Have you ever attended a masquerade party?
If you have a chance, try it.
The protagonist of this story is Yuan Xiaojiang. On this day, she went to a masquerade ball. She didn’t tell anyone that she went away secretly, novel and nervous. When she came to the entrance, she saw a notice saying that everyone was only allowed to buy one mask. She chose a relatively beautiful mask, a banshee with a pale face and blood red lips. She put it on and walked in.
She walked down the narrow and steep stairs to the underground ballroom. The prom had already started, and she was the last to enter.
This underground dance hall is very spacious and very dark, with fluorescent light everywhere, and it looks strange, and occasionally white smoke is emitted from the dark corners. The music is frantic and deafening. People wore all kinds of weird costumes and all kinds of weird masks, writhing their bodies madly, and fell into temporary fiction.
The advertisement says that this is a party with the coolest men and the most dazzling women. The ghost knows what kind of faces are behind the mask.
Yuan Xiaojiang’s excitement was ignited, and he danced wildly with everyone.
She has never been so happy as she is today. The flesh and blood of her body are scattered into notes, shaking and flying. No one can imagine that the enchanting girl’s mask is an introverted, sensitive, and conservative girl.
I don’t know how long it took before the disco dance stopped abruptly.
Everyone stopped unfulfilled and returned to their seats. Yuan Xiaojiang noticed that there was a man who did not wear a mask. He sat in the deepest corner, did not smoke or drink, and just watched in silence.
The only person in the audience is real.
Yuan Xiaojiang walked over and sat down beside this man.
She saw that he was holding two masks in his hand, one with a cat face and the other with a dog face. She couldn’t help but wonder–everyone could only buy one, how could he Are there two?
On this table, he and Yuan Xiaojiang were the only people. Yuan Xiaojiang thought he would speak up, but he didn’t even look at Yuan Xiaojiang. Yuan Xiaojiang was a little boring, so he ordered a glass of ice water from the waiter and drank it one by one.
Changed to an elegant waltz.
Yuan Xiaojiang looked around through the mask, searching for his dancing partner. Today, she wants to thoroughly experience the opposite character.
She wanted to find a man with the ugliest mask.
Finally, she found it.
The man was also sitting alone, wearing a vampire mask, his face was green, and his eyes were as dark as circles.Panda, jagged teeth stick out. He looks very burly.
When Yuan Xiaojiang stood up and walked towards him, suddenly the man with a face next to him said: “Miss, be careful.”
< br/> Yuan Xiaojiang looked back at him: “You… are you talking about me?”
His eyes still don’t look at Yuan Xiaojiang, and he is still looking vigilantly on the dance floor. Looking around, he said in a low voice: “Tonight, there is an abnormal atmosphere in this bar…”
Yuan Xiaojiang said: “What’s the matter?”
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He finally turned his face, raised the cat face mask in his hand, and said, “This one belongs to me.” Then, he raised the dog face mask in his hand and said, “This I picked Zhang.”
Yuan Xiaojiang said, “What do you mean?”
The man said, “Among these dancing people, One person… didn’t wear a mask.”
Yuan Xiaojiang’s eyes quickly scanned the audience, a pair of dancing partners had already been off the dance floor, and everyone was terrifying. Grimace-someone without a mask? She felt cold.
Then, she said sincerely: “Are you a horror novelist?”
The man said: “I am a private investigator, I will Unannounced visit. There is a problem with this dance hall. Every masquerade will miss a girl.”
Yuan Xiaojiang said: “Don’t scare me, I am timid.”
The man said: “Almost everyone who attends the masquerade doesn’t want anyone familiar with it to know that they are coming alone. Moreover, the dance is messy, and everyone doesn’t want each other. Know. Therefore, no one has discovered this terrible secret.”
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Yuan Xiaojiang said: “If it is like you said, then those girls are Where did you go?”
The man said, “I was taken away by a man.”
Yuan Xiaojiang thought for a while, then said “What kind of girls did he take away?”
The man said: “The last one to enter.”
Yuan Xiao Jiang immediately felt that this man was teasing herself. She said: “Why do those girls go with him? Does he have Ecstasy?”
The man said, “I don’t know what he did. Girls always follow him anyway. According to what we know, the next process is almost the same-he drove her into the wild, and along the way, the man never took off his face mask. Finally, they stopped the car beside a forest, Start hugging and kissing. The girl stretched out her hand to take off each other’s mask, and he didn’t move and asked her to take it off.At some point, the girl will find that the other party is wearing nothing, and that scary mask is actually his face! “
Yuan Xiaojiang looked into the dance floor again and said, “Is that man here today?” “
The man also looked into the dance floor and said, “I think so.” So, you’d better change the mask, because today you are the last to enter. “Then, he handed the cat face mask to Yuan Xiaojiang.
Yuan Xiaojiang hesitated, accepted his suggestion, and said softly, “Thank you. “
When she was about to walk away, she suddenly had a prank idea and turned around and said, “If you wear my banshee mask, what can he do?” “
He thought for a while and said, “Good idea. “
Then, he took Yuan Xiaojiang’s banshee mask over.
