Chapter 26 Strength and Responsibility

Since the launch of "Secret Room" for four seasons, the script has been constantly changing, but one thing will not change, that is, the program team will never add a certain setting without any reason, and they like to play big twists the most.Kill all the guests.

When the mental patient kept chasing after him with a bloody head in his arms, Xi Nian felt strange. When he thought about the profound meaning of the broadcast sentence "real survivors", he could actually deduce something..

What is a true survivor?

Thinking about it from another angle, does it mean that it is fake?

The spooky classroom, the strange boy, how could they complete the task so smoothly according to the show crew's behavior? Xi Nian didn't know what he saw, he shouted to Qiao Zhi, run quickly, and then rushed out firstIn the classroom, no one was seen in a flash.

When Qiao Zhi heard this, she turned around in confusion, only to find that the mental patient had looked towards them, and the facial features of the human head held in his arms were exactly the same as those of the little boy in the classroom.

Qiao Zhi: "..."

The little boy looked at Qiao Zhi quietly, then suddenly grinned at her, then reached out and untied the red scarf. A hideous scar suddenly appeared on his neck. Around his neck was a very old heart-shaped necklace, stained with darkBloodstains.

It was obvious that he had been dead for a long time.

The head held in the mental patient's hand belongs to the little boy.

In other words, the person in front of me is not a survivor, but a ghost.

If Xi Nian failed to write down the questions on the blackboard outside, they would have to go back to the first room again, but the mental patient would kill at least one of the two, plus the ghost boy in the classroom, they would not be able to annihilate them all.All difficult.

The dog show is about killing all the dogs and not doing human affairs!

Xi Nian ran quickly along the huge corridor. Not long after, he heard Qiao Zhi's scream like a murderer coming from behind. He turned a deaf ear and didn't stop at all. However, as he ran, he suddenly realized that there was no road ahead.It turned out to be a dead end.

"..."

#Retribution comes unexpectedly#

Xi Nian was about to turn back and find the way again. Who would have thought that the mental patient had already caught up with him, holding Qiao Zhi with a dagger, and walking towards him step by step.

Qiao Zhi cried so hard that she couldn't breathe. She was half angry and half frightened: "Xinian, you are a thief, you didn't take me with you when you ran away. I hate you! I hate you!"

Those who didn't know thought she was acting in a Qiong Yao drama here.

Xi Nian glanced at the corridor fence and found that there was another floor below with several old wooden boxes piled up. He turned over and was about to jump down. When the mental patient saw this, he suddenly laughed weirdly and pointed a dagger at Qiao Qiao.Zhi's neck said: "If you dare to run away, I will kill her!"

Xi Nian made a move.

Qiao Zhi immediately changed her mind: "Dad, save me!!"

One second he called him a thief, and the next second he called him daddy. Is this the legendary way of recognizing a thief as a father?

When Xi Nian heard this, he stopped climbing up the railing. Seeing this, the mentally ill patient stepped closer and threatened: "Stand where you are and don't move. If you take another step, I will kill her."

Facing Qiao Zhi's expectant eyes, Xi Nian was silent for a moment, and then...

"Then you kill her, don't let her suffer too much."

The next few words were the last words of Xi Nian's tenderness. After saying this, he turned over and jumped down the corridor at lightning speed, directly entering the second floor passage. People couldn't help but sigh at the young hero's good skills.

Qiao Zhi: "!!!"

The NPC was dumbfounded, and the program team was also dumbfounded. The staff subconsciously looked at the director: "What should we do? The first team is below."

It’s been years since I’ve seen such a trick on my teammates... ah no, it’s a guest who doesn’t act according to common sense.

The director's plan to kill everyone encountered obstacles, and his temple suddenly hurt. He used the microphone to say to his assistant: "Open the backup undercover branch line."

Xi Nian usually exercised a lot, and since the floor was not high, he jumped down easily and with crisp movements. After he got rid of the mental patient's pursuit, he couldn't help but start to think about the true meaning of the word "survivor."

Survivors are people who are lucky enough to survive a disaster.

Let's make a bold guess. This school is deserted and dead, and it doesn't look like there are any living people at all. Could it be that the word "survivors" does not refer to NPCs, but to them who are being hunted by mental patients?

There were dead ends on both sides of the passage on the second floor, and the stairs were blocked. There were also many sealed rooms. Xi Nian approached the first classroom with a gentle step, and looked inside through the window, only to find that it was Kong Xi and Bai Yicheng., reached out and knocked on the door.

