Chapter 86: The Chamber of Secrets (I)
At the end of 2014, I made my first light bulb.
I have a friend named Ma Long, who is about the same age as me, and has a bit of a foundation at home. belongs to the kind of person who only needs to take care of himself, although he is twenty-six or seventeen years old, not only has he not had a family, but he doesn't even have a girlfriend, so his mother is unhappy, her mother said to him at the beginning of the year: "Aaron, your task this year is not to find any good job, nor to make much money, and your mother will not force you to get married, but you can at least find a serious girlfriend to bring home to show us." ”
He nodded and said, "Okay, Mom, absolutely no problem." But seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, her girlfriend still has no clue, it's not that he is not in good condition, it's just that he said that his mind is not mature, so he won't harm other girls. Actually, I just didn't play enough.
That morning, around ** o'clock, as soon as I finished my morning class, he rang the doorbell downstairs. He lived not close to me, and it took me 40 minutes to an hour to drive, and I wondered why he came so early. After I let him in, he said, "Let's go, go on a blind date with me today." ”
When I heard this, I instinctively wanted to say no, but before I could open my mouth, it pushed me out, and said as I pushed back: "My mother arranged it for me, and I can't go if I don't go." Help, I haven't seen that girl before. I'm afraid that it will be embarrassing at that time, more than one person will take care of it, the rivers and lakes are in emergency, please, please! ”
I broke free from him and said: If you don't go, the blind date will be treated well, what's the matter if you take someone there. Since your mother arranged it for you, you have to have a minimum of respect for the other party. Don't look like a hanger all day long, like something!
After a lesson, he said: "But Xiaohe also brought a girlfriend, in order to show that my circle of friends is very healthy and sunny, I want to think about it, only you can help me achieve my goal." ”
"If I don't go, why should I help you."
"I'll pay for all the expenses, you can order whatever you want to eat, including pick-up and drop-off, plus five meals."
"Wait a minute, change your clothes, two minutes." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and rushed into the bedroom, quickly changing into a very healthy and sunny outfit, "Let's go, Brother Long." It's all buddies, don't talk about these vulgar things next time. Hurry up, don't ask other girls to wait."
When I arrived at the agreed restaurant, the girl hadn't come yet. Ma Long and I sat by the window and watched the pedestrians outside, and he kept pointing to those who passed by and saying, it can't be her, it can't be her. After a while, he thought about it on his phone, it was the girl who sent him a text message saying that her best friend couldn't come, and she would arrive in ten minutes. I looked at my phone and said to him: since she came alone, then I will not use the light bulb, and when the girl calls you, I will sit down at the next table, and I will open another stove by myself, and I wish you good luck.
He nodded and did not refute, because it was useless for him to refute at this time.
Within minutes the girl arrived, and they were in an awkward state after introducing themselves. The girl's name is Xiaohe, twenty-three years old, just graduated from college for a year, with a medium temperament, medium appearance, and medium figure. Belongs to the kind of person who can't find her beauty if you're not familiar with her.。 Girls with this kind of conditions are similar to Marlon. Because his own conditions are average.
It's a western restaurant, a booth. I sat in a seat behind Ma Long, the restaurant was quiet, and there were very few people at that time, so I could hear what they were chatting very clearly.
They introduced themselves to each other first, and then there was silence, in fact, Malone is not a shy person, and it can be seen that the girl is not an introvert either. It's just that they really didn't look at each other, so they were silent after introducing each other. After the food came up, I was about to start eating, when I suddenly heard the girl speak: Hehe, Malone, I want to ask you, what is your position after the two people get married?
Ma Long chewed a piece of steak in his mouth and said while chewing: "I married an ancestor and gave birth to a father, and my status is a grandson." ”
"Haha, you're so humorous." The girl smiled happily, clearly pleased with the answer. Only I wanted to tell the girl, and the grandson added in his heart: a fool is willing to get married. You just can't hear it.
