flstandardbreds Chapter 205: First Experience in a Secret Chamber
Chapter 205: First Experience in a Secret Chamber
Two hours later, three male college students rode shared bicycles leisurely and stopped in front of Rose Valley.
They scanned the QR code and got off the bus. The total assets of the three of them were just three mobile phones, which made them quite poor.
Liu Haijun, who got off the car first, took a look at the surrounding entertainment facilities that were being renovated, then turned around and looked at his roommate suspiciously:
"Is your ticket reliable? Don't tell me you were cheated. Where is the secret room in this desolate mountain?"
"Just put your heart in your pelvis. Can my brother sell you out? Go, go, go, the time is almost up."
Yan Tao patted his chest confidently, turned on the navigation and led the way.
He has a wide range of hobbies. He likes to play billiards and watch movies. When he has free time, he will go to scenic spots to climb mountains.
A few days ago, I was lying in bed watching videos and saw the news of the opening of the theme escape room. It happened that the movie left an indelible impression on me.
When he had just finished watching "Rose Fever", he often dreamed of the protagonist holding a female corpse. Every time he woke up, he felt that there was another person sleeping on the bed where he could hardly turn over.
It made him want to find roommates to squeeze in together, but he was also called Nanto.
Yan Tao followed the link to jump to the page, and it turned out to be an event similar to a grand opening promotion, where four lucky viewers were drawn for free to experience it first.
Since it was free and close to their school, I drew a number just to give it a try.
He didn't expect that he would win the grand prize pool with more than 30,000 participants, and he was among the first batch!
Of course I have to share this overwhelming wealth with my good friends. (Actually I don’t have a girlfriend.)
After walking for a while, they finally saw someone. Yan Tao hurried forward and asked:
"Hi, where is the Rose Chamber?"
The man looked Yan Tao and his group up and down, and as if he suddenly remembered something, he said, "Oh," "You are the winners of the escape room experience, right? I'll lead the way for you."
Seeing that the road was getting further and further away, Liu Haijun's heart was beating fast, but Yan Tao was completely unaware and said excitedly: "Damn, this place is so big, it will definitely be exciting to play!"
Finally, under the guidance of the staff, the three successfully found the entrance to the secret room.
The receptionist smiled sweetly: "Hello, guests. Since our Rose Chamber is still in the trial stage, we only have one theme open at the moment, the Chinese Micro Horror Rose Enthusiasm."
"Do you want to choose immersive or puzzle mode?"
Yan Tao asked sheepishly: "Is there any difference between these two modes?"
"To put it simply, the immersive mode has real people chasing NPCs, while the puzzle mode only has traps."
When Yan Tao heard about real NPC, his neck shrank, but Liu Haijun's eyes lit up: "This is great, I've played so many escape rooms, and the ones with NPC are more exciting."
Wang Jiong, who had always had little presence, said weakly: "Forget it, let's just solve the puzzle..."
He felt terrified just by standing in the hall and looking at the dark entrance not far away. If there was some moving ghost chasing him, his screams would surely blow the roof of the secret room off.
Liu Haijun impatiently put his arms around their necks and said, "Hey, stop wasting time. It's all fake. What's there to be afraid of? Haven't you seen the movie?"
"Besides, the real NPC must be Huai Yunjian. How similar can they be? I didn't even run away when I saw him. Are you guys scared?"
Provoked by Liu Haijun, the two men fell silent.
Seeing that several people had decided on the mode, the young lady seemed to smile and asked: "Do you need to experience the role costumes?"
Yan Tao didn't even think about it: "Yes, yes, yes."
The young lady suppressed her laughter and said, "Please follow me to draw a character card."
Liu Haijun picked it up and looked at it: "I'm Xiao Liu, the photographer. Hey, we're from the same family."
"I'm fellow traveler Li Shuai." Yan Tao's eyes darkened as he thought of the scumbag Li Xie in the drama.
"What about you?" Seeing that Wang Jiong didn't speak for a long time, he reminded him.
"Uh... I'm Li Shuai's girlfriend, Xiao Liu's best friend, Fu Xiaomei."
The three familiar surnames made everyone stunned.
The lady continued to introduce:
"Twenty years ago, a corpse-drenching case that shocked the entire city occurred in a manor deep in the mountains. Four tourists who entered the manor for a tour were all killed. Since then, the manor has been abandoned and has become a famous haunted house in the area."
"Twenty years later, Li Shuai took his girlfriend Fu Xiaomei and her best friend Xiao Liu on a road trip. When they passed by Mangshan, the weather was unpredictable, so you had to set up a tent nearby to rest."
