Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 231 Confess to Me 4
After all, it's a shop opened by a rich second-generation. The bar has a great location, surrounded by a variety of industries, offering a one-stop shop for eating, drinking, and entertainment, and it's not close to residential areas.

The murder mystery game venue is easy to find. Not far from the bar, you'll see an advertisement for a hotel that says the immersive murder mystery game "Escape from the Millennium" is now available for a surprise price of 699 yuan for two days and one night. Note: slightly scary.

Zheng Yan and his companions looked at the hotel entrance blankly, like cavemen who had wandered into a bustling city.

"Is business so bad these days? Hotels are starting to explore new business opportunities."

Tan Jia looked down and searched the map, saying, "There are four murder mystery game shops around here. Besides this hotel, there's another one that's a blizzard-themed mystery game with a relatively small venue; another one is an outdoor battle royale game, which is said to include two streets and a grassy area, and is moderately scary, so people with heart disease, asthma, or those under 18 or over 40 should not participate; the last one is a repurposed abandoned building, and the most recently played script is 'The Strange Tales of the Fourth Hospital,' which I heard is very fun."

Xiao Chen murmured, "The world seems to have suddenly developed so rapidly that I can't keep up. Using two streets to play games, isn't that my childhood dream? The whole world is playing Ultraman fighting monsters."

Zheng Yan glanced at him: "At your age, can't you take some time to learn about the development of entertainment in society? No wonder you haven't settled down yet. Drive to that unfinished building."

Xiao Chen pouted and went to find his car.

An unfinished building truly is an unfinished building; it's just a concrete frame, and when the protective netting on the walls, exposed to the wind and sun, sways in the wind, some plastic powder even falls off.

Given the environment, there's even a sign downstairs directing people who play "The Ghost Stories of the Fourth Hospital" to turn right into the store.

Before seeing it, I could hardly imagine that there could be a shop inside an unfinished building.

“Someone posted pictures of the game online,” Tan Jia said, placing her phone in front of them. “The red and green lights, the clinic’s setting, all match the dream.”

The promotional cover online is like something out of a horror movie, all red, it hurts your eyes to look at it.

“That should be it,” Zheng Yan said, looking at the upper floors of the unfinished building and then at the direction of the bar. “But there’s a problem: how did the murderer get the body from here to the bar? Nobody has seen it yet.”

“Maybe it’s not that no one saw it, but that even if they did, they thought it was a prop?” Xiao Chen said. “That’s what the person who first found the body in the bar thought. He thought it was a prop that was too realistic and even wanted to get closer to take a look.”

Tan Jia: "It's possible, but in any case, she would need a tool to transport the body, right? And how did she manage to take the body away from right under the noses of the murder mystery shop staff?"

Xiao Chen: "Uh... were there accomplices?"

"Why did she choose this place to kill? Was it an impulsive act, or was it premeditated? If it was premeditated, why did she specifically choose this place?"

"Is there a deeper meaning in this 'Strange Tales of the Fourth Hospital'?" Tan Ming guessed.

"Then why did she insist on exposing the body?"

"Because they wanted to dispose of the body elsewhere, cover up the fact that the deceased died here, and hide their own suspicion in this matter?"

"Then she should have thrown the body in a more secluded place, preferably a corner where it wouldn't be discovered even after it turned to bones. Exposing the body, especially in a crowded place like a bar where people could easily mistake it for a prop, just seems more like a perverse act."

"So she's planning something, and it's not over yet."

"Then..." She wanted to continue asking, but Zheng Yan stopped her.

"Alright, alright, if you keep asking, your brother will break out in a cold sweat. Let's go in and see the scene first. What if there's some major discovery that can immediately solve all your problems?"

Tan Ming pretended to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

Tan Jia swallowed back the words she wanted to say: "Then let's go and take a look." The scene built from an unfinished building naturally had a terrifying atmosphere, not to mention that this was a horror-themed murder mystery game.

On poorly lit floors, the dim red light made the scene feel like an imagined hell.

They found the leader of this murder mystery game team.

"Did anyone play a murder mystery game last night? It's this one called 'The Strange Tales of the Fourth Hospital'."

"Yes, our game has been running for four days, and people come to play every day," the other person replied, then cautiously asked, "Has something happened?"

"Do you remember, a guy with dyed platinum blonde hair came by last night? He was wearing a three-piece vest suit, like the one in the photo." Tan Ming showed the photo.

The photo only showed the victim's neck and below, not revealing the mangled and horrific face.

After looking at the photo, the other person hesitated, nodding and then shaking their head.

“I wasn’t here last night. After the players finish playing and leave, the NPCs who accompanied them and the receptionist all go home, and another group of people come in. I’m in charge tonight.”

"However, this three-piece vest set is indeed the outfit worn by the behind-the-scenes boss character in our script."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Yan asked her to call the person in charge of last night's game.

While she was contacting her colleagues, Tan Jia asked her, "The outfit in the photo doesn't look cheap. It's 198 yuan per person for a game. Why are you dressing your guests in such expensive clothes?"

"Sometimes we will re-customize clothes and props according to the guests' requirements, especially for some high-budget groups who do not like to wear clothes that others have worn. In such cases, we will purchase new ones and include this cost in the final price."

"I see." It seems that the group of people last night were rich kids who like to seek thrills and aren't very particular.

Why would someone come to this unfinished building to play a murder mystery game? Is this game really that appealing?

If the murder here was pre-planned by the killer, then is the script of "The Ghost Story of the Fourth Hospital" also pre-planned, with some kind of deeper meaning?
Were the deceased and the others lured here by the murderer to play the game?
Or is it that the person who designed this story and put everyone in this game wasn't the murderer, but someone else?

After waiting a while, the person who led the team to complete the murder mystery game last night arrived, and he kept yawning while answering their questions.

"The guy who played the mastermind last night did have platinum blonde hair. He was quite handsome, with almond-shaped eyes and an earring. Two of the girls who came with him were circling around him."

It matches up, and the murderer is probably among this group.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, there was progress.

But after yawning twice, the other person took a dramatic turn in their next sentence: "Who got into trouble? It has nothing to do with us. They all left safely after the script was finished this morning. If anything goes wrong later, it definitely won't be our responsibility."

"Left safely?" Zheng Yan asked in surprise. "You mean this person walked right past you this morning and left normally?"

The other person nodded.

Tan Jia and Zheng Yan exchanged a glance. Had they mistaken someone? Were there many young men here who fit the description of platinum blonde hair and a vest?

Or is it that what came out was not the dead, or not the living dead?