Chapter 303: 214: Scared Silly (Second Update)
“Let’s go this way.”
Shen Xueqing glanced at the floor plan index then headed up the left staircase.
But just as she set foot there, several cries of alarm sounded.
In the dim lighting, down the corridor of the second floor, there stood some bizarrely shaped humanoid shadows.
Upon closer inspection, they were actually medical anatomical models, made of plastic, with red muscles and organs painted on the surface.
“That startled me.”
Su Su patted her flat chest, amused by her own scare.
“This place is pitch-dark; they put a human model here to scare people!”
“It seems they’ve run out of tricks. What’s so scary about this.”
“And yet you were just hiding behind me, and now you are the one shaking.”
The visitors on the second floor joked with each other, laughing and chuckling.
With their numbers, they emboldened each other. Plus, their psychological instinct was to know everything they saw was fake, so they were very brave.
“I still feel something’s off.”
For some reason, Shen Xueqing felt that the eyes of these medical anatomical models possessed a malign presence, as if they were watching her group.
Amid the joking of her companions, the group continued forward.
Shen Xueqing took out her phone, using the flashlight to slightly illuminate the surroundings.
Operating room, doctor’s office, nurse’s station, dressing room, ultrasound examination room…
In the dim light of her phone, Shen Xueqing could see department signs hanging over the doors of several damaged rooms, rust-stained but the lettering still discernible.
“They said to find three Blood Handprints, this place is so big without any hints. Where should we even start looking!”
Grumbling to herself, Su Su kicked a discarded can, which rang out crisply in the silent surroundings.
“This is the Women and Children Hospital, the so-called Blood Handprints should be related to departments like the infant care room or labor room.”
Shen Xueqing spoke up, recalling so many horror games she had played before; many had similar themes.
“Sister Shen is so clever, to think of a solution that quickly, let’s hurry…”
Su Su’s eyes lit up, just as she was about to continue, she suddenly saw Shen Xueqing place a finger to her lips.
“Shush!”
Su Su quieted down, puzzled. Suddenly, a tinkling sound echoed, it was the can rolling.
Instinctively, everyone looked in the direction of the sound, only to see the can Su Su had kicked rolling back from the darkness.
“Who, who’s there?”
A few cellphones lit up the area, revealing only a medical anatomical model standing in the darkness.@@novelbin@@
“Damn, not another one of these human models. Could there be a real person inside, disguised by the model to scare us?”
A burly visitor mustered his courage to investigate further and discovered it was indeed just a model, not a person in disguise.
Shen Xueqing was also observing, suddenly sensing that something was amiss.
“Wait, were these anatomical models this close to us before?”
Shen Xueqing noticed several models that were previously about twenty or thirty meters away.
Looking now, the distance had shrunk to just a few meters, and they were positioned differently.
Alerted by her, the others unconsciously looked over.
In the darkness, these anatomical models cast eerie and bizarre shadows, standing motionlessly in place.
Just when everyone thought it was a misunderstanding, a faint cracking noise started.
But the sound was not coming from in front of them, but from behind.
The group quickly turned around, only to see the burly visitor who’d gone forward for inspection standing in front of another medical anatomical model, whose neck was stiffly turning.
Each twist contorted the model’s body a bit more, filled with an eerie misalignment.
When someone nervously shone a cellphone light over, they saw an utterly terrifying face.
The anatomical model, displaying its muscles and internal organs, was now oozing fresh blood from its open cross-section, with the intestines rhythmically moving and the heart thumping, the lungs expanding and contracting.
The model at this moment looked as if a living person had been sliced open, incredibly real and horrific.
Su Su’s face turned pale, and Shen Xueqing clenched her fists tight, as the pupils of all the visitors rapidly constricted.
Not to mention the burly visitor nearly glued to the medical model; he had personally checked it earlier, confirming it was just a regular model.
But now, the palm he had placed on the model’s abdomen sunk slightly inward, distinctly feeling the slight movement of the intestines, a warm and sticky sensation transmitting through.
It was as if he truly stuck his hand into human organs.
This vivid sensation, the smell of blood at the tip of his nose, and the eerie friction noise around his ears froze him in place, his eyes wide open, mouth agape, too terrified to make a sound.
“It hurts so much!”
A raspy voice full of agony emanated from the model’s mouth.
It locked onto the burly man, rapidly dragging him into the darkness, leaving behind nothing but his earth-shattering screams.
“Mommy!”
Su Su clung tightly to Shen Xueqing’s arm, her whole body quivering into a ball like a terrified quail.
Before the other visitors could react, that spine-chilling cracking sound echoed once more.
This time, the sound came from behind them, from another few medical anatomical models.
These models sprawled on the ground, moving their limbs, resembling a giant spider, launching themselves toward the crowd.
