Chapter 53: An Empty Theater
Falling into the stroller under the steps of the square, what came out was the cry of a baby?
I was stunned, and my body trembled involuntarily.
This must be a mistake! Isn't that old woman in the stroller? How did you become a baby again?
Suddenly, I felt like there were more people around me
When I looked up, I found that the people who had just been indifferent to my cries for help had surrounded me. Their eyes widened and they all pointed their fingers out at me in unison.
I froze, unable to utter a word for a long time.
"You're a murderer, you're a murderer!"
Suddenly, someone screamed, and then the others followed suit.
The sound almost burst my eardrums.
I covered my ears and shouted, "No, I'm not, I'm not!" ”
I cried out, but the men didn't let up. They even spat on me!
I tried to get out of here, but the men formed a circle, and as soon as I tried to escape, they pushed me back.
The spittle in the sky was about to drown me, and no matter how much I dodged, my face and body were still stained with those spittle, and I also smelled a foul smell, which was the smell of those spittle, very similar to the smell of dead people.
I couldn't get out, so I had to crouch down in pain, but the roars of the excited people still echoed in my ears.
"You're a murderer, you're a murderer, you're a murderer!"
All of a sudden, the sounds were gone.
Squatting on the ground, I raised my head, but found that I was the only one left in this square.
I stood up and looked around in confusion, but all I could see was emptiness and dead silence.
Strange, how did those people disappear all at once? Could it be that this is my hallucination again?
By the way, what about the stroller, what about the stroller that tumbles under the steps?
Is it the horrible old woman or a real baby in the car?
I walked to the edge of the steps and looked down.
However, I was so surprised that I couldn't keep my mouth shut.
At the bottom of that staircase, there was a huge deep pit, a black hole, and there was no bottom of the pit!
Suddenly, from the bottom of that pit, a terrible sound sounded! Moreover, the voices became more and more, as if countless ghosts were calling out from the bottom of the pit!
I pulled out my flashlight and shone it down into the bottomless pit.
But I saw a hand, a small, withered hand, crawling up the wall of the pit! And then, another hand! And then, another hand!
Countless hands are climbing up from the bottom of that deep pit!
Suddenly, the flashlight shone on a face again, a terrible face!
An ugly zombie with a blue face and dirt in its mouth is about to climb up! Then, another zombie is also trying to climb up!
This time, I was terrified, I wanted to run!
But my feet were entangled in something!
I looked down and froze!
It was a hand, a withered hand, that grabbed my ankle so hard!
I was terrified and tried to pull out my foot, but the hand just clung to it!
Then, something even more terrible happened! The other hand, the hand of another zombie, grabbed my other leg. And then, another, and another! Soon, I had a few hands wrapped around my feet, zombie hands!
Frightened, I picked up my flashlight and struck at the hands that were wrapped around my feet. But even so, those zombies just won't let go!
Damn, let me go!
There were more and more hands, my feet, my legs were entangled in these dense hands. And they're still pulling me to the bottom of the pit!
In the end, I was dragged into that bottomless pit by those hands! My flashlight also fell!
In the midst of the black hole, I could only hear my desperate and terrifying screams!
I fell, but woke up.
I opened my eyes, only to find myself sitting on the cold floor, which was marble.
Strange, where is this?
I stood up, only to find myself "falling" into a lobby.
This was the lobby of the theater, but there was no one in the lobby except myself.
Strange, how did I end up here? Didn't I just fall into a deep pit on the edge of the square?
I felt something was wrong, so I ran towards the gate.
But the door was suddenly shut!
Don't, don't lock me up here!
When I rushed to the gate, it was firmly closed, and no matter how much I pushed and knocked, I could not open the thick gate.
Then, all of a sudden, the lights in the lobby went out. In the lobby, it was dark, just like before the movie was about to be released.
In the darkness, I felt very scared. So, I figured out the flashlight, and luckily, the thing was still there, and it didn't fall into the pit with me.
Could it be that the pit doesn't exist at all, and it's my hallucination?
I turned on my flashlight and shone it around, and I was terrified that something terrible would suddenly emerge from the darkness.
However, at this critical moment, the flashlight suddenly dimmed.
What's going on, is the flashlight dead?
I took out the battery from the flashlight and put it back in. However, the flashlight only lit for a while, and then went out again.
