The map doesn’t match the actual situation?
Yao Xue, who was walking in the middle, had her dimples slightly lighter. She asked doubtfully, "Are you sure? Did you see it wrong?"
This map was pieced together by all the teams handing in their maps. In order to prevent the NPCs in the safe zone from playing tricks, they also made a special comparison before bringing out the map.
According to Yao Xuehong's understanding, there should be no props that can tamper with the map now.
"I guess I'm not mistaken..." The guest in charge of leading the group shook his head, "I was just following the map just now, and it matched the map before, but it doesn't match here."
"Sister Yao, how about you come and take a look?"
The smile on Yao Xuehong's face had already froze a little: "I can't quite understand such a complicated map. Can anyone of you understand it?"
While asking this, Yao Xuehong felt a little annoyed - her external persona was that of an all-round goddess.
She definitely didn't want to expose the fact that she didn't know the way at all.
However...I don’t think the program crew will record this little episode.
After all, variety shows have limited episodes, and nothing important happened now. It's just that a few people got the map wrong. The production crew may not even notice this detail, let alone film it and record it.
Thinking of this, Yao Xuehong felt a little better. She smiled and said, "Don't worry, take your time. Our flashlights are fully charged and we have a few spare batteries."
Several people looked at the map for several minutes but still couldn't figure out what was going on.
As time passed, the temperature around me started to drop, and I could feel the chilly wind...
"No, we can't stay here any longer." Yao Xuehong looked around and said decisively, "Wandering in one place for too long will attract unnecessary attention. This rule is definitely still in effect, and it may be more dangerous than before."
A male guest in charge of the rear guard looked at the end of the dark corridor behind him and asked with some fear: "What should we do now?"
What is more terrifying than having danger behind you is the possibility of danger behind you.
The insecurity of the unknown is far greater than the oppression brought by known dangers.
"First, go back the way you came and find the standard reference on the map." Yao Xuehong looked very calm and gave a solution in an orderly manner. "After finding it, move forward again in the direction of the reference... We should not worry about wasting time. We must know that haste makes waste."
The four of them discussed it and thought that this was indeed the case, so they walked back a distance carefully, step by step.
They didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they saw a familiar scene.
At least I didn't get lost on the way back.
The only thing more terrifying than not being able to find your destination is not being able to find your way back.
Now it seems that at least the worst thing did not happen.
"Look, this building is marked on the map." The guest leading the way pointed to the pattern on the map, "Even the direction is marked."
Yao Xuehong, who didn't understand the map at all, nodded in agreement: "Then according to the route shown on the map, how should we go next?"
The leader glanced at the map and said in a strange tone, "According to what the map shows, the route we just took is correct... Sister Yao, can you come and take a look?"
Don't make me look at the map again! Yao Xuehong gritted her teeth and smiled: "Okay... I'll take a look, there shouldn't be any problem. What about the other two? Have you seen anything?"
The other two guests took the map, compared it carefully, and shook their heads slowly: "I also think that the direction we were going just now was correct."
"Maybe we missed an intersection along the way?" The leading guest breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone agreed with his direction. "Let's walk slower and look carefully later?"
It would be really uncomfortable if I messed things up because of my own reasons and was besieged by Yao Xuehong's fans.
Among all 16 guests, Yao Xuehong's fans are the most powerful and have the highest degree of crystallization.
Being targeted by her fans, the comment section and super topic will be lively for at least a week.
Although everyone has been in the entertainment industry for a long time and is basically immune to this kind of harm, it is still best to reduce this kind of negative traffic that has no monetization ability at all.
"Okay, shine the flashlight to the side..."
After adjusting themselves, they continued to move forward. This time they were more careful and shone the flashlight on every wall, hardly missing a single detail.
After walking for a while in the long and narrow corridor and carefully passing through several dilapidated classrooms covered with cobwebs, the leader suddenly stopped while looking at a map with a flashlight.
Yao Xuehong was startled by the sudden stop of the team and subconsciously asked, "What happened?"
"Have you found any other intersections along the way?" The leader's voice trembled for some reason.
Yao Xuehong held a flashlight in her hand and shook her head with certainty: "I didn't find anything."
"Don't you think the place we are in now is unfamiliar?" The leading guest desperately compared the map with the environment. "The signs on the map don't match, and it's different from the first time we came..."
Is it different from the first time you came?
They returned to the starting point from the wrong destination and then set out along the same route, but they ended up in a different place?
A chill rose in Yao Xuehong's heart: "Could it be that you remembered it wrongly?"
"Impossible." The leading guest shook his head with certainty. "I remember clearly that when we came here, we encountered four piles of bones on the road, three on the left and one on the right."
"But this time, we walked much further than last time, but we only encountered two piles of bones, and both were on our right!"
“The layouts of these classrooms look similar, but there are actually many problems in the details…”
“The first time we came, there were absolutely no teaching aids on the podium!”
"And the types of desks... When we first came here, the desks were all made of wood. Now look, the brackets of this desk are made of metal!"
"I can guarantee that we have never been to this place... I didn't even find it on the map!"
"Come and look at the map. There is no place with such a layout."
Yao Xuehong felt her fingers were a little cold. She and the other two people walked up quickly and checked the map carefully.
In the end, everyone came to the same conclusion - there was indeed no such place on the map.
The location they were in didn't exist at all! The accuracy of the map had been verified by most people last week, how could it be possible?!
