Showbiz Escape

Chapter 73
After finally avoiding the surveillance of the guards in the corridor on the third floor, Wen Zhuo and Ye Lingchuan walked lightly and hurried along the stairs to the fourth floor.

The stairs leading to the fourth floor are obviously longer than the stairs on other floors, and there are several turns in the middle, which makes people feel like walking for a long time.

Until they came to an iron fence, the top of the iron fence was almost connected to the ceiling, and it would be impossible to turn over it, and they could only open it with a key.

Wen Zhuo raised his hand and pointed upwards, and whispered to Ye Lingchuan in a low voice: "The key is there."

The key is hung in a corner of the ceiling, and it seems not difficult to get it, but the other end of the key is connected to a string of bells.

It is conceivable that if you want to get the key, you will inevitably ring the bell and be discovered by Mrs. Kester.

This is not a very simple matter.

However, before the two of them had worked out a reliable method, they suddenly heard a scream from the end of the corridor, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps, as if someone was speeding towards this side.

The two looked at each other, and immediately stuck to the wall and stood on both sides, hiding themselves in the shadow of the fence that was not illuminated by the light.

Sure enough, in just a few seconds, the female player who had been drawn before had already stumbled towards this side.

Her hair was disheveled, she was wearing a long white dress that she didn't know when she changed, and she was crying with tears all over her face.

And Mrs. Kester followed behind her, wearing elegant and graceful silk pajamas, with a lazy smile on her face.

Madam was not in a hurry to catch up, as if she was sure that the other party would not be able to escape.

In fact, there was really no way to escape, because there was no key, so the female player could only shake the iron fence vigorously, making a rattling noise.

"Damn game! What kind of damn game is this!!!"

I don't know exactly what she saw, but when Madam used two fair fingers to lift her away easily, she was still crying and struggling desperately.

The game of Vanity Fair is always cruel. Here, experienced players will not waste time sympathizing with others. They are better at taking advantage of other people's mistakes and difficulties to create convenience for their own tasks.

So Wen Zhuo and Ye Lingchuan instantly realized that this was an excellent time, after all, the other party's excessively sharp cries could help them cover up the sound of the bell.

The tacit understanding between the two broke out at this moment, and they even skipped the step of discussing directly. Ye Lingchuan bent down and lifted Wen Zhuo up with one arm around his legs, and Wen Zhuo used his height advantage to reach the key hanging from the ceiling.

The sound of the bell was at the same frequency as the scream of the female player. During this period, Mrs. Kerst vaguely noticed something, but when she turned around, she saw that the dark corridor was quiet, and there was nothing unusual about it.

So she dragged the poor female player into the deep room.

On the other side, Wen Zhuo and Ye Lingchuan, who got the key as quickly as possible and hid it well, finally found their chance.

The two quickly unlocked the iron fence, and then returned the iron fence to its original position, then walked lightly towards the depths of the corridor.

Wen Zhuo said in a low voice: "What if she comes out to check again halfway? The rooms on this floor are all locked, and there is no place to hide."

Ye Lingchuan looked around with a calm expression: "There's nothing you can do about it. You've been discovered. If you can run, run. If you can't run, confront yourself—I'll try my best to cover you."

"How can I let you cover, it doesn't make sense."

"You don't worry about letting Miss Tang take Mr. Jiang through the customs alone? It's come to this point, you have to bring the task to a successful conclusion."

She paused, and gave him a meaningful look: "If possible, I still hope to fight against the enemy together, at least not to let you lose points again."

"Huh? That's very ironic."

"just kidding."

The two stopped in front of the door of the room at the end of the corridor, and found that the door was not locked, but left a very narrow gap, just enough to see what was going on inside.

I didn't know the result, but I was shocked when I saw it.

Especially saying that this is an ordinary room, it is better to say that this is a prison cell.

In the prison cell, there are two rows of human-shaped devices neatly placed against the wall. The devices are made of heavy iron and decorated with iron chains on both sides. It feels like they were designed after medieval women. Even the head and facial features are very lifelike. It's a bit chilly to watch for a long time.

Under all the devices, there is a stone pool with its own circular groove, which seems to be used to catch water, but I don't know what kind of water to catch.

At this moment, Mrs. Kester is opening the humanoid device on the far right and trying to push the struggling female player into it.

Her strength was so great that the female player was unable to resist at all, and within minutes she was strangled by the neck and forced into the device.

Since her back was facing the door, Wen Zhuo and Ye Lingchuan's vision was limited, and they couldn't see clearly what was inside the device.

The female player who was locked in the device was still trying to slap and hit, but it was just useless.

Mrs. Koster gracefully re-locked the device, and then took four buckets made of sterling silver, and put them into the circular grooves of the pool.

She unscrewed a lock button at the bottom of the device, as if some mechanism had been activated. For a moment, the female player's frantic and frightened wailing came from the device, mixed with the sound of fine water flowing, as if liquid was filling the silver. bucket.

The wailing voice of the female player gradually weakened, perhaps because she lost her strength, or maybe...

In short, the speed of the water flow gradually slowed down, and the silver bucket seemed to be filled to the brim.

