40. Who saves who(1/2)
When Xia Xiqing heard Zhou Ziheng's tone, he was so happy that he didn't know that he had an affair with Shang Sirui. When the time comes, these two CP fans will be broadcast...
He really couldn't say which of these two CP fans is happier.
Anyway, the CP fans of [Xia, Shang and Zhou] must be happy.
"No, I'll come back to find you later." Xia Xiqing felt like a loving young man who was lingering in brothels. He said beautiful words on this side, and then ran to the other side to please.
"Do you think I'll wait for you?" Zhou Ziheng's tone still didn't soften much. Xia Xiqing chuckled twice, walked to the radio and squatted down, gently patted the radio twice, "I don't care, I'll wait until you come."
After saying that, Xia Xiqing turned off the blue knob and turned on the red knob that had never been connected. He was not sure whether Shang Sirui's current signal was still in contact with Ruan Xiao, nor was he sure of Shang Sirui's identity, but no matter whether he was a killer or not, he should need to understand the plot of the male protagonist at this time.
Xia Xiqing stood up, walked back to the table and picked up the puzzle he had found before, and placed it in the blank area behind the door. The raised part of the new puzzle was completely in line with the depression of the original puzzle. Just as Zhou Ziheng said before, there would be magnetic sucking in the right position, and the puzzle was also firmly sucked on the door.
In this way, half of the blank area has been filled, and it should be only two puzzle pieces missing.
At this moment, Xia Xiqing suddenly heard a voice. When he turned around, he saw that the door of the wardrobe had opened itself, and a red laser appeared inside, which was placed straight on the opposite wall.
"Scared me..." Xia Xiqing walked to the cabinet to himself, "The prop group of this episode has really invested a lot..."
When he saw the laser, he thought of reflection. This was almost the subconscious of the frequent escape room visitor. He reached out and grabbed the door of the wardrobe, adjusted the angle of the wardrobe door, and found that the laser could automatically adjust the incident angle according to the angle change.
But there was no mirror in this room. At this time, we could only use a tentative method. Xia Xiqing grabbed the wardrobe door and slowly adjusted the opening and closing angle of the wardrobe to observe the changes in the direction of the laser. At first, no matter how he adjusted, the light was shot straight, until at a certain moment, the red light suddenly turned and hit the wall against the right side of the bed.
On the dark blue wallpaper, the red light gathered into a dot, but there was no next change. Xia Xiqing waited for a while, but no other mechanism appeared.
It seems that the red dot is a position prompt.
He walked to the bedside, half-kneeled on the single bed, touched the red dot with his hand, and found a bulge that seemed to be hidden under the wallpaper.
It turned out to be a prompt message.
Xia Xiqing tore a hole in the wallpaper, and fell out the third piece of the puzzle, and there were strange words. He put away the puzzle and looked at the sentence on the wall.
In fact, if you look closely, you can tell that the word is mirrored, but if it is just like this, it is still fine, and you can barely recognize it one by one. However, the program team does not intend to set such a simple level at all. This line of strange characters is actually the effect of two lines of mirrored characters overlapping together.
Mirror processing plus separation is a task that is really a bit difficult for the human eye, but now there are no mirrors in the room.
"I can only use a stupid method..." Xia Xiqing took the diary she had placed on the table before, tore off a page, and prepared to dig down the words on the wall.
He hasn't fully understood what the plot is, and there is no way to talk about killer's standards. Xia Xiqing even suspected that the program team gave him the most difficult part.
At this time, the radio, which had been making noisy currents, finally showed a vocal.
"Xi Qing?"
Xia Xiqing pressed his hand against the wall and replied while tying the words, "Yes. You're finally here."
Shang Sirui made a move in the last episode. Xia Xiqing knew better than anyone else how smart the person on the phone was. "How is your side? Do you have any clues?"
"You must know that our current identity is actually the identity of the owner of the room."
The trick of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger in the previous episode was only valid once. This time, Shang Sirui did not hide at all and just focused on the key points, "I just talked with Ruan Xiao and found that there were very few clues in my room."
This sounds like Shang Sirui's usual style of behavior [in advance].
“How to say it?”
