"The decoration here seems to have a bit of an antique style," said Hou Tianbai, who had chosen a room and was about to go take a shower, when he suddenly saw Yu Chen leaning against the wall at the other end of the corridor, saying this to him.

"Antique style... yeah, a little bit," Hou Tianbai walked over and looked at the pensive Yu Chen, asking, "It seems like they're all playing cards and mahjong downstairs. Aren't you going?"

Yu Chen shook his head. "We're getting paid so much, it wouldn't be right to play around here. We should clean up the place regularly... Just now, I noticed by accident that the furniture here seems to be antique. There are many things that are hard to find nowadays."

"Do you have knowledge about this?"

"Not much. Everyone is excited because we can earn so much money just by cooking here for three days. But the more I think about it, the more something feels off."

"Yeah, that's true. We could easily hire a maid to do our job for 100,000 yuan a day. Even if we have money, we shouldn't be so extravagant. But even so, we've already taken a 50,000 yuan deposit, so we can only continue."

Yu Chen turned his face and said to Hou Tianbai with a serious expression, "Also, I observed that there are... no photos here. And not only are there no windows in the villa, there doesn't seem to be any ventilation system either. The architectural layout is also very strange, completely different from modern architectural style. Especially the construction of the basement, it looks like an air-raid shelter from the war period."

Hou Tianbai sniffed and said, "Could there be a conspiracy in arranging for us to come here?"

"Maybe not a conspiracy, but I can be sure... the patient we are supposed to take care of is definitely not ordinary. Maybe we are just being used for an experiment..."

"An experiment?"

"I hope I'm just overthinking it..."

Meanwhile, downstairs...

Ye Xiang was holding a deck of cards and playing Landlord with a group of people in high spirits. Su Han was the landlord now, and Ye Xiang was playing with him and the short man Wu Jun.

"Ah, ah, ah..." Su Han, who was holding the cards, laughed with a wide smile and said, "Hey, hey, hey, I have to ask... with 300,000 yuan, how do you guys plan to spend it?"

At this moment, Ye Xiang put down a pair of cards on the table and said, "Hmm... let's deposit it in the bank first. The bank interest rates have been rising recently. Besides, I don't have many places to spend money at the moment."

Wu Jun, who was looking at his cards, said after a while, "Deposit it in the bank? With 300,000 yuan! I have to plan carefully how to spend it. But it's really incredible, we earned 300,000 yuan so easily."

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The twin-tailed girl Liu Ying beside them blinked her eyes and watched them play cards. But it wasn't her turn to speak yet, so she could only suppress her fear and unease in her heart. Zhao Xiaoya, who was beside her, was biting her thumbnail, also with a thoughtful expression.

And at this moment...

Yu Chen walked along the corridor on the first floor towards the entrance to the basement.

Yu Chen's face was calm. He had carefully hidden the severed finger in his pocket, and he had put his hands in his pockets so that he could take it out immediately if something went wrong.

Tomorrow, "Ghost Festival 3" would be released. This severed finger would be a very important life-saving item. It must not be lost in this "Imprisoned Room"!

Imprisoned Room...

This basement was indeed built like an air-raid shelter. It stored a lot of food in clay pots, and it was obvious that a large amount of salt had been sprinkled inside to prevent the food from spoiling. There were also several rooms in the basement, and soon, he found the place directly below the kitchen...

It was a very ordinary door. It looked exactly like the one on the movie poster.

That thin door, behind it, was the mentally ill patient they were supposed to take care of. However, Yu Chen didn't believe for a moment that there was just a mentally ill person inside!

"It's here..." Yu Chen approached the door slowly.

It was a meticulously crafted metal door, especially the lock, which looked like a very old antique lock. Although he didn't have much knowledge in this area, Yu Chen could tell that it would be very difficult to open this antique lock without a key. At least, ordinary thieves wouldn't have the possibility of picking this lock.

Is it necessary to use such a lock for a mentally ill patient?

Moreover, even so, the owner insisted that they must not let the person inside out! They didn't have a key, so it should be impossible to let them out. But the owner emphasized this point twice!

Yu Chen became more and more convinced that the 300,000 yuan was spent on making sure they "don't open the lock"!

