Over at the Haunted House, some of the visitors had already figured out the strategy to clear the three-star scenario. Chen Ge needed a new scenario to maintain the popularity of the Haunted House and give them a sense of anticipation.
The 3.5-star Li Wan City was the best choice for him. As the bridge between a three-star scenario and a four-star scenario, this special scenario could give the visitors some time to adapt. It would prevent visitors who had just cleared a three-star scenario from rushing to challenge a four-star scenario.
"Are you alright? Do you need help? " Scissors' voice came from the door, and when he spoke, the tattooed man's voice could be heard.
"Shush! Don't shout in a place like this. You might attract the attention of something! "
Hearing the voices from outside the bedroom, Chen Ge replied, "Temporarily, there is no danger in the room. You can come in now."
Picking up the high heels, Chen Ge walked out of the bedroom.
With one hand holding the hammer and the other holding the high heels, and a white cat perched on his shoulder, Chen Ge looked quite unique. It was hard to treat him as a normal person.
"Did you find anything?" The tattooed man leaned over. He had followed Chen Ge because Chen Ge was very strong, and the chance of escaping with Chen Ge was the highest. His motive was very simple.
"The door has been hidden, so there should be a hidden room in this room." Chen Ge walked to the closet and pushed it open.
A blood fog that was almost solid rushed out from it like a wave. In fact, it pushed Chen Ge back half a step.
"The source of the fog is here. Be careful."
The blood fog was sticky, and it was uncomfortable to walk in it. Their clothes stuck to their bodies, and the blood vessels seemed to crawl into their nostrils and ears.
"Are you sure you want to go down there?" The drunkard's Adam's apple was shaking. "How come it feels like we're seeking our own death?"
He shook his head and took a step back with the doctor behind his back.
"No one knows what's inside. In a bit, we'll choose half of us to stand guard outside, and the other half will follow me down. That is the safest solution." Seeing that everyone had gathered, Chen Ge shared his idea.
"The people who stay outside cannot be too weak. At the very least, they need to be able to give an early warning when they are attacked. I suggest Scissors and the police stay behind." Chen Ge had his own considerations. Of everyone, the one he trusted the most was Scissors. One is a crazed murderer, and the other is a police officer with a gun. With the two of them standing guard outside, there shouldn't be too much of a problem.
"Can I stand guard outside as well?" The drunkard raised his hand. "I'm carrying the doctor, so I can't run fast. If I follow you down there, both of us might die."
"One corpse and two lives can be used like this?" The tattooed man curled his lips. He didn't want to go down there either, but he couldn't find a suitable reason to do so.
"Alright, you two stay as well. The rest of you, follow me." After saying that, Chen Ge looked at the smiling man. Actually, this man was the strongest. However, leaving the path of retreat to a stranger was something Chen Ge did not feel at ease.
To Chen Ge's surprise, the smiling man did not say anything. He walked to the door and acted strangely obedient.
"What happened to this guy? How come he's acting so different from when he was in the car? " Chen Ge used his Yin Yang Vision to take a closer look. He realized that the expression on the smiling man's face was very stiff, and there were red beads of sweat slipping down his temples. He seemed to have run into some kind of supernatural creature in Li Wan City, so he was in a hurry to leave.
Chen Ge did not ask for more details. He had a mutual benefit relationship with the smiling man. They were working together because they shared the same goal. If there was a disagreement, they would sell each other out without hesitation.
"This is the criminal that I'm guarding. I have to watch over him at all times, so I'm sorry, but he can't go down with you." Lee Zheng pressed on Jia Ming's shoulder, and his tone was firm.
"Dangerous criminals are everywhere here, but righteous police officers are rare goods here." The high-schooler chuckled, and his expression was very uncomfortable.
"No problem." Chen Ge wanted to separate Jia Ming from Lee Zheng and then use his own method to determine whether Jia Ming was the shadow or not, but seeing how determined Lee Zheng was, he did not force the issue.
