0713: You who shine in the parallel world

After chatting for a while to calm down, everyone started thinking about what to do next.

After all, this is a work program recording, we can't just slack off or be passive all the time. Even if the timid brothers are about to break their temper, they still have to follow the process.

"Is the first level cleared? The mentally weak fat man solved the noise source and went back to sleep. He also kept the iron door for us. He is such a good man." Yu Yu looked at the half-open door.

"Uh, do we have to go out? Can't we just wait for the curfew to end in our own room and then go out for breakfast?" Land Rover raised his hand weakly and asked.

It was pitch black outside and in here. He really didn't want to go out and explore. Couldn't he wait until daytime to talk about it? Couldn't he let the child get some sleep even though he was in a mental hospital?

"I think, how about this, Su Xing, you go out and take a look first, and come back to pick us up when everything is OK." Zhang Yuan's abacus beads were about to jump onto Su Xing's face.

"You see, it's not that we don't want to go, we're just afraid that if too many people go out, the noise will be too loud and disturb other people's rest. What if they chase us with hammers?" He explained seriously and righteously.

Wang Yuexin immediately stood on Zhang Yuan's side. He said with a gloating smile: "For the sake of justice, Su Xing, you take the lamp and go back quickly. Don't worry about us."

Wang Zhengliang patted Su Xing on the shoulder and said, "If you encounter any danger, run away quickly. The farther the better. Don't bring us here. We will take care of ourselves."

"Turn left when you go out. We came from that side at the beginning and it took us a long time." Chen Qisheng also kindly helped Su Xing point the direction.

Su Xingxu stared at his group of good brothers. They were truly good brothers. They were all ready to push him out and close the iron gate immediately.

"It's okay to let me explore the way. As the captain, I should bear more responsibilities. But it's not too much for me to find someone else to go with me, right?" Su Xing discussed.

"Through our long-term cooperation, from the previous desert island survival to the current nursing home adventure, we have always been teammates and cooperated very well. He is young and energetic, strong and perfect and reliable. I believe that we can all see this."

Wang Yuexin listened to Su Xing's praise, and the corners of her mouth gradually curled up. The others also cooperated, nodding exaggeratedly and raising their thumbs to praise him.

Wang Yuexin straightened his clothes, straightened his chest, and raised his chin, like a dog that couldn't help but wag its tail when it heard praise. He was obviously very happy but still pretended to be reserved and reluctant, waiting for Su Xing to call out his name——

"He is Yu Yu, my most perfect teammate." Su Xing hugged Yu Yu's shoulders.

Wang Yuexin was petrified instantly. He looked at the other brothers in confusion as they transferred their thumbs up to Yu Yu.

Yu Yu was like an award-winning guest. She immediately put on a proud and reserved look and waved and nodded to everyone to express her gratitude.

The friendship between the Facebook brothers ended in an instant.

"Actually, it's not a big problem to explore the route with you. I roughly drew a route map in my mind when I came in just now."

Yu Yu crossed her chest with one hand and supported her chin with the other, and said in a casual tone something that a non-professional trained person could not do.

"But if I remember correctly, Rule 3 mentioned that there must be eight people in an eight-person room. We are in an eight-person room now, but there are only seven people left. If it's not full, what will happen?"

What terrible things will happen if there are less than eight people in an eight-person room?

"...Another teacher crawled out of the secret door?" During the strange pause of everyone, Chen Xinsheng suddenly thought of a somewhat weird and somewhat funny speculation.

"It's possible. If there aren't eight people, we'll have to add new roommates until there are eight people. Or we'll be attacked by ghosts, or this house will start to shake. Anything is possible."

Yu Yu nodded, and he thought that in this case they should hurry out to find a new room.

But just as he finished speaking, when the other brothers had not yet considered whether to go out, a string of blood-red numbers suddenly lit up on the wall in front of the room.

Countdown, five minutes.

Time has begun to go backwards.

At the same time, the voice of the "caretaker" sounded on the radio: "There are another group of blind and brainless animals. There are not enough people and they run into the big room, wasting resources. Aren't the water, electricity, bed sheets and quilts in the big room free to wash? You'd better not let me catch you, otherwise I will put you all in solitary confinement!"

The reminder was already clear: they had to leave here and find a new room within five minutes.

"Go, go!" Land Rover wanted to scream, but he remembered that the high decibel level would attract Fatty Hammer, so he could only pinch his throat and shout, which looked a little funny.

"Where are you going? Where are you going?" Zhang Yuan was no longer sure where to go.

"Don't panic," Su Xing calmed the troops and stuffed the night light into Yu Yu's arms, "Yu Yu, lead the way."

Yu Yu did not refuse. He held the lamp and motioned for everyone to follow him in the formation they had come in, with their arms around each other's shoulders.

The yellow light held high in his hand was the only direction in the darkness.

Yu Yu's speed afterwards also fully confirmed what he said, that he had already drawn a route map in his mind.

After going out the door, he didn't need to think or judge too much, nor did he need to stay where he was. It was as if he had already walked around here several times, holding up the yellow light and walking at a steady pace.

The dim light could not illuminate the road under his feet, but this did not prevent him from turning into a living path every time.

"Found it." Soon, he led them to find other rooms.

There are four rooms in this corridor, one single room, two double rooms, and one triple room. The remaining quadruple and sextuple rooms were not seen, so they may not be on this side.

Every door was half open, and they could enter as they pleased.

"What did that rule say just now? One person occupies a single room..." Su Xing raced his brain to quickly recall the text that he had only read once.

Ordinary people in a dark and scary secret room in a tense atmosphere might forget a sentence they read the next second, let alone remember four long contents.

Su Xing remembered, but he needed time to recall.

