Shang Sirui was so scared that he took his hand back, "Then, can you open it?"

Xia Xiqing walked over with a smile, took the key from his hand, "Open it, the key I found after so much effort." As he spoke, he opened the door, and Shang Sirui stood consciously behind.

The phones of the three people rang, and at the same time, the same sound came from the new room.

It was their announcement after cracking the room.

"Wow..." Shang Sirui turned his head and walked over Xia Xiqing in front and looked in front. "This room is so big..." He saw two girls standing at the door of the other door of the room. One of them looked familiar on the side, "Ai Cen Cen..."

The girl who was called the name was wearing a white long skirt and a rose-colored belt. Her long black hair was hanging down to her waist. Her makeup was simple and elegant, and her dark red lips were particularly eye-catching. Her facial features were not very stunning, but she felt a natural sense of alienation. She also saw Shang Sirui, so she raised her hand and smiled slightly, "Sirui."

Xia Xiqing rarely listens to Chinese songs, but he knows Cen Cen's name. He used to be the lead singer of a band, but later withdrew from the team because of his illness. After returning, he was solo. Because of his cold temperament, he was loved by many female fans.

"Sister Cen Cen," Shang Sirui saw that he was an acquaintance, so he walked over with confidence and boldness, "Are you from this room?"

Cen Cen shook his head, "I just came out of the original room."

Xia Xiqing glanced at his phone and found that the delivery time of several messages was almost not much different. The room they are in now is more like a living room than a room.

He finally figured out the structure of this house. It was actually like a closed four-bedroom and one living room. The original room of his and Zhou Ziheng was in a row with Shang Sirui's original room. The row opposite was the original room of these two girls, but only the rooms of Shang Sirui and Cen Cen can lead to this living room, while the rooms of himself and another girl can only lead to someone else's room, and then to the living room.

Why did this arrangement? Xia Xiqing thought about it.

He finally noticed the girl standing beside Cen Cen, with slightly curly medium-length hair tied up, wearing a black knitted skirt suit, delicate makeup, and beautiful eyes.

He suddenly remembered what Xiaojie said before recording the show, and there was also an amateur besides himself, a member of Mensa.

That should be this girl.

So she was the first person to come out of her room?

Xia Xiqing understood that the program team arranged the difficulty of breaking through the room based on the guests' abilities to ensure that everyone can come to the living room at about the same time. Otherwise, if the guests escaped before they could meet, the program would be no more interesting.

But why should he and Zhou Ziheng be put together? Is it just for topical attention? Xia Xiqing thought so at the beginning, but after passing two rooms, he changed his mind about the program team, or the screenwriter behind the scenes. He always felt that every arrangement of his was purposeful.

So why?

Zhou Ziheng has never spoken. Perhaps the two circles of actors and singers are naturally inconsistent. He and Cen Cen have both non-talking personalities and can't talk a few words.

"Hello everyone, my name is Ruan Xiao." The sweet-looking girl greeted everyone on her own initiative. Xia Xiqing felt that she looked familiar, but she was not sure, and she smiled at her when she looked at each other.

Everyone casually introduced each other and walked around in the spacious living room. The living room was large and included a semi-open dining room, with a large oval dining table and a row of sofas. Although there were a lot of things, there were very few things that looked unreasonable, and no one found any effective clues.

There is a double-open door in the living room. There is also a password lock on it, but there are two password input bars. The input bar on the top has four spaces, and there are nine digits to choose from next to it, while the lower one has only three spaces.

Xia Xiqing tried to touch the three-frame input bar below with his fingers. The moment he clicked, the input keyboard appeared on the electronic screen next to him, with twenty-six English letters on it.

So do you need to fill in words?

"Why don't we try?" Shang Sirui suggested next to him.

Ruan Xiao vetoed, "Choose three arrangements and combinations of 26 letters, 26 to the power of the 17,576 possibilities."

Hearing Ruan Xiao say this, Shang Sirui smiled with a complicated expression, "When I didn't say it, haha."

Xia Xiqing was surprised. Mensa Club was indeed different, and the mental arithmetic speed was too fast. However, Ruan Xiao was right. In this game, exhaustion was the most impossible method, and it should be guided by clues. He walked around and found a circle was drawn on the floor next to the sofa, which was just enough for a person to stand.

