Debuted in the C position of the thriller variety show

After having such a dream, Xie Xiaozhou also lost all sleepiness, and leaned lazily by the bed, looking at the window from a distance.

Outside the window, the night wind blows through the leaves of the shrubs, making a rustling sound, which is extraordinarily quiet.

After being stunned for a moment, Xie Xiaozhou came back to his senses and touched the mobile phone that was put aside.

The phone screen turned on, and the light was a little dim, reflecting on Xie Xiaozhou's cheek.The slender eyelashes drooped down, looking a little cold.

He clicked on the social networking site.

One click in, and today's hot search is pushed.

The hot search headlines were lively enough, either a certain star's love affair was exposed, or a certain star's hidden marriage and childbirth.He was an actor in the crew before, and at first glance, he was a familiar name in the circle, and he was often mentioned by others.

But now, Xie Xiaozhou felt a strange feeling.

It was as if he was separated from the hustle and bustle by a layer of transparent glass.The glass can neither be seen nor touched, but one can clearly feel that the two are in different worlds.

Xie Xiaozhou lost interest, backed out, and clicked on WeChat.

Unsurprisingly, there was not a single message.

In the beginning, some people from the production team approached him and asked him to play some small supporting roles, because he was worried that he would enter "Thriller Variety Show" at any time, so he declined them all.Gradually, no one came to him.

The chat interface is now blank.

Xie Xiaozhou looked at the screen a little distracted.

Since being selected by "Thriller Variety Show", his life has been directly rewritten.

Originally, he was supposed to play a supporting role in a small crew, and he worked hard, and maybe with luck, he could play the third male lead and the fourth male lead.But now, what he thinks about is what the next variety show will be and how to survive.

Even if he can break away from this underworld variety show, can he return to his normal life?

This question is a bit complicated, Xie Xiaozhou doesn't want to think about it anymore, and urgently needs to do something to erase this strange feeling.

Pointing aimlessly on the screen with his fingers, he finally opened the website of "Thriller Variety Show".

Compared to the desertedness of the night, the website of "Thriller Variety Show" was extraordinarily lively.

Even in the middle of the night, there are still more than a dozen live channels on the homepage.

Xie Xiaozhou hastily scanned and clicked into one of the live broadcast rooms without making a selection.

This should be a variety show of the escape room type, and the guests are trapped in a villa.In the show, there are not only guests but also a murderer who will die if caught. The guests need to escape from the villa within a certain period of time.

Dim tones, complex mechanisms, blood stains on the ground that haven't dried up, the underworld BGM that sounds from time to time...

If this is a horror movie, it must be a good movie that can reach Douban's score of 8.0.

But Xie Xiaozhou knows that this is not an act, but a real existence. If the guests in it die, they are really dead. In reality, all traces left by them will be erased, and there will be no one who misses them.

The viewers who watched the live broadcast were very excited about the bloody scene, and a series of barrages were posted, but Xie Xiaozhou felt a disgusting feeling.

He closed his eyes, exited the live broadcast room, and breathed calmly.

I don't know how long it took, but the sky turned white and hazy.

Xie Xiaozhou took a deep breath, suppressing the nausea.His eyelashes trembled, and he opened his eyes suddenly, as if he had made some determination, and there was a hint of tenacity in his black and white eyes.

This kind of underworld show should not exist.

He will help the doctor, not just for himself.

The phone screen lights up.

Xie Xiaozhou glanced subconsciously, and found that the program team had sent him three more variety show invitations.

He rubbed his eyes and looked at it.Not surprisingly, the content of the first message was to invite him to be a resident guest of the campus reality show.

Xie Xiaozhou rowed over without thinking.

The second one was an invitation from the program "The Bride of the River God". Xie Xiaozhou didn't plan to go, and looked directly at the last one.

This invitation is a little different.

The color of the background looked like an envelope, and there was a wax seal on the seal. The pattern was gorgeous and complicated, which seemed to be a family crest.

Xie Xiaozhou tapped his fingertips.

Immediately, the wax seal fell off, and a piece of letter paper was pulled out from it.

