Chapter 072 1552 Haunted House (04)
There was a knock on the door. Xie Chi and Lu Wen immediately stopped talking, and Xie Chi walked over to open the door.
The fat chef stood outside the door and said, "It's time. Since you guys haven't come down yet, I'll ask you to go down and eat."
Xie Chi looked at his watch and it was already half past six.
"Then let's go down." Xie Chi glanced at Lu Wen, and Lu Wen packed up his things and followed.
While walking downstairs, Xie Chi walked up to the chef, tried to get close to him, and asked casually, "Can I ask about the previous owner of this house?"
The chef looked at him and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"No, it's just that the decorations in the room are quite interesting. I'm a little curious." Xie Chi walked down the stairs and said with a wry smile: "To be honest, there is a monkey head vase in my room. I was scared when I first saw it."
The chef smiled until his eyes narrowed into an almost invisible slit: "You are so timid."
"Who would have thought?" Xie Chi said awkwardly.
The chef said, "I don't really know much about it. Didn't you win the six-day experience in the mansion? I was just hired temporarily to take care of your daily life. Let me tell you in secret, this house had been uninhabited for a long time before I came. When I first came, such a big house was covered with dust and there was nothing to eat. It took me two days and one night to clean it by myself. I was so tired. Then I had to wash the sheets and quilts. After all, you were going to live here..."
The chef complained. Xie Chi thought he probably couldn't get anything out of a new chef. Just when he was about to give up, the chef said, "Didn't you just ask me about the previous owner of this place? Actually, I heard a little bit about it before I came here, but it was just hearsay. A couple lived here before. They were very rich and very young."
"Is that so?" Xie Chi became interested and asked, "What happened next? Why didn't you live in it anymore? Why did such a big mansion become abandoned?"
The chef was very secretive and whispered, "I heard that the man had a habit of torturing people. He was quite violent and possessive. He wouldn't let the woman go out. Anyway, the woman was miserable. After that..."
"Um?"
"Maybe they moved away later. I don't know about that." The chef spread his hands.
Xie Chi nodded, so it was the violent man in the marriage who killed the woman?
He had only been here for over an hour and hadn't even run into a ghost, yet he had managed to obtain so much information.
Lu Wen was also surprised at how smoothly the progress was going.
"Oh, right." The chef suddenly remembered something and turned his head to look at the two of them. "Did you find anything in the house?"
Xie Chi was stunned for a moment, then realized that he might be talking about teeth, and his heart suddenly tightened.
He looked up, his expression blank: "What's wrong? What is it?"
Lu Wen was puzzled for a moment, then reacted and asked with a worried look on his face: "Did you lose something? Is it important? Then let's go back and look for it after dinner?"
"It's nothing, don't be nervous, nothing is lost." The fat chef smiled and explained, "I was just afraid that I didn't clean it up properly before and left something behind. It would be embarrassing if it caused trouble for you."
"Is that so?" Xie Chi and Lu Wen looked as if they understood. "It's okay. The room is clean."
"That's good." The fat chef smiled.
The three of them had already walked downstairs. The chef stopped chatting with them and went into the kitchen to serve the dishes.
Xie Chi's face instantly darkened as the fat chef and the others disappeared from his sight.
Lu Wen also realized something was wrong: "Xie Chi, he seems..."
Xie Chi sneered: "He cleaned the whole house, the subtext is that he has searched everywhere; he asked us if we found anything, the subtext is that he searched everywhere and still didn't find what he wanted. He should know something, he is very likely lying, he may be the one looking for the teeth, the teeth may have a special use for him, of course this is just a preliminary guess, we have too few clues."
Lu Wen was stunned: "You are..."
[Silly, let me say this for you. You're reacting too quickly! ]
【I'm a little confused.】
[Just wait for the big guy to break the deadlock. ]
[Speaking of which, Zhao Jinhua’s ability to communicate with spirits gives him an advantage... I guess the boss is in the first place this time.]
