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The moment she entered the third level, Du Ruoying saw a weird corridor.

Both sides of the corridor are locked doors and fake famous paintings with weird colors, and the farther it extends, the larger the scale of the space, as if it leads directly to the kingdom of giants.The near small and far large space seriously violated the human instinct of perspective, which made her feel dizzy for a moment.

"The content of this level is the theme of Battle Royale," a cold female voice sounded on the radio, "Players need to find an exit during the escape process, and they must not be caught by 'ghosts' during this period, otherwise they will be out of the game."

At the beginning of the game, all kinds of strange "ghosts" emerged from the doors. William quickly dodged and bypassed the three "ghosts", and then they turned to attack Sherlock behind William. Pressing the handprints covered in red paint on Sherlock's clothes, in a flash, a solid shoulder throw knocked them all down on the hard floor.

"Don't hurt the staff, hello!" Du Ruoying hurried forward to help the staff up, "How is it, did you hurt anywhere?"

"It doesn't matter." The three stood up in pain.

"Sorry, I instinctively..." Sherlock blinked guiltily.

The brutal start obviously frightened the "ghosts", but the game had to continue. Out of fear of Sherlock's skills, they didn't even dare to get too close during the chase, keeping a subtle distance from the players. In the end, it was only a schematic chase.

Du Ruoying even felt that this was not so much being chased by "ghosts", but more like a treacherous "hundred ghosts seeing off".

In the end, everyone ran into a silver metal elevator at the end of the corridor, and the door closed automatically, completely isolating the "ghost".

But it didn't end there.

Du Ruoying noticed that in this strange elevator space, all objects were about two or three times larger than usual, and the indoor height seemed to exceed six meters, making people feel like they were in a giant country.The whole space presents a wonderful mirror image relationship, except that there is a door and button panel in the direction they come in, and there is another closed metal door on the opposite side, and the numbers on the button panel next to it are completely mirrored.

"That door is probably the real exit." William walked to the opposite door and carefully observed the mirrored digital panel.

"How do I turn it on?" Yeats looked around the room, but he couldn't see anything that could be called a clue.

Du Ruoying tentatively pressed a floor button, but the number did not light up normally. Instead, the book-sized electronic screen flickered for a moment, displaying a line of strange text——

"Warning: The elevator is overweight and cannot be used normally!"

"What... what do you mean, do you have to let some people back to the corridor first, and then leave in batches?" Yeats widened his eyes in panic.

Qi Menghuai pointed to a note on top of her head: "The number of passengers is limited to two."

"That is to say, the scores are divided into three batches?" Li Mo asked.

At the same time, Du Ruoying's and William's fingers touched the door-opening buttons at the bottom of each other's panels.

Only a "beep" was heard, and the exit door opened.

"What? It's that simple." Li Mo walked out.

Of course, things are not really that simple.

The moment William and Du Ruoying released the button, the exit door slammed shut again.

"What... what do you mean?" Du Ruoying touched the panel button again, but the door didn't open. It wasn't until William touched the button again that the door opened again.

"It seems that two door opening buttons need to be pressed at the same time." William understood.

Du Ruoying gestured the distance between the two buttons, which was nearly three meters: "So...'Limited to two people' means to leave two people who can't get out to sacrifice themselves?"

"No way...is there any other way?" Yeats asked.

Everyone looked around the entire interior of the elevator, and it was empty everywhere, and there was no prop to replace them to continuously trigger the button.Moreover, the closing speed of the exit is very fast. Even if the person who is close to the exit can risk the chance of escaping, the person who is far away from the exit will still be ruthlessly left behind.

"It's okay, just let Xiaoying and I break up." William smiled slightly, "Is that okay, Xiaoying?"

Seeing him so calm, Du Ruoying couldn't help but suspect that everything was not as hopeless as it seemed on the surface. Maybe, he had already thought of other ways to get out.

So she nodded: "Yes."

"No!" Yeats resolutely said, "How can you abandon your teammates just to clear the level?"

"It's useless to insist on staying here," Sherlock picked up Yeats and walked out of the elevator, then turned back and said to the others, "Don't waste time, let's go quickly."

Yeats struggled in resistance: "Sherlock, how can you be so ruthless, let me go..."

