Chapter 974 - What Zhang Ya Wants (1/2)
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Translator: Lonelytree Editor: Millman97
The mansion was rather old, and the floor was tiled with mottled stones. The walls were stacked with green bricks, and yellow talismans were stuffed between the bricks. The mansion looked normal, nothing special about it, but it gave off an uncomfortable feeling, probably due to the talismans.
As Chen Ge pushed open the red door. A thick moldy stench drifted out from within, and yellowed paper money littered the ground. A white calligraphed character ‘fortune’ was pasted onto the pillar inverted, and tons of paper dolls were dangling from the ceiling. As he walked further into the lobby, there was a large bronze mirror placed in the middle of the hall. Ritualistic characters were written on the surface of the mirror, and before the mirror were the decapitated heads of a cow, goat, and pig and a bronze ritual bowl with three snapped joss sticks.
“Are those animal heads real?” Before he got close, Chen Ge could smell the decaying smell from the sacrificial heads. However, the theme park did not seem like they planned to replace them. “I’m surprised the theme park would have such a traditional scenario.”
Avoiding the bronze mirror, Chen Ge looked around. There were twenty-four scrolls of evil Specters hanging on the wall of the hall. In every painting, the Specter was missing a body part. Some was missing eyes, others legs.
“Why are all the Specters handicapped? Are they afraid that if the painting is completed, the Specter will come out from the scroll?” The scrolls looked quite ancient and not duplicated. Chen Ge walked up to the scrolls, and the more he studied them, the more familiar they felt. “They look familiar to the devil that Doctor Gao carved on the door in my haunted house. When Chang Wenyu wanted to destroy the door of the School of the Afterlife, a similar picture to these Specters was seared on her back. But the difference is, both Chang Wenyu and Doctor Gao were working with the real deal, but the Specters here are all missing something. Their soul is not complete.”
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Holding up the headless woman’s head, Chen Ge asked if she could sense something from the scrolls. She looked at them for a long time and even used her blood vessels to touch them but did not find anything strange.
“The whole mansion is permeating with this uncomfortable feeling. I cannot recognize many of the ritualistic characters, but I do not think that they are meant to pray for blessings or safety.” Chen Ge wanted to study things further, but the sound of things falling came from the side hall. Holding the saw, Chen Ge pushed open the door. There were blood stains on the ground, causing the dyed paper money to stick to the ground. Once he entered the room, Chen Ge felt overwhelmed by discomfort, like something had enveloped his body, causing him to have difficulty breathing.
Something’s not right.
He did not continue to move forward but stood at the door. It did not take long for him to hear the voice of the man with the glasses. “Move faster. That man might be here soon.”
“I know, but I don’t think I have the key to this door.”
“Didn’t you say you can open all the doors inside the haunted house?” the man with the glasses asked urgently, but he did not dare raise his voice.
“Before we came in here, I memorized all the guides to the scenarios, but I have no memory of this scenario at all! Really, I regret ever stepping in here. I have no recollection of this scenario at all.” The young man’s voice was quivering.
“There is no record of this scenario on the computer?”
“Yes, you keep telling me to open the door, but I don’t even have the corresponding key, so how do I do that?”
“That’s impossible! Could the information be mistaken?”
“The document was given to me the day before Bai Buhui went to visit Western Jiujiang Haunted House. Do you think there’d be a problem?”