Chapter 115: drum_monkey, organ, one chance.

When I entered the room, Xiaochi Chi felt that the floor under his feet was very strange.

Indoor lights for a long time, in the hearts of the people have doubts when, suddenly around the same time to play lights, four bright brilliant, bright as a snow field.

Qian Meng sucked in a cold breath, covered his eyes and cursed: "Holy shit!"

Xiaochi Chi, on the other hand, has adapted well.

The moment the lights came on, he saw a false palm in front of his eyes.

The hand blocked most of the light for him, thin, straight and slender, the light from the edge of the palm to reflect the curve of his palm.

It's Yu Gan's hand.

He had been standing beside Xiaochi Chi, holding his hands up in the darkness for who knows how long, just to help shield him from the bright lights that might suddenly come on.

When the human eye can almost adjust to the light, the hand will be withdrawn from Xiaochi Chi's eyes, naturally picking up the gold-rimmed glasses clipped to his chest shirt pocket and putting them on calmly, resuming his role as a gentleman with a polished and flamboyant appearance.

The countdown had begun and there was no time for distractions, so Xiaochi Chi broke off his other thoughts and prepared to observe the situation.

At first glance, Xiaochi Chi frowned.

Eight people are in a huge, about a hundred square meters of empty rectangular glass room, walls, floor, ceiling, are composed of transparent glass.

And Xiaochi Chi distinctly remembers that the two waves of people clearly walked into the same corridor.

...... but they are not in the same room right now.

To be precise, there is a thick glass curtain wall running east-west, dividing the complete room in two from its central position.

Xiaochi Chi they are on the left, Qian Meng they are on the right.

Yun Qiao said in shock, "What's going on here?"

Xiaochi Chi remembers walking down the corridor into another deep dark corridor, surrounded by true silence and foul air, amidst the clown's laughter, holding only a piece of Yu Gan's shirt by his hand as he led him to the end of the corridor and straight into a room.

Immediately, the heavy doors closed behind him with a loud bang.

Benshan Yuan said, "We went into the door at the end of the hallway."

Yun Qiao : "...... There is no door at the end of the corridor. We found the entrance at the end of the corridor on the right hand side."

At this point in the exchange of information, Xiaochi Chi's mind has been cleared.

It seems that the Joker deliberately split them into two groups.

This is also one of the usual routines of the escape room, the players involved in the game will be divided into two groups, and set certain obstacles, so that the two groups of players each search for clues, and through the exchange of information to find a way to leave the room and enter the next room.

As expected, after observation, the east end of the glass curtain wall opened a hole about 20 cm long and 10 cm wide, presumably used by both sides to pass information.

Xiaochi Chi is a little strange.

General escape room, the middle of the wall are solid bunker, the purpose of which is to prevent the smooth communication between the two sides, thus dragging out the game time.

The glass is fully transparent, so what is the significance of pulling up this curtain wall?

He wanted to investigate the glass wall, yet as soon as he took a step, there was a thin creaking sound under his feet.

He immediately found out where something was wrong, the back of his neck went numb, and immediately leaned forward and fell to the ground.

Qian Meng also sensed the anomaly and shouted, "No, don't stand, get down!"

Yu Gan ambled back, reached out and touched the glass surface on the floor, and then flexed his knuckles and knocked, his face was not very good: "...... is not tempered glass."

This is just the most ordinary glass, thicker than the usual glass is. If a grown man walks freely on it, a careless step will crack the floor.

"Remember what that clown just said?" Qian Meng shouted, "We can't destroy anything here!"

The price of destruction is something none of them want to try.

But he did figure it out quickly: "Men are down and don't move. Women are responsible for finding clues."

Tang Gan moved as he was told, straightening up and moving as lightly as a cat as he began to look for clues to pass the level.

Xiaochi Chi, on the other hand, was lying on all fours like a Ba Wang cover, his eyes darting around to gather as much information as possible.

The theme of the level, written in colored paint on top of a wooden sign, hangs over the doorway of the gate they just entered.

The theme is called "The Man in the Stitch", and underneath it is a distorted copy of the "Mother Goose Rhyme" in a child's circular script:

A twisted man who took a twisted path.

Step on the twisted steps with a twisted sixpence in hand.

Buy a crooked cat, the cat catches the crooked mouse.

They lived together in crooked huts.

And echoing the song are the countless silhouettes of little people embedded in the transparent glass walls.

These little people look like a kindergarten child's craft work, folded with stiff paper, cut out the large head and slender body, one after the other, holding small hands.

It was as if ...... would approach at any moment singing a song.

Xiaochi Chi tried to find out the corresponding numerical laws from the little man's row, however, graduated many years ago, his little mathematical knowledge returned to the teacher hundreds of years ago.

He turned his face to Benshan Yuan for help, "Lao Yuan, look at these people ......"

