The high heels stepped on the floor, producing dull echoes in the open space. The woman was alone, and her temporary partner had disappeared.
This is the left side of the factory, the largest part of the hall, connected to the locker room, toilets and two small rest rooms through a short corridor.
Zhang Shuya looked at the camera, her expression no longer as relaxed as it was at the beginning. As she walked forward, she looked around with a sense of caution: "Why did Fang Rui go to the toilet for almost ten minutes..."
After waiting for a while, she became a little restless.
The surrounding area was empty. Nearly forty-five minutes had passed since the test started. However, because the debris was scattered in the hall and there were too many places to hide batteries, she and Fang Rui had not yet finished searching the hall.
She recalled the human head she saw inside a broken machine when she was picking up batteries, and felt a little frightened.
The props of the deduction company are so realistic that they can even blink their eyes and stick out their tongues.
That tongue was so long, it reminded her of the boss of Qingyuan Pharmaceutical Factory who hanged himself.
It was strange. She had played in so many haunted houses before, many of which were scary, and she had no problem with it. Why did it make her feel uncomfortable this time?
Zhang Shuya took a deep breath and took out the sweet candy she brought with her to replenish sugar, trying to make herself feel better.
She raised the camera and pointed it at the road ahead, and explained like a live broadcast anchor: "The test is more difficult than I thought. The batteries are well hidden, and I have only found one so far."
"Fang Rui went to the bathroom and hasn't come back yet. The other four are far away from me. I'm alone in the hall now...wait, did you hear anything?"
She lowered her voice and listened intently to the sudden "dong dong" sound.
The sound seemed to be coming from the toilet.
"Is it...Fang Rui? He didn't bring any paper?" Zhang Shuya guessed hesitantly, moving towards the toilet, then stopped.
"Could he be teasing me? He's been there for so long. Is he trapped in there and unable to get out?"
After waiting there for a while, listening to the increasingly urgent sounds, Zhang Shuya gritted her teeth and walked to the toilet.
She passed through the corridor connecting the hall, and the closer she walked, the more harsh the thumping sound became.
She couldn't help but wonder, could this be another deliberately set scare point?
"Fang Rui, are you there? Are you inside? I'm Zhang Shuya."
She stood in front of the toilet door and hesitantly stretched her head to look inside.
The toilet in this abandoned factory was a cubicle type. The other party was still knocking on the door. It could be seen that the cubicle door was closed. She didn't have to worry about anything embarrassing happening if she rushed to see it.
However, after her voice circulated in the open space for a few times until it dissipated, no one in the toilet responded.
She looked inside again and saw from the vibration of the door panel that the person knocking was the last cubicle.
This is even stranger.
Given their current situation, Fang Rui probably wouldn't go to the last cubicle to use the toilet.
He is not a person who likes to seek excitement, so this logic does not make sense. Besides, Fang Rui shouldn't not answer his questions.
Isn't that Fang Rui inside? Who is knocking on the door?
"...Hmph, do you really think I'm so easily frightened?" She thought of the victorious face of the person who arranged the haunted house. She stepped forward on her high heels and pulled the door of the last compartment.
The door cannot be opened.
She said deliberately: "Is there anyone in there? Is there no paper? Or has it fallen into the toilet and can't get out? Do you want my sister to bring you paper?"
Her only response was an increasingly urgent "dong dong dong".
This kind of toilet has a crack under the door.
Zhang Shuya took out the flashlight, intending to use it to provide vision, but the flashlight flashed twice, made a slight sound of "this-", and then went out in front of her surprised eyes.
No way?
Props can be used to scare people, but she brought the flashlight from home. It broke at this time. Is it such a coincidence?
She murmured faintly in her heart. The old man in her family once said that if you often walk by the river, you will always have wet shoes. Could it be that... this place is really unclean, isn't it?
"No, it's impossible. It's all psychological." She likes to play in haunted houses and watch horror movies. It's because she knows that ghosts don't exist that she becomes interested in exploring the truth.
You want to tell her that there is really a ghost? She doesn’t believe it!
