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    Chapter 19 Ambiguous Stealth

    The recording of this reality show alone took nearly five hours, from 7pm to 12pm. The entire program staff was looking forward to them coming out soon, so when Zhou Ziheng opened the door, almost everyone outside the venue cheered.

    Ruan Xiao and Cen Xun followed closely behind he, and when they came out, they were sprayed with ribbons by the staff waiting outside the door.

    “So did we win or lose?” Cen Xun, with a ribbon hanging on his head, looked at Ruan Xiao in confusion.

    Ruan Xiao smiled and lay on Cen Chun’s shoulder, “We came out second, and our points are still very high.”

    Cen Chen looked shocked, “So Ziheng is not a killer?”

    Xia Xiqing, who was standing nearby, smiled and joked, “It’s me.”

    Cen Chen looked at Xia Xiqing with a shocked expression.Ruan Xiao pushed Xia Xiqing, “Stop teasing Sister Cen Chun.”

    The push didn’t matter, it just happened to push Xia Xiqing into the arms of Zhou Ziheng who was standing behind him. His subconscious reaction made him reach out and grab Xia Xiqing’s arm from behind and support him.

    The tip of his hair gently brushed Zhou Ziheng’s chin, tickling him.

    Xia Xiqing didn’t expect Ruan Xiao to push him down. The moment he was caught by Zhou Ziheng, he looked back at he with some surprise. After their eyes met, he quickly regained his composure and said softly, “Thank you.”

    These words swept past him like an inadvertent hair tip. Xia Xiqing took the initiative to step away a little distance, and then continued joking as if nothing happened, “Ruan Xiao, I really didn’t realize that you also have extraordinary talents in strange powers and chaos.”

    “Would I say that I am a Mensa who has made great progress through strength?” Ruan Xiao stretched, “I have been nervous since I stayed in there, and now I feel so hungry when I relax.”

    Cen Chen agreed, “Me too, I feel tired and hungry. I didn’t feel that before.”

    Zhou Ziheng made a rare suggestion, “Let’s go have a late-night snack after work.”

    “Okay.” Ruan Xiao grabbed Cen Chen, “Let’s go together, I want to eat hot pot.”

    Everyone was talking enthusiastically about the choice of supper. Only Xia Xiqing felt that something was wrong. He glanced at the few people present, then looked inside the door, and finally asked, “Wait a minute… Where is Sirui?”

    “Sirui…” Ruan Xiao then remembered, “Ah! Sirui was still calling in the study just now…”

    The cheers were so loud that they drowned out Shang Sirui’s cry for help.

    By the time everyone finally arrived in the study, Shang Sirui had already given up asking for help. He leaned his head back on the chair and looked at the ceiling. When he heard the sound of the study door opening, he sat up straight and said, “You finally remembered me!”

    Several people laughed together. Zhou Ziheng also wanted to laugh, but it was too inhuman to laugh now, so he had to hold back and walked over to help Shang Sirui untie the rope from his body.

    “No, Ziheng, you are taking it too seriously.” Shang Sirui, who was sitting on the chair, began to complain to him, “Forget it, just handcuff me, and tie me with a rope.”

    “This room was like this when we entered.” Zhou Ziheng balled up the rope and threw it aside. He looked at the handcuffs cuffing his wrists and then remembered that he didn’t have the key. As he was about to get up, he saw a hand handing the key to his eyes.

    Zhou Ziheng raised his hand and saw Xia Xiqing’s clean and innocent smiling face.

    It just looked clean and simple, he denied it again in his mind, and then took the key from Xia Xiqing’s hand.

    “He was not cuffed when he came in.” Xia Xiqing said with a smile, “I was the only one who was cuffed. It was worse than you. My eyes were also covered.”

    “Wow… it’s too difficult for you to escape.”

    Shang Sirui and Xia Xiqing were chatting, and Zhou Ziheng, who was squatting half-crouched, took off the handcuffs without saying a word. This reminded him of how he had taken off Xia Xiqing’s handcuffs before.Shang Sirui’s hands are also pretty, but to be honest, they are not as long as Xia Xiqing’s, and they don’t seem as white as He’s.

    Why compare?

    With a click, the handcuffs were released.Zhou Ziheng came to his senses.

    There is nothing to compare with.

    After untying the restraints, Shang Sirui jumped a few times easily. He put one hand on Xia Xiqing’s shoulder, and the other reluctantly put his other hand on Zhou Ziheng’s shoulder. “It’s finally over.” Several staff members came forward to help them take off the microphones on their bodies.

    he reached out his hand.