Yao Xuehong could already feel the blood flow speeding up. She forced herself to maintain a smile and said, "Well, maybe not. Have you forgotten that this secret room has a fourth floor? The map does not include the layout of the fourth floor... Is there a possibility that we went up to the fourth floor without knowing it?"
"But we didn't go up the stairs at all, how did we get to the fourth floor?" A guest reminded, "This is a secret room, it's not really haunted..."
Having said that, the four of them were silent for a moment.
Haunted...
Yes, they now feel like this place is really haunted.
There was clearly no oppression, no NPC to be seen, and no danger at all. But the more this was the case, the more the four of them felt that there were dangers lurking on all sides.
Everywhere is safe, but nowhere is safe!
Now that they have encountered such a strange thing, if they don’t deal with it, what will surely await them next is a crisis of total annihilation.
"I, what do we do now?"
Yao Xuehong put her hands behind her back and said in a calm tone, "Let's go back the same way first. Since this place has been confirmed to be extremely unsafe and there is no way to get to our mission location, there is no need to force our way in."
"I think so too... There's more than one way to get there anyway. If we can't get through here, we can go up to the second floor and go around from above."
Although taking a detour will pass through more dangerous places, it is still easier than finding your way in a completely unfamiliar environment.
In their current location, even the map is useless!
The other two people were also starting to back out. "There's really no need to explore further. We don't have any clues about the secret room. This is obviously not the place to be right now."
After reaching an agreement, they looked at each other, carefully withdrew from the abandoned classroom, and began to return the same way for the second time.
"I feel like we wasted a lot of time." The first guest had been replaced, and he walked carefully in the corridor. "But I think the other groups are definitely not much better than us. They must have encountered crises as well."
Yao Xuehong is even more aware of the principle that haste makes waste: "After we get back, let's not set off yet. Let's go to the safe zone to rest for a while and see if we can get any information from the NPC."
The entire secret room now exudes an extremely wrong atmosphere. Yao Xuehong has a strong premonition that soon, there will be a super crisis that will sweep the entire secret room.
The general planner always intentionally or unintentionally emphasizes the difficulty of the second week. This not only means that the intrigues between the groups become more intense, but it is also likely to hint at the danger of the secret room itself.
In the first week, no matter what the crisis is, it will be dispersed, and a specific crisis will only be triggered when the team reaches a certain place.
This crisis has a limited scope and is not linked to other crises.
It is a passive trigger, similar to a trap.
Yao Xuehong has also been in the entertainment industry for many years, and she has long been shrewd. Having experienced the devastation of the first week and witnessed the malice of the program crew, she absolutely does not believe that the crises in the secret room are only these passively triggered traps.
Maybe a crisis that requires the cooperation of all guests is brewing! Competition and cooperation, self-destruction in intrigue, this is the purpose of the program team! Maybe stopping the exploration temporarily, hanging around the safe room for a while, and observing the changes is the best choice at the moment.
The guest in the middle nodded: "We still have sufficient funds now. After returning to the safe zone, we can find an NPC to buy some information."
"Indeed, we need a new piece of intelligence to determine the new danger in the secret room."
"I think there is a possibility... There is actually nothing wrong with this map, but its information only represents the layout of the secret room in the first week, not this week. Do you remember what Chief Planner Qin Xin just said? Some of the information is out of date."
"This is misleading. At first I thought it was a text message that expired. Who knew something as important as a map could expire? This is something that so many teams worked so hard to put together in the first week, and as soon as we came back, they told us it was expired? How malicious are the production team?"
"Maps can expire. It really makes me laugh..."
"If the dormitory building was not open only in the evening, I would have locked myself in the dormitory today and not come out."
"You think too much. If you dare to do this, the production team will have plenty of ways to punish you."
“…”
The four people who chose to leave the danger zone were talking and laughing, walking back along the way they came, looking relaxed.
Although the mission progress was delayed, at least they were safe during this period...
Sure enough, not long after, the person leading the charge shouted, "There is light ahead, we should be reaching the safe zone soon!"
“Let’s go, let’s go…”
After walking a few more steps, Yao Xuehong suddenly paused, and the smile on her face instantly disappeared: "Wait a minute, are you sure that's the safe zone? Why do I remember that the lights in the safe zone weren't that dim?"
"ah?!"
"Yes, is that so?"
"But... didn't we return the same way?"
Yao Xuehong resisted the urge to roar, and continued in a voice that showed she had everything under control: "Think about it for yourself. If the path we took to get there could be replaced silently, wouldn't the path we took to get back be replaced as well?"
"The production team has already given us one chance... We should have withdrawn immediately when we first discovered that the map was wrong."
Now, it's too late.
"Then, what should we do?"
"There's no other way. Let's see if we can get through." Yao Xuehong forced herself not to let her voice tremble. "Where is that glowing place ahead?"
The first guest squinted his eyes and said, "It seems to be the infirmary?"
The person standing behind Yao Xuehong asked in confusion: "Why is there such a retro fence door elevator in the infirmary? I remember there was no such thing before..."
The person in charge of guarding the rear took two steps forward and said, "Let's go and have a look. Anyway, we also have a faculty ID card. Even if the rules change, at least one person can get on the elevator."
Finally, a voice came from the end of the team: "Do you remember the rules of the infirmary at the back of the map? Don't break the rules later."
After listening to the conversation between the other four people, Yao Xuehong nodded: "Don't worry, I still remember..."
Before she finished speaking, her pupils suddenly shrank!
Wait a minute! There are only three teammates...
Why did I hear four different voices just now? ! (End of this chapter)
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