Airbrush, mental math, and a line for life.

Next, the elevator runs for almost two minutes.

There was a thin cool breeze coming through the cracks of the elevator with a whirring sound.

Hearing puts all the loudness around them to an overwhelming level, while the people in the elevator each stand as if they were bronze statues.

Yuan Benshan has taken Chi Xiaochi's hand.

Chi Xiaochi didn't move, but he didn't shake him off either.

Yuan Benshan also knew that he had not acted in a very personal way, so he said, "What's wrong with Mr. Gan?"

Chi Xiaochi's voice was faint: "Too tense, passed out."

Yuan Benshan said, "Just now ...... Qiao Yun can't be saved, all her organs have been blown up. If we don't give her a good time, she will have to suffer for half an hour for nothing."

Chi Xiaochi said, "I know."

Yuan Benshan tries to defend: "I was a bit scared, subconsciously. Not on purpose ......"

Chi Xiaochi turned his head to look at him, his tone loosened a bit, and even withdrew his hand held by Yuan Benshan, patting the back of his hand comfortingly, "I know."

However, in the darkness, Chi Xiaochi's face was expressionless, and his yin and yang pupils, hidden by his black pupils, stared at Yuan Benshan with a deep sense of humor.

Yuan Benshan is oblivious to this, and hearing that Song Chunyang has forgiven him again, Fang Cai relaxes a bit, straightens his back, and waits for the next test in the room.

The next and last room, the place where all nightmares end.

The elevator came to a stop and the doors opened.

This time the floor was not extracted from under the feet of several people, so they were able to smoothly exit the elevator and enter a wide room of about 80 square meters.

Xu Jiayi, carrying Gan Tang on his back, was the last to come out of the elevator.

The moment they entered the room, the way in behind them closed with a bang, locking up completely.

Chi Xiaochi looked around, and his face turned a little bit blue.

The room still had the same instantly recognizable rectangular layout, with concrete floors and walls, but the corners of the room were set with spiked metal protrusions resembling spray-gun muzzles almost every three centimeters, which was dense enough to make a person with a fear of denseness curse on the spot.

Xu Jiayi put Gan Tang down, dipped his fingertip into the mouth of the gun, put it to his nose, and his expression changed slightly, "There's the smell of gasoline."

In fact, he didn't need to tell them that everyone smelled the faint stench of tar just as they entered the room.

Looks like the gun is the source of that odor.

While Xu Jiayi studies the spray gun, Chi Xiaochi's attention has moved to the other side of the room.

The room looked like it was being dug for gas pipes, with many deep parallel trenches, and half of the room's floor was completely hollowed out, leaving only eight elongated, parallel passages, each leading straight to a vertical metal cabinet that stood close to the base of the wall and was about a man's height.

On the face of the cabinet was a combination disk, which from a distance did not look like the usual numerical disk, but consisted of 26 letters.

On the front doors of the eight metal cabinets, from left to right, were eight irregular letters taped in bright red tape.

s, a, c, r, i, f, e, l.

Chi Xiaochi turned his attention to the side wall again.

Embedded in the wall was a huge glass screen, made of the same material as the aquarium that had just held Qiao Yun.

An extremely complex "connecting diagram" is embedded in the glass screen.

At the top of the picture, from left to right, it says A through Z in capital letters.

Each letter has a rivet nailed underneath it, and a long thin brass chain hangs from each of the rivets.

Each of the 26 fine brass chain from the starting point, cross the vertical and horizontal, each extending, the upper half of the picture also played more than a hundred rivets, fine chain hanging around it, entangled with each other, can be said to be intertwined, see people's eyes and headaches.

And in the center of the picture, a translucent visor hangs, obscuring the interlocking coils of 26 thin chains from the middle, so that the course and outline are only vaguely visible.

Most of the chains broke halfway through, and in the end only eight brass chains, extending out from under the translucent visor, managed to reach the end at the bottom.

The end point is eight rivets, and underneath the rivets, again labeled from left to right, are eight letters.

s, a, c, r, i, f, e, l.

Meng Qian is rather puzzled: "What is this level asking us to do?"

No sooner had his question left his mouth than a blood-red electronic countdown sign conveniently appeared on the embedded glass screen.

The countdown shows fifteen minutes and the countdown has begun.

Meng Qian panicked: "What's going on?!"

Yuan Benshan had an idea, but he wasn't entirely sure, and could only raise his voice to calm the crowd, "Don't worry, there should be an explanation."

And while the crowd was uneasy, Chi Xiaochi had raised his hand and traced in the void, silently deducing from the lower letters the corresponding letters above in reverse.

"Smart~"

The clown's pompous laughter sounded from all four corners of the room at the same time, or stereo surround 3D sound effects, piercing the crowd to reach out and cover their ears.

