Chapter 276
Eight liability waivers were laid out on the table.
“Please confirm the contents of the waiver. If there are no issues, you may sign.”
The escape room staff explained, “Today’s game is a heavy-horror escape room with chase scenes. Those with claustrophobia, heart disease, high blood pressure, or pregnant women are strictly forbidden to enter.”
Yu Jinzhe didn’t sign. Instead, he raised his hand, his youthful gaze pure and sincere, “I have claustrophobia.”
Xiao Jingxi slowly pressed a hand to his chest. “I’ve been under too much stress lately, my heartbeat’s irregular.”
Lai Bingxuan quickly chimed in, afraid of being left behind, “I have high blood pressure!”
Seeing his chance slip away, Qiu Chengye blurted out in panic, “I’m pregnant!”
Other guests: “?”
Production staff: “?”
Escape room staff: “?”
Qiu Chengye, realizing what he’d just said: “…”
[Yes, we have a child.]
[Well, if he’s pregnant then there’s really nothing to be done.]
[Excuse me production team, sit down! My Brother Qiu is pregnant and no one’s giving him special care? I’m suing you for mistreating pregnant women!]
[So if Brother Kitty and Sister Lai fight again, does that count as ganging up on a pregnant person?]
This batch of netizens specialized in “when one person’s in trouble, everyone piles on.”
With one slip of the tongue, Qiu Chengye was trending.
#Qiu Chengye Reveals Pregnancy On Show
#Please Treat Pregnant Guests With Care
#Qiu Chengye I Order You To Bear My Child
[AoTuManBecomesForest]: Since when was Weibo in a famine?
Inside the I Won’t Let You Leave Alive Escape Room.
Director Niu squinted at the group, watching them instantly turn frail and pitiful the moment they had to play an escape room. Slowly, he revealed a victorious smile.
“The production team already guessed that our dear guests might question their own health conditions, so we brought your medical reports in advance.”
He pulled out a stack of documents, making several faces turn pale.
“Yu Jinzhe, healthy! Xiao Jingxi, healthy! Lai Bingxuan, healthy! Qiu Chengye, healthy! Xie Mi, strong as a bull!”
[Wait, something strange slipped in.]
[Everyone else is just ‘healthy’ and Old Xie gets ‘strong as a bull,’ huh? Fine, fine.]
Xie Mi stood up happily and gave a cupped-hand salute all around. “Humbled, humbled.”
[Why are you so proud of that?!]
“My mistake, I read one line too many.”
Director Niu gathered up the papers, hesitated for a moment, then said, “Though, these reports were from two months ago before filming began. It’s true we can’t rule out the possibility that Teacher Qiu is pregnant.”
Qiu Chengye: “?”
Are you serious right now?
“How about this—we’ll have our medical team check Teacher Qiu.” Niu kept a straight face.
“No need to trouble them.”
Xie Mi stood with a dramatic wave of her sleeve. “I know a bit of medicine. I can check his pulse.”
She reached out, grabbing Qiu Chengye’s carotid artery.
Her expression changed instantly.
“Joyous pulse! It’s a pregnancy pulse!”
Qiu Chengye: “You’re insane!!!”
Ten minutes later, all eight of them, blindfolded, were crammed inside the cold, dim escape room.
The livestream comments had already lost it.
[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]
[Brother Kitty charging headfirst into the escape room just now had me dying of laughter]
[Worse than being scared to death is dying of embarrassment]
[In the end, none of them escaped this fate]
[So here’s the question: if Old Xie and Old Shen are tanks, then what are the remaining six?]
The crackling PA system buzzed from above.
“Tonight’s escape room theme is: Midnight Exploration of an Abandoned School. You are members of the neighboring high school’s adventure club. Rumors say this school is haunted, so you’ve come to investigate together tonight.”
“Your task: uncover the truth behind the haunting, and escape.”
“The game begins now. Please remove your blindfolds.”
Xie Mi took off her blindfold, curiously surveying the surroundings.
They were in a classroom. In front was a blackboard and teacher’s podium; around them were desks and chairs.
It was pitch dark. For light, they only had small lantern props provided by staff.
“Alright folks, our mission is—”
Xie Mi turned around, only to see four people standing ramrod straight with blindfolds still on, like sentries.
Not taking off the blindfolds—cutting off fear at the source. How clever.
The ones who had removed them were Shen Moqing, Liu Woxing, and Xu Shuangrong.
“Teacher Xie, it looks like there’s someone behind you.” Xu Shuangrong suddenly froze, staring past her and trembling as she spoke.
Puzzled, Xie Mi turned.
Thud!
A long-haired female ghost with her face hidden under her hair was right there, face-to-face with Xie Mi.
Instant jump-scare!
“Ah—!!”
A scream rang out—but it wasn’t Xie Mi. It was Xu Shuangrong.
The four still wearing blindfolds were already trembling like leaves in the wind.
[AAAAA WTF I nearly pissed myself]
[Goddamn this horror is heavy—no buildup, just straight scare tactics?]
[If it were me, I’d faint]
[Sister Xie run!!]
New viewers unfamiliar with Xie Mi’s legendary escape room record from last season were panicking for her.
But Xie Mi calmly plucked a hairpin from her head, parted the ghost’s long hair, and clipped it up neatly.
“You stupid girl, watch where you’re going.”
Female ghost: “?”
“Teacher Xie really does love giving people hair clips.” Shen Moqing laughed softly, speaking in an offhand but faintly sour tone.
[Why does that sound… jealous?]
[No way Old Shen, are you jealous of a ghost?!]
[What a greedy little man [tongue emoji]]
The ghost ended up covering her face and running away shyly, leaving Xu Shuangrong doubting reality.
How… how did that work??
Liu Woxing, meanwhile, looked at her with admiration again.
As expected of Teacher Xie.
“The ghost must have been triggered by something.”
Shen Moqing tapped his knuckles on the desk where Xie Mi stood. “Like this seat.”
“That ghost was wearing a school uniform, with signs of being bullied. This desk is in the last row, near the trash bin. Look closely—there are scribbles carved into the surface with a paint pen.”
Xie Mi scanned the room, then met Shen Moqing’s eyes.
He raised his brow. “So the truth behind the school haunting is—”
Xie Mi glanced at Xu Shuangrong.
“Bullying.”
Xu Shuangrong’s expression flickered.
Lai Bingxuan, who had refused to take off her blindfold, froze, then slowly removed it.
In the dark, chilling classroom, the group gathered around the desk in the back corner.
On its scarred surface, vivid red words began to appear.
The cold broadcast voice intoned:
“Congratulations, players. You’ve uncovered the first truth: School Bullying.”
