The number of people suddenly increased, but Jiang Yu was not panicked. Instead, he was happy. The new group of people obviously relieved his pressure, and the wax figures began to revolve around them.
He even reminded them out loud: "Like Jiang Bai and the others, take the candle from the middle and light it. That's the way to survive. But the candles are no longer lit."
Everyone looked at Lu Yanli and others.
At this time, Lu Yanli just took two candles from the wax figure. The wax figure let out a sharp wail, and began to melt little by little from the face, and soon melted into a large amount of boiling wax that imprisoned their feet.
I could clearly feel the speed at which the hot, soft liquid was rising under my feet. However, the wax oil did not solidify, but only flowed slowly, making it hard for me to step on it. The air temperature was getting higher and higher, and it was stuffy and airless, as if it had solidified into the hot and sticky wax oil, suffocating me to death.
If this continues, even if they are not killed by the wax figures, they will be trapped here and become new wax figures.
Jiang Yu struggled hard, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the restraining force under his feet loosened a little, and he successfully took another step.
As soon as the others came in, they were attacked by the steaming heat wave. The feeling of being restrained was not too severe. The group of people tried hard to avoid the scalding wax dripping down from the ceiling and moved towards the center.
"Excuse me, can you give me a candle?" Ximen Yuan dodged the attack of a wax figure in armor and shouted to Qiu Zhi.
Except for Jiang Bai, Lin Chu, Jin Fugui, Qiu Zhi and others all got a few candles without any wax figures blocking their way.
Qiu Zhi was simple but not stupid. The candle in his hand was about to burn out, so he carefully lit a new one and connected the old candle end to the bottom, ignoring Ximen Yuan's request.
The body, head and face...wax was everywhere, greasy, hot and stinging, stiff joints, and an indescribable feeling of nausea. Lu Yanli even had the illusion that this was not wax at all, but corpse oil. Those wax figures hidden in the darkness looked like old rotten corpses that had been buried for who knows how many years.
Outside the door, it suddenly got dark.
In the darkness, candles were lit up in the wax museum.
Nothing could be seen clearly in the little light, but everyone could notice that those wax figures... their movements were getting faster and faster!
"Let's go!" Lin Chu lip-synced to Lu Yanli and the others. After they collected a dozen candles, Lin Chu hurried to other directions.
"Why?" Qiu Zhi asked her in a low voice.
A hideous ghost statue suddenly turned its head and glared at Qiu Zhi, who immediately shut up.
Lin Chu shook her head, indicating that she couldn't explain, but she was very anxious.
It was dark outside.
So far, things have been going according to the storyline that I have created.
What did she say then
"The first time it got dark, no one could see clearly. They could only see vague gray shadows moving around. Everyone hid and didn't dare to make a sound, as if... something was waiting in the darkness."
"Then, we heard... that sound. When it was light outside again, everyone was startled. A girl screamed and a man was hanged on the beam. Because she had been holding that man, she didn't even know when she was replaced..."
Here we come!
A few weak candle lights flickered, and everyone carefully protected the flames to prevent them from going out. A pair of eyes looked around vigilantly.
The wax dripped down, the wax figure continued to melt, and the black shadow came and went.
All the human voices disappeared at this moment, leaving only the scorching temperature of the skin touching each other.
Those who held candles were better off, but those without candles could not see anything clearly, only a little light in the darkness. They could see some gray shadows with long tails floating around, just like the ghosts in the legend.
Di Ying and a companion walked forward carefully.
The other person seemed very scared and held her arm stiffly. The two of them walked forward slowly, one in front of the other. The direction they were moving towards was where the exposed part had appeared.
A sound of breaking through the air came—
Di Ying dodged and avoided a head thrown from the sky. She squinted her eyes and carefully identified the direction.
Without any warning, the next moment, the window lit up, as if it had transitioned from night to day in an instant.
"ah-"
Di Ying suddenly cried out in surprise, but she quickly realized her mistake and quickly shut up. However, it was no use, as the wax figures around her had already found her position, opened their legs, and the sticky wax dripped down, and walked towards her step by step.
"What are you doing?" Ximen Yuan was very impressed with her. They had already completed several missions. Why did she suddenly scream
Di Ying waved his hand to apologize.
She didn't want to do that, but... just now, the companion who was holding her arm died tragically in front of her eyes, his face was no more than a centimeter away from hers, almost face to face, and he stared at her with his eyes open.
She was truly frightened. She had never felt fear so clearly since she started the mission.
