When the ninth round started, Lin Sanjiu naturally let go of the plaster pieces that were under her Higher Consciousness.
Since she wanted to play hide-and-seek according to the rules of the pocket dimension, she had to let go of her Higher Consciousness, right?
As Lin Sanjiu counted, she could hardly suppress the anxiety in her heart. Once the hide-and-seek started, she would involuntarily obey the rules of the pocket dimension … How could she find a way out of this pocket dimension?
How did the person who described the "hide-and-seek" pocket dimension to the old gatekeeper get out?
There must be a pattern or key hidden in the courtyard that she had yet to discover. If others could see it, she could definitely see it as well.
Lin Sanjiu might not be a very resourceful person, but she had a kind of indomitable spirit that was far beyond that of an ordinary person.
Due to the lack of Higher Consciousness, she could not capture the plaster pieces and activate her camouflage mode at the same time. In the next few rounds, she tried everything she could think of while trying to recover her Higher Consciousness. She tried to find a pattern in the statues that she replaced, attacked the statues with different methods, tampered with the statues to prevent them from recovering, asked the artist to draw the plaster pieces into the canvas …
Since none of her methods worked, Lin Sanjiu even thought that it would be a waste not to try. She found a large piece of bedsheet and wrapped the heads of the statue of the child and the statue of the woman with the kettle. Perhaps they would not be able to see in this way?
Besides, when the pieces wrapped in the bedsheet rolled on the ground, wouldn't it be easy to tell who they belonged to?
No one could say that she was not persistent enough. When she found that the bedsheet had somehow been thrown to the ground, she took the painter's painting tools and covered the plaster statue with paint. By the end of the thirteenth round, even the statue of the child seemed to be unable to stand it anymore.
"Don't use these useless methods anymore. Can't you see that crooked methods won't work?"
The child statue, which was always smiling and treated people as a joke, was now showing signs of annoyance and anger. This was inevitable. After all, half a minute ago, its body was a mess of paint, bedsheets, cannon fire, and axes. For it to be able to stand here in one piece, it really had to thank its identity as a dungeon creature.
"I told you, this is a game of hide-and-seek," the child statue shouted. "Just play hide-and-seek! You have so many tricks up your sleeves, but none of them are related to hide-and-seek, right? What a boring thing to do! "
This was the first time he had been taught a lesson by a dungeon creature.
Lin Sanjiu, who had lost 50% of her stamina, sat on the ground, panting. She almost laughed bitterly.
She even suspected that if it wasn't for the fact that she hadn't found a way to leave the instance dungeon and couldn't leave, she was afraid that this child statue would have been respectfully sent out by her.
"Ah!" The teacher in the distance shouted again. "Got it!"
Lin Sanjiu turned her head toward him. "You have an idea?"
"Hide-and-seek!" The tutor excitedly spun around on the bridge and said, "Its words just now were very profound. Think about it carefully. Anything that has nothing to do with 'hide-and-seek' is useless … In other words, the way to leave must be related to hide-and-seek, right? "
"Don't enlighten me," Lin Sanjiu, who had just finished a game of hide-and-seek, knew that she didn't have much time left. She shouted angrily, "Just tell me the answer!"
The tutor spread his hands and said, "I'm just responsible for inspiring and motivating you … I don't know the answer either. After all, I'm only a life coach. I can only point you in the right direction. I can't live for you. "
[What's the point of having you around?]
When Lin Sanjiu turned her head, the child statue seemed to have adjusted its emotions. It laughed again and announced, "The fourteenth round begins now. You're in luck. This round, your target is the fish-tailed man statue again."
Fortunately, other than spending some higher consciousness, her stamina wouldn't be deducted.
Lin Sanjiu tried her best to stall for time. She wanted to find an opportunity to recover more stamina and higher consciousness. Step by step, she walked toward the fish-tailed man statue at the other end of the courtyard.
[Related to hide-and-seek … Isn't hide-and-seek just hiding and searching?] [What else?]
[Hiding and searching] were the easiest parts. She stopped in front of the fish-tail statue, which was as thick as a building.
The fish-tailed man statue was hiding behind a pillar, but the pillar could only hide the spear in its hand. If she wasn't trapped in the instance dungeon, this scene would be hilarious. [You call this hiding?]
Lin Sanjiu released her higher consciousness. She was ready. Once it broke, she could immediately wrap it around a bag of plaster fragments.
However, just as she was about to shout, "I found it!", she paused.
[That's right, you call this hiding?
Hide-And-Seek, hide-and-seek, isn't it just hiding?]
[Which of the five statues is really hiding?]
She turned her head slowly and saw the face of the child statue peeking out from the bushes.
If they weren't "hiding", then what she was doing now could not be considered "searching".
