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Chapter 53… Extra 3 : Pen fairy

He was wrong, nothing is more boring than this!

Shen Yu walked among the many props in the haunted house with an expressionless face.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a skeleton made of plaster, wrapped in a Qing Dynasty official’s uniform and wearing flowery feathers on his head. It was stuck in a corner of the haunted house, with its limbs lying stiffly and showcasing fangs and claws to scare people.

What’s more ridiculous is that there were two red light bulbs embedded in the skull’s eye sockets. With the sound effect of surprise, the red lights of the two light bulbs would also flash, like some titanium-alloy dog ​​eyes. 1 titanium-alloy dog eyes : Internet slang used by an onlooker (usually not in a relationship; a “Single Dog”) fed up with a lovey-dovey couple’s PDA, because their Love is Too Bright for Human or Regular Dog Eyes.

Their group bypassed some speechless zombies, headed to the next corner and heard a harsh, mechanical rubbing sound.

The mechanism here may not have been polished and waxed for a long time. Once it starts to operate, not only the speed is slow, but the mechanical parts have become rusted.

Accompanied by the unpleasant sounds, a construction of several wooden sticks stood up, with a white dress pulled over them and a fake human face glued to the top of the sticks and swaying freely. It drifted by, seemingly to create a sudden and scary effect.

The group of people stared at the dirty, dusty, torn clothes that hadn’t been washed for an unknown period of time, with helpless expressions on their faces. Not to mention Shen Yu and Yue Ze; in this group, even the most timid and ordinary people were not scared.

They were careful to go around the dirty clothes, so as not to rub the dirt on themselves. The big guy turned his head and saw a dark figure squatting in a dark corner of the haunted house.

When he approached, he saw that it was a plastic mannequin wearing a big, red and green skirt and a dirty and knotted wig on its head. It seemed to be trying to imitate an innocent female ghost.

It’s just that this plastic model was really too inferior, and with the face swollen and enlarged, it felt especially strange.

“Puff…” A girl couldn’t hold back and accidentally laughed out loud.

At this moment, everyone was no longer patient and a burst of laughter broke out in the crowd.

If these props in this haunted house would’ve been made a little more delicately, they would not be so shameless and laugh so loudly!

Seeing that everyone was laughing, including the girl named Manman he had a crush on, the man named Li Yuan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

Although everyone was laughing at the haunted house, the idea of visiting the haunted house had been made by Li Yuan, and he already felt that it was him that the others were laughing about.

“Let’s continue to move forward. The ratings of this haunted house on the Internet are very good. Further inside? Certainly, there should be more scary props.” In order to save face, Li Yuan gritted his teeth and said bitterly.

He still couldn’t believe it. Could it be that all the good comments on this haunted house on the Internet were all fake?

Under Li Yuan’s repeated perseverance, the people who were already lacking in interest, continued to explore.

So on the next part of the journey, they were lucky enough to see a vampire bat hanging from a plastic canopy, and a three-cent doll with a five-cent adhesive tape that was moved by another construct. As a result, its tongue had fallen halfway out. A hanged ghost, its skull grinning with an emoji bag and a plastic leg showing a broken bone, covered in what looks more like ketchup than blood … During the whole process, there were also the ubiquitous ghost crying and wolf howling sound effects in the haunted house, and in order to increase the atmosphere, turquoise beams of light were flashing in the dark environment, like trying to put spotlights on some places.

Finally, after being pounced in the face by a dirty red cloth, even the good-tempered Manman could not help but complain: “Let’s go back! This place is dirty and torn, really, nothing is fun!” As soon as the words came out, other friends started to talk about it. “Indeed, this haunted house is too old after all, and the props inside are too broken!”

“It feels like it is too old. Isn’t it? Some old prop from the 90s.”

“This can’t scare people at all, why are the reviews so high on the Internet? There are too many fake comments…”

“Li Yuan, where did you find such a haunted house? It’s a waste of money. Everyone has 30 tickets. What…”

Hearing the discussion from friends behind him, Li Yuan’s face gradually darkened.

After hesitating for a while, he still insisted: “It’s coming to an end soon. I heard that the last attraction of this haunted house is very scary. Let’s go and check it out!”

Looking at the evaluations on the Internet, almost all the high scores Li Yuan had seen were given to the last scenic spot, and Li Yuan could only hope that the last setting would give him a good face?

Everyone was looking at each other, and finally the considerate Manman said: ” Anyway, we are near the end, and our ticket money is not wasted, we’d walk the few steps to go and take a look.”

The irritating young man in the group hesitated for a moment, finally upholding a mentality of “if all are doing it, then let’s just push forwards” to the last attraction of the haunted house.

When they got to the last place, the atmosphere here was really exciting.

There were no outdated and ridiculous props, and there were no dazzling lights and shocking sound effects. The last attraction was only a pure black room, and it was  very quiet.

