Yang Cheng then took a few steps forward. He felt a cold draft behind him. When he turned back to look, he realized the other visitors were standing where they were, including Wang Yan and Lee Xue.
"What are you guys standing there for? Let's go together! "Yang Cheng was not that brave. He was just more rational than the rest.
"Based on the boss' personality, the most dangerous place might be the safest place. Based on your common sense, you deduced that the white corridor is the dead body transport corridor, so you should have chosen another one. But I think the route that you chose is the real dangerous one. We cannot use normal logic to understand the boss' design. " Bai Qiulin spoke again. His voice was cold, and it made the listeners uncomfortable, but it was undeniable that he had a point.
"Then, which way do you suggest?" Wang Yan's tone was harsh. The three of them had contributed so much, and they were only given one picture. That annoyed him.
"It doesn't matter which route we take, the important thing is that we cannot split up." The magazine editor, Ah Nan, walked forward. "As long as the twelve of us stick together and don't panic, we have a chance of clearing this scenario."
He looked at the bouncing ball at the end of the corridor, and his expression turned unnatural. "The experience time is thirty minutes. We can enter both corridors, so there is no need to argue over these small things."
Ah Nan tried to mediate. Bai Qiulin looked at the three medical students and mumbled to himself, "This is strange, why would the three of them insist on leading us down that corridor?"
His voice was so soft that only Fan Dade, Fan Cong, and Xiao Li could hear him.
With the three medical students leading the way, the twelve visitors officially entered the corridor.
The lights on the wall flickered, and a faded smell of formalin floated in the air. The corridor narrowed, and the ground was covered with more stains. It was hard to tell what they were, but they felt sticky and uncomfortable when they stepped on them.
"Brother, how about we leave this place?" Fan Chong's heart was filled with bitterness that he couldn't speak of. He really didn't know what was wrong with his brother. Why did he insist on bringing him to this place to relax?
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." Fan Dade himself did not realize that when he spoke, he looked nervous, as if he was a thief who had broken into someone else's house.
Wet handprints began to appear on the walls, and the ceiling above their heads seemed to have become much lower. Fan Dade, who was the tallest, could easily reach the ceiling with just a stretch of his hand.
The group moved forward for about 10 meters before Ah Nan realized something was wrong. "Wait a minute, we've been moving forward for a long time already. How come it feels like the distance between us and the bouncing ball is not closing?"
After hearing what he said, the others also realized that it seemed to be true.
The spherical object that was bouncing up and down in the depths of the tunnel seemed to be constantly moving, maintaining a distance from them.
"It's not too late to turn back now." Bai Qiulin stood in the middle of the group, at a safe position. "All of you know that it is not a spherical object but a human head that is bouncing on its own. This has to be a scare point designed by the boss, waiting for us to take the bait."
Bai Qiulin seemed to have a lot of experience visiting Haunted Houses. He placed one of his hands in his pocket, and he did not target any particular person. "Think about it, when we are attracted by the bouncing human head and move deeper into the corridor, the human head suddenly picks up speed and jumps toward us. Will that catch us off guard? If there are other monsters helping us, the twelve of us will be separated from each other, and the group will be split apart. "
Ah Nan nodded and agreed with Bai Qiulin. He turned to yell at the visitors behind him, "Everyone, stay close and don't wander off. It's safest to stick together."
"It's pointless for you to say that. We all understand that, but when the real fear comes, it is not rationality that controls us but instinct. Our bodies will react before our minds." Bai Qiulin's tone was cold, but his words left no room for argument. "If I'm not mistaken, if we continue moving forward, there will be a fork in the road, and the corridors will become more complicated. The human heads and ghosts will appear then. The Haunted House wants to magnify the fear in everyone's heart, so it will try its best to separate us. When the fork appears, everyone will run in panic, and we might end up in different corridors. The road here is complicated, and once we enter one of them, it will be hard to come out again. "
"You're talking so much. It's just your own imagination." Wang Yan grumbled internally. He was kind enough to lead the other visitors, to share the experience of his seniors, and to lead the way, so why did someone keep going against him?
"Indeed, this is just my own assumption, but I hope everyone will be prepared. If there is a fork in the road ahead, please stay close to me." Bai Qiulin was obviously fighting for the right to speak with Yang Cheng's group.
Wang Yan still wanted to say something, but he was interrupted by Yang Cheng. "He's doing this for everyone's sake. There's no need to be so calculative."
Yang Cheng had a feeling of unease in his heart. He sniffed the familiar smell of formalin in the air, and his eyes scanned the visitors. He had a feeling that something was not right. "When I was here before, something similar happened …"
As they continued to move forward, iron doors with seals appeared on the walls on both sides of the corridor. They were rusted, and they looked old.
"Where did Mr. Chen find these things?"
The human head bounced up and down ahead of them, maintaining a distance from them. After walking for another minute, a junction appeared before them.
The corridor on the left was painted white, and there were many bloody words written on the wall. The corridor on the right was not painted, but when the human head turned into it, it was still bouncing on the ground. The corridor that was facing them was also not painted, but there was a room in that corridor that was open.
"This is a maze. We've only been here for one minute, and we've already run into two forks. If we continue to move forward, it'll be easy for us to get lost." Fan Dade had no sense of direction. He was the biggest, but he acted the most cowardly. He kept talking to Fan Cong and Lao Zhou, trying to distract himself.
"I still suggest following the human head. One, I can promise you that I once heard from the seniors that if we get lost in the underground morgue, we can use the unpainted corridor to get out. This was designed before the morgue was built. Two, don't make things too complicated. We're just here to visit the Haunted House, not to go on an adventure. This human head is more like a guide." Yang Cheng insisted on her opinion.