"This level, it's a very interesting one~"

The clown said in a chant-like tone, "The rules of the game are very simple ~ the eight letters below the picture correspond to a certain eight letters above. And on the eight cabinets, there are the same eight letters ......"

As he spoke, a humanoid black figure with hanging hands floated into the corner of the room.

The crowd was appalled.

Meng Qian Meng Qian ducked back, his voice stern, "Who? Get out!"

The figure did move, only its joints were stiff and its movements were overly animated, like a puppet controlled by a drunken puppeteer.

When it came closer, the crowd realized that it was really a humanoid puppet as tall as a person.

The clown grinned, "I have my staff to show you the wrong way to play."

Puppet "employees" jumped happily to the front of the glass screen, put up his chin, for meditation, then clapped his hands, as if he had already thought of something, and then jumped to the left side of the passageway, with a tightrope walker's movement exaggeratedly walked across the concrete road enough for one person to pass, walked to the metal cabinets taped to the " S " tape, and casually pressed Z to the combination panel. S"-shaped tape in front of the metal cabinet, to the password disk casually pressed a Z.

The combination lock actually opened with a drop.

With a look of glee, the mannequin dug right in and locked the cabinet door.

And in the next second, all the guns in the vicinity of the S-cabinet were actually aimed at it, spitting out roaring flames, tongues of orange and apricot-colored fire licking frantically at the metal cabinet.

Metal conducts heat extremely well, did not succeed in cracking the code of the mannequins at first still in the cabinet issued a thud hammering sound, and so on dozens of seconds later, the cabinet shell has been scorched red, into a veritable fire coffin.

The mannequin let out a heartbreaking scream, and the cabinet was even bumped out in a few places.

But it didn't escape with its life after all.

It burned for about two minutes or so before the mannequins in the cabinet went completely silent.

The cabinet door opened automatically, and the burned and charred mannequin fell noiselessly from the cabinet and crashed into a deep ditch dug aside.

...... It was as if that was a burial ground that had been prepared long ago.

Meng Qian had the courage to go to the front of the deep ditch and take a look.

After just one look, he cursed fuck and took several steps back.

The bottom of the ...... deep ditch is strewn with the charred corpses of mannequins, some of which have their eyes burned out of their sockets and are still staring straight up, clearly dead in the water.

There's no telling how many mannequins the Joker took before them and did similar experiments on.

The clown, however, looked like he had tuned in to a great show and smiled with his palms, "See, see?!"

Who else can't read it.

It's just the usual "connect the dots" game in escape rooms.

Eight cabinets, corresponding to the eight letters on the lowest level of the glass screen, and they need to do the connecting to find out the one-letter code that corresponds to each cabinet.

The only way to survive is to connect the right ones.

If they connect the wrong wires and enter the wrong code, they can also get into the metal cabinet, but they will be roasted alive in the cabinet by the gun, just like the mannequin.

And it's worth noting that the Joker only turned on the gun next to the S cabinet just now.

If they're not in the cabinet by then, the countdown ends and all the guns open at once-

Almost everyone winced at the thought of the hell-like heat wave of the sea of fire.

"The rules of the game are just like this~" the clown laughed playfully, "I'll give you three more tips~ Firstly, after 15 minutes ...... oh no no no, 11 minutes and 21 seconds, all the guns in the room will be activated; secondly, in the locker can only hide a person, this is the iron rule, can not be broken; third, as you can see, no matter what letters are entered, you can enter the cabinet, but the consequences of losing the wrong one, can be borne by yourselves yo~"

"After you pass this level, you will be able to collect your temporary items and the gifts I have prepared for you in the game house~ Have fun, and I look forward to your next visit to my escape room--"

With that, the clown's voice disappeared completely.

While the crowd was still waiting for the Joker to follow, Chi Xiaochi spoke up, "Lao Yuan."

Yuan Benshan came back to his senses and hurried to Chi Xiaochi, "Don't be afraid, let's take our time ......"

Chi Xiaochi took his hand and wrote two letters in his palm.

A - M.

Yuan Benshan stared at him in shock, "You ......"

Chi Xiaochi, however, ignored him and went off to trace another line.

Yuan Benshan, surprised and delighted, but also a bit skeptical, stood himself up in front of the glass screen and started from A, intending to deduce it all over again.

Chi Xiaochi didn't expect him to believe in himself unconditionally, so he didn't even frown and just went about his business.

Meng Qian Qian thought that he was not good at this, so he held on to the hope of finding other ways to survive, and boldly probed into the deep ditch to see if he could escape into this place when the fire started.

But just as his head poked into the deep ditch, the puppets and charred corpses that had sucked in a trace of vitality stirred subtly, and a few of them even raised their heads, startling Meng Qian into immediately retracting his head.

He sort of understood: inside and outside the deep ditch was a demarcation line; if a living person entered it, even if it was just a foot or a head, these puppets would immediately rise up and partake of the person who hid in it.

