Doomsday Wonderland

"You came at the right time," Pina took a gulp of water, wiped her mouth, and said, "I've been waiting on the rooftop for more than a day, and I really can't wait any longer, and I'm ready to hit the road again. "

The traces of her having lived on the rooftop for more than a day were scattered in Lin Sanjiu's field of vision: two empty cans, an outdoor stove, and a few crumpled clothes that seemed to be used as sheets. , and even Pina's two shoes were thrown aside to rest far away.

"She just couldn't sit still after waiting for more than a day," Jiajiada shook his head and said, "I have been waiting here for almost two days before Pina came."

He seemed to be waiting for someone to praise him for being able to keep his composure, but all he got in return was Pina quietly rolling her eyes.

When Lin Sanjiu just saw the blue sky and had not yet recovered from the daze of being "deported", Pina jumped up and shouted several times to the other side of the rooftop, "Jiajiatian, come here quickly, Lin Sanjiu Back!" - It seems that the two of them have become quite familiar with each other during the waiting time.

It's just that despite being familiar with him, Pina still doesn't seem to like Kajiada very much, and her attitude is like treating a tolerable colleague who must be in the same room.

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"Have you been waiting here for almost two days?" Lin Sanjiu frowned and calculated in her mind, "In other words, did you fail on the second route?"

"No, I also failed on the third route," Jiajiada said, "but I didn't stay on the third route for 24 hours before I was sent back."

"Can it be considered a failure if it takes less than 24 hours?"

"My third path is very difficult and requires a bet of 85 points," Jiajiada said, his face turned gloomy, as if he remembered the special item he had lost. "Not only did I have to finish the walk within 24 hours, but there was also an additional condition, which was that I couldn't see anything red. Once I saw it, I immediately failed. I tried my best and was careful, but in the end... Five hours, right? You see.”

Lin Sanjiu simply couldn't figure out how to avoid failure. It was a shame he could delay it until the fifth hour - how could he know if there was anything red nearby without opening his eyes? But once you see it, you will have failed.

Kagada sighed and said, "Maybe it's not wrong that Tasker refused to enter the road."

He once said that after they completed the second road, they faced two choices on the next road, one required a bet of 85 points, and the other required a bet of 85 points. road; when he left, Tusker remained stubbornly sitting there, refusing to take the next road.

"He would rather wait for the teleportation than lose 85 points of special items," Jiajiada said at the time, "but he also didn't think about it, what if the teleportation is invalid for the people in this dungeon? Or after the teleportation, some settings of the dungeon What should I do if it’s not lifted? I’m not willing to be helpless and resign myself to fate.”

When Lin Sanjiu asked him what he meant specifically, Jiajiatian replied: "All our special items are 'tied' to the chips. When the chips are gone, the special items are gone. Who can guarantee that Can teleportation restore everything to its original state? If the chips disappear when we leave the instance, and all our special items are gone with them, wouldn't it be worse than losing a few bets?"

Lin Sanjiu had never thought about this possibility.

But his concerns obviously failed to convince Tusker; Jiajiada said that he waited on the rooftop for almost two days, waiting for Pina who failed from the zero-meter road, and advised her not to leave in a hurry and stay and wait. They waited for a while, but the two never waited for Tusker. Come to think of it, the latter was probably still sitting there motionless - this was really another level of tenacity.

"Why didn't you leave immediately after you were deported?" Lin Sanjiu asked.

Jia Jiatian was taking out snacks. Hearing this, he raised his head from his schoolbag and said, "It was Pan Cui's idea."

"Eh? When?" Pina was surprised.

"Before the second road started, Pan Cui mentioned to me that if we were unfortunately deported, we might as well wait for each other. After all, it would be better to have companions around to look after each other when we go on the road again."

Lin Sanjiu nodded and sighed: "She is so thoughtful... I was thinking that since I have returned to the rooftop and Pan Cui hasn't come back yet, it means that she should have successfully gotten off the car. We might as well wait. Wait for her, if she hasn’t come back in a day or two, then let’s hit the road again.”

