Supreme Heir Son-in-law

Chapter 415: Chapter 415: Mr. Zombie

Ariel was completely the opposite of Lin Mengyao. She really enjoyed everything here, even the cold wind whipping against her made her squint comfortably. She even picked up a piece of fake bone from the ground to examine it closely before tossing it aside disinterestedly, "It’s fake, I thought it was real, huh." Ariel pouted unhappily.

"This haunted house isn’t scary at all, what a disappointment." Ariel said somewhat listlessly.

"Ariel, don’t walk so fast, the fog is so thick, if you walk too fast, we won’t be able to see you." Lin Mengyao said.

But in fact, they were already at a certain distance from Ariel, and all they could see was the faint shape brought by Ariel’s huge skirt, but no more than that.

"It’s fine, there’s nothing scary here, I can walk by myself, just stay with Xu Ke, you don’t need to look after me." Ariel said carelessly.

While the two were talking, a footstep sounded from Ariel’s side, followed by a large hand gently touching Ariel’s palm.

"I told you, you don’t need to take care of me, you don’t have to deliberately come to hold me." Ariel said with a hint of laughter in her voice. noveldrama

"What are you talking about? I didn’t come over to hold you." In an instant, Lin Mengyao was chilled to the bone by Ariel’s words.

"Huh? It wasn’t you holding me?" Ariel seemed to suddenly realize something and slowly turned her head to see who it was beside her.

As Ariel turned her head, the face of the person holding her hand was exposed. He even tilted his head playfully, mimicking Ariel, but with a face full of rotten flesh, bulging eye sockets, exposed gums, and rotting scalp barely remaining, there was nothing beautiful about it at all.

Ariel’s gaze lowered, seeing the ragged clothes and exposed grayish-blue limbs of the other person, with red and green lights shining through the heavy fog onto his body. Even without any smell, Ariel felt as if she could already smell a nauseating stench of decay.

Ariel raised the hand that was interlocked with the other’s, staring wide-eyed at the long black nails, "Your hand is so dirty." Ariel said and then flung the person’s hand away, shaking her own wrist vigorously as if it was tainted with something filthy.

The haunted house staff member looked a bit taken aback. He hadn’t expected the client he was responsible for today to have such guts. She seemed delicate, like a flower that could be blown away by the wind, yet she neither screamed at his horrific appearance nor showed the slightest hint of fear, which was practically an insult to his role.

Thinking of this, the staff member let out a raspy sound from his throat, like an old bellows, his face twisted and terrifying under the play of lights. However, Ariel’s face still lacked any expression that would satisfy him; she even crossed her arms, looking on as if watching a show.

"Is that all? Aren’t you going to continue?" Ariel said expressionlessly, observing the staff member’s seemingly unchanged facial expression for a long time.

The staff member froze as if unsure how to respond to Ariel’s bland demeanor, finally nodding reluctantly under Ariel’s expectant gaze.

"So, if you’re done, does that mean I can start now?" Ariel’s face regained a smile, and before the staff member could comprehend what she meant, she suddenly acted. A folding fan struck his temple, and her hands followed. Even her wide skirt couldn’t hide her high-kicking leg. In the blink of an eye, before the staff member could react, he was knocked to the ground, his whole body seeming to scream: weak, helpless and pitiful.

Ariel dusted off her hands, looking innocently at the staff member lying on the ground, a playful smile on her face, "Tell your colleagues to make it scarier later, or I won’t hold back next time."

"Is everything alright with you there, Ariel? Are you okay? You didn’t run into anything scary, did you?" Lin Mengyao cautiously asked through the thick fog.

"Don’t worry, there’s nothing scary here, nothing to fear." As Ariel spoke, she gestured a throat-slashing motion above the neck with her thumb, scaring the staff member into squeezing his eyes shut, not daring to peek, just nodding frantically, internally lamenting his misfortune of being genuinely terrified by such a little girl.

Lin Mengyao was on full alert, her mind blank, not thinking of anything, but Xu Ke, who came along to keep them company, noticed something amiss but didn’t say anything, his vigilance increased.

Hearing Ariel say she was fine, Lin Mengyao relaxed a bit, cautiously pulling Xu Ke’s sleeve as they walked towards where Ariel’s voice was coming from, "You stay where you are, don’t move, we’ll come to find you. I still feel it’s not safe for you to be alone here; it’s better if we stick together." Lin Mengyao said, moving closer to Ariel.

"But you’ll be really scared with me, are you not scared anymore?" Ariel stood in place, kicking the staff pretending to be a corpse on the ground to get him to leave and focus on scaring others.

So when Lin Mengyao, holding Xu Ke’s hand, approached, there was nothing by Ariel’s feet, and she was wearing a sugary sweet smile.

Lin Mengyao held Ariel’s hand with some excitement in her voice, "I was a bit nervous, but now that the three of us are together, it’s not so scary. But we’ve been here for a while and haven’t encountered anything. Did the staff forget about us, or is this place just not designed to be scary?" Lin Mengyao shared her guess to calm herself, convincing herself that it wasn’t so frightening after all.

Just then, the entire haunted house’s lights suddenly went out without any warning.

"Ah!" Lin Mengyao screamed, completely unprepared, her heart racing and causing a sharp pain in her chest.

Both Ariel and Xu Ke, whose hands were gripped so tightly by Lin Mengyao that their knuckles whitened, didn’t show any expression. Xu Ke softly coaxed Lin Mengyao, while Ariel had a gleam of excitement in her eyes, not at all conscious that she had single-handedly elevated the haunted house’s difficulty level.

"Shh, listen to that sound," Ariel whispered, pressing her index finger against her full, red lips.

Terrified, and already breathing heavily, Lin Mengyao instinctively obeyed Ariel’s suggestion, holding her breath and tuning in her ears.

A flapping noise gradually approached from a distance, and as the sound grew louder and louder, Lin Mengyao’s eyes widened in step, as if ready to pop out at any moment.

The pitch-dark environment and icy air had heightened their nerves to an extreme. In the suffocating, maddening tension, a nearby building next to Ariel suddenly illuminated, drawing the trio’s attention. The next second, a decaying face, unrecognizable as human, accompanied by a beast-like roar, rushed to the window, causing Lin Mengyao to scream once more.

She almost turned into a gecko, clinging onto Xu Ke.