Haunted House Survival System

Chapter 58 The Haunted House 2 Prologue
The receptionist kept a professional smile and said to the two reporters: "Sorry, our players' contact information and game IDs are kept confidential."

The female reporter asked persistently: "Can you help us try to contact this great god? We just ask a few questions."

"This..." The receptionist showed a bit of embarrassment, and said, "Then please wait a moment, let me ask."

After speaking, she picked up the landline in the counter and dialed it.

Jin Jiu's heart skipped a beat. When registering the game ID, he left his mobile phone number. The game company has a confidentiality agreement. He doesn't want his phone to ring here, and he doesn't even want anyone to know that he is Jin Jiu.

After a while, a middle-aged man with a fat figure came out of the company.He had a rather trendy mohawk shaved, his temples were a little gray, and his eyes shone shrewdly.

"Manager Yan, these two are reporters from an online magazine. They said they want to interview Jin Jiu." The reception girl said respectfully to the middle-aged man.

"Hello, Manager Yan. I'm Wu Nan, the reporter of "Thriller Game", and this is my colleague Qin Youjie. We just hope to interview this great god by phone, so as not to cause trouble for the company and him. "The female reporter politely extended her hand to Manager Yan.

Manager Yan smiled and nodded, shook hands with them, and suddenly asked: "You...have all played "Haunted House", right?"

The female reporter Wu Nan was taken aback for a moment, then exchanged glances with Qin Youjie and nodded.

With a smile in his eyes, Manager Yan continued: "Well, our "Haunted House 2" is basically in the final testing stage, and we plan to release the prologue next month. You all come here to participate in our internal testing."

"This..." Wu Nan said hesitantly, "But the purpose of our coming is..."

Manager Yan waved his hand, pointed inside and said, "There are still many players with the same purpose as you, and they have already started. Those with the highest rate of clearing puzzles, we can promise you to contact Jin Jiu."

Qin Youjie wanted to say something else, but Wu Nan hurriedly stopped him and said, "Okay, where is the test computer? We participated."

Manager Yan smiled and led them to go inside.

The group performer Jin Jiu was terrified at the counter.

No way?Do you really want to give these reporters your own contact information?

He didn't want to be harassed so inexplicably.

Without hesitation, Jin Jiu closed the guestbook and said to Manager Yan: "Do you have to be a reporter to participate in the internal test?"

When the three of them heard Jin Jiu's words, they realized that there was still someone here.

Manager Yan smiled and said: "Of course not, there are many fans of Jin Jiu here. Are you a player too? Do you want to come in together?"

Jin Jiu nodded happily and followed.

Just kidding, he wants to defend his privacy.

This space game studio has a lot of space, occupying the entire basement floor.Although it is called a studio, it is not an exaggeration to be called a complete large company.

Manager Yan led them to a place with more than [-] cubicles, each of which had a large screen, a computer, a VR helmet, and some similar equipment.

He explained to the two reporters and Jin Jiu: "Our "Haunted House 2" focuses on the VR virtual reality system. After a while, you only need to install our sensors on your hands and feet to experience this game more realistically."

Sure enough, in several compartments, they saw that many players were already wearing helmets in the game.

Wu Nan nodded, with some excitement in his eyes, he said, "This system is really exciting."

Manager Yan smiled smugly: "Hehe. Not only that, "Haunted House 2" actually supports multiple people to solve puzzles together online. However, our prologue is a single-player mode."

When he came to the last few compartments, Manager Yan pointed to the house number at the door of the room and said: "The house number is your login ID, the password is the same, you can choose a character name after entering. You have all played the first version, and the other I don't need an introduction... By the way, there are a lot of people who have been participating in the closed beta these days. Our closed beta deadline is just today. Just now we have the highest puzzle solving record of 90%. If you want to contact Jin Jiu, you have to work hard."

Just now?Jin Jiu couldn't help but think of the girl he met at the elevator entrance. It couldn't be her.

Jin Jiu entered Room 23, with sensors on his hands and feet, and a VR helmet fastened on his head.

In front of my eyes, a line of blood-red subtitles popped up:
This game prohibits minors, patients with high blood pressure, heart disease, mental illness and depression from entering!
Then a few large characters written vertically and slightly wriggling appeared:
"Haunted House 2 Prologue"

Below is:
"New Game, Load Progress, Settings"

Jin Jiu was full of emotions, how wonderful it is to enter the game like a normal player!

These long-lost operations made Jin Jiu's blood flutter, and he was even a little excited.

Yes, he seems to be born with the blood of a horror game expert. What he wants now is the highest clearance and puzzle solving rate!
100%!

Holding the controller, I clicked the "New Game" button.

A black and white group photo appeared.

Among the fifty or sixty people in hospital clothes, some laughed, some cried, and some twisted their faces, filled with indescribable weirdness.

The people standing in the first row seemed to be medical staff, and in the middle there was a kind-hearted middle-aged female doctor smiling slightly.

The date was written vertically next to the photo: October 1999 in Pingcheng Xinhe Mental Hospital.

The photo disappears and a line of text appears:
After I came back, I was taken into this mental hospital.In my opinion, this is not a hospital at all, but a hell on earth.Countless grievances and ghosts are crying in my ears, making me unable to rest for a moment...

——Xiao Minru’s diary, December 1999

"Xiao Minru?" Others didn't know, how could Jin Jiu not understand what was going on.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, "Haunted House 2" has little to do with "Haunted House", they may not even have heard of Xiao Minru's name, they just think that the second-generation haunted house has changed from Yin Mansion in Ming Dynasty to a hospital.

But Jin Jiu knew that this was the story of Xiao Minru after she came back from that era.She was taken to a mental hospital, and most likely, because she could also see ghosts?
The screen flashed, and Jin Jiu discovered that this second generation was actually a first-person perspective. This requires using VR to create virtual reality, but it would be real.

It was very dark.

He is standing in a room full of stains.A fluorescent lamp flickered above his head, and the wall under his feet was covered with ceramic tiles, with dark red traces everywhere.

There was an overturned bathtub to the left and a two-sink vanity with a blurry mirror to the right.

Spawn point, bathroom.

(End of this chapter)