"I have almost sorted out all the plot lines that I can sort out in my room, but there is only one. When we talked with Ruan Xiao for the first time, we found that each other's plot lines were completely different. At that time, I guessed that it was the setting of a real and fake girlfriend? Later we talked again, and Ruan Xiao told me that she had a new plot line, but I still only had one. And the most tricky thing is that her new clues do not match mine."
Xia Xiqing remembered the first time he talked with Ruan Xiao. Ruan Xiao wanted to speak but stopped. Perhaps it was because of their different plot lines. Moreover, Xia Xiqing himself had the "multiple plot lines" mentioned by Shang Sirui. There were two of them that he wanted to find now.
He remembered the numerical symbols on the clue he found, so he tried to inquire with Shang Sirui, "Is there any mark on your clue? For example, alphanumeric or something."
"You have it too." Shang Sirui exposes it directly. This is completely different from the style of his previous episode, but he immediately shows off again the next second. "My clues are indeed marked. Every plot clue I found has a number on it, whether it is a memo or an email."
He deliberately avoided the question of what number is. Xia Xiqing didn't want to ask directly. Shang Sirui obviously did not dispel his doubts about him. Asking directly in this way would make him more wary of himself and might even lie.
It is better to have no clues than to get fake clues, so as not to disrupt your thinking.
"I have numbers, but to be honest, I'm the same as Ruan Xiao. I have two plot lines so far, but there is not much difference."
"What's the difference?" Shang Sirui asked again.
Xia Xiqing hesitated for a moment, feeling that the information in his hand was not that critical, so he said frankly, "The timelines of these two sets of clues are different. The later one reads 13:00. At that time, her boyfriend already knew the information about her girlfriend's sudden death due to a heart attack. The other set was earlier. The male protagonist in the article just turned off the machine, and the female protagonist died or not said it."
He explained again, "It means that in the second set of plots, the male protagonist does not know the ending of the female protagonist."
Shang Sirui was silent for a while, "So, your two plots are the same as those of you at first?"
"Yes, the male and female protagonists quarreled, and the female protagonist took the train back to their parents' city. The male protagonist turned off the phone in anger, and it was the same all the way here." Xia Xiqingtuo got off the last part, got off the bed, walked to the small round table and sat down.
Shang Sirui's tone changed, and he sighed, "Then ours is really completely different. Your plot is consistent with one in Ruan Xiao's hands."
Sure enough, Ruan Xiao really had clues that matched his plot, which made Xia Xiqing breathe a sigh of relief. At least it means that a certain plot in his hand can be completely restored.
But immediately, Xia Xiqing discovered a problem, "Wait a minute, why are you completely different from Ruan Xiao? If you play the same role, at least there will be a time-series connection. This is the room between Zhou Ziheng and I. In many cases, I have to move the things in the house first, and the props on the other end can play a role. It means that the two rooms of the same role are related."
"What if you are not in the same time and space at this moment?"
Shang Sirui's sudden question made Xia Xiqing enlightened. Yes, if he and Zhou Ziheng were in the same time and space, there would inevitably be a time-series involvement, otherwise they would be parallel.
He continued, "To be honest, I just entered the room and the first signal I wanted to connect was Ziheng, but Ziheng's signal was not connected. When I went to find Ruan Xiao later, we had clues with numbers on our hands.
Xia Xiqing understood what Shang Sirui meant. If he just entered the room and no one found any clues with numbers, it means that he had not entered time and space, or was in the default time and space.
"So what you mean is that you and Ruan Xiao have never been involved in the mechanism because she has never found the same clue as the number in your hand."
Getting new clues means switching to a time and space.
"Yes, we missed the communication opportunity during the initialization because I was waiting for Ziheng, but he kept chatting with you, and he had been chatting for almost half an hour!"
These two people are really more childish than the other.
Xia Xiqing suddenly thought of the changing time on his notebook. In fact, time is not important at all. What is important is that it means that he has entered a new time and space now.
From the time and space of the diary 1 to the time and space of the notebook 2.
So, the time and space that Ruan Xiao did not find is the time and space where Shang Sirui is located?
Xia Xiqing, who had clarified his thoughts, spoke again, "So, what is the plot line you got? Did the heroine die of a sudden heart attack in the end?"