"Hey, what a stupid guy." Sherlock was speechless, "Well, stop making trouble, listen to me, you will meet again soon."

"What do you mean?" Looking at the metal door that was closed again behind him, Yeats stopped struggling desperately.

"It means that the hidden puzzle in the elevator can only be solved when there are only two people left in the elevator. This is the true meaning of 'limited to two people'. After solving that puzzle, they can still come out Yes, we'll just wait here." Sherlock said.

In the elevator, the moment the door was closed, the overhead light went out, and the car was plunged into darkness. Only the button panel on Yu Ruoying's side was still lit with blue digital light, and six short short lines flashed on the electronic screen. the bars.

"So this is the real meaning of 'limited to two people'!" Du Ruoying suddenly realized.

"Hey, that's right," William nodded. "It's commendable, student Xiaoying, the reaction was a little faster than I expected."

"...Is this a compliment? Why does it sound like a sarcasm to me?" Du Ruoying was speechless, "Forget it, I'm too lazy to argue with you, solving the puzzle is more important."

Darkness temporarily disables vision, sharpens other senses, and makes concentration easier.Suddenly, Du Ruoying realized the puzzle, "These floor numbers should be the code disk, as long as you enter the correct code, you can open the opposite door."

"So, what's the password?" William's voice was suddenly very close, so close that it made her ears feel hot, and she almost lost her mind.

"There are not many clues that can be accessed in this level. The things that are most like clues are the paintings in the corridor," Du Ruoying thought, "I remember that they are Ingres's "Louis XIII's Vow" in turn, Titian "Charles V" by the author, Van Gogh's "Fourteen Sunflowers", Rembrandt's "Moses' Ten Commandments", Kandinsky's "Composition No. [-]"... Finally, Munch's "Sphinx". If nothing else happens, the clues should be in these paintings."

Fortunately, I took art history as an elective this semester, and I didn't expect it to come in handy here.

She sweated secretly in her heart.

"Student Xiaoying's reasoning ability is really amazing," William narrowed his red eyes approvingly, showing a look of enjoyment like drinking black tea, "So, what clues will there be in the painting?"

Here again, this attitude of knowingly asking questions...

Du Ruoying felt as if she had become a student answering the questions, and if she was not careful, she would call out a page full of negatives with red crosses, but he was like a tester who had mastered the final answer, playing with it like a cat playing with a mouse. her thoughts and answers.

She knew that other people liked to be seduced by him, just like a well-behaved student who readily accepts the teacher's enlightenment and instruction.But she instinctively resisted such a temptation, which made her feel like becoming his marionette again.

"I found," she explained her thoughts cautiously, "the names of those paintings almost all contain a number, "Louis XIII's Vow" is 13, "Charles V" is 5, "Fourteen Flowers" "Sunflower" is 14, "Moses' Ten Commandments" is 10, and "Composition No. 8" refers to [-]..." She pressed these numbers one by one to make them light up one by one, "This Probably not a coincidence."

"But there are no figures in Munch's Sphinx." William's reminder stung her.

"Yes," she bit her lower lip, lowered her head in frustration, "only this doesn't make sense."

"Don't be discouraged, you've done a good job." William put his hand on her little head and encouraged her softly.

The moment she was comforted, Du Ruoying couldn't help but her heart skipped a beat, but the reality made her sober up quickly: "Maybe I did guess wrong."

"No, you guessed right."

"what?"

"The author of "Sphinx", Edvard Munch," William suddenly changed the subject, "I have seen this child before."

"...to call an old painter from the 19th century a 'child'," Du Ruoying didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Well, it's you."

William smiled gently, and then continued: "At that time, he was studying in France and studied under Bona. Louis and I happened to meet when we went to their country to check things, and we chatted for a while." He paused, His lowered gaze gradually became empty, as if he had fallen into some distant memory, "That child was born with a genius melancholy, and he has his own unique understanding of everything, which left a deep impression on me.

"When I saw him, he was concentrating on drawing the draft of "Sphinx". He told us about women, saying that he found that women, like Sphinx, had three faces, and they were innocent and charming at first. , so that he unknowingly let down his vigilance, and then, the moment he lost his guard, he suddenly showed his cruel fangs.

