imaginary field

"What are you looking at?" Evan asked, he walked to Chris's side, maybe because of sharing the food, his relationship with Chris was not as rusty as before.

"...I don't know." Chris looked away, "I mean, did we really find all the places?" Chris asked, "Before this, you didn't think there would be food behind the mirror. "

Evan's expression was a little strange, he had already taken off his suit jacket, "You mean, we're playing an escape room game?" He looked distressed, "I've never tried this before."

"I don't know." Chris said again, until now, he still feels clueless, everything looks so unbelievable, and he won't be surprised if a monster emerges from the wall in the next second.

He went back to bed and lay down, the short rest, and the food that temporarily relieved him from hunger, gave him time to start thinking about the situation.

He and Evan were trapped in this room.

In addition to the poor food, there is an occasional reminder——

"Did you get a hint just now?"

"No." Evan said, "I calculated the time, and it was half an hour later than before."

Weird, Chris thought, putting his tracksuit hat over his head, which is the position he often uses when he thinks, watching Evan's behavior as he walks around the room, "You just found the key ?”

"Yes." Evan turned back, "What are you suspecting? There are no new hints."

But I just fell asleep, Chris thought, and who knows if there will be a rule that commands can only be sent to another person when one person is fast asleep.

Chris leaned on the iron bed, and his and Evan's food was placed in the corner of the iron bed, separated, and neither could touch the other.

He looked up at the light bulb above his head. The light bulb looked old, the glass was covered with dust, and the light was a little dim. Chris stretched out his hand and tried to pull the rope.

The crude light source immediately shuts off.

Then he flipped the switch again before Evan protested.

Why is there such a crude device, Chris thought, he didn't see the wires, were the wires hidden in the cement layer?He pulled the switch again.

Then open it again.

The light still seemed dim, and because the roof of this house was higher than ordinary houses, the light seemed even more dim.

"Evan," Chris said suddenly.

"what."

"There seems to be one place we haven't found yet," Chris said.

Evan looked at the silk thread wrapped around his fingers, and followed his gaze to see the roof that was much higher than the usual room, "You mean...there."

"Let's try it," Chris said, his fingers still wrapped in silk. "I feel a little weird in my hand." He finished and tugged on the switch.

Snapped--

The lights went out and something fell from Chris' hands.

Evan turned on the phone's light and saw the switch in Chris's hand... and... foam?

Subconsciously, he raised his head and illuminated the area with his mobile phone, only to find that there was indeed a hole there.

"How did you come up with that?" Evan asked.

"I don't think this is reasonable." Chris said, "We can't be locked in a completely airtight space, so there must be an exit here, but we haven't found it yet."

"And up there, that's the only area we haven't checked."

It sounds like the logic of these reasonings is not particularly strong, and many of them are Chris's personal thoughts, but he seems to have decided that his thoughts are correct, Evan thought.

But looking at it now, he was indeed right.

The ceiling was so high that their only chair had crumbled into rotten wood, and Chris and Evan were standing on the bed, unable to reach the ceiling even with their outstretched arms.

Chris looked at Evan's body shape, and the other party was taller than himself, "How much do you weigh?"

Evan reported a number.

Heavier than himself, Chris thought, "I'm sitting on your shoulders."

Evan didn't retort, he squatted down, let Chris sit on it, he handed Chris the phone, then grabbed Chris' ankle, and stood up carefully.

Chris watched the ceiling get closer and closer to him, and then he supported the foam board and began to pull along the hole that had appeared.

Soon, he pulled out an entrance that could be passed by one person, and he groped along other places, trying to find out where the edge of this area was.

"A little to the left." Chris held the phone to illuminate, and then directed Evan under him.

Evan carefully moved some distance to the left. In fact, he was very tired now, and the weight of a grown man was all on him.

This made him feel a lot of pressure.

Chris quickly touched the nearby ceiling and kept tapping, finally, he found a solid part.He quickly ripped off all the foam nearby, and then he saw a break in the concrete structure.

"I found it." Chris said, put the phone in his mouth, and quickly climbed up.Then he lay on his stomach at the hole, looking at Evan below.

"Give me your hand." Chris leaned half of his body out of the hole. He took off the phone, held it in his hand, and shined down.

Evan looked up at the distance between him and Chris, "You can't pull me up." He looked back at the chairs that had been scattered on the ground, even if Chris leaned out half of his body, he could just grab them his arm.

In this case, Chris couldn't catch him with his own strength.

"Ladder or chair," Evan said to Chris overhead.

Chris looked down at Evan who was standing below. He looked at the distance between him and Evan, and could only admit that what the other party said made sense.

Chris got up from the ground. The space on the second floor was completely dark. The light from the mobile phone could only illuminate part of the distance. It was already covered with dust, and he thought that no one had appeared here for a long time.

Chris searched along the wall for a while, but still couldn't find the switch of the lighting equipment. He suspected that the lighting equipment here was the same as downstairs, and the switch was a rope hanging in the air.

So he started groping again, and then he realized that the area was surprisingly large, because he felt like he had been walking for 10 minutes without touching any walls.

And the entrance of the cave where Evan was, also lost his direction in the vast darkness.

"Evan...?" Chris turned around and called out tentatively.

No one answered.

Chris could only turn his head back, kept calling Evan's name, and walked in the direction of his memory, but he didn't know how long he walked, and he didn't see the hole again.

The boundless darkness seemed to swallow him, leaving only the mobile phone in his hand emitting a faint light.

Evan's phone.

It was so unusual, Chris didn't walk anymore, he sat on the ground, decided to save a little energy.

No matter how big the place is, Evan can't lose his voice, and he remembers where he came from... But the darkness can be disorienting.

Chris put the phone in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and then turned off the phone.

The boundless darkness immediately engulfed him.

It's a good thing he's never been afraid of the dark, Chris couldn't help thinking that it was pitch black in his field of vision.

He thought of the few hints he had given so far——

【The world is full of lies. 】

[Only one person can get out alive. 】

[Games need players. 】

[There is no point in ending too quickly. 】

The world is full of lies. Chris thinks that the focus here should be the first sentence as a reminder, the last two sentences are supplementary, and the second sentence may be a deception or a truth.

Or there is another possibility that these four sentences are all options to confuse people.

But now he should find Evan first.

"Evan!" he yelled again, and God forbid he got a response.

"Where are you?" Evan asked.

In fact, he felt very puzzled. After Chris disappeared from the cave, he didn’t come back for a long time. He estimated that it was more than ten minutes, and then the other party suddenly started yelling, and no matter how he responded, the other party seemed to listen. not see.

But judging from the sound distance, Chris should be very close to him.

And this time, Evan didn't expect to get a response. He thought that there should be something on the second floor that prevented the communication between him and Chris.

Maybe Chris suddenly lost his hearing?Evan thought wildly.

But this time, Chris suddenly responded.

They checked the distance again, and then Evan saw the faint light. Chris didn't look very good, he was dirty, and there was some dust on his face.

The other party carefully climbed down from the hole and landed on the iron bed.

"What happened?" Evan asked.

"It's weird up there." Chris said, he briefly told Evan about his experience, "I think we should go up together." When he just came down, he found the light switch that was originally controlled by a rope.

So now the first floor is back to light, and Evan's phone can be temporarily put back in his pocket.

"What are you going to do?" Evan asked.

"Fix the chair first?" Chris said, "or...?" He looked at the distance between the iron bed under him and the wall, and calculated how difficult it would be to stand up on the iron bed.