Chapter 248 Escape Room (12) - The Principal is Robbed

Si Zhong used the same method to extract a confession and quickly found a walkie-talkie on the NPC in front of him.

He smiled and said to the other person, "It's quite difficult to find the Principal."

The principal wanted to deny it, but Si Zhong shut him down with a single sentence.

"You already know what happened to that kid from the walkie-talkie, right? Do I need to demonstrate it again?"

The principal didn't want to, he really didn't want to.

He heard the unreliable kid's screams over the walkie-talkie and knew he had said things he shouldn't have.

Knowing that the other party was coming to find him, he panicked and ran around frantically.

He thought that since the other party hadn't taken the walkie-talkie, he would be able to escape capture with the help of the NPC in the monitoring room.

But Si Zhong wasn't stupid; before leaving, he secretly placed an eavesdropping device in the monitoring room.

He heard every word the two NPCs exchanged.

When he heard the sound of the principal being beaten, he knew he hadn't arrested the wrong person.

The principal was lucky that he couldn't bear to throw away the walkie-talkie, keeping it as evidence of his identity.

Li Mengqi didn't expect that even though this guy was beaten black and blue by Wu Yi, he still stubbornly refused to admit his identity.

But he accepted it as soon as this player arrived!

Are NPCs treating people differently based on who they're dealing with? That's outrageous!

If I had known this would happen, I would have joined in earlier and played a mixed doubles match.

Despite being bruised and battered, and in so much pain that his expression was distorted, the principal still forced a fawning smile at Si Zhong.

With a fawning expression, he asked, "B-Big Brother, what do you want?"

Big Brother?! That's such an indecent way to address someone!

Don't you know how old you are? Is it appropriate for you to call a young man in his twenties "big brother"?

Li Mengqi really learned something new; it was the first time she had ever seen an NPC be so obsequious.

Si Zhong ignored the other party and glanced at Li Mengqi and Wu Yi.

Li Mengqi was so agitated that she was practically ready to pull out a defensive item.

She instinctively pulled Wu Yi back a few steps, making a gesture that said, "I won't disturb you, you can continue."

Si Zhong watched as they sensibly walked away before turning to the principal and coldly uttering, "Hand over the key."

The principal was almost in tears. "Brother, didn't you already have it? What's the meaning of coming to me now?"

He replied obsequiously, "Brother, aren't you holding the key?"

Si Zhong: "That kid said this is the key to leave the monitoring room, but what I need is the key to leave the instance."

The principal didn't understand the concept of "dummy" or "dummy"; to him, this world was the real one.

He doesn't consider his world to be a game, so naturally he can't understand Si Zhong's words.

But he was a shrewd person and probably guessed that the other party had misunderstood.

He quickly explained, "Brother, you've misunderstood. The key you have is the best key in the whole school. You can use it to leave wherever you want."

Si Zhong raised an eyebrow: "You're going to leave the best key to that kid?"

The principal blushed and said, "There's no other way. No one else can take this key away. Otherwise, why would I have put him in charge of guarding the monitoring room?"

Si Zhong understood that not every NPC could get the key in the dungeon; it meant that a specific character could only get a specific key.

He looked at the principal: "How do I use it?"

The principal understood what the other party meant: "You can just touch the key to wherever you want to go. Going through the wall is a piece of cake."

Si Zhong understood. He took the key and pointed it at the wall next to him. Sure enough, a hole soon appeared in the wall as well.

He looked at the principal: "Take me to the exit from the school."

Upon hearing this, the principal turned pale and immediately knelt down, begging for mercy: "Brother, spare my life! We can't go near there; it's cursed, we'll die."

Si Zhong didn't know whether the other party believed him or not. He had a paid magic weapon, so whether the other party took him to find him or not didn't matter much.

"Hand over the walkie-talkie."

The principal, trembling, handed over the walkie-talkie. Si Zhong took it and then threw something at him.

After a flash of light, it seemed as if nothing had happened.

Si Zhong said, "If you're lying to me, I'll come back to you."

He just threw a disposable tracking gadget at the principal, which would allow him to find the target no matter where they were.

The principal's expression softened slightly; he was extremely eager to get rid of this big shot as soon as possible.

Si Zhong took the walkie-talkie and left without the slightest hesitation.

Li Mengqi was stunned when she saw Si Zhong leave. The other party had come in aggressively just to snatch a walkie-talkie.

Although she couldn't hear what they were saying clearly, she kept staring at them and only saw the principal give the other person a walkie-talkie, and that was it.

She always thought the other party was there to steal the key, and even secretly took out a prop, thinking that as long as the principal took out the key, she would intercept it halfway.

Although Cheng Chuan told them not to provoke the other party, it was worth the risk since it involved the key to clearing the level.

Unexpectedly, the other party only grabbed a walkie-talkie and ran away. Could it be that their way to pass the level is different from theirs?

Li Mengqi couldn't figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it and had Wu Yi step forward to grab the principal who was trying to sneak away. Now it was their turn to interrogate him.

Ning Shu, who was hugging Cheng Chuan, suddenly realized something and quickly explained, "Put me down, I was so scared."

Cheng Chuan's ears also turned a little red as he gently put Ning Shu down.

Quickly find a topic to talk about: "What did you just see?" to make her so scared.

Ning Shu pointed to a wall in the storage room: "There, a human face just appeared."

God knows how terrified she is of this stuff!

Cheng Chuan was bolder. He walked over to the wall, picked up a broken table leg, and started poking at the wall.

Just when he thought there was nothing to discover about the wall, he suddenly felt that the sound from one part of the wall was different from the other parts.

He poked hard and actually broke the hole, followed by a putrid smell.

He covered his nose with his other hand, and his voice changed slightly: "There seems to be something here."

Ning Shu also came over after hearing this. Looking at the hole, she felt that this part of the wall looked like it was covered with cardboard.

She picked up another table leg, and the two of them worked together to widen the hole.

Finally, it became clear that there was actually a... half-mannequin body inside, only the lower half, the upper half was missing.

Fortunately, there was no blood on it, otherwise Gao would have had to send Ning Shu away.

Cheng Chuan: "Is this Wang Xue's body?"

This instance is a bit abstract; Wang Xue is an NPC with a mannequin body and a watermelon head.

Why would a mannequin hide so deeply? It must be Wang Xue.

Ning Shu agreed with Cheng Chuan's guess: "Let's take it with us."

Option two seems to be easier; that funny face I just made might have been a hint to them.

Cheng Chuan nodded and held out his hand to Ning Shu: "Give me the bag."

Ning Shu: "?"

What kind of bag?

At this moment, her hands were empty; the bag she had taken from the biology lab was gone!