Lin Sanjiu had lost count of the number of times she had tumbled forward and jumped up again. She only had time to cast a quick glance behind her before she continued to run forward as if she was running for her life. Yu Yuan stumbled and stumbled, and sometimes he needed Lin Sanjiu to help him catch up.
Even an idiot knew that she would never be able to get out of the game this time. The game creator was sitting on the other side of the white document. Even if Lin Sanjiu smashed a hole in the sky, she wouldn't be able to crack the game. The game creator just needed to patch the game and change some of the conditions to force Lin Sanjiu into a corner.
Just like the folds of the earth that were formed when the tectonic plates collided millions of years ago, from the vast expanse of whiteness, the mountain-like characters rose from the ground, trembling. One after another, the characters turned into distant mountains, turned into grasslands, dyed the nothingness in the rumbling sound, and spread across the land like a tide, gradually spreading out into a world.
However, when Lin Sanjiu regained her composure, she realized that the echo only reverberated in her mind. She could only hear the heavy panting and the silence around her.
On the white paper, black words appeared one by one. They chased after Lin Sanjiu and Yu Yuan until they formed a world. The blue sky almost reached her head. There were a few times when she almost stepped on the grass that suddenly appeared in front of her. She and Yu Yuan must be like two flies on a piece of white paper, bumping left and right and stumbling left and right. No matter how skilled they were, they didn't know when the next word would rise from under their feet.
After all, this was a piece of white paper. The person could write at any point on it.
"Quick! Quick!" Lin Sanjiu turned around and shouted at Yu Yuan. It was only then that she realized that the latter was a few steps behind her. He was almost trapped in a thatched hut that had suddenly formed. Lin Sanjiu hurriedly used the last bit of her Higher Consciousness to pull him to her side before the last word turned into a straw. Mrs. Manas grumbled, "You have to use every bit of Higher Consciousness to recover. How long will it take for you to fully recover?"
Lin Sanjiu didn't have the time to care about Mrs. Manas.
On this piece of white paper, as long as the strokes fell and the words rose, they would quickly form a real world. When she looked back, she could not help but feel a little dazed for a moment. After running far away, they looked like sets that had just been built one after another.
Among the "viewing booths" that were scattered all over the place because they were chasing after Lin Sanjiu and Lin Sanjiu, there was a breeze that tried to catch the hem of Lin Sanjiu's clothes even after the dust had settled. There was also a large screen television hanging on the wall, flashing on the screen. There was also a farmer woman who suddenly stood up from behind the well and tried to grab Lin Sanjiu. If they were caught by any of them, both of them would be sucked into the game.
"Where are you going?" One of Yu Yuan's arms was wrapped in Lin Sanjiu's embrace. He stumbled as he ran, but his face remained expressionless. "No matter where he is, he can write."
"That's true," Lin Sanjiu wanted to lift him up, but Yu Yuan was slightly taller than her, so it was not convenient for her to do so. "But, except for the places that have words, right?"
"Do you want to hide in a game that has already taken shape?" Yu Yuan said calmly.
The games were all projected onto the ground. They had just passed through the text structure a few times without any problems. "That person can't write on the words, right?"
"Yes," Lin Sanjiu replied.
"I don't think that will work," Lin Sanjiu said.
She turned her head, but before she could ask "Why?", Mrs. Manas suddenly exclaimed in her mind. At the same time, Lin Sanjiu bumped into something hard. Her ears, shoulders, and knees felt like they were going to fall out of her body. The pain was so intense that her vision became blurry.
"Move back a few meters," Yu Yuan said calmly.
"They must be running from behind …" Before the thought surfaced in Lin Sanjiu's mind, she leaped backward instinctively. When her feet landed on the ground, she saw that a line of words had appeared on the transparent barrier in front of her. The last word, "Qi", had merged with the figure of a stranger. The stranger blinked his beady eyes and opened his arms wide. He quickened his pace and pounced on them.
Lin Sanjiu quickly pulled Yu Yuan along and ran in another direction while enduring the buzzing pain in her head.
"You knew that we couldn't run back?"
"I can't say that I knew." Without looking at Yu Yuan, Lin Sanjiu's tone sounded as if he was sipping tea on the sofa. "I just thought about it. Let me give you an analogy that you can understand. This world is like a handwritten book. Although every page has to be bound together to form a complete book, when the book was written, it was definitely written on a separate piece of paper. Every game is a page that is bound to the surface of the planet to form this game world. "
"So, we just happened to run to a blank piece of paper," Lin Sanjiu yelled as she ran, "Did he find out that we were on a separate piece of paper and wrote on it?"
"You have a good idea."
It wasn't Yu Yuan who said that.
His voice came from the depths of the snow-white ground. There was a tinge of admiration in the male voice. Lin Sanjiu really couldn't imagine what kind of creature could create such a world.
"What should we do now?" She was filled with anger, especially when she saw that Yu Yuan didn't do anything. It only added fuel to the fire. As soon as he said that, she felt as if her heart was being squeezed by something. She hurriedly pushed Yu Yuan away with her shoulder, threw herself at him, and rolled to the side. In an instant, there was a woman squatting on the ground where they almost landed.
"He is using his game character to catch us," Yu Yuan said, "He is smaller and more agile. It's harder for us to dodge."
