midnight ten

The guests are not in a hurry to play the game, but the passers-by are racing against time.

As soon as they rushed out of the corridor, the large army broke up into several small teams, and disappeared into the depths of the castle along the path they thought was the safest.

In fact, there is no "safest", but it is just based on your intuition.

Some people think that the man in bathrobe and the murderer are both on the seventh floor, and they absolutely can't stay here any longer, so they immediately run up and down the stairs; some people think that the most dangerous place is the safest place, so they hide on the seventh floor.

Of course, there are also some brave partners, fleeing for their lives is not in their first reaction at all, they have already entered the "game-involved state" when they leave the murderer's room, and all they want is to find the [Life Gate].

Shishe, Kongming Lantern, Iron Blood Camp, White Group, Donuts, and VIP all belong to this school, but they are different.

Shishe and Kongming Lantern are the most "conventional", since it is [Shengmen], then just find the door.Therefore, after leaving the murderer's room, the first thing they did was to "check the map".

After this investigation, they really found it.

According to the map, there are two suspension bridges in the castle, one on the first floor, which is lowered from above the main entrance of the castle, and one on the eighth floor, which is lowered from near the watchtower on the top floor of the castle, connecting a secret door on the top floor of the castle .

Zhou Yunhui and Cui Zhan led the team upstairs, searched along the map, and successfully found the secret door.

The door leaf is made of iron, and there is no padlock or bolt on it, but it is tightly fitted and airtight.

Zhou Yunhui, who arrived first, kicked up without saying a word.

"when--"

The metal door panel made a loud and harsh sound.

Cui Zhan and Hao Siwen, who ran over from behind, were almost deafened.

As a result, the sound dissipated, and the hidden door remained motionless.

Cui Zhan was taken aback: "It's not open yet? Can you do it—"

Zhou Yunhui was about to push his shoulders again, but when he heard the words, he became angry and simply turned sideways to make way for Team Leader Cui: "You can do what you want."

Seeing that their team leader stepped aside, Brother Qiang, Hu Hu, and Huazi immediately followed suit and lined up on both sides to give Cui a smooth path.

Cui Zhan raised his head to look at the secret door, his dantian sank, his body suddenly started, and he slammed towards the door!

"when--"

The secret door is safe and sound.

Cui Zhan slid down slowly against the iron gate.

Zhou Yunhui, Tiger, Huazi, Brother Qiang: "..."

Hao Siwen: "The team leader—"

The castle has five floors.

He Lu ran all the way here with three stripes.

His idea is simple and clear - the fifth floor is the lowest floor in the upper half of the castle, from here to search for [Shengmen], the route is clear and it is not easy to miss.

But where will [Shengmen] go?

Unlike Kongming Lantern and Shishe, He Lu's first thought was "window".

The bathrobe man said that no matter what passage, as long as it can leave, it may become an exit.

There are not many doors in the castle, but there are windows in every room.He Lu is not sure that the [Shengmen] must be a certain window, but the window is the most intuitive and easiest place to try to escape, so he still wants to start here first.

So he and the three stripes didn't stop for a moment, and when they reached the fifth floor, they began to break into rooms one by one.Strange to say, these rooms are really unlocked and can be easily entered.

The windows of the castle are all of the same style. He Lu jumped over the window of the man in the bathrobe and climbed over the window of the murderer before. They are all retro-framed glass windows. The glass is all large pieces, and there is no frame to separate them. It's the kind that can be broken with a single punch.

But He Lutong tried several rooms with the three bars in a row, hitting them with his fists, hitting them with his body, and hitting them with hard objects in the room. He tried everything he could, but he couldn't leave any traces on the thin glass. Even a scratch.

If the glass cannot be broken, they should attack the window frame.

It's still the same, let you push and smash, the window frame will stay still.

Withdrawing the dagger that pried the window frame, He Lu panted and shook his head, probably understanding the routine of the game: "Only [the gate of life] can be opened."

The three bars are unwilling to accept the cruel reality that I and the captain can't even break a window, but it is obvious that the checkpoint is to add the buff of "impregnable" to these places that may lead to the outside, forcing you to find them. [Shengmen].

But who knows what that thing is!

"Do you want to continue?" The three-stripe question is the current tactic of "change to another room and continue to break the window".

He Lu understood, but didn't answer right away.He is not a self-willed person. Usually when he finds that his judgment is wrong, he will reflect on himself and correct it in time.

