Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 267 Guan Gu's Return

Guan Gu and Youyou continued to walk slowly down the narrow, dark passageway.

With the help of his imaginary companion Mario, Guan Gu is no longer afraid of the various terrifying imaginary creatures attracted by his abundant imagination.

While one might be able to overcome their own fantasies, this terrifying escape room was clearly not just a place where the two of them could simply walk through a pitch-black passageway and consider it a pass.

Not long after, Guan Gu, who was groping his way forward in the dark, suddenly felt some sticky, cold liquid on his hands that were leaning against the wall.

"what!"

Guan Gu instinctively withdrew his hand and shouted in alarm, "Youyou, watch out for the wall!"

"ah!"

Thanks to Guan Gu's reminder, Youyou wasn't scared by the unknown liquid on the wall.

She was just scared half to death by Guan Gu's scream.

Youyou withdrew her hand from the wall and said tremblingly, "Guan Gu, what happened to the wall?"

"On the wall, there's something on the wall..."

Guan Gu almost burst into tears. He stammered halfway through his sentence, only to be horrified to discover that the previously faint, eerie music was increasing in volume at a speed beyond their wildest imagination.

As the volume increased, the music's rhythm climbed to a climax, instantly creating a terrifying atmosphere.

Youyou and Guangu instinctively covered their ears.

【Ogasa-san!】

Guan Gu kept crying out for his mother in his heart, and even his imaginary partner Mario huddled in place, trembling with fear because of Guan Gu's fear.

"I already said I'd rather go back and face King Bowser!"

Mario closed his eyes, shook his head, and complained.

The eerie music abruptly stopped at its peak, followed by a chaotic and noisy din.

Just as Guan Gu and Youyou were wondering if the music player had suddenly short-circuited, the noise began to gradually decrease until they could hear the actual content of the noise.

Against the backdrop of slow, heavy footsteps, a little girl's innocent and ethereal voice rang out.

She hummed a mechanical, monotonous, dull melody, her incredibly relaxing voice telling a chilling tale.

[Jingle bells, jingle bells, stop ringing quickly! Don't run, don't run, don't open your eyes to see the demons.]

[A vicious, vicious, butcher's rampage through the campus tonight. Run, run! Block the gate and you'll be saved!]

[Drip, drip, drip, a water demon seeks to claim your life. Don't panic, don't panic, water ghosts only prey on cowards.]

Bloodstained, bloodstained, the ghosts frolic tirelessly in the night. Laughing, laughing, the teacher's orders must be obeyed.

【…】

The little girl hummed her words over and over again three times before her voice slowly faded away, leaving only the slow and heavy footsteps that continued to echo.

"Guan Gu... this isn't just the beginning, is it?"

Youyou stepped forward and tightly gripped Guan Gu's clothes in the darkness.

"Don't worry, I'm here."

Guan Gu forced out those words through clenched teeth, his voice trembling slightly. Mario, his previously fearless imaginary companion, was now lying on the ground, crying and begging to go home.

"Let's keep going. I feel like we're almost at the end of this corridor."

Guan Gu tried to appear calm and said, "We just need to be careful when we're feeling our way along the wall. There's something stuck to the wall in the second half."

"it is good."

With one hand holding onto Guangu, Youyou continued to feel her way forward along the sticky wall with the other.

Gradually, the two people's footsteps blended together with the seemingly omnipresent background sound of footsteps.

Youyou walked along cautiously, sensing that something was amiss.

I don't know when it started, but the footsteps that were part of the background noise no longer seemed to be everywhere; instead, they seemed to be...

Behind her?!

Youyou tentatively turned around, but it was pitch black all around and she still couldn't see anything.

Just as Youyou was wondering if she was being paranoid, a pale, bony hand gently rested on her shoulder.

"what!"

Youyou's heart skipped a beat instinctively, and she shouted, "Guan Gu, there's a ghost!!!"

Guan Gu was startled by Youyou and instinctively reached back to grab an arm and lunged forward.

"Yoyo, run!"

Just as Youyou was about to run after Guangu, she heard the sound of Guangu's hurried footsteps running forward.

Just as she was staring wide-eyed, thinking that Guan Gu had abandoned her and run away, Youyou felt as if the ghostly hand that had been on her shoulder was suddenly pulled away.

Hearing the two staggering footsteps ahead, Youyou was immediately dumbfounded.

"Guan Gu!" Youyou shouted anxiously.

Without turning his head, Guan Gu said to Youyou, "Youyou, don't worry, I will definitely protect you."

As the footsteps ahead faded into the distance, Youyou was left both amused and exasperated.

So, your protection is to help me catch the "ghost"?

And you know what? This really did solve the problem at its root.

But Guan Gu, you're incredibly brave!

Youyou stared blankly ahead, her heart filled with admiration for Guan Gu.

[It has to be Guan Gu. If it were my unreliable nephew, it would be a miracle if he didn't use me, his aunt, as a human shield.]

That's what a real man is like.

Youyou thought to herself, but she soon realized something was wrong.

There's only one dark road here. Even if you wanted to run, where could you go?

We can't just go back the way we came, can we?

Moreover, even if Guan Gu can lead the "ghost" forward, how will he deal with the "ghost"?

She sighed and continued groping her way forward alone.

……

Guan Gu ignored everything and kept grabbing onto "Youyou" as he rushed forward.

