I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 442 - 442 441. Solving the Case Live I Became the First

Chapter 442: 441. Solving the Case Live, I Became the First Discoverer_1 Chapter 442: 441. Solving the Case Live, I Became the First Discoverer_1 Traditional escape room scripts involve players solving puzzles and gradually uncovering the truth.

But if there’s a mole among them, someone whose goals differ from the rest, the nature of the game changes.

It shifts from PVE to PVP.

There’s an old saying, “There’s endless fun in outwitting others.”

If you’re playing a game of wits with the creator of the escape room, you’re merely up against a set of challenges that someone has already prepared, and with enough thought, there’s always a way to succeed.

But facing off against fellow players, the difficulty of the game takes a steep rise.

You can never predict what kind of fancy tricks the players will use to complete their missions, nor can you guess the limits of human ingenuity.

Just as Psychotic Bro was investigating the house, yet failed to discover the call girl’s corpse and instead prepared to investigate the gang’s Lady Martina, Lin Xiaohao’s slum squad snuck into the place.

The live stream camera shifted its focus here as well.

[Thief, third-rate actor, call girl, worker, this really is a legit grassroots team]

[I get it, they’re like parasites, aren’t they?]

[Wonder what would happen if they ran into that bunch of assassin bounty hunters, kind of want to see it]

[An acting showdown, leading actor versus leading actress?]

[This group seems to be related to the victim, and they seem to have lots of clues in their hands]

[I’m guessing they need to meet up with those detectives]

Unaware that he had become the center of attention among the viewers, Lin Xiaohao continued to infiltrate and speak.

“We’re about to infiltrate this house; it’s Doctor Howes’s residence. The police brought some people to check it before, but we need to keep collecting clues.”

He’d developed the habit of talking while streaming live. According to the TV station’s rule, if there’s more than five seconds of silence during a live broadcast, it indicates a problem with the segment transition, so even if the hosts are doing mundane things, they still need to find a way to keep talking.

“What are you doing?”

Following Lin Xiaohao, Zhou Yuan asked.

He had taken a tumble that morning, nearly meeting his end, and now he still walked with a limp. Hearing Lin Xiaohao babble on, Zhou Yuan wondered if he had seen a ghost, just like the woman he saw that morning.

“Hiss—”

Zhou Yuan recalled the woman’s horrifying face and felt extremely uncomfortable.

“I’m explaining to the viewers; you wouldn’t understand,” Lin Xiaohao said, waving his hand. He thought of his teammates as burdens, what with a boss, a nurse, and some so-called freelancer who claimed to be a writer but probably was unemployed.

As is commonly known, when someone in their twenties has nothing to do, they often fancy themselves a writer.

Only he could make a real difference.

“The viewers might not be watching you anyway; you’re fussing about nothing,” said Zhou Yuan. He believed that the live broadcast couldn’t possibly cover every angle, otherwise wouldn’t the scene of him being chased out by the factory foreman and falling flat on his face in the street be seen by all his employees?

How would he manage them afterward?

Lin Xiaohao moved into the house, casually searched through a bookshelf, and then noticed the basement.

“I’m not sure if anyone has searched this basement; let’s take a look,” he said towards an imaginary camera.

Arriving in the basement, Lin Xiaohao utilized his skills as a wilderness survival streamer.

“Such a basement is bound to have a secret room. According to the design structure, there should be more space here; it can’t just be sealed off like this.”

He muttered to himself, tapping around until he heard an echo.

“There’s something off about this cabinet.”

After searching a little longer, he finally found the trigger mechanism.

The cabinet opened with a response.

Lin Xiaohao saw the body.

It was his first time seeing a human corpse.

Even though he knew in his heart it was fake, the Glass Flower that bloomed from human flesh and blood was too beautiful, leaving him feeling an indescribable sense of surprise and shock.

What kind of monster could turn a person into this?

He stood there, stunned, until Zhou Yuan came over.

“What are you doing…”

Zhou Yuan looked over Lin Xiaohao’s shoulder and saw the Glass Flower, his face darkening instantly.

“Damn, what is this…”

He stepped back twice, leaning on a chair.

However, due to the encounter in the early morning, Zhou Yuan was less shocked than Lin Xiaohao.

He recovered more quickly.

“Is this a new body, shall we investigate?”

Zhou Yuan patted Lin Xiaohao’s face.

“Uh, alright, sure.”

Lin Xiaohao walked into the room and got another scare.

He had assumed it was a prop, since after all, this dark room was left here, and with bad luck, players might not even find it, so it wouldn’t make sense to have an NPC lying here all day.

But unexpectedly, he discovered it was a real NPC lying there.

That was a bit too dedicated.

Lin Xiaohao noticed that apart from the faint breathing, the “body” was truly Unmoving, still maintaining that hideous, horrifying expression; even he felt like shouting out praises for such hard work.

The two of them searched around but didn’t find anything out of the ordinary.

At that moment, the player who was portraying a Call Girl followed them over.

She was a nurse in real life, and as soon as she saw the body, she screamed, legs going weak, and fell to the ground, suddenly bursting into tears.

“Why are you crying?”

The freelancer who played the role of a thief asked.

“I-I don’t know, I just feel like crying, I feel so sad, so distressed, so scared… Wah wah wah…”

The nurse cried, taking another glance at the dead body.

That’s when the image from her profile appeared before her eyes.

“I know now!”

She suddenly stood up.

“Is this my… colleague?”

The nurse wasn’t sure, she had only seen a few photos of NPCs on her profile, telling her these were acquaintances, but she never thought it would turn out to be a dead body!

“So she’s your colleague, which means she’s also a Call Girl, and Doctor Howes had her here to take care of business, and they both ended up dead?”

Lin Xiaohao employed his entire life’s deductive skills.

Just then, he felt like he was being targeted by something.

That thing, like a hunter, its Sharp edge dug into Lin Xiaohao’s nape, as if his fate was already in someone else’s hands, like a cat whose nape was pinched.

He used to have this feeling when he was a special forces soldier.

It was the feeling of a gun barrel pointing at you, the red dot of a sight landing on your body, or being locked on by a guided weapon.

Though this feeling lasted for only an instant, it had already made Lin Xiaohao’s spine go cold and broke out in a cold sweat.

“Do you guys feel it?”

Lin Xiaohao asked.

The other People shook their heads, clueless about what Lin Xiaohao was talking about, thinking he was introducing it to the “audience.”

“This place is a bit eerie.”

He walked out of the basement and saw that the street outside the hospital was sparsely populated.

In a daze, Lin Xiaohao saw a life-sized toy bear on the street ambling by as if it were just strolling around.

“Am I operating on too little sleep?”

Lin Xiaohao rubbed his eyes, finding it hard to believe.