The Boy Burning Paper Money

At this very moment.

On the other side, Liu Bo and Zhang Jie were also carrying out the task of sealing the families.

The family the two needed to seal was the Wang family.

By now, Su Yang's group had already sealed three locations, while Liu Bo's side had just finished sealing the offering altar.

After being frightened upon entering the house earlier, the two had run off in different directions. Zhang Jie ran into a room to hide.

Meanwhile, Liu Bo was being chased all over the house by two male ghosts with festering faces.

"Ahhh! Don't come any closer!! I won't be polite if you come any closer!!"

Liu Bo kept threatening the two male ghosts behind him even as he ran.

However, scaring people and delaying their time was the NPCs' job. No matter how much Liu Bo howled, the two relentlessly pursued him.

Actually, besides scaring people, these two NPCs had another purpose: to guide Liu Bo to the next sealing point. But Liu Bo was a bit single-minded; he just ran around the house and wouldn't go to the sealing point.

After chasing him for a long time without catching up, the two male ghosts finally stopped pursuing him, seized an opportunity, and hid.

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The other groups were also each performing their family sealing tasks at this time.

The last group to enter a family was Ji Bo and Yang Xiaoling's pair, but they had bad luck and drew two forced solo tasks.

Ji Bo entered the family alone to do the sealing task, while Yang Xiaoling was guided by an NPC to do an outdoor task in the woods behind the factory.

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Meanwhile, on Su Yang's side, after taking a deep breath with Ren Lingxi on his back, he instantly charged towards the main hall door.

Seeing Su Yang run off carrying Ren Lingxi, the six previously motionless NPC male ghosts moved their eyeballs, quickly stood up, and gave chase.

Su Yang reached the main hall door, pushed it open with force, and ran out carrying Ren Lingxi.

The rapid, pattering footsteps of six people came from behind.

Although it was a game, being chased by six expressionless, pale-faced men would scare anyone.

Both Su Yang and Ren Lingxi were now fully immersed in the game task.

Being chased by six male ghosts made his heart race a bit too.

After rushing out of the house carrying Ren Lingxi, he immediately turned and ran towards the right.

The six male ghosts let out guttural "wu-wa" roars, and their speed was also extremely fast.

Soon, after running east and west, Su Yang finally arrived at the Zhao family's backyard.

From a distance, he saw a pigsty built from wood and tiles. Most realistically, there was actually a large fat pig inside the pigsty.

Su Yang was dazed for a second before quickly running over.

The closer he got to the pigsty, the stronger the smell became, a pungent stench assaulting his senses.

“Wow! It stinks so bad!” Ren Lingxi, lying on Su Yang's back, covered her nose and said.

Su Yang endured the stench: "Bear with it, it'll be over soon!"

As he spoke, he put Ren Lingxi down, then hurriedly took out the pouch, pulled out a talisman paper, and prepared to stick it on the pigsty.

But just as he took out the talisman, a red-clothed fierce ghost suddenly stood up from the messy pigsty and reached out to strangle him.

Su Yang quickly pulled Ren Lingxi back to dodge.

The red-clothed fierce ghost pushed open the small pigsty door and jumped out in a bizarre posture.

Now, with the red-clothed fierce ghost in front and the six terrifying male ghosts catching up from behind, they were sandwiched between them.

Caught in this pincer attack, Su Yang temporarily ignored Ren Lingxi. After all, he knew it was all fake, and these ghosts wouldn't actually harm Ren Lingxi.

He let go of Ren Lingxi's hand and quickly dodged to the right from between the front and rear attackers.

Ren Lingxi screamed in fright and squatted on the ground.

After dodging, Su Yang shouted: "Lingxi, don't move!"

As he spoke, he circled around the red-clothed fierce ghost, casually put some saliva on the talisman paper, then rushed to the side of the pigsty and slapped the talisman paper onto the door.

Boom!

In an instant, a white light flashed across the entire courtyard, but this time the ground didn't shake again.

After sticking the talisman on the pigsty door, Su Yang turned to look at Ren Lingxi.

He saw that all the ghosts surrounding him had frozen in place as if acupuncture points had been hit.

"Phew~ Looks like it worked."

He said, walking quickly to Ren Lingxi's side and pulling her out.

"It's okay, it's done."

"Are they all stuck now?"

"All stuck~"

Ren Lingxi's heart had been pounding wildly when the ghosts surrounded her just now, and she hadn't calmed down yet.

Su Yang looked at her and said, "Let's go, while these ghosts are temporarily sealed."

"Okay, let's go quickly. But which way do we go?"

"We're still inside the factory. The other families probably aren't far from each other. If we follow the paths, we'll definitely find them. Let's go."

"Okay."

As they spoke, the two quickly walked out of the courtyard.

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Forty minutes later, all six groups had completed sealing their respective families and obtained some clues for later.

Under the guidance of the NPCs, everyone arrived at the second scene of the Uninhabited Village theme: the Back Mountain.

This mountain forest was vast, originally desolate, with withered branches and fallen leaves everywhere.

Now, after some modifications, it looked even more eerie and terrifying. The paths were gloomy, feeling much more real compared to the earlier indoor settings.

The indoor atmosphere was largely created through extensive set dressing. Although you could see a fake moon when looking up inside, the difference from a real night was still significant.

However, this back mountain didn't need much set dressing because it was real. Under the pitch-black night sky, it appeared exceptionally dead and silent.

At this moment, the eleven people hurried along a muddy path leading into the mountain.

Because Yang Xiaoling had drawn a forced outdoor solo task earlier, she was not with the group now.

She had entered this desolate back mountain alone forty minutes prior.

After completing the family sealing task, the clues given by the NPCs pointed to the back mountain, and they also mentioned that Yang Xiaoling was now 'out of contact.' One of the tasks was to find Yang Xiaoling, and then search for the ultimate secret treasure.

Everyone hurried up the mountain. It was now past midnight. Apart from Su Yang and the other ten people, not a single soul could be seen in the pitch-black mountain forest.

Zhang Ziming suggested at this point: "Should we split up to search for her? I think moving as one big group is a bit of a waste of time."

Liu Bo nodded in agreement: "I agree! We need to hurry. Sister Xiaoling has been out of contact for over forty minutes."

Ji Bo also chimed in: "Yeah, she's my teammate. Enough talk, I'm going to look for her first."

As he spoke, he ran ahead first.

No one stopped him. Meng Wenzhou looked at the others and said: "Then let's split up. This back mountain is part of the escape room's scope, so it probably isn't that big. We'll definitely run into each other again later."

"Okay, let's go."

As they spoke, the pairs chose different directions and left with their respective teammates.

Su Yang and Ren Lingxi walked along a winding path for a stretch and entered a small grove.

After weaving through it for a few minutes, they emerged from the grove onto a dirt path leading up the mountain.

But not two minutes after arriving on the path, Su Yang saw by the light of the real moonlight that about forty or fifty meters ahead, by the roadside under a tall tree, a boy in grayish-white clothes was squatting alone, burning paper money.

The small cluster of flames beside him flickered in the night wind. Combined with the ghostly atmosphere, the sight from a distance was instantly chilling.

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