Oops, it's really out of power, what can I do?
I had no choice but to walk in the dark.
Suddenly, a light shone from one place and hit me in the face.
I was a little blindsided by the sudden light, and when I got used to it, I realized that the light was coming from behind a door.
There, it's the theater.
I turned my head and looked at the lobby, which was still pitch black, but walked slowly towards the open theater.
I entered the theater, and the light just now came from the lights in the theater.
Here, it's no different from an ordinary theater. At this point, however, the seats were empty, and the entire theater was empty. The sound of my footsteps, every echo of this great theater, sounded terrifying.
I looked at the stage in front of the theater, where a thick black curtain obscured most of the stage behind, leaving only a narrow portion of the front table.
However, when I took a closer look at the theater, I was surprised.
It turns out that although the lighting and decoration of this theater are still very good, the floor here is too dirty. The ground was littered with food scraps, waste paper, and even dust and other garbage that had been eaten by the audience. Look at the walls on both sides, there are cobwebs hanging all over them.
Looks like this theater hasn't been used for a long time, right? Otherwise, how could it be so dirty?
Suddenly, behind me, the door I had just entered was also shut!
I was startled and ran back to reopen the door. However, no matter how hard I tried, the door was closed so tightly that it could not be opened at all.
No, I'd better go find another exit, I can't be locked up here!
So, I walked towards the door on the other side of the stage.
But halfway through, suddenly, a voice sounded on the stage.
I stopped, and when I listened, wasn't that the sound of gongs and drums? It's a familiar sound, it looks like I've heard it before? But when was it? Like, when I was a child, I went to the theater with my grandmother?
Yes, that's right, that's the sound of gongs and drums in the play! However, at this time, how can there be such a voice?
Grandmother? How can I have a grandma? I don't even know who I am, but can I think of myself and a grandmother?
At this time, a kind and wrinkled face appeared in my mind, the face of an old grandmother.
"Grandma, what's going on in this play?"
In a trance, I seemed to hear a child asking, and the voice was very childish.
Could it be that this child who is asking questions is me when I was a child?
"Well, in this play, it is "Wu Song Kills Sister-in-law". The old woman said.
"Wu Song Kills His Sister-in-law"? So, is this Wu Song a bad person? ”
"No, Wu Song is not a bad person, he killed his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian. This woman should be killed, who told her to commit adultery with Ximenqing? As long as it is an adulterous woman, she is not a good person! ”
The kind, wrinkled face was still smiling at me.
Yes! I woke up in a startle.
Strange, why am I seeing this again? Could it be that it wasn't my hallucination, but a memory of my childhood?
Now, I seem to understand a little bit that this kind and wrinkled grandmother in my memory should be an old man I am familiar with, if not my own grandmother. And the little kid who was asking questions should have been me when I was a child. This is a memory that I have never forgotten.
Strange, why do I still have the memory of watching the drama when I was a child after I lost my memory?
"Wu Song Kills His Sister-in-law"? No wonder I was so nervous when I saw the poster for this play? It turned out that I had watched this play when I was a child, and I must have been shocked by the plot in this play, especially the part where Wu Song picked up the steel knife to kill Pan Jinlian, which may have had the most profound impact on my soul. That's why I hallucinated that Wu Song would kill me with a steel knife.
When I was a child, I couldn't tell who was good and who was bad, right? That's why I thought: as long as it's a guy who kills someone with a steel knife, such as this Wu Song, he's a bad guy; And that Pan Jinlian, she is the victim, right?
I looked up and looked back at the stage.
At this time, the lights in the theater dimmed, and slowly, all the lights went out.
Here, the only lights are those above the stage.
With the sound of gongs and drums, the thick black curtain on the stage slowly opened.
I stood there and stared at the stage.
I don't know, what kind of drama is about to be staged here? Is it "Dream of the Covered Bridge", or "Dead Souls", or "Wu Song's Killing of Sister-in-law"?
However, as long as I think of "Wu Song's Killing of My Sister-in-law", I feel uncomfortable.
Suddenly, I thought back to the dream I had had last time. In the dream, the actor who played Wu Song killed the actress who played Pan Jinlian with a knife. That, not acting, but real murder!
Forget it, don't let me see that drama again.
However, when the curtain opened, I was stunned······