Chapter 33: Cold Heart (2)

This wax museum has obviously not been cleaned for a long time. As soon as you enter the room, the pungent smell of various materials fills your nose.

Lin Sheng couldn’t help but squint his eyes, but after smelling it for a long time, he didn’t think it was very bad. Instead, it made people feel calm.

The wax museum is much larger than it looks on the surface. The long and deep corridors are strange and changeable. The lights are also intermittent, making people lose their way if they are not careful.

But losing direction is not a terrible thing. What makes people scared is the wax figures on both sides of the corridor with different postures, different ages and costumes, but the expressions and movements are equally lifelike, as if they were real people.

However, fortunately, the chattering of several players was heard not far away. Although Lin Sheng felt it was noisy, he was not so scared.

Lin Sheng and Bai You walked side by side in the lobby on the first floor. Seeing Bai You carefully scanning the wax figures, he also became curious. He had never been to a wax museum in real life, but had only seen some pictures.

A wax figure of a young man was close at hand. He carefully avoided touching it and observed it carefully.

The wax figure was very delicately made, and the texture of the skin and hair was very realistic. Lin Sheng could not tell with his naked eyes that it was made of industrial wax.

Lin Sheng noticed that the face of the young man’s wax figure was facing the direction of the door, and looked around, wondering: “Bai You, do you think that these wax figures seem to be facing the same direction?”

Bai You drooped his eyelids and replied lazily, “Yeah.”

She said before that she was not interested in clearing the level, but would play along, so Lin Sheng did not ask any more questions. Anyway, he had no idea about clearing the level, so he just followed her and happily played around in the lobby.

Lin Sheng laughed and guessed casually: “Isn’t it a simple puzzle like ‘the direction they are looking at is the hiding point of the clue’?”

“No.”

Bai You answered so decisively that Lin Sheng became curious, “What do you mean?”

Bai You stood next to a wax figure of a girl shooting arrows, bent down to pick up the arrow that fell on the ground, and put it back into the bow pulled by the wax figure of the archer next to him. Without turning back, he pointed to the door, “You stand over there.”

Lin Sheng didn’t understand, and walked over and stood there obediently, “Then what?”

“Now, they are looking at you. How is it, how do you feel?”

“…”

Lin Sheng was stunned for two seconds and laughed. The fear he had originally felt was instantly relieved a lot.

“I didn’t expect you to make such a joke.”

Bai You paused, turned around, and raised his eyebrows, “Who said I was joking?”

Lin Sheng thought to himself that who can’t see that this is a joke, and just wanted to nod and say okay, okay, okay, it’s okay, but suddenly felt a chill, and in the blink of an eye, suddenly met a pair of eyes that were rolling like beetles clinging in the dark.

It was the wax figure of a child playing football not far in front of him. I don’t know if it was his illusion. As he looked at it, he felt that the corners of the child’s mouth rose a little, and a deep and heavy damp feeling climbed up his back.

He suddenly felt a little weak and stepped back from the wax figure, “Haha… don’t scare me.”

Bai You took out a small notebook from somewhere and wrote something on it. His voice was flat, “What kind of game is this? It’s not a basic operation that the wax figure can move. Do I need to scare you?”

Lin Sheng: “…It seems so.”

Thinking of this, he calmed down a lot.

Bai You closed the notebook with a snap, raised his head, and asked with some doubts, “Aren’t you going to look for clues? There are only six hours, why don’t you go?”

“No need. I’m like you. I don’t like challenges, and I don’t have any idea about the rewards of this limited-time dungeon.” Lin Sheng smiled. This was not a lie. He was indeed not interested in limited-time dungeons.

After a pause, Lin Sheng said frankly: “I saw many people say that they met a girl with silver-gray hair in the limited-time dungeon, and I immediately thought of you. So I thought about coming to see if it was you, but I didn’t expect it to be true.”

“However, since you are not interested in clearing the level, why do you challenge the limited-time dungeon so many times?”

Bai You: “…”

Brother, your question is right.

If there is any other choice, do you think you are willing to go shopping and collect folk songs in horror games every day?

As soon as this question was asked, seeing Bai You’s face was not right, Lin Sheng instantly realized that she asked too much. They were not that familiar with each other, and it was normal for her not to want to talk about this kind of thing.

Just when the atmosphere was awkward and Lin Sheng was brainstorming what to say to save it, a scream suddenly came from a distance.

The lights above his head flickered, and Lin Sheng faintly heard the crowd start to make noise, and footsteps ran towards the direction of the hall where they were.

“What’s wrong?”

Lin Sheng seemed to hear a strange creaking sound in the noise, thinking it was a problem with the light above his head, but when he looked up, he found that it was just flickering, probably short-circuited.

After observing, he lowered his head, and was met with a pair of dark eyes and a big smile from the little boy’s mouth. He was startled and his back stiffened instantly.

The wax figure, which was still a distance away from him just now, was now standing in front of him, laughing and looking at him.

Wax blocks kept falling from the corners of his mouth, revealing an empty smile, and blood dripped from the broken wounds, falling on the football in his arms.

