Geng Yiyi was the second to go downstairs. Seeing the zombie facing her in the storage room, she shuddered in fear, but quickly realized it was a trick by the production team. She carefully went downstairs, holding onto the wall, and whispered tentatively, "Ningning?"

She clearly heard a female scream. Bai Ningning was the only girl in the room besides her, so Ningning must have woken up.

Bai Ningning trotted over from the living room: "Be careful when you go downstairs. My brother just fell here."

Geng Yiyi: "It's a bit scary indeed. Did you create the password?"

Bai Ningning: "I set the code, and I instructed Zhizhi to trigger the mechanism. This was originally a storage shelf, but it turned into this. Neither of us dared to go over, because he went to help my brother with his wounds."

Geng Yiyi felt that leaving it open like this was not a good idea. Every time she passed by, she would be startled by the zombie and ask, "Do you know how to turn it back?"

Bai Ningning shook her head. "Touching the pillar will turn it around, but we tried touching it and it wouldn't turn back. There must be some other mechanism."

Seeing the storage room filled with strange spells and formations, Geng Yiyi didn't dare go in, fearing that some real weapon might be hidden inside and would be exposed by her. She followed Bai Ningning into the living room and asked, "How did you know that touching the pillar would trigger it?"

Bai Ningning began to talk nonsense seriously: "Oh, I saw an infrared device."

Geng Yiyi was stunned for a moment, then returned to observing the pillar. "Where is the infrared device? Can you point it out to me?"

Bai Ningning: "I don't know, I was just making it up."

Geng Yiyi was skeptical and followed her to the living room.

Bai Ningning: "That pillar looks really awkward there. I'm guessing there's some design involved. The most common ones are infrared or gravity. So I'll let him touch it first. If that doesn't work, we'll try gravity."

Geng Yiyi: "So you're not sure what it actually does?"

Bai Ningning: "You know those range hoods that you turn on with a wave of your hand? One wave turns it on, another wave turns it off, same principle."

Geng Yiyi: “?”

"I seem to smell something nasty." Chu Xisen suddenly pretended to be a green tea, "Oh, my legs hurt a little, sister, come and help me."

Bai Ningning and Gu Bozhi helped him sit on the sofa and wondered, "Doesn't it hurt when you sit like this?"

Chu Xisen said frankly: "It doesn't hurt. They are just minor injuries. I often get injuries big and small when I practice dancing."

Bai Ningning: "...you should really put on a good show. Didn't you just scream in pain?"

Chu Xisen smiled cunningly, making it clear that he was deliberately trying to make things difficult for Geng Yiyi.

Bai Ningning didn't want to get involved in the conflict between them. She was just thinking about how to get the zombies in the storage room back when she heard someone rolling down the stairwell.

The four people in the living room reacted differently, but they all curiously leaned over to see who had made the noise. When they turned around, they saw that the remaining three people were huddled together at the door of the storage room, but they were all crawling out with terrified looks on their faces.

Chu Xisen said sarcastically, "I was alone just now and you were still taking pictures with your camera. Now there are three of you and you don't use a camera? Isn't that a bit rude?"

Bai Ningning paused: "But this picture looks a bit weird. I feel like I'll have nightmares after filming it..."

Chu Xisen suddenly leaned close to Bai Ningning's ear and asked, "Do you think he looks familiar?"

Bai Ningning: "What?"

Chu Xisen: "Three dogs from hell."

Bai Ningning: “?”

While the two were making dry jokes, Geng Yiyi and Gu Bozhi had already helped their older brother and younger brother up.

Chu Xisen said with emotion: "As expected, every family has to drop one. I feel mentally balanced now."

Cheng Annan was so frightened that he blurted out, "What the hell is this? What the hell is going on?!"

Several people sat down on the sofa in the living room. The twins didn't want to get too close to them, so they sat next to the dining table.

Chu Xisen didn't want to sit, so Bai Ningning stood with him.

Bai Ningning: "I suggest someone with a high IQ go and see how the zombie turns back - there's a mechanism on the wall that allows it to turn."

Cheng Anbei asked, "Weren't you quite smart yesterday? Go ahead."

Bai Ningning waved her hands repeatedly, took three steps back, and said in panic: "I can't do it. I'm timid. I don't even dare to get close."

Everyone: “?”

She acted very resistant and didn't even go near the storage room to help people. Everyone realized that she was really scared.

Gu Bozhi clasped his hands together and changed the subject, saying, "I'll prepare breakfast for everyone first. Toast and fried eggs, please? I bought the bread yesterday and it's within its expiration date."

When he added the last sentence, he looked at the twins of the Cheng family.

Cheng Annan's face turned pale, but he still refused arrogantly: "Don't worry about me, I don't want to eat."

Cheng Anbei also shook his head.

They went to bed hungry last night, and now they were not only too hungry but also scared by the zombies. They had no appetite at all and just wanted to vomit. They had no interest in Gu Bozhi's "inferior" food at all.

They looked at each other and prepared to go back to their room to eat some snacks, as they had brought a lot with them.

Geng Yiyi rolled her eyes inwardly. She didn't want to be alone with them and go hungry again, so she said to Gu Bozhi, "Can you prepare one for me? Thank you."

"Okay! Then prepare five servings." Gu Bozhi jumped happily and went to the kitchen.

Gu Yuanfan was still in shock: "What was that just now? Seeing this so early in the morning, the visual impact is too strong."

Bai Ningning didn't answer, but said, "Let me make an irresponsible inference. The production team must have given clues according to the time. If a clue appears today that we didn't find yesterday, I guess it's the photosensitive material."

"Photosensitive material?"

