Chapter 170
Spade Tower, 56th floor.
It was a magnificent and lonely French castle. The white walls had long been mottled, and there were only a few sparse ivy branches, which did not grow well, but only served to add a sense of age.
At this moment the castle gates are open, waiting for guests to come.
Outside the castle is an impenetrable forest and thorns everywhere. A quick glance at it will make you forget about going through it.
Yitu paused at the door and didn't rush in.
The game panel opened in front of him, and the column containing information about the members of the Handian team still showed that they could not be specifically located.
But except for Xie Yan's avatar which dimmed, symbolizing the gray color of elimination, the other four were still in their respective A-shaped towers.
Originally, they had planned to meet up on the 56th floor of the Spade Tower. However, as expected, the 56th floor of the Spade Tower was also made up of many separated subspaces and was not a complete floor.
This means that even if they all reached the 56th floor of the Spade Tower, it would be almost impossible for them to be in the same subspace.
You should know that the number of subspace distributions on each tower layer is determined by the number of remaining players passing the level, which can be as few as dozens or as many as hundreds.
Yitu's current subspace number is 15632. If other members of his team come to the 56th floor of the Spade Tower, the team information column will immediately display a similar subspace number 156xx.
But so far, the team information column is blank. No one has entered the same floor as him yet, and it is even very likely that they are not in the same A-shaped tower.
Yi Tu frowned slightly when he realized this. In terms of proficiency, his tower climbing speed was far inferior to that of the battle-hardened Shen Yueshu and Ou Cheng.
However, the two men did not arrive at the 56th floor as agreed, and there were only two reasons for this.
Either they have already cleared the 56th floor of the Spade Tower, but because they cannot stay in the subspace for a long time, they are forced to leave and continue climbing the tower.
Or they encountered a difficult problem and couldn't get out of it, so they were late in arriving at the agreed location.
Yitu closed the team information bar, and then opened the tower climbing activity player rankings.
There are two player rankings in the tower climbing activity, one is the player's ranking of the number of floors passed, and the other is the player's ranking of the tower climbing reward value.
Both lists only show the top 100 players; players ranked after 100 will not be displayed.
Clicking on the level ranking list in Yitu will directly pull you to the bottom, and the number of levels of the A-shaped towers of different suits is different.
He searched roughly and found that except for Ou Cheng who was already on the 64th floor, the other three were not on the list.
In this way, Yitu had a clear idea in his mind that they were most likely still trapped below the 56th floor.
Since the four towers are not connected, not only will the communication devices of Yitu and Jiang Hanyu be interrupted, but any other props used for communication will also be interfered with and become ineffective.
The rules of the tower climbing game are that players can pass to the lower levels but cannot pass to the upper levels.
Yitu can indeed purchase the props for downward transmission in the tower climbing reward value redemption store, but the transmission props are designated props.
This means that the player must accurately input the teleportation location, specifically which suit of tower to which numbered subspace on which floor.
Teleportation is not difficult, but the difficult part is that Yitu has no coordinate information of the other members.
This means that even if Yitu wanted to help, he was really powerless.
In this case, Yitu had no choice but to wait and see on the 56th floor of the Spade Tower.
Besides, since there are so many subspaces on the 56th floor of the Spade Tower, he is not too worried that the people of the King of Hearts can really do something behind his back.
After leaving the Red Heart Tower, the higher you climb, the fewer Red Heart players Yi Tu will encounter.
When he passed the 55th floor, he no longer met anyone from the Ming Emperor.
After all, there are too many subspaces, the people are scattered, and there are four colors to choose from on each floor. The probability of encountering a suitable picture is only one in ten thousand.
The King of Hearts had a good idea, but it was quite difficult to implement in practice.
He is not the Cube King Xingzhu, who can descend upon every Cube player at any time and anywhere, ignoring the obstacles of space and terrain.
As long as Song Jingchen and the other three can survive the 50th floor, the threat from Emperor Ming will no longer be a threat.
With Xu Heng and Shen Yueshu's strength, the first 50 levels were not a difficult task for them.
The only thing Yi Tu was worried about was Song Jingchen. He was with Xie Yan, and no one knew what had happened between them.
Just as he was lost in thought, he heard footsteps of varying weights behind him.
Yi Tu subconsciously turned his head and saw five or six people coming out of the portal, both men and women, looking at each other.
His mind subconsciously scanned over and found that none of the six people were hearts players, only four were spades and two were clubs.
"Hello, why don't you come in?"
A tall, thin, black-haired man came up first with a friendly smile on his face and tried to talk to Yitu.
"I just arrived too." Yitu replied indifferently.
"Is that so? Let's go in quickly then." This person was one of the two Plum Blossoms and said very familiarly:
"But honestly, there seem to be so few players on this floor. About thirty?"
Yitu didn't answer him, but he could still answer himself:
"Maybe there are more players in the castle. Too many people isn't good, it's too dangerous."
The two walked into the castle, and a cold breath hit them in the face, so cold that they shivered all over.
