The Labyrinth of the Monsters

Chapter 34 – The third test

At 10 o'clock in the evening, in the inpatient building of Shanqing District Third Hospital.

Gao Yang sat on a bench outside the ward, eating a delicious hot spicy soup. It was brought by Officer Huang, who heard that Gao Yang's father had been hospitalized after a car accident and came to visit him on the way home from work.

There was no one else around at the moment. Gao Yang held a cigarette in his mouth and asked, "How is my dad doing?"

"He woke up for a while this afternoon, said he was thirsty, drank some water, and then fell asleep again," Gao Yang answered truthfully, biting into a beef ball and splashing juice everywhere, burning his tongue.

"Alright, let's get to the point." Officer Huang flicked the cigarette ash and asked, "Did the people from the Zodiac come to find you today?"

"The Zodiac, White Rabbit. At that time, Qing Ling and I were together," Gao Yang answered honestly, briefly recounting what happened at the KTV in the afternoon.

"The person who came from my side is called Tengu," Officer Huang said calmly. "The assessment content is similar to yours. First, I was asked to kill a robber, a Lost One. I didn't want to kill, and then I was asked to kill my wife. Of course, I refused, but I unexpectedly passed the assessment."

"Why didn't you kill?" Gao Yang was curious. Did Officer Huang also realize that it was a trap, just like him?

"Oh, under normal circumstances, I would definitely kill. It just so happened that the robber is the nephew of my wife's cousin. My wife has a good relationship with her cousin and they talk on the phone every day. My wife is pregnant now, and I don't want this to affect her mood. I didn't expect to pass the assessment by accident."

So he's a doting husband. Gao Yang couldn't help but laugh.

Officer Huang looked over and said, "Tengu said that the hint for the third assessment is with you."

"Okay." Gao Yang took out a brass key from his pocket. "This is it. It says to find the door that this key opens and explore inside. Even if the assessment is passed, the search range is limited to our Shanqing District."

Officer Huang took the key and examined it carefully with his fingertips. His eyes lit up. "This shouldn't be difficult. Leave it to me. You two wait for my message."

"Alright."

After Officer Huang left, Gao Yang finished the hot spicy soup and returned to his father's ward. He opened a folding chair in the aisle next to his father's bed and covered himself with a blanket.

Closing his eyes, he couldn't fall asleep at all.

Gao Yang entered the system and checked his lucky points.

Sure enough, there was no double profit during the time period when White Rabbit appeared in the afternoon. It seemed that he had to experience real danger to activate the double profit. The more dangerous the situation, the greater the profit from lucky points, but it also increased the possibility of death. It was fair.

...

"Where are we going?" Qing Ling asked first.

Officer Huang walked at the front. "We're almost there, just ahead."

"Is the door here?" Gao Yang asked."Correct." Officer Huang continued to lead the way, "The brass key that White Rabbit gave you two, judging from its style, should be the door key of an old house. There aren't many places in Shanqing District that still have such houses. One is the antique pedestrian street, but although all the buildings there are old-style, the door locks have been replaced with modern ones. There's also Lotus Lane, which had many old houses, but they were all demolished last year..."

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Officer Huang stopped, took a breath, habitually took out the pistol from his waist to check the bullets, and then continued to walk forward: "After thinking about it, where else in our Shanqing District are there old houses that require this kind of brass key? There's only one place left..."

"Could it be... Ancient Village?" Chubby Jun, being too fat and slow, always lagged behind the group. After saying the words "Ancient Village", he shivered all over and quickly moved up to walk side by side with Gao Yang. After thinking about it, he still felt uneasy, so he caught up a few more steps and walked shoulder to shoulder with Qing Ling, who had the highest combat power.

"Oh," Officer Huang was a bit surprised, "You actually know about it. Counting it, this year is exactly the thirtieth year, isn't it?"

"One of my high school classmates' father is a newspaper reporter, who specifically did a special interview on this matter. It's so weird, my classmate used to tell us this story as a ghost story every day." Chubby Jun looked nervous, his eyes darting around.

"What exactly happened, you're being so mysterious." Wang Zikai became interested.

"First, there was a family massacre. In Ancient Village, a family of five was brutally killed overnight. The bodies were divided into many pieces and appeared in various corners of Ancient Village." Officer Huang said, "The person who took the case at that time was my master, I heard him talk about it."

"Was the case solved?" Gao Yang asked.

Officer Huang shook his head: "No."

"Why?"

"Less than half a month after the crime, all fifty-three people in Ancient Village disappeared."

"Disappeared?"

"Yes, vanished without a trace. My master almost dug three feet into the ground of Ancient Village, but still found no clues. He couldn't solve this mystery until he retired."

Everyone fell silent, waiting for what would come next.

As dusk fell, the light in the forest became dim, and the cold wind rustled the leaves, making the atmosphere suddenly eerie.

Officer Huang took out the brass key, his voice low: "The door this key opens is in Ancient Village."