Tiandi Baiju

When Zhou Luoyang opened his eyes, he heard the patter of rain outside, and in the dark ward, a nurse was giving him an injection.

Zhou Luoyang's hands and feet were tied to the hospital bed by leather cuffs, and he changed into a hospital gown. He tried to struggle a few times, but his whole body seemed to be falling apart, and the slightest movement caused severe pain.

What about Du Jing?

The nurse said something in Khmer, which he couldn't understand, and presumably meant to tell him not to move around.

"What injection did you give me?" Zhou Luoyang trembled.

"Painkiller." The nurse understood and answered him in blunt Chinese.

Cambodians often deal with Chinese people and can speak simple Chinese, but in a dilapidated small hospital, even a nurse can speak Chinese, what does that mean?

Before that, she had contact with Chinese people.

The medicine took effect, Zhou Luoyang's body pain eased, and he gradually calmed down.

Is Du Jing still alive?They were not in the same ward. Zhou Luoyang looked around and saw mottled walls and a dilapidated wooden window. Outside the window was a dark green forest. It was raining and it was hard to tell the time. Counting the moment when the helicopter crashed, it was already daytime up.

Why are they being attacked all of a sudden?Zhou Luoyang's heart beat wildly in an instant. Did Huang Ting betray them?No, it's impossible, Huang Ting is not like a bad guy.And even if Zhou Luoyang couldn't see through Huang Ting's identity, as an agent, Du Jing couldn't make such a low-level mistake.

From Wan City to Hong Kong, and then to Ho Chi Minh City, Huang Ting did not show any abnormality.

So, had his informant betrayed them?I don't know how Huang Ting and Zhuang Li are doing now, whether they were caught or not.

Du Jing may be in a nearby ward. He was more seriously injured than himself. When he fell, Du Jing protected him, causing him to fall into a coma.And at the time of the crash, they didn't even have time to set back time.

The medicine Du Jing was taking conflicted with certain medicines, so they couldn't be allowed to give Du Jing random medicines... Zhou Luoyang remembered that he had to meet up with Du Jing as soon as possible. What time is it?Where is he?

Zhou Luoyang tried to struggle, but the leather cuffs on his hands and feet were not tight, but it was difficult to break free. He was handcuffed to the hospital bed.

There was silence in the room. Zhou Luoyang heard the sound of the hospital bed overturning not far away, and then the doctor and the nurse hurried over from the corridor outside the ward.

"Du Jing!" Zhou Luoyang shouted from the air, "Is that you?"

Without getting any answer, Zhou Luoyang yelled a few more times, and the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and two people walked in.

The leader is a Southeast Asian man with a fierce face, wearing a local camouflage uniform, followed by a young man, it is Ruan Song!

Zhou Luoyang fell silent. The moment Ruan Song appeared, he knew it was over and they were in KCR's hands.

He didn't try to struggle any more, just looked at Ruan Song calmly.

The soldier said something to Ruan Song, and Ruan Song came over and opened the leather cuffs on Zhou Luoyang's wrists and ankles.

"I have prepared clothes for you," Ruan Song pointed to the locker on the side of the ward, and said, "You can change."

An ominous premonition welled up in Zhou Luoyang's heart, but he didn't ask, and opened the locker, where his torn clothes were placed, and his passport and the lipstick gun confiscated from Su Pu were taken away.

He glanced, and there was a set of Cambodian national costumes next to him.

"Come out after changing your clothes, and follow us," Ruan Song said again, "Don't try to escape, there are many guards around here, there are forests outside, and there are power grids in the forest, as soon as you run, they will shoot and kill you I'm not joking with you, only by cooperating can you have hope of survival."

Zhou Luoyang: "Where's Groot?"

Ruan Song said: "He will not be in danger, at least not now, and then it depends on your performance."

The soldier asked Ruan Song something, his tone seemed dissatisfied, Ruan Song explained a few words to him, the soldier didn't speak any more, and rudely reprimanded Zhou Luoyang in Khmer, Zhou Luoyang could hear that he meant to hurry up.

