Unlike the chaos outside, the six guests in the 'inner world', apart from Song Mengmeng, were all impressed by how realistic the scene of the escape room was, and began to study the setting of the escape room with great interest.
Based on the information they had received, they were students who entered the abandoned dormitory building to play the Ouija board game in room 404, seeking thrills.
Many clues can only be found by starting the game and entering the scene.
They had just climbed to the second floor when they were drawn by a clear burst of laughter coming from the corridor.
"Little ball, banana peel, Malan flower at twenty-one..."
Song Mengmeng paused, following the sound as she looked into the depths of the corridor. The corridor, shrouded in mist and darkness, seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance.
"How can there be a child's voice?!"
Seeing Song Mengmeng stop, Yao Anna also stopped and looked in the direction from which the sound came. She asked Song Mengmeng, who was standing still, with some curiosity.
The information provided for the program said it was a middle school dormitory building, so why are there children's voices?!
"Is that a broadcast sound effect?!" One of the amateurs, Liu Song, also came over, habitually pushed up his glasses, and analyzed in a low voice: "Many escape room setups use this kind of sound effect setting as a reminder, and sometimes it's to drive the plot!"
As usual, Liu Song started walking deeper into the corridor. Song Mengmeng didn't stop him, but she made the same choice and followed behind him.
As soon as those two moved, Yao Anna, needless to say, followed Song Mengmeng relentlessly. The remaining two ordinary people naturally followed the herd mentality. Besides, it wasn't their first time playing this kind of escape room game. Although the environment was a bit eerie and gloomy, wasn't that what made it more exciting?
So in the end, only Fang Wenwen was left behind.
Fang Wenwen stomped her feet in anger. Although she was unwilling, she could only grit her teeth and stop causing trouble when she thought about her current situation. She barely kept up with the footsteps of her companions and walked together toward the depths of the corridor from which the sound came.
"Little ball, banana peel, Malan flowers bloom at twenty-one, two eight two five six, two eight two five seven... Hehehe, you jumped the wrong way!"
The closer you get, the more obvious and clear the chill that seeps into your bones becomes.
Even though the children's laughter sounded so happy in the increasingly thick fog, it still had an eerie quality that sent chills down everyone's spine.
"Is anyone there?!" Liu Song walked for a while and sensed that something was wrong.
He stopped, swallowed hard, and cautiously asked in the direction of the voice coming from the mist, "Excuse me, who are you...?"
Liu Song only got halfway through his question before he fell silent, like a goose whose neck had been choked.
He stared fixedly at everything in front of him, as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
The person jumping rope in front of us isn't a child at all, it's clearly...
The overwhelming stench of blood was bad enough, but to make matters worse, the three little girls who were jumping rope were all headless!
If the previous sounds could be attributed to special effects, how do you explain everything that's happening now?!
"Big brother, is something the matter?!"
As if feeling that Liu Song wasn't scared enough, the little girl with pigtails among the three heads lined up on the bench in the corridor spoke up with a grin: "Or are you going to play with us?!"
"Come on, let's play!"
Come play games with us!
...
Seeing the three little heads huddled together, jumping around excitedly, Liu Song felt no joy or excitement at all. He let out a scream, turned around, and ran back.
Like Liu Song, two other ordinary people also reacted the same way. They screamed and rushed into the thick fog at the other end of the corridor without looking back.
Fang Wenwen, who was walking at the back, hadn't really realized what was happening. She only saw Liu Song and the others running away in fright. She had originally wanted to mock them for being cowards, but when she saw the scene in front of her, her screams were even more pitiful than Liu Song's. Almost just as pitiful, she chased after Liu Song and the others into the endless corridor without looking back...
Suddenly, of the six people who had come to investigate, only Song Mengmeng and Yao Anna, whose legs were trembling with fear, remained.
The scene before me was simply too bizarre. Even though I kept telling myself it was just a game scene, the realism was just too much...
"Mengmeng, let's... let's go first!" Although she was so scared that she was about to faint, Yao Anna stubbornly stood in front of Song Mengmeng with her trembling body, while also asking Song Mengmeng behind her in a low voice what to do next.
"No need, it's okay." Song Mengmeng patted Yao Anna's arm reassuringly, then slowly walked around her to the three children who were curiously looking at them. With a hint of curiosity, she pointed to the taut rubber band and asked softly, "How do you play with this?!"
"..."
Yao Anna had considered countless ways things could have gone, but she never imagined that Song Mengmeng would choose to go and spend time with these children who seemed so strange.
She played the game of jump rope when she was a child.
However, as time has passed, children nowadays almost never play these kinds of games anymore...
However, Song Mengmeng didn't seem to have any experience with this kind of game. The little girl in red who was playing jump rope tried to explain for a long time but couldn't explain it clearly, so both sides were getting a little anxious.
With a sigh, Yao Anna couldn't help herself and went over to tug at Song Mengmeng's sleeve, saying with a hint of helplessness, "I'll dance for you!"
"Okay, okay!" Yao Anna's arrival made the three children happy. They immediately stood in their proper places, stretched the elastic bands between their legs, and waited for Yao Anna to join them.
"Little ball, banana peel, Malan flowers bloom at twenty-one, two eight two five six, two eight two five seven, two eight two nine thirty-one! Three eight three..."
This game seemed etched into her soul; she hardly needed to recall it, and after a brief period of awkwardness, she quickly became proficient. This nursery rhyme, which had resonated throughout her entire childhood, brought back the joy that had long since left her, in this incredibly eerie environment.
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