A week of tranquil life passed quickly.
That afternoon, Zhang Heng was flipping through a book called "Photographic Composition" in the library when he received a call from Shen Xixi.
"Is it convenient to talk now?"
"Just a minute."
Zhang Heng got up, left the borrowing area, and walked to the safety passage. He looked around and saw only a few freshmen discussing their group assignments. No one even noticed him when he walked past them.
Zhang Heng then picked up his phone and asked, "What's up?"
"I remember you said that you know how to drive?"
"Yes." Of course, Zhang Heng knew that Shen Xixi didn't mean that he had a driver's license, but that he possessed a certain level of driving skills.
"Can you do me a favor?" Shen Xixi asked. "You've seen the news on the forum recently, right?"
"Sorry, I haven't been on the forum much this week."
"Oh, I see. You can take a look first. If you want to talk, you can come to the sculpture shop in the food alley to find me."
"Okay."
Zhang Heng hung up the phone, turned on his laptop, plugged in the USB flash drive, and logged into the players' forum to browse through the city's trending posts. In fact, he only needed to glance at them to know what Shen Xixi wanted to talk about, and he didn't even need to look for them.
Right now, the players on the forum were most interested in the Sphinx's appearance.
Unlike Moresby and Zavilcha, the Sphinx was a mythical creature that everyone was familiar with.
It originated from Egyptian mythology. Of course, its most famous story was in Greek mythology.
The Sphinx squatted on a cliff near the city of Thebes, intercepting passers-by and playing riddles. "What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs at night?" Those who couldn't answer would be swallowed by the Sphinx. One day, Oedipus passed by and gave the answer. The Sphinx was so ashamed that it jumped off the cliff and died.
Like all Greek myths, such a story was also full of wisdom. Putting aside the reason why the Sphinx would commit suicide by jumping off a cliff after being guessed, the most important thing was that according to the descriptions of various versions, the Sphinx was a monster with the torso of a lion, the face of a woman, and a pair of wings on its back. With that pair of wings, it did not look like a creature that would die from jumping off a cliff.
The post about the Sphinx was first posted by a player named Goldbach's Conjecture.
He told himself that he was a high school teacher. One night, when he was returning home from the evening self-study session, a monster that looked like a large hound suddenly appeared from the side of the road. Its appearance was exactly the same as in the legends. It stood next to the trash can, and what happened after that was similar to the legends.
The monster suddenly spoke human language and asked Goldbach's conjecture to play a riddle game with it. If it answered correctly, it would let Goldbach's conjecture go, and if it answered incorrectly, it would be punished.
Goldbach's conjecture suddenly tensed up. As a player, of course, he knew that he had encountered a supernatural event, and it was likely to be a deadly supernatural event. Although the other party did not explicitly say that they would kill him, as someone who knew the story of the Sphinx, he knew what would happen if he failed to answer the riddle.
Goldbach's conjecture was scared half to death at that time.
He lived in a relatively remote place, and there were not many pedestrians on the road at that time. Besides, he was not a combat player, so he could only bite the bullet and listen to the riddle. Fortunately, the Sphinx's riddle was as bad as the legends said.
"Its upper and lower limbs are all hands. Sometimes it crawls, and sometimes it walks. When it walks, it looks like a human. When it crawls, it looks like a dog. Hit an animal. Remember, you only have one minute. Three chances," said the suspected Sphinx.
Goldbach's conjecture was so nervous that his mind went blank for a while. After a while, he came back to his senses and quickly came up with the answer. "Monkey. It's a monkey, right?"
"Congratulations, you got it right." After the Sphinx said this in an emotionless tone, it went back into the green belt and disappeared as if it had never been there.
Considering the huge gap in combat power between the two parties, Goldbach's conjecture did not dare to ask why he did not jump off a cliff and die like in the legends. After the Sphinx left, he felt like he had just woken up from a dream. Because he was worried that he would attract the monster back home, he did not dare to go back to the residential area. Instead, he went straight to the game checkpoint. He stayed at the game checkpoint for the whole night. After that, his wife and daughter almost mistook him for having an affair.
After that, he sorted out his experience and posted it on the forum.
Because the whole process was so childish, no one even believed it at first. Some people even left comments under the post. "Brother, are you from UC? Why do you want to create news when there is no news?" It was not until the next victim appeared, and the post was suddenly pushed to the top and became the most popular post in the forum.
The second victim was not so lucky. He was walking his dog downstairs in the early morning. When he walked to an empty bike shed, the dog suddenly barked and refused to move forward. Although the player's reaction was fast, he was not as fast as the head that suddenly popped out from the bike shed.
"He's not that old, and he has a big beard. He doesn't distinguish between big and small, and he only knows how to call for his mother. Hit an animal," the thing said with a blank expression.
"What the hell?!" The second victim was so scared that he almost fell to the ground.
"Wrong answer. You have two more chances."
"Is this considered one time?"
"Wrong answer. You have one more chance."
The second victim did not dare to speak anymore. After a while, he forced out an answer. "Is it a cat?"
"Wrong answer."
Accompanied by this sentence, the sphinx monster pounced on the second victim. Just when the latter thought he was going to die, the monster waved its claws and scratched three bloody marks on his arm. Then, Teddy barked wildly, jumped onto the bike shed, climbed over the wall, and disappeared.
The second victim immediately rushed to the hospital. After a checkup, no abnormalities were found. After getting a shot of rabies vaccine, he went home to rest. At present, his physical condition had been good. A slight fever was a normal reaction after getting the vaccine. He would continue to go to the hospital to get the remaining four shots.
His post attracted a lot of people's ridicule.
[Brother, the answer is a sheep. How could you get it wrong? You even used three more chances.]
[When did the Sphinx become so easy to talk to? Even if you made a mistake, you just scratched it and left.]
[Where's your dog? Didn't it save you at the critical moment?]
[Friend above, you asked Teddy to save you, and it asked you to save it.]
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