On the surface, the final level of this secret room game is behind you, and the props for clearing the level are right in front of you, all Xie Xuanrong and the five of them have to do is to put the props together and place them in the room of the final level.

However, when it came time to actually implement it, they still encountered some difficulties.

The first is "blood" that can be used as a pigment. They already had the paint, but they didn't have the tools to bring it to that space.

Fang Xiaotian took the lead in making a declaration, "I won't touch that thing!" ”

"Then the two of us move this corpse over. Wrap your hands in this garment and you can draw, right? Wang Jia looked at Li Ang and said.

Leon shrugged indifferently.

"That's not how it works, right?" Lu Yu said tangledly.

"No, you have to find something...... Wang Jia looked around the living room, "the toilet has become a passage, and the kitchen is gone...... Are you going to go back and find a cup or something? ”

Wang Jia said this, and opened the black curtain.

The passage where they had gone back and forth twice before was gone. Behind the black curtain is a thin wall.

Obviously, this is the store closing the passage, which can also be counted as a hint. It was now impossible for them to go back to their previous room.

"Ahh Li Ang slapped his forehead, with a suddenly realized expression, "! Forgot! That paint bucket! ”

When he said this, everyone else was stunned.

There was an empty paint bucket in that pile of garbage in the bachelor's room.

They mentioned it before, and they forgot about it in a blink of an eye.

Lu Yu attributed the reason to the stuffy environment of the previous two rooms.

Although the living room also had no windows, and the windows on the balcony were closed like all the rooms they had seen before, it was much more comfortable here.

Lu Yu even felt a little relaxed.

The corpse of the dummy and the entire row of weird dummies on the balcony did not affect Lu Yu's relaxation.

Fang Xiaotian still looked nervous, but her performance was much better than in the two rooms just now, at least she didn't show any more anxiety.

Leon went back to the bachelor's room and came back with a paint bucket and brush.

They've got another key item.

The three men were busy for a while, pouring all the red paint from the corpse dummy's abdomen into the paint bucket.

With that done, they dragged their chairs to the balcony again, ready to untie the dummies on the balcony.

"Huh?" Xie Xuanrong, who was stepping on the chair, flipped the dummies, "These dummies are different. ”

He said this, and his movements did not stop.

After handing over the unsolved dummies to Li Ang and Wang Jia below, Xie Xuanrong motioned to his four friends to look at the other dummies on the clothes pole.

It turned out that there were two rows of dummies on the balcony.

In the front row were the dummies that Lu Yu and the four of them had already seen during their decryption process.

If their reasoning is correct, these dummies are the deceased in the first, second, and third cases in the scripted story, that is, the old couple, their daughter and grandson, the family of three who later bought the house, and the first discoverer of the first case, the child.

In the background of the story narrated by the housekeeper, there is a fourth case, that is, the revenge case of the child's family.

Now, the victims are disemboweled, and the murderers are hanging on the clothes pole.

Those dummies that Lu Yu and the four of them had never seen were covered in blood, not to mention blood, and their faces were different from other dummies, all of them looked hideous and weird.

There are seven in total, men, women and children, and their hideous and weird expressions have their own characteristics.

Fang Xiaotian was shocked again when he saw those dummies, and hugged Lu Yu's arm tightly.

The three men were not having a good time, and they were all startled by such a ghost-like dummy.

"Exactly seven." Wang Jia came back to his senses and said.

"That's what you're going to use in that formation, right?" Leon continued.

The hint is obvious enough.

Wang Jia and Li Ang piled aside the dummies that Xie Xuanrong had untied before.

The three men untied the blood-stained dummies again.

"Wait a minute, this!" Lu Yu pointed to one of the dummies and said, "It has something in its mouth." ”

Xie Xuanrong let out a "hmm".

Lu Yu could see it from a little distance, and he, the person who untied the hook around the dummy's neck at close range, had already seen this clue.

Fang Xiaotian tightened his arms again and watched as Xie Xuanrong put his fingers into the dummy's mouth. She held her breath, afraid of some scare.

Fortunately, the dummy's mouth did not close suddenly.

Xie Xuanrong easily pinched out the paper ball in the dummy's mouth.

Wang Jia and Li Ang were not idle. Seeing this, the two of them simply searched all the dummies.

Such a search really found a lot of clues.

Not only these blood-stained dummies, but even those dummies they have seen have all kinds of small props on them.

ID card, work card, student ID, real estate certificate, award, diary, newspaper clippings, letters, photos, invoices, notes, ......

The five of them laid out the findings one by one, and solved the mystery of the identities of these dummies.

Lu Yu looked extremely carefully.

She focused on examining the contents of her three children.

To her disappointment, the three children had no names on their diaries, assignments, and student IDs. Because these things are incomplete, just fragments. None of the places where the name should be filled in appear in these fragments.

The props on the parents of these children are also nameless.