Naturally, this lock didn't have a keyhole, and the gaps between the door and the floor were so small that they could be completely ignored. The delivery elevator also couldn't go down here. Yu Chen lightly touched the door and began to determine what kind of metal the door was made of. Finally, he concluded that it should be made of some kind of alloy!

It would be impossible to forcefully break the door.

Yu Chen started to slowly move away from the door, muttering to himself, "What... exactly is inside here?"

It was late at night.

They had already played several rounds of Landlord. And at this moment...

"No signal on the phone?""Yeah, I just noticed it when I was checking my phone. It's strange, I had signal when I was outside."

At this moment, the short man Wu Jun held up his phone and said, "Then... I'll go outside and check!"

Then...

"What's going on!" Wu Jun ran back from the front door, exclaiming in shock, "The door is locked! This villa has no windows, only this one door for entry and exit, so... we can't leave for the next three days! And why is there no signal on the phone?"

Hou Tianbai frowned slightly, clapped his hands and said, "It must be the master's arrangement! Think about it, this villa has no windows, and the phone has no signal... The walls inside this villa must have a special effect of absorbing electromagnetic waves! Now, the door is locked..."

"What the hell is going on!" Su Han also became angry, "Even if the daily wage is high, this kind of restriction on our freedom is too..."

At this time, Yu Chen entered the living room.

"What's going on?"

"Mr. Liu!" Wu Jun said angrily, "Come and see! The door is locked! This, this is the master's doing, right?"

Yu Chen was taken aback and quickly followed. Ye Xiang, Hou Tianbai and others also followed closely.

At the front door, the door was also a sturdy metal door. And the lock was also a very complex structure. Now, the front door was firmly locked, no one could escape from here!

Yu Chen had a gloomy expression on his face, then turned around and said, "Let's... go back to the living room. I'm starting to regret it, I shouldn't have come here to work."

Then, Yu Chen told them about his observations in the basement.

"I think I understand. The reason for such a high salary is that we are responsible for guarding this 'prisoner'! It can't be a mental patient inside, needing such a sturdy lock and alloy door to keep him in, and they are so worried about us letting him out!"

Everyone looked at each other.

Hou Tianbai was the first to speak, "I don't understand, what 'prisoner'? Is the master illegally detaining someone? Shouldn't we call the police?"

"There is no phone in this villa." Yu Chen pointed around, "And the phone has no signal. The master has planned to trap us here. He wants us to guard this 'prisoner' for three days. Maybe, they want to use us, to achieve some unspeakable purpose. The 'prisoner' locked in the basement, I think, will definitely not be simple."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed.

"I... I want to leave!" Wu Jun shouted, "I don't want to stay here anymore! I want to leave!"

Yu Chen continued, "Listen, everyone... no matter what, it's impossible to leave now. The walls of this villa are not made of cement bricks, but real steel, and the walls should be quite thick! Originally, I wanted to meet the master in person, to ask why there is such a high-paying job, but I didn't expect it to turn out like this. Actually, I regretted a bit after submitting my resume, feeling that there can't be such a good thing for nothing."

Then, Yu Chen took a deep breath and continued, "Now that things have come to this, let's just follow the master's instructions and deliver meals to the 'prisoner' on time. I think, the other party must have a purpose, we can only follow the master's instructions to know what the purpose is. Three days will pass quickly, then... let's see how things develop."

"We have no other choice." Hou Tianbai sighed heavily, "I knew it, there's no such thing as a free lunch."

Everyone sighed, including Ye Xiang.

Late at night, everyone began to go to their rooms to sleep.

Ye Xiang was alone in his room. Although Yu Chen asked him to stay with him as much as possible, Ye Xiang thought that it would be unnatural for these two people to live in the same room, as they had just met today. Besides, he didn't have many redemption tickets left, and there was no need to deduct them for such a thing. He himself had a soul-summoning charm, which also had a certain self-protection power.

Hou Tianbai and Su Han, on the other hand, were also waiting nervously for the end of the first act, relying on the cursed items on their bodies. Next, the plot will fully unfold, and how this horror film will develop, no one can guess now.

What made each of them feel uneasy was... what exactly was in that confinement room? And who exactly is the master, and why did he gather so many people to "guard" it?

Midnight came quickly.

The time had come to July 1st. At the same time, this was also the end of the first act of "The Confinement Room".

The script for the second act, at the moment the midnight bell rang... poured into everyone's minds...