fall in love too early

The author has something to say: Qi Jia asked her parents for a week to adjust her schedule, and planned to enter the University of Finance and Economics to start classes in March.

The second day after landing in Tangcheng was the weekend. At ten o'clock in the morning, he received a message from Lu Baifei: How is it? Is the jet lag going well?

It didn't go well, Qi Jia took two melatonin pills last night, but she still lay with her eyes open until three or four in the morning before falling asleep.

Qi Jia changed her position on the bed so that it was easier to hold the phone, and replied to Lu Baifei: It will probably take a few days to get back upside down.

Then enter another one: I need to find something to do during the day so that it will be easier to fall asleep at night.

Qi Jia knew that Lu Baifei took such good care of him. It was all because he and his mother Zhou Yixin mentioned in WeChat last night that he thought Lu Baifei was a nice person, and that he had no friends when he just arrived in Tangcheng... .

It is estimated that Zhou Yixin has already conveyed these meanings to Baisha, and Baisha asked her son to take Qi Jiaduo to familiarize himself with the new environment when he has time, that's why this WeChat message from Lu Baifei came about.

The instruction from the elders lasts at most a week or two, Qi Jia thought to herself, she still needs to get to know Lu Baifei better as soon as possible.

Since Qi Jia said that he wanted to spend more energy during the day, Lu Baifei naturally invited him: A few friends and I are going to escape the room today, do you want to come together?

Qi Jia hesitated for a while looking at the screen, but didn't immediately agree.

"Escaperoom", he also went there with friends when he was studying at the University of Chicago.Qi Jia's problem-solving ability is absolutely crushing, and all kinds of traps can be solved easily in his hands, but the escape room is no longer as simple as a decryption game, and many levels have added elements of horror and suspense.

Qi Jia lived in a boarding house since he was a child. He was afraid of the dark, closed spaces, and NPC players who appeared suddenly. If there were any props with broken arms and legs, he couldn't imagine how long he could last in it.

Qi Jia lay on the bed for a while and did mental training, and finally replied: Go, you can send me the time and address.

Lu Baifei sent a voice message, explaining the specific arrangement to Qi Jia: first go to the secret room to escape, and then eat hot pot together, there are about seven or eight friends traveling together, and then asked Qi Jia if he would come to pick him up.Qi Jia didn't want to give Lu Baifei the impression that he lacked the ability to take care of himself, so he said that he knew the address and would arrive on time.

At two o'clock in the afternoon that day, Qi Jia appeared in Wenhui Central Square wearing a short coat and shoulder bag.

Lu Baifei arrived before him, and when Qi Jia got off the taxi, Lu Baifei saw him, standing on the steps and waving to Qi Jia.

Qi Jia walked towards him. Lu Baifei was dressed in black clothes and black trousers today, her hair was tied up at the back of her head at will, and the rest of her hair was scattered on her shoulders. It's gentle and charming again.

"Have you had lunch yet?" He asked Qi Jia.

"Eat, where's your friend?" Qi Jia asked.

After getting acquainted for a long time yesterday, the relationship between the two of them has become much more natural.

"They're queuing up in the store, I'll come out to pick you up." Lu Baifei said while leading Qi Jia to the escape room store.

Wenhui Plaza is very popular on weekend afternoons. It is just half a month before the Spring Festival, and the atmosphere of the old calendar year has not yet dissipated.Lu Baifei and Qi Jia entered the store together, and took the elevator up to the second floor following the flow of people.

The secret room was right in front of him, and Qi Jia was unavoidably uneasy. He didn't intend to hold on, so he discussed with Lu Baifei, "When choosing the theme of the secret room, can you not choose something too scary?"

Lu Baifei turned to look at him, "You..."

Lu Baifei didn't know how to word the second half of the sentence, so he smiled.

Qi Jia took up the conversation by herself and said, "I can do all types of logical problem solving, but I can't play too scary secret rooms."