"who?!"

Bai Yicheng was shocked. He looked through the glass window and found that it was Xi Nian. He couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He walked over and opened the door and said, "Why are you here? Where is Qiao Zhi?"

Xi Nian said: "I turned it down from above."

As for Qiao Zhi, "She may have been caught by the NPC."

In layman's terms, it means it's dead.

When Bai Yicheng heard this, he looked at him with a strange expression and moved away without leaving a trace: "So you are the only one left?"

Xi Nian was keenly aware of his actions, and suddenly felt that something was not right. He frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

Bai Yicheng said: "Didn't you look at the communicator?"

Each guest was given a communicator when entering the secret room, so that the program team could issue tasks at any time. He wore it on his wrist. But when Xi Nian climbed over the railing just now, he felt it hurt his hands, so he took it off and put it in his pocket.When I came out to take a look, I discovered that the program team had released a message at some point.

"One of the members of the team rebelled and became an undercover agent. On the way to escape, he will inform the mentally ill patient of the coordinates of the team members. If caught, he will be eliminated directly. Now you have three minutes of safety time. Please be careful and good luck."

Xi Nian suddenly felt fucked.

Kong Xi had been squatting beside her just now to solve the puzzle. The prop was a mirror-breaking Rubik's Cube. Only when it was completely assembled could the clues be obtained. I don't know what she had done, but she suddenly said in surprise: "I solved it!"

There is a sealed door in this classroom. It can only be opened if the Rubik's Cube is put together correctly and placed in the recess of the mechanism. Bai Yicheng was delighted when he heard this, but when he looked at Xi Nian, he couldn't help but quietly raised his guard: "Should you?Will he be an undercover agent?"

Kong Xi also looked over and hid the Rubik's Cube behind his back without leaving any trace.

Xi Nian said: "I'm not an undercover agent."

Bai Yicheng still didn't believe it: "Then why did Qiao Zhi die?"

Xi Nian put the communicator back on his wrist: "She couldn't run as fast as me, fell behind, and was caught and killed by a psychopath. Is it strange?"

It doesn't really seem unusual.

When Bai Yicheng heard this and was about to speak, he suddenly saw a head popping out of the window from the corner of his eye. He was so frightened that he trembled: "Who?!"

"I."

The person appeared quietly, and it turned out to be Qiao Zhi, who Xi Nian said was driving west. She pushed open the door and came in like a thief. Then she leaned against the door and breathed a sigh of relief. She patted her chest and said, "I'm scared to death."Dead, I thought there was a ghost in the classroom, but it turned out to be you."

Now not only Kong Xi, but also Xi Nian's expression became weird. Bai Yicheng even took three big steps back, and asked in shock: "Aren't you dead?"

Qiao Zhi's face was expressionless for a moment: "Who said I was dead?"

Bai Yicheng pointed at Xi Nian: "He said you were killed by a mental patient."

Hearing this, Qiao Zhi glared at Xi Nian angrily: "If you don't save me, forget it, and you curse me to death. Even if I die, I will drag you along with me!"

Xi Nian seemed to be thinking about something in his heart, but he couldn't see it on his face, and he didn't show any signs of conscience: "The program team said there was an undercover agent among us. Please explain how you survived."

Qiao Zhi hesitated.

Kong Xi also said: "We have no choice now, so as not to arouse suspicion, it is better to make it clear."

Qiao Zhi could only mutter: "After Xi Nian ran away, the mentally ill man probably didn't kill me because he thought I was too beautiful. He covered my eyes and went into a secret room. When he came out again, I was at the door.”

The air was stagnant for a moment.

Bai Yicheng looked at Kong Xi: "Do you think it's credible?"

Kong Xi shook his head, expressing that he didn't know, and could vaguely see that he was in a bit of difficulty.

Bai Yicheng looked at Xi Nian again: "What do you think?"

Xi Nian: "I don't think she really deceived us."

"..."

Qiao Zhi was furious: "I know this reason is ridiculous, but it is the fact. He really didn't kill me, and I don't know why!"

His irritable look doesn't look like he's telling lies, but it doesn't rule out the possibility of acting.

Kong Xi said: "Now is not the time to doubt each other. Bai Yicheng and I have searched every classroom on this floor, but we haven't found any survivors. Have you found them?"

Xi Nian told her what had just happened, and expressed his guess: "Now that the four of us are here, only Teacher Min and the others are left. The survivors are probably ourselves."

