What is experience?

In layman's terms, it is the knowledge or skills gained through repeated personal practice.

Lin Mo, who has already lit candles in three rooms, now has experience. If the room he is about to enter next requires candles, he can prepare matches and candles in advance and light them as soon as he enters the door.

In this way, no matter what scary things are in the house, they can be dispelled immediately and enter a safe time.

On the contrary, if there is danger and you cannot cope with it, the car will overturn before you even have time to light the candles.

So when I opened door number 4 and went in, Lin Mo had already lit the candle.

I felt a dark thing flash inside, and then disappeared instantly under the light of the candle.

"Sure enough, there is something dirty."

Lin Mo muttered.

He didn't see it clearly, but it was not a big problem. If nothing unexpected happened, it was similar to the previous water tank.

There's a dead body here too.

His death was quite refreshing and unworldly. He just knelt in front of a washbasin with his face stuck in the basin and drowned.

No need to ask, this is another one of those four people.

Zhao Dong had already handed it over to Lao Wu. Liu Genbao was the bloated corpse, so the one in front of him should be one of Zhang Dehan or Wang Quan.

In this way, three of the four murderers are dead.

There is only one left.

The black man came over to take a look and said that the man's death was quite unique, as he was drowned in the washbasin. He thought no one would believe it if he told others about it.

Despite what they said, no one touched the body.

Everyone still remembers the scene where Lao Wu crawled out of that swollen corpse.

But after lighting the candles, there shouldn't be any big problems.

"There are nine rooms in total, and we have already ordered four. Keep up the good work, and victory is just around the corner." Lin Mo encouraged everyone.

Look at the three door numbers in room 4.

3, 5, 9.

No need to ask, the next step is to go to Room 5.

Moreover, Room 5 is the room in the middle. After clicking on it, basically, if nothing unexpected happens, it is a sure thing that you will complete the game.

After pushing open door No. 5, Lin Mo was stunned.

They had passed by Room 5 twice before, and Zhao Dong also found it in the closet of Room 5. Logically, Lin Mo should be very familiar with this room.

But when I opened the door at this moment, the room that came into view was not quite the same as I remembered.

Seeing that Lin Mo stopped and didn't go in, the black man and the sickly man following behind him knew that something must have happened.

The two of them leaned over to take a look and gasped.

The problem is not what you see, but what you don’t see.

It was pitch black in front, but it couldn't be said that there was no light at all. There was a faint light, but it appeared and disappeared, floating east and west, and no one knew what it was.

Most importantly, there seems to be something in this room.

It seems to be water.

The whole house was filled with water.

The strangest thing is that the door frame serves as a boundary, as if there is an invisible wall that blocks all the water in Room 5 inside.

"Let me touch it."

Bingyangzi squeezed in from behind. The skin he used was very special and could offset many attacks from evil spirits, so he was the one who did all the temptations like touching things.

Reaching into the water curtain in Room 5, the sickly child was quickly retracted.

"What's wrong?"

"It's pretty cool!"

The sickly man wiped the water off his hands with his fingers, then sniffed it, and cursed: "Fuck him, this is not water, it's oil!"

No wonder it's so shiny.

It was actually oil.

This is a bit of a problem. If it is oil, how can we light the candle? If it is hard, it will definitely cause a fire.

Obviously, this is a difficult level that is automatically triggered in this level. It is also a type of level. There must be a way to solve it. It depends on how you solve it.

Lin Mo and his friends are all veteran players, and they all came up with the same idea at this time.

"Let's go, take a detour!"

"That's right. It's not like there's only one way to get to Room 5. It's okay to take a detour."

Lin Mo closed the door again.

Because it is a nine-square grid, to get to room 5, there is not only one way from 4 to 5, you can also take a detour.

"Go through Gate 9!"

They haven't been to Room 9 yet, so they might as well take this opportunity to take a look.