"It's two o'clock in the morning. The tent is leaking. You decide to send someone to investigate and find a place to take shelter..."
The three of them listened attentively, and the young lady suddenly asked, "Who among you is Li Shuai?"
"Ah, me..." Yan Tao raised his hands tremblingly, having a very bad premonition.
"As for us...Li Shuai needs to go in first."
Yan Tao's whole body froze when he heard this. What does that mean? A single-line mission right from the start, right?
Finally, he overcame his fear and walked into the dark entrance first under everyone's gaze.
The young lady looked at the two people who stayed outside and said, "Let's go, let's go change clothes first."
On the other side, Yan Tao, who was alone, felt a distinct chill the moment he entered the secret room. Thanks to Li Shuai's windbreaker, he did not shiver.
The headlamp flickered dimly, illuminating only a small area in front of him.
How to describe this kind of darkness? It is the kind of darkness that will completely disappear as long as your hand is beyond the range of lighting.
It was as if they were coming from all directions to swallow him up.
"!!"
Yan Tao's feet suddenly felt empty, and he subconsciously leaned towards the left wall. Fortunately, the passage was narrow and he did not fall.
He could hardly breathe. The endless darkness and the unknown ahead made Yan Tao's heart beat violently.
I stepped forward tentatively with my toes and found that it was a staircase leading downwards.
Yan Tao groped the wall. It felt very strange, like an uneven stone wall, or a wooden wall full of wormholes.
When he turned his head, the wall lit up and Yan Tao suddenly met the distorted face in the painting on the wall.
"Ahhhh-"
The sharp tenor voice reached the rooftop, and Liu Haijun and Wang Jiong, who were supporting each other across several corridors, heard it.
Fear is contagious, not to mention that they are also scared.
Li Shuai, who left first, was fully equipped, while the two of them only had a small flashlight, and the light was not very good, and the outside shoulders of both of them were sunken in darkness.
Wang Jiong wanted to crawl into Liu Haijun's arms, and honestly followed the character setting, suggesting: "Good girlfriend, why don't we turn off the flashlight? This half-covered look seems even more frightening."
"So I really turned it off?" Liu Haijun said as he made a fake move.
"Hey hey hey, forget it!!" He was dumbfounded and squeezed towards the middle cowardly.
"It really has nothing to do with you and you are unhappy."
Liu Haijun shrugged, and the fear in his heart dissipated a lot by joking.
There's nothing to be afraid of, it's just that the visibility is a little low. Anyway, it's all fake, just a little scary...
He encouraged himself in his heart. Liu Haijun took the flashlight in his hand and shone it straight forward. The end he saw was also pitch black, with only the slightly bumpy ground visible.
He wanted to use a flashlight to look around. After all, this book also had puzzle elements, and finding more clues would help him pass the level.
As my sight turned, a huge jade Buddha statue appeared before my eyes.
It is embedded in the wall, and looks like a fat and kind-hearted person, but the curve of the corners of its mouth is so exaggerated that it loses its divinity.
When the flashlight was shone over it, the entire jade statue emitted an eerie green light.
The two men's breath was held, they were too close to this thing, only two fists away.
Silently leaning against the other wall, Wang Jiong stared at the evil Buddha. The more he looked at him, the creepier he found him. He shrank his neck and quickly moved away.
Unexpectedly, something behind him squeaked and the whole person fell backwards.
"What the hell! Brother Liu, save me!!"
The huge vibration frightened Liu Haijun so much that he trembled all over. He turned back without caring about the Buddha statue in front of him.
It was a red board door made of elm wood, with hollow patterns of flowers, birds, fish and insects on it. The situation was urgent, and Wang Jiong's cries for help were becoming increasingly distant.
Liu Haijun was so anxious that he slammed the wooden door hard: "Come over and open it!"
"Hey! Stop shouting and open the door!"
"save……"
Wang Jiong's voice completely disappeared in the corridor, and the young man who stayed there broke out in a cold sweat due to the shock of the sudden change.
Liu Haijun guessed that Wang Jiong might have been taken away by something. It should be a side quest. He silently prayed for good luck to some Wang who didn't have a flashlight.
I used to laugh at Yan Tao for being a single-line guy, but now it seems that there is no difference between them, and Lao Wang is the worst one.
Liu Haijun calmed himself down. Now that one of them had left, he felt that the surroundings seemed too quiet. There was not even the sound of the machinery operating.
