Chapter 22 Haunted House
Tan Xuan felt suffocated and angry during the meal. It was fine that he was left alone the whole time, but he was ordered to serve tea and water. It was obviously in his own name that he was allowed to eat, but in the end, he was the one who was redundant. There was no other way. It was impossible to reason with women. Now facing four women, Tan Xuan could only swallow his anger.
Su Cheng and her team were so good at what they did that Tan Xuan was speechless. After dinner, Tan Xuan asked them about the time and location of their next event, but they didn't know anything. They didn't know when or where it would be. She had assigned everything to those people who "came to admire her" to do. Tan Xuan really didn't know what kind of organizer Su Cheng was. She was a hands-off boss. But when you think about it, it made sense. What could she organize? He didn't know why those people were so blinded by their greed and found her.
Three days later, the time for Su Cheng's event was finally confirmed, and it was scheduled for the Friday night of the following week. Xiao Di told Tan Xuan this news, because Su Cheng had been preparing for the event after work these days. As for how Su Cheng prepared it, Xiao Di had no idea. Anyway, the time was confirmed, the location was also chosen, and she also had to prepare some of her equipment.
Knowing that Tan Xuan was active at night and stayed at home during the day, Xiao Di made an appointment with Tan Xuan early on. On Friday afternoon, Xiao Di called Tan Xuan to her home.
When he visited the house again, the situation inside was very different from the last time. The living room was tidy and the items on the desk were neatly arranged, which did not make Tan Xuan feel the urge to run away as soon as he entered the house.
"Why did you call me here so early? It's only a short time now." When meeting others, Tan Xuan would still be polite, but when facing Xiao Di, he was not polite at all. There was no way, probably they were born enemies, they were bound to quarrel when they met, there was no need to pretend to be graceful, of course, pretending was useless.
"Hey! I paid you to do this, why are you talking so much? Do you want to get paid for nothing?" Xiao Di was not polite to Tan Xuan. He did not offer his seat to Tan Xuan and directly pointed at the pile of equipment on the ground and ordered: "Hurry up and take these to the car. We need to set up the camera positions before they start."
Tan Xuan was so surprised when he saw the equipment. It was enough to monitor a whole building, but it was still far behind professional video recording equipment. "What? Are you going to broadcast a panoramic live broadcast of their activities? Are these things enough? I guess they can only record them going crazy, but if you expect to record some ghosts and make you famous, forget it."
Before Tan Xuan could finish, Xiao Di stopped him, "Shut up. If you live stream, your account will be immediately blocked. I just want to record their activities. It would be even better if I can record some supernatural phenomena. Don't look down on these things of mine. I borrowed them with great difficulty. They have infrared functions."
"Hurry up and move it, there's more over there." After explaining a few words, Xiao Di directly urged Tan Xuan to move the things.
"Well, you really want to hire someone to work you to death." Although Tan Xuan kept complaining, his hands were never idle. The two of them ran back and forth several times before they finished moving the things. Of course, it was only Tan Xuan who did the work, and Xiao Di was mainly supervising to prevent her treasures from being destroyed by Tan Xuan. After they were done, it was already dark. After they had a bite at a small restaurant at the entrance of the community, they drove directly to the venue of the event.
The place where Su Cheng organized the activities was a dilapidated tube building. No one knew how Su Cheng and his friends found this place. Tan Xuan, a taxi driver, had never been to this place before. Xiao Di said that this was originally a residential building for employees of a machinery factory. The factory had closed down for many years and the employees had moved away long ago. The entire two-story building looked shabby from a distance, and it was overgrown with weeds when you got closer. There were no signs of people living here at this time, not even stray animals such as cats and dogs. The gate of the yard was also rotten and scattered on the ground, and the brick floors and walls in the yard were also covered with moss. Tan Xuan drove the car directly into the yard.
Looking at the dilapidated courtyard, Xiao Di was also surprised and sighed, "Are Su Cheng and the others going to invite ghosts, or are they going to film Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio? In this place, you don't even need a set to shoot a horror movie."
"It looks like this place has been abandoned for a few years. The lack of people here is a good place for evil things to hide. When they are making trouble, stay by my side and don't join in the fun."
"Why are you so slow? I get it." Xiao Di's ears were almost calloused after being told so many times by Tan Xuan. But after all the dangerous experience at the bath center, Xiao Di was very careful this time. He did not get off the car alone to investigate the building. He waited until Su Cheng and his group arrived before getting off the car.
Not only Xiao Di was well prepared, but Su Cheng and others also came prepared. After arriving, they began to unload their things from the car.
Su Cheng and his group came with four people in total. In addition to Su Cheng and Cui Yuji, there was another man and a woman. Shen Zishan did not come with them. The new man and woman were a couple. The man was called Zhang Qinghe and the woman was called Guo Mingjia. They were about the same age as Su Cheng and the others. They did everything together, even holding a rope, as if one person could not lift it at all. Moreover, they would cuddle with each other from time to time, showing their affection without hiding from others.
The specific location of the activity was not in the compound, but in 102 on the north side. It was not known whether the door was not locked at all or Zhang Qinghe pried it open directly. Anyway, the group entered the house without any obstruction.