"So, he gave the painting "Sphinx" another name - "Three Stages of Woman" [1], which represents the number 3." William's gentle whisper sounded in his ear, as if The demagogic siren made her raise her hand uncontrollably, trying to get close to the end of the game—the button with the number 3 written on it.

It's a pity that I'm not tall enough, and it's useless to stand on tiptoe.

"Let me do it." William smiled slightly, leaned forward a little, reached out and pressed the button for her.

The tall figure approached from behind, enveloping her, and the thin skirts conveyed each other's body temperature. It was warm, but it was a temperature enough to melt reason. Together with some dark and unclear emotions, it flowed in quickly like an electric current. , causing a slight tremor in his spine.

Both of them were stunned.

The distance suddenly became so close, so close that we could hear each other's heartbeat, so close that we could completely suppress thinking.

Du Ruoying didn't react until the door opened behind her and Yeats' cheers came.Taking advantage of the cover of darkness, she quickly fled back to Yeats.

"What did you do in the elevator so you blushed?" Yeats asked.

Du Ruoying forcefully cleared her throat calmly: "It's nothing."

"This hidden level is really strange. Why do you have to limit it to two people?" Li Mo also became curious, "What's the content? Is it a room where you can't go out without OOXX?"

"Hey, why do you talk more and more crooked..." Du Ruoying couldn't complain.

In this way, the third level ended smoothly, and the fourth and fifth levels were quickly resolved by everyone's concerted efforts, and then they came to the last level——

Level [-]: Unlimited two options.

"Infinite choice? What do you mean?" Yeats asked.

"It's the maze and the door of life and death," Qi Menghuai picked up a reminder board. "Players need to make correct choices and push the right door to reach the end. If you push the wrong door and enter the wrong room, you will not You can't get out, and you will encounter the 'ghosts' hiding in the room, and you will be caught by their red-painted hands."

"It sounds like a game that requires constant exploration and trial and error with your companions," Li Mo said.

"Are you kidding, I don't want to play like this!" Yeats looked at Du Ruoying for help, "We must have other ways, right?"

Du Ruoying was staring at the identical emergency escape logos painted on the two gates of life and death at the moment, and suddenly had an inspiration: "Brother Huai, I remember that you have a good image memory, and you still remember the sticker on the first exit door?" That fire evacuation map? Can you draw it silently?"

Qi Menghuai nodded, took the pen and paper, and drew it as it was.

Du Ruoying picked up the drawing and began to analyze: "We were in this room at the beginning, then went through four checkpoints, and now we are here. So far, these routes coincide with the fire evacuation routes on this drawing. If Next, continue to follow this blueprint, and you should be able to reach the end point without trial and error."

"Really?" Li Mo was dubious.

"Try it and you'll know." With that said, Du Ruoying strode to one of the exit doors and put her hand on the doorknob.

Although she was a little afraid of the unknown "ghost" that might exist behind the door, she knew that the reasoning she had made had to be verified by herself. Thinking of this, she swallowed nervously, calmed down, Then he mustered up the courage to press down the handle, opened the door and walked in.

The new room is bright and empty, and all corners are unobstructed.

"It's safe." She breathed a sigh of relief, and then motioned for others to follow.

Before opening the door for the second time, Du Ruoying wanted to try again, but this time she was stopped by Yeats and Qi Menghuai: "Let's take turns exploring the way."

Du Ruoying was stunned.

"Xiaoying's reasoning is definitely not a problem, but I can't trust Brother Huai's memory. What if he draws the wrong evacuation diagram for you, right?" Yeats deliberately winked at Qi Menghuai .

"Oh...well, yes." Qi Menghuai understood, "Let me and Ye Zi explore the way this round."

Du Ruoying felt a warm feeling in her heart: "Then I'll leave it to you."

In this way, everyone took turns to explore the road and kept moving forward, and everything went very smoothly.Soon, they reached the finish line.

The moment you cleared the level, you will be greeted by a huge billboard with the words "the most difficult secret room in history" and the jaw-dropping staff in front of the billboard.

Du Ruoying glanced at her watch: less than 6 minutes.

"Ah, it's not fun at all, you guys are too short." Yeats complained to the staff, unaware of how bad his lines were.

