Monkey was stranded alone on the second floor, his eyes and ears staying alert to his surroundings. He had himself cooped up in the corner where he could get a good view of the staircase, so no matter which direction the murderer came from, he would be able to escape as fast as possible.
The lights in the scenario seemed to have gotten dimmer, and the eerie music toyed with his heart. Monkey pinched himself to focus and took a deep breath. As a medical student, he knew pain and oxygen were the best elements to make one calm down rapidly.
Monkey did not dare utilize the flashlight function, lest he attracted the unwanted attention of the monster. He turned his phone display toward the wall, and he saw a tattered ragdoll was lying against it.
Other than its slightly worn state, there was not anything particularly scary about the doll, but as Monkey stared at it, he had this suspicious feeling that it was alive. Monkey could not understand it either, but for some reason, he saw a young girl looking pleadingly at him when he looked at the doll.
He scrolled down his contact list rapidly to look for other people’s contact number when his phone vibrated and rang.
Like most young men, Monkey puffed his chest up with courage when he was interacting with a member of the opposite six. “Shi Ling, did you get lost from everyone else? Where are you now? I’ll come get you.”
“I’m trapped inside a room on the third floor; I didn’t catch the room number, but please come and get me. This Haunted House is all sorts of wrong!” Shi Ling was normally a quiet and reserved girl. To be able to make her talk in such a drastic and hurried tone, something traumatic must have happened to her. She sounded like she was on the brink of tears.
“Slow down, how did you get trapped? None of the rooms have locks,” Monkey explained as he walked down the corridor, trying to locate the room Shi Ling was in through the sound of her voice.
“I also don’t know. After I ran in to hide, I was unable to open it anymore! And this room is different from others; there are two dolls sitting right in the middle of the room, side by side!”
“Sitting‽” The mention of dolls made Monkey’s hair rise. If he did not see another doll in his life ever again, he would be satisfied.
“Please come and get me!” Shi Ling’s voice turned shrill. From the sound of it, her sanity was fraying.
“I’ll be there in a moment! Just get as far away from the dolls as you can for now and listen to what He San said earlier, do not touch anything in the room, I suspect those dolls…” Monkey halted mid-sentence because he suddenly realized that there was a ragdoll blocking his path, lying on the floor about half a meter away from his feet.
Resisting the urge to scream and toss the phone at the doll, Monkey took cautious steps toward it.
Monkey’s eyes zeroed in on a spot about one meter behind him, and the rest of his sentence was forcefully cut off. There it was, a ragdoll lying quietly on the floor.