In the spacious hall, there were only less than twenty players standing sparsely. Some of them stood alone, some sat at the marble table, and a few were looking around at the surrounding environment.
"One, two, three... twenty-six?" The man standing next to Yitu was a little surprised. "How can there be only so few people? This is too few."
As he said, the number of players present was surprisingly small.
Even in the subspace, they had never encountered a subspace with such a small number of people.
Just when everyone was hesitating, the castle gate suddenly closed with a dull thud.
The game begins.
After everyone was stunned for a moment, they stopped wasting time and dispersed to look for ways to pass.
The 56th floor of the Spade Tower is called The Picture of Dorian Gray. It also does not deliberately hide information from players and has a clear theme.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel written by the British novelist Oscar Wilde.
It tells the story of a beautiful young boy named Dorian Gray who, after seeing the portrait of himself painted by the painter Hallward, discovered his amazing beauty and made a wish to the portrait, wishing to remain young forever, and for the portrait to bear all the vicissitudes of life and the sins committed in his youth.
And it was because his wish came true that Dorian Gray began his decadent life.
He wantonly deceived and played with other people's feelings and indulged his own desires more and more. Dorian Gray was still young and handsome, but the portrait became uglier day by day.
It was not until much later that Dorian Gray came to his senses and could no longer tolerate the dirty soul and ugly portrait, so he stabbed the portrait with a knife and died, but the portrait returned to its original appearance.
The castle where Yitu was located was very large and spacious. He took a rough look and found that it had three floors in total.
There are sixteen independent rooms on each floor, the purpose of which is unknown. The white doors are closed, but there are no lock holes installed.
On the display wall on the right side of the hall, there are dozens of world famous paintings of various sizes. The largest one in the middle has only a black frame, and the painting in the frame is nowhere to be seen.
If nothing goes wrong, the black frame should contain the picture of Dorian Gray.
"There are so many rooms here. Do you want us to find the paintings and hang them up?"
A girl with pigtails asked in a low voice. She had no companions, so when she asked this question, she didn't expect anyone to answer her.
"Look, there's a crack in this wall!"
At this time, the young man in a blue shirt standing in front of the black picture frame shouted.
As soon as he finished speaking, the others standing in front of the wall also noticed something unusual.
“There’s a crack here too!”
"This....this isn't a crack, but a hidden stone door!"
Four thin cracks surrounded the empty black picture frame to form a rectangular opening, which was obviously a door.
"The stone gate is definitely here. It seems that as long as I fill in the portrait, I can pass the level, right?"
The man standing next to Yi Tu was talking to himself again. He looked at Yi Tu who was ignoring him, and suddenly leaned over and said with a smile:
"My name is He Rui, what's your name, brother?"
"Yihan Mountain."
Yitu made up a name casually, and He Rui's eyes lit up immediately when he heard it:
"What a nice name! Can I call you Hanshan?"
Yitu nodded. It was just a fake name anyway, so you could call it whatever you wanted.
He Rui was about to say something else when he suddenly heard a noise in the corridor on the left side of the hall.
"I found pieces of the painting! There are pieces in the room!"
A short and fat player rushed out from the room beside the corridor. Although his legs were short, he had the advantage of being fast and soon he was in front of everyone.
"Look, is this a fragment of the Picture of Dorian Gray?"
Yitu's heart moved and he stepped forward.
The fragment in the short and fat boy's hand was only three centimeters wide and less than four centimeters high. It was a small piece and it was impossible to guess what was on it.
"This should be a piece on the corner of the portrait." Someone speculated, "It's really hard to tell, it's so dark."
"What? After all this time, it turns out to be a jigsaw puzzle," complained a girl in a white dress. "The pieces are so small, and the picture is so big. Even if we find all the pieces, it's going to be a struggle to put them together."
"What else? We let you come in and enjoy yourself." A middle-aged woman who looked like an aunt sneered jokingly.
The girl was confronted and wanted to fight back without thinking, but before she could say anything, a shrill scream suddenly came from the corridor on the left.
“Ah!! Help me, help me! There’s a ghost in the room—”
Everyone was stunned and subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound.
I saw the third door on the left corridor being pushed open. A burly man was holding on to the edge of the door frame with both hands, and his whole body was leaning backwards, like a bow that was about to break.
His face and even his entire head were tightly grasped by a huge and terrifying ghost hand, and the sharp nails had already pierced into the man's cheeks, mouth, and even neck.
Before the man was dragged in, several flashes of light appeared on his body, all of which were props or cards used to save his life.
However, without exception, they all failed to save the man's life.
They saw that after the third door on the left corridor swallowed the man, it closed silently and automatically, and then a large amount of blood slowly flowed out from under the gap of the door.
Along with the flow of blood, there was also the crisp chewing and swallowing sounds that were so subtle that they were almost inaudible. It was so creepy.
The players were all stunned. After a while, someone asked in a trembling voice:
"Can the fragments only be found in the room?"
