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Arc 4: Castle Escape
Chapter 90

Gu Ze opened his mouth a few times and for a moment wasn’t able to speak.

Xu Ziyue waited and waited but didn’t receive an answer. Instead, the heat on his face couldn’t subside as they looked at each other.

Gu Ze looked at Xu Ziyue seemingly in thought for a moment before sighing helplessly and regaining the expression one would have when looking at a child, “Don’t make trouble.”

Xu Ziyue: What is this?!

Xu Ziyue became more and more angry, but he could nothing about Gu Ze.

He was once again stuck.

And this Gu Ze seemed to be different from Sun Mo and the others. Although Gu Ze seemed to be very good to him, it was because of his baby face. If not for this face…….Xu Ziyue could suddenly understand Austin’s feelings.

But his face was also a part of him! So if he likes his face then it means he likes him!

But this reasoning had no effect on Gu Ze because Gu Ze’s like was towards children!

Hm?

When a normal child asks someone older questions like “I like uncle/aunty/brother/sister”, wouldn’t they normally reply with “Me too”?

Xu Ziyue internally rubbed his chin and felt that he had found a breakthrough.

But why was Gu Ze so sensitive about the identity of a ‘child’?

Xu Ziyue couldn’t figure it out.

Does it have something to do with his past?

And that change in attitude just now was too fast. It was as if he had two personalities.

This world should only be about ten days long. With twenty-one players at the beginning, with the exception of the first day, only one player will be eliminated each day by the NPC and another player will be eliminated through voting.

In other words, if they don’t find the NPC until the very last day, there would only be two people remaining.

Of course, if they were let out on the tenth day after voting, then there would be three people left.

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Amongst them would likely be an NPC…….of course, there was also the possibility of the NPC being eliminated during the final round of voting.

A day had passed now, and they were on the second day. Xu Ziyue wanted to leave this world the sooner the better because once there are fewer people, more of the other people’s attention would be concentrated on him.

He was afraid that there might be a situation where Xu Ziyue receives the most votes.

And if he didn’t get eliminated after that, the situation is going to be fun.

Xu Ziyue made up his mind. Even if Gu Ze still regarded himself as a child, it didn’t matter. In any case, he just needed an affirmative answer.

Even if the affirmative answer was because he treated him as a child, it still counted as an answer.

Xu Ziyue made up his mind and got ready to ask again but Gu Ze had already turned around and entered the room, as if he was afraid of being further ‘interrogated’ by Xu Ziyue.

Xu Ziyue naturally would not completely disregard the others so in regard to Gu Ze’s answer in front of so many people, he could only swallow the words back down.

Gu Ze and Xu Ziyue entered the room one after the other. The others glanced at them briefly before busying themselves again with moving the wardrobe aside.

Xu Ziyue gently scratched his cheek. He felt that the atmosphere didn’t seem right, but he couldn’t figure out why. He saw that the others were all around the closet and just acted like he was ‘searching for the keys’ elsewhere.

The surface of the wardrobe after lifting it back up was quite disgusting, not to mention the ground.

They found something and used it to search the cleaner’s body, particularly the pockets and even searched through the wardrobe but nothing was found.

“The cleaner also confessed that she had keys, but we can’t find it. It’s likely that someone remembered about the keys when the accident happened and quietly took it without telling us.”

“It might also have been found just now by someone and they didn’t tell anyone about it.”

Xu Ziyue looked at everyone’s clothes. No one had any strange bulges.

Staff A suggested, “Let’s do this. We’ll either search each other or jump to see if we can hear anything.”

Not many were willing to be searched and most preferred to just listen for the sound. If they had the keys and jumped, there should be a sound.

——-If the key was found just now, it should be hidden in their clothes.

But even after jumping up and down for a while, there were no new discoveries. Xu Ziyue didn’t even object to a body search as his overalls didn’t have a place to hide the keys without making it look obvious.

Afterwards, everyone went to the eliminated artist’s room, but nothing was found there either. It seemed that they had blindly voted during this round of voting.

Because they still hadn’t found any clues pointing to the NPC.

Halfway through, the cook left to complete his task as he was responsible for their lunch and dinner.

It didn’t include breakfast.

And because of the series of events just now, no one remembered that they hadn’t had breakfast.

So when it was lunch, although the food wasn’t great, everyone still ate a lot.

