After bidding farewell to Oni-senpai, Xia Zhi and Tachibana Aya headed towards the direction where the three people who had just been scared away fled. Along the way, she introduced Xia Zhi to the scary things that might appear along the way.
location, and then she used various methods to cover up her embarrassment after discovering that everything was business as usual.
But thanks to her, Xia Zhi has at least understood that the most important part and core content of this haunted house is not actually scary, but should be decrypted. If he chooses to use that senior to scare people, it is indeed true. Maybe the seniors in the third year of high school
They have also taken into account the characteristics of this culture and want to add cute elements at any time and any place. I have to say that they have indeed succeeded.
After seeing the ghost senior, Xia Zhi's fear of this haunted house instantly dropped to a slightly unpleasant level, even though there was a senior who later put on slightly scarier makeup and used lights to enhance the atmosphere.
It came to scare people, but Xia Zhi was not scared at all, but the other party was quite frightened by Tachibana Aya.
Can you imagine what it would be like when a ghost jumps out of a dark corner to scare you, and someone jumps against the ghost in front of it? It even scared the other person into confusion. Tachibana Aya simply refreshed her understanding of haunted houses.
Cognition limit. But these are all trivial matters, and Xia Zhi doesn't really care about them.
After experiencing two or three various "scary" places, Xia Zhi also guessed why the three people were running around yelling. Although he couldn't empathize with it because of Tachibana Aya, but
It's really scary to be scared one after another.
Natsuki and Tachibana Aya finally saw the room where this road should exist.
"Hey, let me tell you, I guess they are ready to scare people now. When they jump out to scare us later, how about the two of us dance against them together? It should be very interesting." Tachibana Aya suggested.
Xia Zhi said, and it was obviously a bad idea, so Xia Zhi flatly refused.
"No. Don't make trouble. If you still want that puppet, just stop doing these unnecessary things, quickly pick up the clues and continue walking. I don't know how those eight people in such a big place will survive in just a few minutes.
He ran somewhere and can't even hear the sound." Xia Zhi still felt strange.
"It's quiet now. Although it may not be too big, some sound insulation materials may be used."
"Maybe." Xia Zhi nodded, then opened the door of Le's room and walked in.
Unlike before, this room is bright, which means that the scary things have not been triggered yet. Someone may jump out and scare people later. This is what Xia Zhi thought, but the reality is different from what he imagined.
Same size.
Xia Zhi looked at the ghost senior whom he met for the third time and was speechless.
Fate? Maybe so. But it's too much of a coincidence.
"Oh, we meet again." Although Tachibana Aya looked very surprised, she still restrained herself in the end and did not go up to ask questions. Maybe dinner is indeed irreplaceable for her.
something.
"Huh." Senior Ghost snorted softly, but her watch was blocked by the long hair of the prop. Xia Zhi couldn't see her watch, but it was not difficult to imagine: "Ning Ning told me, anyway, they
I can’t scare you two anymore, and the others have been arranged to scare others, so let me wait for you here and give you the clues directly. I didn’t wait for you here on purpose.”
"Wow..." Tachibana Aya exclaimed, almost drooling.
Xia Zhi hesitated for a moment: "Isn't it bad to do this?"
"Ning Ning said it didn't matter. She said it would still be difficult to solve the clues and find the intersection anyway, so she wasn't worried."
This sentence was obviously not meant for him. Sure enough, the moment Oni-senpai finished speaking, Xia Zhi heard a very weak "Idiot!", Tachibana Aya and Oni-senpai seemed to have also heard it. Oni-senpai
He looked around: "Ning Ning seems to be calling me?"
"...If you are sure that it is used to call people."
"Only Ningning would call me that. I'll give you the clue. I'll leave first. Goodbye."
She waved to Natsuchi and Tachibana Aya, then forcefully pulled open the wall at the back. She entered what should be the employee passage in front of Natsuchi and Tachibana Aya, and then tried very hard to pull the wall open.
Went back. There was insufficient light at the crack in the wall, so you wouldn't be able to see it unless you looked very carefully.
Xia Zhi felt that Senior Ghost should have gone back to be scolded, but he had just received a benefit from someone, so it seemed not good to just ignore it, so Xia Zhi silently prayed for Senior Ghost in his heart for a while, and then continued
Looking at Tachibana Aya: "So, it seems that we have collected all the clues?"
"Maybe... but is it really okay for the process to be so short? It's only been ten minutes since I came in and I'm exhausted."
"If we were scared and ran around like the other eight people, instead of dancing against the seniors like you, it would be a bit short indeed."
Fifteen minutes is neither too short nor too long. If they had followed a more normal pace, Natsuki and Tachibana Aya probably wouldn't have been able to get the clues so easily. Probably,
It’s really just a matter of being bolder and having better luck.
The clue left by Senior Ghost was the head of the headless puppet, which Xia Zhi had already predicted. Of course, the clues must be used together to be useful. Scattered clues and so on are just making things difficult for others. Not all of them are.
Like a famous detective, everyone can combine clues that seem unrelated but are actually not very related. If it takes five minutes to find the clues and twenty-five minutes to decrypt it, leading to the end of the challenge, the reputation of this haunted house is about
It's the end.
Tachibana Aya held up the bear head and turned it up and down towards the light: "There doesn't seem to be anything strange about it. Do you want to connect it?"
"How do you handle this? Isn't it too hardcore to find a clue in a haunted house and have to sew it up with needlework?"
If this is really the case, I'm afraid I have to find a sewing kit. In this way, I can basically say goodbye to the first prize. Moreover, this is a little unreasonable, although Xia Zhi lives alone, so it is more or less
I know some needlework skills, but if someone like Tachibana Aya came, wouldn't even the method of clearing the level be completely blocked? They shouldn't be that stupid.
