SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 61

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The haunted house was designed to have at least three levels. The introductory brochure that they read earlier stated that the entire course would take around forty minutes, but that forty minutes probably didn't take into consideration the time taken up by them just standing in one spot screaming their lungs out. No matter the case, Jiang Cheng was of the opinion that as they let out all sorts of screams that could scare away devils and ghosts alike, they have already gone through several rooms of flashing lights to darkly lit for almost twenty minutes, yet still they haven't gone up a single flight of stairs.

"Shouldn't we be looking for a place to go upstairs?" Jiang Cheng voiced.

"I've been looking," Pan Zhi answered from the very front. "Have we been in this room yet?"

"Nope," Gu Fei said.

"Then, we haven't gone through that door either," Pan Zhi pointed at a closed door up ahead. "Maybe, this path..."

Before his words could come to a completion, the sound of children's giggles wends its way by from right behind them.

Despite having heard the static background noise within the laughter, evident that the transmission undoubtedly came from a speaker hidden somewhere in the corner of the room, Jiang Cheng could still feel his blood run cold.[1]

"There's a ghost behind us?" Li Song asked always on the qui vive.

"Hurry up, let's go..." Xu Meng tugged at Lu Yuqing's jacket and lowered her head, not daring to look around with a chicken-hearted demeanor.

As she spoke, another round of giggles sounded in the air.

"Ahhh——" The gang of them screamed in synchronization as they squeezed through Pan Zhi, moving at a breakneck pace toward that door.

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"Shit, don't be scared, don't be scared..." Pan Zhi was shoved until his footing became unsteady, and just as he rushed to open the door, an explosive roar suddenly ensued. "Ahhh——"

On the other side of the door stood a 'ghost', who could have happened to be passing by or was intentionally waiting there the entire time, either way, with the pushing and shoving, Pan Zhi landed directly in the embrace of the 'ghost'.

Amidst the panicked screams, even this ghost was knocked against the wall and had no choice but to exert his strength to push Pan Zhi away.

"Ahhh——" They all turned and jetted off.

There was another door behind them. In a panic, the group fled with no heed to that door as if the world was ending before their eyes, swung it open, and flew in.

The bright and dazzling sunlight sprinkled the earth even as they screamed and howled.

They stood beneath the sun, continuing to scream at the top of their lungs for several more seconds before finally stopping in bewilderment.

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"What the fuck?" Pan Zhi squinted his eyes in utter shock, "How are we outside?"

"We came out before even going upstairs?" Jiang Chen turned to look back at the little door. "That was a fucking emergency exit, wasn't it?"

Gu Fei stood at the very back with his arms crossed and cleared his throat.

"En?" Jiang Cheng turned back to look at him.

Gu Fei made a meaningful glance to the right; they all followed in his line of sight and wanted to immediately squeeze their way back into the haunted house.