Lin Sanjiu followed Mickey Mouse through his kitchen and opened the cartoonish pink back door. Then, she stepped onto a thick patch of dark green grass. When she stepped on the grass, it made a squeaking sound — it sounded like it was made of plastic.
"Look," Mickey stretched out his hand and pointed forward. His three fingers wrapped in a white glove were pointed forward.
Lin Sanjiu raised her eyes and looked at something not far away.
Under the fake blue sky that seemed to be the wrong color, the plastic grassland disappeared about ten steps ahead of her. The ground broke off here, revealing the edge of the brown cliff. Looking down the cliff, she had to stretch her neck to see the fast-flowing river at the bottom of the valley through the fog. On the other side, there was a low-lying plain. If it weren't for the unnerving green, it could be considered a beautiful scene.
"But … how do I get there?"
Just as the thought crossed Lin Sanjiu's mind, she accidentally bumped into a pebble. The pebble immediately rolled down the cliff and disappeared into the white fog.
"Isn't the scenery in our Cartoon World very beautiful?" Mickey Mouse raised his nose high and put his hands on his hips, striking a very dramatic pose. "All the tourists who chose the apple pie can set off from here and experience our world."
"All the tourists who chose the apple pie can set off from here? Does that mean that there are other paths for the people who chose the other two factions? "
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She quickly asked, "You haven't told me what the other two factions' answer is?"
Glancing at her, Mickey Mouse's smile slowly widened.
"In the second pie, Minnie used 'nothing'. It doesn't matter if you eat it or not. In the third pie, she used human hair and nails … Hmm, even though it won't harm the human body, it doesn't taste good. After you eat it, you have to pull the hair out from the gaps between your teeth. "
Lin Sanjiu felt disgusted when she heard that. "Since you won't die no matter which of the three factions you choose, it seems that the first level is just to screen out the different 'paths' for the players.
"I wonder if the 'path' of the apple pie is easier than the other two?"
Thinking of this, she raised her head and asked, "What about the tourists who ate the other two pies? Where did they all set off from? "
"Don't ask so much about things that have nothing to do with you." Mickey shrugged, the corners of his eyes narrowing into two vertical slits. Ever since it stepped into the stadium, its smile hadn't changed. "After all, I still need your help next."
"What kind of help?"
"It's like this." Mickey waved his hand at the bottom of the cliff. "When Minnie was baking the pie for you, its gold ring slipped off and rolled to the edge of the table. Minnie reached out her hand to slap it on the table, but the ring bounced out of the window and fell all the way down the cliff."
Lin Sanjiu turned around and looked at the kitchen window that was at least a few hundred meters away from the cliff. She couldn't help feeling that she was in a cartoon world.
"That ring is very important to Minnie." All of a sudden, Mickey turned his face to Lin Sanjiu and stared at her with his black, vertical eyes. He smiled and said, "Since you are here for sightseeing, why don't you come here? Why don't you help us look for that gold ring while you are sightseeing? "
Lin Sanjiu looked at him and bent down to look at the bottom of the cliff.
As it was shrouded in layers of white fog, the river at the bottom of the cliff looked indistinct and blurry. Even though the mountain breeze that blew against her cheeks ruffled her hair, it couldn't disperse the fog.
How was she supposed to find it?
"Well then, I wish you a pleasant sightseeing trip and that you will be able to bring back Minnie's gold ring!"
Before Mickey Mouse could finish his high-pitched and cheerful speech, Lin Sanjiu's hypersensory state suddenly jolted. She immediately jumped up in alarm. Almost at the same time, Mickey Mouse's voice rang out. Almost at the same time, someone pushed her hard on her back, causing her to lose her balance.
At that moment, the feeling of weightlessness made her blood boil. At the same time, she heard Mickey's giggling voice, "… … … … … … … …"
Falling off the cliff is also one of our specialties! You have two choices now. One is a life-saving branch, and the other is nothing. One is to have nothing and fall down like this — which do you choose? "
"F * ck you!" Lin Sanjiu cursed inwardly. However, gravity had already pulled her body back. She swallowed her first choice with great difficulty. She shouted with great effort, "Number two!"
