Wang Yan looked at the hidden path behind the cupboard, and his heart fluttered. The few doctors gave him a weird feeling. Initially, they were kind and friendly, but after they heard that he was skipping class, their tone and attitude changed. "Did I say something wrong? Skipping class is not that big of a deal, right? A university without skipping class is incomplete. Many seniors have said that before. "
Stopping at the entrance of the hidden path, Wang Yan took one step into it. The temperature inside the path was much higher than outside. He hesitated for a long time before retreating.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Li followed closely behind him. He could not wait to leave.
"It's nothing. I just feel like the few doctors earlier are a bit like our teaching director." Wang Yan's emotions were complicated. "This is so strange. I've thought about all kinds of scary things, but I've never thought I would run into a teacher while skipping class. Could it be that there are too many visitors to Mr. Chen's Haunted House, and the teachers are worried that it will affect our studies, so they purposely came to catch us?"
"Fine, fine, this is your first time skipping class, right? It's normal to be nervous. You'll get used to it after a few more times. " Xiao Li urged Wang Yan to leave. "We fainted at the same time. You were placed on the bed with two layers of mattresses, and I was tossed directly onto the wooden board. From their attitude toward us, it's clear that the few doctors should be familiar with you. They wouldn't lie to you."
"I also feel like they are familiar, but I have no memory of them at all."
The hole in the middle of the pool kept bubbling, and the lights on the wall flickered. The steel doors in the corridor creaked like someone was pushing them back and forth.
Under such circumstances, Wang Yan did not dare waste too much time. He was afraid that the monsters would come after him again if the lights went out.
"Come on, if you're afraid, I'll walk in front, and you just need to show me the way." Xiao Li had been working for many years. He was the bravest worker at the futuristic theme park, and he stepped forward bravely.
Wang Yan did not reject Xiao Li's kindness. He moved aside and watched as Xiao Li entered the hidden path. "Be careful."
"I know." Xiao Li took out his phone and turned on the flashlight that came with the phone. "Let's hurry up and leave. I don't want to see those doctors the next time I open my eyes."
The two of them entered the secret passage one after the other. The passage became narrower the further they went, and the walls were covered with blood-red moss-like things.
"Why isn't it over yet?" The more Wang Yan walked forward, the more anxious he became. The secret passage only allowed one person to pass through sideways, and his clothes inevitably rubbed against the 'moss' on the side.
His clothes were wet and his skin was a little itchy. He followed behind Xiao Li, feeling very uneasy.
"This should be the way to the outside." Contrary to Wang Yan, Xiao Li was very confident. "Have you noticed that the smell of formalin in the air is almost gone? There is a very fresh scent in this corridor.
His nose twitched, and Wang Yan did smell the scent, but he was not as optimistic as Xiao Li. "Is it coming from the moss on the wall?"
He reached out to touch the wall. The cold wall was covered in moss, and it was soft to the touch.
"Finally, I don't have to smell that weird smell anymore. This path should lead directly to the outside world. The existence of the secret passage is probably to make it easier for the visitors to exit. After all, a normal person would not be able to handle this Haunted House, and the existence of the secret passage is equivalent to a surprise, like now." Xiao Li bent down, and the corridor became much shorter. The ground became softer like it was covered with a thick layer of carpet.
"I still think formalin smells more familiar." The scent that lingered at the tip of his nose made Wang Yan want to vomit. "This is not a normal scent, and it doesn't feel like a man-made chemical scent either. It smells very strange."
Wang Yan tried his best to think, and he finally remembered. "When I was reading the History of Vindication, it introduced a type of cadaveric incense, and the description of cadaveric incense is very similar to this scent."
"Cadaveric incense?" Xiao Li shivered. This was the first time he had heard of something like that.
"There are many types of cadaveric incense, and the most famous one is to use the body of a beauty to make wax. After a special process, it is lit inside the house …"
"Stop! Stop it! " Xiao Lee hastened his footsteps, and he started to keep his distance from Wang Dan. Normal people would still avoid talking about corpses, and they would not be like medical students who talked about things that went too far.
Xiao Li from the futuristic theme park walked forward with his back bent, and Wang Yan had no choice but to follow behind him.
The two of them walked for about ten meters when Xiao Li, who was in front, suddenly stopped.
"What do you see?" Wang Yan used his phone to shine the light in front of him.
Xiao Li stood where he was, and after a long time, he said, "It's a dead end."
The two were bent over, and they were almost lying on the ground. The corridor was very narrow, and it was difficult to even turn around.
Everywhere was covered in red 'moss'. Their clothes were wet, and the air was filled with that strange scent.
