Behind the curtain, a skinny old man with cloudy eyes was indeed mopping the floor.
And what was in his hands at the moment... was actually a female corpse oozing blood!
The girl in the yellow skirt screamed and fell to the ground. When her palm touched the ground, she finally understood what was causing the sticky feeling under her feet since she ran into the bath.
It wasn't wax or age-tainted floors... it was blood oozing from the planks!
Withered and yellow claws hit her, as if they were about to pull out her heart in an instant. The girl in the yellow skirt has weak legs. She wanted to stand up and run away, but she couldn't move her legs at all. Just when she closed her eyes in despair...
"Bang!"
The sound of metal and ghost clashing resounded through the bathing place, followed by a person's voice.
The girl in the yellow skirt was about to scream for him to run away, when she heard Chu Tianshu's enthusiastic voice.
"Good morning, grandpa! Do you still remember me? I am the little Chu from yesterday!"
Yellow skirt girl: ?
"Oh, it doesn't matter if you don't remember me." Chu Tianshu heartily grabbed the old man's arm. He held the soft part of the water pipe under his arm, and pressed the long and hard metal part of the water pipe against the chin of the female ghost who was about to attack, and pushed her to the floor: "You are so early in the morning! Get up and mop the floor yourself! It’s really hard for you to get old!"
Yellow skirt girl: ?
Not only is the girl in the yellow dress full of question marks, but the ferocious wrinkles on the old man's face are also enough to crush a bunch of question marks. Chu Tianshu greeted the old man enthusiastically in a gesture of coercion, and took the corpse from his hand with his hands and threw it aside. The old man opened his mouth and was about to roar, Chu Tianshu said: "Respecting the old and loving the young is a traditional virtue, it's okay if you don't see it, since I saw this scene, I must help. How slow is it to mop the floor with a single mop? In this way, my hands There happens to be a hose in there that I can use to flush the floor..."
As he spoke, he pushed and pushed the old man to the bathing place. Although the old man was receiving help, his voice was as loud as a roar. Seeing this, the girl in the yellow skirt finally regained her strength and stumbled out of the bathing place.
The girl in the yellow skirt ran back to her companions. She described what she saw with a trembling voice, and several of them turned pale with fright. The girl in the red skirt said with a pale face: "There are ghosts in this bath too...! Let's run away! Escape to..."
"Escape? I have the car keys. Where do you want to escape?"
A hearty voice sounded. Chu Tianshu held the water pipe, made a villain speech and stepped out of the bath at the same time. Lin Huai glanced at him and said, "Where's the water?"
"There is no water in the bathing place during the day, so we can only come at night." Chu Tianshu said, "But I also have something new to gain?"
Lin Huai: "What harvest?"
Chu Tianshu: "I communicated with the old man guarding the bathing place, which deepened our understanding of each other and gained friendship."
Lin Huaixu raised his eyes to look at him, Chu Tianshu scratched his head and said, "Strange, when I came here yesterday, I remembered that the old man wasn't so thin?"
Lin Huai thought about it, and said from his perspective: "Maybe it's because I haven't eaten enough early in the morning."
The two were still chatting, and the few people on the other side had already had a huge disagreement. The girl in the red skirt never wants to enter this bathing place again, and so does the good old man. They pulled the two of them and were about to leave. The girl in the blue skirt hung her head and remained silent.
"But..." the girl in the yellow skirt was still hesitating for no reason, "What if the solution to the curse is here? Just come here at night and avoid the old man..."
"This bathing place is a ghost bathing place at all!" The girl in the red skirt retorted, "Do you want us to die here together?"
"It won't work here, then what do you think we should do! Great director, great screenwriter!" Finally, the girl in the yellow skirt couldn't help it, and yelled heartbreakingly at the girl in the red skirt, "In the beginning, we must We brought it here, what are you talking about to make an immersive horror movie for scumbags? Isn’t it you who proudly calls itself a “big director”, “big screenwriter” and “can only be done if I say it”? ? The result now? All the tragedies are caused by you. Xiaoxue, the fitness man, the fat man...all of them died because of you!"
"I… "
"And all this is just because you want to satisfy your boring vanity and desire for control. You just want to make this so-called horror movie prank and spread it on the Internet to enjoy the praise of those netizens! Now? Everything It's beyond your control, three people have already died!" The girl in the yellow skirt shouted, "You have nine strokes from the beginning, and you will be the last to die when everyone dies, of course you don't care, of course you There are many opportunities for trial and error, but what about Qingzi? Qingzi is going to... "
The girl in the red skirt was stunned by her yelling, she couldn't say a word, and finally could only cry while covering her face. The girl in the yellow skirt was also sucking her nose vigorously at this time.
It was the girl in the blue skirt who finally spoke to break the silence.
"Take me to the shrine." She said weakly, "Maybe there is... a way for me to survive. The shrine is a place to protect the entire town."
"Yes, yes, go to the shrine!" The girl in the red skirt wiped away her tears and said excitedly, "In the novel, the shrine is a place to ward off evil spirits. As long as we stay there, maybe the ghosts will not be able to come in and kill us!"
After she made her voice, the rest of the people finally stopped arguing. They made this request to Chu Tianshu, and Chu Tianshu agreed.
