Chapter 38 Chapter 434 Ascension (5K)
The window glass is extremely thick, like the explosion-proof glass on the presidential car, which is enough to withstand machine gun fire. It is obviously impossible to break through with brute force.
The night outside the window is deep and the city lights are shining. Judging from the position of the lights, it seems that the secret room Li Sheng is in is at least forty or fifty stories tall.
“I didn’t expect this.”
He originally thought that the secret room location would be in an abandoned factory or in the wilderness. “But now I can confirm that the location here is not Cuba. , the time is not noon.”
Beep bell bell.
The red landline phone on the coffee table rang. Li Sheng stepped forward, first wring out the moisture from his sleeves, then retracted his hands into the sleeves, picked up the blanket on the sofa through his clothes, and then picked up the phone. .
Judging from the drowning trap in the previous secret room, these secret rooms are all designed to kill people. They may use despicable methods such as applying poison on the phone or causing the phone to leak electricity, so we have to be careful.
The call was successfully connected, and a mechanical and pleasant AI female voice came out, "g=t, p=e, r=s, b=o, z=d."
Li Sheng He nodded and said to the phone: "Kun Jin Kao, Kun Jin Kao? Kun Jin Kao, Kun Jin Kao!"
Kun Jin Kao is a very classic Chinese character garbled code. It is essentially an error that occurs when the "??" replacement symbol under UTF-8 hexadecimal is converted into GBK encoding.
Li Sheng asked this. Firstly, he wanted to test the controller on the other end of the phone. Secondly, if there is no controller, he might be able to use coding language to get close to the AI girl on the phone and leave a WeChat message. something.
“.”
The other end of the phone was silent for a moment and repeated again: “g=t, p=e, r=s, b=o, z=d.”
< br>Tsk, no response, just pretending to be cool.
Li Sheng curled his lips, pressed the phone, and when he picked it up again, the password was still printed inside. It was obvious that he would not be allowed to call the outside world for help.
Boom!
There was a loud noise outside the room, and the wall behind it suddenly moved, and the whole thing moved forward slowly.
The tables and chairs fell over, the sofa moved, and the glass table lamp fell to the ground and shattered.
“The house is eight meters wide, and the wall displacement speed is about two centimeters per second. It will take more than six minutes for it to completely close and crush me into a meat pie.
At the same time, because only the rear wall was moving, not the left and right walls closing together, it meant that I couldn't use some kind of hard object to squeeze open the right window and escape outside. ”
Li Sheng calmly assessed the situation. He didn’t know whether it was the long soak in sea water and loss of body temperature that caused his thoughts to wander, or whether the script task liberated his casual nature.
He Part of his mind was still wandering, and he complained: "Crushed into meat patties, does the designer of the secret room want to send me to the second dimension?
Hey... It seems that your understanding of "the second dimension" is full of fallacies and mistakes ☆~! Well, even the most basic "propriety, justice and integrity" have been lost long ago... (laughing) Hey, let me tell you - does this kind of Kimino have the qualifications to call himself a "two-dimensional"★? fufufu——After all, you have already "disqualified from the second dimension", right? Na~"
While reciting excessively concentrated chuuni-death words, he quickly explored the room.
An eight-digit electronic combination lock with a keypad was found on the side of the fireplace. On the edge of the carpet, I found an old photo.
The photo shows two teenagers, a boy and a girl, wearing Renaissance European costumes and long skirts, standing on the opera stage and looking at each other affectionately.
The boy among them is quite similar to Owen Hedges, played by Li Sheng at the moment.
Considering that this old photo has turned yellow, the boy is probably not Irving’s son or relative, but Irving himself when he was young.
As for the girl in the photo, is she probably the deceased Owen’s wife mentioned in the mission briefing?
"The two people in the photo are performing a drama. A drama"
He thought of something, avoided the wall that was constantly oppressing him, and looked at the bookcase next to the fireplace.
The bookcases are filled with all kinds of books, including economics, law, and politics. The only one related to drama is a copy of "Shakespeare's Sonnets."
