Chapter 713 Invitation
The next morning, on the program crew’s bus.
All the regular guests of [Escape the Room] are on board.
"Guowei went abroad to compete so he missed this recording. Let us wish him to win the championship and bring glory to the country!" After getting in the car, everyone greeted each other and exchanged a few words, and Da Mimi said.
"Come on, Guowei!"
"You are the eternal champion in our hearts!"
Others cheered.
Zhang Guowei is one of the regular guests of the show. He is not an actor but a sports star, a high jumper who has won the world championship.
In recent years, it is not uncommon to see many sports stars appear on variety shows. Many of them even enter the entertainment industry directly after retiring.
It's just that Zhang Guowei is not very famous and the audience is relatively unfamiliar with him. He performed quite well in several episodes of "Escape the Room".
"However, although Guowei is absent, we will have a guest star joining us today."
"who?"
"Who is it, a handsome guy or a beautiful girl?" Wei Daxun asked jokingly.
"Do you want a handsome guy or a beautiful girl?"
"Brother Daxun must hope that it's a beautiful woman so that he can show his courage on the show~" Huang Minghao joked on the side.
"Then you'll probably be disappointed. The person who came is a handsome guy~"
"Handsome guy? How handsome is he? Is he as handsome as me?
Back in the day, I was a school idol!" Wei Daxun raised his hand and lifted his bangs, looking cool.
"You'll know when I see you later. You can compare them." Yang Mi held back her laughter and didn't reveal anything.
Zhang Ruoyun, who was sitting on the other side, smiled but said nothing.
He knew who the guest star was today. Gu Wei had sent him a message after arriving yesterday, and the two chatted for a few words on WeChat.
The regular guests of [Escape the Room] are Yang Mi, Xie Yilin, Zhang Ruoyun, Wei Daxun, Huang Minghao and Zhang Guowei.
Because Deng Lun failed to star in "Ashes of Love", his current fame and resources are much less.
Due to her outstanding performance in "Star Detective", Zhang Ruoyun was invited by Mango TV to become a regular member of "Escape the Room".
The bus stopped after a while, and a handsome man in black casual clothes and a white T-shirt walked onto the bus.
"Hello everyone~" Gu Wei greeted everyone in the car with a smile on his face.
"Wow~ It's Gu Wei!"
"So handsome~" The person who said this was Xie Yilin. We had dinner together yesterday, but he also exclaimed for the effect of the show.
"It's over, I've become a clown~" Wei Daxun said self-deprecatingly.
Huang Minghao also added: "Brother Daxun, you are the school idol, but I am the world idol."
"Hello everyone~" Gu Wei greeted everyone with a smile, then sat next to Zhang Ruoyun in the front row.
As the bus departed, the focus of everyone's conversation naturally shifted to Gu Wei.
"Why did you think of coming to [Escape the Room]? I remember that you have never participated in this type of variety show before?" Zhang Ruoyun and Gu Wei are old friends and speak casually.
"My sister Mi invited me. I happened to have some free time recently, so I came over to play with you guys~" Gu Wei told the truth.
"You came at the perfect time. Guowei was busy and didn't come, so we were short of physical support. Now that you're here, I can really lean on you!"
"Brother Wei, do you have particularly good physical strength?" Huang Minghao interrupted and asked.
"He's not just good. When we were recording 'Divas Hit the Road' before, Gu Wei was the best at any sport. His physical strength is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary people." Zhang Ruoyun explained.
Da Mimi didn't say anything, just pursed her lips and nodded silently.
She knew best how strong Gu Wei was physically.
"I know, I know. I've seen that episode where you were surfing on the beach. Gu Wei was riding a surfboard back and forth in the sea. His figure was simply amazing!" Xie Yilin's eyes widened, thinking of a scene worth reminiscing about.
