0713: You who shine in the parallel world

Teacher Weiwei was not familiar with Yu Yu's true nature, so he was frightened by his performance, but his brothers around him were used to it and even wanted to laugh.

Upon hearing this, Wang Yuexin immediately joined Yu Yu in making a joke, volunteering to search the surroundings: "Hmm? This 'uncle' is quite something, huh? Although this is our first meeting, I feel like you're right up my alley, as if we've known each other for sixteen years."

He emphasized the word "uncle," as if afraid that others wouldn't know that he was now a 25-year-old young man, while Yu Yu was already a 42-year-old married man.

"You're a smart kid, aren't you? I heard you went to a prestigious university? Do you need any part-time work lately? You can come to my house to tutor my child when you're free, and I'll give you an internship certificate." Yu Yu nodded with a look of satisfaction, not minding at all being called "uncle" by Wang Yuexin, who was actually older than her.

Honestly, if you factor in his age from his previous life, Wang Yuexin could call him grandpa, and Wang Zhengliang would have to call him uncle.

While they claimed to be looking for a power source and were doing so diligently, they were actually searching for other clues in the room. The other brothers didn't mind the two younger brothers fooling around, since they weren't really going to pull the fuse from the production crew.

Even if they were to stumble upon the power outage by sheer luck, their older brothers would probably applaud them for doing a great job, saving all their NPC friends in one fell swoop by finding a completely different approach.

Of course, after that, the director had to ask that familiar question that another director had asked: What's next?

"Hey guys, come quick! There's a wooden box here. Maybe there's a fuse inside. Why don't we just open the box and pull the fuse?" Wang Yuexin deliberately used a youthful voice to call his brothers over.

A wooden box suddenly appeared on the mottled, peeling wall, which was rather conspicuous. Wang Yuexin only needed to look around to see it before he noticed it. He figured it was probably a game prop.

Although it's still unclear when these game items will be useful, the guys who experienced Yu Yu's altered plot and led to a third ending in the previous Escape Room episode don't mind. They use the excuse of finding a fuse to unlock the items for the later game ahead of time.

In fact, for the same escape room and the same storyline, the production team invited three or four groups of celebrities to record the show. Given that the audience already knew the general plot, the key factor that still made them willing to stay and watch the videos, besides the different guests, was the unexpected antics of the guests.

In principle, the production team should not only not stop them, but should encourage the guests to find alternative approaches.

Subjectively, the director quickly instructed the props and logistics team to move on to the next stage, not for any other reason than fear that they might actually use the props for the next stage, which would disrupt the subsequent plot.

So, the seven people who had just stood in front of the wooden box hadn't even had time to discuss how to open it when alarms suddenly went off in the seven single rooms next to them. The seven NPC friends they had inadvertently ignored in the cells heard the piercing alarm and frantically called out their aliases.

Behind them, seven NPC security guards dressed in clown plaid outfits, wearing masks, and holding stun guns slowly approached them.

Upon seeing this, the crowd that had been gathered around the box scattered and rushed to their respective NPC friends.

Weiwei pressed himself against the iron gate, with nowhere left to retreat, but the mysterious man with the stun gun was still approaching step by step. He shouted for Yu Yu to find a way to save him, acting with great emotion, but Yu Yu just narrowed her eyes and took a step to the side.

Because Teacher Weiwei's body slightly blocked his view, the iron gate was about the same size as a regular door. He leaned back and blocked most of it, but there were still some gaps on the side.

The set designer here probably didn't have much "real-world" experience, which is why they chose a sparse iron gate with gaps in the iron fence large enough to allow an adult's arm and shoulder to pass through.

Using these cells to detain prisoners or hostages can easily lead to minor accidents.

Yu Yu had previously said that Teacher Weiwei's acting skills were quite good, comparable to his own, and he was now acting very immersed in the role. Just the fact that he pressed his body against the iron door and kept rubbing his legs backward was commendable, because if the masked villain teacher wanted to grab and "electrocute" him, he would have to walk to the door and reach out his hand...

Then, Yu Yu, with quick eyes and decisive action, reached through a gap and snatched the stun gun from his hand.