"Exit the meeting?" Shang Sirui, who followed Xia Xiqing, squatted on the ground and recited the words written by the circle.

Xia Xiqing nodded softly, "It is probably where the executed person stood when the voting execution."

Shang Sirui was standing up, raising his foot to step on the round floor, Xia Xiqing added, "The way of execution is probably to fall down with a swish."

"Ah?" Shang Sirui quickly withdrew his feet in the air and smiled angrily, "Don't scare me."

"I guessed it nonsense." Xia Xiqing turned around with a smile, raised her eyes and saw Zhou Ziheng standing by the dining table. The other party happened to see him, but he quickly turned his face away.

Am I so scary? Xia Xiqing smiled helplessly.

He walked to another door of the living room and asked Ruan Xiao and Cen Cen who were checking the refrigerator, "You two shouldn't be trapped in the same room, right?"

Ruan Xiao shook her head, "We are separated." She led the others to another door in the living room, which was where Cen Cen and Ruan Xiao were standing at the beginning.

"Behind this door is Sister Cen's room." She pushed open the door. The space inside was not large. A rose fragrance hit her face. Xia Xiqing frowned slightly. The fragrance was too strong.

The furnishings in this room are very different from those in other rooms. There are many framed paintings hanging on the off-white walls, and a painting board stands on the other side of the bed, with a piece of white paper on it. The style of the whole room looks more like a studio that Xia Xiqing is so familiar to the most.

Ruan Xiao took them to a huge cabinet on the far left of the studio. She opened the wardrobe, which contained some clothes. She moved the clothes aside with her hands, revealing the door leading to another room.

"This is my original room."

Everyone passed through the "wardrobe door" one by one. Xia Xiqing was 1.83 meters tall, and it was a bit inconvenient when he passed. He thought of Zhou Ziheng, so he looked back and found that he had not followed him and didn't know what to do. He stood there and waited for a while. Sure enough, he couldn't help laughing when he saw him hunching his waist and looking very difficult.

"Hey, Xiqing, why are you laughing at?" Shang Sirui looked at him with a confused look on his face.

Xia Xiqing shook her head and smiled at the corner of her mouth.

"nothing."

"Let's go." Shang Sirui pulled his cuffs and pulled them empty because Xia Xiqing had turned around and stood at the back door of the wardrobe to open the door so that Zhou Ziheng could come out.

As soon as Zhou Ziheng stepped out of the closet, he looked up and saw Xia Xiqing's beautiful smiling face. For some reason, he felt a faint ridicule in the smile, and he felt even more unhappy. However, due to the camera arranged around him, he could only use a smile to cover it up and said thank you against his will.

"You're welcome."

Is it a prodigal son's habit? The ending sound of every sentence of this man seemed to be deliberately teasing, Zhou Ziheng thought to himself.

Ruan Xiao, Cen Cen and Shang Sirui walked in front, Xia Xiqing and Zhou Ziheng walked to the back. The room looked like a woman's room, with an extremely exquisite dressing table on it, with various cosmetics and perfumes on it, and various expensive suits and dresses in the wardrobe. A portrait was hung on the European white wood bed. It was a woman in black and looked beautiful.

"Is this a famous painting?" Zhou Ziheng unexpectedly spoke first, Xia Xiqing smiled and nodded, "Kramskoyi's "The Unknown Girl", a very famous female portrait."

Shang Sirui, who was walking in front, heard Xia Xiqing's words and couldn't help but turn his head and said with admiration, "I feel like Xiqing is like a walking art encyclopedia, which is so amazing."

Zhou Ziheng thought in his mind that if you want to listen to various physical formulas and laws, I can also tell you one by one, and also give you science popularization of the big names in physics academic circles.

But the next second, he was shocked by the childish thoughts in his heart.

Maybe I hate Xia Xiqing so much that I don’t want to hear anyone praise such a cunning and hypocritical person.

Xia Xiqing and Shang Sirui were clamoring. After a few words, Shang Sirui, who was jumping in his mind, focused on Ruan Xiao, "So you escaped from this room and entered Sister Cen's room? You are alone, so awesome."

Ruan Xiao waved her hand with a smile, "Maybe my room is simpler." She smiled sweetly, and she exuded a different tenacity from other girls.

