Chapter 8: The Secret Room Again

"All in......" After about five minutes of walking, they were pushed into an empty room, which was not hard to tell from the creaky opening of the door and the dull sound of the door closing. Listening to the sound of the "gangsters" going away, Shannie sat on the ground against the wall, this sudden "kidnapping" Covering the ray of sunshine that had just risen in Shannie's heart, she thought of her mother, her mother and her had gone through a lot of hardships, and her idea of wanting to use her own efforts to exchange happiness for her mother was about to be shattered again, Shannie was not afraid of death, but she couldn't die, she had to fight, fight against this unfair world, fight against those wicked people who oppressed the good, thinking of this, Shanni raised her head, and the mottled wall scraped the black plastic bag on her head.

"Don't move, I'll help you get rid of the hood" At this time, Shannie saw that there were six other people who were tied up with her, and Shanny used her teeth to help them tear off the plastic bags on their heads one by one, and among these six people were two women and four men.

"Why did they kidnap us?" "Yes, we can be robbed if we are hired, is that true?" "Yes, how is this possible!" The four men grumbled angrily, and the two girls were already slumped to the ground in fright.

"Big brother, don't move, I'll help you bite off the tape" Shannie used her teeth to help a man bite off the tape that bound his hands, and the man helped Shanny untie his bound hands. Everyone helped each other loosen their bonds, and after regaining their freedom, everyone calmed down a little.

It was a large room, with a high shelf, there were no items in the room, and there were no windows, probably some kind of abandoned warehouse, there was a chandelier hanging on the shed, which emitted a dim light, the room was covered with dust, and on one side of the wall hung a clock, the time pointed to 9:50, which was nearly two hours after Shanny left the hotel.

"They're not going to kill me, are they?" said a girl in a trembling voice that made everyone instantly creepy.

"What nonsense are you talking about, we don't have any grudges against them", "They must have kidnapped us for money," the other girl nervously analyzed.

"Cut, you still need to say such a simple question" A man glanced disdainfully at the girl who spoke.

"But we're here to apply, so what money can they extort," the other man replied.

"Why is that?" said a tall, thin man as he searched the room.

"yes, why did you kidnap us?" "Could it be—" Channie, who was gradually regaining her senses, thought quickly in her mind.

"Let's all introduce ourselves," said the man, who had not been silent for a long time.

"You can guess my name, my surname is a good beginning, the name is good rain knows the season, when spring happens, I hope everyone can remember me. The tall and skinny man was the first to speak.

"Your name is Jiang Chunyu?" the trembling girl calmed down.

"Yes, what a clever girl, what's your name?"

"I'm Zhang Yazhuo"

"Yazhuo, good name, my name is Liu Yichao, don't be afraid, I will protect you" The disdainful man said to Zhang Yazhuo with a twinkle in his eyes.

"You, can you really protect me?" Yazhuo looked at Liu Yichao with a questioning gaze.

"Of course, look at my brother's muscles" Liu Yichao straightened his arm and motioned for Yazhuo to pinch it, Yazhuo glanced at him, turned his head and stopped talking.

"What's your name?" the silent man asked as he turned to Channie and the other girl.

"My name is Li Xiangni," Xiangni returned straightforwardly.

"My name is Han Xue"

"Xiangni, Han Xue" "What a beautiful name, I like it!" Liu Yichao's eyes continued to shine.

"It's disgusting" Han Xue made an open mouth expression and whispered to herself.

"What about you?" the silent man continued to ask the last man.

"My name is Zhang Xu."

"Zhang Jing?" "Why do you call a girl's name" Han Xue couldn't help laughing.

"Why is Zhang Xu a girl's name?" "I am a two-word poem" Zhang Xu said defensively.

"Two words?" Han Xue stuck out her tongue and stopped talking.

"Okay, students, I know that everyone is here to apply, but we have been kidnapped here at the same time, now we should calmly analyze the reasons and come up with a solution to the dilemma."

"What's your name?" "What do you know why?" "Can you take us out?" asked the awakened crowd eagerly.

"My name is Yang Junsheng, I also came to apply, I don't know what the reason is, and I don't know how to get out of trouble"

"Cut, you don't know anything and you're still so loud"

"I hope everyone calms down and analyzes the current situation we are facing, 'three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang'" Yang Junsheng, who was ridiculed, tried his best to convince everyone.