So, either there is more than one way to clear the level, or the bear doesn't actually need to be sewn up.
"No need, look." Tachibana Aya said, holding the puppet's body in her left hand and the puppet's head in her right hand. Then she aligned the broken parts slightly and closed them with a snap:
"Isn't this the answer?"
"Do you think it's that simple?"
"It's not bad." Tachibana Aya grabbed the puppet's body and shook it. Xia Zhi was surprised to find that the puppet's head was not shaken off: "Look, isn't this good?"
"What did you do?" Normally speaking, there shouldn't be any puppets that have been twisted like that and can be connected together after being randomly spliced, right? It's not a lotus root, and the lotus roots can be broken and the silk cannot be connected.
"I didn't do anything, it was just like this." Tachibana Aya tugged on it in a showmanlike manner. Although it didn't use much force, it was indeed impossible to pull it off.
Natsuki felt strange. He took the puppet from Tachibana Aya's hand and tried to tug it gently. He found that the puppet did have a resistance that would not allow him to separate it... What is this? Could it be that they made it?
A living puppet? This is obviously impossible.
Xia Zhi didn't want to understand, and Tachibana Aya started to suggest again: "I'm a little curious about how they did it, let me see it again."
Although her intuition told her that there might be something wrong with the tachibanasai, Xia Zhi still handed it to her. Xia Zhi himself was also curious.
As a result, as soon as Tachibana Aya took over the stuffed bear, she turned against the bear. No, she started to use violence as if she had turned against the bear. She didn't use force just now, so she didn't let the puppet's head separate again. But if Tachibana Aya used force, even if
Originally, this bear was still well connected, but it was probably cut in half by Tachibana Aya.
Then Tachibana Aya really did this. She grabbed the bear's body with one hand and the bear's head with another hand, and pulled hard... The puppets separated again. Xia Zhi felt that this was not possible for a normal girl.
It's still too violent, I need to mention it to Tachibana Aya properly later.
However, thanks to her, the little secret just now was directly exposed.
"I see." Tachibana Aya glanced at it, with a slightly disappointed look on her face: "Although it's cleverly hidden, it's still a simple mechanism in essence."
"Being able to skillfully use things in life is a very amazing skill." Xia Zhi tried to correct her thinking and looked at the place where the puppet was broken. Then, Xia Zhi understood why Tachibana Aya looked like that.
’s table.
It is indeed a very simple mechanism. Xia Zhi looked at the two U-shaped magnets that were connected together and could not be separated. He was speechless. There was still a lot of cotton on them. The magnet in his body was still inside his body.
So the cotton that was brought out should be from inside the head.
If it were the suction force of a U-shaped magnet, it would really not be able to be shaken out if I flicked it like before.
"But... this should be considered a bad thing, right? I have to apologize properly when I go out later, do you understand?"
"Huh? You are obviously involved in this matter! You even acquiesced!"
"But it was you who broke it, not me." Xia Zhi spread his hands: "We can't shirk responsibility."
"I..." Tachibana Aya glared at Xia Zhi: "Forget it, I can still accept a little naughtiness. After all, this is more acceptable."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Now that the puppet is broken, do we destroy the props to pass the level, so we can't pass the level?"
"No, in addition to the magnet and cotton, there is also a small piece of paper that was just exposed. The clues should not be broken." Tachibana took out the piece of paper from the cotton: "How come the cotton in the mouth is also exposed?
Pulled it out?"
"Did you use too much force? Look, even the inside of your mouth is cracked. I need to apologize properly later, do you understand?"
"Hey." Tachibana Aya smashed her mouth, no longer caring about the head that was mostly made of cotton and even slightly damaged, and looked at the note in her hand: "Well, what is written on it... Congratulations on passing the level.
Please stand at the entrance and call the staff and show this note..."
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"What did you just say?"
"It seems we have cleared the customs?" Tachibana Aya asked uncertainly.
"Show me the note." Xia Zhi reached out to Tachibana Aya for the note. After taking the note from her hand, Xia Zhi read it carefully: "Congratulations on passing the customs. Please stand at the entrance and call for work.
The officer will show this note as proof of customs clearance. Please do not disclose information about customs clearance methods to others. Thank you."
"This should be regarded as the kind of approach that wants to go in the opposite direction and prove with facts that the most dangerous place is the safest place?" Tachibana Aya made a bold guess.
"...I don't know." Xia Zhi was no longer able to make a fair and reasonable judgment on this matter. Many insulting words were replayed in his brain, and he was trying hard to control himself not to say them out loud.
"It's so boring... Although I met a very cute girl and danced with the staff to scare them, is this haunted house really a haunted house?"
"……have no idea."
"Forget it, if we go there now, we can get the first prize. Today is a great harvest, so we won't pursue this matter."
Natsuki held the bear's head and the note in his hand and was pushed back by Tachibana Aya. He quickly walked to the entrance room with passages on both sides and summoned the staff. After confirming the paper presented
After checking it, I stuck the watch in my hand.
"Thirteen minutes... I didn't expect that someone could actually find a way to clear the level so quickly. No one has successfully cleared the level before." The other party scratched his head in distress.
"Did you lie to me?"
"No, no, you are indeed the first person to successfully walk out within fifteen minutes. And I didn't hear that big noise... But forget it, the rules are the rules and they will not be changed. This is
Customs clearance certificate for you."
The other party handed over something like a badge with the number 1 engraved on it. It should be a small handmade prize or something like that.
"Take this thing to the booth and you can get the highest-level prizes and seals."
"Great!" Tachibana Aya was very happy.
"Oh, by the way, please give me the puppets, keys, maps, necklaces, photos and notebooks you found so that I can arrange the next game."
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Natsuki and Tachibana Aya looked at him with extremely doubtful eyes.