Mickey seemed to have said something else, but Lin Sanjiu couldn't hear it. She didn't even know if her voice could be heard. In the blink of an eye, the wind suddenly became violent and muffled her voice. Her body was already falling at a high speed, but her heart was still hanging in the air. She screamed and immediately spread her skeletal wings. She flew toward the cliff.
Her skeletal wings slid down the cliff like a knife cutting through a piece of tofu. Unfortunately, it didn't help Lin Sanjiu at all. She didn't know what material the cliff was made of, but her skeletal wings didn't encounter any resistance at all. She flew straight down the cliff.
Before she could think of another way, she had already crashed into a few large rocks along the rugged cliff. Thud! Thud! Lin Sanjiu's body was thrown high up into the air and then fell down again. During this process, all her actions to save herself were ignored by this cartoon world. When she finally hit the ground, she was so dizzy that she couldn't even see clearly.
After some time, Lin Sanjiu gasped and slowly got up from the ground.
When she looked up, she couldn't even see the edge of the cliff. However, the strange thing was that other than a few light abrasions on her body, she didn't even have a single broken bone.
"If I fell straight down, I would only suffer such minor injuries … What if I chose the first option?"
Lin Sanjiu didn't want to know the answer to this question. As she panted, she stood up and surveyed her surroundings.
She was standing on a river bank covered with stones, and a few clusters of dark green plants stretched out from the cracks between the stones. Due to being washed and soaked by the river all year round, the area near the river had already turned black.
Even though Minnie was huge, the ring on her finger wasn't even as big as a rock. Lin Sanjiu didn't have much hope in finding a gold ring on this riverbank. Lin Sanjiu didn't have much hope, so she circled around the riverbank. As expected, she didn't find anything.
Just when she was looking at the riverbank in a daze, she suddenly heard a soft sound of water rippling behind her. She turned her head in the direction of the sound. Lin Sanjiu was a little stunned.
A huge grayish-white fish head floated up from the surface of the river. As it was facing Lin Sanjiu, its eyes turned forward at the same time, forming two black dots beside its mouth.
"My dear friend, you seem to be looking for something," the fish head spoke slowly. The fish's mouth opened and closed as it spoke. Its completely expressionless face was completely out of place with its warm and friendly tone. "… Maybe I can help you!"
Lin Sanjiu stood still and stared at it for a few seconds before she slowly walked two steps toward it.
"I'm looking for a gold ring," she asked cautiously, "Did you see it?"
"Is it a round gold ring?" The grayish-white fish head looked up at the sky, "Just now, when a man was taking a stroll here, he suddenly picked up something like that from the ground and left ecstatically."
"Do you know that man?"
The fish head moved a little. Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell if it was nodding or shaking its head, "Even though I don't know him, I know which direction he went."
"Which direction?" Lin Sanjiu's interest was instantly piqued. "Finding the gold ring should be the condition to end the first round of this attraction."
The fish head shifted its body and looked at Lin Sanjiu with one of its eyes.
Before today, Lin Sanjiu had never seen a fish smile.
The line that separated the fish's lips slowly moved upward. A white line appeared beside the grayish-black eyeball. The fish head smiled and said, "I'm not sure. Why don't you sit on my back? I'll bring you there."
"Sit on its back?" Lin Sanjiu frowned immediately. However, after giving it some thought, she couldn't resist the temptation. Just as she hesitantly stepped into the river, she heard a sharp, mocking laugh from not far away, "Don't listen to it!"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She immediately turned her head. There was a yellow bird about half the size of a human standing on a rock about ten meters away.
Just like the countless talking birds in the cartoon, this one looked big and stiff, but it also spoke human language from its beak, "... Are you a visitor who just arrived? Let me tell you. Don't trust it. This fish often tricks people to sit on it. Then, both the person and the fish will sink into the water. Of course, it'll be fine, but you'll be in trouble. Aren't you looking for the gold ring? I saw that person too. I'll bring you there! "
"Sh * t, is this another —"
Before Lin Sanjiu could finish her thought, the bird tilted its head. The dark yellow and stiff bird tilted its head. "Do you choose the fish or me? Or, you can spend 50 Stamina Points to buy that person's coordinates from us. "
Even if she didn't consider the cat doctor outside, Lin Sanjiu didn't have 50 Stamina Points with her. She looked back and forth between the fish and the bird. She racked her brains, trying to figure out which one was the better choice. However, in the end, she could only rely on blind guesses, "Then, I'll go with you."
