One week before the seven-day holiday.
Normally, the day before a long holiday should be the busiest and the last quiet moment before the carnival, but at Qianda Plaza near Kuiguang Building, it is completely different.
At this time, the mall was crowded with people, and many people were sitting in front of a large screen, staring at the picture on the screen.
Today is the last day of "Escape Room"! The escape room will no longer be reserved, all positions will be open, and the guests will use their own abilities to find a way to escape.
The three guests who leave the secret room first will be considered the winners.
At the same time, the answer to the prize-winning quiz will also be revealed.
In just a few days, the prize-winning guessing game of Kuiguang Group went viral on the Internet. There were even foreigners who, after seeing this secret room, went to great lengths to seek help on the Leopard app, hoping that someone could tell them how to play in this secret room and how much it would cost.
Now it seems that this foreigner is already preparing for visa-related matters.
As if they saw a business opportunity, many tour groups and travel bloggers began to post travel guides to Jinhae City on video websites, even though the seven-day holiday has not yet begun.
Special mention was made of the entertainment projects around the Kuiguang Group. Almost every related video had at least 100,000 views, and some even reached millions!
"By the way, doesn't Kuiguang Group never allow people to work overtime? Are they operating as usual during this seven-day holiday?"
"I heard that they internally adjusted the leave ratio to 1:2, and the salary was tripled during the long holidays."
"So many people are looking forward to visiting Kuiguang Group's properties during the long holiday. Who wouldn't want to make money?"
Now that the Kuiguang Group has more employees, Yang Ruoqian also feels that such company system matters are not secrets that need to be kept, so he allows employees to discuss them on the Internet.
So there are a lot of insignificant "inside information" that are often talked about.
"Don't take it for granted. Experts have calculated that with the high labor costs of the Kuiguang Group and the high operating costs of the secret room, the money lost by taking a vacation directly is less than the operating losses."
"Then why do they have to open the secret room at this time? Are they trying to make trouble for money?"
"You don't have the vision of others... Do you understand influence? Look at how much attention has been attracted to the entertainment industry and how many tourists have been attracted here?"
"Yeah, according to what you said, there is no need for Kuiguang Group to organize such variety shows. Why spend money to invite others to use the resources of their own company?"
"To give an example, this is equivalent to investment. You can't look at how much money others lost when investing, but you have to extend the time to see how much return this investment can bring to him in the future."
“That makes sense…”
"I'm not actually from Jinhai. I just came here because I was curious about these industries... I heard that they also have some customized entertainment business. Even if I can't play in the escape room, I can still try this."
"You still care whether they make a loss or not. Kuiguang Group is almost losing money and becoming the leading enterprise in Jinhai City."
"You bunch of keyboard warriors, stop analyzing what the big bosses of big companies are thinking, and hurry up and watch the variety show, it's the most tense and exciting episode!"
When the chattering group talked about variety shows, they immediately became excited.
"I always thought the danger in the elevator was that there were monsters crawling down from above, but I didn't expect that there were such important clues hidden inside!"
"Yeah, the key to passing the level is to press the elevator buttons in a certain order, 2413, and finally press 1 again. The elevator will go up without listening to the command... and then you will arrive at a place that has never been opened before."
"It's really amazing! Who designed this secret room? Someone from Dongfang Qiyue's team? I think they have the exclusive naming rights."
"How could that group of people be this good? I've been to their secret room and it was just so-so. They often made mistakes and it was very distracting. They are worlds apart from this one."
“What the hell!” A man suddenly stood up from his seat in shock. “Did you see that when the elevator stopped at the third floor, the maintenance door above moved. It definitely moved!”
"No, no, are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"
"I saw it too...it was clearly moving, but the guests in the elevator didn't seem to notice it."
"Get out, get out, my baby!" a girl who was obviously a fan of the guest wailed, "The elevator door is about to close."
"Wait, I remember that this guest should have been confirmed to be the traitor, right? Does he only have one life left now?"
"Hiss, then if this guest is killed in the elevator, doesn't that mean there are only two traitors left?"
