Who Is He?

"Eight?!"

"You've got to be kidding!"

The moment Lao Zhao spoke, everyone's hearts began to race. The Midnight Escape scene was especially dark, and as they looked at one another, their bodies seemed to freeze.

"Where's the eighth person?"

"Don't panic!" At the crucial moment, Feng Ge took out his phone and was about to turn it on. The faint chain sounds from the other end of the corridor suddenly grew hurried.

"Someone's here!"

Feng Ge had just unlocked his screen when a blood-covered Monster appeared around the corner of the corridor.

The timing was perfect. It was as if the Monster had known their location in advance.

"What is that thing?!"

Beneath the blood-soaked Doctor Uniform, a chain trailed across the floor. The Monster's head hung low, and in one hand it carried an iron hammer dripping with red liquid.

Everyone tensed up. Only Feng Ge managed to stay somewhat calm. Ignoring Chen Ge's earlier warning, he turned on his flashlight right there in the Haunted House.

A beam of white light crossed the corridor and shone on the Monster from afar.

The light caught the Monster's attention. Black Hair slid to either side as she slowly raised her head.

In that instant, everyone's hair stood on end. The Monster had a face made up of countless male faces stitched together, with seams running all over its features!

At the very moment the light came on, the Monster seemed to be provoked. It went berserk and charged toward them, clutching the iron hammer, its blood groove gaping open!

The chain struck the walls, and heavy, hurried footsteps echoed through the narrow hallway. The figure's sickeningly frenzied silhouette drew closer and closer. One of the Forensic Medical College students stepped back, though no one knew who had moved first. That set off a chain reaction. No one had time to look for the extra person anymore. They scattered in every direction, scrambling to escape.

Some ducked into nearby rooms, some rushed into the stairwell and hid on the second floor, while others ran straight into the first-floor rooms.

The scene was dim and lightless. Everyone was terrified of the Monster behind them, and the ever-nearer clanking chains and footsteps threw them into a panic.

Avoiding danger was common to all living things, and it was what allowed them to keep evolving toward more advanced forms. When their brains sensed danger approaching, they instinctively chose to flee.

Xiao Hui had been standing near the stairs. When the Monster charged at them, she was at a loss. Then the man beside her suddenly ran downstairs.

Overcome with fear, Xiao Hui didn't think twice before following him. All she could think about was making sure the Monster didn't catch up with her.

She had no idea where her phone had gone. The calm and composure the Forensic Medical College students had feigned earlier were shattered, and screams rang out in the corridor.

The crowd was scattered, and chaos took over.

Xiao Hui followed the figure ahead of her to the first floor. Screams still rang out from the third floor above, and the iron chain struck the stairs. The Monster seemed to have entered the stairwell too!

Daring not to look back, Xiao Hui quickened her pace and stayed close behind the figure in front of her, afraid of being left behind.

Eerie background music played in her ears, and screams rang out without end. Unease and terror slowly overwhelmed Xiao Hui. At last, she felt afraid.

The more frightened she became, the less she dared to stop alone.

She desperately tried to catch up with the figure ahead. In the dim, terrifying Haunted House, that figure became someone she could rely on.

"If we stick together, at least we can look out for each other, whatever happens."

Xiao Hui couldn't bear to imagine being left alone in the House of Horrors. To prevent that from happening, she bit her lip, sped up again, and grabbed the person's clothes.

The clanking of chains behind them drew closer. The person in front led her to the first floor and ducked into a random room.

"A dead end?" Xiao Hui hesitated in the doorway, while the man beside her dove without hesitation into the room's only wardrobe.

At this point, Xiao Hui had only two choices: run for her life alone, or hide in the wardrobe with the man.

The sound of the chain dragging across the floor grew clearer. She climbed into the wardrobe too.

The wardrobe doors closed. It was as if she had entered another world: quiet and pitch-black. The only thing that comforted her was knowing she had a companion beside her.

Her makeup had long since run. Xiao Hui covered her mouth and peered outside through the crack in the wardrobe doors.

The chain dragged along the floor. The bloodstained Doctor stopped in the doorway, tapped the doorframe with the hammer, then leaned its stitched-together face into the room.

Xiao Hui's heart pounded. She bit down on her finger and curled up in the corner of the wardrobe, silently praying, Don't come over. Please, don't come over.

Perhaps God had heard her. The Doctor only glanced around, then soon left with the hammer.

At last, her suspended heart settled. Xiao Hui let out a sigh of relief and gently touched the arm beside her. "It looks like the Monster didn't find us. In a bit, let's go meet up with the others."

Only Xiao Hui's voice echoed inside the cramped wardrobe. When she got no response for a long time, she sensed something was wrong and turned to look.

The man hiding in the wardrobe with her had an average build—not fat, not thin.

"Not Monkey or Lao Zhao. Feng Ge's taller, and He Shan's a little shorter." Xiao Hui tentatively called out, "Lao Song?"

There was still no response. Xiao Hui's heart sank. "Lao Zhao said there was an extra person among us..."

Blood rushed to her head. Her chest tightened, and she felt short of breath. Xiao Hui took the phone from her pocket and used its faint, cold glow to illuminate the space beside her.

In the dark, enclosed wardrobe, a completely unfamiliar face, pale as paper, stared at her without blinking.

The phone slipped from her fingertips. After two or three seconds of absolute silence, a scream erupted from the wardrobe, sharp enough to pierce her eardrums!

Xiao Hui tried desperately to back away, but there was so little room. She jerked backward, slamming the back of her head against the wardrobe wall.

Whether from the pain or the fright, the fashionably dressed, sexy senior student clutched her head and slumped to the floor, looking as if she were about to pass out.

"I told you ages ago, don't use your phones in my Haunted House." Chen Ge opened the wardrobe door, picked up the phone from the floor and slipped it into the girl's pocket. Then he took out his own phone and called Xu Wan. "Xiao Wan, don't let them come to the first floor just yet."

After giving his instructions, he carried Xiao Hui into the bathroom, pushed open the bathtub, and took her through the staff passage to the outside of the scene.

"I really am short-handed." He found a towel and placed it under Xiao Hui's head, then entered the Midnight Escape scene again.

"Now there are six people left."

Chen Ge restored the passageway entrance and called Xu Wan. "Xiao Wan, where are you now?"

"There's someone in the first room around the left corner on the second floor. I'll force him out in a bit. You can circle around from the right and give him a 'surprise.'"

"Xiao Wan, you're learning all the wrong things."

"I still have a lot to learn from you, Boss."