University life is boring, most students can only kill time by online dating. However, Luan Rumeng is different, her hobby is to "take advantage", if there is an advantage but she doesn't take it, she will itch all over and can't sleep all night.
Today, Luan Rumeng received a flyer, which roughly meant: as long as Luan Rumeng cooperates with the merchant to participate in a prize-winning guessing promotion, she will get a big gift after the event. This is a great thing for Luan Rumeng, and she was so excited that she skipped class to go there, and her mind was full of imagination about what the big gift would look like.
Luan Rumeng found the prize-winning guessing site according to the address on the flyer. It was a rather remote place with a black and white stage. There was no crowd-filled atmosphere like a normal promotion. It was more like a spiritual stage than a promotion. Luan Rumeng felt a little scared, but when she saw that there were indeed some audiences in the audience, and remembered the promise of a big gift on the flyer, she walked over with gritted teeth.
Fortunately, the procedure of the prize-winning guessing game was still normal. The host passionately talked about the new activities of the store on the stage: "For the following questions, as long as you can answer them correctly, there will be prizes to be given away."
This is the most common way of promotion. Luan Rumeng has taken advantage of this countless times and has a lot of experience. Luan Rumeng knows that after a question is asked, she can't rush to answer it right away. Because in this case, the range of answers to choose from is very wide, and the chance of answering incorrectly is also relatively high. Only after others have answered it several times can you slowly figure out the pattern.
The host asked the first question: "This is a question about health. Which of the following foods can best supplement calcium? A. Milk. B. Bone soup. C. Shrimp. D. Soy milk. E. Crucian carp and tofu soup."
This question greatly aroused the interest of the people present. Three people hurriedly raised their hands and squeezed to the front of the stage. Luan Rumeng was no exception. She rushed forward desperately, and her slender arms kept hitting the audience around her, making collision sounds between her limbs. However, fortunately, they were not angry at all, and did not even look at Luan Rumeng. Luan Rumeng squeezed to the edge of the stage, but was not in a hurry to answer. She wanted to hear other people's answers.
The first person who squeezed onto the stage said confidently: "Milk! I drink milk every day, so I grew tall."
Luan Rumeng's heart tightened, this was exactly the answer she wanted to say. However, after hearing this answer, the host was not satisfied. She smiled and took a few steps forward and leaned down to the audience. The host's face was very pale, without any blood color. At the same time, her eyes did not move at all, like fake ones. It was the first time Luan Rumeng had seen such an ugly host. She looked around, and the customers stood there like puppets, staring at the stage. This weird atmosphere made Luan Rumeng feel very strange, and she even wanted to get out of the crowd and leave the prize-winning guessing scene.
However, her habit of taking advantage of others made Luan Rumeng's feet feel like they were filled with lead and she couldn't move at all. In the end, she stayed.
The host said quietly: "The answer 'milk' cannot be chosen lightly. There is a story behind it. I will tell you all a story as today's entertainment." Then the host turned away from the guessing activity and started telling the story on his own.
A story about milk.
When I first went to college, there was a girl from the countryside, let's call her Yanghua. Her family was very poor, and she had never eaten anything nutritious since she was a child, so she was very small and was often laughed at. After going to college, she heard that milk could supplement calcium and make her taller, so she saved money and decided to buy a glass of fresh milk from the cafeteria every day. This poor girl had never drunk milk and had no idea what authentic milk tasted like, so the cafeteria staff took advantage of this and sold her milk diluted with water every day. This behavior was not so much about making money as it was about teasing the poor girl and satisfying the vicious mentality of bullying the poor. The poor girl carefully sipped the glass of milk that was very expensive to her every day. She thought that milk was just that kind of light taste, but she didn't know that the cafeteria staff had laughed like crazy and treated her as a fool.
Half a year later, one night, it was very cold and Yang Hua did not come to buy milk. The milk seller felt very bored and packed up his things while cursing. Suddenly, a faint voice sounded in his ears: "Please… please give me a glass of milk…"
When the employee looked up, he saw Yang Hua's timid look. Under the light, Yang Hua's face was very pale, her long bangs covered most of her face, and a dark red bloodstain flowed down her forehead. The employee was a little scared. The weird atmosphere scared him so much that he didn't dare to trick Yang Hua with watered-down milk anymore. He sincerely poured a glass of pure milk from the milk bucket and carefully handed it to Yang Hua.
Unexpectedly, after Yang Hua took a sip, she suddenly spit it out. She said faintly: "This taste is wrong, you lied to me. This milk is fishy, it's not what I want."
“That’s how milk is,” the employee said impatiently.
