"I vaguely understand why the president wants to deal with him. This person should have entered the world behind the door, and he may even have a 'door'."

Kong Xiangming spoke in a low voice, fearing that his words would be heard by a third person.

"It doesn't matter. Even if he has been to the world behind the door, so what? He is just one person after all." Wei Wu said this with a lack of confidence, more like comforting himself: "This mission is so important, the president can't just send two of us. The other members of the association should have arrived too."

"Don't put your hopes on others. What if the president just wants to sacrifice the two of us to explore the way?" Kong Xiangming closed the door of the room: "The members of the association may change at any time, but the numbers remain the same. Each number represents a monster behind the door. If you have this number, you will coexist with the ghosts and monsters corresponding to this number. So in the eyes of the president, what he really values ​​is the ghosts and monsters in us, not us ourselves."

He narrowed his eyes and suddenly talked about something that was not very related: "In the Ghost Story Association, it is forbidden to reveal one's identity or investigate the identities of others. These two rules can indeed protect our own safety. After all, the members of the association are either mentally ill lunatics or butchers with blood on their hands. But have you ever thought about another problem?"

"What's the problem?"

"If we don't contact other members of the association, we will never know who the president is." Kong Xiangming was thoughtful: "Everyone knows that the president is hiding among the ten people on both sides of the table, but no one knows who the president is. I now suspect that the president himself may be a monster behind the door, and we are just containers for monsters in his eyes."

"Why are you telling me this?" Wei Wu distanced himself from Kong Xiangming. "No one has ever betrayed the Ghost Story Association, and this is the scariest thing. Do you understand what I mean?"

Kong Xiangming waved his hand and said, "You and I joined the association at the same time. I am sure that you are not the president, so I took the initiative to approach you and tell you my identity during the last mission. You are the only one I can trust in the association."

Wei Wu always felt that Kong Xiangming had other plans, and he had unknowingly boarded the pirate ship.

"All the monsters escaped from the world behind the door. There is no doubt that the president controls a door!" Kong Xiangming paused and smiled faintly: "If you own the door, you have the right to make the rules. Don't you want to be the president?"

"You are crazy."

"I'm not crazy, but I have no more strange stories to tell you. If you don't change the rules, maybe at the next party, I'll be put on the plate by you, and I'll be turned from a diner into food."

Kong Xiangming's words were like a bucket of cold water that woke Wei Wu up. The Ghost Story Association was not a place for charity. Even the members themselves were afraid of this association.

"Tell me about your plan."

"I would never have done such a risky thing before, but I recently found a chance. The president has been contacting us more and more frequently. He is in big trouble, and at the same time, he has revealed a flaw."

"What's the flaw?"

"The president contacted us through the ghosts living in our bodies, and ghosts can only communicate within 50 meters. I have done experiments with you on this point." Kong Xiangming said the key point: "That is to say, the distance between the president and me was within 50 meters when he released the information."

"That's right."

"My seat at the party was very close to Number Ten. Every time I sat next to him, the ghost in me would show a strange emotion, with a hint of desire hidden in the fear. I could feel its thoughts. It wanted to eat Number Ten."

"But this doesn't mean that No. 10 is the president. The ghosts in the ten of us are different."

"I know. The point is that my ghost also had this strange emotion a few seconds before receiving the president's message." Kong Xiangming's voice slowly changed: "When the message was released, No. 10 and the president appeared near my house at the same time. Doesn't this prove the relationship between the two of them?"

"Could it be a coincidence?"

"The president of the association should be the one who sent us the flyers. He is also the only one who knows the identities of all the members. After posting the information twice in a row, No. 10 and the president both appeared near my home. I don't believe there is such a coincidence in the world."

After Kong Xiangming finished speaking, Wei Wu fell completely silent. The mysterious president was like a sword hanging over the heads of all association members.

"Number 10 is the president? Then how do you want to cooperate with me?" Wei Wu and Kong Xiangming walked together only because they had the same goal. If they did not have common interests, the two would definitely be in a life-and-death relationship because they knew each other's identities.

