Yang Cheng walked at the back, and there was a glint in his eyes. He lowered his head slightly to control his expression to ensure that no one would notice his abnormality.
"If you want to play, then I'll play with you until the end. This time, I'm going to win this round."
Since he had not done it before, he wanted to succeed. Yang Cheng enjoyed this process. He liked this kind of excitement; this was something that no other form of entertainment could give him.
"There's a ghost among the twelve visitors. Capture him, and we'll be able to solve this." Yang Cheng walked between his friends, Lao Zhou, and Duan Yue. After ensuring his own safety, he sneakily observed the two editors and Xiao Li.
"The boss of a Haunted House never plays by the rules. Fan Chong and Fan Dade, who have already been killed, are probably ghosts. They disappeared early, but who knows, they might reappear somewhere and disguise themselves as the victims."
Yang Cheng was very careful, and he kept perfecting the speculation in his heart.
The lights on the wall gave off a dim yellow light. The iron door was half-open, and there were water stains on the ground. Inside the room was a row of rusted morgues.
"Morgue No. 1?"
The name was written on the side of the door. Hu Ya glanced inside, and all the morgues were locked.
"Tails?" She yelled into the room, but there was no answer. "Tails wouldn't be hiding inside the morgues, right?"
The two editors walked around and found nothing. Then, the group continued to move forward.
The morgues at Western Jiujiang Medical University were not arranged according to location but according to size and purpose. The visitors walked down the corridor for three minutes, and a half-open iron door appeared before them.
"Morgue No. 5? The interior of all the morgues are similar. What is the boss' purpose for building so many morgues? He's not planning to hide the dead bodies, is he? " Wang Yan touched the cold iron cabinets. "This is similar to what I've seen in the textbooks. These morgues should be real. They're probably abandoned items from the frontline and have been collected by the boss."
When he said that, his face did not look so good, and his voice sounded off.
"Something that was eliminated from the A-list?" Xiao Li mulled over Wang Yan's words, and his face slowly darkened. "Doesn't that mean that these mortuary cabinets used to store corpses?"
"That's right." Yang Cheng nodded. He stared at Xiao Li, trying to glean something from Xiao Li's expression, but to his disappointment, Xiao Li's reaction was normal. "Based on my prediction, in another ten seconds, the lights will go out. I suggest we stay in this room and don't wander off. We will continue to explore after the third darkness."
There were all kinds of scary monsters lurking in the dark. Hu Ya and Ah Nan knew that Yang Cheng was doing this for everyone's sake, so they agreed.
Time ticked by. It had been four minutes since the last time the lights went out, but the lights were still on.
The group huddled together and turned to look at Yang Cheng.
"The lights haven't gone out, which means that the lights don't go out regularly. This means that the Haunted House's boss is keeping an eye on us, and once he finds a loophole, he'll make his move." Yang Cheng wanted to say something else, but he was interrupted by the other visitors.
"Stop making pointless speculations." Hu Ya shook her head. She turned to walk out. "Follow me, we'll walk together. Don't be afraid of anything else."
The editor of a horror magazine showed her decisive side. She pulled open the steel door and walked out. Ah Nan jogged to follow behind her.
"This woman is quite interesting." Bai Qiulin looked at Hu Ya's back and coughed. "Let's go. She's right. Most of the time, we're just scaring ourselves. There's no need for us to be so nervous. Don't forget, this is just a Haunted House. It's just a place to scare people. Will there be real ghosts inside?"
"Brother Bai is right." Xiao Li followed behind Bai Qiulin.
"Let's go as well."
Lao Zhou and Duan Yue were about to leave when Yang Cheng, who was at the back of the group, suddenly said in a very low voice, "Lao Zhou, you and your wife better not follow the two editors."
"Why?" Lao Zhou turned around. He felt like this medical student was being a bit weird.
"I can't be sure now, but remember what I said." After saying that, Yang Cheng led Lee Xue and Wang Yan to walk ahead of Lao Zhou.