"What is the puzzle?" Zhou Ziheng spoke rarely.

"Well... a digital Huarong Road." Ruan Xiao walked to the jewelry box on the bedside table and opened it. It was the layout of Huarong Road that she cracked. "I first found that this makeup box had a lock, and I thought there should be clues inside, so I looked for the key, and after opening Huarong Road, a red laser appeared."

She tried to press a button inside, and a red laser light appeared, shooting straight into the corner of the wall opposite. "My door is very strange, there is no password or lockhole. At first I was stuck at all and I couldn't find a way to escape. Later, I tried moving the makeup box and found that using the reflection of the makeup mirror on the opposite side, the red laser light could be shined on the metal handle of the door, and it was automatically unlocked."

"Oh my God... I might not be able to come out in my whole life." Shang Sirui was so impressed that he was overwhelmed.

"Didn't you come out too?" Cen Cen said with a smile.

"I came out with the blessings of these two big guys." Shang Sirui smiled and automatically pressed on Xia Xiqing's body.

Xia Xiqing didn't push him away. He suddenly thought of the information he found in other rooms that had nothing to do with escaping the room, so he asked Ruan Xiao, "Have you found any other information in your room... I mean the kind that is not very good."

Ruan Xiao's eyebrows moved slightly, but for only one moment, she smiled, "No, I don't feel that there is too much information in my room."

She is lying.

Xia Xiqing found it strange, but she also felt that it was reasonable. Ruan Xiao is also a smart person. Smart people are wary, especially against another smart person. Now that all the players are present, she will definitely not tell the clues in her hands casually.

I can only find it myself, Xia Xiqing thought.

Perhaps he had natural curiosity and admiration for smart people. Shang Sirui kept talking with Ruan Xiao about how to crack the door lock of this room. Ruan Xiao and Cen Cen's rooms are connected again. The two of them already had a relationship with revolutionary comrades. The three of them naturally got together, walked from this room to the connected room, and from that room to the living room.

Xia Xiqing did not follow them, but followed the close-ups arranged in the hostess' room slowly, observing every detail until he came to the closet. For some reason, he was suddenly attracted by a small wastebasket. While the other people were not in the room for the time being, he quietly walked to the closet, but found that Zhou Ziheng was also here, and the two of them were synchronized again.

He also followed the camera, but just touched it from the opposite direction.

The two finally met in front of this wardrobe.

"You think something is wrong, either?" Xia Xiqing squatted down and poured out the trash can, and pieces of paper fell all over the floor.

Zhou Ziheng nodded, "This game taught me two points. First, every piece is not accidental."

Xia Xiqing shrugged undeniably, "What else?"

Zhou Ziheng picked up a piece of fragment and looked up at Xia Xiqing's eyes, "When multitasking is parallel, you must learn to grasp the key points."

Everyone is focused on decryption and escape, forgetting the more important point.

"This game is not just an escape room. If you don't catch the killer, you will still lose in the end."

He was right. The biggest difficulty of this show is not who can escape first, but whether ordinary players can find killer and execute him. Otherwise, once killer becomes the final winner, everyone's efforts will be in vain.

Xia Xiqing thought about what he would do at this time if he was a killer.

First, we must conceal our identity as much as possible and hide all the clues that may expose ourselves, but for killers, exposing our identity is inevitable. After all, they have to kill someone no matter what. Secondly...

While thinking, Zhou Ziheng spoke again, "Now everyone is here, the first round of voting execution is coming soon. Someone will be out soon."

"It's so hurry." Xia Xiqing grabbed the hair hanging on his forehead, frowned, and looked up at Zhou Ziheng. "If you were a killer, what would you do before the first round of voting began?"

The two looked at each other, and exchanged dangerous signals in their eyes.

"Kill the person who is most likely to guess the identity of killer."

Xia Xiqing chuckled and licked her lips, "Tsk, it's so exciting."

He is not a killer. Seeing Zhou Ziheng so devotedly looking for killer, it is definitely not, unless his acting skills are really superb enough to completely disguise himself as an ordinary player.

With his acting skills, he can do it, but Xia Xiqing is more willing to believe that he is not. If he were killer, he wouldn't know how many times he had died.
To be continued...