"Alas!!!
"what happened again?"
"I suddenly felt so cold. Something must have passed through my body!"
"...Because there's an air conditioning vent next to you."
"what!!!"
"..."
"I heard—
"It's the sound of your high heels... Wearing these in the corridor, of course there will be an echo..."
Akagi was so angry. She felt that there was nothing truly scary in this haunted house, which made her screams seem so abrupt.
The big fox was complaining in his mind that this haunted house did not live up to its name when suddenly someone slapped a bloody handprint on the glass of the classroom door next to him. A pale face with blood coming out of all seven orifices suddenly appeared, only half an arm's length away from Akagi.
As a result, Akagi was thinking about something and looked at the other person for about ten seconds before she realized that she should scream. Unexpectedly, Su Xin directly pulled her away and complained about it.
"Sister is actually quite courageous."
Akagi was secretly resentful. After walking a few steps, he turned around and glared at the staff in the classroom. His scarlet eyes in the dark actually scared them.
"You really don't know how to seize the opportunity! Can't you come out earlier? You ruined my plan, how annoying!"
Chapter 571: The Dream Did Not Come True (3 in 1)
[Tianshen Primary School] is very large. From a simple map found by Su Xin, it can be seen that in addition to classrooms, the school also has classrooms for art, music and other aspects. It seems that the conditions are very good.
The roads are interconnected and there are many forks in the road. She couldn't understand why a primary school would have such complicated routes, but considering that this is a commercial haunted house, it can be explained for the sake of customer flow.
[Tianshen Elementary School] The early stages seemed to be mainly about exploration. There were relatively few scary ghosts, and there was no further interaction, which made Su Xin feel a lot more relaxed.
After all, no matter how fearless you are, if something really chases you, you still have to run.
Akagi was probably tired, or maybe he had come to his senses and realized that pretending to be weak wouldn't work here, so he lost interest in the haunted house and simply turned his head to stare at the little commander.
If they hadn't been holding hands all the way, Su Xin would have shaken off this guy who looked more ghostly than a ghost. His eyes were glowing red in the dark, and with just a smile he could have passed for an employee of the haunted house.
Only a few classrooms in the school were locked, but other areas were open to the public, though most of them looked dilapidated with dried blood all over the floor.
The glaring red did not have any intimidating effect on Su Xin. Any picture in a book on medical symptoms was more shocking than this one. Besides, at least these pictures could be seen and touched, and were more pleasing to the eye than the evil spirits.
As for Akagi, she started to act badly. Instead of worrying about whether she would be scared, it would be better to guess whether she did it.
".....Why don't we just go out?" Akagi glanced at the classrooms around him boredly, too lazy to open them. "Commander, aren't you bored?"
Su Xin was actually quite interested in it. She used to be afraid of ghosts and didn't dare to come here, but now she is not afraid anymore and has the leisure to think about strategies.
"It's fine. Isn't it Akagi-sister who wants to play? Why did you come in and then say you want to leave?"
"...You don't respond if I pretend to be weak, and being the backbone is useless... I always feel like I'm just here to make up the numbers." Akagi pinched the little hand in his palm and complained secretly.
Commander Su didn't care about that. Since he was here, he had to finish playing before leaving. Otherwise, wouldn't the more than an hour of waiting in line be in vain?
So she began to explore the area in earnest.
Su Xin rummaged through boxes, opened cabinet doors, and touched corpses. She took a look at everything she saw, and soon she had a dozen nameplates in her pocket.
She found a dirty rag doll in the corner outside the principal's office. Its belly seemed to be filled with dirt. It was very heavy and not very soft. After thinking about it, she decided to keep it with her.
Screams could be heard from all directions from time to time, probably from other players, but so far they hadn't met anyone else, so they were happy to have the peace and quiet.
After going up to the second floor, the two went to the health room to look for clues, but they were locked inside as soon as they entered the door, and they couldn't open the door no matter how hard they pulled.
At the same time, the already dim lights went out instantly, and did not regain brightness until more than ten seconds later.
At this time, a female ghost was sitting on the only bed in the health room. She was wearing a bloodstained white coat and had a pale face. She was staring straight at the two people standing at the door, ready to receive screams.
Unexpectedly, the shorter girl was only stunned for a moment, and then she didn't react. The older girl looked at me with disgust.
"..."
"..."
The female ghost didn't believe it, so she stood up and took two steps towards the door, making a faint "Woo." sound, thinking, "You should be scared now, right?"
But despite her great expectations, she was only greeted by the short girl's friendly greeting: "Hello, do you have any clues for me?"
"......ah."
"Um... can't you talk?"
"Ahh..." The female ghost wiped her tears and blood, and began to act out the plot, writing a few big words on the bed sheet: [Give me back my tongue]
This was the clue to pass the level. Su Xin took note of it and planned to pay more attention to things like tongues when she went out to search. "Anything else?"
The female ghost was unhappy that she didn't scare anyone, so she deliberately stretched out her bloody face to get closer, but was slapped back to the bed by Akagi, "Don't let your smell get on her!"
