"It's twelve o'clock! The game begins! Fourteen players, please go to the first project together - the haunted house!"

"Finally, I'll give you a warning... Never believe what the clown says!"

...Never believe what the clown says?

The Joker is referring to himself?

Just as Xiao Tangqiu was puzzled, he suddenly realized, "Wait, fourteen players?!"

Where did these fourteen players come from?

Before he could react, a loud bell suddenly rang in the distance.

"when--"

"It's a clock!" Tang Mianmian was the first to react.

Xiao Tangqiu quickly looked up and saw a retro clock tower in the distance. No, maybe the clock tower had always existed, but it was just shrouded in darkness, so they didn't notice it.

At the top of the clock tower is a huge glowing clock. The clock is huge and has four sides. No matter where you are in the amusement park, you can see it as long as you look up. The time is clearly displayed on it. It is exactly midnight, but the strange thing is that the clock only has numbers from twelve o'clock to six in the morning, and the numbers after that disappear.

Xiao Tangqiu quickly understood: "Our game time is only from midnight to six in the morning... We must leave here before six in the morning."

"The game has started? It seems very exciting!" At this moment, a burst of excited discussion suddenly rang out.

"That clown's acting was so convincing! It was like the real thing!"

"Add chicken legs! You must add chicken legs!"

Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other and immediately realized something was wrong. They were facing a life-and-death crisis, so how could anyone be in the mood to laugh?

When they looked back, they were shocked. In addition to the original seven people, there were seven more people around them without them noticing... Including these seven people who suddenly appeared inexplicably, there were exactly fourteen people here, right?

The other new players also looked at the seven people who suddenly appeared in horror. They had not heard any footsteps just now. These seven people seemed to appear out of thin air.

Apart from their sudden appearance, these seven people looked no different from ordinary tourists. They were dressed casually and comfortably, carrying large and small bags, and holding amusement park maps in their hands... Compared to them, Xiao Tangqiu and others looked more like outsiders who had inexplicably broken in.

At this moment, they seemed to have just noticed Xiao Tangqiu and the others and greeted them enthusiastically: "You are gamers too? What a coincidence! Then let's go together!"

Xiao Tangqiu looked at these people silently. Tang Mianmian rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "Great! You have played this game before? Are you so well prepared? We didn't prepare anything!"

"I haven't played it, but I've heard about it from others!" someone said. "You guys didn't prepare enough. Even though the game only lasts six hours, you might get thirsty or hungry along the way. But it's okay. We brought plenty, so we can share some with you."

"That's great!" Tang Mianmian rolled her eyes again and continued to inquire calmly, "We came in such a hurry that we haven't had time to understand anything. Can you tell us? How exactly does this game work?"

"Okay, no problem, let's talk while we walk!"

Before everyone left, the handsome boy suddenly started yelling, "The door disappeared!"

Xiao Tangqiu looked back and saw that, as expected, the door they had come from had disappeared, and a wall had turned into its place - even if they were scared and wanted to go back the same way, it would be impossible now.

The other team disagreed, grinning and saying, "It might be some kind of trap! Aren't traps like that common in amusement parks?"

"What's all the fuss about? I heard many of the rides in this amusement park are very high-tech! Are you just not very well-informed?"

The group laughed and joked, and for a moment the air was filled with a happy atmosphere.

The handsome boy looked at the wall, then at Xiao Tangqiu and others, and finally shut up awkwardly.

"That clown is gone too!"

At this moment, Tang Mianmian also screamed. Everyone turned their heads and saw that the carousel was still turning, but the clown was gone.

"The clown should be waiting for us at the entrance to the first project!" said a man holding a map. "Let's not waste any time. Let's get going!"

Except for Xiao Tangqiu and others, everyone cheered.

"Let's go! I can't wait!"

“It’s going to be exciting!”

"Let's go! Our first stop looks like it's a haunted house!"

Amid the cheers of the other six people, Xiao Tangqiu and Tang Mianmian looked at each other. There was no doubt that these guys thought they were playing a game, and had no idea that it would be a death game.

"Do you think they are the same players as us?"

"Maybe it's an NPC?"

The two of them discussed in low voices.

"But we haven't encountered such an NPC before..."

An NPC who acts as a "player"?

"Maybe there are NPCs like this?" Xiao Tangqiu guessed, "If they are also players, they should come in from outside like us."

"Forget it, whatever. It doesn't have much impact on us anyway." Tang Mianmian stopped worrying about it. Compared to worrying about the identities of those people, how to survive was the most important thing. "Maybe they can provide us with some useful information."

No matter what, that group of people at least had an important item like a map.

And they seemed to know where to go next.

Sure enough, guided by the map in the hands of the group, they soon arrived at the so-called first project - a haunted house that looked extremely scary and thriller from the outside.

However, no matter how scary the appearance is, it cannot change the fact that this haunted house has been abandoned for many years. It is surrounded by weeds, the walls are covered with spider webs, and it is gray and dusty everywhere. This sense of abandonment adds a bit of gloom and horror to the haunted house.

At first, Xiao Tangqiu was not sure whether the haunted house these people were talking about was their target, but he soon confirmed that it must be the same, because along the way, except for this haunted house, all other game facilities were already in ruins, and the wood of some wooden facilities had even been corroded by half by time.