Chapter 428 - Gathering Firewood (1/2)

Chapter 428 - Gathering Firewood

TL: Lifeisajourney

Liu Gan started delegating tasks to the two group leaders after learning their names. “There are eleven of us. Let’s split into three groups. Five of you in one group with Cai Hao Chen in charge; your task is to gather firewood from nearby trees, the more firewood the better. Ana Lucia will be in charge of another group that will search the haunted house; your task is to search the place for any potential dangers lurking here. Once both teams are finished with their task, they will focus on cooking dinner. I will scout the immediate area and expand outward to ensure our safety in this theme park.”

“I will personally see to it that my group finishes the task!” Cai Hao Chen was happy that he had been personally named to head up a group.

“Leave me with the haunted house!” Ana Lucia’s face twisted into a grimace, as she was trying to imitate a ghost. This was part of her personality, showing that she was quite happy with her assigned task. As a mixed-blood foreigner, she had a tough-girl persona. She loved to play pretend in the village, as if she had the role of being a big sister. Being upgraded to a group leader, she felt as if she really became a big sister.

After assignments were distributed, Cai Hao Chen led his group of four others toward the nearby trees to gather wood. In the theme park, there were plenty of trees. Although, majority of the trees were dried-up. It wasn’t a huge problem for the group to gather firewood. With enhanced strength, carrying bundles of firewood was easy. Other members were using axes to chop down the trees and bringing them back. Without spending too much time, there was a small hill of chopped wood right by the haunted house.

In the meantime, Ana Lucia and three other members were investigating the haunted house. They were checking the corners at every turn to see if it was just a haunted house attraction, or a real haunted house.

The design of the haunted house was very special. Aside from the foundation of the building, all the other props were cast from concrete molds. Even the window frames were narrow, with steel bars barricading them, making them good vantage points. If the front entrance was guarded, then nothing could slip in behind them.

The front entrance of the haunted house took on the form of a demon’s wide mouth. With the gates as teeth, it was locked by chains. Ana used her axe to cut away the chains and walked deeper into the throat of the demon.

The first room was almost an exact copy of the living room from the movie The Ring. In the middle of the room was a TV. If this attraction was still operational, then when the tourists ventured into the dark room they would be blinded by the bright light of the TV. Following up the temporary blindness will be an actor playing the role of Sadako, crawling out from the TV.

Presently, the TV was still there, but Sadako was not.

Leaving the set of ‘The Ring’, the next set was a prison holding cell. As for which movie it belonged to, it was hard to pinpoint. It might have been a scene from an American film since there was a poster with a chainsaw cutting through zombies.

Going deeper in, the group saw Sadako Yamamura’s old house and the ancient village. Once they moved deeper inside the haunted house, they discovered that it was quite vast. The amount of effort that went into designing the place could be seen in the details. There were stairs leading up that had holes in them, forcing the tourists to be on their toes.

“I'm not afraid nor gutless. When I was younger, back in the real world, I slept overnight in a haunted house. It was a horrifying and strange encounter. That's why I had strong adverse reaction to camping in the haunted house,” Star Yu continued to explain himself to Ana.

“A coward will always be a coward, trying to explain yourself proves that you are afraid,” Ana continued to voice her opinion of Star Yu.

“My friend had to undertake a security job that included a haunted house in the theme park. The night prior to the release of new attractions, he asked for help and I went over to assist. That night I slept in the haunted house…” Star Yu continued to tell his story as he used the flashlight to light up his path. Everything he had told them was a real life experience.