Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 2075 Second Chance

"You came at the right time." Pina gulped down a big mouthful 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. I'm ready to go on the road again."

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

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

He seemed to be waiting for someone to praise him for being able to hold his breath, but all he got back was Pina rolling her eyes quietly.

When Lin Sanjiu just saw the blue sky and hadn't recovered from the daze of "repatriation", Pina jumped up and shouted to the other side of the platform, "Jia Jiatian, come quickly, Lin Sanjiu I'm back!" - It seems that the two of them have gotten to know each other quite well during the time they waited together.

It's just that it's familiar, Pina still doesn't seem to like Jia Jiatian very much, and her attitude is like treating a colleague who can be tolerated and must be in the same room.

"You've been waiting here for almost two days?" Lin Sanjiu frowned, calculating in his mind, "In other words, did you fail on the second road?"

"No, I also failed the third way," Jia Jiatian said, "but I was deported before I stayed on the third way for 24 hours."

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

"My third path is very difficult, and I need to bet 85 points," Jia Jiatian said, his face darkened, as if remembering the special item he had lost. "Not only must the walk be completed within 24 hours, but there is also an additional condition, that is, you cannot see red things. Once you see it, you will immediately fail on the spot. I tried my best and tried my best, but the result was... Five hours? See."

Lin Sanjiu couldn't figure out how to avoid failure. It's a good thing he was able to delay until the fifth hour—how would he know if there was something red nearby if he didn't open his eyes?But when you see it, you will fail.

Jia Jiatian sighed and said, "Maybe it's not wrong for Tusk to refuse to enter the road."

He once said that after they completed the second road, they faced two options for the next road, one requiring a bet of 85 points and the other requiring a bet of 90 points.Jia Jiatian finally gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and took the 85-point road; when he left, Tusk still stubbornly sat where he was, refusing to take the next road.

"He would rather wait for the teleportation than lose 85 special items," Jia Jiatian said at the time, "but he didn't think about it, what if the teleportation is invalid for the people in this instance? Or after the teleportation, some settings of the instance What if it is not lifted? I don’t want to be helpless and resign myself to fate.”

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

Lin Sanjiu never thought about this possibility.

But his concerns obviously failed to convince Tasker; Jia Jiatian said that he had been waiting on the rooftop for almost two days, waiting for Pina, who failed from the zero-meter road, and advised her not to rush to set off, but to stay and wait. They waited, but the two never waited until Tasker, who probably still sat there motionless—this was really another level of tenacity.

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

Jia Jiatian was digging out some snacks, when he heard this, he raised his head from his schoolbag and said, "It was Pan Cui's idea."

"Eh? When?" Pina was taken aback.

"Before the start of the second road, Pan Cui mentioned to me that if we are unfortunately deported, it is better to wait for each other. After all, if we go on the road again, it is better to have a companion by our side to take care of each other."

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

In fact, only a few hours later, Pan Cui appeared on the rooftop.

Like Lin Sanjiu, after getting up from the ground, she also slowed down for a while before finally accepting the reality thoroughly.Although she came up with the idea, when she found that the rest of the people were waiting for her on the roof, Pan Cui still showed some surprise and gratitude: "I didn't expect you would really wait..."

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

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

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

Pan Cui nodded, and said with a bit of embarrassment: "It took me more than ten hours to finally get off the bus. I don't know which stop I got off for a long time. At that time, there was a dungeon NPC asking Take me to the intersection of the next road. I asked him at that time and learned that it doesn't matter which stop I get off at. As long as I get off in time, I will be taken to the same place, so I waited at the intersection of the next road. Ten or so hours."

That is to say, Pan Cui waited for Lin Sanjiu on the bus for 24 hours, knowing that she must have failed, and then went to the next road.

"Wait, so," Pina interrupted, "you haven't been on the fifth road long?"

Pan Cui's complexion darkened.

"Yes," 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, it is absolutely not allowed to think of the pink big elephant'."

"What?" Pina was taken aback.

Lin Sanjiu already knew what happened next.

With Pan Cui's calmness, she couldn't help feeling a little angry. "After trying to survive for two or three hours, I suddenly entered a green corridor... and immediately remembered the pink elephant."

The setting of this additional condition itself created a trigger mechanism of "establishing a relationship between the green corridor and the pink elephant"-it is not so much an additional condition as it is a trap at all.

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

"Do you remember the time when 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 turned out to lead us to be thrown uncontrollably into another No need to get off 'myself'."

Lin Sanjiu also thought of this point, not only the effort to get out of the car would cause people to jump, but also lose consciousness; but she still couldn't find a way to get out of the car in the past 24 hours.

Pan Cui smiled wryly, and said: "When I realized that the journey to the second stop was very long, after more than an hour, I deliberately tried to get off the bus on the road, and sure enough, I was also dumped among the cars full of people. Go... Taking this opportunity, I searched through everyone and in their bags, trying to find clues that could help me get out of the car."

She waved her hand and said: "It's too long to be specific. In short, I finally figured out who was going to get off at which stop based on the clues and items I found, let myself fall into a coma, and jumped On top of the person who was about to get out of the car, I carried my own body down."

Lin Sanjiu opened his mouth slightly, but said nothing.

"But according to your description," Pan Cui seemed to have guessed her mood, patted her on the back lightly as if comforting, and said, "You should be affected by your own ability. If you can't Hook the drop gate rail so you don't get thrown off someone else, and you don't get thrown off someone else so your body doesn't get out of the car by coincidence... I guess when your body gets out of the car alone At that moment, your chances of success are wiped out."

The long-lost Teacher Yi wailed in Lin Sanjiu's mind.

"From another point of view, maybe we are all lucky," Lin Sanjiu thought for a while, then let out a long breath. "If these roads are like the other dungeons outside, we may die when we fail, and there is no chance to be sent back to the rooftop... Now we only lost some items, which is the greatest fortune in misfortune."

Her words, like a hook, brought another more important topic to the present.

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

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

　It's not too late to finish writing today, let's adjust your sleep a little bit...

　
(End of this chapter)