One day later, they received another report: Man-Eating Haunted House!
Case description: This had originally been a haunted house popular with young people, but lately, there had often been cases where ten people went in and only five came out. The five who emerged were usually terrified to the point of collapse, delirious and mentally deranged.
That sounded pretty interesting.
They were taking the case!
That very day, Shi Tiexin and Ling Xingjian arrived at the haunted house inside a mall in the city center. It looked utterly ordinary.
"This one?"
"This one." Ling Xingjian suggested, "Should we strike first?"
Shi Tiexin had everything under control. "No rush. Let's play around with it first. Come to think of it, this is the first time the two of us have visited a haunted house, right? Let's treat it as a date. We ought to experience it properly."
Ling Xingjian scolded him coyly, "Who goes on a date in a field of evil filth?!" But seeing how eager he was, she still agreed.
Ling Xingjian could not help muttering to herself, Is scaring people really that fun?
With the creak of a door opening, accompanied by Conan-style sound effects, Shi Tiexin and Ling Xingjian walked side by side into the haunted house. The moment they looked up, they saw its theme—Return to School.
Truly terrifying. Just seeing that theme was enough to make people shiver!
Inside the little room, where the atmosphere had been cranked to the max, stood a television playing the introduction to this scenario. Blurry black-and-white photographs flickered past one after another, looking quite convincing. "Ten years ago, you graduated from First High School. All seventy-two students in the class made a pact to remain silent about one matter for the rest of your lives."
"Over the past ten