0713: You who shine in the parallel world

There was only one night vision DV. After finding Sheng Lianghu and the other two scattered in the room in the darkness, Yu Yu went to Xing Yuanhu's side and joined them.

Under night vision, the pattern displayed behind the painting was a three-dimensional number 258 composed of countless triangles. After finding the clue, the group turned on the lights, entered the number, and with a beep, the electronic combination lock lit up green, indicating that they had entered the correct password.

A slight rumbling sound was heard, and the walls around them began to shake. Everyone quickly retreated to the side.

They thought they were just standing next to a mottled wall, but little did they know that there was a mechanism hidden inside. After entering the password, an upward staircase split out from the wall, leading to the unknown depths of the second floor.

Seeing this, Su Xing and Wang Yuexin exchanged a glance, and he laughed excitedly, "I'm about to say that 'you've never seen anything like this before' thing again—"

"What a production!" The other six people exclaimed in unison, touching the staircase that had slid out from the wall as they marveled at it.

"No, that's not accurate. After all, Larry already showed us a lot of the world at the beginning of the year."

As a well-rounded entertainment director, Lu Hu felt that even though it had only been a year since the last season of "Escape from the Mist," he thought about how a wealthy patron with some "nepotism" had taken them to see so much of the world in the past year, and how they were no longer the same people who had been "mistreated" by a certain poor production team. He felt that they should try a different approach to their performance.

Upon hearing this, the guys realized it made sense and immediately changed their attitude. They acted like drama queens, putting on a disdainful expression, not even bothering to lift their eyelids, and casually smacked their lips a few times, saying perfunctorily, "It's alright, not bad, pretty good, still the same old thing."

"Oh, is that all? I thought there was something special about it." Zhang Yuan touched the wall, looked at the non-existent dust on his hands, and clapped his hands.

Wang Zhengliang, standing by the stairs, teased him, seeing his arrogant and disdainful expression: "Xiao Yuan, since you don't think there's anything special about it, why don't you go first? You'll be first in line."

One second Zhang Yuan was pretending to be calm, the next second he exploded: "Get out of the way! Why should I be the first? No, you go first, then you can be the first one to leave."

This is no longer just about getting off the bus in an orderly fashion; why are you still talking about formation and order?

When it's not dark and there are no NPCs jumping out to scare people, Xiao Liang is quite brave.

When it's safe nearby, the biggest danger in re-employment is for Su Xing and Yu Yu.

Su Xing, who was the first to go upstairs with Wang Zhengliang, leaned over the edge of the stairs and watched Zhang Yuan tying his shoelaces on the stairs below. When Zhang Yuan finished tying his shoelaces and got up to continue walking up, Su Xing suddenly shouted, which startled the nervous Zhang Yuan so much that he screamed.

The Land Rover following behind him also shuddered in surprise, whether from Su Xing or from Zhang Yuan's sudden shout.

Yu Yu, who was at the back, was still on the first floor. He didn't know what was happening upstairs, but he could tell from the laughter in Su Xing's voice and Zhang Yuan's panicked shouts that Su Xing was playing a prank.

Yu Yu blinked, looking at Chen Chusheng's back in front of him. Suddenly, he rushed up to him in three steps and said in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft, "Brother Sheng, you'd better hurry up and leave."

"Huh? What's wrong?" Chen Chusheng asked, puzzled.

"Su Xing just finished, Yu Yu, stop messing around!" Zhang Yuan, who was above, had just realized that he had been tricked by Su Xing when he heard Yu Yu urging him from behind. He immediately retorted, thinking that Yu Yu was starting to cause trouble.

"What am I doing?" Yu Yu asked innocently. "Don't be nervous, it's nothing serious. I just saw what looked like a figure slowly approaching us from behind. I was thinking that during this escape, there shouldn't be any men with the surnames Yao, Yu, or Guo flying over here, right?"

Is there a figure behind us?

If Yu Yu said this in a nervous tone, not only Chen Chusheng and Wang Yuexin, but even Zhang Yuan and Lu Hu wouldn't believe it. If there really was an eighth person behind him, with Yu Yu's courage as stubborn as Su Xing's, he would be too excited to be afraid or nervous.

