The woman lowered her eyes and looked at Lan Shuang for a moment, then held out her hand with reserve, her tone cold and distant: "Hello, Pei Jinzhi, thirty."
Lan Shuang shook hands with her and remembered the cold female voice she heard when she just woke up. It should be the strong woman in front of her.
Pei Jin was wearing an irregularly cut beige and cyan patchwork suit, which was very fashionable. He had a green watch on his wrist, which had a very good texture. It was not a common brand, but probably a niche brand.
From her outfit, one could tell she was financially well-off, and there was a natural sense of oppression about her. Lan Shuang guessed she might be a manager like Liu Quan.
Liu Quan was obviously curious about her and asked, "What does Miss Pei do for a living?"
Pei Jinzhi withdrew his hand and glanced at him calmly: "Who said I have to mention my profession?"
Liu Quan: “…”
Lan Shuang pursed her lips. Fortunately she didn't ask, otherwise she would be the one who would be embarrassed now.
Seeing this, the lady next to her stepped out to smooth things over. "Sister Pei, you look very capable. Unlike me, I'm just a small shopping guide. My name is Zheng Mingxin, and I'm 25."
Pei Jinzhi frowned and glanced at her, then turned and sat down on the single sofa without saying a word.
Lan Shuang had a smile on her face, and her heart was calling 888: "Ah, do you smell it?"
After experiencing the baptism of so many worlds, 888 can now accurately pick up Lan Shuang's brain waves. He nodded solemnly: "I smell it, a scent of tea."
Lan Shuang became excited: "This mission is going to be interesting. The aroma of tea is already filling the air before we even start. It's definitely not going to be boring later."
888 rubbed his hands together and said, "I'm looking forward to it too. With so many people coming at once, I think it's going to be a big show. Come on, host! I'm rooting for you!"
Lan Shuang counted silently and raised her hand: "There are ten of us here in total. Are there any others?"
Liu Quan shook his head: "There shouldn't be any. We all showed up one after another. If someone had arrived when we were talking just now, of course we can't rule out the possibility of being late, but my intuition tells me that it's the ten of us."
Li Weiyan crossed his long legs, put his hands in his pockets, frowned impatiently, and said, "What kind of a hell of a place is this? Do you know?"
This is a really good question. Everyone looked at each other, no one knew the answer.
Li Weiyan: "Tsk, you don't know? Then how did you get in?"
Wen Qingqing, who was holding the teddy bear, whispered, "I was playing with my phone when an email suddenly popped up. There was a beautiful rose pictured on it, so I clicked on it, and when I woke up, I was here."
Zheng Mingxin sat down next to her and echoed, “Yes, me too. I was looking at the computer when suddenly an email popped up. It was also about roses, filling the entire screen. I clicked on it and lost consciousness.”
Lan Shuang looked around curiously. "Everyone? No one is a little rebellious. Aren't you going to click it?"
Liu Quan pushed up his glasses. "It appeared too suddenly, and it filled the entire screen. I wanted to click the cross, but I clicked it by mistake."
"Tsk, that's what junk ads are like."
Mu Tiao leaned back on the sofa and played with his hair, "Me too."
Jiang Lusheng chuckled. "I didn't open it, I just unplugged the computer's power cord. However, the screen went black, and I still came here. They left me outside and told me to come in by myself. Maybe this is the result of my rebellion?"
Lan Shuang raised an eyebrow: "Outside? What's it like outside? Can I go out?"
Everyone looked over immediately, including Pei Jinzhi.
However, Jiang Lusheng spread his hands innocently: "I'm sorry, I can't get out. The first thing I did when I got here was to go to the main door and try to push it open, but it wouldn't budge at all. There was no way out. There was a thick black fog outside and I couldn't see a thing."
Everyone turned back in disappointment, "How could this happen? What kind of place is this? What can we do with ten of us gathered together?" Zheng Mingxin picked at her manicure anxiously.
"How about we take a look at the environment here first?" Lan Shuang thought for a moment and stood up. "Sitting here all the time is not a solution."
However, just as she took a step, her arm suddenly lit up.
"Ah!" Zheng Mingxin exclaimed, and then found that his arm also lit up.
Lan Shuang narrowed her eyes and looked around. She found that everyone's left arm was lit up, but she didn't feel anything special. She lowered her head and waited for a while. The light dissipated and a number appeared on her arm.
She stared at it for a moment. "Six? What do you mean? Is this my ranking?"
"I am Jiu." Pei Jinzhi was very calm.
"I'm Seven." Zheng Mingxin raised his hand.
Wen Qingqing also raised it up, "I'm eight."
Mu Tiao: "I'm ten."
Lan Shuang turned to look at the man, and Jiang Lusheng counted: "Four."
Li Weiyan glanced at Gao Yaozu across from him, "I'm number two, Gao Yaozu is number five."
Liu Quan and He Ping looked at each other and said, "I'm number one, He Ge is number three."
"It's so weird, I even got goosebumps."
Zheng Mingxin looked like she was about to cry. She kept rubbing her arms: "I can't rub this word off."
"Don't waste your energy. It will probably follow us forever."
Lan Shuang let out a long breath, "This number must have its meaning."
"Bingo! What a clever player~"
A synthesized mechanical electronic sound suddenly rang out, startling everyone and making them move closer to the people around them.
Wen Qingqing hugged Lan Shuang's arm and asked, "Who are you?"
"Me? I'm the game's system. You can call me Rose. Welcome to Rose Manor."
The synthesized female voice sounded cold and playful, which inexplicably matched this magnificent manor.
But it always makes people think of bad things.
Lan Shuang asked, "You said we are players. Is this a game?"
"Of course, this is an escape game that concerns the fate of each of you. Once you enter here, you can't leave until the game is over. If you try to escape, you will be swallowed by the black fog outside and disappear from this world forever."
Li Weiyan closed his mouth as soon as it opened, and looked around with a bad expression, trying to find the source of the sound.
Liu Quan was a little nervous and pushed his glasses up again. "How can you force us to buy or sell like this? We didn't agree to play this game."
"That's it, I want to go home, I want to quit!"
Zheng Mingxin protested quietly.
Lan Shuang didn't say anything. If the protest was effective, they wouldn't be here at all.
"No, once the game starts, it cannot be stopped midway, unless..."
"Unless what?" Jiang Lusheng raised his eyebrows.
Rose laughed and said the cruelest truth in the most playful tone, "Unless all players die."
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