MMB Chapter 257: Circus Escape Room 04
Chapter 257: Circus Escape Room 04
【Passengers will enter the safe house of Captain Mars, and they can rest in the safe house for 15 minutes. 】
[Note: Passengers must leave the safe house through the door again after 15 minutes and enter the secret room to break through. Otherwise, the passenger will be deprived of the qualification to obtain the identity card. 】
[Instructions for the safe house of Captain Mars: [-]. Passengers are requested to be careful of the sudden return of Captain Mars, and do not be discovered by Captain Mars. 】
[Second, the items placed in the house can be touched, but please do not take them away, otherwise you will bear the consequences. 】
[Third, the other passengers cannot be contacted in the safe house of the group leader Mars. 】
[Four, guess what, Captain Mars is often not in the safe house, where would he go? 】
This is the message that popped up on the bracelet panel after Wu Xiajiu entered the safe house.
The previous ones are easy to understand, but the last one—the leader Mars is often not in the safe house, where will he go?
Wu Xiajiu couldn't help frowning slightly, to the secret room?
Does the head Mars have a circus secret room of his own?Or... the head of the circus, Mars, can go to the secret rooms of other circus members at will?
Could it be that the members of the circus can go back and forth in all the secret rooms?
No, Wu Xiajiu shook his head and immediately denied this idea.
Leaving aside the NPC circus members like jugglers he met before, even the NPC circus members that Zuo told him did not show enough IQ.
Such NPCs should only stay in their own circus secret room to hinder them, the passers-by.
Instead of being able to "drop in" to other secret rooms at will.
Think about the secret room he and Zuo met—dancing girls, drummers and musicians, jugglers, aerial bikes...all seem to be just some items in the circus performance.
Although Wu Xiajiu didn't know what the circus secret room that other people met looked like, he thought it should be similar.
So, is there class in the circus?
For example, Mars, the head of the team, is the highest level, and there are intermediate and low levels below...
And the secret room for them to break through is layer upon layer.
In other words, the head of the circus, Mars, can go to the secret rooms of other circus members, but other members cannot come to the secret room or safe house of the head of the circus.
That is to say, the high-level can go to the middle-level and low-level secret rooms.
And the low-level ones can't go to the middle-level and high-level secret rooms, the middle-level ones can go to the low-level ones, but not the high-level ones.
These are just Wu Xiajiu's guesses for the time being, but if he wants to verify...
Wait, verification?
Wu Xiajiu raised his eyebrows, perhaps, he has a way to verify this idea.
But for now, before the clock hits 15 minutes, explore the safe house of Circus Master Mars.
In addition to office furniture such as sofas, desks and chairs, and bookcases, there are also some decorations, which are scary and novel.
There are few clues to be found on the decorations.
Wu Xia walked to the desk of the head Mars for a long time.
The desktop is clean, with an identity card, a pen, and a piece of paper.
Wu Xiajiu picked up the paper and glanced at it——"Contract Notes on Conditions of Service in Circus".
Obviously, it's a contract.
The first condition in the contract is that the members of the circus must unconditionally obey the order of the circus director Mars and must not disobey.
Second, the position of the head of the circus can be changed, provided that the job contract and the cane belonging to the head of the circus are obtained.
Three, the safe house of the head of the circus, circus members are not allowed to enter.
Fourth, members of the circus must stick to their posts, and the time away from their posts must not exceed two hours. Even the head of the circus must abide by it.
Fifth, the secret room of the circus master is a secret, and the members of the circus cannot discover it.
After reading the contract, Wu Xiajiu put down the contract and pondered, since the position of the head of the circus can be changed, can the passenger become the head of the circus?
It can be combined with the information prompt when you just entered the safe house. The items in the house can be touched, but you must not take them away.
This means that if you take anything away, the consequences will be serious, let alone something like a contract.
Furthermore, this contract regarding the employment of circus members is clearly unequal.
Not to mention that members can also become the leader, but since the members are already members, they must obey the orders of the leader and are not allowed to enter the safe house.
As long as the contract is placed in the safe house, the circus members cannot get it.
This is a condition that is completely restricted.
Also, what Wu Xiajiu didn't understand was the fifth condition.
——What is a secret room that is a secret and cannot be discovered?
It seems to clearly stipulate that even if the members of the circus are aware of the secret room of Mars, the head of the circus, as long as this contract exists, they will ignore it as if they were blindfolded.
Looking at it this way, the circus master's secret room seems to be very important?
There is not much time left in 15 minutes, Wu Xiajiu stopped looking at the things on the desk.
He tried to pull the drawer, but it couldn't be opened.
So, Wu Xiajiu walked to the side of the bookcase.