Unable to do so, he just went back to the glass screen, selected the easiest looking line A, and stiffly began the derivation.

Just as he was about to begin his derivation, Chi Xiaochi, who was at his side, turned to him and said succinctly, "R, I, and F go to me, and you split the rest."

Xu Jiayi, who was busy trying to find the letter corresponding to E, only nodded and did not reply.

After that, Chi Xiaochi picked up the unconscious Gan Tang and walked him up the aisle representing "R".

Meng Qian is alarmed, "Hey, what are you doing?"

Chi Xiaochi didn't have that American time to pay him any attention, walked straight to the counter and typed in the letter U.

He placed the unconscious Gan Tang in her room, righted her body, and smoothed her hair and collar, making sure there were air holes above the inside of the cabinet before closing it from the outside.

He then walked back to the glass screen and began to calibrate the letter "F".

Meng Qian couldn't help but say, "So confident? What if it's wrong, you'll kill a person."

Chi Xiaochi didn't even look at him.

Meng Qian was so bored that he continued to work on his letter "A".

Meng Qian was able to match the line of "A" to most of the letters, when she heard Yuan Benshan beside her say, "Xiaochi, I found the corresponding letter of A, but it doesn't seem to be the same as the one you found... . it doesn't seem to be quite the same as the one you found."

Before Chi Xiaochi could answer, Meng Qian exploded, "You're looking for A. Why the fuck didn't you say so?"

Yuan Benshan was at a loss for words.

Song Chunyang gave him the answer beforehand, and in a moment of excitement, he subconsciously thought that the A belonged to him, thinking that he would concentrate on checking it out, completely ignoring the fact that he had to agree with the others first.

But it's a matter of life and death, and it's never the time to engage in that whole gentle and gentle thing.

So he coldly cross-examined, "Did you ask?"

Meng Qian was so angry that he jumped to his feet, but he refused to take his eyes off the intricate copper chain, wanting to be one step ahead of Yuan Benshan, to launch the answer as soon as possible and seize the way of life.

In the face of Yuan Benshan's question, Chi Xiaochi was extremely stable.

"Push it again." He said, "Mine was right."

Yuan Benshan was quite helpless, but to be on the safe side, he decided to derive it again from scratch.

This certainly gave Meng Qian the opportunity to organize the underexpressed lines and found that the corresponding "B".

He was overjoyed and immediately rechecked the math from A again.

For the sake of speed, he basically projected according to the line he had traveled last time, and he was indeed a line ahead of Yuan Benshan.

When Yuan Benshan has almost reached the top, Meng Qian verifies again.

A - B!

He dropped his head and sped off, crossing the one-man-wide path, running over the charred puppet corpses, and pressing the letter B directly on the cabinet A combination dial.

Meng Qian ran away like a loach, and Yuan Benshan, who was about to finish his work, was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood: "You--"

But by the time he got a good look at the numbers Meng Qian had pressed on the cipher disk, he was instantly at peace, and turned back to straighten out the A-wire, which had only a few tangled strands of copper chain left.

As Chi Xiaochi put it, A, indeed, corresponds to M.

And the slamming of the door of Cabinet A followed.

Chi Xiaochi's eyes are locked on the glass screen, and he has no time to be distracted, so he doesn't know what's going on behind him.

Yuan Benshan then switched to the letter C on his own and continued to project.

At this point, the countdown showed 8 minutes and 43 seconds to go.

26 fine brass chains, identical in appearance and featureless.

Twenty-six such chains, tangled in one place in a jumble of irregularity, are an almost sadistic test of one's eyesight, concentration and resistance to stress.

The countdown electronic screen directly above the glass screen casts a very bright blood red color, and even more so, it exerts an invisible pressure on the human retina that makes people anxious.

I'm afraid it would take a huge amount of effort for a normal person to clear one up.

...... And Chi Xiaochi faces three.

With 5:45 to go, Chi Xiaochi moves.

He darted to Gan Yu's side and picked up the cold, sweat-drenched man in his arms again.

Gan Yu face full of sickly red scarlet, pale lips dry skin, but at this moment of consciousness than a moment ago a little clearer.

He lay in Chi Xiaochi's arms and allowed him to carry him to the F cabinet.

He asked dumbly, "Did you find it for yourself?"

Chi Xiaochi was walking a little hard and crooked, with a burst of golden flowers exploding in front of his eyes.

...... This is the aftermath of overusing your eyes.

He said casually, "Looking for it."

Gan Yu reached out and gently tugged at his collar, his tone a bit helpless, "Lying."

Chi Xiaochi was already experiencing headaches and dizziness because of his intense concentration, and by the time he put Gan Yu down in front of the F cabinet, his fingers were already trembling, and he almost pressed the code askew.

