Chapter 176: Chapter 160: Ji Xizhi Fires a Wild Shot into the Sky

Ji Xizhi responded to the staff and then remained silent.

She glanced at the door that hadn’t been opened and pushed it back a bit.

According to the show rules, if you can’t find it, you can’t leave, so the decision is in her hands. She hasn’t found anything and definitely can’t leave, so Ji Xizhi quickly decided. Since there’s no rush to leave, she might as well finish reading the case before thinking about it.

Ji Xizhi’s gaze returned to the book, and the office fell back into silence.

The staff outside waited for a while but didn’t hear the sound of Ji Xizhi rummaging through things. He was puzzled for a moment, but ultimately the staff of the program couldn’t intervene too much in the guests’ actions. Sending Ji Xizhi the computer was something planned ahead.

The staff thought maybe Ji Xizhi was searching quite elegantly; flying guests behaving this way is normal, as they’re always cautious.

The staff completed the notification task and left the front of the office.

On another front.

Director Xu at the monitor hadn’t noticed the little episode in Ji Xizhi’s room either. At that moment, he was busy buying trending topics for the live stream. “Escape Room” is a live reality show, and real-time traffic during the broadcast is very important. Previously, inviting Ji Xizhi on the show had already added several lines of heat to the program. Now that the broadcast officially started, the production team was definitely going to buy trending keywords for promotion.

The production team targeted the content from this morning when Ji Xizhi destroyed the mechanism and scared Director Xu into fainting. The ninth episode of “Escape Room” just started recording, and not many people watched the morning live stream. This was the highest in terms of heat and discussion so far. Director Xu, therefore, sacrificed himself to boost heat and chose the hashtag #JiXizhiScaresDirectorXu to drop into the trending topics, accompanied by a small video clip edited by the official account of Ji Xizhi scaring Director Xu.

[Oh my, was there a live broadcast today? How much did I miss!]

[Pounding my chest, I’m on an outdoor assignment, can’t slack off to watch, sob sob sob~]

[Ji Xizhi sanctions the director slot +1, congratulations Director Xu haha the video really made my neighbor think I was secretly raising geese at home!]

…

As soon as the trending topic was put up, netizens quickly flocked in, and the real-time traffic in each guest’s live stream room started to steadily increase.

This is all a good sign.

Director Xu was also very satisfied.

Until a new trending topic surged under the one bought by the production team.

#JiXizhiRecordingANewTypeOfEscapeRoom#

When Director Xu first saw it, he was quite happy. There’s a derivative keyword climbing up on its own; it shows how popular the production team’s heat is!

But when he clicked in to see, Director Xu’s face darkened.

This spontaneously surging keyword was posted by a viewer watching the live stream.

Fat House Joy Water: #JiXizhiRecordingANewTypeOfEscapeRoom# First of all, I’m a years-long fan of “Escape Room”, and I like all the guests, but this episode is really interesting. In this episode, the six guests are fleeing separately, let me shallowly compare the status of the six guests.

Below were six pictures, the first five were of the other fixed guests frantically searching for keys. They were searching like crazy, almost digging into cracks on the floor and walls, and when it came to Ji Xizhi, the style changed drastically. She was unhurried, leisurely writing a report for a while, then reading a book, almost welded to the desk.

[Umm… Is Ji Xizhi participating in the same show as the other five guests?]

[Hahaha as long as I have no desire to leave, no one can make me escape!]

[Here she goes again, bringing her soul-searching questions: Does Escape Room necessarily mean escaping?!]

Upon clicking this, Director Xu: “…!”

His brain was exploding.

Director Xu shifted his focus from the trending topics and immediately contacted the relevant person, “Why hasn’t Ji Xizhi escaped yet? Hasn’t she been notified that the half-hour is up?!”

The staff replied innocently, “We did notify her, didn’t you see? As soon as the half-hour was up, we notified Teacher Ji that she could begin to escape, maybe she hasn’t come out because she hasn’t found the key yet? I heard the other guests still haven’t found theirs either…”

Before the staff could finish speaking, Director Xu abruptly hung up the phone.

He urgently went to the broadcasting system in Ji Xizhi’s room and shouted through it, “Ji Xizhi, the half-hour is up, you can start looking for the key to leave the room.”

Ji Xizhi didn’t even lift her head, “Haven’t found it yet.”

Director Xu was stuck with a mouthful of blood: “!!!”

The good-looking man’s image was uncontrollable, his voice raised.

“You haven’t found the key? Did you even look? You haven’t searched at all!!!”

The broadcast’s loud voice was faintly heard by Qiu Lin in the classroom.

Qiu Lin was crawling on the ground, searching for the key, and vaguely heard something about “haven’t searched for the key.” She froze for a moment.

