latelenovela Chapter 387 Small Tricks
Chapter 387 Small Tricks
As Yan Xun spoke, he stopped when he saw that Li Wu did not react at all.
Seeing that Yan Xun was silent, Li Wu finally spoke up, "That makes some sense."
"If that's the case, then we should still try to find the other phones that are hidden."
"Have you thought of any other clues?"
Having experienced many instances of the game, Li Wu knew that Yan Xun's reluctance to continue might be a test of his sincerity. After a moment's thought, he also voiced his own thoughts.
"The props in the black bear man's yard that you mentioned, as well as the cell phone, should be key clues."
“I suspect that the reason we hid our phones in the other party’s yard and didn’t bring them out was because it would be dangerous to bring them into the Gao family’s house.”
Li Wu spoke slowly, probably simulating the scene in his mind as he spoke.
"What do you think is dangerous?" Yan Xun asked.
“Apart from his courtyard, the entire Gao family scene is a separate space,” Li Wu said. “If the Black Bear Man’s courtyard is still ‘modern,’ then the Gao family scene is ‘ancient.’”
"Is it possible that if the phone is brought into this scenario, it will not only malfunction, but also...disappear?"
"If we were to enter a locked room, I guess the reason we didn't bring our phones at the beginning was because locked rooms don't allow phones," Yan Xun said.
"If you think of the black bear man as an NPC in the locked room, you'll understand."
"His courtyard might be the place we entered. The rules of the secret room do not allow cell phones to be brought in, so we put our phones in the black bear man's courtyard and asked the NPC to keep them safe."
Yan Xun thought that the reason they didn't bring their phones at the beginning was probably quite simple.
It's simply a game in an escape room. You're not allowed to bring your phone inside, so it has to be kept by the NPCs.
He and Li Wu and the other three were friends, and it seemed they often went out together. This time, they also went to this secret room together.
Gao Wen and the others might just be their temporary teammates.
In this secret room, they need to play the roles of seven concubines.
“Lou Yanchuan was sent to investigate, which is why he specifically entered the Gao family’s residence.” Yan Xun still remembered Lou Yanchuan’s mission about “Yin Peach Blossom”. “I suspect that this was the mission we each drew when we entered the secret room.”
"Then what about our mission?" Li Wu asked.
"Maybe we didn't get the mission?" Yan Xun looked at Li Wu.
“I’ve never played an escape room before,” he told Li Wu.
He only knew about escape rooms and murder mystery games, but he had no recollection of ever playing an escape room himself.
Li Wu looked at him. "Me too."
"Really?" Yan Xun didn't believe it.
“Really,” Li Wu said. “I used to…” He paused for a moment, “I mean, before I got into this game, I wasn’t interested in playing escape rooms.”
Yan Xun knew absolutely nothing about Li Wu's past. He only knew that Li Wu was the vice president of the Retrospection Association, occasionally participated in the assessment of newcomers, and was the spokesperson for Retrospection—in the absence of the president himself, Li Wu was usually the one who spoke to the outside world.
But no one knows what Li Wu did before entering the game.
Perhaps this topic piqued his interest, because he spoke more than usual, "To be precise, I never had the chance before."
No chance? Yan Xun pondered his meaning.
"You don't live in a place with escape rooms?"
“I’m a rather gloomy person, and nobody wants to hang out with me,” Li Wu said.
He looked at Yan Xun and said, "I like to stay at home and read books every day."
"They don't interact with others much either."
“I know about the secret room,” he said to Yan Xun, “but I’d be a little scared to go there alone.”
...Afraid of locked rooms? Li Wu?
Yan Xun simply couldn't connect the two.
"Are you afraid of scary things in a locked room, or are you afraid of talking to strangers?" He was so curious that he couldn't help but ask again.
“Yes, I have both,” Li Wu said honestly. “When I was a child, I would be so scared by the words ‘ghost story’ that I would cover my ears and dare not listen.”
“If someone deliberately says, ‘I’m going to tell a ghost story,’ I’ll cover my ears and run far away.” Li Wu said, a hint of embarrassment in his expression. “I was very timid when I was a child.”
"Although as I've grown up, I don't cover my ears and run far away just because I hear the words 'ghost story,' I'm still afraid of these things."
But judging from Li Wu's performance in the instance, Yan Xun couldn't tell that he was afraid of these things at all.
That's what he thought, and that's what he asked.
"I'm not afraid of these things now because I've entered this game and experienced these dungeons."
Li Wu looked at Yan Xun and said, "After I killed these things for the first time, I found that I was no longer afraid."
He showed his vulnerable side to Yan Xun.
If Yan Xun were to open his live stream right now, he would probably see the chat flooded with comments—
[Your Majesty! You must not be fooled by this man's petty tricks! He wasn't this vulnerable when he was chopping off my brother's head!]