Doomsday Wonderland

Dragging the large net of broken gypsum blocks, Lin Sanjiu approached the pool.

The Courtyard of the Colossus instance ends only when the final step of the hide-and-seek—declaring that you have caught the target—is complete. There was only the first sentence of her statement, as if the copy was suspended; in the helpless silence of the child statue, she slid down to the edge of the pool and glanced at the fountain standing alone in the center of the empty pool. .

"Once you realize the key to hide and seek, the truth is actually very simple."

She waved to her mentor, who immediately trotted into the courtyard; as an object, he could come and go without any hindrance.

"In all hide-and-seek games, the target will hide, right? There is a saying that sounds like nonsense, but I still have to emphasize it." Lin Sanjiu smiled tiredly and said, "After the target hides, from From the looks of it, it’s gone, right?”

"It's really nonsense..." The instructor just muttered, and suddenly his eyes widened. "Eh?"

"That's right," Lin Sanjiu nodded and said, "In other words, the thing that existed before the start of this hide-and-seek game but disappeared after it started is the real target."

It's funny to say that it was such a nonsense principle that was applicable to any hide-and-seek game - "find the missing thing" - that made her turn a blind eye to it, go around in circles for a long time, and lose half of her energy. .

"What disappeared?" The instructor had been sitting down just now, but now he stood up again, looked around the courtyard, and said, "I can see that there is something extra..."

After the dungeon started, the courtyard returned to its original intact appearance, with the cracks merging again, and the half-broken pillar growing into a section, making it complete again. Lin Sanjiu spent a lot of time just now, precisely because she had to check these "extra" parts one by one and eliminate them one by one.

"No, one of the most conspicuous things is gone." She said, loosening her consciousness and pointing to the pool.

The instructor stared blankly at the pool.

"Before we triggered the dungeon," Lin Sanjiu said, "Isn't there a half-naked female statue standing in this pool? That's what I'm looking for."

When the instructor took a breath of cold air, the large pile of broken plaster blocks on the ground suddenly rolled and rolled up. From the hands of the statue of the man with a thick beard and fish tail, the spear tips also fell to pieces and fell to the ground—— In what seemed like a blink of an eye, all the plaster fragments came together again, condensing into the original one and a half (not shown in brackets) *** statue.

It was about the size of a human being and stood quietly in the pool, as if it had never moved.

The gray and black marks, blurs and cracks left by the passage of time have eroded this heavy and fragile dead object; compared to the other five giant statues, it looks particularly dull and silent.

"Come out, come out..." the instructor murmured.

When Lin Sanjiu lifted his eyes from it, he realized that the giant courtyard had once again become dilapidated and deserted. Vines and weeds crawled over the broken masonry again, the trees spread into a small wild forest, and all five giant statues disappeared. The wind blew through the courtyard, and a puff of gray sand was blown up from the long-dried pool.

it's over?

The last bit of uneasiness and doubt in Lin Sanjiu's heart suddenly fell like a boulder.

"It looks like there won't be another round, right?" The instructor obviously had the same worry just now and looked around.

Looking at it this way, the female statue in the pool really looks like a switch: when it appears, the copy is off; when it disappears, the copy is activated.

"Before triggering the dungeon, we clearly looked at the courtyard several times..." Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly and said, "But when the five giant statues appeared, I still put this half (in brackets) (Don’t look at it) The naked female statue was forgotten.”

Looking back now, those five giant statues pressed heavily on people's retinas and nerves, occupying all her energy and vision - those high-pitched giggles with standard pronunciation, which were loud when she covered her mouth to suppress her laughter. The plastered cheeks, half of the face exposed from behind the bench... looking away from them has become something difficult to do and something people dare not do.

"Then how do you know it's hidden in the fish tail statue?" the instructor asked.

"I didn't know at the beginning." Lin Sanjiu relaxed and felt exhausted. He sighed and said, "When I realized that the female statue disappeared after the dungeon started, I thought Well, its hiding method is probably related to broken gypsum blocks... Isn't there a saying? The best place to hide a leaf is in the forest... All statues can be broken into gypsum blocks and then reassembled. In this During the process, an extra ball of plaster was mixed in. Isn't it perfect? ​​Unfortunately, I don't know which statue it is hidden in."

And if this lump of plaster is evenly distributed among the five statues, this one has longer hair and that one has an extra piece of skirt, it will be even harder to find.

"But when I calmed down and thought about it, I realized that the plaster that formed the real target would not be distributed among multiple statues... It's simple, because if I grabbed the plaster blocks of more than one statue, I would be immediately declared wrong. ”

The instructor frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly realized: "I understand, the target is only hidden in one statue, and the two female statues carrying the flower basket and the kettle can be eliminated."

"Yes, they are both the same size, even the flower basket and kettle are similar in size."

But the remaining three statues were of different sizes, all larger than the half-naked female statue. They could be hidden on anyone's body. This step blocked Lin Sanjiu's thoughts for a long time. .

The breakthrough came when she recalled that she had grabbed part of the statue of the man with the thick beard and fish tail.

"Do you remember what the plaster piece of the fish-tailed man statue looked like when I first grabbed it?" Lin Sanjiu nodded when seeing his instructor, and continued: "The amount of plaster is less, so it's not that the whole thing has shrunk a bit. , but a piece of face is missing."

This also means that the position of each piece of plaster is destined; if the plaster that should be used to pinch the face is missing, it will be missing, and the plaster from the body will not be evenly distributed to make up for it.

"If the original size of the statue and the amount of plaster required are fixed, then suddenly there will be an extra ball of plaster..."

"Ah, that's why you attacked the spear!" Before Lin Sanjiu finished speaking, the instructor immediately added, "Because it is the only thing that is 'external' and does not affect the original shape of the statue."

Although it seemed to make sense in theory, Lin Sanjiu was not very confident in his own inference ability - after all, this was not an answer that could be obtained through a mimic gift package.

"Based on the size of the female statue in my memory, I roughly guessed its 'mass', and then used the method Kurosawa Ji taught me to measure everything in the courtyard..." Lin Sanjiu explained, "That At that time, I realized that the 'presence' of the spear, or the pressure of its mass on the space, was very similar to that of the female statue. In other words, they required a similar amount of plaster. UU Readingｗww. ｕukanshu.net ”

And the fourteenth game happened to be an excellent opportunity: the superficial target used to blind people's eyes happened to be the same as the real target.

"If the apparent target was not the fish-tailed man statue, I might not even have a chance to grab the spear." Lin Sanjiu took a long breath and stood up from the edge of the pool.

She was devoured by half of her energy, and finally finished the Colossus Courtyard copy. Now she stood up straight and looked around, and found that the surroundings were still dilapidated and empty; the entire Colossus Courtyard copy was silent, as if there was nothing there just now. It seems like it happened, not to mention the rewards that are available in ordinary copies.

"That's it?" If it weren't for the fear of activating the dungeon again, Lin Sanjiu would have really wanted to knock the female statue a few times, "I passed the dungeon, but it was in vain?"

"At least I saved my life, which is better than anything else..." The instructor muttered and was suddenly startled in the middle of his words. "No, look!"

Lin Sanjiu looked in the direction he pointed, and found a faint pointing arrow on the brick ground covered with grass and wild flowers in the courtyard.

The thread of her sweater leads to the left; the indicator arrow points straight forward.