Lin Sanjiu stood far in front of the light and dark dollhouse, eyes lowered, looking at the color of the stone pavement under her feet, which was gradually deepened by the spreading water waves.
The lake water was slow and gentle, touching her boots and continuing to flow around her.
Lin Sanjiu turned around along with the lake water, stepped on the water with her boots, and stretched out a hand towards the distance - a force of consciousness created a splash of water, like a seabird catching fish, and rolled up a spray of water from the water.
card.
Before entering the dungeon, she purposely used her consciousness to hit the card that flew out, and it immediately returned to her hand with a "pop", splashing several water droplets in the air.
[Bracelet that indicates the remaining length of life]—a bland name and a card with simple content. The card only introduces a function of the bracelet in a few sentences, and there are no "precautions" for general items.
and background introduction.
It was such a plain and indifferent thing that drained the last days of Bohemia from its body, drying up a circle of red blood.
No matter how many times I watched it, I still couldn't figure out what Bohemia was waiting for.
Lin Sanjiu pressed the card back into the card library, as if he had found a piece of his own puzzle, and slowly let out a breath.
Any dungeon in the "Palace of Confusion" has a slight possibility that she will die inside and never come out... If she is fine in the dungeon, then it will always remain a card, and no one can take the bracelet.
; If she really died in the dungeon, then at least the puppet master could come out of the dungeon, pick up the bracelet that returned to its original shape after her death, and wait for her.
Fortunately, that outcome was ultimately avoided.
The water ripples trembled slightly at her feet, as if she was being pricked in pain - but Lin Sanjiu knew very well that even if it really "pained", it was not the lake that hurt, but the person who was being pricked a little bit.
A dollhouse of light and dark that is squeezed open and punctured.
She turned her head and took a look.
The stone road extends to where the doll's house originally stood, and under the sky, there is a lake diagonally inserted.
The lake seemed to be breathing, rising and falling, flowing and turning. Occasionally it would tremble slightly as the dollhouse resisted, and a piece of lake water would splash down.
It is obviously a shapeless lake, but it is like jelly, pointing steadily and diagonally at the sky. It blocks most of the field of vision. In the turbid green water, there are only dark black water plants, swollen corpses soaked in white, and tumbling.
The shadow of debris... it is getting deeper into the structure of the doll house little by little. The couch in the living room is now like a phantom, floating vaguely in the green water.
From the puppet master's back, there was nothing strange at all. It was still a thin, dark and narrow shadow; he didn't even move, as if he was not the one who rushed a copy of Lake Tour into the dollhouse.
Same.
Lin Sanjiu also didn't expect that this method could be used to... come... She was a little at a loss for words, because she couldn't tell exactly what the puppet master was doing to confuse the palace at this moment.
Using a copy to forcefully squeeze into another copy...is this really possible?
If I have to make an analogy, isn't it like squeezing another person's arm skin with a fist? Can a hard squeeze be effective when no one has greater "power"?
The deeper the Lake Tour dungeon goes, the greater the resistance becomes. It has been stuck there for a little while now, and the progress is almost invisible to the naked eye.
The puppeteer didn't seem to be in a hurry, and slowly took out a sofa chair and sat down. For a while, on the wind-silent stone road, there was almost an illusion of peace and tranquility: the two people and the two copies were both there.
Quiet and motionless, only the water waves under my feet were trembling again and again.
After coming out of the light and dark dollhouse, Lin Sanjiu not only didn't have much chance to look at the puppet master, she didn't even say a few words. She thought about it and simply walked up on the water; the puppet master didn't seem to listen at all.
There was no sound of her deliberately clattering footsteps, and she didn't even look back.
Although she was full of doubts about the puppet master's actions and was afraid that his mischief would affect her ability to get the regret medicine from the "Palace of Bewilderment", Lin Sanjiu didn't touch these questions at all when she spoke.
This word seems wrong to use, but... we can't scare the snake away.
She has mastered the art of finding something to say when she has nothing to say and talking nonsense.
"Well..." She looked at the pale half of the puppet master's cheeks and neck, and any trace of blood could not escape her eyes. "You haven't asked me yet, how did I find out that the doll was not you when I was in the copy?
What about?"
If his eyes weren't open, he would have seemed asleep; as for his response, there was no response at all.