"Yes, he's right, we should analyze the reasons and find a way out of the predicament," Channy said calmly.

"We're here to apply, there's no reason for them to kidnap us, maybe any of us have an enemy?" Jiang Chunyu analyzed matter-of-factly.

"Who has an enemy?" everyone looked at each other.

"Is that you?" "I didn't"

"That's you?" "How can I have an enemy," Jiang Chunyu asked everyone one by one.

"Could it be who is the son of the local tyrant family?" Han Xue asked excitedly as if he had discovered a new continent.

"Cut, the son of a local tyrant can still come here to apply" Zhang Yazhuo returned disdainfully.

"Let's split up to find out if there are any clues, or a place to escape," Yang Junsheng was impatient with everyone's analysis.

Hearing him say this, everyone stood up and searched around. Channy didn't search, she sat against the wall, calmly looking around. There was nothing special in the huge room, except for a few stacks of cement piled up at the doorway, and Channy lowered her head and fell into deep thought. Suddenly, as if she had noticed something, she suddenly looked up at the clock on the wall, the clock had pointed to 17:00, and she clearly remembered that it was 9:50 when she was tied in, and more than seven hours had passed since a few people talked, which was impossible. The reason for this is that the clock is broken, could there be any other reason?

"There is not even a piece of paper with words in this place", "the walls are solid", "it seems that we are just waiting for them to come", searched around but there was no result, and everyone sat down in front of Shannie with their heads bowed.

"Okay, everyone should rest well now, maintain their strength, I don't know what will happen" "Yes, we need to have enough energy to face the unknown" "Are you saying that they may ignore us and trap us here?"

"Unknown, unknown," Zhang Wei said as he leaned against the wall and looked very old-fashioned.

"Is anyone outside? we're going to the bathroom," Shannie shouted as she stood up and walked to the door, knocking.

"Yes, I want to go to the toilet too" Han Xue also ran over and shouted.

They shouted for a long time, but no one outside responded, so they had to go back to the crowd and sit down.

"What can I do about this, my little yellow hasn't eaten yet," Zhang Yazhuo said with a crying voice.

"Your little yellow won't look for food by himself," Jiang Chunyu interrupted.

"What do you know, my little yellow is my pet dog, can he go find something to eat by himself like you?"

"Wang, Wang, don't cry, I'm your little yellow" "You, stay away from me" Jiang Chunyu's words did not amuse Yazhuo, and he stopped making a sound.

"Let's go, let's go and knock the door open!" Yang Junsheng said to everyone after a break of about ten minutes.

"One, two" "One, two" The men stood up first, hugged each other and slammed into the door. I heard the sound of "bang, bang", but the door did not move. A few girls came up and struck everyone again, but still no effect was seen. After trying several times, everyone was deflated.

"Eh, I think let's not bother, wait and see what their purpose is" Jiang Chunyu sat on the ground and gasped slightly.

"If you think of other ways, there must be a way," Liu Yichao said seriously.

"What else can I do, wait for death" Zhang Wei slammed his fist on the door in anger.

"Don't be discouraged, let's sit down and rest for a while," Yang Junsheng said slowly like an elder.

"Who has a watch, and what time is it?" asked Channy.

"No" "yes, what time is it?"

"Isn't that already 21:30!" Han Xue said, pointing to the wall clock on the wall.

"Ah, I mean, my stomach is growling, so we've all been locked up here for a day"

"It's not a good time, we didn't get in here for more than three hours," Channy said.

"Impossible, I've felt like it's been a long time," Zhang Yazhuo replied.

"Why is there a clock hanging there?" "Don't you think it's strange?" Channie turned her questioning gaze to everyone.

"What's so strange about that?" "This is the storeroom, put a clock to keep time"

"Then why put a clock with inaccurate timekeeping?" asked Channie.

"After a long time, there will be problems with clocks and watches" "You are too suspicious," Yang Junsheng replied.

"But the time we came in was 9:50, which should be the exact time we were tied up," Channy said calmly.

"In other words, someone set the standard time before we came in, so could this inaccurate time imply something?" Jiang Chunyu added eagerly.

