Chapter 18: The Secret Garden

Bypassing the glass house, Chen Shi and Nuan went around to a gray-brown English castle not far behind it, this castle was not large, it looked much smaller than the castle in the first two rounds of the game, only two floors, and its gate was in the middle. It's not so much a playground as an English rustic cottage.

In fact, when you looked down from the top before, you can see that only the column facing the main building is a variety of buildings. On the left and right sides of the building is a large labyrinth and a forest.

I've been observing here for a few days, and according to Spirit's habit, the buildings in this column should be built in the order of the third, fourth, fifth, and so on, so the English castle in front of me should be the game venue for the fourth round.

Chen Shi pushed open the door and entered, and the first thing that caught his eye was a garden, an indoor garden to be precise.

The structure of the whole house is relatively simple, in the middle is a large hall, which has been made into a garden, with an area of about 100 square meters. The outer part of the garden is a single room, and to the interior is a circular staircase that leads to the second floor.

The garden is not open-air, and then there is the roof, Chen Shi touched a flower in front of him with some doubts, and it was really fake.

Perhaps because the internal structure is too closed, there are no electric lights, only a few wall lamps around, emitting a faint light, illuminating the entire hall dark and cold, if it is not clean, it really looks like an abandoned castle that has been placed for hundreds of years.

"It's not game time, and the mechanism hasn't been turned on yet, so you can take a look around."

Chen Shi was still thinking, and Ah Lai came out of nowhere, followed by Bai Chu, Zheng Rong and a young man he didn't know.

"These two are Chen Shi and Nuan from the No. 1 venue, this is Fu Kangbo from the No. 3 venue, and these two Zheng Rong and Bai Chu, everyone should know each other." Ah Lai introduced each other: "This is the fourth round of the game venue, do you need me to introduce a little?" ”

"Of course." Fu Kangbo replied briskly.

Only then did Chen Shi notice this man named Fu Kangbo, who had a shiny hair, small eyes, single eyelids, and a pair of half-rimmed glasses with gold trim. He should be no more than thirty-five years old, tall and thin, and wear a very formal shirt and trousers.

Although he dresses like a professional, judging from his speech and demeanor and appearance, he looks more like an energetic and athletic person.

"The name of the game is 'Mystery Garden.'"

"The game took two days, and all the parts were done in this castle. The game starts at 10 p.m. and there are 12 players, including ten detectives and two murderers, who will also disguise themselves as detectives.

When the next day dawns, there will be a homicide in the Mystery Garden, and there is a very complete plot advancement, and the deceased may be a player on the scene or a staff member arranged by us.

The twelve players present need to reason through the plot, the details, and all the clues that can be found on the spot. This session lasts until the evening, where players need to vote for a 'murderer' and whether it's right or wrong, the game continues.

The next morning, the case and clues will be given again, and the player will continue to reason, and in the evening will continue to vote for a 'murderer'. In the end, the two 'murderers' who were voted out of the tournament will be eliminated regardless of whether they are real murderers or not, with a debt of 10 million, and the rest of the players will advance.

But there will also be a bounty link, in which each player independently writes down their own restoration of the case. The reasoning may not be entirely correct, but the five who are closer to the truth will receive a bounty of ten million, and the remaining five will not have any bounties and debts. ”

"Wait a minute, I have a question." Chen Shi interrupted Ah Lai's words: "Didn't we get a bounty in the previous two games? Whether it's Guess the House in round 3 or Mystery Garden in round 4, if we get eliminated, will we be able to pay off our debts with the previous bounty and leave? ”

"Absolutely." Ah Lai nodded: "But this needs to go to the organizer to go through some formalities, and then you can leave." ”

"Interesting." Fu Kangbo nodded thoughtfully: "Besides, don't the two murderers have any other rewards?" ”

"Not being eliminated is the greatest reward for them." Ah Lai spread his hands: "You guys should take a look here first, and I'll go up again." ”

I was used to Ah Lai coming and going without a trace, and a few people didn't say anything more.

"There's a road here, let's go in and have a look!"

At some point, Warmth had run to the side and shouted pointing to a tulip.

Everyone walked together in a warm direction, and in a dense field of tulips, there was a brick paved path. The path is very narrow, with a gap of ten or twenty centimeters between each two.

Although these flowers are fake flowers, I live in a city where tulips cannot be cultivated from the novel, and I still feel a little awkward to see a large number of tulips here at this moment.

Wait a minute, fake flowers?

Chen Shi finally felt that something was wrong, it was the fragrance of tulips! It's obviously a fake flower, why is there a fragrance? While doubting, he walked with the crowd.

"Don't say it, it's really a sparrow, although it's small."

Hearing Fu Kangbo's exclamation, Chen Shi looked at him, and he also looked at himself: "Look here, there are so many varieties of plants, as well as fish ponds, the fish ponds are real, and there are fish and frogs in them!" ”

"yes, what kind of case can happen in a place like this?"

Chen Shi has a habit of answering his words even if he feels embarrassed when others talk to him, and the same is true for Kangbo.

"Chen Shi, I thought you were so powerful, you didn't look special!"

Fu Kangbo turned his head to look at the road, pretending not to see Chen Shi's puzzled gaze.

"What? Have you heard of me? Chen Shi could feel that he was a little hostile to himself, and he inexplicably wanted to know where this hostility came from.

