ability to dream, but most of the dream eater spirits are hidden in haunted houses or some dark corners, and frightened tourists will provide them with a steady stream of energy.
The encyclopedia says that this is an indigenous spirit with a low danger to humans, and the number is still very widespread throughout the country, because it does not cause malignant incidents, so the local branches of the Foundation do not specifically encircle and suppress this type of spirit.
And in some special clinics, Dream Eater is also used to help some people improve their sleep quality - there are clues that in order not to be disturbed while eating, Dream Eater will be swallowed by the dream eater who will sleep extra heavily that night, that is, it is often said that one sleep until dawn and never leave the fatigue until the next day.
If you measure the dream-eating spirit by insects, it is barely a beneficial insect and has high "medicinal value".
Because of this, Gu Yun didn't punch the Dream Eater Spirit in the face just now.
"I definitely didn't mean to harm you, I've just been hungry for days!"
Dream Eater said aggrievedly that the monster who called himself "God" made a lot of trouble in the city a few days ago, and the playground had not been open for many days, but the playground had just been reopened a few days ago, and the mask of the haunted house had been stolen again, so that now he couldn't even eat the most ordinary fears.
It was hiding in the shadows just now, expecting Gu Yun and Wang Lu to make a difference, but these two people really didn't have the ability to be terrifying, so he had to help the two of them.
But it never expected that it would use too much force to directly scare away the hard-won dream of tourists, so in desperation, it could only try to scare these two people.
It had heard from other evil spirits that the soul slayer was not easy to provoke, but it didn't expect it to be so bad, and he was subdued by Gu Yun with his bare hands before he could do anything.
Under the influence of that monster, it is now extremely difficult to even eat a meal.
"You're here to investigate the theft of the mask!"
The Dream Eater felt that he could still save it, and for the goblin, the way to save himself was to betray another goblin who looked even more powerful, "I know who stole the mask!" β
Honestly, we're just here to relax.
Although Wang Lu wanted to tell Dream Eaters this, it was also in line with their identities to solve a mask theft case.
"Those noodles have a problem!"
"What's the problem?"
"Humans seem to be going crazy when they put it on, and there was a cleaner who put on a mask and beat up the thugs who were making trouble in the amusement park." Even the Dream Eater, who is a ghost, feels that there must be something strange about those masks, "That cleaner usually walks tremblingly, but after putting on the mask, it seems to be a different person, and his strength is infinite, and a few thugs can't beat him!" β
"When did this happen?"
Gu Yun asked.
"It was the day before yesterday, when the playground was still preparing to reopen, and a few thugs wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to steal things, but they were all driven away by the cleaners alone."
Two days ago, after the trench coat man was eliminated.
"Those masks were here before?"
"yes, it used to be normal."
"Who stole the mask?"
"It's the staff here, they burst in that evening and took all the masks away."
"Isn't it these?"
Hearing this, Wang Lu took out his mobile phone and flipped out a photo of himself with his friends, at that time he often set up a stall in the playground to tell fortunes, and he became familiar with the staff here when he came and went, and he would occasionally give those people a free divination, and they would turn a blind eye to him, an illegal stall maker.
This photo was taken when several people were eating barbecue together at night.
"Yes, that's right, it's just a few of them!"
The Dream Eater recognized the person in the photo at a glance and said affirmatively.
Isn't this a thief shouting to catch a thief!
However, if the dream-eater wasn't lying, there might be something else going on.
"I read about a mask in an encyclopedia that has a somewhat similar function." Gu Yun suddenly spoke, the function of the mask was very magical, and he was deeply impressed, "It is said that a certain ruins survey team in Europe has found a stone ghost mask, and those who wear the mask will be cursed by the mask and become a vampire. β