Chapter 1117 – A Speculation That Subverts All My Perceptions
”Mr. Ma, I know that you never believe in these things, but there are some things that are really hard to explain.” Shangguan Qinghong tensed his face, he really couldn’t laugh now.
”Both come and go, you have to be quiet in every major event. Also, don’t call me Chief Ma here, just call me Brother Ma.” The man was still able to remain calm even after entering such an eerie and bizarre scene for the first time, he really did have a superiority, at least in terms of mental quality, he had already surpassed the vast majority of ordinary people.
”I have a very bad feeling right now, Mr. Ma, why don’t we come back another day? Today, we were obviously counted by the surname Chen, countless traps must have been laid out in this scene. It doesn’t matter to me, the key is that you can’t get hurt!” Shangguan Qinghong looked at the eerie building, his legs dead set on not being able to move forward.
”I really don’t believe that playing haunted house can play with people to get injured, and then to put it in another way, if I get injured in his haunted house, then it’s just the right time for me to take advantage of the situation.” The man raised his hand, “There are so many ways to bring down a haunted house, head to head competition is one of the dumbest in my opinion.”
”You have other arrangements?”
”You don’t have to worry about that, I personally came here today mainly because I want to see what’s so great about the haunted house that can make Jiang Jiu suffer. By the way, I want to let certain people in the company know that I can do what Jiang Jiu can’t do, and what Jiang Jiu can do, I can do better.” The man was very capable and gave off a feeling of sharpness in his speech and actions.
Shangguan Light Hong realized that he couldn’t persuade Mr. Ma at all, and he didn’t have the face to give up at this time, so he had to walk with the crowd.
”Out of ten points, if the atmosphere is baked, the scene layout, the light and sound effects match, these I give it a score of eight point five.” The stylishly dressed man touched the wall, feeling the touch coming from his fingertips, “Very real, just like the real thing, it’s not all a fluke that this haunted house was able to make it big, it’s a bit of a real skill.”
The fashionable man was mean, but he was still relatively good at his profession.
”I can’t see any other advantages besides the real point.” The sunglasses man crossed his arms over his chest and said with a slight hint of disdain, “The background of the story is ambiguous, the identity of the tourists is not localized, completely unable to generate a sense of immersion, such a haunted house online is touted by so many people? I don’t believe that he didn’t invite the water army.”
”You love to believe it or not, there will be a time for you to cry later.” Heshan was a bit displeased with the sunglasses man, he knew the horror of the four-star scene and was in a bad mood after being forced in by Mr. Wang.
”We are all industry insiders, it’s okay for him to fool you tourists with these little tricks, but it’s basically impossible to fool us.” The sunglasses man took out his cell phone and directly opened it to find the House of Horrors on the popular review, “Ninety-seven percent of all the tourists who purchased tickets found it scary, and ninety-five percent of the people gave it a high positive rating, do you think it’s possible?”
”Impossible.” Heshan shook his head, “I think it should be that one hundred percent of the people found it scary, and that three percent of the people are probably the water army hired by their peers.”
”Huh.” Sunglasses man tone sour, “I tell you a real data in the industry, the top haunted house can not make everyone feel fear, the normal data for all of us is around seventy-five percent, surnamed Chen’s this haunted house water is too serious. Sometimes I feel ridiculous, a haunted house that relies on hype and invites water arms to rise up is called the scariest haunted house in the country by ignorant people, it’s really laughable.”
”Open your mouth to industry insiders, close your mouth to real data, I don’t even know where you get the qualification to talk about other people’s haunted houses like that?” Another student from the Hanjiang School of Forensic Medicine also spoke up, they were usually tortured enough by Chen Ge’s haunted houses, but if someone dared to say something bad about Chen Ge’s haunted house, they would still be the first to come out and refute it.
”Just because my name is Fu Bole.” The sunglasses man seemed to be particularly famous in the circle, but the students of the Hanjiang School of Forensic Medicine had obviously heard this name for the first time.
”What do I care what your name is? Do I know you?”
”That’s why you tourists are sometimes as simple as white paper, do you guys know about Spirit Home? The largest chain of haunted houses in China, there are thirty branches, and I am the chief designer of Spirit Home.” The sunglasses man pointed at the few people around him, “Everyone here is more powerful than the one surnamed Chen, how long has he been in the business, all of us are his seniors.”
The sunglasses man introduced the other few people one by one, the man dressed stylishly was called Wei Chao Chao, the designer of the Japanese Aozuka Haunted House.