Lin Sanjiu stood rooted to the ground. She couldn't help but feel goosebumps all over her body.
Even if she found the target announced by the child statue, she would at most not have any Stamina Points deducted … It wouldn't have any substantial impact on the operation of the instance dungeon.
[Isn't this a little strange?]
If there was another target … a real target that was not only hidden from the physical world, but also from the rules of the game … a real target that was "hidden".
She looked around the courtyard carefully. The pond, the pillars, the bushes, the flowerbeds … She didn't know what she was looking for, but she had a feeling that she would find it.
Or, to put it more accurately, she knew that she wouldn't find it.
"Hey, you're taking too long," the child statue said from the bushes, "Don't think that you can use this opportunity to recover your stamina …"
Almost at the same time, Lin Sanjiu, who was looking around the courtyard, shuddered. Two words appeared in her mind, "I knew it."
"I'll give you ten more seconds. If you still don't —"
This time, Lin Sanjiu made her move before the statue could finish its sentence.
She took a few steps back and dashed forward. Using the momentum, she leaped into the air and landed on the top of the pillar. Like a cat, she landed firmly on the top of the pillar.
"Don't rush. It'll be easier for me to find it if you stand higher, right? "
After losing half of her stamina, such a simple action made her gasp for air. She just needed a little more time. As long as she could truly 'search' once, that would be enough. "If I haven't found my target, you'll cut off my time. That's not fair, is it?"
The child statue was silent for a moment, as if it was thinking about something. "You … you haven't found it yet?"
From its tone, it seemed like it wanted to confirm something, but it didn't want to accidentally divulge the information.
"No." Lin Sanjiu almost laughed.
"Then, you can't take too long …" the child statue said hesitantly, "Thirty seconds. I … I'll give you thirty seconds. "
Lin Sanjiu didn't waste a single second. Before the statue finished its sentence, Lin Sanjiu had already begun her search. She closed her eyes.
With her naked eyes, she could see the sizes of the plaster statues clearly. However, she could only rely on the method she learned from Hei Zeji to determine the "weight", or the "presence" of the statues when they were pressed into the space.
At that moment, it was as if the space in the courtyard pocket dimension had suddenly sprouted fibers and curves. They intersected with each other and formed a texture similar to that of a cloth membrane. All the statues, including Lin Sanjiu, were pressed against the membrane. Their different sizes, weights, and qualities caused the space to distort.
At the twenty-fifth second, Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes slowly.
"I found it," she said softly, "So it's here."
In that one sentence, three things happened at the same time.
The statue of the fishtail man shattered in midair. Lin Sanjiu leaped from the top of the pillar. She used all her Higher Consciousness to spread it out like a sail in the sky.
Behind Lin Sanjiu as she streaked across the sky, a huge fishing net that no one could see. The net drew a parabola with her. The broken rocks that fell from the sky were like a school of fish caught unawares, caught by the fishing net.
Lin Sanjiu landed on the ground, wrapped in the large net of rubble and plaster. At this point, the ground of the courtyard was clean again. Not a single piece of plaster could be seen.
The statue swapped its appearance as fast as before. However, it didn't matter to Lin Sanjiu now.
She looked up and found that the statue of the fishtail man had swapped its appearance with the statue of the fishtail man. It was the female statue with the flower basket. The spear in the fishtail man's hand was only left with a sharp point. The rest of the plaster was in her Higher Consciousness net.
Other than that, the courtyard looked the same as before. There was no sign of the game ending.
"What's going on? Why is there no change? "
"Everything is going according to plan … Is it because I didn't find everything?"
"Alright, alright. You found it again."
Just as she was puzzled, the statue of the child said, "I won't deduct your Stamina for this round. Let's continue to the next round …"
A ray of light flashed into Lin Sanjiu's mind.
"That's right. It's not enough to just catch the target. There's still a final step in hide-and-seek."
Seeing that the statue was about to announce the start of the next round, Lin Sanjiu interrupted it.
"Don't be in such a hurry," Lin Sanjiu stared at it and smiled, "I've decided to take a five-minute break."
The statue quieted down.
"You want to take a break now?" It suddenly seemed to be thinking about Lin Sanjiu. "Did I say that? You can stack up for five minutes. Why don't you continue and rest for another ten minutes … "
"No," Lin Sanjiu said slowly, "I need these five minutes to make a statement. This is because I have caught the real target of this hide-and-seek game. "
"Speaking of the stories I told to my classmates in elementary school, when I met my elementary school classmate a few years ago, she told me that she still has a shadow in her heart … However, I can't remember what story I told her that left a shadow in her heart for so many years … So, there's nothing to be envious of …"
(End of this chapter)
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