Chapter 0968 – The Twelve Palaces of the Zodiac

　　The sound of the door closing sounded and all the tourists were startled as they all turned to look at Chen Ge.

　　”Without closing the door I always feel that something will come over, to avoid being caught in a back and forth attack, it’s better to feel more at ease this way.”

　　Chen Ge casually found a reason to excuse himself as he looked at the police officer, “Have you been here before for this scene?”

　　”En, the hotel scene is a buffer zone for tourists to relax, after this scene is over, you just need to experience another scene to pass.”

　　Hearing the police say this, everyone was pumped up, this nightmarish haunted house tour was finally coming to an end.

　　”Buffer zone? That means this scene isn’t scary?” Chen Ge had rarely seen a buffer zone built in a haunted house.

　　”There are no ghosts and monsters in this scene, there are a total of twelve rooms in it, and there is a homicidal maniac hiding in one of the rooms. We just need to dodge the homicidal maniac and find the secret passage hidden in the hotel to escape.” The policeman no longer hid, he also wanted to get out of this haunted house in a hurry.

　　”Where was the secret passage when you last visited?”

　　”The secret passage is not fixed, there are secret passages in each of the twelve rooms, but there is only one room where the secret passage is not locked. This scenario is very much a matter of luck, there could be an unlocked secret passage in the first door we push open, or there could be a homicidal maniac hiding in the first door we push open.” The policeman spread his hands, “I’ve told you all I know, so I really won’t be blamed if there are any more accidents this time.”

　　”Medium difficulty is twelve rooms hiding a homicidal maniac and an unlocked secret passage, hell level difficulty is likely to have all secret passages locked and a homicidal maniac hiding in every room.” Chen Ge stood near the bar as he looked at the glasses man again, “Detective, did you get any hints?”

　　”En, I received a message when I first entered this scene.” Glasses Man showed the message on his wristwatch to the crowd – don’t just open the door to the room.

　　”Looks like Chen Ge was right, the twelve rooms might be harboring homicidal maniacs, that’s why we were told not to just open the room doors.” The policeman gave a dry laugh, if that was the case, then the clues he provided would be useless.

　　”Shhh, don’t talk yet.” Chen Ge suddenly raised his hand as he used his ghost ears and heard repeated footsteps and a woman’s insane laughter.

　　The sound was very faint, and it was coming from underground.

　　”This hotel isn’t as simple as it appears, there are probably several layers, the upper layer is only superficial even if it’s scary, those layers below are the really tricky part.” Chen Ge’s voice was low, and hearing it made people’s hearts flutter.

　　”How do you know all this?” The woman with long black hair asked in a low voice, she had now changed her mind about Chen Ge.

　　”A haunted house that truly pursues the ultimate frightening experience will not set up a buffer in the scene; wave after wave, continuous scares as if they were ocean waves is what the haunted house designers are after.” Chen Ge would not tell other tourists that even if there was a buffer in the haunted house inhabited by the red-clothed stern ghosts, that buffer could not act as a buffer anymore, and one had to be careful at all times.

　　”The information given by the police is that opening the door will reveal the secret passage, but the tip the detective got is not to just open the door, this is contradictory, who should I listen to now?” Chen Ge finished and then looked at the youngest boy, “All of us have stated our professions, except you, we’ve come this far together, do you still not trust us?”

　　That young man shook his head, “It’s not that I don’t trust everyone, my ability is very crucial and can only be used once.”

　　Chen Ge did not force the issue, time was limited, all the tourists began to spread out to search the inn, and soon they discovered all sorts of weirdness.

　　The inn was the largest scene they had entered so far, it was divided into three floors, there were two floors above the ground, six rooms on each floor, and another floor underground, but the passageway to the ground floor was locked by an iron door.

　　There was a staircase on the left and right side of the hotel, and the aisles looked normal on the surface, but if you looked carefully, you could see a lot of traces of being swung by a blunt object, nail holes on the door panels, and blood stains on the ground that hadn’t been processed cleanly.

　　In addition, Chen Ge also found a lot of pages in the hotel that seemed to have been torn out of detective novels, on which red paint was used to write what time and minute in the morning, and where so-and-so died.

　　There were also all sorts of complicated symbols painted in various corners of the hotel, as if they were the graffiti of demons.

　　The entire scene wasn’t as professional as Chen Ge’s haunted house, but it could still be given a seven, and the atmosphere was nicely set.

　　”There isn’t any way out, the passageway to leave should be hidden inside the room just like the police said.” A few tourists regrouped at the bar, they discussed whether to push the door and try their luck, while Chen Ge stood by the side, not saying a word.

　　”What are you thinking about?” The policeman noticed Chen Ge’s abnormality.

　　”The watch on the wall keeps going.” Chen Ge pointed above the bar, where a very inconspicuous watch hung on the dirty wall.

　　”Isn’t it normal for the watch to be walking?” The policeman was a little puzzled.

　　”Look carefully, this watch is walking backwards, when we first came in it was three in the morning, now it has become two fifty-four in the morning.”

　　”A watch that goes backwards? Does that mean anything?”

　　”No idea.” Chen Ge shook his head, “Ignoring this table first, you said before that the secret passage is hidden in the rooms, so if we want to leave we have to push open the doors, I just focused on the doors of the twelve guest rooms and found that each door had some small holes nailed out with nails.”

　　”Holes? Are they used to allow us to observe the interior of the rooms through the holes?” The tourists couldn’t help but gather towards Chen Ge’s side.

　　”It shouldn’t be, the other side of the door is reinforced with a layer of door panels, it’s impossible to peer inside the room through the small holes.” Chen Ge took out his cell phone, “The location of the small holes on each door is different, some of them looked familiar to me, and tried to connect them with a line, resulting in an unexpected gain.”

　　”What gain?”

　　”Those holes with nails represent the stars, correctly connecting all the stars on the doors will form a constellation, the first door is the Aries, the second door is the Taurus, and these twelve doors correspond exactly to the twelve houses of the zodiac.”

　　The tourists were surprised when they heard Chen Ge’s analysis, they felt as if they were not playing the same game as Chen Ge even though they were in the same scene.

　　”Then …… what hints can the Zodiac bring us?” The policeman lowered his voice for fear of disturbing Chen Ge’s thinking.

　　”That’s where the trouble lies, the Zodiac has many meanings, it’s both a constellation and corresponds to the time, it can also be used as a password.” Chen Ge looked at his cell phone, “This word originates from Greece, the original meaning is zoo, what is locked up in the zoo is definitely not a human being, is it warning us that none of the tenants behind the door can be called a human being? This point coincides with the information received by the detective.”

　　Shaking his head, Chen Ge frowned, “I’m not too good at solving puzzles and reasoning, this level touches my blind spot.”

　　Looking at the agonized Chen Ge, the other tourists had not dared to speak much.