In addition to some specialized books on circus programs, he found archival records of circus members.
This discovery made Wu Xiajiu's eyes brighten, and he quickly took down the record book and flipped through it.
Sure enough, the file records contained photos and brief introductions of the head of the circus and its members.
Wu Xiajiu quickly flipped through them, and wrote down their looks, names, and introductions to their specialties one by one.
The last he saw were the names of the vaudeville performers, and Geer the drummer and Tommy the musician.
The more these archives are turned to the end, the less the introduction.
Some even only have photos and names, such as the dancer he saw, which was just a group photo of a stage, followed by a string of meaningless names.
Is the ordering of this file the same as the ordering of the classes within the circus?
Wu Xiajiu thought about it, and then put the records back on the bookcase.
It's almost 15 minutes.
Wu Xiajiu left something in the safe room, then opened the door and left.
Shortly after he left, less than 15 minutes later, a series of footsteps sounded outside the door, and then the footsteps stopped outside the door of the safe house and opened the door.
The person who walked in was dressed in a gentleman's suit. The suit was white with green lines, but the short and fat figure set off the suit was not so good-looking, but rather funny.
This person looks about 40 years old, with curly brown hair, a fat face, a short neck, and a beard that curves to both sides under the tip of his nose.
What attracts the most attention is his right hand, which has no palm from the wrist, but a gold-encrusted hook.
If Wu Xiajiu was still here, he would definitely be able to recognize him. Of course, the only person who could enter the safe house was Mars, the head of the circus.
After Mars entered the safe room, he first glanced at the service contract on the table, and then walked behind the office chair, that is, in front of the drawn curtains.
The safe room has dark red thick curtains and bright lights inside.
Wu Xiajiu once lifted the curtains to look. There was indeed a window behind it, but it was pitch black.
But now, Mars went to the curtain and opened it, only to see that the originally dark window gradually lit up like a display screen.
And these pictures are divided into grids one by one.
Each room is impressively the scene of each secret room.
Mars stroked his beard with one hand, raised the corner of his mouth and laughed in a low voice: "Look at these passers-by, how embarrassing, where should I go for a while?"
"It's better, just here..."
Mars reached out and clicked on one of the secret room scenes.
Immediately, instead of staying longer in the safe house, he opened the door again and went out.
After Mars left, there was some movement behind the sofa in the safe house, and after a while, a small head popped out quietly.
It is less than human calf height, and looks a bit like Wu Xiajiu. It is Wu Xiajiu's S-level prop "ghost doll".
Before leaving, Wu Xiajiu actually left the prop "ghost doll" in the safe house.
And with the sight of the ghost doll, Wu Xiajiu can naturally know the situation of the safe house after he left.
The ghost doll's eyes looked behind the curtain, then walked out from behind the sofa, and went to the bookcase to check the information on it.
There are some professional books on circus performances and events, and the explanations in them may allow them to crack some secret rooms.
Wu Xiajiu had his own plan, he didn't leave with Mars for the time being, but stayed in the safe house to see how soon Mars would come back.
During this period, will other passengers come to the safe house.
……
After Wu Xiajiu left the safe house, there was another circus secret room in front of him.
——Puppets, piled up puppets everywhere, lying, sitting or standing, just like real people, and these puppets are made of wood, and their limbs are tied with strings.
Wu Xiajiu immediately remembered the archives he saw in the safe house.
The puppeteer in the circus, Derrick, specializes in performing with puppets. He is obsessed with making puppets every day, and wants to create puppets that are indistinguishable from real people.
Derrick hated animal puppets, only liked human puppets.
Therefore, in this circus secret room, there are only puppets that look like people, and some places are piled up like mountains, which shows that the number of puppets is extremely considerable.
Wu Xiajiu didn't even see many places where he could set foot in this secret room.
Moreover, he glanced over, but did not find the door.
Also, where is Derrick?
Hiding among these puppets?
Wu Xiajiu touched the walkie-talkie pinned to his collar, but didn't press the button yet.
He remembered that the puppeteer Derrick was ranked first, which meant that his ability should not be underestimated, or that Derrick would be an NPC with an IQ.
Where will the silver box be hidden in this secret room?
There is no auditorium in this secret room, only dolls, and some landscaping related to dolls.
For example, in some places, dolls are piled up together. Some of these randomly placed dolls have broken arms and legs, or the proportions of their faces and bodies are unreasonable at first glance.
So, this is done ruined and thrown together?
Some places are dolls related to landscaping, or sitting together drinking tea, or sitting or standing around a pink car.
Or, some dolls pose in various good-looking poses and stand neatly in rows.
