American Horror Story, Starting from Falls Town

Chapter 372 Sarilang

"what--"

Screams echoed throughout the mental hospital.

As the membership test progressed, the eight new students who left the lobby to explore encountered some pre-arranged actors, making quite a few fools of themselves, which greatly entertained the students watching the live stream.

Of course, the three students who remained in the lobby also suffered the same fate; in fact, they were the ones who were most terrified.

These three students didn't even dare to step out of the door, clearly showing they were very timid. Then Harry sent people to mess with them, and one of the three was so scared that he wet himself on the spot. It was arguably the best entertainment of the night.

However, Harry's unease was growing, because while the nurses' station cameras were now working properly, the three female students who had been playing the ghost nurses had gone missing.

Harry had previously asked Brandy to send someone to check the nurses' station. The person who checked replied to him on the walkie-talkie, saying that he didn't see anyone around the nurses' station, only a walkie-talkie that was turned off on the ground.

"Fuck! Does anyone have their phone numbers?"

No one answered Harry. After a long while, a weak female voice spoke into the walkie-talkie.

"I called, but no one answered!"

"If this is a prank, then it's going too far! Staff at the mental hospital, please be aware: if you see three women dressed as nurses, notify me immediately!"

Harry was furious. What was supposed to be a perfect initiation test had suddenly turned into this mess, giving him the disgusting feeling of finding a dead fly in a delicious meal.

"Fuck! I'm never working with those three girls again! I'm going to make the president blacklist them! Wait, where's the president?"

Harry remembered that the president had just been watching the initiation test from behind, Brandy replied to him.

"The president left about ten minutes ago, around the time you asked me to send someone to look for that female student. She's probably gone back to school, right?"

Harry shook his head, turning his attention back to the screen.

At this point, Harry discovered that Roy and Shore had gone deep into the mental hospital, as if they were following something.

However, the cameras in front of Roy and Shawdy kept malfunctioning, which puzzled Harry greatly.

Roy and Shawdy ventured deeper and deeper, eventually arriving at Area C.

Suddenly, a crisp cell phone ringtone startled Xiao Di.

Where did the cell phone sound come from?

All the new students' cell phones had been taken away, except for Roy's satellite phone.

Therefore, the voice on the phone must have been an actor arranged by Harry.

"It must be the ringtone of a nearby actor's cell phone."

Seemingly startled by the ringing of the cell phone, the mentally ill female ghost that Roy and Shawdy were following vanished in the blink of an eye.

The cell phone kept ringing, sounding particularly eerie in the empty mental hospital.

Xiao Di became particularly irritated upon hearing this sound; some people are very sensitive to cell phone ringtones.

"Damn it! Why isn't that guy answering his phone?"

Roy also found it a bit strange. Logically speaking, a phone ringtone would give away your identity, so you should answer the phone immediately when it rings.

"Come on, let's go over and take a look!"

Following the ringtone, Roy and Shawdy found a cell phone lying in the corridor between Zone A and Zone C. Judging from the pink decorations on the phone's casing, the owner of the phone was likely a woman.

"How did a phone end up on the ground?"

Roy reached out to pick it up, but Shawdy suddenly stopped him.

"Wait a minute! Could this be a trap set by the Ouroboros? What if someone runs out and scares us after we pick up the phone?"

Unexpectedly, Xiao Di suddenly became clever for a moment. Although the ghosts in the mental hospital shouldn't be playing tricks like using cell phones according to the script, there is a script after all, and no one knows what tricks Ouroboros will play.

Roy nodded; he really didn't want to leave any embarrassing marks on the live broadcast.

“We should definitely be careful, Xiao Di. Pick up this phone and answer the call.”

"Ah? I'm coming?"

"Okay, I'll keep an eye out for you. If anyone tries to scare us, I'll beat them up!"

Xiao Di swallowed hard and looked around, as if checking to see if anyone was hiding nearby.

But in reality, it's a straight corridor, so it's impossible for Tibetans to hide there. It's more likely that some hidden mechanisms have been installed.

"Then I'll pick it up!"

