The way back had been sealed off. Chen Ge couldn't very well smash the door in front of everyone, and he was also afraid Virtual Future Park would keep evidence and later exaggerate things to cause trouble.
"The crying and laughter are still there. The ghosts haven't gone far, but we can't see them."
Back in the room, Chen Ge looked at the corpse on the coffee table. "The key for the medium difficulty is inside the corpse. This is just a transitional scene. To clear the hell-level difficulty, we'll probably have to solve the room's mystery for real."
Normally, solving the mystery wouldn't be a problem. The key issue was that the scenes were merging now. Various projections and "paranormal events" might appear where they weren't supposed to, making the mystery much harder to solve.
While several visitors wasted time at the doorway, the clock on the wall chimed again. The ugly Cuckoo crawled out of the box beneath it. The heart that had been strapped to its body had been removed, but the bloodstains from inside it had dyed the bird red.
"If the homeowner killed himself, then to break the cycle, we have to stop him from killing himself."
"There are two ways to stop him from killing himself: protect him from himself, or kill him ourselves. Either way, we can break the cycle."
Chen Ge picked up the ax beside the sofa. Before the room could change again, he swung it at the body that had just been pieced back together on the sofa.
The Mannequin split into pieces again, and a fresh streak of blood appeared on its body.
"Didn't work? Do we have to try killing him with every different weapon? Wouldn't that trap us in the same cycle as him?" Killing him couldn't