"Yes, someone wants to tell us something" Channy returned.

"That means there's something wrong with this wall clock, take it down and take a look" Han Xue also hurriedly returned.

"It's so high, who can get it," Yang Junsheng said with a disdainful glance at the wall clock.

"No problem, what's that, Zhang Yazhuo, it's almost the same if you step on my shoulder" Liu Yichao looked at Zhang Yazhuo and said very seriously.

"I—I can't."

"I'll come!" Han Xue said as she stood up briskly.

Liu Yichao squatted down, Han Xue took off his shoes and stood on his shoulder against the wall, and Liu Yichao slowly stood up.

"You slow down," Zhang Yazhuo said dumbfounded.

When Liu Yichao stood up straight, Han Xue's hand just reached the wall clock, and Han Xue tried to take off the wall clock with force upward and outward, but he didn't expect the wall clock to move. Han Xue leaned against the wall and looked inside, the light was very dim, and she couldn't see anything.

"Liu Yichao, you stand firm, I'll try it with both hands"

"Okay, be careful"

"It's okay, we'll pick you up, you can't fall," Jiang Chunyu instructed eagerly.

Han Xue pushed it up with both hands, and the wall clock was still silent, as if it was growing on the wall.

"Come, Jiang Chunyu, you come up" Liu Yichao said as he put down Han Xue.

"I—can you carry me?" "How heavy can you be, come up!"

Jiang Chunyu hesitated and stepped on Liu Yichao's shoulder, Liu Yichao stood up straight very easily, Jiang Chunyu's height was much taller than Han Xue, he held the wall clock with both hands and pushed it up, but did not push it, and then he shook the wall clock from side to side, but it did not shake.

"Who brought a lighter or something to light up?"

"I'll have it here, then" Yang Junsheng stretched out his hand and threw the lighter at Jiang Chunyu.

"Ah" When Jiang Chunyu freed up one hand to catch the lighter, he heard Liu Yichao shouting, Jiang Chunyu suddenly felt empty under his feet, and hurriedly jumped out.

"How is it?, are you alright?" Yang Junsheng hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"Pull me up!" At this time, Liu Yichao's hands were tightly clasped to the ground, and his whole body was hanging in a big pit. I don't know when a deep pit appeared under Liu Yichao's feet, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and put his hands on the ground. Everyone dragged him up with all their might, and then went to see the deep pit, which turned out to be a cellar-like structure, dark and bottomless.

"Jiang Chunyu is okay, is he?" asked Yang Junsheng after dragging Liu Yichao up.

"I'm fine, I know martial arts," Jiang Chunyu quipped.

"Can you escape here?" Zhang Yazhuo hurriedly asked.

"This shouldn't be, it's just a storage cellar!" Zhang Wei said confidently.

Shannie looked around the cellar door, sniffed the air above the cellar door with her hand, then turned to the door and found a piece of cement and threw it into the cellar, and soon heard a "bang".

"This cellar is not deep, and the smell is normal, we should go down and have a look," said Channie, turning to the others.

"Wow, you're a detective," Zhang Yazhuo cast an envious look at Xiangni.

"It's not deep, I don't know how deep it is, how to go down," Zhang Qian said disdainfully.

"In this way, we fill in the cement, and then step on the cement to go down" Xiangni walked to the door, while talking and picked up a bag and walked to the door of the cellar and threw it down, listening to Xiangni say this, Liu Yichao, Jiang Chunyu, Yang Junsheng also went to move, there were more than 30 bags of cement back and forth, and finally I could see the cement bags piled up.

"Okay, don't move, I'll go down and have a look" Jiang Chunyu volunteered to go down to the cellar.

"Let's go to two people, be safe," Channie said to Yang Junsheng.

"Okay, who's going down?"

"I'll go down with him!" Liu Yichao went down without waiting for the words to finish.

"Look around and see if there's a switch, there will usually be a light in such a cellar," Channy shouted below.

"Ahem, ahem, okay" There were a few coughs from below, probably choking on the dust from the cement. After a while, there was a "pop" sound from below, and then I saw that the lights below were bright.

"It's so big here, let's come down and take a look," Jiang Chunyu shouted to the people above.

Hearing the shouting, everyone dragged each other down to the ground.