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Zhao Hai charged straight over.

The golden door opened. Inside was a small room, with a box emitting a purple glow on a table in the center.

Yin Leyao looked at the purple prop box but didn't touch it.

Because she knew that everyone knew the rule that the red item had to be triggered three times before you died, but there was another rule in the hidden room that she hadn't written in the announcement.

There is only one purple item box in the hidden room.

All six people wanted it.

That means only one person can get out.

Zhao Hai had already rushed through the golden door. The moment his hand touched the purple item box, the walls of the room suddenly began to move.

[Hidden room triggers protection mechanism]

Everyone currently in the room must participate in the competition.

[Number of survivors remaining: 6]

Final number of survivors: 1

The man with glasses turned pale instantly: "No, that's not in the rules!"

Fatty Wang looked at Yin Leyao: "Did you know this would happen?"

Yin Leyao didn't speak. Of course she knew.

The hidden room is the final arena.

She deliberately hid this rule during the design process, writing it in the folded clauses on the last page of the game instructions.

It's the players' own problem if they don't read the terms and conditions.

The golden door closed.

Six people were locked in a hidden room.

The purple prop box is still on the table.

Zhao Hai was closest, so he grabbed the prop box and stuffed it into his arms.

Li Laosi made a move.

He pulled a dagger from his waist. It was something he had found in the previous room; it wasn't a prop, it was an ordinary weapon.

"Hand over the items."

Zhao Hai sneered: "You think I'll just hand it over because you tell me to?"

Chen Dong took the opportunity to retreat to the corner of the wall.

Yin Leyao was also backing away.

She didn't need that purple prop box; she put it there herself.

She came in to test the game's flow and, incidentally, to see how players would react in extreme situations.

Fatty Wang noticed her backing away: "Aren't you going to grab it?"

"I won't steal it."

"Then what are you doing here?"

Yin Leyao leaned against the wall: "Let's watch the show."

Li Laosi and Zhao Hai have already started fighting.

Li Laosi had a knife, and Zhao Hai was physically strong; the two of them wrestled together.

Zhao Hai's arm was slashed, and blood splattered on the gray bricks.

Chen Dong suddenly moved.

He rushed over, not to the two people fighting, but to Zhao Hai's purple prop box that had fallen to the ground.

The glasses moved too.

He grabbed a wooden box from the table next to him and threw it at Chen Dong.

Chen Dong was hit on the shoulder, his hand slipped, and the prop box flew out.

The prop box landed at Yin Leyao's feet.

All eyes were on her.

Yin Leyao looked down at the purple prop box at her feet, without bending down to pick it up.

"You can continue."

Zhao Hai scrambled to his feet, his hands covered in blood: "Give me the stuff!"

Yin Leyao kicked the prop box in front of him.

Zhao Hai was stunned.

He didn't expect Yin Leyao to be so decisive.

"I said I won't steal it." Yin Leyao crossed her arms.

Zhao Hai bent down and picked up the prop box.

He had just straightened up when a dagger stabbed him in the back.

Li Laosi was behind him.

Zhao Hai looked down at the blade protruding from his chest, his mouth opened as if to say something, but he didn't.

He fell down, and the purple prop box rolled away again.

[Player Zhao Hai is dead]

[Number of survivors remaining: 5]

Li Laosi pulled out his dagger and scanned the remaining people.

Chen Dong huddled in the corner. His hands were trembling.

Fatty Wang remained expressionless.

Yin Leyao remained leaning against the wall.

Li Laosi walked towards the prop box.

Glasses suddenly exploded: "I can't take it anymore!"

He rushed to one side of the room and pounded on the wall frantically, shouting, "I want to get out! I don't want to play anymore!"

The patterns on the wall lit up.

red.

The glasses captured a wall with protrusions.

[Player's glasses trigger red item: Curse event]

[Curse Type: Weakness]

Duration: Three minutes

[Cumulative number of similar events: 1/3]

Glasses' body went limp, and he collapsed to his knees. Most of his strength had been drained away.

Li Laosi ignored him and picked up the prop box.

Fatty Wang made a move.

He had been waiting for this moment from the very beginning.

