Chapter 39

The deafening music came from the sky, making everyone's heart tremble.

However, the three of them had experience in playing in haunted houses, and knew that the shrill and terrifying music was a characteristic tradition of haunted houses, so they recovered quickly. Xu Xiaojing, on the other hand, had a pale face and began to tremble slightly since she heard the music.

"The reviews are right. The sound of this haunted house is really loud and can deafen people's ears." Wang Ziwen muttered and pulled Xu Xiaojing to the side to look for the mechanism.

Wang Ziwen knocked around in the haunted house, and Bai Yan and the others also began to search around in the secret room. From the time they bought the tickets, the countdown began to flow. They had to get out of the haunted house within an hour and a half, so the two of them moved very quickly.

"The countdown has passed one and a half minutes. We just spent one and a half minutes in the passage. We must be faster."

The layout of the secret room is clear at a glance. It is a house painted gray, with no windows or doors. There was only a table in front of the two opposite walls, and a white iron cabinet in front of the other wall, which blocked the wall tightly.

Bai Yan and Su Yize walked to the table, where a bloody head model was placed.

The head was made very roughly, and it was somewhat similar to the zombie head in Plants vs. Zombies. No wonder Wang Ziwen, a haunted house expert, was not interested in the things on the table.

"Generally speaking, there will be something hidden in this kind of model."

Bai Yan held the head up, turned it upside down and shook it hard, but no props came out. So he tentatively put his finger into the mouth of the model, and sure enough, he took out a note with a blood-red number written on it - '4'.

"This should be one of the codes to leave the secret room."

He put the note on the table and looked up at Su Yize. While he was struggling with the head, Su Yize squatted in front of the corner of the wall on the right side of the table, where a skeleton wearing a white bloody shirt was placed.

For Su Yize, who had played three games and seen many evil spirits, this prop couldn't be more fake. However, fearing that this fake prop skeleton would be resurrected, he carefully put his hands into the two pockets of the skeleton and felt around. In a few seconds, he got a key from one of the pockets.

This key should correspond to the locked drawer in the center under the table.

Su Yize picked up the key to unlock it and got a new note from the drawer with 3 written on it.

While the two were making good progress, Wang Ziwen on the other side was also very smooth. In just one minute, she found the mechanism on the wall.

"I found the place to enter the password!"

Wang Ziwen knocked open the small piece of wall, revealing a panel in the gray wall. There were ten numbers from 0 to 9 printed on it, and above the numbers, tourists were required to enter a 4-digit password.

"Did you find the password?" Wang Ziwen asked Bai Yan and the others.

"Found it, one 4 and one 3." Bai Yan said, "The rest should be in that cabinet."

Su Yize had already stood in front of the cabinet. He opened the large white iron cabinet. There was a long little broom inside and a note with 0 written on it at the bottom of the cabinet.

Seeing this scene, Wang Ziwen was very disappointed: "It's been less than two minutes, and we have found three passwords. Even if there are four of us playing, the progress is too fast. No wonder there are so many complaints on the Internet."

After playing here, Wang Ziwen no longer has any expectations for this secret room. She can only hope that the next secret room will be more fun.

After playing so many secret rooms and haunted houses, she can even guess where the door to leave this secret room is hidden.

Wang Ziwen was about to direct Bai Yan and the others to move the cabinet away when she heard Xu Xiaojing screaming through her eardrums, which made her feel the first shock since entering the secret room.

"Xiaojing, what's wrong?"

Wang Ziwen hurried over. Hearing the scream, Bai Yan and Su Yize followed closely and hurried to look at Xu Xiaojing.

Xu Xiaojing was standing in front of a raised wall, her figure was extremely stiff. Wang Ziwen tried to kick the raised wall with her foot, and the gray wooden board of the same color as the wall was kicked away. There was a large iron cage in the raised wall, and a prop zombie was placed in the cage. Once the wooden board was kicked away, it would roar and intimidate the person who triggered the mechanism.

Xu Xiaojing was frightened by this just now.

Facing the indescribable gazes from the two men, Wang Ziwen was a little embarrassed. She didn't expect her best friend to be so timid. If she had known, she would have refused the boss's request and played with her best friend, so that she could save some face for her best friend.

"I, I know, but I'm still a little scared. Its sound is too scary!" Because the music in the secret room was too loud, Xu Xiaojing said this while shouting.

Xu Xiaojing was in a bad state, but fortunately she didn't cry. Thinking that her bestie could still hold on, Wang Ziwen turned on the flashlight and kicked the wooden board away again, and found that there was also a note in the zombie cage, but the note was placed very deep inside and was not easy to tick.

"Two handsome guys, can someone help sweep out the password with a broom? My bestie is a little timid, and someone needs to hold up the wooden board."

"I'll do it."