But the problem right now is that he has no way of determining which direction is the correct tactic.

[Shengmen] Must it not be a window?Only tried a few rooms, obviously can not draw such a conclusion.But if it's really not, they are wasting time like this, not to mention that they can't complete the game, and it will increase the risk of being found by the bathrobe man and the murderer.

"Find this floor first." Time was running out, and He Lu didn't delay for too long before making a decision, "If the windows on the entire fifth floor fail, then change to another target."

"Other targets?" Three stripes frowned, "Aside from windows and doors, what other targets are there?"

Just as He Lu was about to explain, the door of the room, which was closed or even locked by them, was suddenly kicked open with a "boom".

Both of them were startled, and immediately looked at the door with full vigilance.

The man in bathrobe and the murderer didn't come, but the three members of the white group arrived.

Jiang Cheng, who kicked the door, didn't expect that there was someone inside, and stood at the door with his legs raised.

Bai Lu pushed him aside obliquely, and entered the door openly.

Seeing He Lu and the three stripes, he didn't react at all. He glanced casually, then walked to the side of the bed, opened his arms, and threw himself onto the bed comfortably.

He Lu looked at him quietly and didn't comment on it.

Three stripes won't work, I'm too nervous to say a few words: "Are you here to sleep?"

"No, no," Xu Dingdong was the last one to enter the room, and quickly explained politely to his captain, "We're looking for a secret way."

He Lu: "Secret way?"

"That's right," Xu Dingdong nodded, "Didn't there be a 'secret passage' in the options when choosing the story before, and the guy in the bathrobe said that as long as he can get out of here, any passage is fine, we feel... ..."

"Think he's referring to the secret way?" He Lu interjected.

Xu Dingdong said, "Yes."

He Lv thought about it for a while, and realized that this might not be a scientific idea: "There is a possibility."

As soon as the words fell, Bai Luxie threw his head on the bed and looked under the bed, and the result of the visual inspection came: "It doesn't look like it, you two will try again."

Xu Dingdong sighed, resigned to his fate with "I knew it", and obediently got under the bed.

Jiang Cheng took a step back and was held back by three bars: "Try what?"

Jiang Cheng's eyes were also dull, and he had nothing to love: "Try to pry open the floor tiles to see if you can find the secret passage."

Three stripes: "..."

He didn't ask how many floor tiles the other party had already been ordered by Bai Luxie to pry up to now.The gray and unkempt faces of the two white team members, as well as the skillful movement of getting under the bed, had already given him the answer.

Soon, the sound of crackling floor tiles began to be heard from under the bed.

The three bars listened to the labor rhythm without a word, and suddenly I was very grateful that I followed a team leader with a normal brain circuit. At most, I wanted to find the door and break the window...

Hey?

Without a glance, He Lu had already stepped on the stool and began to knock on the ceiling with his hands.

The three stripes are in a daze: "Team leader?"

He Lv said seriously, "I'll check if there is a secret passage here."

Three stripes: "..."

Seventh floor of the castle, a certain room.

The donuts stayed on this floor, not because they thought the most dangerous place was the safest place, but mainly because Team Leader Guan was too lazy to go too far, so he called it "conserving energy".

So the six donuts wandered away on this floor.

Like other teams, they also have their own [life gate] goal - the hearth.

This idea was thought up by Guan Lan, and the feasibility was demonstrated by Tanhua.

Team leader Guan thinks: "When leaving here, besides going through doors and windows, you can also go down the chimney, just like Santa Claus."

Proof: "There is a chimney above the fireplace. If you climb out of the chimney, you will leave the old castle, that is, leave the scope of the game field. There is nothing wrong with it."

Such a chorus opened the "Road to the Fireplace" of donuts.

Unexpectedly, after finding several rooms in a row, either there was no fireplace, or they couldn't climb a few meters at all, and the flue began to narrow, making it impossible to continue.

The fireplace in this room is the only one that allows people to climb all the way up.This discovery is really gratifying, but for the sake of safety, it is better to let one person climb in to find the way, and the others wait outside.

The result is that now, the monk who explored the road climbed like a tiger, and his glory got stuck in the depths of the flue.

Guan Lan, Tanhua, Whole Wheat, Fifty-Five Fen and four donuts gathered in front of the dark and cooling fireplace, poked their heads into it and shouted upwards.

Leon stood at the door, listening to the movement in the corridor through the door panel, watching the wind.

