Double Happiness

The first time I went to the mountains for practical experience, I encountered a funeral.

This time, encountering a real anomaly in my residential complex, I met a wedding.

But despite the celebratory red, it was more chilling than the funeral.

The class monitor, now wearing embroidered shoes, and Luo Di walked closely into the hall.

An old Eight Immortals table was placed in the center of the room, surrounded by several carved wooden chairs. Four paper figures, dressed in opulent attire and wearing grey wigs, sat on them, each with a flower pinned to their chest.

These paper figures looked strange, or rather, their bodies were stretched so full, as if stuffed with something alive.

All their gazes were fixed on an old television set, filled with static and emitting constant noise.

The two passed through the living room and the paper figures, heading first to the balcony, intending to see if they could jump directly to the floor below through the windows.

However, all the balcony windows were sealed shut with messy wooden planks, and some "Double Happiness" characters were pasted on these planks.

"Let me pry it open..."

Luo Di used the cleaver in his hand to pry at the wooden planks. After considerable effort to remove them, he not only couldn't see outside but the scene before him became even more despairing.

Beneath the planks, outside the window, there was no night view but a wall of red bricks.

Just as recorded in the textbook, Corner Spaces lacked any gaps for escape.

When the two turned around to continue investigating the interior, the paper figures, who had been watching TV, now all turned to face them on the balcony.

"Luo Di, should we deal with these paper figures preemptively?"

"Is it possible that they want us to deal with the paper figures? Or perhaps these paper figures contain some kind of trap?"

Just as they finished their discussion, A small opening appeared in the eye of one of the paper figures.

A hairy spider crawled out. Peeking through the opening the spider had made, they saw that the paper figure was filled with spiders.

If they were disturbed, the spider swarms would pour out, causing considerable trouble.

Luo Di instinctively pulled his sleeves tighter upon seeing the spider swarms. "Let's check the kitchen first. If there's fire, we can try burning them."

As they searched for the kitchen according to his house's layout, they discovered that this house had no kitchen area at all. The house's layout seemed to have completely changed.

The biggest change was in the direction of the bedrooms.

A typical apartment in a residential complex like this would be around 100 square meters, with only one wall separating the living room and bedrooms.

Here, there was an extra long corridor, estimated to be over ten meters long. Such an interior corridor far exceeded the building's actual dimensions.

A red lantern was hung every two meters along this corridor, providing ample light.

Furthermore, there was no bedroom door at the end of the corridor, but rather a staircase leading upwards to the side, seemingly leading to the second floor.

This was also as the textbook described: the space had extended.

Based on their current observations, the first floor consisted only of the living room and this elongated corridor.

"Let's go, let's check the depths."

"Wait~"

The class monitor ran back to the balcony and picked up the wooden plank that had been removed earlier. Nails were still embedded in the end of the plank, which could barely be used as a weapon.

As the two stood at the entrance of the corridor with the red lanterns, All the paper figures turned their heads, as if bidding them farewell, or perhaps... eagerly awaiting them to bring the bride and groom to complete the day's festivities.

The moment their gazes were drawn to the paper figures, a woman in a red dress, with her head covered, walked up the stairs at the end of the corridor.

The class monitor acted with incredible speed, immediately pulling out the nails from the plank and throwing them forward.

The iron nail landed precisely ten meters away at the end of the corridor, narrowly missing the woman ascending the stairs.

Luo Di was startled by the class monitor's reaction and throwing ability. He had initially thought the class monitor was only skilled in swordsmanship, not expecting such a technique.

Perhaps sensing Luo Di's gaze, the class monitor explained, "Projectile throwing is also one of my supplementary lessons. Often, utilizing the environment to fight is more effective than the weapon in hand. It's a shame I was still too slow. Judging by her height, that woman was likely the Imposter itself. Let's go."

"En."

The big red lanterns hung high.

As the two walked through the corridor, they encountered no dangers or environmental traps.

However, they still advanced with their backs against each other, observing their surroundings simultaneously.

The corridor was also adorned with paintings depicting scenes of a young man and woman spending their days together. However, the faces of both the woman and the man were blurred.

At the end of the corridor hung a formal portrait of a Chinese wedding.

In the photograph, although the woman's head was covered by a red cloth, a bright red smile could be seen... yet this smile felt more like that of a young woman than the Imposter itself.

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

The lighting in the stairwell was no longer lanterns, but red candles burning on either side. Many had already burned out, and the brightness had fallen below safety levels.

The electric lamp in the class monitor's hand came in handy here.

The two didn't hesitate, stepping onto the stairs to the second floor, which shouldn't have existed.

There were even fewer candles up here, and the light was dimmer, but the room's design still followed the Corner Law, with curved edges as the main feature.

There were a total of three rooms upstairs: the master bedroom, a secondary bedroom, and a bathroom.

The master bedroom door at the deepest part was shut tight, with a sliver of red light seeping from the bottom of the door crack. The red-clad bride seen earlier was very likely inside, or rather, the Imposter's true form was waiting inside.

In addition, a dripping sound could be heard continuously from the bathroom beside them.

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

The two exchanged a glance and first went to the bathroom, whose door wasn't locked. Inside, it was completely dark, without a single candle or lantern.

This extreme darkness would put significant mental pressure on the two, who had grown up surrounded by light.

The class monitor quickly held up the handheld light bulb towards the front, dispelling the darkness, and the structure of the entire bathroom was outlined by the light.

As far as their eyes could see, there were still no structures that could generate a Physical Corner.

The bathroom floor was covered in bloodstains, and even at the floor drain, residual hair and tissue could be seen.

The bathtub at the very back was covered by a shower curtain.

Drip, drip, drip~ The continuous dripping sound was coming from inside the bathtub.

The class monitor moved the light source in their hand. When the light shone on the bathtub's shower curtain, the shadowy outline of the interior could be clearly seen. It appeared as if two people were sitting at opposite ends of the bathtub, enjoying their bath.

Just as Luo Di was considering how to deal with it, a plank of wood with nails flew directly at it.

Clang~

The silence was broken.

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

Inside the ice-cold, water-filled bathtub, two heads floated, one in front of the other.

The faucet dripped continuously due to being loose.

These two heads were precisely the young girl's heads that had previously served as the spider's tail. They floated on the water's surface, their black hair spread out, and they smiled at the two people facing the door.

Just as Luo Di was preparing to draw his knife and advance to deal with these two potentially dangerous heads, Creak~

The door to the second-floor master bedroom opened...

In that momentary distraction, the heads floating in the bathtub vanished without a trace.

At this moment, even the two of them, who had undergone fear training, felt the most primal emotion, fear, in their minds, to varying degrees.

But Luo Di quickly suppressed the emotion. In his opinion, a killer could not feel fear; such an emotion would be the greatest shame for him as a movie enthusiast.