There was another long corridor in front of him. However, it was more mottled, dilapidated, and more terrifying than the previous one. There were also more turns and twists.
Every turn was a shock for Qiao Liang.
The long corridor was very quiet. It seemed like no monsters would suddenly run out. However, this cramped environment still made Qiao Liang feel a great deal of mental pressure.
It was only then that Qiao Liang finally came back to his senses.
He had been tricked!
At first, the girl at the front desk looked like a zombie. It was very scary but not scary. She first used a more gentle method to increase Qiao Liang's psychological pressure and put him in a state of alert.
However, at the psychologist's place, a series of arrangements made Qiao Liang mistakenly think that the journey of the 'Ultimate Horror' had not officially begun. He thought that this was a routine physical and psychological test.
This caused Qiao Liang to let his guard down.
Of course, the ECG machine should be real. The psychological test was also real. The test results could indeed show the health of the tourists. If they were really not suitable for the next experience, they would probably be asked to leave on the spot.
However, once the test of the tourists was found to be fine, the horror game would begin the moment the psychologist announced it!
Now, Qiao Liang was 100% sure that there must be some hidden mechanism under the table that controlled all of this. However, he was too scared to have the courage to explore all of this.
Qiao Liang could only hold the golden lantern tightly and walk forward, full of caution.
He had to say that these initial arrangements were too much, especially when the doctor who looked kind a second ago suddenly started to scare people. It was a challenge to Qiao Liang's psychological defense.
However, when he was frightened, he ran away. The next distance seemed to be safe. This made Qiao Liang's mentality calm down quickly. He might still be in a panic, but he would not give up immediately because of excessive panic.
Of course, Qiao Liang wanted to give up now. However, this sense of horror was maintained at a just right level. It seemed like a little fuss to immediately shout for staff to give up the challenge. He felt that he could still persevere. However, if he continued, he would feel that the sense of horror would always linger around him and be devoured bit by bit.
He looked around and confirmed that there should be microphones, cameras, and hidden doors everywhere. At any time he shouted for help and wanted to give up, there should be staff to save him.
However, it was also because of this that he felt that he could still persevere.
"I heard that there's a safe house here. We have to at least last until the first save point, right?"
If he knew that he would have to suffer for another half an hour, Qiao Liang might have typed GG from the bottom of his heart. However, looking at the golden lantern in his hand and thinking about the safe house's settings, he won over himself and decided to continue moving forward.
…
After a while, in the safe house.
The "Ultimate Horror" project was a ring-shaped structure. The central area was the safe house. There were many doors that led to the various areas of the "Ultimate Horror" project.
Behind each door was a staff member who would record the current visitor's progress. Regardless of whether the visitor entered or left the safe house, there had to be corresponding records.
The number of times a visitor entered the safe house and the items they brought with them would affect the ticket refund limit.
To put it simply, if one wore the little devil headpiece and cleared the game without entering the safe house in one go, then the ticket would be fully refunded and a certificate would be issued.
This place could also be used as a save point. For people like Ruan Guangjian who had challenged the safe house twice, the second time they entered, they could use a special passage to reach the safe house and start over from a specific area.
Lin Wan, Ruan Guangjian, Chen Kangtuo, and the others had already arrived at the safe house in advance and were waiting for Teacher Qiao's arrival.
The decoration style of the safe house was much more normal than the decoration style of the horror scene, but it still had a sense of age. This was to prevent the visitors from being too comfortable in the safe house and affecting the subsequent tour.
In other words, they would relax after entering the safe house, but the layout of the safe house would constantly remind the visitors that they were still in the "Ultimate Horror" project. This was just a temporary rest and foothold, and it did not mean the end of the adventure.
Ruan Guangjian looked at his watch. More than ten minutes had passed.
Everyone's tour time for the "Ultimate Horror" project was different because some of the projects inside needed to be explored.
For people like Ruan Guangjian who were bold and walked fast, the overall time would be shorter. However, if they were careful and hesitant, the overall time would be lengthened.
At the same time, the staff would monitor them in real time and pay close attention.
On one hand, it was to ensure that there was no congestion because some projects could only be experienced by one person at a time. They could only let others in after that person was done. On the other hand, it was to ensure that if a visitor gave up, the staff could rescue them immediately.
"He wouldn't have given up halfway, would he?" Ruan Guangjian was a little worried.
Everyone came to the safe house to welcome the physically and mentally exhausted Teacher Qiao as soon as possible. They wanted to cheer him on so that he could pass as soon as possible.
However, if Teacher Qiao did not make it to the safe house … that would be awkward.
Chen Kangtuo thought about it. "I don't think so. I have repeatedly adjusted the experience of the 'Ultimate Horror'. I have also restricted the movement of the staff inside. The early stage is not that scary. Teacher Qiao has the golden lantern with him. There is no reason for him not to make it to the first save point.
"But this time, isn't it too long?"
Everyone was discussing when the door of the second save point in the safe house was pushed open.
Qiao Liang's face was pale as he held the golden lantern in his hand tightly. After seeing the scene in the safe house, he heaved a sigh of relief.
I'm saved!
Everyone was stunned. They did not expect Qiao Liang to not enter at the first save point but to make it to the second save point!
In fact, Qiao Liang did want to enter the safe house to rest at the first save point.
