Chapter 439: Getting Out
As he was. .h.i.t by the chilling temperature, Zhang Wei could not help exhaling heavily. Only then did he realize that there was blood everywhere on the floor.
“Why is there so much blood, could, could it be...”
Zhang Wei frowned as if thinking of something. Then he suddenly showed an incredulous expression. “Could it be that there’s a female ghost in this haunted room?”
Thinking of this, to prevent the female ghost from entering the hunting phase, Zhang Wei immediately took out a pack of smudge sticks, quickly lit it, and placed it on the ground. This set of actions was done so smoothly, who knew how many times he had trained in private.
“Very well, after lighting the smudge sticks, I’ll have 1 minute and 30 seconds. The outcome will be determined in the next 1 minute and 30 seconds!”
Zhang Wei looked extremely serious. He immediately took out a flashlight that emitted ultraviolet light and shone it on the wall.
“No fingerprints!”
After shining it around, Zhang Wei solemnly turned off the flashlight again. “It’s bitterly cold, there are no fingerprints, and it can’t write... Many types of ghosts have been eliminated and now only the last step is needed to determine the ident.i.ty of the ghost.”
Thinking of this, he glanced at the time, then opened his pocket and took out a metal box-like object. There were five small lights on the top of the box. As he took it out, he immediately held it in front of him and pressed a b.u.t.ton.
“Beep beep beep...”
A green dot appeared at the top.
“Hmm?”
When he saw this, Zhang Wei stroked his chin and said gravely, “The temperature in the room is so low, which means that the ghost is still in the room, but the EMF isn’t active at all. If everything else is eliminated, the answer has been determined!”
With that, Zhang Wei suddenly pointed forward with his right hand while raising his elbow and lowering his hand, he shouted, “The type of ghost is...
“A Mare!”
...
At ground level, Chen Chen looked at the dimming sky and the constantly approaching maid costume monsters. Several graphene cards shot out at the same time. In the next second, he watched as the rows of monsters in front of him fell like wheat!
One row, two rows, three rows!
This was like a human-powered meat grinder. Any monster that was within 20 meters of Chen Chen, no matter what it was, would end up sliced into pieces in an instant!
However, Chen Chen discovered that these monsters did not die even after being cut into two. They were still crawling toward the group. Due to this, he had to slice continuously until the limbs and heads of the monsters were cut off so that they were unable to move.
“Snap!”
Nonetheless, after one of the graphene cards had pierced the tenth monster, it finally could not hold on anymore, and broke into dozens of shards with a sharp snap and dropped to the ground.
Then, the second card, and the third...
As the sky became completely dark, Chen Chen shredded hundreds of monsters in a few minutes, but there were more and more monsters in the darkness, densely packed like a tide.
Perhaps it was an illusion but the darker it got, the faster these monsters moved.
“Agh, save me!”
Suddenly, a woman’s scream came from behind Chen Chen. The girl named Zhang Jiao saw a pair of hands suddenly appear in front of her eyes. These hands stretched out from behind her head and crept toward her eyes bit by bit...
Chen Chen had just crushed the monster in front of him, but when he turned his head, he immediately saw a strange scene — behind the girl, a pair of pale hands had emerged!
“Another kind of ghost?”
Chen Chen was shocked. In the next second, he saw those hands gripped fiercely and immediately, the two eyeb.a.l.l.s of the girl named Zhang Jiao were dug out bloodily!
Zhang Jiao fell to the ground, turning blue, and was completely silent...
This scene stunned the other three people.
No, this was not a monster in Silent Hill, this was the method of death in Phasmophobia!
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen suddenly realized something in astonishment. He grabbed the short boy and asked sharply, “Have you ever played Phasmophobia?”
At this time, the short boy was so scared that his soul had fled his body. He shook his head desperately. “I haven’t, I really haven’t. I only played The Evil Within before!”
“D*mn it!”
Chen Chen threw him to the ground fiercely and at the same time, waved his hand. The monsters that had gathered again behind him were dismembered one by one and Chen Chen looked at the vent from before!
“It’s that Zhang Wei, the anchor point has shifted!”
At this moment, Chen Chen had fully understood. It was no wonder that Zhang Wei was able to fight off the ghost by throwing his crucifix because he had become a new anchor at that time!