"There is no pattern." Yu Gan, on the other hand, said, "All the little people do not follow any kind of numerical sequence, and there is no special color. Some of the figurines are more than ten in number, so if we disregard the possibility that they are coded numbers, I tend to think that this is more of a hint."

Xiaochi Chi looked over at him, "Or some kind of warning of danger."

The two men looked at each other and nodded slightly.

This inexplicable sense of tacit understanding made Benshan Yuan, who had watched all this, feel very stifled.

He interrupted the duo and said forcefully, "Don't focus on studying the villain; there's a good chance it's a distraction."

Yu Gan agrees with Benshan Yuan: "There is another wooden cabinet in the corner. Tongtang, open it."

As Tang Gan reached to open the cabinet, a sharp whistle exploded from inside, scaring Siyuan Jia, who was a wall away from them, and almost dropped the wall clock she had taken off.

Jumping out is a gong-banging weird-faced monkey toy.

The drum under it has broken, the eyes from time to time shot mechanical purple light, half of the face has fallen off the paint, revealing a white wooden ballast, the whole face like a rotten monkey corpse, a glance over is really uncomfortable to call people very.

Every few times the drum is played, it makes a distorted shrill sound: "Only - once oh, only - one chance oh."

Under the silent ring of faceless paper people, Qian Meng's brain gradually sweat, and now hear the toys of the burst of ear-splitting strange sound through the room, he added a little more impatient.

"Turn that thing off now!"

Tang Gan replied good-naturedly, "I can't find its winding."

But she didn't abandon the toy, which was obviously used to bluff, to its fate.

The time passed, Qian Meng saw that she was only concentrating on holding a prop monkey, and could not help but meanly accuse: "That woman over there! ...... Yes, it's you, stop looking at the monkey and look for other places! You have so many little people on the wall there, calculate the law, ah, caught an interfering item blindly what to do? Will not play ah rookie?!"

Tang Gan walks briskly to the glass wall and shows him the toy in his hand.

Qian Meng fixed his eyes, his face was suddenly like a slap in the face, hot and burning.

The inner surface of the monkey's broken drum is inlaid with a small mechanical dial of extremely fine workmanship, with an hour and minute hand, all now pointing exactly in the direction of twelve o'clock.

The monkey faced him and let out a sly squeal, "Only - once oh, only - one chance oh."

Tang Gan did not talk to Qian Meng, and turned to Yun Qiao and Siyuan Jia, who were searching over there: "What have you found over there?"

Siyuan Jia held up the clock in her hand.

Half of the walls on their side were covered with clocks, both broken and normal going, and the two of them were taking them off one by one to see if there was any information hidden inside the dials and faces.

...... but according to them this kind of dog bear break stick to find the law, they should at least drown in this room for more than 20 minutes.

Xiaochi Chi looked sideways at the clocks on the wall that had not been taken down, looked at them one by one, and pointed to one of them, "That one."

It's true that Siyuan Jia doesn't have much initiative, but she is good at listening.

She removed the clock, which was set at 3:20, as she had been told, and said, puzzled, "What's so special about this clock?"

Xiaochi Chi prompted her slightly helplessly, "...... monkeys."

The clock at ...... is the only one with a cartoon of a monkey picking peaches on the dial.

Siyuan Jia spat out her tongue in embarrassment, "Sorry. I ...... am not very good at this."

She held the watch near the glass wall so Tang Gan and the others could see the numbers on the surface more clearly.

3:20, no mistake.

Qian Meng took in Siyuan Jia's clumsy actions and felt that he had lost face as the "captain" and his men did not give him much face, so he said coolly, "It looks like the puzzle is not too difficult."

Tang Gan removed the hair pin from his temples and carefully poked it through the break in the drum's surface, ready to adjust the hidden needle inside the drum to 3:20.

The monkey shrilled, his voice as harsh as scraping long nails across a blackboard, "Only - once oh, only - one chance oh."

Yu Gan suddenly said, "Wait."

Tang Gan also stopped moving at the same time.

After a glance between them, Tang Gan nods knowingly and turns his eyes to Xiaochi Chi.

I don't know if it's because of this half month's companionship of the chamber, without too many words, Xiaochi Chi has understood the thoughts of the two siblings.

He took out a hundred dollar bill from his pocket.

Before coming in, Joker had asked them to put all communication tools and tools capable of violent dismantling outside, but for some small and sporadic objects, Joker did not care much.

He handed the money to Tang Gan, who in turn aimed his monkey's violet eyes at the coin.

Sure enough, a faint watermark surfaced on the coin.

...... really has traps.

Tang Gan walked over to the medium-sized envelope-sized communication port at the east end of the glass curtain wall and said to Siyuan Jia, "Please put the table over here with the surface facing me."

Siyuan Jia was confused and did as she was told.

