Chapter 29: The Ballroom

The flame of the manifestation symbol and the bright light of the flashlight intertwined, and Zero Er and Shen Chan walked into the dark hall.

It's a huge ballroom, with an empty space, beautiful tiles on the dance floor, broken light balls overhead, stereos standing around, greenery on the walls for decoration, buffet bars...... All reveal what a lavish ball hall it once was.

"Above the confinement room and the torture room is the ballroom...... It's a little bit illogical. ”

Shen Chan muttered, feeling that the painting style of the two adjacent cabins was incompatible.

Zero Two also sensed the irrationality.

"Although it's a ghost ship now...... But what did this ship do when it was still a human ship? ”

And as the two of them slowly descended into the ballroom, the strangeness of the ballroom itself began to be revealed.

Pairs of dancing shoes appeared scattered on the ground......

Men's and women's styles come in all sizes, from taps, ballerina, tango to ballroom shoes.

They lay on the floor as if their owner had suddenly disappeared.

And after this pile of dancing shoes scattered, soon Shen Chan and Zero Er also saw the floating "black shadow" that they saw outside just now...... What the hell is going on.

It was a tall, thin dummy with movable joints and dressed in various dresses and dance costumes.

Underneath the garment, a white, slightly reflective plastic material is revealed.

"It's scary, it's like a ghost...... It turned out to be a dummy! ”

Zero Er was taken aback by these dummies for the first time, but after seeing that it was a dummy, he confirmed that the manifestation symbol did not show any ghosts, and he was also relieved.

Shen Chan did not let his guard down.

"I think something is even more wrong...... Who's going to put a bunch of dummies in a ballroom? Again, this is not a clothing store window. ”

He took out an automatic rifle from the other dimension, hung it cross-body, and said solemnly.

After listening to Shen Chan's words, Zero Er also reacted.

"Oh yes...... There are quirks! ”

She also regained her vigilance, clenching her long knife and staring closely at the dummies around her.

However, after the two men slowly passed through the dummies, nothing unusual occurred.

"Could it be that it's just to scare us?"

Shen Chan thought about it and continued to look into the depths of the dance hall.

This hall was even bigger than Shen Chan had imagined, and a piece of talisman paper had burned out, and it had only been replaced with a new manifestation talisman, and it was only halfway through.

But halfway through, with the help of the flashlight, I could see the end of the hall clearly.

A spiraling staircase descends from the hallway on the basement floor, and Zero is beaming.

"There's really a way...... Shu, your wayfinding and puzzle-solving skills are okay! ”

She said so happily, put away her shield, and patted Shen Chan's shoulder.

Listening to Zero Er's praise, Shen Chan was not happy.

"I don't think I'm really solving a puzzle...... I just walked you into this hall and walked all the way inside. ”

He explained, Zero Two was still waving his hand.

"Sometimes it's a talent to be able to get simple multiple-choice questions right."

After seeing the "goal", Zero Er was obviously a lot more excited, and continued to walk forward with greater strides.

Shen Chan didn't keep up for a while, causing Zero Er to quickly go outside the direct light range of the flashlight.

"Boom!"

In the low-light environment, Zero Er didn't walk a few parts, as if he had kicked something, and stumbled slightly.

"Something, sneak attack me!"

Zero Two looked at his feet vigilantly with a long knife.

Shen Chan quickly followed, and took a flashlight at Ling Er's feet, and found a ...... that she kicked over

"Gramophone?"

Shen Chan frowned slightly as he looked at the crooked brass horn, the metal probe, the wooden base with a vinyl disc on it, and the hand-cranked clockwork rocker.

Although the décor of this ballroom leans towards the luxury of medieval European aristocracy, whether it is the ceiling hanging light balls, the marble floor tiles on the floor, or the plugged in stereos standing on the walls, it is more modern.

In this kind of dance hall, there is a hand-cranked gramophone...... It's not particularly inconsistent, but it's also a little weirder.

"Who put the gramophone in the center of the ballroom, it's really crazy!"

Zero Er scolded indignantly and looked ahead.

"Why are there more of them...... Is there something wrong with this? ”

Hearing Zero Er's words, Shen Chan slowly moved the flashlight and shone it towards the feet in front of him.

In the front position......

The entire floor was filled with gramophones—about hundred.

Moreover, the direction of the bell mouth was aimed at the two people in unison, like the muzzles of countless black holes.

With the light of the flashlight slowly sweeping over those gramophones, Zero Er saw this strange scene clearly, and also felt a creep.

"Who is this...... Why is it all facing the place where we are standing, my scalp is numb! ”

Hearing Ling Er's words, Shen Chan glanced at her and said, "Good question...... But I'd rather ask than 'how did it all sit in front of where we stood?'...... How do they know where we're going to stand when we get here? ”

Shen Chan said this, and Zero Er glanced at Shen Chan, and his face was even more confused.

"What do you mean?"

Shen Chan didn't answer directly, but turned around, and the light of the flashlight swept over the pile of skinny plastic dummies in dance costumes they had just walked by.

Zero Er followed the light of the flashlight to see the plastic dummies again, and couldn't help but curse again.

"It's a bit wicked, brother......"

Behind them, those white plastic dummies......

All facing the direction in which the two were standing at the moment.

Although their faces are flat and smooth, and they have no facial features, Zero Er and Shen Chan can still feel that they are like ......

is staring directly at the two of them.

"Shalalala......"

In Shen Chan's pocket, the sound of the radio sounded out inopportunely.

“…… Position selection ...... Finally ...... abnormal...... Now they're ...... The ...... of change in front of the moment"

“…… Can...... Recognize ...... There's more...... At...... Stay...... Guys! ”

"Let's ...... Let's open ...... Shut it down...... Qi Xin...... Our ......"

Thinking about the movement of the radio, listening to the intermittent content and syllables, Shen Chan's face changed slightly.

"It's broken—run!"

As he spoke, he turned and kicked off the gramophone at his feet in front of him, picked up Zero and Two, and ran.

Zero Er involuntarily ran with Shen Chan, also a little confused.

"What's wrong?"

As soon as Zero Er's voice fell, the entire dance hall suddenly became noisy and lively!

"W-"

All the gramophones and stereos made a sound together, the grand melody was somewhat deafening, and the light balls flickered with a dancing light.

And behind the two of them, quite neat footsteps came-

Those dance costume dummies and the blood-stained dancing shoes they saw earlier all danced according to the rhythm, quickly approaching in the direction of Shen Chan and Zero Er!