When Lilly picked up her hand, it immediately disintegrated in her hand. She wondered if the paper figures had been lying around for a long time.
Josh swallowed hard, “This is strange. Are they really paper figures?”
He carefully approached Lilly while hiding behind her, and he tried touching their arms as well.
The paper figures were made from coarse paper, and they were quite brittle. They immediately disintegrated upon contact.
They must have been lying here for a long time.
“It feels like these are just paper figures… Are they props?”
Josh checked the card again and saw that there was nothing about the paper figures.
This must be a prop, then…
“Let’s get going,” Lilly suddenly said.
Hannah was eager to leave this frightening place, so she was the first to agree. They returned to the front of the courtyard.
“Let’s check the main room again,” Josh asked timidly.
Lilly shouted, “Let’s do that!”
Before stepping out of the compound, Lilly turned around and looked at the paper figures for the last time.
Then, they went back to the main room, but there was a new member of their gang, which was the ghost bride.
Everything was so magical and incomprehensible as if they were in a dream collectively. Bryson was getting more and more nervous despite the fact that he was always steady and calm.
Everyone began searching the main room, and Lilly asked, “Ms. Bride, why are there paper figures back there?”
Josh tried to listen in on them.
The ghost bride hesitated before answering, “I don’t know anything about those things…”
Josh let out a sigh.
If she knew nothing about it, it meant that they were unrelated to her. They must be some props of this horror house.
Since they were props, Lilly reckoned that they had nothing to worry about– Those things belonged to the human realm, and only the ghost bride was not of this world.
Josh murmured, “Those props are so realistic, but it seems that they have been abandoned for a long time. They would scatter into a thousand tiny pieces upon touch. I wonder how did that happen.”
It would be a pain to remake those paper figures if every visitor that came to the horror house touched them and destroyed them.
“Found it,” Drake suddenly said.
Lilly, Josh, and Hannah quickly ran in his direction, and Bryson also joined in with a grave expression…
“There are ashes here,” Drake squatted down and voiced out his question, “Were they burnt?”
If the description of the set was accurate, when they pushed the door of this place open, they should only see broken limbs and bones. They would also see the bride hanging from the ceiling.
The killer would not have burnt some papers here without any reason, could he?
Hannah grabbed her head and exclaimed, “This is so confusing! What is going on here?”
Drake came to a conclusion, “Let’s continue looking.”
They found the candle stick which was on the floor and a string dangling from the window. There was also a strange-looking bone on the floor as well.
“What’s this?” Josh asked.
Bryson glanced at it and said, “It looks like a chicken leg…”
Lilly asked, “Ms. Bride, did you guys eat chicken legs back when you were carrying out the ceremony?”
The ghost bride shook her head.
Everyone stared at this clue, and they did not know what to make of it.
Hannah began to cry, “We should stop playing this wretched game, let’s go home! Lilly, lend me that hammer, I want to smash that wall. We can go out right away.”
Bryson thought that it was a good idea.
However, Lilly shook her head, “We are not leaving! We must find the groom first.”
Josh agreed to that, “Yes!”
Josh thought that it was a good chance for him to get into the good books of Lilly. He could not let this chance go to waste!
“Don’t worry, with Lilly around, we will be fine…” Josh then turned his gaze to LIlly while feeling a little unsure, “Am I right?”
Lilly nodded, “Yes!”
She was confident in his abilities to protect everyone, it was just that… They would be scared along the way…
Harem ghost scratched his head and thought out loud, “I can’t figure this whole situation out. We circled the whole place just now but we saw no signs of any cutie.”
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