"The president wants to attack the haunted house owner, and this haunted house owner is obviously a ruthless character. Let them fight until both of them are injured, and then we will look for an opportunity."

Kong Xiangming entered the bathroom, took down the female corpse from the ceiling, and found a school badge in her pocket: "We are just tourists who come to visit. Just be careful not to be noticed by the owner of the haunted house."

The two men left the room with their school badges. After a minute or two, "gurgle" sounds were heard in the house, and a puppet's head rolled out from under the bed in the bedroom.

…

The three medical students huddled together. Without the map, they finally felt the "fun" of visiting the haunted house.

"Li Xue, walk slower!"

A chubby girl with a baby face was walking alone in front, followed closely by two male students. They were leaning against each other, almost holding hands.

"When you were out there, you were all boastful. How come you suddenly became so cowardly without the advice of the seniors?" Li Xue looked back at her two companions and said helplessly, "Are you two men?"

"What does this have to do with being a man?" Although Wang Yan was hiding at the back, his temper did not subside at all: "We are being cautious. Can't you see that we are covering your retreat?"

"hehe."

Yang Chen was also a little embarrassed: "I'm not scared, it's mainly because this place is too similar to my high school. I knew at a glance that the scene just now was specially arranged, but this new scene makes me feel like I'm back at my alma mater."

"What's there to be afraid of about returning to my alma mater?" Li Xue didn't quite understand.

"It's different from the scenes in real life. I can keep telling myself that everything is fake, but this place is almost exactly the same as the school in real life. No matter how I tell myself, I can't help but get involved." Yang Chen was holding a notebook and a pen while tremblingly drawing a route map.

Most of the scenes of the Western Suburban Private School were cut out for some reason, so the overall area is not very large.

The three students quickly reached the end of the corridor and faced an ordinary glass door.

"Wait a moment!"

Yang Chen stopped Li Xue who was about to open the door. He leaned against the door, put his face against the glass and looked inside: "This seems to be a certain floor of the dormitory building. There is a number on the door."

"Could it be the girls' dormitory on the map?" Li Xue urged Yang Chen to open the map and compare it, and found that the location was very different.

“It should be a hidden scene.” Yang Chen seemed to have an answer: “When I first got the map, I was wondering why there were only girls’ dormitories and no boys’ dormitories. Now it seems that the boys’ dormitory should have been made into a hidden scene. But what I’m curious about is, how did we trigger the hidden scene? It seems that everyone didn’t do anything special.”

"It's probably because we're attacking too quickly, which makes the boss feel a sense of crisis." Wang Yan laughed dryly and leaned on the glass door to take a look: "It's similar to our school dormitory. Let's go in and take a look."

He said he wanted to go in and take a look, but his body did not move. In the end, Li Xue pushed the glass door open.

The rusty chain slid to the ground, and as the glass door opened, a strange smell came out from behind the door.

"Why does it smell like a corpse?"

"Do you want to go in?"

"To be honest, we have already broken the record of our seniors by getting this far and discovering the hidden scene." Wang Yan raised his hand: "I suggest that we withdraw first."

“I don’t know if I can trigger the hidden scene next time. Besides, we’ve come this far. Are you willing not to go in and take a look?” Yang Chen and Li Xue carried Wang Yan into the corridor.

There was a dark corridor with half-open doors on both sides. I didn't know which room the smell was coming from.

"Isn't this place too depressing?" Wang Yan's voice became lower, as if speaking loudly in this place would wake up some hidden monsters.

“We still have enough time. Don’t miss any of the rooms on both sides. There must be a lot of school signs hidden in this place.” Yang Chen walked in front with Li Xue, and Wang Yan followed reluctantly. He was already panicking and didn’t dare to leave alone, so he could only move forward with everyone.

“Don’t be too scared. The scary scenes are definitely in the back. The first few rooms are safe.” Yang Chen tried to comfort Wang Yan with his own experience: “How can a haunted house show the scariest scene right at the beginning?”

After he said that, he pushed open the door of the first dormitory on the left side of the corridor.

The wooden door was covered in dust, and it seemed that no one had opened it for a long time. With the harsh sound of the door hinge turning, Yang Chen walked in, but he stopped abruptly after taking only one step, and his upper body even remained leaning forward.