There are still some discarded pieces of wood on the ground, which should be the hands and feet of the dolls, but they haven't been polished yet.
Wu Xiajiu stepped into these dolls, "click", a doll piled up on the top suddenly dropped its arm for some reason, hitting the doll below, making a sound.
Wu Xiajiu raised his eyes and stared for a few seconds, seeing that there was no follow-up movement, he continued to walk forward.
There are indeed no doors that can be seen from the outside, which means that the door that can go out of this circus secret room may be hidden under the pile of dolls.
This required him to remove the puppet and find the door in the secret room.
Wu Xiajiu held the prop "Dragon Soul Bone Sword" in his hand. He came to a pile of dolls, and used the tip of the bone sword to pick up a doll's arm. There was no response, and he poked again, but still nothing. reaction.
Won't the puppet come alive and attack him?
Or, should he attack when he is unprepared?
Thinking of this, Wu Xiajiu was caught off guard and kicked the pile of dolls hard. Suddenly, there was a sound of "crash", and the dolls piled up collapsed and scattered.
And Wu Xiajiu had long jumped when so many puppets were scattered all over the place.
Just after the sound of collapse and chaos sounded, in the secret room, an eye hidden in the puppet piled up on the other side moved, and the eyeballs slanted to Wu Xiajiu's side.
Wu Xiajiu didn't seem to notice it at all, he was too lazy to push and pull these puppets, so he continued to kick these puppets away.
Gradually, Wu Xiajiu walked into the depths of the dolls piled up.
And behind him, these puppets scattered on the ground moved silently, as if they were spliced together, the puppets were connected together, making a small friction sound and falling into the chaos of pulling the puppets for a long time. In the sound.
Soon, these giant spiders combined by dolls raised their connected arms one by one, and swung them in the direction of Wu Xiajiu.
But who knows, Wu Xiajiu quickly dodged as if he had eyes behind his back. At the same time, the dragon soul bone sword in his hand changed at some point. The body of the bone sword was like a fish bone. With a wave, many bone spurs appeared, stabbing at the puppet behind.
The sound of "噗嗤" and "噗嗤" sounded, and the spider doll models that had just been put together instantly scattered.
And many dolls were pierced to the ground by bone spurs, struggling to escape.
Wu Xiajiu had a look of astonishment on his face. He kicked these dolls down on purpose, because Derrick the puppeteer is very obsessed with dolls.
If someone doesn't treat these puppets made by Derrick well, he will definitely hold grudges against them.
After Wu Xiajiu kicked the doll with his feet, he was immediately attacked by the doll.
It's a pity that this spider doll is manipulated by Derrick, not Derrick.
Wu Xia looked at the puppet struggling for a long time and then gradually stopped moving. It should be because Derrick no longer manipulated it, and there was no other movement around it.
He counted the number of dolls connected to form giant spiders, and there were six of them.
The number of puppets controlled by Derrick should be limited, it is impossible for him to control all the puppets in the secret room.
According to the information, Derrick can control ten puppets to perform on stage, and six is not the upper limit at all.
Thinking of this, Wu Xiajiu glanced at the time, it was already 46:[-] in the evening, the first night had arrived.
He then squatted down and carefully inspected the puppet pierced by bone spurs, focusing on the abdomen.
These dolls are solid, and it is impossible to hide the silver box.
Wu Xiajiu couldn't help frowning, suspecting that the silver box was most likely hidden on the puppeteer Derrick, but Derrick hid it now...
Thinking of this, Wu Xiajiu squinted his eyes, stood up and planned to continue destroying the rest of the puppets.
But at this moment, the intercom rang.
After Wu Xiajiu answered, Fang Zi's voice came from the opposite side.
"Hey, it's actually connected, Brother Jiu." Fang Zi chuckled.
"Xiao Fang." Wu Xia said for a long time.
Fang Zi: "I just wanted to give it a try, but I didn't expect it to work."
"Brother Jiu, I'm in a secret room right now. I'm not the only one. I met a researcher."
The researcher stood next to Fang Zi. The two did not expect to meet each other in this circus secret room after entering the door from the previous secret room.
And what this circus back room looks like—it’s one small room after another.
These small rooms are all made of transparent glass, which can reveal the scene in the small room, but also reflect their figures.
Therefore, staying in this circus secret room is like being in a place full of mirror mazes, and if you don't pay attention, you will hit the glass.
More importantly, there is the same person in each of these small rooms.
——It means that they look and wear exactly the same, that is, the feeling of the same person, but they are doing different things in the small room.
"They" are doing magic.
Each one is doing different magic tricks.
After Fang Zi finished drawing, Wu Xiajiu immediately said: "This circus member is a magician, Paul."