"elder sister!"
Hearing the sound, Akagi frowned and stepped back, looking very unhappy. He took a handkerchief and wanted to wipe it, but it was not clean enough with one hand. So he simply stretched his hand in front of the little commander, satisfying his obsession with pretending to be weak.
Su Xin had no choice but to help her wipe it carefully, and then continued to ask: "Do you have any other clues for me?"
The female ghost was frightened and didn't dare to do anything else. She tremblingly handed the key over. The plastic sign hanging on the door read "Principal's Office" and she lowered her head without saying anything.
Su Xin understood, put away the key, turned around and pulled the door. This time she opened the door smoothly, and pulled Chicheng, who was sniffing her palm desperately, away as if his innocence had been defiled.
Seeing this, the staff member who played the female ghost breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and tried to close the door, preparing to welcome the next batch of players, but the door of the health room was slammed shut again.
"...I didn't press the remote?"
She felt puzzled and wanted to go forward to see if there was a malfunction, but suddenly something cold hugged her body.
“Guh, no way…?” The staff member began to sweat, and the scarlet pigment was diluted a lot. “Did I stumble upon the real thing!?”
The person holding her didn't linger for long, patted the staff member's shoulder as if to comfort her, and led the person back to the bed.
She was so frightened that she was stunned. She was forced down on the bed. She watched the dirty quilt at the end of the bed rise into the air, slowly cover her chest, and finally be gently patted by something.
Female ghost: What the hell???
The wooden door opened again and was closed two seconds later. The health room returned to calm, with only the staff member who had fainted on the bed and his irregular breathing remaining.
After comforting his fellow creature, the [Spirit] hero walked away in high spirits, with the important task of helping to find the tongue, and turned around to chase Su Xin and the other person who had not walked far.
The principal's office is on the third floor. Su Xin thought about it and decided to explore the second floor first before going up.
Compared to the peaceful atmosphere on the first floor, the second floor was much bloodier. The corridors were filled with either blood or pools of rotten meat, and one could even vaguely make out human organs such as intestines.
Thinking of the ghost's lost tongue, Su Xin had no choice but to pick up a stick and start digging at the bloody corpse, no matter how unwilling she was.
She searched from one side of the corridor to the other, and actually found a few pieces of tongue. They were soft and looked very realistic. From the cuts, it seemed that they had been cut or sheared off by a sharp object.
This thing was not easy to hold in the hand, so Su Xin simply asked Chicheng to use talisman paper to make a bowl, put several pieces of tongue in it, and let Chicheng hold it with a look of disgust on his face.
"Commander...why don't we just go out? What's so good about this thing? You might as well look at Akagi's tongue, it's guaranteed to be both beautiful and useful~"
Su Xin became bolder, glanced at her, and said coquettishly: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"That's right... These are disgusting to look at, and I don't like you looking at others."
Su Xin curled her lips and pretended not to hear, and continued to search the rest of her tongue. As a result, when she was picking up the meat sauce outside the women's restroom, she heard a cold female voice coming from the restroom.
"Sister... stop looking at my internal organs, um, I'll be shy~~"
Akagi glared, snatched the stick and threw it out, "No more looking at it! You can only look at Akagi's!"
"It depends on you... Then you will die, right?"
"Anyway, you are not allowed to look at anyone except me!" The big fox was jealous. The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became. He simply took a mop and poked it on the bloody flesh, covering the scarlet on the ground completely.
"Don't look for it anymore. Let's go directly to the principal's office. We already have so many of them. Can't we just give her any one of them?"
Without the stick, Su Xin thought for a moment, then lowered her eyes to look at the pitch-black mop, feeling a little disgusted. She simply responded and turned to walk towards the stairs.
The young lady who was watching the surveillance camera reading the lines outside closed her mouth and drank a sip of water. Then she saw the mop suddenly float up, pushing the meat paste together, and finally a piece of cloth flew over and covered it like a burial.
She was so frightened that she spat out a mouthful of water on the screen. She then stared at the surveillance footage that had returned to normal with wide eyes and shuddered.
There wasn't as much blood in the principal's office, but there was a lot of brown stuff on the walls that looked disgusting, like half-dried pieces of fat.
There was a large photo hanging on the wall behind the desk. It was of a middle-aged man wearing glasses, but the eyes in the photo had been gouged out, leaving them hollow and ugly.
The wooden shelf on the side was filled with books. Su Xin went over and took a casual look. There were economics, education, psychology... too many categories.
There was only a stack of papers in the file rack on the desk. After flipping through them, I found that they were all notices from superiors ordering rectification and closure, which listed the series of disappearances that occurred in this school twenty years ago.
The drawer was locked. It seemed that they were missing a key again. The little commander thought about it and turned around to look for books on the shelf.
Akagi had no interest in haunted houses, but it was rare to see Su Xin being serious, so he found it quite novel.
Normally when the two of them were together, she mostly saw his defensive look. But now, with his serious look with his lips pursed, he looked so cute no matter how you looked at him.
