After the gong sounded, everyone instinctively sat down in their seats.
There weren’t many people at the wedding banquet. Including the four of them, there were about 30 people filling four tables.
Besides the four of them, three other people sat at Niu Gu’s table.
These three were light and airy, seemingly boneless, looking particularly scary.
It was strange. These NPCs weren’t wearing overly terrifying makeup, nor did they rush over to scare them, but Niu Gu just felt creeped out, an indescribable fear.
He leaned into Wang Jian’s ear and whispered, “Were there this many NPCs when you came last time?”
There are too many NPCs; more than the players.
Wang Jian shook his head. “No. Last time, it was just us players. Including the boss, there were only three NPCs.”
He was confused too. Why so many NPCs this time?
If these NPCs swarmed them, surrounding them, there would be nowhere to run.
After everyone was seated, a ghost-like woman began serving dishes. She held a tray, seeming to float in mid-air, drifting along.
She came to Niu Gu’s table and served four dishes:
Fist-sized black spiders, dozens of colorful venomous snakes, and meat crawling with maggots.
Seeing these three dishes, Niu Gu’s stomach churned, and he nearly vomited.
He hurriedly turned his gaze away, daring not to look.
Just as he moved his gaze, a gasp came from beside him.
It was Wang Jian.
Niu Gu immediately turned to look and saw him staring at the table in horror.
Niu Gu followed his gaze to the table and saw the fourth dish—a plate of human eyeballs.
“Ugh!” Niu Gu couldn’t hold it back anymore and dry heaved directly.
So disgusting!
Where did the boss get these props? They’re too realistic.
Old Li sat opposite. He was still thinking about the ancient architecture, hoping the plot would end quickly.
But the plot was dragging on forever.
Impatient, he grabbed at the black spider on the plate. “This is fake; I’m not afraid. I’m leaving. Old Guan, you accompany Niu Gu… Ah!”
Before he finished speaking, he screamed.
The spider was actually alive. It was soft and bouncy in his hand, and even slightly warm.
Old Li’s brain buzzed. He hurriedly shook his hand, trying to throw the big black spider away.
Unexpectedly, the spider was very agile. It crawled up his arm and burrowed directly into his clothes.
Seeing this, Niu Gu’s scalp went numb, and he screamed immediately.
“Ah! It crawled in! Take off your clothes! Take off your clothes!!!”
The three surrounded him, screaming for Old Li to take off his jacket.
“Silence!”
A sinister voice came from all directions. Then, the main gate opened, and a blood-red bridal sedan chair slowly appeared, carried by four paper effigies.
Seeing this, Old Guan’s eyes went wide instantly.
Paper effigies carrying a sedan chair?
This haunted house has some tricks!
The four paper effigies were light, looking like they would fall if the wind blew, yet they could lift the sedan chair.
Old Guan was dying of curiosity and really wanted to go over and take a look.
Just as he was about to move, the four paper effigies turned their heads toward him in unison. Their eyes had no pupils, staring hollowly at Old Guan.
It made his hair stand on end and gave him goosebumps all over his arms.
So creepy!
He didn’t dare move and sat down obediently.
After the sedan chair landed, the bride stepped out.
Niu Gu held his breath, wanting to see what the bride looked like. Usually, the makeup for such a heavyweight NPC would be distinct from that of the minor NPCs.
Niu Gu was prepared for the bride’s makeup to be very scary, maybe green-faced with fangs.
However, after the bride stepped out, what they saw was a stunningly beautiful face.
So beautiful!
Niu Gu was surprised. The woman playing the NPC was too beautiful, like a fairy walking out of an ancient painting. Her every move carried ancient charm, as if she were a real ancient person.
Everyone was stunned by the bride’s beauty. But in the next second, the style changed abruptly.
The beautiful bride suddenly opened her mouth wide, revealing 108 teeth in four dense rows. It triggered Niu Gu’s trypophobia.
His scalp itched uncontrollably. Niu Gu scratched his head, thinking, The haunted house boss is really good at creating horror atmospheres.
A peerless beauty and a mouth full of teeth formed a sharp contrast—terrifying and disgusting.
The bride with the mouth full of teeth looked around, grinning at everyone. “Where is my groom? Are you my groom?”
She pointed randomly at a person.
The person was scared witless, wailing like a ghost, “Not me, not me! Ah, don’t look at me!”
The person seemed to have broken down, squatting on the ground, holding his head, and trembling uncontrollably.
Seeing this, Niu Gu frowned and exchanged a glance with Old Guan beside him, suspicion rising in his heart.
Isn’t that person an NPC? Why would he be so scared of the ghost bride?
Niu Gu whispered to Wang Jian, “Where is the groom? Was there no groom when you came last time either?”
Wang Jian’s face was pale, and he was about to cry. “Last time, I was the groom.”
Niu Gu was speechless. “You’ve got some guts.”
Honestly, seeing this ghost bride gave him the creeps, goosebumps all over. He wouldn’t dare go forward, yet Wang Jian dared to be the groom.
Wang Jian shook his head. “It wasn’t like this. Last time, Hua Niang was very beautiful, not scary.”
“You actually call her Hua Niang?” Niu Gu was incredulous. “Are you crazy?”
Just then, the bride, Painted Skin, in the center slowly turned her head. Her gaze locked onto Wang Jian, and she reached out to him. “Wang Lang, you came back for me? I missed you so much.”
Saying this, she floated toward Wang Jian.
Wang Jian broke down.
Painted Skin actually remembers me! She actually remembers me!
He was going crazy. Losing control of his emotions completely, he howled and ran outside, holding his head.
“Wang Jian!”
Niu Gu didn’t expect him to be this scared. Afraid something would happen to him, he hurriedly chased after him.
He thought the place wasn’t that big, and he would catch up soon.
However, after running for nearly half an hour, his calves trembling, he still hadn’t caught up to Wang Jian.
Niu Gu braced his hands on his knees, panting heavily.
This brat can really run. Where did he go?
Niu Gu looked around and realized he had run out of the city and arrived at a mass grave.
The sky was completely dark, and the wind was blowing. It was eerie, and he shivered from the cold.
This place is huge. There’s even a mass grave.
Even though Niu Gu knew in his heart it was a dungeon, a haunted house, and there were no ghosts, he still couldn’t help being afraid.
It was truly too terrifying.
He walked forward cautiously and saw a person lying on the ground, wearing sportswear.
It looked like Wang Jian.
Why is he lying on the ground? Did he faint?
Niu Gu ran over quickly, squatting down to pinch Wang Jian’s philtrum to wake him. But he discovered that this person had no head—it was just a corpse.
“Ah—”
Niu Gu was scared into sitting on the ground, his heart nearly jumping out of his chest.
It took a while to recover. He patted his chest, telling himself, Don’t be afraid, it’s fake, everything is fake.
That’s not a real corpse; it’s a haunted house prop, used to scare people.
Just as he recovered and wasn’t so afraid, he suddenly saw Wang Jian’s head bouncing on the ground. “Brother Niu, are you here to find me?”
Ah—
Niu Gu rolled his eyes back and fainted directly on the ground.