Next, another elevator operation lasting nearly two minutes.
A thin cool breeze penetrated through the cracks of the elevator, making a whirring sound.
Hearing amplifies all the sounds around, and the people in the elevator stand each like a bronze statue.
Yuan Benshan took Chi Xiaochi's hand.
Chi Xiaochi didn't move, but he didn't shake him off either.
Yuan Benshan also knew that his actions just now were not very personal, so he had no choice but to ask: "What's the matter with Mr. Gan?"
Chi Xiaochi's voice was indifferent: "My mind was too tense and I fainted."
Yuan Benshan said: "Just now... Qiao Yun can't be saved, her internal organs are all blown up. If she doesn't give her a good time, she will be tortured for half an hour in vain."
Chi Xiaochi said, "I know."
Yuan Benshan tried to explain: "I'm a little scared, it's subconscious. It's not intentional..."
Chi Xiaochi turned his head to look at him, his tone became a little loose, he even pulled out the hand that Yuan Benshan was holding, and patted the back of his hand comfortingly: "I know."
However, Chi Xiaochi was expressionless in the dark, and his yin and yang pupils, which were covered by black beauty pupils, stared at Yuan Benshan sternly.
Yuan Benshan was unaware of this, and when he heard Song Chunyang forgave him again, he relaxed a little, straightened his back, and waited for the test in the next room.
The next room, and the last room, where all nightmares end.
The elevator stopped slowly, and the door opened.
This time the floor under the feet of several people was not pulled away, so they were able to walk out of the elevator smoothly and enter a spacious room of about 80 square meters.
Xu Jiayi carried Gan Tang on his back, and was the last one to get out of the elevator.
The moment they entered the room, the way behind them was closed and completely locked.
Chi Xiaochi looked around, his face turned blue a little.
The room is still a clear rectangular layout. The floor and walls are made of cement, but in every corner of the room, there is a pointed metal protrusion similar to a gun muzzle almost every three centimeters. In terms of density, it is enough to make people who are densely afraid on the spot. cursing.
Xu Jiayi put Gan Tang down, dipped his fingertips on the mouth of the spray gun, put it on his nose and smelled it, his expression changed slightly: "It smells of gasoline."
In fact, needless to say, everyone smelled a faint tar odor as soon as they entered the room.
It appears that the airbrush is the source of that smell.
When Xu Jiayi was studying the airbrush, Chi Xiaochi's attention had already shifted to the other side of the room.
This room seems to be digging gas pipelines, there are many parallel deep trenches, half of the floor of the room has been hollowed out, leaving only eight separate and parallel passages, each leading directly to a wall standing close to the root , A vertical metal cabinet that is about one person tall.
There is a cipher disk on the counter. From a distance, it is not a common number disk, but consists of 26 letters.
On the front doors of the eight metal cabinets, from left to right, eight random letters were pasted with bright red tape.
S, A, C, R, I, F, E, L.
Chi Xiaochi cast his gaze to the side wall again.
A huge glass curtain is embedded in the wall, and the glass material is the same as the aquarium that Qiao Yun was closed in just now.
A very complicated "connection diagram" is embedded in the glass curtain.
At the top of the picture, capitalized A to Z are written from left to right.
Under each letter is a rivet, from which hangs a long thin brass chain.
Each of the 26 thin brass chains starts from the starting point, crosses vertically and horizontally, and extends independently. The upper half of the picture also has more than 100 rivets.
In the center of the picture, a translucent shield is hung to block the 26 thin chains intertwined in the middle, and only the direction and outline can be vaguely seen.
Most of the chains were broken halfway through, and in the end, only eight brass chains extended from under the translucent shield, successfully reaching the bottom end.
The end point is eight rivets, and under the rivets, there are also eight letters marked from left to right.
S, A, C, R, I, F, E, L.
Meng Gan felt inexplicable: "What is this level asking us to do?"
As soon as his question came out, a blood-red electronic countdown board conveniently appeared on the embedded glass screen.
The countdown shows fifteen minutes, and the countdown has already started.
Meng Gan suddenly panicked: "What's the situation?!"
Yuan Benshan had some idea in his heart, but he was not completely sure. He could only raise his voice to soothe everyone's emotions: "Don't be impatient, there should be an explanation."
When everyone was uneasy, Chi Xiaochi raised his hand, traced in the void, and silently reversed the corresponding letters from the lower letters.
"Smart~"
The clown's exaggerated laughter sounded from the four corners of the room at the same time, and it was still a three-dimensional surround 3D sound effect, which stabbed everyone to reach out and cover their ears.