Teacher Weiwei, who was originally screaming, exclaimed, "Huh?!"

The masked villainous teacher, whose "weapon" was snatched the moment he appeared: ...? ? ?

The behind-the-scenes director, closely monitoring each guest's reaction: ? !! Yu Yu, you &@&*￥%！ !! !

In reality, after grabbing the stun gun, Yu Yu would immediately use it to "stun" the masked villainous teacher, so that Teacher Weiwei could be temporarily safe.

However, given that the stun gun was just a prop that looked good but was not very useful, and that the masked villain teacher might not immediately pretend to faint after being touched, even if he was really good at making a scene and "fainted," given that Teacher Weiwei was not very bright, he probably wouldn't know how to act next. Therefore, Yu Yu just grabbed the weapon and left it at that.

Teacher Weiwei: Keep scolding me!

The outermost roller shutter door had begun to descend, attempting to dissuade those outside from trying to reopen the iron gate and go in to rescue the people.

Inside the door, the masked villain teacher, now unarmed, and Weiwei teacher, who should have continued screaming, stared at each other in an eerie silence for three seconds. The next moment, they must have received a prompt from the production team through their earpieces. The masked villain teacher pulled Weiwei teacher directly in front of him, grabbed his neck from behind with his arm, and dragged Weiwei teacher step by step backward.

Teacher Weiwei reached out to Yu Yu in despair, calling for help, but the roller shutter had already been completely shut.

"Don't worry, Teacher Weiwei, I will definitely save you!" Yu Yu tucked the stun gun behind his back and shouted at the roller shutter door in a dramatic, belated manner.

Then he heard a commotion from across the street. Yu Yu turned around and found that Su Xing had actually stuck his head into the iron gate, and the roller shutter was wedged against his shoulder.

See? So he said this iron gate is a failure as a prison door. Props teacher, remember not to make such a basic mistake next time.

Props designer: It would be really strange if someone had research on prisons and kidnappings!

Yu Yu, Zhang Yuan, and Wang Yuexin stood aside, laughing rather unkindly. Chen Chusheng jogged forward to help Su Xing pull himself out of the door. With the obstruction removed, the roller shutter slowly closed.

After all the doors were closed, the screen on the wall lit up, and an animated clown with a mouthful of sharp teeth appeared on the screen, accompanied by a slightly familiar shrill laugh, announcing the official start of the game.

This mysterious clown is the mastermind. He lured his NPC friends with the promise of huge rewards, then kidnapped them and made them play several games with him. Those who were captured were eliminated, while the winners of the games received a friend card.

In the end, the person with the most friend cards can rescue their friend and leave, while the rest will be left behind forever.

Yu Yu, as the winner of the first beginner level, received a friend card. Next, they have to find a way to go to the second floor to continue the game.

The screen turned off, and Yu Yu looked at Su Xing.

Su Xing seemed to know why Yu Yu was looking at him. He couldn't help but smile knowingly, while pretending to be clueless: "Why are you looking at me?"

How do you know I'm looking at you if you don't look at me?

"Alright, I've looked at you, so why are you looking at me?"

"You can look at me, but I can't look at you? I just want to look at you, I want to see if you want to laugh."

"You're so strange, Fish Master. Why do I feel like laughing?"

"It's nothing. If you don't want to laugh, just think of it as the awkwardness of seeing an acquaintance performing in a strained voice. I didn't expect that CEO Su had quite a few little chores behind our backs."

Whether Su Xing wanted to laugh or not, the other brothers definitely laughed.

They knew Su Xing so well that even though the animated clown's voice had been altered, they could still tell it was Su Xing's own voice. That's why Yu Yu was staring at him to see if he would burst out laughing.

"Hmph, I'm a professional, okay? How could I laugh?" Su Xing proudly straightened her collar.

"Allen, whether you laughed or not will be determined by the later video playback." Wang Zhengliang patted Su Xing on the shoulder.

Meanwhile, as Yu Yu gossiped about Su Xing's voice acting mishaps, the wooden box that the seven of them had surrounded earlier suddenly opened on its own. Inside was an old-fashioned DV camera. Chen Chusheng picked it up and examined it, confirming that it was not a toy prop, but a real camera that could be used immediately.

