Chapter 173: Chapter 173 You Are The Only Unlucky One
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Detective Lin felt as if he had been punched.
What did he mean by having hysteria have something to do with his actions?
It was clearly the owner of the Horror Wax Museum who had bad intentions and used real corpses as wax statues.
“Dr. Chen, after 1 arrived at the airport, what did I do to bring myself so much trouble?”
Detective Lin asked impatiently.
“When you left, did the owner give you something?”
“Gave me something… Yes, yes, yes!”
Detective Lin was initially stumped, then he answered without hesitation, “When I was about to leave, the wax museum owner stopped me and gave me a bottle of water.”
“He said that I was frightened and would probably be traumatized. This bottle of water was added with the folk prescription of their hometown, which can have the effect of calming the nerves.”
“Did you drink it?”
Chen Yu asked.
Detective Lin shook his head.
“The water is turbid, and I saw a lot of flakes in it. It’s obviously not clean water.”
Then, Inspector Lin narrated the situation at that time without holding back.
The owner urged him to drink the whole bottle of water.
After drinking it, he wouldn’t be afraid anymore.
The more he was persuaded, the more Detective Lin felt that something was wrong.
He made up an excuse that his stomach was not feeling well and would drink it on the way back.
Frightened by the strange owner, he just wanted to go home immediately.
After leaving the wax museum, Detective Lin took a taxi and went straight to the airport.
When he arrived at the airport, he remembered that the water was still on him.
Without thinking, he threw the water into the trash can and took a plane back to the local area.
After explaining the situation, the inspector asked again, “Dr. Chen, is there something wrong with that bottle of water?”
“The owner wasn’t lying,” Chen Yu said. “The water in the bottle does indeed have a calming effect.”
“If you had drunk it at that time, you wouldn’t have been diagnosed with hysteria.”
“Dr. Chen, can we stop beating around the bush?”
Detective Lin was in a mess, and his brain was about to shut down.
He asked Chen Yu to explain the entire incident to him directly.
He was already mentally prepared. He would want to hear it out, no matter how terrifying it was.
“Since you insist, I’ll start from the beginning.”
“The real identity of this Horror Wax Museum’s owner is a corpse herder,” Chen Yu said calmly.
“With the development of society, the funeral industry has undergone earth-shattering changes.”
“The dead who died in a foreign land no longer need a corpse herder to return them to their homeland.”
“Since they can’t get any business all year round, their days naturally got harder and harder.”
“About two years ago, the youngest son of this corpse herder was diagnosed with leukemia.”
“The cost of his bone marrow transplant is in the hundreds of thousands.”
“As his skills are useless and he can’t get any business all year round, he can only rely on part-time jobs to make a living.”
“His savings are not enough to pay for the high cost of his son’s bone marrow transplantation.”
“When he was at his wit’s end, he found a house near his hometown where someone died that was booming with popularity.”
“There are people coming over every day to take photos and livestream.”
“After asking around, he found out that someone said the old house was haunted.”
“Many self-proclaimed bold youngsters came to show off their courage, and streamers used haunted houses as gimmicks to attract more attention.”
“He was inspired by it and thought that if a house without ghosts could attract so many people, if it was made a little scarier, it would definitely be a hit.”
“Just like visiting a park or an amusement park, you will be charged a fee.”
“The cost of his younger son’s bone marrow transplant might be able to be gathered soon.”
As the saying goes, poverty makes one think of change, and this corpse herder began to act on his ideas.
He scraped together a sum of money and rented an abandoned local factory.
He went to several mass graves and found dozens of relatively well-preserved corpses.
Through the secret techniques passed down by his ancestors, these corpses were transformed into those so-called wax statues.
It was precisely as he had thought.
The Horror Wax Museum had just opened, and there were already many guests.
An endless stream of customers came to check in for the experience.
He gathered enough money for his youngest son’s medical expenses in just over a month.
Upon hearing this, Inspector Lin and the viewers were all dumbfounded.
He didn’t know what words to use to express his current feelings.
Under the influence of all kinds of supernatural movies and TV series, everyone was no stranger to corpse herders.
The image of a corpse herder in their minds wore a Daoist robe and waved a Soul-Summoning Bell, bringing along a group of corpses traveling through the night.
He didn’t expect that in modern society, these corpse herders were opening up attraction parks.
“Most of the customers will be scared witless when they see these corpses moving,” Chen Yu continued.
“But, there are also a few people like you who are naturally bold.”
“Not only are you unafraid, but you are also curious about how it works.”
“In this case, the owner used a secret technique to induce those corpses to spit out poisonous gas that can make people faint.”
“It can create the illusion that the guest was too shocked and fainted on the spot.”
“Because you don’t know how you fainted, customers like you will subconsciously agree with the owner that you got so frightened that you fainted.”
“Because it is poisonous, after the human body inhales it, there will be a certain degree of negative effects on the body.”
“Every time a customer who fainted from fear is about to leave, the owner will give an antidote that he prepared in advance.”
“After drinking it, the negative state in your body will be resolved.”
“Among the many guests, you’re the only one who hasn’t drunk it.”
“That’s why you became hysterical when you returned from there.”
Detective Lin was stunned and speechless.
“Isn’t that illegal?”
“Using a corpse as a prop is illegal.”
“Using poisonous gas to harm guests is also against the law.”
“Isn’t he afraid that the local authorities will look for him?”
“Of course he’s afraid,” Chen Yu sighed. “But he’s even more afraid of poverty.”
“It wasn’t easy to find a way to change his family’s situation and treat his son’s leukemia. How could he give up so easily?”
“Moreover, since the opening of the Horror Wax Museum, no one has been in trouble.”
“Since no one is in trouble, no one will call the police.”
Detective Lin covered his face with his hand.
Thousands had experienced the Horror Wax Museum, but he was the only unlucky one.
“What should I do now?”
“Fortunately, you found me in time. Although the situation is serious, it’s not like there’s no solution.”
Chen Yu said it lightly.
“I’ll send you a private message on WeChat. There’s a medicine that can solve your problem.”
“Bear with it for two more days. When the medicine is delivered, you won’t see those strange things.”
Immediately after, Chen Yu added with a faint smile, “You’d better not go out during the two days waiting for the delivery. Otherwise, your condition will become worse..”
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