Chapter 0481: It’s a wave of regimentation

　　Wang Diem looked at the secret passage behind the cabinet and was a bit flustered, the doctors brought him a strange feeling just now, at first cordial and kind, but after hearing that he had skipped class, their tone and demeanor obviously changed: “Did I say something wrong? Skipping class isn’t a big deal, is it? A college without skipping classes that is incomplete, so many seniors have said so.”

　　Stopping at the entrance of the secret passage, Wang Yan took a step inside, the temperature in the passage was quite a bit higher than outside, he hesitated for half a day and backed out.

　　”What’s wrong?” Xiao Li followed closely behind, he couldn’t wait to leave.

　　”Nothing, I just think that those doctors just now look a bit like our head of teaching.” Wang Diem’s mood was very complicated: “Really hell, I thought I would encounter all kinds of horrible things, but I never thought I would encounter the school teacher when skipping class, could it be that because too many people come to visit Boss Chen’s haunted house in our school, the teacher was worried about the impact on our learning, and came in to arrest people specifically?”

　　”Alright, alright, this is your first time skipping class, right? Nervousness is inevitable, you’ll get used to it if you skip a few more times in the future.” Xiao Li urged Wang Diem to leave, “We both fainted at the same time, you were put on a hospital bed with two layers of mattresses underneath, I was thrown directly on a wooden board, from their attitude towards us we can see that those doctors should be your acquaintances, they definitely won’t lie to you.”

　　”I also feel that they are familiar, it’s just that I don’t have any impression at all.”

　　Bubbles continued to rise from the cavern in the center of the mortuary pool inside the house, the lights on the walls flickered on and off, and one of the iron doors in the corridor made a slight sound, as if someone was pushing it back and forth.

　　In this situation, Wang Yan did not dare to delay too long, he was afraid that the wall lights would go out and those monsters would come after him again.

　　”Let’s go, if you’re scared, then I’ll go ahead and you can just show me the way.” Xiao Li had participated in the work for many years, he was steady and resourceful, and was the most courageous employee of the Virtual Future Paradise, and at this time he stood out very bravely.

　　Wang Diem did not reject Xiao Li’s good intentions, stepped aside and watched Xiao Li enter the middle of the secret passage, “You be careful.”

　　”Got it.” Xiao Li took out his own cell phone and turned on the flashlight that came with the phone, “Hurry up, I don’t want to see those doctors next time I open my eyes.”

　　The two of them drilled into the middle of the secret passageway one after the other, the passageway got narrower and narrower, and the walls were plastered with patches of blood-red moss-like things.

　　”How come we haven’t reached the end yet?” The further Wang Yan went, the more apprehensive he felt, the passage only allowed one person to pass sideways, his clothes inevitably rubbed against the “moss” next to him.

　　His clothes were wet and his skin itched a little, he followed behind Xiao Li, his heart was very uneasy.

　　”This should be the way to the outside.” Contrary to Wang Diem, Xiao Li was very confident: “Have you noticed that the smell of formalin in the air is almost unnoticeable, and there is a very fresh scent in this passage.”

　　Nose twitching, Wang Diem did smell an aroma, only he was not as optimistic as Xiao Li: “Is it emanating from the moss on the walls?”

　　Reaching out and touching the walls, the cold hard walls were covered with moss and were soft to the touch.

　　”Finally I don’t have to smell that strange odor, this path should lead directly to the outside world, I guess the existence of the secret passage is to facilitate the exit of tourists, after all, he haunted house is really unbearable for the average person, the existence of the secret passage is equivalent to a surprise, just like now.” Xiao Li bent down, the passageway became much lower again, and the ground became softer and softer, as if a thick layer of carpet had been laid.

　　”I think it’s still the formalin that smells kinder.” The scent that lingered on the tip of his nose made Wang Diem want to vomit a little, “It’s not a normal scent, and it doesn’t smell like a synthetic chemical fragrance, it smells weird.”

　　Wang Diem tried his best to recall, and finally remembered, “When I used to read the ancient book of injustice cleansing, it introduced a kind of corpse incense, and the description of corpse incense on that book was very similar to this scent.”

　　”Corpse incense?” Xiao Li shivered, this was the first time he had heard of this thing.

　　”Corpse incense is divided into many kinds, one of the more famous is, using the corpse of a beautiful person to boil oil to make wax, after a special process to deal with it, lighted and placed in the house ……”

　　”Stop! You don’t say!” Xiao Li accelerated his pace, he began to keep his distance from Wang Diem, ordinary people are still shy about corpses, it is not possible to casually talk about some over-the-top content like forensic science students.

　　Li bent forward in the virtual futuristic paradise, and Wang Diem had to follow.

　　The two of them walked a dozen meters farther in, and Little Li in front of them suddenly stopped.

　　”What do you see?” Wang Diem took his cell phone and shone it towards the front.

　　Xiao Li froze in place, and only after a long time did he squeeze out a sentence, “There’s no road.”

　　At this time, the two bowed their bodies, almost on the ground, the passage is very narrow, even turning around is difficult.