"Then … should we go back the way we came?"
"Wait a minute." Xiao Li was indeed brave. He raised his hand to press on the red moss before him.
His fingers tightened, and his palm slowly sank in.
"The back of this place is empty." Xiao Li cursed silently. There was a test like this at the exit. "Thankfully, I gave it a try. If I had retreated earlier, my intestines would have turned green with regret."
He was very proud of himself. He turned around to tell Xiao Li the good news. His body was stuck to the wall, and Xiao Li turned his neck with great effort. "The moss is purposely used to hide us. The exit is just ahead, and we will be able to …"
At this point, Xiao Li's eyes swept behind him. He saw Xiao Li, and at the same time, he saw the people crawling behind Xiao Li!
Without making a sound, as they crawled, their faces fell, and they were all following behind them!
"What are you looking at?" Wang Yan used the phone to shine the light on Xiao Li's face. Before he could get a clear look, when the light from the phone swept past, a pale arm dangled down from the moss above his head.
The dangling arm landed before Wang Yan's face. He looked up blankly, and the arms fell from above his head.
The narrow corridor was covered by the soft red moss, and under the moss were the 'corpses' that had been prepared the night before.
…
At the edge of the middle area, Yang Cheng, Lee Xue, Lao Zhou, and Duan Yue stood together. The four of them looked at the two editors who were two meters away from them.
"Three of them have disappeared, so how come the two of you are still alive?" Yang Cheng's voice was suppressed. He had seen through the boss's trick and knew the real identity of the two editors.
"What does their disappearance have to do with us?" Ah Nan felt like Yang Cheng had lost his mind. "When the lights went off and the footsteps started, I even warned them not to wander around, but they refused to listen. Now that they've disappeared, you're here to blame us?"
"You're still trying to deny it?" He could vaguely hear Wang Yan and Xiao Li's screams from the depths of the passage. He could even vaguely hear them saying that they would never skip class again. Their hoarse screams and heart-wrenching pain definitely couldn't be faked.
It was because he heard Wang Yan's screams that Yang Cheng started to panic. He did not plan to hide anymore and decided to expose everything.
"We're trying to deny it?" Hu Ya frowned. "Have you misunderstood something?"
"Stop acting. I've seen through your trick. Now that I think about it, you guys sure are professional." Yang Cheng took a step forward to shield Lee Xue and Lao Zhou behind him. "You guys should be the Haunted House's actors, right? This was arranged by Mr. Chen, right? "
Hu Ya and Ah Nan's lips twitched. In the end, it was Ah Nan who could not hold it in anymore. He looked at Yang Cheng and whispered, "What's wrong with you?"
"Are you angry? You didn't expect that, right? I only used nineteen minutes to find you. " Yang Chen stood next to Ol 'Zhou and the rest, and his voice turned cold. "The three of you editors and the chef and his brother who disappeared earlier are all actors at the Haunted House. The five pictures of the five victims should be the five of you! You are the ghosts that have mixed into the group of visitors; you are the dead victims! "
The place was quiet. Not only Hu Ya and Ah Nan, even Lao Zhou and Duan Yue sucked in a cold breath.
How were they supposed to answer that? This was a situation that they had not considered!
"You suspect that there are Haunted House actors among the visitors? Someone is playing us? " The two editors seemed to have realized the problem as well. The two of them had read a lot of horror and suspense novels, so their logical thinking was stronger than the average person. Because they had never encountered such a situation before, they didn't think about it at all. But with Yang Chen's reminder, the two of them instantly understood something.
"The ghost is among us!"
Cold sweat slid down, and Ah Nan stood next to Hu Ya. "Listen to me, there really seems to be a ghost among us, but this' ghost 'is not the three of us but someone else."
"Yes." Hu Ya thought about it. "The ghost should be that Bai Qiulin. When he came in, I thought it was weird. Why did the man keep his hands inside his pockets? At the time, I thought it was his habit, but now that I think about it, there is a big problem with the man! Earlier, when the accident happened, Bai Qiulin also disappeared, and the footsteps were messy, so it was probably him who was messing around! Earlier, when the accident happened to the chef and his brother, Bai Qiulin was standing at the storeroom door. He separated the door from the inside, and at the crucial moment, he bought time for the monster! "
"This man is very suspicious! He should be a ghost, and he must have a companion! " Ah Nan's mind was clearer. His way of thinking was different from Yang Cheng's. He did not carry any emotion when he looked at each visitor; he merely analyzed them rationally.
