I understand how excited the little angels are, but I still hope that everyone can restrain themselves and not spam the screen with their character names ~ Love you guys!
Just a second after Pei Tingsong asked the question, the AI locks on the white and black doors answered at the same time, "No."
Pei Tingsong took a step back and pointed at the white door to Fang Juexia. "Then this door is the real exit."
So that's how it is. Fang Juexia understood. If they were asked to answer each other's answers, the AI that only spoke the truth would speak a lie, and the AI that only spoke a lie would also lie. Their answers would remain the same and would always be the opposite of the truth. A positive answer would be a fake exit, and a negative answer would be the real exit. This way, they only needed to ask one question to find the real door.
"Congratulations, your answer is correct." With a click, the white door automatically opened outwards. "Please leave the consultation room."
Xia Xiqing stretched lazily. "Let me see who escaped."
Fang Juexia followed him out. Outside was a small reception room with elegant furnishings. On the left was an open room door, and on the right was a display wall with paintings and medals. Directly opposite their consultation room was the door to the reception room, and it was marked with the sign of the final exit.
It seemed that once they got out of here, the game would be over.
As soon as they walked out, they saw a tall figure. It was Zhou Ziheng, whom they had met on the campus of P University. Next to him stood their senior, Shang Sirui. The two of them seemed to be observing something.
Hearing Xia Xiqing's voice, Zhou Ziheng turned his head and smiled at him. "You're out."
Shang Sirui first saw Xia Xiqing walking in front. "Xiqing!" Soon, he saw Pei Tingsong and Fang Juexia behind Xia Xiqing. "So it's you guys who were locked up together."
Fang Juexia nodded, but accidentally caught a glimpse of Zhou Ziheng arranging Xia Xiqing's microphone. While Shang Sirui was blocking the camera, Zhou Ziheng grabbed Xia Xiqing's waist. He blinked a few times and quickly turned his face away. He walked quickly to the sofa and sat down like a little robot with rusty limbs.
Noticing his strange behavior, Pei Tingsong, who was following behind him, said, "Hey, what are you doing?"
Fang Juexia shook his head. "Nothing."
Pei Tingsong had already seen him looking in that direction, so he also glanced at him and immediately understood. He laughed rudely and sat down as well.
"Who are you laughing at?" Fang Juexia asked him.
"Who else can I laugh at other than you?" Pei Tingsong found him even more amusing. "Don't tell me you don't know about their relationship."
"I know." Fang Juexia had an "I know" expression on his face. "Last season, weren't they … a couple?"
"cp? How long have you been offline? " Pei Tingsong laughed until his stomach hurt and he fell onto Fang Juexia's shoulder. Fang Juexia was confused and wanted to push him away, but Pei Tingsong grabbed his wrist and pulled him onto his shoulder. His hand was forced to cover Pei Tingsong's mouth and his reddened ears.
"They're really in love."
Pei Tingsong's low voice stirred up a gust of warm air and set off huge waves under the glacier.
L-In love?
After saying that, Pei Tingsong let go of Fang Juexia's hand and leaned against the sofa. He tilted his head and smiled at him. Fang Juexia's face was full of shock and disbelief. He turned his head and stared at Pei Tingsong with wide eyes, which made Pei Tingsong feel even more amused.
"Is what you said true?"
Pei Tingsong raised three fingers to the sky.
Fang Juexia exhaled and touched his neck. He found it unbelievable. "Then … does everyone know?"
"Not necessarily before." Pei Tingsong held back his laughter. "Now the whole world should know."
He was complaining that he was the last person to know.
Fang Juexia frowned slightly. "That's because I haven't been online for a long time."
"I know." Pei Tingsong shrugged. "I told you about Xiqing's relationship from the beginning. You didn't notice."
"I noticed, but I thought it was someone else. I didn't expect it to be your senior …" Fang Juexia couldn't help but turn his head to look at them. He didn't expect to see Xia Xiqing hugging his shoulders from behind the sofa. "Little Prude, why are your ears so red?"
Fang Juexia jumped up from the sofa. He didn't say a word and looked up at Zhou Ziheng's face.
Zhou Ziheng was amused by him, but he maintained his upright image. He walked over and pulled Xia Xiqing over. "Okay, stop teasing him."
Shang Sirui felt strange no matter how he looked at it. There were two people on the sofa and two people beside him. He was the only one alone. "Didn't they say that there would be six people in this episode's lineup? Where are my friends? "
"You don't have any friends," Pei Tingsong teased. "You're the SSR single."