"Don't! Brother, please look up! I bet you can qualify in second place. If you eliminate me, won't I have a chance to get a ticket to the secret room?"
"Run! I bet on the 123rd place insider. Don't let him get eliminated like this."
"Ahhh the elevator door is closed, it's over."
“No… why don’t you look up, wuwuwu…”
When it came to the most critical and tense scene, almost everyone held their breath.
Then, a shrill scream echoed in everyone's ears through the loudspeakers in the mall.
“Ah—Ahhhhh!!!”
At this time, many viewers had already looked away and shook their heads regretfully.
This guest can be declared eliminated the moment the elevator door is closed.
By the last day of the last week, all the guests had already run out of money and had spent almost all the money they had saved from the previous two weeks - one guest was even so cruel that he didn't even eat, just to save that little bit of money.
In order to ensure the health of the guests, although meals cost money, unless you are as stupid as Shang Qianyu, the expense is only symbolic.
"Oh no... Now the ratio of traitors to good guys is 2:3. It's hard to say who will win."
"I think the good guys should have won. Shang Qianyu's identity among the traitors has been exposed, and the remaining one doesn't have much room for maneuver."
"Who said that? If it hasn't been exposed yet, it's the biggest trump card, right?"
"Now what difference does it make whether it is exposed or not? The good guest is suspicious of everything and uses exhaustive methods to warn everyone. It doesn't matter, okay?"
"Stop talking, look..."
“…”
Not long after, the guests found the "corpse" of the guest in the elevator. They took the elevator tremblingly, pressed the corresponding number buttons, and came to the new area on the fourth floor which was full of dangers.
After many hardships and dangers, and the loss of a teammate, they finally arrived at the last level.
In front of the last gate, there is a huge human-shaped altar.
The screams and the little light seeping in from outside the door all told them that this was the final destination after leaving the secret room.
At this moment, two NPCs from the safe zone appeared here at some point.
The NPC in the store shouted, "Hurry up and put the bodies you collected into the altar!"
The NPC who issued the task held him down and said coldly, "Don't put these things on the altar, he is lying to you! Use the torches in your hands to light the fire and throw these things in to burn. This is the only way to stop the ceremony and completely eliminate the weirdness in the secret room!"
"He's lying to you!"
"He is lying to you! Think carefully about what you have experienced before!"
After saying this, the two NPCs stopped fighting and looked at the last four surviving guests with grim eyes.
At this moment, not only the four guests, but everyone who was watching the variety show fell silent, staring at the screen intently.
Who should we trust? Countless memories came flooding back to our minds, and we were all trying to figure out who we should trust.
"I think I can trust the NPC in the canteen?"
"The locator that the NPC in the canteen sold to their teammates was able to locate a ghost. It must be a wolf. They must have believed the NPC who issued the quest!"
"But sometimes the missions issued by this NPC are no different from sending oneself to death, and he also deliberately concealed some important information. Isn't that also very suspicious?"
"I think we should still trust the NPC who issued the quest. Not sharing information and intentionally selling fake items to harm others are two completely different issues. Okay, it's obvious that the NPC in the canteen is up to something."
"I also think that putting that pile of human body parts into such a weird altar is obviously problematic. It's more like lifting the seal for a certain existence."
"Burn it!"
“…”
The guests in the secret room obviously also found relevant information in their memories. Like the audience outside, Feng Luo and Ni Yuanhao also believed that these things should be burned.
"This walkie-talkie and this teammate locator should be your goods, right? How do you explain the various fatal failures they have?"
The NPC in the store said as a matter of course: "I am not omnipotent. If the items I sell can 100% isolate the influence of 'it', wouldn't I have escaped by myself long ago?"
"But you never gave us any warning." Ni Yuanhao calmly pointed out the loophole in his words.
"Because I don't know either!"
"Okay, no need to say more, let's vote. Who do you choose to believe?" Ni Yuanhao looked at the remaining three people in Group No. 1 and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
"The NPC who issued the task..."
"Me too."
