Doomsday Wonderland

As soon as the ninth round began, Lin Sanjiu naturally let go of the pieces of plaster that were suppressing his consciousness.

Because she has to comply with the dungeon rules and continue to play hide and seek; so of course she has to loosen her consciousness, right?

While Lin Sanjiu was counting, she could hardly suppress the anxiety in her heart: as soon as the hide-and-seek started, she would involuntarily abide by and cooperate with the dungeon rules...How could she find a way out of the dungeon like this?

How did the person who described the copy of "Hide and Seek" to the old janitor get out?

There must be some pattern or key hidden in the courtyard that she hasn't discovered yet; if others can see it, she can definitely see it too.

Lin Sanjiu may not be very resourceful, but he has an indomitable spirit that is far beyond ordinary people and almost unreasonable.

Due to lack of consciousness, she could not capture the fragments and activate the mimicry at the same time. In the next few rounds, while trying to regain her consciousness, she tried every method she could think of: looking for patterns in the statues that replaced the target, using They attacked the statue in several ways, used hands and feet to prevent the statue from being restored, and asked the painter to attract broken pieces of plaster into the canvas...

When all the methods failed to work, she even adopted the mentality of "don't try in vain" and found a large sheet to wrap up the heads of the child statue and the kettle-carrying female statue - maybe So they can't be seen?

Besides, when the pieces wrapped in sheets roll around on the floor, isn't it easy to tell who they belong to?

No one could say that she was not persistent enough; after discovering that the sheets had been thrown to the ground for some reason, she took the painter's painting tools and covered the plaster statue with paint - by the end of the thirteenth game, even the child statue was covered with paint. It seems I can't stand it anymore.

"Stop using these useless methods, can't you see, all crooked methods won't work!"

The child statue, which had always been smiling and treating people as if it were a joke, now actually showed signs of being annoyed and angry. This is inevitable, after all, half a minute ago, its body was painted messily, and it was visited by paint, sheets, artillery fire, and axes - to be able to stand here intact, I really have to thank it for its status as a replica creature. .

"I told you, this is a hide-and-seek game," the child statue yelled, "just play hide-and-seek! You have so many tricks, none of them are related to hide-and-seek, right? You're just doing something boring!"

...This is the first time that I have been taught a lesson by a replica creature like this.

Lin Sanjiu, who had lost 50% of his physical strength, sat on the ground panting slightly, almost smiling bitterly.

She simply had a suspicion. If she hadn't found a way to leave the dungeon and couldn't leave, I was afraid that the child statue would have been given away to her.

"Ah!" The instructor in the distance shouted again. "I see!"

Lin Sanjiu turned her head towards him. "Do you have any idea?"

"Hide and seek!" The instructor walked around on the bridge excitedly and said, "The words it just said are very meaningful. If you think about it carefully, it is useless to do things that have nothing to do with 'hide and seek'... That is to say , the way to leave must be related to hide and seek, right?"

"Don't enlighten me," Lin Sanjiu, who had just come out of a game of hide-and-seek, knew that he didn't have much time, and said angrily, "Just tell me the answer!"

The mentor spread his hands and said: "I am responsible for inspiring and motivating you... I don't know the answer. After all, I am only a life mentor. I can only give you directions and cannot live for you."

What's the use of you?

When Lin Sanjiu turned his head, the child statue seemed to have adjusted its mood, laughed again, and announced: "The fourteenth round has begun - you are lucky, this round your target is the fish-tailed man statue again. "

Fortunately... apart from using up some mental energy, at least she won't have her physical strength deducted.

Lin Sanjiu tried her best to stall for time, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity she was looking for to regain a little more physical strength and consciousness, and walked slowly step by step towards the fish-tailed man statue at the other end of the courtyard.

Something to do with hide-and-seek... Something to do with hide-and-seek, isn't it just about hiding and finding? what else?

"Hide" and "find" were simply the least troublesome parts. She walked to the fish tail as thick as the building and stopped.

The fish-tailed man statue is hiding behind a pillar, but the pillar can only hide the spear in its hand. If it weren't for being trapped in a copy, this scene would be ridiculous. Is this also called hiding?

Lin Sanjiu opened her consciousness and was ready. As soon as it broke, she could immediately wrap up a bag of broken plaster.

But before she was about to shout "Found it", she paused.

...Yes, this is also called hiding?

Hide and seek, hide and seek, isn't it just about hiding?

Which of these five statues is really hidden?

She slowly turned her head and faced the face of the child statue that poked out from the bushes.

If they are not "hiding", then how can everything she has done up to this moment be called "finding"?