This was a normal reaction from Lee Zheng. If he handed Jia Ming over without hesitation, then there was a problem.
"Guard the exit. We'll be out soon." The hidden path behind the cupboard was very narrow. Only one person could pass through at a time. Chen Ge walked at the front. He summoned Xu Yin, held the pair of high heels, and slowly moved forward.
After walking for several meters, Chen Ge felt like he was no longer in the middle of a blood fog but a pool of blood. Every step was very difficult.
"What kind of trap will the shadow set up? Will he collapse this building and bury us alive? Or will he detonate the door that has gone out of control and kill me as well? "
Many thoughts appeared in his mind, but before he could come up with an answer, the door that had been pushed open by Xiao Bu in Li Wan City appeared before his eyes.
In real life, the iron door that Jiang Long had used to imprison Xiao Bu's mother had changed shape. The blood vessels crawled on the door like they were alive.
Compared to the door that had not gone out of control, there were several strange things about this door.
First, the blood vessels that crawled on the door were covered in cracks like they could shatter at any moment. Secondly, the four corners of the door had obvious cracks, and a large part of the door was missing from the center.
If this door was compared to a human, it would feel like it was missing limbs and a head.
"Look at the bottom of the door."
Chen Ge realized that the biggest difference between this' door 'and other' doors' was that there were many black and red fingers reaching out from the bottom of the door. They gripped the bottom of the door tightly, preventing it from closing.
"I've seen many doors, but this is the first time I've come across something like this." The surface of the fingers was uneven like they were covered in sores, and it looked scary.
"Those fingers should be the souls of the patients. When the epidemic broke out in Li Wan City, who knows how many people were buried here? The whole town is filled with resentment." The tattooed man wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead and moved away from the fingers. "The shadow probably chose to open the door in Li Wan City to make use of these negative emotions."
Endless blood fog leaked out from the gap, and it was mixed with many negative emotions. Even someone with a strong mind like Chen Ge would experience auditory and visual hallucinations when he got close to the door, much less other people.
"We've found the door, but this is not the exit." Chen Ge looked through the gap of the iron door. The other side of the door was still a sea of blood. "How about I try to smash those fingers off the door?"
"Ignore those fingers. They are spreading negative emotions like pain and despair. They won't affect us." For the first time, the smiling man spoke in a normal tone. "The key problem is that this is an incomplete door. To leave through this door, we have to find all the missing parts on the door."
"Li Wan City is so big. It's too difficult to find all the missing parts." The tattooed man was in despair. "No wonder there are no guards here. There is no need for guards. The shadow has predicted this."
"Don't give up so quickly." Chen Ge looked at the heavily damaged door and suddenly told the tattooed man, "You said most of the outsiders enter this place through the ghost apartment?"
"Yes, but the ghost apartment is just a cover." The tattooed man realized how powerless he was before the shadow. His years of investigation had come to nothing.
"No, the shadow wouldn't do something so pointless. There has to be a reason for the construction of the ghost apartment." Chen Ge walked to the door. "The ghost apartment is inside Ming Yang Residence, and I once followed the police to Ming Yang Residence. We found a girl's limbs and head there. The four buildings at Ming Yang Residence hid her limbs, and her head was buried in the middle of the residential area. "
"What are you trying to say?" The tattooed man did not quite understand what Chen Ge was getting at.
"The girl who was killed was the one who pushed open this door. Her body was separated and hidden at Ming Yang Residence, where the ghost apartment is located, and the key point is …" Chen Ge pointed at the blood door that had gone out of control. "Doesn't this door look like a person who is missing four limbs and a head?"
The smiling man was the first to understand. "To the door-pusher, the door is their sustenance, their body! I get it now. You're saying that the missing parts of the door were hidden by the shadow inside Ming Yang Residence! The body parts correspond to the missing parts of the door!
