Chapter 156: Hidden Room

Chapter 156: Hidden Room

“Then, Yu Man...” Jiang Cheng paused before saying calmly, “She probably has been detained by the village head. Or she is dead.” It was common for teammates to die in the nightmare, but the culprits were mostly ghosts. NPCs being the culprit was rare. Chen Xiaomeng didn’t want to imagine Yu Man being captured by the villagers. She’d rather that Yu Man had died.

“Stop thinking so much.” Jiang Cheng’s voice drifted over. “If you have the time to think about others, why don’t you focus on yourself? No matter what has happened to Yu Man, that is not something you and I can change anymore.

“If you don’t want to end up like her, snap out of it. Find the clues and leave this place.”

Chen Xiaomeng let her guard down for a moment due to her empathy as a fellow woman. After a short hesitation, the determination returned to her face. “Let’s go.”

Jiang Cheng held the iron blade and was the first to crawl into the hidden door. Chen Xiaomeng followed behind him.

The space was very small. They had to bend over to keep moving. However, this was the reason why Jiang Cheng was not as nervous. He believed Lee Lu wouldn’t pick this place to set up the ambush.

After turning a few times, the path finally sloped upwards. Jiang Cheng counted the number of steps in his heart until they reached the end of the latter. There was a board above his head. The board was attached with a simple iron bar. Based on the number of steps, they should be on the third floor of the inn.

Both of them realised that behind this board would be the hidden room where Qian Jianxiu was. Everything hung in the balance.

Jiang Cheng put his hand on the bar and turned to look at Chen Xiaomeng. Chen Xiaomeng nodded to show that she was ready. After taking a deep breath, Jiang Cheng opened the board and slipped out. He quickly moved to allow the space for Chen Xiaomeng to crawl out. Chen Xiaomeng quickly followed.

Even though the room was dark, Jiang Cheng instantly realised that they were not in the hidden room. Instead, they were in Room 307, one of the rooms assigned to them at the start of the mission. The hidden door was built under the wooden table. The door was so well-hidden that once it was closed, one would have a hard time noticing it. Chill crawled over their hearts. Who would have thought that their room would have a hidden path in it? Should the boss decide to kill them after they were soundly asleep...

At the same time, something dawned on Jiang Cheng. No wonder the boss came to Room 307 with the knife after he realized there was someone behind the hidden room door. He was not only suspecting them but also wanted to check if the hidden door had been exposed.

The bloody footprints disappeared in this room.

Chen Xiaomeng and Jiang Cheng split up to check the hiding spots like the bathroom and closet. They didn’t find anything.

This time, the door was perfectly shut. It probably wouldn’t be hard to find the mechanism to open the hidden door but they lacked time the most.

A few seconds after the door closed, the thing that worried them the most happened.

CREAK...

Chen Xiaomeng and Jiang Cheng’s hearts skipped a beat.

The door... had appeared.

There was a dim purplish glow that flashed. The iron door appeared inside Qian Jianxiu’s hidden room. This game was, in a way, over. Lee Lu was the final victor. She undeniably had gotten all the rewards.

The only thing Jiang Cheng and Chen Xiaomeng could do was enter the hidden room and return to their world before the door disappeared. They could forget about the mission rewards. Their goal should be survival.

Just as they pondered how to reopen the hidden door, there was another loud crash.

It came from downstairs. It sounded like someone had burst through the front door. It was followed by many footsteps.

“Ol Fourth!”

The blood-curdling scream almost shattered Jiang Cheng’s eardrums. That was the shout of the Little Ravine Village’s village head. If he hadn’t heard it in person, Jiang Cheng wouldn’t have believed the old village head could scream so loudly.

Clearly, he had discovered Qian Jianse’s dead body.