Chapter 38: Game Start
*Disclaimer: This chapter has strong themes that may trigger you when you read it. Please read with caution.*
“50 yen per person sounds like a good deal.” Wang Ziwen said as if she was rather satisfied with the price, “But, we don’t know if the haunted house is truly scary or not. If we were going to base it off of the online reviews, we won’t go in and play.”
“Pretty lady, I guarantee you that it is indeed terrifying. Those online reviews were all a month ago, so you shouldn’t take them into consideration.”
The boss of the haunted house’s words seemed to have a deeper meaning to them, as a result, Bai Yan inquired, “Why shouldn’t we consider the comments about your haunted house that were made a month ago?”
“Ay, at that time, I still haven’t taken over the management of this haunted house. It was still being operated by its former owner. After I took over, the second escape room as well as the haunted house were completely remodeled, making it better than the original.” Seeing the four’s rising interests, the boss added with a hint of mysteriousness in his voice, “The first escape room was left behind by the old boss, and I didn’t change a single thing in it, but as for the second one, I personally took the time to put everything in order. The room’s theme is based on a real event.”
“Real event?” Wang Ziwen perked up in curiosity.
“Correct! Furthermore, this real-life event has something to do with the haunted house’s old boss.” The new boss was nervous that the people in front of him wouldn’t buy tickets, so he quickly lowered his voice, “Did you know? The previous boss was a woman that committed suicide. Hearsay, her personality was already eccentric from the start, but before she died, all of her family and friends cut off ties with her. She was a person who rented out a single room and hanged herself in it. Moreover, as she was dying, her mouth was distorted to an eerie smile, looking exceedingly frightening. Later, her younger brother was dropping in for a surprise visit and that was when everyone heard the news of her death. At that moment, she had already been dead for quite a while, so her corpse was rotting and full of crawling house flies and maggots, making anybody run away from fear.”
The boss heaved a sigh, “After the death of the former boss, this Haunted House Escape has been under my care. In order to enhance the marketability of this escape room, I moved all the things from the room where the old boss died into the escape room. While you guys are playing the second room, you can personally experience the gruesome scene of her suicide since everything in there was previously used by a deceased person!”
For a brief period, the mountains of horror novels she read before came rushing into her mind, leading her to want to run out of this haunted house place and avoid getting cursed.