Chapter 1068 - Cause and Effect (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Can you tell me exactly what happened? How did this person die?” Helian Weiwei sat down and the smile on her face never went away, so it made everyone feel comfortable around her.

The four of them looked at one another before one of the boys finally started speaking hesitantly, “That was an accident and we didn’t expect it at all. On Wednesday afternoon, we didn’t have lab work to do, so the few of us agreed to go for one of those escape room games. We chose one that had a horror theme, and I think it was called Sobbing House?”

“Sobbing House?” Helian Weiwei raised her eyebrows. What sort of name was this?

The boy swallowed and continued, “That’s right, Sobbing House, like crying, you know? We wanted to play something that others didn’t dare to, since we’re all science students and we’re not very scared of these things. But that escape room turned out to be way more terrifying than we imagined. When we went in, we wore an eye mask, and each person would hold onto the shoulder of the person in front of him.”

“There are five of you, so when you went in, you formed a straight line, right?” Helian Weiwei immediately cut in. “Nothing happened during that time, right?”

Xiao Jingtian looked at her in shock. “How did you guess that?”

“I didn’t need to guess,” Helian Weiwei laughed lightly. “This method of walking is called the Pure Yang Formation, so it’s a formation that wards off evil spirits in the first place. If you walk in this formation with an eye mask on, you wouldn’t look in all directions, so you would form a proper formation. This sort of formation would be able to protect you to a certain extent.”

The four of them didn’t even know such a thing existed.

Helian Weiwei took out her phone and waved it. “Continue.”

“After we removed our eye masks, we walked into a very ordinary looking room. The room was very small and we needed to solve clues in order to unlock three locks.” The boy quietly said, “There was no problem when we first entered the room, but after we unlocked the third lock, a closet popped up, and that closet could only take one person at most.”

“A sliding door closet?” It was obvious that Helian Weiwei had played such things before and quickly guessed what was going on. “So you had to go in one by one to look for clues?”

The boy nodded and continued speaking with some difficulty, “I was the first one to enter the closet, and the other side was really terrifying. I was so frightened, you know? The closet led to another room, but all I had was one torchlight, and the first thing my torchlight landed on was a woman in white hanging from the ceiling, which was the scariest part of all. I told them to hurry over and I could feel all my hair stand on end because it was simply too terrifying. After everyone came over, we didn’t want to spend too much time in that tiny place, so we quickly took a picture of the clues and wanted to get out. Honestly, I was really scared and didn’t want to be the last one to go out, but we couldn’t put the girls at the back either, so when Chen Yang noticed this, he said he would be the last one and told us to go out first. Once we got out and reached the main area, we just needed to pull the closet door open for him to come out, but…that was when something happened.”

At this point, the boy clutched his face and his body started to tremble. “After we walked out, we wanted to pull the door open for him to come out, to find that the closet door was stuck for some reason and refused to budge. At this moment, we could hear the sound of a woman crying and it came in waves. We could also hear Chen Yang’s voice and he sounded like he was convulsing. We were all terrified and tried out best to pull at the closet door, but no matter how hard we tried, it refused to budge. We all started calling Chen Yang’s name and hit the closet, but nothing worked. I frantically pressed the walkie talkie b.u.t.ton to call the escape room boss over, and he cut the electricity to the room after entering the room, and we were able to pull the closet door open. But then…then…we found Chen Yang already…already lying there.”