Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 290 - 37 Vodka Squad_2

Chapter 290: Chapter 37 Vodka Squad_2

"So we must find the bride, who might know a secret passage leading to the outside world." Tang Zheng stood up and walked to the wooden staircase. After pacing exactly seven steps, he knocked on the floor. Suddenly, the wall beneath the stairs opened up as though it were a rotating door.

"A secret passage?" Lu Fan’s eyes lit up as he asked, "Uncle, are we going on an adventure?"

"No, I just want to verify if the tunnel really exists." Tang Zheng forcefully closed the wall. If not examined closely, it would remain unnoticed. The cracks were perfectly concealed under decorative paintings.

For the next three days, Tang Zheng and his group strolled around the castle, killing as many ghost maids as possible to obtain more pieces of sheepskin paper with recorded information. Besides the occasional disturbance from patterned spiders, they had a peaceful time. They even tried crossing the courtyard, but every time, the stone statues would activate and attack them.

On the fourth day, after spending two hours killing a hard-to-find ghost maid, Tang Zheng finally figured out the way to exit the castle.

"We need to sacrifice six human skulls, place them on the magic array on the stone path in the courtyard to break the curse of the stone statue demons. Afterward, we listen to the bride’s song, which will open the main entrance guarded by the devil’s vines." Pang Meiqin’s face changed. Sacrifices again? She had no intention of becoming a victim.

"This is really troublesome," Lu Fan scratched his matted hair, his voice filled with a whine, "where do we find six sacrifices? Even if we all volunteer, we won’t have enough."

"Don’t worry, we’ll have them soon," Yin Shangwu pointed at the lobby, "Haven’t you noticed? The interior of the whole castle is becoming newer. Except for the spider eggs in the rooms, it looks like it has been cleaned up."

"So what of it?" Pang Meiqin had noticed this earlier. If not for safety reasons, she would have already suggested sleeping on the fluffy velvet blanket in the bed.

"I think other Trojan Squads will be teleported into this game soon, otherwise, it won’t meet the game requirements."

"What if we’ve already killed too many people?" Meiqin thought of the deceased high school students and said, "Such a waste."

Tang Zheng stared intently at Yin Shangwu, feeling like she was hiding something from the group, but no one continued the conversation.

On the fifth day, the castle was completely renovated. There was no trace of decay, the destroyed second floor was back to normal, and there was no sign of any previous battles. With plenty of supplies, the group lived comfortably on the top floor of the loft, replacing their temporary camp in the lobby. Tang Zheng didn’t want to leave any trace of human occupancy.

On the sixth day, Tang Zheng’s caution paid off. He was studying the map, intending to find out the bride’s exact location when Lu Fan ran in hastily.

"Get moving, somebody entered the courtyard. Lu Fan, panting heavily, tugged at Tang Zheng, "It’s the Russian Trojan Squad."

"Russians again? What are the odds?" Tang Zheng ran into the master bedroom on the second floor, where all three girls were already looking out the window at the courtyard.

At the moment, the executioner statue at the fountain had moved, revealing a passage underneath. One after another, bedraggled Russians crawled out; they had obviously just gone through a big battle.

"Just look at how skinny they all are, isn’t it pitiful?" Pang Meiqin said, a hint of schadenfreude in her voice, "I bet they also faced off against another team."

"Don’t tell me there’s another Crazy Alice?" Lu Fan quickly lost interest in this topic, "If only I had a camera, I would have caught their pathetic state when they were attacked by the stone statue demons."

The Russian squad had nine survivors in total. Seeing Yin Shangwu’s fist clenched tightly, Tang Zheng immediately felt a bad premonition. As expected, it wasn’t a coincidence—she had exploited some rules, pulled both the Super Hero Squad and the Vodka Team into a game, and then sought revenge. Tang Zheng hadn’t forgotten what she had said.

The Trojan Horse Game was fair to all ’toys’. When the Russians similarly chose to leave the castle and were blocked by the main entrance, the stone statue demons began to awaken and launch an attack. Just like Tang Zheng, they also began to flee into the castle in a panic.

"Whoa, they caught one, uncle look, that man was dismembered." Although Lu Fan lowered his voice, he was still shocked. "This is much more thrilling than watching a horror film."

Thinking about the others going through the same ordeal she had, Pang Meiqin was quite satisfied.

"They still have a lot of combat power, and they didn’t use their seed ability?" Seeing that only two of them had died, Tang Zheng sighed a breath of relief. There were enough sacrifices.

"What do we do now? Take advantage of the situation and kill them?" Lu Fan was eager to try, checking the bullet nest of his revolver gun, and even took out a kitchen knife in a chopping gesture.

"They are like frightened birds now, being highly vigilant. If we confront them now, it will be a hard fight. So let’s let them relax for a few days, and we’ll beat them one by one." Tang Zheng swung the map in his hand, "Don’t forget about this thing, those intricate tunnels are our advantage."

Lu Fan nodded and walked to the dressing table on the west wall of the bedroom, then pushed it open, revealing a secret passage, "Let’s go, we don’t want to be discovered."

The five people entered one by one. Tang Zheng was the last to return the dressing table to its original position. The secret passage was spacious enough for two people to walk shoulder to shoulder, but they didn’t rush to leave. Instead, they sat down and looked at the two-way mirror on the dressing table. Through it, they could monitor everything in the room.

"It won’t be broken, will it? Won’t they find out about this passage?" Pang Meiqin was a bit worried, but also got a kick out of spying on others. Through this mirror, the outside couldn’t see inside, but the inside could see the outside clearly.

"Shh." Lu Fan made a silencing gesture and pointed outside.

A burly Russian and a brown-haired woman carrying rifles carefully entered the bedroom. After not seeing any danger, they relaxed and then left to check the next room, which deeply disappointed Pang Meiqin.

"Let’s go, there’s no opportunity." Tang Zheng returned to the attic to gather his strength.

The next day, the opportunity finally came. The Russians intended to thoroughly inspect the castle to find a exit, but they alarmed a large group of patterned spiders, including more than twenty human-headed spiders. After a fierce battle, they paid the price of one life. Now, no one was willing to explore, and they had a big fight about it. Then the team split into three groups, the remaining people found rooms and moved in, except for two timid individuals who insisted on staying in the lobby.

Tang Zheng entered the secret passage, searching room after room. He thought the Ghost Count was a pervert who installed two-way mirrors in every bedroom to satisfy his voyeuristic tendencies. But this also facilitated Tang Zheng’s actions. In a room on the second floor, he saw the burly Russian from yesterday, but the woman beside him had changed. He was currently holding a can of tuna, moving his lips seductively to entice a young woman wearing tight jeans.

The woman was decent looking, probably twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and judging from her gear, she was a newbie. The torment of the past few days had probably broken her, and it only took the burly man two minutes to succeed.

The burly man let out a triumphant yell, pulled her over to the desk, opened the can of tuna with his military knife and placed it on the desk. The girl obediently climbed onto the desk, grabbed the fish meat inside, and shoved it into her mouth.

He sensed the intention behind the man’s shout, but the woman didn’t care and swept the can clean as quickly as she could. The man glanced at the unshuttered bedroom door, disregarded it, removed his pants, pulled down the woman’s underwear, and prepared to have his fun.