Because there were so many people standing around, Qi Jia and Lu Baifei inevitably got very close.Qi Jia's skin is very fair, the kind of natural cold white skin, which sets off his deep pupils, between eyelashes, Lu Baifei saw his own reflection in his eyes, couldn't help being stunned, and then said, "OK , I talked to Min Hang and the others, choose a brain-burning one."

It's a pity that they arrived one step late. Just as they walked into the store and found Min Hang and his party, the brother Tu An who met at Lu Baifei's house yesterday raised his voice and said to them, "It's just in time! We grabbed the most exciting "Escape from the Mental Hospital", the last group of players just left, and they can enter after ten minutes."

Lu Baifei couldn't laugh or cry for a while, her first reaction was to look at Qi Jia beside her.

Qi Jia's Adam's apple twitched, as if swallowing dryly, he met Lu Baifei's gaze, and whispered, "Brother, I regret it now, is there still time?"

Lu Baifei, like Qi Jia, is an only child, and grew up alone, not close to the brothers and sisters of the cousins ​​in the family.Now that Qi Jia called him "Brother" unexpectedly, Lu Baifei felt a little subtle in his heart.

He put his arms around Qi Jia's shoulders, and said, "It's okay, you'll pass the test as soon as you close your eyes, and I'll hold you by the hand."

Since Qi Jia agreed to come to play the escape room, he naturally thought of using this to get closer to Lu Baifei.But once he was on the scene, those ulterior motives had no time to breed, just seeing a few looming bloody props through the curtain frightened him enough.

Before the game started, a staff member gave a brief explanation to the player team.Qi Jia stood beside Lu Baifei, and just after listening to the content of a few single-line missions, cold sweat broke out on his back.

When it was Qi Jia's turn to draw cards, Lu Baifei took him lightly and said, "Qi Jia, draw an identity card."

Qi Jia felt that it was difficult for him to even reach out, so Lu Baifei took his hand, randomly took one from the tray, opened it, and saw that the character was "forensic doctor".

The staff in charge of the explanation just mentioned that when the role of the forensic doctor passes through the second room, he needs to go through a bunch of zombies dressed as NPCs to complete the single-line task of obtaining medicine, and the only character who can accompany the forensic doctor on the adventure is the journalist .

Qi Jia took a deep breath in secret, grabbed Lu Baifei's sleeve, and said, "Let's pick a reporter."

"I'll try my best." Lu Baifei put his hand on the tray, hesitating for a moment, as if he really wanted to fulfill Qi Jia's wish.Then he took the first card from the left, and after flipping it over, it actually had the words "Journalist" printed on it.

Lu Baifei breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Qi Jia, "When the time comes, you don't have to do it yourself."

The other six people also drew their corresponding roles, including the advance team leader who entered first, and the engineer who was responsible for the lighting of the whole team. The two girls in the team were drawn as criminal police officers and relatives of patients.Accompanied by the depressing and weird background music, a group of eight of them entered the first secret room.

This kind of secret room set up as continuous levels is often in order from easy to difficult.In the first room, apart from the disturbance from the flickering incandescent lights above everyone's heads, the rest of the furnishings are quite normal.

Qi Jia took a deep look and found that there were some discarded medical items scattered in the room, the four walls were closed, and the only small door was locked tightly.According to habitual thinking, you should first find the key to pass through the small door.

The six people, including Min Hang, started to grope around as soon as they entered the room.Qi Jia stood still, and Lu Baifei didn't leave him immediately, asking him, "Are you okay?"

Qi Jia nodded, raised his hand, pointed to a utility knife thrown in the corner of the room, and said, "Look for any small objects that can be scratched, there are clues hidden in it."

It's not that Qi Jia intends to show off himself, but since he entered the arena, he has had a mentality of dying early and being born early, and he has no patience to spend time here with a group of people.

