Free Web NovelChapter 512: Chapter 444: Chilling in the Secret Room_2
Upon hearing this, the female clerk was stunned, "How... how is this possible?"
Yang Xiao knew this matter was of great importance, and a front desk clerk couldn’t decide on her own, so he directly called Zhao. However, there was no response from Zhao’s end for a long time.
After hanging up, Yang Xiao immediately called Beibei, asking her to get some help from the police to clear things up since their Patrol Defense Office and the police station were essentially family. Beibei agreed quite easily.
In less than 10 minutes, Yang Xiao received a call from Zhao. After explaining the situation, Yang Xiao handed the phone to the female clerk, asking her to call the duty manager over. After the duty manager arrived and listened for a few moments, he carried out all of Yang Xiao’s instructions. Yang Xiao put away the phone, ready to teach these punks an unforgettable lesson.
However, the young clerk staying by Yang Xiao’s side couldn’t help but feel troubled, "Teacher Wen, these people already know most of the script’s setup, can this still work?"
Yang Xiao understood her concerns; the script was, frankly, a one-time consumable. Each player played once, experienced the novelty, and that was usually enough. Few people came to play a second time, and these guys had already played once, knowing all the script’s scare points, so the experience would definitely plummet. Of course, these people didn’t care about that; they were just here to cause trouble.
They didn’t care, and neither did Yang Xiao; after all, he was there to find fault with them. Today, as soon as they stepped through that door, leaving wouldn’t be so easy.
What’s the fun in NPCs playing ghosts? It would be more thrilling if Yi Xiao from the Yu Yuan Sect donned the Drama Robe and joined them in the game himself.
But he must be careful not to play them to death.
Soon, the manager came running over, excitedly reporting to Yang Xiao, "Teacher Yang, they agreed."
"Good, this time I’ll play the ghost," Yang Xiao instructed. freewebnøvel.com
"This..." The manager appeared a bit troubled, as Yang Xiao wasn’t a professional NPC.
Yang Xiao smiled confidently, "Young man, you probably won’t find a second person in this world who knows this script better than I do."
"Alright then." The manager agreed reluctantly. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Yang Xiao; rather, the stakes were high this time, and it involved a matter of pride. Boss Zhao treated him well, and he didn’t want Boss Zhao to lose money and face.
Turning to the female clerk, the manager instructed patiently, "Xiao Mei, you will lead the group this time. Be alert, and follow... follow everything Teacher Yang says."
"Understood," the girl nodded.
To conceal himself, Yang Xiao first asked everyone to go out, found a hiding spot himself, and then, after waiting for 5 minutes, had them brought back in.
"Right, is there surveillance here?" Although Yang Xiao hadn’t found any, he wanted to double-check.
"No," the manager explained, "It was being set up, but the process got delayed because of this incident."
"Very well."
As soon as the manager and Xiao Mei left the room, Yang Xiao walked to the vanity table, set down his backpack, took out the Drama Robe, and put it on. Then, with a thought, the Soul-Capturing Mirror appeared in his hand, and the next second, he vanished from the room.
Everything was proceeding according to Yang Xiao’s plan. He looked through the mirror on the vanity table, and a few minutes later, the door was pushed open, and several unruly youths walked in, led by the previously obstructive Yellow Hair. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
Yellow Hair swaggered in, cursing as he came, kicking over the trash can behind the door, "I’m telling you, don’t think of deceiving us. Not a penny less than 20,000, we are minors, protected by the law!"
"Brother Mao, let’s first catch that guy who plays the ghost, see how he can stir up trouble!" A snotty fat boy egged on.
"Right, last time he just stared at me because he thought I was pretty and wanted to take advantage of me!" A girl in fluffy slippers pouted, a look of haughtiness on her face.
Three boys and two girls, that was the opposing party’s lineup. Originally, the script was designed for seven players, consistent with the Fenmen Ghost Play task, but Yang Xiao made some slight changes to the plot, making it more inclusive, whether it’s 7, 8 or even 4, 5 people could still play.
Encouraged by the trouble-making Yin-Yang Head fatty, these half-grown kids began to misbehave, searching everywhere in the room, which greatly worried Xiao Mei, the team leader, "Stop! Do you... do you have no sense of decorum at all?"
