prick--

The lights in the room suddenly turned on, accompanied by a piercing sound.

When Wips turned his head, he was nearly scared out of his wits. He saw a disheveled woman covered in blood standing behind them, pointing at them with her almost deformed fingers!

Weps was ready to use his talent to leave, but seeing that the woman didn't move, he observed her closely and realized that it was just a simple statue. The statue was dilapidated in many places, which highlighted the red background, making it look like blood. Under the dim light, it looked even more real and fake.

"This thing scared me to death..."

Bang!

A purplish-red claw pierced through the wooden door, almost touching their cheeks, and flailing wildly in the air!

"Jiang Ran! What do we do with this thing?!"

You can't scold them, and you can't hit them. But if you kill them with a single blow, does that count as assault?

If it were anyone else, they certainly wouldn't have the physical ability to fight or even kill this monster, so there must be a way to deal with it hidden in the inn!

"I'll hold the door steady. You go and see if there's anything useful in this room!"

"good!"

Jiang Ran turned sideways, using half of his body to brace against the door, and then grabbed the ghostly hand that was dancing in the air, bringing it under control!

Wips lifted the hair of the female ghost statue. It was a faceless ghost. After confirming that there was nothing special about the statue, he began searching the entire room again.

"This room is so empty! You can see the whole thing from one end to the other! There's practically nothing there!"

"No...?"

They were initially in the hallway, and the ghostly thing also came from the other side of the hallway. Given the speed of their high heels, even if they didn't hide in the room, as long as they kept moving, they wouldn't be caught at all!

"It doesn't matter!"

Jiang Ran twisted the ghostly hand of that thing, using its strength to forcibly dismantle the entire door, which acted like a shield, pushing the ghostly thing backward!

"Wips! Run!"

"And you?!"

"I can run faster than you! If you don't run now, I will!"

Upon seeing this, Weipus took off running. A few seconds later, Jiang Ran released the ghost's hand and gave it a hard push, creating enough distance between himself and the ghost before immediately chasing after Weipus!

"Having this thing following behind me really gives me a sense of urgency!"

The two didn't stop until they had walked the entire first-floor corridor. The sound of high heels behind them had stopped. Jiang Ran gave an awkward laugh: "It seems that when I was pushing that thing, I accidentally broke her high heel..."

"Huh? Won't this be considered as you damaging items in the secret room?"

"I don't think so. I just pushed that thing. She lost her balance and fell down. It has nothing to do with me, just like the door incident before. It's not my fault!"

Jiang Ran turned her head and looked up; there were stairs leading to the second floor.

“According to the usual pattern of escape rooms, we need to follow a certain route to explore the entire room in order to find the exit,” Jiang Ran said in a low voice. “But this is not an ordinary escape room, so we need to use a different approach.”

What's the approach?

"Wips, do you think there might be an underground floor here?"

From the street, the entire secret room appears to have three floors, but once you cross that door, you're within the secret room's boundaries. The rules never stated that "the secret room only has three floors"!

"What should we do then? Should we split up? One of us go upstairs, and the other go find the basement?"

Jiang Ran shook his head: "Do you think it's that easy for us to meet again after we separate? If we decide to cooperate, we can't act separately."

"Wips, what's the purpose of your identity card?"

"This... is actually not very useful."

Jiang Ran nodded: "Mine is useless, but it's hard to guarantee that other people's identity cards won't be useful either. If we can close the door after leaving, I don't think the others will be kind enough to give us a chance again."

As the two were talking, that ghostly thing caught up with them again, dragging its broken high heel.

Jiang Ran grabbed the ghost's hands and forcibly pressed her against the wall. This thing's strength was only at the [Strange] level, and it wasn't even considered powerful at that level. Subduing her in a short time was no problem!

Does a basement really exist?

Given this thing's range of movement, their actions on the first floor will be greatly affected. Most other people would not be able to find the basement on the first floor under her interference, because this thing can simply break down the door!

"Wips, go upstairs!"

"Huh? Not looking for the basement anymore?"

“A basement might exist—” Jiang Ran replied, “but the entrance might not be on the first floor!”

The first floor is just a simple escape segment; the game truly begins when you get to the second floor!

The moment Jiang Ran released the ghost, he turned around and stepped onto the stairs, arriving at the second floor in a few strides!

Just as he expected, after the two reached the second floor, the ghost shook her head and left. Next, she would continue searching for prey on the first floor.

The lights flickered on and off, and white cloths were hung at the entrances to the rooms on both sides of the corridor. A gust of wind blew from somewhere, lifting the white cloths, and then a strange sound came from behind.

"Stay close!"

The corridor was quiet, with only the sound of the White Eagle Kingdom's ghost storyteller's own footsteps. Perhaps feeling something was amiss, he turned around and was completely dumbfounded!

There was no one else in sight! The Black Sheep Kingdom's ghost storyteller who had been following him just moments before had vanished without a trace!

"Damn it! What happened?! Where is everyone?!"

Cold sweat unknowingly soaked his back!

Meanwhile, the storyteller from the British Isles remained leisurely in his room. About ten minutes had passed. If he could just hold on for another 40 minutes, he would be able to successfully obtain the map of the inn, and getting out would be a piece of cake.

The intermittent sound of high heels came from outside the door.

The tale teller from the British Empire became alert. He wanted to move something from the house to block the doorway, but the room contained only a bed and himself.

Thump thump thump—

Something outside started knocking on the door!

"Stay calm! Stay calm—don't panic..."

He forced himself to calm down, but the increasingly loud knocking made him more and more uneasy. However, he couldn't open the door and go out; otherwise, it would be no different from suicide.

"We can't get in...we can't get in!"

state!

After a full minute of knocking, the wooden door was finally pushed down!

A disheveled ghost rushed in. The ghost storyteller from the Kingdom of the British Empire wanted to show off his agility, but he was ruthlessly caught, pinned to the bed, and torn apart!

"No—I should have won! This shouldn't be my ending!"