But why did he use such a leisurely, seemingly unconcerned tone, as if he wanted to stir up trouble? Not only was his tone nonchalant, but his body language also suggested a sense of urgency as he stood behind Chen Chusheng.

In that instant, Wang Yuexin's hair stood on end, and he immediately urged the Land Rover in front of him to move.

Chen Chusheng believed it too, and as soon as Wang Yuexin made a move, he ran up the steps two at a time.

As for Lu Hu and Zhang Yuan, the moment Yu Yu finished speaking, they took three steps at a time and rushed forward, screaming and shouting that someone was chasing them. They didn't slow down when they reached the upper level and rushed past Su Xing and Wang Zhengliang.

Su Xing and Wang Zhengliang also heard what Yu Yu was saying, but it all happened too fast. Before Wang Zhengliang could react, the two brothers, Jiang Zhi and Su Xing, had already run over.

Seeing that Hu Shengyu and the other two were rushing over without even looking up, Wang Zhengliang couldn't help but feel nervous and turned to follow behind Land Rover.

The next moment, Wang Yuexin ran up nervously, followed by Chen Chusheng. Rather than nervous and fearful, he seemed more excited, with a smile on his face.

Su Xing watched them run past, then turned around and saw that a rubber fish that should have been rushing past had stopped its sprint and was now leisurely strolling up.

"Hahaha, I knew it." Su Xing reached out and gave Yu Yu a high five as she walked up the last step.

The five people, panting as they rushed up to the second floor, stood in the porch and saw Yu Yu and Su Xing walking up behind them, arm in arm like two villains in cahoots. They immediately realized what was going on.

What the hell? Someone's chasing them? It's clearly Yu Yu's twisted sense of humor chasing them!

"YuYuSuXing! Are you two crazy?!"

Having been tricked and frightened twice, Zhang Yuan gritted his teeth and probably understood that the more he angered Yu Yu, the happier this rubber fish would be. This time, he chose to tell the parents: "Brother Sheng, look at this salted fish. He just scared you on purpose. Aren't you going to do anything about this brat?"

"Don't follow me around anymore." Chen Chusheng said speechlessly, lifting the mantis fish in front of him. "I'll cover your retreat."

"Oh no, no no, how can I let my older brother take the fall?" Yu Yu waved his hand, looking particularly loyal and innocent, but Chen Chusheng wasn't buying it. "If you take the fall, older brother... won't you suddenly scare us later?"

Chen Chusheng: "Guess?"

Compared to the first floor of a typical factory or warehouse, the second floor is more like the living room of a residence.

At this moment, only the area near the entrance hallway was lit; the deeper parts were shrouded in darkness.

A calendar hung on the wall of the porch, recording the schedules of each of them and their NPC friends. Worried that there might be clues in it that he might not be able to remember them in a short time, Land Rover decided to pack the calendar up and take it with him.

Near the calendar is a combination lock, and next to the combination lock is a cabinet filled with colorful bottles. The glass bottles in the cabinet are not beverages; they are placed together with letters and symbols, making it look more like a puzzle.

Unsurprisingly, the answer to this puzzle is related to a combination lock, and this time the combination is five English letters.

Chen Chusheng picked up the draft paper and pen beside him and began to make drafts and take notes.

Wang Zhengliang found a notebook in the drawer below the cabinet, which contained clues to solving the problem.

Su Xing and Wang Yuexin looked at the notes and began to study the solution.

As for Yu Yu? Yu Yu turned on the living room light, comfortably sprawled on the sofa, and watched Zhang Yuan and Lu Hu pick up the turtle and clam shell costumes on the ground and play with them.

"Awooo, the clam caught a fish." Land Rover waved its shell, "clamping" Yu Yu in, like a clam spirit swallowing Yu Yu whole.

Yu Yu, who was being held in Land Rover's arms, poked his ticklish spot with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

Land Rover immediately jumped back and complained to the turtle beside him: "This fish tickled me! I kindly rescued him because he was stranded, and he actually tickled me!"

Yu Yu smiled enigmatically: "So your way of saving a stranded fish is to eat it so it won't die of dehydration, right?"