Putting away the broken flashlight, Zhang Shuya knelt down with a hint of dissatisfaction, leaned over, and used one hand to cover her face to avoid getting dusty on her face. In the other hand, she held a camera with night vision turned on and squinted.
Open your eyes and use the camera screen to see the crack in the door.
Strangely enough, as soon as she lowered her head, the knocking on the door suddenly stopped.
In the picture from the camera, the crack in the door was clean, except for the squat pit and the bottom of the trash can.
Nothing.
But it’s outrageous to have nothing. If there was no one, who would knock on the door?
"Then it's not the people from the company who are up to something, it's the agency!" Zhang Shuya confirmed in a low voice and stood up.
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the toilet.
Zhang Shuya was startled, and suddenly looked back, just in time to see a piece of clothes exposed behind the wall. The clothes stayed there for a while, and she tentatively asked: "Fang Rui?"
As if he was deliberately avoiding her, he moved his clothes and disappeared behind the wall.
Although Zhang Shuya didn't want to admit it, she did have a reason to stay away from this weird toilet. She whispered to the camera: "It might be Fang Rui at the door. I'll go look for him."
She hurriedly left the toilet, guessed the direction of her clothes, and entered the dressing room not far away.
As soon as her front feet left, there was the sound of flushing the toilet in the cubicle. The door that could not be opened was gently pushed open, and a pale hand suddenly stretched out from the gap. It spread its fingers and touched the air.
, not touching anyone, seemed a little angry.
After a long while, it quietly retracted and closed the door.
Zhang Shuya didn't know what she had escaped. She looked at the rows of labeled cabinets in the room and the four large benches across the center of the room for people to sit and change clothes. She felt weird.
Where are people?
How come you can play a dungeon in a team and become a solo player?
She murmured silently: Fang Rui is so unreliable... If I had known better, it would be better to choose that Zhao Yijiao as my partner. At least he wouldn't just leave a girl where she is, right?
"Peng!"
What responded to her was that the door of the locker room was slammed shut. This really shocked Zhang Shuya - in such a quiet environment, even the sound of the rainstorm was half blocked outside. A sudden loud noise made her heart skip a beat.
It can scare you away.
She let out a short scream, turned around, ran to the door and started beating: "Who is outside? Damn it, the door is locked..."
After a stalemate for more than five minutes, she finally stopped unwillingly, making sure that the people outside would not open the door for her even if they had not left.
Then let's look for the battery in the locker room first. Maybe we can leave after we find it?
She took out her mobile phone and checked the time. After a long delay, it was already 00:57.
You really have to find batteries quickly, otherwise the camera will run out of power later and it will be uncomfortable to be eliminated.
At the moment, she had no time to worry about it, and immediately opened every cabinet door that could be opened, groping inside with night vision.
"No……"
"There's nothing here either..."
"It's unscientific. In such a big place, there should be three or four batteries. Has Fang Rui searched it?"
She also touched the cabinet in the corner, but still couldn't find the battery.
One o'clock and one minute.
The camera has no power and automatically shuts down.
"Five minutes left..." She shed a drop of cold sweat and pursed her lips.
She began to suspect that someone in the company's human resources department had secretly appointed a new employee and took someone else to accompany him.
Deliberately informing the pre-determined location of the battery distribution, and proposing to go separately to facilitate the elimination of others?
The person who first proposed grouping in pairs was... Fang Rui.
Just when he was using the restroom as an excuse, he disappeared!
"Damn it." Seeing that there was no hope of finding the battery and she was locked in the locker room, she didn't bother to maintain her girlish demeanor and just cursed out.
When everything is over, she will expose this insider test!
Five minutes passed by in a flash, and the atmosphere in the dark locker room suddenly became more depressing.
Zhang Shuya was sitting on the bench. She had been eliminated anyway, and she planned to take a nap.
Suddenly, something cold touched her ankle, causing goosebumps to rise on her skin.
"who!?"
Her flashlight was broken and her camera was turned off, so she had to use the flashlight that came with her phone to take pictures.