No one answered him, but someone else asked:
"How many rooms are there in total? Forty-eight rooms in total!"
"There are only twenty-six of us, no! Now there are only twenty-five!"
The player who got the fragment from the room at the beginning had already turned pale and was unable to speak.
He was just lucky. There was nothing behind the opened door, just an ordinary room, and he found such a small piece of debris in the crack of the sofa.
In addition to the two doors that have been opened, one door of life and one door of death, there are forty-six unknown rooms in the castle.
And they now only have twenty-five players left, which means each of them can open at most two doors.
Half chance of death, half chance of survival.
However, no one has forgotten that this is Spade Tower, and the rules of the game have never been that everyone should share the risks and responsibilities equally.
Instead, the strong ones used their fists to fight their way out.
With the temptation from the previous reckless person, the rules of the game became simple and clear.
The remaining forty-six rooms in the castle may all contain fragments of portraits, or man-eating ghosts and evil spirits.
The players' task is to find the fragments and piece them together successfully to open the stone door.
Having learned from the previous experience, no one dared to open the door rashly. Only a few brave people walked forward to check the situation.
The blood outside the third door on the left corridor had already coagulated. Someone was leaning against the door, trying to hear something different.
However, there was nothing but dead silence in the room. Not just this door, but no sound could be heard from any of the doors.
Forty-six identical doors and forty-six rooms without any flaws left the remaining twenty-five people helpless for a moment.
However, the 56th tower only gives players five hours to escape, and the countdown begins from the moment the castle gate closes.
"What are you waiting for? The rules of the game are clearly here, and they clearly want us to try them one by one!"
A white-haired old man paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his voice loud and clear.
"Don't you know what we are waiting for?" A young man said helplessly:
"I just measured the length of the frame and roughly estimated that the picture of Dorian Gray should have at least 288 fragments."
"That means at least half of the forty-eight rooms contain fragments, and each room should have at least twelve, or seven or eight."
"And Xiaodao only found one fragment from the first room. What does this mean?" The young man smiled bitterly.
He didn't say the whole thing, but everyone understood what he meant.
If there is only one fragment in a room, according to this unscientific and unreasonable probability, the 288 fragments are likely to be incomplete.
In other words, even if they opened the doors of all the rooms, they might not be able to find all 288 fragments, but now, they are still hesitating and wasting time.
Not to mention, after finding all the fragments, they still have to be pieced together on a large scale, and five hours is not enough at all.
As soon as the young man finished speaking, someone couldn't help but shout:
"Who of you will go open the door first? What if it's not certain death? What if there's a glimmer of hope?"
"With so many unexpected events, why don't you go?"
The aunt snorted coldly, and no one dared to move towards the corridor.
At this time, a cold voice sounded:
"Since everyone is reluctant, why don't I choose for you?"
The man who said this was wearing an elegant suit, looking like a pampered young man. He raised his glasses on his tall nose, and the lenses reflected a strange blue light.
"Go open the second door."
As soon as the man finished speaking, Xiaodao, who was being pointed at by him, suddenly lost control of his body and walked towards the corridor.
Xiaodao's face was filled with terror, and he rolled his eyes frantically trying to regain control of his body, but it was all in vain.
He had already arrived at the second door, his right hand trembling violently, but he still touched the door handle little by little.
It was true that he was the first player to open the door, but before that, he didn't know that there might be a ghost hiding in the room.
He only knew that once his hand touched the door handle, it would be almost impossible to move it away.
Because the handle will lead the player to push open the door.
Xiaodao looked at the door that opened automatically in despair. The moment his fingers touched the handle, he regained control of his body.
That person obviously wanted to test whether the player could resist the attack of the evil spirit.
However, to the man's disappointment, there was no evil spirit behind the door. It was just an ordinary room.
Xiaodao fell to his knees on the ground, gasping for breath. After a while, he stood up and went into the room to take out the fragments.
This time, there were fourteen or fifteen fragments.
Everyone was pleasantly surprised. If the number of fragments taken out each time was normal, it would mean that the fragments were complete, instead of increasing their difficulty again.
Xiaodao handed all the fragments to the man with glasses, "I'll give you all the fragments. I don't want them!"
"Brother, please stop controlling me. I really can't stand it anymore. Please find someone else!" Xiaodao pleaded pitifully.
However, the man with glasses obviously did not hide his feeling. He smiled and his glasses glowed blue again.
"No, brother, you are so lucky, you will definitely find more fragments. I don't trust others."
Xiaodao couldn't utter the curse words that were on the tip of his tongue, and in extreme fear he lost control of his body again.
This time he was heading towards the fourth room. Although the man with glasses said something nice, it was just a bluff.
From the very beginning, he planned to use Xiaodao to try them one by one in order until Xiaodao died.
Just as Xiaodao's hand was about to touch the door handle again, someone suddenly spoke:
"Let him go, I'll open the door for him."
Everyone was stunned. The man with glasses narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the slightly ugly and inconspicuous Yi Tu behind him, and smiled:
"Okay, go ahead."
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