"It's not like I've heard of it, it's just that old friends met and talked about the previous war." Fu Kangbo glanced at Chen Shi: "I heard that you are very good at grasping other people's weaknesses." ”

"Be sensitive." Chen Shi probably counted in his heart: "So that old friend of yours is Ye Wei, right?" ”

"It seems that your abilities are indeed not to be underestimated." Fu Kangbo shrugged his shoulders and was noncommittal.

I didn't want to talk to him anymore, so Chen Shi slowed down and walked behind, walking around the garden, but after walking around, he didn't find anything special.

In fact, there is more than this road in the whole garden, it will crisscross in different places, and lead to other places, so the entrance is also the exit, there are a total of six entrances and exits.

The exit that Chen Shi followed everyone to the farthest point from the gate happened to be the farthest point from the door, and after coming out, you could see the circular staircase leading to the second floor.

Watching everyone walk to the rooms around the garden, Chen Shi decided to start from above, so he went up the stairs on the second floor.

The staircase handrails are made of iron, and the steps are relatively gentle, perhaps because they are a little old, and there is a gurgling sound when walking on them.

Walking to the center of the second floor, Chen Shi could see almost the entire scene on the first floor, including the garden. Looking at the opposite side again, Chen Shi saw two figures passing by.

Who is it?

Chen Shi chased and looked down, one, two, three, four, warm, Zheng Rong, Bai Chu, Fu Kangbo, and the four of them were all on the first floor, so who were the two people who just passed?

Panting, he ran to where the two men were just now, and there was nothing.

Chen Shi felt that something was not right, it was already about twelve o'clock when he first went down to the underground world, and he was stranded in the third round of the game arena for about half an hour, and it was already a little faster. It's been three hours since the event was allowed, and it's likely that more than one group of people have come.

Could it be that the two people I just saw weren't among the thirty-six people who participated in the game with me? Otherwise, why didn't Alai introduce everyone together?

"Hi, Chen."

Hearing someone calling him, Chen Shi immediately turned around, it was Gu Yi and He Anqi.

"It's you, scare me." Chen Shi breathed a sigh of relief: "When did you two come?" ”

"I don't know exactly when, but we went out at ten o'clock." He Anqi took off his backpack with a smile, took out two packets of bread from it, and handed one of them to Chen Shi: "It's time to eat, let's eat something." ”

"Thanks, no need." Chen Shi waved his hand: "I came out late, I'm not hungry now, you can eat by yourself!" ”

"You're welcome?" He Anqi smiled as she handed another piece of bread to Gu Yi.

In fact, compared to Luo Xuan's coldness, warm sickness and Bai Chu's spirit, Chen Shi felt that He Anqi's refreshing little jasper felt more comfortable. Gu Yi also gives people a relatively straightforward feeling, if this game is really a secret person will come, what kind of secret do these two people have?

"Did you come alone?" Gu Yi asked while eating bread.

"No, there are four more people down there." Chen Shi looked down, but found that those people didn't know where they went: "Didn't you see it when Ah Lai introduced us to the rules of the game earlier?" ”

"I don't see it." Gu Yi waved his hand: "Ye Wei ...... just now"

"Why don't we go down and have a look!" I don't know why, He Anqi deliberately interrupted Gu Yi's words and offered to go downstairs. Gu Yi mentioned Ye Wei, maybe a few people were discussing what strategy, Chen Shi didn't think much about it, and followed the two downstairs.

In front of the upstairs about a circle, Chen Shi didn't find anything special, they are all some independent rooms, counting the twelve rooms, it should be the place where the twelve people participating in the game want to live.

After going downstairs, Chen Shi glanced around again, but still didn't see a few of them, and it was not easy to look for them from room to room, so he could only follow He Anqi and Gu Yi out of the fourth round of the game venue.

Chen Shi was thinking about where to go next, but he saw He Anqi whispering a few words to Gu Yi and said that he was going up, although he didn't know what he was going to do at this time, but he didn't have to worry too much about other people's affairs.

"Let's not go back, let's go around the labyrinth." He Anqi proposed, and Chen Shi could only agree.

The place where the labyrinth is located is on the left side of these buildings, and it takes about three minutes to walk, and when you stand in front of the main building, you can find that the layout of the whole area is about the center line of the building, and the maze and the forest are on both sides, and the area is very large.

The gate of the maze is roughly parallel to the third round playing field, and the width is very narrow, about one meter.

Chen Shi walked in front, and He Anqi followed behind. After coming to Spirit, Chen Shi was not very satisfied with many of the models here. For example, men and women live together, and the relationship is relatively good, but they often need to be separated, and there is a feeling of messy matchmaking, not to mention that He Anqi has a fiancΓ©.

The feeling of entering the maze is even more awkward, the width is still only about one meter, and the whole is composed of a wall up to three meters high and a creeper slowly wrapped around it. What makes Chen Shi strange is that there are usually a lot of insects in places such dense as creepers, but when you walk in, you will find that it is generally relatively clean.

Because the maze is really high, the field of vision is not wide, and Chen Shi has been lost in less than ten minutes after walking inside, and he has walked into a dead end twice in a row. But fortunately, He Anqi is not the kind of girl who likes to find trouble, so she just silently follows behind her, occasionally finding some interesting topics to talk about.

I don't know how long I walked, Chen Shi raised his hand and looked at his watch, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and two or three hours had passed since he came in, but Chen Shi was completely lost here, and he could only walk by feeling.

On July 17th, when it was the scorching heat, I wandered around in such a place outdoors for two or three hours, whether it was Chen Shi or He Anqi, who was already hot and almost dehydrated, not to mention that the weather was cooler when he came out in the morning, and Chen Shi also wore a coat.

Coat? Pregnant!