Chapter 1127 - The Birth of an Actor 2 in 1 (2/2)
“The disclaimer forms are meant for the visitors. It could be tempered with by the actors. As an actor at this place, they could fill in any information that they want. Who can tell if they have used a fake name or not?” Sister Snake managed to keep a cool head. This went to show how mentally stable this woman was.
“Then what about Sun Xiaojun? What should we do about him?”
“Now that there are only four of us left, of course it is best that we do not stray from each other.” Sister Snake stared at Sun Xiaojun for a very long time. Her scrutiny caused Sun Xiaojun to wilt under it. “What we need to do next is find the people from Jiujiang Medical University and try to meet up with them as soon as possible.”
“But didn’t Fu Bole say that they are quite possibly actors hired by the haunted house?”
“After they departed, people have continued to go missing in our group, so the people from the university probably have nothing to do with their disappearance. Furthermore, think back to the words that the forensic students and doctor have been trying to tell us from the very beginning. Their intention was to unite the group, but they were sorely misunderstood by Fu Bole and Wei Chaochao.” Sister Snake finally got it now, but it was already too late. “if we still wish to clear this scenario, we can only make this bet. If the forensic students are actual visitors, then we still have a chance of clearing this scenario. But if they are also actors hired by the haunted house, there is nothing else we can do but the surrender to our fate.”
When the nine people entered Chen Ge’s haunted house earlier, their pride had practically been palpable, but twenty minutes later, the most prideful among them had already been taken care of.
“We have not stumbled across any scare points, but the visitors have disappeared one after another. Are we messing around in a haunted house, or is the haunted house messing with us?” Ma Feng’s brows were tightly knitted together. Ever since the black fog rolled into the street, his brows had not relaxed even an inch.
“A four-star scenario is literally the most difficult scenario at this haunted house; being messed with by it is totally normal.” Sister Snake appeared to have accepted their hapless situation. “Since we are already in this unfortunate state, there is no point complaining. It is meaningless. Earlier, when I was thinking back to what the forensic students said at the beginning of the game, I realized something very important.”
“What did you discover? Is it related to the exit?” Shang Guan Qing Hong immediately sidled over to her.
“The student called He San compared this black fog to poisonous fog in games, and staying in the black fog for too long will cause bad things to happen. Now think about it. The first team to disappear, Liang Er and Liang San’s group, was the first to encounter the black fog. The couple that was originally behind us and the disappearance of Fu Bole and Wei Chaochao probably had to do with the fact that they stayed in the black fog for too long as well.” Sister Snake was coming up with her analysis with the little clues that they had. “The black fog represents literal misfortune. If we do not wish to end up in the same fate as them, we’d better stay away from the black fog.”
“Then, let’s not waste time and hurry on to the next scenario,” Shang Guan Qing Hong urged desperately.
“The black fog is continuing to spread. In the end, the whole scenario will be covered by the fog. There is no escape. Now, the only way that we know to proceed in this scenario is to search for the hidden pathways. Liang Er, Liang San, and the woman disappeared in the first building, so they must have found the hidden pathway, but the pathway could only be used one time. Therefore, we need to find a new pathway.” Sister Snake sighed. “The black fog is just the first challenge. Perhaps the real game will only begin after we enter the hidden pathway. The difficulty of this haunted house is indeed over the top. It is definitely not for normal visitors.”
“Stop grumbling. We should start departing to go look for the hidden pathways and the medical university students now.” Ma Feng glanced at Sun Xiaojun, who was standing to the side with a blank expression on his face. “You should come with us as well.”
“Oh… okay.” The remaining four visitors hurried to leave the cafeteria because this place was slowly being enveloped by the black fog as well. Thus, they decided to skip exploring the cafeteria and hurried down the street. One had to admit that due to various reasons, these few visitors had made the best decision. Not long after they departed, the cafeteria entrance slammed opened with Wei Chaochao and Fu Bole being tossed out and landing on the ground unconscious.
Behind them trailed a woman in a red raincoat, a boy in a red shirt, and a fatty wearing a red school uniform and a chef’s hat walking out from the cafeteria. The three ‘people’ were harboring a pot of fire in their hearts as they rushed toward the surviving visitors.
After about half a minute, Chen Ge and the other experienced employees arrived at the scene. They sent a few people to carry Wei Chaochao and Fu Bole to the underground morgue while the others chased after the three enraged Red Specters.
The black fog was spreading at an incredibly fast rate. To prevent themselves from being consumed by the black fog, the visitors had decided to skip a few scenarios that they encountered along the way and came to the end of the Voiceless Small Town. At the end of the dim street, to the left was a maternal and childcare center that was half buried underground while an apartment building that was painted fully back was on the right. These two sub-scenarios were respectively the scariest building in the world behind Wu Sheng’s door and the scariest building behind Ying Tong’s door. In comparison to these two buildings, the Soundless Home could only be considered a beginner’s tutorial.
“Which one should we choose? Quick. We need to come up with a decision before the black fog rolls over.” Ma Feng turned to look at Shang Guan Qing Hong and Sister Snake. The two could not come to a decision either.
“Normally hospitals are places with the most intense Yin energy. We’d better pick the apartment building on the right.” The three of them soon reached a consensus, and they had Sun Xiaojun lead the way.
“Do you guys want to reconsider this? We still have something.” Xiao Sun knew the place that they were heading toward was actually the sub-scenario called the Spire of Darkness. This sub scenario was very unique. Just like how the Soundless Home could absorb sound, the Spire of Darkness could absorb light. Once they entered it, they would slowly lose their power of sight, and they would experience despair in the deepest depths of darkness. Even Chen Ge had almost died in this scenario, much less these hapless visitors.
It was because he knew this sub scenario was more dangerous that the kind and careful Boss Chen had purposely filled the Spire of Darkness with an exorbitant number of lingering spirits and baleful Specters to protect the safety of the visitors. Most of the baleful Specters and lingering spirits that he had obtained during his ghost fetus mission were placed in the Spire of Darkness. That way, even after the visitors lost their sight and could not see anything, they would not trip and fall, accidentally injuring themselves. When they sank into darkness, every visitor would have several lingering spirits following closely behind them.
“This was your choice. It has nothing to do with me at all,” Sun Xiaojun grumbled under his breath and was the first to enter the Spire of Darkness sub-scenario. The dark corridor appeared to have no ending. A strange moldy substance came off from the corners of the walls, and occasionally, one could even hear the calls of cats. The voice-activated lights above them flickered on and off, and the entrance behind them blurred out of view.
“Did you guys notice that the light inside this building is slowly weakening?” Sister Snake looked at the light that came out from her own telephone screen, and she noticed something weird about it.
“Perhaps it is your mind playing tricks on you. Stop wasting time on that. We need to hurry to find the hidden pathways.” Ma Feng and Shang Guan Qing Hong opened all the doors that they passed. They put their entire focus into the search for the hidden pathways, such that they did not notice that the calls of the cat beside their ears were getting louder and louder as if warning them that ‘something’ extremely dangerous was approaching them.
The iron door that led to the staircase was locked without anyone noticing. The voice-controlled lights in the corridor flickered a few times before they suddenly went off completely.