Just after she screamed out in surprise, the thing that touched her ankle not only did not move away, but instead grabbed her!
It's a hand!
Zhang Shuya suddenly felt chills. After touching the delicate skin, she finally screamed and realized that it was not a prop.
There was a strong pull at her ankle, and she was pulled to the ground. The phone flew out and hit the wall, illuminating a small corner of the wall.
Something crawled up her legs, and finally, a cold pressure settled on her eyes.
"No, don't..." Zhang Shuya panicked. She struggled violently, but was imprisoned in place. A finger opened her eyelids, exposing her eyeballs.
She saw clearly what was before her eyes.
"No!!!"
puff--
Two black beads, accompanied by thick blood, fell to the ground with a clatter.
…
Twenty minutes ago.
Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiu didn't stay in the information showroom for too long. In addition to briefly analyzing the situation, they also went to Office 02 and Office 03 to look for batteries. Since they didn't want to run into ghosts, they didn't take the batteries after they found them.
Remember the location and be prepared to speak if necessary.
After that, the two of them walked along the way to the gate of Qingyuan Pharmaceutical Factory.
It must be mentioned that although their mobile phones show that everything is normal and there is signal, outgoing calls will never go through, and comments on various social software will receive a red exclamation mark.
When Yu Xing held the mobile phone and tried it one by one, although he had already foreseen such a situation after learning that there was a real ghost here, he still cried under Zhao Yiju's disgusted eyes.
He murmured with a grimace: "Tell me, why can ghosts interfere with electronic equipment? Does this support some people's magnetic field theory? During the final exam, there was no signal shielding device at all. Just put a ghost in the corridor and the effect was incredible.
Just get together."
"In this way, the candidates can still write the paper. I admire them." Zhao Yijing didn't know why he took up this boring imaginary topic. After saying it, he regretted it. Why did he get so confused by Yu Xing's stuff?
Infected?
When they walked through the hall and successfully arrived at the door, Yu Xing's resentment reached its peak.
"I knew it! It was expected!"
The door couldn't be opened at all. Yu Xing fiddled with the wire for a long time and came to the conclusion: "It's not locked. There are other reasons why it can't be opened."
"It should have been sealed by the abnormal power of the ghost." Zhao Yijiao kicked the door with a swift kick, and the door didn't even sway.
He stopped trying. Instead, he lowered his head and frowned.
Two seconds later, his eyes flashed: "You said Assistant Hao has no footprints, so you can tell from the gate?"
"Huh? Yes, Assistant Hao has only been around here." Yu Xing continued to study the door lock and answered casually.
Zhao Yijiu narrowed his eyes, feeling ridiculous that his wild guess had been confirmed.
He knew where that feeling of dissonance came from.
Yu Xing has always shown that he is afraid of ghosts, but in fact, every move he makes has no intention of avoiding ghosts. It is like shouting "I am going to fail again this time" and then ranking first in the class.
.
This is outrageous - Yu Xing never told him that Assistant Hao had no footprints.
Only now did Zhao Yijiu realize that the footprints leading to the door were only his and Yu Xing's, so he remembered that at midnight, Yu Xing had asked Assistant Hao if he was cold, and watched Assistant Hao leave, so he wanted to make up for it.
I didn't expect him to actually cheat him out.
Yu Xing's subconscious answer showed that he really discovered that Assistant Hao had no footprints at that time!
So here comes the question, who normal person would have no footprints? The footprints of several applicants are scattered everywhere, and those who can leave no traces in so much ashes can only be ghosts, right? Yu Xing was confused at the beginning
Knowing that Assistant Hao was a ghost, he didn't show anything unusual.
Then the timid behavior before can't be explained.
Also, the act of going home after learning that there is a ghost here is also contradictory to this.
Combined with Yu Xing's performance of repeatedly jumping between calmness and panic, his ability to extract and analyze the key points of the problem...
The thoughts in Zhao Yijiu's mind suddenly became clear. To sum up, it is very possible that...Yu Xing is playing him!
Are you pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger!?
He stared at Yu Xing's back with gloomy eyes, calculating the other party's purpose.