Lin Sanjiu was referring to the yellow bird. At the very least, with the Yellow Bird's size, it was not big enough to carry her on its back and throw her down from the sky. If what the Yellow Bird said was true, she could be said to be "sinking at the sight of water" with such a pair of big bony wings, and that would be troublesome.
"Then, why don't you get out of the water?"
Before the bird could finish its sentence, Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt a ripple in the water beside her feet.
Before she could understand what was going on, her body had already reacted. Her wings spread open and replaced her feet, burrowing deep into the mud of the riverbank. Relying on this bit of support, Lin Sanjiu somersaulted in the air and got out of the river.
The moment she got out of the water, the place where she was standing a moment ago was immediately flooded with black. Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to take another look and immediately jumped to the riverbank. When she pulled out her wings, there were black maggot-like worms dripping down from them. Wherever the worms crawled, she could see that the surface of her bones had been carved by something.
Lin Sanjiu's hair stood on end. She shook her wings and shook off all the worms. After the worms fell to the ground, they seemed to be attracted by her scent and crawled toward her. Lin Sanjiu quickly summoned her [Tornado Whip]. With a whirlwind, she swept all the worms and stones on the riverbank into the river.
The grayish-white fish head that was only half above the surface of the water shrank back into the water and disappeared.
"There are too many people who use those worms to fish," the yellow bird sounded as if it was gloating, "That fish collected all the worms it bit off. Perhaps, the river is now a breeding ground."
"So, I made the right choice again?"
Just when Lin Sanjiu couldn't believe her luck, Mrs. Manas suddenly spoke.
"That's not right," Mrs. Manas muttered, "I think the most important thing in this game isn't your choice. Just like those few factions, even though there are good and bad choices, I'm afraid that their main purpose is to draw a path."
"In other words, different choices will lead to different endings?" Lin Sanjiu said as she walked toward the yellow bird.
"That's right … That should be it," Mrs. Manas thought for a while and finally agreed with Lin Sanjiu's theory.
Looking at the yellow bird up close, Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to compliment its appearance. His cartoonish eyes were so big that they occupied almost half of his head, and because they were too bright, they gave off a kind of rigid falseness.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but stop a few steps away from him when she was being stared at by such a pair of eyes.
"I'll bring you there now." The yellow bird opened its beak. "… You have to follow me."
In the blink of an eye, the shadow in front of her had already soared into the sky. In the blink of an eye, that tiny yellow shadow had melted into the sky. (To be continued.)
PS:
Ah … Even I don't know how I wrote this chapter … My stomach hurts, and I feel a little nauseous. Plus, I'm so bored, and I can't think straight … Ahhhhh, this chapter was really hard to squeeze. Question: Can I skip this one?
I'd like to thank Sinful Dream and Boredwinter for your Heshibi and monthly votes. You've given me so much comfort when I'm sick … That's why I feel like I'm sorry if I don't write a chapter today …
I'd also like to thank Mikasayou for 5 monthly votes, Heartless Spectre, Blessing of the God of Spring, Li Ruo for 5 monthly votes, Fei Yue for 5 monthly votes, Shigeru is the Great Lizard for 2 monthly votes, Hashimoto for 4 monthly votes, Fat Bird for 2 monthly votes, Wjinzheng for 2 monthly votes, Violent Orange and Hachiko Shaw for their safety amulets, Ten Continents Storm, Eggsun, Miya Yamada for their safety amulets, and Bao Yabei for her perfume pouch! There's also a mini giraffe's perfume pouch and a safety amulet ~!
"Oh my god, I'm running out of time. The monthly votes are especially huge at the end of the month. I'll come back later to make up for it.
I'm coming. Haha. "
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