When he walked into the room, Chi Xiaochi felt that the floor under his feet was very strange.
The lights in the room didn't turn on for a long time. When everyone had doubts in their hearts, the lights all around suddenly turned on at the same time.
Meng Gan sucked in a breath of cold air, covered his eyes and cursed, "Fuck me!"
But Chi Xiaochi adapted well.
At the moment when the light came on, he saw a palm in front of his eyes.
That hand blocked most of the light for him. It was thin, straight and slender, and the light that penetrated from the edge of the palm reflected the curve of his palm lines.
It was Gan Yu's hand.
He had been standing by Chi Xiaochi's side, raising his hand in the dark for how long, just to help him block the strong light that might suddenly light up.
When the human eye was almost able to adapt to the light, the hand was removed from Chi Xiaochi's eyes, and he naturally picked up the gold wire glasses clipped in the shirt pocket on his chest, put them on calmly, and returned to a gentle and beautiful gentleman.
The countdown had already started, and there was no time to be distracted. Chi Xiaochi cut off other thoughts and prepared to observe the situation.
At a glance, Chi Xiaochi frowned.
The eight people are in a huge, empty rectangular glass room of about 100 square meters. The walls, floors and ceilings are all made of transparent glass.
Moreover, Chi Xiaochi clearly remembered that the two groups of people clearly walked into the same corridor.
… but they are not in the same room now.
To be precise, there is a thick glass curtain wall running east-west, which divides the complete room in two from the middle position,
Chi Xiaochi and the others are on the left, and Meng Gan and the others are on the right.
Qiao Yun said in astonishment, "What's going on here?"
Chi Xiaochi remembered that he walked from the corridor into another dark corridor under the loud laughter of the clown. There was real silence and the air was extremely foul. Lead to the end of the corridor and go straight into a room.
Immediately, the heavy door slammed shut behind him.
Yuan Benshan said, "We entered the door at the end of the corridor."
Qiao Yun: "... There is no door at the end of the corridor. We found the entrance on the right hand side at the end of the corridor."
After the exchange of information, Chi Xiaochi's heart became much clearer.
It seems that the Joker deliberately divided them into two groups.
This is also one of the usual routines for room escape. The players participating in the game are divided into two groups, and certain obstacles are set up, so that the two groups of players can search for clues and find a way to leave the room and enter the next room by exchanging information.
Sure enough, after observation, there is a hole about 20 cm long and 10 cm wide at the east end of the glass curtain wall, which is probably used by both parties to transmit information.
Chi Xiaochi felt a little weird.
In general escape rooms, the walls in the middle are solid bunkers, the purpose of which is to hinder smooth communication between the two parties, thereby prolonging the game time.
The glass is completely transparent, so what's the point of pulling up this curtain wall
He wanted to investigate the glass wall, but as soon as he took a step, there was a small creaking sound under his feet.
He immediately noticed something was wrong, the back of his neck felt numb, he immediately leaned forward and fell to the ground.
Meng Gan also sensed something abnormal and shouted, "No, don't stand, get down!"
Gan Yu leaned down behind him, reached out and touched the glass surface on the floor, then bent his knuckles and knocked again, his face was not very good: "...it's not tempered glass."
This is just the most common glass, just thicker than normal glass. If a grown man walks around on it, he will crack the floor if he is not careful.
"Remember what the clown said just now?" Meng Gan shouted, "We can't destroy anything here!"
The price of destruction, none of them want to try.
But he quickly figured out a way: "Men lie down and don't move. Women are responsible for finding clues."
Gan Tang acted according to the words, straightened up, moved as lightly as a cat, and began to look for clues to clear the customs.
Chi Xiaochi, on the other hand, was lying on the ground with his feet upside down like a bastard, his eyes turned around, collecting information as much as possible.
The theme of this level was written on a wooden sign with colored paint, hanging over the door they had just entered.
The theme is called "The Man in the Seam", and the following is a "Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme" written crookedly in a child's circular font:
A twisted man, walking a twisted road.
With a twisted sixpence in hand, he stepped up the twisted steps.
Buy a crooked cat that grabs crooked mice.
They lived together in a crooked cottage.
What echoes this song is the countless silhouettes of villains embedded in the transparent glass walls.
These little figures are like the handiwork of kindergarten children, folded with cardboard, cut out huge heads and slender bodies, holding small hands one by one.
As if... at any time singing a song and approaching.
Chi Xiaochi tried to find the corresponding numerical pattern from the arrangement of the villains, but after many years of graduation, his mathematical knowledge was returned to the teacher hundreds of years ago.
He turned to Yuan Benshan for help: "Lao Yuan, look at these people..."
