Chapter 259 — Playing Ghosts to Scare People Off — Xiaoma Followed Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu at a Distance and Heard Their Conversation
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In the control room behind the haunted house, Jin Maosheng, Zhang Yuzhou, and Xiaoma had already changed into costumes. Jin Maosheng had become a vampire, Zhang Yuzhou a zombie, and Xiaoma had plastered something over his face until he became a "faceless man."
"All set — call the people waiting out front. They don't need to come in; just let Gu Mengyao go straight through," Zhang Yuzhou instructed Xiaoma.
"Yes..." Xiaoma, now the faceless man, spoke with a muffled, garbled voice. He pulled out his phone, dialed a number, and said, "You can leave now."
Outside the haunted house, the two groups who had been waiting ahead of Gu Mengyao and the others took a phone call and suddenly announced, "Forget waiting — it's too slow. Let's go, let's go play something else."
"Exactly, so slow. Not watching anymore — let's go," another chimed in at once.
And so the two groups ahead simply turned and walked off, without the slightest hesitation.
"Huh? Yaoyao, is something wrong with them? They waited in line all that time, and just when it's nearly their turn, they up and leave without watching?" Shen Yushu stared after the departing groups as though they were idiots.
"Who knows? But it's better that they're gone. Our turn will come soon enough." Gu Mengyao was a little puzzled too, but their leaving was a good thing after all; no more waiting.
Wei Zhao, however, swept a cold glance over the two departing groups, a faint sneer flickering at the corner of his mouth. Acting this soon? And inside the haunted house?
"Next group..." Just then the haunted house attendant opened the door and looked at Gu Mengyao and the others. "Is it you? Are you three together?"
"Yes. Is it our turn?" Gu Mengyao asked.
"It is. Give me your tickets and you can go in." The attendant took the tickets from Gu Mengyao's hand and, without even glancing at them, tossed them casually into the ticket box beside him. Wei Zhao felt a touch of contempt. Couldn't even be bothered to put on a show — that eager to get them inside?
Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Wei Zhao filed into the haunted house one after another. The heavy door behind them slammed shut with a boom, and from within came ghastly, horrifying shrieks: "Woo—aoo—"
Gu Mengyao could not help but shiver. She knew perfectly well it was all fake, yet the eerie chill of the place still sent a coldness through her whole body.
"Xiaoshu, hold on to me and don't go running off. It's pretty scary in here." Gu Mengyao wanted to keep up her big-sister poise, but her voice still betrayed her fear. Her intention had been to say that if Shen Yushu held on to her, Shen Yushu wouldn't be afraid — but by now anyone could tell that Gu Mengyao was all bluster and no courage.
"Hehe, Yaoyao, are you scared?" Shen Yushu, for her part, had plenty of nerve; hearing those ghostly wails, she was not frightened in the least.
"Who says I'm scared?" Gu Mengyao would never admit to being afraid. "These things are obviously all fake, just meant to scare people — what's there to be afraid of? Let's go. Wei Zhao, you follow behind us, and don't go far, you hear?"
"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled. The things inside this haunted house were a bizarre spectacle. Though crafted very realistically, many were composites of light and shadow effects — in truth nothing but fake, illusory things, like watching a 3D movie, only more immersive.