Chi Xiaochi took a deep breath and surprisingly admitted it outright and shamelessly, "Well. Lied."

After quieting his mind, he probed his finger and pressed T on the combination dial of the F cabinet.

Gan Yu didn't continue to pester him about wasting time needlessly either, and as he settled himself into the cabinet with him, he whispered, "Be alive."

Chi Xiaochi asked, "Dr. Gan, do you believe me."

Gan Yu nodded without hesitation.

"Believe me and stay well." Chi Xiaochi said, "Wait for me on the raw road."

With those words, he snapped the door shut and made a mad dash back to the glass screen.

Before he could catch his breath, he began to make a life for himself.

While he was settling Gan Yu, Xu Jiayi left and pressed the corresponding code D on the E cabinet.

Yuan Benshan had already checked his answer three times, and after confirming that it was correct, Fang Cai looked to Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi was staring at the screen, his teeth clenched, his thumb repeatedly rubbing his palm, his shoulders shaking uncontrollably.

Yuan Benshan looked at the display with only 4 minutes and 10 seconds left, anxious and heartbroken.

...... But what could he do? Could he give away an answer that had already been checked and verified?

Yuan Benshan's cheek muscles began to twitch uncontrollably at the thought of being roasted alive.

In the end, he only said to Chi Xiaochi, "Chunyang, hurry up", and then ran to the C cabinet and pressed the code Q. He said, "Chunyang, hurry up.

The door managed to open and he ducked in.

In the blink of an eye, Chi Xiaochi was the only one left in front of the glass screen.

The overstimulation made his brain feel like a whistle had been jammed into it, filled his ears with ghostly whimpers or shrill screams, and his body temperature dropped even more drastically, chilling him to the bone.

A flash of chronometric red light was reflected in his eyes.

And he couldn't care less about anything but finding that ultimate answer.

What does I correspond to?

What exactly does it correspond to?

With 2:10 left, he found the answer.

With that, his heart went suddenly cold.

Is it ......U?

How could it be U?

Doesn't U correspond to Gan Tang's cabinet R?

Chi Xiaochi was immediately disoriented and turned around, checking the corresponding code for I from the beginning.

But he couldn't help but wonder: had he made a mistake in connecting the dots this time? Or was Gan Tang's connection wrong in the first place?

A piece of his heart was like being twisted by a messy hemp, and cold sweat brushed out layer by layer, so much so that his vision began to lax.

Noticing that his emotions were not right, he immediately raised his hand and slapped himself, forcing his mind back to the state of disorganization that had been gradually becoming lax due to excessive tension.

Calm down!

Must be calm!

He pressed his slightly trembling fingers against the glass screen, simulating the trajectory of the I from the I, all the way up.

The heart thumped in his chest, hitting his ribs one at a time with a deafening, muffled sound.

...... has 60 seconds left.

The countdown made a ticking sound.

...... has 40 seconds left.

Chi Xiaochi even heard the sardonic laugh of a clown and the low hum of all the guns ready to start.

With 20 seconds left, Chi Xiaochi turns around and rushes to the I-cabinet without saying a word.

He made a wrong move the first time and wasted time, thus he had no time to double-check the answer he got.

Yet he had no time to spare.

He practically pounced on the locker, hit the V button, and rolled over and into it the instant the door popped open.

The instant the cabinet door snapped shut, he clearly saw tongues of fire erupting from the gun closest to him, coming straight for his face.

In the next few seconds, it was as if all the oxygen had been sucked out of the air, and there was a complete vacuum around them, so that they couldn't even take a breath.

Chi Xiaochi clenches his body and waits for that final judgment.

Before the cabinet started to get hot, there was a snap and the back cabinet door caved in at first, and cool air rushed in.

Without thinking, without even dawdling or lingering, Chi Xiaochi stumbles out and pulls the nearest Gan Tang out of the closet.

Gan Yu had the will to come out of the closet on his own.

In addition to the three of them, Yuan Benshan and Xu Jiayi survived.

A succession of miserable whistles and cries of pain came from Cabinet A, like a wail from the depths of hell, while the rear cabinet door of Cabinet A, always tightly closed, not the slightest appearance of opening.

Not long after, there was no sound from Cabinet A.

Chi Xiaochi fell to the ground, gasping for breath for a few moments before she could look around.

This time, they entered a room that was normal enough to be somewhat cozy.

There were no lights in the room, but it was as bright as if they were in the middle of the day, with countless beautiful, painted hydrogen balloons with clown images floating around the room, as well as a couple of small, soft sofas and teddy bear toys arranged on them, along with their belongings.

And the Joker is not one of them.

...... Looks like this is the gift room the clown was talking about.

They managed to make it through all three rooms, and there were still almost ten minutes to go until the end of the mission.

All they have to do is wait in the "safe house" and survive the remaining ten minutes before the ten missions are officially over and they can return to the normal world.