    “What are you doing?” Zhou Ziheng suddenly felt a chill. When he turned around, he saw Xia Xiqing’s hand reaching for his neck.

    Like a little tiger with bristled fur.Xia Xiqing suppressed a smile and said sorry, then took off the ribbon.

    There’s nothing to be embarrassed about, he just wanted to touch him with the force of taking the ribbon, that’s all intentional.

    He pinched one end of the ribbon with his slender fingers, shook it in front of Zhou Ziheng, let go, and let the ribbon slowly fall like a feather, and finally lay at his feet.

    The color of the ribbon is very eye-catching.Just like the smile on Xia Xiqing’s face at this moment.

    Zhou Ziheng was awkward for a long time, but finally said thank you.

    “You’re welcome.”

    Why does this person always have such a light voice at the end of his speech?Like an extremely frivolous cloud lying in the wind that cannot be caught.

    The director of the program team came over and said, “We will record a behind-the-scenes featurette later.” He handed one of the cameras in his hand to Sirui and the other to Cen Chen. “There are two machines here. You can divide into two teams to visit this house. It took our production team two and a half days to set up.”

    “Don’t worry, director, I just want to go shopping too.” Shang Sirui took the camera with a smile, pointed it at Zhou Ziheng’s face, “It’s already turned on, right?”

    “It’s open, it’s open.” The director said and walked aside.Seeing Zhou Ziheng trying to hide from the camera, Shang Sirui immediately grabbed he, turned the camera to his face, and coughed twice, “Hello everyone, I am today’s VJ and host, a member of HighFive, Shang Sirui! Hi~~ Let me introduce you, Dangdangdang-” He turned the camera to Zhou Ziheng’s face, “Zhou Ziheng! Wow, Ziheng, your face looks great in the camera.”

    Zhou Ziheng covered the camera with his palm as a joke. Shang Sirui struggled for a while to get the camera out of his grasp. He turned to Xia Xiqing and said, “This is our super invincible and smart Xia Xiqing. His performance in the secret room really shocked me. If it weren’t for Xi Qing, maybe I would have won.”

    “So you are expressing dissatisfaction?” Xia Xiqing smiled softly, “Your performance shocked me, okay?”

    “Hey.” Shang Sirui turned the camera around and pointed it at the entrance of the house, “Let’s take a look first.”

    After the recording, Shang Sirui was like a kid who had been given blood, walking around with a camera. Zhou Ziheng and Xia Xiqing were walking behind him and would only say a few words when they were cued.

    When he walked to the study room, Shang Sirui was extremely excited, “It’s here that I was imprisoned by Ziheng! He handcuffed me and tied me with a rope!” His camera turned to Zhou Ziheng, “It’s this handsome guy, he kidnapped me.”

    “Pfft.” Xia Xiqing couldn’t help laughing.Zhou Ziheng, who was slapped in the face by Shang Sirui with the camera, calmly said, “Who told you to lie to others?”

    “That was all forced on me by the program crew. I was so panicked, okay?” Shang Sirui was a little curious, “By the way, how did you find the final password? I searched for it for a long time and couldn’t find it.”

    “This is the room.” Zhou Ziheng took out a flashlight from his coat pocket, “This flashlight I found on the sofa, there are two key words written on the clue, study and turning off the lights…”

    Before Zhou Ziheng finished speaking, Shang Sirui, who reacted too quickly, stretched out his free hand to press the light switch at the door, “Is it a clue that you can only see when the light is turned off?”

    his hand was caught.

    “Don’t turn off the light!”

    Xia Xiqing was stunned. He didn’t even react to turn off the lights. He saw Zhou Ziheng grabbing Shang Sirui’s arm without hesitation and stopping his actions.

    “What’s wrong?” Shang Sirui looked at Zhou Ziheng with confusion.

    To be honest, Zhou Ziheng didn’t expect that he would stop he just like that. The words were almost blurted out without any thought process.

    “He means that the machine is taking pictures. This should not be taken by infrared…” Xia Xiqing calmly held Zhou Ziheng’s wrist, the raised wrist bone that exposed the cuff, and took off his hand, “Yeah.”

    “Well.” Zhou Ziheng quietly broke away from Xia Xiqing’s hand, “I’ll tell you directly, after turning off the light, use this flashlight to shine on the four corners, and a digital code will appear. Just crack one.”

    “That’s it…” Shang Sirui nodded as if he understood, and then sighed with some regret, “I feel like I’m just missing a clue! Otherwise, I will be the winner. I’m so angry.”

    After filming the last room, the three of them came to the underground passage connected to the exit seats. This passage directly connected to the external recording preparation area.The passage was very narrow, and Zhou Ziheng walked with difficulty with his back bent.

