Chapter 0468 – The First Fork in the Road
Wang Yan and Yang Chen glanced at each other, as students of the College of Forensic Medicine, the two of them were too familiar with this odor and would never smell it wrong.
”This is too real, right? Playing a haunted house, directly get on the real formalin, Chen boss completely do not consider the cost?” Wang Yan froze at the entrance of the passageway, not going in.
”Underground corpse vault, formalin, white painted passageway ……,” Yang Chen looked towards the inside of the passageway and also stopped in his footsteps, “Why do I have a feeling that I’ve returned to school.”
”Have you two ever been into your school’s underground corpse vault?” Ah Nan walked over, he frowned lightly after smelling the odor of formalin, “I’ve heard that when you medical students take lab classes, the teacher will personally take you to carry the corpses, this place of the corpse vault should be better known to you medical students, right?”
”Who told you that medical students should know about the corpse vault?” Wang Yan came back to his senses and took a few steps back, “I’ve never entered a corpse vault anyway, ask the two of them.”
Li Xue also shook her head, only Yang Chen reacted strangely, he walked into the passageway alone and sniffed the walls, “That very faint smell of formalin is seeping out from the walls, the smell has soaked into the walls, this is not something that can be done by just sprinkling some formalin on them, I now doubt that Boss Chen dismantled the abandoned corpse vault of any medical school and then secretly transported it back.”
”This flavor isn’t harmful to the body, right?” Xiao Li looked at the passageway, unable to take a dead step.
”Isn’t it okay for us medical students to smell it every day? Besides, this odor isn’t too strong.” Yang Chen touched the wall and gently snapped the white paint on it with his fingernails, “I’ve heard a senior say before that the walls of our school’s underground corpse vault are also painted white, and it’s rumored that any passageway that’s painted white is used to transport the big body teachers, and the ones that aren’t painted are prepared for students and staff.”
”There’s still that?”
”I used to think that just our school is like this, but today after coming to this haunted house of Boss Chen, I realized that it seems that all underground corpse vaults do this.” Yang Chen greeted Wang Yan and Li Xue, “The three of us will walk in front, after we go in, you must follow closely, no matter what you encounter, don’t separate! Only by getting together will we have a chance of getting through.”
”I agree with your proposal, but how will we distribute the photos when we find them? The haunted house owner also said that there are only five photos on the walls.” Bai Qiulin grimaced, feeling as if anyone owed him money, “I’ve played this haunted house before, and everything the boss says has to be listened to the other way around, and when he says that the photos are of no use, that means that the photos are the key to breaking the game!”
”Five photos, the three of us, just one.” Yang Chen made a big concession, “Everything is for the clearance, Boss Chen changed the clearance requirements just to divide us. According to my understanding of him, until we enter the core area, we shouldn’t even encounter anything too terrifying, but once we wait for us to get the photos, then something truly horrifying and frightening should happen.”
”That’s what I think too, the photos are just to divert our attention.” Ah Nan agreed with Yang Chen, “The three of us editors are just here for the experience, five photos, we only need one too.”
”Five photos, the six of you split two, leaving three. I don’t have any companions, so it’s not too much to take one for myself, right?”
Bai Qiulin glanced at the others, and before he could finish speaking, Normal Dade, the cook, grabbed the opportunity to speak first: “My brother just fell out of love, so I want to get one for him.”
”Several big brothers, I challenged two one-star scenes and one two-star scene in a row today, just thinking that I could clear the three-star scene in one breath, count me as begging you guys to share a photo with me.” Little Li was also helpless, behind him was the Virtual Future Paradise, he came in to find something useful. This photo sounded and felt evil, it seemed that without a photo it would be difficult to move an inch, even for the sake of completing the task explained by Mr. Mu, he had to get a photo.
The photos had already been divided up, leaving Old Zhou and Duan Yue without a share, and several tourists looked at the two of them.
Forcing a smile, Old Zhou clutched Duan Yue’s hand, “It’s not a problem, the two of us will just follow you, as long as we don’t get separated, there shouldn’t be any problems.”
Old Zhou didn’t dwell on the photo, which made a few other tourists feel a little bit better about him.
”People haven’t even gone in yet, there’s no use talking about this now, let’s discuss it when we enter the core area.” Wang Diem felt that it was a bit inappropriate for his side to put in the most effort and end up getting a share of a photo, but he didn’t say so explicitly, only his tone was slightly impatient.
”Everyone follow closely.” Yang Chen walked in the forefront, the further in, the darker the light became, without using other lighting tools, six or seven meters away, he might not be able to see the other side’s face clearly.
”Brother, why don’t we not visit.” Fan Cong stopped at the mouth of the passageway, and if he looked closely, he would find that the fat on his body was gently shaking, as if his body was trembling because of fear.
”We’re all here, how wasteful to not go in and visit?” Fan Dade looked at his brother, his hand resting on Fan Cong’s shoulder, “You are just usually too housebound, once in a while you need to come out and experience something new, don’t keep locking yourself inside, brother knows that you’re not feeling well in your heart, but if you’ve fallen out of love, you don’t live anymore? Days always have to go by.”
”I’ve been staying at home all this time, it’s really not because of lost love.” Fan Cong was helpless to his brother, he seemed to have another hidden agenda, but it was inconvenient to say it, and in the end, he could only enter into the middle of the underground corpse vault scene under his brother’s drag.
The chef and his brother walked at the end, then Duan Yue and Lao Zhou, Xiao Li and Bai Qiulin were both tourists who came in alone, the two of them side by side, and then further ahead was the editor of the Most Thrilling Magazine and Yang Chen and the others.
A few people quickly came to the first fork in the road, one unpainted and one painted white.
On the wall of the white-painted passage, there were four blood-red words written on it – Stop the living.
The unpainted passage, perhaps because of the lack of white paint reflections, looked a bit dim, giving people a very eerie feeling.
”The passageway painted with white paint is used to transport corpses, let’s take the unpainted one.” Yang Chen didn’t hesitate and directly walked over, but just as he entered that passage, he stopped again.
”Old Yang, what’s wrong with you?” Wang Yan demolished the point and bumped into Yang Chen, he followed Yang Chen’s gaze and stopped in his tracks as well.
Several tourists all gathered around, they could see clearly that there was a spherical object bouncing up and down in this unpainted passage.
”That looks like a human head, right?”
”It’s too dark to see clearly.” Yang Chen also didn’t expect that this had just come in and he had encountered such an odd thing: “Don’t be afraid, there are many of us, let’s go over together and take a look.”