And just as the shadowy purple light cast from the monkey's eyes shone through the communication port to the dial on the opposite side, Siyuan Jia hissed a cold breath.

Very different from the pointing of the hands, the dial floated two fresh, with the mottled flesh of the blood pointer.

The blood hand was pointing to 4:44 a.m. without missing a minute.

And that's the real time.

No one knows what will happen if you dial the wrong clock time.

Of course, no one wants to test the consequences firsthand.

Tang Gan's hand did not shake, accurately picking the minute hand to 44 minutes, eight people heard a faint mechanical roar.

"What's that sound?" Qian Meng joyfully got up halfway from the ground and said, "Is the door open?"

"...... is not."

Jiayi Xu, who has made very few comments since she came in, says, "It's the wall that's moving."

He spoke in a flat tone that carried itself with a creepy flavor.

And he was indeed right.

The middle of the glass curtain wall, which automatically split in two, began to move slowly to both sides.

Qian Meng's face changed dramatically: "Back up! Back up quickly!!!"

His emotions succeeded in driving the timid Siyuan Jia, who hugged the clock and backed away in a panic, almost falling into Jiayi Xu's arms.

Jiayi Xu picked her up by the handful and frowned, "Back what?"

He pointed to the glass wall and said, "Hasn't it stopped."

The huge glass curtain wall was originally a magnet like two walls together, now they opened the monkey body mechanism, the two walls will be moved to the sides of about ten centimeters, in the interior of the extension of a pathway for one person.

A small door opened on each of the western curtain walls distantly opposite the communication port, successfully opening up two rooms and giving the crowd a chance to explore the corridor.

Before the crowd could rejoice, they realized that they had only taken a small step forward, and how they would leave the room was still unknown.

Outside the few clues, and has been explored almost, then, into this newly opened up glass corridor, is imperative.

Qian Meng felt that he had just lost face, but did not dare to move easily, so he asked Siyuan Jia, "You, go in and take a look."

Siyuan Jia "ah", a little wince: "I ......"

Qian Meng said impatiently, "You are the skinniest here. Get in."

This is not a bad thing, Siyuan Jia is indeed too thin, like a fish, but can swim, if Tang Gan go in, in that narrow seam will be stuck in the chest.

Siyuan Jia, as obedient as ever, walked through the small, newly opened door into the extremely narrow glass corridor.

She held onto the walls on both sides, taking one tentative step at a time, her palms imprinted on the glass in clumps of dense sweat.

Qian Meng called: "Did you see anything?"

Siyuan Jia shook her head, "No."

The corridor was empty, and the topmost light was snowy, illuminating everything clearly.

There is neither any special marker nor any item dropped here.

A few short steps, she walked with fear, looking back frequently, afraid that from where a small paper figure will emerge with teeth and claws, to tear her to pieces in this cramped place.

If she was attacked here, she would not even be able to escape.

She walked from the west end to the east end step by step, fearfully but securely.

Just as she went under the communication window, a very soft electronic tone came to her ears.

"Drip--"

A strange circular fluorescent device was automatically triggered under her feet.

Just as she stepped on this organ, the same two square fluorescent-colored circles of light appeared on both sides of the glass curtain wall parallel to the window.

Siyuan Jia took a step backwards, and the circle of light disappeared.

It's a human heat sensing device!

She shouted "Yah!" and looked at Yun Qiao and the others in surprise: "I, I found it!"

Benshan Yuan's eyes lit up and the answer immediately came to him, "It's the villain!"

As much as he hates to admit it, it turns out that Yu Gan was right.

The little man on the wall is some kind of hint.

It requires a person to enter within the glass passage to trigger the organ, and the person in the two divided rooms, as long as they follow the hints of the organ, stand into that aperture, through the communication port on the wall, imitating the posture of the little man holding hands on the wall, should be able to trigger the next organ, or even ......

Open the next door!

What he thought of, others thought of too.

With time running out, Yun Qiao was almost impatient to step up to the right aperture and signaled Tang Gan to come over quickly.

Tang Gan stood in accordance with the words, who thought an electronic voice alert sounded: "Weighing less than 55 kg, weighing less than 55 kg. Please change, please change."

...... Yun Qiao A face of vegetables and would love to kill the system.

Tang Gan had to leave slightly apologetically and replaced Benshan Yuan, who was closest to the communication window.

Benshan Yuan gingerly moved to the center of the aperture and tried to distribute his weight for fear of crushing the floor.

The first time they tried, they did not hold hands, only each stood in the circle of light, waiting to see if anything would change.

Unfortunately, there was not much movement.

Siyuan Jia in the glass corridor then offered to put her hand out to the people on either side.

The three were like little people on the wall, with their hands clasped.

And just a few moments after the three stood still, they heard the roar of machinery as they had hoped.

Siyuan Jia looked up.