【It's good enough to be alive. 】
[But it's just so embarrassing, saying in front of you that I'm going to kill you in the future, hahahahaha. ]
[So what if he can get information through spiritual communication? Xie Chi will always find a way to get the information they got.]
[Ah, he is very active and feels very safe. ]
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Xie Chi walked towards the dining table. At this time, the others had already sat down. Xie Chi watched the fat chef bring out the dishes and asked Lu Wen, "Are you hungry?"
"Not bad?" Lu Wen was confused.
"Don't eat dinner if you can avoid it," said Xie Chi, who was previously fooled by the story "Severed Finger" in "Horror Mashup" and has a psychological trauma about the food in horror movies.
Lu Wen was slightly nervous: "Do you think there's something wrong with the chef? Are you afraid that he might tamper with the food?"
"Not necessarily." Xie Chi frowned, feeling the need to make it clear, "You don't have to listen to me at all, because I don't have much basis. All my current inferences are based on vague rumors. Whether it's Zhao Jinhua or the chef, they are all rumors, not evidence. There is no way to confirm them. You have to know that compared to evidence in black and white, rumors are the least credible, and human hearts are the most unpredictable. If there is any clue that contradicts what we know now, I will overturn all my current views. I just chose the safest way for our safety, and I am even sensitive to the point of paranoia."
Lu Wen was puzzled: "Seeing enemies everywhere? Being crazy? Xie Chi, you don't need to say such things to belittle yourself..."
Xie Chi shook his head: "I don't mean to belittle myself, do you know why I'm not going to have dinner?"
"Why?" Lu Wen could never keep up with Xie Chi's train of thought.
Xie Chi did not answer but asked: "How many actors did we get in?"
"Thirteen."
"I explained to you the origin of the number 13 before, remember?"
"Remember, you talked about Jesus. You said that Judas, who betrayed Jesus, was Jesus' 13th disciple. There were exactly 13 people having dinner at that time—"
Lu Wen suddenly realized something, his expression horrified: "The last dinner?! The last dinner for thirteen people? There are exactly thirteen of us, and we are having dinner. Are you afraid that this is a hint? Is that why you are not going to have dinner?!"
"Yeah." Xie Chi shrugged and sighed, "So I said I was paranoid and nervous, because I can't tell whether this is a hint or just a coincidence, or whether I'm overthinking it."
Lu Wen felt that Xie Chi was terrifying. He would always connect unrelated things together, and when others knew nothing about it, he would already look at something from a completely new perspective.
"1552 Haunted House, the total is 13..." When Lu Wen understood, his brows immediately frowned, "I think there is something wrong with the logic. Why is it called 1552 Haunted House? The total number of the house number is 13, and there are 13 people coming. How can it be such a coincidence..."
Xie Chi shook his head: "You are wrong to think like that. Let's not talk about the fact that reality is full of incredible coincidences. In the final analysis, we are shooting a 'horror movie'. No matter how real it is, it is still an entertainment product in essence, and it is definitely not reality. Movies are not equal to reality. The plots and details of movies are all processed through art. Some of them may not make sense in some minor places, but they will reveal information. You can even find some hints that you may believe or not believe."
"It's like why in the movie "The Ship", there's a painting of a Greek god pushing a stone back and forth hanging on the ship. In fact, this painting itself has no logic, but it implies that the protagonist and his companions are in an endless cycle . Most horror movies emphasize a kind of overall beauty, and deep thinking about logic is actually full of errors and omissions."
Lu Wen seemed to understand but not quite.
They stood there too conspicuously, and everyone looked up at them. Xie Chi also realized that now was not the time to talk. He smiled and prepared to go to the table. Finally, he reminded Lu Wen: "Hide your teeth."
Lu Wen nodded.
They sat down and the five or six meter long dining table was filled with dishes.
Xie Chi looked at the dishes on the table and was stunned. They were actually Japanese food.
"How can we eat Japanese food?" The newcomer Lu Ming was a little dissatisfied.
"Yeah, I don't eat raw food." You Jing's girlfriend also said.
