Chapter 75: Trapped Beasts (7)
"Are you alright?"
Amano nodded, then waved his hand again, signaling that he was fine. Although he is not so weak that he can't hold the pen, he is really too lazy to move now, and it is only a serious matter to recover some physical strength quickly.
At this time, Amano was sitting against the wall, his chest undulating, inhaling deeply and exhaling, so that the once chaotic breath gradually eased. His pale face was covered with cold sweat, and he was so wet that he looked like he had just been fished out of the water. The place that was supposed to be the left shoulder was now covered with a thin layer of blue 'colored' ice, and through the transparent ice, you can see the muscles and blood vessels that are still slowly contracting and moving underneath, as well as the neat section on the shoulder blade.
Just two minutes ago, in order to obtain the "map of the secret room", Amano had to give up his shoulder, naturally, including the arm below. The invisible force was sharp and fast, and it wasn't until the blood 'shot' out of the cut like an arrow and the entire left arm slowly slid down that Amano realized that he had been hit.
Compared with the previous times, at least there was no pain this time, not to mention that these few times, what kind of pain is numb. Amano calmly treated the wound with a spray, picked up the map and glanced at it, and walked out.
His face was pale, cold sweat couldn't stop pouring out from his forehead and back, and the whole person looked very haggard. The continuous pain and the massive blood loss just now made his vision a little blurred at this time, although he couldn't 'excite' any emotion, but after all, this was an uncontrollable normal physiological reaction. Amano stumbled and barely took a few steps, and was about to fall forward as soon as his feet went limp.
Fortunately, the long-haired 'girl' had already greeted him at this time and held him up.
The bald man also walked over, but he just took the map in Amano's hand and then gathered with the others to study it. Amano slowly walked to the wall and sat down with the support of the long-haired 'girl', raised his head and exhaled deeply, his face a little bloody.
Right next to him, the thick-eyed man was also sitting, burying his face deep in the middle of his curled knees, letting out a muffled moan. Looking over from Amano's side, you can see the scars on his face that have been scratched by sharp objects. Amano knew that on the other side of his view, the man's right eye had turned into a shocking blood-red hole, and after sealing the bloody hole with the freezing effect of the spray and bandaging it with the clothes torn off his body, he didn't look so terrifying.
This is another person outside of Amano who has been ordered to go to the pavilion to take out the clue item. It's just that Amano sacrificed one arm, and the price paid by the thick-eyebrow man was on his face.
And the right 'leg'.
Unlike Amano, who was completely obedient from the beginning, the thick-eyed man showed strong dissatisfaction when he was chosen, he pretended to follow the bald man's intentions and walked forward, and when he was halfway there, he suddenly turned around and launched a surprise attack on the latter!
This time, the bald man, who was obviously a cut higher, did not spare his hand, and he cleanly kicked off the foot of the thick-eyebrow man, once again declaring his supremacy in this team. At the pleading of the long-haired 'girl', the bald man mercifully gave her a chance to bandage her wounds, and only after she had finished disposing of the thick-eyed man's feet did he carry the latter's clothes and throw him into the pavilion.
This time, the thick-eyebrow man didn't dare to resist, whether it was scratching his face or poking his eyes, although the wound and pain and fear made his whole face twist into a completely different shape, but this time he didn't dare to raise the idea of resisting. When he had done what he had done, he sat down by the wall and buried his head in his hands, motionless.
At this time, as Amano took out the map of the secret room, all the small pavilions in this room officially announced that the exploration was completed. According to the general rules of escape room games, once you have all the items, you should be able to find a way to leave through reasoning. The total number of items obtained so far is as follows:
A number of yellow papers, pens, three 'base' caps, a make-up mirror, a piece of paper with six numbers written on it, a map of the secret room, and a description of the game for newcomers. At the same time, the thick-eyebrow man poked his blind eye in exchange for an opportunity to flip a switch, causing a mechanism on one wall in the room to open, and a 'spotlight' lit up in the 'hole' in the wall, directly 'shooting' at the opposite wall.
Unfortunately, after everyone's investigation, there was no mechanism in the area that the spot was referring to.
Some people may wonder why some of the above items are only one copy, while others appear in several copies, such as the 'base' ball cap. This is the result of Amano's discovery in the first room. He had just walked out of the room with his baseball cap, when suddenly a white light lit up behind him, and when he looked back, he saw another identical baseball cap in its original position.