"If Bai Qiulin is a ghost, his companion wouldn't act like they are familiar with him, so Xiao Li's suspicion can be eliminated. Of the remaining people, other than those who have already been 'harmed', the rest are all here." Ah Nan's eyes wandered between Lao Zhou and Yang Cheng. Both sides were too deceptive, and he had a hard time figuring them out.
Duan Yue grabbed Lao Zhou's hand and asked softly, "What's going on?"
"I'm not sure, but there seems to be an actor from the Haunted House among the two groups." Lao Zhou lowered his head to answer Duan Yue. They were very close to Yang Cheng, and their conversation was overheard by Yang Cheng.
"Trust me, these two are the real actors at the Haunted House. I have the decisive evidence." Yang Chen silently told Ol 'Zhou about the disclaimer. When the two heard it, they were quite shocked.
Ah Nan and Hu Ya originally thought that Yang Cheng was not that suspicious, but when they saw how confident Yang Cheng was and Lao Zhou's reaction when he heard what Yang Cheng said, their confidence was shaken again.
They could not hear what Yang Cheng said, but they felt that something was wrong.
"There's a ghost among the group. It's too dangerous to stay with them. We should go and find Tail ourselves." Hu Ya walked in a certain direction. "When I reached the junction, I saw Tail heading this way."
The two editors did not linger and left immediately.
"They know they can't keep up the act." Lee Xue chimed in for Yang Cheng. No matter what happened, she had absolute trust in Yang Cheng.
"It's not a bad idea to split up. We should use this chance to look for the pictures before they do anything." Yang Cheng chose the opposite direction from the two editors and led Lao Zhou and Duan Yue deeper into the corridor.
…
Four screams came from somewhere in the scenario. The first two were from Lao Zhou and Duan Yue. They sounded like they had run into something scary. The last two were from Yang Cheng and Lee Xue. Other than fear, there was also a deep sense of despair in their voices.
Four screams came at the same time. Hu Ya and Ah Nan had not gone far, so they heard them clearly.
"All four were killed?" Ah Nan was shocked. His earlier speculation seemed to be wrong.
Based on his earlier speculation, the remaining ghost should be between him and Hu Ya, but how was that possible?
"Now, it's just the two of us." Hu Ya's smile was forced. "A team of twelve is now down to two, and it only took twenty minutes. This boss sure knows how to read people."
"Perhaps there was no ghost among us from the beginning?" Ah Nan shook his head. His mind was a mess. He felt like he was trapped in a maze. Not only his body, even his mind was trapped.
"Ignore them. We need to find Tail first. I remember she's in this direction." Hu Ya and Ah Nan carefully moved forward. They reached the end of the corridor and saw a closed iron door. "This door isn't locked."
Probably due to his agitation, Ah Nan shook the door hard. "Someone purposely used something to block it."
"Could it be Tail's doing?"
"That's possible."
The iron door shook, and the lights on the wall flickered like they were going to go out again.
…
Tail hid in an unknown room at the end of the corridor. She hugged her phone and pressed the number madly. "Why isn't anyone answering? Quick, answer it! "
The iron door was shaken, and the rust peeled off. It created a loud noise.
Tail's heart raced, and her baby face was as white as paper. Her fingers gripped the phone tightly, and the veins on her neck bulged. She was really afraid.
"Those things are coming! It has to be them! "
The iron door shook even harder. She was so anxious that she was about to cry. Her body curled up inside the cupboard, and her pupils narrowed as she stared at the gap.
"What should I do? What should I do? "
Bang! The table and chairs behind the door were pushed over, and the iron door finally opened.
Her heart jumped to her throat, and Tail almost lost her breath. She bit on her lips, gripped her hands, and stared at the door.
"Tail?"
A familiar voice came from the door, and Tail was stunned. Happiness came too suddenly, and she couldn't believe it was real.
The lights in the corridor were going off, and she could only see the silhouette of the person at the door. She was sure that it was Hu Ya.
Her hand on the cupboard door, and tears fell from Tail's eyes. She was so excited. This feeling of flying from hell to heaven was indescribable.
However, just as she was about to push open the cupboard door, the phone screen lit up.
The call that had been blocked earlier was finally connected, and it was Hu Ya.
"Isn't she at the door?"
Tail's fingers answered the call subconsciously, and it was Hu Ya's anxious voice on the other end.
"Tail, we've already left the Haunted House. Stay where you are and don't move! The police will go in to find you. There's something wrong with this Haunted House! Remember to stay where you are and don't move! Do not move! "
"Leave? The police? " Tail listened to the familiar voice on the phone and looked at the familiar silhouette at the door, and she was stunned.
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