19: I don't think the streamer is acting.

Five paper lanterns, like those hanging outside ancient wealthy households, glowed faintly on both sides of the wall.

A dark red halo emanated from the lanterns, casting light onto the corridor.

The moment Song Yang saw these lanterns, he remembered the scene he had witnessed that morning.

At the time, he had been wondering where Li Zhou had managed to get so many strange and bizarre items.

"The employee passage is right next to us!"

"If we find the door to the employee passage, we'll be saved!"

The Haunted House's employee passage and player passage were connected by a door, making it convenient for employees to enter.

When the Haunted House opened for business, this door would be closed.

There is strength in numbers, and as the only one of the three who still had a shred of sanity, Song Yang immediately called out to the other two.

"Brother Yang... Brother Yang, what exactly was that thing?"

"It was so damn scary!"

The assistant considered himself to have above-average courage, having followed Song Yang's livestream for many years.

However, the instant he first saw Goethe, he felt as if he had become a chicken or duck on a chopping block, waiting to be slaughtered, the moment Goethe's scarlet eyes gazed at him.

No kidding.

He truly felt that way.

The undisguised, extremely potent killing intent was nothing like what a normal person should possess.

Coupled with Goethe's attire, the assistant was scared witless.

Now he still felt uncomfortable all over, his lower body feeling cold and clammy.

Sun Yong was no longer brave.

He was now like a headless fly, blindly rushing behind Song Yang.

People have herd mentality.

Even when he saw other paths several times, he didn't dare to escape alone.

Upon hearing Song Yang say there was an employee passage here, he was like someone who had seen a glimmer of hope for survival, and was the first to start fumbling along the wall.

His strong will to survive left him no time to think about why Song Yang knew there was a passage here.

He just wanted to leave this place quickly.

Compared to the tense and exciting atmosphere inside the Haunted House, Li Zhou in the monitoring room appeared much calmer.

Watching the fright value on the panel steadily rise, he nodded in satisfaction, finding Song Yang on the screen more and more pleasing to the eye.

Leaving Song Yang behind was indeed a wise choice.

With this guy around, even if the Haunted House didn't have any business yet, the fright value was certainly not a problem.

As long as this guy livestreamed every day, he would eventually accumulate enough fright value to buy a new venue.

That's right, a new venue.

Because the Haunted House was located in the suburbs, the land was cheap, and it occupied a huge area.

Many of the facilities inside the house were extremely rudimentary.

Li Zhou planned to buy a new venue to test its effectiveness once he had accumulated enough fright value.

He couldn't just let Song Yang livestream the same scene every day; even with the help of the terrifying employees, netizens would eventually lose interest.

Novelty was always the most important thing.

"Are they trying to find the door connecting to the employee passage?"

"That won't do."

Watching Song Yang and the others begin to grope along the wall, Li Zhou slowly stood up.

He walked out of the monitoring room and into the corridor where the employee dormitory was located.

Calmly taking out his keys, Li Zhou locked the door leading to the player area.

Honestly, Sun Yong came all this way, and they've only been playing for so long?

He had to give them a complete game experience.

He hadn't even earned much fright value yet.

Putting the keys back into his pocket, Li Zhou turned and left elegantly, listening to the faint sound of a chainsaw from next door.

On the other side, Song Yang still didn't know that the door had been locked by Li Zhou, that sly fox.

The increasingly loud chainsaw sound in his ears proved that Goethe was not far from them.

Under both psychological and physiological pressure, Sun Yong on the other side was already showing signs of babbling incoherently.

"Wuwuwu, I shouldn't have brought my classmates here for some challenge."

"Now look, everyone's dead except me!"

"Does the owner of this store not see the surveillance?"

"Or has he also been slaughtered by that murderer?"

"Wuwuwu, it's so dangerous outside, I want to go home!"

People often mutter to themselves when under extreme tension and fear.

Sun Yong was like this at the moment.

Hearing his words, the assistant next to him also empathized and almost cried along with him.

If he had known, he wouldn't have followed Song Yang in.

He had thought that zombie was scary enough, but he didn't expect to encounter a Goethe even more terrifying than a zombie right after entering the Haunted House!

Meeting a zombie might not mean death, but Goethe was different.

His blood-stained chainsaw was even more terrifying than a zombie's fangs.

Coupled with those eyes full of violence and madness, any normal person who saw him would probably be scared stiff.

Song Yang listened to the commotion from the two beside him, and his originally tense heart slowed down considerably.

It seemed he was braver, at least he hadn't cried.

Compared to the other two, Song Yang knew that Li Zhou could definitely see what was happening inside the Haunted House.

But he still didn't dare to gamble.

It was still the same saying: Goethe was fake, but the chainsaw in his hand was damn real.

If he was even slightly touched by that thing, it would be either death or severe injury.

Song Yang was now somewhat puzzled as to why Li Zhou was so confident that these seemingly highly intelligent robots would definitely not malfunction?

The zombie was one thing; aside from its appearance and aura being somewhat scary, it at least didn't have any particularly obvious lethal weapons on it.

Goethe was different.

He could truly cause harm to players, even threaten their lives.

"Stop yelling!"

"The top priority now is to find the employee door first."

"Xiao Tao, you go to the front."

"You, go to the back!"

"If we search separately, it will be much faster!"

Song Yang took a deep breath and began to take charge.

Hearing his words, Sun Yong and the assistant, Xiao Tao, instinctively shivered.

This passage was at least dozens of meters long.

Now, let alone dozens of meters, even separating by a few meters felt a bit far to them.

"Didn't you hear the chainsaw getting closer?"

"If you don't look now, will you have the strength to keep running later?"

"Hurry up!"

Seeing that the two still weren't moving, Song Yang shouted again.

The two, who were still hesitant due to fear, instinctively followed Song Yang's instructions after being yelled at, and began to spread out and grope along the wall.

The three of them didn't notice that the halo emanating from the lanterns above their heads was starting to turn redder and redder.

So red... as if it were about to drip blood.

Song Yang held his phone the entire time, but he had no mind to adjust any shooting angles.

The audience in the livestream room was bewildered from beginning to end.

Watching the constantly shaking camera and listening to the trio's conversation, they finally pieced together some clues.

"What's going on? Judging by what that guy just said, is the Streamer being hunted?"

"What does it mean that all his classmates died except him? Oh my god, did people really die?"

"I feel like it's a script, but I have to say, it's a bit thrilling!"

"I don't think the Streamer is acting, after all, no matter how terrifying the scenes he encountered before, he always had a mischievous look."

"I've already called the police, Streamer, hang in there!"