Su Yize was moving the cabinet, so Bai Yan took the broom to sweep the note.

With the help of the broom, he swept out the note in one go, and it said 5, so now all 4 digits of the password were collected.

As Wang Ziwen expected, the door to another secret room was indeed hidden behind the cabinet.

She combined the four numbers once, and finally used the combination of 4503 to open the door. Not counting the time wasted in the passage, it took a total of three and a half minutes for several people to enter the new secret room. Under the action of the mechanism, as soon as they entered the new secret room, the door of the old secret room was closed.

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The playability of the old secret room was very ordinary, but as the owner of the haunted house promised, the new secret room was arranged according to the appearance of the previous owner when he committed suicide, and the room was full of unpleasant corpse odor.

There was a kicked-over chair in the middle of the room, and a hanging rope was hung from the ceiling.

But the strange thing was that there was no female corpse hanging on the rope. The bare hanging rope swayed slightly in the air, as if it was blown up by their action of walking into the room.

"Where is the person on top? Why does this rope move by itself?" Looking at the empty hanging rope, Xu Xiaojing felt uneasy: "Didn't the boss say that the female boss died by hanging? Why is there no one on the rope? Could she have run down by herself?"

"Also, why is this room so smelly?"

"...Don't let your imagination run wild. I'm not scared by the secret room, but I'm almost scared by your imagination." Wang Ziwen shook her head, trying to dispel the scary scene in her bestie's mouth: "This secret room is quite lifelike, it really looks like someone has lived in it. It's obviously not as scary as the haunted houses I've been to before, but why do I always feel a little creepy."

Wang Ziwen thought about it, and finally attributed this uneasy feeling to the story told by the owner of the haunted house.

The owner of the haunted house is not very good at arranging the secret room, but his storytelling level is first-class. Wang Ziwen thinks that this must be the psychological suggestion imposed by the owner of the haunted house, making her think that there is really a ghost in the room.

"Interesting, other haunted houses usually tie corpse props to the hanging rope, but this haunted house does the opposite. Combined with the previous story, is it to deliberately create a feeling of corpse walking to scare us? This routine is the first time I have seen..."

Wang Ziwen shook off her previous uneasiness and regained some interest: "There is no female corpse hanging on the hanging rope, which means that the boss must have hidden the female corpse somewhere else in the secret room, so as to scare the players unexpectedly. Let me see where the corpse prop is hidden."

Wang Ziwen analyzed it and pulled the pale-faced Xu Xiaojing to look for the female corpse in the secret room.

Wang Ziwen turned a good escape from the secret room into a corpse-hunting journey.

Bai Yan and Su Yize never expected the actions of the NPCs. In their opinion, the only use of NPCs is to help them explore the way with their lives.

The NPCs had fun by themselves, but the two were much more cautious about this house.

The two girls may think that the owner of the haunted house is bragging, but they believe that the owner of the haunted house is not lying.

Bai Yan thought that he might be too sensitive, so he quickly looked away.

Su Yize went to the closet to check, and he walked to the female boss's desk to search for possible clues.

This is the room of a woman living alone, but her desk is unexpectedly tidy.

There are a pile of books and papers neatly stacked on the desk. In addition, there is a pen holder on the desk, which is full of stationery.

Bai Yan opened the books and papers. There were red lines drawn on the books with a red pen, but they were all marks used by the female boss for study, and there was no special meaning.

The white paper was clean and there was no handwriting on it.

There was nothing useful on the desk, so Bai Yan started to look through the drawers below.

The drawers were full of sundries such as nail clippers and scissors. When he turned over a knife, Bai Yan's eyes froze. The knife was covered with dried blood, and he could smell the pungent smell of rust when he smelled it close.

Bai Yan put the knife on the table and pulled open another drawer. In the other drawer was a mobile phone that was destroyed beyond recognition.

The screen and tempered glass of the phone were completely cracked, and it looked like the owner had hit it hard.

However, from the severely worn edge of the tempered glass, Bai Yan could tell that the owner had been using this phone for a long time, and even had no time to replace the tempered glass when it was worn out.

Unfortunately, the phone was completely broken, and nothing extra could be analyzed from it.

He put down the phone, knocked on the table, and squatted down to check the bottom of the table, but except for a few drops of blood on the floor, he did not find any other clues.

"There is blood on the knife. Does this female boss have a tendency to self-harm? Or did she fail to cut her wrists, so she turned to hanging?" Bai Yan pondered, "The phone should have been dropped before committing suicide, otherwise it would not have been moved to the secret room by the haunted house owner."

Putting the broken screen phone and the knife together, Bai Yan picked up the trash can next to him, and there were some scraps of paper with handwriting scattered in the can.

The trash can was very clean, and there was nothing else except the paper, so Bai Yan did not feel disgusted and directly poured the paper on the table.