As the two of them walked through the corner of the corridor, the dim lights automatically turned on, vaguely illuminating the entire scene.

Guan Gu looked shakily at the scene before him. It was a typical school corridor with several old chairs and tables on both sides.

The old tiles on the ground had lost their luster, and the paint on the walls had peeled off, revealing the incomplete wall structure.

Various textbooks were piled up haphazardly at the base of the wall, and the classroom windows were covered with thick dust, obscuring the view inside and revealing only blurry shadows.

If that's all there is to it, then it's nothing more than a dilapidated and desolate school.

But in Guan Gu's eyes, a thick, red liquid was slowly flowing out from the cracks spreading across the incomplete wall.

On the gray walls are yellowed group photos of each class, and the children in the photos are all smiling.

He was genuinely all smiles.

Their faces had no eyes, no noses, only a gaping maw covered in shark teeth, grinning menacingly, a grotesque smile that occupied two-thirds of their faces.

Guan Gu looked down. The ground was covered with messy, bloody footprints, and his hand, which was leaning against the wall, was also covered with a sticky red liquid.

He swallowed hard, fear gripping him. The dim and oppressive atmosphere made Guan Gu tremble uncontrollably.

The only thing that made him feel fortunate was that the NPC who had pretended to be a ghost to scare him hadn't chased after him.

"Youyou, it seems we're safe for now."

Guan Gu breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't know why Youyou didn't reply.

He turned around and was surprised to find that he was holding hands with a girl dressed in a Japanese JK uniform.

The girl seemed to realize that Guan Gu was looking at her, so she raised her face, which had no eyes or nose, and grinned at Guan Gu with her big mouth full of shark teeth.

"There's a ghost!"

"There's a ghost!"

Guan Gu's mind went blank. He cried and howled as he let go of the faceless woman's hand and staggered forward.

"Help! (Help!)"

"Help! (Help!)"

「お马さん! (Mom!)」

「お马さん! (Mom!)」

The NPC actress playing the faceless woman sighed as she watched the figure fleeing in panic.

My task here was simply to join their group under the cover of darkness and the sound of footsteps, and then suddenly startle them so they would run into this area.

This is just a small appetizer.

Next, you need to wait until they officially begin solving the mystery, and only after you meet the trigger conditions can you appear as the Faceless Woman.

As a result, this simpleton dragged her out, leaving her in a very awkward situation.

If you chase them, they haven't met the trigger conditions. If you chase after them, according to the game rules, this fool will definitely die.

The entire escape room game hasn't even reached the first stage yet. How can they let guests be eliminated at this stage? How can they continue doing business?

But if I don't chase after them, it would be stupid to just stand there like that.

Even if they return the way they came, there will still be a little girl left behind. If someone suddenly turns around and attacks, the little girl will be so frightened that she will turn back the way she came.

Just as the NPC girl was in a dilemma, the simpleton who had fled in panic and disappeared around the corner suddenly returned.

He covered his eyes with one hand, peeking at the "female ghost" through his fingers, while his other bloody hand flailed wildly in the air, as if clearing a path for himself.

Although he was still wailing "Help me!" and "Mom!" which the NPC girl couldn't understand at all, he still rushed past the faceless woman without hesitation and plunged back into the bottomless darkness.

The NPC girl's eyes, hidden behind her hood, lit up, and she quickly ran forward, preparing to use the staff's secret passage to get to where she was supposed to go.

……

Youyou continued to grope her way forward, and she had already seen a faint light around the corner.

Just as she was about to follow the light to find Guan Gu, Youyou heard Guan Gu's wailing.

This made Youyou stop in her tracks.

What happened up there that made Guan Gu so scared?

She now regrets taking on the extremely difficult challenge for the Oscar statuette model. Even Guan Gu, a tough guy, was scared like this. Can anyone really pass this challenge without flinching?

[Hu Yifei: Why do I feel like someone's talking about me?]

As Guan Gu's cries grew fainter and fainter, Youyou found herself in a dilemma.

She wanted to keep going, but she was also genuinely afraid.

As she hesitated, she heard Guan Gu's cries growing louder and louder, and then she saw a tall, blurry figure appear in the dim light around the corner.

Guan Gu turned back from the light and returned to Youyou without hesitation.

He said breathlessly to Youyou, "Youyou, the faceless woman is right ahead."

"Don't be afraid, I'll protect you and get through this."

"Faceless woman, are you talking about the NPC who pretended to be a ghost and scared me earlier?"

Youyou finally understood. She had thought that Guan Gu had encountered some kind of emergency that had scared him so much.

It turns out he was terrified by the scary NPC he had dragged away.

He dared to grab the faceless woman and run forward, and now Guan Gu actually dares to turn back?

In the silent darkness, Youyou listened to the violently pounding heartbeat of Guan Gu, and she remembered Guan Gu's earlier cries.

Although she had never studied Japanese, she could still understand that Guan Gu had at least been so frightened that he had called for his mother.

She looked at the man in front of her, who had spread his arms to shield her from view, and couldn't help but chuckle.

Compared to what I just acted out, this is what a real coward pretending to be brave should look like.

It seems I still need to work on my acting skills.

However, this version of Guan Gu seems quite interesting.

With a gentle smile, she asked, "Guan Gu, to be honest, are you very afraid of these things?"

I'm coming

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