At the Jiangdu Heartbeat Escape Room Game Club, Xiaoya at the front desk was listening to music out of boredom. Today was not the weekend, so business was very slow. However, Xiaoya was used to it. What was wrong with just being a lazy person for a day?
"Hello, is the theme game room available?" A pleasant male voice came.
Xiaoya looked up and saw a man and a woman standing at the counter, both wearing masks. It was Yan Zi who had requested the actual combat drill and dragged Feng Xiaoyun along.
"Oh, sorry!" Xiaoya took off her headphones. She was so engrossed in listening to the music that she didn't even notice someone came in.
“All the themed game rooms are empty now.”
"This is our first time here. Can you recommend something to us?" Feng Xiaoyun asked.
"Of course you can. Have you ever played a room escape game before?"
"No!" The two shook their heads.
"Then I suggest you choose one from these three. All three are more suitable for beginners."
As she spoke, Xiaoya picked out three pictures from a pile of theme introductions.
They are "The Hot Zone", "The Village Horror" and "The Forbidden Garden" respectively.
"Why do they all look so scary?" Yan Zi said after standing next to Feng Xiaoyun and looking over.
"Don't worry, it's just that this promotional page is made to be scary. In fact, the models inside are fake at a glance. Our main feature is still the puzzle elements, and these horror elements are just to add to the atmosphere." Xiaoya felt that the voice of the girl in front of her was somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it before.
"Which one do you want to choose?" Feng Xiaoyun asked. It was Yan Zi who wanted to play the game, and he was just a foil, so of course Yan Zi had to choose.
After hesitating for a while, Yan Zi chose "Forbidden Garden". Although this one also looks a bit gloomy, it is still much better than the previous two.
"Okay, please follow me." Xiaoya took out a walkie-talkie and a flashlight from under the counter and handed them to the two.
"The only props I can give you outside are a flashlight and a walkie-talkie. The purpose of the walkie-talkie is to ask me for a group. You have three chances in total."
After that, the three of them came to a door with the words "Isolated Garden" written on it.
"Are you ready? If you are, you can go in. The time limit is one hour. If you are not out after one hour, I will tell you how to get out through the intercom."
Yan Zi and Feng Xiaoyun looked at each other and said, "We're ready."
"Okay, happy gaming then."
Xiaoya let the two in, then closed the door and returned to her front desk.
Yan Zi's new songs are so good, especially "Cicada," and it's free. I've made plans to go to KTV with Meimei and the others after get off work today, and I absolutely have to show off my singing voice and give them a good rendition of this song.
Wait, Yan Zi?
Xiaoya only then realized that the voice just now sounded so familiar. Wasn't it Yan Zi, the original singer of "Cicada" that she had played on repeat countless times?
Yes, yes, yes, the girl just now was so tall and had a good figure, she really looked like Yan Zi.
While thinking about it, I watched the surveillance footage.
At this time, the two of them were naturally still in the first room.
"Feng Xiaoyun, what should we do now?" Yan Zi asked in a daze as it was his first time in such a place.
"Of course we're looking for clues. Look, besides the door we came in through, there's another door here. There must be some clues here that can help us open this door."
Feng Xiaoyun! Isn't he the composer of the song "Cicada"? And Yan Zi's assistant is also named Feng Xiaoyun, a tall, handsome man. It seems they must be the two of them.
Xiaoya was so excited that she didn't expect that her favorite idol would come to the store where she worked to play the escape room.
Feng Xiaoyun and Yan Zi inside had no idea that they had been recognized and were trying hard to search every detail in the room.
The first room was small. They started by looking at the floor beneath their feet. They found it was just ordinary cement. In the middle of the floor was a semicircle and a line of small characters. One of the five lines was missing. This should be one of the clues.
The only furnishing in the room was a two-drawer cabinet, but the drawers had been pulled out, leaving only two empty holes and six legs underneath.
Looking at the wall on one side, there are several photos hanging, which should be the scenery in the garden.
The other walls are bare, and the door leading out has 15 buttons on it, arranged in three rows of five. This should be the mechanism to open the door.
"The clues we have now are the pattern on the ground, this sentence, and these photos," Feng Xiaoyun analyzed. "These clues should tell us something, and that something is related to the button on the door."
Yan Zi nodded and began to carefully observe the photos on the wall. She felt that the clues were most likely hidden in these photos.
There's a panoramic view of the garden, some close-ups of flowers, and one of a fountain. There are seven photos in total: three in the first row, the leftmost one in the second row, and three in the third row.
"Feng Xiaoyun, do you think the correct buttons on the door might be arranged in the same way as the seven photos?" Yan Zi looked at the three rows of photos and the three rows of buttons on the door, and she wondered if they corresponded to each other.
Feng Xiaoyun thought it wouldn't be that easy, but he still encouraged her, "Let's give it a try. But there are five buttons on the door, and only three photos. What should we do?"
"Press them from left to right. There are only three possible arrangements, so just try them all." Yan Zi also became interested and instructed Feng Xiaoyun, "Press this, this, this, and this. These four buttons are yours, and the other three are mine. If they're not correct, move one to the right and try again."
Yan Zi and Feng Xiaoyun tried the three possibilities one by one according to her plan, but the door did not respond at all.
"It seems that this is not the way it is opened." Yan Zi was a little disappointed.
"Well, generally speaking, you can't solve the mechanism with just one clue. You have to connect all the clues together."
"Everything?" Yan Zi looked around the small room. "A cabinet, seven photos, a semicircle on the floor, and a sentence. Anything else?"
"There should be no more, just these few."
"What's the connection between these?" Yan Zi looked left and right in the room, and even bent down to look under two cabinets without drawers, but found nothing.
"Ah, what exactly is the clue?" Yan Zi felt his head was spinning. Was this the simplest thing the girl at the door had said? How could this be simple?
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