The moment those five words were written, both the four people in the secret room and the people watching the live broadcast in the director's room fell silent.
Level 8...Level 8 gale.
It seems to meet the requirement that it is scary when read forward, and funny when read backward.
That's right, it just feels a bit weird. Chang Zhiqing tried not to laugh and asked, "This... I remember the production team wanted to arrange a door-to-door kill for all teams to show their power. What should we do now?"
Yes, it was slightly different from what the guests imagined. The program crew did not intend to make the difficulty too high in the initial stage of the escape room.
But this does not mean that there is any "newbie protection period".
Under the careful arrangement of the program team, almost all teams will be wiped out at the first level after entering the secret room.
Take the secret room encountered by Group 1 for example. A clue hidden under a collapsed table and chair, exercise books and pens placed in different areas of the classroom, extremely difficult questions, and misleading and urgent time together made the first level almost impossible to pass.
According to the original design, once the first level fails, the doors and windows of the classroom will be completely locked, and the soft ceiling controlled by the mechanism will fall down directly, accompanied by a burst of urgent class bells as a scare.
The team could only climb up to the second floor, where they were faced with a series of malicious intent carefully arranged by the program crew.
After going through many difficulties and scares, you can barely find the safe zone, and then go through more hardships and dangers before finally reaching the safe zone.
But now... it seems that all these arrangements and plans have completely gone to waste, at least for Group No. 1.
Qin Xin smiled bitterly: "What else can we do? We can only consider them as having passed. It seems that we have underestimated the strength of these guests. Then let's shorten the protection period for novices to one day."
Yang Ruoqian looked very interested at this moment: "What is the reward for passing?"
"We can directly get a map of one eighth of this secret room. This map will indicate the location of the safe zone of the secret room." Qin Xin replied, "But it only indicates the location. Team One still needs to get through it."
Key props such as maps are usually used as key props in the later stages of the game and can only be obtained by completing various difficult tasks.
Now Team No. 1 has directly obtained a map, which is a huge advantage.
"It's okay, it's only one eighth. It's of no use." Yang Ruoqian waved his hand and comforted the program team.
"It's nothing, actually." Mai Xiurong, who had been watching from the side, suddenly interrupted, "This map is only valid for a week... How could the secret room I designed have a fixed layout?"
"If they trust and rely on this map too much...then they will be cheated. Oh, if I had so much money to design this kind of escape room before, my business would definitely be booming now and I would never go bankrupt."
The maintenance cost alone can be so high that you can go bankrupt...
Yang Ruoqian complained in his heart.
Only the financial resources of the Kuiguang Group can support so many creative ideas and build such a sophisticated secret room regardless of cost.
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At the same time, in the secret room.
At this time, several people looked at the five big words on the paper and fell into a long period of embarrassment.
We are all adults, and we still know what a force eight gale means when pronounced backwards.
"Ahem." Zhang Wei was the first to break the silence. "Since no other incidents have occurred, we should have passed this stage..."
As soon as the words fell, the white silk in the middle of the classroom suddenly pulled upwards, and then a mannequin with white silk wrapped around its legs fell from the same position. The extremely creepy face with a long tongue sticking out was exactly level with the faces of the four people! This face... is exactly the same as the face of the paper mannequin on the ground! Even the expression is exactly the same! "Ah——"
Shang Qianyu screamed in shock and jumped back several meters, almost falling to the ground.
What the hell is this?!
Not only Shang Qianyu, even Feng Luo, who had been telling himself in his heart that these were all props, was frightened and couldn't help but take a step back.
Even Zhang Wei, who had read a lot of horror novels, felt his hair stand on end at this moment, but he still forced himself to suppress his fear and shone the flashlight around the paper man.
Geng Fangyi wiped the cold sweat from his head and said in a trembling voice: "Did you notice that the tongue of this paper man seems a little strange..."
After the initial shock and confirming that the paper man would not move, Zhang Wei's fear subsided a little, and he shone the flashlight towards the paper man's face.
After looking at it for a while, Zhang Wei said uncertainly: "This... this seems to be a damaged map?"
map?
The map of the secret room? Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard these two words.
Before entering the secret room, they already knew that there was a safe zone. If they had a map, they could avoid many detours and reach the safe zone directly!
Is this the reward for answering the questions within the time limit? As the team leader and the insider, Zhang Wei stepped forward and pulled the paper man's tongue with his hand.
I couldn't pull it down...
He took two deep breaths, pried open the paper man's mouth, reached his hand into the paper man's throat, and pulled hard, finally pulling the tongue out.
Only then did Shang Qianyu come to her senses. She swallowed hard and said, "Look... take a look at the map."
This is only the first day and the first level. The variety show has just begun, but the four of them are already sweating profusely.
After looking at it for a while, Feng Luo couldn't help but frowned: "This map is covered in blood, and it's not complete."
"At least it covers the area from our classroom to the safe house." Zhang Wei carefully folded the map and put it away. "Just as I guessed, the safe zone is between the cafeteria and the dormitory. But we have to go downstairs... The stairwell, uh, can be considered an accident-prone area."
"I feel like this journey won't be peaceful..." Shang Qianyu complained in a low voice.
"Let's think about how we are going to leave the classroom first." Feng Luo felt a sense of crisis all around him and was eager to find a safe zone to relax. "The first team to find the safe zone will give us an advantage over other teams."
After hearing Feng Luo's words, Geng Fangyi said after a little thought: "I think... we have gained a certain advantage now. Other teams should have encountered the same crisis as us, but I don't think everyone can solve the crisis within the limited time like us."
Team No. 1 was very lucky and efficient, and they managed to complete the task with just a few seconds left.
How is it possible that every other group could replicate their performance?
"Giving us something as important as a map in the early stages is obviously not an ordinary reward."
