Horror Campus

The newly opened haunted house was not far from Zhou Liu's family's bathhouse. It did not take the six of them long to arrive in front of the haunted house named "Horror Campus."

This haunted house was quite large and had several themes, but "Horror Campus" was the most popular.

Wang Ge and the others had come because of its reputation, hoping to experience "Horror Campus" for themselves.

The main objective was to find the quest item and escape the school. Besides that, there was also a hidden quest. Supposedly, anyone who completed the hidden quest would receive a souvenir from the haunted house.

The rules were simple and more or less the same as those of other haunted houses on the market.

Zhou Liu paid for the tickets, and the group lined up and entered the haunted house.

Once inside, influenced by the BGM and terrifying atmosphere, Chen Man'an and Yang Songyue instinctively moved closer to the people they felt more emotionally intimate with—in other words, their respective boyfriends.

Chen Yanxi noticed this detail and took the initiative to walk over to Wang Ge. Wang Ge naturally took her small hand in his.

"Are you all ready? Once you are, we can begin!" Zhou Liu glanced at them and asked excitedly.

"Let's begin, let's begin. I can't wait to see you scared out of your wits," Huang Wenyan said with a grin.

"Heh. I hope you won't scream too loudly when the time comes."

Zhou Liu let out a cold laugh and strode ahead.

Chen Man'an followed close behind, while Huang Wenyan and Yang Songyue hurried after them. Wang Ge and Chen Yanxi brought up the rear.

"Are you scared?"

Listening to the BGM filled with a heavy horror atmosphere, Wang Ge asked Chen Yanxi quietly.

"I'm not sure." Chen Yanxi shook her head. "I've never been to a place like this before, so I don't know whether I'll be scared."

"If you get scared, hold my hand tighter." The corners of Wang Ge's lips lifted. "If that doesn't work, you can always hide in my arms."

"...Please don't be so cheesy, Student Wang Ge."

Chen Yanxi adjusted her large-framed glasses and calmly surveyed the surroundings.

By now, the six of them had entered the haunted house's first area: the school building.

The school building had three floors. Desks and chairs had been arranged in the classrooms to make them look the part, but the overall atmosphere was rather gloomy and far too different from that of a real school.

The first key quest item was on the second floor, so the group headed straight upstairs.

"We can't get to the second floor. The door is locked, so we need to find the key," Zhou Liu said from the front.

"Are there any clues nearby?" Huang Wenyan asked.

Chen Man'an looked around. "It doesn't seem like there are any clues..."

"Looks like it's time to split up and search." Zhou Liu asked, "What do you think?"

"It's more fun if we split up." Huang Wenyan licked his lips and spoke first. "Song Yue and I will search the third floor."

Zhou Liu turned his gaze toward Wang Ge and Chen Yanxi. Wang Ge shrugged. "Then Xixi and I will search the first floor."

"Fine. An'an and I will search outside the building."

Once they had divided up the work, the six immediately split up and began searching.

Although splitting up and acting independently was incredibly stupid in horror stories, they were here to play in a haunted house. The whole point was to seek thrills. How could it be thrilling if everyone stayed together?

On the first floor, although they had separated from the others, Wang Ge still held Chen Yanxi's hand without letting go. Chen Yanxi did not say anything and simply allowed him to hold it.

As they walked down the first-floor corridor, Wang Ge asked casually, "Xixi, where do you think the key is?"

Chen Yanxi did not answer. Her brows knit slightly as she stared at a desk in the corridor ahead.

"What is it?" Wang Ge asked.

"When we came through earlier, the corridor was empty. This desk wasn't here," Chen Yanxi said softly.

"Oh?" Wang Ge looked interested. "Looks like we've triggered an event?"

"Looks like it."

"Stay here. I'll go buy you some oranges... No, I'll go see what kind of monster it is."

Chen Yanxi shook her head. "I'll go with you."

"Mm... All right."