Picked the book off the bookcase and opened the pages. There was no password inside, but large blocks of repeated English garbled characters.
kbspwrhrwdtgthgrgwormnrxbvp
wgwrgtpnmowawpzrnhovwqgtpkbsporpipr
wgwrgtpuhsprrgwoopzmnilgtpkbsporgphor
wgwrgtpuwrprgaboxbaxhzqprr
gtpiwggpoghrgpwqbqprgtobhg
hqzgtptbqplgthgop xhwqrbmgbaophft
Every page contains these contents.
Crackling——
The space is still shrinking, the curtain hooks are all squeezed out, and the seemingly solid leather sofa is easily crushed and cracked under the terrifying thrust of the hydraulic press. broken.
Li Sheng stepped on the sawdust on the ground and thought quickly. The only eight-digit word in this English garbled code was nmowawpz. He entered it into the password disk of the fireplace, but it showed failure.
“g=t, p=e, r=s, b=o, z=d”
The phone on the coffee table was still reading the password. It didn't stop reading the password until it was run over by the wall and the phone line was cut off.
"Understood, g=t, p=e, are the tips for deciphering the garbled code. The word gtp that appears most frequently in the garbled code is actually t*e, and the most likely one is tie or the. Considering the English The frequency of the in "the" is much higher than the former. Assume that t is h, then the fourth word gthg in the last line is actually that, that is, h=a"
After deciphering it so quickly, the whole string of garbled characters becomes Deciphered, it means "Love is a burst of smoke blown by sighs; the lovers' eyes have the sparks it purifies; the lovers' tears are the waves it stirs up. It is also the wisest madness, the bitter taste that chokes the throat, and cannot be eaten. Honey to the mouth.”
The eight-digit password nmowawpz means purified.
After entering the password, the fireplace buzzed and slowly moved to the side, revealing a passage for one person to pass through.
Li Sheng squeezed into the passage sideways and walked forward thoughtfully.
The two secret rooms are not just secret rooms. The longitude and latitude coordinates in the first room, the photos and code words in the second room all seem to be related to the life of Irving.
Thinking like this, he came to the third room.
The area here is smaller, and the whole room is empty. There is an unlocked metal door in the corner, with the words "Only one of two can survive" written on the door.
On the floor in the middle of the room, there is an LCD screen and a device.
The device consists of a transparent glass cylinder, a syringe, and a hose.
The bottom of the column is firmly welded to the floor and cannot be moved. The top is closed and connected to the hose. There is a milliliter scale on the outside, and four metal discs on the inside, two groups at the top and bottom.
Two sets of power transmission cables are attached to the ground and extend all the way to the metal door.
Combined with the syringe and hose used for blood drawing, it seems that Li Sheng is required to draw at least 800 ml of blood, pour it into the cylinder, use the conductivity of the blood to connect the metal disc electrode, and open the metal sealing door .
The sealing design at the top of the cylinder also did not allow Li Sheng to fill the bottle with seawater carried on his clothes, or simply with urine.
Zila.
Just when he felt sorry for this, the LCD screen lit up, projecting a scene like a surveillance screen.
The picture shows a middle-aged man wearing a shirt and trousers. He looks tired, has dry lips, and is showing symptoms of dehydration. He staggers through the hot desert under the sun, arrives at a phone booth, and throws himself into the phone booth. The coin dialed the number "001212*******"
On the ceiling of the secret room, a phone dropped at the right time. It was automatically connected without Li Sheng picking it up, and the voice of the man under surveillance came from it. Painful voice, "Owen, this is Mike. Listen, don't go to London for an appointment. That escape room is a trap. They lied to me and left me in the desert of Mexico. I can't get out."
< br>"Wait, you said you were in Mexico?"
Li Sheng called loudly, but the man on the other end of the phone seemed to be in dehydration shock. He walked out of the phone booth in a daze and fell in front of a small wooden house.
The door of the wooden house is the same door of the secret room.
Listen to this, this Mike is the good friend mentioned in the mission briefing who persuaded Owen to participate in the escape room.
Li Sheng thought for a moment, picked up the syringe, and inserted it into his arm. The blood is injected into the cylindrical glass container along the hose, and slowly accumulates to a capacity of 800ml.
The blood connected to the electrode, and the metal door of the secret room opened with a sound, revealing an elevator.