Immediately her brain spun fast, she quickly got up from the ground and rushed to the door, grabbing the big lock with one hand.

“The broadcast seemed to suggest that we don’t need to find the key, so maybe this lock doesn’t need to be opened—-?”

As soon as Qiu Lin’s hand touched the lock, the heavy lock’s ring fell right into her hand.

Qiu Lin was shocked: “???”

“Taken… taken off? This lock is fake!!!”

Previously, this big lock was just placed over, but because it was large and heavy, after being blindfolded and brought in, Qiu Lin’s initial reaction was to find the key since this segment was her strong point. She had gone through similar segments in previous episodes and didn’t bother checking the lock, only focused on finding the key as fast as possible.

But now! This lock turned out to be a decoy by the production team.

After Qiu Lin took off the big lock, she found a very small electronic screen behind it, inputting four letters or numbers would allow one to exit.

Qiu Lin: “…”

She turned to look at the unfinished problem on the blackboard.

The password was obvious.

Fans in Qiu Lin’s live stream were also confused by this wave of hints.

[The show crew really predicted my Linxin’s reaction perfectly, making him search so hard, boohoohoo]

[Don’t rush to feel sorry, I see the other regular guests are still searching, how did Linxin hear a broadcast hint?]

[Right! When has “Escape Room” ever given hints? This is strange!]

Qiu Lin’s fans here looked puzzled.

Other viewers who accidentally entered Qiu Lin’s live stream laughed hysterically.

[Damn, hint hahaha, hint my ass!]

[Ji Xizhi fires randomly into the sky, Director Xu gets hit and falls down, Qiu Lin wins without a fight!]

[Wish: When I rank up tonight, I want a perfect assistant like this to carry me!]

[I’m different, I want Ji Xizhi herself to carry me, let’s all rush to her Weibo and get her followers to break twenty million so she can carry me!]

…

Qiu Lin’s fans were itching to solve the riddle posed by this wave of viewers, but many mentioned Ji Xizhi, so a bunch of them rushed to Ji Xizhi’s live stream to check it out.

Director Xu shouted, Ji Xizhi’s ears buzzed slightly, she calmly looked up and logically questioned:

“Doesn’t the show have no time restriction for finding things?”

Director Xu: “.” They didn’t set a rule, but looking at this, if he doesn’t set one soon, Ji Xizhi might stay here forever!

He resisted the urge to crush the walkie-talkie and explained with a smile: “The lack of prior restriction was to give the guests more exploration space, but now we require the guests to quickly explore more of the plot, Teacher Ji, please escape quickly!”

Director Xu had already spoken up to urge, so Ji Xizhi couldn’t just continue reading there, especially since she signed a contract and mostly had to follow the director’s arrangements.

Ji Xizhi reluctantly pinched the book in her hands, “Then if I leave, can I borrow this book for a look?”

Director Xu: “…Okay, once you escape, I’ll give it to you!!!”

As soon as those words were said, Ji Xizhi immediately stood up.

Director Xu: “!” If he had known this method worked so well, he should have brought more books!

But… this one is enough!

Director Xu recalled how the other regular guests had been searching for keys and clues for over half an hour and felt reassured.

The office where Ji Xizhi was placed had a lot of items, several cabinets were locked, and the password hint to open the main door was locked inside a cabinet by the show crew, which meant Ji Xizhi had to open the cabinet first to get the key, making it a double-layer lock situation.

Escaping this room wasn’t easy, even if Ji Xizhi was brilliant, it would take her some time!

Director Xu was ready to watch Ji Xizhi look overwhelmed!

Ha! No one can stay calm in his “Escape Room”!

Director Xu was confident.

Fans in the live stream were equally excited.

[Here we go, my Zhi Zhi is finally escaping!!! Got my notebook out, I want to write down the strategy!]

[Is Zhi Zhi’s escape classroom open again? Detective fans are rushing over, I also want to copy the homework!]

[Can a single sentence make a book? I’m tired of writing!]

Many netizens still remembered the storyline from Ji Xizhi’s last Conan scene with the pig, but that segment in “Life Experience” was too short, not satisfying enough, and now they could finally see the whole process, who wouldn’t be excited.

Everyone watched intently.

The camera captured Ji Xizhi coming out from behind the desk, but contrary to the audience’s expectations, she didn’t rummage through the cabinets or start an analytical deduction in front of the camera.

She walked straight to the locked main door and glanced at the combination lock.

Ji Xizhi: “I need to unlock this, right?”

Director Xu, resting his chin and smiling, “Of course, you need to first find the clue related to the password…”

Before he could finish the word ’clues’, there was a “click” sound.

The lock opened.

Director Xu: “?”

Live stream fans: “??”

[@Publisher, can a single statement make a book?]

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