As soon as the voice fell, there was a knocking sound outside the door, and accompanied by the familiar perverted low laugh, Qiao Zhi exclaimed: “Quick, quick, that psychopath is here, let’s go into the passage!”
Kong Xi had already placed the Rubik’s Cube in the mechanism when the alarm sounded. She only heard the door lock snap open, and as she pushed the door in, she anxiously said, “The classroom door won’t last long. Let’s hurry!”
This door was only half a person tall, and when they entered, they had to bow down and crawl inside. Kong Xi led the way, followed closely by Bai Yicheng. Xi Nian was about to enter, but unexpectedly, Qiao Zhi took the lead and climbed in, forcing him to be the one at the end.
At this moment, with a loud bang, the classroom door was knocked open, and everyone couldn’t help but accelerate their pace as they crawled inside. However, when a mental patient burst in with a knife and tried to open the mechanism door, he pulled hard, only to find that it couldn’t be opened.
The assistant was anxious: “Director, the NPC can’t open the door.”
The director was angry: “What’s going on? You had to make a mistake at this moment?!”
The staff quickly adjusted the monitoring and found that when Kong Xi opened the mechanism door, an iron hook fell to the ground. When Xi Nian hid in the passage, he quietly picked up the bolt while everyone was not paying attention and locked the mechanism door from inside.
The iron gate was made in an old-fashioned style, with both internal and external hooks, and was accidentally taken advantage of by Xi Nian. In short, it was the fault of the props group.
#Director wanted to eat fast-effecting heart-saving pills#
The passage was narrow and cramped, and nothing could be seen clearly, and there was a steeply inclined slope ahead. Kong Xi was exploring the way ahead but bumped into something, and suddenly let out a muffled groan.
Bai Yicheng asked, “Teacher Kong, what’s wrong with you?”
Kong Xi shook his head: “It’s nothing, I sprained my ankle, there is a collapsed place here, be careful.”
The passage was winding, lengthy and dark. Everyone climbed for an unknown how long, and finally reached the exit. There was still a door in front of them. Fortunately, there was no mechanism, and it opened with a push.
Kong Xi climbed out, staggering a bit, but saw that they were in an old sports equipment room. Bai Yicheng patted the dust off on his body, and urged: “Let’s go out and find Teacher Min’s team.”
Upon hearing this, Xi Nian groped on the wall and discovered a door. He tentatively pushed it open and looked outside, only to find that the outer room was a long corridor that was no different from the one upstairs, with several tightly closed classrooms dispersed to the right.
Xi Nian said, “Teacher Min’s team is probably inside.”
Qiao Zhi’s face turned pale: “I never want to see such a ghostly place as this school in my life.”
Everyone walked toward the long corridor, only to find that the classrooms in this area were different from the two floors above. The doors were bare, without even handles, and the windows on the wall were locked, which made it difficult to see the situation inside.
Qiao Zhi noticed a piece of paper attached to each door and couldn’t help but say, “Come and take a look, there is a prompt on it.”
There was only one short paragraph on the paper: Good and evil coexist, black and white are opposite.
The gate of life can be opened, but the gate of hell cannot be closed. Before you open the door, you never know whether it is an evil spirit or a human being hidden inside.
If it is a human, escaping from the heavens; if it is an evil spirit, falling into hell.
Upon hearing the words, Kong Xi thought for a moment, then recalled the ghost boy Xi Nian’s team met before, and couldn’t help guessing: “Does it mean that Teacher Min’s team is trapped in one of the classrooms, while the other classrooms are hiding evil spirits? If we open the right door, we can rescue them. If we open the wrong door, we will be devoured by the evil spirits?”
Qiao Zhi’s legs were already trembling: “Shall we try one room at a time?”
Kong Xi shook his head: “Look at these doors, there are no locks or handles on them. It was very likely that they couldn’t be closed again after being pushed open, and then evil spirits will also come out of them. As every way here is a dead end, we have nowhere to escape. It’s too risky.”
After hearing the words, Xi Nian looked around, only to find that there were exactly four classrooms. After thinking for a moment, he said to everyone: “Let’s each choose a door and open it together.”
