Chapter 1120 - I Did Not Mean to Do It on Purpose! 2 in 1 (2/2)
“Her hand was not held in that gesture earlier.”
“What are you trying to say? The mannequin knows how to move on her own?”
“No, the logical explanation is that there should be a hidden room inside this room. When our attention was distracted by the monster outside the door, the workers came out from the hidden room and changed the woman’s posture.” The middle-aged woman spoke very slowly. “They probably wanted to create the impression that the danger is slowly approaching. The ghosts and monsters will move without a sound, and they might appear beside us at any scenario and at every spot. That should be the biggest selling point of this scenario.”
“You have a point.”
“That honestly is not a bad idea, but unfortunately, he has run into us. We are all top haunted house designers. With just a lift of his finger, we can already predict what he is about to do next.” Liang San’s gaze moved back into the room. “Why don’t we continue the search inside the room? Perhaps we can find some kind of hidden pathway.”
Liang San wanted to find out how Chen Ge managed to move the mannequin so silently and without notice. He wanted to steal the knowledge of these things and then apply it to his own haunted house.
“What was your name again? Don’t just stand there and do nothing. Come and help us look. I know we are visiting a haunted house, but we do not need to follow the rules laid down by the boss.” Liang San noticed Xiao Sun, who was still standing there. He thought that Xiao Sun was scared into inactivity.
“I think it’s best we follow the boss’ rules. What if some kind of accident happens?” Sun Xiaojun’s real thoughts were—If you guys continue to stray from the script, there will be no chance for me to shine.
“Didn’t Boss Chen claim that we are free to explore the scenario, that the visitors are free to do anything they wish? Today, I will teach him that bluffing has consequences. It is one thing to do that before normal visitors, but before us professional designers, a haunted house is nothing more than a delicately designed toy.” The two brothers started to search inside the room. Xiao Sun also symbolically started his search. He had not followed Chen Ge for that long. He did not recognize most of the original workers, and he was not familiar with the secrets of most of the scenarios.
Every time he wanted to ask Chen Ge what he should do, Chen Ge would just tell him to be himself. Then, when he went to ask for pointers from Ol’ Zhou, Ol’ Zhou would wax some kind of nonsense about his natural talent and that there was nothing that he could be taught. Apparently, he was perfect the way he was. Both his boss and his teacher were of no help to him. Xiao Sun felt quite helpless. He sighed lightly to himself and moved around the room, pretending to find something to do.
When other people were making their search perimeter around the woman mannequin, he was aimlessly looking through the other items in the room. He even grumbled under his breath. “When the man came through the door, even I was frightened by it. This haunted house is really scary.”
With that thought in mind, he turned back to look at the entrance. Xiao Sun realized with some confusion that the man’s gaze appeared to be fixed at a certain spot.
“Is he looking at the mirror inside the bathroom?” Xiao Sun entered the bathroom and stood before the mirror. “A scary face like that is leaning against the door. It feels even scarier looking at from the refection in the mirror.”
He held the bottom of the mirror with his palms. Xiao Sun gradually applied force. When the mirror started to nudge, a droplet of blood slid down the surface of the mirror, and then a snail shell dropped out from behind the mirror.
“A snail? The man is afraid of snails? Never mind, I am not good at this kind of guessing game. This shell is covered in a spider web. It is probably a prop left behind from a long time ago.” Xiao Sun tossed the snail shell to the side, but right then, another snail shell dropped out from behind the mirror.
“What is going on?” Xiao Sun grabbed the side of the mirror out of curiosity. He wanted to remove the mirror to take a look. As the mirror moved further from its original spot, more and more snail shells poured out from behind it.
“What are you doing?”
“Why are there so many snail shells?”
The other people heard the strange noises, so they too hurried into the bathroom. Before Xiao Sun could answer their question, they saw the wall next to the mirror suddenly give way to reveal a door that was painted with a bright red snail.
“The hidden pathway‽” Xiao Sun and the Liang brothers said in unison. They had not spent that much time in the haunted house, and they had already found the hidden pathway inside the first room of the first sub scenario!
Liang Er and Liang San were overjoyed. They had finally found the hidden pathway inside the haunted house. Whether this would help clear the scenario or not, it would be intensely helpful to get to the bottom of Chen Ge’s secrets. Xiao Sun was stunned out of his mind. He had heard from Chen Ge that there were nine hidden pathways in the nine sub scenarios. All nine pathways could lead directly to the hidden scenario. The rag doll’s broken body parts were hidden inside the hidden scenarios, but at the whole haunted house, only Chen Ge knew where the hidden pathways were located. Not even Xiao Sun knew about their exact locations.
This is bad. I seem to have done something irrevocably horrible.
Xiao Sun was still holding the mirror. His mind was spinning rapidly. He was supposed to be there to add trouble to the visitors, but the first thing he did helped the visitors find the hidden pathway and saved them plenty of time.
“You are good, Xiao Sun. I am surprised you are that detail-orientated of a person. None of us professionals even noticed this hidden mechanism.” Liang San patted Xiao Sun’s shoulder in praise, and then he moved to push open the door with the snail painted on it. The surrounding temperature dropped again. Behind the door was a staircase that led deep underground. Standing at the top of the stairs, one was unable to see the end.
Being praised by the visitors, Xiao Sun also did not know what to say. Before he could figure out what to do next, he saw Liang Er and Liang San switch on their flashlights and enter the hidden path.
“Hey! Be careful! We were warned against moving on our own!” Xiao Sun wanted to hold them back, but the few overly confident haunted house designers did not give him the time of day. Including the middle-aged woman, all three of them filed into the stairs.
Cold, dark, quiet. The scary feeling could no longer be described in simple words. This was far beyond the realm of a simple game. The path was surprisingly long, but they still managed to reach the end of it eventually. A pure black iron door appeared before them. The door was reeking of disinfectant. If one looked closely, one could see black threads wiggling on it. Everything inside the hidden path was scary, but the words beside the iron door that said ‘please close the door after you enter’ ruined the scary atmosphere quite a bit.
“What do you reckon’s behind the door? The body parts of the rag doll? This haunted house’s surveillance room?”
“I guess it is the dressing room, and we will run into a bunch of actors putting on their make-up.”
“Well, we will find out by opening the door, won’t we?”
Liang San pushed open the heavy and unwieldy black iron door. Instantly, an endless sea of black fog rolled out and directly swallowed these few lucky visitors. When the black iron door closed again, there was only Sun Xiaojun left alone inside the hidden corridor. His Adam’s apple wiggled. Sun Xiaojun had taken a glimpse of the world behind the door. He dropped down to the stairs.
“This is bad. These three have not even experienced a one-star scenario before. They have entered the ghost fetus’ world of black fog without any preparation!”
This was similar to a patient, thinking that he had a sore throat, going to the hospital for a consultation but being wheeled directly into the crematorium.
“The red high heels is recovering the ghost fetus’ memory inside the world in the process of becoming a Demon God. She definitely will not expect the visitors to find her within five minutes of the game starting!” Just the thought of the accidents that might happen inside there made Xiao Sun’s scalp go numb. “I really did not mean to do this! This can’t do! I need to contact Boss Chen immediately! This is an issue of life and death!”