My organs are too abstract.

Holy crap!

Ye Xuan was terrified by the commotion behind him. He leaped several meters away before turning back, still shaken. The next second, a burst of unrestrained laughter erupted.

"Hahahahaha!"

The middle-aged man wearing a mask stood where Ye Xuan had just been standing, pointing at him with one finger, laughing so hard he was slapping his thigh, almost laughing to tears: "You little brat, you're such a coward!"

"Uncle?"

Ye Xuan was stunned for a moment before belatedly realizing she had been tricked. She looked at him incredulously and asked, "How could you be so bored?"

Then, he suddenly turned to look at Li Da, his face full of confusion, and said, "And you! What was that expression you were making just now?"

Li Da scratched his head, looking innocent, and said, "I was going to remind you, but the uncle kept gesturing to me to keep quiet, so I couldn't help it."

Ye Xuan said with great distress, "Then why didn't you just keep quiet? What's the point of putting on that terrified look?"

Li Da's expression turned serious, and he said solemnly, "I don't know if you saw it just now, but how superb the acting of that corpse was."

Ye Xuan was bewildered by these nonsensical words: "I saw it, so what?"

"Don't you understand?" Li Da said solemnly. "That corpse's acting skills have ignited my competitive spirit. His acting is certainly superb, but I, Li Da, am a college student after all. How can I be willing to lose to a corpse?"

"So I just got a sudden urge to show off my acting skills and gave it a go," he said sincerely. "How was it? Not bad, right?"

Ye Xuan: "..."

"Don't listen to his nonsense," Liang Xiaolong said, "He was just startled and felt embarrassed, so he wanted to drag you down with him."

Li Da smiled faintly, still stubbornly saying, "Brother Long, I don't think you know anything about acting."

The middle-aged man looked Li Da up and down with interest, then extended his hand and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be such a talent."

Li Da also extended his hand, gave a perfunctory handshake, and said politely with a smile, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

Li Daben only made a symbolic touch, but the uncle was unusually enthusiastic and held his hand for a long time without letting go.

Li Da tried to pull back without making a sound, but couldn't. He was so embarrassed that he could barely keep his expression up when the uncle finally relaxed his grip with satisfaction and patted him on the shoulder: "Not bad, young man, you've got some strength."

"Haha, this uncle is amazing too."

Li Daqian chuckled twice, but felt that this person was strangely odd, and a hint of wariness crept into his eyes.

At this moment, Ye Xuan walked over and whispered in his ear, "Don't worry, I asked around. Uncle isn't from Chengdu. He's so enthusiastic towards everyone, men and women alike. I don't know what's wrong with him."

Upon hearing this, Li Da immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I'm relieved."

"Alright, alright, stop joking around," Zhao Ze interjected at the right moment. "If you keep dawdling like this, you might as well spend the night inside."

"This young man is right," the uncle said with an approving look on his face. He then turned to Li Da and Ye Xuan and said with a disappointed expression, "You two are too lazy."

Ye Xuan and Li Da: "?"

The middle-aged man, however, ignored their reactions and walked up to Zhao Ze with a smile: "Young man, you're more to my liking. You have a leader's air about you!"

As he spoke, he was about to shake hands with Zhao Ze.

Zhao Ze was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously reached out, but Wen Xiu gently tugged at his sleeve, stopping him without making a sound.

She said gently, "Let's go first."

"Oh, okay." Zhao Ze looked surprised for a moment, but didn't ask any further questions.

The group walked quickly forward, and once they had some distance between them, Zhao Ze asked in a low voice, "Why did you stop me just now?"

He wasn't stupid; he could naturally tell that Wenxiu was preventing him from shaking hands with the older man.

Wenxiu thought for a moment and said, "I think there's something wrong with him. Look at him, strolling around leisurely, it doesn't seem like he's in a haunted house, it's more like he's on vacation. And he keeps joking around with the tourists, being overly enthusiastic, which isn't normal."

Li Da asked doubtfully, "What if he just wants to make friends?"

"If you want to make friends, you can go to a much better place than a haunted house," Wenxiu explained, adding, "And haven't you noticed? He's still staring at us."

Li Da was startled by what he heard. He pretended to twist his neck to stretch, and inadvertently glanced back. Sure enough, he saw the uncle standing in the shadows not far away, staring at them without moving.

"Wow, it's true." Li Da was startled, turned his head calmly, and asked in confusion, "What does he mean by this?"

Wenxiu hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: "I don't know, but I think it's better to be careful."

Zhao Ze sensed that she seemed to be hiding something, but he didn't press her for details. He simply nodded and said, "I understand."

The group continued deeper into the area. The lights grew dimmer, and even the eerie background music from the beginning faded away, leaving only heavy and chaotic footsteps. Compared to the initial clamor, the atmosphere was now more chillingly oppressive.

"whee……"

A strange, playful laugh suddenly came from behind them, startling everyone.

What was that sound?

Just as a tourist voiced his doubt, another strange slapping sound came from not far away.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

The sound was slow and rhythmic, like something was bouncing a ball.

Immediately afterwards, a small figure flashed past behind the group, accompanied by a child's innocent voice.

"whee……"

An eerie silence fell over the crowd. After a moment, a girl who looked like a student asked softly, "What's that? A child?"

"They're probably NPCs, it's normal," explained the boy who was walking with her, and the two seemed to be a couple.

The girl looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Can the NPCs in a haunted house be children?"

The boy seemed speechless for a moment, and a tourist next to him explained, "He's probably a professional character actor; he's rather short."

"I've seen this episode before," Ye Xuan stepped forward, smiling knowingly. "There's definitely a kid hiding behind it, seemingly bouncing a ball but actually hitting someone's head. This trope is so overused."

