
A letter with no postmark lay in the mailbox. Inside was a graduation photo, but all the classmates' faces were burned away, leaving only your own visage clear. On the back, in slanted handwriting: "The final lesson. Tomorrow, 10 PM, Room 404. Don't tell anyone you received this."
Yushan Secondary, Class of 2004, Form 3. After that fire, everyone had silently agreed never to speak of it again.
A decade later, the old school grounds smelled of damp concrete and mildew. The abandoned building stood in the night like the skeleton of a great beast.
Flickering, candle-like light seeped from the crack under Room 404's door. Pushing it open, you saw the "classmates" already seated. Their appearance, their clothes, were unchanged from ten years ago. In unison, they turned and smiled at you with identical, perfect curves of their lips.
"You're late," the class monitor said, his voice unnervingly steady. "We've been waiting for you, Shen Weiwei."
Shen Weiwei? You stood frozen, the name utterly foreign. The room was too cold, impossibly so, and this meticulously constructed Escape Room experience offered no exit from the moment you stepped inside.

The blackboard was covered in unfinished notes from a decade ago, but all the formulas' answers had been altered, replaced with the endlessly repeated phrase: "Your fault."
Your breath fogged in the air, but no vapor appeared before any other "classmate." Their skin held a waxy, unreal sheen in the dim light.
A speaker crackled to life with static, playing a fragment of a blurred sob: "I don't want to participate in the ritual…" The voice cut off. The class monitor spoke, his voice emanating from both the speaker and his own mouth simultaneously: "Attendance check."
Each called name received a wooden "Here." Until "Shen Weiwei" was called. The class fell silent, every hollow gaze fixed on you.
"Shen Weiwei. Absent." The monitor stared. "Do you know why?"
You found an unfamiliar diary in the desk, signed by Shen Weiwei. The final entry was a frantic scrawl: "They're forcing me to be the offering… say my 'impurity' will trade for the whole class's luck… after school tomorrow, the old storage room… save me…"
The old storage room. The fire's point of origin.
Trembling, you compared your old student ID to the class photo on the wall. Your blood ran cold—the spot in the photo that should have belonged to Shen Weiwei now bore your face. The core mechanism of this Escape Room was forcing you to confront a past that had been completely rewritten.

Dark, rust-red stains began to seep from the walls, forming words: "We all need a 'reason' for our misfortune. A fire needs an arsonist. So we chose you. Shen Weiwei."
The speaker buzzed again, erupting in a cacophony of classmates' voices—whimpers and sneers tangled together:
The truth finally pierced the amnesia: This was no ghostly reunion. This was a trial chamber constructed from collective guilt, an ultimate Escape Room tailored for you. They had never left, because part of their souls remained forever trapped in that dusk when they decided to sacrifice a classmate for "good luck."
And you, Shen Weiwei, had returned as the amnesiac to the site of your own erasure.

A shrill bell rang. The "classmates" stood as one, their bodies turning stiffly toward you. Their faces began to melt under the candlelight, revealing charred bone beneath.
"Now," a chorus of voices shrieked in overlap, "make up for the 'consequences' you missed!"
Doors and windows slammed shut and locked. The lights died completely, leaving only the ghostly glow of the bloody words on the wall. The temperature plummeted. In this final phase of the Escape Room, you must find the shattered proof of your own existence within these memories of malice, now made horrifyingly real.
You backed into a corner, your shoulders hitting a freezing cold mirror.
In despair, you glanced at its surface.
The reflection was empty.
The Haunted School doesn't rely on cheap scares; it dissects the evil of the collective unconscious. Through precise environmental control (simulating the chill of old school halls), psychological narrative (building a "curse of memory"), and localized context (a metaphor for academic pressure), we've crafted this unique Escape Room for the mind. The experience operates under strict safety protocols, ensuring extreme psychological impact within absolute safety boundaries.
Now, judgment has arrived. Erased from the world, how will you prove to a rewritten history that you ever existed? This may be the most desperate Escape Room of all: your task is not to escape a room, but the denial of an entire world. When the bell's final echo fades, will you remember who you are, or will even the name "Shen Weiwei" vanish forever into the eternal dark of Room 404?