Xu Ziyue found a seat directly opposite Gu Ze and the male makeup assistant sat down next to Xu Ziyue.

Xu Ziyue ate lunch facing Gu Ze while the male makeup assistant snickered and stuck his head out in front of his face, “I heard about it just now.”

Xu Ziyue looked at the male makeup assistant, “What did you hear?”

“You like him.”

Xu Ziyue shrugged and continued to shovel his food into his mouth.

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The male makeup assistant lowered his voice and asked, “You like his face? Or his body?”

Xu Ziyue answered vaguely, “Both.”

The male makeup assistant then said straightforwardly, “Then sleep with him!”

“Cough…….cough cough cough……” Xu Ziyue choked. He pieced up a small cup of water and slowly drank to help him swallow the food down.

The male makeup assistant shook his head, looking at Xu Ziyue with disappointment, “In this place, you never know when someone will be gone. Since you like him, a one-night stand is better than nothing. Don’t tell me you really wanted it to be real?”

Xu Ziyue glanced at the male makeup assistant and then glanced at the person sitting opposite him who seemed to have slowed down his eating speed.

“Haa…..you don’t understand.”

The male makeup assistant poked Xu Ziyue’s arm, “You look at yourself. If I’m not wrong, you definitely must still be a chick.”

“Chick?” Xu Ziyue didn’t understand.

The male makeup assistant said frankly, “A virgin.”

Xu Ziyue: “……Oh.”

What a joke! He’s actually——-

Xu Ziyue’s thoughts stopped suddenly.

No, that’s not right. Even if he wanted to escape from that, could he have a go with Sun Mo who he had only known for less than a week and is still a high school student?

Could he have a go with Austin whose lower body is a fish tail that looks more like a shark tail?

Or could he have a go with a doll?

Thinking back to those words……

It really wasn’t an option for him…….

Xu Ziyue then looked over at Gu Ze.

Gu Ze had already finished eating and was slowly finishing his soup.

If he and Gu Ze and a go, then he may no longer think of him as a child afterwards—-Afterall, they would have had “deep communication” so how could he still be a child?

If that was the case, then would it be possible for Gu Ze to treat him as an adult and properly answer his confession?

Impossible……

So Xu Ziyue pushed away that male makeup assistants face and decided to work hard playing the role of a ‘good child’.

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After lunch, although everyone didn’t want to complete the tasks on their task sheet, their bodies still followed it.

For example, those with the identity of an artist still took pictures.

Xu Ziyue sat on the steps supporting his chin as he watched Gu Ze.

Every movement of his was like a painting……..

Xu Ziyue sighed as he watched Gu Ze. Someone like this would definitely be amazing in reality.

But……These players who are all locked up in this escape room didn’t seem to be afraid even after several deaths. And the original NPCs in this world…..they are true escape room enthusiasts? Why aren’t they afraid of entering this place? And why do they eliminate other people?

Xu Ziyue suddenly thought this.

Was it because this was how the setting was originally set?

Xu Ziyue looked at the others in the hall.

The group had gathered together discussing something. None of them seemed to care about the reason behind the escape room being like this.

Should he ask Gu Ze directly? Since Xu Ziyue believes that he is most likely the boss here……

He just didn’t know how much tolerance Gu Ze would have towards this ‘child’.

Afterall, even if one likes children, it didn’t mean that they would answer all their questions.

If one person was eliminated each day, then after ten days……..if they are released on the eleventh day, it meant that there should at least be ten players. Otherwise, would the NPC eliminate themselves at the end? Then if there are eleven players amongst them, as long as they ended up voting out players during two of the voting sessions, who would the NPC eliminate on the last day?

Xu Ziyue suddenly fell into confusion.

Was it possible that the NPC would guide others to eliminate players while they themselves don’t eliminate players?

Wouldn’t that mean that the relationship between the NPCs are hostile? And since they know whether the others are NPC or human……Are they friends? Or enemies?

Xu Ziyue looked at Gu Ze, then what about the boss?

What could the boss of this world be considered?

Xu Ziyue’s mind was a mess. For a whole afternoon, he couldn’t sort out his thoughts.

After dinner, he notified the male makeup assistant and went over to knock on Gu Ze’s door.

Behind Xu Ziyue, the male makeup assistant deliberately made some strange, exaggerated gestures as he whistled a few times.

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