Guan Lan: "Monk—shang—shang..."

A call came into the flue, and the echo was long.

Monk: "Not dead - dead - dead..."

The same sound from afar.

Guan Lan: "Can you see the exit——the exit——?"

Monk: "No..."

Guan Lan was silent.

Several donuts also noticed that something was wrong.

Fifty-five points: "We are on the seventh floor. We should climb a few meters to reach the top of the building. Even if we add the height of the chimney, how high can it be? After so long, we can't even see any light?"

Quanmai: "Isn't that obvious? It's either [Shengmen] or a dead end."

Tanhua: "But this flue can be climbed."

Whole wheat: "There are long and short dead ends."

"Have you researched the result...the result...no..." The monk urged impatiently from the depths of the chimney, "I can't hold it anymore...stop it..."

There is no foothold for people to climb on the inner wall of the flue. He relies entirely on his arms and legs to support himself, which is extremely hard.

Knowing his situation, Guan Lan made a decisive decision: "Monk, come down, this is not—"

As soon as the words were uttered, but the echo had not yet returned, Leon at the door suddenly said, "They are here."

I was taken aback for half a minute: "Who?"

Leon: "I'll kill you."

The donuts looked at each other, and now they heard footsteps and conversations getting closer.The footsteps could not be identified, but the conversation could not be more clear.

Suddenly there was a loud grinding sound in the fireplace.

The four people around the fireplace immediately turned their gazes back, and saw the monk slipping down the flue and falling into the fireplace with a bang.

Climbing the flue is difficult, but it is too easy to come back. When you let go of your hands, you are like slipping to the bottom of a closed slide in a water park.

The space in the fireplace was limited, and the monk was squeezed to the point of grinning his teeth. While struggling to get out, he complained: "This is definitely manual work. Don't look for me in the next room. I have no energy at all now. I have to..."

The endless complaints stopped abruptly when they saw the four apologetic faces in front of the fireplace.

The monk swallowed his saliva: "What do you mean by looking at me like that..."

Guan Lan, [-] Fen, Whole Wheat, Tan Hua: "Let's climb up again."

After dozens of seconds.

Guest.013 and Guest.014 entered the door.

The room is not locked, it opens with a push.There are traces of someone coming in the room, but it seems that the room is empty now.

Guest.014 glanced at 013 sideways: "I told you everything, only fools stay on this floor."

Guest.013: "As I said, you don't have to act together, you play your game, I play mine."

Guest.014: "They're not as interesting as you. How about we have a game first?"

Guest.013: "You can't beat me."

Guest.014: "How do you know if you don't try?"

Guest.013: "..."

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

Guest.014: "Hmm..."

Guest.013: "Stop trying to provoke, my patience is limited."

Above the flue in the fireplace, about two meters away.

Six donuts lined up from top to bottom: "..."

They don't want to just listen to the sound, they also want to watch the live broadcast!

On the sixth floor of the old castle, at the corner of a remote staircase.

Tang Lin took his partner and ran all the way here along the map instead of choosing a certain room.

This place has nothing to do with the search for [Shengmen], but the location is remote enough, even if the bathrobe man and the murderer want to find it, it will take some time.

What Tang Lin wants now is time.

A gap long enough for him to stop and think.

Seeing Tang Lin sitting on the stairs, Fan Peiyang closed his eyes quietly, and knew what he was thinking about again.

Fan Peiyang is always thinking about things, but what he thinks and what Tang Lin thinks are always divided into two ways.For example, now, he has been thinking about how to crack or even defeat [Vacuum Field] and [Body Sharpness]. He can conclude that Tang Lin is definitely not thinking about this.

Zheng Luozhu, Yue Pangpang and Nan Ge were also familiar with Tang Lin's habits, so they didn't bother.

Only Huo Xu couldn't understand, and asked directly: "What are we waiting for here?"

"It's not waiting," Tang Lin raised his eyes slowly, "I'm thinking."

Huo Xu snorted coldly: "Are you going to figure out the location of [Shengmen] out of thin air?"

Tang Lin said, "I'm thinking about the rules of the game."

Huo Xu: "The rule of the game is that we have to find the [Life Gate] before we are killed by those two guys."

"No matter what kind of passage, as long as it can lead to outside the scope of the game field, it may become an exit." Tang Lin suddenly repeated the rules that the bathrobe man said.

Huo Xu didn't understand what he meant, and frowned in doubt.

