"Do I have to compete with the pocket dimension in terms of speed?" After two more rounds of hide-and-seek, Lin Sanjiu dismissed the thought.
In the second round of hide-and-seek, she shouted, "I found it". It was only three words, and she spat them out with her tongue. It only took her a fraction of a second. In the third round, she shouted even shorter words, "Here". However, no matter how fast she shouted or how few words she used, the statue would always switch places before she finished her sentence.
After losing three rounds and losing 15% of her stamina, Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to act recklessly anymore. In order to preserve and recover her stamina as much as possible, she simply sat down on the ground and slowly calmed down her panting caused by the sudden loss of stamina.
In each round of hide-and-seek, she only had one to two minutes to find her target. Once she lost, the next round would follow. She had to delay them for a while to buy herself some time to think.
"You guys are not playing hide-and-seek," she shouted at the statue, "You and I both know that I found the right target. Aren't you guys cheating? How can I win like this? "
The statue of the child stood by the pillar. Its stiff, snow-white plaster face was frozen as it stared into the sky.
Even after she finished her question, the statue remained silent. It didn't answer her or announce the start of the next round. It was as if she was talking to a real statue.
It seemed that any question about the pocket dimension's rules would be ignored...
Lin Sanjiu turned around and looked at her mentor on the other side of the bridge. He was frowning as if he couldn't figure out how to win the game of hide-and-seek. He didn't forget his job and encouraged her, "There's always a way out. As long as you observe carefully, I'm sure you'll find a way."
"Nonsense.
If all the pocket dimensions in the Grand Palace of Confusion were generated from the narration of posthumans, then the person who told the old man about the "Courtyard of the Colossus" pocket dimension must have found a way to escape... The question was, what was the way? How should she start?
"I've let you rest for about ten seconds. Is that enough?" The statue of the child spoke abruptly, "The fourth round of hide-and-seek —"
"Wait!" Lin Sanjiu shouted hurriedly, "I want to rest more. I can only play a few more rounds with you guys after I recover my stamina, right? "
Before the statue of the child spoke, the female statue with the kettle on her head suddenly covered her mouth. She raised her plaster shoulders and said with perfect pronunciation, "Hee hee."
Lin Sanjiu felt goosebumps all over her body.
"Of course, of course," the statue of the child said, "You are allowed to take a five-minute break every hour. The time you waste will be deducted from the five-minute break. Do you want to use your break now? "
The previous three rounds of hide-and-seek probably didn't even last ten minutes. Lin Sanjiu shook her head. "I only have five minutes to rest, and it must be used during critical moments."
After playing for an hour, he was only willing to give her five minutes of rest. It did not seem like he wanted her to rest, but more like he wanted to make the torture last as long as possible.
I'll announce the start of the fourth round of hide-and-seek. Your target is the fish-tailed male statue! "
Lin Sanjiu didn't even need to look for it. She could see it standing behind a pillar. The pillar could only block half of its fishtail. The statue that looked like a small building raised its hands in mid-air and covered its eyes. It was as if Lin Sanjiu wouldn't be able to see it if it couldn't see Lin Sanjiu.
"Where is it..." Lin Sanjiu sat on the bridge furthest from the statue. She didn't move an inch and tried to find an opportunity to buy time. "It's so hard to find."
Pointing out the hiding place of the target obviously wouldn't work.
"Maybe I should find out which statue I want to swap with my target and then describe the hiding place of the replacement statue?"
After the plan formed in her mind, she stared at the fish-tailed male statue and shouted, "I found it —"
Just like the previous three rounds, the statue of the thick-bearded, fish-tailed male had already crumbled into a pile of plaster. Together with it, the statue of the curly-haired man hiding behind the bushes on the other side of the courtyard had crumbled into pieces. After the two largest statues crumbled at the same time, the plaster pieces almost covered the entire courtyard. It was as if waves of plaster had formed and rolled across the courtyard.
Lin Sanjiu's heart raced. The words that she had prepared beforehand slipped from the tip of her tongue, "Behind the bush!"
In order to speak as fast as possible, she focused all her attention on these five words. She was afraid that if she spoke too fast, she would not be able to speak clearly and give the statue a chance to deny it. The five words flashed past her mind. When she came back to her senses, the gravel and plaster in the courtyard had all condensed back into the statue's shape.
Amidst the shrill and fake laughter, she raised her eyes and stared blankly at the statue in the courtyard.
"Wrong again," the statue of the child behind the bush said. "Deduct 5% of your stamina!"
The fish-tailed man statue, which was supposed to have swapped places with the curly-haired man statue, was now lying flat on the ground. It seemed like it was trying to hide its head under the bench, but due to its huge size, it pulled the bench off the ground. The bench was now draped over its face like a handkerchief.
When she seized the opportunity to finish her sentence, the fish-tailed male statue that was hiding behind the bush had already swapped places with the statue of the child?
She could clearly feel that a piece of her stamina had been bitten off, leaving behind a black hole of emptiness.
Lin Sanjiu suppressed the sharp anger that pierced her heart.
No matter how she thought about it, this pocket dimension was a dead end.
"How are we supposed to continue? Isn't this just messing with us? " Lin Sanjiu bit her lip and did not say anything. However, the instructor on the other side of the bridge protested, "You guys are swapping places one by one. Are you playing a game of remaking yourself or playing hide-and-seek?"
The statue of the child turned a deaf ear and continued, "Well then, let's continue with the fifth round —"
Lin Sanjiu's teacher's words suddenly rang in her mind.
"Remaking myself?"
This word was like a fingernail gently scraping on a silk stocking, evoking a silky association.
"Wait!" Lin Sanjiu shouted. Only then did she try to refine the vague feeling in her mind into a clear thought.
"What do you want now?" The statue of the child seemed impatient, "If you delay any longer, I will deduct 5 minutes of your rest time."
"No, nothing," Lin Sanjiu said excitedly as she finally found her first breakthrough point. "Continue."
As expected, she found the wrong target again in the fifth round. Another 5% of her stamina was deducted.
However, this time, Lin Sanjiu completely forgot about her stamina being nibbled away bit by bit. She focused all her attention on the plaster fragments that flooded the courtyard after the statue shattered.
The target of the fifth round was the statue of the curly-haired man. The statue that replaced it was the statue of the female statue with the flower basket. In the blink of an eye, the plaster fragments that filled the courtyard formed a tall wave. Lin Sanjiu watched as the wave quickly turned into the statue of the curly-haired man on the other side of the courtyard. Of course, all this happened before she finished her sentence.
Everything was the same as before, but for the first time, Lin Sanjiu had a question that she should have asked herself a long time ago.
[Why do these statues have to be broken into plaster fragments first?]
[Recently, I've fallen in love with an old song from the 80s.]
[Whisper gets stuck in my head after listening to it once. I can't get rid of it.] [Coupled with the oversized padded suit, I don't feel out of place even if I transmigrate back in time …] [Speaking of old songs, there's an interesting little fact. When performing CPR, the frequency of chest compressions coincides with the rhythm of an old song. That song is, staying.]
alive。
PS: I just want to know how people in the 80s managed to make their hair so messy.]
(End of chapter)
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