Yuan Xiaojiang put on the cat face mask, Feeling much safer. She walked up to the man wearing a vampire mask and offered to invite him to dance.
He accepted it of course.
The two went off the dance floor together, put their shoulders on their backs, and danced gracefully. They all seemed to be immersed in the beautiful melody, and none of them spoke.
Yuan Xiaojiang didn’t believe in that detective. What she said, but she still looked at the partner vigilantly.
Although the light was dim, she was sure that the other party was wearing a mask, and there was a dark gap on the edge of his mask. .
This time, Yuan Xiaojiang relieved his heart.
The other party’s eyes seemed a little gloomy, and they looked around on the dance floor lightly. , It seems that the attention is not on her at all.
Yuan Xiaojiang asked: “Are you looking for someone? “
The dancer hesitated and said, “Oh, sorry, the mask I just bought was lost on the stairs…”
Yuan Xiaojiang stopped the dance abruptly and stared at him: “Isn’t the mask on your face? “
The partner said, “Oh, this is my original. “Next, he took Yuan Xiaojiang and continued to dance to the rhythm.
Yuan Xiaojiang said lowly: “Just now, someone picked up a mask, probably yours. “
The dance partner said: “Actually, I am looking for a girl. “
Yuan Xiaojiang said: “What girl?” “
The dancing partner said: “She wore a witch mask and disappeared in a blink of an eye. “
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Yuan Xiaojiang stopped againDance steps: “What are you… looking for her for?”
The partner said: “She was the last one to enter…”
She tightly Staring at him: “Does it matter?”
The partner said, “Maybe, she found my mask.”
Suddenly, he looked at a place, his eyes straightened, and his large hands convulsed slightly.
Yuan Xiaojiang followed his gaze and looked over—that private detective put on her banshee mask! He sat upright in the corner, motionless, like a mummy.
This dance partner has finally found his goal!
There seemed to be thunder on the ground, and the ground was shaking slightly. The big hands of this dancer shook even more.
Yuan Xiaojiang released him and supported his forehead with his hand.
The dancer finally turned his gaze back and asked suspiciously: “What’s the matter with you?”
Yuan Xiaojiang said: “I’m sorry, I’m a little bit Headache…”
The partner said: “It’s okay, you can go back and have a rest.”
Yuan Xiaojiang turned and left him and walked quickly When I reached the private detective, my heart burst out: “Take off the mask and get out of here!”
The other party took off the mask and asked, “What happened?”< br>
Yuan Xiaojiang said: “You are right, that terrible man is here today!” As she said, she took off her mask, threw it on the ground, and walked quickly toward the exit.
The private detective followed her closely, and asked in detail, “Is that the person who danced with you just now?”
Yuan Xiaojiang said: “It’s him!”
At the exit, Yuan Xiaojiang looked back. The man wearing the vampire mask seemed to have found a flaw. He was in the chaotic figure. Staring at her, he walked straight over.
She was so frightened that she said, “He’s chasing me!”
Then, she walked down the long and steep stairs. The ground climbed up, and the private detective followed her up. It’s raining outside, lightning and thunder. It was midnight and there was no taxi at the door.
The private detective looked back and asked loudly: “Do you have a car?”
Yuan Xiaojiang said: “No!”
The private detective rushed towards a car, took out the remote control and opened the door, and said without looking back: “Get in my car!”
Yuan XiaojiangfengHurriedly got into his car.
She looked out of the car window. The man wearing a vampire mask had crawled out of the underground dance hall and was looking around in the rain. His face was creepy under the street lamp.
The private detective took out the camera and took a picture of the person with “click”. The man seemed to have spotted them and strode over.
The private detective quickly put down the camera and drove the car away.
Thank god! Yuan Xiaojiang leaned back on his seat and let out a long sigh of relief.
After the car drove out a street, Yuan Xiaojiang said wearily: “By the way, you can just send me to the gate of the family area of the Academy of Fine Arts.”
The private detective said: “Okay.”
After a while, Yuan Xiaojiang said: “What happened? I clearly saw him wearing a mask! “
The private detective said loudly as he drove, “The world is like this. Some people wear masks, you think they don’t; some people don’t wear masks, but you think he Wearing!”
Yuan Xiaojiang closed his eyes in shock.
The private detective may have seen it in the rearview mirror, and said nothing.
The vampire mask has always been in Yuan Xiaojiang’s mind: green face, black eye circles, and uneven teeth…
Not knowing how far she has gone, she suddenly opened her eyes and asked, “Why don’t you wear a mask when you come to the masquerade?”
The car bumped up, and the other party focused on driving. , Said: “Who said I didn’t wear it?”
In fact, as soon as Yuan Xiaojiang asked, he saw a terrible fact-the car has been driven into the wild! She asked in horror: “What are you doing?”
The other party parked the car on the side of the road, turned around, and said slowly: “This face is my mask.”
There was a thunder in the sky.
Yuan Xiaojiang looked at him blankly.
He said in a low voice: “It’s me. Every time I take a girl away at the masquerade.”
You have offended a Man, but what makes you stunned is that he has not retaliated against you. But, don’t be too happy. The other person who is walking around you all day is likely to be him.