Kong Xi originally thought that the second team would be the first to die, but he didn't expect that Xi Nian could find a flaw. He was really not like a novice player. Hearing this, he nodded and said: "What you guessed is probably true. The top priority now is to find Min."Teacher and the others, the roads on both sides are blocked, we can only go out through this door, but..."

She said, looking at Qiao Zhi hesitantly.

Everyone understood what she meant. It was really creepy to have an undercover agent sneak in on the way to escape. If he didn't do it right, he might be in trouble.

Qiao Zhi began to spare no effort to deceive her teammates, swearing so confidently that she almost swore to God: "Xi Nian must be an undercover agent. He has never saved me from the beginning to the end!"

Xi Nian had long known that Qiao Zhi was a cheater: "If I were an undercover agent, you wouldn't be alive today."

After he finished speaking, he eliminated the problem directly from the source. He took off the communicator on his hand and patted his pants. He said that except for the headset and microphone, there was nothing else to inform the news: "Well, don't waste time, let's talk to each other."Supervisor, Bai Yicheng and I keep an eye on each other, Teacher Kong, you and Qiao Zhi keep an eye on each other."

Qiao Zhi asked him: "Aren't we the same team?"

Xi Nian was used to her in his previous life: "I know, but I don't want to stare at you."

Qiao Zhi silently swallowed a mouthful of old blood: "..."

#She really wants to die with Xi Nian#

Just as everyone was discussing countermeasures, an alarm suddenly sounded in the headset: "Three-minute safety time countdown, 3, 2, 1."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a banging sound outside the door, and accompanied by a familiar perverted chuckle, Qiao Zhi screamed: "Quick, quick, quick, that lunatic is here, let's get into the passage quickly!"

Kong Xi had already put the Rubik's Cube into the mechanism when the alarm sounded. She heard the door lock click open. As she pushed the door in, she said anxiously: "The classroom door can't hold on for long, let's leave quickly!"

The door was only half a person high. When they entered, they had to bend down and crawl inside. Kong Xi took the lead, followed closely by Bai Yicheng. Xi Nian was about to go in, but Qiao Zhi climbed in first. HeHad to be at the bottom.

At this moment, there was just a "bang" sound, and the classroom door was knocked open. Everyone could not help but speed up and crawl in. However, when the mental patient broke in with a knife and wanted to open the door, he pulled hard.But found that it could not be opened.

The assistant was anxious: "Director, the NPC cannot open the machine door."

The director was angry: "What's going on? Are you causing trouble for me at this moment?!"

The staff quickly adjusted the monitoring and found that when Kong Xi opened the door of the machine, an iron latch fell to the ground. When Xi Nian hid in the passage, he quietly picked up the latch when no one was paying attention, and opened the door from the inside.Locked.

The iron door was made in an antique style, with bolts on the inside and outside. Xi Nian accidentally took advantage of it. In short, it was the fault of the prop team.

#Director wants to take quick-acting Jiuxin Pill#

The passage was narrow and cramped, nothing could be seen clearly, and there was a steep slope. Kong Xi was exploring the way ahead, but he bumped into somewhere and suddenly let out a muffled groan.

Bai Yicheng asked: "Teacher Kong, what's wrong with you?"

Kong Xi shook his head: "It's nothing. I sprained my foot. There is a cave in here. Please be careful."

The passage was winding, long and dark, and everyone climbed for who knows how long. Finally, they reached the exit. There was still a door in front of them. Fortunately, there was no mechanism, and it opened with a push.

Kong Xi climbed out, staggering a little, but saw that they were in an old sports equipment room. Bai Yicheng patted the dust on his body and urged: "Let's go out quickly to find Teacher Min and the others."

When Xi Nian heard this, he groped around on the wall and found a door. He tentatively opened it and looked outside, only to find that there was another long corridor that was the same as the one upstairs, with several closed classrooms scattered on the right..

Xi Nian said: "Teacher Min and the others are probably inside."

Qiao Zhi's face turned pale: "I never want to see a ghost place like school in my life."

Everyone walked to the corridor, only to find that the classroom below was different from the two floors above. The door was bare, without even a handle, and the windows on the wall were locked, making it difficult to see what was going on inside.

Qiao Zhi found a piece of paper stuck on each door and couldn't help but said: "Come here and take a look. There are tips on it."

There is only a brief sentence on the paper:

Good and evil coexist, black and white are opposite.