As soon as he finished speaking, a sphere flew out of the darkness behind him with a "whoosh" and crashed straight towards Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan instinctively jumped up and caught the item steadily. After landing, he waved to everyone and smiled, "Perfect score!"

No one spoke; everyone stared at what he was holding, their expressions gradually turning to terror. Li Da, in particular, gaped, silently pointing at the object in his hand, his face pale.

"Haha, you still want to play me, huh?"

Ye Xuanqian chuckled twice, then stiffly lowered his head—

What he was holding in his hands was the head of a little boy.

The little boy was exquisitely handsome and looked incredibly cute, but at that moment he exuded an inexplicable eeriness as he grinned at Ye Xuan: "Uncle, did you guess this trick?"

"Holy crap!"

Ye Xuan was so frightened that he threw the head he was holding away, and it landed squarely in Li Da's arms.

Li Da was dumbfounded: "Ye Xuan, you son of a bitch—"

The boy moved his head and looked at Li Da again: "Uncle, did you guess...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Da had already casually put his head down and kicked it hard into the darkness behind him.

He wiped the cold sweat from his brow and muttered to himself, "I bet you can't guess what Uncle will do."

The crowd seemed to realize what was happening and immediately erupted in chaos.

"Holy crap? Those are heads?"

"And she's really good with words, is that for real?"

"It should be a prop. I looked at it carefully, and there was no blood on the neck; it looked like wood grain."

"Didn't anyone think that kick was cool?"

"..."

The crowd was in a state of chaos, some terrified and others rational. Just then, a rolling sound came from behind, and the scene instantly quieted down.

"Tap...tap..."

Soft footsteps sounded from behind, and a figure slowly emerged from the darkness.

He was small and thin, clearly the size of a child, wearing ill-fitting hospital gowns, and most importantly... he had no head.

The headless figure groped around in the darkness, picked up its head, patted it lightly on the ground twice, and then put it back on its neck with satisfaction.

He straightened his head, his eyes intentionally or unintentionally falling on Li Da, and chuckled, "Uncle, I'm back again."

"Wow, that's terrifying!" Li Da's face turned green with fright.

Zhao Ze made a quick decision: "Let's go!"

Several roommates and Weiwei and others quickly followed.

Ye Xuan stood rooted to the spot, staring in disbelief at the scene before him: "How did they do that?"

Li Da grabbed him and sprinted forward, yelling, "Forget how you did it, just run!"

A group of tourists ran frantically, when suddenly a crack appeared in the ceiling ahead, and a figure plummeted down.

The man was wearing a hospital gown, facing the crowd, with a noose around his neck and his hands gripping the knot tightly, seemingly struggling desperately.

However, all his efforts were in vain. He struggled a few times, making muffled "hoarse" sounds, and kicked his legs a few times before falling silent, hanging motionless in mid-air.

Liang Xiaolong was stunned: "Holy crap, are they going all in?"

"Thump...thump..."

The sound of a ball hitting the ground came from behind again. The tourists' expressions changed drastically. Ye Xuan stared at the corpse blocking their path and gritted his teeth, saying, "Charge through!"

With that, he took the lead, closed his eyes, and charged forward headfirst, passing through without any mishaps.

Ye Xuan waved to the crowd through the hanging corpse, urgently saying, "It's alright, come quick! Get moving!"

The other tourists, as if waking from a dream, rushed over.

Just as Zhao Ze was about to act, he saw Wen Xiu standing still, staring at the corpse as if observing something. He quickly grabbed her hand: "What are you standing there for? Let's go!"

Wenxiu glanced down at her wrist, which was being held, and calmly pulled it away, replying softly, "Okay."

After everyone had run over, a tourist, still shaken, exclaimed, "I've learned something new! I thought this haunted house would be the same as all the others I've been to before, all the same. I didn't expect it to be so lively!"

"Indeed, I have no idea how they did it; it's just too bizarre."

"No wonder we're not allowed to bring our phones. If our competitors crack it, we'll suffer a huge loss."

The student couple who had been holding hands tightly earlier, the boy mustered his courage and took a few steps forward, examining the corpse's face, and said, "But this one doesn't feel as scary as the last one. The last one was more eerie. This one didn't make a sound after it fell."

"Wait a minute..." the girl next to him suddenly spoke, her tone tinged with horror, "When we were on opposite sides earlier, he was facing us, wasn't he?"

"yes."

The boy was startled, a chill running up his tailbone and straight to the top of his head.

"When he was on the other side, he was facing us, but now that we've run over... he's still facing us?!"

As he was thinking this, the corpse seemed to turn into a zombie, suddenly convulsing violently, which terrified the boy so much that his face turned pale and he exclaimed, "Holy shit!"

Li Da sighed and shook his head, saying, "Don't say anything more, let's run."

The group resumed their escape, and the creatures behind them did not pursue them. Apart from the familiar mannequins, they did not encounter anything else along the way.

As Ye Xuan turned a corner, he casually glanced behind him, breathed a sigh of relief, and laughed, "Looks like there aren't any other new tricks up your sleeve."

As soon as he finished speaking, his forehead bumped into Li Da's back with a "thud." He was about to complain when he suddenly froze on the spot.

At the end of the corridor, a dark mass of figures stood.

They were all wearing faded, stained blue and white striped hospital gowns, their hair disheveled, their faces pale, and their postures varied, as if they had been busy with their own things.

The next second, everyone stopped moving in unison.

The air suddenly became incredibly quiet.

Then, pairs of empty eyes slowly turned around at the same time and stared at them.

Ye Xuan was dumbfounded: "Holy crap?!"