Chapter 95

"What's wrong?"

Luo Rui suddenly exclaimed in terror, which immediately drew everyone's attention to him.

"Quick, quick, open the door."

Luo Rui's expression was terrified, and his tone was panicky. His right hand, holding the flashlight, was trembling uncontrollably.

But the more abnormal his behavior, the less Zhang Meng was willing to open the car door.

"Are you having a seizure?"

"No, no..."

In just a few seconds, Luo Rui's forehead was drenched in cold sweat, and his face was ashen.

"Open the car door."

Fang Ye came to the car door and gave Zhang Meng a meaningful look.

Fang Ye had always been clear-headed and straightforward in his speech, and Zhang Meng trusted him. Hearing this, he pressed the button to open the car door.

"Whoosh."

The car door opened with a sound.

"Bang, bang..."

Luo Rui turned on the flashlight and hurriedly got out, heading towards the security booth on one side of the car.

"What's that kid... doing?"

Zhang Meng was still puzzled, but Fang Ye and Feng Li also quickly got out of the car.

"Hey, it's a computer?"

Entering the open security booth, the two bright computer screens surprised them.

"It's useless. The computers aren't connected to the internet, and the hard drives have been completely wiped."

Luo Rui, standing to one side, said numbly, then walked out of the security booth towards the courtyard inside the entrance.

"What's wrong with that kid?"

Feng Li was also puzzled. The thoughts of a high school student were hard to fathom.

"Feng, you check the computers for any clues. I'll go and see what's happening."

"Alright."

Fang Ye walked out of the security booth, and the rest of the people in the car also got out.

"Speaking of which, that kid seems a bit off. Is he really having a fit?"

Zhang Meng, getting out of the car, put his phone in his pocket and held a bottle of mineral water in one hand, asking in confusion.

"I'll go and see."

Just as Fang Ye finished speaking, Luo Rui walked back.

His expression, which had been terrified, was now completely numb and stiff. His posture as he walked was almost like that of a zombie.

"We're finished... we're all finished."

Struggling to say these words, Luo Rui knelt on the ground, and the flashlight fell to the ground without strength.

"What's wrong with you, kid?"

The flashlight was the only portable lighting tool they had, so Zhang Meng quickly bent down to pick it up.

Seemingly due to Luo Rui's abnormal behavior, He Ting and Ye Qingqing, the two women, were also a bit frightened, huddling together and trembling.

"I, I know where we are."

These words, once spoken, shocked everyone. "What did you say?"

After all, none of the adults knew where they were, and for a high school student to suddenly claim he knew where they were seemed like a joke.

"I, I really know where we are."

Luo Rui knelt on both knees, cold sweat dripping from his cheeks into his neck.

"The buildings and terrain are exactly the same as that place. It must be right. No wonder that text message looked so familiar."

Gritting his teeth, Luo Rui looked up: "This is 'Outlast.'"

Outlast?

Zhang Meng seemed not to have heard clearly, or perhaps he heard but didn't dare to confirm: "You, you say it again. What Outlast?"

"Outlast is a game."

Chen Yang suddenly walked over from behind, first glancing at everyone, then looking down at Luo Rui: "Did you go and confirm it?"

Hearing Chen Yang's words, Luo Rui seemed to have found a lifeline, nodding frantically: "Confirmed, confirmed. I've played this horror game, so I'm familiar with the buildings and environment. This place... this place is exactly the same as the game. How could it exist in reality?"

"What are you two babbling about? I don't understand at all."

Zhang Meng was really getting agitated. The two of them were talking in riddles. Each word was understandable, but when put together, it was completely incomprehensible.

"Indeed, this place is just as I suspected..."

Ignoring Zhang Meng's shouts, Chen Yang pondered for a moment: "If this is really Outlast, then we're in trouble."

"What do you mean by 'trouble'? We're doomed, aren't we?"

Luo Rui, who had played the game, deeply understood the secrets of the mental hospital. This was why he felt such deep despair, to the point where he couldn't even deceive himself with the thought that it was impossible. He had already seen the bizarre phenomenon of objects being summoned by text messages, which made the reality of this place almost 100% certain.

"Wait, can you explain to us what's going on?"

Interrupting Chen Yang and Luo Rui's conversation, Zhang Meng could no longer bear it.

"You explain it to them. I'll go inside and check."

Without taking the flashlight, Chen Yang walked straight into the dark depths of the courtyard.

After his conversation with Chen Yang, Luo Rui had calmed down a bit, though his voice was still slightly trembling: "Outlast is a horror game. I suspect we are now in this horror game."

"You, you really need to... eat something..."

Before Zhang Meng could finish, Luo Rui raised his voice: "I'm telling the truth. The scenes and buildings here are exactly the same as in the game. Do you think this is possible? And the second text message we received, now that I think about it, mentioned the mental hospital in the game."

Even as Luo Rui shouted at the top of his lungs, the adults present exchanged glances, feeling a mix of disbelief and bewilderment.

Feng Li also returned from the security booth at this moment. Hearing Luo Rui's words, he shook his head, clearly dismissing them as nonsense.

Despite the unexplainable phenomena, the adults' way of thinking was already set, and it wasn't something a high school student could change with a few words.

"Alright, what the student said is true. This place is indeed exactly the same as the game Outlast."

Thankfully, Chen Yang, who had walked around, arrived in time to save Luo Rui from his credibility crisis.

"You might find it hard to imagine how people can enter a game, but as I said before, this isn't the real world. In this nightmare world, anything can happen."

Chen Yang pointed to his temple: "You asked where my companions went, right? I'll tell you now, they all died... in the previous mission, killed by a vengeful ghost."

Chen Yang's face showed a look of fear, "If vengeful ghosts can appear, what else is impossible?"

His masterful performance instantly stunned everyone. Even Zhang Meng, who had always been bold, swallowed hard and asked cautiously: "Vengeful ghosts?"

"Yes, vengeful ghosts."

Chen Yang gave him a cold look: "Don't think I'm lying. From the moment we woke up until now, the things we've encountered... do you really think they can be explained by science?"

Everyone fell silent again.

Finally, Fang Ye broke the silence and asked: "Isn't it a bit too hasty to judge based on the buildings? As far as I know, some games use real-world templates, and it's common for game and real-world buildings to be similar."

"If it were any other place, it wouldn't be surprising, but here..."

Chen Yang sighed: "We can't judge this place by the standards of the real world. Have you seen the Nightmare on Elm Street series? A week ago, I saw my companions killed in the same way as in the movie."

"Although it's hard to believe, it's the truth."

Choosing to believe such a thing was a difficult decision. If it weren't for the bizarre place they were in, no one present would have been willing to believe such a far-fetched story.

Even now, most people in the room were still skeptical of Chen Yang's words.

But it didn't matter. They would soon choose to believe this absurd reality, but by then, it might be too late to regret not believing sooner.