The door of life can be opened, but the door of hell cannot be closed.

Before you open the door, you never know whether it's an evil spirit or a human being hiding inside.

He is a human and escapes from life; he is a ghost and falls into hell.

Kong Xi thought for a moment after hearing this, and then thought of the ghost boy Xi Nian and the others had encountered before, and couldn't help but guess: "Does this mean that Teacher Min and the others are trapped in one of the classrooms, and there are evil ghosts hiding in the other classrooms?", if we open the right door, we can rescue them, but if we open the wrong door, we will be devoured by evil spirits?"

Qiao Zhi's legs were already starting to tremble: "Shall we try each room?"

Kong Xi shook his head: "Look at these doors. There are no locks or handles on them. It is very likely that they cannot be closed again after being pushed open. Evil spirits will also run out from inside. These are dead ends. We have no place to escape. It is too risky."

Xi Nian looked around after hearing this and found that there were exactly four classrooms, no more and no less. He thought for a moment and said to everyone: "Let's each choose a door and open it together."

Kong Xi's eyes lit up: "It's also a way. I guess there must be a safe area in the classroom where the survivors are hidden for us to escape. Otherwise, no matter how we drive, we will be devoured by evil spirits, and the game will be boring. Wait a momentThe children counted one, two, and three and we pushed the door at the same time. If we found someone in the survivors’ classroom, we could yell a reminder, and then we hurried to that classroom to take shelter.”

Bai Yicheng nodded: "Then I'll open the first one."

Kong Xi said: "I am second."

Qiao Zhi and Xi Nian chose third and fourth respectively.

The distance between the four people was suddenly widened. Kong Xi stood in the middle, took a deep breath, and began to give orders.

"one,"

"two,"

"three!"

After she finished speaking, everyone pushed the door open. Xi Nian took a closer look and saw a female ghost in red sitting in classroom No. 4. She had already stood up and rushed toward him, and immediately backed away quickly. At the same time, Qiao ZhiShe screamed: "Teacher Min is in classroom three! Come in quickly!"

Xi Nian immediately ducked in, followed closely by Kong Xi and Bai Yicheng. With the sound of the classroom door being slammed shut, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

A prompt sounded in the headset: "Congratulations on finding the safe zone and successfully finding the survivors. The mental patient has begun searching around the corridor. Please open the door to life and escape from here before he is discovered."

Qiao Zhi no longer had the energy to curse.

Kong Xi said: "Xi Nian's guess is indeed correct. The survivors refer to ourselves."

Xi Nian found that Teacher Min and Wang Yao were tied to chairs and could not move. He walked over and tried to untie the ropes on their bodies, but found that there was a cipher on them. Wang Yao said with a bitter look on his face: "You can only lose three times, and you can win three times."If it's not right, it will explode. I didn't expect that after many years of traveling around the world, we would stumble."

After all, it was because of their age. Teacher Min and Wang Yao were responsible for mental work, not physical work. They were caught by mental patients before they could run very far.

Kong Xi seemed to have injured his leg, so he limped over and said, "What is the password? Is there any hint?"

Teacher Min shook his head: "What was the question on the blackboard? I guess it was the question written on the blackboard in the secret room when we first entered, but I misremembered a number. After trying it once, I didn't get it right, so I didn't dare to try again."

Kong Xi looked embarrassed when he heard this. There were evil spirits outside now, and they had no choice but to go out. Xi Nian looked at the cipher and found that he needed to enter three numbers, so he pressed three sixes. Wang Yao saw this and stood up.When he tried to stop it, the lock opened with a click.

Bai Yicheng: "Damn it! Brother, you are so awesome! Can you get this right?!"

Xi Nian was indeed confused. The answer to that question was 6. He simply pressed all 6, but he didn't expect that the answer was really solved.

Teacher Min untied the rope and took out a necklace from his pocket: "This is the prop key we got from the decryption in the classroom. It can open the last door, but half of it is still missing."

Qiao Zhi stared at the necklace for a long time, as if she suddenly discovered something, and said to Xi Nian: "Do you remember that little brat? He seems to have a necklace like this around his neck."

Xi Nian nodded: "But the kid is still on the third floor. If we want to get the necklace, we have to go back the way we came."

After hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought. Now that there are evil spirits outside, it is not easy to get out. Teacher Min and Wang Yao are both over forty years old. They cannot be allowed to run up and down. However, Kong Xi's feet are still sprained. Now he can onlyThree newbie guests remain.