Logically speaking, since he could hear Yan Tao's voice from where he was, the soundproofing should be very poor...
He gave up exploring the space inside the door and was about to turn around and continue walking forward when his left shoulder hit a hard barrier.
The coolness of the jade seemed to erode his body temperature, and his entire shoulder was covered with goose bumps in an instant.
Liu Haijun opened his eyes wide and moved his head to the left little by little.
He saw what he least wanted to see.
The huge belly of the tall jade statue was pressed tightly against his arm. At some point, the thing had freed itself from being embedded in the wall, and even its crystal clear face was tilted towards him.
It looked like it was about to pounce on him.
But he didn't hear any sound! !
Liu Haijun was so frightened that he opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. His legs went weak and he fell to the side of the gap.
The flashlight rolled around, and he vaguely saw in his peripheral vision that the wall where the Buddha was originally embedded was as smooth as new, and the previous hole seemed to be an illusion.
At this moment, the door that Wang Jiong was pulled in through was slammed hard from the inside. The muffled thud allowed him to regain his vocal cords.
He yelled, picked up the flashlight, and staggered into the depths of the corridor, holding on to the wall.
The shaking light allowed him to see the scene in the corridor more intuitively, and a familiar sense of horror arose.
Isn’t this Li Shuai... Oh no, should it be the corridor with many rooms and weird paintings that the scumbag Li Xie in the movie passed by?
Liu Haijun imitated the actions in the drama and shone the flashlight diagonally upwards. A pair of bloodshot eyes were illuminated and stared straight at him.
His arm trembled, and he suddenly saw the person in the painting's eyes seemed to move, and then disappeared into the darkness as his hand fell.
There are dozens of similar doors here, and occasionally a strange stone statue appears.
They are not as honest as the guy embedded in the wall. Each of them either stretches out a hand or raises a leg, deliberately blocking your way.
What’s even more frightening is that each jade statue that appears looks different. Some are as thin as mummies, and their contracted muscles are carved very realistically.
Some of them were of normal human body shape, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt that they resembled Li Xie in the movie.
The number of jade statues in the depths increased significantly. Liu Haijun was breathing heavily, and when he shone the flashlight, he broke out in a sweat.
A stone statue with four hands was half embedded in the right wall, and a pair of pale green eyes were desperately squinting in his direction, an expression that was beyond the reach of a normal person.
He was thinking of backing out, as the arm was so thin and weak, and was half longer than his hand, blocking most of the already narrow passage.
If he wants to get through, he will have to pay a considerable price, and at that time he definitely cannot move freely.
If something suddenly appears, wouldn't he follow in Lao Wang's footsteps?
Liu Haijun hesitated for a while, turned around and wanted to go back. When he saw the darkness behind him, he took a deep breath and his hands and feet felt cold: "Fuck it!!"
The stone statue that had pressed down on him was standing silently in the middle of the aisle, blocking his retreat.
Liu Haijun's legs went limp on the spot and he was about to collapse to the ground.
"No, brother, I didn't provoke you..."
He would rather be frightened by a scary-looking NPC than be approached by a dead creature that is half alive!!
His confused mind made it difficult for him to figure out whether he had run here on his own or was carried here by the staff.
No matter which one it is, it would be difficult to get so close without being noticed by him, right?
"I'm leaving. Can't I just leave?"
Liu Haijun was dejected. Not only did they not find any clues after entering the secret room, they hadn't even walked out of the corridor.
In this situation of being attacked from both sides, even though there were four hands in front of me, at least they didn't move, right?
He leaned sideways, moving slowly between his thin, jade-like, long nails and the wall.
He did not dare to relax his gaze for even a moment, staring closely at the big-bellied jade statue that was half-hidden in the darkness behind him.
The young man's back was soaked. He stood on tiptoes and inhaled to shrink his chest a little.
What Liu Haijun feared most at this moment was that the jade statue behind him would suddenly catch up with him, and his second greatest fear was that the skinny and weird arm in front of him would suddenly move.
If I am attacked from both sides, I will probably have to send it.
He moved carefully and walked for a long time before he squeezed out a distance of two meters, but this distance was a full five meters.
At this time, the secret room was quiet. He wished he could hear the voices of Yan Tao and Wang Jiong, even if it was just a scream.
While Liu Haijun was daydreaming, the wall that he was clinging to suddenly became empty.
There was a dent in that place, and before he could prepare himself, he leaned against the old door panel. The creaking sound unique to old houses broke the silence.