"We can't follow the two editors?" Lao Zhou was deep in thought. When Yang Cheng walked past him, shock and understanding crossed his face, and he sucked in a cold breath. "Could it be that there's something wrong with the two editors?"
Yang Cheng did not explain the details to Lao Zhou. The seed had been sown, and they only needed to wait for it to sprout.
The lights in the corridor were not extinguished. The group passed Morgue No. 6 and Morgue No. 7, and they did not run into any danger. It was like the calm before the storm.
Walking past Morgue No. 7, the corridor became colder, and the smell of formalin in the air thickened. The group reached the junction between the outer layer and the middle layer of the underground morgue.
In the middle of the corridor was a half-demolished wall, and there was a lot of trash around the gap. There were wooden tables and chairs, broken railings, and several mannequins with twisted joints.
"This scenario isn't over yet?" Wang Yan was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and the cold air crawled into his shirt through the sleeves.
The entrance to the next area was very narrow, and it was blocked by trash. It looked like a restricted area.
Hu Ya walked to the hole in the wall and shone her phone into it. She just wanted to see what was on the other side of the wall, but when the light shone into the hole, she suddenly saw a girl who looked like Tail holding the phone and crawling into one of the corridors.
"Tail? She's holding a phone? Who is she talking to? " Hu Ya's palm slammed on the wall, and she yelled at the hole, but there was only her voice echoing in the corridor.
"I think I see Tail! Ah Nan, come help, move these things away! " Hu Ya grabbed the broken tables and chairs. Probably out of consideration for the visitors' safety, the edges of the tables and chairs were smooth, and they did not have sharp edges. It looked like they were often moved.
"Let's go help." Lao Zhou was kind. He, Bai Qiulin, and Xiao Li all walked over to help clear the path for the two editors.
The three medical students stood to the side, and Yang Cheng looked at Hu Ya and Ah Nan quietly with high alert.
He did not believe what Hu Ya said, and he felt like this was a trap that had been set up beforehand. "I just got there, and I saw my missing partner. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"
The more Yang Cheng looked at the three editors, the more suspicious he felt. The three of them had entered the Haunted House later, so they probably did not sign the disclaimer. Furthermore, the three of them were editors for a thriller magazine, so they had a strong psychological endurance. This identity made it easier for them to pretend to be afraid.
"When I suggested following the human head, it was the male editor who insisted on going into the warehouse to investigate, and that led to the series of events that happened later.
"At the time, Bai Qiulin had already warned them that there might be danger at the junction, but they still insisted on going to investigate. That in itself is very strange.
"When the chef and his brother were attacked at the corridor outside, the three editors were at the deepest part of the warehouse. It was like they knew that the visitors outside would be attacked and that something bad was going to happen, so they tried to distance themselves from it.
"Most importantly, there was clearly nothing in the warehouse, so how did Tails, one of the three editors, disappear?"
"There is a hidden corridor behind the printer, but in this kind of situation, a normal person would not enter the hidden corridor alone. They would have screamed for help to attract their teammates.
"The woman called Tails probably purposely escaped from the corridor behind the printer. She created the illusion that she was missing so that her teammates would have the excuse to lead the way!
"What a flawless plan. Their teammates disappeared, and the remaining two editors were too emotional, so they did something rash. The other visitors couldn't blame them for that."
Yang Chen's eyes gradually lit up. "So, this is all part of their plan. No wonder I couldn't get through to Tails' phone. It's not like they said they lost the phone, but Tails didn't want to answer it from the beginning."
There were too many suspicious points, and the actions of the three editors were too abnormal. From Yang Chen's perspective, there was only one logical explanation for their actions, and that was that the three editors were actually 'ghosts' sent by the haunted house's boss!
"I should've noticed them sooner." Cold sweat could be seen slipping down Yang Chen's forehead. "I have not even heard of this magazine before. It is probably a random name. When we first entered the Haunted House, the male editor volunteered to cooperate with me, but not long after we entered the Haunted House, he made a different choice from me. Slowly, he replaced the three of us, and without us realizing it, he became the leader."
