0713: You who shine in the parallel world

Chapter 432 NPC Teacher: Yu Yu, you *+#%&*￥

Wang Zhengliang made his decision very quickly because he didn't want to linger on this floor for too long.

The only light in this eerie place was the deathly red glow shining down from the clown teacher's head; if he stayed any longer, he felt that something filthy might crawl out of the darkness.

“Okay, then I’ll help you get your suitcase first, Brother Liang.” Yu Yu nodded readily, then stepped aside slightly to make room for you, gesturing for you to enter as if welcoming guests in a haunted house.

However, by stepping aside, he also opened up the line of sight for Wang Zhengliang, who was standing to his side and behind him. Originally, Xiao Liang was using Yu Yu's body to block the clown inside the room, but now he was suddenly facing the clown directly. He felt a tightness in his heart and quickly pulled Yu Yu back.

"You, you, you don't move, just stand here."

"How can I let you in if I don't let you?"

"Stop being silly, trying to mimic me." Wang Zhengliang was amused by Yu Yu's overly deliberate stuttering and lightly slapped Yu Yu's arm. "I'll just walk past you."

After being slapped, Yu Yu stood obediently in place, letting Wang Zhengliang manipulate him to block the view. As a human prop, he performed quite well, at least helping Brother Liang to block the clown's figure while revealing the box on the ground.

The box was quite small and should be very light. Wang Zhengliang gestured, seemingly simulating how to get the box as quickly as possible after going inside.

After preparing himself mentally, Yu Yu encouraged him, and the two of them stood at the door and shouted a few times. Anyone who didn't know better would think they were just practicing their singing.

With a "slap," after the high-five, Wang Zhengliang braced himself, lowered his head, and rushed inside. Within two seconds, he reached the box, took a large stride, lunged forward, picked up the box, turned around, and ran back. The whole process took less than five seconds.

By the time the clown teacher realized what was happening, the nimble Little Liang had already returned to the doorway.

However, it was only at this moment that Yu Yu, who had stepped aside to make way, could see clearly that the clown sitting on the bench was not a real person, but a puppet wearing a hood. The real clown teacher chuckled evilly and suddenly jumped out of the cabinet next to him, rushing towards the door to grab Wang Zhengliang.

Wang Zhengliang, who was already on edge, could no longer withstand the onslaught. He yelled and ran forward frantically, clutching the box.

It turns out that the two shouts he made before going in weren't to bolster his courage, but to warm up his voice; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to shout such high notes now. (Yu Yu manually creates a funny image.)

Wang Zhengliang, who was running with his head down, ran to the stairwell and then realized that something was wrong. The clown who was "chasing" him suddenly fell silent, and there seemed to be no other footsteps behind him.

Logically, shouldn't the clown teacher have bumped into Yu Yu after rushing out? Why is there no movement?

If a child is quiet, they must be up to no good.

Wang Zhengliang turned back and cautiously peeked out from around the corner. He saw that Yu Yu had actually picked up the clown teacher around the waist, turned around, and put him back in the room.

Clown Teacher: ? ? ?

Wang Zhengliang: The box landed in a daze.jpg

The clown teacher had just rushed out and met Yu Yu, and before he could react, the world spun before his eyes, and his body was suspended in the air and then fell down. In just a second or two, his vision changed from the living room back to the checkered room.

Feeling challenged and insulted for his authority as an NPC, Teacher Clown turned around and rushed out again, this time targeting Yu Yu instead of Wang Zhengliang.

As a result, Yu Yu nimbly scooped him up in her arms again.

Clown Teacher: ...Waaaaah, Director, look what he did to me!!!

"Alright, alright, stop chasing us. This road is blocked. Even if you catch up, what can you do? Two against one, do you think you can take it from us?" Yu Yu comforted the teacher as she put him back in the room.

Yu Yu thought of something and said, "By the way, you're a bit thinner than that clown teacher from before. You're not the same person. Which floor did our old acquaintance, the clown teacher, go to? The floor above or the floor below?"

Look at this person, they've even started chatting with them.

The skinny clown teacher, who had been forcibly taken offline by Yu Yu twice in a row, was somewhat resigned to his fate. He realized that as long as Yu Yu blocked the door, he could not go out to "hunt down" Wang Zhengliang. So he could only walk back and sit down next to the clown mannequin.

I'm tired. Let's destroy it. This brat is so audacious, he's like a fake human. How can we play with him anymore?

For some reason, Wang Zhengliang suddenly felt that the clown was rather pitiful.

"No, Little Fish, you... Hahahaha, isn't this a bit outrageous?" Wang Zhengliang picked up the box and came to Yu Yu's side, both amused and exasperated. A perfectly good horror side quest had been turned into a comedy by this rubber fish.

"The production team said we couldn't hurt the NPCs, but I didn't hurt them. Instead, I gave them a loving hug, Twice," Yu Yu said innocently.

Are you sure you didn't cause any harm? Even without physical harm, psychological harm is still harm. Wang Zhengliang laughed helplessly; he was no longer afraid at all.

He casually opened the box and saw that it was empty. His smile gradually disappeared.

"Why is it an empty box?" Wang Zhengliang asked incredulously.