"The door in Li Wan City was not pushed open by the shadow, but it was taken over by the shadow. To achieve his goal, he made the door go out of control. Where is the original owner of the door now? Did she choose to submit, or was she controlled by the shadow somehow? " It was not hard to imagine what Chen Ge was saying, but many people would not think about it in such an extreme environment.
"Looks like finding this door is just the beginning. I've underestimated things." The tattooed man grimaced. "Are we going to the ghost apartment now? It's not that no one has left Li Wan City over the past few years, but none of them have returned. "
"To leave, we'll need to find the missing parts of the door." Chen Ge waved at them, signaling for them to leave. "The tunnel is too narrow. If the shadow has done something here, we won't even have a place to run if something happens. After I find all the missing pieces of the door, I'll dig this tunnel open."
"The door that has gone out of control is the source of all the blood fog in Li Wan City. The shadow wouldn't set up a trap here unless he doesn't plan to give up on this place." The tattooed man knew the shadow quite well. He moved his feet cautiously, but before he could finish his sentence, a scream came from outside the secret passage.
"It's Jia Ming!"
Hearing that, the group moved faster. When Chen Ge rushed out from the corridor, he saw many blood red hands grabbing Scissors and dragging him up the stairs.
The blood fog filled the air. When Chen Ge wanted to give chase, Scissors had already disappeared down the corridor.
The surroundings were quiet, as if nothing had happened.
Lee Zheng, Jia Ming, Scissors, and the drunkard — everyone had disappeared. It had only taken several minutes for them to come and go.
"You sure are a jinx."
Chen Ge glanced at the tattooed man. The man did not expect something like this to happen. "What should we do now? Go to the ghost apartment? Or find the rest of them first? "
"Saving them is more important." Innocent people could bring extra rewards to Chen Ge, and he could confirm that almost all the innocent people had been captured. The people around him were all murderers and monsters.
Chen Ge carried the hammer and walked toward the spot where Scissors had disappeared. The high-schooler and the tattooed man followed behind him while the smiling face stood on the first floor.
"Are you guys in such a hurry to die?" The cold voice came out from the smiling mouth. The smiling man looked at Chen Ge. "The door that has gone out of control is the source of the blood fog. Setting up the trap here might affect the door, and that is not in line with the shadow's interests. Therefore, there is a high chance that he is using the door that has gone out of control to numb us and then lure us into the real trap."
"My thoughts are different from yours. The shadow is good at psychological warfare. He has given us many hints to sow discord among us to achieve his goal. To play this kind of psychological warfare, the more people there are, the better it is for him. There is no need for him to make a move on the few people outside. I feel like he is starting to panic. The situation might have gone out of his control, so he decided to intervene. " The few people had already disappeared down the corridor. Chen Ge was not in a hurry, dragging the hammer behind him. He searched the rooms one by one. After all, he still had space in his backpack and comic. If he saw anything useful, he would take it with him.
"But we haven't done anything, have we? Is it because you've guessed the location of the door, and that's why he is panicking? " In the tattooed man's heart, the shadow was the god of Li Wan City. A god would not make mistakes and would not panic.
"That should be part of the reason. If I'm not mistaken, it is probably because there are other outsiders in Li Wan City, and the shadow has to divert some of his attention to deal with them." Chen Ge had a feeling that the shadow did not use his full power to deal with him. The man seemed to be afraid of something. When he dealt with the glutton monster at the hotel, Chen Ge had this feeling. Now that he realized that there was no trap at the residential area that Fan Cong was at, this feeling grew stronger.
"No matter what, this is a good thing for us." Chen Ge concluded. "I'm not afraid of the shadow making a move. Once he moves, he will reveal more things. My biggest worry is that he will continue to hide. The deeper he hides, the more worried I will be."
Chen Ge did not feel uncomfortable hanging out with a few real murderers. If anything, he felt like he had become the backbone of the group, and this was something that he probably did not realize himself.
Walking up the stairs, Chen Ge saw many grayish-black human-shaped stains on the walls on both sides. Their bodies were twisted like they were in pain.
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