Then they chatted happily after the topic opened, I didn't bother to listen to the content, but the girl's voice was clean and pure, which could add a lot of points to her. Because Marlon himself told me that he was also half voice controlled.
It wasn't until the end of that meal that they were obviously chatting happily, and even a little bit of a feeling of hating each other. When they were discussing going to play in the secret room after eating, I thought that my task was completed and I could leave, Ma Long came over and pulled me up from my seat and said: Xiaohe, this is my friend Liu X. Originally, you said that you were going to bring your best friend, so I asked him to accompany me. Later, he didn't want to be a light bulb alone, so he ate it on the wall by himself.
I smiled and said Hello Xiaohe beauty, I was forced, since you can talk like this, then I will miss the company first, you have fun...... After saying that, I will go out, this kind of occasion, I can slip away.
Xiaohe and Ma Long saw that I was leaving, and they both didn't want to let go, Ma Long said, "Let's go play together." Xiaohe also said: "Yes, let's go play together, my best friend will go with me later, she will really become a light bulb after you leave, and it's not fun for us to play in the secret room." ”
"The Chamber of Secrets? What secret room? I asked, confused.
Xiaohe said: The real-life escape room is to lock us in a secret room, and then use your own ingenuity to solve various puzzles and mechanisms, and then dig out the secret room
"Sounds exciting, let's go." In fact, I still want to ask in my heart: Is your girlfriend beautiful? But I held back, because I am a mature, steady and not impetuous man.
After Malone settled the bill, we got into his car together and walked to the place where they had agreed to play in the secret room.
On the way, Xiaohe sat in the back seat and asked: Do you know why ancient women wrapped their little feet?
I just wanted to say that it was because ancient women's feet were small and beautiful, and in ancient times they were called three-inch golden lotus, which was an important aesthetic standard in those eras. Ma Long, who was helpless in the car, said directly: Because I was afraid that they would go out shopping and spend money indiscriminately.
I said thoughtfully: Oh, so that's the case, when you say that, I instantly understand why modern women don't wrap their little feet, it must be because of Taobao, and it's useless to wrap small feet.
Ma Long nodded and said seriously: Yes, that's the reason......
In less than half an hour, I arrived at the store. There is already a girl waiting for us in the reception room of the store, it should be Xiaohe's best friend, and all aspects of the conditions are described in three words: also wide!
After greeting each other, I learned that the girl's name was Xiaoyuan, and her personality was also very good, she was generous and relaxed, compared with me who was shy, she was simply too direct.
The boss came over to introduce us to various topics, saying that there were horrors, pure mechanisms, and pure puzzles. Asked which one we were going to play, and brought us an album with some general descriptions for us to see. Each introduction is mysterious, making everyone want to play. In the end, after everyone discussed with each other, they still chose the terrifying one, I originally refused, but I saw that there was a zombie on their album, and there was a talisman on the forehead of the zombie, and that talisman was Zhang Zhen's Sleepy Soul Talisman, a Sleepy Soul Talisman that I was familiar with. I thought to myself, how can such a place of entertainment still engage in such real things, and there will be no problems? With this curiosity, I also agreed to play that horror theme. I remember that the theme was called "There are ghosts in the Ministry of Internal Affairs".
It was a store opened by a young couple, the boss's surname was Liu, and he himself was in our subscription group, the boss was very good, and their husband and wife were also very affectionate, but after this incident, their store was also closed. But he was also willing. I remember when we decided to play this theme, the boss said with a sad face that he felt that the theme felt a little wrong, and suggested that we stop playing it and play something else.
As soon as the boss said this, they were even more unhappy, and it was this kind of curiosity that made Ma Long say vigorously, it's okay, it's okay. What's wrong, isn't it horror? We have a great god here, even if we let us in. After more than ten minutes of negotiation, the boss still compromised and let us go in and play!
