Chapter 58 Haunted House Mystery: Horror Experience
This morning, the police received a report that a murder had occurred in a secret room escape shop in the downtown shopping mall.
Fang Rui and Mu Mian drove to the shopping mall.
The secret room escape shop was called "Edgar Allen's House" and was located in the west building of the shopping mall.
This shop was selected as a program recording venue by a very popular variety show last month, and it became popular all of a sudden. Many young people like to choose it as a team building location. The flow of customers increased dramatically.
The owner of the shop is very rich and has rented a whole floor as the venue. The decoration style outside the shop is Gothic horror style. As soon as you arrive at the west building, you can feel a terrifying and murderous atmosphere, which makes people feel cold.
"Police comrade, you are finally here." The store manager saw the police coming and hurried over to greet them. The store manager's name was Wang Huajian, a middle-aged man in his teens, wearing black-framed glasses, and his face was full of anxiety.
"Where was the body found? Please take us there."
"Inside the secret room, the body was found in the room of the hidden level 'Bride and Groom Collection Room'."
The store manager led them inside and introduced the situation, "We rarely go to that room, and we didn't expect someone to be hanged in it. Fortunately, it was found in time. If it was found later, the body would probably have rotted and stank."
After discovering the body, the store manager immediately sealed off the scene, which not only protected the scene, but also prevented the incident from spreading and affecting the reputation of their store.
The copy that the store manager took them to was called "Escape from the Mental Hospital", which is the most popular copy of their store.
Players need to find various clues and props to infer the correct escape route. You will encounter many horror scenes along the way, such as a bloody operating room, a collection room full of human organs, a hanging room full of corpses... During this period, there will be people dressed as ghosts or mentally ill people holding electric saws to attack players.
"Ah! What is this?" Xiao Zhang accidentally touched the bones hanging on the wall, and a human head suddenly fell from the roof and hit Xiao Zhang's face. As soon as Xiao Zhang raised his head, his eyes met a pair of white eyes with a blue glow.
"You have to be careful, don't touch it casually, there are many small machines here, it's not dangerous, but a little scary." The manager reminded.
These machines need to be closed manually, which is more troublesome, so even if a murder occurs, the manager still does not stop those machines.
He was thinking that he would continue to operate after the police took the body away. This store has a large flow of customers. Although it is a weekday, there are still many players coming to play.
Mu Mian touched the human head curiously, and she found that the face was made of silicone, and the facial features were very realistic. At first glance, it looked like the real thing. And it felt cold and soft to the touch, and it was very nice.
"Forensic Doctor Mu, don't just touch it, help me take it away!" Xiao Zhang wanted to cry but had no tears. The head was against his face, he didn't dare to touch it, nor did he dare to move, and could only maintain an awkward posture.
Seeing this, Chen Xue silently helped him take it away.
"Xiao Zhang, don't be afraid, you follow me, I will protect you!" Chen Xue said to Xiao Zhang.
"Okay!" Xiao Zhang hugged Chen Xue's hand and trembled.
Xiao Wang from the technical department was also trembling, "Chen Xue, I'm scared too, what kind of a hell is this place!"
"Xiao Wang, you're a man, be brave!" Chen Xue encouraged Xiao Wang.
"..." Xiao Wang was speechless, Chen Xue was too hypocritical, why can't Xiao Zhang be brave? Well, who made him a single dog?
Mu Mian picked up a corpse from the ground, holding its scarred hands to show them to Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang, "These corpses are fake! Touch them, human skin cannot be so elastic. Why are you afraid of fake ones?"
"Ah, Doctor Mu, take it away, take it away quickly!" Xiao Zhang shrank behind Chen Xue and held Chen Xue's hand tightly, "It's not that I'm timid, it's that this reminds me of something that shouldn't exist after the founding of the People's Republic of China! Normally, I'm not afraid of real corpses." Xiao Zhang tried to clarify himself.
Chen Xue said to Mu Mian, "Mian Mian, don't scare Xiao Zhang, he's timid."
