Chapter 918: 918
“Stop wasting time, we’ll start the exploration now . There are only a few ways a Haunted House can scare its visitors . As long as you trust that nothing is real, nothing can scare you . When you see the workers, you won’t feel scared but think they’re acting funny . ”
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Liu Gang ignored Bai Buhui and moved ahead . The team of eleven officially entered the School of the Afterlife . Semi-present crying came from around the corner, and the whispering of children floated on the wind . This used to be a heaven, but now it was only an empty corridor . The half-open wooden doors creaked, and there were small prints left on the wall . They carved down the good memories that the students had once had .
“This feels so real . Last year, we entered the biggest abandoned school in Xin Hai for a courage contest, and this place gives off the same feeling . ” Lan Dong took out his phone to snap some pictures . “The place doesn’t look like it’s purposely made old; it’s as if the scenario is designed like this . Look at the dust in the windowsill and the burn marks on the wall . ”
His fingers peeled on the wall, and the dusty white paint hide a layer of burnt cement . “To create this effect, one has to burn the wall once before painting on a new layer . The boss has considered even details like that?”
There were two students next to Lan Dong . One was called Ah Li, slightly overweight . He looked honest . The other was a girl, very quiet and did not like to speak .
“Perhaps the boss moved some burnt walls from outside underground and redesigned them . ” Liu Gang did not wish for his audience to see any good things about this Haunted House, so he tried to lighten the mood to decrease the sense of fear . “By the way, we have been in here for five minutes already, but we haven’t seen even an actor . The workers here are so unprofessional . ”
“Perhaps they’re waiting for a chance . ” The male assistant laughed in relief . He was about to walk forward when Big Ghost and Small Ghost, who led the way, suddenly stopped .
“Did you hear that weird noise?” Big Ghost, who had been silent thus far, asked . He looked left and right before turning to look behind them . “It seems to come from behind . ”
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“What noise? How come I didn’t hear anything?”
“It sounds like a faucet hasn’t been tightened, and water is dripping . ” Big Ghost took several steps back and pushed open the door next to Liu Gang . It looked like a normal toilet, and there were five cubicles inside .
“Be careful . The workers might be hiding inside a cubicle . ” The spine-tingling background music crawled into their ears, and Big Ghost and Small Ghost entered the toilet while the rest stood at the door .
“What are you so afraid of? There are so many of us . Watch me pull the actor out for everyone to see . ” Small Ghost burst into the room . He noticed that the camera was on him, and he acted proudly . He pushed the first cubicle open with much ceremony . There was nothing inside the small space, so he continued to open all the other cubicles before stopping at the fifth cubicle .
“Wasted so much energy to build an abandoned toilet . There must be a scare point here . The water sound came from the toilet . Something must be wrong with this last cubicle . ” Big Ghost and Small Ghost stood at both sides of the door and pushed the door open .
The door slammed into the wall . There was no one hiding in the last cubicle, but there was a broken diary .
“Looks like we scared ourselves for no reason . ”
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The others entered the toilet while Big Ghost and Small Ghost picked up the book from the ground . It had some sentences written on it .
“Do not enter the dripping toilet alone . The four corners might be hiding scary spirits .
“Do not walk with your head lowered . Cold hands will press down on your head .
“Do not stay too long in the room with all the posters . They can’t get out, so they will make you stay .
“Do not bite your fingers . Your fingernails will be taken away .
“Do not stare at shattered mirrors, or you might see a different you in it .
“Do not pick up and read this diary . You have read his past and will become the next him . ”
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Small Ghost closed the tattered diary and scoffed . “If I trusted these things, I wouldn’t have gone to sleep at a graveyard . Boring…”
He tossed the diary into the dirty toilet, and when the diary touched the water, the door of the first cubicle suddenly slammed shut . With a shiver, Small Ghost glared at the other people in the room . “Who shut the door? Are you mad?”
“No one touched it . ” Bai Buhui stood at the back of the group . After some hesitation, his palm fell on the door of the first cubicle, and the camera turned to him . Pushing it open, there was still nothing inside the first cubicle .
“The axle doesn’t have any mechanism installed on it . Why would it close then? Was it the wind?”
“Something’s wrong!” The male assistant suddenly screamed, and that gave Liu Gang a jolt .
“Don’t do that . What did you discover?”
“Perhaps I saw wrongly . ” The male assistant forced a smile . He silently whispered into Liu Gang’s ear, “I have been watching your livestream . Earlier, the camera was on Bai Buhui . When he opened the door, there seemed to be a child on the image, and he was squatting inside the first cubicle . ”
“If you weren’t mistaken, the chatroom would have exploded . ” Liu Gang glanced at the chatroom . It was normal, so it was clear that the assistant was mistaken . “I knew I shouldn’t have brought you . Don’t scare yourself . We’re livestreaming . If you continue to do this, we’ll lose face . ”
After Liu Gang had the camera on him, he put his calm demeanor back on . “Alright, there is nothing to be seen inside this toilet . Let’s go looking for the oil paintings and try to finish the quest in less than half an hour . ”
“Ok . ” Bai Buhui felt that something was wrong, but he could not pinpoint it . The group walked out of the toilet . Only the male assistant was confused . He lowered his head to look at the livestream on his phone and shook his head . “Perhaps I was really mistaken . ”
As he was about to move outside, he felt a chill on his neck like a small hand was pressing down on him .
“Who is it‽” Whipping his head around, the male assistant saw a pair of gray legs run past the fifth cubicle .
“What was that?” He did not have the courage to check it alone . He rushed after the rest and did not stay in the toilet alone .
Drip, drip…
Red liquid dripped out from the tap, and faded stains that looked like human faces started to appear from four corners of the toilets . The male assistant held the phone tightly . He squeezed next to Liu Gang, wondering whether he should tell him what he had seen earlier . He was very anxious, and the anxiety could not be dispersed even if he was in a crowd .
He kept turning to look at the toilet . The strange background music crawled into his ears, and the footsteps had a strange echo to them like there was something following them .