Because they both believed their team was the first to have successfully cleared the challenge.
At the thought of becoming the winning team and receiving the entire production crew's congratulations, Wen Zhixin and Wen Tianqi looked even more composed and confident.
As the final stone door slowly opened, Wen Zhixin even took a moment to straighten her clothes, wanting to greet this moment looking her very best.
"Congratulations to the Wen siblings on their excellent second-place finish in this haunted house challenge! Let's give them a hand!"
The staff who had been waiting behind the final door burst into enthusiastic applause.
But when Wen Zhixin heard the words "second place," she froze.
How was that possible?
They had only come in second.
Who could have solved the puzzles faster than them?
After the brief welcome ceremony, a staff member led the Wen siblings to the lounge.
"This is the lounge the director has provided especially for the guests. There are some little desserts and fruit inside, so you can have something to tide you over."
After explaining this, the staff member left.
Wen Zhixin, however, was caught in a tremendous mental struggle.
Because she simply could not figure out which team could possibly have gotten out faster than them.
Wen Zhixin raised her hand and pushed open the lounge door.
When she saw Chu Yu leisurely eating fruit and resting inside, the smile she had barely managed to maintain instantly collapsed.
Why was it Chu Yu again!
She stole the limelight every single time!
Wen Tianqi was also somewhat unconvinced.
After all, throughout these past few days of filming, Chu Yu had kept trampling them underfoot.
That certainly did not feel good.
But no matter how upset the Wen siblings were, they could not deny the fact that the Chu team had successfully escaped the haunted house first.
In the end, to make herself feel better, Wen Zhixin could only convince herself that it was because the other team had an extra member, Gu Jinhuai.
Gu Jinhuai must have contributed a great deal to solving the puzzles for Chu Yu's team to have escaped first.
After all, three brains were bound to be better than two.
With that thought, Wen Zhixin's earlier negative feelings quickly dissipated. She walked over with an easy smile and greeted Chu Yu.
"I never expected little Xiao Yu's team to solve the puzzles so quickly. You really put us to shame."
Chu Yu gave her a strange look.
"What puzzles?"
Wen Zhixin looked slightly taken aback. "You didn't solve any puzzles? You have to solve a puzzle to get through every door."
Puzzled, Chu Yu looked at the other two beside her. "Did we ever need to solve any puzzles?"
"I don't think so?" Chu Chen swallowed a bite of cake before responding instinctively.
As far as he remembered, most of what the three of them had encountered were dangerous, thrilling chases. There had not been any situations that required solving puzzles at all.
Gu Jinhuai, who had been resting with his eyes closed, also slowly lifted his gaze and answered Chu Yu. "No."
Seeing all three give the same answer, Wen Zhixin began to grow suspicious.
She looked up again and asked, "Then how did you clear the challenge?"
Chu Yu recalled their dangerous, thrilling experiences and summed them up succinctly. "We just kept running, chasing, and hiding, and then we made it through."
There was nothing particularly wrong with that answer.
But to Wen Zhixin, who had never experienced any of the dangers Chu Yu's team had faced, Chu Yu's words sounded more like a declaration that they had breezed through the challenge and only needed to run around a little to clear it.
Wen Zhixin, who had nearly been tortured to death by those puzzles, immediately felt aggrieved.
Why did Chu Yu's team only have to run around a little to clear the challenge?
While their team had to keep solving difficult puzzles?
Wen Tianqi flared up the moment he heard this and began complaining and demanding answers right in front of the cameras. "Our team had to spend hours solving puzzles before we could get out. Why did your team only have to run around a little to clear the challenge?"
Although Wen Zhixin was angry, she still retained her reason. She knew the lounge was full of cameras and that their every move would immediately be broadcast to the livestream.
She hurried forward, grabbed Wen Tianqi, and shook her head at him.
But Wen Tianqi had already finished speaking. It was too late to shut him up now.
The lounge's shared livestream chat, which had been perfectly calm a moment earlier, immediately erupted into heated debate.
[Holy shit, I only just found out it was that easy for Chu Yu's team to clear the challenge. I was in the Wen siblings' livestream the whole time.]
[Me too. I just got here. But why did the Wen siblings have to solve puzzles while Chu Yu's team only had to run around a little to clear it? That's unfair!]
[Did the production team deliberately let Chu Yu's team in through the back door? I seriously can't with this.]
[Where's the director? If they can't give us a reasonable explanation, we have to storm the production team today.]
Most of these angry comments came from fans who had stayed in Wen Zhixin's livestream the entire time.
They had never watched Chu Yu's team's livestream and did not have all the information. They had simply heard Wen Tianqi lose his temper and let it affect their own emotions.
A few comments explaining things for Chu Yu's team occasionally appeared, but no one paid them any attention.
The director, who had been watching from behind the scenes, saw the sudden turn of events in the livestream, and his expression changed instantly.
Had it been some other unexpected incident, the director could have accepted it.
But accusing the production team of being unfair, and even letting Chu Yu in through the back door? That was infuriating, all right.
Back when they had been choosing among the three buttons, the production team had already told them that the difficulty of the subsequent challenges would vary depending on each guest's choice.
Besides, viewed from another angle, the difficulty of Chu Yu's team's perilous escape had not actually been low.
Had any of the other sibling teams been put in their place, they might well have been scared to death long ago and gone straight to the production team for help.
The director took a deep breath to settle his somewhat agitated mood.