As soon as the ninth game started, 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 barely 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 clue 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 a kind of perseverance that is far beyond ordinary people, 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 games, 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
Several methods were used to attack the statue, including using hands and feet to prevent the statue from recovering, and asking the painter to attract broken pieces of plaster into the canvas...
When all the methods failed, 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 won't be able to see it?
Besides, when the pieces wrapped in sheets roll around on the floor, isn't it easy to tell at a glance 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 the crooked methods won't work!"
The child statue, which had always been smiling and treating people as if it were a joke, now showed signs of being annoyed and angry. This was inevitable, after all, half a minute ago, it had been painted messily, covered in paint, sheets, and artillery fire.
, Ax has visited it once - to be able to stand here intact as before, I really have to thank it for its status as a copy creature.
"I told you, this is a hide-and-seek game," the child statue shouted, "just play hide-and-seek! You have so many tricks, none of them are related to hide-and-seek, right? You are just doing boring things!"
...This is the first time I have been taught such a lesson by a replica creature.
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 know!"
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 he 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 method of leaving 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.
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Fortunately... apart from using up some mental energy, at least she won't be deducted from her physical strength.
Lin Sanjiu tried her best to delay as much time as possible, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity 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 is there?
"Hide" and "find" were simply the least troublesome parts. She walked to the fish tail as thick as the building and stopped.
The statue of the fish-tailed man is hiding behind a pillar, but that pillar can only hide the spear in his hand. If it were not trapped in the dungeon, 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 result that does not deduct physical strength... and would not have any substantial impact on the operation of the entire dungeon 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 the correct way to say it is that 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 into the air, leaping 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 a little higher, it will be easier for me to find you, right?"
After losing half of her physical strength, such a simple action made her gasp. She only needed a little more time, as long as she could truly "find" once, that would be enough - "If I haven't
Once you find your target, you cut off my time. This is unfair, right?"
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 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 will 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 "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 at the same time.
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 them were caught in fishing nets.
Lin Sanjiu fell to the ground wrapped in the large network of tumbling pieces of broken gypsum. At this time, the courtyard floor was clean again, with no trace of gypsum left.
The speed at which the statues change their appearance is still as fast as before, but it is no longer important to Lin Sanjiu now.
She looked up and found that the statue of a fish-tailed man with a thick beard had swapped appearances with a female statue carrying a flower basket. The spear in the hand of the fish-tailed man now only had one tip - the rest of the plaster was all in it.
Her consciousness was caught in the web.
But other than that, the entire courtyard still looks the same as before, with no intention of ending.
What's going on? 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 deduct 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 said with a smile, "I decided to take a five-minute break."
The child statue fell silent.
"You need 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."
Speaking of telling stories to classmates in elementary school, when I met the elementary school classmate who listened to my stories a few years ago, she told me that she still has shadows... However, I can no longer remember what stories I told.
She has left a shadow for so many years...so there seems to be nothing to envy...
