Chapter 44
Bai Yan walked out of the exit and returned to the entrance of the haunted house again.
Standing in front of the dim passage, Wang Ziwen saw Bai Yan coming out and asked anxiously: "Excuse me, have you seen my best friend Xu Xiaojing? I found that she was missing after I came here! How can such a big person just disappear?"
"Is someone missing again?"
Considering the last time, Bai Yan suddenly had a guess. The first time it was the guide who disappeared, and the second time it was Xu Xiaojing who disappeared, so next time they walked out of the exit, would someone else be missing?
Every time someone went out, one person disappeared. What does this mean?
At this time, Su Yize also came over early and stood at the entrance to ponder together.
The way out of this game was very vague. They didn't find many useful clues in the secret room and the first two haunted houses. And one person will disappear in each round of haunted house tour. It seems that they don't have many chances.
Because Wang Ziwen is still around, some things are hard for the two to say.
However, they all know that according to the order of disappearance in the first two rounds, the next one should be Wang Ziwen.
"Not good, I should have swapped places with him if I had known."
Bai Yan glanced at Su Yize, who now had a glimmer of joy in his eyes, and obviously figured it out. He had not agreed to swap places with him before, but who would have thought that the most dangerous thing was not the last one, but the order of entering the haunted house.
After Wang Ziwen disappeared, he would be the next one to disappear in the haunted house. He must find clues within two rounds, otherwise Xu Xiaojing and the guide would be a lesson for him.
"But does disappearance mean real death? But in any case, she is probably in danger."
In the game, disappearance is often equivalent to death.
The two players are well aware of this, but Wang Ziwen doesn't think so. She still shouts loudly, hoping to find her friends.
"Xiaojing! Where have you been, Xiaojing!"
"Xiaojing! Did you hear me, Xiaojing?!"
Wang Ziwen was about to shout at the top of her lungs, afraid that she would attract bad things, so Bai Yan persuaded her: "Your best friend might be missing in such a haunted place..."
"You're talking nonsense, Xiaojing will be fine! She just got lost suddenly!"
Wang Ziwen's face turned pale and she didn't want to believe this fact. She said stubbornly: "Xiaojing must still be in this haunted house, maybe just in front. I don't care if you are afraid, I must find Xiaojing anyway!"
After that, she ran forward regardless. Seeing the important NPC leave, Bai Yan and Su Yize could only follow immediately.
Wang Ziwen was very brave and could verify a lot of information for them, so they naturally didn't want to miss it.
He followed Wang Ziwen all the way at a trot. When he saw Wang Ziwen stop panting and slow down her pace, Bai Yan also paused and changed from running to walking.
On the way, Bai Yan did not give up observing the layout of the haunted house. This time, the black wall began to flow, and countless hairs slowly protruded from the wall. The more they went forward, the more hairs there were, as if they wanted to block their way.
Because of the example of Wang Ziwen breaking hands with punches and kicking people's heads, Bai Yan suspected that these ghosts could not kill people without meeting certain conditions.
So, he boldly touched the wall with his hands, trying to find out the strangeness of the wall. As a result, as soon as his hand touched the wall, two ghost hands grabbed his arms and dragged him in, and in a moment half of his body was pulled into the wall!
"Fuck, are you going to die like this!"
Seeing the dense hair entangled with most of Bai Yan's face, Su Yize was shocked. He had never seen such a player who was going to die. He knew that there was a ghost in the wall but still had to take risks. Wouldn't this person be mentally ill?
Bai Yan kept struggling between the walls, and Su Yize saw it and had no intention of helping him. It's not hard to help pull it, but he will take a considerable risk, so he will never do it.
Su Yize didn't call Wang Ziwen, but stood quietly on the wall to observe the hair, and was more alert to the hair covering the passage ahead.
"Sure enough, the ghost can't directly attack us at present. Xu Xiaojing was caught by the ghost hand before, and it's okay for me now." Bai Yan glanced at Su Yize. This man didn't even call Wang Ziwen, obviously he was looking forward to watching the show.
Although the App advocates mutual help among players in the forum, and also deletes posts to create a positive energy environment, human nature is evil. Don't expect players to help each other selflessly in such a distorted environment as the game world.
Bai Yan didn't care about Su Yize's cold eyes. If it were him, he would probably do the same.
He casually patted off the ghost hair scattered on his head, and quickly caught up with Wang Ziwen. At the speed of running, the three of them ran half the distance in less than three minutes. Wang Ziwen was anxious for Xu Xiaojing, but when she ran halfway, she suddenly stopped.
"Look, there's a corpse in front!"
Not far from the three people, there was a mummy in a corner of the wall. The mummy was pale and thin, not in human form, as if it had starved to death.
The mummy lay quietly in the corner, its eyes wide open with dead despair. In its hand was a notebook paper covered with blood, which attracted the attention of the three people in the dim light.
"Is it also... a ghost?"
"I don't know, let's go over and take a look, maybe we can find clues to leave the haunted house."