"This level is a very interesting level~"
The clown said in a singing-like tone: "The rules of the game are very simple~ The eight letters below the picture correspond to the eight letters above. And on the eight cabinets, there are also the same eight letters... "
While speaking, a human-shaped shadow with hanging hands appeared in the corner of the room.
Everyone was startled.
Meng Gan hid behind him, his voice stern: "Who? Get out!"
The figure did move, but the joints were stiff and the movements were too lively, like a puppet being controlled by a drunken puppeteer.
When it got closer, everyone could tell that it was really a human-shaped puppet with the same height as a human being.
The clown smiled and said, "I have asked my staff to show you the wrong way to play."
The puppet "employee" jumped up and down in front of the glass curtain, raised his chin, thought hard, and immediately clapped his hands, as if he had already thought of something, and then danced to the leftmost passage, exaggeratedly walking on a tightrope On the concrete road that was enough for one person, I walked to the metal cabinet with the "S"-shaped tape, and pressed Z on the cipher disk.
The combination lock opened with a beep.
The doll looked happy, and went straight in and locked the cabinet door.
In the next second, all the spray guns near the S cabinet were aimed at the S cabinet, spitting out flaming flames, and the orange and apricot flames licked wildly on the metal cabinet.
The metal has excellent thermal conductivity, and the doll that failed to crack the code made a hammering sound in the cabinet at first.
The doll let out a piercing scream, and the cabinet was even knocked out in several places.
But after all, it failed to escape.
After about two minutes of burning, the dolls in the cabinet were completely quiet.
The door of the cabinet opened automatically, and the charred puppet, which was burned beyond recognition, fell silently from the cabinet and fell into the deep ditch dug aside.
… as if it was a burial ground that had been prepared for a long time.
Meng Gan dared to go to the deep ditch to take a look.
After just one glance, he cursed loudly and took a few steps back.
… The bottom of the deep ditch was littered with the scorched corpses of the puppets. Some of the puppets' eyes were burnt out of their sockets, but they still stared straight up above, clearly looking dead.
I don't know how many puppets the clown did a similar experiment with before them.
The clown seemed to be watching a wonderful performance, and laughed loudly: "Look, do you understand?!"
Who can't understand it.
It's just a common "connection game" in escape rooms.
The eight cabinets correspond to the eight letters on the bottom layer of the glass curtain. They need to make connections to find a letter password corresponding to each cabinet.
Only if you are right can you survive.
If they connect the wrong wire or enter the wrong password, they can enter the metal cabinet, but they will be burned alive by the spray gun in the cabinet like the puppet.
And it is worth noting that the clown just turned on the spray gun next to the S cabinet.
If they don't get into the locker by then, the countdown ends and all the guns fire at the same time—
Thinking of the sea of fire and heat wave like hell, almost everyone fought a cold war.
"The rules of the game are like this~" the clown laughed, "I'll give you three more tips~ First, 15 minutes... oh no no no, after 11 minutes and 21 seconds, all the spray guns in the room will be activated; second, in the cabinet You can only hide from one person, this is an iron rule and cannot be broken; third, as you can see, no matter what letter you enter, you can enter the cabinet, but you will be responsible for the consequences of the wrong input~”
"After passing this level, you will be able to receive your temporarily stored items in the game room and the gifts I have prepared for you~ I wish you all a happy time, and look forward to your next visit to my escape room—"
After that, the clown's voice disappeared completely.
While everyone was waiting for the clown to speak, Chi Xiaochi said, "Lao Yuan."
Yuan Benshan came back to his senses and hurriedly walked to Chi Xiaochi: "Don't be afraid, we will take your time..."
Chi Xiaochi took his hand and wrote two letters in his palm.
A-M.
Yuan Benshan stared at him in shock: "You..."
But Chi Xiaochi ignored him and started to draw another line.
Yuan Benshan was surprised and delighted, but he was also a little skeptical. He stood in front of the glass curtain and started from A, intending to deduce it again.
Chi Xiaochi didn't expect him to believe in him unconditionally, so he didn't even frown, he just went about his own business.
Meng Gan believed that he was not good at this, so he held a glimmer of hope of finding another way of life, and dared to look into the deep ditch, wanting to see if he could escape here and escape when the fire broke out.
But just as his head reached into the deep ditch, the charred corpses of the puppets who had sucked in a trace of life energy made a subtle commotion, and some even raised their heads, so shocked that Meng Gan immediately retracted their heads.
He understood: the inside and outside of the deep ditch is a dividing line. If a living person enters it, even if it is only a foot or a head, these puppets will immediately corpse and eat the people who hide in it.
