[Happy Kids Swimming Pool 4] Li Chen's new discovery: there were eerie beings in the pool too!

Chen Han's actions also stirred up quite a few comments in the livestream.

"Why did Chen Han give his swimming ticket to the ticket seller? Did he discover something?"

"Why do I get the feeling this Chen Han isn't a newbie at all?"

"I think he's just a newborn calf unafraid of tigers. What's there to analyze?"

Although the middle-aged man couldn't understand why Chen Han had grabbed a handful of candy and then handed his swimming ticket to the ticket seller for safekeeping.

He could understand the candy. After all, the rules had said they needed to stay for a night.

But why give the swimming ticket to the ticket seller? He genuinely couldn't understand that.

Could Chen Han have discovered something incredible in those few short seconds?

The more the middle-aged man thought about it, the more something felt off. Chen Han's movements had been so fluid just now. There was definitely something going on.

Maybe Chen Han had an item on him!

And that item could tell Chen Han the right things to do.

The more the middle-aged man thought about it, the more convinced he became that this was the truth.

Since he'd already decided to follow the big shot Chen Han, he might as well do what Chen Han did.

The middle-aged man took a few pieces of candy.

After a moment's hesitation, he ultimately decided to hand his swimming ticket to the ticket seller.

After the middle-aged man left, the children kept wanting to take the candy on the table.

But with the ticket seller there, they remained too timid to approach.

It was as though the ticket seller possessed some strange magic.

Because this behavior was so subtle, few people noticed it.

The middle-aged man's imitation of Chen Han also shocked the livestream commenters.

"What the hell? Did those two communicate?"

"Why did they both do the exact same thing?"

"I'm so confused. I completely don't get what they're doing..."

At that moment, Li Chen was just like most people.

He could roughly guess why Chen Han had taken a handful of candy.

But what was going on with the swimming ticket?

Could it be? Li Chen suddenly had a bold guess.

The swimming ticket wasn't just needed to get in. It was also needed to get out.

To put it even more strongly, people without swimming tickets might be unable to leave the pool at all!

Why else would rule 3 mention, "Please trust the ticket seller"?

This was definitely a hint for the players!

Players could receive help from the ticket seller to a certain extent, but they needed to discover the hidden meaning in the rules themselves.

At this thought, Li Chen practically wanted to clap and cheer. The big shot Chen Han had managed to think of so much right at the start. He really was a modern-day Sherlock Holmes.

This time, after some consideration, Li Chen didn't post his theory about the truth in the livestream chat.

He would save this surprise for the end. That would make the viewers' jaws drop even harder.

After entering, Chen Han passed through a fairly spacious path.

The path was pitch-black, and he could only walk by his general sense of direction.

In the silence of the night, a sudden gust of wind blew toward him.

Chill winds swept past.

Goosebumps rose all over Chen Han.

He raised a hand and patted his face.

Fuck, even though I've already been through a rules horror scenario once.

Chen Han still felt a powerful sense of unease.

At last, Chen Han emerged from the path and saw light ahead.

Humans really were creatures drawn to light. Once he saw the lights ahead, he relaxed considerably.

Whew, I can finally get out.

In just that short stretch of path, Chen Han had already broken out in a cold sweat.

Yet right then, he happened to hear faint crying.

It sounded like a child's voice, thin and impossible to distinguish as male or female.

It came closer from the distance, its volume rising and falling.

Chen Han's heart, which had only just relaxed, instantly clenched again.

" sob, sob, sob."

"Please let me go. I don't have any money left..."

"Stop hitting me!"

The sudden crying also set off the livestream chat.

Because the livestream automatically switched to a full-color camera at night, every move Chen Han made could be seen perfectly clearly on the stream.

"Fuck, fuck, that scared the shit out of me! I had the volume all the way up and nearly pissed myself!"

"What the hell is it!"

"Where's the kid? I can't even see a shadow!"

"How is the big shot Chen Han not reacting at all? He's so calm!"

"There's a child following behind him!!!"

Chen Han walked faster and faster until he finally emerged from the path.

A swimming pool appeared before him, completely enclosed by a fence.

The fence was very high, impossible to climb over.

According to the rules, players needed to remain inside the pool until dawn.

It looked like the rules intended to trap them all here, leaving them absolutely no chance of escape!

The walkway between the pool and the fence was quite spacious, though.

Half of the pool was open-air, while the other half was covered by a canopy.

The pool looked about 50 meters long and 20 meters wide.

It was a recreational swimming pool.

Chen Han had worked part-time at a swimming facility back in college, so he was fairly familiar with pool dimensions.

For a pool like this, the shallow end was generally 1.2 m deep, while the deep end was 1.8 m.

But the drainage area in the deep end would be 2 m deep.

That was also the most dangerous part of the entire pool.

Chen Han also specifically checked whether this pool had a lifeguard.

If the system had automatically provided them with swimming caps, then there would surely be a lifeguard.

Sure enough, midway along the right side of the pool, a lifeguard sat on a lifeguard chair about 2 m high.

The night was still a little chilly, but he wore only a short-sleeved shirt and shorts.

He wore a baseball cap and a yellow whistle.

His face couldn't be made out, leaving people inexplicably uneasy.

Was he really a lifeguard?

This lifeguard wasn't even the eeriest thing about this pool.

What truly inspired fear was that the pool contained not only players, but eerie beings too!

These eerie beings looked no different from ordinary people. There were men, women, and children, and the children even wore swimming rings.

It should have been an utterly normal scene, yet every single one of them wore an eerie smile.

Their rigid, mechanical manner, like a preset program, sent chills down one's spine.

There weren't many of these eerie beings, only about five, scattered around the pool.

Chen Han didn't think he'd made much noise coming over.

But the instant Chen Han arrived, these eerie beings reacted.

They all looked toward Chen Han in unison for one second.

Then they resumed swimming freely in the pool as though nothing had happened.

It was as though they'd known all along that Chen Han would come.

That moment of eye contact with them made Chen Han's temples throb wildly.

Why exactly were these eerie beings here? What on earth did they want to do?

A burst of hurried footsteps sounded behind Chen Han.

Whoever was coming seemed to be in a great hurry.

Heavy panting accompanied the footsteps.

Smack!

A hand landed heavily on Chen Han's shoulder.