Chapter 245 Escape Room (9) - Si Zhong's Doubts
Cheng Chuan glanced around; it seemed they had entered a storage room.
There were really a lot of miscellaneous things inside. Cheng Chuan said, "Let's look for any clues here."
Ning Shu nodded. She glanced at the time in the upper left corner; there were still about 12 hours left. Time was passing quite quickly.
They started rummaging through the clutter; school storage rooms usually contain broken or unused desks or chairs.
Of course, there were also some other teaching aids. Ning Shu and Cheng Chuan searched through them for an hour but didn't find anything special.
Ning Shu was a little tired, and while backing away, she accidentally kicked over the trash can next to her.
She couldn't quite understand why there was a trash can in the storage room.
After all, no one regularly empties the trash cans here, and it's strange to have them here.
Even putting trash cans elsewhere on campus would be more useful than putting them in the storage room.
Ning Shu wondered if there was some hidden meaning in this trash can. Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense to put it here.
She kicked over the trash can, spilling its contents, and used the dim light to rummage through them.
This dungeon environment is so dark, yet they don't even provide a flashlight, whereas flashlights are standard equipment in other dungeons.
She found a lot of ash in the trash, yes, ash from burning.
This was really strange. She rummaged through the ashes with her hand and touched a piece of scrap paper. It felt like it hadn't been completely burned because its edges were surrounded by an irregular ring of black.
She quickly found a second piece of shredded paper, but nothing else of value.
Ning Shu looked at the scraps of paper. There were words on them: one said "He touched me," another said "Blue checkered pattern," and the last one said "I."
There seems to be another character before the character “我”, but it's not fully displayed and I can't tell what it is. I only know that the rightmost character is a radical for reverse writing.
Because the second piece of shredded paper was larger, she could see the texture on the paper clearly, and it looked somewhat familiar.
She remembered; it was Wang Xue's notebook. The texture of her notebook paper was just like that.
Unsure, she quickly took out Wang Xue's notebook from her storage space to compare.
Cheng Chuan suddenly came to her side and squatted down: "What's wrong?"
Ning Shu told him about her discovery. Cheng Chuan took Wang Xue's notebook and compared it with the shredded paper. They did indeed have the same texture.
He also flipped to the back of the notebook and found several pages that had been torn out.
Cheng Chuan was certain: "This should be the paper from Wang Xue's notebook."
Ning Shu: "Aren't you afraid of losing your humanity in the game?"
Cheng Chuan placed the fragments next to the words in the notebook: "It shouldn't be. Look at these words, they're very similar to the words in Wang Xue's notebook. It's about the direction of the strokes."
Since it's a notebook, it mainly records knowledge related to the subject matter, so those fragmented words don't appear much.
Ning Shu also studied it carefully and found that the strokes were indeed very similar. It's hard to change a person's habits, so she agreed with Cheng Chuan's statement.
Cheng Chuan tucked the shredded paper into the notebook and handed it to Ning Shu: "Keep this safe, you'll need it later."
This means they're preparing to work on Option 1 as well. Since the instance has provided two options, there's no need to stick to just one.
Suddenly, Ning Shu saw a hideous face appear on the wall.
Startled, she let out a scream and clung to Cheng Chuan, who was facing her, like a koala.
Cheng Chuan didn't know what had happened to her, but guessed that she had seen something, so he subconsciously used his hand to support Ning Shu's bottom.
Realizing that his hand was in the wrong place, he moved it to Ning Shu's thigh, gently supporting her to prevent her from falling.
The intimate scene between the two was witnessed by Si Zhong, who was behind the surveillance camera.
Si Zhong clenched his fists, the veins on his hands bulging, he was on the verge of exploding in rage...
After leaving through the chosen exit, Si Zhong also entered a dark corridor.
After walking a few steps, I heard the system's voice.
Welcome to the "Escape Room" non-fixed instance. The following is the story background:
A murder occurred at an elite private high school not long ago, in which a female student named Wang Xue was killed.
Her head was found in her desk. The school called the police and sent a detective and his assistant to investigate.
A keen reporter got wind of the situation and secretly infiltrated the school to investigate, but he never expected that the murderer would be his own relative.
And you, the player, are now this reporter; please remember your role.
Players have two options to leave the secret room; completing either one is sufficient.
Option 1: Put righteousness before family, find evidence to identify your relative as the murderer, and obtain the key to leave the locked room.
Option Two: Help the murderer hide, and after the murderer successfully escapes, obtain the key to leave the locked room.
[The story background and quest introduction are now complete. We wish you a pleasant gaming experience!]
Ha, the identity he got isn't good. It seems everyone's identity is different in this instance.
However, this instance is quite interesting. It tells him about the relationship between himself and the murderer, but doesn't tell him who the murderer actually is.
It means that no matter what choice he makes, he will have to go through a lot of trouble to find out who the murderer is before he can make his choice.
Si Zhong had no interest in any mission right now; his mind was filled with Little Potato and...that man.
All he wanted to do now was find Little Potato; when he reached the end of the corridor, the exit led to the library.
He walked around inside for a while, but didn't find Ning Shu, so he left.
There was only one teacher organizing books in the library. Si Zhong looked at the teacher and felt that the teacher's gaze was strange.
It's normal for NPCs in dungeons to be hostile to players, so he didn't take it to heart.
After leaving the library, he walked aimlessly for a while, passing through several places before eventually passing through the long corridor.
The female ghost also appeared, and before the other party could even make a request, he beat her up.
The female ghost, whose limbs were originally normal, had her limbs broken by Si Zhong.
Si Zhong even twisted the other woman's limbs into a pretzel shape, forcing the female ghost to reveal the exit ahead of time.
At that time, the distance and lighting of the corridor were normal, and it did not extend infinitely as Ning Shu and the others had experienced.
After walking out of the corridor, Si Zhong arrived at the storage room, but he suddenly stopped.
Feeling the distance was wrong, he looked inside the storage room and found the depth and width to be incorrect.
Following the route he took, the library should be behind the wall of the corridor next to the storage room.
There's a problem with the size and depth of the library and this storage room; there should be another space between them.
He also remembered that there was no other space in the library area; it was just a corridor leading directly to the next exit.
Escape rooms are all about creating a confined space where you can arrange the various rooms in a very cramped way. The space is limited, so each functional room is arranged in a very cramped manner.
Why deliberately leave a space that no one knows about?
Where are the entrances and exits?
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