Sure enough, in a book made of leather, they found a piece of paper by scratching the skin, on which four different directions were drawn with arrows.Then Min Hang found two AA batteries, and Qi Jiarang put the batteries into a calculator with no display.

The calculator with batteries installed showed four numbers, and Qi Jia immediately remembered the four arrows in different directions, and deduced that there should be a second password in the room.

His deduction was quickly confirmed one by one. The small door was just a cover-up and did not lead to any adjacent rooms.This secret room has been connected to the shops downstairs, and there is a digital lock on the hidden floor tiles. After unlocking, they opened the downward passage, and then opened the second room.

After the password of the digital lock was entered correctly, the rest of the people were clapping their hands to celebrate, but Qi Jia was restless because of the upcoming one-line task.

Lu Baifei walked beside him, probably wanting to relieve his nervousness, and praised him without hesitation, "Can all the agencies in the future be counted on you? If we break the record for the fastest customs clearance, the store will give us a free ticket for this game." .”

Qi Jia twitched the corners of his mouth, wanted to laugh but couldn't, a pale figure suddenly ran across the bottom of the ladder leading to the lower floor, the two girls who were walking with him immediately screamed, Qi Jia trembled, and was caught by Lu Baifei He pressed his shoulders, "It's okay, it's just an NPC wearing a bed sheet."

Qi Jia's fear was not caused by acting, he looked up at Lu Baifei, and forced a smile, "My IQ will drop below the average soon."

As the people in front climbed down the escalator one by one, Qi Jia also moved to the entrance of the passage, and asked Lu Baifei in a low voice, "Can you accompany me to do the one-line mission later..."

I don't know if this secret room is used to create the effect of confinement, or the moisture-proofing was not done well during the decoration, and there is a slight musty smell from the moment you enter the door.But there was a light fragrance floating on Qi Jia's body, she couldn't tell whether it was the neutral perfume she used or the reason she had bathed before going out, it always lingered in Lu Baifei's nose.

Lu Baifei stood very close to him, looked at his increasingly pale face, and asked with a smile, "Are you so scared...?"

Before Qi Jia could make a sound, there was a sudden noise from a locker placed against the wall opposite, and an NPC dressed as a zombie, with half of his face covered in blood, opened the door of the locker and rushed towards them.

They had also checked this locker before, and found nothing unusual in it except for a few cleaning supplies.It was probably because of the dim light that the hidden compartment was overlooked. When the NPC squatting inside suddenly appeared, Qi Jia was completely dumbfounded, and she would not hide anymore. She called twice softly, "Brother Lu, brother... ..!”

Lu Baifei immediately protected him behind her. They were the last two in the team to go downstairs. Now Min Hang, who is an "engineer", was climbing up the ladder. Lu Baifei called out to Min Hang, "Flashlight!"

Min Hang looked up and saw the zombie NPC approaching the entrance of the cave, and immediately took out a flashlight from his breast pocket and handed it to Lu Baifei.The zombie's hand had already touched Lu Baifei's clothes, but Qi Jia, who had always been very passive, suddenly reacted.

The moment he reached out to slap the NPC, Lu Baifei held his wrist and said, "Before entering the arena, the staff repeatedly said that they can't attack NPCs, are you scared?"

The last three words "scared to be silly" were pronounced very lightly, without the meaning of reprimand or ridicule, on the contrary, it seemed to be a bit pampering.

Immediately, a beam of light was emitted from Lu Baifei's flashlight and shone on the NPC's face.The NPC who had moved in front of the two of them immediately stood still.

"You go down first." Lu Baifei put the flashlight in his back pocket, and led Qi Jia back to the passage with the ladder.

Qi Jia was still in shock, Lu Baifei's palm was holding his wrist very hot.He looked at Lu Baifei with a little breathing disorder, and the beauty half hidden in the darkness immediately smiled at him, raised his hand to stroke his short fluffy hair, and said, "Don't be afraid."