"It's so pitiful......" Fang Xiaotian said sentimentally.

What she was holding in her hand was a fragment of a diary, owned by the wife from the second case. The diary was filled with the joy she felt when she moved to a new house, the abnormality of her neighbor that she had noticed shortly after the move, and finally the appearance of a strange child at the door.

The strange child must have been the discoverer of the first case, that is, the deceased of the third case.

"These are the family of that little one." Wang Jia threw the things in his hand to the ground, "They made a revenge plan and killed this person." He looked at the corpse.

"Well, there's their investigation here." Leon also threw a few photos in his hand on the ground.

The protagonist of the photograph is, of course, the dummy. However, these photos are a bit fake, and at first glance they are P pictures.

"This is the description of that formation." Xie Xuanrong shook the crumpled paper in his hand.

The eyes of the other four lit up.

"This formation must be completed with the corpses of the believers of the Almighty God, plus the evil ghosts controlled by the Almighty God." Xie Xuanrong introduced, "These people don't just kill people for revenge. They were also influenced by the Almighty God. Probably, their children were the first to be affected, and in the first case, they were affected at the scene of the crime, and then infected them. He also infected a family of three who later moved into the house. When the child died, the infection in his family broke out. They obeyed the command of the Almighty God, killed the man, and committed suicide by sacrificing themselves. ”

"Alright, the script reasoning is over." After listening to Xie Xuanrong's words, Fang Xiaotian had already recovered from his sympathetic feelings, "Hurry up and finish decrypting it." ”

"Wait." Xie Xuanrong interrupted, "It's not over yet." There is another person, we haven't seen yet. ”

Xie Xuanrong's gaze shifted to the corpse dummy.

He walked over and rummaged through the corpse's pockets.

"Nothing, right?" Wang Jia asked.

Xie Xuanrong regretted, "Well, no. There should be nothing else. ”

"Then let's draw that magic array now, arrange the corpses, and this ......" Leon picked up the two dolls that had been put aside just now, "Why are there two?" ”

He was puzzled.

"yes, I asked before." Fang Xiaotian said.

"There were already two." Lu Yu answered their questions at this time, "In that room with Buddha statues, the doll is this." Before...... Wang Jia...... The one that came out was this. ”

Lu Yu didn't take the two dolls, but stretched out his hand and pointed at the two dolls respectively.

The five men fell silent together.

Wang Jia scratched his head and said, "I was mistaken? After the room changed, I brought out the first doll I saw...... Belch...... Am I doing something wrong? Decryption failed? ”

"However, both dolls have hooks around their necks." Leon fiddles with the two dolls.

"The boss misplaced it." Fang Xiaotian disagreed.

"Then you shouldn't have thrown both dolls at the door." Leon said.

"Probably a ...... Branching plots? One NormalEnd, one TrueEnd. Xie Xuanrong said eloquently, "Isn't this the case when playing games?" BadEnd、NormalEnd、TrueEnd。 As for the secret room, I've only played two endings before: clearing the level and not clearing the level......"

"What are you talking about?" Fang Xiaotian asked confusedly.

She's the kind of person who doesn't play games very well, and she doesn't understand the routines in this kind of game at all.

Xie Xuanrong saw that other people didn't seem to understand, so he simply explained to them in detail the common routines in this kind of game.

In fact, these young people are not, and cannot be, novices who have never played the game at all. It's just that, except for Xie Xuanrong, they are all very ordinary players, playing games is just having fun, and they can't even be called "gamers". Like Fang Xiaotian, he has never played a game with a complete world view background and a complex plot; Wang Jia, Li Ang and Lu Yu have never played decryption games well. And Xie Xuanrong is the kind of player who repeats countless times when playing the game, trying to collect all the CG, all the props, all the plots, all the achievements, and all the endings, and he is also very keen on plot decryption games.

“…… That is, the game with multiple endings...... At that point of choice, we choose A, and we move on to ending A? Leon looked at the two dolls in his hand, "Which one are we going to choose now?" ”

"This is the doll I hung on the clothes pole before." Wang Jia took a doll from Li Ang's hand, and didn't forget to confirm it with Lu Yu, "Right?" ”

Lu Yu nodded, but his expression was not so firm.

It's not that she can't distinguish the doll twice, and it's not that she doesn't understand Xie Xuanrong's explanation, but she feels uneasy.

It's as if the choices they're going to make next are going to be very important and have a big impact.

But in reality, that impact is just the result of this game.

Judging from Xie Xuanrong's analysis, they are unlikely to enter a bad ending, and the two outcomes of the ordinary ending and the true ending are within their acceptable range. Even if they get to a bad ending and the five of them "die" in this game, they don't really mind that much.

Lu Yu believes that among the five people, even Xie Xuanrong, who is the most enthusiastic about games, will not mind failure.

"Then put this in the center of the formation." Wang Jia shook the doll in his hand.