[Mr. Xie Xiaozhou:

Hello, according to your wonderful performance in a series of variety shows, the program team invites you to participate in the deciphering escape variety show "Gospel Orphanage"

Filming begins in an hour, so get ready and find out about it on the Thriller Variety website.

Thriller Variety Show Group]

Xie Xiaozhou carefully looked at the contents of the invitation letter, and was a little surprised when he saw the line "one hour later".

Usually after the shooting of a variety show, the guests are given a few days to rest to let them relax.

But this time it was too sudden, right?It's almost as if he can't wait to get him to film a new show.

Xie Xiaozhou thought of what the doctor told him - the program team would want to get rid of him as an unstable factor.

Could this be arranged by the program group?

Time was running out, and Xie Xiaozhou didn't have time to think about other things. After reading the invitation letter again, he boarded "Thriller Variety Show".

There is a forum on the website where many guests exchange information.With the idea of ​​searching, he entered the program "Gospel Orphanage" into the search box.

【searching……】

After this sentence appeared, the page froze for a moment and jumped to other pages.

There is information about The Gospel Orphanage on the forum.

"Gospel Orphanage" is a large-scale variety show of the escape room type. It has been filmed four times in total, but each time it failed to complete the filming, and the mortality rate was as high as [-]%.

Seeing this, Xie Xiaozhou couldn't help but slander—it seems that the death rate of other variety shows is not much better.

Swipe the screen with your finger, and then look down.

The background of "Gospel Orphanage" is in an orphanage in the west, which involves some elements of religious belief.

The NPC inside has a black-robed nun and a godfather who has never appeared before.

The difficulty of this variety show is very high-although "Thriller Variety Show" did not give the show a specific ranking, but the guests privately rated the difficulty of this show as hell, which means that only A+ or S-level guests will was selected to play.

Xie Xiaozhou recalled his guest ranking, it was only A rank.

The post has been read.

The person who wrote this post has not participated in "Gospel Orphanage", but only watched the live broadcast, so the information revealed is limited.Finally, a friendly reminder: If you are unfortunately selected, it is recommended to bring props such as holy water and crosses.

Xie Xiaozhou is an atheist. He knows nothing about Western beliefs, and he has no time to learn more about it in an hour. He can only follow the reminder of the enthusiastic poster and go to the mall to buy holy water and crosses.

Both of these props are disposable and expensive.Fortunately, after Xie Xiaozhou's last show ended, the pay was enough, so he bought more than a dozen copies at once.

Everything is ready.

Xie Xiaozhou ate something to recover his strength and waited for the start of the new variety show.

***

Somewhere, there seems to be a pair of eyes watching all this.

After a moment.

There was a loud noise from an unknown dark place.

"Are you ready?"

"It should be almost there. I've made arrangements. This time, the boss in this show will absolutely, absolutely not be emotional with Xie Xiaozhou!"

To ensure credibility, two "absolutes" are also used.

With this reassurance, the rest of the staff nodded and pushed a button.

A light came on.

The camera gradually zooms in.

A western-style building appeared in front of me. On the dilapidated clock tower, the hour and minute hands were turning, and when they reached the right time, there was a heavy clang.

——Variety show, shooting!

***

An hour went by in a flash.

Xie Xiaozhou's eyes blurred, he closed his eyes subconsciously, and when he opened them again, he had already come to another world.

【Welcome to the shooting site of the horror variety show】

[This is a variety show about escape from the secret room - "Gospel Orphanage"]

Xie Xiaozhou listened to the broadcast of the program group in his ear and looked around.

The lights are dim and the vision is blurred.

This is an old church.

The sun shines through the stained rose window behind it, and stories from the Bible are pieced together with stained glass.Passing through the milky white vault, a statue of the Virgin stands at the front.

With a kind smile, the Virgin is holding an invisible baby in her arms, with a basin in front of her, as if she is going to be baptized for it.

The guests sat on the benches below one by one, a total of twelve people.

【Please draw your ID card】

The voice-over of the program group sounded again.

Xie Xiaozhou looked away, tapped the phone screen, and took out his ID card.

A white light flashed.

Xie Xiaozhou was calm.

A person's luck is conserved. He had just drawn a SR card that was not bad, so he had no sense of expectation for this card draw.

