Chapter 1120 – The Difficulty of the Game Continues to Skyrocket
Looking at the black iron door that had already closed in front of him, Xiao Sun had a complicated expression, he completely didn’t expect things to turn out like this, he had only casually lifted the mirror.
”I hope nothing will happen to the tourists.” Xiao Sun was now worried that the red high heeled shoes would accidentally kill the tourists, “I don’t know if Brother Chen is in the haunted house, who should be the first person to look for in this kind of unexpected situation? That big brother actor called Wu Jinpeng looks nice, he might have a way.”
Xiao Sun was about to turn around and run out the door when he hesitated again and turned around to grab the iron door handle, “Should we open the door? If those tourists are lucky enough, maybe there’s a one percent chance that they can return the way they came.”
He was completely out of good intentions, wanting to leave the tourists a way back.
Removing the blood-covered chain from the iron door, Xiao Sun stuffed it at the crack of the door so that the iron door wouldn’t close.
Boundless black mist gushed out along the crack and began to escape outside the passageway!
Black threads of curses penetrated into the building, and those who had harmed him in the Plutonic Fetus’s memories appeared in a different form, and they transformed into bizarre shadows that wandered in the black fog.
These monsters did not have a solid body and would not cause substantial damage to people or the Lich Ghost, but they were able to evoke the evil and fear deep in one’s heart.
Red High Heels recreated the past of the Underworld Fetus with a curse, she wanted to restore the process of the Underworld Fetus becoming a murderous god little by little, and these shadowy monsters were just incidentals.
As soon as the iron door opened, those shadows from the Underworld Tire’s memories started to run out madly, they fused with the black fog, if not for the fact that they wanted to show up of their own accord, it would be hard to be discovered.
”Doing things to leave a thread, next time it’s good to see, I’m also considered to be benevolent.” Xiao Sun turned around and left, not paying attention to the words please close the door as you please written on the sign next to the iron door.
He ran towards the outside of the secret passage in a hurry, and just as he got back to his room he heard footsteps coming from the corridor outside.
”Haunted house actors don’t make noise, the ones coming over must be tourists!”
Faint black mist was drifting out along the entrance of the secret passage, Xiao Sun looked around and thought bad.
If the other tourists also followed into the secret passage, then the fun would be great.
”It’s a small matter if I expose myself, it’s a big matter if I send everyone into the hidden scene in the opening five minutes!” Xiao Sun was a first time haunted house actor, completely inexperienced, he himself is quite a resourceful person, but now that the situation is critical, he also has a feeling of having his hands full: “For the time being, let’s recover the mechanism first, we can’t allow more tourists to enter the hidden scene, wait for me to find Chen and then enter the passageway from here to look for those three tourists.”
The footsteps in his ears were getting closer and closer, all sounds were amplified in this scene, Xiao Sun felt as if the footsteps were ringing directly in his heart.
He closed the door with the bloody snail painted on it and grabbed the edge of the mirror with both hands, “When I held the mirror upwards, I triggered the mechanism, to recover the mechanism you should need to press the mirror downwards.”
With his arms exerting force, Xiao Sun grabbed both sides of the mirror and pressed it downward, but the mirror and the door didn’t react at all.
”What the hell?!”
The sound of footsteps approached rapidly in the corridor, and if Xiao Sun hadn’t turned into a ghost, at this point, he probably would have wet his clothes with cold sweat.
The force exerted by his hands grew larger and larger, his eyes anxious: “It’s over, it’s over, how in the world is this thing going to shut off!”
Xiao Sun frantically shook the mirror up and down, more and more blood marks and beads of blood appeared on the surface, and a puzzled human face vaguely emerged from the mirror.
”Is it not moving up and down?” Grasping the ends of the mirror, Xiao Sun tried to rotate the frame, but as a result of the force in his hand, the supporting frame that held the frame in place directly snapped!
”I penetrate!”
Looking at the mirror he got off the wall, Xiao Sun was dumbfounded, and he subconsciously glanced towards the secret passage that was drifting outward with black mist.
The wall slowly closed, and the blood-colored snail door was as if it had never existed.
The door outside the secret passage was closed, but the black iron door inside the secret passage still left a crack.
Black mist escaped and drilled into the building, spreading throughout the room along the cracks in the wall skin.
A bizarre, desperate face appeared and disappeared on the walls, and the difficulty of the entire scene was spiraling.