A note was also attached to the DV, which read, "The truth often lies hidden in the darkness."

Seeing that Chen Chusheng had made a discovery, Su Xing also went over to take a look. When Chen Chusheng saw Su Xing approaching, he handed him the DV camera. Su Xing skillfully fiddled with it for a while, then said with some interest, "Interesting. We'll probably be searching for something in the dark later, and this DV camera is in night vision mode as soon as it's turned on."

"Darkness?" Zhang Yuan's voice distorted upon hearing this.

“And it’s all black.” Su Xing nodded.

"Then I'll have to stick close to you now." Zhang Yuan muttered, pressing himself directly behind Su Xing. He wanted to reach out and hug him tightly, but then he suddenly remembered that this wasn't a private moment but a TV show shoot. So he silently withdrew his outstretched hand halfway and instead grabbed Su Xing's clothes.

Su Xing turned around and gave him a look that was both helpless and amused: "Dude, aren't you exaggerating a bit? Do you really have to get this close now?"

"I don't care," Zhang Yuan said, clutching his clothes tightly.

Su Xing let him go.

At this moment, they found an electronic lock on the wall that required a three-digit password. There were also three paintings of spades, diamonds, and clubs hanging on the surrounding walls. The clues should be hidden in these patterns.

The DV camera said that clues could only be found in the dark.

Then you need to turn off all the lights in this room.

How do I turn it off? Is this okay? Land Rover looked at the long handle in front of him, his mind still not quite clear, but his body had already reached out and pulled the lever.

The next second, the room went completely dark.

When a person's eyes are suddenly plunged into darkness from a bright place, the darkness is especially terrifying before they can adjust; it is pure blackness where you can't see your hand in front of your face.

"Ahhh!!!" Zhang Yuan screamed and grabbed the person next to him tightly.

Wang Yuexin cried out in pain, "Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! You've got the wrong person! Allen is here!"

He grabbed Zhang Yuan's paw and moved it onto Su Xing.

"We found it just as we expected with night vision!"

The sudden darkness did not shake Tietan Suxing in the slightest. He took the DV camera and shone it in the direction of the painting, discovering a pattern hidden under it. He immediately walked forward with Zhang Yuan, who was hanging on him, and Wang Yuexin followed closely behind.

"Why did it suddenly go dark?" Chen Chusheng didn't notice Land Rover's movements. He looked around and could only see the faint light from the DV camera in Su Xing's hand. He couldn't see anything else.

"I...I...I turned off the lights." Land Rover was completely terrified and stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to do.

Then Yu Yu's voice rang out beside him: "Brother Tiger, raise your hand, I'm in front of you."

"Fish!" Land Rover immediately reached out his hand, and he could vaguely sense a figure in front of him.

The feeling of having one's hand held was so real. In the darkness, Yu Yu firmly grasped Land Rover's hand and pulled him up from the ground.

"Brother Liang?" Yu Yu called out again.

"it's here."

In the darkness, Yu Yu seemed to be particularly sensitive to sound. As soon as Wang Zhengliang made a sound, he found his direction and brought the Land Rover to him.

Although the place was spacious and not cramped at all, the dark and enclosed environment was ultimately not very friendly to Xiao Liang. Yu Yu didn't say anything, but Wang Zhengliang understood why Yu Yu had come to his side. In the darkness, a smile appeared on his face, and he imitated Zhang Yuan by reaching out and grabbing Yu Yu's clothes.

Then he discovered that the other side of his clothes was being held by Land Rover.

After finding the Land Rover and Wang Zhengliang, there was still one person left. However, Yu Yu didn't need to pinpoint the other person's location by sound; he had already memorized the approximate location before the lights went out.

"Hey young man, out night fishing so late at night?" Yu Yu patted Chen Chusheng on the shoulder with a grin.

"Well, isn't this a case of getting two for the price of one?" Chen Chusheng wasn't surprised that Yu Yu could find him so accurately in the dark; he made a joke.