Suddenly, Yang Hua pounced forward, and her teeth, which were loose due to calcium deficiency, bit the employee's arm fiercely. The employee wanted to rely on his strength to shake Yang Hua off, but he felt a piercing pain from the wound, which made him unable to move. He saw a transparent liquid spurting out from Yang Hua's teeth and all of it shot into the employee's body. With the pain of blood injection and unbearable twitching all over her body, Yang Hua opened her mouth. She smiled and said to the employee: "Today, I accidentally fell to death. After I died, I understood a lot of truths, for example, the milk you gave me was diluted with water. In order to repay in kind, I have to dilute your blood as well."
After the host finished telling the story, Luan Rumeng felt a cool breeze on her back. To be honest, she seemed to have heard this story somewhere before, and it seemed to have happened at the university where Luan Rumeng was studying. However, the audience around her was unmoved. They shouted to continue guessing, and one audience member squeezed to the front of the stage and shouted: "I choose bone soup! This is common sense, bone soup can supplement calcium!"
This was Luan Rumeng's second answer, but the host was still not satisfied. She looked at the audience with a meaningful look, and a sneer flashed across her lips: "Do you really think so? Then let me tell you a story about bone soup."
The story of bone broth
There are many poor students in college, and there are many girls like Yang Hua. So let's call the poor girl in this story Yang Hua, since they are very similar anyway.
Yang Hua got a work-study opportunity in her sophomore year. She could help in the school cafeteria and get a monthly subsidy of 500 yuan and free breakfast, lunch and dinner. This was a good treatment for a poor girl like Yang Hua. She worked hard every day, hoping to get praise from the cafeteria staff.
However, as mentioned above, the staff in the cafeteria are not very friendly, and one of them has set his sights on Yang Hua and wants to fall in love with her. After being rejected by Yang Hua, he came up with a bad idea: let Yang Hua take care of the soup.
This is the most unfortunate job in the cafeteria, because the price of bone soup is high, and the team leader will often check the amount, and if you make less, you will be punished. But the stray dogs in the school are very difficult to deal with. They will sneak into the cafeteria in groups and secretly eat the broken bone soup. No one can do anything about it.
In the following days, the bone soup that Yang Hua managed often became less. When faced with an inspection, she couldn't tell where the bone soup went, and could only cover her face and cry. The team leader didn't buy it. She mocked Yang Hua, saying that Yang Hua stole the bone soup and sold it for money or cooked it for herself. Not only that, she also said to Yang Hua: "If the bone soup is less tomorrow, you don't have to come. There are many children who want to work and study!"
The next day, Yang Hua squatted carefully beside the bone soup, not daring to leave. However, the mischievous employee came again, deliberately arranged Yang Hua to do this and that, and poured out part of the bone soup when Yang Hua was away.
That night, before the team leader was about to check, Yang Hua discovered that the bone soup was less again. She burst into tears and didn't know what to do. Suddenly, her eyes fell on the employee who played a prank, and she immediately had an idea…
Later, when the team leader checked, she found that the bone soup was not less, but more. The team leader felt very strange. She tasted it and found that the taste was strange. At the same time, she also found that the employee who loved to flatter in the cafeteria was missing.
After hearing this story, Luan Rumeng almost vomited. She stroked her chest and observed the reactions of the people around her. Strangely, except for Luan Rumeng, no one showed any disgust. They all had blank faces and their bodies swayed slightly when the wind blew.
"Who… who are these people?" Luan Rumeng was suspicious.
"Continue guessing!" At this time, another audience member squeezed to the side of the stage and interrupted Luan Rumeng's train of thought. He shouted, "Shrimp! It's very expensive, it must be calcium supplement!"
"Oh no!" Luan Rumeng thought to herself, "This answer must be correct, so I don't have a chance to guess it anymore."
Unexpectedly, the host still didn't nod. She smiled and moved her body in an uncoordinated manner. She said, "Shrimp also has a story, and I was just about to tell it."
The story of shrimp.
To keep the story consistent, the protagonist is named Yang Hua. She is a girl from the inland area who has never eaten shrimps and has never thought about eating them. She has a boyfriend from a big city. In order to be worthy of this boy, Yang Hua carefully conceals her identity as a village girl.
Finally one day, this situation was broken in the cafeteria. Yang Hua and her boyfriend came to eat together that day. Her boyfriend was very considerate and ordered a portion of shrimp for Yang Hua. Yang Hua didn't know how to peel and eat it, so she hurriedly said that she didn't like it. Originally, this was no big deal, but the employee in the cafeteria was quick-witted and said contemptuously: "Have you never eaten shrimp?"
"Nonsense! How could I not have eaten this?" Yang Hua said with a blushing face.
"You're so poor, how can you still eat shrimp?" The employee sneered, "Don't be fooled by the nice clothes you wear. In fact, the types of dishes you order every day reveal your wealth. I know this best. If you don't admit it, peel a shrimp for me to see."