"I think we should go take a look at the door that's open. Perhaps we'll find some useful clues there." This time, Ah Nan did not help Yang Cheng.
"I don't care what choice you make. I just want to remind you not to stay at the junction for too long. It's very dangerous here." Bai Qiulin did not look at Yang Cheng and Ah Nan. His eyes were focused behind him like something was slowly approaching him down the dark corridor.
He didn't say anything particularly scary, but this small movement made the people around him turn their heads to look at the passage.
There really seemed to be something moving down the dark corridor, and there was more than one of them!
"We've walked so far without even realizing it." Fan Dade laughed drily and dragged his little brother to the front of the group. Earlier, it had been the two of them who had been bringing up the rear.
"Er … I have to interrupt." Tails, who stood next to Ah Nan, raised her hand. The girl had a beautiful voice, and it was impossible to guess her real age from her voice and appearance.
"Have you noticed something? The human head has been moving, but I've looked around, and I can't find any mechanism to control it on the wall. Furthermore, look at its movement. It's straight up and down; it doesn't look like it's being pulled by a string. "Tails was very observant.
"There should be some kind of internal mechanism, right? Perhaps the Haunted House's boss is laughing at us through the camera. " Xiao Li shrugged. He was an employee at the futuristic theme park, so he had some understanding of the entertainment equipment at the theme park. He knew that with current technology, many things that seemed impossible could be done.
"Look closer." Tails used the cutest expression to say something that made the other visitors the most uncomfortable. "The amplitude of the head bouncing up and down is actually different. It doesn't look like there's a program installed inside. It's more like there's an invisible person patting the head up and down, or the head is bouncing on its own."
Before the few visitors recovered from the ghost in the corridor behind them, their attention moved back to the head in the corridor on the right. After staring at it for a long time, it really did look like the head was moving on its own.
As it moved, it laughed, and the distance between it and the head was getting closer.
Fan Dade wiped the sweat off his forehead. He felt like it was not safe to stand in the middle of the group.
"Let's ignore the head for now and walk straight ahead to see what's behind the open door." Ah Nan turned to Yang Cheng. "Based on your speculation, the head is the Haunted House's guide. After we finish exploring the room, the head might still be waiting for us outside, so there's no need for us to leave in such a hurry."
"I also think it's better to enter the room first." Hu Ya rarely spoke, but once she did, it meant that the three editors had decided to enter the room.
Yang Cheng wanted to insist, but after hearing Hu Ya's voice, he did not say anything.
The beautiful editor's voice was mature and warm. It was a completely different style from Tails, but it was similar to Chen Ge's. This made Yang Cheng feel like she was a cunning big sister who could not be messed with easily.
"Then, it's decided."
The twelve visitors carefully walked across the junction and crowded outside the open door.
It was a wooden door. The bottom was hollowed out, and the door was covered in scratch marks.
Next to the door, someone had used a pen to write the word — Theme Park.
"A theme park inside a Haunted House?" Yang Cheng walked at the front. He reached out to touch the deep scratches on the door. Some of the scratches were still stained with blood and brown impurities. "These scratches wouldn't have been dug out by someone, right?"
After entering the underground morgue, everything gave him a sense of authenticity. Sometimes, he even forgot that he was visiting a Haunted House.
Pushing open the door, the room was filled with various trash. There were bottles and jars on the shelves, and there seemed to be various organ models soaked in the yellowish liquid.
"What kind of theme park is this?"
The space inside the room was small, and the twelve visitors could not all enter. When Ah Nan entered the room, he told the visitors behind him, "Stay outside and don't wander off. We'll move together when we come out."
The three medical students and the three editors entered the room. To complete the mission given by Mr. Mu, Xiao Li also followed. After they entered, Bai Qiulin very naturally stood guard at the door.
Fan Dade was more cowardly. He pulled his younger brother and squeezed together with Lao Zhou. "The two of us shouldn't go in. After they finish their search, we'll just follow them."
Then, he smiled shyly at Lao Zhou. "We don't come here often. When we move deeper into the morgue, let's walk together."
"No problem." Lao Zhou looked like a nice person. He was friendly, generous, and easygoing.
Inside the dark and eerie corridor, Fan Dade was surrounded by Lao Zhou, Duan Yue, and Bai Qiulin. He felt very safe. These people were much more reliable than the youngsters in the room.
Our luck is not bad this time. Perhaps we can really clear this scenario. Just as Fan Dade was laughing internally, his younger brother, Fan Cong, had a bad feeling.
The fat on his body jiggled slightly. Fan Cong looked back the way they came. The lights in the corridor had gone off.
The scariest thing was that the lights moved closer and closer, and every once in a while, one of them would go off.
The corridor darkened, and the thing hiding inside seemed to be getting closer.
"It seems like something is really coming."
…
Yang Cheng and Ah Nan entered the room to look for clues, but they searched for a long time. Other than the dust on their hands, they found nothing.
"The boss wouldn't waste so much energy to build a useless room. There has to be a big secret hidden inside." Ah Nan led the two female editors through the racks. "This place looks like an abandoned storeroom."
On the other side of the shelf were some tables, chairs, and badly damaged costumes. Ah Nan walked over to pick up one of the costumes. He was shocked to find that the costume was wet, like someone had just come out of the water and walked through the costume with their wet body.
Putting down the costume, Ah Nan placed his hand under his nose. He smelled something weird.
"This doesn't smell like water." When Ah Nan was thinking, Hu Ya walked to the innermost part of the storeroom. She opened the cupboard in the corner and looked through the strange paintings inside.
Tails followed at the back. The road was blocked. She leaned against the printer next to her. She seemed to have accidentally hit the switch, and a chubby face appeared in the printer.
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