"Hey, the more I think about it, the more I feel that this dollhouse is really well thought out," Lin Sanjiu sighed, "When I suggested that we all take out an item to prove our identity, logically speaking, the dollhouse should take some of it from us.
There is no other way... What did you take out at that time? It must not be that piece of soft cloth, right?"
The puppet master seemed to have turned into a puppet.
"I saw that what you took out was just a piece of soft cloth. Now that I think about it, the Dollhouse had seen your soft cloth long before entering the dungeon, and it looked ordinary, and the situation in the dungeon did not allow people to inspect it carefully...
...Let your doll hold a piece of cloth of the same color, and I will naturally fall for it. Hey, what was it you were holding?"
Lin Sanjiu patiently repeated this question five times.
The answer comes with the vein: "[eBay], shut up."
"Oh, what a coincidence," Lin Sanjiu turned a deaf ear, "I also took [eBay]! Well, first it was a card, and then I deactivated it... Wait a minute, [eBay] is still in your hand? Then why don't you
Reply to my message?”
It's a miracle that I stood still for a long time without being hurt.
Of course, Lin Sanjiu didn't mean to hold anyone accountable. He coughed dryly and continued: "We all felt it when the dungeon moved us, so I thought to myself at the time, if the dungeon moved you while the light was dark, then you must be guilty.
Reaction. If you react, your doll will naturally react at the same time... So when the 'puppet master' in front of me took out the soft cloth with a normal expression, I believed it. Because even though the light went dark once, the doll house
But there was no chance to make a move. Did you think so at the time?"
It seemed like she saw a little blood, maybe she couldn't help but get angry... She closed her mouth.
After the blood color disappeared, Lin Sanjiu spoke again.
"It wasn't until you told me that the doll house had two floors that I realized why we couldn't move, and the lights in the doll house had to be turned off at that time. If the lights were on, the dolls would always synchronize our movements, and I would inevitably see
The doll sucked the air out of the chain on its hand. Because everything happened instantly, the doll had a chance to take out the soft cloth only when the light was dark——"
"Did I ask you?" The puppet master finally couldn't bear it anymore and suddenly shook his head, "I'm very concerned about how the ideas in your mind are fermented?"
"This is not the end of the dungeon. Let's exchange experiences..."
“Why should I talk about acne?”
Lin Sanjiu was not angry either. She made such a decision in the dungeon, and of course the puppet master couldn't stand it. So far, this reaction can be considered very mild and reasonable.
"Ahem, I'm idle. Let's talk." She gritted her teeth and finally got around to what she wanted to say: "I've been watching this process of squeezing copies for a long time, and there's been no progress. If I talk about it for a while, I'll still have some progress.
I don’t know what’s going to happen…”
The puppet master suddenly sneered, not sure if he saw her intention, but remained silent.
Lin Sanjiu waited for a few seconds and then said: "Hey, I don't know if you noticed it, but I did at that time... Oh, it was for this reason that I realized that the doll next to me was not you.
.Everyone thinks that darkness is to block vision, but the dollhouse is really cunning. Blocking vision is just a superficial thing. In fact, what it really wants to block is our voices in the darkness——"
The puppeteer may have reacted at this time, but she didn't know it either.
Because when she was only halfway through her words, the stone pavement suddenly shook heavily, as if it could no longer withstand the pressure, they broke into pieces one after another, and the ground beneath their feet was rapidly pulled apart.
Sorry, this chapter is so long, mainly because I couldn't help but take a nap in the middle... Today I listened to a podcast and heard about the background of a novel that is about to be adapted into a movie. Oh my god, how could I be so shocked?
A brilliant author, it is so unfair that God allocates talents to people... The novel is called Blindsight, and I immediately placed an order on Amazon to buy it.
Speaking of which, I have a principle in recent years, that is, the things I input must be something that I cannot imagine or create, and must come from a height that I cannot reach.
xx”. This input not only includes movies, TV books, music, but even a comment on a social platform, I think it is also an input. Because the highest quality thing that a person can output must be at least one level lower than what you input... Really implement it
It is quite difficult to follow this principle. Just like the human body uses calories conservatively out of instinct, the brain always wants to go to the easiest place.
I feel that the above words are not very human-like. Anyway, you can understand what I am saying.