“Hehe~Brother, brother, play with me~”

Lin Sheng: “…”

No, brother, I call you brother, can you stop laughing?

This smile was a bit scary.

Fortunately, the wax figure child just smiled at him and kept calling him to play, but didn’t do anything to him. Lin Sheng was able to calm down and distract himself to see what was happening over there with Bai You.

The situation the girl encountered in the center of the hall was obviously worse than his. She was surrounded by several wax figures, trapping her in the middle and unable to move at all.

Lin Sheng ran to her side, “Bai You, are you okay?!”

Bai You was almost only a dozen centimeters away from the wax figure in front of her, but her expression was still indifferent, as if she didn’t take the predicament in front of her seriously at all.

Her tone was also sleepy, and she asked back: “What can happen to me.”

Lin Sheng: “???”

This doesn’t look like nothing’s wrong at all! !

Lin Sheng didn’t believe it, and thought she was holding on, “Well, interview, what do you think or think now? You can say whatever you want, don’t worry that I will laugh at you.”

Bai You really thought about it carefully after hearing this.

“Too ugly, not delicate at all, and the left eyelashes are two less than the right, which is simply unbearable.”

Lin Sheng: “?”

Is he asking about this aspect of his feelings?

“Squeak–“

The speaker above the head creaked and a sound came out.

“Someone has triggered the game session. They will play with you in the next two hours. Please don’t refuse it~”

It was a young man’s voice, a little gloomy, but the tone was very brisk, and it ended with a cute interjection. In short, it was indescribably weird.

Lin Sheng understood. No wonder the wax figure boy didn’t attack him, but kept asking him to play with him.

“It shouldn’t be a big deal if we just play together?”

Asking this, he looked at Bai You, but found that the girl who had just looked at the wax figure without any emotion turned very ugly after listening to the broadcast, as if she had encountered something difficult.

What’s wrong? Is this…?

Lin Sheng suddenly realized that the “play” mentioned in the broadcast had another meaning?

It was true that it was just a simple “play”, after all, this was a horror game.

It must be like this, so Bai You looked like he was facing a great enemy. Lin Sheng couldn’t help but get nervous and think about how they should run out next.

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“I told you not to touch things, but you still did. That treasure chest is obviously a trap that can’t be touched. Why didn’t you open it without telling us?”

In order to avoid the pursuit of the wax figure, several players ran from the room into the corridor connecting to the hall, three men and two women. After stopping at a place where there was no wax figure, a woman scolded another girl who looked petite and young with a bad face.

The girl sobbed and sobbed, covering her face and apologizing: “I’m sorry, I really didn’t know it would be like this… Sister Chuchu, I won’t do it next time.”

“Next time? Do you know how much everyone has paid for this copy and how much preparation has been made? Can you solve the problem with just an apology?”

“I’m sorry…”

“Okay, okay, Sister Chu, stop talking. Xiaomeng didn’t mean it and she apologized. Do you have to?”

“It’s just a game anyway. It’s not a big deal. Why are you so serious about it? Okay, Xiaomeng, don’t cry. This is just the beginning.”

“Don’t listen to Chuzi. She is like this. She just says bad things when she is angry. Don’t take it to heart. How can you prepare so much for a game? Listen to her nonsense.”

The three men couldn’t stand it anymore and stopped her.

The woman called Sister Chu took a deep breath, looked at them coldly, and suddenly laughed, “Okay, since you don’t take the game seriously, I don’t agree with your ideas, and there’s no need to continue this team, let’s stop here.”

After saying that, Sister Chu turned around and walked away, walking into the hall alone.

Then she saw Bai You and the other person in the hall, and… the wax figures surrounding them?

Sister Chu originally thought that it was just two players being besieged by wax figures, and was about to rescue them, but she found that something seemed wrong. The two players looked calm and even smiled, which was a bit too calm.

So Sister Chu put down the knife and planned to wait and see what would happen.

The wax figure boy tiptoed and handed the arrow to Bai You obediently.

Bai You stood straight, holding a bow and arrow, pulling the bow, letting go, all in one go, and the vase on the table in the distance shattered.

The wax figures all applauded and showed great support.

Next, it was Lin Sheng’s turn.

Lin Sheng straightened his back, held the bow and arrow, drew the bow, and released it, all in one go. The vase on the table in the distance was unscathed.

The wax figures froze in their movements, at a loss.

Lin Sheng picked up the arrow that fell three meters away, nodded and scratched his head embarrassedly, “I have never used a bow and arrow, please forgive me.”

The wax figure girl in foreign costumes walked to his side silently and raised her hand. Just when Sister Chu thought she was going to attack this player… The wax figure girl held up his hand, drew the bow to the full, and helped him correct his posture.

And Lin Sheng followed suit and finally shot an arrow that barely grazed the vase.

In short, at this moment, the lobby on the first floor of the abandoned wax museum at No. 37 Chang’an Street looked completely peaceful.

Sister Chu, who was watching, was in a mess.

If she remembered correctly, this seemed to be a horror puzzle escape game… right?