[Comprehensive British and American] I open a haunted house in the superhero world

Elena raised her head and glanced to the side.

The second house she chose was adjacent to the third, just enough to see the back of Jody entering alone.

"What's the matter?" Alva immediately noticed Elena's movement, and then asked.

Elena was one of only two women among the eight of them.

Among secret agents, the number of women is smaller than that of men most of the time, but any woman who can get to this point is definitely not ordinary.

So Elena also noticed something was wrong after Jody.

It's just that her perception doesn't refer to the person Jody said, but to Jody herself.

"Why is Jody so terrified? It's not in his character," Elena said, "and why did he go in alone?"

Jody wasn't the best of them all, but he was steady and reliable.

But just now his performance has been very abnormal, which made Elena feel uneasy.

"I also find this very strange." Alva said while touching his chin.

Anyway, trust your partner.

Elena shook her head to get rid of her uneasiness, she had observed the surroundings, the haunted house did not hide any weapons, and the owner of the haunted house did not look like a bad person.

So, this should be just an ordinary haunted house.

"Go in." Alva said to Elena, and the two walked into the room.

This one looks very interesting. In the yard outside the door, there are obstacle equipment for military training, but they are all reduced versions, suitable for children aged seven or eight.

It seems that this should be a very serious family. Maybe the father of this family used to be a soldier. After retiring and returning home, he still strictly restrains his children according to the requirements of the army.

Thinking of this, Elena and Alva had already walked to the door of the house.

Just as Elena was about to open the door, she caught a glimpse of a piece of red paper on the wall next to her out of the corner of her eye.

[Hopscotch. 】

At this time, she had already opened the door, and the whole living room was empty and there was nothing.

There is only a checkered floor, as if it is a large playground.

Hopscotch?

Hopscotch is a classic game that most, if not all, kids have played in childhood.

But for this group of adults who have been away from childhood for too long, this is too far away, and it is still difficult for them to remember how to play.

Below the reminder paper hung an open letterbox containing a sandbag and a folded paper.

Alva picked up the folded paper, opened it, and found the rules of the game inside.

The rules are very simple. Throw the sandbags into the drawn grid in turn, and then jump into the grid where the sandbags are located. You can only stand on one foot in a single grid, and use both feet in a parallel double grid.

If you want to enter the next grid, you must pick up the sandbag and throw it again.

Only grids with sandbags can jump into. Entering the wrong grid is considered a foul.

If a person jumps to the end, then he can get the chance to choose a grid as his own exclusive room.

And that exclusive room, other players can no longer jump into it.

Looking up, both of them can see the direction the wall is facing, and there is a big word [end point] written on it.

Whoever occupies more grids wins.

You cannot throw sandbags outside the grid or press the line, and you cannot step on the line or cross the boundary when hopping on one foot.

If one player commits a foul, another player will play, and the foul will also be punished.

After the penalty is over, the next time you play, you will continue from the grid where you fouled last time.

Elena touched her chin: "Do you know hopscotch?"

Alva nodded.

Elena reached out and took out a sandbag from the mailbox and held it in her hand: "Are you planning to play hopscotch with us?"

The two raised their heads at the same time and looked at the empty living room inside. No, it wasn't just the living room. When they looked up, the entire floor in the room was square.

The squares are all the same size, some are divided into two by a line, and some are complete. This should be the difference between one foot and two feet.

"Is this for the two of us to play?" Elena said, "What difference does it make for the two of us who wins and who loses?"

As she spoke, she took a tentative step without throwing sandbags.

Alva knew what she meant and didn't stop her.

The moment her foot landed on the first square, her mind was full of screams like an alarm.

【foul!foul!foul! 】

【Eileen lost a grid! 】

She pulled her feet back suddenly, with a surprised expression on her face.

"What happened?" Seeing Elena's expression, Alva knew something must have happened.

Of course, Elena's actions are not those ignorant cannon fodder in the movie. Sometimes fouls are also a kind of temptation.

"Did you hear any sound just now?" Elena looked around vigilantly and said.

"Voice?" Alva was puzzled.

"It's because Elena made a foul and lost the grid..." Elena's expression changed.

So, is it because she didn't throw the beanbag?