It was still raining in the town, Chu Tianshu put away all six umbrellas and stuffed them into the trunk. Several people along the way were full of worries, until Chu Tianshu arrived at the steps of the shrine according to the map, they showed a slightly relieved look.
The approach road leading to the inside of the shrine is lined with cherry trees, and the road is full of bright red torii gates. The girl in the yellow skirt supported the girl in the blue skirt and walked beside her, and the girl in the red skirt walked aside in embarrassment. Lin Huai looked up at the bright red torii gate of the shrine, and narrowed her eyes slightly.
The cherry blossoms made a rustling sound in the wind, like some kind of whisper or mockery. Lin Huai raised the DV player and took pictures of what he saw. Looking at the quiet but desolate shrine in the lens of the DV camera, Lin Huai gently tapped the body of the DV camera with his fingers.
"The baths... the only place where you can't bring your DV player in? Either go into the baths and give up the DV player, or choose not to enter the baths and bring your own DV player. This sounds like a choice between two choices, but it is quite Strange. A lecherous photographer, use a DV player to take pictures of the journey at any time, and the bathing area is not allowed to take sneak shots, which seems to be a normal rule... "
Lin Huai muttered softly, vaguely as if he had captured something special. At this moment, someone patted his back.
Lin Huai turned around and saw a nice old man with a delicate face. Apparently he heard Lin Huai talking to himself just now. Of course, Lin Huai didn't care about being misunderstood again...
"What's the matter?" Lin Huai asked.
"I... I'm here to apologize to you." The good old man said with difficulty, "I'm sorry for bringing you into this trip. Originally, I was only concerned about my sister, and I couldn't get angry for a while, so... At that time, Hongzi said, Let's take a ghostly trip to scare you, and use it as a basis for a horror movie. But no one expected it to turn out like this, as if things went off the rails in an instant and went the other way. And can never go back to the original path... "
Lin Huai moved his ears and said, "It's okay, I forgive you."
The good old man choked up and said, "Thank you..."
Lin Huai: "Anyway, you're going to die soon."
Good old man: ...
He looked at Lin Huai's sincere eyes, and was speechless for a moment.
"By the way," Lin Huai fiddled with the DV player in his hand, "Tell me, how did you plan to trick me?"
"This..." the old man said, "what's the point?"
Without batting an eyelid, Lin Huai said casually, "Yes, I like to listen to my own life stories and imagine how I would be bullied. After all, no one dares to bully me in real life."
Good old man: ...
The good old man didn't understand Lin Huai's intentions, so he finally finished speaking hesitatingly. In their original script, each of them prepared a self-directed and self-acted horror event for Lin Huai, and wanted to see Lin Huai's extremely frightened appearance.
As for each event, except for the event of asking for a pen fairy that was finalized at the beginning, everything is only in everyone's improvisation.
Lin Huai: "... So what is the ending you arranged?"
"The ending..." the honest man stammered, "the ending is that when only Hongzi is dead, Hongzi will come out and tell you that everything is fake. Then we will export the travel video and edit it into a movie , and post the cast and credits on YouTube..."
Lin Huai: "...that's really an interesting ending."
"Until now, I still feel that all this is like a dream. The prank that was originally prepared has become a reality." The honest man smiled bitterly, "If it is really just a movie, I hope it can be completed earlier. Do you think this shrine is real? Will it work?"
Lin Huai thought for a while: "I can't answer you yet."
Before they knew it, several people had already reached the gate of the shrine. The shrine, which has been uninhabited for many years, is now covered in dust. The girl in the red skirt opened the door in front, allowing the girl in the yellow skirt and the girl in the blue skirt to enter the yard.
The shrine had a strange aura, which made Lin Huai feel a little cold. The good old man whispered: "It's so cold..."
Lin Huai nodded: "Well, it's very comfortable."
Good old man: ...
Lin Huai put his hands in his pockets and walked into the shrine before the good old man. He didn't feel hindered in any way.
"It should be useless." Li Gui Lin Huai said sincerely.
The good old man entered afterward, and Chu Tianshu was the last to press on the tail. After the quaint hall of worship appeared in front of them, several people sat down separately. Lin Huai noticed that there was a well in the middle of the courtyard of the worship hall. Lin Huai squinted her eyes when she saw the well.
"It looks like no one has lived here for a long time."
There are some illegible tribute tablets in the worship hall, and the decorations on both sides are covered with dust. A few NPCs were praying for blessings, while Chu Tianshu walked towards Lin Huai and said to him, "What did the good man tell you just now?"
Lin Huai replied truthfully, and heard that the person's setting value was instantly reduced by 3. He has long been used to it without blinking, and just said: "But according to what the good man said, I have a new idea."
"what?"
"Maybe this dungeon is like a movie, just think of a way to finish it. This should be a reminder." Lin Huai said, "So..."
Chu Tianshu:
Lin Huai: "I'm going to try to kill Qingzi."
Chu Tianshu: "?? Why?"
Lin Huai: "Because it's finished?"
Chu Tianshu was silent for a long time, and finally rubbed his arms vigorously.
"... so cold."
The author has something to say: Lin Huai: hee hee