There was a black bag placed in the corner of the elevator. The zipper of the bag was open, revealing stacks of U.S. dollars.
These dollars are the rewards for completing the level, which means that as long as Li Sheng walks out of the secret room, he will have completed the mission.
He pulled out the needle without hesitation, took the sextant, and strode forward.
"Uh-huh."
The sound in the room's speakers suddenly amplified, it was Mike's gasping for shock. He was lying on the desert ground, looking particularly painful.
"Oh? Amplify the voice? You want me to feel compassion and stay for my friends, risking hemorrhage and shock, and draw 1,600 ml of blood to open the metal door on Mike's side so that he can escape too. "Born?"
Li Sheng turned around, looked at the surveillance camera, and sneered: "It's meaningless, at most one of the two can survive."
Not to mention the execution of the script. The players on the mission have absolutely no feelings or responsibilities or obligations for the role they play.
More importantly, it makes no sense. Mike is dead.
Li Sheng walked into the car, glanced at the indicator lights, and found that the building was 70 stories high, and his floor was on the fifty-fifth floor. As the elevator door closes automatically, the indicator light on the first floor automatically lights up.
The elevator automatically descended, but Li Sheng raised his head, looked directly at the surveillance camera, and said calmly: "Take me to see you, the operators of the game."
No changes occurred. Li Sheng hit the top of the elevator with a sextant, smashing open the vent board, and continued: "If you don't come to me, I will come to you."
This time, the elevator Finally, it gradually stopped. After a moment of pause, it began to rise.
The floors continued to climb higher. In the car, Li Sheng took some time to straighten his clothes and flipped through the bag of U.S. dollars.
Fifty thousand US dollars, nearly 360,000 yuan. When have you ever seen so much cash? !
This is enough to buy one-twentieth of a house in Yin City!
Ding dong.
The car reached the top floor, the elevator door opened, and Li Sheng was greeted by a group of security personnel holding pistols.
“Don’t move!”
"Don't move!"
"Put your hands up!"
The security personnel shouted at Li Sheng, who complained with his eyes closed: "One person told me not to move, and the other told me not to move." People asked me to raise my hands again. Are you all American gunmen doing fishing and law enforcement like this?"
"Hey, hey, guys, be polite."
A man who has obviously been in a high position for a long time. The old white man came over, shouted back the armed security guards, pointed at Li Sheng and said: "This Mr. Owen is the super dark horse in tonight's gambling game! Be polite to him!"
The old man in a suit had a very high status. The armed security guards looked at each other and lowered their pistols.
Beyond the group of security personnel, Li Sheng was able to see clearly the situation on the top floor of the building.
A grand banquet is being held here. The male and female VIPs are all wearing masks and suits and dresses, drinking and chatting happily.
They are not here to drink and dance, but to participate in a special gambling game - high in the splendid hall, there are screens hanging, which show the surveillance perspectives of the secret rooms, as well as the scenes in them. Breakers struggling to survive.
Some people died in ground thorn traps, some were cut into pieces of flesh by sharp steel ropes, some inhaled poisonous gas and fell to the ground with blue faces and died, and some were burned alive by the fire.
Whenever a level breaker dies, the screen representing him or her will turn gray and the words "Eliminated" will appear.
A series of numbers will be added to the screen of the remaining survivors.
Cumulative chips: six million.
Nine million.
Fifteen million.
Twenty-seven million.
Unit, USD.
This group of powerful people are playing a betting game, betting on who will die and who will survive among the dozens of intruders in the secret room of the building.
The winner laughed heartily, but the loser did not cry, but seemed a little regretful.
Millions of dollars and lives are nothing more than bargaining chips to them.
"Oh, it's really what I thought, leading the beast to eat people."
Li Sheng shook his head and laughed, and asked the old man in a suit: "You put me up like this, so that I won't be afraid if I see this scene." I'll tell the media when I get out?"
"Mr. Owen, you are a smart man and you should understand the rules of the game. Besides, the owners of most of the news media you know are at this party, even if you will. When the news is released, no media will report it.
How can I put it? It is like a recreational game in the circle. Only those who participate in this kind of game can be counted as an insider. , to get the resources in the circle."