With a lingering fear in her heart, Yang Cheng wiped away the sweat on her forehead. "Thankfully, I was careful. This time, I won't be stupid enough to follow them to their deaths."
Her eyes scanned the three editors, and Yang Cheng gripped her hands together. "I need to figure out a way to expose them. This scenario is very big, like a maze. To enter the central hub in thirty minutes and avoid the attacks of the ghosts while finding the pictures is impossible. The Haunted House boss wouldn't design a scenario that is impossible to clear; that would've lost the purpose of the game. If that's the case, then the key to clearing this underground morgue is related to the five pictures … "
Yang Cheng thought back to everything the boss had said. "The five pictures of the victims can help us clear the scenario, but what kind of help can the pictures provide? Will holding the pictures prevent us from being attacked by the ghosts? The boss shouldn't have designed such a boring game. Excluding the talisman, what is the use of these five pictures? "
"Before entering the Haunted House, the boss emphasized the word 'victims', which means that the people in the five pictures should be dead people." Yang Cheng's brain turned quickly, and he held his chin with one hand. "Five pictures of dead people …"
His eyes suddenly widened, and Yang Cheng's body shook violently, and a thought flashed through his mind!
"I know it now! The five people in the five pictures are probably my five teammates! They represent five dead people! They also represent five ghosts that have mixed into the team! "
His mind turned, and Yang Cheng felt like he finally understood the real gameplay of the underground morgue. "The real requirement to clear the underground morgue is not to leave with the pictures but to find the five ghosts in the team! Those five photos are the most important hint! "
His heart was pounding, and Yang Cheng was excited. He had guessed the boss's plan and seen through the hidden rules of the game.
"Ol 'Yang, are you alright?" Wang Yan saw Yang Cheng suddenly wave his fist in the air, and he was worried about the man's mental state. He suspected that he had been traumatized.
"Don't worry, this time, I will definitely help you clear the scenario!" A smile appeared on Yang Cheng's lips, and his gaze was like a sharp knife that stared at the two editors.
"Five pictures of the victims. So, the boss has given us a hint from the start. There are actually five 'ghosts' hidden among the team."
"The last six visitors are new visitors, which means that of the six visitors, five of them are employees of the Haunted House. The boss sure is going all out!"
Of the twelve visitors, five of them are ghosts! Who would have guessed that?
Yang Chen scanned through the remaining 6 visitors who did not sign the agreement in his mind. "The 3 editors are the most likely, I've never heard of that Most Scary Magazine before, followed by the chef and his brother who suddenly got sick, and the last one is Xiao Lee."
After giving it some serious thought, Yang Cheng felt like he had understood everything. "Xiao Li came in alone, and he is not familiar with the rest. If we exclude him, then there can only be one truth.
"The three editors, Fan Dade, and Fan Cong are all actors. Fan Dade suddenly acted up, and together with Fan Cong, they added to the scary atmosphere, causing the real visitors to fall into panic and self-doubt. Then, the three editors worked together to control the pace and dragged the rest of the visitors into the abyss to experience the scare points that they had prepared beforehand. This is too scary, this Haunted House is too crazy!"
The five people corresponded to the five pictures, which represented the five ghosts! Yang Cheng had confirmed the five ghosts' identities. He reached into his pocket to write a message to secretly send to Lee Xue and Wang Yan.
"What are the three of you doing? Come and help, don't stay here for too long. The junction is the most dangerous place. "Bai Qiulin saw the three students freeze and yelled at them.
"Let's go and help." Lee Xue felt uncomfortable. She and Wang Yan walked over to move the tables and chairs, slowly clearing a path.
At that moment, Wang Yan, Lee Xue, Xiao Li, Bai Qiulin, and the two editors were on the outside of the corridor. Lao Zhou and his wife were on the other side, and Yang Cheng stood alone in the corner. He had been looking for a chance to expose the two editors in public.
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