Deep in the Living
Chapter 39 - 39 35 Joy

39: Chapter 35 Joy 39: Chapter 35 Joy The first time I went to the mountain region for practice, I encountered a funeral,

This time in the residential area at home, I experienced a real supernatural event but came across a wedding,

But despite the festive red corresponding to joy, it felt even more chilling than the funeral scene.

The class leader, wearing embroidered shoes, and Luo Di walked closely together as they entered the lobby,

An old square table for eight was placed in the center of the room, surrounded by a few carved wooden chairs, and four paper dolls dressed in luxurious clothes, wearing grey wigs sat on them, with matching flowers on their chests.

These paper dolls looked odd, or rather, their bodies were bloated as if filled with some kind of living thing,

All the paper dolls’ gazes were fixed on an old television set that was fuzzy with static and constantly emitting noise.

The two of them passed through the living room and the paper dolls there, and went straight to the balcony area, intending to see if they could jump directly from the window here to the ground floor.

However, all the windows on the entire balcony were sealed with messy wooden boards, and some posters of the character “double happiness” were fallen on these boards,

“I’ll try to pry them open…”

Luo Di used the kitchen knife in his hand to pry the wooden boards, and after much effort disassembling them, not only was there no view outside the window, the scene in front was filled with an air of despair.

Below the wooden boards and outside the window, there was no nightscape but fully paved red bricks.

Just as the textbooks state, Corner-like Spaces do not have gaps through which one can escape.

When the two turned around, preparing to continue investigating the situation inside the room, the paper dolls that were previously watching TV had now all uniformly turned their gaze towards them on the balcony.

“Luo Di, should we deal with these paper dolls beforehand?”

“Is there a possibility that the other party wants us to dispose of the paper dolls?

Or that there might be some kind of trap inside these paper dolls?”

Just as the two finished discussing,

A small opening was forced in the eye of one of the paper dolls,

A small, hairy spider crawled out from inside, and looking through the spider’s forced opening, it became apparent that the inside of the paper dolls was crammed with various spiders.

Once damaged, a swarm of spiders would emerge, which would cause quite a few troubles.

Luo Di looked at the swarm of spiders and subconsciously tightened his sleeves, “Let’s go check the kitchen first, if there is fire, we might try burning them.”

As the two followed the layout of his house towards the kitchen, they discovered that this room had no area for a kitchen at all, and the layout of the house seemed to have completely changed.

The biggest change was the direction leading to the bedroom,

Typically, for a resettlement community’s standard housing of just over 100 square meters, only a wall separates the living room from the bedroom.

Yet, here, an additional long corridor stretched out, measuring more than ten meters, a length that surpassed the building itself.

Every two meters along this corridor hung a red lantern, providing ample light.

And at the end of the corridor, instead of a bedroom door, there stood a staircase leading upwards, seemingly reaching a[second floor].

This is also as the textbooks say, the space had been extended.

From what has been observed currently, the first floor has only the living room and this lengthy corridor.

“Let’s go, let’s take a look deeper inside.”

“Wait a moment~”

The class leader dashed back to the balcony, took the wooden boards that had been dismantled earlier in his hand, with several nails still embedded at the end, which could be used as makeshift weapons.

As the two of them stood at the entrance of the corridor with the red lanterns,

All the paper dolls turned their heads as well, as if bidding them farewell, or perhaps…

looking forward to them bringing over the bride and groom quickly to complete today’s festivities.

The moment both their gazes were drawn by the paper dolls, at the end of the corridor, a woman dressed in red with her face covered walked up the staircase.

The class leader reacted swiftly, immediately pulling out the nails from the plank and throwing them forward.

The iron nails landed securely at the end of the corridor, ten meters away, just missing the woman climbing the stairs.

Luo Di was rather stunned by the class leader’s reaction and throwing ability, having thought that the class leader was only skilled in swordsmanship, not expecting such a trick.

Perhaps sensing Luo Di’s gaze, the class leader explained, “Prop throwing was also part of my supplementary lessons, and many times, utilizing the environment in combat is often more useful than the weapon in hand.

It’s a pity I still reacted too slowly.

“The woman just now, judging by her height, I’m guessing she’s the Pseudo-Person itself.

Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

Large red lanterns hung high,

The two walking along the corridor did not encounter any dangers or environmental traps,

But they still proceeded back to back, observing the situation in front and behind simultaneously.

There were some paintings hanging in the corridor as well, depicting images of a young man and woman spending time together day and night.

However, the faces of both the woman and the man were blurred.

At the end of the corridor was a Chinese wedding photo,

The woman in the photo, though covered with a red headcloth, sported a bright red smile …

but this smile seemed more like that of a young woman rather than the Pseudo-Person itself.

Upon reaching the end of the corridor, to the side was the staircase leading to the second floor.

The lighting mode used in the stairwell was no longer lanterns but red candles burning on both sides, many of which had already burnt out, reducing the luminosity below safe levels.

The flashlight in the monitor’s hand came in handy here.

Without pausing, they stepped up the stairs to a second floor that shouldn’t exist.

There were even fewer candles up here, and the light was dimmer, but the interior design still followed the Corner Law, primarily featuring curved edges.

Up here, there were a total of three rooms: the master bedroom, the secondary bedroom, and the bathroom.

The door of the master bedroom at the furthest end was tightly closed, with a bit of red light seeping out from under the door.

There was a good chance that the red-clad bride seen earlier, or to say, the Pseudo-Person itself was waiting inside.

Additionally, the bathroom beside them continuously emitted the sound of dripping water.

Before heading to the master bedroom, it was necessary to thoroughly understand the environment here.

The two exchanged glances and first came to the bathroom, which was unlocked.

Inside it was completely dark, without even a single candle or lantern.

This extreme darkness exerted a significant psychological pressure on the two, who had grown up in the light since childhood.

The monitor hurriedly lifted the flashlight forward, dissipating the darkness, and outlined the entire bedroom structure with the light.

Looking around, there was still no structure capable of generating “Physical Corner.”

The bathroom floor was covered in bloodstains, and near the floor drain, one could even see some tissue remnants of hair.

The bathtub at the far end was concealed by a curtain,

The continuous dripping sound came from inside the bathtub.

The monitor moved the light source, and when the light shone on the curtain of the bathtub, the shadows inside became clearly visible.

It seemed as if there were two people sitting at opposite ends of the bathtub, enjoying their bath time.

As Luo Di was considering how to deal with the situation, a nail-studded plank was thrown directly over.

Bang—

Silence was broken,

The damaged curtain scattered on the floor, revealing the hidden scene behind it.

In the ice-cold bathtub filled with water,

Two heads were floating, one behind the other,

The tap kept dripping water because it was loose,

These two heads were also those of the girls previously serving as the tail of the spider, their black hair floating on the water’s surface, smiling at the two standing at the doorway.

Just as Luo Di was about to draw his knife and approach to deal with the potentially dangerous heads,

Creak—

The door to the master bedroom on the second floor opened…

With just that moment of diverted attention, the heads floating in the bathtub vanished without a trace.

At this very moment,

Even the two who had undergone fear training couldn’t help but feel a primal emotion deep within their brains, the emotion named fear.

But Luo Di quickly suppressed his emotions, considering that as a Murderer, he should not be capable of feeling fear; such an emotion would be his greatest shame as a movie enthusiast.