Di Ying tried hard to dodge and slowly calmed his heart which had been beating violently for a moment.
No, she shouldn't be so scared. It's not like she hasn't seen dead people before, some of them died around her, so why was she so scared just now
Wait! Who is the dead person
Di Ying tried hard to think of that person's name and appearance, but found that she couldn't remember it at all. In her memory, that person had just held her arm, and they seemed to have a good relationship, but now, she couldn't remember any information about the other person at all.
That person... could he be a ghost? Or, after he dies, will the memories of the people around him be erased
His body was still burning hot, with big drops of sweat dripping down, but Di Ying shivered violently.
"Don't talk." Lin Chu whispered to the others.
They had already retreated from the central location. The wax museum had a large space inside, with many counters placed. Now, they were hiding in a row of solid wooden cabinets, with the doors half-open, trying to avoid the increasingly large and weird wax figures.
Strange... who is it
His body is right behind me now. Should I look back
Look back and see who it is.
Di Ying stayed where she was, standing still. Then, she turned her head little by little.
She met the eyes of the body hanging upside down from the beam, and the face... looked particularly familiar.
Isn't it just her
Then, she felt her ankle tighten, and then her whole body was suddenly hung upside down, her vision was reversed, her brain was congested, and she had difficulty breathing.
"Help me! Help! Save me--" Di Ying kept waving his arms for help.
It was not like she had not been ambushed by such traps when she was on missions before. At that time, she could easily bend her upper body and cut the ropes on her legs herself, but now, she could not exert any force on her waist and abdomen, as if she was fixed by an invisible force.
"Save me! Please!" The rope hanging him was getting longer and longer. Even though there was no wind, it was swaying and slowly moving.
"Help me! I will definitely repay you! Please!"
However, no matter how Di Ying shouted, the group of people had no intention of saving her.
"Jiang Yu! Ximen Yuan! You can't just stand by and watch someone die!"
Di Ying didn't know that it wasn't that the group of people didn't want to help her, but that behind her, there was a dark corpse holding her tightly.
This was the reason why she was unable to exert any strength to save herself, but she could not see or feel it, she only vaguely felt that something was tightly restraining her.
Then the rope carried her to a nail board.
The rope broke.
“Ahh—”
Blood splattered, and the scarlet plasma melted little by little into the slowly flowing red wax. At first glance, there was no difference.
The screams had no effect on Lu Yanli. He looked out of the window and felt that he seemed to have seen something very important.
"One person died, and it's getting dark again." Lin Chu said in a low voice.
Before he finished speaking, a face suddenly approached from outside the cabinet door! It blocked most of the space, and its eyes were cold and strange. Jin Fugui was startled and just wanted to scream, but Qiu Zhi covered his mouth. The face's eyes turned around, and finally stared at Lin Chu.
Lin Chu carefully placed the candle steady, and the small flame burned slowly. She did not move, nor did she speak, and she seemed to be as quiet as if she had stopped breathing.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds...
Lin Chu stared at that face for who knows how long, but no matter how it stared, Lin Chu remained silent. Finally, that face disappeared.
It was dark outside the window again.
Lu Yanli quietly opened the cabinet door a little and looked outside.
Everyone has a limited number of candles in their hands. Other taskers have also received candles and are walking towards this side carefully to avoid being discovered by the ghosts.
What are they here for
Lu Yanli didn't think they had good intentions.
In the dark, candles are the best targets, and they can't hide anywhere. Therefore, Lu Yanli planned to let them come to him.
He clenched the dagger in his pocket, his eyes fixed on the several spots of light that were slowly approaching outside the cabinet.
Lin Chu was thinking about other things.
"After the second dark, it sounded like nothing happened. But when it got light again, everyone found that they had come to an unfamiliar place with that little light. It looked like the second floor of the wax museum."
"Everyone was put in a separate cabinet. Everyone was about to push the door open, but at this moment, everyone heard the door of the room being slammed open, and a series of... very, very scary footsteps were heard."
"The sound moved forward, it seemed to come to a cabinet, and then... it opened the cabinet." At that time, Lin Chu and Chu Xiu made up this story, "I heard screams."
"That person didn't have a candle. I remember clearly that the candle in my hand was almost burned out, so I had to take out the last two candles in my pocket and be ready to light them at any time..."
It's dawn.
The world was spinning before his eyes. Lu Yanli opened his eyes again and found himself trapped in a closet.
There were footsteps...