Chapter 197: Escape Room (Part 1)

Xu Qiumeng turned his head and saw Han Jiaying was pulling his arm, looking at him with a smile: "Brother, was it scared just now?"
"Of course not," Xu Qiu refused categorically. "I am a firm materialist and atheist with nine years of compulsory education."
"Oh? Really?" The school girl obviously didn't believe it.
"Believe it or not." Xu Qiu didn't bother to defend himself. He was telling the truth. He may belong to a natural heart. He was only inadvertently put on by the school girl. "Let's find clues quickly. , By the way, what is the background of the story?"
"Um..." Han Jiaying thought for a while and said, "Probably there was a primary school student who took the last bus of Bus 218 to go home one night, but disappeared strangely. Seven days later, some of his good friends decided to take the last bus as well. , Looking for clues to the missing friends."
"So what we are playing is his good friend, two elementary school students?" Xu Qiu asked.
"Right." Han Jiaying nodded.
"This plot is a bit of truth..." Xu Qiu couldn't help but complain:
"I will only go after seven days. Even if I find it, I am afraid that the bones will not be cold..."
"And in this situation, shouldn't you find the police uncle? The two people's congress ran out to find clues at night..."
"Well, the background is not domestic, and the brain circuit of the primary school students is also normal." Han Jiaying explained in a low voice. She also knows that the plot is a bit riddled, but this kind of escape room project is also difficult to judge in advance. For a moment, I don't know what is going on inside.
She sees that the public comments are all positive, and 80% of them are brushed.
"Okay, let's look for clues separately." Xu Qiu spread his hands, reluctant to compromise. He was the first time he played escape room. This is an entertainment mode that has emerged in recent years. He just heard about it before and didn't actually play it. Yes, but the main investigation should be observation ability and logical analysis ability, both of which are strong points for him, so he is relatively calm.
After staying in the dark environment for a while, his eyes adjusted to the darkness, and Xu Qiu was able to see the surrounding environment roughly.
He glanced around, there were non-luminous street lights, street signs erected, the ground was a dirty road, and some trivial debris.
Xu Qiu preliminarily judged: "Our birthplace seems to be on a platform."
"Well, it should be the bus stop. According to the plot, we are going to catch the last bus later." Han Jiaying responded.
There was not much space around, and Xu Qiu walked straight to the street sign. ‘Sure enough, it’s a bus stop sign, maybe there are clues for bus 218? ’
He used glow sticks to illuminate and saw dark red spots on the stop signs as embellishments. ‘Oh, low-level scary trick. ’
After careful inspection, Xu Qiu obtained two useful pieces of information. One was that the departure time of the last train on Route 218 was 11:11 in the evening, and the other was that they were now at the departure station. ‘The next plot should be to get on the bus, and now maybe the bus hasn’t come yet. This kind of secret room is definitely a trigger-style promotion plot, so we must find the trigger point. ’
At this time, Han Jiaying suddenly shouted excitedly: "Brother, come and see there is a clock here."
Xu Qiu walked over and saw that it was a console with a yellow button on it, and a red clock dial beside it, and even the numbers were blood red. ‘Come here again. ’
The hour and minute hands can rotate, and Han Jiaying is fiddled with it at will.
"Try it at 11:11 in the evening," Xu Qiu suggested: "This is the departure time of the last train on Route 218 that I saw on the stop sign."
"It shouldn't be that simple... right." Before Han Jiaying's voice fell, a sound of electric current suddenly appeared above her head.
"Stab!"
The school girl grabbed Xu Qiu's forearm and looked around.
A few seconds later, a broadcast announcement sounded:
"The 218 bus has arrived. Please board the bus in an orderly manner."
There was no change in the surroundings, and after a few seconds, the broadcast was repeated again.
"There is also a button, which is mostly used to open the door." Xu Qiu snapped the button.
A door next to it slowly opened. The lighting inside was sufficient, and the light came out from the crack of the door. Xu Qiu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Seeing the light, Han Jiaying let out a sigh of relief and said relaxedly: "Bingo, brother guessed it, this secret room looks pretty simple now."
"Perhaps, maybe it was just the beginning?" Xu Qiu replied, and then walked ahead and entered the door.
Han Jiaying followed, and the room layout looked like the interior of a bus, with a few headlights on the roof emitting a dazzling light.
‘So far, there is no element of horror, but it may only be temporary. ’
"I guess we need to start the car now. By the way, where do we get off?" Xu Qiu asked.
"Not sure." Han Jiaying shook her head.
