42: At the fork in the road, which way should I go?

"Officer Chen, why are you here again?"

"It can't be that someone reported it again, can it?"

Outside the Tianfeng Haunted House, Li Zhou looked at Chen Chuan, who had just stepped out of the patrol car, and asked with a wry smile.

"Otherwise?"

Chen Chuan replied grumpily.

At the same time, when he saw Li Zhou proactively step forward to greet him, he knew what was going on.

Without thinking, this time it was probably another misunderstanding.

However, this time Chen Chuan didn't plan to just go back so easily.

He was going to see what was really going on with Li Zhou's Haunted House.

Why did it scare enthusiastic citizens into calling the police time and time again?

"Officer Chen, I remember everything you said last time."

"Now, none of those players have fainted from fright."

Li Zhou spoke, a hint of grievance in his tone.

As his voice fell, several players walked out of the Haunted House, supporting each other.

They shivered with every step, as if they had been electrocuted.

At the same time, they were all uniformly wearing blue pants.

"They didn't faint from fright?"

"Then why would someone still call the police?"

Chen Chuan looked at the players' figures, his brow suddenly furrowing.

He felt as if something wasn't quite right.

"How would I know?"

Li Zhou spread his hands.

He swore he was telling the truth.

Whether in the physical scene or in the Devils Castle, so far, no player had fainted from fright.

"Boss!"

"The pants we bought last time aren't enough!"

"Should I go again..."

"Huh? Why are the Police Uncles here again?"

Just then, Fang Xiaolu suddenly rushed out.

She was mumbling, about to ask if she should go buy more pants, when she happened to see Chen Chuan and his colleagues.

The words instantly caught in her throat.

She instinctively hid behind Li Zhou.

At the same time, her little mind started working rapidly.

Could selling pants to players be illegal?

Are these Police Uncles here to arrest her?

Should she confess proactively?

And then push all the blame onto the boss?

"Buying pants?"

"What's going on?"

As the captain of the criminal police, Chen Chuan's skill in observing people's expressions was already masterful.

He immediately saw the guilt on Fang Xiaolu's face, and his tone instantly became stern as he asked.

"Uh... nothing, it's just that many players were scared... scared themselves silly."

"For convenience, our shop specifically prepared some pants."

Li Zhou scratched his head, speaking in a low voice.

Hearing his words, Chen Chuan was stunned.

Scared themselves silly?

His gaze instinctively fell on the players who were supporting each other earlier, and his expression became a bit strange.

Good heavens.

They really weren't scared silly.

They just wet their pants.

"Alright, take me to the monitoring room to have a look."

Shaking his head, Chen Chuan didn't think much of it.

As long as it didn't involve illegal activities or crimes, he wouldn't interfere.

A Haunted House scaring players to the point of wetting their pants was not illegal.

Moreover, these players voluntarily entered the Haunted House in the first place.

"Okay."

Hearing Chen Chuan speak, Li Zhou nodded, showing great cooperation.

After all, he was the one who made him run around for nothing several times.

And the main culprit for the enthusiastic citizens calling the police was himself... In the Devils Castle.

Under Song Yang's lead, everyone quickly reached the end of the corridor.

A fork in the road appeared.

On both the left and right sides, there was a staircase leading downwards.

"Which way do we go?"

Looking at the two staircases, Song Yang scratched his head and asked Yuan Hao.

"I feel like we should go left. The sconces on the right always give me an eerie feeling."

Ye Kexin suddenly suggested at this point.

Hearing her words, Dai Xiaomei, Qin Yao, and even the assistant all nodded, feeling that there was nothing wrong with it.

Indeed, the sconces on the two staircases were completely different at this moment.

The one on the right continued the style of the corridor, still made of skulls.

However, the sconces on the left had changed to a normal appearance, and the glow they emitted was a soft, warm yellow, inexplicably giving people a sense of security.

Of course, it wasn't just because of the atmosphere.

The main reason was that Ye Kexin and the others genuinely felt that the human head sconces were too terrifying.

They had to constantly be careful to maintain a distance from them while walking.

The corridor wasn't very long, but even this short distance made them feel like they had expended all their energy.

In a word, it was too tiring.

"No, go right!"

Just then, Yuan Hao suddenly spoke.

He stared intently at the staircase on the right, saying with certainty, "The second hint!"

"'The moon will guide you.' The sconces on the right look like moons, maybe they're telling us to follow them!"

At these words, everyone was momentarily stunned.

"Is that true or false?"

"But these sconces are clearly so dangerous, why would the hint tell us to follow them?"

The assistant looked at the human head sconces, a hint of doubt in her tone.

"Trust me!"

"I've been playing escape rooms since I was twelve!"

"A good escape room, every hint won't be overly mysterious."

"We got these two hints at the starting point, which proves that these two hints are the key for us to descend to the third floor!"

Yuan Hao's brows were tightly furrowed, his mind racing.

He felt that his guess was correct; going down the seemingly normal staircase on the left would definitely lead to certain death!

Seeing the disagreement, Song Yang looked at Yuan Hao, then at Dai Xiaomei and the assistant, scratching his head and asking, "Which way do we go in the end?"

"How about we vote by a show of hands?"

"No need for a show of hands!"

Yuan Hao spoke again.

He took a deep breath, then suddenly stepped forward, coming to the very front.

"Since you don't believe me, I'll go first."

"You all wait here for a while."

"If I don't come back, that means this path is correct."

"Conversely, if this path is wrong, I will catch up again from behind as quickly as possible."

"The next staircase won't take long, you just need to wait... about five minutes!"

After speaking, Yuan Hao walked down the right staircase without looking back.

Soon, with a turn, his figure disappeared from Song Yang and the others' sight.

"This kid, he's got guts!"

Seeing this scene, Song Yang clicked his tongue.

The earlier rift caused by the other party saying he was part of a script completely dissipated.

"Alright, ten minutes isn't that long anyway, let's just wait."

"It's a good chance to recover some energy. Looking at you all covered in sweat, one would think you'd walked a long way."

Sitting down with a thud, Song Yang spoke to the group behind him.

Hearing his words, the others exchanged glances.

"Sister Qin, do you think Yuan Hao will... die?"

Despite believing that everything in front of her was fake, Ye Kexin was still a little scared.

Looking at Qin Yao behind her, she asked softly.

"I don't think so."

Qin Yao pursed her lips and shook her head.

"I had forgotten that hint before, but now that I think about it, what Yuan Hao said makes a lot of sense."

"These sconces really do look like moons."

"If his guess is correct, then the path ahead will be clear."