"Okay." Mu Mian put the prop corpse back to its original place.
Mu Mian looked at Fang Rui again, "Fang Rui, are you scared? If you are, you can hide behind me. I am not afraid of these. I will protect you."
"Not very scared." Fang Rui is a staunch materialist, and he has been forced to watch horror movies with his mother since he was a child, and he has long been immune to these startling horror scenes.
"Okay." Mu Mian's tone was a little regretful, "You are very brave."
The hidden level is at the innermost part of the secret room, which is considered the last scene.
The further you go in, the scarier the scene. The air conditioner on the wall blows cold air from time to time, giving people a feeling of a chilly wind. The props inside are extremely realistic and full of immersion.
Chen Xue couldn't stand it any longer, so she walked carefully hand in hand with Xiao Zhang, fearing that they would step on some mechanism or some strange human organs or weird-shaped creatures would jump out.
This is not an escape room at all, it's simply a haunted house, what is needed is not IQ, but courage!
"You are a little timid," the store manager saw that Xiao Zhang and the others were trembling with fear, and spoke to adjust the atmosphere, "Now we have turned off a lot of mechanisms, turned on a few more lights, and people pretending to be ghosts haven't come out, so it's not that scary anymore. If you have time some other time, you can come and experience it!"
"No, no." If it weren't for solving the case, they would never come to this man-made haunted place again!
Mu Mian looked at Chen Xue. She was about to hug Xiao Zhang. Mu Mian couldn't help but remind her: "Chen Xue, you are a forensic doctor. You are not afraid of real corpses, so why are you afraid of fake ones?"
"Because real corpses won't sway around, won't suddenly grab my legs, and won't make scary noises." Chen Xue said tremblingly.
"Chen Xue, don't be afraid, I will protect you!" Xiao Zhang said in a weak voice.
"...You should protect yourself first." Xiao Wang complained sourly.
Is it really that scary? Mu Mian tilted her head to look at Fang Rui: "Fang Rui, if you feel scared, you can grab my hand, and I won't laugh at you for being timid."
"Not very scared!"
"Really not scared?"
"...Really." Fang Rui couldn't understand. He was not scared, so why did Mu Mian look very disappointed?
Fang Rui was observing the structure of the secret room. He found that the main theme of this game was horror, and the reasoning part was very simple. Players could easily find the exit as long as they kept going along - provided they were brave enough.
Although they walked for only a few minutes, it was the longest few minutes Xiao Zhang and his friends had ever spent in their lives. Mu Mian spent a few minutes of great excitement. She never knew there was such a fun place.
She decided that she would stay here for a whole day the next time she had a holiday.
The store manager stopped in a room. The room was decorated like a wedding room. A skeleton bride stood by the door, wearing a very beautiful wedding dress and a crown on her head, and her empty eyes were staring at them.
"The key to triggering this hidden level, 'Bride and Groom Collection Room', is to hug the skeleton bride." The store manager pointed at the skeleton bride and said, "Many players don't think of this, so few players can find this hidden level. Isn't this a clever design?"
Mu Mian looked at the skeleton bride, her eyes lit up, "Can I hug it?"
Fang Rui pulled Mu Mian to stop her, "It has been hugged by many people. There are a lot of bacteria on it."
"Okay."
The store manager went over and hugged the bride, and with a bang, the black wall with a fluorescent skull painted on it was pushed up, and an electronic screen appeared.
A string of numbers appeared on the electronic screen: 1,1; 2.3; 5.9; 14.27; 41.81; () Please find the pattern of this string of numbers, and infer the next number according to the pattern, and fill it in the brackets.
"Wait a minute, I need to find the password." The store manager took out a piece of paper from his pocket with many strings of numbers written on it. "This puzzle appears randomly. There are many questions. I can't remember the password. Wait for me to find it."
The store manager seemed very anxious, but the more anxious he was, the harder it was to find the password.
Mu Mian put on gloves and entered the number on the screen: 122.243.