However, the first two projects were a little too weak. It made him inflated. He felt as if he could persevere and enter the safe house at the next save point.
Therefore, he chose to skip the first save point.
In the end, this decision made his intestines turn green. He wanted to beat himself up in the next two projects.
After escaping from the psychological test doctor's room, Qiao Liang first arrived at a place that looked like a laboratory.
There were very high shelves around him. On the shelves were all kinds of scary things soaked in dark yellow potions. Eyeballs, tongues, gums, other organs, and so on. Although he knew that these were all fake, he still felt very scared.
The shelves were arranged into a maze structure. After going around, one would find a workbench filled with all kinds of medicine bottles and reagents. It was as if a perverted scientist had been doing experiments here and had just left temporarily.
Qiao Liang did not dare to stay any longer. He left in a state of high alert. He did not dare to make a sound and had to constantly observe the situation around him, afraid that the perverted scientist would suddenly jump out from somewhere.
Fortunately, no monsters appeared until the end. He passed safely.
The second small project was two rows of shoe cabinets. He did not find anything unusual after carefully probing. However, when he walked about one-third of the room, a zombie that looked like a cleaner would suddenly appear behind him. It roared and followed him from behind.
Qiao Liang ran subconsciously, but the shoe cabinets around him began to open automatically without warning. The metal cabinet doors slapped each other and made 'ping pong pong pong' sounds. Many things even popped out of the cabinets.
These cabinets were obviously sensitive. When someone walked past, they would automatically open. The mechanisms inside would pop out scary things and automatically return to their original state after the tourists left.
The cleaner zombie behind him actually walked very slowly. It was purely to scare people. The shoe cabinets were really scary because they were all automatically sensitive. The more the tourists ran, the faster these things would react.
When the tourists ran past quickly, a large number of shoe cabinets would open at the same time. It would look even more terrifying.
The third small project was a classroom with a few students taking exams and an invigilator.
The invigilator asked Qiao Liang to sit in the back to answer the questions. However, in the process of looking at the questions, the student in front of him on the left raised his hand and said that his pen was broken. The invigilator handed him something that looked like a beast trap. It was a delicate mechanism with a pen inside.
The student began to try to disassemble it carefully. However, he failed halfway through. Both his hands were directly clamped. The bones were deep, and blood was flowing. He began to howl in pain. However, the more he struggled, the tighter the clamp became. In the end, his right wrist was broken, and his left hand lost four fingers. He fell to the ground and fainted.
While all of this was happening, the other students and teachers were still answering their questions as if nothing had happened, turning a blind eye to what was happening.
Qiao Liang knew that this was all fake and was a prop. However, the actor's acting was too realistic. His screams spread far and wide. Thus, he was still quite frightened.
After waiting for a while, Qiao Liang finally realized that he could leave. That was because the student had fallen to the ground and fainted. However, the premise was that he had to step over the 'corpse'.
The fourth small project was very spacious. It was much more spacious than all the small projects that he had been to before. It was an extra-large kitchen with a complicated structure. The surrounding visibility was very low. The sound of a kitchen knife chopping on a chopping board could be heard from the front. Moreover, the light was the brightest. He could see a door there.
However, when he got closer, he realized that the back of the figure was a bulky pig-headed man with a butcher knife in his hand. He kept chopping off limbs, and the buckets around him were filled with disgusting, bloody chunks of meat.
Qiao Liang did not dare to get close at all. He carried the lamp and walked two or three times in the dark around him. In the end, he confirmed that there seemed to be only one exit even though the place was big. The surrounding dark places were all scary scenes. It should be targeted at timid people like Qiao Liang.
After getting close to the pig-headed butcher, he would scoop a bowl of meat soup from the big pot that had been squatting beside him and hand it to Qiao Liang.
Fortunately, it was just an ordinary bowl of chicken soup.
After coming out of the butcher's room, Qiao Liang finally saw the second save point, which was the second entrance to the safe house. He immediately pushed the door open and entered without hesitation.
Qiao Liang finally heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the scene in the safe house. He finally relaxed his hand that was holding the golden lantern tightly.
He was alive!
He had to say that this process arrangement was really sinister.
There would be corridors between each project so that the tourists could get a short break and not be tense all the time. However, the further they went, the more terrifying the scenery and the more tortuous the route would be.
Furthermore, the horror of these small projects was also gradual.
The first project only placed some scary scenes to create the illusion that 'monsters could come at any time' so that the tourists would be terrified.
The second project arranged for a slowly approaching zombie to force the tourists to quickly pass through the shoe cabinet. The really scary things were hidden in the shoe cabinet.
The third project arranged for a real person to perform. They might only be watching, but the real horror rose to another level.
The fourth project was even more outrageous. They began to let the tourists drink in such an environment.
All the projects were not simply a monster that suddenly appeared to scare people. Instead, they created a subtle atmosphere of horror and slowly pushed up the psychological threshold of the tourists.
When they could not take it anymore, they could enter the safe house for a short rest and adjustment.
Qiao Liang realized that he seemed to have been tricked.
This haunted house, in terms of horror, wasn't too much.
However, the magic was that it could always control this sense of horror well at the critical point. While you were frightened, you could inexplicably persevere and receive more shocks!
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