There were mirrors on all four sides of the room and a round table was placed in the middle, several chairs placed around it, and a few white paper sheets and a pen scattered on the tabletop. A lamp was hanging above the round table, and the light was dim.

A middle-aged man was sitting at the round table at this time, looking at everyone with a smile, his body slightly fat and his round face looking very kind.

Without waiting for people to ask, the man took the initiative to introduce himself: “Hello everyone, I am the boss of this haunted house.”

“I know, you must feel that the sights in front of you had been broken and boring before, and you think the boss is simply pitting your money.”

While talking about this, the owner of the haunted house smiled, as if he didn’t care about it: “But congratulations, you have survived the long, boring path till the end.”

“In return for your patience, I will invite you to hold a pen ceremony here, to meet your thrilling needs.”

” Are you ready to subvert your three views?” The boss waved at the chairs and invited everyone to sit down, then pointed to the papers and pen on the desktop.

Looking at the white paper on the desktop, Shen Yu’s eyebrows raised slightly, and Yue Ze frowned beside him.

The two couldn’t help but glance at each other.

It’s finally interesting!

…

“Pen fairy! It sounds like that? It’s fun, but I thought the last attraction would be something new!”

A round-faced girl, sitting down next to Manman, complained: “But? Forget it? Anyway, the ticket price has already been paid? Let’s just have fun.”

Li Yuan was sitting beside and felt depressed. He thought that there would be some terrifying attraction in the end, but he didn’t expect it? To just? Play a pen fairy!

“This time I’m embarrassed!” He cried in his own heart silently.

This group of young people hadn’t noticed the eye contact between Shen Yu and Yue Ze just now. At this time, the last ones were looking for seats to sit down. The expressions on their faces were relaxed. It seemed that they didn’t take any pen fairy as real. They just thought that the boss was here and the haunted house had finally made a gimmick.

“From a scientific point of view, because different people have different muscular endurance, coupled with long-term holding of the pen, when the muscles are sore, the pen held by different people will naturally unknowingly create an illusion that resembles a pen fairy.”

A gentleman with glasses pushed the frame on the bridge of his nose and confidently analysed.

The boss of the haunted house was not angry at the questioning; he was still smiling and acting friendly, then he said: “It is better to have fewer people playing pen fairy. There are too many of you together here. It’s better to play in a group of two.”

“I’m playing!” Li Yuan, who wanted to save his face, volunteered to come forward.

The glasses boy also joined with confidence and they became the first group of pen fairy players.

A piece of white paper with the words “Yes?” and “No” written on it was placed down, and the two young men stretched out their left hands and curled them around the green pencil, fingers slightly overlapping each other’s.

The owner of the haunted house also helped them adjust their sitting posture, not allowing their arms and elbows to rest on the table, and their arms should be completely suspended in the air.

The man with glasses couldn’t help muttering: “Sure enough, we will use our muscle stamina to move the pen. The arms that are completely suspended are more prone to soreness…” The boss of the haunted house ignored his analysis, but asked solemnly: “Do you want to think about it? Once you start to ask the pen fairy, if you encounter an unexpected situation, you must not let go at will, otherwise you will be easily entangled by the pen fairy!”

“What if the pen fairy stays behind! If you can’t hold on, you must have someone else take your place and hold the pen…”

“Okay! Got it!” Before the boss finished speaking, he was interrupted by the impatient Li Yuan: “Play, don’t I know how to read the rules of the pen fairy on the Internet? How many times already, we all know them, so hurry up and start!” The boss sighed, no longer reminding and just proceeded: “The pen fairy is coming soon. Draw a circle.”

“Keep talking about it until the tip of the pen moves on its own, then you can stop it.” The glasses boy and Li Yuan curled their mouths indifferently, and began to mutter these words in monotonous voices. It became more perfunctory, and the speaking speed was getting faster and faster.

It’s just as the two of them had said it three times, that the pencil in their palms suddenly moved slightly.

The two of them looked startled at the movement. They stuttered in their chanting, then continued to converse.

The boy with glasses frowned and asked cautiously: “Li Yuan, did you use force just now?”

Li Yuan stammered, “No, I didn’t move it? Ah! I thought it was you? Your force?” The boy with glasses frowned suddenly: “No, even if everyone’s muscle endurance is different, but we have just chanted three sentences, the arm muscles can’t be sore so quickly, this pen, it shouldn’t have moved so fast?”

“Could it be…Is there really a pen fairy?” Li Yuan, who had been originally fully depressed, suddenly exclaimed in his mind and asked this suspiciously.

As soon as his voice fell, he saw that the pen seemed like it was being pulled severely, and the tip of the pen was drawn to the left. 

Yes?

Suddenly, both of them widened their eyes in astonishment.

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Editor : Black.cat

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