"Boss Mao, I am all about rules. Do you guys really think it’s okay to play ghost and scare people?" Yellow Hair was the first to squat down, half of his body crawling under the table as he reached for the handle, yanking open the secret door, "Get out here!"
Seeing that it was empty inside, Yellow Hair was initially stunned, then feigned a knowing laugh: "Oh, quite smart, knew to hide somewhere else."
"I know now, it must be here!" Yellow Hair dashed to the wardrobe, pulled it open, but aside from a few sets of clothes, there was nothing.
"Looks like I wasn’t wrong, haha, he’s hiding under the bed, I’ve already seen you, get out!" Yellow Hair flipped the plain curtain at the front of the bed, kneeling on the ground and peering under the bed, but it was empty.
Separated by a mirror, Yang Xiao felt embarrassed for him, but Yellow Hair, despite his young age, had thick skin. He insisted this was all a setup against them, that no NPC was arranged to hide deliberately. Looking at Xiao Mei who was equally surprised, he revealed a conspiratorial smile suddenly pointing at her, "There is only one truth, and that is you! You guys planned to scare us by dressing up as a ghost when the lights were off!"
Xiao Mei looked at him as if he were a fool, but she was genuinely nervous because she hadn’t seen Yang Xiao around, and being familiar with the room’s layout, she couldn’t think of any other place where someone could hide a full-grown person, and it wasn’t likely that Yang Xiao had run off, given that there was only one way leading outside and none of them had seen Yang Xiao leave.
But time waits for no one, these noisy folks didn’t give her a chance to think further. After changing into their costumes quickly, they were hastening to start.
Following the procedure, Xiao Mei distributed a plastic candle to each person, which they used to view their own scripts. In the script, two villains needed to be identified, one playing Master Feng and the other playing Demon Nun Shitai.
Urged by these people, the task progressed unusually fast. They were really just causing trouble and weren’t searching for any clues, just wanting to finish quickly and demand compensation.
"The third night, begins, everyone please step back and turn off the candles in your hands," Xiao Mei announced in a raspy voice.
"Hehe, wait a sec!" Yellow Hair leaped from his seat, grabbed his phone in a swift motion, and placed it on the door handle behind the room door, "I fear they might deceive us, sneak someone in during the blackout to haunt and deceive us. This way, if the door opens, the phone will fall, and then you will owe me a new phone!"
Seeing their leader’s clever trick, Fatty couldn’t help but praise as he wiped his nose, "Brother Mao is awesome!"
"Alright, now let’s do as she said, don’t get bitten back later, claiming we didn’t follow the rules." Yellow Hair was the first to turn off his electronic candle.
Following his lead, the others did the same, the candles were extinguished. Xiao Mei, frustrated but helpless, had advised them before coming in to lock their phones in the cabinets outside, but nobody listened, and she saw a faint glimmer in one of the girls’ pockets.
"Players, as per my earlier instructions, please huddle together and hold hands, forming a circle, and start counting once huddled," Xiao Mei instructed methodically. Actually, at this moment the NPCs hiding in the dark should have appeared, but Xiao Mei almost gave up hope.
Soon, this group of "experienced players" who had played before gathered close, holding hands, forming a circle in the darkness.
"1," Yellow Hair was the first to count.
"2."
"3."
"4."
"5."
The next second, Yellow Hair and the others were slightly stunned, because they clearly felt that the voice came from the wrong position; there was someone in the group who hadn’t spoken, based on their previous experience, this person must be the infiltrating ghost!
Yellow Hair rushed over and grabbed the "ghost" by the clothes, shouting excitedly, "Caught you, I caught her, that female supervisor dared to dress up as a ghost to scare us, hahaha!"
But the next second, a faint trembling voice came from a distance behind, "What... what are you talking about?" It was Xiao Mei’s voice.
At that moment, Yellow Hair was dumbfounded, not just him, a wave of inexplicable fear surged through everyone’s heart, and whether it was psychological or not, the temperature in the room seemed to drop several degrees from that moment, chilling everyone to the bone.
Until a light came on.