She pursed her lips and took out the sandbag to try again, but when she tried to throw the sandbag out, the sandbag weighed heavily on her hands and she couldn't lift it up.

Looking at her expression, Alva made a judgment in his heart: "Because you fouled?"

Yes, the offender's own turn is game over.

Without hesitation, Alva took the sandbag from Elena's hand, threw it into the first grid, and jumped in with one foot.

Nothing happened.

He turned his head and told Elena the result with his eyes.

Then he threw the sandbag into the next grid, from the door to the end, a total of 23 grids, jumped to the ninth grid, he stopped.

"Continue?" Elena said.

Then she noticed that Alva was pale, staring at the ground where the finish line was written, and muttered, "Finger bones..."

"What?" Elena asked.

Alva shook his head, and replied with difficulty: "There is a finger bone there."

impossible.

Although they weren't Clint and didn't have the excellent eyesight of a sharpshooter, they were well-trained.

Even if the finger bones are not big, they can be seen clearly in this small living room.

"It's true." Alva frowned, wanting to look forward, "It looks like a child's finger bone."

It didn't matter if he moved, his foot moved slightly, and he stepped on the thin line on the ground.

foul!

This time, Alva also heard the foul notification sound coming from his head, the piercing sound made his brain tingle, and he finally understood why Elena had that expression.

After the screaming gradually subsided and his rationality returned to his head, he stretched out his hand to Elena: "It's your turn."

He said throwing the sandbags to Elena, there are only two of them here, his game is over, it's time to go to Elena.

But his sandbag seemed to be thrown incorrectly. When Elena was about to receive it, the sandbag suddenly fell to the ground.

Elena was startled, looked around and saw no one else, then carefully bent down, ready to pick up the sandbags on the ground.

Before picking it up, the sandbag moved a little forward, and it just happened to land in the first grid.

The two of them stared wide-eyed at the same time, looking at the open space in front of them in disbelief.

"Kick--"

A light landing sound, not heavy, but like a heavy hammer, slammed on the hearts of the two of them.

Then, as if someone was controlling the sandbag, it moved forward and landed on the second grid.

The two of them suddenly fell into a cold sweat.

What is the scariest thing?It can't be seen, touched, but it seems to be something real.

"Just kidding, there must be a trap here." Alva suddenly remembered that he was playing a haunted house. Yes, he was playing a haunted house. A haunted house always has a lot of scaring points.

There are also some messy props to scare them.

For example, this sandbag, there must be something controlling it, so it can...

They can't deceive themselves, whether it's Alva or Elena, they have all touched this sandbag in real life.

Without organs, it's just an ordinary sandbag.

The sandbags fell on the third square, the fourth square, the fifth square... until the end.

Every time it falls, there is a sound of landing after a light jump.

The two of them didn't dare to move at all, their clothes were almost soaked with sweat.

Until another voice sounded: [Scarlett walked to the end and got a house. 】

The child's crisp and clear voice almost seemed to ring in their ears, and then, a square in front of Elena disappeared, turning into a bottomless abyss.

There is also an invisible third person playing games with them.

And now it's Elena's turn.

Elena stared at the sandbag that moved in front of her out of thin air, and didn't move for a long time.

It wasn't that she didn't want to move, but that her body was almost frozen and she couldn't move.

It wasn't until the sandbag was puppet in front of her again, as if someone was giving it to her, that she controlled her body, then bent down to pick up the sandbag.

Calm down, Elena told herself, she is a member of S.H.I.E.L.D., she has seen this kind of weird thing more than once or twice.

But why did she feel scared this time?

The more it comes to this kind of time, the more you should calm down, otherwise it will really be over.

【Hahahaha--】

A child's laughter suddenly came from my ear, boy?or a girl?Can't tell.

Elena held the sandbag tightly, and suddenly found that she had neither the desire to run away nor the urge to draw a gun.

The only thing I want to do is keep playing.

And when she realized this, the sandbag was thrown out.

Alva and she held their breath, looking expectantly at the arc thrown by the sandbag.

They've been trained countless times so that throwing a ball is child's play.

It's just that they never expected to fall in the right direction like this for a moment.

landed.

Elena let out a sigh of relief, and gratefully watched the sandbag land on the second grid.