The woman with a skeleton tattooed on her arm was nicknamed Sister Snake, who had participated in the design and production of several large-scale haunted houses abroad, and later opened Mid Evil, an escape room scenario in China with a favorable review rate second only to the House of Horrors.
The other two big fat guys are twin brothers, the older brother is called Liang Er and the younger brother is called Liang San. Rumor has it that they also have an older brother who died young, and the fortune teller was afraid that the older brother would catch them as a substitute, so he gave the brothers names like Liang Er and Liang San.
The two brothers run the Dream Room, one of the top five haunted houses in the country, and they are both designers and actors who are well versed in scare techniques.
The one who talked the least among the few was a middle-aged woman dressed casually, she seemed to be afraid of the cold and not afraid of the heat, the temperature outside was so high, she still wore long sleeves and wrapped herself up tightly.
This middle-aged woman does not like to talk, sunglasses man pay Bole did not introduce her more, just briefly said she operates the haunted house – Amnesia City.
The six of them are basically the country’s top haunted house designers, many in the ordinary people seem to be very scary scenes, in their eyes can only be considered general, because they really have seen too much.
This year’s economy wasn’t too good, and several of their haunted houses had significantly less traffic, and this was the time when they saw Chen Ge’s haunted house hit the big time, so it was inevitable that there would be some imbalance in their hearts.
”A group of haunted house designers came to challenge the haunted house? Interesting, it’s surprising that such an interesting thing has happened to me.” The male tourist from Xinhai let out a sinister laugh as he looked at the other few people around him, “Everyone introduce yourself as well, if we want to pass this scene, we have to work together to do so.”
The male tourist finished the scene but none of them took care of him, he didn’t feel embarrassed and said to himself, “Let’s start with me first, my name is Gu Ren, this is my girlfriend Fang Ying, both of us especially like to watch horror movies, and are very interested in this kind of stuff. We’ve also been to many haunted houses, and are considered veteran players.”
”We are students of the Hanyue Medical College, my name is Heshan, this is my senior Zuo Han, he is the person with the highest cumulative score in our school.” Heshan pointed to the other student next to him, that student wasn’t very talkative, the person was handsome, as if he wasn’t interested in anything: “Also this is my teacher, his surname is Wang.”
”Cumulative score?”
”House of Horrors has a leaderboard, clearing high difficulty scenes will increase the points, senior Zuo Han’s score ranks third on the entire list, considered the most senior player.” Heshan patiently explained, he had a good personality, simple and kind nature, it was only a pity that he prematurely understood how sinister the jianghu was in Chen Ge’s haunted house.
After everyone had finished their introductions, everyone all looked at Little Sun, who was a little nervous from the stares, “My name is Sun Xiaojun, I came from the old city.”
Xiao Sun wanted to act normal, but he couldn’t control himself at all, it was strange to say the least, he was a ghost who was actually made nervous by a dozen or so living people looking at him.
”Alright, everyone has been introduced, now let’s discuss how to pass the level.” The sunglasses man, Fu Bole, directly stood out, looking like he was going to be the captain.
”Don’t even think about clearing the level, this is the first time the four star scenario is open, we should aim to save our lives.” Zuo Han said very nonchalantly.
”Don’t get too deep into the scene, forget it, I can’t tell you people who come to visit and play.” Fu Bole didn’t care at all about what the tourists thought, after all, this wasn’t in his haunted house, the worse the tourists’ experience, the happier he was on the contrary, “We only have one hour, it’s very difficult to find the ragdoll’s stumps in the middle of such a big scene, so I suggest that we split up our actions, and with a group of four, we can finish the game in a more efficient manner. ”
”I can tell you very clearly, acting separately is looking for death.” Zuo Han walked directly in front of Fu Bole, “Do you know how we cleared the three-star scene Living Coffin Village at the very beginning?”
”Three-star scenes are easier than four-star scenes, there’s no need to draw on your experience.”
”I just want to tell you that when we went in as a group of ten people, we all gathered together in order to transport the red dowry out, and watched as one teammate after another disappeared into thin air.” Zuo Han stared at Fu Bole’s eyes, “Even if we all gathered together, we would still somehow disappear, not to mention acting separately.”
”According to you, if we are going to disappear anyway, why do we need to gather together?”
”Stall for time, I don’t know how the haunted house got everyone lost, but at least the one who got lost could buy precious time with his ‘life’, he didn’t ‘die’ in vain, do you understand? ” Zuo Han’s tone was a bit impatient, he actually didn’t want to talk nonsense with Fu Bole, but there was no way, nine of the tourists who came in this time were Fu Bole’s people, he had to discuss with these nine people.
