The Liang brothers went straight into the corridor, followed by the others. Ma Feng stayed outside the corridor for a while, looking at the missing person notice.
"The name Jiang Ming seems familiar. It seems that Jiang Jiu's child is named this. Is the owner of the haunted house making fun of him?"
There was a photo attached to the missing person notice, but Ma Feng had no impression of the child in the photo.
After everyone entered the corridor, the child on the missing person notice suddenly blinked, as if greeting another "person" in the distance.
A short shadow appeared in the corner, with a faint smell of blood in the air. He followed everyone into the corridor and closed the door.
"Isn't this place too quiet?!" When people are in an absolutely quiet place, they may even be scared by their own voices. Liang Er and Liang San were very curious about how the owner of the haunted house did it.
Everyone was a professional. They checked the scene bit by bit and were surprised to find that not only were there no speakers or players installed in the corridor, there was not even any surveillance. Apart from a few perfunctorily installed low-quality light bulbs that could go out at any time, there was no high-tech equipment to be found in the entire scene.
"Didn't the Internet say that the special effects of this haunted house are movie-quality? Just relying on these few light bulbs? Are you trying to fool ghosts?" Now not only Fu Bole, but even Ma Feng felt that Chen Ge's haunted house was just a name.
"It's a very scary thing that it can create movie-level horror effects without installing any high-tech equipment." Zuo Han knew that he was telling the truth, but others felt that he was making excuses for Chen Ge's haunted house.
However, there are also some talented people among the haunted house designers. Liang Er and Liang San were blocking the corridor, and they were puzzled: "The walls and handrails are all real things. There is no sound insulation material, and there is no high-tech equipment. How did he create such a weird atmosphere? There was not even an echo when we spoke. It felt like the sound was eaten by something after it came out of our mouths."
"Don't scare yourself. The principle of this thing may be the same as magic. It looks magical, but you will find that it is nothing special after solving the puzzle." Fu Bole clapped his hands and said, "Everyone, follow what Brother Ma said before and divide into three groups to start looking for the remains of the rag doll. One group will be responsible for one floor, and the following scenes will proceed in the same way."
After he said that, he walked to Ma Feng's side. His meaning was very clear: he wanted to be in a group with Ma Feng.
"Are you in a hurry to form groups before you find the traitor? I'm afraid you won't even know how you died." Zuo Han shook his head at Teacher Wang: "Let's go together, three of us, and don't get involved in their affairs."
People from Hanjiang Forensic Medical College did not participate, and the other twelve people were divided into three groups.
Ma Feng, Shangguan Qinghong, Fu Bole and Wei Chaochao are in one group; Xiao Sun, Liang Er, Liang San and the middle-aged woman from the Amnesia City are in one group; Qin Guang, Snake Sister and Xin Hai are a couple in one group.
The twelve of them were still in the same building, but they were searching different floors separately, and the three groups were not far apart.
Fu Bole, who thought the haunted house was not just a name, took Ma Feng and the others to the second underground floor, while Sister Snake and Qin Guang went to the third underground floor.
Liang Er and Liang San started searching directly on the first floor. They were both fat guys, tall and strong, and it felt safe to be in a group with them.
"You go to the room on the left, and we'll go to the right. We won't interfere with each other, and you guys shouldn't come over here casually." Liang Er glanced at Zuo Han and warned.
"That's exactly what I meant." Zuo Han led Heshan and Teacher Wang into the corridor and began to look for clues from the inside out.
"Brother, do you really think they are actors in the haunted house? I don't think so. The temperament of those people is very special." Liang San asked in a low voice.
"We are here to clear the haunted house. We don't care what other people are doing. We just need to complete Mr. Ma's requirements." Liang Er stopped at the door of the first room at the corner of the corridor. There was a wooden sign hanging next to the wooden door. On the sign was a sentence: If there is any problem, please repeatedly pull the light cord next to it.
"Instead of knocking on the door, they asked us to pull the lamp cord. Are they afraid that knocking on the door will attract ghosts?" Liang Er grabbed the lamp cord and said, "Just now, the actor named Wu Jinpeng seemed to have said that making a sound would attract ghosts, but we were talking all the way and didn't see any ghosts appear?"
"This place is so quiet, could it be that ghosts have appeared? But ghosts don't make any sound, so we have no way to find them for the time being." Liang San's mind is also very flexible.
"Never mind, let's take a look first. The first sub-scene of all haunted house scenes should be the simplest. Nothing too scary will appear here, otherwise it won't be able to bring excitement to tourists later." Liang Er said as he pulled the light cord.
As soon as he moved, the lights in the room turned on.
