Chapter 50 - Hat (1/2)
Li Chi Yu’s answer made Su Min curious. He asked, “Why would you think that he’s a magician?”
A magician wouldn’t usually dress up as a clown, right?
Li Chi Yu answered: “I’ve seen magic begore. Magicians would always wear clothes like this, but they wouldn’t have that kind of makeup on their face.”
That clown makeup looked very scary.
Jiang Taozhi interjected: “How do you know that it’s makeup? I can’t tell that it is. I’ve been using makeup all these years and it doesn’t look like it. I suspect that’s his original face.”
She looked at Le Ling: “Right?”
It was unusual for Le Ling to hesitate for a moment, “Yeah.”
Su Min felt that Jiang Taozhi’s words sounded even more horrible, but it was undeniable that it does indeed fit the plot of a horror movie.
The water tank was pulled out and placed in the centre of the stage.
The clown politely bowed to the audience. Apart from his face, he didn’t look scary at all.
The calmer it was, the more dangerous it would be.
Su Min didn’t know what the clown wanted to do but he could vaguely tell that someone would die or someone had already died.
The person performing may even be a ghost.
The entire stage was dark, but you can you could see the things on it clearly. This included the clown’s movements and expressions.
Su Min examined the area around him.
This place looked like it was enclosed. The roof was visible above and the surroundings were dark. Only the seats in this area could be clearly made out.
He was sitting in the first row and was very close to the stage.
If he just took one step forward, he would be right next to the stage.
If you were an impulsive audience, you could easily rush on stage to see what was up there.
A woman in the back patted her chest and said: “After all that, we’re really just here to watch a show. Scared me to death.”
She thought she would be killed in the middle of nowhere.
Su Min internally thought that she would probably really be scared to death later.
Li Chi Yu recognised this pattern and whispered: “I’ve seen magic before. I’ve seen this. It’s called Escaping the Water Tank.”
Escaping the Water Tank was a very common magic. Just from its name, you can tell what the magic was about. The key point was escape.
A lot of magic tricks involve the use of various tricks. It would depend on the magician whether or not they wanted to reveal the tricks. Otherwise, you would need to figure it out yourself.
This also applied to Escaping the Water Tank.
But Li Chi Yu didn’t pay any attention to this, so he didn’t know the secret trick behind the escape.
Su Min had never paid attention to magic and had to rely on Li Chi Yu to understand what was being performed.
Su Min furrowed his brows: “Then is the person escaping a human or a ghost?”
Those words of his alarmed several people.
It was impossible for the magician to enter and perform himself. Generally speaking, assistants or live audiences would be invited to perform. A trick like Escaping the Water Tank usually involved the participation of an assistant or team member.
Jiang Taozhi subconsciously commented: “It can’t be a ghost right……?”
The strange things that they had encountered at the hotel and on their way here seemed to be connected. They now well and truly believed that ghosts exist in this world.
Now that they’re at a strange performance venue with the strange staff, it wasn’t unusual for them to suspect this.
Su Min whispered: “If the magician is a ghost, then the performer might be human.”
It seemed to be rather impossible for two spooky ghosts to perform for them. It would be much more stimulating for a human to be involved instead.
In the early hours of this morning, he had received a hint with the word “Show”. At that time he was still doubtful but now he was certain.
Li Chi Yu spoke with surprise: “If the performer is human, then is it possible that they were already caught?”
If you asked him to perform here, he wouldn’t be willing to do it even if you paid him.
Jiang Taozhi said: “That is very possible. After leaving the hotel, many people have gone missing. We still don’t know where they went.”
Su Min didn’t think they had died.
Because if they died, they could do that directly in the hotel. It was also more terrifying using a living human rather than a dead human.
The definition of a horror movie is horror. This can easily be achieved by inducing panic and fear.
The clown on the stage pulled out a black cloth.
The group of spectators silently watched his movements. He used the cloth to cover the water tank.
After a few seconds, the clown lifted the cloth up.
The water tank that was covered was once again revealed. This time, it was different. There was another figure inside it.
At first glance, everyone could fell that it was a woman. Her hair was scattered out and her entire body was swollen from extended exposure to water.
She floated in the water while her hands, feet and body were all tied up with chains. She couldn’t break free.
The people at the back whispered: “Who is this? Is it that clown’s assistant?”
“It looks pretty realistic. Unless they’ve already agreed on something, it looks impossible escaping from something like that.”
“It’s an assistant. I’m glad I didn’t need to go up to perform. If I go in, I definitely won’t be able to escape.”
“It looks very exciting.”
The people sitting in the first row could clearly see the person inside the water tank.
Seeing that face in the water, Su Min was startled.
He had met this person. It was Zhou Qing Qing, the woman from the first couple that he had ran into on the first day at the hotel.
When he saw Xu Jian alone in the hall the next day, he suspected that something had probably happened between the two and now he had found the answer.
Turns out, Zhou Qing Qing was already gone on the first day.
Su Min still didn’t know how Zhou Qing Qing disappeared. He had only heard a scream at that time, but he didn’t see anyone when he came out.
Li Chi Yu noticed that his expression didn’t look right. He asked, “What’s wrong?”