158. What Comes Next?

After noticing the anomaly in the mirror, Qin Tiantian felt her heart pound. This scene was very evocative, like she was in an elevator and realized that the person she was riding with had no shadow.

Unlike directly scaring you, it lets the audience discover the eeriness themselves, making them feel more immersed.

Furthermore, the nurse, who seemed like a ghost, didn't suddenly turn around to scare people; she remained unchanged. In this seemingly calm but actually turbulent environment of the gradually ascending elevator, one could only feel more anxious, worried, and afraid.

It's like being beheaded in a market. You close your eyes, the knife falls, your head rolls off, and it's over in an instant. You probably don't even feel anything.

But now, it's like being placed on the guillotine, with your neck stuck in the wooden board, feeling like the guillotine is about to fall at any second, but no matter how long you wait, the guillotine doesn't fall, leaving you in a state of constant fear and dread.

Many people find relief from being scared when watching horror scenes. What's most frightening is when the audience is kept in suspense, placed in a dark and eerie environment where something is about to happen, but the final blow never comes.

In this situation, the audience will be constantly afraid and terrified. What are they afraid of? They are afraid of the terrifying final moment, whether imagined or unimaginable. Therefore, in Lu Ban's previous theory of horror in another world, there is a similar statement: the unknown is the most terrifying.

Once that final, horrifying moment occurs, the horror of this part of the story reaches its peak for the audience, and their emotions begin to subside.

In a sense, the jump scare, a horror movie trope where something suddenly appears to scare the audience, is essential. After all, if the audience is kept on edge and in a state of high tension all the time, it can lead to sensory numbness and even cause them to fall asleep due to excessive tension. Stimulating the audience from time to time with this kind of scare is simple and effective.

Qin Tiantian didn't understand so many horror theories. She just felt really scared, especially since the nurse had her back to her and she couldn't see her face. She was afraid that the nurse would suddenly turn around and reveal a ferocious look, scaring her.

While being tormented by this atmosphere, suddenly, the elevator arrival announcement sounded, making Qin Tiantian feel as if she had been hit, and she shivered.

My tense nerves reached their peak instantly because of this sudden sound, and then relaxed. On the one hand, the elevator door opened, and I no longer had to share a room with this nurse who I didn't know. On the other hand, this sudden sound was a kind of jump scar, which allowed me to release my previous fear.

However, when Qin Tiantian arrived at the fifth-floor corridor, she didn't feel much better.

It was dark and quiet here, with only the Room at the end of the corridor lit up.

She saw the shadowless little nurse float forward, and the camera followed behind.

That sense of unknown fear surged into my heart once again.

Qin Tiantian clenched her toes, curled up into a ball, and sat on Lu Ban's chair.

She opened her eyes wide and watched the young nurse walk into the room. The camera, from the first-person perspective, dared not move forward as the narrator's voice grew timid and awe-inspiring.

However, the viewpoint inevitably ended up looking towards that room.

Qin Tiantian moved a little closer, hoping to see what was in the room.

The nurse simply waved slowly from inside the door to outside, like a marionette.

bite--

The sound of the elevator arriving at the floor rang out again, startling both the main viewer and Qin Tiantian.

There were two more recordings, both of which were about the strange experiences of doctors and nurses. Everything pointed to the Room at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor. In the first thirty minutes, Qin Tiantian was completely immersed in the movie. Like Lu Ban in the movie, she was attracted by the recordings and wanted to explore the hospital.

However, after the fifth recording finished playing, the screen suddenly went black.

After waiting for a long time, Qin Tiantian still didn't see the screen light up again.

"Could it be..."

She moved the mouse and saw the progress bar.

Goodness, this is a real horror story. The progress bar can't hold on any longer; it's reached its end.

What happened next?

She wasn't too scared anymore, so she jumped off the chair, but almost lost her balance and fell onto Lu Ban's bed.

"My legs, my legs are numb."

Having remained curled up and been frightened, her legs were already weak and numb.

"Ouch."

Qin Tiantian wanted to lie down and rest for a while, but suddenly felt as if her outstretched hand touched something furry.

She slightly closed her five fingers and clenched them.

"You secretly kept a cat behind my back?"

Qin Tiantian thought Lu Ban had really made something of himself, actually raising a cat.

She turned her head and saw a black mist swirling in her palm, like a wisp of smoke or a monster made of some kind of vine tentacles.

"!!!"

Qin Tiantian felt a tingling sensation spread from her palm that touched the mist to her whole body. It was as if she had been splashed with cold water. Her legs were no longer numb, and she felt a shiver run through her body. She immediately got up.

"Help! Help me!"

She rushed out of the room and saw Lu Ban playing games in the living room.

It has to be said that Lu Ban's gaming skills were really terrible; Qin Tiantian even forgot to be scared while watching him play.

"You're so bad at this."

She couldn't help but complain, then hurriedly ran to a spot away from the bedroom.

There's... a clump of... in your room.

She couldn't find the right adjective and was momentarily speechless.

"Didn't I tell you? Those are our family's new friends. It seems you saw one of them, but there's probably another one sleeping under the bed."

Lu Ban put down the handle.

"Your house is becoming more and more like a horror movie set."

Qin Tiantian twitched her lips.

Normally, or in any other place, if Qin Tiantian encountered something like this, she would probably have run away at lightning speed by now.

But for some reason, it seems quite normal to encounter such things at Lu Ban's house.

It's a bit like seeing someone covered in blood, walking unsteadily, making weird noises, and dressed in tattered clothes on the street. You might think it's some kind of terrifying zombie incident, but if you saw them in Amusement Park, you'd probably just think it's a highly skilled cosplayer.

"Well, you should have finished reading by now?"

Lu Ban asked another question.

Although he initially wanted to observe Qin Tiantian's reaction while watching the movie in order to adjust his own movie pace, after watching the first recording of the plot, Lu Ban found that she had curled up in a ball and seemed to be completely immersed in it, so he simply went to the living room to play games and relax.

"I've finished reading it."

Qin Tiantian answered once, and then immediately said something else.

"What happens next? There's nothing after that???"

"It's being done, it's being done."

Lu Ban immediately went back and created a new folder.

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