The golden-haired white man who suddenly appeared was Mark.

Mark had also arrived at the fork in the road.

He wasn't sure which path the three people had taken.

But he entered the left one, pursuing precisely Jiang Ran.

Not long after, the chainsaw murderer also reached this fork.

He just glanced at it and, following the bloodstains on the ground, chased towards the right path.

...

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it all!"

"How did we get utterly defeated right after arriving?!"

Jiang Ran, who had run into the left passage, never expected that despite all three of them carrying fire extinguishers and thinking victory was assured—just like using fire extinguishers against that Korean deranged serial killer—they still couldn't suppress the chainsaw murderer.

Jiang Ran noticed that Xiao Q had been spraying the chainsaw murderer with his fire extinguisher for so long.

Yet the chainsaw murderer seemed completely unaffected.

"Was it because he wore a mask on his face? Or because he was already prepared?!"

Jiang Ran shook his head, pushing the thought aside.

The current concern was that besides the chainsaw murderer chasing them, there was also suddenly a golden-haired white man armed with a military crossbow.

This was truly like encountering a fierce tiger while on a cliff edge—completely doomed.

"I wonder how Xiao Peng is doing... but it's probably unlikely he survived either."

Since Jiang Ran had been standing at the back, he didn't see Xiao Peng, who had reached the destination ahead of them.

But he figured that since the chainsaw murderer could turn around to deal with them, it proved that Xiao Peng was probably already dead.

Jiang Ran felt somewhat dazed.

He moved his legs, striding forward.

Recalling how just ten or twenty minutes ago, Xiao Peng had been a living person, yet now he might already be dead, turned into a corpse.

Jiang Ran would never see him alive in certain places again.

Although he hadn't known Xiao Peng for long, Jiang Ran hoped he wasn't dead.

That he was still alive.

"I wonder if anyone is chasing me from behind..."

Jiang Ran suddenly stopped and looked back.

Behind him was pitch black.

When he turned around, the phone flashlight strapped to his chest dispelled a portion of the darkness.

The darkness behind him was silent, as if no one was pursuing?!

Seeing this, he sighed in relief.

His suspended heart temporarily settled down.

His heartbeat gradually slowed from its rapid pace.

And because of this.

The adrenaline from being chased earlier also gradually subsided.

Causing his body to start perceiving exhaustion, fatigue, and soreness.

Mental exhaustion and physical weariness instantly overwhelmed his entire body.

Jiang Ran plopped down onto the ground.

Bowing his head while panting heavily.

The wounds that the Korean guy had recently inflicted on him, which had been bandaged.

The white gauze was starting to show red, with blood seeping through.

"Was it because of the intense exercise just now?"

Jiang Ran stared at his bandaged thigh and that arm.

For some reason, he suddenly had a bad premonition that he would die here?!

Right at this moment.

[Ding! Detected that the host is about to encounter a fatal crisis! Points +10! Points +...]

This prompt suddenly emerged in his mind, causing Jiang Ran to shudder.

Even though he couldn't see where the enemy was, he already prepared to get up.

Because such prompts usually indicated that danger had already arrived.

If he didn't prepare and remained lethargic here, he would undoubtedly die!

And just as he got up.

An arrow suddenly flew out from the dark left side.

Without him knowing at all, it instantly struck his left forearm.

"This?!"

Jiang Ran had just stood up when his arm was shot by an arrow.

Jiang Ran realized that the one chasing him was probably the suddenly appearing white man carrying the military crossbow.

But he couldn't understand how the other party could accurately hit him in such pitch-black conditions?

"Was it my phone strapped to my chest?!"

Jiang Ran reacted.

He heard rapid footsteps coming from the left with his left ear.

He quickly removed the phone from his chest, turned off the flashlight function, and instantly Jiang Ran was engulfed by darkness.

Everything before him was pitch black.

He ran toward the right.

Suddenly realizing that his footsteps might also expose him?

Within seconds, he took off his sneakers.

This was the fastest he had ever removed shoes in his life, without even untying the laces.

Fortunately, he usually disliked tying or untying shoelaces, preferring to just stuff his feet in if possible.

Now, the phone flashlight was off, and his shoes were removed.

This way.

He should be able to evade that white man for now?!

Still uneasy, he directly started running in an S-shaped pattern.

Just when Jiang Ran thought everything was foolproof.

He only felt a sudden pain in his chest.

But he didn't stop running.

Instead, he reached with his hand toward his left chest.

He felt a long object stuck in his chest.

When he touched it, despair greater than death itself overwhelmed him.

His heart had been shot by an arrow.

He knew he was doomed.

Instantly, all strength drained from his body.

It felt as if his blood had stopped flowing.

Then, with a thud, his entire body collapsed to the ground.

After struggling a few times, he completely stopped moving.

Mark caught up.

He clearly saw Jiang Ran's fallen corpse.

He had a device-like thing on his face.

That was a night vision goggles.

Because he wore night vision goggles, Jiang Ran's earlier actions—turning off the phone flashlight, removing his shoes, S-shaped maneuvering—were all like a clown performing hard in front of him.

Laughable.

Mark was very cautious.

Even though he saw that one of his arrows had hit Jiang Ran's left arm and another arrow had pierced Jiang Ran's heart, sticking out from it—a situation that could be called undoubtedly fatal—he still cautiously approached step by step.

Only when he placed his hand on Jiang Ran's arrow-pierced chest and stepped one foot on Jiang Ran's stomach to pull out the arrow, did blood gush out furiously the moment the arrow was extracted.

It sprayed for a while, then weakened.

Starting to bubble out continuously.

When the arrow was pulled out, Jiang Ran's body remained completely motionless.

Only the movement caused by Mark pulling out the arrow.

Afterward, Mark stared at Jiang Ran's wide-open dead eyes.

The despair revealed in those eyes seemed almost overflowing.

Mark then placed his hand under Jiang Ran's nose, then his neck, and finally his chest.

Only then did he stand up, slowly uttering a sentence:

"Earlier when chasing James, you dodged so many of my arrows at once, yet now I easily killed you with just two arrows. It's like they're not the same person before and after. (in English)"

Mark was quite puzzled, but now looking at Jiang Ran's already dead corpse, his body temperature even starting to drop.

So he didn't dwell on this question further, simply stepping over the corpse.

He began continuing to cooperate with the chainsaw murderer to hunt down the remaining two who weren't lab rats.

After Mark left.

Jiang Ran's corpse still lay quietly there.

In the live stream room, countless eyes were watching this scene through the secret cameras inside the haunted house.