Xiao Di slowly walked towards the phone, the whole thing seemed to be played at 0.5x speed, making Roy roll his eyes.

So Roy kicked him from behind.

"Ouch!"

"Are you playing with snakeskin? Hurry up!"

Xiao Di rubbed his bottom, picked up his phone with a wronged expression.

"Huh, it seems like nothing happened?"

"Then try answering the phone."

Xiao Di hesitated for three seconds, but still listened to Roy and answered the phone. Before he could even speak, a pleasant female voice came from the other end of the line.

"Thank God! Cindy, you finally answered the phone! Where are the three of you right now? Harry is furious because he can't find you!"

It sounds like three actresses have gone missing?

Roy snatched Shawdy's phone and spoke.

“I am Roy Black, a newcomer taking the Ouroboros Brotherhood initiation test. I found this phone in the corridor between Area A and Area C.”

After hearing what Roy said, the girl on the other end of the phone sounded visibly flustered.

"How could this happen? Cindy and the others' phones fell on the ground, so where are they? Blake, if this is a prank, it's not funny at all!"

It seems the girl on the phone still suspects Roy is joking, just like a common plot point in many horror movies.

"Listen, if I were you, I would immediately tell Harry to stop this trial to prevent a bigger accident!"

A girl naturally couldn't make a decision about this, so Roy hung up the phone and contacted Harry via walkie-talkie.

"Harry, have three actresses gone missing?"

"How did you know? Seriously, can you please not say things like that in the public chat!"

"I found the cell phone of one of the three actresses in the corridor connecting area A to area C."

"What! Is this true?"

"Of course it's true! I think you'd better stop the test before things get any worse!"

Harry, inside the live broadcast van, was having a difficult decision. After all, this event was crucial for the Ouroboros Club, and if it failed because of the three girls, it would have a huge impact on the Ouroboros Club's reputation at UCLA.

Harry really can't bear this responsibility.

But Harry couldn't be sure if the three girls were really missing; perhaps the Phoenix Order had bribed them to deliberately cause trouble.

Similar things have happened before, with the president of the Phoenix Society bribing some staff members to sabotage the activities of the Ouroboros Society.

After much deliberation, Harry still didn't dare take the responsibility and decided to pass the buck.

"I'll contact the president now and let you know as soon as I have the results."

Speaking so openly on the public channel, the other freshmen could of course hear it, but they didn't choose to believe it, thinking that Harry was up to some new trick.

Actually, when Roy and Shawdy were dressed properly at the beginning, some people suspected that they were spies for the Ouroboros Society, and now most of the freshmen have accepted that this is true.

And so, before Harry could even contact the president, another accident occurred. "Ah! Sarilang! Help!"

A distorted scream came through the walkie-talkie; the voice was full of emotion but completely lacked any finesse.

Roy quickly picked up the walkie-talkie.

"what's going on?"

"Murder! Murder! A woman in a nurse's uniform knocked someone down with a hammer! There's so much blood!"

"Where are you now?"

"I...I don't know! This mental hospital is so dark, and the rooms are all pretty much the same..."

That's a real problem. Without a map of the mental hospital, nobody would know where they are.

"Now run and make hand gestures so Harry can see you! Harry, look where this guy is!"

Harry was still on the phone at that moment. He had called the president several times but no one answered. Just as he was cursing, he heard Roy's words.

"I'm looking! Hmm—he's in section B, which is the direction you came from. Just turn back!"

"I'm coming right now! Harry, get this initiation test over quickly!"

"But I haven't been able to contact the president yet!"

"Forget about that idiot president. If anything goes wrong, you'll be the one primarily responsible!"

These words jolted Harry awake. If something really happened at this point, he would definitely be caught, while the president, having not received the call, would be unharmed.

Harry cursed the president inwardly for being cunning, suspecting that the other party was watching the live stream and deliberately not answering the phone to avoid taking responsibility.

So Harry made a decision immediately.

"All members who have participated in the membership test, listen up! Immediately assemble in the lobby. Someone will escort you out!"

Then he picked up another walkie-talkie.

