Humanity’s greatest fear comes from the unknown.
The more I felt that there was something under the bed, the more I dared not to look, and the more scared I became.
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After the broadcast.
Barrage 1: What the hell is going on? This episode is so freaking scary
Barrage 2: The other group is just pure puzzle solving, why is this group so scary
Barrage 3: Two girls plus the most timid one, what can the program crew do
Barrage 4: —can—pre-warn
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Jian Jing was also a little scared by this haunted house. But this little fear lingered in her heart, nourishing infinite curiosity and excitement, driving her to tiptoe and gently lift the bed sheet.
"Ugh." Coco almost vomited when the flashlight was shone on her.
Fortunately, it wasn't a ghost. Unfortunately, it was a pool of rotten meat with maggots crawling on it. The stench was overwhelming and made people's stomachs churn.
Jian Jing quickly put it down, put her hand on her chest, and slowly exhaled: "I'm going to die."
She cut the Gordian knot: "Get out now."
"The door can't be opened." Coco ran into the bathroom and looked around. "There's a window here. How about I try to climb out?"
Jiang Baiyan was startled and quickly pulled her back: "It's too dangerous."
Jian Jing squatted by the door, studied the keyhole, then took off her hairpin, straightened it, and reached in to poke.
Coco came over to look curiously: "Teacher Jian, can you pick the lock?"
"I tried it out of curiosity." Having been trapped in secret rooms several times, Jian Jing developed a great interest in lock picking and would tinker with it from time to time.
It just so happens that the equipment in the haunted house is very expensive, and usually not too much is invested in the door locks, so they are all ordinary locks. She poked with a hairpin for a long time and actually opened it.
"Teacher Jingjing is so awesome." Jiang Baiyan immediately gave her compliments.
Jian Jing winked at him: "Let's go save the others now."
Jiang Baiyan was quite smart, and he didn't need to think about what he said. He naturally dug a trap: "It's so scary here, they must be scared. We have to find them quickly."
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After the broadcast.
One bright spot of the haunted house show is that all cameras display the shooting time, which to a certain extent prevents malicious editing. At least you can't cut out a sentence and graft another answer.
This also makes it easier for viewers to estimate the guests' activity times.
Barrage 1: This group is so fast, it came out in 15 minutes
Barrage 2: Picking the lock is cheating, the person next door is decrypting, okay
Barrage 3: Have you never watched "Hotel" if you said it was a decryption? ? :
Barrage 4: According to the routine, it was Cao Junshi who should rescue Xiaobai and the others, but the opposite happened
Barrage 5: Teacher Jian never disappoints!
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With more contact with the entertainment industry, Jian Jing also had an idea of the program crew's plans.
They are unlikely to do malicious editing or misattribution to others, so as to avoid ruining the show, but they can try some small tricks.
Cao Yu wanted to suppress her, so he might have found a way to gain an advantage for himself in a limited space.
The two groups split up, one to decipher and the other to solve the mystery. Who was more outstanding? Jian Jing didn't care about the pettiness of the parties, but since Cao Yu wanted to compete, she was not polite.
Games, of course, are more fun when there is competition.
Jian Jing held the flashlight and shone it towards the wide corridor. This was the ward area. Each ward was separated from each other, with locked doors or sealed with wooden boards. It looked desolate and scary.
"We are in the ward, and they should be in the office, so they can find different clues." Jian Jing made up the story herself and had her own ideas about the arrangement of clues, and her guesses were well-founded.
Sure enough, without paying attention to the tricks behind the ward, he ran to the end of the corridor and soon found a locked office.
As the two sides communicated, Zheng Keyan was a little surprised: "You came out? We have the key to the ward here, and I thought we would help you open the door."
Coco said bluntly: "Teacher Jian picked the lock."
There was silence inside, and Han Bo said, "We'll need a while."
Arranging to be rescued without a key and actually being rescued are two different things. Although Zheng Keyan and Han Bo had no intention of standing out, they also did not want to fall behind.
Jian Jing said: "Then let's go and take a look at the side."
He showed no intention of helping, but instead shone deeper into the cave.
The order of this floor is as follows:
Ward area.. office. toilet. iron door.. stairs. dark corridor
She looked up and down at the iron door. Of course, there were no smart locks in the last century. The iron door was wrapped with two iron chains as thick as arms and locked with a fist-sized iron lock, which was very secure.
Jian Jing had an idea in mind. The reason why the haunted house show became popular abroad was not because of the guests, but because of the caution and strictness of the production team.
This haunted house even has real bugs, so they must have paid a lot of attention to the details.
Why do they want to seal the iron gate? What are such thick iron chains for? There is a lot of reason behind this.
While she was thinking, the office door opened.
Zheng Keyan brought a bunch of keys over. Seeing that she was studying the iron door, she hurriedly fiddled with the keychain: "Let me see if there is a key to open this door."
She tried, but to no avail.
This is normal. The key to the office is used to open the door of the ward. The original purpose was to save Jian Jing and others. In addition, this big key should also be found.
In other words, there must be something fishy in the locked ward.
Coco joined for the first time and was eager to show off. She said, "There are lighters and notebooks in our ward. There should be things in other wards as well."
"That makes sense." Cao Yu didn't show any anxiety from losing a round. He asked Zheng Keyan for the key. "Let's check each room one by one. The girls stand at the back."
When he said the last sentence, his eyes seemed to fall on Jian Jing.
Jian Jing made eye contact with him, smiled slightly, and indeed took two steps back - she had to retreat, Cao Yu was older and had a stronger foundation, and the audience had tacitly accepted that he was the leader. If she competed with him, she would probably gain nothing.
