Chapter 146 Autobiography (XI)
Everyone quickly helped them both up.
Jiang Shuyue asked with concern: "Did you guys clear the level? Did you get the axe?"
Hong Yang was completely at a loss.
Ye Sui was stunned: "The symbol of passing the level is an axe? No, I was thrown out after I finished walking the whole way."
Principal Dou said, "There were no such textual hints in the two books you completed before."
Once you have completed the level, you have completed the level. The book does not remind them that "new readers" need to start from the beginning.
Everyone fell into deep thought.
So, Ye Sui and the others completed the story in the book, but didn't get the props to pass the level? Why?
Ye Sui said that after he and Hong Yang entered "Hedgehog", Hong Yang disappeared.
At first he thought the two were simply separated, but later he realized that was not the case.
The plot pattern of this book is very simple. He starts in a room and has to find the right direction, open doors, and keep moving forward.
Each room has a different shape and situation. Some rooms have no one in them, and some rooms have a little Hong Yang, who Hong Yang doesn't remember.
As for how to choose the direction to move forward——
In an empty room, doors will appear in all directions, but the correct direction is the one where a text prompt box appears in the air, warning the player not to touch anything here. The player must ignore the warning. Of course, there will be death traps, but they can be avoided as long as they are agile enough.
In the room with Xiao Hongyang, guess what Xiao Hongyang wants to do based on the clues in the room, come up with two or three options and ask him, Xiao Hongyang will give an answer. But the answers he gives are all wrong and will hurt himself. You must choose the option he did not choose to open the door to move forward.
In short, Ye Sui relied on this method he had figured out to move forward, and finally discovered that these countless strange-shaped rooms were connected together to form a human body.
At this moment, Hong Yang looked at him in confusion.
Ye Sui sighed: "That human body should be you. I found a beating heart, and then it was thrown out."
——So this clearly completes the plot, so why is there no axe?
No one understands.
Principal Dou closed "Hedgehog" and his eyes fell on the cover of the book.
This book was originally brought here by Gao Zhanyuan. There is a big number 3 written by him on the cover, indicating that the book comes from bookshelf number 3.
Principal Dou put his finger to his lips, thought for a moment, and then moved his eyes to the cover of "Silent" - the number was 12.
"The book 'Violence' is from bookshelf number 20, and 'The Ghost Behind' is number 13, right?" he suddenly asked.
Everyone's discussion was interrupted.
Mu Yu said: "Yes."
Principal Dou pondered for a few seconds and said, "I wonder if the reason why Ye Sui and his classmates didn't get the axe is because the book was moved to another shelf. Before they entered the bookshelf, the book was placed on shelf No. 14."
"Brother Xi was testing at the time," Hong Yang recalled, "Does it mean that every book must be in its original position in order to be completely cleared?"
Principal Dou didn't say anything, just shook his head.
I always feel that the rule of "administrators adjusting the position of books" is not that simple.
First of all, this should not be a false rule. The rules of this copy are simple and clear, nothing particularly complicated. They have not found any contradictory clues so far.
So if this rule is true, is there no other situation where this rule can be applied, other than the need to find the most special bookshelf, bookshelf No. 14?
From now on, all they have to do is not stuff any books onto other shelves?
Principal Dou pointed at the books and said, "Look, they come from different bookshelves, 3, 12, 13, 20, and the positions are also very scattered. I wonder if they can be swapped with each other, but each position can only get one axe? If a book has already been cleared at this position, then the next book that is cleared here will no longer have this item?"
Everyone was stunned.
What Principal Dou meant by this is...
Su Mingyun hesitated and said, "But the two books that were just cleared came from bookshelf No. 20 and bookshelf No. 13. Hedgehog was put on bookshelf No. 14. It doesn't contradict them, right?"
Principal Dou shook his head. "I don't mean a single bookshelf when I say 'each location', but a range. There are 20 sets of bookshelves in total, and 5 books. If 4 sets of bookshelves are one range, isn't that just right?"
"1-4 is one area, 5-8 is one area, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20."
As Principal Dou spoke, everyone's minds raced and their faces changed.
Wait, this—
"Hedgehog", from bookshelf 3, within the range of bookshelves 1-4.
"Silence", from bookshelf No. 12, within the range of bookshelves No. 9-12.
