Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 1860 Questions that arise in the dead end
"Could it be that I want to compare my speed with the dungeon?" After Lin Sanjiu played hide-and-seek twice, it disappeared.

In the second round of hide-and-seek, she yelled "I found it", only three words, and she almost uttered the words with a roll of her tongue, which only took a fraction of a second; in the third round, she shouted even more It's short, only two words "here" - but no matter how fast she yells or how few words, the statue can always complete the exchange before she finishes speaking.

After losing three times in a row and losing 15% of his stamina, Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to act rashly anymore.In order to preserve and restore her physical strength as much as possible, she simply sat down where she was, and slowly calmed down the panting caused by the sudden loss of physical strength.

In each game of hide-and-seek, she is only given one or two minutes to find; as long as she loses, the next game will be immediately next... You must delay them for a while, and give yourself a time to think and rest.

"You guys don't call it hide-and-seek at all," she raised her voice and shouted at the child statue, "You and I both know that I found the right target. Aren't you cheating like this? How can I win like this?"

The statue of the child stood beside the pillar, with a stiff white plaster face, staring into the air.

The voice of questioning fell, but it still didn't say a word, neither answered nor announced the start of the next round, as if she was asking a question to a real statue.

Questions about the dungeon rules seem to be completely ignored...

Lin Sanjiu glanced back at the mentor on the other side of the bridge—he also frowned, as if he couldn't figure out how to win hide-and-seek for a while.He has not forgotten his job, and still encourages him: "There is no unparalleled road, as long as you observe carefully, there must be a way."

nonsense.

If the small dungeons in the Great Misty Palace were all generated from the evolutionist's narration, then the person who told the old man at the door about the dungeon of "Garden of the Colossus" must have found a way to escape smoothly... The question is, what way?Where should she start?
"I let you rest for more than ten seconds, isn't it enough?" The child statue spoke abruptly, "The fourth round of hide-and-seek—"

"Wait!" Lin Sanjiu hurriedly shouted: "I want to rest for a while. I can play a few more rounds with you when my physical strength recovers, right?"

The child statue didn't speak, but the female statue holding the water jug ​​suddenly put her hands on her mouth, raised her plaster shoulders, and said with a very standard pronunciation: "Hee hee."

Lin Sanjiu's goosebumps spread out.

"Of course, of course," said the Child Statue, "for every hour of play, you are allowed to rest for five minutes. Any time you delay will be deducted from the five minutes. Do you want to use up the rest time now?"

The three rounds of hide-and-seek just now probably didn't even last 10 minutes.There is only 5 minutes of rest time, and it must be used in a critical moment——Lin Sanjiu quickly shook his head.

After playing for an hour, I was only willing to give a 5-minute break; it doesn't seem to be for people to rest, but it seems to be to prolong the torture time as much as possible.

"Ha, let me just say... Then I announce that the fourth round of hide-and-seek begins, and your target is the fishtail male statue!"

You don’t even need to look for it, you can see it standing behind a pillar—the pillar can only block half of its fish tail; the statue like a small building raises its hands in mid-air and covers its eyes, as if If you can't see Lin Sanjiu, Lin Sanjiu won't be able to see it.

"Where is it..." Lin Sanjiu sat by the bridge farthest from the statue, motionless, trying to delay time by taking advantage of the opportunity he was looking for. "It's really hard to find."

Pointing out where the target is hiding is obviously not going to work.

Perhaps after knowing which statue is to be swapped with the target, describe the hiding place of the replacement statue?
After gradually forming an idea in her mind, she stared at the male statue with a thick beard and fishtail, and shouted, "I found—"

Sure enough, just like the previous three rounds, in just four words, the male statue with a thick beard and fish tail has collapsed into a piece of broken plaster; the one that became pieces together with it was hiding behind the bushes on the other side of the courtyard Curly Haired Male Statue.After the two largest statues collapsed at the same time, the broken plaster blocks almost submerged the entire courtyard floor, as if a wave formed by pieces of plaster surged and rolled across the courtyard floor.

Lin Sanjiu's heart jumped, and the half-planned sentence quickly slipped out from the tip of his tongue: "Behind the bushes!"

In order to achieve the fastest speaking speed, she devoted all her attention to these five words at that moment—she was afraid that she would not speak clearly, so she gave the statue a chance to deny—five The word flashed by, and when she came back to her senses, all the broken plaster blocks in the courtyard had re-condensed into the appearance of statues.

With a thin and false laugh, she raised her eyes and stared blankly at the statue in the courtyard.

"Wrong again," said the child statue hiding behind the bushes, "5% of physical strength will be deducted!"

The statue of the fishtail man who was supposed to switch places with the statue of the curly-haired man, hiding behind the bushes, now took the place of the statue of the child, and fell flat on the ground; it also seemed to be trying to hide its head under the bench, but because of It was too big, and instead pulled the bench off the ground.Such a large bench was draped over its face like a handkerchief.

When she seized the opportunity to finish the second half of the sentence just now, the statue of the fishtail man behind the bushes had just been removed, and it had already changed places with the statue of the child?
She could clearly feel that another piece of her energy had been bitten off, leaving behind a black void.

Lin Sanjiu firmly suppressed the sharp anger that pierced into his heart.

...No matter how you think about it, this dungeon is completely like a dead end.

"How can this be called playing? Isn't this playing with people?" She still bit her lip and remained silent, but the instructor on the other side of the bridge protested, "You change positions one by one, this is a game of remaking How about playing hide and seek?"

The child statue turned a deaf ear and continued: "Then, let's continue to the fifth game——"

The teacher's words just now tapped Lin Sanjiu's mind lightly.

... Refurbishment?
This word, like fingernails scratching lightly on stockings, evokes silky associations.

"Wait!" She blurted out and shouted, and then tried to polish the vague feeling in her mind into a clear thought.

"What are you doing again?" The child statue seemed impatient, "If you delay any longer, your 5-minute rest time will be deducted."

"No, it's nothing," Lin Sanjiu said with the faint excitement of finally finding the first breakthrough, "You continue."

No surprises in the fifth round, she found the wrong target again, and was deducted 5% of her physical strength.

It's just that this time, Lin Sanjiu completely forgot about her physical strength being constantly eaten away by mouthfuls; all her attention was placed on the large pieces of plaster that flooded the ground of the courtyard after the statue shattered.

The goal of the fifth round was the curly-haired male statue, which was replaced by a female statue carrying a flower basket.After they shattered, the gypsum blocks that were all over the ground surged across a high wave from the courtyard almost in the blink of an eye; she watched as the wave quickly turned into a wave in the courtyard on the other side. The appearance of the statue of the curly-haired man—of course, all this happened before she finished speaking.

Everything was the same as before; but for the first time, Lin Sanjiu had a question that she should have asked herself long ago.

Why do these statues have to be broken into blocks of plaster first?
　I recently fell in love with an old song from the 80s. Careless whisper got stuck in my head after listening to it once, and I couldn't get rid of it.Paired with an oversized suit with shoulder pads, I feel that I don’t have any sense of disobedience when I travel directly through this outfit... Speaking of old songs, there is a very interesting little knowledge. When giving CPR first aid, the frequency of chest compressions, It just matches the rhythm of the previous old song, that old song is, staying alive.

PS: I wonder now how people in the 80s made their hair so unkempt.

　
(End of this chapter)