It would be great if there was door number 5 over there, but it didn't matter if there wasn't one. The door numbers would change when entering other rooms. Lin Mo and the others all understood the principle of the Nine-square Grid, and they knew that no matter how things changed, they would still be able to find it.

After opening Door No. 9, everything inside looked quite normal. There was no blood, no signs of blisters, no basins, and no water tanks.

Lin Mo stepped in, followed closely by the black man and the sickly man, and then by the two plot characters.

At this moment, the two remaining plot characters are already following Lin Mo's lead. Anyway, they know that whether they can survive depends on whether Lin Mo can lead them through the level.

On their own?

It's a dead end.

The three doors corresponding to room 9 are numbered 2, 6, and 1.

Two of the rooms had candles already lit, but room 6 did not.

"Where shall we go next?" Now both the black man and the sickly man gave the decision-making power to Lin Mo. In other words, they would go wherever Lin Mo said to go.

“Let me think about it!”

The changes that had taken place in Room 5 before gave Lin Mo a heads-up.

In the final analysis, the rooms here are actually the same, but due to some force, the same room has been marked with nine different marks.

The room attributes represented by this mark are not always constant.

This creates more obstacles and troubles in how to deal with and find the way.

As far as we know, the key is whether or not the candle can be lit successfully in Room 5. Lin Mo has a feeling that if he can light the candle in Room 5, then everything will go smoothly afterwards.

If not, there is no chance of passing the level, and all of them will die in this level.

The factors that affect the results are definitely in the process.

This process is most likely the chosen route.

"Search room 9 first and see what you can find." Lin Mo gave an order, and then began to review the entire process and all the details of the third level from the beginning to the present in his mind.

Suddenly, he discovered a problem.

Lao Wu’s face.

He immediately pulled out the photo he had found earlier.

At that time, he and Bingyangzi always believed that the person whose head was crossed out by ballpoint pen in the photo was Laowu, which was also normal reasoning.

But just now when Lin Mo recalled the appearance of Old Five that he had seen before, he discovered that Old Five looked very similar to one of the other four.

At this moment he took out the photo and looked at it again, the more he looked at it, the more similar it looked.

Bingyangzi had also seen Laowu, so he showed the photo to Bingyangzi, and the latter's eyes lit up.

"Hey, you know what, it's true, this guy really looks like Lao Wu's ghost. But that doesn't make sense, then if this person is Lao Wu, who is the one crossed out by the ballpoint pen?"

Lin Mo felt a little regretful at this time.

I didn't ask Zhao Dong, who was caught before, carefully. This was also caused by inertial thinking.

After all, who could have thought of this at that time?

"I don't think this is a big problem. Even if the person who was painted over was not Lao Wu, he is still one of the four murderers." said the sickly man.

That's quite true.

But Lin Mo felt that this was a "well-designed" game scene, so the photo, which was an important clue, would not have such meaningless graffiti.

Since this person's face was painted, there must be a reason.

Maybe it is a crucial clue.

"What a pervert! Think about it carefully. When we handed Zhao Dong to Lao Wu, what was the expression on Lao Wu's face?" Lin Mo said again.

The memory of this sick kid is still fresh.

"The other party was full of malice and showed no gratitude."

"Not only that, it even looked at us with hatred, as if we had a grudge against it." Lin Mo added.

You’re not even to mention.

Come to think of it, that was indeed the case.

"You said that we had no grudges against it and helped it catch the culprit. It's fine if it's not grateful, but why did it continue to attack after that?"

Lin Mo was talking about the matter at the water tank house.

At that time, Bingyangzi almost drowned, so he was very upset about it.

"You have a point, but evil spirits do not have logic in their actions. Maybe they are just venting their resentment out of hatred for living beings."

"That's a possibility."

Lin Mo nodded.

But he is a person who likes to think wildly and has a big imagination.

To be more specific, he does not think about problems from the perspective of a normal person, but from the perspective of evil spirits and perverts.

This will create a strong sense of immersion and allow Lin Mo to guess what the evil spirit was thinking at the time.