At the bald man's command, Amano entered the pavilion again and reached for the new 'base' cap. The force that pulled out his nails last time reappeared, and everything was the same as the last time, except that the nails of Amano's left hand had been plucked out and sealed with the ice cubes made by the sprayer, and at this time, although he was wrapped in that force and pulled left and right, it didn't hurt at all.
As a result, everyone found that some of the items in the pavilion could be obtained multiple times, but each time they required the same price, but this was not too important for people who had already been injured once, after all, it would not be worse.
The three 'base' caps that Amano began to acquire in a row were experiments, after which he sacrificed the thumb of his left hand in exchange for a pen and paper, and finally gave everyone a channel of communication. Luckily, the item was also reobtainable, so he walked out at the entrance to the pavilion and twisted his thumb around with the unseen force until he got enough for everyone to use until the end of the game.
But the other things are basically a 'sex', that is, the type that will not change in the pavilion after taking it and walking out. Amano's last access to the Chamber of Secrets map was the only exception to the remainder, and it could be obtained repeatedly, but the bald man thought that one map was enough, and if he destroyed the wound that had been frozen so hard during the second cut, wouldn't he have to 'waste' some precious spray. You know, the spray they have managed to accumulate is not much, and if the wound on Amano's shoulder bursts again, maybe all the stored amount will be used up.
"So it sees."
Thanks to this map of the secret room, the bald man has already reached a preliminary conclusion to their discussion. Before handing over the map, Amano himself took a look at it, and there were three similarly sized rooms drawn together, and judging from the layout, they were in the first room on the left.
An inexplicable folded line is drawn on the map. If they had just gotten the map at the beginning, they probably wouldn't have known what the line meant. But after turning on the 'spotlight' and comparing the position, the answer immediately comes out - the line indicates the direction of the light of the 'spotlight'.
However, compared to the light they saw now, the one on the map had clearly turned a corner. This is obviously where the makeup mirror comes in. The light of the 'spotlight' passed over the edge of one of the small pavilions, and the people followed the map to it, searched the outer edge of the pavilion, and found a small hook without incident. After hanging the vanity mirror, as the light is deflected, a spot of light appears in the same position as the map appears, but according to the map markings, there should be a 'door'.
The confusion of the crowd did not last long, and as the light spot shone to the exact position, a certain sensor device that was originally installed on the wall was activated, and a piece in the center of the wall that was originally flat as a mirror slowly recessed in. With the sound of the gears babbling, the sunken part moved to the left one by one, revealing a large black 'door' hidden underneath.
Everyone high-fived each other excitedly, and the bald man was calmer, but he had already picked up the code paper, ready to enter the password after the big 'door' was completely 'exposed', and go to the next room.
With the support and guidance of the long-haired 'girl' student, Amano, who was one-armed, and the thick-eyed man, who was injured in his right foot, limped to the 'door'. Looking at the big 'door' that slowly appeared in front of them, the long-haired 'girl' frowned and shook her head.
"At this level, the difficulty of solving the puzzle is too low." She wrote so on paper.
Amano nodded. Although it was his first time playing this game, he didn't know what his normal level should be, but the difficulty of the puzzle in front of him was indeed too low, as the 'girl' said.
If all the levels in this game were to this extent, even if he added the premise that he would die if he failed, he couldn't understand why other people would feel so scared of it. It's not difficult to clear this level, but at most the process will be a little painful.
In any case, getting out of this room is already a sure thing. When the wall was completely removed, the input panel to the left of the large 'door' appeared in front of them. In order to prevent a trap from being set up here as well, the bald man did not do it himself, but asked Amano to enter the password in the past. However, it turned out that his worries were completely overwhelmed, and the whole process went very smoothly, and after Amano entered the six numbers in turn, the heavy 'door' vibrated for a moment, as if it was slowly pushed open by a pair of invisible hands, and the second room behind it was 'exposed' to everyone.
It was a confined space of almost the same size as the room they were in, with several small pavilions, but this time the room was open to a small blue 'door' that led to the last room. And the new room doesn't have that LCD TV screen on the wall, only a red 'color' countdown beating.
There was still an hour and two minutes left before the mechanism in the iron hood was activated.