Chapter 51: Chapter 51

This room is the first escape room. There are only fifteen minutes to escape. If you can’t find the exit by then, someone will be randomly chosen to be eliminated.

A group of people hurriedly screamed while looking for clues, poking here and there chaotically.

"Only thirteen minutes and forty seconds left!"

"Where is the door here! The door?!"

"Feel around! Feel for the door! Ahhhhh!" ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by NoveI★Fire.net

"Ahhhh, why are you screaming?!"

"Then why are you screaming after me?!"

"Who’s pulling at my clothes?!!!"

Yu Xia was about to get tinnitus from all the screaming.

She really couldn’t understand how these young and seemingly bold people could be so terrified by this, unless they were just playing along for the atmosphere.

With difficulty, Yu Xia dragged the clinging Shu Ran along, using the bit of light coming in to carefully search for clues.

The imposing presence of the red countdown was too strong; no one could help but glance at it. Seeing how time quickly dwindled made them panic more and more.

During this time, she thought to negotiate with Shu Ran: "Shu Ran, could you loosen up a bit? I feel like my arm is going to swell from blood flow."

Shu Ran released her grip, taking a deep breath: "Quickly, let’s find clues. It doesn’t seem that scary anymore."

"Yeah, I don’t think it’s that scary either..." As she said this, she rubbed the wall, turned her hand to look, and found it stained red.

Both looked at the red stain, and a deathly silence spread.

Shu Ran screamed at the top of her lungs: "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Yu Xia joined in with harmony: "Ahhhhh! What is this?! What is this thing?!"

Their sudden female high notes stood out among the wailing screams, startling the others into a momentary blank, who then decisively joined in a trio and quartet.

[It’s so noisy, it’s waking the pig we just slaughtered at home]

[Hahahaha, I just feel like laughing when they scream!]

[Clever as I am, I’ve learned to turn down the volume before the high-energy moments / The bigwig applies fly-slick hair gel that even makes flies slip.jpg]

[Yu Xia, stop flailing. If your arm flies off later, you’ll scream even more, hahaha]

[Damn it, stop talking, watching this at night is really terrifying!!!]

[You said you wanted to find clues, so spread out and look! Why are you all huddled together in the middle, not moving, run!]

[Okay, maybe don’t run. If you run blindly with your eyes closed, you’ll crash into each other.]

[This is so realistic! Watching it alone feels like the room is leaking wind everywhere / Cowering in the corner, not daring to breathe.jpg]

[Thrilling! If this setup were in an escape room, I’d play it every day.]

[So tense, it’s like watching an unlimited murder movie, my palms are sweating more than theirs!]

Once the screaming subsided slightly, Yu Xia felt like her brain was deprived of oxygen.

She shakily wiped the red off her hand onto the back of her hand, took a sniff, and it turns out, damn it, it smells like roses.

She let out a breath, then checked the countdown again.

"Only ten minutes left!"

Song Xi reacted the fastest: "Half of us look for the door and half for something like a key. This room only giving us fifteen minutes shouldn’t be too hard!"

"Then I’ll look for the door, since my hands are already dirty!"

Yu Xia, bolstered with courage, swiped at the wall again, feeling all around from east to west until she reached the neighboring wall, moving quickly like someone clumsily painting a wall.

Terrified of touching something soft, her heart raced as if she had just finished running an 800-meter dash.

With little time left, everyone began to muster courage, feeling around here and there.

Wei Yaoyao came over to help her, reaching higher places, while Shu Ran didn’t touch anything but was using the light to inspect corners and protrusions.

Yu Xia’s hand felt a protrusion, Shu Ran also noticed the unusual spot right then, both exclaimed simultaneously.

The custom camera angle automatically shifted to their spot.

Fingers stained with the unknown red under this lighting appeared somewhat pale, and with a pull of the finger bones!

The old door painted with cement color swung open, revealing iron bars inside.

The room inside was visible, but it was pitch dark, making it impossible to see its layout.

Yu Xia tugged on the chain and lock on the iron bars, glanced at it, and said:

"It’s a standard house key, shouldn’t be large."

Wei Yaoyao clutched her chest, trying to calm her pounding heart, and said: "But besides a projector, there’s nothing else in here, where could it be hidden?"

"With fewer things, it’s simpler. If it’s not on the projector, it should either be overhead, underfoot, or stuck to the walls," Song Xi said.

Shu Ran swallowed, moved her foot, revealing a silver key under it.

"I don’t know who kicked it towards me, it hit my shoe, so I just stepped on it."

The others stared at the key, then back at the disheveled Shu Ran, with expressions of complex incredulity.

Yu Kuang: "This level of simplicity... is it a little insulting?"

He Mingjie: "It makes us look really silly earlier."

Clearly, it was a two-minute task, but they spent ten minutes screaming.

Everyone awkwardly realized the belated embarrassment.

Pei Lu glanced at Shu Ran, then sheepishly said: "That key was probably accidentally kicked by me, I did feel I had kicked something."

Shu Ran felt uneasy looking at his face, but maintained her elegant actress smile and said, "Really?" and nothing more.

Song Xi had already picked up the key, ready to unlock it.

Everyone crowded towards the door, Pei Lu looking a bit embarrassed.

Yu Xia gave him a glance, then at the countdown, and said, "Song Xi, hurry up, only two minutes and twenty-three seconds left."

Then, casually, she called out to Pei Lu: "Let’s go, if two minutes pass and we haven’t all entered, we might fail."

So no staying behind wallowing in gloom.

Pei Lu seemed surprised that someone said something nice to him, hurriedly turned around, and followed her with a pressed smile.

Yu Xia unobtrusively rubbed at the goosebumps on her arms.

The lock wasn’t difficult, just took time with the chain, and everyone watched the countdown anxiously as they opened the iron bars.

"Quick, quick, it’s wide enough for one to go in, go in first! Only thirty seconds left!"

"Who goes in first?! Ahhh, I don’t want to go in first!"

"You must, hurry up, all of you, get in!"

"Shu Ran and Yu Xia in the middle, I’ll go last, hurry!"

Before the countdown ended, everyone squeezed into the second room.

As soon as they entered, a buzzing alarm sounded from behind.

Then that eerie electronic voice said: "Congratulations on spending fifteen minutes finding the key and touching the door, you all did great."

It sounded more like saying: you all are incredibly foolish.

The electronic voice continued: "After the warm-up game, we believe the players now fully understand the game’s rules and difficulty level. In the following eight stages, we wish you good luck. If someone is eliminated—"

"I will come back for you."