Lin Sanjiu stood there in a daze, unconsciously getting goosebumps all over her body.

Even if she found the target announced by the child statue, it would only be a consequence that did not deduct physical strength... and would not have any substantial impact on the operation of the entire copy game.

Isn't this a bit strange in itself?

If there is another goal...a real goal, not only hidden from the physical level, but also invisible from the rules of the game...a thing that is truly "hidden".

She looked around the courtyard carefully: pools, pillars, trees, flower beds... She didn't know what she was looking for, but Lin Sanjiu had a feeling that she would find it.

Or to be more correct, she knew she wouldn't be able to find it.

"Hey, you've been taking too long," the child statue said from the bushes, "Don't think you can take this opportunity to regain your strength..."

Almost at the same moment, Lin Sanjiu, who was looking around the courtyard, trembled, and two words came to his mind: Sure enough.

"I'll only give you ten more seconds, if you don't—"

This time, before it could finish speaking, Lin Sanjiu suddenly made a move.

She took a few steps back, and then made a quick dash. Taking advantage of the momentum, she kicked off her feet and flew up into the air, jumping onto the pillar. Like a cat, she landed firmly on the top of the pillar with her feet. Living.

"Don't worry. If you stand higher, it will be easier for me to find you, right?"

After losing half of her strength, such a simple movement made her gasp. She just needs a little more time, as long as she can truly "find" once, that's enough - "If I haven't found the target yet, you'll cut off my time. That's not fair, isn't it?" ?”

The child statue was silent for a while, as if considering something, and asked: "You...you haven't found it yet?"

Its tone was like it wanted to confirm something, but it didn't want to accidentally leak the information from its own mouth.

"No." Lin Sanjiu almost laughed.

"Then, you can't take too long..." the child statue said hesitantly, "Thirty seconds. I, I only give you thirty seconds."

Not even a breath of time was wasted. Before it finished speaking, Lin Sanjiu began to search - she closed her eyes.

The naked eye allowed her to clearly see the size differences of the plaster statues, but the "weight", or the "collapse" and "sense of presence" caused by being pressed into the space, she could only rely on the method she learned from Kurosawa Masaru.

The space in the courtyard replica seemed to have suddenly sprouted fibers and curves at that moment, criss-crossing each other, and the weaving took on the texture of a cloth membrane; all the statues, including herself, were pressed against this membrane. , with their size, weight, mass...distorting space in different shades.

At the twenty-fifth second, Lin Sanjiu gently opened her eyes.

"I found it," she whispered. "It's here."

In one sentence, three things happened simultaneously.

The statue of the man with thick beard and fish tail suddenly shattered in mid-air; Lin Sanjiu jumped out from the top of the pillar; she used all her consciousness to spread it as much as possible into a sail in the sky.

Behind Lin Sanjiu, who was flying across the sky, there was a vast fishing net that no one could see, drawing a parabola with her; the pieces of gypsum that were falling from the sky seemed to be caught off guard. A large group of people were caught in fishing nets.

Lin Sanjiu fell to the ground wrapped in the large network of gypsum pieces that were constantly rolling and fluttering. At this time, on the courtyard floor, UU Reading www. uukanshu.net is now clean again, with no trace of plaster left.

The speed at which the statues changed their appearance was still as fast as before, but it was no longer important to Lin Sanjiu now.

She looked up and found that the statue of a man with a thick beard and fish tail had swapped appearances with a statue of a woman carrying a flower basket. The spear in the fish-tailed man's statue now only has one tip left - the rest of the plaster is all caught in the web of her consciousness.

But other than that, the entire courtyard still looks the same as before, with no sign of ending.

what happened? Why is there no change?

Everything obviously went according to plan... Could it be because she didn't find out everything?

"Okay, you found it again,"

Just when she was filled with confusion, she heard the child statue hurriedly say, "I won't take away your physical strength in this round. Let's move on to the next round..."

A ray of light penetrated Lin Sanjiu's mind.

Yes, catching is not enough, there is a final step to hide and seek.

Seeing that the child statue was about to announce the start of the next round, Lin Sanjiu immediately interrupted it.

"Don't worry," Lin Sanjiu stared at it and smiled, "I decided to take a five-minute break."

The child statue fell silent.

"Do you want to rest now?" It suddenly seemed to be thinking about Lin Sanjiu and said, "Did I tell you? You can stack it for five minutes, why not continue playing and rest for ten minutes at a time..."

"No," Lin Sanjiu said slowly, "I just need these five minutes now to make a statement. Because I have captured the real goal of hide-and-seek."