The rules that Lu Hu had picked up from the bulletin board earlier came in handy at this moment. He quickly took them out of his pocket and handed them to Su Xing, saving time in recalling.

"It's very simple. We won't consider the four-person and six-person rooms that we haven't found. Does anyone want a single room? If not, then we'll have two double rooms and one triple room."

"Let's get into groups."

Su Xing stretched out his hand, and the others also formed a circle and stretched out their hands tacitly.

"The palm and the back of the hand——"

Yu Yu glanced at the others out of the corner of his eye.

The first to split up were Chen Xiansheng and Zhang Yuan, followed by Su Xing and Lu Hu. The remaining Yu Yu, Wang Yuexin and Wang Zhengliang formed a group of three.

There were footsteps on the other side of the corridor.

"Go in quickly!" Wang Yuexin immediately pushed Yu Yu and Wang Zhengliang into the triple room and closed the door.

Yu Yu and the other two lay by the door and listened for a while. They heard footsteps passing by the room without stopping.

Very good, I escaped another disaster.

Wang Yuexin breathed a sigh of relief. The night light was still in Yu Yu's hand. He used the faint light to look at the layout of the room.

Like the eight-person room, there were only iron cage beds, tables and chairs, and no other furniture. However, he found another night light on the table. It seemed that this kind of light was standard in every room.

He took the new night-light and began to search the room.

Wang Zhengliang sat on a chair to rest and looked at him puzzledly: "Huhu, what are you looking for?"

"Looking for clues. The previous eight-person room had check-in rules, so there should be some here too." Wang Yuexin replied.

"Are you looking for this?" Yu Yu tapped the bulletin board on the door. "The bulletin board for this room is on the door, but there are no new rules on it."

Wang Yuexin walked over and took a look. The bulletin board was very clean, without even any traces of tape. It seemed that not every room had rules.

He searched the room unwillingly again. Wang Zhengliang couldn't bear to see the child working alone with a lamp, so he got up and looked for clues with him.

Seeing that Wang and Wang Xiao were so enthusiastic, Yu Yu considerately handed the lamp in his hand to Wang Zhengliang and was happy to show off.

But still no results, as if this was really just an ordinary room.

"I always feel something is wrong." Wang Yuexin frowned and sat down on the table next to Yu Yu, hoping that he would give her some ideas.

"What do you mean?" Yu Yu, leaning on the chair, made a gesture of invitation.

"It's that rule. It looks weird. Why do they use that method to limit the number of people in a room?"

Wang Zhengliang also dragged a chair over and sat down. "Indeed, if the rules wanted to tell us the maximum number of people each room can accommodate, couldn't they just state it directly? He deliberately beat around the bush."

"The beginning of the code states that it is the result of the experience of several generations, so it stands to reason that every word in it has meaning."

"Brother Liang, that's exactly what I meant." Wang Yuexin knew that Brother Liang had got his point. "I thought there would be a prompt in the corresponding room in the rules, but it turned out to be empty."

Yu Yu felt that they might have reached a dead end if they tried to find the answer in the room. They needed to open their minds, and there couldn't be only one hint hidden in the rules.

"Then change your thinking. The first possibility is that the person who wrote the rules deliberately used this method to make the rules more suitable for the style of a mental hospital, just like when I put on the Cyrus leather bag to record my travels, I wanted to be more artistic."

Yu Yu raised a finger, then a second one.

"The second is that the number of people in each room in this rule can actually be used as a subsequent screening mechanism. For example, in the later stages of the game, if we get some props or are possessed by a ghost, we can enter different rooms by arranging and combining them to filter out the desired results."

When Yu Yu mentioned the first possibility, the two of them were a little skeptical. There was indeed such an outrageous but reasonable possibility, but it was not very meaningful.

But the speculation about the second screening mechanism is really interesting!

Wang Yuexin watched with sparkling eyes as Yu Dabo slowly raised his third finger. She originally thought that he would come up with something shocking, but he just smiled and said:

"The third option, I haven't thought of it yet, I'll wait and see what others will add to it later."

“I think the screening mechanism you mentioned is very likely.” Wang Zhengliang said, “We only got a part of the rules. There are more to come, and maybe it will be linked to this one.”

The three of them sorted out their subsequent thoughts. The footsteps of the caregiver who had been walking around in the darkness came back again. His lines came on the radio. He said in a broadcasting voice that these rats who wasted resources were good at hiding, so they were let go for the time being.

The danger was over, the doors of the three rooms were opened one after another, and four night lights were lit.

Due to the rules, they could not gather in one room and could only stand in the aisle. As soon as they went out and saw Su Xing, Wang Yuexin shared their findings with them. Unexpectedly, Su Xing had the same idea.

He also provided a new idea: "This may also be the answer to the puzzle that will be used later. After all, the secret room needs to be decrypted to get out."

"That's indeed possible." Yu Yu nodded.

Su Xing smiled again as he thought of something. He patted Lu Hu's shoulder and said, "Actually, Hu Zi also had a different opinion just now. Come on, Hu Zi, tell everyone what you said to me just now."

Land Rover was not convinced, but said, "I think it's possible that it means some of us are not human beings. Literally, it says that it can hold a certain number of 'people'. If it's not 'human beings', then there is no limit."

Zhang Yuan understood his point, but that didn't stop him from trying to hold back a smile and saying, "What you said... if you don't know, you might think you were scolding some of us as not being human, and then you didn't say who it was, so we have to imagine it ourselves."

"Then I won't be a human being anymore, JOJO!" He made a middle school pose commonly known as the JOJO stand.

Using abstract thinking to solve difficult problems is worthy of Land Rover. Yu Yu applauded in his heart.