The tortoise spoke slowly and deliberately, trying to reason with the fish: "Little fish, listen to my advice. It's true that the clam spirit saved you. He saved you, and that's a great favor. A fish's life is at stake. How can you repay such a great favor? If you have no way to repay it, then should you offer yourself to him so he can eat you?"

The clam spirit tiger nodded frantically, agreeing with what the tortoise had said.

"No, no, I'm just a fish with a memory that lasts only 7 seconds. I've long forgotten about the life-saving grace. Besides, eating turtle is clearly more nutritious. If you ask me, young clam spirit should go and eat you, you turtle spirit."

The clam spirit tiger nodded frantically; Little Fish was right.

"So, do you guys drink water? None of you three aquatic creatures are in the water."

Chen Chusheng stood to one side holding a kettle. Judging from the slightly helpless smile on his face, it was not hard to guess that he had just watched the whole thing and thought his three younger brothers' ideas were ridiculously outrageous.

Yu Yu waved her hand, indicating that she didn't need water for the time being. Zhang Yuan wanted some, but he didn't ask Chen Chusheng to pour it for him.

He walked to the problem-solving area, poured himself a glass of water, and watched the four intelligent people discuss their problem-solving strategies while drinking it. Five seconds later, after finishing his water, he gave up thinking and turned around to find that Land Rover was squatting in the corner picking his nose. Unable to refuse his hospitality, Zhang Yuan squatted in the corner with him to clear his nose.

Compared to the brainstorming area next door, this area is more like a brain-degrading area and a slacking-off area.

Before long, the four people in the puzzle area discovered that the key to the puzzle lay in the 26 letters of the English alphabet. By moving forward or backward three or four letters based on the triangles or quadrilaterals in the picture, they could get the corresponding answer: BURST.

Chen Chusheng chose a simpler method and wrote down the 26 letters on the draft paper. Without having to count on his fingers, he quickly came up with the answer and entered the password. The next moment, the locked drawer next to him was opened, and a tablet that recorded the social media updates of each NPC friend was quietly placed in the drawer.

Strangely, the seven people posted their updates one day apart, and the background of their selfies was always the same sofa in the living room.

They also have a mysterious follower, Xiaoyu, who has a clown-like face.

This sparked a wild idea in Zhang Yuan's mind: "Maybe all seven of us are the same person, we are all Xiaoyu, just different personalities of Xiaoyu."

The guys thought his idea was pretty cool, and Wang Zhengliang even joked that it didn't seem like the kind of intelligence he had when he was playing with the clam and turtle spirits with Yu Yu from Land Rover.

However, before they could delve any deeper, the lights in the room suddenly went out. One second Zhang Yuan was like a detective, the next he turned into a frightened bird, shrinking up and clinging tightly to Yu Yu beside him. Before Yu Yu could comfort him, Land Rover also pressed up to him from the other side.

The TV screen in front of the sofa lit up by itself, showing a terrifying clown holding an electric baton. He stood in front of the stairs on the first floor, grinning evilly, indicating that he was about to come up and play a game of cat and mouse. He told the little mice to hide well, or the consequences would be severe if they were caught.

The last image on the screen is the clown slowly walking up the stairs with a stun gun.

The television was turned off, and the alarm and Zhang Yuan's shouts sounded simultaneously.

"He's here, he's here, he's here!" Wang Zhengliang jumped up and spun around anxiously.

Chen Chusheng, who wasn't actually that nervous but understood that his current task was to hide, had already begun looking for a hiding place.

In the darkness, Yu Yu raised an eyebrow and raised his voice to calm his brothers down: "Don't panic, why should we hide? He's only one person, and there are seven of us. We have the advantage."

Wang Yuexin was slightly taken aback: "It's true that we have a numerical advantage, but he said that if he catches us, we won't be able to see our friends again, and he also has weapons?"

“Obviously, that clown is the mastermind behind this game. If we catch the villain, why would we need to worry about our friends’ safety?” Yu Yu said, casually pulling out a stick-like object from behind her. “As for weapons, we have those too.”

He turned on the "stun gun" switch, and a blue light immediately lit up at the top.

Guys: Wait a minute, Doraemon, where did you pull that stun gun from?!

The clown teacher, pacing the stairs waiting for them to reappear after they've hidden themselves: Is this right, director? If he goes up there now, will he even survive?