In other words, the anchor point is constantly shifting.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen stepped forward and rushed into the vent again. He must find Zhang Wei immediately. What would happen if the anchor died in the Otherworld?
Although Chen Chen did not know, what he knew was that the death of the anchor would never make the Otherworld disappear. It was more likely that Chen Chen would be locked in the Otherworld forever!
Still, before Chen Chen could rush down the vent, the vent suddenly transformed in the next second, instantly turning into an extremely ordinary wooden door. There was a creak and Zhang Wei stepped out of the wooden door, his body stooped furtively.
“Great, I’m finally out!”
Seeing everyone outside the door, Zhang Wei suddenly exhaled. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and stared at everyone uncertainly... Then at the bodies behind them.
“Huh?”
Seeing the maid monsters all over the ground, Zhang Wei not only did not feel any panic but was even ecstatic at first. Then he shook his head regretfully. “What a pity...”
These words were still echoing in Chen Chen’s ears when in the next second, he only felt his vision blurring. When Chen Chen came back to his senses again, he found that he had appeared in the original server room.
In the ground, there was still a huge crack, but Professor w.a.n.g Xi’s body was not in the crack. All that was left was a rust-stained iron bed that had been placed there for a long time.
On this iron bed, one could make out the traces left by someone lying down. It appeared that the person had been lying down for a long, long time until the iron bed was full of stains made by that person.
Countless patches of grease and rust intermingled, exuding filthiness that was borderline evil.
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen suddenly reacted.
He had left the Otherworld.
To be sure, Chen Chen deliberately walked out of the server room into the corridor, but immediately saw three students run out of the student council, screaming and running upstairs.
These three were the three who had survived just now.
“That is to say, Zhang Wei, as the anchor, followed the rules of the game Phasmophobia, so after leaving the vent, he thought he was out of danger, so the world was shut down immediately?”
Chen Chen thought silently. Following that, he walked to the cla.s.sroom and looked inside, only to see that the cla.s.sroom was empty.
Those students who died in the Otherworld had all disappeared...
“Sure enough...”
Chen Chen took a deep breath. At once, he heard the sound of someone coming down to this floor at the end of the corridor, so he stopped hesitating and returned to the server room at the end of the corridor. At the same time, the mental force in his mind burst out!
With a loud “boom”, the gap in the floor widened again and several floorboards were pried away, completely exposing the iron bed under the ground.
Immediately, Chen Chen picked up the iron bed with one hand and walked directly to the stairs at the end of the corridor.
“Hey, who are you! What are you doing!”
Still, just as he was leaving the computer room, Chen Chen immediately saw two men in security uniforms approaching him. Seeing Chen Chen carrying a huge iron bed as if it was a toy, they suddenly became vigilant and yelled at him as they rushed over.
Chen Chen did not slow down, but took out a memory eraser and flashed them directly!
“Click!”
After a dazzling flash, the movements of the two men suddenly stopped.
Chen Chen carried the iron bed and walked past them.
“Sir G.o.dfather, what happened?”
When he reached the first floor, the wireless headset was switched on again, and Little X’s voice came. “Is it because you were underground? Just a few minutes ago, your signal was disconnected.”
“Was it only a few minutes? How long was it specifically?”
Chen Chen asked immediately.
“The specific time was three minutes and twenty-five seconds.”
Chen Chen’s expression immediately sharpened when he heard these words. “Only more than three minutes? So, the time flow in the Otherworld and the real world isn’t the same...”
“Otherworld? What is that?”
Little X asked curiously.
“It’s a long story.”
Chen Chen did not directly explain but gave an order again, “X, destroy all surveillance feeds within the school today and at the same time, find me the three people who just rushed out of the third underground floor. Send someone to erase their memory of today.”
Speaking of this, Chen Chen suddenly paused because he saw that, behind a flowerpot, Zhang Wei was peeping at Chen Chen surrept.i.tiously, not realizing that Chen Chen had spotted him.
Chen Chen added. “No, it should be four people. One of them lives in Dorm 404 of dormitory building No. 1. His name is Zhang Wei.”
“Understood!”
Little X promptly agreed.
Immediately, Chen Chen carried the iron bed and hid in an uninhabited office. At the same time, he commanded, “Ask Cao and his men to dress up as workers and help me transport the iron bed out.”