The two of them went over and inspected the desk, but found nothing. The space beneath it was pitch-black, however, which made it highly suspicious.

Wang Ge reached inside and groped around twice.

He seemed to have touched something viscous.

When he pulled his hand out, it was covered in scarlet liquid.

"Tomato sauce," Chen Yanxi said calmly.

Wang Ge smelled it, his expression turning strange. Unable to resist complaining, he said, "This haunted house is way too stingy. They couldn't even be bothered to use fake blood? They actually used tomato sauce to fool people."

However, just as he was complaining, the window of the classroom beside the desk opened silently, revealing a ferocious ghost face covered in scarlet blood.

The sudden appearance of the desk had merely been a decoy, intended to draw people's attention. When they were focused on the desk and suddenly saw this ghost face, they would definitely be scared half to death.

Wang Ge was still complaining and did not notice the suddenly appearing ghost face. Chen Yanxi, however, saw it clearly.

She met the ghost face's eyes, then calmly closed the window again.

"What is it?" Wang Ge asked in confusion after noticing Chen Yanxi's movement.

"Nothing." Chen Yanxi shook her head. "Let's keep going."

"Let's go. Looks like this haunted house isn't scary at all. How could tomato sauce possibly scare anyone..."

The ghost face behind the window: "..."

He suspiciously touched his own face. What happened? Why wasn't that little girl scared? Did I forget to put on makeup today?

Wang Ge took out some tissues and wiped the tomato sauce from his hand before entering the equipment room with Chen Yanxi.

The room was cluttered with soft mats, dumbbells, and similar items. Wang Ge and Chen Yanxi split up to search, hoping to find the key.

Chen Yanxi opened a huge cabinet. A tiny set of clothes, seemingly baby clothes, lay on top, while soft mats were piled up below. A trace of blood-red color showed beneath the mats.

She lifted the mats, and a bloody human head instantly sprang out from underneath and fell straight onto Chen Yanxi.

Chen Yanxi caught it with one hand, preventing it from making a sound.

The head was very small, about the size of a baby's head. Its face was covered in blood, and its expression was one of extreme terror, making it remarkably disturbing.

Chen Yanxi casually squeezed it. It was made of rubber, and the craftsmanship was fairly realistic.

At that moment, she suddenly noticed a black shadow flash past outside the window.

She looked twice but found nothing unusual, so she ignored it and continued searching elsewhere with the head in hand.

But only a few minutes later, the black shadow returned.

This time, Wang Ge noticed it too. He raised his head and looked toward Chen Yanxi. "What was that? Xixi, did you see it?"

"What? I didn't see anything." Chen Yanxi spoke calmly. "Your eyes must be playing tricks on you."

"My eyes are playing tricks on me? That's impossible. I saw it clearly." Wang Ge muttered, but did not pay it much attention and continued searching with his head lowered.

Chen Yanxi thought for a moment, then took the baby clothes out of the cabinet and stuffed the rubber head into the collar to secure it.

She found some filling and stuffed it into the clothes, making them bulge out.

That way, the combination of clothes and a head in Chen Yanxi's hands looked just like a real baby.

Well, a baby with only half a body, since the clothes consisted only of a top and had no pants.

After finishing, she went to the window and silently calculated the time.

The black shadow appeared outside the door again two minutes later. He was busy pretending to be a ghost and creating a terrifying atmosphere while setting up various props meant to frighten people.

But this time, before he had taken two steps, the equipment room's window suddenly opened, and something was thrown precisely into his arms.

He looked down. It was a baby with only its upper body. The baby's entire face had been dyed scarlet by some viscous liquid, its eyes were hollow, and its face was filled with terror, as though it had suffered inhuman torment while alive.

He suddenly felt a surge of fear, and his arm jerked uncontrollably.

His arm shook so violently that the baby's head fell off with a slap.

"Thud."

The sound of the head hitting the ground rang out clearly in the quiet corridor.

"Ahhh!!!! A ghost!!!!"

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