I tried it several times and nothing unusual happened.
"Were you fooled?" Liang Er frowned, grabbed the door handle and pushed it hard.
He pushed open the shabby door, but before he could take a closer look at the interior, something suddenly changed in the corridor.
There was a strange smell in the air, as if it was a mixture of the stench of a rotting corpse and the smell of fresh blood. Faintly, they felt as if something was approaching.
"Be careful, a ghost might be coming. Don't run around, just follow me." Liang Er was quite nice. He said this to Xiao Sun.
"I am very disappointed with the first actor in this haunted house. I wonder if there will be some new ideas next time." Liang San entered the house. The first thing he saw was broken wine bottles all over the floor. However, the sharp edges of the fragments had been ground off, probably because they were worried about hurting tourists.
Amid the debris lay a woman, her body covered in bruises and patches except for her face and hands.
The patches grew directly into the flesh and looked very scary.
"Actor? Or a prop?" Liang San grabbed the woman's arm. The touch from his fingertips was very different from human skin. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he suddenly saw the mirror hanging in the bathroom.
The mirror was facing the door, and at this moment, there was a pair of strange eyes in the mirror looking at him.
"There's someone!" Liang San threw away the woman's arm and looked back suddenly.
After he said that, the others quickly turned around, and everyone saw a man's face sticking out from the door frame!
His facial features were distorted, and he was lying on the door frame like a pile of mud, his black eyes filled with malice and curses.
Xiao Sun was standing at the end of the line. He was the person closest to the door. He was originally recalling what was frightening about the scene when he suddenly heard Liang San's voice.
He turned back subconsciously and almost bumped into that face.
His face turned even paler, and Xiao Sun took a few steps back, almost bumping into Liang Er's stomach.
"When did this thing appear!" Xiao Sun's voice was trembling, he was very scared.
"I don't know. I didn't hear any sound. It just appeared without any warning." Liang San touched his chubby chin and said, "There's something special about this haunted house!"
"Should we tell this information to others?"
"Wait a moment."
Liang Er and Liang San began to study the monster outside. They found that this mud-like man was just a puppet, and there was nothing high-tech installed on his body.
"Someone must have moved him here. I suspect it was someone from the Hanjiang Forensic Medical School. They are on the same floor as us and very close to us." Liang San glanced deep into the corridor. At this time, Zuo Han and the others were in the room at the deepest part of the corridor and had not come out yet.
"They are highly suspicious, but if it's not them, then it's worth thinking about. We also run a haunted house, and there are some things we might be able to learn from them." The Liang brothers' mentality was pretty good, and they were not completely hostile to Chen Ge's haunted house.
While they were talking, the middle-aged woman suddenly said, "Have you discovered something?"
"What's up?"
Liang San and Liang Er looked into the room and saw the middle-aged woman pointing at the woman on the ground.
"Her hands weren't in this position just now."
"What do you want to say? That puppet can move by itself?"
"No, I feel like there should be a secret room in this house. When we were all distracted by the monster outside the door, they changed the woman's posture." The middle-aged woman spoke slowly: "They should want us to feel a sense of urgency. The ghosts will move silently at any time and appear beside us in any scene and any place. This should be the biggest selling point of this scene."
“That makes sense.”
"It's a good idea, but unfortunately his haunted house met us today. We are all top haunted house designers. As soon as he raised his butt, we knew what he wanted to do." Liang San's eyes moved to the house: "Let's look inside the house. There may be a secret passage here."
Liang San wanted to find out how Chen Ge moved the puppets silently. He wanted to learn these things secretly and then use them in his own haunted house.
"What's your name? Don't just stand there, look around carefully. We don't have to follow the pace of the haunted house when visiting it." Liang San looked at Xiao Sun who was still in a daze, thinking that Xiao Sun was frightened.
"I think we should just follow the procedures of the haunted house. What if something goes wrong?" Sun Xiaojun's real thought was, if you do this, all the limited scripts I have will be wasted.
"Didn't Boss Chen claim that the scene was completely open and that visitors could explore freely? Today I'll let him know that boasting comes at a price. It's fine if he just pretends in front of the tourists, but in the eyes of us in the industry, the haunted house is just a cleverly designed toy."
The two brothers began to search the room, and Xiao Sun also symbolically searched the house. He had followed Chen Ge for a short time and did not recognize many of the employees. He was also unaware of the secrets of many scenes.
Every time he asked Chen Ge what to do, Chen Ge told him to be himself. Later he went to ask Lao Zhou for advice, and Lao Zhou told him that a lotus emerges from clear water, naturally without any embellishment, and that he didn't need to be taught at all.
