Chapter 574 - Desperate Escape (1/2)

Chapter 574 (Desperate Escape)

Qiao Liang looked around and sighed with emotion. Boss Pei was always able to come up with new tricks.

The experience of the Thriller Hostel was different from other places.

Basically, all the buildings were remodeled by the old industrial zones so they had a sense of age. At the same time, the style of the entire area was very uniform. There was no feeling that a certain building was particularly outstanding. The feeling of the entire area was that it was very open, just like a park.

Many amusement parks need to purchase entrance tickets to limit the flow of people so they would appear relatively closed. Tourists were more anxious after entering because time was limited. They all wanted to hurry to the famous projects, queue up, and play so they would not feel at ease to hang out.

What was different here was that they could enter and exit at will. It gave people the feeling of walking in the nearby park, which was more relaxing

In no time, everyone came to the central square and saw the peculiar maze and healing fountain in front of it.

Looking towards the distance, they could see large workshops where the three projects were located. The road signs clearly pointed out the directions. The names of the three projects were: Desperate Escape, Haunted House Nightmare, and Ultimate Horror.

There were leaflets at the entrance of nearby shops which could be picked up by tourists. In addition to the map of the entire Thriller Hostel, there were also introductions to the different projects.

Someone took a few leaflets and distributed them to everyone.

“Fu*k, the prices differ so much? Desperate Escape is only 10 yuan when Ultimate Horror is 100 yuan?” “Ultimate Horror sounds like something that spent a lot of money to build.”

“Ultimate Horror’ had no introduction, only two words: Don’t go? Fu*king advertisement, I’m more tempted to go now…”

“But there is definitely a big problem with this pricing strategy? Reading the introduction, Desperate Escape seems to be a replayable model like Be Quiet. Since it was replayable, shouldn’t the price be sent higher? At least 30 yuan?”

“The Ultimate Horror is rather expensive. It’s just a large factory space. Many people were scared out of it within five minutes. Wouldn’t most people be worried about their wallets and not dare to go?”

“Who knows? Let’s enter and see how it is.”

It was still the year 2011. Jingzhou was a second-tier city so 100 yuan on a haunted house ticket was relatively high. Of course, Desperate Escape, which cost only 10 yuan, was very affordable.

Since the park was just open and it was still Friday morning, the flow of people had yet to reach the peak. Desperate Escape had a queue, but it was not too long.

They quickly entered the tail of the queue.

Judging from the number of people-other than those wandering around and shopping in the Golden Maze, 70% of the tourists were prepared to experience the first project, 30% went to the second project, and none were at the third. The sporadic few asked about it but were soon told to pass the second project first.

It was obviously best to queue for the first project when there were still few people.

In the process of queuing, Qiao Liang observed the number of people they let in each time. He found that they would let in about a hundred people each time and then wait for fifteen minutes to let the next set of people in.

Qiao Liang looked at the leaflet in his hand again and realized that the interior of this large factory building was divided into ten parts with a total of five different decoration styles. Each of them was more than four hundred square meters which could be experienced by ten people.

Therefore, the queue walked fairly fast, but many tourists from the exit ran to the end of the queue again, seemingly excited and wanted to play a second time.

Qiao Liang and others were in rather advanced positions. It was his turn after waiting for fifteen minutes.

Everyone had seen the specific rules of this project on the sign beside it while in the queue. It gave Qiao Liang the feeling of a simplified version of Be Quiet. The scene seemed to be similar, probably used similar art styles in the game. That added on to his anticipation.

Before entering the project, a staff handed out a special bracelet to everyone to be returned after the game.

This bracelet seemed to have a heart-monitoring function. It also had a bright and every eye-catching light on it.

Everyone could choose the scene freely before entering. There were mental hospitals, lunatic villages, country hotels, castles, and schools. These scenes were obviously consistent with the classic scenes in Be Quiet, just a miniature version.

Moreover, it was certainly impossible to build an old castle in the factory, just as close as possible in style.

The map was reduced, gameplay simplified, and the pace accelerated. It was obviously to reduce the time required to learn and only retain the most interesting gameplay. It was so that the tourists could understand the gameplay in the shortest time and have fun while at it.

Desperate Escape was a special escape room from the point of view of the rules. All tourists play the role of ordinary people being locked in. Everyone’s common goal was to find the decryption spell in the setting, activate it, and find an exit to escape.

The decryption spell was arranged in advance and scattered throughout the entire venue. There were a few dozen of them, but only one dozen of them would be activated in each round which created randomness.

The tourists would be able to accumulate their progress by bringing their wristbands near to the decryption spells. It would be permanently activated, bringing them one step closer to winning the game.

There would be a staff who acted as a lunatic, wandering around the venue. He would have a portable speaker, playing terrifying roars and BGM to remind tourists that terror was approaching