Shou Tian Gong (Completed)

Chapter 33

Xiao Zhan and Yibo come early to the place. They see there are the lines queuing up.

"Lucky we come early. The queue still not too long at this time...!" says Xiao Zhan.

Yibo doesn't answer. He just looks around at the building which keeps the history of the country, but it looks scarier.

"What place are we visting, Shou Shou?" asks Yibo. His voice was shiver.

"Haunted house. London Dungeon. Have you been here before?" Replies Xiao Zhan.

Yibo shakes his head.

"I also never been here. I have come to UK before, but never been in London. I always went to the outskirt area of England....!" Says Xiao Zhan, glamcing at the line in front. He's nearer to the ticket's counter already.

"Yeah.... You should go to inside pants. There's where you belong...." Mumbles Yibo, loud enough fornXiao Zhan to hear.

Xiao Zhan turns his head to Yibo who promptly grinning at him.

"I mean, my pants!" Says Yibo.

Xiao Zhan glares at him and turns his head again to the front.

Their turn to buy the ticket comes. Xiao Zhan buys the ticket for two, and they get into the building immediately. Lucky, they come to the venue early, so they don't need to follow the line again to queue up entering the building in a group that supposed to be 30 people to get in.

They have a trip with a very slow boat in the river inside the building. The room is dark. Yibo clings to Xiao Zhan's arm all the time.

Then they led by the frontline to a room where there can see the rats in the cage, the strong smell of humidity and racid of blood suit the loud disturbing audio that blaring throughout the journey. The artist who guides them on the trip from show to show keeps talking and sometimes make anecdote to loosemed the thriller feeling in the visitors' mind which triggered the adrenaline.

They stop in the empty street, and the artist was gone. Every one in the lane feels all alone in the emptiness and silence.

"Shou Shou? Where are you?" Yibo shouts when he lose his grip on Xiao Zhan.

"I'm here!" Xiao Zhan replies.

But Yibo can't see him. He can't see others, too. It's becoming very dark. He can hear other people shouting, too. But their distance sounds so far. Yibo feels all alone. His surrounding is only a dark empty street and the buildings at the both sides now.

"Oh! Thank God!"he cries when he sees someone is walking toward him.

Isn't that another artist?  Yibo thought to himself when the man is walking slowly and clamly, head hung low, wearing a long coat and a hat like in the English old movies.

"Hey! Where is everyone?" Asks Yibo, approaching the man.

The man stops walking with head still hung low.

"Hey! Mister! I'm talking to you!" Says Yibo when he got no respons from the man. He bends his waist to see the man's face.

Slowly, the man lifts his face. He's wearing a dark sunglasses and there is a cigar slips between his thin lips.

"Mister! Here is so dark! Do you still dare to wear the black shades? And I tell you, smoking is bad for your health! You better leave that habbit. I have candy. I will give you one to compensate your cigarette if you throw your cigar!" Yibo rants. He dips his hand into his jeans pocket.

"Oh! I forgot! Shou Shoup keeps all the candies inside his bag. Haha.... Shou Shou is typically a housewife. He always prepares himself with the wives always do. Do you know him, Mister? He is a most beautiful man in the world. You will fall in love too with him if you ever seen him. But don't you dare! I warn you! You have to kill me first to get him!" Says Yibo.