You Jing's girlfriend is Xia Yao.
Xie Chi looked at the dishes in front of him.
Most Japanese food is raw, cold and fried. The sashimi in front of him, to put it simply, is seafood placed on ice - raw salmon, octopus and the like. Most of them are raw. The fish in the deep sea do not have a fishy smell. You can just dip it in mustard and kill it and eat it directly. Of course, not many people can accept it. After all, it is raw, and the taste is not something they are used to.
Xie Chi used to eat it often. He stared at the Arctic scallop in front of him. He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that the plump food in the past looked a bit like a human tongue.
The Arctic scallop is a very fat and chewy shellfish meat with a certain thickness. The color of the front end is similar to that of the tongue, slightly lighter and more orange, a bit like the color of rotten tomato lipstick. The bottom is white, but the pieces of Arctic scallops stacked together in front of me are darker red in color and a little thicker.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like a tongue.
Xie Chi frowned slightly.
The fat chef also came over. You Jing looked up and asked, "Can't you make something else? Some of us don't eat Japanese food."
Everyone looked at him.
The fat chef shook his head and said awkwardly, "You won the six-day luxury home experience. I was given a menu and I have to follow it. We're going to have Japanese food tonight and there's no way to change it. You guys just make do with it. Who knows, we might have something you want to eat tomorrow night."
"You should try it, it's really delicious. After all, I'm a top chef!" The fat chef boasted.
You Jing asked Zhao Jinhua in a low voice: "Mom, will there be any problem with the food?"
You Jing had just come out of "Severed Finger" and was very wary of food in horror movies.
Zhao Jinhua was a little impatient: "Yes, it can be eaten. This is a haunted house movie, which is the type of movie I am best at. I have auditioned five of them, and the routines are all similar. The ghosts harass the actors for a while, then start to attack people, and finally possess people... It has nothing to do with food. We just find out the truth and help the ghosts to transcend. That's basically it. How many have you auditioned? A "Severed Finger" makes you suspicious? The experience summarized is always correct, and this is only the first day. The survival rate of the actors is extremely high. Don't worry, we have so many methods, what can go wrong."
Xie Chi had sharp ears. He glanced at her and said nothing after hearing her say that. What he distrusted most was experience. A fixed mindset could kill people. He still remembered the book of Hide and Seek very clearly.
It's normal that Zhao Jinhua is skilled and bold. After all, she has many tricks up her sleeve. Small fights are of no use to her. Moreover, to her, this is just a low-level book.
When everyone heard her say this, they felt relieved and started eating.
If you can’t accept Japanese food, the APP won’t force you to do so.
Ren Ze was next to Xie Chi. He seemed to want to try it and stretched out his chopsticks to pick it up. Xie Chi liked little sister Ren Ran very much and bumped his waist under the table.
Ren Ze almost dropped the piece of raw meat he was holding. He tilted his head and glared at him, asking him what he was doing with his eyes.
Xie Chi glanced at the table, remembering every dish, deliberately dropped a chopstick, lowered his head to pick it up, and whispered: "If you really want to eat, it's best not to eat meat."
Ren Ze paused. Was Xie Chi reminding him?
Xie Chi suddenly thought of the dish of ice tofu, and had some strange associations with his expression.
The monkey head vase in the room was made of a burnt monkey head. It was charcoal-grilled and completely hollow in the middle. There was no brain matter, just white brain matter... a bit like ice tofu.
"You'd better not eat tofu."
After Xie Chi finished speaking, he picked up the chopsticks and came up as if nothing had happened.
Ren Ze glared at him again. There was basically no vegetarian food in Japanese food. If he was not allowed to eat meat, what else could he eat?
He simply put down his chopsticks and stared at Xie Chi.
Several people exclaimed that it was delicious and addictive. An unknown actor took a bite of the ice tofu, which melted in his mouth. He chewed it twice, but found the taste a bit strange and slightly fishy. It was dense in his mouth and felt very strong and thick.
