116: Chapter 116 Light and Shadow Composition

"You actually built a Secret Room in the school on your own?" Lu Chengfeng asked, surprised.

"With my financial resources? Impossible. It was our club president who built it; sometimes we do some experiments together."

"What kind of experiments?"

"For example: the Pen Fairy game, the Four Corners game, Bloody Mary, and things like that..."

"Damn, you guys really have guts." Lu Chengfeng couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

The two entered the Secret Room.

Dim, yellowish light flickered on the walls, casting eerie shadows.

The walls were made of old masonry, and in the corner, some dilapidated wooden crates were stacked, carved with various strange symbols.

Next to the wooden crates was a rusty iron chair; the cold touch of it...

...combined with the two iron rings on the armrests, made Lu Chengfeng suspect he had walked into a standard interrogation room.

It was even a bit like the cellar corpse-hiding case he had flipped through in the file folders.

In the very center of the Secret Room sat an old wooden table, on which lay a yellowed diary and an extinguished candle.

"Someone was in here 15 minutes ago; the candle wick is still emitting the scent of wax."

Lu Chengfeng stared at the half-burned candle.

"Don't worry! It was the club president. Of course, there's no surveillance here either."

"Fine."

Just as Lu Chengfeng prepared to pull out the chair to sit down, as soon as the seat of the chair left the shadows, his pupils dilated sharply.

Because at that moment, someone was already sitting on the chair!

Staring with bloodshot eyes, Lu Chengfeng was so scared he nearly pulled out his handgun.

But today he wasn't wearing his police uniform, and he didn't even have his stun baton.

"Damn, did your club president do this too? Does it have to be this scary? What is this thing?"

At this moment, Chen Mo also turned his head to look at the thing sitting on the chair.

It was a doll, and a milky white one at that!

He walked over and grabbed the doll; just by touching it with his fingers...

...he could tell that this doll was made of wax.

The inside was likely the main body of the doll, wrapped in a layer of fresh candle solution on the outside.

Because it wasn't colored, it was stark white all over, looking extremely terrifying.

"The club president likes to research those rare and strange things; it's normal."

"Take that doll further away. What I fear most are wax figures. These things are made too realistically. Sometimes, if I stare at them for too long, I can't help but imagine in my head..."

"...that these wax figures are actually alive. Maybe the moment I turn my head, the eyes staring at my back start blinking!"

"Maybe they'll even reveal a weird smile."

"No..."

"Aren't you a police officer? You still believe in this metaphysics?" Chen Mo was a bit speechless.

"I do believe... When I was little, I once got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, while passing through the hallway."

"The hallway was very dark, and at the time I was walking with my head down, staring at the floor."

"As I was walking, I suddenly felt my forehead bump into something. That thing was very tall, and I thought it was my father."

"But when I lifted my head, prepared to call out 'Dad'..."

"...I discovered..."

"...the person who appeared before me."

"He was wearing a pair of black leather shoes with curled-up toes."

"Looking further up, it was his clothes."

"He was wearing an official uniform composed of a long robe and a mandarin jacket, with cranes depicted on it!"

"Although I was young at the time, I knew this clothing was an official uniform from the Qing Dynasty."

"In the middle of the night, while going to the bathroom, there was a man standing in the hallway wearing a Qing Dynasty official uniform!"

"I was scared to the point of wetting myself on the spot, sitting directly on the floor, not daring to lift my head at all."

"When I opened my eyes again, the person was gone. Afterwards, our family moved out of that old house."

"My father told me that for the three days before moving, we absolutely could not talk about moving at home, and we had to move exactly at noon."

"Otherwise, even if we went to a new house, that thing would continue to follow us."

Chen Mo couldn't help but clap after hearing this.

"Then you're really lucky. Our club president wants to see a ghost just once, but has never succeeded."

"Stop with the snide remarks; hurry up and look at these materials. I don't want to stay here for long."

Lu Chengfeng opened the file folder and handed the two documents inside to Chen Mo.

The two sat on chairs and began to study them.

However, Lu Chengfeng's gaze couldn't help but sneak a glance at the wax figure, seemingly to confirm it remained in a fixed position and hadn't moved.

After looking for a while, Chen Mo made a discovery.

This image was taken from the side of the car.

The middle part showed his parents unconscious in the car; the front of the car was completely deformed.

His mother's body was crushed by the steering wheel and the roof; only her head could be clearly seen, her torso completely twisted.

Meanwhile, his father had pushed open the car door and was lying on his side on the ground, covered in blood.

The background behind the car was a rockery in the city's central park; Chen Mo knew clearly that the park faced south.

Then, the direction his father was facing at that time was north.

"My parents' materials were clearly tampered with by someone. Although these pictures look very real, they look more like they were drawn."

"Drawn?"

"That's right! Although the composition and color tone are all reasonable, one detail exposes that this is a forgery."

"What is it?"

"The shadow!"

"Look here..."

Chen Mo reached out and pointed to the ground where his father's body was pressing.

The date on the photo showed it was 4:00 PM in 2038.

"What is the sun's pattern of movement?"

"It rises in the east and sets in the west."

"Correct. In the morning, the sun is in the east, and in the afternoon, it is in the west."

"If a person is facing north, the shadow should be on the person's left-rear side."

Lu Chengfeng looked closely and couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

Under the bloody and mangled body of Chen Mo's father, the shadow was actually located on his right side!

A single detail about the shadow instantly made the entire image become eerie.

"So... someone deliberately tampered with it to hide the truth."

"Furthermore, this car accident photo doesn't exist at all. Your parents didn't die in a car accident, but someone wanted to make certain people see it this way."

"The purpose was to hide the true cause of death."

Chen Mo didn't answer.

He held his chin, thinking quickly in his mind.

It had been mentioned in the Management Group before that Longevity Like Southern Mountain was killed by a teammate; it might have been because of that person.

For some benefit, they murdered his parents in a dungeon, and they didn't want other Thriller Game players in reality to know.

The probability of an ordinary person coming into contact with a death scene is too low.

The group of people who could see this fake death certificate he created is also very simple.

For example...

The Thriller Game players hidden in the police station; it was for these people to see.

Therefore, this person is actually still living in this world, and it's possible they are in the same city as him.

Perhaps, because he is the son of Longevity Like Southern Mountain, they often appear around Chen Mo, secretly observing him from the shadows.