Lin Sanjiu sat cross-legged in the boat and meditated for a few minutes, then suddenly raised her voice and asked.
After a long period of searching, the things she dug out from the middle-aged gentleman were piled into a small pile in the pedal boat. She originally thought that Phoebe's things should be quite a lot, but unexpectedly,
She only found nine special items in total - maybe he also dropped a lot of things into the lake.
However, in this way, after the copy deducted Phoebe's rent, he only had [reference materials] left with him that could be used to deduct her rent, which was of no help to her at all.
Lin Sanjiu decided to try this somewhat whimsical method - it was also the only method she had.
"What's the matter?" Perhaps it was because there was only one person left in the copy, and the speaker's attitude became much more relaxed.
"This doesn't belong to you now," Lin Sanjiu clicked on [Reference] and said cautiously, "Then can I use it to replace the collateral I handed over?"
"Replace one?"
"Yes, I will give this to you, and you will return one of my special items to me. The amount of collateral in your hand remains the same."
When she said this, Lin Sanjiu's mouth felt dry and bitter due to nervousness. From a certain point of view, the Lake Tour dungeon was even more unreasonable than the dungeon affected by the flood - she had never seen anything like this before.
A dungeon that leaves everyone with hope of clearing the level, but at the same time uses various rules and means to force everyone to annihilate the dungeon, seems to be the ultimate mixture of kindness and cruelty.
If the copy vetoes her proposal, the situation will be difficult.
"...Well, this isn't your thing..." There seemed to be some hesitation in the speaker.
"Didn't you say that we are all on the same team and should exchange what we have?" As long as it was not completely rejected, Lin Sanjiu would not give up: "I will use one of my teammates' items to replace mine, and so will you.
There is no loss."
There was no sound from the speaker for a moment.
"Let's do this," Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth, "If you agree, I will pay you an extra special item for rent when I return the ship."
"Ah," the speaker immediately smiled sheepishly, "Actually, you don't have to pay me more rent, and I will agree to it... But since you are so enthusiastic, I won't refuse your offer."
Cursing secretly, she threw all nine items into the water - "Here you go," she shouted.
"Didn't all your belongings fall into the lake?" the replica speaker asked happily, "Even if you replace one of them, it will be useless. Are you going to go back and fish it out in the boat?"
"You don't have to worry about it." Lin Sanjiu told it the name of the special item angrily, "Hurry up and replace it for me."
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a sudden "crash" in the lake not far away - Lin Sanjiu looked back and her face immediately lit up; at least so far, nothing has gone wrong!
She muttered "I'm sorry" in a low voice, reached out and dragged Fabian's body into the lake. Then she dragged the blood-red pedal boat, turned around with difficulty, and faced the sound of water.
Step on it with all your strength.
A special object cannot be drowned, no matter how much it looks like a person.
The painter, who had regained his intelligence, was rising and falling on the water, choking on water one after another. He couldn't scream, his eyes were red, and he looked like he was in terrible pain, but he refused to sink.
"Okay," Lin Sanjiu said as happily as if she had seen an old friend reunited after a long separation, "Come up!"
The painter is a special item that cannot be put into a bag. After [Flat World] was taken away at the beginning, she could only throw him at the starting point. Although the water surface rose higher and higher, the painter only stood there blankly.
, watching his body being gradually swallowed up by the water - until after pawning all the special items, Lin Sanjiu could no longer see him; presumably because he had lost his "utility", he sank to the bottom like other things.
Now, she finally got him back!
Seeing the wet painter crawling onto the boat on his hands and knees, she also breathed a heavy sigh of relief in her heart. She dragged another boat and stepped back towards the departure point. The painter still carried the canvas, frame and pen holder on his back. Look,
Not even a tube of paint was missing when he got up; he fell down in a puddle of blood and stared blankly at Lin Sanjiu on the boat next door.
He is waiting for her order to paint.
"I know there is very little space in the pedal boat," Lin Sanjiu comforted her nicely, "but I still hope you can draw a landscape painting... The enemy? Oh, my enemy is water... Yes, don't paint the lake.
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After hesitating for a few seconds, she quickly added: "If you see a body in the water, be sure to draw the body. Anyway, except for the water, everything else must be left in place at the bottom of the lake. Can you do that?"
She thought her request was simple: she wanted a lake view without a lake.
The painter half-opened his mouth, looking at the lake for a while, and for a while at the canvas he had unfolded. Fortunately, he seemed to be used to Lin Sanjiujing asking him to paint some messy things. He tilted his head and thought for a while, and finally mixed the paint.
After filling up my pen, I started painting with a face full of embarrassment.
Every second the tip of the pen brushed against the canvas made Lin Sanjiu feel more uneasy and anxious. Everything was her guess, and accidents could happen everywhere; if the painter's move didn't work, she would just
You can try replacing another item again...
With a "click" sound, the painter put down his pen.
Lin Sanjiu was shocked, and hurriedly raised her head to look at his canvas; however, before she could see clearly, she suddenly shook heavily, and then she was lifted up on her head and feet. Her vision was tilted, and she was rushed high into the sky.
The water curtain was covered in darkness - countless tons of lake water were rolled up, forming an astonishing water dragon in the sky, rushing towards the small canvas with a deafening roar.