The two of them started to argue. Fang Juexia was a little flustered. He walked around, trying to calm himself down.
As he turned and turned, he came to the door at the end of the corridor alone. This door was also unlocked. There was only a screen mounted on the door. Just as he was about to turn on the screen, a hand reached out. He turned around and saw Xia Xiqing.
"This kind of door can only be opened after you've sorted out all the clues and plot."
Fang Juexia nodded. On the screen was a 6x6 chessboard. There were a total of thirty-six small squares drawn with different colors. It was similar to the drawing they had seen in the consultation room before, except that each square here was of the same size.
Xia Xiqing read the question on the screen. "Please select a button in the square below. Note that if you make a wrong choice, you will have to wait for an hour before you can make a second choice."
"Not again." He raised his eyebrows impatiently. "The answer must be hidden somewhere. They can't just let us try it."
Fang Juexia noticed a gray "X" in the lower right corner of the screen. It looked very inconspicuous under the white light of the screen.
Zhou Ziheng seemed to have joined the group of people teasing Shang Sirui. He even suggested that Shang Sirui invite his own team members to play with him next time. Just like Pei Tingsong and Fang Juexia, some of their teammates would vote for them.
Shang Sirui was having a lot of fun going against Zhou Ziheng and Pei Tingsong alone. "I don't want to. I want to maintain my solo persona. I don't have any partners. I'm the number one golden bachelor in the entertainment industry."
Pei Tingsong slapped his hand on Shang Sirui's head. "Solo bet x2."
While they were fooling around, an announcement came from the room. "Please note that the last player has escaped from the initialization room."
"Huh?" Shang Sirui was dumbfounded.
Pei Tingsong released his hand from Shang Sirui's head.
Zhou Ziheng also frowned. "There are other doors here?"
Just as everyone was feeling confused, the wall suddenly made a sound and a door-shaped wall was pushed open.
"So this is an invisible door!" Shang Sirui clicked his tongue. "The props team is really amazing. They're too rich."
A tall girl came out of the invisible room. She was wearing a black coat with a shirt and a pair of leather high boots. Her long hair was draped over her shoulders and she looked very handsome.
"Hello, I'm Zhai Ying." She lowered her head slightly and then raised it again. "It seems that I'm the last player."
Shang Sirui felt that she looked familiar. "Ah, I know. You're the captain of the new girl group, right?"
Zhai Ying nodded.
Pei Tingsong subconsciously turned to look at Fang Juexia and realized that the latter did not seem to react. Fang Juexia also noticed that Pei Tingsong was looking at him. He knew what he wanted to ask, so he shook his head at him to show that he did not know her.
Before Fang Juexia left Astar, he did not have much interaction with the trainees of the girl group, but he had a general idea of who they were. This Zhai Ying really did not know her. Perhaps she had joined AS after he left, or perhaps she had come from nowhere.
He just thought that it was interesting. The resource that Liang Ruo had tried so hard to get was finally taken by a junior from the same company. Based on this, this Zhai Ying should not be afraid of the difficulty of the scenario at all.
"Since everyone is here, let's sit down and go through the plot." Xia Xiqing was the first to walk to the sofa. She took out his medical record and placed it on the large coffee table. "The three of us have already discussed this briefly. To save time, I will go through it again. If there is anything that I have missed, Juexia will fill in. "
"My room is most likely a waiting room. Earlier, I asked Sirui and Ziheng. The layout of our rooms is the same, but the details are different. Furthermore, their rooms are connected. In any case, I think they should all be waiting rooms. Juexia and Xiao Pei's initial room is the consultation room. Xiao Pei is the psychiatrist, and Juexia is the first patient. "
Juexia nodded and took out the appointment form for everyone to see. "This is the clue that we found in the consultation room. If there is no accident, the names of everyone's characters can be found here."
Appointment Form:
Teacher Yan
Early
zoe
Little Xi
Shang Sirui glanced at it. "I really have one. My character is the lead singer of a band, and my name is Zoe. There is a guitar bag in my initial room, and there are also flyers for our band's performance in it. " As he spoke, he took out the flyers and placed them on the coffee table. Pei Tingsong picked it up and looked at it. It was obviously in the style of an underground band. "Factorx Bar, 8 pm, special invitation ticket for Together's first performance in the spring."
