"How did you fall?" Qin Yuanyao asked again.

“I was originally…” Xing Yu thought for a moment and said, “The third floor. I walked around the third floor and didn’t see anyone. When I was about to go downstairs, the floor under my feet suddenly went empty and I fell down.”

Qin Yuanyao nodded. "So, the sound you made just now was from you?"

Xing Yu thought for a moment blankly, then said uncertainly, "Maybe. I did scream when I fell..."

Xing Yu's fans were amused by his silly and goofy appearance at that moment.

Hahahaha, my silly husband!

[That scream just now was definitely YuYu's! No wonder everyone thought the scream sounded like it was coming from upstairs, but also nearby. Falling from the third floor into some unknown secret room, how come the sound wasn't both upstairs and nearby? (laughing and crying)]

My silly husband must have been terrified! *pats* *hugs*

"The door is locked. Let's find the password and get out first," Chi Baiyi interrupted Xing Yu and Qin Yuanyao's conversation.

"Another lock!" Qin Yuanyao sighed helplessly.

"Where am I?" Xing Yu looked around.

The room had walls on all four sides, with no windows, only an iron door. The iron door was locked with a combination lock.

"This place is so strange. There aren't even any windows?" Xing Yu wondered.

The room not only had no windows, but it was also completely empty; there was nothing there at all.

"Where exactly is this place?" Xing Yu murmured.

"Self-reflection room," Chi Baiyi said coldly.

"What house?" Xing Yu didn't hear clearly.

Chi Baiyi's dark eyes swept over him coldly.

Xing Yu met his gaze and shivered, unsure whether it was from being frightened by Chi Baiyi's eyes or from the cold of the damp, dark place.

Moreover, he sensed a hostility in Chi Baiyi's eyes.

hostility?

He and Chi Baiyi didn't know each other before, and they were in different industries, so there was no competition between them. It was impossible for Chi Baiyi to be hostile towards him.

It must be his imagination.

Chi Baiyi raised his slender fingers and pointed to a spot on the wall, letting Xing Yu see for himself.

Three characters, written in red on a white background, were pasted on the wall: “Self-Reflection Room”.

"A room for self-reflection?" Xing Yu murmured, staring at the words on the wall. "What does it mean?"

Qin Yuanyao also stared at the words on the wall in deep thought, "Self-reflection... does it mean introspection?"

Just as Qin Yuanyao finished speaking, footsteps sounded outside the room.

A moment later, a man wearing a blue shirt and black trousers, holding a ruler, appeared outside the iron gate.

Before Qin Yuanyao and the others could react, the man, with a stern face, began to scold them fiercely.

"Have you finished reflecting? Do you know where you went wrong? You spend all day playing on your phones and playing games, you're good for nothing. You maggots are the scum of society!"

Qin Yuanyao and the others were speechless.

"Still not admitting your mistake? Then you can stay in there! No food, no sleep, starve you for seven or eight days, and you'll naturally realize your mistake!"

After saying that, NP left.

Qin Yuanyao and Chi Baiyi exchanged a blank glance.

"Sister Qin," Chi Nao asked in a soft, sweet voice, "Why won't that person let us eat or sleep? What did we do wrong?"

Qin Yuanyao recalled what NP had just said and asked, "Because we play games on our phones all day?"

"I didn't play! I don't have a phone," Chi Nao said in a childish voice.

Qin Yuanyao laughed, "He treated us like students of this school, that's why he reprimanded us like that."

Chi Cheese finally understood and said "Oh".

Qin Yuanyao was inspired by her own words.

Her eyes lit up, and she said, "If students do something wrong, they will be locked up here to reflect on their actions, which is why this place is called the Self-Reflection Room?"

Xing Yu suddenly realized and nodded in agreement, "That should be it!"

Chi Baiyi glanced at him and said in a deep voice, "Why should students who have done wrong be locked up in this prison-like place to reflect on their mistakes?"

"Prison?" Qin Yuanyao was slightly taken aback, looking around. "Yes. There are no windows, nothing here, just an iron door. It really does look like a prison. What kind of school would lock students up in a place like this to reflect on their actions?"

"There's nothing here, where are we supposed to find clues to the password?" Xing Yu had no idea what to do.

He suddenly realized, "Could there be a trap here? The clue might be hidden in the trap!"

"What organization?" Qin Yuanyao asked.

"It's similar to a mechanism that suddenly falls down on us. For example, we press a certain brick, and the brick pops out, containing a note with a password or clue."

Qin Yuanyao felt that they could all fall here from the ground, so what Xing Yu said wasn't impossible.

“We’ll give it a try,” Qin Yuanyao said.

"Okay," Xing Yu replied.

The two of them stepped here and pressed there, searching around.

Seeing this, Chi Cheese joined them.

Only Chi Baiyi really didn't want to join them.

To be more precise, it's that she doesn't want to be with Xing Yu.

Chi Baiyi walked to the iron gate and studied the lock on it.

You need to enter a three-digit password to unlock it.

Chi Baiyi recalled what NPC had just said and tried to find any clues.

He frowned in deep thought, his gaze unconsciously falling on the three large characters "Self-Reflection Room" on the wall.

A sudden flash of inspiration struck him, and he said to Qin Yuanyao and the others, "Could the password be related to the Self-Reflection Room?"

Qin Yuanyao pressed and stepped on the floor tiles and wall tiles for a while, but the floor and walls did not budge.

Hearing what Chi Baiyi said, she looked at the three large characters "Self-Reflection Room".

Xing Yu was the first to ask, "Could it be the initials of the three characters 'Self-Reflection House'?"

Chi Baiyi glanced at him disdainfully, "The password is three numbers."

Xing Yu quickly added, "That's the first letter of the words 'Self-Reflection House,' and the corresponding number sequence in the English alphabet!"

My husband is amazing! He's so quick-witted! He comes up with one idea after another!

[YuYu must watch a lot of escape room variety shows, hahaha]

[This silly son only plays games during his free time, and he must have played a lot of these kinds of games to be so skilled at them, hahaha]

Xing Yu felt that his line of thinking was absolutely correct!

These are the basic decryption codes for escape room games!

He continued, slightly excitedly, "The room of self-reflection, z, x, z in the English alphabet..."

Xing Yu was still mentally counting from a to z when Chi Cheese crisply announced, "The 26th one."

Xing Yu was stunned. "How did you react so quickly?!"

Chi Nai looked at him in bewilderment. "There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, and z is the last one!"

Xing Yu suddenly realized, slapped her forehead, and said, "Oh yeah! I'm stupid."

He was so excited about finding a solution that he forgot all about these small details.

(End of this chapter)

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