The bottom of the pedal boat suddenly became empty. She didn't have time to look up at the painter, and she felt herself falling to the bottom of the lake along with the boat. Her heart almost jumped out of her throat, and she immediately closed her eyes tightly until she felt heavy.
The impact suddenly jumped out from the ground at the bottom of the lake, swallowing her up and shaking her entire body in the skin.
For several seconds, she was beaten to pieces and couldn't even say a word. She could only stare at the mud at the bottom of the lake and blink, trying to see everything clearly again.
The painter holding the canvas fell to the side with a "pop" sound, splashing mud all over her body, causing her to react with a start.
She fell not far, and the long wooden platform was right next to her. After the lake emptied, the pillars under the platform were exposed to the air.
Lin Sanjiu endured the severe pain all over her body and hurriedly climbed out of the boat. She glanced back. There was a long crack in her pedal boat, and the paddles were scattered on the ground. It looked like it was unlikely to happen again.
It floated out of the water. Phoebe's boat was not much better, but at least it was still a complete boat; when it was pulled out of the water later, it should not fall apart.
In any case, it's too late to regret now, she must seize the time——
Lin Sanjiu took off his shirt, used it to tie the pedal boat to the pillar under the wooden platform, and then stepped on the mud of the lake and walked a few steps towards the distance. The fat body covered with seaweed disappeared in the lake.
Now they were scattered everywhere, like whales stranded on the beach one after another; she turned a blind eye to the pedal boat fragments, garbage, and clothes, and only tried her best to uncover a few bodies that were soaked and swollen.
Fabian is not the only one who died here. If there are special items on him that have not been deducted as rent, then there must be some on other corpses!
"Hey!" The voice from the loudspeaker suddenly rang: "Why are you letting me out of the lake?"
Sure enough, the copy will definitely not allow such a situation to happen that can change the fundamental situation of the evolver - and this time, it may not wait slowly for more than thirty minutes to refill the lake.
Lin Sanjiu knew that time was urgent, and her hands sped up again. She found a plastic bag more than ten meters away, and patted it one by one, searching for every place where special items might be hidden;
There was the sound of water in the distance, and the water gradually appeared in the depressions in the lake mud again.
The water is still very shallow now, not even covering her feet; but God knows how long she has!
Lin Sanjiu stuffed a brass bird into the bag, turned around and shouted to the painter: "You also help to find special items!"
The painter followed her step by step with the canvas in his arms, a look of confusion on his face.
Lin Sanjiu sighed in her heart. After all, he was a special item. The only thing he could do was paint. She didn't have much hope. She lowered her head to look for the corpse and ordered him without looking back: "
If you don't know how to pick things up, go wait for me on the wooden platform and don't follow me around. The water is going to rise soon, and I don't want to drag you around in the water for a while."
The painter understood this command and ran towards the wooden platform, splashing mud all over her back. After a while, she looked back and saw that the painter was already grabbing the wooden platform and trying hard to climb up.
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An orange leaf, a screwdriver, a coffee cup that was still full, a small Buddha statue made of white jade, an advertising leaflet that was not soaked in water... Lin Sanjiu searched for something that looked like a special item.
While always paying attention to the distance between himself and the wooden platform - in this vast lake, no one knows how many evolvers have died, and there are countless debris and corpses piled up in other directions.
But she has no time or chance.
The water in the lake was rising rapidly at an almost angry speed; before she could collect much, the water had already reached her waist. A few dozen seconds ago, she could barely see the bottom of the lake clearly, but now she couldn't even see where there was anything.
It was impossible to identify the special items. If he didn't climb up the wooden platform quickly, it would be too late. Lin Sanjiu immediately tied up the plastic bags, strode through the water, and stumbled forward.
"I'm leaving the ship!"
...When she finally climbed onto the wooden platform with her body weighing more than a thousand kilograms, she felt as if even her breath was soaked in water, and her chest was aching with every breath.
"I...I never want to see water again in my life," she said while lying on the wooden platform, looking at the sky.
Of course no one would answer her.
Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes, and her heart gradually sank into gloomy despair. She searched the area as much as possible, but only found six items, of which the items that had not been deducted as rent were still there.
I don't know how many there are.
There is not much point in asking the painter to repeat the same trick again - because the copy will refill the lake in just a few minutes, which means that she cannot leave the wooden platform too far, and at most she can only search the places she has searched.
Search again.
Sighing deeply, she sat up with her sore and heavy body, the muscles in her arms were trembling. With this ordinary body, she still had to find a way to pull the pedal boat out of the water and put it on the ground.
It's returned to the copy; but that's nothing compared to paying rent...
Gently, she was tapped a few times by fingers on her shoulder. When Lin Sanjiu turned around, she was almost startled by the enlarged face of the painter right in front of her. He had always been unable to make a sound or do anything.
He said, but at this moment, those dark eyes seemed to be hiding some message, looking at her brightly.
"...What's wrong?" Lin Sanjiu laughed bitterly and rubbed his temples: "Did you just find a lot of special items? Don't you do nothing but paint?"
The painter winked at her, raised his hand, and pointed behind her.