Chapter 47.1 (2/2)

Once in the haunted house, Xiao Tangqiu could clearly feel that the temperature had fallen several degrees. There wasn’t a light source in the haunted house. Although they had the flashlight, it couldn’t blot out the dark. No one knew what was hidden in the darkness and this unknown darkness was the most terrifying.

However, because there were people in front of him, he wasn’t that afraid. He was actually more terrified of monsters that would kill them rather than the “scary ghosts” in ordinary haunted houses. This fear made him carefully watch out for anything that might kill him.

From time to time there came a girl’s screams in front of him. Xiao Tangqiu immediately became more alert. However, when he walked to the front, he didn’t find anything. Nothing popped up at him and there wasn’t a scary “ghost” either, only a pile of broken, moldy wood and some damaged props – a skull with big hole in its eye socket, plastic eyeballs rolling all over the floor, half of a skeleton, a red axe missing its cutting edge, and a broken mirror.

What was there to be afraid of?

The deeper Xiao Tangqiu went, the more puzzled he became. After countless times of hearing screams and mentally preparing himself, finding nothing, breathing a sigh of relief, hearing screams and mentally preparing himself and so on again… he gradually became numb and even began to suspect that they and the four people in front were not in the same haunted house.

Even Tang Mianmian and the boy had gotten used to it. They soon forgot their differences and began to make fun of the situation, “Heh! It’s not scary at all!”

“Why are the people in front blindly shouting? Clearly, it’s not terrible at all! What a bunch of cowards! “

“The skull earlier had a big hole in one of its eye sockets, as if it had one big eye and one small hahaha….”

“From one glance, you can tell the axe is blunt. The staff didn’t sharpen it ah.”

Xiao Tangqiu glanced at the two men behind him and wanted to say something but suddenly he saw a dark shadow behind the boy…

Wait! Wasn’t that boy the last person in their small team? How could there be anyone behind him?

He didn’t have time to think about it, immediately crying out, “There’s someone behind! Run!

As soon as his words fell, the shadow that was still some distance away from the boy suddenly jumped to the back of the boy.

“Don’t frighten me, how is it possible…”

The boy laughed and turned around only to see the skull with a big hole in its eye socket. Only half its skeleton body was left and it was suspended in mid-air while its hand was holding up the blunt red axe.

He cried and stumbled onto the ground, watching the red axe fall suddenly!

At this critical juncture, Xiao Tangqiu quickly took out the crossbow he had exchanged points for and shot an arrow at the skull!

He was very fast, moving at an unprecedented speed. He thought that it would be too late but he somehow managed to make it in time.

He pulled the string!

And shot!

Because he didn’t undergo much training, Xiao Tangqiu wasn’t accurate enough. The arrow that had been shot at the red axe was deflected and hit the skull by mistake. The short-range shot had great impact and the skull was pierced by the arrow in an instant!

The skull that had been hit by the arrow fell to the ground and rolled several meters away.

He put down the crossbow, only to find that he had been so nervous that his palms were cold and his ears were filled with the pounding of his drum-like heart. Ba-dum! Ba-dum! Ba-dum!

However, before Xiao Tangqiu could breathe a sigh of relief, the skull that had been hit by the arrow came back to life and slowly floated to the front of them. It turned its back on Xiao Tangqiu and the others and seemed to be awkwardly looking for its body.

“Run!” He let out a cry, then turned and pulled Tang Mianmian to run. As for the boy who fell to the ground in fright, he didn’t have the energy to care about him.

But he also managed to snap the boy out of his trance with that shout. The boy woke up with a start, quickly scrambled to his feet and started running unsteadily.

The four people in front also seemed to have heard the movement behind them and shouted and ran. Xiao Tangqiu had no time to carefully find his way around. He could only blindly follow the people in front of him. As he ran, he prayed desperately that there was only one way out of the haunted house and that there weren’t any forks or dead ends.

He ran and ran, but his stamina was insufficient. Tang Mianmian pulled him to run again. The two men ran after the people in front of him. Just then, Xiao tangqiu suddenly discovered something was wrong. “Something’s wrong!”

He cried out breathlessly, “How long have we been running? Why haven’t we seen the exit yet! This isn’t right! It’s too far! How can there be such a big haunted house!”

Tang Mianmian also realized something off. “Yeah… it’s been over 20 minutes! We should’ve reached the exit after running for so long! How can this haunted house be so big!”

Xiao Tangqiu looked in front. The four people ahead of them were still running like crazy. They didn’t seem to find anything wrong with the situation, didn’t realize that the passage was too long and they didn’t show any sign of exhaustion.

But Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian were just ordinary people. They were already very tired and would soon reach their limit.