    Fortunately there was a light, otherwise he would have just fallen off…

    Okay?Why is it okay.

    Zhou Ziheng felt extremely strange. He was becoming more and more confused about himself. It seemed as if a villain had been forced to live in his head. He was saying strange things all day long, which made he feel a little insane.

    Shang Sirui walked in front alone, walking very fast, and said the closing remarks of the highlight to the camera.Xia Xiqing followed Zhou Ziheng and got very close.

    The long and narrow corridor compresses the space together with the breath, and the air around the body seems to turn into tiny particles suspended around the body, floating like plankton.

    Suddenly feeling the clothes on his back being grabbed, Zhou Ziheng turned slightly sideways.Xia Xiqing did not expect that this difficult guy would turn around so obediently. The moment he grabbed the hem of his clothes, he took a step closer and wanted to speak.

    Just like that, the distance was sharply compressed again.

    In the field of vision, the small mole on the tip of the nose suddenly enlarged, came closer, briefly touched the corner of Zhou Ziheng’s lips, then slid past like a shooting star, and then moved away again.

    Those tiny particles floating like luminous jellyfish suddenly stopped.

    Air condensation.

    In the not-so-bright corridor, Shang Sirui’s childish words were like a background sound gradually fading away, while another voice slowly strengthened.

    Thump——

    pounding——

    Zhou Ziheng came to his senses in a panic. He just wanted to retreat in a hurry, but he forgot that this place was so narrow that there was no room for He, who was 193 centimeters tall, to move around at will.

    “Hey, be careful.” Xia Xiqing saw Zhou Ziheng’s head hit the top of the passage. He was trying to catch he but failed. When he panicked, Zhou Ziheng’s foot slipped again and he fell to the ground.

    Those tiny particles that were so tense that they were still invisible to others also fell rapidly, like a big jar of pearl sugar falling from the sky, clanking on Zhou Ziheng’s body.

    Zhou Ziheng shook his head, trying to shake the hallucination out of his sight.

    It was extremely embarrassing.

    Hearing the noise coming from behind, Shang Sirui shouted towards the end, “What’s wrong with you?”

    Xia Xiqing responded immediately, “It’s okay. Ziheng accidentally fell. You go up first.”

    After saying that, he stretched out a hand towards Zhou Ziheng.

    Zhou Ziheng didn’t even look at the hands. He stood up and patted the dust on his body awkwardly. When he turned around, he felt a pain in his tailbone, so he had to hold on to the wall and walk slowly.

    “It’s okay.”

    “It’s okay.”

    “Pfft.” There was another chuckle.

    Zhou Ziheng felt uncomfortable in his heart, as if he had been looked down upon. He wanted to get rid of this embarrassing atmosphere as soon as possible and change this disgraceful topic, so he coughed twice, turned his back to Xia Xiqing and asked, “You… what did you just say?”

    “You still remember.” Xia Xiqing’s tone was as gentle and frivolous as the wind, which could stir up people’s hearts and make them unable to calm down.

    “You’re going to tell me or not.”

    The tone was quite fierce, and the tips of his ears were obviously red.

    “I just want to ask… how did you recognize me.” Xia Xiqing stepped on the path Zhou Ziheng walked step by step, stepping on his shadow, “It was after I entered the study room with the lights turned off.”

    Zhou Ziheng suddenly stopped talking and was about to go out, silently walking up the steps.

    As a veteran in love, Xia Xiqing is well versed in the conversation skills that should be mastered when flirting. If the other party does not speak, he can always keep the topic from getting into an embarrassing situation.

    “I guess… it’s because of the smell of perfume?” Xia Xiqing laughed and followed the steps step by step. “So you are so sensitive to smells?”

    Zhou Ziheng still didn’t speak.

    he climbed the last step, and the air was noisy again. The staff said to each other that they had worked hard, and everyone celebrated the success of the first episode of the program. The voices of Shang Sirui and Cen Chen complaining to each other, Ruan Xiao’s sweet laughter, and many other sounds were mixed in.

    Mixed in among them was Zhou Ziheng’s deep voice.

    “I subconsciously thought it was you.”

    When I got close to you and grabbed your hand, I smelled the scent of perfume on my body, which made me even more convinced.

    Xia Xiqing’s last step stayed in the air for a second, and he was stunned together with his paused brain.

    Subconsciously…

    Landed on the last step.Xia Xiqing looked up at Zhou Ziheng’s back.I’m afraid this person himself doesn’t even know about this, it’s such an unconscious ambiguity.

    How lethal it is.

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