Chapter 8: Black Friday
"Three in and three out, the main room and the ear room, the east and west wings, the hand-copying verandah, the hanging curtain, the ruyi door, the upside-down frieze, the thunder pillar...... The details of this haunted house are well done, imitating the ancient courtyard, which has a sense of substitution. Gao Ruxue walked and stopped in the scene, looking relaxed, and would comment a few words from time to time.
"Senior sister, we are in a haunted house, not a visit to the Suzhou garden, can you consider my feelings?" The empty house, gloomy and gloomy, the soul flags fluttering, the paper money flying, the haunted house in Heshan's eyes is completely different from Gao Ruxue's, he is cautious, for fear that something will suddenly come out of the shadows in the corner: "Let's hurry up and find the exit, I have an ominous premonition." β
"Since you're here, let's take a good visit, we're playing in a haunted house, don't be played by a haunted house."
"Do you remember what the owner of the haunted house said before he came in, let's find the exit in fifteen minutes, I always think that man is wilting, if we can't escape within fifteen minutes, something terrible will definitely happen!" Heshan tried to persuade Gao Ruxue, but unfortunately the other party didn't care.
"There are only a few ways to scary people in haunted houses, at most they let the staff pretend to be ghosts and chase us around, we are not even afraid of the dead, but also of the living?" Gao Ruxue walked aimlessly through the verandah, and casually pushed open the door of the left ear room.
The venue of the underworld marriage is a standard courtyard structure, the main house is for the elders and the head of the family to live, the wing room is for the eldest son and the younger generation, and the ear room is located on both sides of the main house, which is the place where the maids live.
Pushing the door in, the tables and chairs in the room toppled over, the bedding on the bed was torn, the cotton wool was scattered, and a white silk was hanging in the middle of the beam.
"Senior sister, I'll answer outside, you pay attention to safety......" Heshan was dragged into the house by Gao Ruxue before he finished speaking, he had a bitter face, looking at the windless automatic, slowly fluttering Bai Aya, his body was a little stiff.
"It's a little interesting, Bai Aya is one and a half meters from the ground, this height can't hang people at all, tables and chairs are toppled, there are still traces of struggle on the ground, and the haunted house is deliberately creating an illusion of forced suicide. There is a maid living in the ear room, and the ghost does not even let go of the subordinates who are not related to the family, and it seems that he is preparing to torture all the people in this mansion to death. Gao Ruxue's expression was calm, and there was a hint of excitement hidden in the corners of her eyes: "The haunted house is very delicately designed, and there may be other easter eggs hidden." β
She rummaged through the cabinets and lifted the futon from the bed, revealing a papier-mΓ’chΓ© female doll lying under the shabby quilt.
"The paper man is lying on the bed of a living man?" Gao Ruxue casually threw the paper figure aside, lifted the bed board, and there was nothing underneath.
"The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment, and I overestimated this haunted house. Let's go, the exit is not in this room. She waved her hand and strode outside.
Heshan, who was left alone in the house, looked at the paper doll on the ground and felt his teeth chatter, probably because of the angle, he actually felt that the paper doll was smiling at him.
"The copper rooster bleed, and the paper man opened his eyes...... Wait for me! Senpai! β
The door of the ear room was closed tightly, and the white silk in the room stopped fluttering.
"Can you be quieter, what's it called? A big man cowardly looks like a girl. Gao Ruxue glanced at Heshan and stopped at the edge of the verandah.
"It's not me who coaxed me! This place really made me very uncomfortable, and the longer I stayed, the stronger the feeling of uneasiness became, as if the most feared thing in my heart had been ticked out! β
Being said by Heshan, Gao Ruxue was stunned for a moment, and she also noticed that something was wrong.
The most important thing for a forensic doctor is to have a steady heart and a steady hand, but when she said Heshan just now, her tone obviously became much more impatient, which has never appeared in other places.
"Am I afraid? I know everything in the haunted house is fake, so why should I be afraid? There was a crack in Gao Ruxue's psychological defense, neither of them found the reason for the fear, and under the self-doubt and psychological suggestion, the seeds of fear were taking root.
"You don't think there's really anything unclean hidden in this place, do you? His haunted house was built on a mass grave, or was it converted from a hospital building......"
"Shut up! Isn't our school's underground morgue scary than this one? You said that you are also a medical student, why are you so cowardly? Gao Ruxue didn't care, but the speed of her speech became faster and faster, she sat next to the railing of the verandah and looked around, the ancient house, the mourning hall, the dead trees, and the paper money all over the ground, these things were not very scary: "What am I afraid of?" β
Both are attracted to the eerie environment and don't pay attention to the background track that has been playing on a loop.
This forbidden song called "Black Friday" has been imperceptibly entangled in the hearts of the two, like a dark river washing their souls, dragging them into the bottomless abyss step by step.
"Xiaoshan, how long have we been in?"
"I don't know, but I don't think we'll be able to run out in fifteen minutes!"
"Don't panic, I've thought about it for a while." Gao Ruxue didn't care about patting the dust, and walked directly towards the other side of the verandah: "There is nothing to be afraid of in this haunted house, the main thing is that the boss has been giving us negative psychological hints, since entering the haunted house, he has been emphasizing: mass graves, live burials, female ghosts and other words, he wants us to scare ourselves, this person is more cunning in that he set a time limit, but he did not say what specific things will be encountered, which leads us to put pressure on ourselves and diverge our thinking to make up the most terrifying things." β
"So what do you think we should do now? This haunted house always feels different from other haunted houses. "Heshan is a very honest young man, he believes whatever the senior sister says.
"You don't feel wrong, in a normal haunted house, there will be professional actors to play ghosts, use a lot of equipment to create bloody and terrifying scenes, and then let us experience it step by step. But this haunted house doesn't do that, he makes the scene and lets us explore freely, without guidance and constraints, and no one knows what will happen next. β
"I see what you mean, the unknown is the scariest thing." Heshan looked like an epiphany
"So far, this can only be explained." Gao Ruxue frowned slightly: "Okay, let's go to the next room." β
The ear room is next to the main house, which is where the head of the family lives, and when the wooden door is opened, there is a sackcloth and filial piety robe thrown in the room, and a lacquered wood pavilion is placed in the middle of the hall.
The red coffin has a big happy word pasted on white paper in the middle, and a row of paper figures kneels neatly on both sides.
They had their names written on their backs, their faces painted with makeup, their eyes seemed to be attentive, and their expressions were different, as if they were secretly staring at the two people in the doorway.