The old man in the suit smiled and said calmly: "I would like to know why you gave up on Mike Garcia without hesitation in the third secret room. As far as I know, he is your best friend since childhood, your best friend, best man, and confidant.”
"Because Mike is dead."
Li Sheng said indifferently: "Remember the surveillance footage in the secret room? He said he was in New Mexico City, and this is New York. The time zone difference between the two is only one hour. Impossible. It’s dark here, it’s noon over there.
The only explanation is that the surveillance footage was taken a long time ago and was deliberately released to interfere with my judgment.”
The old man in the suit was extremely surprised, "Wait a minute, how do you know this is New York? We injected you with anesthetic and transported you from London back to New York. You shouldn't know the location."
"It's simple, Mike The action of entering a phone number”
Li Shengping said calmly: "When making an international long-distance call, 001 is the country code of the United States and 212 is the area code of New York. You adjusted the position of the surveillance camera and deliberately prevented me from seeing the dial of the phone booth. But I didn't expect that I could pass the microphone. The movement of the arm determines the number.
As for what you said about 'shipping back to New York', it seems interesting that this Owen Hedges is originally from New York.
And the first one. The coordinates of Cuba in the secret room, let me think about it, are 20 degrees north latitude and 75.9 degrees west longitude, which should be the US military base in Guantanamo, right?
Combined with Irving's status as a human rights lawyer, all the clues are connected - Irving investigation The prisoner abuse case at the US military base was secretly retaliated, and his family was burned to death. Irving himself fell into decadence and lost his job.
You killed Irving's family and his best friend. Come on. I won't let Owen leave, I will send him on his way anyway
When he dies, it will be just another obituary in the newspaper that no one cares about, just like the leader of Occupy Wall Street in previous years and the whistleblower of the Boeing aircraft accident recently. ”
You must know that the goal of this mission is [keep alive until escaping from the dark room]
rather than [escape from the dark room and stay alive]
The system is in the mission goal
Li Sheng's too indifferent and distant tone made the old white man frown unconsciously.
The anesthetic they injected into Owen Hedges would only make him sleepy but would not change his personality or memory.
"You are not Owen?"
"Me? Of course not, I am a partner of justice, a crime nemesis, a night crawler, a protector of the weak, a professional mercenary, and a Little Star Award for perfect attendance in Red Star Kindergarten Winner, Xiaoshuai, Kobe fan, Shenyang Tiger brother, game master."
When he mentioned this, Li Sheng suddenly became energetic and reported a long list of nicknames. Unfortunately, the old white man was not a fan of Teacher Da Bing. , if you don’t understand these jokes, you can complain: "Sorry, there are not enough people to stand here"
[Mission goal completed]
[Player restrictions have been lifted]
[The script mission "Escape" has been completed, there are still 5 minutes left before the transfer]
The system prompts echoed in his mind, and Li Sheng chuckled. He twisted his neck and introduced: "In 1974, I won the championship for the first time in Southeast Asia in kickboxing. In 1980, I defeated the Japanese slugger Thunder Dragon. Then for three consecutive years, I defeated all karate masters and won the all-Japan kickboxing championship." , proficient in ancient Chinese boxing techniques, known as the nemesis of Japanese karate, nicknamed "Devil Muscular Man"
The old man finally couldn't restrain his growing sense of uneasiness, and shouted at the armed security guards: "Button Stop him!"
The armed men swarmed up and grabbed Li Sheng's arm.
Zheng!
Li Sheng suddenly popped out the mantis arm bone blade in his hand and cut off all the dozen fingers on his arm.
Blood spattered freely, soaking the expensive Persian carpet.
The screams of the security guards echoed in the hall of the magnificent high-rise building.
When the dignitaries who were chatting and chatting with each other heard the commotion, they all stopped talking cheerfully and all turned their heads to look over.
In the horrified eyes of everyone, Li Sheng's cheeks, chest, and back were slowly covered with black armor, and long black horns sprouted from his forehead. He chopped the elevator call button with a knife and blocked the escape route.
He turned his head and smiled at the powerful people in the hall, "The game has officially begun."
(End of this chapter)