"Lao Yang? What's wrong with you?"

The door was completely opened, and Li Xue and Wang Yan outside also took a breath of cool air.

There was a person hanging in the middle of the dormitory.

“Puppet?” Yang Chen was the first to recover. He rubbed his hands on his clothes and wiped away the cold sweat on his palms.

"Don't go over there yet." Wang Yan pointed at the man's feet and said, "It doesn't look like he hanged himself. Look, his feet are not off the ground. I think he is an actor in a haunted house pretending to be one."

"It shouldn't be a living person." Li Xue was quite brave and walked over directly: "The rope is stretched straight. If you keep this posture for a long time, you will be strangled to death even if you stand."

She carefully walked around to the other side of the dormitory. The man hanging in the middle of the dormitory was wearing a dark coat and had his head lowered, so her face could not be seen clearly.

Li Xue raised her hand and moved closer, her fingertips touching the skin of the corpse.

"It's not human skin, come in, it's okay."

They all heaved a long sigh of relief, all three of them were terribly frightened.

"What's the meaning of hanging a doll in the middle of the room? And deliberately let it stand on the ground?" Wang Yan touched the dead body's hand. He studied forensic medicine and knew very well that the feeling was different from human skin. It was colder and stiffer.

"Don't move, both of you. This corpse may be the answer to a puzzle." Li Xue gently held the corpse's chin with both hands and lifted its head up little by little.

After seeing the face of the dead body, the three freshmen of the Forensic Medicine School were a little panicked.

So true!

Because they had seen real dead bodies, the three of them felt a stronger sense of fear than ordinary people at this moment.

"The noose pressed tightly against the front of the neck, forcing the root of the tongue to be squeezed upward and backward, pressing against the posterior wall of the pharynx, blocking the pharyngeal cavity and the airway. The cause of death may be suffocation." After Li Xue finished speaking, she was stunned. She never thought that the first time she would use the knowledge from the textbook was in a haunted house.

“Pay attention to the puppet’s face. There are irregular blood clots. This is somewhat different from death by suffocation.” Yang Chen walked around the puppet: “The carotid artery is blocked, and the blood flow to the brain is blocked. The cause of death should be cerebral congestion.”

“No matter what the cause of death is, let’s go!” Wang Yan urged, “Aren’t you two scared? There’s a corpse puppet in the haunted house. Not only is it made to look like a dead person, but it also perfectly reproduces the cause of death!”

"The owner of the haunted house also understands forensic medicine?" Li Xue glanced at Yang Chen next to her.

Yang Chen’s expression was not very good: “It is impossible for an outsider to restore the characteristics of a corpse’s death in such detail, unless he did it bit by bit based on a real corpse.”

A horrifying scene emerged in the minds of the three people. They didn't say anything else and walked out of the dormitory tacitly.

"We're already very deep, let's stop here before we're even better."

"Search a few more rooms and see. Oh, is there a school badge in that room?"

Yang Chen asked, and Li Xue and Wang Yan both shook their heads: “I didn’t notice.”

"Forget it, let's search the other rooms first, and then enter this room last."

Three students were talking outside the door. They didn't know that the dead body standing with its back to them in the dormitory slowly opened its eyes.

There was a fork in the corridor, and the smell became stronger the further we went in.

Stains gradually began to appear on the floor tiles and walls. The three students walked all the way to the end of the corridor. Several rooms near the end of the corridor were locked.

“The stench seems to be coming from here.”

Li Xue walked in front and pushed open the door of the room at the end of the corridor.

There are four beds in this dormitory, only one of which is covered with bedding, while the remaining three beds are piled with all kinds of garbage.

"Gone? I thought there was something very scary hidden in this room, but it's not as scary as the first dormitory."

"Time is almost up, let's find the school badge first. Wang Yan, stop standing there in a daze, come and help!"

Yang Chen and Li Xue both entered the house, and only Wang Yan was looking at the long corridor. There was something faintly jumping up and down in the darkness!

"Lao Yang, you two come out first. I think I heard the footsteps of a fourth person."