No way, he had to go back to the glass curtain, select the A-line that looked the easiest, and start the derivation with a bit of a head.
Just when he was about to start the derivation, Chi Xiaochi beside him turned around and said concisely: "R, I, F belong to me, and you share the rest."
Xu Jiayi was busy finding the corresponding letter of E, just nodded and did not answer.
After that, Chi Xiaochi picked up the unconscious Gan Tang and walked onto the channel representing "R".
Meng Gan said in surprise: "Hey, what are you doing?"
Chi Xiaochi didn't have the time in the United States to pay attention to him, so he went straight to the cabinet and typed in the letter U.
He put the unconscious Gan Tang in it, straightened her body, and trimmed her hair and collar. After confirming that there were air holes at the top of the cabinet, he closed the cabinet from the outside.
Immediately afterwards, he walked back to the glass curtain and began to calibrate the corresponding letter of "F".
Meng Gan couldn't help but said, "You're so confident? If it's wrong, you'll kill a person."
Chi Xiaochi didn't even look at him.
Meng Gan was bored and had to continue to study his letter "A".
Meng Gan managed to match most of the "A" lines. Who would have thought to hear Yuan Benshan say, "Xiaochi, I found the corresponding letter of A, but what you found... it doesn't seem to be the same."
Before Chi Xiaochi could answer, Meng Gan exploded first: "Are you looking for A? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Yuan Benshan was at a loss for words.
Song Chunyang gave him the answer in advance. He was excited for a while, and subconsciously felt that A belonged to him. He wanted to concentrate on checking it again, and completely ignored the need to make an agreement with others first.
But it's a matter of life and death, and now is definitely not the time to be courteous, courteous, and frugal.
So he retorted coldly: "Did you ask?"
Meng Gan jumped with anger, but he refused to take his eyes off the intricate copper chain, wanting to take a step ahead of Yuan Benshan, to find out the answer as soon as possible, and to win his life.
Facing Yuan Benshan's question, Chi Xiaochi's expression was extremely steady.
"Push it again," he said. "I was right."
Yuan Benshan was quite helpless, but to be on the safe side, he decided to deduce it from scratch.
This undoubtedly gave Meng Gan an opportunity. He eagerly sorted out the unfinished line and found that the corresponding line was "B".
He was overjoyed and immediately re-checked from A.
In order to find a quick word, he basically calculated according to the route he walked last time, and he was indeed a line faster than Yuan Benshan.
When Yuan Benshan had already pushed to the top, Meng Qian succeeded in verifying again, and the answer was B.
A-B!
He turned his head and ran away, crossing the path wide by one person, running over the scorched puppet corpses, and pressed the letter B directly on the cipher disk in Cabinet A.
Meng Qian ran away like a loach, and Yuan Benshan, who was so angry that he was about to be done, almost vomited blood: "You—"
But when he saw the numbers Meng Gan pressed on the cipher disk, he instantly calmed down and turned around to sort out the A-lines entangled with only a few copper chains.
As Chi Xiaochi said, A really corresponds to M.
And the sound of closing the door of cabinet A sounded.
Chi Xiaochi's eyes were locked on the glass curtain, and he had no time to be distracted, so he didn't know what was happening behind him.
Yuan Benshan changed to the letter C by himself and continued to calculate.
At this point, the countdown shows that there are still 8 minutes and 43 seconds.
26 fine brass chains, identical in appearance and featureless.
Such 26 chains are entangled in one place like a mess and irregularly, which is a test of human vision, concentration and pressure resistance.
The countdown electronic screen directly above the glass screen casts an extremely bright blood-red color, which exerts an intangible pressure on the human retina that makes people anxious.
If a normal person wants to clarify one thing, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort.
… And Chi Xiaochi faced Sanjo.
With 5 minutes and 45 seconds left, Chi Xiaochi moved.
He flew to Gan Yu's side, and hugged the man whose body was soaked in cold sweat again.
Gan Yu's face was morbidly red, and her pale lips were dry. Fortunately, her consciousness was clearer than before.
He was lying in Chi Xiaochi's arms, letting him carry himself to cabinet F.
He asked hoarsely, "Did you find it for yourself?"
Chi Xiaochi walked a little strenuously and crookedly, with golden flowers bursting in front of him.
… This is a sequelae of overuse.
He said casually, "I found it."
Gan Yu reached out and tugged at his collar lightly, with a helpless tone: "Lie."
Because of the continuous high concentration of energy, Chi Xiaochi already had symptoms of headache and dizziness. When Gan Yu was put down in front of cabinet F, his fingers started to tremble, and he almost smashed the password.
Chi Xiaochi took a deep breath and admitted shamelessly: "Well. I lied."
