vrcanaries Chapter 400 Old Objects
Chapter 400 Old Objects
"From this perspective, the key lies with Lou Yanchuan," Yan Xun said.
According to the timeline, in February, during a conversation between Li Wu and Gu Jia, it was vaguely mentioned that Lou Yanchuan had encountered something bad.
In March, they went to an amusement park together, and Lou Yanchuan looked preoccupied in the group photo.
In April, while sharing an apartment with Lou Yanchuan, he discovered that Lou would bang his head against the wall in the middle of the night.
Since Li Wu, who lives in the dormitory, has already noticed that Lou Yanchuan is acting strangely, Yan Xun, his roommate, should have noticed as well—it seems that he has already discovered Lou Yanchuan's problem and specifically sent him a message to remind him.
May is now—
To be precise, it should be the time they were trapped in this instance.
The information that Yan Xun and Gu Jia could find on their phones was limited to this much. They would probably need to find other people's phones to piece together the whole story.
Yan Xun sat at the table, placed the four cups representing the four of them, and then asked Li Wu, who was sitting next to him, "What do you think?"
"So now you're asking for my opinion?" Li Wu asked.
Upon seeing this, Sun Zhao immediately gave Gu Jia a wink—they hadn't made up yet.
“If you don’t want to talk about it, you don’t have to,” Yan Xun nodded. He assumed Li Wu didn’t want to talk, so he spoke directly, “I think…”
"I didn't say it, I won't say it!" Li Wu said urgently.
“…Then you speak.” Yan Xun gestured for him to speak, his expression slightly bewildered, as if he didn’t understand why Li Wu was acting so impulsively.
Sun Zhao immediately used his ventriloquism skill again, saying, "Our Brother Yan always has a way."
Li Wu probably realized that his emotions were too obvious, and glanced at Gu Jia and Sun Zhao with a little unease. Seeing Sun Zhao's expression of "What are you doing? I don't understand anything", he could only turn his gaze away and then slowly speak.
“In February, I said Lou Yanchuan had encountered something bad, and in March we went to the amusement park to take this Polaroid photo. There should be some connection between the two events.” Li Wu recalled the speculation about this “escape room” or “murder mystery” scenario. “It should be something similar in this amusement park that caused Lou Yanchuan trouble.”
Yan Xun nodded. "Judging from our conversation, I think I'm doing some shady business, probably helping people with these kinds of difficult situations."
“Li Wu seems to care about his roommate; he must have discussed this with me.”
"So, out of our shared dormitory bond, we decided to go to the scene of the incident together."
Amusement parks are never complete without haunted houses. Yan Xun still remembers the extremely disjointed woodshed and other rooms in the Black Bear Man's yard.
“This is just my guess, and there is not enough evidence at the moment.” Yan Xun pointed to one of the teacups. “Lou Yanchuan may have made some kind of ‘goodbye’ gesture according to the rules while playing a murder mystery game or a haunted house escape room.”
"The woodshed is full of old objects that look very old. This haunted house must have collected these things from various places to make it more authentic."
Of course, it's unrealistic to build a haunted house entirely from old things. Some of the items are old objects specially collected by the amusement park, while others are simple scenes they built themselves using plywood and paint.
The problem probably lies with these old objects.
Yan Xun had heard that some escape rooms, haunted houses, or murder mystery games, in order to make them more realistic, like to find old objects and perform some real and fake rituals. Some people with weak constitutions might accidentally encounter something in such a setting.
Connecting this to the Yin Peach Blossom quest Lou Yanchuan mentioned... Yan Xun thought that perhaps the other person accidentally got something stuck to him while doing this quest, which is why his roommates noticed his strange behavior.