Lin Sanjiu dragged the net of broken stones toward the fountain.
The Pocket Dimension of the Colossus would only end when the last step of the hide-and-seek, which was to declare that she had caught the target. The first sentence of her declaration seemed to have stopped the Pocket Dimension. As the child statue stared at her in silence, Lin Sanjiu slid to the edge of the fountain and glanced at the fountain in the middle of the empty fountain.
"Once you realize the key to the hide-and-seek, the truth is actually very simple."
Lin Sanjiu gestured for the tutor to come over. The latter immediately trotted into the courtyard. As an item, he was not a problem.
"In all hide-and-seek games, the target will hide, right? There is something that sounds like nonsense, but I have to emphasize it again. " Lin Sanjiu smiled tiredly and said, "When the target hides, on the surface, it will disappear, right?"
"Nonsense …" the tutor mumbled. Suddenly, his eyes widened. "Huh?"
"That's right," Lin Sanjiu nodded and said, "In other words, the thing that existed before the hide-and-seek game started but disappeared after the game started is the real target."
It was funny. It was a simple principle that could be applied to any hide-and-seek game — "Find the invisible thing". However, it made Lin Sanjiu turn a blind eye to it. She had wasted half of her stamina and had wasted half of her energy.
"What disappeared?" The tutor had already sat down, but now, he stood up again. He looked around the courtyard and said, "I can see that there is something missing …"
After the Pocket Dimension started, the courtyard was restored to its original state. The cracks had healed and the broken pillars had grown back. The courtyard was whole again. Lin Sanjiu had spent a lot of effort just now because she had to check the "missing" parts and eliminate them one by one.
"No, the most obvious thing is missing," she said. She released her higher consciousness and pointed to the fountain.
The tutor stared at the fountain blankly.
"Before we triggered the Pocket Dimension," Lin Sanjiu said, "Wasn't there a statue of a half-naked woman standing in this pool? That's what I'm looking for. "
Just as the tutor inhaled a breath of cold air, the large pile of plaster on the ground suddenly rolled and rolled. From the hands of the thick-bearded fish-tailed man, the tip of the spear broke off and fell to the ground. In what seemed like a flash, all the plaster fragments reassembled and condensed into the original statue and a half (not to be seen in brackets).
It was about the size of a real person and stood quietly in the pool, as if it had never moved.
The grayish-black marks, blurs, and cracks that had been left behind over the years had eroded this heavy and fragile dead object. Compared to the other five giant statues, it looked especially dull and silent.
"It's out … it's out …" the tutor muttered.
When Lin Sanjiu shifted her gaze away from it, she realized that the huge courtyard had once again become dilapidated and barren. The vines and weeds crawled over the broken bricks again, and the trees spread into a small wild forest. The five giant statues had all disappeared. A gust of wind blew through the courtyard, stirring up a cloud of dust in the pool that had dried up for a long time.
Was it over?
The last bit of uneasiness and doubt in Lin Sanjiu's heart fell like a huge boulder.
"From the looks of it, there won't be another round, right?" the tutor said as he looked around. It was obvious that he had the same worry as Lin Sanjiu.
From this perspective, the female statue in the pool was like a switch. When it appeared, the pocket dimension was closed. When it disappeared, the pocket dimension was activated.
"Before we triggered the pocket dimension, we had checked the entire courtyard a few times …" Lin Sanjiu laughed bitterly, "But when the five giant statues appeared, I forgot about the half-naked (not to be seen in brackets) female statue."
Now that she thought about it, the five giant statues had pressed heavily on her retina and nerves, occupying all her energy and vision. The high-pitched giggles, the plaster cheeks that puffed up when the statue covered its mouth to stifle its laughter, and the half of the face that peeked out from the back of the bench … It was very difficult for Lin Sanjiu to shift her gaze away from them. It was something that she did not dare to do.
"Then, how did you know it was hidden in the fish-tailed statue?" the tutor asked.
"I didn't know at first," Lin Sanjiu said as she relaxed. Once Lin Sanjiu relaxed, she immediately felt exhausted. She sighed and said, "When I realized that the female statue had disappeared at the start of the pocket dimension, I realized that the way it hid itself must have something to do with the pebble paste … Isn't there a saying? The best place to hide a leaf is in the forest … All the statues can be broken into plaster pieces and reassembled. Isn't it perfect if we mix in a plaster piece during the process? Unfortunately, I don't know which statue it is hiding in. "
Also, if this mass of plaster was divided equally among the five statues, it would be even more difficult to find the one with the longer hair and the one with the longer dress.
"However, after I calmed down and thought about it, I realized that the plaster piece that formed the real target wouldn't be divided among the statues … It's simple. If I grabbed more than one statue's plaster piece, I would be declared to have grabbed the wrong statue."
The tutor frowned and thought for a moment. Then, he suddenly realized, "I understand now. If the target is hiding in one statue, then we can eliminate the two female statues with the flower basket and the water bottle."
"Yes, both of them are the same size. Even the flower basket and the water bottle are about the same size."
However, the remaining three statues were of different sizes. All of them were larger than the half-naked female statue. Lin Sanjiu's train of thought was stuck for a long time when she realized that the statues could be hidden on anyone's body.
The breakthrough came when she recalled that she grabbed a part of the fish-tailed man statue.
"Do you remember what the fish-tailed man statue looked like when I grabbed the plaster piece for the first time?" Lin Sanjiu saw the tutor nod and continued, "The amount of plaster was reduced. It wasn't that the statue shrank a little, but there was a piece missing from its face."
This meant that the position of each plaster piece was predetermined. If the plaster piece that was supposed to be used to mold the face was missing, it wouldn't be replaced by the plaster piece that was used to mold the face.
"If the statue's original size and the amount of plaster needed were fixed, then suddenly there was an extra piece of plaster …"
"Ah, that's why you attacked the spear!" Before Lin Sanjiu could finish her sentence, the tutor immediately continued, "Because it's an 'external object', it doesn't affect the statue's original shape."
Even though it seemed to make sense in theory, Lin Sanjiu wasn't very confident in her deduction ability. After all, this wasn't the answer she got from the mimicry grand prize.
"Based on the size of the female statue in my memory, I roughly estimated its' mass'. Then, I used the method that Hei Zeji taught me to measure everything in the courtyard …" Lin Sanjiu explained, "At that time, I realized that the 'presence' of the spear, or rather, the oppressive feeling of its mass, was very similar to that of the female statue. In other words, the amount of plaster they needed was about the same. "
And the fourteenth round happened to be an excellent opportunity. The superficial target used to deceive the opponent and the real target happened to be the same.
"If the fake target wasn't the mermaid statue, I might not even have the chance to grab the spear," Lin Sanjiu heaved a long sigh and stood up from the edge of the pool.
She had exhausted half of her stamina before she managed to finish the Courtyard of the Colossus Instance Dungeon. Now that she stood up, she realized that the entire Courtyard of the Colossus Instance Dungeon was still in a state of silence. It was as if nothing had happened, let alone the rewards that a normal Instance Dungeon would give.
"That's it?" If it wasn't for the fact that she was afraid of activating the Instance Dungeon again, Lin Sanjiu would have knocked on the female statue a few times. "Even if I passed the Instance Dungeon, it's still a waste?"
"At least I survived. That's better than anything else …" the tutor mumbled. Then, he suddenly froze. "No, look!"
Lin Sanjiu looked at the direction that he was pointing at. She saw a faint arrow on the brick ground of the courtyard, which was overgrown with weeds and wildflowers.
The thread of her sweater was pointing to the left, but the arrow was pointing straight ahead.
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