In the process of negotiation, I caught the boss's meaning, the boss felt that the theme was too yin, and sometimes he would feel very uncomfortable when he arranged the props inside. But he's an atheist himself, so he's very contradictory, so he gives us this advice. In the end, I couldn't stand our soft grinding and hard bubbles, but still agreed to let us play that theme.
The game is very novel, and it has a strong sense of substitution to play, and the game starts after it is agreed, and the game time is one hour. Before you go in, you have to save your phone or something, and you are not allowed to bring it in.
There was no light inside, and the four of them only had two flashlights hidden in the secret room, and they were lined up with blindfolds, and one by one they put their hands on their shoulders and were led in by the boss. The entrance to the entrance is a long passageway. At the end of the passage there is a small door about a meter high, and you need to bend down to enter. After entering, the temperature inside suddenly became very low, and it was a little eerie. Accompanied by scary music, the boss begins to tell the backstory of the subject.
"There was a great eunuch in the Qing Dynasty named Li Lianying, who wantonly amassed wealth, did all kinds of evil, and countless souls died in his hands......" The boss's hearty voice began to introduce the background of the story. The general meaning is that this place is Li Lianying's internal affairs office, but he is already dead, and the tomb robbers dug up his grave and saw that there was only a headless corpse inside.
This is the background story, after Boss Liu finished speaking, he exited this secret room, and after he started the game, the door was locked from the outside, and at the same time left a walkie-talkie for help, and there was only one chance to ask for help. The moment the door closes, we can take off our blindfolds and start escaping.
The moment I took off the blindfold, it was almost completely black, not only black, but also very quiet. The first thing we had to do was find the light source, which was two flashlights, but that was the time before we found the flashlights. I feel like there's something wrong with this room.
There were five people when we came in, and the boss went out in the back, so there were only four of us. Because of my profession, I'm particularly sensitive to the dark. It was daytime, and the inside was well closed in time, but the silhouette of a person could still be faintly seen. I could clearly feel that there were four figures in addition to me. But there were only four of us, and I don't know who the extra one was. Could it be that this is also the setting of the game, and there are NPCs in it?
"Found it" Marlon's voice came, and then a beam of light lit up, and the scene in the room instantly became clear. The arrangement of the room is weird. All the walls are all black wallpaper and so are the doors. On the right hand side of the entrance is an offering table, also wrapped in black wallpaper. There are two red candles, a tablet, and an incense burner on the countertop. On the wall above the altar is a black-and-white posthumous photo of the Empress Dowager Cixi. The walls are pasted with portraits of various emperors of the Qing Dynasty. Each portrait has a brief description. What what emperor, how many years he was born, how many years he died, etc., etc. There is a cabinet in the room, as well as a door, all locked with a combination lock.
Listen to scary music and look at this very oppressive environment. All three of them were a little uncomfortable. Each is talking about his own thoughts. But in my opinion, it's just a scene arrangement, there's nothing scary, it's just that the extra figure that came out when I didn't find the flashlight at the beginning suddenly disappeared, which made me very puzzled. That kind of disappearance is not something that people can simulate. It's a feeling I'm familiar with, it's definitely not human! I affirmed the idea and didn't say it right away, because so far it hasn't done anything excessive. There were certainly a lot of players before us as well.
They were looking for clues, and I was starting to study the charms, and they were all the same kind of charms, which were sleepy charms. The talisman head, gall, and feet are very clear, and the rune mark is also very stable. If it was really drawn by a Taoist priest, then this talisman is valid, not just a prop. I don't know if this boss did these charms intentionally or by accident.
Seeing that I was staring at Fu in a daze, Xiaohe asked me what was wrong, if I was scared silly. I came back to my senses and smiled and said, "No, no, how about it, have you found any clues?"
Ma Long said to Xiaohe: "Can he be stupid by this kind of place? Are you kidding, even if you put him in the graveyard for a night, he won't have insomnia, believe it or not? ”
(PS: Xiaohe, Ma Long and Xiaoyuan. It is also a pseudonym of a group member in the subscription group. Good night everyone!) <