He had no weapon in his hand, but he walked up to Li Laosi and said a sentence.

"You took this item box, and now you have to kill three more people to get out of here alive. Are you sure you can kill all of us?"

Li Laosi tightened his grip on the dagger.

"How about we cooperate?" Fatty Wang said. "Give me the prop box, and I guarantee you'll get out of here alive."

Why should I believe you?

"I know where the real exit is," Fatty Wang pointed to the ceiling. "The exit to the hidden room is up there, not through the door on the floor. This room is upside down."

Yin Leyao raised an eyebrow.

Fatty Wang was right.

The exit to the hidden room is indeed in the ceiling.

The design documents clearly state that to leave the hidden room, you must climb up the platform.

But most people don't even look up when they're fighting over the item boxes.

"How did you know?" Yin Leyao asked.

Fatty Wang chuckled: "I read the game announcement three times before coming in. There was a folded clause at the very end of the announcement, which I clicked to read."

Li Laosi looked up at the ceiling. Sure enough, there was the outline of a hidden door on the ceiling.

He hesitated for two seconds before tossing the prop box to Fatty Wang.

Fatty Wang took the prop box but didn't run towards the exit. He walked up to Yin Leyao.

"Yin Leyao, the designer of item number 0147." Fatty Wang handed her the purple item box. "Your game, you definitely know how to get out. Take me out, and the item box is yours."

Yin Leyao looked at Fatty Wang's face.

This person had been observing everything since he entered the room. He observed the walls, the players, and everyone's choices.

"When did you find out I was the designer?"

"One of the rules is that the designer has the right to enter the game they designed for testing. Once you're in, you're avoiding the red items with every move you make; you know the game's mechanics better than anyone else. You're not a player."

Yin Leyao took the purple prop box.

"The exit is indeed on the ceiling. But you need to push the platform over to stand on before climbing up. There's a red item under the platform, and you have to tilt it at a 30-degree angle when moving it, otherwise it will trigger something."

Fatty Wang nodded and went over to move the table.

Li Laosi's expression changed as he watched them work together: "You want to leave me here?"

Chen Dong stepped out from the corner: "Me too."

The glasses were still lying on the ground, and the person was in a weakened state for another minute and a half.

Yin Leyao looked at Li Laosi and Chen Dong: "Six people for one job, that's what the system said. But I'm the one who designed the game. I'm the one who calls the shots."

She pushed the platform directly beneath the hidden door in the ceiling, tilting it at a thirty-degree angle. The red patterns on the bottom of the platform flashed briefly, but did not trigger.

"I'll go first." Yin Leyao stepped onto the platform and pushed open the hidden door in the ceiling. Outside, there was white light.

She rolled over and got on top of him.

Fatty Wang followed closely behind.

"What about the rest?" Fatty Wang asked.

Yin Leyao looked at the purple item box in her hand: "The game rule is that only one person can live at most. But if someone voluntarily gives up their item, everyone forfeits, and the game ends early."

She wrote this rule in the design document. It was just hidden in a comment on page seven.

Chen Dong immediately raised his hand: "I give up all the green items."

Li Laosi gritted his teeth and threw the dagger on the ground: "I give up too."

When his weakness subsided, Glasses struggled to his feet: "I give up, I give up everything."

[Everyone abandons the props]

Room 0147 ended early.

Number of survivors: 5

[Violation of the final survival rule]

[System in progress]

[Judgment Result: Designer's permissions were overridden]

Room 0147 is closed.

The white light disappeared.

Yin Leyao returned to her own boat.

She was still holding that purple prop box in her hand.

The chat channel has exploded.

"Isn't room 0147 supposed to be a six-in-one unit? How come five people survived?"

"Someone spotted the hidden room!"

Who took the purple item?

"Yin Leyao! It's Yin Leyao!"

Yin Leyao turned off the chat channel.

She placed the purple prop box on the table and then picked up the Black Shark plush toy.

"Your master did a good deed today."

The doll's black tail slid between her fingers, feeling cool and smooth.

Yin Leyao picked up a pair of scissors and a polished piece of iron, and gestured towards the tip of the doll's tail: "Strange, the tail seems to have gotten a little longer."