"Forget it, it's not important. Let's focus on solving puzzles." Xu Qiu has no hope for the plot. After all, it is too logical and difficult to count on a triggered, puzzle-solving type room. Similar to a turn-based game, in the real world, "I will slash you, and then I will not chase you, but wait for you to slash me" in the real world.
They boarded the car from the front door of the car. There were six wooden seats on the car. There was a console at the front of the car and a pier at the rear. I don't know what it was for.
The two walked to the console. This is most likely the trigger for the next plot. There are three buttons on the console.
"Brother, do you want to press it?" Han Jiaying asked.
"Try it." Xu Qiu nodded. There is usually no punishment for this kind of story-driven secret room, and it's over.
Nothing happens when the first button is pressed.
There is still no response when the second button is pressed.
The third button, at the moment it was pressed, there was a sound of mechanical transmission over the head.
When Xu Qiu was in middle school, he often took the bus and was very familiar with this sound. It was the sound of the door closing.
He subconsciously looked at the front door, and didn't actually close the door. It should have only promoted the plot. This design is also reasonable. There is a risk of trapping people when closing the door, and there is no lighting on the outside platform, and it makes no difference whether it is closed or not.
The two waited for a while and found that apart from this voice, there was no other change.
Xu Qiu pressed the three buttons again, but there was still no response.
"Will we want the bus to run? We just closed the door now?" Han Jiaying asked.
"It shouldn't be the driver's business to make the bus run?" Xu Qiu paused, and suddenly realized something, "Wait, there seems to be no driver in this car. Did you find out?"
"Brother, don't scare me..." Han Jiaying said with a trembling voice.
"I was not quite able to scare me before." Xu Qiu smiled.
"That's different." Han Jiaying argued in a low voice.
"Well, what are you afraid of being so bright now, hurry up and find clues." After saying that, Xu Qiu started to act. In addition to the console, the focus was on the six chairs.
Xu Qiu inspected the front and back of the chair and found that there were openable cabinets under the three seats by the window, but they were in a tightly closed state and could not be opened.
It may require pre-conditions, and it must not be violently destroyed.
Soon, he discovered that the cushion planks of these chairs could be pressed down, and said:
"Will we sit on these chairs? After all, we will certainly sit down after getting in the car normally. I guess there is a pressure sensor underneath."
"It's possible, then let's try, wait a minute, let's sit closer."
In the end, the two found two adjacent positions to sit down.
"No response, did you make a mistake?"
"what--"
After the two sat down for about three seconds, the headlights above the roof suddenly went out.
The brightness in the room dimmed instantly, red and green lights lit up on the chair, and a dark red blood shadow appeared on the glass behind the car.
At the same time, there was a noise from above:
"Stab!"
"Woo-woo -"
There was a sound of electricity at first, and then a burst of howling ghosts and wolves.
‘The peace that just came in, now suddenly jumps out and scary, this design is okay. ’
Xu Qiu was thinking, suddenly a figure rushed towards him.
‘Where is the evildoer? ’
He subconsciously wanted to make a defensive action, and then thought of something, quickly relaxed his body and hugged the opponent.
"You are so courageous, you dare to come to play in the horror secret room?" Xu Qiu teased while feeling the temperature of the school girl~EbookFREE.me~.
"Isn't there you, I thought it would be less scary if two people came to play, but in the end I was frightened." Han Jiaying reluctantly regained her composure and returned to her previous state of holding Xu Qiu's forearm.
"This background music is very annoying. Let's find some clues and pass the next level."
"Okay."
This time the prompt was very obvious, with lights on the three side windows.
The content displayed on each piece of glass is the same, it is a number with red light, from 0 to 9. A circular trigger can be seen under the number.
Don't think about it, this is definitely the key to advancing the plot.
In addition, Xu Qiu heard a click just now, which obviously touched some mechanism.
He was looking around while carrying an oil bottle.
There are not many places to interact in the room.
Soon, Xu Qiu found that the cabinet under the first chair near the car window had opened. He took out the contents and examined it carefully under the light of a glow stick.
A dart with a metal block at the bottom, and a piece of paper with game rules printed on it.
The rules are simple, solve the puzzle, and then use the dart to touch the corresponding number on the car window screen.
The puzzle is "circle, pentagon, square + pentagon, square, triangle = circle, triangle, circle, square, circle =?, pentagon =?, square =?, triangle =?"
"Mathematics problems for elementary school students, do you want to try it?"
"Brother, hurry up..."
PS: The writing of these two chapters is really difficult...because the style is different from the previous one. The first few hundred words were written for almost two hours. I wanted to give up and then I took it all in one stroke. I started writing with my scalp, which is a challenge to myself. In addition, the two chapters were posted together for the sake of the plot. (No charge for this paragraph)