The Anarchic Consort

After hearing what Xiao Jingtian said, Helian Weiwei didn’t get angry and her voice remained indifferent. “The way you guys are behaving now is what human nature really looks like, and I didn’t say that being like this is a bad thing. If all of you really didn’t have the slightest bit of kindness in your hearts, you wouldn’t be here. You, for example, could have gotten your parents to send you abroad to study, but you didn’t do that, which means you want to resolve this matter. It’s not just for yourself, but also for the friend who died. This world isn’t only black and white, but there are also gray areas. Not everyone wants the same things for themselves. But now, none of you would want to go through something so terrifying again, right? Or perhaps your life has run into problems now and you have to resolve it. If you don’t want to face unknown dangers anymore, then let’s resolve this once and for all today, and go play the escape room one more time.”

After hearing what Helian Weiwei said, all four of them fell into deep thought as if they were considering her words.

In the end, Xiao Jingtian broke the silence. “Let’s go play it again then.”

“Good.” Helian Weiwei smiled and looked at the rest. “What about the others?”

The other three exchanged glances, and the frightened girl wrung her hands. “Let’s play it again then.”

“In that case, let’s head off.” Helian Weiwei picked up her sunglasses and phone on the table. “It’s only 4 in the afternoon and the sky is still bright. It’s probably best to play at night, since it’s an escape room, but I think we’d better go tomorrow instead. Then you guys won’t be so scared.”

The two boys felt a little embarrassed that a high schooler was saying that they were scared, and started scratching their heads.

The escape room was located in an old alley within the capital city. It was a well hidden back alley, but was extremely well known as well.

This escape room in particular, was very popular online.

Before Helian Weiwei headed for the shop, she had asked Monkey to help her quickly check it out.

There were all sorts of rumors about this escape room before, but nothing happened previously. However, there were a number of people who said that there were probably evil spirits inside.

But that ended up attracting even more fans of escape rooms to play.

After all, those who enjoyed escape rooms wanted to experience the excitement and nervousness that came with it.

This escape room shop had been closed for a while because of what happened with these graduate students.

But in most cases, once the case was closed, the place would reopen for business.

But since something so terrifying happened in this place before, even though the escape room had reopened after four months, the number of people who came had gone down rather significantly.

And nobody dared to walk into the Sobbing House themed room again.

When Helian Weiwei and the others arrived there, the shop owner no longer offered this particular room and was clearly not prepared to receive guests who wanted this theme anymore.

And of course, when the shopkeeper saw the four graduate students come in, his expression froze and it was obvious that he recognized them as those graduate students who had played in this room that day.

“How dare you come back here?!” If that incident didn’t happen, his business wouldn’t have suffered so badly.

Xiao Jingtian was a little embarrassed. “Hello, boss.”

“I’ve been so unlucky and I’m prepared to close this place over the next couple of days. I’m sure none of you want to play this sort of escape room anymore after that incident, right? Aren’t you guys scared?” The shopkeeper really didn’t understand what these youngsters were thinking about, but he was determined not to entertain them this time. “Hurry up and leave.”

Helian Weiwei turned and blocked the shopkeeper’s way. “From a psychological standpoint, the more afraid you are of something, the more you must face it in order to resolve it. You didn’t have a lot of customers after that incident, right? Don’t you want the same crowd you used to have? Besides, after something like that happened, it doesn’t matter where you open shop, because you’d get questioned no matter where you go. Many people would be worried for their safety and wouldn’t dare to come and play. If you let us play again, then you can restore your reputation and people would start walking in again. That’s a good deal for you, isn’t it?”

Of course the shopkeeper knew that if someone managed to play this room again, it would be a good thing for him, but… “I don’t want you guys to go through such a risk again.” He laughed bitterly, “In fact, I intend to knock down the Sobbing House room and renovate it. But even so, I don’t think I can sell this place either. This was supposed to be a valuable piece of property, and I didn’t expect things to turn out like this. Nobody dares to buy any place within the capital where someone died, and I wouldn’t either. But if something happens after you go in again, what am I going to do?”

“I’ll be honest with you, I’m a fengshui master and I specialize in getting rid of some of these supernatural things.” Helian Weiwei smiled faintly and unzipped her backpack. “These are all my tools. Since your entire shop has a supernatural theme to it, I’m sure you would know a thing or two about these items.”

The shop owner was completely stunned when he saw the things in front of him. There was dog blood red rope, yellow talismans, a geomantic compass, an yinyang diagram, and eight trigrams. Each item proved that Helian Weiwei was not lying about her identity.

Helian Weiwei smiled again. “Before entering your shop, I already made some observations. There are four rooms here, and the windows of all four rooms face the sun. The windows of three of the rooms are shut, and only one of them has an open window. But that particular room has an additional two locks on it, so if my guess is right, that’s the Sobbing House. You’ve left the window open so that it would be filled with sunshine. So on a hot day, there would be a lot of Yang energy, and this building even sits on a Dragon Vein. Once the room has been filled with sunshine, it’s hard for any dead spirits to linger around. So why are you still worried about us going in?”

Even though the shopkeeper was doubtful of Helian Weiwei earlier, his attitude changed after he heard how much she knew about fengshui and his face now carried a relaxed smile. “I’ve seen many people who call themselves a master in fengshui, but you’re the first one who can see that we’re sitting on a Dragon Vein.”

“You’re not just a simple shopkeeper yourself. You’ve put in a lot of effort in setting up this place.” Helian Weiwei looked up. “You’ve also put up a portrait of Zhong Kui on the door, so ghosts wouldn’t come in.”

When the shopkeeper heard these words, he knew that he had met a master this time.

In fact, he wanted to solve this problem more than anyone else.

He had also invited many friends to view the place.

But either they didn’t really know anything about such things, or they just kept shaking their heads after seeing the place and couldn’t give him any answers.

But today, this young lady actually pinpointed all the important parts.

Perhaps this young lady could really solve his predicament.

“Why do you want to play it again?”

Once Helian Weiwei heard the shopkeeper ask this question, she knew that he was probably going to give in, so she curled her lips into a meaningful smile. “That’s because when people are afraid, they reveal their flaws more easily.”