"There is another possibility. Lao Wu discovered that there are enemies among us!"

Lin Mo muttered.

As soon as these words came out, the perverted Bingyangzi got goose bumps all over his body.

"You, you mean..." He lowered his voice and glanced at the people around who were looking for something.

Lin Mo whispered to Bing Yangzi that there was something that had been bothering him.

The sick boy asked what was going on.

Lin Mo took out a card.

Sickly took it and looked at it. It said, "There is a ghost hiding among you. Find him before you pass the level!"

“This is a hidden mission I got from the boss of the horror house when I first entered the horror house scene.”

After Lin Mo finished speaking, he took out a few more cards.

These were all found out by him from the characters who had died previously.

Lin Mo didn't tell anyone about this.

"Their hidden characters are the same as mine, which means that the characters that have died are not ghosts."

"At first, I thought that ghosts were evil spirits and monsters. But later I realized that it was different. 'Ghost' might just be a nickname. A person could be a ghost because he or she is guilty of something, which is called 'having a guilty conscience'."

Bingyangzi is also a master. After hearing what Lin Mo said, he also realized it.

"I see."

"Tell me what you think."

"You suspect something is wrong with the other two plot characters who are currently alive."

"That's right."

"And if you plan to look at the card in their hand and it says 'ghost', then the hidden task on the other party's card will definitely not be to find the ghost. It is very likely to say 'you are a ghost, don't let others find you' or something like that."

"Or maybe we just get along well, that's what I mean. And I even suspect that the reason why Lao Wu chased us so relentlessly and looked at us with such hatred was not because he was looking at us, but because of that 'ghost'. It's more likely that this 'ghost' was one of the four people who killed it before."

"Ah, no way?" This time the sick guy was really shocked.

These two things seem to have nothing to do with each other.

But when Lin Mo thought about it this way, he really felt that this was possible.

Because now they have been to almost every room and have found two bodies and a living person, Zhao Dong. Apart from them, no other bodies or living people have been found.

Just one person missing.

So, could it be that when this person escaped, he used a ballpoint pen to cover up his own face in the group photo?

Bingyangzi usually likes to use his brain, but when he is with Lin Mo, he doesn't want to move.

Because every time Lin Mo can think of what’s ahead of him.

Just ask directly.

"Who do you think it is? It's definitely not you and me, and it can't be a black man. Who do you think the other two characters are, the muscular man and the middle-aged man?"

Lin Mo smiled: "How can you rely on intuition for such things? You have to rely on evidence."

The sickly boy understood: "That's right."

He immediately walked over and pulled the black man over, whispered a few words to him, and then the three of them surrounded the two characters who were looking for something.

The two of them also noticed something was wrong and looked at Lin Mo and the other two in confusion.

"What, what's wrong?" asked the muscular man.

The middle-aged man next to him also looked scared and hid backwards.

At this time, Lin Mo didn't beat around the bush.

"Before entering the first level, take out the card given by the owner of the horror house so I can see it."

"Why should I look at that? I accidentally lost it during the first level." said the muscular man.

The middle-aged man subconsciously touched his pocket and said nothing.

Lin Mo sighed.

"I am not negotiating with you now, I am ordering you to produce the materials, whether you agree or not, whether you cooperate or not."

As he spoke, he shook the wrench in his hand.

The sickly guy next to him also took out a knife with a grim smile. The black man showed off his biceps. His body was amazing.

The middle-aged man had no choice but to take out a card from his pocket and hand it over.

Lin Mo took it and looked at it.

Just like his own, it was a mission to find ghosts.

Then, Lin Mo looked at the muscular man.

There is no expression, but it makes the other person feel uneasy and his hands and feet go weak.

At this moment, the muscular man's expression was somewhat grim and helpless. He suddenly smiled awkwardly, "Actually, it's like this. My card was not lost. It was because the task on the card was rather strange, so I didn't dare to say it. Later, I thought, isn't this just a game? There's nothing wrong with saying it. Okay, I admit it, I am the 'ghost', but I'm not a real ghost. This should be a small 'werewolf' game played in the horror house. I was just assigned the identity of a 'ghost'."

