Chapter 22: The Sarcophagus of the Chamber of Secrets
The music is over. The maidservant takes off the cloth that covers the eyes of the girl who is running for the election. They hesitated to stroke the piano and didn't know where to start.
Nangong Ru, as always, was the first to volunteer, play the piano, and show the music of the bet in his heart to the people on the stage.
She stroked the piano seriously, and sometimes glanced at the stage, only to see Su Yanqing, the pianist on the stage, closed her eyes and listened, nodding from time to time, secretly happy in her heart.
She played a song. Su Yanqing on the stage was not in a hurry to evaluate. Instead, he swept his expectant gaze to the other girls in the audience.
She was afraid that the song she had just memorized would be forgotten by herself, so she recommended herself and was the second to play.
This is the first time in her life that she has played the piano. Although when I read to Miss before, I saw Miss play it, and I also heard some basic rhythms of Gong Shang Jiao Zhengyu, but it was the first time to play it in person.
She carefully plucked each string on the guqin one by one.
The tall girl behind him sneered, "Are you playing a song?" If you don't know how to play, just admit defeat, don't be here, delay everyone's time. ”
She was concentrating on stroking the piano, and she was deaf to the ridicule of the tall girl.
The mandarin ducks on the stage couldn't help but sweat for her.
She paused for a moment, then flicked her fingers again. Although her fingering is rusty and the tune is incoherent, she has won the praise of Su Yanqing, the pianist on stage.
In a short time, all seven girls finished playing. After Su Yanqing's selection, Rong Ying announced the list of girls who passed the second level. Yu'er won the first place in this level, and entered the third level with Nangong Ru and other five people.
The third level tests the courage of the girls.
Together, the five girls enter a closed chamber with traps that trigger two completely different endings, "Death Trap" and "Escape". Only a girl who escapes from the secret room through calm thinking and sure enough courage to find an exit in the secret room can enter the ultimate training plan and become a real kabuji.
After Rong Ying announced the content of the third level of assessment, she led the girls into the secret room, and as soon as the girls entered the door, Rong Ying and the two guards exited the door and locked the door.
The whole chamber was dark, damp and cold, like a long and narrow tunnel, except for the flickering candle flames on both sides of the walls, barely illuminating the road ahead.
Faced with the unknown ahead, the girls were all scared.
The eldest Nangong Ru walked in the front. While comforting the frightened girl, Yu'er followed behind Nangong Ru. The front was getting narrower and darker, and everyone could only line up in one line. She took down the candlestick from the wall and held it in her hand to light the way ahead.
A young girl who walked at the end suddenly broke down emotionally and clamored to go out.
Nangong Ru turned a deaf ear and still walked forward. She turned around and comforted the crying girl.
The crying girl's mood calmed down a little, but she heard another girl exclaim: "Yes...... There are rats! ”
The girl pointed to the rats scurrying on the ground and fell to the ground in fright. Ju'er was about to use the torch in her hand to drive away the rats, only to hear a "squeak", I don't know who accidentally touched the mechanism, the stone slab under the girl suddenly cracked and sunk, and before everyone could react, the girl who was just exclaimed fell into the trap. Yu'er reached out to help, and the slate squeaked shut again. It was as if it had never happened, and the chamber was suddenly quiet like a sarcophagus.
"I can't stand it anymore! I'm going to be crazy if I keep going like this! I've got to get out, I've got to get out! "After the girl who was crying before was frightened, her emotions were out of control again. She cried and broke free from her hand, and ran in the direction she had come, but before she had taken two steps, she saw another crack open in the stone slab on the ground, and the girl, like the girl from Fangcai, was swallowed into the trap in the ground.