"It's up to you today. If anything happens, you can stand up. But you can't be like Daxun, Ruoyun and the others, who will be bounced ten meters away at the slightest vibration and almost have to hide behind us two girls." Yang Mi said with a smile.
"Am I really like that?" Daxun looked dissatisfied.
"Not only that, but many times." Xie Yilin exposed his plan.
"Okay, sometimes it's really scary, but I've adapted to it, and it will get better in the future," Wei Daxun consoled himself.
"Didn't Ruoyun drink a little before recording the show? You won't be afraid after you get a little tipsy," Gu Wei said with a smile.
As soon as he met Zhang Ruoyun while recording "Flowers and Youth", she discovered that he liked drinking and was always ready to drink.
"I need to use my brain. I'm the brains of our team, so I definitely can't drink."
Everyone was chatting and laughing as the bus soon arrived at the venue for today's program recording.
Six people were blindfolded and helped one by one out of the car. They were led by the staff into a dark cave.
The theme of this episode is [Mysterious Cave].
The story background is that the player is in an alien experimental base, and then finds clues to open the doors of each level in the prompts left by the previously trapped people, and finally escapes from the cave in the base.
"Gu Wei, please recite the first twenty elements of the periodic table aloud. Once you finish, you can take off your blindfold." The voice of the program staff came from the radio in the venue.
Just now in the car, everyone elected Gu Wei as the captain of today's activity, so he needs to complete the first step after entering the door.
"This is simple, this is simple~" Yang Mi said.
"Is it easy? I don't know how to do it at all!" Xie Yilin was glad that she was not the captain, because she really didn't know how to do it.
"We learned this in school, you should all remember it, right?"
"I don't remember~"
"I only remember the first ten or so~"
Facts have proven that these celebrities in the entertainment industry are really average in academic subjects.
Gu Wei didn't hesitate at all. He didn't go to an art school in his original time and space, and his grades before college were pretty good.
"Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, calcium." Twenty element names came out of his mouth.
"Congratulations on passing. You can take off the blindfold now!"
Several people took off their blindfolds.
"Wow, it's so dark~"
After being able to see, everyone began to observe the surrounding environment.
Everyone seemed to be in a closed cave, with a large iron door in front of them, which was locked with a lock.
"What is this?" Huang Minghao was the first to see the two objects on the ground. He picked them up and found that they were two flashlights.
"There's a piece of paper next to it~" Xie Yilin found the key item.
After picking it up, everyone could see clearly what was written on the paper with the light of the flashlight.
"The temperature in the mine is 7 degrees Celsius at the highest and 1 degree Celsius at the lowest.
It's so scary. Xiao Sun, who went down the mine with me, was kidnapped by an unknown creature. Maybe I will be the next one. I don't know where to go, but I can't go into the mine behind me.
I have locked the cave door. Perhaps the simplest password is the safest at this moment."
After Da Mimi finished reading the words on the paper, everyone stood up.
"It seems that we have to go through this iron gate. There is a combination lock on it." Gu Wei took two steps to the iron gate, with Zhang Ruoyun behind him to help light the way.
"What's that sound?" When everyone was wondering what the password was, a squeaking sound suddenly came.
Xie Yilin shone the flashlight in the direction of the sound.
"Ah, mice!" The light shone in the corner, and several hamsters were crawling back and forth.
In this pitch-black environment, everyone was startled. Yang Mi even jumped directly behind Gu Wei and grabbed his arms with both hands.
"Uh, it's nothing. We just need to be careful not to step on them." Gu Wei said calmly, obviously not surprised at all.
Putting a skeleton or a human model would be more exciting, but a few mice are really not that scary.
And at first glance, it is obvious that it is a pet mouse bought by the program team. It is furry, round and very cute.
"Let's figure out the combination to this lock!"
Everyone's attention returned to the combination lock on the iron door.
"The paper just mentioned two numbers, the highest is 7 degrees, the lowest is 1 degree, and the password is four digits. Could it be 0701?" Huang Minghao guessed.