In fact, Pan Cui appeared on the rooftop just a dozen hours later.

Like Lin Sanjiu, after she got up from the ground, she took it easy for a while before finally fully accepting the reality. Although she was the one who came up with the idea, Pan Cui still showed a bit of surprise and gratitude when she found that the others were waiting for her on the rooftop: "I didn't expect you would really wait..."

"After all, we are already partners," Lin Sanjiu smiled at her.

Pan Cui shook her hand and said with a smile, "Actually, I'm waiting for you too."

"Is it after you got off the car?" Lin Sanjiu understood immediately.

Pan Cui nodded and said with a bit of embarrassment: "It took me more than ten hours to finally get off the bus. I didn't know which stop I got off at. At that time, there was a copy of the NPC. He took me to the next intersection. I asked him then and learned that it didn't matter which stop I got off at. As long as I got off in time, I would be taken to the same place, so I waited at the next intersection. About ten hours.”

In other words, Pan Cui had waited all 24 hours for Lin Sanjiu on the bus, knowing that she must have failed before entering the next road.

"Wait, let's look at it this way," Pina interrupted, saying, "Didn't you stay on the fifth road not long?"

Pan Cui's face darkened.

"Yes, I only stayed for five minutes." She whispered, "The fifth way requires a bet of 200 points, the odds are 1:18, and there is an additional condition..." When walking in the green corridor, Absolutely no thoughts of pink elephants are allowed'."

"What?" Pina was startled.

Lin Sanjiu already knew what was going to happen next.

Even with Pan Cui's calmness, she couldn't help but feel a little angry. "At minute five, I entered a green corridor...and immediately thought of pink elephants."

The setting of this additional condition itself creates a triggering mechanism for "establishing an association between the green corridor and the pink elephant" - rather than saying that it is an additional condition, it is simply a trap.

"How did you get out of the car successfully?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but asked curiously.

"Do you remember the time I turned around and rushed out of the car? It was that time that made me realize that every attempt and effort to get out of the car would lead to us being thrown uncontrollably to another place. No need to get off 'myself'."

Lin Sanjiu also thought about this. Not only would the effort to get off the bus cause people to jump around, but they would also lose consciousness. However, in the past 24 hours, she still couldn't find a way to get off the bus.

Pan Cui smiled bitterly and said: "When I realized that the journey to the second stop was very long, more than an hour later, I started deliberately trying to get off the bus on the road. Sure enough, I was also tossed around among the people in the bus. Go... Taking this opportunity, I searched on everyone's bodies and bags, trying to find clues that could help me get off the bus."

She waved her hand and said, "To be specific, it was too long. All in all, I ended up guessing who was going to get off at which stop based on the clues and items I found. Then I let myself fall asleep and jumped. I got on top of the person who was about to get off the bus and carried my body off."

Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth slightly, but did not speak.

"But based on your description," Pan Cui seemed to have guessed her mood, and patted her back gently as if to comfort her, and said, "You should be implicated by your own abilities. If you can't stay far away If you hook the railing of the drop-off door, you will not be thrown onto others. If you are not thrown onto others, your body will not get off the bus by itself by chance... I guess, when your body gets off the bus on its own, At that moment, your chances of success are wiped out.”

The long-lost teacher Yi, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net made a wailing sound in Lin Sanjiu’s mind.

"From another perspective, maybe we are all lucky," Lin Sanjiu thought for a while and let out a long breath. "If these roads are like other dungeons outside, we may die when we fail, and there will be no chance of being sent back to the rooftop... Now we only lose some items, which is a great blessing among misfortunes."

Her words were like hooks, bringing another more important topic to the present.

"The last time we took the road at 5 o'clock, everyone was wiped out..." Kagada looked around, put his hands on his hips and said, "What about this time? How will we go this time?"

"I have thought about this problem," Pan Cui said slowly, "I think we should start from the rooftop and choose the 50-point path."

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It’s not too late to finish writing today, so let’s adjust to sleep a little bit…