After meditating, he stuck out his finger and pressed T on the combination dial in Cabinet F.
Gan Yu did not continue to pester him, wasting time uselessly, and when he placed himself in the closet with him, he said softly, "I want to live."
Chi Xiaochi asked, "Doctor Gan, do you believe me?"
Gan Yu nodded without hesitation.
"Believe me and stay well." Chi Xiaochi said, "Wait for me on the other side of Shenglu."
After saying that, he closed the door and ran back to the glass curtain.
Breathless, he began to seek a way out for himself.
When he settled in Gan Yu, Xu Jiayi had already left, and pressed the corresponding code D on the E cabinet.
And Yuan Benshan has also checked his answer three times, and after confirming that it is correct, he just looked at Chi Xiaochi.
Chi Xiaochi stared at the screen, his teeth clenched tightly, his thumb repeatedly rubbed his palm, and his shoulders trembled uncontrollably.
Yuan Benshan looked at the display with only 4 minutes and 10 seconds left, anxious and heartbroken.
… but what can he do? Is it possible to hand over the answer that has been considered correct from experience
Thinking of the scene where he was roasted to death, Yuan Benshan's cheek muscles began to twitch uncontrollably.
In the end, he just said to Chi Xiaochi, "Chunyang, hurry up", then ran to the cabinet C and pressed the password Q.
The door opened successfully, and he hid inside.
In a blink of an eye, only Chi Xiaochi was left in front of the glass curtain.
Excessive tension made him feel like a whistle was stuffed into his mind, his ears were full of sobbing like Devil May Cry or shrill screams, his body temperature dropped sharply, and it was cold to the bone.
A flashing red light flashed in his eyes.
And he didn't care about anything, just looking for the final answer.
What does I correspond to
What does it correspond to
With 2 minutes and 10 seconds left, he found the answer.
Then, his heart suddenly cooled down.
Is... U
How could it be U
Isn't U corresponding to the R cabinet where Gan Tang is in
Chi Xiaochi immediately lost his mind, and immediately turned around to check the corresponding password of I from the beginning.
But he couldn't help thinking: Did he connect the wrong connection this time? Or was Gan Tang's connection originally wrong
His heart seemed to be tangled in a mess, and the cold sweat came out layer by layer, so that his vision began to blur.
Sensing that his emotions were wrong, he immediately raised his hand and slapped himself, forcibly recalling his mind that had been slackened due to excessive tension.
calm down!
Must be calm!
He put his trembling fingers against the glass curtain, starting from I and simulating the trajectory of I all the way up.
The heart thumped in his chest, hitting his ribs, making a deafening muffled sound.
… 60 seconds left.
The countdown ticked.
… 40 seconds left.
Chi Xiaochi even heard the clown's grin and the low humming of all the spray guns ready to start.
With 20 seconds left, Chi Xiaochi turned around and rushed to Cabinet I without saying a word.
He made a mistake the first time and wasted time, so he didn't have time to check the answers he got.
But he ran out of time.
He almost threw himself on the cabinet, pressed the V key, and rolled in the moment the cabinet door popped open.
At the moment when the cabinet door was closed, he clearly saw flames from the spray gun closest to him coming straight to his face.
In the next few seconds, all the oxygen in the air seemed to be sucked out, and the surroundings became a complete vacuum, unable to even take a breath.
Chi Xiaochi tightened his body, waiting for the final judgment.
Before the cabinet began to get hot, the back cabinet door suddenly opened with a click, and cool air poured into it.
Chi Xiaochi didn't think much, didn't even stay in a daze or stopped, he staggered out and pulled Gan Tang, who was closest to him, out of the cabinet.
Gan Yu became conscious, so she had come out of the cabinet on her own.
In addition to the three of them, Yuan Benshan and Xu Jiayi also survived.
A series of screams and screams came from Cabinet A, like a scream from the depths of hell, and the back cabinet door of Cabinet A was always tightly closed, and there was no way to open it.
After a while, there was no sound in Cabinet A.
Chi Xiaochi fell to the ground and breathed for a while before he could look around.
This time, they entered a normal and somewhat warm room.
There is no light in the room, but it is bright as if you are in the daytime. There are countless beautiful hydrogen balloons painted with clowns floating in the room, as well as a few small soft sofas and teddy bear toys placed on them, and their belongings.
And the Joker is not among them.
... It seems that this is the gift room that the clown said.
They successfully survived the three-room test, and there are still nearly ten minutes until the end of the mission.
They only need to wait in this "safe house" and survive the remaining ten minutes, then they can officially end the ten missions and return to the world of normal people.