Shang Sirui flipped to another booklet. "Oh, by the way, this is my medical record."
His medical record was similar to Xia Xiqing's. He also wrote about his illness, but his symptoms were different. The main symptoms were manic anxiety, memory loss, and a certain degree of anorexia.
Seeing that he took out his medical record, Xia Xiqing also took out her medical record and her suicide note. She roughly explained it, then looked at Zhou Ziheng. "What about yours?"
Zhou Ziheng picked up a school bag from the armrest of the sofa. "This is the school bag that was placed in my room. There are some university physics and astronomy textbooks in it, as well as a note that someone wrote to me, inviting me to study at night."
As soon as he finished speaking, Pei Tingsong immediately burst into laughter. Immediately after, Shang Sirui also began to hold back his laughter and even high-fived Pei Tingsong. Fang Juexia did not get it at first, but later on, he remembered that Zhou Ziheng and Xia Xiqing's name was' Study Alone '.
Zhou Ziheng cleared his throat and took out the note. There was indeed a sentence written on the note.
"Little Xi, let's go to Tutor Two's Study Alone tonight. Same old place."
"This is my medical record. I seem to have a serious problem too. I have a nervous breakdown and delusional disorder."
Shang Sirui seized the opportunity and said, "It's quantum mechanics."
Zhou Ziheng said righteously, "There's no such thing."
Shang Sirui pointed at the thesis on the textbook and said, "Oh right, it's this. Look, he's been reading about parallel universes and multiverse all day long. He must have gotten delusional because of that."
Fang Juexia pondered for a moment. "So, one of you is Little Xi and the other is Zoe, but we still have one more …" He then looked at Zhai Ying, who had escaped from the initialization room.
Zhai Ying said calmly, "I wanted to say something when Brother Xiqing started, but I wanted to wait for you to finish." She pointed at the door of her room and said, "My room is not as simple as a waiting room. If you want to take a look, you can go in and take a look. As for my role … "She glanced at the appointment form and continued," I'm not a patient who has already made an appointment. "
Fang Juexia looked at the hidden door that had been opened. It seemed to be very dark inside. He had originally thought that the roles in the script would be clear. It would be the psychiatrist and his patient, but now it seemed that things were not that simple. The production team had made the door look hidden to hint at the uniqueness of Zhai Ying's role.
Zhai Ying took out a letter and placed it on the coffee table. "This is a clue that I found after I cracked the password in my room. It's an anonymous letter."
Xia Xiqing opened the letter and read it aloud. "Hello detective, I'm here to ask you to find a fugitive. He has committed many crimes and is very good at hiding his identity. All I know is that he was last seen in the most famous private psychology clinic in the city. Please be sure to find him, Your Excellency. "
This letter of faith almost overturned all of their previous assumptions.
Shang Sirui exclaimed, "Wow, a female detective. That's so cool. "
"So there's actually a fugitive," Pei Tingsong said.
Shang Sirui clapped his hands when he heard him point this out. "I knew it. Previously, the production team matched the killer with a murderer or a criminal, but just now they were talking about a doctor and a patient. I was still thinking about how to find the killer. Now it makes sense. "
Zhou Ziheng said, "This letter points the fugitive's information to this clinic. Doesn't that mean that one of us is a fugitive?"
"So Zhai Ying broke into her room by breaking the wall." Pei Tingsong glanced at him. "I think that if we want to figure out the situation now, I'm afraid we have to go to her room again."
Zhai Ying raised his hand. "I agree. Anyway, my room is special now."
Thus, everyone decided to go to the detective's room to look for clues. Fang Juexia deliberately slowed down. If the room was really not well-lit, he needed someone to stand in front of him to ensure that he would not make any mistakes.
As he walked step by step to the door, Fang Juexia confirmed his earlier guess. The room was indeed very dark. There seemed to be a faint light source in the innermost part of the room, but to Fang Juexia, it was almost impossible to see clearly.
He heard Shang Sirui's voice. "It's so dark in here. It's a little scary. Why did you initialize a girl in such a room? "
Zhai Ying said calmly, "I'm not afraid."
He also heard Zhou Ziheng's voice. It was very soft. "Are you okay? Take a look around and go out. I'll tell you what's going on when you come out."
"There's no need. The door is open," Xia Xiqing replied.
Fang Juexia stood at the door. He held onto the door frame and took a deep breath. Just as he was about to step in, someone grabbed his shoulder.