If this was a separate piece of paper, it meant that no matter which direction she ran in, she would run into the same invisible boundary. Looking back, between the sky and the earth, there were countless new words rising from the ground, gradually forming a part of the game. The yellow soil slope, which was pressed by the ox cart's ruts, extended all the way down from the village, and landed on the empty land of white paper. It was raining in one place, and the wind blew the cold rain to an empty mass of pure whiteness. Soon, the entire "paper" would be filled with words. When that happened, she would have nowhere to run.
"If we continue to stay here, we will be dragged into the game sooner or later," Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to touch the world formed by the words or the people formed by the words. She used her [Tornado Whip] to fend off the woman who was pouncing at her. She pulled Yu Yuan and asked loudly, "But this place is an isolated space. If it's not connected to anything, how are we going to get out?"
"Actually, if you think about it —"
Lin Sanjiu pinched his arm discreetly.
"Ah." Even Yu Yuan's "ah" sounded flat. He probably didn't feel any pain, or else he would have fainted from the pain when he fell from the elevator shaft.
"What are you thinking about?" Lin Sanjiu didn't know if the person on the other side of the white piece of paper was still spying on her, so she pretended to ask.
This time, before Yu Yuan answered, he looked down at the hand that was pinching his arm. "Hmm … Think about it. We don't need to run," he changed his tone, "We just need to make sure that he can't see us."
"Do you have an idea?"
"I'll write … I have an item that can help us."
During the conversation, both of them were well aware that this was, at most, an emergency measure to stall for time. Even though this piece of paper was no longer connected to the other pieces of paper in the game, it didn't mean that it was a dead end.
The biggest path was right under their feet. Since Bai Cong's words could cross the white piece of paper and reach the other side, they could as well. They just needed to find a way.
Yu Yuan didn't move much, but he took out a big ball of white cloth from his coat as he ran. She held her breath, waiting for the Special Item to take effect. Yu Yuan threw the white cloth forward and said, "It's big enough. Let's go in."
'Is this a space within a space? As expected of the Veda, they can use a space item right off the bat. '
Lin Sanjiu stepped on the white cloth, and the feeling in her heart disappeared.
"Step on it and grab a corner," Yu Yuan gestured, "When you squat down, cover your head with the cloth. Hurry up, I think someone is coming. "
Lin Sanjiu looked up and saw a long shadow falling from behind a broken stone wall. She had no choice but to pull the white cloth over her head and hide under it with Yu Yuan. "Please tell me, does this cloth have a special function?"
"No, I don't have time to write a Special Item."
'So it's just like the two chickens that a farmer woman wraps up and squats in a cloth bag? Isn't this just fooling me? '
"That person wrote on the paper, so what he saw should be the paper and the words. If we were two extra human figures on the paper, no wonder he noticed us … But now, we are all white, so he can't see us. "
"Even if you're right, those characters have eyes. They can see us!"
Yu Yuan was silent for a moment. "Before these words are connected to form a complete game, it's still unknown whether they can function properly or not …"
Lin Sanjiu could already tell that it was a bed sheet. She pointed at a vague figure in front of her and said, "Look."
Yu Yuan looked.
"Is it coming straight for us?"
Yu Yuan nodded.
"Then why aren't you running?"
Lin Sanjiu lifted the bed sheet and pulled Yu Yuan back by his collar. Her timing was impeccable. The bed sheet fell on the person in front of her and covered him from head to toe. The arm that was sticking out to grab the person was also covered by the white cloth. It was as if a mummy had come back to life. She pulled Yu Yuan along and ran toward the place where the small worlds gathered. As she ran, she asked, "Do you have more of those white bed sheets?"
"I have as many as I want," Yu Yuan said matter-of-factly.
'When it's my turn, I have as many as I want. '
"Then, can you give me two more?" Lin Sanjiu said. She quickly bent down to avoid a low-hanging branch above her head. On her right was a forest of words. The ground, shrubs, and weeds spread out unwillingly, almost touching their feet.
"Where are you going?" Yu Yuan said as he took out a white bedsheet from his pocket.
"I think one of your deductions might be correct," Lin Sanjiu kept her voice low so that the person on the other side of the white paper could not hear her. "That person might not be looking at us as words or a piece of white paper. It's very obvious … If that's the case, I have an idea that might help us reach the other side of the paper."
"What is it?"
"Don't you think that he won't be able to see us if we wrap it in a white cloth?" Even though Lin Sanjiu felt that this idea was similar to using correction fluid on a primary school student's mistakes, Yu Yuan was a Veda, so he shouldn't be too wrong. "Let's grab one of the words and wrap it in a white cloth. Let's see if he will retract the words out of surprise. If he retracts the words, he will bring us over as well. "
"Have you forgotten that when you touch the words, you will be part of the game …"
Lin Sanjiu had thought of this as well. To be honest, she was inspired by Yu Yuan, even though she did not want to admit it.
"Look at our surroundings," she said, "The game that person wants to design for us is obviously set in an era where people need to fetch water from stone wells, live in thatched huts, and rely on oxcarts to travel. It's a game with an ancient setting. I don't know if he wrote the wrong words because he was too anxious, but when he tried to catch us with the words, a group of words appeared, which obviously does not belong to this ancient game … If it doesn't form a part of the game, it should be fine for us to catch it, right? "
Yu Yuan looked around and understood what was going on.
"It's the TV on that wall," he whispered. "That TV is not part of the game."
"What did I want to say? I forgot."
(End of chapter)
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