As he spoke, he also took out a card from his pocket.

The content written on it was indeed different from that of the others, and was similar to what Lin Mo had guessed about the "ghost" card before.

At this time, the other party still wants to get away with it.

Lin Mo didn't have the time to play such a boring game with the other party, nor did he bother to appreciate the other party's acting skills.

"Are you Zhang Dehan or Wang Quan?"

Asked directly.

The muscular man's face changed instantly.

That kind of panic and disbelief was definitely not pretended.

Yes, if it was just the identity of a 'ghost', the worst that could happen is that he would admit it, and at most the hidden mission would have failed.

The next moment, the muscular man turned and ran, apparently trying to open the door of Room 1.

But the problem is that the three people present are all veterans.

As soon as he moved, the black man stepped forward and grabbed the man's neck.

The muscleman fought back.

The black man slapped the grandson ten times in the face.

The muscular man squatted down with his face covered and spat. It seemed that he had lost two teeth, and they were both front teeth.

Lin Mo also kicked this guy.

"Actually, I don't care what your name is, whether it's Zhang Dehan or Wang Quan, it's the same to us anyway. I'll give you to Lao Wu later. I believe he will like this gift this time."

Those who are not familiar with the inside story may feel like a villain just by listening to Lin Mo's words.

"Tie him up!" Lin Mo waved his hand and the black man pounced on him, using bed sheets and quilt covers to tie him up tightly.

The muscular man was completely disappointed. He glanced at Lin Mo and said, "Don't you want to hear the story behind this?"

What’s the story behind this?

Lin Mo nodded.

Of course they want to listen. They are players, and getting more background stories is related to the final degree of completion of their scenes.

It can be seen that the muscular man is still a little unconvinced, and he wants to explain the reason behind this, probably for the sake of survival.

"My name is Wang Quan, and the one who drowned in the basin before was Zhang Dehan."

"The five of us graduated from the same technical school and then joined the same factory. We had a very good relationship. We lived in the same dormitory at that time, so we all called each other brothers. Lao Wu was not the fifth in rank, but his name was Wei Wu, so we called him Lao Wu."

"We didn't really want to kill him. We were just drinking together at the time and suddenly had the idea to scare him. Who knew he actually believed it?"

Five young people went for an outing in the suburbs during their break. They bought beer and snacks, and after the outing, they ate, drank and chatted next to a reservoir.

Talk about ideals and the future.

Full of expectations for their future.

One of them ran to the toilet, and at this time, the other four people suddenly had an idea to play a prank to scare that person.

So everyone chose one person, who took off his clothes, put them on the shore of the reservoir, and then hid himself.

Then the other three shouted for help.

The person who had gone to the toilet earlier came back and heard his companion fall into the water. The other three people couldn't swim, so they jumped into the cold reservoir without any hesitation.

Then he never surfaced again.

Hearing this, Lin Mo frowned, and the black man and the sickly man beside him also shook their heads.

"That's not right. The diary says that it was you four who killed Old Five and drowned him in the river." Bingyangzi asked.

The muscular man said he hadn't finished yet.

"We were so scared at the time because a prank had killed our friend. We kept shouting on the shore, but Lao Wu didn't float up."

"Later, we planned to call the police. But Zhao Dong said that the police would definitely ask why. What would they say? Would they say it was a prank? In that case, we would also be held responsible."

"It was already very dark, and the entire reservoir looked like a pitch-black monster. We hesitated whether to leave. But at this moment, Liu Genbao saw a man squatting behind him. He had a stick in his hand and hit him without thinking. The man was hit on the head and fell to the ground without a sound. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Lao Wu."

"Pretending to be dead?" the black man asked.

Lin Mo shook his head: "I guess not."

There aren't so many fake corpses.