Yang Hua picked up a shrimp in anger and peeled it vigorously. However, her clumsy movements had revealed all her secrets. She found that her boyfriend's eyes had changed when he looked at her. Yang Hua couldn't stand it anymore. She threw away the plate and ran out of the cafeteria.
Behind her, the cafeteria staff laughed because they had played a prank on Yang Hua.
That night, the employee was squatting alone to clean up the leftovers in the kitchen. Suddenly, he saw a skirt, but there were no feet under the skirt. The employee was startled and found that the thing floating in front of him was Yanghua, which would not eat shrimp during the day.
"Where are your feet?" the employee asked tremblingly.
"My leg? I didn't look at the road when I rushed out of the cafeteria today, and was hit by a speeding car and broke it." There was no trace of sadness on Yang Hua's face. She continued, "I worked hard all day and finally learned how to peel shrimps. I peel them very well. Now, I'll peel them for you to see!"
As she spoke, Yang Hua rushed forward and scratched the employee's skin with her nails. She tore it hard along the bleeding area.
"Ah——" the employee screamed, but he had no power to resist. He watched helplessly as he was peeled apart by Yang Hua like a shrimp.
Yang Hua said as she peeled the shrimps: "Oh, today's shrimps are really fresh and very red…"
The story became more and more bizarre, and Luan Rumeng almost wanted to escape. However, there were only two answers left, and the chances of choosing one of the two were very high. The truth was about to be revealed. Didn't Luan Rumeng endure for so long just to answer the question correctly? So, Luan Rumeng bravely shouted: "Continue guessing, the correct answer to this question is crucian carp tofu soup."
The whole audience suddenly fell silent, including the host.
Luan Rumeng was very proud. She knew that she had answered correctly. The next thing she had to do was to wait for the prize.
However, the prize did not appear. Everyone in the venue turned to Luan Rumeng and approached her step by step. There were only a dozen people in total, their steps were so stiff, their expressions were so dull, like a group of pale paper figures. Luan Rumeng was surrounded, with nowhere to escape, she wanted to shout but didn't dare to. When she couldn't stand the squeeze, the host said quietly: "Finally someone dared to say this answer. Crucian carp and tofu soup… hehe…"
No. 2
Recently, Fan Xinxin was in great pain because her best friend Luan Rumeng died unexpectedly. When Luan Rumeng's body was found, all the flesh on her body had been dug out, leaving only a skeleton, which was very scary.
Fan Xinxin couldn't understand why Luan Rumeng, who usually just liked to take advantage of others and never messed with others, ended up being treated so cruelly?
Just as Fan Xinxin was wondering, she heard someone knocking on the dormitory door. When she opened it, there was no one there, but there was a flyer stuck on the door: as long as you participate in a prize-winning contest, you will have a chance to win the grand prize.
Fan Xinxin never believed in this kind of advertisements, but just when she was about to throw away the flyer, a sudden thought flashed through her mind: Luan Rumeng had also received this flyer, and on the day she died.
Fan Xinxin remembered that Luan Rumeng was very happy after receiving the flyer that day. She wanted to skip class and go there. She also asked Fan Xinxin to help her deal with the teacher. Thinking of this, Fan Xinxin felt that Luan Rumeng's death was related to this strange flyer. As a good friend of Luan Rumeng, she should go and take a look.
So, Fan Xinxin took a leave and went to the place mentioned in the flyer.
From a distance, Fan Xinxin saw a platform for a prize-winning quiz. It was in black and white and looked eerie, like a huge spiritual platform. In front of the platform, more than a dozen spectators stood, all standing straight with no expression on their faces.
Fan Xinxin stood at the back of the crowd. Her mind was not on the guessing game at all. She looked carefully at the audience around her and felt that they all looked familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere before, but she was not sure. Just as Fan Xinxin was daydreaming, the host suddenly called out, "There are new audience members today, so we have to change our guessing game. How about we play 'Prize Chain'? I will tell a story, and everyone will follow up with the ending. The person who comes up with the most reasonable or even completely true ending will win the grand prize."
Fan Xinxin's heart moved. This activity was just what she wanted. Although she was not a girl who liked to take advantage of others, she was a literary young woman. Her favorite thing to do was to write some romantic stories or give some unfinished stories a satisfactory ending. The current activity just aroused her curiosity and desire for challenge. She even forgot that the purpose of her trip was to investigate the cause of Luan Rumeng's death, and she participated in the activity with great interest.
The host approached the audience and began to tell the story in a serious manner:
A long time ago, there were some people. They were full of love for life and passion for the future, but fate made them born in poor or single-parent families, unable to receive a good education and not loved by their parents. This tragic situation made them gradually lose their faith and conscience, and they voluntarily united together, 13 men and 1 woman, a total of 14 people, to form a social gang, using various methods to bully those who were weaker than them.
