Chapter 073 1552 Haunted House (05)
The Gray Actor didn't know much about Japanese food and thought that this dish was supposed to taste like this. He didn't think much about it. He didn't like the taste, so he swallowed it with difficulty and drank a sip of Calpis to get rid of the greasiness.
After dinner, it was already dark.
Xie Chi went to the kitchen only after everyone else returned to their rooms.
Lu Wen watched him open the refrigerator, then wander around the sink, and finally rummage through the trash can.
Lu Wen walked over: "What's wrong?"
Xie Chi pointed to the trash can and said, "Normally, there should be trash to be thrown away when cooking, such as vegetable leaves, but I searched the kitchen and found nothing."
The kitchen was spotless, and it didn't look like a feast had just been prepared. There was clearly fried food on the table before, but there was no smell of fried food in the kitchen.
Lu Wen reacted and lowered his voice: "You mean, where do those ingredients come from? How are they made?"
Xie Chi nodded: "And actually I tend to think that even if there is something wrong with the dishes, it is only some of them that have problems."
Lu Wen was stunned: "Is it because of the first day?"
Xie Chi pushed his glasses and said, "Yes, it is impossible for all of us to die. Even if we really need to reduce the number of personnel significantly, we have to wait until the later stage and make a final decision. Not at the very beginning."
Lu Wen nodded.
Suddenly, their cell phones rang.
"It should be that the plot has been updated."
Xie Chi said, taking out his phone to check.
[The plot progress has been updated. All actors are now requested to go back to their rooms and sleep. They can move freely only after the "event occurs." ]
Lu Wen stared at the words "an incident occurred" with a serious expression: "Does this mean that something strange will happen at night?"
Xie Chi didn't take it seriously: "Of course, it's a haunted house after all. I wanted to go to where the chef sleeps, but now there's no way. Let's go back."
Lu Wen followed.
They returned to the room and the APP rang again.
【Please turn off the lights and go to bed within half an hour. 】
Xie Chi hurriedly took a shower, then turned off the lights and lay down on the bed at the last minute, and double-checked that the door was locked before going to bed.
"What are we doing now?" There was a faint fragrance on both sides of his nostrils. Lu Wen turned over and looked at Xie Chi lying on the bed opposite him. In a horror movie, only Xie Chi could be so particular.
"Nothing, just sleeping." Xie Chi's voice sounded a little sleepy.
"Really sleeping? Don't you want to think about the plot?"
"I have figured out what I can figure out, but I can't figure out the part that lacks information. The conclusion is that there is no point in doing anything other than sleeping, and there is no point in any other mental state other than being sleepy."
"Xie Chi, why are you so——"
Lu Wen was about to praise him subconsciously. Xie Chi closed his eyes and moved his lips: "I think Ren Ze might be short of a roommate."
Lu Wen: "...I slept."
He didn't want to be kicked out and hang out with that tsundere Ren Ze.
In the middle of the night, Xie Chi, who was sleeping soundly, turned over and put his hand on the pillow, which made a few squeaking sounds.
Xie Chi did not react. Lu Wen, who was standing next to him, felt particularly safe because of Xie Chi's presence. He slept like a dead pig and even snored a little.
[Old Swan Pool Cub!!! Don’t sleep so soundly!!! Wake up!!!]
[How dare he sleep peacefully?! ]
Three seconds later, "Xie Chi" suddenly opened his eyes.
[I woke up, I was scared to death. 】
[Why doesn't he look like he's asleep? There's not even a hint of sleepiness in his eyes.]
Xie Xinglan climbed up and turned over, staring at the pillow on the bed.
The pillow was originally filled with cotton wool, soft and flat, but at this moment it began to wriggle, like quicksand, with one piece deflated and another bulging. The thin pillow cloth highlighted the shape of the things inside. They were very small things, but their number was terrifyingly large. They were crowded in the pillow, pushing, climbing and trampling, their limbs scratching the pillow cloth, as if they wanted to escape but were unable to do so.
Xie Xinglan took out the Evil Spirit Blade from under the bed. The sharp blade cut through the pillowcase cloth. He heard screams of "squeak squeak" so loud that they made his ears numb.
At that moment, Xie Xinglan saw clearly what was in the pillow - a little mouse, a baby mouse that had not yet grown hair.
There were densely packed, at least hundreds of them, crammed into the pillow. They were pink all over, with black organs under the pink skin, like stains. Hundreds of eyes that had not yet fully grown were stacked together, bulging out of the skin like crabs' eyes, and countless thin claws were flapping and stirring, like the rhythmic movements of the feet of grass shrimps or centipedes.
【The trypophobia is dead. 】
Xie Xinglan blinked, and the squeaking sound in his ears disappeared. The pillow in front of him returned to normal. Looking inside from the cut place, there was nothing but a pile of torn cotton wool.
Hallucination? But those things seemed to have been injured by his evil spirit blade, otherwise they wouldn't have screamed.
Xie Xinglan frowned.
"Chi Chi, wake up." Xie Xinglan said gently.
The voice in my head was lazy and hoarse, as if it had just woken up: "Brother, what's wrong?"
Xie Xinglan sat beside the bed and described to him what had just happened.
Xie Chi suddenly woke up: "Rat?"
"right."
Xie Chi was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Is there any hair?"
"No, it's all pink."
"Are your eyes open?"
"No, I haven't opened my eyes yet."
"Is the tail long?"
"not long."
Xie Chi's voice deepened: "Brother, that mouse might be used... for eating."
