Infinite Escape Room: No Parkour

When the scythe knight's mane is placed on the watch, it is automatically sucked in. At the same time, the watch screen also shows a prompt.

【Congratulations to Player•Shi Yu for successfully snatching the mane of the Scythe Knight, which can be used to make winter clothing such as snoods, winter hats, and gloves. 】

When she checked her watch, Shi Yu was overjoyed when she saw an icon named "Centaur's Mane" pop up in "My Items" on the homepage. Such a function makes it really interesting. She's beginning to look forward to the next game.

But when she walked to the big tree, Shi Yu began to worry. There was no one else on the entire island as she was the only one left. When the other people met the centaur, they basically left this level in pairs, leaving her alone at the door, dragging her face with worry.

What should she do? Does she need the scythe knight to pull the door with her?

The last-minute was left before the poisonous mist was right in front of Shi Yu's eyes. As long as the timer on the watch turns to zero, the poisonous mist will completely cover the island.

Shi Yu was thinking about how to pull the four switches with her hands at the same time, suddenly someone chuckled behind her. She looked back and saw a man at a glance.

The man was looking at Shi Yu with a smile in his eyes, and it was accurate because of the smiley eyebrows that added a little more charm to the overly handsome face. His smile was too clean, causing him to appear slightly out of place.

"Hello, my name is Zhuo." He took the initiative to say hello. "Ying Zhuo."

He stretched his eyebrows, a slightly brownish-red light appeared in his eyes as if the inherent color of his pupils and the surrounding environmental colors rendered a kind of transparent texture.

"It doesn't matter what your name is. You are now my partner. Let's go before it's time." Shi Yu pointed to the hoop on the wooden door, indicating what he should do.

This man named Ying Zhuo didn't seem to notice the danger approaching at all. His hand was placed in the pocket of his black trousers, his waistband was wrapped around his waist and his long legs, he walked in front of Shi Yu’s face and stared at her unscrupulously: " What's your name?"

"Can I ask you to pull the iron ring first?"

He smiled again as he reached out to grab the door hoop like Shi Yu, the two of them pulled the wooden door open with a slight force. Behind the door is a dark tunnel without any light. Even if there's no light, it's far safer than being in the poisonous fog. As soon as the two of them came into the tunnel, the poisonous fog on their back stopped at the entrance.

I almost put myself in harm for the sake of others. Next time she will not definitely do something so uncertain. She's not a generous person, she's also quite selfish, Shi Yu thought.

The place they came in was pitch black and there was no visible light source. Shi Yu could only judge the position of herself and the man who appeared out of thin air by sound. Judging from the sound of his breathing, the man should be standing directly opposite her.

Shi Yu stood quietly without speaking. She felt gloom and coldness exuding all around her as if countless pairs of eyes were hidden in the darkness, staring straight at herself. She can't see, but she can feel it. Among the countless pairs of eyes, the most oppressive is the pair of eyes facing Shi Yu.

Ying Zhuo's gaze is more penetrating than any blade, as if he can see through Shi Yu's inner heart through her appearance, and can see the fragmented part of Shi Yu's body.

In this darkness, it seems that Shi Yu and Ying Zhuo aren't the only ones here. Other voices can be heard talking.

Man: "Who? Who is there?"

Woman: "It seems to be the little girl who saved me."

These two voices are quite familiar. One belongs to the rich second generation who killed the innocent woman in the bucket game, and the other is the woman who begged the scythe knight to spare her.

What a coincidence.

It's really not a good thing that a walking disaster like the rich second generation survives from the hands of the scythe knight.

The four briefly introduced themselves.

The rich second generation is called Hu Fang, the woman enthusiastically pulls their hands while introducing herself: "My name is Leng Xinyu, a nurse in a hospital. Before I came to this three thousand world, I experienced a medical disturbance. I guess I might have died in that medical trouble."

Shi Yu was a little embarrassed when she introduced herself. When it was Ying Zhuo's turn, Ying Zhuo just said lightly: "I'm just a vagrant and I don't have any serious occupation."

After the four people were introduced one by one, a yellow square incandescent lamp "creaked" on top of their heads. Hu Fang and Leng Xinyu were frightened and shrank back subconsciously.

Shi Yu looked at the area where she was and found that there was a square concrete staircase in front of her, the only way to go up was the stairs. This seems to be a residential building. The watches on everyone's wrists lighted up at the same time, the female voices rang out from the watch.

【Congratulations on your successful escape from the Dead Island. Now, you're gonna enter the "Family Portrait". 】

【I believe you have already known some of the rules of the game through the first and second rounds you have all experienced, the next game requires not only the wisdom and cooperation you need in the first round of the game but also physical strength in the second round. 】

【The story happened on August 1, 3000. A family of three in Room 404, Building 4, Xingfu Community, was killed. Suddenly, the two happy parents lost their youngest son. Everyone says that a family is a small society, where everyone plays a more or less special role. How about you? What role do you play? 】

【Under the same roof, do you know whether you are living with a man or a beast? 】

【Behind your mask, how many evil intentions do you hide? 】

【You only have 2 hours to investigate the truth about this family of three. The door to the next game will automatically unlock upon the game's completion. Wish y'all good luck. 】

(T/N: The bolded words are what the female voice in the watch says to the players while the italics are the game details.)