Tang Lin looked at all his partners and said, "I've been wondering since just now, what does this 'beyond the playing field' mean?"

The fatter and fatter he was, he said, "Let's get out of here. Go through the door, through the window, or other weird ways, as long as it leads to the outside of the castle."

"No," Nan Ge pondered, "The range of the game field is the upper half of the castle, that is, floors 5-8. If the game field is outside the range, it should be the lower half of the castle + outside the castle."

"That's it." Tang Lin said, "If [Shengmen] is really a random place among the doors, windows, roads, etc. in the upper half of the entire castle, the scope is too large, and it is completely a needle in a haystack." , whether we can find it depends on luck. In this case, why not directly set the upper half of the castle to be completely closed, and let us play hide-and-seek and battle royale with two passers-by?"

Zheng Luozhu thought for a while: "Maybe it's to make the pervert more interesting?"

Tang Lin shook his head: "If the hope of finding [Shengmen] is really so slim, everyone will give up the game soon and concentrate on dealing with the two gatekeepers, then this game setting is completely meaningless."

After Zheng Luozhu heard it now, he finally understood the meaning of his captain: "So, there are rules to follow in this game?"

Tang Lin: "It's not a rule, but I think the scope can be narrowed down."

Nan Ge understood: "Don't leave the castle, only go back to floors 1-4."

"Yes," Tang Lin stood up from the stairs, "If the [Shengmen] leads to the outside of the castle, the range is as I just said, it will be so big that the game is meaningless, but if the [Shengmen] is If you lead to the 1-4th floor of the castle, you don’t need to consider the doors and windows that go out, nor the fireplaces and flues that go up, and the remaining range is much smaller.”

Zheng Luozhu: "Looking for the stairs to go downstairs?"

Cong Yue: "A floor that can penetrate?"

Nan Ge: "Air vent?"

Huo Xu: "Are you sure there is that thing here?"

"Or..." Tang Lin clicked on the map of the castle in <Small Paper>, and his eyes slowly fixed on a certain point, "The elevator passage in the kitchen."

7 minute later.

The six VIPs came to the end of a remote corridor on the fifth floor of the ancient castle. There was a square wooden hidden compartment on the wall there. Vegetable channel.

According to the map, the kitchen is only located in the lower half of the castle. The upper half of the castle is the master’s living room. There are no such settings. The food prepared in the kitchen is sent to the upper floor of the castle from here.

There are two channels for passing vegetables like this, both start from the kitchen on the first floor and end on the fifth floor of the castle, but the directions are different.One is on the south side of the fifth floor and one is on the north side of the fifth floor.

Tang Lin's intuition [Shengmen] is in these two passages, but no, only after verification will he know.

"I'll go down first," Tang Lin said to his partner behind him, "If there is a problem, I'll send you a signal, and you don't move, if..."

Not so much if.

Mr. Fan bent over and went straight in.

The shelf used to put vegetables can't hold a big living person.As soon as Fan Peiyang entered, the cutting board fell to the ground and disappeared instantly.

Zheng Luozhu, Cong Yue, Nan Ge: "..."

Huo Xu looked at his captain: "What are you going to try next time, you just let him come, anyway, you can't grab it."

Tang Rin: "..."

After Fan Peiyang fell, there was no more sound from the channel.

Tang Lin unconsciously pursed his lips.

The track hinges moved again suddenly, and in a blink of an eye, the food delivery board returned to the fifth floor, but Fan Peiyang on it was gone.

Tang Lin didn't hesitate any longer, and went in directly.

Immediately afterwards, there was a rapid fall like a free fall, and the field of vision quickly dimmed.

Then his body shook, and the cutting board fell to the ground.

Before Tang Lin could see his surroundings clearly, he was pulled out of the channel by a pair of big hands reaching in from outside.

With both feet on the ground, the vision is clear.

kitchen.

"Is this the first floor?" He looked around and asked Fan Peiyang with some uncertainty.

Fan Peiyang looked out the window.

Tang Lin followed him to see, through the kitchen window, he could see the cliff not far away.

"Boom-"

"Ouch--"

"Boom-"

All the partners fell down one after another and climbed out of the passing dish.

Tang Lin couldn't be happy.

They really left the playing field and returned to the lower half of the castle.

but--

"Didn't pass the level?"

After checking <cheat sheet> for a long time, the partners who did not see the new prompt finally found the problem.