　　All around are red “moss”, clothes are wet, the air is full of that weird fragrance.

　　”Then …… we return the same way?”

　　”Wait a minute.” Little Li was indeed bold, he raised his hand and pressed it on the blood-colored moss in front of him.

　　Five fingers pressed hard, and his palm slowly sank in.

　　”It’s empty back here.” Little Li cursed a sinister cry, and in the exit location, he even set up such a test, “Luckily I tried it, if I had just directly backed up and left, my intestines would probably have regretted it.”

　　He was smug, twisted his head and wanted to give Wang Diem a good news, his body was stuck to the wall, Xiao Li laboriously turned his neck, “The moss is deliberately used to camouflage the cover, the exit is just in front, we will soon be able to ……”

　　When he said this, Xiao Li’s gaze swept behind himself, he saw Wang Yan, and also saw an individual crawling behind Wang Yan!

　　Silently, while crawling, face falling, all those things followed behind!

　　”What are you looking at?” Wang Diem took his cell phone and shone it at Xiao Li’s face, not waiting for him to see clearly, as the light from the cell phone swept by, a pale arm drooped down among the moss above his head.

　　The swaying arm landed right in front of Wang Diem s face, and he looked upward with a dull gaze as an arm hung down from the top of his head.

　　The narrow passage was wrapped in soft red moss, and underneath the moss was a set of warm and welcoming “corpses” that had just been made last night.

　　……

　　At the edge of the middle area, Yang Chen, Li Xue and Lao Zhou, Duan Yue stood together, the four of them looking at the two editors two meters away.

　　”Three people are missing, why are you two fine and okay?” Yang Chen’s voice was a bit suppressed, he had already seen through the haunted house owner’s trick and was clear about the true identity of the two editors.

　　”What does their disappearance have to do with us?” Ah Nan felt that Yang Chen was a bit nervous: “When the lights went out and the footsteps sounded, I even specifically opened my mouth to remind them not to run around, but they didn’t listen, and now that they’re missing, you’re running to blame us?”

　　”Still weaseling?” Just now deep in the channel in the distance of Wang Diem and Xiao Li’s screams, he vaguely also heard such statements as I will never skip class again, hoarse and painful, absolutely impossible to be pretending.

　　It was also because he heard Wang Diem’s miserable screams that Yang Chen panicked, he was not prepared to continue to hide, and decided to pick everything apart.

　　”We’re sophomoric?” Tigress frowned, “Did you misunderstand something?”

　　”Stop acting, I’ve already seen through your tricks, speaking of which, you guys are quite dedicated.” Yang Chen took a step forward, shielding Li Xue, Lao Zhou and the others behind him, “You guys should be haunted house actors, right? It was arranged by Boss Chen in advance, wasn’t it?”

　　The corners of Tiger Teeth and Ah Nan’s mouths twitched, and in the end, it was Ah Nan who didn’t hold back and looked at Yang Chen and whispered, “Are you sick?”

　　”Furious? Didn’t expect it, I only used nineteen minutes to find out about you guys.” Yang Chen’s stood with Old Zhou and the others, his voice turning cold, “You three editors, as well as the chef who disappeared at the very beginning and his brother are all actors in the haunted house, and the five photos of the victims should have the five of you plastered on them! You are the ghosts that mixed into the ranks of the tourists, you are the victims that have died!”

　　The scene was very quiet, not only Tiger Tooth and Nan, even Old Zhou and Duan Yue sucked in a breath of cold air.

　　How should I take these words? A completely unconsidered situation ah!

　　”You suspect that there are haunted house actors in the tourists’ group? Someone is acting us out?” The two editors seemed to have realized the problem as well, the two of them had read a lot of thriller-spirit-suspense novels, and their logical thinking ability was a little stronger than the average person, before, because they had never encountered this kind of situation before, they had not thought about it in this aspect at all, but being reminded by Yang Chen, the two of them instantly understood something.

　　”Ghosts, amongst us!”

　　Cold sweat slid down as Nan and Tiger Tooth stood together, “Listen to me, it seems like a ghost really exists among us, only this ‘ghost’ is not the three of us, but someone else.”

　　”Right.” Tiger’s Teeth thought back, “The ghost should be that Bai Qiulin, when he came in I thought it was strange, why did this person keep his hands in his pockets and never took them out, at the time I thought that was his personal habit, now I think about it this person has a big problem! Just now when the accident, Bai Qiulin also disappeared, footsteps are very chaotic, may be he is messing up! Further on, when the chef and his brother had the accident, Bai Qiulin happened to be standing at the door of the warehouse, he separated the inside and outside of the door, and was able to buy time for the monster at the critical moment!”

　　”This man is a big problem! He should be a ghost, and he must have companions!” Ah Nan’s thinking was clearer, he and Yang Chen thought differently, not looking at each visitor with any emotional coloring, but simply analyzing very rationally.

　　”If Bai Qiulin is a ghost, his companions shouldn’t act too familiar with him, Xiao Li’s suspicion can basically be ruled out, and of the remaining people, excluding the ones who have already been killed ‘in harm’s way’, the rest are all here.” Ah Nan’s gaze hovered between Lao Zhou and Yang Chen, both sides were too deceptive, it was hard for him to guess for a while.