He didn't even look at it, so he backed out.

[The theme of this variety show is adventure, decryption, and room escape! 】

[The door that cannot be opened, the figure hidden in the dark, the sound of footsteps that cannot be shaken, the delicate mechanism and the countdown that is about to end...]

[Can you escape? 】

[Please escape from the Gospel Orphanage within seven days]

[Reminder: Please be careful, there are often discrepancies between reality and fairy tales]

The voice of the program group fell, announcing the official start of the program.

There were a total of twelve guests present, none of them were newcomers, and all of them were senior guests who had appeared in more than three shows.

There was no panic, no noise, they seemed to have a tacit understanding and checked the current situation.

Here is a small church.

The only door was tightly closed, and the windows were inlaid with stained glass. Under the cover of a large block of color, it was impossible to see what was going on outside.

Except for the guests, there are no other NPCs here, only a statue of the Virgin hidden in the shadows.

"It seems that this is the first secret room." A girl with round glasses said calmly, "Only by leaving this church first can I know other information."

Another short-haired woman in a leather jacket with a stern face brought up a piece of yellowed white paper: "This is the orphanage schedule I found."

Xie Xiaozhou looked over and found that the short-haired girl looked familiar.

After thinking about it, he recalled that this was a guest who had filmed "The Bride of the River God" with him, and he had an SR card Druid that could transform into various animals.

The short-haired girl shared the information she got with other guests.

The schedule divides the time into great detail.

Every day from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in the morning and from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in the afternoon is the time to pray in the church. You must arrive at the restaurant on time for breakfast, lunch and dinner, have a lunch break at noon, and go to bed at [-]:[-] pm.

Once the timetable is violated, they will be locked in the discipline room.

It is……

Xie Xiaozhou glanced at the time on his phone.

It's 45:[-] in the afternoon.

The guests must leave the church and go to the restaurant before five o'clock.

A muscular guest went straight over and tried to knock on the door.

The door looked thin, but without the key, it wouldn't move no matter how hard it was bumped.

The muscular man blushed and panted, and waved his hands.

The girl with glasses asked: "Has anyone ever participated in a room escape program?"

No one answered the glasses girl's question.

None of the guests present were newcomers, and they all had their own plans. No one would obey anyone, let alone obey the orders of other guests easily.

The girl with glasses didn't force it either, and instead searched for the key.

Tick.

Time is decreasing second by second.

There are now 13 minutes left.

***

"Gospel Orphanage" is a variety show of the "hell" level, but because it was broadcast temporarily, there was no promotional preheating, and this show has never been successfully filmed, so the audience did not report too much. Hopefully, not many come in to see.

The popularity of the live broadcast room rose very slowly, with only a few sporadic bullet screens floating over.

[There is a new program to watch!Go, go, go! 】

[Escape from the secret room?I feel that this type needs IQ too much, it looks a little tired, I can’t understand it, so I’m leaving]

[This guest looks really good-looking, do you know what show he has appeared in before? 】

The camera swept across the guests present and fell on a black-haired boy.

The boy sat obediently on the bench, with his hands on his knees, the light passed through the colorful and gorgeous windows behind him, and shone obliquely on his side, as if he had sprinkled a layer of gold powder on his fair cheeks .

[It's pretty good-looking, but...it's useless to be good-looking in this show]

[I haven't seen it before, is it called Xie Xiaozhou?I'll ask】

[Wuyuzi, this is an escape room, the fight is about IQ and not face, I want to see other guests search for clues]

[That’s right, it really affects other people’s viewing experience]

[A young actor doesn't even have many fans, he will probably die in a while, so stop arguing]

in the live room.

The other guests were all searching for the key. In less than 5 minutes, the small church was turned upside down. Someone even climbed up the cantilever to look, but they still couldn't find the key.

There are now 8 minutes left.

The muscular man was the most reckless, hammering the wall: "Could it be that there is no key at all?"

The girl with glasses pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, and said, "It's impossible to be destroyed as soon as you enter, there must be a key."

Among the other guests, some were anxious, some were thinking calmly, and some were indifferent.