Zhang Wei nodded and glanced at the intercom beside him: "We can even use this advantage to mislead other groups."
"I don't think it's necessary for now... We've only just started, and getting rid of members of other groups will only reduce our chances of passing the level."
Shang Qianyu quickly brought the topic back on track: "Let's get going now! We have to find a safe area before the flashlight runs out of battery!"
Zhang Wei nodded, then subconsciously turned the map over.
"Wait... there's a line of words written on the back!" Zhang Wei moved the map a little further away, "Hiss, don't run in the stairwell?!"
There was actually a reminder written on the back of the map! "Don't run in the stairwell?" Feng Luo was shocked. "This is very important information!"
Geng Fangyi was a little excited: "The map is a very, very important prop! Not only can it reveal the mystery of the entire secret room, it also hides very important life-saving information! Whoever has more maps will have the greatest initiative!"
Imagine if they could take all the maps for themselves, and then pass on this information to other teams, true or false, how much advantage would this bring? ! "Now we can use the intercom once, should we tell the other teams this information? They may have to pass through the stairwell."
"How about voting?"
Shang Qianyu was the first to express his opinion: "I agree."
"I agree too." Feng Luo actually didn't want to share this information, but after thinking about his own personality, he still voted in favor.
"I agree. There is no need to fight among ourselves at this time."
Seeing that everyone agreed, Zhang Wei pressed the "2" button on the intercom and said quickly: "This is Team 1. We have found the key clue now. Do not run in the stairwell. I repeat, do not run in the stairwell. Please pass the message to Team 3 as soon as possible after receiving it."
After that, Shang Qianyu asked curiously, "Do you think Team 2 will pass on our message?"
"Of course they will, otherwise they will be collectively isolated by the remaining three groups. Hiding this news will not only cause others to be eliminated, but also make them hostile to everyone. As long as they are not stupid, they will know what to choose." Feng Luo answered without thinking.
The four teams will definitely meet frequently in the secret room. Once the fact that Team No. 2 failed to pass on the message is exposed, they will definitely become public enemies.
"We can go now..."
"Where to go?" Geng Fangyi asked subconsciously.
Shang Qianyu did not answer, but pointed in the direction of the classroom window with his trembling right hand.
At some point, the tightly closed frosted glass window was opened a crack, and outside was boundless darkness! What was even more terrifying was that a few handprints appeared faintly on the frosted glass, and there was also dark red liquid flowing down! The four people were immediately horrified!
This is urging them to leave!
If you continue to stay in the classroom, something bad will definitely happen.
So far, not a single NPC has appeared in the secret room, but they have been frightened one after another without a break.
"No... stop talking, leave now, leave now!"
Zhang Wei nodded, and just as he was about to lead the way across the window, his feet suddenly paused - he remembered something very important! "Wait a minute!"
Looking at the increasing number of handprints, Feng Luo no longer cared about maintaining his own image: "Don't wait, let's go!"
"Clock!" Zhang Wei remained surprisingly calm at this time, "Hurry up and move the table, we need to take the clock away! This is the only prop that allows us to accurately grasp the time here!"
Geng Fangyi was the fastest to act. He immediately dragged a desk to the podium.
Zhang Wei climbed onto the table and took off the clock.
However, what no one expected was that Shang Qianyu, who seemed to be the least courageous, actually turned on the flashlight himself, walked in front of Feng Luo, and climbed over the window first.
Under strong psychological suggestion, everyone felt that there must be something extremely terrifying in the blind spot of vision.
But... after all, we are a member of a team, we can't leave everything to others, right? Others go to grab the clock, Shang Qianyu makes way, it's fair.
After jumping out, Shang Qianyu quickly shone the flashlight in the surrounding area.
"No...there's nothing! Come...out quickly." Shang Qianyu was trembling as he spoke.
“Here it comes!”
Without even bothering to look at Shang Qianyu with admiration, the others quickly followed and climbed out.
Once everyone left the classroom and reached the corridor, the palm prints on the windows disappeared.
As expected...can't stay in one place for too long.
Zhang Wei held the clock, shone the flashlight on the map in his hand, and said quickly: "We now have two choices... The first is to go from the south and take the stairs to the first floor; the second is to go from the north and take the elevator to the first floor."
"The first route leads to the chemistry lab and the toilet; the second route leads to another class and the music classroom... Which one will you choose?"
Just as he finished speaking, an extremely weak and cold wind blew through the corridor, and everyone shivered.
Where does the wind come from in this confined space? !
"I think we can't stay here for too long..."
Feng Luo, whose nerves have been tense since the beginning, tried his best to curb his fear: "The elevator is not very reliable, but the toilet is also terrible."
"But at least we know how to navigate stairwells safely, whereas we know nothing about the dangers of elevators."
"Then let's take the southern road and go!" Zhang Wei said without further ado, "Leave a flashlight as a backup. I'll be the rear guard. Who will lead the way?"
"Let me do it." Feng Luo, who had made almost no contribution from the beginning to now, gritted his teeth and walked to the front of the team. "Hold the shoulders of the people in front of you, don't walk without anyone behind you."
After they lined up, they immediately headed towards the stairwell.
However, after walking for only a few dozen seconds, Feng Luo suddenly discovered that the corridor ahead was blocked by a pile of collapsed ruins!
To pass through, you have to go around the chemical laboratory next to it, enter from the front door and exit from the back door.
With such an obvious arrangement, you can tell without even thinking that there must be something bad in the chemistry laboratory!
Feng Luo's brain had completely lost the ability to think at this time: "How should we..."
She had only said half of her words when a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly appeared in the back of the team, deep in the corridor!
Zhang Wei, who was at the back, had his blood pressure spiked instantly: "Don't hesitate! Go in quickly! Lock the door!"
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