Chapter 39: Solving the Escape Room
*Disclaimer: This chapter has strong themes that may trigger you when you read it. Please read with caution.*
A deafening sound fell from the heavens, making everyone’s heart palpitate from surprise.
However, the other three people have already experienced playing in a haunted house before and knew outright that the terrifying sound was a common characteristic of any haunted house, so they quickly went back to the way they were. Contrary to what Xu Xiaojing had expected, upon hearing this ear-splitting noise, her face immediately turned deathly pale, while her body started trembling like there was no tomorrow.
“What the reviews say were right. This haunted house’s music is too loud, so much so that it could make anyone deaf.” Wang Ziwen mumbled while pulling Xu Xiaojing to the side to look for the mechanism.
Wang Ziwen was continuously making banging sounds all over the place as Bai Yan and Su Yize also started looking around the escape room. Since they bought the tickets, the countdown has started moving. They needed to walk out of this haunted house in half an hour, so the two’s actions were nothing short of swift.
“One and a half minutes have already passed in the countdown. We wasted a minute and a half when we were walking here, we need to pick up the pace.”
The escape room’s layout was clear from one glance. The room’s colors were painted monochromatically. There were no windows nor were there any doors. Only a table was placed in front of the two opposite walls, and a white metal cabinet was in front of the other wall, blocking it.
Bai Yan and Su Yize walked to the table, and on top of it was a model of a head, completely dripping with blood.
While the two were making some progress, on the other side of the room, matters with Wang Ziwen were also going smoothly. In a minute, she already found the mechanism hidden away in the wall.