In the long-abandoned old theater, the ticket window was brightly lit with no one in attendance, and the old ticket machine creaked as it spat out red paper tickets for entry—a scene undoubtedly eerie, yet Little Red Riding Hood seemed as though she had seen it countless times before, only waiting calmly by the side.
A few seconds later, the creaking of the old ticket machine stopped, and three connected tickets fell inside the window.
Little Red Riding Hood paused, not reaching for the tickets but knocking on the glass of the ticket window again: "Wait, we need four tickets! Four people entering!"
However, there was no movement inside the ticket window, and after another few seconds, just as Little Red Riding Hood was about to knock on the glass again, the light inside the compartment flickered a few times and then returned to darkness.
Only three red paper tickets lay quietly in the dusty window.