"Try it~" Gu Wei tried to adjust it, but found that the lock was not open.
"Actually, there is another number on the paper, July 28th. This is a diary paper. Try 0728~" Zhang Ruoyun also gave a suggestion, but it was not correct either.
"I think we are all thinking too complicatedly. The simplest password written on paper is the most secure. Try 1234, 0000, etc." Gu Wei gave a hint and started trying.
"No way, can it really be that simple?"
“Let’s give it a try~”
There was no better way, so I could only follow Gu Wei's idea. As a result, when I adjusted it to 0000, the combination lock actually opened.
"Wow, it's such a simple password!"
"Brother Wei is awesome~"
"Come in, come in."
The iron door opened and everyone entered the next room.
This is a mine cave about seven or eight meters high and more than 20 square meters in size. There are lights on the ceiling and the brightness is decent. In the center is a platform covered with black cloth.
"What is this?" Zhang Ruoyun stepped forward and pulled off the black cloth.
There are more than 20 buttons with different symbols on it, and a pattern made up of numbers suddenly appears on the opposite wall.
Through the second page of diary paper obtained from the room, everyone knew that this was another step in cracking the code.
The door in this level is a voice-controlled door and can only be opened with the correct password.
"The symbol on each button represents a Chinese pinyin initial consonant, and what do the numbers on the wall represent?" When you press the button on the table, a corresponding electronic sound will be emitted, from b to w.
It was another round of mystery solving. Everyone tried several times, but there was no sign of the voice-controlled door opening.
"You guys are just using your brain to decrypt the code, it doesn't require any physical effort." Gu Wei looked at the digital pattern on the stone wall and wondered what kind of code it was.
"Be brave, careful, and in good health, neither of them can be missing!" Yang Mi said on the side. She had just tried the two passwords she came up with, and both were wrong.
"You are going to take the postgraduate entrance examination~"
"Look, although there are a lot of numbers on the wall, they are not without any pattern. From 1 to 5, each number can be connected to a shape, which corresponds exactly to the pattern on the button." Zhang Ruoyun, who had been standing far away studying the digital patterns, slapped his forehead.
“Press and try.”
The password obtained from the digital pattern was "xfnlt". Everyone went to the gate and shouted, but the door did not open.
"There is a 3 in the upper right corner of the digital pattern. Could it mean three times?" Gu Wei came up with a new idea.
Sure enough, after three times of "xfnlt", the door of this level opened.
They went through each level one by one, and the six people stayed in the secret room for more than three hours.
"This should be the last level, right?" Several people came out of a passage and entered a mechanism room.
In front of me was a slope of nearly 70 degrees, about ten meters high.
At the top there is a wooden puzzle similar to Huarong Road. Based on the clues they have, the key to passing the level may be on that puzzle.
"It's too slippery. I can't go up!" Wei Daxun supported himself with his arms and climbed up the slope.
"The soles of your shoes are not good, there is no friction. Mine seem to be okay," Huang Minghao said as he climbed up using his hands and feet.
The wooden puzzle is in the middle of the top of the slope, and there is a protruding area on the edge of the top part for people to stand on.
Huang Minghao was young and light, and like a nimble monkey, he quickly stood on the top step.
"Can you get the puzzle?" Yang Mi shouted from underground.
“I can touch it a little, but I can’t push the wooden block inside, it’s still far away.
Unless I jump over, but it’s too slippery and I’m sure to fall!” Huang Minghao tried once but couldn’t move the wooden pieces in the puzzle.
"I'll try~" Gu Wei took off his coat and handed it to Yang Mi. He was only wearing a white T-shirt underneath.
He quickly climbed to the highest point and stood next to Huang Minghao.
"Let me do it~"
"Brother Wei, be careful. I think the key may be hidden in the puzzle." Huang Minghao said.
Wei Daxun, who was on the ground, took off his shoes and tried to climb up, but his bare feet were more slippery.