Just when the muscular man couldn't bear it and was about to knock on the door again, a voice rang out: "It seems that none of you have participated in a variety show of escape rooms."

The muscular man glared at him immediately: "Aren't you talking nonsense? We've participated in it before, so are we still here in a daze?"

"Then I'll teach you one thing, and one thing to follow in this kind of program—don't worry at all times." A man in a windbreaker was speaking, and he introduced himself with a haughty face, "I'm from the escape room class. The resident guest of the variety show, He Congxi."

The muscular man asked: "You are a resident guest, why didn't you come out earlier?"

He Congxi smiled slightly without explaining.

He Congxi naturally had a reason.

In the escape room variety show, the fight is IQ and... life.

In this type of variety show, there are many ingenious mechanisms, which may trigger death if you accidentally make a mistake.He needed to establish his prestige in front of the guests, so he waited until this time to stand up.

He Congxi glanced at the guests in front of him, his eyes flickered: "In this kind of programs, you usually have to meet certain conditions before you can go out. You will never find the key just by rummaging through the boxes."

Xie Xiaozhou already had a rough guess, and when he saw this person appearing, he was not in a hurry and listened attentively.

He Congxi paused, and continued: "If you are willing to follow my command, I can lead you to crack the first secret room."

The girl with glasses asked, "Why do I have to follow your orders?"

He Congxi explained: "There are some organs in the secret room. If someone does not obey the command, it is easy to implicate others, so I need to obey. Only in this way can I lead you to unlock the secret room mechanism."

This reason sounded acceptable, and the guests agreed without hesitation for too long.

The muscular man urged: "We all agree, hurry up!"

He Congxi shook his head: "There is one more." He turned his head and looked at Xie Xiaozhou who had been silent all this time.

Xie Xiaozhou was in a situation of eating melons and watching a show, so he met He Congxi's gaze by surprise, and asked innocently: "Are you okay?"

He Congxi narrowed his eyes: "Don't you want to leave the church?"

Xie Xiaozhou glanced at the Bible story on the colored window in front of him, a little strange: "Why do you ask me this question?"

The meaning expressed in the eyes is - no normal person would ask this question.

He Congxi: "..." He held back his emotions and said, "Then as long as you are willing to listen to my command, I can take you out of here."

There is a reason for He Congxi's persistence.

His identity card is a "judgment judge". As long as everyone present agrees with his decision, he can subtly influence them, making them obey his orders, and eventually become his puppets.

But now, Xie Xiaozhou was the only one left.

Another 1 minutes passed.

The pace of time is approaching.

Even if all the senior guests present, they couldn't help but raise their heartstrings.

He Congxi: "As long as you agree..."

Xie Xiaozhou blinked his eyelashes, his black and white eyes were full of curiosity: "Then what will happen if I don't agree?"

He Congxi opened the corner of his mouth: "No one knows what will happen, but it won't end well."

Xie Xiaozhou always felt a little strange.

This He Congxi is a resident guest on variety shows like escape rooms. He obviously has the ability to find the key, but he didn't. Instead, he was stalling for time.

What do you want to do?

Xie Xiaozhou said in a relaxed tone: "I'm curious, why do you insist on me agreeing, if it can't be finished before five o'clock, everyone will be punished, right?"

He Congxi originally wanted to use his rich experience to force the guests to obey, so as to achieve the effect of a "judgment judge" identity card, but he did not expect such an accident as Xie Xiaozhou.

As soon as this sentence came out, the other guests really became suspicious.

He Congxi shook his fingers, and then quickly let go: "I can find the key, but I have no obligation to rescue you out for nothing, there is always a price to pay."

Xie Xiaozhou nodded: "That's right, but... you can find your key, and I will find mine."

He Congxi froze for a moment: "Have you participated in the escape room?"

Xie Xiaozhou said frankly: "I have never participated."

He Congxi: "Then how do you find the key?"

Xie Xiaozhou spread his hands: "I can try my luck."

***

The audience was full of cynicism when they saw this scene.