On the side, a secret room planner who was about to interview everyone about their play experience: Don’t ask, it’s just that it’s a shock right now, a shock...

The manager walked up to everyone with a smile on his face: "No discount will be given if you play fast, three hundred per person, a total of one thousand and eight, please come to the front desk to settle the bill."

"What?" Sherlock was stunned, "Isn't it a free trial?"

"Please read the words carefully," the manager explained, pointing to a row of small mosquito-leg-thick words under the slogan, "The free trial must fully abide by the following rules, and if you violate any of them, you need to pay in full , and disqualified from the award.”

"This is the Overlord Clause!" Li Mo was annoyed.

"But you all signed it."

"So what the hell are we breaking?" Sherlock asked.

"You passed the first level by illegally picking locks, and you passed the second level without finding the display screen, and the third level even had close physical contact with the staff who played the ghost..." The manager counted them one by one with his fingers Said, "Hey hey, there are surveillance videos of this."

Du Ruoying knew she was wrong, but she still had an unspeakable awkwardness in her heart: "I can accept the cancellation of the prize, but isn't full payment too much? After all, you are using the 'free trial' gimmick to draw us here of."

"Yes, it's a free trial, but there are conditions." The manager said convincingly, "And, please allow me to emphasize again——you signed it."

"Professor! Profiteer..." Yeats stomped his feet angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

"It seems that it doesn't make sense," Li Mo clenched his fists displeased, and made a soft cracking sound, "Just in time, there has been no suitable place to practice the newly learned Barton Technique——"

"Since there is monitoring," William pressed Li Mo's shoulders calmly, pulled him behind him, and then smiled kindly at the manager, "How about taking out the monitoring first, so we can have a look?"

"No problem," said the manager, and pulled another staff member to the side to give some instructions, but suddenly his face changed, "What, the monitoring is gone?!"

"If you can't show the monitoring, it's just slander?" William smiled more warmly.Du Ruoying glanced sideways at his hands behind his back. Between his fingers, he could see a new message light up on the phone screen.

Bai Qirun: ok, it's done.

Du Ruoying: ...

It's really bad luck for this store to run into you guys.

"And...there are other clauses!" The manager hurriedly argued, "It is also against the rules to secretly carry a mobile phone into the stadium..." Halfway through the conversation, Sherlock and William glanced at each other, then stepped forward tacitly, and patted the manager on the shoulder , indicating to him to chat alone in another place.

When they came out again, there was only a distorted flattery on the manager's face: "Six...six prizes, and a lifetime VIP card, all for free, hehehe, please check it out .”

Du Ruoying: ...

After receiving the prizes, everyone left the store with puzzled expressions on their faces, and the manager was still graciously waving behind them: "It is our honor to serve you for free, thank you for your honor, and look forward to your continued visit next time, best wishes You have a smooth journey and a happy life!"

Emmm...

Is it broken?It's definitely broken...

"What the hell did you do to him?" On the way back, she couldn't help feeling infinitely sympathetic towards the boss of the secret room.

"Nothing," William spread his hands innocently, "I just reminded him that the wrong fire evacuation plans and escape signs in public buildings seriously violated the "Building Fire Protection Code". Once a fire broke out, it would mislead the evacuation of the crowd. If the fire department comes to investigate this, it will be more than just a loss of six mobile phones.” He smiled happily at Du Ruoying, “Student Xiaoying taught me these legal provisions, I didn’t expect It's quite useful."

Du Ruoying: That's not how it works, hey...

She couldn't help but feel a headache on her forehead: "I was wrong, I shouldn't have taught building codes to a sophist like you."

"The essence of the law is sophistry," William said unhurriedly. "Lawsuits to no avail, grievances swallowed, and tragedies of the weak happen every day. Just take this store as an example. In the name of cleverness and the law, are you constantly bullying and deceiving other people? Do you think you should condone it?"

Du Ruoying couldn't answer for a while.

"As for us, at best, we are just treating others in the same way." William smiled slightly.

Du Ruoying tugged at the corner of Sherlock's clothes helplessly: "Hey, Sherlock, say something too!"

"Ah? What are you talking about?" Sherlock replied absently, but his eyes refused to leave the operation interface of the new phone at all. "This thing is not bad."

Du Ruoying: Tired, destroy it...