Kong Xi’s eyes lit up: “This could be a solution! I guess there must be a safe area for us to hide, a classroom where the survivors are meant to hide. Otherwise, we will be swallowed by evil spirits no matter how we try, and the game will be boring. At the count one, two, three, we will push the door open at the same time and whoever found the classroom for survivors to hide will shout a reminder, and then we will run to that classroom to hide.”
Bai Yicheng nodded: “Then I will open the first one.”
Kong Xi said, “I’ll open second.”
Qiao Zhi and Xi Nian chose third and fourth respectively.
The distance between the four suddenly widened, and Kong Xi stood in the middle, she took a deep breath and gave orders.
“One,”
“Two,”
“Three!”
After her words fell, everyone pushed open the door together. Xi Nian took a closer look and saw a female ghost in red sitting in classroom 4. She had already got up and rushed towards him, but immediately backed away, and at the same time heard the loud yelling: “Teacher Min is in classroom No. 3! You guys come in quickly!”
Xi Nian immediately ducked in, followed by Kong Xi and Bai Yicheng. With the sound of the classroom door being slammed shut, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
A reminder sounded in the headset: [Congratulations to you for discovering the safe zone and successfully finding the survivors. The mental patient has already started searching the corridors. Please open the door to life and escape from here before he finds out.]
Qiao Zhi no longer had the strength to scold their mother.
Kong Xi said: “Xi Nian’s guess is indeed correct, the survivors are us.”
Xi Nian discovered that Teacher Min and Wang Yao were tied to chairs and unable to move. He walked over to untie the ropes on their bodies, only to find a password device on top. Wang Yao said with a bitter expression, “We can only lose three times, and if we don’t get it right after three times, it will explode. I didn’t expect that after wandering the rivers and lakes for many years, our horse has lost its footing1The word [jiāng hú] means rivers and lakes which refers to all corners of the country. In a metaphorical sense, it means encountering all kinds of problems/difficulties. The Horse stumbled/lost its footing: refers to making a mistake..”
After all, there is a reason for getting older. Teacher Min and Wang Yao are responsible for intellectual power and were not responsible for strength/physical tasks. They were caught by mental patients before they ran far.
Kong Xi’s leg seemed to be injured, and she limped over and asked, “What’s the password? Do you have any hints?”
Teacher Min shook his head and said, “The prompt says something about the blackboard question. I guess it might be a question written on the blackboard in the secret room we entered when the game started. But I remember a wrong number and tried it once, but the answer was wrong so I didn’t dare to try again.”
Kong Xi’s face turned pale when she heard the words. There were evil spirits outside now, but this left them no choice but to go out. Xi Nian glanced at the password device and found that three numbers needed to be entered. He pressed three sixes directly. Wang Yao saw this and was about to stop, but unexpectedly, with a click, the lock was opened.
Bai Yicheng: “Fuck! Brother, you are amazing! Was it just a guess?!”
Xi Nian did have some doubts. The answer to that question was 6, so he simply pressed all 6, but he did not expect to be able to solve it.
Teacher Min untied the rope, and then took out a necklace from his pocket: “This is the prop key we got from deciphering in the classroom. It can open the last door, but half of it is missing.”
Qiao Zhi stared at the necklace for a long while, as if she suddenly discovered something, she said to Xi Nian, “Do you remember that brat, he seems to have a necklace like this around his neck.”
Xi Nian nodded and said, “But that child is still on the third floor. If we want to get the necklace, we must go back the same way.”
Upon hearing this, everyone fell into deep contemplation. Now that there were evil spirits outside, it was not easy to get out. Teacher Min and Wang Yao were both in their forties and couldn’t let them run up and down. Unfortunately, Kong Xi’s foot was also sprained, and now there were only three novice guests left.
Qiao Zhi looked disheartened: “It’s over, we won’t be the only guest team in the history of the show that was completely wiped out, right?”
No matter how difficult the script used to be, under the protection of the old team members, at least one of the guest teams could survive. But in their case, they had become orphans with no one to take care of them.
Xi Nian didn’t know why, but took a look at Bai Yicheng: “The two of us will go back and get the key.”
Bai Yicheng paused when he heard the words: “That’s good.”