"There is no pattern." Gan Yu on the side took over, "All the villains are not arranged according to any kind of sequence, nor have any special colors. Some of the villains connected together are more than ten, so let's not consider them for the time being. In terms of the possibility of a cipher number, I'd prefer that it's more of a hint."
Chi Xiaochi looked at him: "Or some kind of warning of danger."
The two looked at each other and nodded slightly.
This inexplicable sense of tacit understanding made Yuan Benshan, who was watching all this, feel very depressed.
He interrupted the two of them and said firmly: "Don't focus on studying the villain, it is very likely to be an interfering factor."
Gan Yu also agreed with Yuan Benshan's statement: "There is also a wooden cabinet in the corner. Tangtang, open it."
When Gan Tang stretched out his hand to open the cabinet, a sharp whistle exploded inside, so frightened that Jia Siyuan, who was separated from them by a wall, almost fell off the wall clock he took off.
What jumped out was a strange-faced monkey toy beating gongs and drums.
Its drums were already torn, its eyes emitting mechanical purple light from time to time, and half of its face had peeled off the paint, revealing the white wood ballast, and its entire face looked like a rotting monkey corpse.
With every few beats of the drum, it made a distorted shrill sound: "Only - once oh, only - one chance oh."
Surrounded by the silence of the faceless paper people, Meng Gan gradually sweated on his forehead. Now that he heard the shrill and strange sounds of toys resounding through the room, he became even more impatient.
"Shut that thing down!"
Gan Tang replied in a good-natured manner, "I can't find its clockwork."
But she didn't put the toy that was clearly meant to be bluffing aside.
Time passed by, Meng Gan saw that she was only holding a prop monkey, and couldn't help but snarky: "That girl over there! ... Yes, it's you, don't look at the monkey, look for another. The place! There are so many villains on the wall where you have, what is the rule, what's the point of catching a distraction item?! Will you play a rookie?!"
Gan Tang walked lightly to the glass curtain wall and showed him the toy in his hand.
Meng Gan took a closer look, his face suddenly felt as if he had been slapped, and he had a burning fever.
The inner surface of the monkey drum is inlaid with a small mechanical dial with exquisite workmanship. The hour and minute hands are now pointing exactly in the direction of twelve o'clock.
The monkey faced him and let out a terrifying scream: "There's only - once, only - one chance."
Gan Tang didn't talk nonsense with Meng Gan, and turned to ask Qiao Yun and Jia Siyuan who were searching over there: "What did you find there?"
Jia Siyuan raised the clock in his hand.
Half of the wall on their side was covered with clocks, some broken, some with normal writing, and the two of them were removing the clocks one by one to see if there was any information hidden on the dial and surface.
... But according to their way of looking for a bear breaking a stick, they would have to stay in this room for at least 20 minutes.
Chi Xiaochi looked sideways at the clocks that had not been removed from the wall, observed them one by one, and pointed at one of the clocks: "That one."
Jia Siyuan really has no opinion, but he is better at being obedient.
She took off the clock fixed at 3:20 in accordance with her words, and asked in confusion, "Is there anything special about this clock?"
Chi Xiaochi reminded her a little helplessly: "...monkey."
… That clock is the only one on the dial with a cartoon of a monkey picking peaches.
Jia Siyuan stuck out his tongue embarrassedly: "I'm sorry. I... I'm not very good at this."
She held the watch near the glass curtain wall so that Gan Tang and the others could see the numbers on the surface more clearly.
3:20, that's right.
Meng Gan had a panoramic view of Jia Siyuan's clumsy every move, but felt that he was really shameless as the "captain", and his subordinates didn't give him much face, so he said coldly, "It doesn't look like the puzzle is difficult."
Gan Tang took off the hairpin between the temples and carefully poked in through the crack on the drum surface, preparing to adjust the pointer hidden inside the drum to 3:20.
The monkey shrieked, his voice piercing like a long fingernail scraping across a blackboard: "Only - once, only - once."
Gan Yu suddenly said, "Wait."
Gan Tang also stopped moving at the same time.
After the two looked at each other, Gan Tang nodded knowingly and turned to look at Chi Xiaochi.
I don't know if it's because of the fact that they have been browsing the secret room together in the past two weeks. Without too many words, Chi Xiaochi already understood the thoughts of the two brothers and sisters.
He took out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket.
Before coming in, the clown has asked them to put all the communication tools and tools that can be violently demolished outside, but for some sporadic small objects, the clown does not care much.
He handed the money to Gan Tang, and Gan Tang aimed at the coin with the monkey's purple eyes.
Sure enough, a faint watermark appeared on the coin.
… and there are still traps.
Gan Tang walked to the communication port the size of a medium envelope at the east end of the glass curtain wall, and said to Jia Siyuan, "Please put the watch over here, with the surface facing me."
Jia Siyuan did as he was confused.
