Chapter 38: Game Start (2/2)
The boss was playing with his phone but looked up to the female ghost hanging from the beam, his face looking troubled.
This particular female ghost was given by a doll maker to his sister, someone that he wasn’t acquainted with.
This female ghost looked alarmingly life-like. He begrudgingly accepted that this haunted house was a dud, and this information was spread far and wide, so he strategically used this life-like female ghost to attract some more clients, deceiving the people who come in to sneakily fish out their money.
In any case, when the money’s in his pocket, there was no way that he would refund it. That was how he ran the haunted house, and although he truly did move his sister’s things inside the escape room, he doesn’t have the brains to successfully set up a haunted house, so it didn’t look scary at all.
The four received a blindfold when they walked out the big door with the tour guide lady.
“Handsome brothers and pretty ladies, please put these over your eyes and stand in a straight vertical line. I will now lead you to the escape room, please do not take off your blindfolds midway.”
The guide smiled as she distributed eye masks to them. The two girls stood at the front, while Bai Yan and Su Yize stood at the third and fourth place, respectively.
The quality of the eye masks was good because the four people completely didn’t see any light pass through them. What showed them before their sight was just a black void.
The guide pulled on the four’s hands as she walked forward, leading everyone to turn left, to turn right, and to walk into a quiet and long pathway. When they were walking, she used her sweet-sounding voice to introduce to everyone their goals inside the escape room.
“Everybody, the next step in the game is like this, after opening your eyes, you will all be standing inside the escape room. You have to find a mechanism and input the proper code to solve it, only then will you be allowed to enter the second escape room. In the second one, there is a key hidden away inside it. Once you find the key, then you will be able to escape the room. Altogether, the two escape rooms can be played for a maximum of 20 minutes. If 20 minutes have passed and you still haven’t left, I will come in and help you guys finish it.”
“One escape room only takes ten minutes… Isn’t this fun?” Wang Ziwen muttered, “It seems that this escape room’s challenge is just an ordinary one.”
After her explanation, the guide had closed her mouth and concentrated on guiding the players on their path.
With the sheer darkness they were experiencing right now, there weren’t any traces of the bright and blinding lights they previously saw in the mall, making the two players feel a bit sad.
Bai Yan wanted to take a small peek at his surroundings, but with Wang Ziwen pulling at him at the front and him leading along Su Yize, who was behind, he couldn’t use his hands.
And with the guide flashing a professional smile, he had no other choice but to banish the thought of him putting on the eye mask crookedly and just behave. Up until now, the guide and the boss’s expressions were normal, but if he courted disaster and strayed towards a dead end, a ferocious ghost might give him first-hand experience on what was known as despair.
In the deadly silence, the sharp echoes of everyone’s footsteps hitting the ceramic tiles could be heard. At this moment, Su Yize’s throat slightly tightened as he heard the sound of their footsteps circling about.
Amid the darkness, everyone was deprived of their sight, making their other senses stronger. So much so, that his skin felt a slight chill in the air, leading him to get goosebumps all over his body.
In this seemingly empty pathway, was there an evil spirit silently staring at them?
How could he be so sure that the air he felt streaking across his skin was not a ghost, that he could not see, putting its hand on top of his arm?
After walking until the end, Su Yize couldn’t help but regret a bit. If he had known how terrified he would be at the start, he would have asked Bai Yan to stay at the back instead of him. Standing at the front and the very end in a haunted house was the most frightening and the most dangerous. Fortunately, they only needed to solve the escape room right now. When the time comes for them to play in the haunted house, he can ask Bai Yan to switch with him.
Su Yize’s heart was determined to stay alert.
After another turn, they entered a door, and the guide finally let everyone stop to a halt.
She first quickly told everyone to not take off their masks yet, saying with a smile, “This is a pager. If you guys can’t find the clue, you can use this to request for my help. I’ll be outside the escape room waiting for you. Good luck and I hope you enjoy the game.”
The guide left the escape room after talking, and when everyone heard her leave, they then took off their masks.
Together with the guide’s unclear voice, a burst of terrifying music that could lead souls to fly away and scatter had suddenly blared on top of their heads.
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