He was taken out of the corridor and looked at the ward not far away. He suspected that Du Jing was locked in that ward right now, but he didn't dare to act rashly because he knew that they would really shoot and kill people. Not intimidating.

If you die here, no one will come to ask, it can only be treated as another case of missing persons.

He was taken out of the hospital and got into an off-road vehicle. The off-road vehicle drove into the dense forest with no roads. Zhou Luoyang found that the soldiers driving the car did not use any navigation and drove to a roadless place in the woods.

Ruan Song reminded again: "All communication is shielded here, you can only connect to their wireless network, and no one will come to rescue you."

Zhou Luoyang hummed: "Thank you for your reminder."

Then, Ruan Song closed the curtains around the car and the partition between the cab, so that the environment outside the car could no longer be seen.

"Why did you do that?" Zhou Luoyang said.

Ruan Song didn't answer.

In the long silence, Ruan Song said: "Who are you guys? What does it matter to you? Isn't it good to live well in Wanshi? Why did you come to Cambodia to seek death?"

Zhou Luoyang didn't answer either.

Ruan Song said, "Do you like Lu Zhongyu?"

Zhou Luoyang replied: "I think too much, I don't have any feelings for him at all, but I don't want to see him die, and I want to try to save his life."

Saying that, Zhou Luoyang looked at Ruan Song seriously, and said, "Why?"

Ruan Song said: "My wife is in their hands and owes the casino more than 200 million yuan."

Zhou Luoyang finally understood, he couldn't laugh or cry: "200 million, as for?"

An expression of resentment suddenly appeared in Ruan Song's eyes, and he said in a low voice: "As for? As for? You can afford 200 million? If you can afford it, will you be willing to give it to me? Do you know what you can buy with 200 million? Yes Buy several lives!"

Ruan Song's expression twisted, Zhou Luoyang took a deep breath, thought about it, and finally said nothing.

"Then have you earned enough money?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"If Lu Zhongyu wins," Ruan Song said almost coldly and cruelly, "that's enough."

"Win what?" Zhou Luoyang said.

Ruan Song didn't speak any more.

Zhou Luoyang estimated the time, and nearly an hour later, the car stopped and he was escorted out of the car again.

He looked back, but Ruan Song didn't get out of the car, but looked at him with a somewhat cold expression on the off-road vehicle.

It was a peculiar manor located in the dense virgin rainforest. Zhou Luoyang was about to look up when he was shot in the back of the head again, telling him not to glance at it.In front of the gate is a security fence made of spiral barbed wire, and there are cameras everywhere.Zhou Luoyang speculated that the place where he came in should be the back door of the manor.

He saw a lot of signal blocking cars.

The off-road vehicle that sent him drove away, and Zhou Luoyang walked along the mud into an underground cement passage. When he entered, he felt that there should be a lot of ammunition hidden here.

The underground space is very open, with a chandelier hanging on the concrete roof, under the chandelier, many soldiers are playing poker around the table.Looking at their military uniforms, Zhou Luoyang could not be connected with any government army of any country.

Maybe mercenaries?

Zhou Luoyang entered the elevator, and the soldier took out his card and swiped it. There were only two floor buttons in the elevator.After arriving, he was handed over to another bodyguard in a suit. The bodyguard made a "please" gesture and led him through a long corridor, and then into another elevator, leading to another floor in the manor.

The interior of the manor is decorated in a colonial European style, and two bodyguards are guarding the door.Zhou Luoyang took a look. According to the judgment Du Jing usually taught him, Zhou Luoyang compared the bodyguards' appearance and training traces, and saw that any of them were very difficult to mess with.

The bodyguard opened the door for him and took him into a rather luxuriously decorated study.It was a cloudy and rainy evening, but the lights in the study looked brilliant.A Southeast Asian man in his 40s was sitting behind a desk, polishing one of his pistols.

He cast a glance at Zhou Luoyang, showing a weird smile.

"Hello, what's your surname?" the Southeast Asian man said in Chinese, "My name is Hong Hou, you are Chinese, you can call me Brother Hou."