Seeing her back off, Cao Yu felt relieved and became fully alert to the situation in the ward.
Coco took the opportunity to introduce: "It's terrible over there. The drawers are full of bugs, and there's a pile of rotten meat under the bed."
Zheng Keyan frowned and took a step back quietly.
Nothing happened.
Cao Yu also found a bag in the closet, which contained water and a Bible. He also lifted the curtain under the bed, but there was nothing there.
The next one was exactly the same, except that there was a gun in the coat in the closet and five bullets in the trouser pocket.
"We have weapons." Cao Yu hesitated slightly, gave the gun to Han Bo, and explained to Jiang Baiyan, "He has better accuracy."
Jiang Baiyan smiled and said very obediently: "I wouldn't dare to hit you even if you asked me to."
Coco scratched his face and laughed at him: "You are a real man, but you are so timid."
"Some are brave, some are timid." Jiang Baiyan continued his style on the plane and argued with her, "Just because you are a girl, I said you are too delicate to play with guns. Are you angry?"
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After the broadcast.
Barrage 1: My brother is right, reject stereotypes!
Barrage 2: It’s unacceptable for a boy to hide behind a girl.
Barrage 3: Jiang Baiyan is very effeminate.
Barrage 4: Is being ordinary but confident considered a man
Barrage 5: You guys are arguing, but I’m supporting your couple, the happy enemies are so cute~
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After getting the new props, all the guests focused their attention on the next ward. No one is stupid, and since they have given away guns, isn't it obvious that something bad is going to happen
Cao Yu pushed the door open first, Han Bo leaned against the wall, aiming his gun at the crack of the door. Jian Jing, Coco, Zheng Keyan and Jiang Baiyan all fell behind.
Creak—the door of the ward was pushed open.
Cao Yu raised his wrist and shone the flashlight into the room. Under the circular aperture, he could see that this was a double room.
A corpse in a white coat was lying beside the bed, with blood staining the ground red.
"He seems to have something in his pocket." Coco said, "The iron door must have been built by the hospital. The key should be in the doctor's hand."
Cao Yu pushed the door open cautiously.
Han Bo followed him, holding the gun.
Coco was very brave and actually followed in.
Zheng Keyan hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at Jian Jing, who was looking up at something. She couldn't help but ask, "Is there something up there?"
"Bugs." Jian Jing replied.
Almost at the same time, Cao Yu and Han Bo were shocked and turned around quickly.
Too late.
At this moment, something suddenly fell from the ceiling above the door and hit Coco right in front of her.
"Sigh." It was a monster, with white rotten flesh piled on its body, and large yellow pustules growing here and there, and rancid pus flowing all over its body. Its head had many octopus-like tentacles, and the soft tentacles and sharp teeth twisted and twisted, which was extremely terrifying.
No matter how bold Coco was, she didn't expect this development and screamed in fright: "Ah!!"
It would have been fine if she didn't call out, but when she did, it seemed to be startled and suddenly pounced towards Cao Yu.
Cao Yu was just an actor no matter what, he had no ability to dodge in a hurry, he just waved the flashlight in his hand to block. Han Bo was usually low-key, but very reliable at the critical moment, he shot at the monster.
But if anyone could be hit with just one shot, shooting would not be a competitive sport.
Han Bo's hands were not steady enough and his center of gravity was wrong. He thought he was aiming at the monster, but the bullet missed the target by a huge margin and hit Coco's shoulder directly.
The BB bullets in the haunted house are made of rubber and have no lethality, but they will certainly hurt when they are hit.
Coco cried out "Ouch!" and her center of gravity tilted back, and she was about to fall to the ground.
Jiang Baiyan did something that was not in line with his character. He reached out and grabbed her arm and dragged her outside. When Zheng Keyan held her, he immediately let go.
Cao Yu had been knocked down by the monster.
He didn't move at all, and didn't even take the next step.
However, this is indeed a natural human reaction.
Although everyone knows that the monsters are fake and are just simulated NPCs, the environment of the haunted house is real and the atmosphere is created so well that the fear felt by people in it is certainly different from that of the audience watching through the camera.
When an ordinary person is frightened like this, their brain doesn't have time to react at all, and their body reacts instinctively, with their hands and feet becoming extremely stiff.
Only Jian Jing noticed the ceiling from the beginning, and having experienced several attacks before, she was somewhat immune.
She calmed herself down and reminded him, "Throw away the flashlight."
Cao Yu was also decisive. He immediately threw away the flashlight after hearing that. The aperture shook and the flashlight flew to the corner of the wall.
The creature immediately crawled off him and went after the flashlight.
Han Bo then helped him up, and the two of them walked out the door.
Jiang Baiyan was quick-witted and immediately closed the door.
It was dead silent.
The guests looked at each other in shock: We knew the show was real, but we didn’t expect it to be so real.
"Is that a zombie?" Zheng Keyan asked.
Coco said: "It looks like an alien."
Han Bo: "What about the key?"
Cao Yu had come back to his senses and thought for a moment. He seemed not very satisfied with his performance just now, so he suggested: "The monster is attracted to light. We can use this to lure it out and then look for the key."
He looked around and asked, "What do you think?"
Jiang Baiyan glanced at Jian Jing covertly and asked, "Where are you leading him to?"
"How is the office?" Cao Yu already had a plan in mind.
The others were silent for a moment.
Jian Jing met Cao Yu's vague gaze and smiled slightly: "There is a sign hanging around the neck of that monster. I think it is better to kill it."