Chapter 461 Belated Realization
The scream came from the second floor. The cameras positioned there showed nothing but darkness
Dexter prompted the crew to switch to night mode, but the equipment decided to go haywire at that
precise moment.
way on
While the team upstairs struggled to see around them, Wynter and Tobias were happily scoring away
the first floor.
The only person on the second floor who had picked up the flashlight prepared by the crew was Horace
This was not how the show was supposed to go. Dexter frowned as he demanded, “Where are the
producers? What’s with the screw–up on set?”
None of the guests knew what was happening. Oliver had been so arrogant that his terror almost seemed
comical.
In his panic, he had snatched Horace’s flashlight. He schooled his expression into one of neutrality as he
said, “Don’t worry guys. Mr. Lyons loves a good power outage on the show.”
“But, Oliver, we’ve only got one flashlight, and there’s eight of us here,” Zane pointed out, starting to regret
picking Cecilia. If he had known she would be this useless, he would have picked Joshua instead.
Sensing that Zane was irritated with her, Cecilia picked up the bottle of sleeping pills lying nearby and
said, “Hey, the woman in the story had trouble sleeping and might be delusional. I say we start from there.”
Zane’s eyes lit up at this. “You have a lead?”
“Well, the story did say the woman lost her child. All we have to do is find out where her child went and
that’ll lead us to another clue,” Cecilia suggested confidently.
She had gotten on the show through her live–streaming platform, and she had practically bribed the
playwright to let her be a candidate.
“Well?” Zane asked loudly, growing impatient. The all–consuming darkness around him and the chill in the air made his skin crawl. He wanted to get out of this place as quickly
However, it was only after all her inferences led to one possible lead that her face darkened. “It’s in the delivery room on the first floor. That’s where we should have started looking.”
“Who was it that said there’s strength in numbers? Oliver was all talk. The way I see it, Kina and Wynter. have beaten them five to zero,” someone else commented.
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