Horror Campus

The newly opened haunted house wasn't far from Zhou Liu's family's bathhouse. The group of six arrived at the haunted house called "Horror Campus" not long after.

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

Wang Ge and the others had come specifically to experience this "Horror Campus."

The main objective of the haunted house was to find a quest item and escape the school. In addition to that, there was a hidden quest, and it was said that completing it would earn participants a souvenir.

The rules were simple, much like other haunted houses on the market.

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

Upon entering, affected by the background music and terrifying atmosphere, Chen Man'an and Yang Songyue instinctively moved closer to the people they felt most intimate with, which were their respective boyfriends.

Chen Yanxi noticed this detail and walked over to Wang Ge. Wang Ge took her hand as if it were natural.

"Is everyone ready? If you're ready, we'll start!" Zhou Liu asked, looking at them with some excitement.

"Let's start, let's start! I can't wait to see you peeing your pants from fright," Huang Wenyan chuckled.

"Heh, I hope you don't scream too loudly then."

Zhou Liu sneered and strode ahead.

Chen Man'an followed closely, with Huang Wenyan and Yang Songyue quickly catching up. Wang Ge and Chen Yanxi walked at the very back.

"Are you scared?"

Listening to the background music, which was thick with a terrifying atmosphere, Wang Ge quietly asked Chen Yanxi.

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

"If you get scared, just hold my hand tighter," Wang Ge said, a smile playing on his lips. "If that doesn't work, you can always hide in my arms."

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

Chen Yanxi adjusted her large-framed glasses, calmly surveying the surroundings.

At this moment, the group of six had entered the first area of the haunted house: the school building.

The building had three floors. The classrooms were furnished with desks and chairs, but the overall atmosphere was quite gloomy, a stark contrast to a real school.

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

"We can't get into the second floor. The door is locked, we need to find a key," Zhou Liu, who was in front, said.

"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 suggested. "What do you guys think?"

"It's more fun to split up," Huang Wenyan licked his lips and said first, "Songyue and I will go to the third floor to look."

Zhou Liu turned his gaze to Wang Ge and Chen Yanxi. Wang Ge shrugged. "Then Xi Xi and I will go to the first floor."

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

With the assignments decided, the group of six immediately separated and began their actions.

Although splitting up like this in horror stories was incredibly foolish, people came to haunted houses for thrills. How could they get their adrenaline pumping if they stayed together?

On the first floor, even though they had separated from the others, Wang Ge still held Chen Yanxi's hand and didn't let go. Chen Yanxi didn't say anything either, letting him hold it.

Walking down the first-floor corridor, Wang Ge casually asked, "Xi Xi, where do you think the key might be?"

Chen Yanxi didn't reply. Her brow furrowed slightly as she stared at a desk in the corridor ahead.

"What's wrong?" Wang Ge asked.

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

"Oh?" Wang Ge's interest was piqued. "Looks like we've triggered a plot point?"

"It seems so."

"Stay here, I'll go buy you some oranges... no, I'll go check out what kind of monster this is."

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

"Hmm... alright."

The two walked forward to inspect it. They didn't find anything, but the inside of the desk drawer was dark and suspicious.

Wang Ge reached his hand in and felt around.

He seemed to touch something sticky.

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

"Ketchup," Chen Yanxi said calmly.

Wang Ge sniffed it, his expression strange. He couldn't help but complain, "This haunted house is too stingy. They can't even afford fake blood and are using ketchup to fool us."

However, just as he was complaining, the window of the classroom next to the desk quietly opened, revealing a grotesque, blood-red face.

The desk that suddenly appeared was just a distraction, meant to draw attention. When people's focus was on this unexpected desk, they would be absolutely terrified by the sudden appearance of this face.

Wang Ge, busy complaining, didn't notice the ghost's face. But Chen Yanxi, standing beside him, saw it clearly.

She exchanged a glance with the ghastly face and then calmly closed the window again.

"What's wrong?" Wang Ge asked, noticing Chen Yanxi's actions.

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

"Let's go. Seems like this haunted house isn't that scary after all. How could ketchup possibly scare anyone..."

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

He touched his face with some doubt. What's going on? Why isn't that little girl scared? Did I forget my makeup today?

Wang Ge took out some tissue to wipe the ketchup off his hands and walked into the equipment room with Chen Yanxi.

Inside, soft mats, dumbbells, and other items were piled up haphazardly. Wang Ge and Chen Yanxi split up to search, hoping to find a key.

Chen Yanxi opened a large cabinet. On top of the cabinet was a very small set of clothes, like baby clothes. Below were piled-up soft mats, but a trace of blood-red color showed at the bottom of the mats.

She lifted the mats, and a blood-red head instantly sprang out from underneath, falling directly onto Chen Yanxi.

Chen Yanxi reached out and caught it, preventing the head from making a sound.

The head was small, about the size of a baby's head, completely blood-red, with an incredibly terrified expression that was highly contagious.

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

At this moment, she suddenly noticed a dark shadow flash past the window.

After looking twice and finding nothing unusual, she stopped paying attention. Holding the head, she continued to search elsewhere.

But within a few minutes, the dark shadow appeared again.

This time, Wang Ge also noticed it. He looked up at Chen Yanxi. "What is it? Xixi, did you see it?"

"What? I didn't see anything," Chen Yanxi said calmly. "Are you seeing things?"

"Am I seeing things? Impossible. I saw it clearly," Wang Ge muttered, but he didn't dwell on it and continued searching.

Chen Yanxi thought for a moment, took out the baby clothes from the cabinet, and then fixed the rubber head onto the collar of the clothes.

She then found some stuffing and put it into the clothes, making them look full.

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

Well, it was only half a body, because the clothes were only the top half, with no pants.

After doing all this, she went to the window and quietly calculated the time.

The dark shadow reappeared outside the door two minutes later. He was trying to create a terrifying atmosphere with spooky tricks and setting up some props to scare people.

But before he could even take two steps this time, the equipment room window suddenly opened, and an object was accurately thrown into his arms.

He looked down. It was a baby with only the upper body. The baby's entire face was stained a crimson red with some viscous liquid. Its eyes were vacant, its face filled with terror, as if it had suffered inhuman torture in life.

He suddenly felt a wave of fear, and his arm trembled uncontrollably.

The trembling was quite severe, causing the baby's head to fall off with a snap.

"Thump."

The sound of the head falling was clearly audible in the quiet corridor.

"Ahhhhh!!!! Ghost!!!!"

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