“A ghost, there’s a ghost!”
“Damn it, what are you spacing out for, run!”
“Wuuwuu, don’t chase me!”
A group of tourists turned pale with fright, some of them went weak in the knees and stood rooted to the spot, not reacting at all.
Some chose to take off their glasses, intending to quit the game directly, but panicked to discover that the glasses seemed fused to their flesh and could not be removed no matter how hard they tried.
Some chose to turn and run, like Shen Xueqing.
“Hurry.”
Dragging Su Su, Shen Xueqing ran swiftly; her physical fitness was quite impressive, not just some housebound girl. She had even joined the track and field club in college, and her long legs moved quickly and powerfully.
Whoosh!
Half a minute later, after turning a corner, Shen Xueqing found an abandoned office and hid inside, shutting the door.
Noise came from the hospital corridors, and inside the room, neither Shen Xueqing nor Su Su dared to breathe heavily.
After a while, Su Su managed to calm her mind a bit and said, trembling, “Sister Shen, did we really encounter a ghost?”
“It must be these glasses doing this.”
Shen Xueqing pointed at the 3D glasses, her tense nerves causing her to feel fear after a long absence, yet her face unexpectedly showed a hint of a smile.
“Does that mean it’s fake?”
“It’s fake.”
Shen Xueqing nodded. It was the 21st century after all, and people no longer believed in improbabilities.
Upon hearing this, Su Su felt relieved and carefully peeked outside through the broken part of the door.
But that one glance nearly frightened her soul away.
She saw an anatomical mannequin spread-eagled, climbing across the ceiling, its vacant, numb eyes still surveilling around as if searching for living people.
As it crawled, fresh blood dripped from its body onto the floor, and the smell of blood was unbearably pungent.
Su Su was about to scream on the spot, but fortunately, a hand reached from behind and covered her mouth.
Mmm-mm!
When the anatomical mannequin left the corridor, Shen Xueqing finally let go of her hand.
“Wuuwuu, Sister Shen, this doesn’t look fake at all!”
Su Su was almost scared witless, her petite face stained with tears, her psychological defenses nearing collapse.
“That’s the cleverness of Nightmare Park, these glasses are quite high-tech.”
Shen Xueqing’s eyes burned with excitement and enthusiasm; this experience in Ghost House made her feel the trip was worthwhile.
As far as Shen Xueqing was concerned, these 3D glasses provided terror in visual form, powered by high-intelligence AI simulation, real-time scenario computation, and tailored ghostly actions based on player reactions, making them seem genuinely real.
This visual stimulus would consequently trick the brain into mistaking it for a life-threatening signal, causing adrenaline and glucose to rapidly release into the bloodstream, providing energy for fleeing and defense, thus offering an exhilarating experience akin to flying.
The human eye is the organ that receives the most external information, and visual stimulation is the most intense.
This is much like watching a horror movie; even if many people know it’s not real, they still feel scared and frightened.
“Come on, let’s get out of here.”
Shen Xueqing pulled Su Su, but now Su Su was clearly too scared to continue.
“No, no, no, Sister Shen, I don’t want to play anymore, I want to quit.”
Su Su’s head shook like a rattle-drum as she reached to take off her glasses.
However, she quickly felt a tingling on her scalp because she found she couldn’t take off the glasses at all.
“I can’t actually take off these glasses.”
Su Su’s mouth gaped open, unbelieving, and she tried forcefully to pull them off, but still couldn’t.
“Detection indicates you are currently within a special dangerous scene, temporary exit is not possible, please execute this operation after safety.”
Just then, a cold voice suddenly sounded in Su Su’s ears, the glasses even had bone conduction features, leaving her in disbelief.
“There’s a mechanism here.”
Shen Xueqing checked and found the reason.
At the back of these 3D glasses, there were two special magnetic devices that adhered to the skin, possessing a special adhesive quality, making them difficult to dismantle.
“No one said we couldn’t take off the glasses when we came in!”
Su Su was furious, outraged that the glasses had such a capability, which severely tricked consumers.
“No, they did say it, but you weren’t listening carefully then.”
Shen Xueqing took out a paper, signed at the entrance of Ghost House earlier.
It had a line of small text stating that once inside Ghost House, and upon triggering certain special scenarios, the AI glasses could not be removed.
At that point, one either waits, allowing the special scenario to pass.
Or continues the adventure, playing through the Ghost House.
Or, gets attacked by ghosts, and once the player is deemed dead, the glasses can be removed.
“What kind of shady dealer is this! Such a small line of text, who could see it clearly?”
Su Su gritted her teeth; indeed, before experiencing the true terror here, even if she had seen this line, she wouldn’t have cared about it.
Most people always have a kind of blind confidence in themselves.