[Hehe, in this program, the most indispensable thing is people who think they are very powerful. Often such people die the fastest, so you should obediently listen to He Congxi! 】

[If the stalemate continues, all the guests will be punished, and the group will probably be wiped out]

[Really think that in this show, you can rely on your face to make a living? 】

[He Congxi slaps you in the face quickly, and I'll give you a reward if you slap her in the face! 】

On the current fan rankings, He Congxi ranks first.

Xie Xiaozhou had a lot of fans, but he lost his voice in the last show, and the fans thought he died in the last show, so they didn't find out that he was appearing in the new show.

Now, Xie Xiaozhou's fan ranking is... the bottom one.

***

He Congxi didn't think the boy could find the key.

He has seen this kind of young man a lot, and he thinks that he is the savior and special, but often in the face of death, no matter what pride he has, he will be crushed to pieces.

He sneered, anyway, there is still plenty of time, and he can wait for Xie Xiaozhou to cry and kneel down to beg him.

"You'd better give me two minutes." He Congxi raised a finger, "One minute for you to confess your mistakes, and one minute for me to find the key."

But the other guests couldn't wait.

The muscular man said angrily: "If you want to die, you can die alone!"

Others also echoed: "That's right, this is the situation, and you still don't obey, so that we can go out!"

The girl with glasses wanted to say something, but was held back by the short-haired girl next to her.

The short-haired woman's eyes were full of disapproval.

The girl with glasses asked, "Sister, do you know him?"

The short-haired girl didn't explain too much, just nodded.

She and Xie Xiaozhou have participated in "The Bride of the River God" together, and she knows that Xie Xiaozhou's temper is never aimless.

Under the eyes of everyone, Xie Xiaozhou walked towards the prayer booth step by step.

It was a small room that could only accommodate one person. When the guests were looking for the keys, they had already been turned upside down.

Seeing Xie Xiaozhou approaching, He Congxi's expression changed slightly - he could really crack the mechanism?

No, no, it must be a coincidence!

Just when He Congxi denied it, Xie Xiaozhou had already opened the door of the prayer booth, knelt inside, clenched his fists in front of his chest, lowered his jaw slightly, and looked solemn.

Ding--

The moment he knelt down, a brass key fell from the sky and landed in front of him. It turned around and finally returned to calm.

This is the key to the church.

The muscular man looked surprised: "We have looked for this pavilion, isn't there nothing?"

Xie Xiaozhou didn't explain.

In fact, it is already obvious, and the answer can be known after a little thought.

It has been reminded in the timetable of the orphanage that [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] is the time for prayer.How, then, can one leave church without praying?

Xie Xiaozhou picked up the key and smiled at He Congxi: "You can keep your 2 minutes for yourself."

[Hahaha He Congxi's face turned blue, I wanted to be slapped in the face but got slapped, I laughed so hard]

【It seems that this guest is not only good-looking】

[How could the guests who can appear in "Gospel Orphanage" be idiots?I am a fan, how about you? 】

[It’s all good luck, this is just the simplest secret room, there are more in the back, don’t get complacent too early]

With the key, the door of the church is opened.

The guests came out in a file, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, but He Congxi's face was slightly gloomy.

When the last guest left the church, the door behind him was closed again, and then a "clang" was heard from the bell tower not far away.

It was five o'clock.

Now, they should go to the restaurant.

On the timetable, there is a simple map, and the guests came to the restaurant in no time.

A nun stands in the dining room.

Wearing a black robe and a black veil, she looked at the guests seriously.She looked very mean, with deep cuts on the corners of her lips.

The girl with glasses saluted, and called out respectfully: "Mommy."

The nun looked at the girl with glasses, nodded slightly, her voice was hoarse, as if it had been ground with gravel: "You will learn etiquette here, master knowledge, cleanse your soul, and wait for that day to come."

Was that a special day?

The nun saw through the doubts of the guests, and continued: "On that day, the adults will come to choose an heir and become his godson."

"As long as you don't violate the precepts, you will all have the chance to be selected by the adults, and you will gain supreme glory."

Hearing this, Xie Xiaozhou felt a little more relaxed.

Those who came to choose godchildren should probably be in their seventies and eighties, and there shouldn't be any weird plots.

After going through the previous few times, he didn't want to deal with these bosses anymore.