The terrifying heavens inside the box

March 7th, cloudy.

"Uh, okay, then...we'll cooperate again sometime in the future."

In the studio, Wang Hao hung up the phone, picked up the airbrush, and stood there for a long time, staring blankly at a 1/64 scale miniature figure.

Another long-time customer has been poached.

Ha! Before, we competed with our peers... Now, even machines are trying to steal our jobs.

We still need to generate traffic!

I didn't realize that many people had already thrown away their airbrushes and gone to do live streaming and shoot short videos, and their fan base grew so much that their order backlog stretched for months.

But what should we do?

Go live streaming? Too bad at talking? Try making short videos? It feels like everything's already been filmed, so there's no point in just copying what's already been used up.

No matter what, we can't keep dragging this on any longer, otherwise my studio will have to close down soon!

"Ugh! This is so annoying."

Wang Hao gritted his teeth, threw the airbrush onto the workbench, and only then realized that his fingers were numb from the cold. He quickly blew on them and rubbed them vigorously.

I stood up, intending to get a cup of hot water to warm my hands, but my neck was so stiff and sore that I rubbed the back of my neck and pushed open the door to leave the studio.

He had just entered the living room when he immediately froze on the spot, completely bewildered.

There was an unfamiliar box on the dining table.

This is... a display box?

Who put this here?

Wait! Something's wrong! Someone's come into my house!

At this moment, the room was so quiet that you could almost hear your own heartbeat. Wang Hao felt a chill run down his spine and his gaze swept frantically around the living room.

He instinctively reached into his pocket and pulled out the utility knife he always carried for opening packages.

Holding the knife, he searched through several rooms in the house, but found no one.

Have they already left?

Or is it that no one has ever been here at all?

No one came in... so where did this box come from?

Wang Hao's eyes involuntarily fell on the box.

He slowly walked to the dining table, put down the knife, and bent down.

The scenery inside the box includes a forest, fallen leaves covering the ground, a wooden house, a lakeside, and a simple dock.

These are all very common, and you can't tell the difference.

Wang Hao moved even closer.

Then I noticed a model RV parked in front of the cabin, and five miniature figures next to it... and they were moving?

Wait, this is "The Cabin in the Woods"!

The next second, a woman's voice entered my mind:

"Oh my god, it's so beautiful."

Wang Hao was so startled that he slapped his slippers backward.

The sound... came from inside the box?

Are those little people alive?!

He swallowed nervously, staring intently at the tiny figures, barely bigger than grains of rice, inside the box.

This is outrageous!

Wang Hao gritted his teeth, reached under the box with both hands, and lifted it up forcefully.

Huh? So light? What is this...?

He returned to the studio, full of doubt, placed the box on the worktable, and prepared to get the high-powered magnifying glass, with only one thought in his mind:

No! I need to see clearly what's going on here!

Just as I thought that, the image in the box suddenly zoomed in automatically.

The bark, fallen leaves, soil... these details become increasingly clear.

Wang Hao was startled, and the image in the box immediately zoomed out, returning to a panoramic view.

What's going on?

Is it...

He was thinking to himself: Should I get a little closer?

The image inside the box is like a phone camera lens, suddenly zoomed in and magnified.

The view stopped right at the entrance of the wooden house, and a little person was about to go inside.

Could it be that they can see inside the house?

The moment the thought crossed his mind, the wooden house instantly faded into a blurry image, and the house structure and furniture arrangement became crystal clear!

"You...you can really see it?!"

Wang Hao stared blankly at the box, then suddenly remembered something and looked down along the foundation of the wooden house.

Just like in the movie, the underground facility resembled the "Hive" from Resident Evil, with many small figures in white coats moving around inside. Rows of transparent, box-shaped cages held various twisted and grotesque monsters...

After observing the underground, he looked up at the clouds drifting in the box, subconsciously stood up, and reached out his hand towards the cloud.

To everyone's surprise, the moment his palm touched the top of the box, it went straight through.

"What the hell?!"

Before I could react, my finger struck the cloud of mist and dissipated upon contact.

When I pulled my hand out, there were still some water stains on my fingertips.

