Chapter 0225 – The Recorder That Has Been Working All Along
”Boss, we’ve come this far, going back for him again?” Xiao Du was a little reluctant in his heart, Han Qiu Ming usually spoke harshly, Du Chao near to him already had some antipathy.
”If we don’t go looking for him, with this guy’s character it’s likely that something will really happen.” Guo Miao’s face was so gloomy that it was almost ready to drip, “Maybe he’s already in trouble now, no! Let’s go back right now!”
”I also agree with Boss.” Surprisingly, Song An didn’t care about personal vendettas at this time and was willing to go look for Han Qiuming, “Spreading out is the most taboo in haunted house tours, it’s best for everyone to get together.”
Xiao Du hesitated and finally nodded: “Okay, I’ll go back with you to look for him.”
The most innocent of the several people would have to be Su Lulu, she didn’t know anything and wasn’t clear on what these Tanto Sickness Hospital staff were talking about, she was just running around after them with a tense look on her face.
”Let’s search more carefully, take a look at each ward.” Under Guo Miao’s leadership, the few people retraced their steps towards the depths of the haunted house, checking one ward after another.
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Han Qiuming and Night Beware entered the dean’s office, with two compartments inside and out, furnished with tables, chairs, and benches.
”The drawers are empty, and there are no books on the shelves, trying to judge the haunted house owner’s personality from reading preferences doesn’t even work. But it’s good, no books on the shelves can reduce the time we spend searching, many haunted houses like to hide things like passwords and clues in books.” Han Qiuming was talking to Night Beware, but it gave the impression that it was more like he was talking to himself alone.
Night Careful staggered away from Han Qiuming and walked straight into the inner room as she looked at the widened closet.
”Let me do it, this closet is obviously specially made, and there’s a ninety percent chance that there’s a haunted house actor or other scare hidden inside.” Han Qiuming stepped forward and opened the cabinet door.
The cabinet was empty, nothing.
He smiled awkwardly and said self-deprecatingly, “It looks like a ten percent chance has occurred, so it’s probably a haunted house actor who hasn’t had time to come back after scaring Lao Guo and the others.”
Night Careful completely lost interest in conversing with him and gently tapped on the inner wall of the closet, “A special closet in a special house, there must be a reason for it.”
When Night Careful’s fingers tapped on the partition between the closet and the wall, there was a change in sound and it was obvious that the back was empty.
The two of them worked together to open the partition, and a secret passageway appeared.
”Internal passageway for haunted house employees?”
”Shouldn’t be.”
There were no lights installed in the secret passage, so Night Beware took out her cell phone to illuminate it, and after she and Han Qiuming both entered the secret passage, the cabinet door of the dean’s office seemed to have been pushed by an invisible force and slowly closed.
The secret passage was so narrow that it was difficult to even turn around, but luckily it was only a few meters away.
At the end of the depressing and cramped secret passage was an iron door, Night carefully pulled the door open, in front of her was a wooden board, she pushed it open with force, the scene in front of her eyes changed, this was a ward she had never been in before.
”The dean’s office and the ward are interconnected? What does this arrangement mean?” The real-life scene of the third ward building allowed Night Beware to completely substitute into it.
”Is it possible that the dean is treating the patients in this ward, as his own personal belongings?” Han Qiuming thought of an explanation, “I’ve heard that a few years ago some private psychiatric hospitals were chaotic in their management, and a similar mess had existed.”
”It’s possible.” Night Careful and Han Qiuming entered the house and began to search the room.
The hospital bed, the night pot, and the wooden chair with its edges smoothed out, the ward was very simply furnished, and there didn’t seem to be anything special about it.
”Let’s go out and take a look.” Han Qiuming opened the door to this ward, and a strange odor rushed into his nostrils, like the smell of potion mixed with the smell of blood.
He took a small step backward and stretched his neck to survey the corridor outside.
The walls were cracked, and the color of blood contained within them seemed to flow, giving a very strange feeling, as if the building itself was alive and its veins were hidden within the walls.
”This corridor, it seems like we haven’t been here before.”
Almost the same scene was constructed, but it brought a completely different feeling, the third sick building used the horror of the scene cycle to the extreme, they didn’t know what they would encounter if they continued to go down, not to mention how many more corridors would be waiting for them behind them.
The bedding on the floor was badly torn, and those dummies made from pillows and sheets showed their heads with eerie expressions on their faces, and no matter which direction they stood, it seemed as if they were being watched in them.
Han Qiuming’s heart sprouted a hint of retreat, he and Night Careful came from the secret passage, it is not clear how far apart this corridor and the other corridors are, and it is not clear how many scary things are hidden in them.
He took out his cell phone and turned on his flashlight to shine towards the side of the passage, the end of the dark and gloomy corridor was not an exit, but a corner leading to the unknown.
”Get out of the way.” Night carefully stepped out from the sick room, her exposed legs felt a hint of coolness, the atmosphere of this corridor was completely different from the previous ones.
”Look for it, the recorder should be hidden in one of the rooms in this corridor.” Night carefully entered the nearby sickroom to check, while Han Qiu Ming was still standing in the same place.
His hand gripping the door of the room was covered in sweat, and he twisted his head to sweep the door of the room on his side.
The top half of the ward door was normal, labeled Ward Three, but the bottom half of the wooden door was a bit scary, completely painted red, sticky and vibrant, and what was even stranger was that the red color was slowly growing on the door as if it were alive.
”Ward number three? The numbering of the wards in this corridor isn’t quite the same as the numbering of the wards in the other corridors, huh?”
Han Qiuming and Night Careful searched three wards one after another, and when they came to the end of the corridor, they found a room without a number or any labeling.
”Let’s go, take a look inside.”
The room was small inside and completely closed, with soundproof cotton plastered on the walls, a restraint bed fixed against the wall, and some messy and broken equipment piled up on top of the bed.
”Kind of like an electroshock treatment room, I’ve seen it in a lot of movies related to mental hospitals.” Han Qiuming looked towards the bottom of the bed, then walked to the middle of the pile of used equipment, he roughly scanned through it and suddenly burst out laughing, “Found it!”
Han Qiuming pushed the electroshock equipment aside and raised a tape recorder from it.
”I thought how difficult this haunted house was.” He tried his best to act like it was nothing more than that, but the excited expression on his face betrayed him.
In comparison Night Beware was much calmer, she looked at the recorder and frowned for the first time since entering the haunted house, “Did you hear any sounds?”
”Voices?” Han Qiu Ming didn’t know what Night Careful was talking about, “No matter that much, hurry up and leave, there’s a time limit to pass the level, I want to pass the level perfectly today, so that surnamed Chen has nothing to say.”
”You really didn’t hear that?” Night carefully pointed at the tape recorder in Han Qiuming’s hand, “The tape inside is spinning and the indicator light is on, this tape recorder has been working.”