Zhang Ruoyun, who was not good at sports, gave up after trying once, and the two girls couldn't climb up.
The four people below looked at the two people above and could only cheer them on.
Gu Wei aimed at the wooden puzzle in the middle, jumped lightly, grabbed the bottom edge of the puzzle with his hands, and used the strength of his arms to keep himself in this position so that he would not fall.
The top of the slope was covered with blue oil, which had almost no friction, so Huang Minghao hesitated to take action. He was afraid that he would slip down as soon as he came out of the stairs.
Gu Wei relied entirely on the strength of his arms, just like grabbing a horizontal bar to do pull-ups.
In order to free up one arm to move the wooden pieces in the puzzle, he gripped the bottom edge of the puzzle with one arm, his strong biceps bulging out noticeably.
It's like doing a pull-up with one hand and holding it there.
"Wow, so manly!" Xie Yilin looked at Gu Wei above with a somewhat infatuated expression.
"I told you that with Gu Wei's physical exercise, you don't have to worry!" Zhang Ruoyun said with a smile, feeling proud of her foresight.
"I feel like I'm no worse than Guowei. Fortunately, Gu Wei is here, otherwise we might be stuck here if Zhang Guowei took leave." Wei Daxun was really convinced. He absolutely couldn't do it. Even if his shoes were not slippery, he could only barely get up there. He might even be worse than Huang Minghao.
"It's not surprising that he has this ability." Yang Mi said while holding Gu Wei's coat and looking at the figure on it.
He moved several wooden blocks in the puzzle like he was pushing a puzzle in Huarong Road. Sure enough, when the largest piece was removed, a card-like object appeared underneath it.
"I found the key!" Gu Wei took the card he had just found, turned his head slightly and waved to others.
"Brother Wei, you are so awesome!"
"Gu Wei, awesome, a real man!"
Turning around, Gu Wei did another pull-up, holding the card in one hand and swiping it towards the mechanism in the other direction. With a "beep", the huge slope began to flatten slowly, and finally turned into flat ground, and the exit on the side was revealed.
"Great, Gu Wei, you controlled the whole situation today, awesome!" Several people behind came over clapping their hands, and Gu Wei and Huang Minghao also stood up.
Yang Mi handed him the coat.
"It's okay, it's not that difficult, only my arms are a little tired." Gu Wei took the clothes and said with a smile.
"It's not difficult for you, but it's too difficult for us!" Zhang Ruoyun came over and patted his shoulder. He had long known that Gu Wei had this ability.
After passing the most difficult mechanism, this [Escape the Room] was over quickly.
It was already dark outside, and everyone was packing up and preparing to return to the hotel after recording a day's program.
"How do you feel?" Zhang Ruoyun found Gu Wei.
"It's a very interesting show. You can come again when you have time."
"Are you interested in being a regular on 'Celebrity Detective'? That would be fun too."
"Forget it. It's okay to be a guest once in a while, but being a permanent member is too time-consuming!"
"It's a deal then. I'll find you during the next season's recording."
After Zhang Ruoyun finished speaking, he stretched out his fist, and Gu Wei bumped it with him with a smile.
"I have something else to ask you. Are you free at the end of June?"
"What date? I'll probably be filming in Tokyo at that time. It will start shooting at the beginning of next month, and I plan to shoot abroad for less than two months," Gu Wei said after thinking for a while.
"I'm getting married in Europe on June 27th. Please be my best man!"
"You're getting married, congratulations!
If you have time, or even if you don't, you should make time. I will definitely go then!" Gu Wei congratulated with a smile.
“Has the location been decided?
I have an old castle in France, and you can’t have mine. The manor lawn has everything, and the environment is beautiful.”
"No need to trouble you. I found a special company and the wedding will be held in Ireland. All you have to do is show up!" Zhang Ruoyun said with a smile.
“Be sure to be on time!”
(End of this chapter)
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