”What are you doing!” The students of the Hanyue College of Forensic Medicine who were exploring on the same floor ran over as they looked at the room shrouded in black mist, as well as Xiao Sun, who was standing in the bathroom alone with a mirror.
”To be honest, I don’t know what I’m doing.” Little Sun held the mirror, feeling like it was neither a good idea to put it down nor a good idea not to.
”What about the others in your group?”
”They didn’t listen to me and left without me.”
The other two groups downstairs who were searching for the rag doll’s limbs heard the commotion and all ran up.
It was less than three minutes in between, the first floor of the building had already changed its appearance, with a rotten and horrible mannequin lying on the door of the room, and black fog constantly drifting outwards from the room, those people were even wondering if this was the place they had just come to.
”Why are you all gathered here? Where is Liang Er Liang San? And what about this monster at the door?” Fu Bole glanced towards the house and did not find those three haunted house designers.
”I don’t know, the three of them told me to stay here and not make any trouble, then they seemed to have discovered the secret passage and triggered some kind of mechanism, then they disappeared.” Xiao Sun spoke ambiguously, he wasn’t a particularly good liar.
”How could nice big living people just disappear? Which room did they end up disappearing in?” Three people disappeared just after the group was split, and Ma Feng frowned.
”It’s on this floor.” Xiao Sun was in a hurry now, he was worried that if he dragged on any longer, he might have to collect Liang Er Liang San’s corpse.
From his perspective, the priority now was to find Chen Ge and hurriedly inform Red Heels that a visitor had entered the hidden scene.
”The three people in the same group have all disappeared, only you are still there, it’s a bit strange.” Zuo Han just wanted to speak, Fu Bole suddenly walked to the side of a few people from the Hanjiang Law School, “What are you doing?”
Fu Bo Le stared at Zuo Han, his face slightly grim, “It’s you three who messed up, right?”
”Us?” Heshan pointed his finger at himself, “Are you sick? The three of us aren’t with any of them, we just came over too!”
”You guys are not with Liang Er Liang San, but you’re all on the first floor with them, you’re the ones closest to them!” Fu Bole’s hand pressed on the rotten clay doll next to him, “This doll wasn’t here when we came over before, which means someone moved him here after we left, look at how much this doll weighs? It’s simply impossible for a single person to move the mannequin here silently, so it must have been a joint operation by multiple people!”
Hearing Fu Bole’s analysis, the people from the Hanyue Academy of Forensic Medicine and Xiao Sun were all shocked.
”If it wasn’t for the fact that you’ve been discrediting Boss Chen’s haunted house before, I’m afraid I would have thought that you were the actor hired by the haunted house.” Heshan was speechless, “Even if there were actors amongst us, then the most likely person would be this Little Sun, everyone else in their group except him has disappeared, isn’t he the most suspicious? Are you ignoring him just because he can’t move the doll by himself?”
Heshan’s reasoning ability could be said to have been honed in Chen Ge’s haunted house. He used to firmly believe that human nature was inherently good, but later he realized that human nature was the most complicated thing in the world, with its “many faces”.
Hearing what Heshan said, Xiao Sun somehow sighed with relief, he thought that finally someone suspected him, if he really can’t act he will hurry to slip away, staying with so many living people is too exciting.
”You guys can’t come up with a rebuttal to my words, so you start pulling others down? Trying to mess up the sight? To fish in troubled waters?” Fu Bole was suspicious of Zuo Han and them from the very beginning, he opened a haunted house for several years he had never seen tourists like Zuo Han and Heshan, playing a haunted house and still all kinds of analyzing and full commitment, it was almost as if they had traveled to a horror movie.
Preconceived ideas, Fu Bole always stands in his own point of view to consider the problem, everything he thinks about is only based on his own perception.
”You’re determined to frame us, huh? Do you have a grudge against forensic doctors?”
While several people were arguing, the black fog inside the room had become thicker, in which human faces vaguely flashed by.
Standing in the middle of the black fog, Mr. Wang inexplicably felt a little annoyed, his brain began to constantly flash through some buried memories, which had the appearance of the murderer, or the appearance of the victim, and the people in the photos in his memory seemed to come alive, and little by little they pounced on him.
In reality, the more people who had had horrible experiences, the more they were affected by the black fog.
Shaking his head, Teacher Wang reached out and held onto the door frame.
”Teacher, are you uncomfortable?” Zuo Han was the first to notice Teacher Wang’s abnormality.
