Chapter 348
Chapter 348
The card Lu Jing had drawn bore the words Copy Card.
There was no explanation of how to use it or what effect it had.
Copy… copy what?
Lu Jing felt somewhat lost.
Qin Weiyi could not make sense of it either.
They did not have much time to discuss it. A staff member soon appeared and called for Lu Jing first. “Director, we’re about to begin.”
Hearing this, Lu Jing cast Qin Weiyi a reluctant glance before finally following the staff member away.
The same sequence repeated once again.
First, the scriptwriter provided the Scripts. Then Lu Jing made his selection.
Lu Jing took a look.
Well, the Realm of Death had truly reached new heights of laziness. Two of the three Scripts were the ones they had not used last time, meaning it had actually added only one new option. Naturally, that one was just as ordinary and unoriginal as the others.
Lu Jing wanted to repeat his previous strategy, but… wouldn’t it become boring if he kept doing the same thing?
But he could not think of a good new idea!
After some thought, Lu Jing finally decided, “Let’s do this. Give half of them the real Script and half of them a fake one.”
He truly had no new ideas and could only repackage the same old trick. Of course, to show that he had thought seriously about it, he would make a few minor changes to the way the real and fake Scripts were distributed.
Once Lu Jing made his decision, the staff immediately led Qin Nan and the other two out of the lounge.
Filming officially began.
This time, the theme of Escape Room was escaping from an office building.
The office building had twenty-eight floors, with one to four companies on each floor. Of course, some more extravagant companies rented three or four entire floors.
There were still seven cast members.
They were employees working in the building. That day, as usual, they stayed late at their company to work overtime. They suddenly grew sleepy and unknowingly drifted off. Then a sudden crack of thunder sounded outside, startling all seven awake. They discovered that their company was now pitch-black. The entire office had lost power, and without electricity, they could not even open the electronic lock on the company’s main doors.
At that moment, Qin Nan and the other two had already been blindfolded and taken to the new filming location.
After the staff left, the three removed the black cloths from their faces and began surveying their surroundings.
This time, the seven cast members had been separated from the very start.
Each of them was now alone inside an office.
Their first task was to escape from their respective offices. After that, they had to escape the company, then the floor, and finally unlock the office building’s main entrance.
Being alone made Qin Nan rather nervous.
Yet even as he muttered about his nerves, he began searching for a flashlight.
He had already read the Script.
According to it, this office building was also haunted.
This time, the ghost would appear directly outside the office door.
The company’s doors were made of transparent material. When he went to check the office door, the ghost would suddenly dart out and appear face-to-face with him, giving him a fright.
In theory, the ghost should not harm them, just as the ghosts had not last time. But the panda robot’s words had put Qin Nan on alert again. These ghosts might truly kill him.
As for escaping the office, its door did not have an electronic lock, so Qin Nan simply needed to find the key.
According to the Script, that key was inside the manager’s drawer.
Qin Nan held up the flashlight and swept its beam across his area.
Excellent. Every workstation looked identical. There was no way to tell which belonged to the manager and which belonged to an ordinary employee.
Qin Nan could only search them slowly, one by one.
At worst, it would take a little more effort. What concerned Qin Nan more was how he would find Jian Fan and the others after leaving this office.
Now that he thought about it, this was rather absurd too.
Who had ever heard of an escape room where everyone solved puzzles alone?
While Qin Nan searched for the key, Jian Fan had already reached his office door.
The Script he received differed from Qin Nan’s.
According to his Script, this office did not need to be solved at all.
All he had to do was–raise his hand, grasp the door handle, and turn it. Just like that, Jian Fan successfully walked out.
An escape room began with a group trying to escape together. It made no sense for everyone to solve their own puzzle first. In truth, they did not need to waste any effort solving the office stage. They only had to open their office doors, after which they would meet within the same company on that floor. That was when the real Escape Room began.
The viewers had noticed nothing wrong while watching Qin Nan. The moment they saw Jian Fan’s side, however, they burst into laughter, and the show’s Popularity rose again.
Hearing the increase in Popularity, Qin Nan and Mu Xin found it utterly absurd.
How exactly was this Popularity increasing?
“Hahahahaha.”
“Hahahaha.”
“The director’s trick is brilliant again this time.”
“So devious.”
“…”
So what exactly had happened? Couldn’t these bullet comments give them a hint?
Unable to find an answer in the bullet comments, Qin Nan could only continue searching for the key.
Like Qin Nan, Mu Xin had also received a fake Script. She was still inside her office, searching for the manager’s workstation and the key.
Jian Fan had only received a Script describing the general process. It said nothing about the other Players’ situations, but after a little thought, he made a rough guess.
The other cast members had to be inside the same company on this floor, just in different offices.
As for why they had not appeared…
Jian Fan thought that perhaps there was a problem with the Scripts.
It was nothing serious. He could go find Qin Nan and Mu Xin.
But then he remembered his deadweight persona…
Jian Fan went to the neighboring office first.
The office was pitch-black, but a beam of light was visible inside. Someone was probably using a flashlight to search for something.
Jian Fan reached out and knocked on the glass door. Then he turned on his flashlight and aimed the beam directly at his own face.
When the cast member inside heard the sound, they instinctively turned to look and naturally saw Jian Fan standing outside the glass door.
But they could not see him clearly. All they saw was an expressionless face illuminated by the flashlight.
“Ah!”
The cast member immediately screamed, dropped the flashlight, and curled up beneath the desk.
Jian Fan listened expressionlessly. That voice belonged to neither Qin Nan nor Mu Xin. Excellent. At least he had not frightened one of his own teammates.
Jian Fan’s actions not only suited his assigned persona but also earned another wave of Popularity.
At the same time, the bullet-comment replay appeared.
“Hahahaha, this handsome guy is awful.”
“It’s him again! Him again!”
“The guy who scares people with a flashlight is back.”
“Why does someone this handsome do such rotten things?”
“Handsome guy, that is so mean!”
“…”