The voice-activated light went out, and the hallway instantly plunged into darkness.
When Ma Feng came out of his room with his phone, he froze.
He stomped his foot and called out, but the voice-activated light above him didn't come back on.
He raised his phone and aimed it at the light. The glow from his screen was slowly dimming.
"What's going on?"
A vague silhouette seemed to be approaching. Ma Feng lowered his voice and turned around. "Sister Snake?"
"It's me, Sun Xiaojun." The familiar voice sounded beside him, but his teammate's arrival did nothing to reassure Ma Feng. If anything, it made him even more anxious.
"Have you noticed your phone's getting dimmer?" Ma Feng reached out and braced a hand against the wall. The darkness made him uneasy.
"So your phone's getting dimmer too! Looks like there's something wrong with our eyes. You scared me—I thought my phone was broken."
Sun Xiaojun's words made Ma Feng frown even harder. There weren't many normal people among the visitors with them, either.
Following his memory, he swept his phone around, searching for Shangguan Qinghong and Sister Snake.
With every sweep of his phone, the light dimmed a little more.
"Ma, Shangguan Qinghong, I think we should get out of this scene first." Sister Snake stepped out of a nearby room. "I can't imagine anyone daring to create a completely dark scene in a haunted house. This isn't a tour anymore—it's a test of our physical and mental limits. We underestimated how crazy the Haunted House Owner is."
As she spoke, Sister Snake started back the way they had come. She didn't want to stay here another second.
"But if we don't look for the Secret Passage in this scene, we'll have to go to the Maternal and Child Health