Teacher Min seemed uneasy: “Why don’t Wang Yao and I go.”
It was too late, Xi Nian and Bai Yicheng had already opened the door and went out where they struggled to avoid the evil spirits outside. Then they ran into the previous sports equipment room and followed the narrow passage back to the classroom on the second floor.
Before Xi Nian had jumped down from the third floor but Bai Yicheng looked around and couldn’t find a way to go up. He was a little confused: “How do we go up to the third floor?”
Xi Nian said: “You wait for me here, I’ll climb up to get it. I’m familiar with the third floor.”
Bai Yicheng had no choice but to nod: “Then be careful.”
Xi Nian stepped on the wooden boxes piled up in the corner, and then climbed directly to the third floor along the railing. He walked all the way back to the previous classroom, and as expected, he found that the little NPC boy was still inside. He walked over to take off the necklace around his neck and said: “Let Uncle borrow this once.”
The little boy could only continue to read his lines: “This question is too difficult, can you help me solve it?”
Xi Nian put the necklace in his pocket, and looked at him with a half-smile: “No wonder your teacher beat you, he said it was 6, why can’t you remember? Study hard, and make progress every day, pretending to be a ghost to scare people has no future.”
After he finished speaking, he turned and left the classroom, and was about to go back the same way. Who would have thought that there would be a figure outside the classroom door at some point? It was the mental patient, holding a dagger in his hand, with a distorted smile in his eyes: “I found you…”
Xi Nian seemed to have anticipated it earlier and was not surprised. At the moment when the other party pounced with a knife, he quickly dodged and then leaned over the railing, jumping directly to the second floor. Bai Yicheng was anxiously waiting in the classroom, and when he saw him coming back, he quickly approached and asked, “Have you got the necklace?”
Xi Nian nodded and said, “Got it, let’s go.”
After he finished speaking, he entered the passage first, but for some reason, Xi Nian touched his pocket, his expression changed slightly, and he said to Bai Yicheng, “The necklace fell behind you!”
Hearing this, Bai Yicheng subconsciously looked back and turned to take it. Who would have thought that, at this moment, Xi Nian would close the door with a bang and lock it from the inside.
Sure enough, it was still the same iron hook.
Bai Yicheng rushed forward: “What are you doing? Open it! That psychopath is coming after me!”
Xi Nian looked at him quietly: “You are the undercover agent.”
Bai Yicheng paused, and then realized: “What nonsense are you talking about?! Qiao Zhi is more suspicious, she is the undercover agent!”
Xi Nian had thought about this question too, but the show crew’s countermeasures were too obvious. As Qiao Zhi was released so easily, it showed they intended to make everyone suspicious of her.
Secondly, Kong Xi was a veteran team member, and she needs to solve many difficult problems. If she was also an undercover agent, the other three novice guests would just die. The program team obviously would not do this.
Then only Bai Yicheng was left.
Xi Nian asked him through the door: “Do you know why I searched for this clue with you?”
First, if Bai Yicheng was left on the second floor, it would undoubtedly expose the whereabouts of the other people. Second, Xi Nian also wanted to confirm his guess. When he climbed up to the third floor just now, the mental patient chased him directly. There must have been someone to tip off the news, and it couldn’t be done by anyone other than Bai Yicheng.
Even if take a step back and assume that Qiao Zhi was an undercover agent, then Kong Xi stayed behind and supervised her, so Qiao Zhi would not have the opportunity to report any information.
Bai Yicheng’s face was turned distorted: “No wonder you wanted to keep an eye on me instead of Qiao Zhi. So you suspected me at that time.”
Damn, Xi Nian was too good.
Xi Nian not only got the necklace but also successfully unlocked the hidden undercover agent He returned along the passageway, once again relied on his agility to avoid the evil spirits at the door, and then dodged and hid in the survivor’s classroom.
Seeing his performance in the surveillance, the director couldn’t help but praise him: “Originally, I just couldn’t invite Yan Du, and wanted to catch Xi Nian to fill up the number. I didn’t expect it, I didn’t expect it…”
The author has something to say: Bai Yicheng (crying and beating on the door): Who will save me?