They enjoyed playing this unscrupulous game, but they got bored after playing it for a long time, and they were short of money. They finally thought of a better way. They changed their appearance and applied for a job at the cafeteria of the only university in the city. Their young appearance and hypocritical rhetoric deceived the school leaders, so these dangerous young people entered the cafeteria and started working and playing.
They really have no conscience. On the one hand, they are jealous of those college students who can study and have dreams, and on the other hand, they dare not mess with the rich and powerful city kids. So they set their sights on rural girls, most of whom are kind-hearted, ignorant, easily deceived, and very fragile, making them the best targets for teasing.
They once sold milk that was almost like plain water to the rural girl who had never seen milk.
They once stole the bone broth that the hard-working girl was looking after.
They once exposed the mountain girl who couldn't peel shrimp but had a dream of love.
them……
They did many outrageous things, but they all got their comeuppance. One after another, young people paid their lives in the process of teasing others, but this result did not serve as a warning to other members of the team. On the contrary, they felt very excited and continued to hurt others.
Finally, this team annoyed the college students. Although these college students usually look lazy, no matter who annoys them, they will not end well. Some radical students who have been bullied themselves or their friends voluntarily formed an alliance and reported the situation to the school leaders, but they did not get any results, so they finally took further measures.
It was the eve of Carnival, and according to past custom, the school cafeteria would launch a new dish to improve everyone's living standards. The school leaders would also come to inspect on this day, and then the school newspaper reporter would take a few decent photos and publish them on the newspaper headlines.
But on this day, the school leaders found that there was no staff in the cafeteria, and the food was not ready. After a long time, a few boys came out and said respectfully: "The staff are busy in the back kitchen because they have to prepare a very delicious dish. Please forgive them for not coming out to see the leaders, because they really put their whole heart and soul into this dish. Now, please taste it!"
A steaming crucian carp and tofu soup was served. The milky white soup, tender tofu, and elastic fish meat made the school leader, who had tasted delicacies from land and sea, salivate. He ate a few chopsticks and suddenly felt something was wrong: "This tofu doesn't look like ordinary tofu. How can it be so soft, fragrant, and translucent? The fish meat is not right either. How can it be boneless? More importantly, the taste of the whole dish is not right. I have never eaten such a dish before."
The students were silent.
The school leader got angry and went to the back kitchen to take a look: all the cafeteria employees had disappeared.
As the host finished speaking, Fan Xinxin felt numb all over. She had already foreseen the result: human brains turned into tofu and human flesh turned into fish soup. But, in such a guessing game, is it appropriate to tell such a story?
"Who can take over the next story?" the host asked enthusiastically.
Fan Xinxin really wanted to take over this story, as it was her favorite activity, but her mind obviously couldn't jump so much. She needed some inspiration, even some inspiration that could be found in real life.
Suddenly, Fan Xinxin remembered, she raised her hand and said: "Those cafeteria employees are dead, but their souls have not left. They surround the school and take revenge on college students in various ways, such as holding a prize guessing contest. I have a classmate named Luan Rumeng, she seems to have died after participating in this kind of activity…"
At this point, Fan Xinxin suddenly stopped. An outline in her mind became clearer and clearer. She knew that she had accidentally touched upon the truth. She regretted it and wanted to escape, but the dozen or so audience members and the host gathered around her like paper figures. They said quietly, "Finally someone dared to pick up this ending. It was a really accurate guess."
Fan Xinxin counted: 14 people, 13 men and 1 woman. This was exactly the number of people employed in the cafeteria at that time.
Two students got into trouble in succession at school. The school leader in charge of this matter said nothing, but was very scared. But he had no choice, because he was short-sighted and invited 14 scoundrels into the school cafeteria, which aroused public anger. Later, radical college students killed these scoundrels. As a school leader, he could only keep it secret and escape the police's pursuit, but he could not escape the 14 crazy ghosts.
At the same time, there are many such children in this society. Due to social or family reasons, they have not received love and education opportunities. Their young lives are degenerating day by day, and one day they will become people like those 14 scoundrels, harming the society to their heart's content until they lose their lives, and will not stop even after death.
No! There must be more than 14, maybe 140 or 1,400!
The school leader wiped his sweat heavily. He felt darkness before his eyes, but he was powerless and no one could do anything.
The future of these children depends entirely on luck, just like a prize-winning guessing game.
Who will save them?
Evaluation: This story is set against the backdrop of college life. Through a prize-winning guessing game, it leads to a series of horrific deaths of canteen employees, revealing the tragic fate of people at the bottom of society and their extreme revenge for unfair treatment. The horror elements and suspenseful plots in the story are closely linked, making readers feel fear while also reflecting on the inequality and indifference in real society. Overall, this is a cleverly conceived and emotionally rich ghost story that can trigger readers' in-depth thinking about human nature and social issues.