Halfway through the run, Wang Ziwen actually despaired of finding Xu Xiaojing. In the endless cycle of haunted houses, the possibility that Xu Xiaojing is still alive is very slim. Wang Ziwen walked up to the mummy with a stiff face. As she approached, the mummy remained motionless, as if it was really just a corpse with no abnormalities.
After Wang Ziwen approached, seeing that the mummy did not jump up and attack, Bai Yan and Su Yize quickly walked over to collect clues.
Next to the mummy, there was a notebook and a used gel pen. The three people thought that the mummy would write with blood because the pen ran out of oil.
"What's written on this piece of paper?"
Su Yize walked last, but grabbed things very quickly. He opened the hand of the mummy and took the notebook paper filled with blood writing in his hand first. When he saw the looks from the two people, he couldn't keep it to himself, so he read the contents dryly -
"'I came in with five friends. The others were all dead, and I was the only one left. In fact, the exit of the haunted house was a trap, and there was only the entrance...' It was covered with blood, and I couldn't see clearly." said After finishing, Su Yize continued to read: "I have been trapped here for five days and I no longer have the strength to go out. I hope you..."
"All the words end here, there is nothing more behind."
A little distrustful of Su Yize's reading, Bai Yan ignored Su Yize's slightly sullen expression and leaned over to read the information on the paper again. Just as Su Yize said, the key information on the paper was covered with black blood, making it impossible to read the handwriting clearly.
"This person is also a tourist who entered the haunted house by mistake..." Wang Ziwen flipped through the notebook, her face became paler: "He and his friends entered this haunted house five days ago, but they couldn't get out. As we wandered around the haunted house, more and more people disappeared, and he was the only one left in the haunted house who dared not leave. As a result, he starved to death. Will we do the same? "
Wang Ziwen is an optimistic person, but seeing tourists like them trapped in the haunted house, no matter how optimistic she is, she can't help but feel despair.
The six previous tourists have died here, and her best friend has also disappeared into the haunted house. I am afraid that like her friends who are mummified, they are in danger. Can she really get out?
Wang Ziwen was a little broken. Bai Yan came to the notebook and hurriedly scanned it. He murmured in his heart: "He can live for five days without water and food. What did he eat in these five days?"
Moreover, the key information was covered in blood, and it looked like something was done on purpose.
Mr. Mummy didn't say what was at the entrance, only that the exit was a trap. Bai Yan raised his head and looked forward. The hair on the ground became thicker as he went forward, and the lush hair on the wall couldn't hide the white thighs and legs inside. arm.
When he looked back, the hair on the back was obviously thinner, and the wall didn't look as scary as in the front. Looking at the blood that is vaguely visible in the passage ahead, perhaps as this notebook says, the road to the exit is hell.
"Go back? I don't think it's appropriate." Su Yize said: "The things recorded in this notebook may be fake. Maybe it is the real trap."
"I also have this feeling. The road leading to the exit is very scary, but the way back seems less dangerous. Whether it is the notebook or the environment of the haunted house, it seems that they want us to return to the entrance, and seem to be deliberately driving us away."
Bai Yan suggested: "Why don't we go to the exit to check the situation first, and if there is nothing abnormal, we can turn back."
"I agree."
"Okay, that's okay with me."
Wang Ziwen bit her lip slightly. She didn't see Xu Xiaojing on the way before, maybe Xiaojing would be waiting for her in the passage behind. With a glimmer of hope, she steeled herself and continued to move forward.
The road leading to the exit became more and more gloomy. At the back, gloomy ghost hair covered the entire passage, and countless severed limbs twisted inside the wall. Every time the three of them took a step, countless hairs wrapped around their legs, trying to wrap them up.
Reading the notebook took the three of them a lot of time. Under the obstruction of Guifa, they could not go faster at all, and they had to be careful of the wildly dancing severed limbs pulling them into the wall.
There was still a short distance to go until they were about to reach the exit. Bai Yan looked at the time and saw that they had already spent ten minutes in the three-wheeled haunted house.
The hair under her feet became more and more difficult to tangle with. Wang Ziwen tried hard to free her feet from the hair and took another step forward. After turning a corner, she suddenly stopped and let the hair climb up from her calves. The person was stunned.
"What's wrong?"
"Xiaojing, I saw Xiaojing..." Wang Ziwen couldn't believe her eyes: "Xiaojing is right in front!"
Seeing her missing best friend, Wang Ziwen suddenly gained strength. She pulled out her legs from her hair and walked forward quickly. In the corner in front of her squatted a girl holding her head and crying. Looking from behind, her figure and her clothes were that of Xu Xiaojing.
Before Bai Yan and the two could catch up, Wang Ziwen walked up to the girl and patted her on the shoulder.
"Xiaojing, I found you." Wang Ziwen smiled from the bottom of her heart.
"Wenwen, it's you."
The girl slowly turned around, and when she saw her face, Wang Ziwen's smile froze.