Xie Xinglan was stunned for a moment, with a hint of disgust in his eyes.
Xie Chi explained: "Mice are very dirty creatures, with a lot of bacteria on their bodies. Of course, lab-raised mice are not dirty, and artificially bred mice are not dirty either. The main reason is that mice like to move around in dirty and humid places, so their fur always carries bacteria and viruses. Generally speaking, if you shave the fur of adult mice and cook them at high temperatures, it won't be a big problem to eat them. Of course, the internal organs must be cleaned as well. But the baby mice you saw haven't had time to grow hair yet, so they're easy to handle, and their meat is tender..."
Xie Xinglan frowned: "Why would you eat something like this?"
"From what I know, rat meat is very fresh and delicious, with high nutritional value, and it seems to be able to cure frequent urination or something."
Xie Chi paused, searching for information in his mind: "Most of those mice are eaten raw, with a dozen or twenty of them placed on a plate, served directly on the table, and then picked up with chopsticks and dipped in sauce and put into the mouth."
Xie Xinglan was a little unable to accept it.
Xie Chi: "Isn't there a dish called 'Three Squeaks'? It's the way of eating I mentioned. A newborn mouse is alive and has little mobility. It's still squirming on the plate. When the person eating it uses chopsticks to pick it up, it feels squeezed and makes a 'squeak'. When it's dipped in sauce, the mouse touches the sauce and the cold plate and makes another 'squeak'. The last 'squeak' is when it's put into the mouth and bitten. There are three 'squeaks' in total, so it's called 'Three Squeaks'."
Xie Xinglan didn't know why Xie Chi had so many strange things in his mind, so he changed the subject: "Why is there such a thing in this house?"
Xie Chi was silent. The dual personality shared vision. He looked from Xie Xinglan's perspective and happened to see the black monkey head on the closet. An idea suddenly occurred to him: "Brother, the black monkey head, the hollowed-out monkey skull, looks a bit like a dish... Eating monkey brain raw, eating monkey brain raw and Sanzhier, two dishes."
"Has anyone here eaten this kind of thing?" Xie Chi was shocked.
"You said that your Evil Spirit Blade might have hurt them. That means they might not be physical entities but spirits. After all, the Evil Spirit Blade is just an ordinary dagger to physical entities. It can only have a greater killing power to spirits."
"That means someone ate them, and they turned into spirits, wandering around this house and disturbing people in the middle of the night. But it seems that they don't have any lethality to humans. They just exist as spirits to scare humans. We don't need to worry too much about these little mice..."
Xie Chi suddenly got stuck.
Xie Xinglan realized something was wrong: "What's wrong?"
Xie Chi's breathing was slightly rapid: "Brother, Monkey, if the mouse's young body is eaten and becomes a spirit, then by analogy, if the monkey also becomes a spirit, then where is the monkey's spirit...?"
Xie Xinglan thought of something and his pupils shrank: "Last night's dinner! Chilled tofu, monkey brain flower, and chilled tofu mixed with monkey brain flower."
The atmosphere froze at this moment.
Xie Chi: "If the spirit of the mouse is disturbing the people, what is the spirit of the monkey doing...?"
[Why is he standing there motionless? ? ]
[Shouldn't I scream to express my fear at this time? ]
Xie Xinglan stood up angrily, pushed Lu Wen awake who was snoring loudly, rushed to the corridor, and went to each room one by one: "Chi Chi, the room number of the actor with the gray name."
Xie Chi searched through his memory and found it. He quickly said, "The one closest to the stairs on the right, at the entrance of the stairs."
Xie Xinglan came to the door of the room that Xie Chi pointed out, and suddenly heard a "click" sound. It seemed that something in the room was brought in and fell gently to the ground.
Xie Xinglan's eyes fell on the door handle.
The door was actually open.
In a haunted house theme, ghosts especially like to sneak into rooms at night to play tricks on people. Every actor knows this, even the gray-named actors filled in by the APP are no exception. That actor must have locked the door before going to bed.
Now... the door opened silently, and the people inside didn't even notice.
—Something slipped in.
problem occurs.
Xie Chi had a bad feeling in his heart.
Xie Xinglan held his breath and stood quietly by the door, hearing a tiny noise in the room. It was a kind of chewing sound that made his scalp tingle.
The chewing sound was very soft and could not be heard at all if one did not listen carefully. However, Xie Xinglan had sharp hearing, so the sound was infinitely magnified.
The thing being chewed didn't seem to be hard, and was even very soft. It broke into pieces after just one or two chews, saving a lot of tooth effort. Xie Xinglan heard the sizzling sound of saliva and the sound of eager swallowing, accompanied by the occasional sucking sound.
Something was eating, and what it seemed to be eating were some of the most delicious delicacies in the world. It was extremely satisfied with its food and was devouring it with gusto.
Xie Xinglan tightly gripped the Evil Spirit Blade and gently pushed the door open.
Under the clear moonlight, the unknown actor knelt on the ground with his upper body leaning weakly on the desk. His head was pried open and the hairy skull was thrown on the ground to the side, like a fluffy wig.
Two hairy black monkeys were squatting on the desk, digging brains out of the gray actor's skull as he approached.
The white brain matter soaked the black hair on their hands, slid down through their fingers, and stuck to the desk, forming a disgusting white pool.
The Gray Actor's brain was so rich and delicious that half of it had been eaten. The left side of the brain had been eaten, leaving the right side, which was emitting an oily glow in the moonlight, attracting eaters.