"Miangui, his surname is Zhou." Zhou Luoyang said calmly.

He began to look at the layout of the room. There were so many cultural relics that a private museum could be opened, such as Buddha heads, Vishnu statues, elephant gods, bronze shrines, embroidered carpets of the monkey god Hanuman, Buddhist pagodas in Nepal, Chinese Porcelain, Byzantine sculptures, modern abstract paintings... On both sides of the bookshelf, there is a samurai sword from the Meiji era.

A longbow and an arrow hang in the center, visually it is from the Siamese period.

Hong Hou took out two sheets of A4 paper from the drawer. On the paper was Zhou Luoyang's photo, and at the bottom was simple personal information recorded in Khmer.

"Are you an antique dealer?" Hong Hou said with a smile.

"Can I see your treasure?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"Yes," Hong Hou said generously, "The Chinese are our friends, just look around."

Zhou Luoyang walked to the samurai sword and pulled it out a little.

Hong Hou said, "Do you like it?"

Zhou Luoyang replied: "During the Meiji period, it was made of jade steel, that is, sponge iron. Where did you get it?"

Hong Hou smiled and said: "A rich man in Japan lost it to me in a bet."

"Casinos are profitable businesses." Zhou Luoyang said.

Marquis Hong loosened his fingers, and thoughtfully said: "Yes, it's a profitable business, but because of you Chinese, business is not easy now."

Zhou Luoyang returned the samurai sword to its sheath, made a soft noise, and said, "What conditions do you want to let us go?"

Hong Hou said: "Let's take a look at your performance in the trials first. Frankly speaking, it's not very good, but your performance at the last moment surprised me."

Hong Hou pressed the button on the desk, and a projection dropped from behind Zhou Luoyang, and the lights in the study were turned off, projecting the whole monitoring of their escape room in the escape room in Wan City half a month ago.

Sometimes the camera zooms out, sometimes zooms in.Different monitoring areas have different distances, but in a few moments, Zhou Luoyang's choices and important moments in the secret room were condensed.Until finally, standing in front of the altar, when Zhou Luoyang had to choose to shoot one of them, the high-resolution surveillance camera shot him directly in the face.

Zhou Luoyang: "..."

Hong Hou said: "During the selection stage, I noticed you, of course, and your gay lover, or sexual partner?"

Zhou Luoyang never expected that he and Du Jing had been under Hong Hou's surveillance for the whole time they went to play the escape room!

"You..." Zhou Luoyang's voice trembled. They had already made relevant guesses before, but when the answer was revealed, he was still in extreme shock!

Hong Hou spread his hands, showing a strange smile, and said: "In the fourth season of this year, at first I was afraid that I would not be able to gather enough people, but I didn't expect you to come to my door. Speaking of this, please allow me to express my sincere thanks." .”

He looked at Zhou Luoyang meaningfully, and said, "Including you and your partner, there are now six players in total, and the fourth season can be held as scheduled. How about we make an agreement?"

Zhou Luoyang knew that there must be a gun in his desk, but he didn't know how likely he was to cut off one of his hands and take him hostage if he rushed to the samurai sword and drew the sword.

But Hong Hou didn't look like he was defenseless, so Zhou Luoyang finally dismissed the idea.

"What agreement?" Zhou Luoyang said in a deep voice.

Hong Hou pressed another button, and a promotional video dubbed in English appeared on the projector, with subtitles in Russian, Japanese, and Spanish underneath. Under the aerial camera, the magnificent Angkor Wat was displayed in front of them, accompanied by narration.

"Mysterious Khmer culture, the place where the gods descended, the ancient temple lost for thousands of years..."

That was the rolling promotional video that Zhou Luoyang saw in the secret room of Wan City, in which six adventurers entered the interior of the Angkor Wat temple and began to explore, surrounded by dangers, until they finally reached the moment before the altar.

"I propose that you and your companions officially join us in the fourth season," Hong Hou said. "The rules are very simple, similar to the trials, except for a little difference."

Zhou Luoyang murmured: "Except for real-life adventures, you may die in the maze at any time. This is a small difference."