"He is best at magic tricks, you have to be careful..."
Before he finished speaking, a puppet suddenly attacked from Wu Xiajiu's left side, but luckily he dodged in time.
Fang Zi spoke worriedly on the intercom.
While dodging the siege of the four puppets, Wu Xiajiu continued: "The magician Paul will use magic to confuse people. You should pay attention to the props in his hands. They may be real or fake, so be careful."
"Okay." Fang Zi didn't ask Wu Xiajiu how he knew this.
He also knew from the movement from the walkie-talkie that Brother Jiu had no time to explain at all.
Fang Zi heard the thumping sound over there, turned his head and said to the researcher, "You heard me, come with me, don't run around, or I won't care about you."
The researcher nodded. He was also on the walkie-talkie, and the architect was on the other side.
The architect is also in the second secret room at the moment, but unlike his lucky encounter with "Xiao Fang", the architect is still alone.
The researcher actually wanted to ask the viewer on the other side of Xiaofang's walkie-talkie if he could tell more about the NPC in the secret room. I don't know how much the viewer knows.
He wanted to ask for the architect.
But now the viewer has no time to speak out, so the researcher just shut up.
On Wu Xiajiu's side, he switched to the Dragon Soul Bone Sword again and turned into a bone whip. He swung the long whip once, twice... the puppets piled up around him kept collapsing.
Even the dolls that were not piled up were swept by the bone whip and fell to the ground instantly.
Not long after, the original puppet secret room changed. The dolls were scattered on the ground in a mess, and there was no place to step down.
But Wu Xiajiu didn't care about this, he stepped on the arms, legs or waist of the dolls, and began to look for the door of the secret room by stepping on these dolls.
Soon, he found a door lock with engraved patterns on the outside and a cross-shaped keyhole in the middle under the table of a landscaping.
But before he took a closer look, the table above was overturned, and the puppet, who was still as if drinking coffee, stretched out its arms and strangled his neck.
Two of the puppets chasing him fell down.
This is the limit for the puppeteer to control ten. Although there are only ten, Derrick can switch the puppet being controlled at any time. Maybe when he walks over, the puppet around him will suddenly stand up and attack, which is hard to guard against.
And Wu Xiajiu almost looked through the entire puppet secret room, but he didn't find Derrick.
This made him have to think, would Derrick, who was extremely obsessed with dolls, also make himself into a doll?
Because in this circus secret room, apart from him, there is no other "person" at all, and there are only puppets.
Thinking of this, Wu Xiajiu backed away from the puppet's attack while searching around.
If Derrick also turns into a puppet, but he is human after all, there will definitely be times when he will show his flaws.
And with Derrick's character of being obsessed with dolls and wanting to be a good doll, if he becomes a doll, he will be the most perfect...
There are many handsome men and beautiful women in these dolls, as well as some children's dolls.
At this time, Wu Xiajiu's eyes focused on the male puppet. Suddenly, he swung the dragon soul bone sword, and many bone spurs flew towards the male puppet.
Just as one of the sharp fishbone spurs was about to plunge into a puppet in a black suit, the puppet stood up and avoided it.
The No. 11 doll outside of the ten dolls that attacked him—this is the puppeteer, Derrick.
Wu Xiajiu immediately chased after him.
Two minutes later, Derrick the puppeteer was pierced by him with a fishbone spur and fixed on the ground. His heart and head were pierced. Soon, Derrick the puppeteer stopped moving, and the attacking puppets around him also instantly fell to the ground.
Seemingly sensing that the movement from Wu Xiajiu's side had decreased, Fang Zi asked through the intercom: "Brother Jiu, is it resolved?"
"En." Wu Xiajiu replied, and found a small door that could be opened in the middle of the puppeteer Derrick's abdomen, and there was a silver box in it.
Derrick's ability to control ten puppets is good, but he is not very powerful.
If it were someone else who came to this circus secret room, it would probably take a while to find the dolls in this pile, during which time they would be attacked by the dolls being manipulated.
But Wu Xiajiu violently forced the puppeteer Derrick out.
This is the quick solution to the breakthrough.
Open the silver box, there is only one key inside.
But Wu Xia took a long look at the carved pattern on it, and found that it did not match the door he found under the table, which meant that there was another door that he hadn't found.
Only the other door can be opened by this key.
Wu Xiajiu stood up holding the key, pressed the intercom and said, "I'm going to the next secret room soon. To make a long story short, Xiao Fang..."
While searching for another door, he explained how he entered the safe house.
At the same time, the researchers also inquired about the secret room on the architect's side, and after giving feedback to Wu Xia, they got information about the NPC.