"Our plot is probably the only ending that is the same." Shang Sirui smiled self-deprecatingly, "but there is no similarity other than that. In my plot line, I am the one who wants to save people. It is the female main rescuer who locked herself at home and turned on gas to commit suicide. Do you understand?"
"What?"
suicide?
This new plot came too suddenly, and Xia Xiqing was a little confused for a moment, but he immediately thought of the last sentence in his previous diary. After knowing that the heroine died, the male protagonist did have the idea of dying. But he didn't think about that at that time.
"Wait a minute, the difference between this plot and me is too big. Then what? The heroine goes to save the hero?"
"In this plot line, the heroine is already at the bus stop near the train station when it is initialized. He knows that the hero will commit suicide in an hour, so he took Bus No. 420 in the opposite direction."
"But there was a traffic accident on the way to the male protagonist's house, and the bus was stuck on the road, so she got off the bus and couldn't stop the car halfway and could only run out of the blocked road first and take a taxi at the next intersection. However, due to intense exercise, her heart was overloaded and she had an attack before she could stop the car."
This set of plots simply subverts all the plots before Xia Xiqing.
He seemed to understand something, "Is the number of all your clues 3?"
"That's right."
Therefore, there are three parallel time and space in this story. Xia Xiqing looked at the knobs on the radio, and only Ruan Xiao wrote 0 under the knobs, and neither Zhou Ziheng nor Shang Sirui were.
What does this 0 mean? If you just make a distinction, there are so many ways to use 0? And there is nothing else, and there is no number other than 0.
"Do you have clues to the number 3?" Shang Sirui asked.
"No, so far."
"Really?" Shang Sirui's tone was full of suspicion, "I think it's also suspicious. Why are your two clues so similar? Even Ruan Xiao has changed, and you are almost the same."
Xia Xiqing laughed twice, "To be honest, I'm very surprised. It's also the butterfly effect, why is Ruan Xiao affected so much?"
Xia Xiqing couldn't guess whether Shang Sirui could accept such a statement, but he took the initiative to give Shang Sirui a thought, "You have too few plot lines, let's spread the word. If you are not a killer, you have two ways now. Either escape from your room first, and leave the plot or something else."
"Or you can connect Zhou Ziheng's signal and get more plot lines from him that Ruan Xiao and I don't have. You and him don't have numbers on the radio, which means that there will always be one of your plot lines that match."
Shang Sirui was silent for a moment, and let out a headache at the radio, telling the truth as if he was giving up on himself, "I'll tell you the truth, I've unlocked my door."
"But this program team is too perverted. The clues given to me after escaping the room are incomplete. I also told me that the final decryption of the gate requires splicing of clues from the two rooms to get the final password. So I have to cooperate with people no matter what. The key is that I don't know who is my partner."
When Xia Xiqing heard Shang Sirui say this, he was half-believing and half-doubted. Shang Sirui's tactics were too similar. This seemingly transparent method is the fastest way to gain trust. Even if the other party doesn't believe it, it will disrupt the audio-visual.
"So you're hiding in the room now?"
"Yeah." Shang Sirui breathed a sigh of relief. He seemed to feel that he was saying too much. "I won't tell you anymore. I'm going to try the second path you mentioned now. I'll be happy later."
Xia Xiqing smiled, "Look at what you said, it's like he's a killer."
Shang Sirui used his usual cute tone to confront Xia Xiqing's words, "Why do I feel that you have a low sense of vigilance towards him in this issue?"
What.
After hearing this, Xia Xiqing's first reaction was that he felt a little guilty. He concealed his emotions and asked, "What do you mean? So do you think I should doubt him?"
Shang Sirui smiled, "You are so smart, shouldn't you doubt everyone?"
His tail sound was full of hints. Xia Xiqing guessed that Shang Sirui discovered the ambiguous relationship between him and Zhou Ziheng, so he used the killer to make such jokes.
"Okay, go find him quickly. If you find out that he is a killer, remember to come back and tell me."
"No, no, I have changed~ I seriously suspect you are now, I want to tell him." Shang Sirui looked muddy and said, "I'm going to kill you now?" Xia Xiqing said with a strong mouth, but had a gentle smile on his face, "Believe it or not, I'll kill you to silence you now?"
"I really don't believe it."
To be continued...