"They change color when exposed to sunlight, and turn white again in the dark." Bai Ningning was speechless when she said this, and sighed as she looked at Chu Xisen. "When I was a kid, our school required us to wear white shoes, so my brother bought me these shoes. They look white at night, but turn colorful in the sunlight."

The "brother" she was talking about was definitely not Chu Xisen, but Chu Xisen laughed foolishly and scratched his hair, as if that was really the case.

Bai Ningning nudged Chu Xisen with her elbow and said, "After breakfast, let's look for new clues in the area where the sun shines. If there are none, maybe I'm wrong. Let's try another approach."

Geng Yiyi asked, "Should everyone go look for it?"

Bai Ningning: "I suggest leaving one person here, in case there's a new prompt on the big screen?"

She paused, then continued, "If you're brave enough, you can go explore the basement and storage room. There's no light in the basement, so I don't dare go down there. The storage room is right by the stairs. You can assign tasks among yourselves. Anyway, I'm a coward, so I'm going to go where the sun is bright."

Bai Ningning didn't care what they thought. After dinner, she and Chu Xisen set out to look for clues on the wall.

The program team was indeed controlling their rhythm through clues.

As Bai Ningning said, they found several newly emerged words on the wall, and the color was very light and could not be seen without careful observation.

Chu Xisen tried to cover it up, and sure enough, the words disappeared when it got dark, and then slowly reappeared when he let go.

Bai Ningning took a Polaroid picture of it.

"Another me will appear in the midnight mirror."

"Stop these evil ways! They will harm you!"

[At night, there seemed to be a sound of a ball rolling on the ground... Gurgle Gurgle...]

…

Chu Xisen: "What does this mean?"

"I don't know either. Let's brainstorm together later."

Bai Ningning said, rubbing off the goose bumps on her body: "It's a good thing I saw this in the bright sun, it's really creepy."

Chu Xisen covered the microphone and asked in a low voice: "Did you encounter a ghost this morning?"

Bai Ningning thought for a moment and said, "There shouldn't be any. I've been standing at the basement door for a long time, but I didn't dare go in. Why don't you go over there and smell it?"

Chu Xisen said, "It seems the program crew will start a live broadcast at nine o'clock. While there is still some time, can I put on some makeup for you?"

Bai Ningning: “?”

She often couldn't understand Chu Xisen's train of thought.

Although I didn't understand, I decided to cooperate.

But when she walked into the living room, she noticed the clock on the wall—it was almost ten o'clock! The live broadcast had already started!

Gu Bozhi thought they were here to relieve his shift: "Are you guys here to watch the big screen in the living room? Then I'll go shopping."

Bai Ningning handed him the Polaroid photo she had taken: "This is the clue we found, take a look first."

Gu Bozhi wrote down the words and said, "Okay, I'll be back to cook at noon."

Because everyone was looking for clues on their own, it was boring and tedious, and it was too early, so the live broadcast room was not very active.

It wasn't until Chu Xisen appeared with a makeup bag that the screen was filled with question marks.

When people saw that Chu Xisen was actually putting makeup on his sister, there were even more question marks in the barrage.

Is this some kind of ritual?

[Could it be a mission requirement? ]

[Stupid Chu actually knows how to put on makeup? ]

[I have to say, my sister is beautiful even without makeup...]

"Isn't this a haunted house adventure?! Why are the other teammates searching for clues while you're here putting on makeup? Aren't you being too relaxed?"

[Although, since the show started, these two have found more clues than everyone else combined. The two in the storage room are still trembling and hugging each other, and there is no progress at all.]

Chu Xisen spent ten minutes putting simple makeup on Bai Ningning. Just as he finished the work with satisfaction, he saw Bai Ningning looking at the screen behind him with a look of horror.

"What's wrong?" Chu Xisen looked back in confusion, staggered in fright and fell to the ground.

The live broadcast ended abruptly.

【？ 】

【???】

【Just give us one more second to see what happened! 】

[Stuck in this situation, Director Dog, doesn't your heart ache? 】

[Is it true that makeup summoned something strange?... I feel like it's weird to put on makeup in this kind of environment.]

The director looked at the angry audience scolding him on other platforms and nodded with satisfaction - this is exactly the kind of show effect he wanted. How could he hype up the popularity without some fancy moves?

Bai Ningning was terrified because a picture suddenly appeared on the big screen. A long-haired evil spirit crawled out of an ancient well and was crawling towards them, as if it was about to crawl out of the screen.

Chu Xisen couldn't tell for a moment whether it was a real ghost or a fake one, so he decided to trick the person into coming first and shouted, "There's movement on the big screen!"

The others quickly dropped what they were doing and rushed over - only to see a ghost slowly crawling on the big screen.

It's like Mona Lisa transformed into a ghost. No matter from which angle you look at it, it feels like the ghost is crawling towards you, which is extremely terrifying.

Chu Xisen wanted to drag Bai Ningning away, but Bai Ningning held him down and whispered, "Stand back to back, so that if anything comes out from either side, you can react immediately."

The two people stood back to back, both leaning sideways to look at the screen.

I have to say that the program crew spent a lot of money on this video, and it gives people an extremely oppressive feeling.

Bai Ningning watched as something like black mist really came out of the screen.

"It stinks." Chu Xisen wrinkled his nose, looking displeased.

The black fog gradually condensed into the shape of a human face, exactly like the evil spirit on the screen.

Gu Yuanfan looked confused: "That's it?"

Gu Bozhi hid behind him, not daring to look. This time he bravely stuck his head out to look at the screen, and found that the female ghost on the screen was gone, leaving only an empty background.

The next second, the screen flashed and turned into a snow screen.

Everyone: “!”

“Run—”