In all likelihood, Lao Wu knew that they were making fun of him, so he hid himself on purpose and wanted to make fun of them in return. However, he didn't expect that Liu Genbao was so fierce and beat him to death directly.

Or rather, not dead.

What Wang Quan said next was similar to what Lin Mo had guessed. After they found out that it was Lao Wu who fell to the ground, they were stunned. They also found that there was a hole in Lao Wu’s head, bleeding profusely, and he was already dead.

"It was Liu Genbao who suggested it. He said he didn't do it on purpose. He also said that Lao Wu had drowned before, so this must be a ghost. He asked us to tie Lao Wu to a rock and throw him into the reservoir, and then he would give us a share of the money."

"I understand. You guys deserve it." The black man spat at him, obviously despising such behavior.

Wang Quan felt wronged: "But we were scared at the time, really scared, and we didn't know whether Lao Wu had really come back. I really regret it. Please don't give me to Lao Wu, please spare my life. If you give me to him, I will definitely die."

Started begging for mercy.

After that, he said again: "If you spare my life, I will tell you a secret."

"Secret? What secret?" the black man was curious.

"Silver coins, lots of silver coins. I know you want these things. If you let me go, I will tell you a place where there are a lot of silver coins."

Wang Quan seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw.

Life or death depends on this one.

Lin Mo knew that the other party had eavesdropped on his conversation with Bingyangzi and the others.

Probably in the lounge.

Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for Lin Mo and the others to believe what the other party said.

But at this time, they actually saw an option.

"1. Trust the kingship and save his life; 2. Don't trust him."

It's actually a system option.

Doesn't that mean that what the other party said might be true? Lin Mo glanced at the sickly man and the black man, and they both glanced at Lin Mo.

"You decide!"

"As you say."

They both said in unison.

Lin Mo nodded.

Then Wang Quan was sentenced to death.

"Give him to Lao Wu."

When Wang Quan heard this, his face was full of disbelief and he started yelling loudly. Lin Mo had someone cover his mouth and it became much quieter now.

Next, Lin Mo led people to open Door No. 1.

It's very safe inside.

The candle is still burning.

But only half is left.

In Room 1, the door numbers were changed to 8, 5, and 6.

Open door 5.

It's finally back to normal inside.

I quickly went in and lit the candles, and now Room 5 was also done.

Afterwards, Lin Mo led the way and lit the candle in Room 6 according to the method of the Nine-Grid.

When they opened the door of Room 7, Lao Wu was standing inside, staring at them.

Seeing Lao Wu, Wang Quan, who was being carried, struggled like crazy. Lin Mo reached out and took the cloth out of his mouth.

"You said that it was Liu Genbao who asked you to sink the body. I think you are lying. It was you who beat Lao Wu to death, and it was you who gave the money to others to help sink the body."

Wang Quan's eyes were filled with fear, and Lin Mo asked the black man to throw the other person in.

Then, amid Wang Quan's shrill screams, the door was closed.

Wait until the sound stops before turning it back on.

Lao Wu is missing, and Wang Quan is also missing.

Lin Mo went in and lit a candle.

Next, rooms 8 and 9 did not encounter any obstacles and lit all their candles very smoothly.

After the candle in Room 9 was lit, the three doors in the room disappeared at the same time, and then a new door reappeared.

There is no number on this door.

After opening it, there is a corridor. Walking straight through it, you will reach the lounge of the horror house.

They passed the third level.

At this moment, Lin Mo, Sick Man and the Black Man all saw the prompt that the scene was completed.

I don’t know about others, but this is the hint Lin Mo got.

"Congratulations, you have cleared the hidden scene Death Horror House."

"Player: Psychopath, 17 hours, 51 minutes, 32 seconds;"

"Operational character: Xu Min in madman form; plot completion 97%; death count 0 times."

"Comprehensive evaluation S grade."

"Rewards: 1 life, 2 gold coins with random attributes, 500 points, 3 scene cards (including 1 Death Horror House Annual Card)."

(End of this chapter)