In order to amplify the terror of the haunted house, it was built near the edge of the amusement park. The surrounding woods accompanied by the fact that it was rather secluded and away from the noise of the park, really had the desired effect.
The sun had started setting in the woods. The paved path was quiet with only the rustling of the wind blowing through the trees as the leaves fell to the ground. It was still summer, but it looked desolate here.
Holding her boyfriend's arm tightly, Rainy looked around timidly and asked, "Why hasn't anyone come out? Didn't you say that the haunted house is quite popular?"
"I don't know." Debra was lost in thought for a moment before exclaiming in terror, "Have they all been eaten by ghosts?"
A gust of wind blew, terrifying the group. Rainy's legs trembled, and she stammered, "Really?"
Seeing that she was really frightened, Debra smiled, "I was just kidding. Ghosts don't come out during the day."
"Then why? Why is there no one coming out?" Rainy couldn't shake this thought. If it wasn't for her boyfriend's safe arms, she would have run away ages ago.
Debra was stunned. "I really don't know."
"What?" Rainy smiled bitterly.
To further the torment, Aron asked lightly, "Are we lost? Otherwise, how could there be no one else here?"
Rainy couldn't stand it anymore. She turned into her boyfriend's arms and clutched onto his waist with all her might.
Debra's face turned pale. She slowly moved closer to Robin Luo and Kane Yang. Kane smiled at her, asking, "Are you afraid? Then why did you and Rainy come here?"
"Exactly," Robin said carelessly. "You two seemed the most interested, but now you're scared out of your wits."
"You two deserve to be single all these years." Debra rolled her eyes and stood between the two of them. "We are classmates. Please just take care of me later."
Aron chuckled and said, "You two, look at Lydia and Michelle. They are much calmer than both of you."
Lydia glanced at them. "I have a question. Do you think I can run faster than a ghost?"
Aron answered, "I don't think so. Ghosts don't even have legs. They just float after you. They're incredibly fast. You can't escape from them. Right, Austin?"
Austin's cold expression still stuck firmly on his face.
"We're already in the haunted house."
"What?" Aron asked. "What do you mean? I don't understand."
Leon had a rough idea. He concluded that as soon as they entered the forest, they had already entered the boundary of the haunted house. No wonder his hair had been standing on end until now.
From that moment, he didn't make a sound and hid every trace of fear that was consuming him. As he walked beside Michelle, he glanced at her and noticed how calm she was. Almost too calm, as if she wasn't human.
He started wondering whether the girl next to him was in fact some other type of life form.
'No, no, no. I'm overthinking this.
Why is nobody else around though?'
Leon's body stiffened.
The breeze suddenly blew in the forest again. With it, he smelled a familiar faint milky fragrance that instantly comforted his restless heart.
Ghosts definitely smelled a lot worse than that and he was pretty sure that they couldn't copy a woman's fragrance.
"Michelle, why is nobody coming out?" The faint smile on Leon's face froze. He felt like a robot.
"Because this is not the way out and there are quite a few ways in." She turned to him with a sweet smile as warm as the sun, calming him down for a while.
Rainy breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh, I see. I was getting really scared for a moment.
No wonder no one is here." Debra grinned and said, "I was just kidding. There are no ghosts."
"But I don't understand. Austin, what did you mean by that?" Lydia asked in confusion.
Austin turned to look at Michelle and asked, "Shall I tell them or let them experience it themselves?"
"We are all here for fun. We have to let them experience it for themselves first." Michelle squinted her eyes and smiled slyly. Leon glanced at her and from her cunning look he knew she was planning some kind of tricks. He wanted to stop her, but he didn't know how. There was no way that he could tell her that he was afraid.
All these people were younger than him, so he would be too embarrassed to admit to being scared.
Austin managed to notice how Leon behaved. He didn't care much for talking, but he was a master at observing people's behavior. He immediately knew that Leon was afraid of ghosts. 'No wonder he has been silent all this time.'
Austin wanted to say something to stop Michelle, but it was too late. He heard her sweet voice speak up.
"Let's number off. I'll go first. One."
Leon quickly jumped in, "Two."
Lydia said, "Three."
Austin nonchalantly announced, "Four."
"Five, six," Rainy called out for herself and her boyfriend.
Debra swiftly exclaimed, "Seven, eight, nine. I helped them to number off."
Aron, the last and most audacious in the group, said leisurely, "Ten."
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