And just when the sinister purple light from the monkey's eyes shone on the dial opposite through the communication port, Jia Siyuan let out a sigh of relief.
It is completely different from the pointer's pointing, and two fresh blood pointers with mottled minced meat appear on the dial.
The blood pointer pointed exactly to 4:44.
And this is the real time.
No one knows what will happen if the clock is dialed wrong.
Of course, no one wants to test the consequences for themselves.
Gan Tang's hands didn't tremble at all, and when he picked the minute hand to 44 minutes accurately, all eight heard a faint mechanical roar.
"What's the sound?" Meng Gan happily got up half of his body from the ground and said, "Is the door open?"
"… no."
Xu Jiayi, who has rarely expressed his views since he came in, said: "The wall is moving."
He spoke in a flat tone, with a creepy air about him.
And he was right.
The glass curtain wall in the middle was automatically divided into two and began to move slowly to both sides.
Meng Gan's face changed greatly: "Back! Hurry back!!"
His emotions succeeded in driving the timid Jia Siyuan. She hugged the clock and retreated in a panic, almost falling into Xu Jiayi's arms.
Xu Jiayi picked her up and frowned, "Retire what?"
He pointed to the glass curtain wall and said, "Isn't it already stopped."
The huge glass curtain wall was originally two walls tightly held together like magnets. Now they opened the mechanism in the monkey's body, and the two walls moved about ten centimeters to each side. Pathway for one person.
A small door was opened on the west curtain wall opposite the communication port, which successfully opened the two rooms and gave everyone a chance to explore the corridor.
Before everyone was happy, they realized that they had only taken a small step forward, and it was still unknown how to leave this room.
There are few clues outside, and it has been explored almost, so it is imperative to enter this newly opened glass corridor.
Meng Gan felt that he had lost a lot of face just now, but he didn't dare to move easily, so he sent Jia Siyuan to say, "You, go in and have a look."
Jia Siyuan let out an "ah" and cringed a little: "I..."
Meng Gan said impatiently, "You are the thinnest here. Come in."
This is not bad, Jia Siyuan is indeed too thin, like a hairtail, but he can handle it with ease. If Gan Tang goes in, he is afraid that his chest will get stuck in the slit.
Jia Siyuan was obedient as always, and walked into the extremely narrow glass corridor through the newly opened door.
She held on to the walls on both sides and tried to move forward step by step, her palms printed clumps of sweat on the glass.
Meng Gan called out, "Did you see anything?"
Jia Siyuan shook his head: "No."
The corridor was empty, and the top lights were bright, illuminating everything clearly.
There are no special marks here, and no items are dropped.
In just a few short walks, she walked in trepidation and looked back frequently, for fear that a little piece of paper would pop up from nowhere and tear her to pieces in this cramped place.
If she was attacked here, she would not be able to escape.
She was trembling, but she walked from the west end to the east end step by step.
Just as she walked under the communication window, a very light electronic sound came from the side of her ear.
"drop-"
A strange circular fluorescent device automatically triggered under her feet.
Just when she stepped on this mechanism, two square fluorescent light circles also appeared on both sides of the glass curtain wall parallel to the window.
Jia Siyuan took a step back, and the aperture disappeared.
It is a human body thermal sensor!
She called out "Yeah" and looked at Qiao Yun and the others in surprise: "I, I found it!"
Yuan Benshan's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of the answer: "It's a villain!"
Although he didn't want to admit it, it turned out that Gan Yu was right just now.
The little man on the wall is a hint of some kind.
It needs a person to enter the glass passage to trigger the mechanism, and the people in the two divided rooms, just follow the instructions of the authority, stand in the aperture, and pass the communication port on the wall, imitating the small hand in hand on the wall. A person's posture should be able to trigger the next mechanism, or even...
Open the next door!
What he thought, everyone else thought too.
Time was running out, Qiao Yun almost couldn't wait to stand on the right aperture, and motioned Gan Tang to come quickly.
Gan Tang stood up according to the words, and an electronic voice prompt rang: "Weighing less than 55 kilograms, weighing less than 55 kilograms. Please change people, please change people."
… Qiao Yun looked disheveled and wanted to kill the system.
Gan Tang could only leave a little apologetically and replaced Yuan Benshan, who was closest to the communication window.
Yuan Benshan gently moved to the center of the aperture, spreading his legs apart as much as possible, for fear of crushing the floor.
The first time they tried, they didn't hold hands, they just stood in the halo, waiting to see if anything would change.
Unfortunately, nothing happened.
Jia Siyuan in the glass corridor took the initiative to stretch out his hand and hand it to the people on both sides.
The three of them clasped their hands together like villains on the wall.
And just after the three stood for a moment, they heard the roar of machinery as they wished.
