Restaurant for ghosts. The door of the old bathhou

Restaurant for ghosts. The door of the old bathhouse
Behind the door of the old bathhouse, the boy was waiting for ghosts that feed on the souls of living people.
An excerpt from the story
First meal change. Old stove door

Vitya crawled through the door of the sauna stove. It was scary and dark all around. He immediately tried to go back, but heard the voices of his pursuers. They pulled on the oven door, but did nothing. The boy's eyes adjusted to the darkness, and he saw that the inside of the furnace looked like a cave. Light seeped through the old bricks. Entering the cave of the furnace, Vitya was frightened, in front of him he suddenly saw four men who were sitting quietly and silently. There was a sound, a bright light became visible, someone threw firewood into the furnace of the stove. The stove periodically went out, then lit up with light. It was getting hot. People turned to Vita. Each person had many furry hands. The calendar exploded. His beam burned the web, which strange people tried to throw on Vitya. People's faces were frozen. They were Kumo's were-spiders. They were visiting here, they came to steam old bones. The calendar has taken the will of the spiders under its control.

- What does the lord want? - asked one of the spiders - We admit our mistake and are ready to pay dearly for it. Command!

The walls of the cave are warm. It got very hot. However, the shocked boy remained silent. Then one of the werewolves Kumo himself made a decision.

“Now let’s help the young master!” - turning to the others, the spider began to take off the sheet, - We will save the master, and the master will put in a word for us when the time comes!

It took a very long time to weave a new web, so Kumo simply took off their bath sheets and wove a network out of them. One of the men quickly climbed up the wall of the furnace cave and threw the net over the wall. Here the wall did not fit snugly against the ceiling. Kumo helped Vitya climb up the net. Jumping down, the boy got into the stoker. It was the kingdom of stokers. Noperapon, faceless ghosts, worked here as stokers. Seeing Vitya, they instantly took on his appearance.

“Food,” the ghosts whispered, “food, lots of food!” Big boy! Live boy!

Vitya began to choke, Noperapon tried to draw life out of Vitya. The calendar intervened again and soon Noperapon became transparent again. Everything seemed to fall into place, but then a new problem arose. Coal began to pour down the chute. It got bigger and bigger. Noperapon jumped up easily and stuck to the wall. Victor, of course, could not do this. Coal poured faster and faster, filling the entire space of the stoker. Almost instantly, Vitya was covered up to his hips. He barely had time to pull out the calendar. The beam of the calendar began its work. Vitya directed him to a chute from which coal was pouring. The chute was located almost under the ceiling of the stoker.

- Food! shouted one of the ghosts. “No, I'm so hungry!” Oh, great mirror, don't take my food! No one has descended here for two centuries! Give the boy to us! Lots of people upstairs! Anyone can be your master! Oh, hot beam, spare us! We will thank you! Not!!!

Reluctantly, obeying the order of the beam, Noperapon took off their robes and made a rope out of them. After that, the beam burned a passage in a pile of coal. The rope helped Vita to get out of the stoker through the hatch.



Having descended the noperapon rope, the boy found himself in a strange place. It was a gigantic room. Millions of foxes stood in regiments and battalions. From time to time one of the foxes disappeared, another fox immediately took his place. The rope was not enough, and Vitya fell right on the head of one of the foxes. The space around the boy immediately cleared up. A fox general appeared in front of Vitya. It was the werewolf fox Katsune. He was huge, but still no taller than Vitya. Katsune opened his huge mouth. His teeth were in blood. The fox was advancing on Vitya. The calendar disk ripped open the boy's pocket and flew out at an alarming rate. Flying up to Katsune, the disc instantly shaved the general's tail.

“Oh,” a sigh of surprise swept through the hall, “oh, woe! We give you praise! You came for a sacrifice - you got it! There is no way back! Greatness is gone! Die is cast!

The general was disgraced. He tried to hide his tail behind his back. He did not succeed. Then Katsune called the fox - understudy and ordered the impossible. The stand-in fox bit off Katsune's tail. Blood flooded the hall. There was so much of her that it was hard to believe that there was so much blood in Katsune. The backup fox took the form of Katsune. Katsune himself was thrown into the chute of the stoker. Katsune turned into coal. Blood seeped through the floor tiles. At the call of blood, the steward came. It was the earth god Houtu. Howtu told Vita to raise his hand. The man grabbed one of the foxes, shook it out of the skin, turned the skin inside out, and smeared Vitin's palm with the skin. His palm burned, it itched and burned, and Houtu patiently waited for signs to appear on Viti's palm. When the signs appeared, Howtu began to read them carefully. Then the earth god snapped his fingers. The foxes began to howl, and then stood in pairs and shook each other out of their skins. The skins fell at the boy's feet. The foxes that survived made a staircase out of the hardened skins. Howtu snapped his fingers again and told Vita to start climbing the field. wall. Ten minutes later Vitya was in the kitchen. It was the kitchen where the dishes for the restaurant were prepared. The restaurant had a loud name "Emperor Huangdi".