Both the boss and the teacher said so, and Xiao Sun felt helpless.
He sighed softly and walked around the room in a pretentious manner.
While others were searching around the puppet, he absentmindedly rummaged through various items in the house, muttering, "When the man at the door came over, I got scared. This haunted house is really scary."
With lingering fear, Xiao Sun looked towards the door and suddenly found that the puppet man seemed to be staring at a certain place.
"He's looking at the bathroom mirror?" Xiao Sun entered the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror. "There's a face lying at the door. It looks even scarier in the mirror."
Xiao Sun looked for a long time, then narrowed his eyes. "The man's eyes are filled with hatred and fear. He seems to be afraid of something. Also, his line of sight is not facing the mirror directly, but slightly downward."
Holding the lower end of the mirror with his palm, Xiao Sun slowly applied force. When the mirror moved, drops of blood slid across the mirror surface, and a snail shell fell out from behind the mirror.
"Snail? Is the man afraid of snails? Forget it, I'd better not make blind guesses. There are spider webs on this snail shell. It must be something from a long time ago." Xiao Sun threw the snail shell aside, but at this moment another snail shell fell out from behind the mirror.
"What's going on?" Xiao Sun grabbed the edge of the mirror curiously, trying to take it down. As his movements became larger and larger, snail shells rolled out from behind the mirror.
"What are you doing?"
“Why are there so many snail shells?”
The other people in the room noticed something was wrong and entered the bathroom as well. Before Xiao Sun could answer their questions, they saw that the originally closed wall next to the mirror opened to one side, revealing a door with a blood-red snail painted on it.
"Secret passage?!" Xiao Sun and the Liang brothers said in unison. They had not even entered the haunted house and taken a few steps, but they found a secret passage in the first room of the first sub-scene!
Liang Er and Liang San were excited because they had finally found the secret passage in the haunted house. This would be of great help in both clearing the level and figuring out Chen Ge's methods.
Xiao Sun was dumbfounded. He heard Chen Ge say that there were nine secret passages in the nine sub-scenes. These nine secret passages could lead directly to the hidden scenes where the remains of the rag doll were hidden. However, Chen Ge was the only person in the entire haunted house who knew the locations of all the secret passages. Xiao Sun didn't know where the secret passages were exactly.
"It's over. I think I'm in trouble." Xiao Sun maintained the posture of holding the mirror, his brain working fast. He came here to cause trouble for the tourists, but right away he helped the tourists find the secret passage, which saved the tourists a lot of time.
"That's great, Xiao Sun. I didn't realize you are so meticulous. Even we professionals didn't notice this mechanism." Liang Er patted Xiao Sun on the shoulder and pushed open the door with the snail pictured on it.
The temperature dropped again. Behind the door were stairs leading deep underground, with no end in sight.
Xiao Sun felt sad when being praised by the tourists. Before he could figure out what to do next, he saw Liang Er, Liang San and others turning on their cell phones to light up and enter the secret passage.
"Hey! Be careful! Don't act alone!" Xiao Sun wanted to delay time, but the confident haunted house designers didn't give him the chance. Including the middle-aged woman, all three of them started walking down the secret passage.
Cold, dark, and deadly silent, the horrible feeling could no longer be described as eerie; it was far beyond the scope of the game.
The secret passage looked very long, but they reached the end without realizing it.
A pure black iron door appeared in front of them. The door exuded a faint smell of disinfectant, and there were faint black lines flowing on it.
Everything in the secret passage was scary, except for the words "Please close the door" written next to the iron gate, which somewhat ruined the atmosphere.
"What do you think is behind the door? The remains of a rag doll? Or the monitoring room of the haunted house?"
"I guess there are haunted house actors putting on makeup in there."
"Wouldn't it be easy to find out if you open it?"
Liang San pushed open the heavy black iron door, and boundless black fog instantly surged out, directly engulfing these lucky tourists.
When the black iron door closed again, Sun Xiaojun was the only one left in the secret passage.
With his Adam's apple rolling, Sun Xiaojun saw something behind the door and sat down directly on the steps.
"Something bad has happened. Those three people have never even experienced a one-star scene before. They entered the dark fog world of the underworld fetus without any psychological preparation!"
This is like a patient who has a sore throat and thinks he has a cold. He just arrived at the hospital and before he could even get an appointment, he was rushed to the crematorium by a car.
"The red high-heeled shoes are there to restore the memory of the ghost fetus. She wants to become a fierce god. She certainly didn't expect that a tourist would go directly to her within five minutes of the start!"
Just thinking about what might happen, Xiao Sun felt his scalp tingling: "I really didn't mean it! No! I have to contact Boss Chen right away!"