Su Cheng and the others turned on their flashlights. The room was dirty but not messy, because everything inside had been emptied. Only some unwanted small things were scattered on the ground. Because of the long time, some things were almost integrated with the concrete. The person who used to live here should be a leader of the factory, because the area of the room was not small, and there was a staircase connecting the second floor. Both floors belonged to the same family. It was obviously not a place where an ordinary worker could live.
Su Cheng and others walked around the first floor, placed two rechargeable lighting lamps, and then went up to the second floor. It seemed that they wanted to familiarize themselves with the environment here before the activity started.
Xiao Di stood outside the door and looked at Tan Xuan, and asked in a low voice: "Do you see any problem here?"
Xiao Di knew Tan Xuan's abilities better than anyone else present. After all, she had seen Tan Xuan in action with her own eyes. She was a little conflicted now. She hoped that something would happen tonight, but she was also afraid that something would really happen tonight.
Seeing that Tan Xuan didn't say anything, she muttered to herself again: "Why do I feel something is wrong here? It's a bit chilly. Could it be..."
Tan Xuan held a box of Xiao Di's equipment and teased, "What? Are you an expert now? I'm your driver now, so don't ask me anything other than work. Tell me where to put these things. I won't be here to feed mosquitoes after you put them there."
"Put this here, put this on the windowsill facing the living room, and this..." If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. Knowing that Tan Xuan was reluctant, Xiao Di was happier to give orders. He installed cameras and connected wires, and asked Tan Xuan to arrange the living room downstairs in 360 degrees without blind spots, completely exposed to the camera.
"Okay, the living room is done, let's go upstairs and take a look..."
There were three rooms upstairs, and nothing was left in the rooms except the beds. When Tan Xuan and Xiao Di went upstairs, they found that they were moving the bed out of a bedroom, and Su Cheng was hanging curtains in this bedroom.
"Are you planning to hold an event in this room?" After going upstairs, Tan Xuan's brows began to frown, and the frown grew deeper.
"What are you doing? Are you helping people move?" Xiao Di was very puzzled when he saw these people working so hard, so he hurried over to lend a hand.
"Yes, can't you see we are setting up the place? Why don't you come over to help?" Su Cheng complained unhappily when he saw Tan Xuan, and handed the curtains in his hand to Tan Xuan, "Come over and help me hang up the curtains."
Tan Xuan did not go to pick up the curtains, but looked at the curtain rod and asked Su Cheng, "Who chose this place?"
"Zhang Qinghe chose it." Su Cheng said unexcitedly, "This place is a good choice, right? The environment is very atmospheric. There must be something special tonight."
Tan Xuan turned to Zhang Qinghe and asked, "Did you choose this?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Zhang Qinghe answered unceremoniously, obviously not happy with Tan Xuan's questioning.
“Why here?”
Facing Tan Xuan's questioning, Zhang Qinghe was a little unhappy, "What's wrong? I chose this place because I thought it was good, and Su Cheng and the others also agreed. What's the matter?"
Tan Xuan glanced above the window again and said, "Did you know that someone died in this room?"
"Ah!" Xiao Di screamed and looked panicked when he heard Tan Xuan's words. There was no way. People who have been stimulated can hardly withstand the stimulation.
Zhang Qinghe was not panicked. He said calmly, "I know. I recommended Su Cheng and the others to come here because I knew someone committed suicide here. If no one had died here, we wouldn't have come here."
Tan Xuan was a little confused, he looked at Su Cheng and asked: "You know all this?"
Su Cheng nodded, "I know . Twenty years ago, someone named Wang Yuling hanged herself at home. This is her bedroom. Zhang Qinghe and I looked up a lot of old news and information to find this."
Xiao Di's eyes widened in surprise, and he looked at Su Cheng in disbelief, "No, Chengzi, you are too brave. This is a haunted house. Aren't you afraid that something will really happen?"
Su Cheng laughed nonchalantly, "What can go wrong? Don't worry, we still have Tan Xuan. If you want to record, just do it. Set up the equipment and get out of here. We'll start soon after we're done."
"You do not want……"
Tan Xuan interrupted Xiao Di and said, "Hey, don't spoil their fun. Let them play. Put the equipment where it is. Let's go after it's set up. Don't delay their work."
"But……"
"But what but? Can I stick this on the wall?" Tan Xuan didn't give Xiao Di a chance to speak. He just gestured to let Xiao Di see if it was okay.
"Tan Xuan, aren't you worried about the safety of Su Cheng and the others? What if... Hey, don't push me..." Xiao Di was pushed downstairs by Tan Xuan. He didn't even stop on the first floor and went straight back to the car.
"This is a haunted house. Are you really going to just leave it alone?" Back in the car, Xiao Di finally said a complete sentence.
"There are always people who , so why are there so many haunted houses? There's nothing to worry about. Let them make a fuss if they want to. It would be better if there was something wrong. This would teach them how to be afraid, so that they don't have to keep asking for adventures."
"But what if something happens?"
"It's okay, I didn't see any ghosts in the room. I guess they disappeared long ago." Tan Xuan leaned back in the chair.
Xiao Di looked at Tan Xuan, said nothing more, turned on the computer and began to check the signals from each lens.