"Yes." Hong Hou leaned back on the big leather chair, with his feet resting on the desk, revealing his shiny military boots, with a dagger sticking out of the side of the boots, "The formal scene is not comparable to a simple secret room." , are you looking forward to it?"

Before Zhou Luoyang could answer, Hong Hou said again: "Maybe you can decide who will live and who will die in the end, but you have to cherish the opportunity in your hand, don't be like a tryout."

Zhou Luoyang said: "If we come out alive, what can we get?"

"All bets are 270% bets," Hong Hou said, "nearly [-] million US dollars, and the current number is still rising. Or choose one from my collection and take it away."

Zhou Luoyang couldn't be so stupid, he knew that even if he won, this group of people wouldn't be able to let him survive - otherwise their live broadcast of bloody killing games on the dark web, as well as their hiding places, and all the criminal facts would be exposed by him.

Most likely, after the competition ended, he would be sold to the behind-the-scenes benefactor who gave instructions behind the camera to torture the champion of the competition to death.

"What if I refuse to participate?" Zhou Luoyang said.

"You shouldn't ask this question." Hong Hou said with a smile.

Zhou Luoyang thought for a while and said, "I need to convince my friends."

"No need, he will definitely come, as an Interpol." Hong Hou said seriously, "This is our biggest highlight this year, according to your performance in the preliminary round, you two are the biggest dark horses in the fourth season, don't it disappointed me."

"Yes, but I have one more condition." Zhou Luoyang said.

Hong Hou motioned to Zhou Luoyang to say.

Zhou Luoyang pondered for a moment, and then said: "Give us back everything we both have. I am willing to compete with my companions."

Hong Hou said: "How can that work? You have a suppressed pistol, although I don't know where you got it, it affects the balance of the game too much."

Zhou Luoyang said: "Originally, I had a gun in the game settings."

Hong Hou thought about it, and Zhou Luoyang said again: "You can take the mobile phone away, but I think the mobile phone is useless after the helicopter crash. Are you afraid that we will communicate with the outside world? We have a watch, a pistol, and a finger Tiger, return them all."

Hong Hou took out a cigarette from his desk and said, "Then, we have to modify the rules of the game. You can bring things in, and other people can naturally."

Zhou Luoyang said: "It's fair, you can also equip the other contestants with some equipment, such as bulletproof vests? I think it might be more fun."

Hong Hou said: "It's a new way to play."

Zhou Luoyang naturally knew that Hong Hou was not worried about them sending out signals to the outside world. If the isolation of the secret room was done reasonably enough, even if there was a mobile phone inside, they would not be able to send out their location.

It is impossible for them to carry out this killing show in Angkor Wat with great fanfare. The only possibility is to restore a space like Angkor Wat underground as much as possible.

"I will discuss with the designer." Hong Hou said, "You can go down and rest. Three days later, the fourth season will start. Before that, you must recharge your batteries and don't be so nervous that you can't sleep."

Zhou Luoyang: "I want to be with..."

"We can't meet before the game starts." Hong Hou said, "Please."

Zhou Luoyang knew that the only way to reject Hong Hou was to be blindfolded, taken out, sent to an uninhabited dense forest, shot to death on the spot, and the body was disposed of.

He didn't make any more requests, and turned to leave. Naturally, someone was waiting outside and took him to a guest room.

At the same time, Du Jing's hands were handcuffed in front of his body, and he was taken into Honghou's study.

"Please sit down."

Hong Hou obviously knew that Du Jing's strength was not on the same level as Zhou Luoyang's.

"You seem to be injured a little bit," Hong Hou said. "Your arm is broken, there is also a little bleeding in internal organs, and soft tissue contusion. As long as you rest well these few days, you should be fine to participate in the competition in three days' time."

Du Jing's left hand was bandaged and splinted, and gauze and Band-Aids were stuck on his face.

"The place is nice," Du Jing said, "I can enjoy life."

"Ah, smart people," Hong Hou said, "I like dealing with smart people best, especially smart Chinese."

Hong Hou opened the drawer and took out two transparent plastic bags, one of which contained Du Jing's watch, a U disk, and knuckles.