"Ha! What kind of aquascape terrarium is this! It's practically a world within a box!"

"...How did this thing get into my house?"

Wang Hao racked his brains but still couldn't figure it out, so he simply zoomed in on the image in the box... The faces of the five little figures looked exactly like the actors in the original film!

Although they all looked familiar, I couldn't remember any of their names.

He took out his phone and searched for character information in "The Cabin in the Woods".

"Houghton the Black man, Dinah the Redhead, Jules the Blonde, Marty the Smoker, and let me see... the last name is... Kurt!"

Thinking about how this guy later played Thor and was called "Thor Bro" by fans, Wang Hao couldn't help but feel a bit of mischievous amusement.

He stopped staring at the box, turned around, and took out a pile of materials and tools, starting to fiddle with them on the worktable...

……

Outside Buckner's house.

Just as Kurt was about to get his luggage from the car, he suddenly raised his hand to shield his forehead and tilted his head back.

"Strange, why did the sky suddenly darken?"

The others who were already standing under the eaves also poked their heads out when they heard him say this, but they couldn't see a single cloud in the sky.

Marty, with his shoulders slumped and eyes half-closed, looking like he hadn't slept well, spoke listlessly: "Hey! Man! Are you sure what you saw wasn't a bird? Or an airplane? Or...did you just sneak a few puffs of my 'baby' in the car?"

Jules laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "Marty! Don't joke around! Kurt's only darling is me."

Horton looked at Diana, who had just walked out of the house and was still full of doubt, and shook his head at her to indicate that nothing was wrong.

The group walked into the house laughing and joking, some picking out rooms, others throwing their bags around, creating a chaotic scene.

Before long, they ran to the lake.

Horton and Diana jumped into the lake from the pier first.

Suddenly, Kurt yelled, "There's something underwater!"

As soon as Jules approached, he scooped her up and threw her into the water.

"Kurt!!"

Kurt laughed and jumped in, splashing a large spray of water.

Marty sat on the dock, puffing on his cigarette, looking at everyone with an expression of "enjoying it all by himself."

After a short while, Kurt suddenly froze:

"Hey! Look over there!"

"Kurt, you're not going to fool me again!" Jules wiped the water from her face.

"No, no, no! Honey! I'm not lying to you, look up!"

Seeing that Kurt was pointing to the sky and didn't seem to be joking, Jules quickly looked up.

The others also noticed something was wrong and looked up.

"Oh My God!"

boom!

A dark shadow crashed into the lake from the sky, splashing water columns several meters high.

The group was terrified and thrashed about in the water, desperately trying to swim back to the dock.

The lake surface calmed down.

"What...is that?" Horton's voice was a little tense.

Marty shrugged. "I don't know, maybe it's the plane engine?"

Jules, still shaken, was amused by this remark and couldn't help but laugh and scold, "Why didn't you say it was an airplane that just fell down? It would have crushed us all!"

Kurt's eyes lit up as he looked at the spot where the object had fallen into the lake. He raised his hand to start a vote: "Hey guys! Who wants to come down with me to take a look?"

"No! What if it's some kind of corpse..." Jules' face scrunched up.

Diana, who had been a little curious, immediately shook her head with disgust upon hearing this.

Seeing that Diana didn't want to go, Horton also tried to persuade her, "Let's forget it! Kurt, if it really is a corpse, we'll have to call the police, and our whole weekend will be ruined."

"Fine." Kurt pursed his lips, then suddenly grinned mischievously. "I'll go see for myself. If it really is a corpse, then we can stop using all the water in the house."

"Oh God..." Horton covered his forehead.

Diana whispered, "Oh my god! Stop talking!"

Jules immediately bristled upon hearing this, covering her mouth with her hand: "Kurt! Please shut up! I feel like throwing up everything I ate for lunch!"

"Haha, honey! You should consider adding some formaldehyde; it would taste even better that way."

"Kurt!!!"

Kurt laughed, took a deep breath, and plunged into the water.

The further down you go, the more emerald green the surrounding lake water becomes.

Just as he was about to continue diving, he suddenly stopped.

Deep at the bottom of the lake, a silvery light appeared.

That is……