"Hmm? Could there be a hidden compartment?" Yu Yu took the box and looked at it. He found that there were no marks on the surface of the box, so he couldn't help but laugh. "Brother Liang, you took the wrong one. This box is just a decoy. I said before that only the boxes with clown patterns are mission boxes."

All their efforts were in vain.

Wang Zhengliang silently placed the empty box aside and glanced into the room again. Apart from a faint light coming from the bench, the rest of the room was pitch black, so he hadn't noticed anything.

This time, a beam of red light shone in the center of the room, landing on another box with a clown pattern. Only then did he realize that the real box had been hidden in the shadows all along.

"Really, they actually put it here." Wang Zhengliang complained as he walked in with a normal expression, picked up the box in the center of the room, and came out again.

This was in stark contrast to his earlier panicked escape after grabbing the box.

So, do you guys even respect this living, breathing clown anymore?! I'm truly devastated.

The skinny clown teacher sat there for a few seconds, pondering whether he should get up and chase after them. But when he looked up, he saw Yu Yu standing at the door, a smile hiding a knife, glaring at him menacingly. It was clear that if he dared to touch Wang Zhengliang, Yu Yu would dare to touch him too…

Garlic bird, garlic bird, neither of them are easy to catch.

Seeing that the thinner version of the clown teacher was still pretending to be a dummy, Yu Yu looked away and walked to the stairwell with Wang Zhengliang.

Wang Zhengliang has completed his solo mission and successfully obtained the friend card from the box, but Yu Yu has not yet.

"Little Fish, are you sure you don't need me to wait for you here?" Wang Zhengliang asked.

"I don't really care, but I'm not sure if the skinny version of the clown teacher will chase after me again after I leave to complete the side quest."

"..."

"Farewell, I hope we meet again someday." Wang Zhengliang decisively cupped his hands in farewell.

After Wang Zhengliang left, Yu Yu returned to the narrow corridor and came to the old bathroom.

Compared to the somewhat eerie red-gloomy single-player mission room on the other side, this bathroom was practically pitch black. Once the bathroom door was closed, there was no other light source inside except for the red dot that lit up when the fixed camera was running.

Just based on this point alone, the task on this side is several times more difficult than the one on the other. Fortunately, Brother Liang listened to his advice and chose the other side. This solo task is obviously hellish in difficulty.

After spending a while in the darkness, Yu Yu's eyes had adjusted and she was finally able to see the blurry outlines around her.

The bathroom layout was not complicated at all. He was standing in front of the sink, next to the toilet, and behind him was a bathtub. The shower curtain was half-closed, leaving only a fist-width gap, making it impossible to tell whether someone was hiding in the bathtub.

Is there even a need to guess? There's definitely something fishy going on.

Otherwise, why would this dirty mirror in front of you not reflect people clearly in most places, but leave a small corner where you can see what's happening in the bathtub area?

So, if he were to lower his footsteps slightly, approach a little closer, and suddenly pull back the shower curtain, could he let the NPC teacher inside also enjoy the fun of the escape room game?

Yu Yu thought with a wicked sense of humor. Of course, he wouldn't actually do that. It wasn't that he was worried about scaring the NPC teacher, but rather that he didn't want to see the NPC teacher get angry and directly declare his mission a failure and refuse to give him the item box. Should he try to steal it then or not?

As a reasonable and considerate guest, Yu Yu decided to let the NPC teacher off the hook for the sake of the production team's reputation.

Since this mirror was the source of the later scare, he didn't need to explore the other areas; he simply stood in front of it. The next moment, he noticed a letter in the sink.

Yu Yu picked up the letter and examined it closely. Perhaps because this solo task was quite difficult, the production team had provided a specific hint—

"...I realized that I couldn't turn back no matter what, as long as I didn't turn back, I would be safe. He quite liked listening to music, and as long as I sang the same songs as him, he wouldn't notice me, and he would treat me as one of his own..."

This means he has to stand still, not turn around, and keep singing a certain song until he is safe.

Yu Yu raised an eyebrow. What's so difficult about this task?

He put the letter back in its place, and just as he did so, a chilling melody suddenly echoed in the dark bathroom. The eerie, ghostly singing voice reverberated through the cramped space.

"A little boy, making friends with his shadow, the stars twinkling, where is his head and body? Two little boys, three holding hands, the extra hand, laughing and hugging the throat. Four little boys, sewing together, the stitches neat and close, red thread around their necks. Walking on the road in the afternoon, seven pairs of footprints are left, who is humming a song, oil seeping from the mud."

In this environment, the terrifying nursery rhyme, which counts from one to seven as if it were hinting at something, would probably scare Zhang Yuan, Lu Hu, and Wang Zhengliang out of their wits, let alone have to sing along.

Moreover, it's not just singing; while singing, something else will probably happen in the mirror.

The production team will still pull off some funny antics.

But...

"The melody is quite simple, and the lyrics aren't difficult either. You can just keep singing along, right?" Yu Yu looked at the dirty mirror that didn't reflect her own image and seemed to be talking to herself. "But do I have to sing it exactly the same? There's a part where I'm off-key. Do I have to be off-key too? That's not good."

...? I'm fucking... */+@＃％&*￥！ ！ ！

Yu Yu, who had been staring at the shower curtain, noticed that the curtain moved slightly. He smirked with a mischievous grin.