"All actors, listen up! Immediately retreat to the foyer. Tonight's event is over!"

After repeating this several times, Harry led Brandy to the entrance of the mental hospital to open the door.

But then, Harry and Brandy suddenly discovered that the doors to the mental hospital couldn't be opened.

"How could this happen? Did the people inside lock the door from the inside? Damn it! To play a joke like this at a time like this!"

But Brandy sensed something was wrong. He kicked the door hard a few times, but there was no response.

“Harry, something’s not right! This kind of solid wood door shouldn’t be this heavy, but I kicked it a few times and there was no response at all, it’s like the whole door is fused to the wall!”

Brandy was a muscleman and much stronger than Harry, which made Harry hesitate.

So Harry picked up the walkie-talkie again and asked the people in the mental hospital.

"What's going on inside? Why is the main gate blocked?"

Harry responded quickly.

"Huh? Blocking the door? We're still waiting for you to open the door, why would you block it?"

Indeed, even if the newcomers wanted to get revenge, the actors would stop them; the actors couldn't wait to leave work early and collect their wages.

The number of actors far exceeds the number of newcomers.

"Brandy, let's go back to the broadcast van and see what's going on!"

However, when Harry returned to the broadcast van, he found that all the screens were black, and a group of UCLA students watching the live stream were asking on the BBS why the broadcast had been cut off.

"How could this be?"

Harry was now completely panicked.

In comparison, Brandy was more composed.

"Harry, the first thing to do now is call the police!"

"Yes, yes, call the police! Brandy, you go call the police, I'll continue contacting the people in the mental hospital!"

Harry picked up the walkie-talkie, but a loud static noise came from it, making it impossible to understand what was being said.

Roy encountered a similar situation.

At that moment, Roy took out his satellite phone, contacting Saltana while searching for the person who had called for help earlier.

At first, the satellite phone was clear, but as soon as Roy finished giving the address and before he could explain the details, the satellite phone could no longer hear what was being said on the other end.

It's important to know that what Roy was holding was a military-grade satellite phone given to him by General Hammer, which couldn't be blocked by ordinary electronic jamming.

It would take at least the military-grade electronic jammer that the cabin used last time to disable the satellite phone.

Fortunately, Saltana already knows where Roy is, and she will definitely take FEA to the mental hospital as soon as possible.

"Roy, Roy, has something happened?"

Xiao Di started to get nervous again.

"It's not confirmed yet, but it's pretty close!"

Roy noticed that fog was starting to rise at the edge of the corridor, as if some force was influencing the environment of the mental hospital.

If nothing unexpected happens, there is at least one evil spirit lord inside the mental hospital.

The Ouroboros really knows how to pick a location; they actually chose a place with an evil spirit lord to hold their initiation test.

Finally, Roy found the freshman who had called for help near room 13 in Block B. The guy looked completely distraught and seemed to be terrified.

Where is that murderer you mentioned?

"It's roughly in that direction, no, it seems to be there!"

The man pointed in several directions, making Roy frown.

"Take us there!"

"What did you say! There's some psychopathic killer there, and you actually want me to take you there?"

Roy glanced at the terrified coward.

"She's just a woman with a hammer. There are three adult men on our side. Do we need to be afraid of her?"

These words left the freshmen speechless; they were absolutely right.

"You're right! Why should three grown men be afraid of one woman?"

The freshman stood up and led Roy and Shawdy to find his companion.

However, this guy had run away in such a hurry that he couldn't quite remember how he got here, and it took him a while to find the location of the attack.

"This is it! Look at all this blood!"

There was a long trail of blood in the corridor leading from Area B to Area A, presumably because the nurse dragged the freshman away after knocking him down.

"Let's keep chasing!"

The bloodstains led from the corridor into Area A, and then from Area A into Area D, which Roy hadn't yet visited. The amount of blood loss was truly enormous.

Roy suspected that even if they found that newborn, he would have died from blood loss.

"The bloodstains stopped here!"

The image of a female nurse (from the niche horror film Nurse 3D)

(End of this chapter)