Jia Siyuan looked up.
The corridor divides the room evenly into left and right, and she is at the east end of the corridor, holding hands with her friends.
At the west end of the corridor, a gap is splitting from the center of the corridor, moving to both sides, like two slowly opening glass lips.
Jia Siyuan cried with joy: "Did it! We did it—huh?"
Her voice stopped abruptly.
In the next second, her voice panicked and went out of tune: "The corridor... the corridor, is it narrowing?"
The corridor that was originally a little spacious for her figure, with the opening of the glass door on the opposite side, it gradually shrank and touched her shoulder!
This ominous development made her face pale and instinctively to run away.
But as soon as her feet left the sensor's aperture, the door that had been opened a little bit closed again and closed with a bang!
The incident happened too suddenly, while Chi Xiaochi, who was lying on the ground, was stunned, his heart instantly lit up and became icy cold.
… dead end!
... it's a total dead end!
Seeing that hope had come and the gate of life was about to close again, Qiao Yun did not let go of Jia Siyuan's hand in a hurry.
At this moment, the drum-beating monkey raised his voice again and laughed in a deformed child's voice: "There is only - once, only - one chance."
Qiao Yun's face changed suddenly, and she subconsciously held Jia Siyuan's hand!
Jia Siyuan couldn't break free, and when he turned back, his face was pale: "Xiaoyun! What are you doing!! Let go!"
And Yuan Benshan also failed to let go due to a sudden change.
Qiao Yun tried her best to suck the milk, held Jia Siyuan's hand tightly, and shouted at Yuan Benshan with her throat: "'Only one chance'! Don't you understand!? If she ran away, who would want to go in? Step on the switch and open the door for us?! Are you?"
Yuan Benshan's Adam's apple rolled violently up and down, no longer hesitating, wedged Jia Siyuan's hand tightly, and even dragged her branch-like arm directly out of the communication port, folded it over, and pulled it down with force!
Jia Siyuan's arm hurt and was dragged back to the spot.
The organ is activated again.
The corridor could no longer be entered. Meng Gan tumbled like a four-legged snake to the crack of the open door. He tried his best to squeeze his arms and head into the small gap that had been opened up a little bit. Startled, he looked back and forth, and chose to go up with Meng Gan, trying to open the door.
"Not enough! Not enough!"
Meng Gan tried to use brute force to speed up the opening of the door, but the door remained motionless and only opened at the speed of the corridor's compression.
Everyone's door to life opened, and Jia Siyuan's door to death also opened.
In the corridor, Jia Siyuan's body has been squeezed and her shoulders are deformed. She screamed and kicked her feet desperately, but because she was too frightened and the space was limited, she couldn't exert any strength at all.
She wailed: "Let go of me, please!! Please!!"
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of hand, Gan Tang pounced on him and punched Yuan Benshan in the face.
However, Yuan Benshan's adrenaline surged violently at this time, and he endured the punch abruptly.
He spat out the blood from his mouth and continued to drag her arm with a bruised face.
Gan Tang turned around and shouted, "Brother!!"
Chi Xiaochi was already one step ahead of them, rolled a few times, turned over to the open door, and opened the door to both sides with Meng Gan.
Gan Yu also came behind him and pushed the door with him.
But none of them dared to exert too much force on their feet, for fear that they would directly smash the floor.
Chi Xiaochi's fingers turned white, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead, just to find a critical point.
Maybe it can, maybe it can be saved! !
Jia Siyuan had been squeezed so hard that he rolled his eyes, his bones were squished so hard, and blood was bubbling from the corners of his mouth.
Gan Tang kept gritting her teeth and staring at Chi Xiaochi, waiting for his judgment on the situation.
Chi Xiaochi turned his head and shook his head at her.
The opening is too small! You can't even get over your head!
Seeing that Jia Siyuan was about to die, Gan Tang didn't think about it, raised his leg and kicked the glass fiercely.
Should be able to save, should-
The glass is indeed fragile, and it shatters when it is kicked, but the glass wall suddenly accelerated at the moment of shattering, clinging to each other!
After a scream, bright red meat sauce splashed out from the completely closed glass corridor, and two bloody arms fell straight from the hands of the two holding her.
She became a real "people in the seam".
There was even a complete sweaty handprint left on the inside of the glass.
And Gan Tang fell to the ground uncontrollably.
The moment she lifted her right leg and kicked the broken glass, her right leg also turned into glass and shattered to the ground.
… This is the punishment for destruction.
It took them fifteen minutes to pass this level, as well as one life and one team member's leg.
For such a mutation, everyone lost the ability to speak in a short period of time.
Only the monkey was still beating its little broken drum, and happily played an elegy for the dead Jia Siyuan: "There is only - once, only - one chance."