The announcement ends. There were no other prompts. Shi Yu knew in her heart that this game is different, there are more puzzling elements surrounding it. The game doesn't say the conditions for clearance, and the first thing they have to do at this moment is to find where room 404 is first, right?

When she turned her head, she saw Hu Fang and Leng Xinyu huddling around, their faces pale as if they had been drained of blood. These two people were ignorant and didn't know what to do.

Ying Zhuo stood aside, raising his eyelids indifferently, his shining eyes looked at Shi Yu curiously: "You don't seem to be afraid at all?"

"We're all dying anyway, this time is just another death." Shi Yu used these words to comfort the two trembling players. (T/N: Shi Yu, that's not comforting at all...)

This is a brand-new environment. An overly gloomy cold wind blows from the top to the bottom of the stairwell, passing from the soles of everyone's feet to the head, enough to make the hairs of a normal person stand up all over the body.

Shi Yu suddenly walked towards Hu Fang. Hu Fang was originally standing in the corner. When he saw Shi Yu, he was taken aback. Just when he wanted to raise his head and say something, Shi Yu stretched out her hand, pinched the corner of his clothes, and lightly raised it. Her gesture was like someone holding a dirty rag and she signaled Hu Fang to stand aside.

This rich boy had never been wronged like this before, his face turned from red to white, and finally turned black, as if there was some kind of evil fire in his heart, but he didn't dare disobey.

Shi Yu didn't bother to pay attention to him. She stretched out her hand to brush the cobwebs on the wall and saw that there was a trace drawn by a crayon on the wall where some mildew had grown.

It was a stick figure drawing of a family of three, which looked like a scribble of a child. Two adults, one dressed in black and the other dressed in white. The child in the middle is wearing a baseball cap and a shirt and shorts.

"This family has a boy." Shi Yu said.

Ying Zhuo stood behind her, watching her bend over and put her eyes in the same position as the stick figures, looking for other clues she could find. That serious look was very interesting.

With this girl, he can see more things.

Leng Xinyu was rescued by Shi Yu before, so she trusted Shi Yu very much. She followed behind Shi Yu and asked, "Then shall we go to their room now? Will we see dead bodies?"

"How many dead bodies did you see on the Dead Island?" Shi Yu asked rhetorically.

Leng Xinyu thought for a while.

The wooden door they had just come over from the Dead Island had completely disappeared when the stairwell appeared, leaving them no choice but to go up. Shi Yu walked in the forefront, and with every step she took, the lightbulb above her head flickered. It seems that the flickering was caused by the long disrepair, but at this moment, it also added a bit of darkness to their road ahead.

Hu Fang's legs trembled, he was afraid that he would be left, so he hurriedly followed behind when Shi Yu suddenly stopped and squatted. He asked nervously: "What's the matter?"

Shi Yu picked up a piece of paper that was crumpled into a ball and opened it to check the writings with the flickering light.

The paper is a crumpled red checkered paper, which looks a lot like the special paper that some elementary school teachers give out for writing essays in school. The handwriting in the paper is also crooked, it should have been written by a child. 

[This year is my twelfth birthday... Mom woke me up very early... Our family of three went to the amusement park, the road was really hot...]

"Looking at it this way, their family of three lives pretty well." Leng Xinyu guessed. "Could it be that someone was seeking revenge on them?"

Shi Yu didn't answer as she continued to walk up, and finally saw the anti-theft door with a room number of "404".

A key is needed to enter the door but the group has only a note from the child.  Just when everyone was worried about the keys, the door was suddenly knocked "Bangbangbang". (T/n: Courtesy of Shi Yu~)

This sound scared Hu Fang and Leng Xinyu almost lost her soul, they listened when the voice of a child sounded inside the door: "Mom, you're on night shift again today. Dad won't let me open the door for you, but I hid the key in the same place. Mom, don’t forget to wash your hands after you come in, or dad will be angry again."

They got some very useful information.

"A place where your hands will get dirty." Shi Yu glanced at the three flower pots stacked in the innermost corner on the fourth floor, she squatted down and reached out to pick up those flower pots to pour out all the soil inside.

There was a little "jingle". A small silver key made a sound on the floor.

Hu Fang was very happy and walked over to pick up the key Shi Yu found and went to open the door first. Shi Yu followed behind, and after waiting for Hu Fang to open the door, they ran into a little boy inside. The little boy stood behind the door, seemingly waiting for a long time.

The little boy's skin was blue all over as if he was sick, his facial features were also purple and black. Eyeballs without black pupils stared at Hu Fang, the child suddenly reveals a grin, fishy blood flowed down from his eye sockets.

"Mom, you're back."

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T/N: Damn, if it was me, I would have knocked that little boy away from me miles away.