”Buying time with your own life?” Fu Bole and several other haunted house designers laughed: “Have you guys played with haunted houses until you’ve gone off the deep end? Hey! You’re their teacher, right? How do you usually teach your students? You’re about to enter society and you’re still so childish.”
A few haunted house designers were mocking the Hanjiang Academy of Forensic Sciences, but Mr. Wang’s gaze didn’t linger on the few of them, but kept looking at Zuo Han.
He knew very well how powerful Zuo Han was, the school’s first place in specialized subjects, and his comprehensive scores in Anatomy, Higher Mathematics in Medicine, Medical Physics, Forensic Toxicology, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Psychiatry, and Criminal Psychology broke the record of 10 years in the Hongjiang Forensic Medical College.
Mr. Wang knew that Zuo Han would not lie, and it was also clear that Zuo Han was very powerful, so he came in and grabbed Zuo Han without letting go.
Heshan was the one who was most familiar with the haunted house owner and the environment of the haunted house, Zuo Han was the one who had the most accumulated scores in the Hanjiang Academy of Forensic Sciences, and Mr. Wang only had two hands, so he chose the two most reliable students.
When he decided to come in, Mr. Wang minimized the probability of him flipping out, but after he came in, he realized that he might have still underestimated this haunted house.
Everything was too real, and the feeling even evoked certain bad memories for him.
”You can insult me with impunity now, I won’t waste time theorizing with you, I’m just telling you the method to maximize the probability of saving your life, it’s up to you guys to decide whether you believe it or not.” Zuo Han spoke cleanly, his gaze swept over Fu Bole several people, and finally stopped on Ma Feng: “If you have any smart people here, you’d better follow what I say, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope.”
Zuo Han seemed to be able to tell that Ma Feng was the real core of this team just by facial micro-expressions, and that was what he said to Ma Feng later.
”I also agree to go together.” Shangguan Light Hong spoke decisively, “Do you guys remember the advice the haunted house boss gave us before entering the scene? He said that he wouldn’t let us come into contact with anyone, including those close to us, this statement is clearly sowing discord, he’s itching for us to implode.”
Several people argued heatedly, Xiao Sun stood by the side and didn’t dare to speak, he secretly guessed in his heart that the reason why his boss said that was whether he was worried that the other tourists wouldn’t bring him to play, and intentionally used a provocative method.
”Stop arguing, it’s safer to go together.” Ma Feng opened his mouth, and Fu Bole didn’t dare to refute, the group of fifteen people gathered together, “But we have limited time, it’s too much of a waste of time to crowd all together, let’s split into three groups of five people each, once we enter a certain building together, we’ll move around as a group, and then we’ll meet up at the entrance of the building.”
Ma Feng, who was at the top of the hierarchy, proposed a most reasonable approach.
”No way.” Zuo Han opened his mouth to reject it without much thought, “You are not clear about the haunted house boss’s methods, as long as we are separated, he has the means to completely dismember us. In addition, how can you be sure that there are no haunted house actors present amongst us?”
Zuo Han’s sentence made everyone tense up, they had all heard similar rumors before they came to visit, some of the tourists in this haunted house were impersonated by employees, making it so that the tourists couldn’t trust each other.
”The nine of us are together, there are definitely no actors amongst us, it’s you guys who are very suspicious.” Fu Bole stared at Zuo Han and Heshan: “Teachers leading the way to play haunted houses which in itself is quite rare, are you guys really students and teachers of the College of Forensic Medicine?”
”Before you guys doubt me, I want to tell you one thing, I hope you nine can remember it clearly.” Zuo Han’s tone was cold and icy: “Based on some previous encounters, I deduced that this haunted house exists actors who can imitate voices, and he is able to produce the same voice as us, so you can’t determine anyone’s identity based on the voices alone, you guys also have to remember to protect your own cell phones, and don’t easily go to believe in them even if you have received phone calls and messages from your companions. ”
”Is it that excessive?” Fu Bole’s bottom of speech wasn’t as strong as it should have been.
”There are even more excessive things.” Zuo Han was slightly hesitant: “I’m a person who will try to find answers by all means when I encounter a problem, and after playing this haunted house for many times, I gradually developed a guess that subverted all of my perceptions.”
”What guess?”
”This haunted house …… may really be haunted.”