”I was fine when I first came in, but suddenly I got a little dizzy, and now I’m fine again.”
”It might be related to this black fog, I also feel a little twisted.” Zuo Han’s voice was lowered.
”You also have this feeling?” Teacher Wang was surprised.
”En.” Zuo Han and Teacher Wang stood together, his lips moved slightly, his voice could not be heard at all without listening carefully.
”What are you two muttering about?” Wei Chaochao shouted, he had been staring at Zuo Han and Mr. Wang, under the guidance of Fu Bole, he also thought that there was a high probability that the people from the Hanjiang Academy of Forensic Sciences were actors.
”We don’t need to report to you about what we discuss, you guys can treat us as haunted house actors, it doesn’t have any effect on us.” Zuo Han’s character was more withdrawn, he didn’t bother with those haunted house designers, he directly turned around and said to Heshan and Mr. Wang, “The sudden appearance of the black fog should be a signal telling us that we can’t stay in one place for too long, as time goes by, the black fog may envelop all the scenes, in other words it will be more and more difficult for us to survive.”
”Isn’t this black fog like the ‘poison circle’ in some games? The range of the fog keeps expanding, the range of the tourists’ activities keeps shrinking, and if they stay in the fog for a long time, they will meet an untimely end.” Heshan immediately understood.
”Now I have two guesses, first, those three missing tourists found the secret passage, they went to other places through the secret passage, speeding up the process of the game, the appearance of the black fog represents the game entering the second stage. If we want to avoid the black fog, we can only go and find the secret passage as well, and enter another scene like they did through the secret passage.” Zuo Han analyzed with the only clues he had, “But the problem is that we have only just entered the haunted house for five minutes, according to Boss Chen’s past practice, he would probably increase the difficulty halfway through the visit, today’s challenge is a bit out of the ordinary.”
”Then what’s the second guess?”
”The second guess is that there has been some kind of change in the haunted house, and something happened here that was not expected by everyone.” Zuo Han didn’t bother to argue with those haunted house designers, while he was talking, those haunted house designers slowly all closed their mouths and were listening to him quietly, maybe this was the aura.
”Then what should we do if it’s the second situation?” Heshan asked the question on everyone’s mind.
”If it’s the second situation then it’s bad, do you remember what I said when I first entered the haunted house?” Zuo Han’s face wasn’t looking too good.
”Said what?”
”This haunted house might really be haunted.” Zuo Han no longer continued down this topic, “Teacher, Heshan, let’s look for secret passages in these rooms on the left, projecting from time, those three missing people could only be amongst these rooms.”
Not going to refute or engage in meaningless arguments, everyone under Zuo Han’s leadership began to look for secret passages on the first floor.
”The black fog is still spreading! Time is limited! If we can’t find the secret passage within five minutes, we’ll just leave!”
Looking at the busy figures of the crowd, Xiao Sun held the mirror with both hands, his face full of bitterness, he really couldn’t bear to say that the secret passage mechanism had been broken by himself.
Now it was the outside door could not be opened, the inside door could not be closed, the black fog kept coming out, and the difficulty of the game kept increasing.
Five minutes later, the black fog had escaped out of the Quiet House and floated directly to the street, a hidden face surfacing in various parts of the building.
”That secret passage should be disposable! Let’s leave this scene first, the black fog will keep spreading over time, we need to hurry up and explore more scenes before we can do so!”
After Zuo Han finished speaking, he walked towards the outside of the building without hesitation, with Heshan and Mr. Wang following closely behind.
”Let’s go to the other scenes as well.” Shangguan Qinghong signaled everyone to follow Zuo Han, “Forget about whether he’s a haunted house actor or not for now, let’s just follow him and see what he wants to do.”
”This Zuo Han is like a haunted house NPC, he keeps giving us hints, telling us about the course of the game and constantly creating panic, you guys following him will probably follow Liang Er Liang San’s footsteps.” Fu Bole was still holding on to his opinion, but he wasn’t walking slowly.
After everyone had left the Quiet House, the picture of the child on the missing person notice at the entrance blinked.
At the same time, on the third basement level of the Quiet House, a child in red ran out from his hiding place.
He rushed straight to the entrance of the building, and looking at the far away tourists, he slammed the script hidden under his red coat onto the ground.
”I’ve been practicing for three fucking days, and you guys are just leaving?”
The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, the red-clothed kid picked up the script again and chased after the tourists.