　　”What’s the situation now?” Duan Yue grabbed Old Zhou’s hand and softly inquired.

　　”I’m not sure, there seems to be a haunted house actor in their two groups.” Old Zhou lowered his head and replied back to Duan Yue, the two of them were so close to Yang Chen that the sound of their conversation was heard by Yang Chen.

　　”Trust me, the two of them are the haunted house actors, I hold the decisive evidence.” Yang Chen quietly told Old Zhou about the disclaimer agreement, and both of them were a bit surprised when they heard it.

　　Nan and Tiger Tooth originally felt that Yang Chen was not suspected, but they were shaken again when they saw Yang Chen’s confident look and Old Zhou’s reaction after hearing Yang Chen’s words.

　　They couldn’t hear what Yang Chen said, they just felt something was very wrong.

　　”There are ghosts mixed in the team, it’s too dangerous to stay with them, let’s go find the tail ourselves.” Tiger Tooth walked in a certain direction, “When I just reached the fork in the road, I vaguely saw the tail heading this way.”

　　The two editors didn’t stop and directly left.

　　”Being thieves, they know they can’t act anymore.” Li Xue also helped Yang Chen from the side, no matter what happened, she absolutely trusted Yang Chen.

　　”It’s good to separate, let’s hurry and take this opportunity to look for the photos to prevent them from jumping over the wall.” Yang Chen chose the opposite direction from the two editors and led Old Zhou and Duan Yue into the depths of the passage.

　　……

　　Four miserable screams came from somewhere in the scene, the first two were from Old Zhou and Duan Yue, extremely miserable as if they had encountered something very horrible, the last two were from Yang Chen and Li Xue, in addition to fear in their voices, there was also a hint of deep despair.

　　The four screams sounded almost simultaneously, Tiger’s Tooth and Ah Nan didn’t go too far at that time, they heard them very clearly.

　　”All four people were killed?” Ah Nan was shocked in his heart, his previous speculation seemed to be wrong.

　　According to his previous speculation, that remaining ghost should be amongst himself and Tiger’s Tooth, but how was this possible?

　　”Now it’s just the two of us left.” Tiger’s Teeth smiled somewhat reluctantly, “A team of twelve people, now only two are left, and it only took twenty minutes before and after, this haunted house boss really knows too much about people’s hearts.”

　　”Perhaps from the beginning, there were no ghosts among us?” Nan shook his head, his mind was in a mess right now, he felt like he was stuck in a maze, not only his body, but his mind was also trapped in it.

　　”Forget about them, let’s find Tails first, I remember she’s in this direction.” Tigress and Nan cautiously pressed forward against the wall, the two of them walked to the end of the road and saw a closed iron door, “This door is unlocked.”

　　Probably because of his impatient mood, Anan shook it very hard, “It seems like it was deliberately jammed with something.”

　　”Could Tails have done it?”

　　”Most likely.”

　　The iron door vibrated, the lights on the walls flickered on and off, and the lights seemed to be going out again.

　　……

　　Tails was hiding in an unknown room at the end of the passageway, clutching her cell phone as she frantically pressed the number, “Why isn’t anyone answering? Answer it!”

　　The iron door was shaken so hard that the rust came off and made a loud noise.

　　Tail’s heartbeat accelerated, her doll face was as pale as paper, her fingers gripped the cell phone tightly, the veins on her neck bulged, she was really scared to death.

　　”Those things are coming over! It must be them!”

　　The iron door shook even more, she was so anxious that she was about to cry out, her body curled up inside the cabinet, her pupils narrowed, staring intently at the gap in the cabinet door.

　　”What to do? What to do!”

　　”Boom!” The tables and chairs blocking the back of the door were pushed over, and the iron door finally opened.

　　Heart jumping into her throat, Tails barely caught her breath as she bit her lip and clenched her hands together, staring at the doorway for dear life.

　　”Tails?”

　　The familiar voice came from the doorway, and Tails froze for a moment, the happiness coming so suddenly that she kind of couldn’t believe it was real.

　　The wall lights in the passageway were going out, and she could only see the outline of the man in the doorway, and she could be sure it was Tigress.

　　Hands on the cabinet door, tail tears flowed out, she was really too excited, this feeling of flying from hell into heaven can not be described.

　　But just as she was about to push open the cabinet door, her cell phone screen lit up.

　　The phone number that had been out of reach just now finally got through, and the caller ID was none other than Tiger’s Teeth.

　　”Isn’t she right at the door?”

　　Tails’ fingers subconsciously picked up the phone, and on the other side of the microphone was Tiger’s anxious voice.

　　”Tails, we’ve already left the haunted house, stay where you are and don’t move! The police will go in to look for you right away, there is something wrong with this haunted house! Remember to stay where you are and don’t move! Don’t move!”

　　”Leave? Police?” Tails listened to the familiar voice on the phone and looked at the familiar silhouette of a humanoid at the door, and his entire body froze.