Qiao Zhi had a look on her face: "It's over. Are we going to be the only guest team in the history of the show to be wiped out?"

No matter how difficult the script was in the past, under the protection of the old team members, at least one member of the guest team could survive. Now they are like orphans with no one to take care of them.

Xi Nian didn't know why, but glanced at Bai Yicheng: "The two of us went back to get the key."

Bai Yicheng paused after hearing this: "That's okay."

Teacher Min seemed uneasy: "Why don't Wang Yao and I go?"

But it was too late. Xi Nian and Bai Yicheng had already opened the door and went out. They struggled to avoid the evil ghosts outside, then ran into the previous sports equipment room, returned along the narrow passage, and arrived at the second floor.Passage classroom.

Xi Nian climbed down from the third floor before. Bai Yicheng looked around and found no way to go up. He was a little confused: "How do we get up to the third floor?"

Xi Nian said, "Wait for me here. I'll climb up and get it. I'm familiar with the third floor."

Bai Yicheng could only nod: "Then be careful."

Xi Nian stepped on the wooden boxes piled in the corner, and then climbed directly to the third floor along the railing. He walked all the way back to the previous classroom, and as expected, he found the NPC boy still inside. He walked over and took off the necklace from his neck.Said: "Borrow it from uncle for a while."

The little boy could only continue to read the lines: "Brother, this question is too difficult, can you help me solve it?"

Xi Nian put the necklace in his pocket and glanced at him with a half-smile: "No wonder your teacher hit you. He said it was 6. Why can't you remember it? Study hard and make progress every day. There is no future for pretending to be a ghost and scaring people.".”

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left the classroom, and was about to go back the same way he came. Who would have thought that there would be a figure outside the classroom door at some point? It was the mentally ill man. He was holding a dagger in his hand, and the smile in his eyes was twisted and ferocious: "I found you.Already..."

Xi Nian seemed to have expected it, and was not surprised. He quickly dodged when the opponent rushed towards him with a knife, then supported the railing and turned over, jumping directly to the second floor. Bai Yicheng was waiting anxiously in the classroom. When he saw him coming back,He quickly stepped forward and asked, "Have you got the necklace?"

Xi Nian nodded: "I got it, let's go quickly."

After he finished speaking, he entered the passage first, but he didn't know what he thought of. When he touched his pocket, his face changed slightly, and he said to Yicheng, "The necklace fell behind you!"

When Bai Yicheng heard this, he subconsciously turned around to look for it. Who would have thought that the door would be closed with a bang and locked from the inside.

Yes, it's still the latch.

Bai Yicheng rushed forward: "What are you doing! Open it quickly! That psychopath is coming after him!"

Xi Nian looked at him quietly: "You are an undercover agent."

Bai Yicheng paused for a moment, then reacted: "What nonsense are you talking about?! Qiao Zhi is more suspicious, she is the undercover!"

Xi Nian has also thought about this problem, but the program team's counterintuitive plan was too obvious, and they released Qiao Zhi so easily, clearly making everyone doubt her.

Secondly, Kong Xi is a veteran team member, and she needs to solve many difficult questions. If she is also an undercover agent, the other three novice guests will die, which the program team obviously will not do.

Then only Bai Yicheng is left.

Xi Nian asked him through the door: "Do you know why I want to look for clues with you?"

First, if Bai Yicheng is left down there, it will undoubtedly expose the whereabouts of others. Second, Xi Nian also wants to confirm his guess. When he climbed to the third floor just now, the mental patient chased him directly. There must be someone there.Tell the truth and do nothing except Bai Yicheng.

To put it another way, if Qiao Zhi was an undercover agent, and Kong Xi stayed behind to supervise her, she would not have the chance to tip off the information.

Bai Yicheng looked constipated: "No wonder you and I have to supervise each other instead of Qiao Zhi. It turns out that you doubted me at that time."

Damn it, Xi Nian is too good.

Xi Nian not only got the necklace, but also successfully locked the undercover agent inside. He returned along the passage, once again relying on his agility to avoid the evil ghost at the door, and then ducked into the survivors' classroom.

When the director saw his performance on the surveillance camera, he couldn't help but praise him: "Originally, I just couldn't hire Yan Du, so I wanted to recruit Xi Nian to make up for it, but I didn't expect that..."

The author has something to say: Bai Yicheng (crying and banging on the door): Who will save me?