"Okay, unanimous approval." Ni Yuanhao nodded, then asked, "Now there is one last question. Who will carry out this final step?"
You know, among the remaining four guests, two are traitors!
They may not follow normal operations...
Feng Luo ignored Shang Qianyu who was aggrieved on the side, and said to the remaining two people: "How about this, we three choose two people to do the operation, this way one of them is definitely not a traitor."
"If someone does something unusual, the other person can just stop him, how about that?"
"no problem."
"I agree..."
"Let's decide by rock-paper-scissors."
"Rock, Paper, Scissors..."
After the result of the rock-paper-scissors game came out, Zhang Wei and Ni Yuanhao took the final step.
Zhang Wei came to the altar with Ni Yuanhao carrying his backpack. Zhang Wei lowered his head to put down his backpack and said to Ni Yuanhao nonchalantly, "You come?"
"good……"
After a brief exchange of views, Zhang Wei put all the "components" such as the head and arms in the bag into Ni Yuanhao's hands.
Ni Yuanhao breathed a sigh of relief knowing that he was not a spy. Just as he was about to throw the things in his hand into the fire pit, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhang Wei still rummaging through something in his schoolbag.
That's not right. Didn't he take all the things?
At the moment when Ni Yuanhao was puzzled, Zhang Wei picked up the schoolbag at lightning speed and quickly placed the things inside on the altar one by one.
Hairpins on the head, gloves on the arms, clothes on the body...
At this moment, the air in the entire secret room turned cold.
With his hands full of things, Ni Yuanhao, whose vigilance was completely eliminated, was completely confused. He subconsciously asked, "What did you put in there?"
However, Zhang Wei did not answer him, but turned down and ran towards the door that was slowly opening!
"Ahhh! What have you done!!! How dare you..."
The two NPCs roared angrily, immediately put aside their past grudges, and grabbed Ni Yuanhao who was closest to them.
At the moment when Ni Yuanhao used his life to hold the two NPCs, Feng Luo and Shang Qianyu also stood up and fled out of the secret room.
However, Xiao Shang's athletic ability was not at the same level as Feng Luo's. Even though she had made peace with Zhang Weitong beforehand and her starting speed was half a second faster than Feng Luo, she was still overtaken by Feng Luo in the end.
Just a second before the door was closed, Shang Qianyu was finally the third person to escape from the secret room.
The audience in the mall was already going wild.
"What the hell?! Is this prop the key?"
"Are both NPCs untrustworthy?"
"No...Shang Qianyu obviously knew that Zhang Wei was going to do this. Since Shang Qianyu is an insider, then, then Zhang Wei is also an insider?!"
"Ah, there are two traitors in one team?"
"In fact, I had this suspicion when there were only four guests left, but I didn't expect the production team to be so cruel as to put two traitors in one team... This is a trap for Feng Luo!"
“Hahahaha! I feel sorry for my sister Feng Luo. The whole team is full of traitors, and yet she still managed to get second place in the end.”
"It may not be the second one. Now it seems that the inner ghost team has won. Maybe we need to rank the inner ghost team first, and then the other surviving guests, that is, Feng Luo."
"Ah, that pile of clothes turned out to be the key prop? I never noticed it!"
"What do those two NPCs mean? Why did they both mutate in the end? Does it mean that neither of them is a good person, or that they are both good people, but were harmed by the traitor?"
"Don't worry, the organizer will definitely explain the plot later..."
At this point, the camera turned to the stage.
Chief Planner Qin Xin pushed three trophies towards the last three survivors and applauded: "Let's congratulate the last three survivors!"
"Congratulations to Zhang Wei for first place, Feng Luo for second place, and Shang Qianyu for third place!"
Cursing the exaggerated production team for giving him two traitors, Feng Luo, who was panting, was stunned for a moment, pointed at himself, and asked in disbelief: "I, I am the second place?"
Now it seems that the inner team has won. Shouldn't Zhang Wei be first, Shang Qianyu second, and she third? Why is she second? (End of this chapter)
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