Thinking that there had been no progress at all along the way, Chicheng became anxious. Seeing Su Xin searching from the bottom up, she immediately leaned over and hugged her. Amid the little commander's surprised cries, she held her in her arms and weighed her.
"This way, the commander can turn over the things on top, right?" Akagi asked vaguely, his cheek against Su Xin's spine.
The warm temperature penetrated the thin clothes and talisman paper and reached the little commander, making her feel a little uncomfortable.
But in order to get through customs as quickly as possible, Su Xin finally did not refuse. Instead, she stiffened her back a little and mumbled "thank you".
There seemed to be no clues on the bookshelf. I flipped to the back and found a few magazines on the inside of the top layer of books. The layout design was very retro, the fonts were large and vulgar, and the pictures were extremely revealing. They were the type that should not be seen in public.
Su Xin took the magazine and checked it again, then patted Akagi's head, signaling him to put her down.
Akagi helped and felt extremely childishly happy, until he caught a glimpse of the scantily clad girl on the cover of the magazine. His face suddenly turned gloomy and he snatched the magazine away before Su Xin had time to look through it carefully.
"Commander, Akagi has already said that you can't look at other women, okay? If you like... Akagi can do it after you go back, but other people's bodies... Akagi won't allow it..."
Just don't look at it. Su Xin has a clear understanding of her own situation. It's just a way to delay time, so just go with the flow.
After searching the room thoroughly, there was no useful information found except for the locked drawer on the desk. The young commander guessed that they might have missed a place and now lacked a key.
Calculating the time, it was almost time for lunch. Su Xin didn't want to delay any further and wanted to go back to the hotel as early as possible. If she really missed the rescue, it would be a waste of time and effort.
So she simply cheated and let Akagi open the wooden drawer with his bare hands, and found a key with the word "Basement" written on it, a notebook, and several blood-stained photos.
The person in the photo looks the same as the one on the wall with the eyes missing. It must be the principal. He seems to have fallen down the stairs and hit his head. Scarlet and white blood are all over the floor, which is disgusting to look at.
There were a few entries in the notebook, detailing how the principal forced a female teacher to give herself to him, but was resisted and he accidentally pushed her down the stairs while chasing her, killing her on the spot.
It happened that the teacher's daughter Sachiko was present, so he took the witness Sachiko to the basement and buried her alive in an attempt to escape the crime.
"At the staircase..." Su Xin threw the photo back without thinking of taking it away. "If it's the basement, we should go down the stairs on the other side, right? Hmm... let's go and take a look."
They met many ghosts on the way, both big and small. When they saw the two of them, they stretched their necks to ask for their tongues. Su Xin returned them one by one, and there were still a lot left.
When they walked down the stairs on the other side to the second floor, they saw two eyeballs on the ground in the same position as in the previous photo, cloudy, sticky, and covered with bloodshot.
Su Xin thought about it, used a stick to push them into the bowl, and then stuffed them into the bowl for Chicheng, who was almost at his limit, and then quickly rushed down.
There is a half flight of stairs going down one floor, at the end of which is an iron door locked with a padlock. The gap between the doors is covered with talismans, most of which have fallen off at this time.
Although many steps were skipped, Su Xin knew the general structure and story background of the haunted house, so she opened the lock and pushed the door open.
Sure enough, a little girl in red was squatting on the ground, piercing a skull with a steel needle. When she saw someone coming, she looked up and smiled. Her young age, less than ten years old, coupled with the terrifying atmosphere in the basement, made people tremble unconsciously.
There were a lot of corpses and minced meat scattered around, scissors of different sizes stuck in the ground, as well as blood-stained baseball bats and rusty shovels.
"...Sachiko?"
The little girl tilted her head and stretched out her hands towards Su Xin.
Commander Su thought about it and handed over her tongue, which was properly kept by the other party, but the other white hand was still open to her.
There were still quite a few tongues in the bowl, but Su Xin felt it was not reasonable to give another one, as the only things left were the eyeballs and the doll.
If the person in front of him is the murdered Sachiko, should he give her the eyeball of her enemy or a rag doll of unknown origin?
Su Xin hesitated, but Chi Cheng took the lead and handed her eyes over, "I like you very much, little thing."
"What's the use of a doll? Anyone who hurts you must be killed without a burial place. How good is an eyeball? If my sister wasn't busy, I would definitely help you find the other things."
"Tsk...what a pity."
After taking the eyeballs, Sachiko laughed, and after stringing them together with a steel needle, she nailed them directly on the skull. The wall behind her happened to be open, and bright light from outside came in. It was the exit.
Chi Cheng pulled the silent Su Xin out and stopped at the door. "Little thing, you are really interesting. Sister is leaving now? Bye~"
Perhaps because she had passed the level, the little girl's expression returned to normal. She smiled and waved to Akagi, said goodbye softly, and watched the exit close again.
"Congratulations on successfully escaping the curse of [Tenjin Elementary School]. Well... it's a pity that it's a bad ending." The staff in charge of reception gave the conclusion.