"Don't stand at the door."
It was Pei Tingsong's voice.
He could feel Pei Tingsong's footsteps slowing down. His intuition allowed him to sense the fluctuations in the air when Pei Tingsong reached out his hand. His sensitive senses in the dark allowed him to clearly feel the strength of Pei Tingsong's grip on his shoulder. It was as if Pei Tingsong was holding onto his breath.
His perturbed heart suddenly calmed down. Every heartbeat could be heard clearly in the darkness as the second hand moved at the same frequency.
"I've been initialized in front of this table since the beginning." Di Ying led the others into the room and walked towards the very weak-looking lamp.
Shang Sirui was curious. "What's the mechanism in your room?"
"It's a Morse code lock." Zhai Ying pulled open a drawer. There was a safe in the drawer. "This safe has a mechanical mechanism and two codes. You need to collect the puzzle pieces in the room. After you open it, there's a book inside. " She opened the door of the safe and took out a book. She placed it on the table. "The key to the room is hidden inside the book."
Shang Sirui couldn't help but sigh. "This mechanism looks so difficult."
Xia Xiqing's attention was attracted by the wall on the table. There were some notes pasted on the wall. The notes had the names of the other players written on them. There were some arrows and guiding lines in the middle.
With Pei Tingsong leading the way, Fang Juexia also came to the table. He held onto the edge of the table and used the light to look at the character relationship chart on the wall.
Shang Sirui teased them. "You two are almost glued to each other. Xiao Pei has changed."
"Is that so?" Pei Tingsong laughed.
"When you're in the team, you two aren't so glued to each other. When you're alone, you two are inseparable. You still deny it. "
"That's because …" Pei Tingsong thought for a moment and said, "When we're in the team, we're one-sixth. When we're out, we're one-half. Of course, we have to take care of each other." Pei Tingsong shook Fang Juexia's shoulder. "Right, one-half."
In the dark, Fang Juexia nodded. "That's right."
After teasing each other, they focused on the relationship chart left by the detective.
"Teacher Yan, a high school math teacher." Xia Xiqing looked down the line. "She's Early Morning's teacher."
There was more than one arrow on Early Morning's shoulder. There was one that pointed to Zoe. The arrow had the word "fan" written on it, indicating her relationship with the lead singer of the band.
"So Early Morning is Zoe's fan?" Shang Sirui, who played Zoe, smiled and poked Xia Xiqing. "Little fan."
Xia Xiqing smiled and looked at the chart again. "The astronomy student is Early Morning's neighbor. He was the one who introduced Early Morning to Doctor Tian."
Fang Juexia stared at the lines. Most of them were Early Morning and Doctor Tian. This female high school student had become a key figure in connecting these characters, and they were all Doctor Tian's patients.
"This chart was left behind by the detective." Zhou Ziheng analyzed. "When we saw this relationship chart as one of the clues, we actually recognized the detective's positive image. This is related, but it's not certain if the detective's character is reliable. "
His words reminded everyone. Shang Sirui immediately nodded. "That's right. In the past, the production team often had such reversals. The seemingly good person would eventually become the big boss."
Pei Tingsong smiled and put his hand on his shoulder. He teased, "Isn't it you? Senior. "
Shang Sirui was about to hit him when he noticed that he was wearing gloves. He remembered that Pei Tingsong had also worn gloves when he attended the charity gala in Shanghai, so he asked curiously, "Why have you been wearing gloves these days? Don't you feel uncomfortable? "
Hearing this, Fang Juexia's attention was diverted from the clue chart on the wall. He couldn't help but listen, afraid that the truth about his drunkenness would be exposed. Although he knew that it wouldn't happen, at least Pei Tingsong wouldn't expose him in front of the camera.
"Ah, this." Pei Tingsong said casually, "My pet accidentally scratched me and scratched the back of my hand. It's a little troublesome to go on camera, so the stylist put gloves on me."
Fang Juexia heard this and lowered his head subconsciously, grabbing the edge of the table.
"Really? Then you have to go to the hospital for an injection. "Shang Sirui wanted to take off his gloves." Let me see if it's serious. "
"It's not serious. It's quite small. I've already applied medicine."
Shang Sirui patted him on the shoulder. "Sigh, that's what it's like to have a pet. My friend's cat scratched his hands when his master was bathing. It's very fierce and not obedient at all."
"Really?" Pei Tingsong chuckled. "My little master is quite obedient."