Chapter 992 Plant Mutation
Li Guangjun's defeat heightened the vigilance of the three, but this increased vigilance did not change the extremely unfavorable situation for them.
The corridor on the third floor is particularly long; if you look at it from all angles, there must be at least ten rooms.
Which of these dozen or so rooms is the castle owner's actual bedroom?
Nie Yuyang and his companions were completely clueless, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet and try each room one by one, while also being wary of someone popping up and eliminating them.
But sometimes, no matter how careful you are, there will always be times when you make a mistake. Soon, the second person to be eliminated appeared, and that was Gu Shaoling.
She was eliminated because she hit her head on a spindle that fell from a room door, the reason being that she was killed by an assassin who ambushed her.
Next was Zhao Yun'er. She learned from Gu Shaoling's mistake and checked the doorway and surroundings before entering the house to make sure there was no danger. However, because the room was too dark, she stepped on a thumbtack on the floor.
Zhao Yun'er: "..."
The once lively team of four was reduced to a lone survivor in an instant, and Nie Yuyang suddenly felt immense pressure.
After carefully avoiding the dangers of countless rooms, only two rooms remained.
Nie Yuyang had just opened one of the doors when he heard footsteps coming from the end of the corridor.
The next second, he saw the maid he had met on the second floor earlier walking towards him with a glass of milk.
Nie Yuyang's expression changed slightly; he had a gut feeling that this young lady definitely had a problem.
Unfortunately, he had nowhere to hide at this point and could only watch helplessly as the young lady approached, his whole body tense up.
He opened his mouth, guessing that the young lady was there to persuade him to drink milk. Just as he was about to preemptively refuse the milk, he saw the young lady smilingly throw the milk cup on the ground.
With a crash, the cup shattered, spilling some milk onto Nie Yuyang's shoes.
The next second, the director's annoying voice rang out again: "Nie Yuyang is poisoned, eliminated, eliminated, eliminated!"
Nie Yuyang's "death" was unjust, especially after they learned that the room next to his was the master bedroom they had been longing for, and that there were seven or eight real killers among them.
"...%$@&" I had a million curses running through my mind, but I didn't know how to express them! This wasn't an assassination, it was clearly a gang beating!
There were only six guests in total, but a dozen or so assassins. It seemed that apart from the castle owner, almost everyone wanted to assassinate him. Being the owner was extremely dangerous!
The poor four-person team was wiped out by a series of bizarre maneuvers orchestrated by the director.
Those who had already been eliminated watched the follow-up in the filming room, gritting their teeth and wishing they could sharpen their knives and retaliate against the director.
The director, who was considered the guest's enemy, was beaming with joy and extremely pleased with himself.
After being tormented by the guests for several episodes, he finally got his revenge.
However, his joy did not last long, because all four members of the team had been eliminated, and the two he most wanted to defeat had not even shown their faces yet.
"What's going on? Where are the other two guests? Didn't I tell you to wake them up? Why haven't they made a sound yet? The other guests have already been eliminated in one round, and we're just waiting for them to come out and turn the tide. They're still playing hide-and-seek at this point. They're really calm."
The director snorted and ordered someone to go directly to the couple's bedroom and wake them up.
Unexpectedly, although the person went there, they knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no response at all.
The staff inside the castle realized something was wrong and quickly reported it to Butler Phil.
Butler Phil hurriedly found the spare key to open the door, but the spare key was useless. No matter how he turned the doorknob, the door remained firmly in place.
Left with no other option, the group had to find another way and tried to enter the house through the window at the back.
Unfortunately, this idea still could not be realized.
The windows of this room were somehow sealed shut, not only tightly closed but also with the curtains drawn, making it impossible to see what was happening inside from the outside.
They tried to break through the window and force their way in, but they couldn't even shatter the fragile glass.
Gu Shaoling and the others had originally hoped that Ye Wanxi and the other person could come out and vent their anger, but after watching the director and the staff struggle for so long, they still couldn't get into the room.
Everyone tensed up: "Isn't this room sealed off way too tightly? Are Miss Ye and President Feng really inside? Could it be...?"
Gu Shaoling seemed to have thought of something terrible, and her face turned pale: "Could it be that someone is taking advantage of the chaos of the mission to harm Miss Ye and President Feng? I once saw a movie about how to create a locked room to forge an alibi and get rid of suspicion."
"No...no way." Zhao Yun'er was also frightened. "Miss Ye and President Feng are so capable, they must be blessed by heaven. They will definitely be alright."
The doors and windows of the room could not be opened, and there was no response when they called from outside. The staff member in charge of observing this group of guests repeatedly stated that they had never left the room since the two people entered to rest a few hours ago.
The director panicked when he heard this. Although he liked to prank the guests, he never thought of actually letting them get to him, let alone causing someone's death.
Completely unaware that the house had been enchanted and that it was impossible to enter without breaking through the barrier, the group was frantic, running around like ants on a hot plate.
Meanwhile, Xiao Jihui, thousands of miles away, was also overwhelmed and on the verge of collapse.
"How is the situation?"
"The situation is very bad. Since the victims reported the cases, our staff has reported finding these mutated plant monsters in at least four different locations. Three of these cases are in relatively remote villages near the mountains, and one is in a residential area in the city center. It is understood that the mutated plants likely originated from the green plants that the victims kept on their balconies."
"Is the situation under control now?" Xiao Jihui frowned, his face grim.
Two hours earlier, he suddenly received a report from his subordinates that a strange plant had injured people in a village near the foot of the mountain on the eastern ring road of the city.
The plant mutated, becoming several times larger than its counterparts and seemingly developing self-awareness, capable of attacking people on its own initiative.
Upon learning of this, Xiao Jihui immediately dispatched personnel from a special department to investigate whether someone was deliberately causing trouble behind the scenes to induce the growth of such an unusual plant.
Unexpectedly, before the situation there was resolved, news began to come from other places where similar situations had occurred.
Those strange plants that appear in villages near mountains are one thing, because the places are remote and there are few people living there, making them easy to disperse and relatively easy to control.
The one in the city center is tricky. It's a residential area with a lot of people. If the alien plants get out of control and cause casualties, Xiao Jihui gets goosebumps just thinking about it.
(End of this chapter)
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