Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 55: The Ultimate Card

The key broke inside!

Everyone was stunned, staring blankly at the half-broken key that was pulled out.

Yu Xia: "...It shouldn’t be because I used too much force, right?"

Wei Yaoyao: "How much strength could you possibly have? It definitely isn’t this key... But if it’s not this key, then which one is it? We’ve been focused on this key for thirty minutes now!"

Only now do they find out that this level isn’t about grabbing the key!

Yu Kuang glanced at the countdown, looking shocked: "Only twenty seconds left!"

"Find it! Find the key!"

"Damn, there’s no time left!"

"Even if we hold the key now, it’s too late! Only ten seconds left!"

A group of headless flies scurried around, watching helplessly as the countdown hit zero.

Their hearts jumped up instantly.

The entire room lit up in red, projections covered the ceiling, with the big word "FAILURE" appearing on the wall.

They huddled close together again.

Wei Yaoyao grimaced: "This is a disaster."

An eerie electronic voice rang out, coldly: "Unfortunately, the escape failed, and someone must stop at the third level."

Then, the scarlet "FAILURE" in the projection changed to their names, scattered like a few points randomly lit on a world map, with no particular pattern in the connecting lines.

The names started glowing red, randomly, making it impossible to predict who would be eliminated.

It’s all about a heartbeat game 2021.

Yu Xia clutched her chest, staring intently at the red, clearly hearing the heartbeats and breathing of the others nearby.

Everyone was very nervous.

Finally, the red stopped at a name on the right side of the map.

A sound of gasping for breath was heard.

The one eliminated was a quiet kid.

The comments went wild.

[Scared me so much I didn’t dare to breathe]

[This equipment is so real, going inside would definitely be thrilling!]

[This is what panicking headless looks like hahaha]

[So scared I cried but didn’t forget to settle Comrade Zuoshan Diao hahaha Wei Yaoyao, you’re quite something]

[What’s wrong with Pei Lu? Hurt his leg?]

[Seems like no one likes Pei Lu, standing there alone, so pitiful]

[It’s not his fault he looks like Cheng, there’s no need for these people to target him this way]

[Is it really random elimination? What if Shu Ran is next?]

[Am I really the only one wondering if they still need to find the key to open the door?]

[...]

After sending someone off, everyone hesitated at the back door of the classroom.

Yu Xia: "How do we open this door? Do we still need to find the key?"

Shu Ran said: "If not, the program team would probably come out to remind us or just open it for us."

That means they need to open it themselves.

Eliminated a person and still can’t pass the level, it feels too frustrating.

Yu Xia clicked her tongue, asked Song Xi to give her the flashlight, bent down to carefully examine the half-broken key in the lock.

Completely blocked, even finding a new key wouldn’t help.

She shared this with the group, and they crouched by the door to investigate, with Wei Yaoyao holding Zuoshan Diao crowded around.

The grandiose national anthem played a few times, everyone expected it to continue as the anthem, Yu Xia was ready to sing along again, but didn’t expect Comrade Zuoshan Diao switched to a new song.

"Mighty and high-spirited! Cross the Yalu River!"

Yu Xia shuddered, the flashlight bumped against the lock, almost breaking it.

Just about to remove it, Song Xi suddenly grabbed the other end of the flashlight: "Wait a minute, Yu Xia, something’s wrong here."

Everyone stared at the spot he pointed at, puzzled.

The classroom door lock is an old-fashioned one, like an ancient camera.

As everyone knows, locks like these could be locked from the inside without the key, just twist it twice from the inside, it opens from inside but not outside.

So—

Yu Xia twisted it twice, the two metal rods inside clicked and retracted, then she twisted again, and the lock opened.

Yu Xia opened the door silently, looking back at everyone.

Their faces expressed disbelief, "Are you kidding me?"

A moment later, Wei Yaoyao exhaled a sigh.

"So why didn’t we think of the lock not needing a key earlier."

Brains must’ve short-circuited for a moment.

Song Xi also shook his head: "Seeing a thirty-minute timer made it seem really hard."

Subjective assumptions make people seem foolish, as experience has shown.

Shu Ran waved: "Let’s go, next challenge. Stay any longer, and this classroom will leave a psychological shadow on me."

Entering the fourth room, everyone showed surprised expressions.

This was a collection room, a brightly lit one, automatically illuminated upon entry.

There were three rows and three columns of pedestals inside, each with a card enclosed in glass on top.

Familiar with this place, Yu Xia and Wei Yaoyao reacted immediately.

"It’s where you buy prop cards, Wei Yaoyao has points."

Song Xi asked: "What are the functions of these prop cards?"

Yu Xia recalled the two prop cards bought last Wednesday, her smile got stuck.

"Well, they can affect the game or the players in some way. To note, there’s good and bad, may even draw one that sends us back to the beginning."

"Please, no prophecy, Yu Xia."

Wei Yaoyao quickly interrupted her, then, holding Comrade Zuoshan Diao, wandered over.

Like a grandpa taking a grandson to choose an old hen.

"This time we have to pick a good card, everyone look, see it, I’ll pay for it!"

Zuoshan Diao, singing mightily, was really regarded as a protective talisman, he even asked it while looking at a card:

"Brother Diao, does this card look okay?"

Just at the moment the song reached "American Imperialist Wolf," he went "oh" aloud.

"No? Alright, then, let’s not pick this one."

Yu Xia was speechless.

After much consideration, they chose together, selecting the card in the second row, second column.

Pushing the button on the pedestal, the card slowly rose up.

Wei Yaoyao picked it up and looked at it: "Eh? It looks the same front and back, no text."

While everyone was crowding around, suddenly the wall beside them lit up with a red light and made a "clattering" sound as well.

Completely caught off guard.

Yu Xia clutched her chest and took two steps back, leaning on the pedestal to catch her breath.

She was not used to these sudden scares.

Song Xi instinctively reached out to protect her momentarily, but realizing it, immediately withdrew his hand, pinching his fingers with a frown.

Black dots appeared on the wall, then gradually gathered to form the shape of a card, like the card from an animated duel show, spinning a couple of times, revealing the front.

This time the prop card was very different from the last, the design was eerie and creepy, depicting an Ouroboros entwined with crimson vines, with a cloaked old man in the middle.

Three Do Not Enter Your Own Home Card, nine points.

The explanation was right below, Wei Yaoyao read it aloud excitedly:

"Purchasing this card allows you to bypass the next three rooms without playing, directly entering the eighth challenge."

Unable to contain it after reading.

"Ah, ah, ah, an unparalleled card! Three levels, not needing to play any! Exactly nine points!"

Everyone cheered, Song Xi and others lifted Wei Yaoyao, spinning him around on the spot, leaving Yu Xia slightly frustrated.

"Your luck is unbelievably good!"

"A bit less shock now, hahaha! So great!"

"Ah, straight to the eighth level! Doesn’t that mean only two levels are left?!"

"Come on! Let’s go through the next three rooms with our flashlight! Strut through boldly!"