The other contained the passports and letters of introduction of Du Jing and Zhou Luoyang.

Hong Hou first flipped through Du Jing's passport, letter of introduction, etc., casually said:

"Thanks to you," Hong Hou said, "we finally caught the legendary Huang Ting. We have admired your senior. This master player has been around for a long time, but it is a pity that we have never had a fate."

After reading Du Jing's personal information, Hong Hou opened another transparent plastic bag, holding the watch strap of the Eye of Versailles with his finger, looking over and over again.

"Beautiful," Hong Hou said, "a rare watch, but I have seen another one that is exactly the same."

"That's my token of love," Du Jing said, "I hope you don't do anything that you regret."

"Oh?" Hong Hou said, "Your same-sex lover gave it to you?"

Hong Hou didn't even think about it, he threw the watch over, the shiny surface drew an arc in the air, Du Jing raised his hand, and caught it firmly.

He moved his fingers and put it on his wrist.

"For love," Honghou said, "a person can unleash an unprecedented potential."

"Yes." Without looking at Hong Hou, Du Jing turned the date chuck around the dial, looked at him politely, and said, "Now let's talk about the conditions. What do you want?"

Hong Hou tried on Du Jing's knuckles again, moved his fingers, tried to punch a few times, and then threw it over.

"Don't use it on my territory." Hong Hou said again, and took out the third plastic bag, which contained Su Pu's lipstick gun. He pointed it at himself, and Du Jing reminded him kindly: "Be careful of fire."

"Hmm." Hong Hou said seriously, but he didn't throw the lipstick gun at the same time, but Du Jing has already got the most important Eye of Versatile to him, and all that's left is to wait patiently.

The windows of the guest room are equipped with anti-theft bars, the surroundings are all fire-resistant materials, the door is locked, and there are surveillance cameras in the four corners of the ceiling, even the bathroom. Other than that, it is exactly the same as a high-end hotel.

There were several sets of clothes in the closet, one of which looked a bit strange, Zhou Luoyang remembered - it was worn by an actor in the escape room, it seems that they arranged for themselves this role.

Zhou Luoyang picked up the electronic clock beside the bed and looked at it. It was seven fifty at night.

They also asked Du Jing to participate, which meant that Du Jing was absolutely safe for at least these three days.

Zhou Luoyang was still in pain all over, lying on the bed panting for breath.After a while, the waiter brought dinner, local Cambodian dishes, and gave him a menu, which meant that he could order whatever he wanted.

Zhou Luoyang picked up a few dishes at random, and after hastily eating dinner, he flipped through the travel magazines in his room, most of which were about the tourist items in Phnom Penh.He looked around the four corners of the surveillance, knowing that someone must be closely monitoring him 24 hours a day.

This is an escape room in another sense——Zhou Luoyang thought to himself, he must find a way to get back the Eye of Versailles.

59:58:[-].

59 seconds.

The moment all the numbers returned to zero, Zhou Luoyang suddenly returned to the helicopter!

Du Jing's steady voice sounded beside his ears: "Huang Ting, get out of there, we've been exposed."

Immediately afterwards, the sound of RPG launching sounded, and Zhou Luoyang immediately turned sideways, and he and Du Jing hugged each other tightly.

Amidst the loud noise, the missiles fired from the bazooka hit the cockpit of the helicopter, causing the world to spin. Zhou Luoyang became dizzy for a while, and then hugged Du Jing's head with his backhand.

"The time point was chosen too badly," Du Jing said.

"I asked them to keep all our belongings!" Zhou Luoyang shouted the moment he fell.

"Your layout is beautiful. I've already got it. The forced landing begins." Du Jing was still in the mood to tease at this time, "Three, two, one, the parachute is not available, I wish you good luck."

Du Jing pressed his chest against Zhou Luoyang's forehead, gently hugged him in his arms, raised his head, and reflected in his eyes the moment the helicopter disintegrated, the sky filled with brilliant stars.

With a loud noise, it fell to the ground and disintegrated, and the two were thrown out together.