Chapter 461

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.

If nothing else, she was the only one here who knew the entire storyline. She would have won over the

audience if Wynter hadn’t stolen the spotlight in the beginning.

“So, where will the lead most likely be?” Zane was in no mood to hear Cecilia out.

Cecilia’s eyes widened at the question. She knew how the story went, but she had no idea what the

layout

was, seeing as she had limited time to process the information the playwright had given her.

“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

y as possible.

Being an honor roll student, Cecilia knew that she could draw inferences by going through the storyline

by line.

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.”

The viewers couldn’t see the guests, but they could hear them just fine. At once, the viewers erupted

into laughter as comments flooded in.

“Wow! How the tables have turned!” a viewer mocked.

I

“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.

“Guess being loud isn’t going to help you win challenges.

“Kina and his partner are going to be my new obsession. Look at them go!”

“If I were Oliver, I’d stay on the second floor and never come down. I’d rather bc ubborn than lose face

so publicly!”

Oliver thought the same thing. Going back to the first floor would mean total humiliation.

He could give up his position as a returning guest on Ultimate Survival once filming wrapped, but he

would never be able to live down the shame if he went downstairs now.

However, as things were, he did not have a choice. Regardless of their number, the darkness that

surrounded him and his fellow guests was terrifying.

Yvonne was the first to break the silence. “Let’s head back downstairs! I think the power hasn’t gone

out on the first floor!”

“How do you know that?” Oliver demanded.

Not wanting to reveal that she had brought her phone on set, Yvonne lied, “I saw it! See, that’s light

right,

there!”

Standing by the window, they could vaguely make out a blur of light coming from the first floor. Only

fools would want to linger on the second floor after that! Alas, they were too late.