After more than 20 years of hardships, this lock still sticks to its position and never gives up.
Lu Tan felt a sense of respect.
Then he used a crowbar to pry open the door decisively.
Clang——
With a loud noise, the lock that had persisted for more than 20 years finally came to an end.
Lu Tiao came to the control room.
The control room is responsible for the opening and closing of the stage curtain, the projection of lights, the playback of music, and the operation of field control. There are three in the Jiangcheng Grand Theater, located above the two sides of the stage and directly opposite the stage.
There should have been many instruments in this room, but now there is nothing.
But the control room is not dark.
The theater hall can be seen through the transparent windows. Since the dome was burned and collapsed in half, light from outside was able to shine in. The control room obviously got a little light because of this, but it was only a little bright.
It is getting late, and the last ray of sunset is quickly dimming. The sky seen from here is already dark, and night will soon fall.
Lu Tan looked down and saw the stage shrouded in twilight.
Surprisingly, except for some traces of scorch, the stage turned out to be quite empty. Although the seats were empty and messy, the stage alone stood alone, with gray light falling on it, like a spotlight during a performance.
, persistently whitewashing the lost prosperity.
My eyes moved, and there was a piano on the side of the stage.
"piano?"
How is it possible that there is still a piano left?
The moment Lu Tan had this doubt.
Thumb——
The ancient piano suddenly made a crooked sound, but Lu Tiao clearly didn't see anyone next to the piano!
The hairs stood up along his back. Lu Tiao leaned forward slightly and tightened his grip on the crowbar, trying to see more clearly.
Bang——
At this moment, his foot suddenly stepped on the air, his whole body quickly lost balance, and he was about to fall.
Click——
Lu Tiao's crowbar caught the edge of the broken window, but he finally didn't fall.
Lowering his head, Lu Jian saw that there was already a hollow under the left foot he had just stepped out. The floor under the protruding control room might have exhausted its last bit of life and was broken and collapsed due to the arrival of guests he had not seen for many years.
If Lu Tiao didn't have a crowbar just now, or if he had walked a little further forward, he might have fallen from the control room and broken at least one of his legs.
He hurriedly took a few steps back, trying to exit the room.
But Lu Tiao's back soon leaned against something, and the lines of the thing came through the touch behind him, and it looked like a person!
Lu Tiao's heart skipped a beat, and he turned around quickly. When the flashlight illuminated the scene, he raised the crowbar in his hand.
He saw several pale human figures standing in the corner of the control room, where the sunlight from the theater hall had not yet touched.
That's a model doll.
These model dolls are also wearing tattered tuxedos, skirts, etc., just like guests about to attend a grand banquet.
"Why are these things piled up here?"
Lu Tan looked up and down at these mannequin dolls.
He saw that the originally blank faces of these mannequin dolls had been painted with crooked eyes as a prank.
These eyes seemed to be looking in the direction of the theater hall, with a strange flavor.
Lu Tan knocked on the front one with a crowbar.
like a statue.
He then used a flashlight to illuminate other places in the control room. It was empty except for these few mannequins, placed here abruptly.
He turned around to leave, taking another uneasy look at the mannequins.
Not moved at all.
It's just that...the eyes of these dolls seemed to have turned towards the doorway where Lu Jian was.
"...The problem is really big."
Lu Tan took back the flashlight and quickly returned to the front hall.
It was completely dark. He looked at his phone and saw that at 7:30, he had been exploring the corridor for more than an hour.
At the same time, the text on the phone screen was distorted and turned into cold prompt text.
[Task begins]
【Find the performer:0/1】
【Survived until dawn:10:29:43】
"Ten hours... until sunrise at six o'clock tomorrow morning?"
Lu Jian set the alarm on his cell phone for six o'clock tomorrow morning, put it in his pocket, and then opened the door of the creaking theater hall.
Even in its dilapidated state, Lu Jian could still feel the former glory of this grand theater. It could accommodate more than a thousand people, which was considered quite large at the time.
However, the fire burned down a small half of the auditorium, and the second floor was almost reduced to coke. Even after so many years, Lu Jian could still smell the hot and suffocating smell in the air.
The once gorgeous dome was broken, and starlight spilled from the gap, causing the stage to glow with a white light.
Lu Jian came to the first row, knocked on the stage with a crowbar to confirm its strength, and then jumped up.
His shoes stepped on the wooden board, making a crisp clicking sound, which echoed in the hall, which although it was broken, still had a loudspeaker structure.
As he cautiously arrived at the piano, Lu Jian's flashlight shone on the piano shrouded in darkness.
He didn't understand the maintenance of the piano, and he couldn't recognize the brand, but the piano gave him a quaint and old feel, but it also had a brand-new meaning. Lu Jian shined the light on the keys, and he didn't find any dust at all.
Not only the keys, but also the strings of the open piano were free of dust.
Thinking of this, Lu Tan finally realized that something was wrong just now.
He leaned down slightly and rubbed the ground with the back of his fingers.
Clean and tidy.
The floor of the stage is clean.
After so many years of abandonment and no one cleaning it, it stands to reason that this place should be completely covered in dust.
But......
"Wait a moment."
Lu Tiao came to his senses.
In addition to being in tatters, the clothes of the mannequins in the control room just now seemed not to be covered with dust!!!
clatter--
At this time, a subtle sound came from the direction of the control room on the other side. Originally, this sound should have been completely unnoticed, but now it is so quiet and the echo effect here is so good. Therefore,
The sound passed into Lu Tan's ears clearly.
He glanced over there and saw a human face peeking out from behind the glass in the control room.
"!"
The flashlight light quickly shone over, and Lu Jian saw that it was also a model doll with strange eyes painted on its face.
"...There shouldn't be one on the other side, right?"
He shined his flashlight into the control room opposite the stage. Unfortunately, there were no mannequins there.
Lu Tan walked off the stage and looked around. There seemed to be no more abnormalities.
He walked off the stage, found an unbroken chair in the first row, dusted it off with a crowbar, and put down his backpack.
After taking out the self-heating rice and water, Lu Jian prepared to have dinner first.