The corridor divides the room evenly into two rooms, left and right, and she is at the east end of the corridor, holding hands with her partner.

And at the west end of the corridor, a gap is cracking open from the center of the corridor, moving to the sides, like two slowly opening glass lips.

Siyuan Jia cried out with joy: "We did it! We did it - Huh?"

Her words came to an abrupt halt.

And the next second, her voice went out of tune with panic: "Has the corridor ...... corridor gotten narrower?"

The corridor, which had been somewhat spacious for her size, shrank as the glass doors opened across the room, and came up against her shoulders!

This ominous development caused her to turn pale and instinctively scatter her legs to run.

But as soon as her feet left the induction aperture, the door, which had opened a little, re-closed inward with a bang!

It happened so suddenly that Xiaochi Chi, who was lying on the ground, was dumbfounded, but his heart was instantly bright and cold.

...... Deadlocked!

...... It's a total dead heat!

Seeing that hope has arrived and the door to life is about to close, Yun Qiao, in his haste, did not let go of Siyuan Jia's hand in the first place.

At this point, the drumming monkey once again pointed his voice and laughed playfully in a distorted child's voice: "Only - one time oh, only - one chance oh."

Yun Qiao's face suddenly changed and she subconsciously held Siyuan Jia's hand for dear life!

Siyuan Jia failed to break free and turned back with a pale face: "Xiao Yun! What are you doing? Let go of me!"

And Benshan Yuan also failed to let go of his hand due to a sudden change of heart.

Yun Qiao, with all his strength, held Siyuan Jia's hand and shouted at Benshan Yuan, "'Only one chance'! Don't you understand? If she runs away, who will be willing to go in and step on the mechanism and open the door for us? Do you?"

Benshan Yuan's throat knot rolled up and down violently, no longer hesitated, wedged Siyuan Jia's hand, even dragged her branch-like arm straight out of the communication mouth, folding it over and pulling it downward with force!

Siyuan Jia's arm ate the pain and was dragged hard back to the spot.

The machine is activated again.

The corridor is no longer accessible, Qian Meng like a four-legged snake rolling and crawling to the open door, trying their best to put their arms and heads into the small gap that opened up, Jiayi Xu was also stunned by this sudden change, looked back and forth, and chose to go up with Qian Meng, trying to wrench the door open.

"Not enough! It's not enough!"

Qian Meng tried to use brute force to accelerate the opening of the door, however, the door stays put, only opening at the speed of the corridor compression.

The door of life opens for all of us, and the door of death opens for Siyuan Jia.

In the hallway, Siyuan Jia's body had been squeezed to the point of deforming both shoulders, and she was screaming and kicking her feet in desperation, but she was too frightened and restricted in space to exert any force.

She wailed, "Let go of me, please! Please!!!"

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of hand, Tang Gan pounced on him and punched Benshan Yuan in the face.

However, Benshan Yuan's adrenaline was surging at this time and he was able to withstand the punch.

He spit the blood out of his mouth and continued to nose-drop her arm in a deadly drag.

Tang Gan turned back and shouted, "Brother!!!"

Xiaochi Chi was already one step ahead of them, rolling several times and flipping over to the open door, and Qian Meng together broke the door to the two sides.

Yu Gan also came behind him and joined him in pushing the door.

But none of them dared to put too much force on their feet, for fear of directly crushing the floor.

Xiaochi Chi hands fingertips grasped white, forehead cold sweat, just to find a critical point.

Maybe it's still possible, maybe it can still be saved!!!

Siyuan Jia has been squeezed by the heavy pressure rolled eyes, the bones were crushed creaking more than crunching, the corners of the mouth gurgling out blood.

Tang Gan has been gritting his teeth and staring at Xiaochi Chi's side, waiting for his judgment on the situation.

Xiaochi Chi turned back to her and shook his head at her.

The opening slit is too small! You can't even get your head through!

Seeing that Siyuan Jia was about to die, Tang Gan did not think otherwise and raised his leg and kicked hard at the glass.

Should still be able to save, should-

Glass is indeed fragile, a kick shattered a piece, but the glass wall in the moment of shattering violently accelerated, close together!

After a scream, bright red flesh paste burst out from the completely closed glass corridor, and two bloody arms fell straight down to the ground from the two people holding her.

She became a real "person in the seam".

The inside of the glass even still has a full sweaty hand print that she just printed on.

Tang Gan also fell to the ground uncontrollably.

The moment she raised her right leg and kicked the glass, her right leg also turned into glass and shattered with a clatter.

...... This is the penalty for sabotage.

It took them fifteen minutes to get over this hurdle, as well as a human life, and the leg of one of their team members.

For such a sudden change, everyone lost the ability to speak for a short period of time.

Only the monkey was still beating its little broken drum, gleefully playing an elegy for the dead Siyuan Jia: "Only - one time, only - one chance. "