Fang Xiaotian pondered for a while, "Don't be so troublesome, right?" Can't you put two together? ”

The three men immediately turned their heads to look at Fang Xiaotian in unison.

"Can't you put the two together?" Fang Xiaotian asked again, "If this operation is not right, then putting both of them in that array will have no effect, right?" ”

"On that drawing, it's a ......," Xie Xuanrong said.

Fang Xiaotian said as a matter of course: "If we don't do it right, it won't be effective." When you do it right, it will have an effect, right? Will there be a recording or something...... The problem is, in that room, there was nothing, not even a light. ”

Fang Xiaotian's thinking is very special.

Xie Xuanrong and Li Ang didn't understand Fang Xiaotian's true meaning for a while.

Lu Yu was listening, and he didn't know anything about it.

"You're saying that if you decrypt the mistake, it won't work. If the decryption is successful, it will be successful......" Xie Xuanrong said, "Try once, we won't have any losses?" ”

"She mean, it's just a game designed by man." Wang Jia said, and pinched the doll seriously, "The first ones are all mechanisms, and the last one is a magic array, not a mechanism." The boss either monitored to see if we were doing it right, or the two dolls had wireless switches on them. ”

After he finished speaking, he shook the doll vigorously twice, "This is a wooden doll, the inside is solid, and it is unlikely that there is any wireless remote control installed." ”

Fang Xiaotian nodded, and gave an example: "Didn't Ah Rong give us a hint just now?" ”

Xie Xuanrong recalled, "You mean the bedroom...... The bedroom is a plot. That corridor? He looked at the closed hallway.

"That prompt, it's arranged, right?" Fang Xiaotian smiled slyly, "Even if we don't ask you for help, as long as we can't unlock that mechanism for a long time, you will send us a hint." ”

"Wow!" Li Ang looked at Fang Xiaotian in admiration.

Xie Xuanrong laughed, "That's right." That's the first half. If you can't solve the puzzle, you can call me, and I can send you a message. ”

Before he actually showed up, he read the script given to him by the butler. The housekeeper also clearly told him that he could give a hint when his friend was stuck.

At that time, if Li Ang didn't call, he would have sent them a message.

"When the man took me through the secret passage, he didn't look at the surveillance...... I basically followed him to rehearse the plot and practice walking the secret passages...... There may be other staff members......" Xie Xuanrong said with a deep groan, "I also asked, and he said that he would remind me how to do it......"

"There may be other staff members watching the surveillance, and they have to help set up the room, move props or something. These are things that one person can't do. If we hadn't monitored it, they wouldn't have been able to know our progress just by triggering the mechanism. Fang Xiaotian changed his words, "But there is definitely no monitoring there." ”

Leon asked, "Where?" ”

"That room." Fang Xiaotian pointed towards the bachelor's room, but she was actually referring to the room where there was nothing at the end.

Leon was dumbfounded.

"That room, except for the hole that could be used as a door, was pasted up, and it was sealed with several large boards, so that there could be no surveillance. If there is surveillance, it can only be other rooms. Fang Xiaotian said, "Even if they can hear us through the board, it is impossible for us to say such words as "doll in black leather clothes" and "doll in black T-shirt". There's no way they know which one the doll we've put in the center of the formation is. ”

"That is, which doll we put in it, the boss they don't know. If the doll has been manipulated, then we put both dolls in the center of the array, and there will be no follow-up development. At that time, we had to think about which doll to put in that center. These two dolls are the multiple-choice questions that affect the ending. On the other hand, if the two dolls are not equipped with mechanisms, then they will judge whether we have successfully decrypted the data based on whether we have obtained all the props in these two rooms. If they get it, they will acquiesce to our decryption. Wang Jia said.

"But what we're talking about, they've all heard, right?" Leon said.

"That doesn't matter." Fang Xiaotian said loudly, with an attitude of nonchalance.

Xie Xuanrong laughed, "I still have a key to the security door here." This magic array is definitely not the last level. It doesn't matter what we choose. Finally, we have to open an anti-theft door, and that's the real clearance. Well...... That's the case with a general escape room game, and it's impossible to make something too complicated. ”

"Isn't this just releasing water?" Leon said.

"Can he really trap us here?" Fang Xiaotian complained, "We just spend money to play games, and they are in the service industry." Hints were given to us earlier...... If you really want to trap us, just don't let Ah Rong give us a hint, and we will be trapped there. ”

Fang Xiaotian's thinking mode is completely different from Xie Xuanrong's player mode, and it is also different from Wang Jia and Li Ang's ideas that follow game design. Her remarks opened the eyes of the three men.

Lu Yu didn't speak.

She agrees with the theory that Fang Xiaotian said.

It's just that Lu Yu vaguely noticed a trace of abnormality.

The only space that is not monitored...... No, it should be said that it is impossible to have a monitored room......

Is that really the case?