Seeing that Yin Zhu was alright, Mu Yunsheng breathed a sigh of relief, but then realized the problem from before and complained, "Why didn't you answer me when I asked you earlier?"
"It hurts~" Yin Zhu said in a coquettish tone.
Wei Chuxing felt he couldn't bear to watch.
He clearly sensed that Yin Zhu was suspicious of his identity, but after he used Mu Yunsheng as a cover to lure him here, how did he become the third wheel?
The three of them straightened their clothes, and Yin Zhu checked her phone; about ten minutes had passed.
Stepping out of the room, Yin Zhu realized they were in an Old World-style church with Gothic interior decoration and a long corridor in front of them.
"...6."
Yin Zhu couldn't help but utter a slang term from the internet.
"What's wrong?" Mu Yunsheng looked around in confusion, but couldn't see anything unusual.
The corridor was not well lit, and there seemed to be traces of black liquid splattered on the surrounding walls. The corridor was located on the side of the church, with windows on the right. However, upon closer inspection, it was discovered that these windows were simply crayon drawings by children, with only a solid wall behind them.
Perhaps because the church is so large, there were no other tourists in sight at this point.
"No, I just feel like the nesting dolls I used to play with when I was a kid," Yin Zhu answered sincerely. The rules of Sin City nested within the rules of Daydream Amusement Park, and then within the rules of the haunted house. Now, there were four areas in the haunted house. This was the first time in her life she had encountered such a nesting doll situation.
Don't tell her that the church area of the haunted house can be further subdivided into "church dining hall rules" and "church restroom rules".
Yin Zhu seriously doubted that she was about to forget everything.
Yin Zhu wasn't particularly intelligent to begin with; she relied entirely on her comprehension to remember the rules. If kindergarten's rule-sea strategy was to simply overwhelm you with a bunch of rules, then the amusement park's rules, while seemingly few on the surface, were actually layered and progressive, with new nested dolls appearing at every turn.
Following the corridor around to the chapel where many people usually gather, the group discovered that the underground area seemed to be quite deep.
Yin Zhu looked up at the dome of the church, which was decorated with circular stained glass windows depicting religious stories. The dome was about 20 meters above the ground, which explained why she had felt like she was falling for a long time.
At the center of the church stands a large altar, surrounded by a rusty yet exquisitely crafted iron fence. The fence is inlaid with various gemstones, which gleam with a captivating brilliance under the soft candlelight of the altar.
In addition, the walls were painted with countless religious images and stories. Although Yin Zhu was unaware of them, she inexplicably felt a sense of solemnity and sanctity in the empty building—if it hadn't been dilapidated.
However, amidst the gruesome traces of fighting and bloodstains, this environment completely lost its sacredness, leaving only terror.
"Oh my god... Has this place been attacked?" Mu Yunsheng exclaimed in horror, instinctively hiding behind Yin Zhu. "So much blood! This amount of blood loss... At least a dozen people must have died here, right?"
"Really? It's alright."
Yin Zhu couldn't figure out what was going on.
After all, she had always been law-abiding and worked in an office, and had never done anything particularly heinous. She was all theory and no practice. She was good at scaring people, but if you really asked her to look at a crime scene, she might not be as good as a temporary junior police officer.
Wei Chuxing naturally wouldn't say that he was just there to observe up close, not to become someone else's cheat code for clearing the game.
One is a match-fixer, the other is a slacker.
As a result, Mu Yunsheng became the only one with experience in the entire event.
Mu Yunsheng led the two men, who were pretending to be serious, to carefully observe the church. They quickly came to a few useful conclusions: "Look at these footprints. They lead to the confessional at the back. The dust is quite thick in other places. They must have been left by the first few people who went out."
She then pointed to the bench next to her and said, "The knife marks on it are about the same level of decay as the intact part. They weren't newly cut on; they must be part of the church's decorations."
“Indeed, after all, the rules say that facilities cannot be damaged.” Yin Zhu nodded in agreement with this deduction.
“There’s a lot of blood. If it were adults, at least a dozen would have died, otherwise the blood wouldn’t have sprayed out to such a terrible degree.” Mu Yunsheng’s expression turned grim as he said this: “But the bodies are gone. I wonder if it was an oversight on the part of the haunted house.”
“Even if it’s used as a haunted house, it definitely needs to be cleaned up first, otherwise the rotting corpses will smell terrible, and the employees’ lives matter too,” Wei Chuxing interjected.
"If it were a child, more people would probably die, right?" Yin Zhu suddenly noticed something under the chair.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I just saw a toy." Yin Zhu squatted down, wanting to take the toy out, but Mu Yunsheng quickly stopped her: "You can't take it. The first rule of the haunted house is not to take anything from the haunted house. Who knows how they judge it?"
“It’s okay, I can put it in the haunted house before I leave, then it won’t count as taking it.” Yin Zhu nitpicked.
However, Yin Zhu eventually gave up on that toy.
"Shall we go and meet up with them?" Mu Yunsheng pointed to the door of the confessional. "Why haven't they made a sound?"
Yin Zhu laughed and said, "Don't say such unlucky things. No noise is a good thing. No sound means there's no danger. It's better than suddenly hearing their screams over there, right?"
"ah--"
Before the words were finished, a bloodcurdling scream came from the confessional.
A female tourist grabbed a male tourist and rushed out, followed by a clown with a knife: "Let me see—who's here?"
Upon seeing Yin Zhu, the clown was ready to settle both old and new scores:
"Oh~ Isn't this the lady who watched my performance before? What a coincidence! Let's start our game of chase again!"
His shrill voice had a eunuch-like quality, unlike Wei Chuxing's magnetic voice, Bai Hai's youthful and energetic voice, or Mr. Horror's deep and resonant voice. It was more like a jarring, mentally polluting sound.
The three of them abandoned all exploration and took off running as soon as the clown began reciting his lines. They rushed out of the chapel and hid in a room.
The church was not well soundproofed, so much so that people inside could hear the clown's footsteps in the corridor.
"Hide and seek? I love it! — I'm coming — to find you —"
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