Chapter 263
Chapter 263
Returning to the Amusement Park had been Zhou Hui’s suggestion.
The man who had once shouted, “Brother Meng, your pants are wet!” stepped into the passage filled with a fear of life itself.
But fate did love to play jokes.
The moment Zhou Hui entered the passage, an exceptionally thrilling scene appeared before his eyes.
It might not be that sort of adults-only material, but it was still strictly unsuitable for anyone under eighteen.
A woman who was a mass of bloody flesh crouched on the ground, holding an infant and gnawing on it.
Zhou Hui forced himself to remain silent and cautiously tried to skirt around her.
Unfortunately, the mangled woman seemed to catch the scent of the living. Her head whipped around.
Zhou Hui forced out a smile. “H-hello?”
The woman wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and approached him one step at a time, her gait horribly contorted.
With fear in the heart, self-control will fail in the end. – Lu Yiji
Zhou Hui’s soul had flown clean out of his body, but instinct still made that body react.
The sight reaching his eyes sent a tremendous surge of power into his legs.
Don’t imagine that Zhou Hui’s daily work consisted of nothing but eating and sleeping.
Testing stigmatized homes by sleeping in them required excellent physical fitness.
It even required a certain degree of literary ability.
Their salaries might be high, but any problem that arose inside a property was theirs to solve.
Suppose, for instance, you heard an eerie noise from the attic late at night.
You would have to investigate and deal with whatever was making it.
Afterward, you would even have to write a report ten thousand characters long.
And so Zhang Bei witnessed a peculiar scene on the security feed.
Zhou Hui sprinted ahead, and none of the demons or ghosts along the way could keep up with him.
He even ran past some triggered mechanisms before they could react.
Human strength had its limits. After running for a long time, Zhou Hui finally stopped.
Zhang Bei stared wordlessly at the monitor.
Young man, do you really not know why nobody runs through here like that?
Behind him on the screen was a dense mass of demons and ghosts.
Even Zhang Bei couldn’t remember how many monsters he had crammed into a single passage.
From the present situation, though, at least thirty percent of the mechanisms had been triggered.
Over a hundred apparitions and dozens of animated props were all following Zhou Hui.
They were now only one corner away.
Leaning against the wall, Zhou Hui gasped for breath. His long-absent soul finally returned to his body.
Reason regained control of his mind.
Belatedly, Zhou Hui seemed to remember what had just happened.
He whipped his head around. The first female ghost he had encountered came into view.
But all of Zhou Hui’s attention was on what followed her.
They just kept coming!
It was like a picture showing only a camel’s head rounding a bend in a path. You could never know how many camels were behind it.
Beginning with that first female ghost, the narrow passage had become a playground for ten thousand ghosts.
Zhou Hui was fortunate, and unfortunate.
Fortunately, he soon passed out.
Unfortunately, a doctor emerged from the side and fed Suxiao Jiuxin Wan into his mouth.
The doctor took one look at the grotesque props of every description, then silently left through the hidden passage.
He might be curious, but he certainly wasn’t looking for trouble.
The scene before him was far beyond what his fragile heart could bear.
The Suxiao Jiuxin Wan was powerful. So powerful that even Zhang Bei could hardly believe it.
Zhou Hui regained consciousness after only about a minute.
Looking around, he found himself completely surrounded by vengeful ghosts.
Fear alone no longer adequately described the problem.
Anyone still human would be overwhelmed by a spectacle worthy of the King of Hell’s court.
Zhou Hui squeezed his eyes shut, trying to faint.
Unfortunately, this was the moment the heart medicine truly demonstrated its power.
It was more effective than a sedative now.
Even forcing himself to face his fear couldn’t make Zhou Hui pass out.
Meanwhile, the vengeful ghosts before him were gradually drawing closer.
Since fainting wasn’t an option, there was only one course left.
Run!
Watching the monitor, Zhang Bei saw Zhou Hui break into another furious sprint through the Underground Maze.
With stamina like that, Zhang Bei wouldn’t believe him if he said he’d never served in the military.
The figure on the screen gradually captured more and more of Zhang Bei’s interest.
Since the Underground Maze opened, the record had been Qingqing’s fifty-percent mechanism trigger rate.
Perhaps that record could be broken today. Perhaps an unimaginable new achievement was even possible.
Zhou Hui was an excellent runner. Within a few minutes, he had triggered forty-five percent of the mechanisms.
The enormous procession behind him grew larger still.
Unable to faint, Zhou Hui had no choice but to quicken his pace again.
The faster he ran, the more mechanisms he triggered.
And so he fell into a vicious cycle.
But could he stop?
He could not!
Who would dare stop in a situation like this?
The number of vengeful ghosts behind him had swelled into the hundreds.
And that didn’t include the grotesque monsters of every kind.
“Motherfucker! Stop chasing me! I really can’t fucking run anymore!”
The words sounded familiar, but this time they were the absolute truth.
Even excluding the time he had spent unconscious, he had been running for almost half an hour.
The Underground Maze’s routes had already changed once. Zhou Hui no longer knew whether he was moving forward or doubling back.
After an ordeal like this, never mind staying in stigmatized homes.
Even storming the underworld right now and dragging someone back would be no problem.
He had now seen vengeful ghosts who had died in every conceivable way, along with all those malformed monsters.
As long as he survived this, he would fear nothing within the human realm.
Of course, that applied only to humans. Certain inhuman individuals were another matter.
Zhou Hui truly did not disappoint Zhang Bei. Within an hour, he brought the mechanism trigger rate to eighty-five percent.
Behind him, the ghost count had passed a thousand, and the monsters had successfully increased to a hundred.
In his fifty-ninth minute inside the Maze, Zhou Hui let out a despairing roar and collapsed.
“Zhang the Thief, may you die a horrible death!”
The remaining minute soon passed, and the scene on the monitor instantly became peaceful.
Only Zhou Hui remained, lying on the ground.
This time, he had fainted from exhaustion, not fear.
After all, nobody could withstand an hour of continuous sprinting.
Zhang Bei was still marveling at the new record when Li Yang came rushing over.
“Boss, I think Gu Yue might have been kidnapped.”
The news made Zhang Bei pause.
Kidnapped?
Someone had dared kidnap one of his people?
Now that woke him right up!
“What exactly is going on?”