Mrs. Kester turned off the lock button. It was hard to imagine that she, who was slender in a white nightgown, could easily pick up four buckets at the same time, and walked out through the secret door on the other side of the wall. She didn't know where she went.

Wen Zhuo and Ye Lingchuan waited outside the door for a long time, until they were sure that the other party would not come back in a while, then they opened the door cautiously and entered, and took a closer look.

This time, they could clearly see the dry and condensed black traces in the pool, and the groove under the device closest to the female player was even stained with freshly spilled, bright red and viscous blood.

A strong fishy smell rushed over in an instant.

Wen Zhuo was silent for a while, and asked Ye Lingchuan in a low voice: "Brother Chuan, have you heard the story of Bloody Mary?"

"I've heard of it." Ye Lingchuan nodded, "Witches bathe in the blood of pure girls to achieve the effect of eternal youth."

"This is because a female player was drawn. What if a male player was drawn at that time?"

"That is likely to be another way of death, and it is also related to another task."

After finishing speaking, Ye Lingchuan leaned over and unscrewed the lock button controlling the humanoid device according to Mrs. Kerst's previous practice.

The tightly closed door lock bounced outward with a soft sound, and the scene inside the device was presented in front of the two of them without reservation.

At the same time, they also saw dozens of sharp spikes that had just been retracted from the middle.

The female player locked in the device has been pierced into a gourd of blood by spikes. There is no intact skin on her whole body, and her white clothes are dyed dark red.

She froze in an extremely terrified and distorted expression, and she had long since lost her breath.

Wen Zhuo remembered that this device seemed to be called the Iron Maiden, and it was an extremely cruel instrument of torture in the Middle Ages. Locking it up was like extracting juice from a living person.

She took a deep breath, even though she was used to seeing bloody scenes in the game, she couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

"People are being squeezed dry."

"Yeah." But Ye Lingchuan's attention was obviously not here. He observed carefully for a while, and finally used his fingertips to brush away the female player's messy and wet long hair, revealing the neck of the corpse. "Look, she is wearing pearls."

Indeed, it was a pearl strung together with black silk threads, plump and round, with a soft beige light, which showed that it was of great value.

This is most likely not the female player's own jewelry, but Mrs. Kester put it on for her.

——the pearl on the neck of a sleeping girl.

This scene matches the song.

Wen Zhuo's thoughts turned, she immediately went to the other iron maid devices in the secret room, and unscrewed all the lock buttons of those devices.

Sure enough, there is a girl imprisoned in each device, but these girls have been dead for too long, and they have turned into unrecognizable corpses. The smell of decay mixed with the smell of fresh blood fills the whole space, which is unavoidable. dizzy.

She covered her nose, frowned and pointed: "They all wear pearls."

There are a total of eight pearls, and they must be collected to prepare for the final mission.

Before Mrs. Kester came back, the two raced against time to take off the pearl and put it in their pockets, and escaped from this weird secret room in time.

******
When Wen Zhuo and Ye Lingchuan were studying the mummy in the secret room, Tang Chunen and Jiang Zhou were not idle and gained something.

Under the faint moonlight, the two searched hard among the large black tulip bushes, and finally relied on Tang Chunen's good eyesight to find the flower with a different color.

The flower was a champagne-gold rose with slightly lower branches, surrounded by tulips in the center. If it hadn't happened to be blown by the wind, it might have been hidden for a longer time.

Indeed, indeed, it is very much like a star in the boundless night.

Tang Chunen picked up the rose by the root and held it carefully in his hand. Before he could say anything to Jiang Zhou, he looked up and saw Zhou Jinyan and Shao Beibei walking towards this side.

When Shao Beibei saw the rose she was holding, he immediately showed joy, and subconsciously reached out to take it.

"Did you find it?"

"I found it." Tang Chunen withdrew his hand and hid the rose behind his back, "Let us take care of it."

Shao Beibei was taken aback for a moment, and couldn't help but change his expression: "No way, you two want to have it all to yourself?"

"Miss Shao, your impolite behavior of robbing directly when you come up will inevitably make us wonder if you want to take it all for yourself."

"...I'm worried, what if the two of you don't tell us when you are doing the task?"

"Coincidentally, this is also our concern."

At this moment, Zhou Jinyan said, "It's been agreed before, whoever finds the flower will put it there. Miss Tang will find it first, and the props will belong to Miss Tang. There's no problem."

Shao Beibei turned back angrily: "Who are you talking to?"

"Cooperation requires the sincerity of cooperation. Either you have the ability to get the props yourself, or keep silent."

"..."

Tang Chun'en could see that Zhou Jinyan really wanted to form an alliance, so his attitude softened a bit.

She said politely: "Mr. Zhou is a smart person, please don't worry, we will definitely keep our promise - why don't we all act together and meet my friends first?"

Zhou Jinyan was curious: "Do you know any other friends in this game?"

Tang Chunen glanced at Jiang Zhou thoughtfully, and she smiled: "Yes, our situation is quite special."

"And so are your friends..."

"Yes, she is also the hunter of the hearts group."

(End of this chapter)