“Understood. Cheng Cao has been on standby for a long time and can be mobilized at any time.”
Little X replied.
In less than twenty minutes, Chen Chen saw Cheng Cao wearing a school uniform, coming toward Chen Chen’s office with a few of his men and then they carried the iron bed out.
Outside the school gate, a truck had been waiting for a long time. They put the iron bed into the cargo s.p.a.ce and went away in full view of the crowd.
At this time, Chen Chen had already gotten into the truck. Currently, he was sitting in the co-pilot’s seat with a pensive expression. He had almost fully pa.r.s.ed what had happened before.
This iron bed was nothing other than the one taken from the movie Silent Hill and its original owner was Alessa who was severely burned by the fire.
Chen Chen still remembered that at the end of the movie, Alessa was lying on an iron bed, controlling the extremely sharp wires extending from the iron bed to rip apart the survivors of the entire town.
In other words, this iron bed was the key to triggering the meme of the Otherworld.
Even if he had figured out this step, Chen Chen’s doubts were still unresolved because he still remembered that at the moment he broke open the ground, he saw the body of Professor w.a.n.g Xi. At that time, w.a.n.g Xi’s body was lying on this iron bed.
However, after pulling Chen Chen into the Otherworld, w.a.n.g Xi did not become the anchor of the Otherworld. Otherwise, no matter how many graphene poker cards Chen Chen had, no matter how powerful his Field was, he would be exhausted to death by endless monsters.
Plus, in addition to the monsters that could be killed, in the end, there would be ghosts similar to Kayako of Ju-on who could kill at a touch. These were not beings that could be held back by his Field and physical strength.
He had to say that, unlike the plot of Zhao Shanhe, the previous owner of the USB flash drive, during the last hypnosis, the danger of this attack was far lesser than the last time.
Not only that, but the attack ended very quickly. Even before Chen Chen had figured out the situation, it was resolved by the guy named Zhang Wei...
This dramatic twist made Chen Chen feel like crying and laughing, yet it felt like he was punching thin air at the same time. Still, no matter what, the clues regarding Professor w.a.n.g Xi were also cut short here.
Just as Chen Chen was thinking about this, Little X’s voice came again. “Sir G.o.dfather, I’ve erased all surveillance feeds from the school. I’ve also found out the ident.i.ties of the four students and our people are rushing toward them now.”
“Very good. This is a big matter, we must erase the memories of those four people.”
Chen Chen nodded and then suddenly thought, even if Zhang Wei’s memory was not erased, surely no one would believe his words based on how unreliable he usually was?
He shook his head and stopped thinking about these things. Chen Chen just planned to rest for a while, but Cheng Cao on the side suddenly asked, “Boss, where are you going next?”
“Maybe I’ll go back to Handu to meet my parents. After all, it’s almost time for Chinese New Year.”
Chen Chen replied, “Cao, you may have a break too, but before that, this iron bed must be kept well, and it must be sealed so that no one can touch it, understand?”
“Yes.”
Cheng Cao answered immediately.
“Oh, right...”
Hearing that Chen Chen was about to return to Handu next, Little X suddenly interrupted. “It just so happens that there was news from your parents today. I haven’t got a chance to tell you yet!”
“What news, tell me.”
Chen Chen asked lazily.
“Uh...”
Little X stumbled over her words. “Sir G.o.dfather, congratulations, I’m afraid you’re about to... Become a big brother!”
Chen Chen: “???”
...
After Chen Chen had left the campus carrying an iron bed, the case of the missing persons immediately drew strict attention from the school because about a dozen students suddenly disappeared from the third bas.e.m.e.nt floor of the office building. This could be said to be a momentous case that rarely happened even in the entire world.
However, what followed was a series of shocking developments — the entire school’s surveillance system was hacked silently and all recordings had disappeared. Not only that, the three students who were with the dozen missing persons had forgotten everything that happened at that time.
This phenomenon even occurred to two security guards.
The only suspicious thing was that many people had witnessed several men dressed as workers on campus, who had left carrying an old iron bed. Moreover, a huge deep pit had appeared in the server room on the third floor of the bas.e.m.e.nt...
In short, this was destined to be another unresolved case that was difficult to crack.
When the school was caught in a storm of public opinion over this matter, Chen Chen had already left the bustling s.h.a.gdu and returned to his parents.