The grid in front of her disappeared, she couldn't be throwing it, and now she can only step over it.

Hop onto the second grid with one foot, which is a single grid.

Just as she was about to pick up the sandbag and throw it on the second grid, a voice suddenly came from her mind.

[Eileen loses a grid for a foul!Now that the grid becomes an unsafe grid, will Elena accept punishment or choose a problem? 】

This is supposed to be a variation on Truth or Dare.

After thinking for a while, Elena chose a question.

[Okay, listen Elena, the question is: what is Scarlett's favorite thing? 】

Elena's expression changed, and she froze.

Scarlett's favorite things?What does it mean?

Elena had never heard of the name Scarlett.

No, she had heard it just once, when Scarlett had won.

Scarlett was the kid they played games with.

It sounds like a girl, maybe she's a child of the family.

She likes to checkered, and Elena thought of the military equipment she saw at the door.

Maybe this child likes to play, but her father is a serious soldier who raised her as a boy, so he doesn't like her to play games.

The more depressed the more I like it.

and so……

"Scarlett likes to hop."

A cheerful child's voice sounded.

【wrong answer!The correct answer is, Scarlett loves dogs! 】

dog?Elena suddenly thought of the dog cage in the fourth house.

But before she had time to think about it, the child said happily.

【Eileen accepts the punishment, because of the wrong answer, the punishment will be doubled. 】

【dice. 】

[Dice face: Drowning. 】

[Punishment time: 30 seconds. 】

For an instant, Elena felt something grabbed her neck and pulled her down.

"Cough, cough, cough—"

Obviously there is nothing, but Elena is like a person being held under water.

She desperately grabbed up, trying to grab something.

Yes, 30 seconds, 30 seconds passed, just 30 seconds.

She opened her eyes wide, and vaguely saw a little girl in ragged clothes standing beside her.

The little girl was thin and dressed in rags.

Staring at Elena blankly, holding...

Dog leash?

Elena was struggling to see more clearly, but at this moment she heard——

[After 30 seconds, the penalty time is over. 】

Elena knelt on the ground, covered her neck and coughed desperately, and then she found the sandbag in her hand.

Game continues.

Dogs, girls, games, hopscotch.

Elena pursed her lips, gritted her teeth, and threw the sandbag in her hand again.

The sandbag falls in the third square.

She was extremely careful and focused this time, all the way to No.20 three grids.

Very well, she's done dancing.

It was time for her to choose her own house.

Elena thought, and then she chose the second frame.

This is not good for the last Alva, but if the child chooses the second square when jumping back in the next round and strides two squares with one foot in a row, it will be bad for both her and Alva.

Alva also understood her considerations, and when it was his turn, he was also asked a similar question, but this time the question became [What does Beldo like. 】

He didn't answer right away, but combined with Scarlett who had asked before, he felt that it might be related to all four houses.

So I casually guessed a toy car.

No guess, just like Elena, Alva was hanged for 30 seconds.

But they got the information that what Beldo likes is hide and seek.

Looking at it this way, Scarlett is the child of the fourth family, and Beldo is either the first family with toy cars or the third family, anyway, it is definitely not the family they are in now.

These children probably know each other very well.

This time, Alva also successfully jumped to the finish line, and then chose his own house, which was the third space after Elena.

Then, the second round of the game began.

Even though she knew she shouldn't think like this, Elena couldn't help but feel hopeless.

When will this game end...

When Elena jumped over the grid for the third time, she no longer wanted to move.

Play games with people you can't see, maybe they're not alive at all.

Elena felt as if she had become a puppet in someone else's hands, forced to play games she didn't want to play at all.

Over and over again, until despair...

Then die.

This kind of dryness caused Elena to suffer. At first she still had the energy to think, but now she was almost exhausted.

But the kid who was playing the game became more and more excited, as if he didn't want to stop at all.

Just stop.

Maybe it was her prayer that touched the heavens, but Elena suddenly saw the door open.

Then a person she knew walked out.

"What are you doing?" Harris widened his eyes. "Jody is crazy, the haunted house scared him crazy, and he is going crazy in the house over there now, and you are here playing hopscotch?"

Holding the red balloon in his hand, he looked at them in disbelief.