"The Ghost Behind", from bookshelf No. 13, within the range of bookshelves No. 13-16.
"Violence", from bookshelf 20, within the range of bookshelves 17-20.
They just match!
Jiang Shuyue immediately asked, "Then the last remaining book is between bookshelves 5-8?"
"The Hedgehog" has just been moved to bookshelf No. 14, which is equivalent to entering the same field as "The Ghost Behind", but "The Ghost Behind" has passed the level first!
It makes sense! Principal Dou’s speculation makes sense!
"Then let's put 'Hedgehog' back on bookshelf No. 3 and try again," Mu Yu said to Ye Sui and Hong Yang, "I'll go in with you this time."
Gao Zhanyuan said: "Then we can use the identity of a reader to look through the books on the shelves 5-8 again, and go in directly with whichever book it is!"
They took action.
*
Lu Zhongnian stood in the narrow book-shaped space.
After Mu Yu left, the place became quiet.
On all sides, the pure white walls emit a blue halo, like a high-tech space that can only be seen in science fiction movies.
Lu Zhongnian looked at him quietly, his gaze moving from above to below and then to the side.
Gradually, he discovered something coming out of the walls on both sides.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, walked to the right wall, and observed carefully, and found that it seemed to be the back of a person, who seemed to be very far away from him.
If you're not careful, the figure will disappear.
Lu Zhongnian closed his eyes, opened them again, and observed more attentively, and found that the figures had reappeared - but this time they were densely packed and overlapping figures.
It's like countless still images superimposed on each other. In each picture, the person is doing different actions, but when put together, it's impossible to tell what each action looks like.
But Lu Chongnian recognized that these countless figures were all Yu Ning.
He paused slightly and turned sideways to look at the wall on the left.
As long as you focus enough, your sight seems to be able to penetrate the wall and see the picture.
The picture visible through the wall shows Mu Yu and Ye Sui.
The two of them also had their backs to him, slightly bent. Mu Yu turned his head and opened his mouth to talk to Ye Sui.
New images kept being superimposed on each other, and soon, Lu Zhongnian could no longer tell what the two of them were doing.
This is clearly a scene from the book.
The interior spaces of each book are adjacent?
Lu Chongnian turned around.
He couldn't tell what Yu Ning did among so many messy pictures, but he noticed that in one of the pictures, Yu Ning seemed to be in a cave with two lines of regular-looking inscriptions on the wall.
rule……
He lowered his eyes in thought.
Apparently, there are no rules in the book in "Violence," only barrages of comments.
He turned around, walked to the left, stood still, and studied the picture of Mu Yu and Ye Sui attentively.
*
Mu Yu, Ye Sui and Hong Yang entered "Hedgehog" together, and Hong Yang disappeared again.
——In fact, Hong Yang was very doubtful whether he really needed to come in. In the previous round, he felt like he just slept for a while and was thrown out, with no sense of participation at all.
But everyone agreed that the heart that Ye Sui saw at the end was crucial.
If that is Hong Yang's heart, then perhaps only if Hong Yang goes in can the heart beat again, and perhaps only in this way can they successfully find the axe.
And this is obviously Hong Yang’s book, so there is no reason why the real owner wouldn’t come in!
So Hong Yang finally accepted his fate and decided to come in and have another sleep.
At this moment, the room where Mu Yu and Ye Sui were located looked very familiar to Mu Yu... This was clearly Hong Yang's childhood bedroom, which he had seen in Hong Yang's photo album!
Little Hong Yang was drawing circles in the corner with his head down and didn't notice them at all. Judging from his appearance, he was probably less than 5 years old.
Ye Sui adjusted his glasses: "This is the first room I came across just now. The question I asked Yangyang was 'Do you want to play the wooden horse or draw?'"
Looking around, the room was littered with drawing paper, crayons and wooden horses, but Hong Yang didn't choose any of them.
Mu Yu touched his chin: "I remember Yangyang liked to draw."
"Yes," Ye Sui was silent for a second, and then said, "He did choose to paint, but when I gave him the drawing paper and pen, a long black thorn suddenly came out from the wall and pierced his shoulder."
Mu Yu was stunned.
Ye Sui didn’t mention this matter just now.
"I couldn't break the thorn, so I could only try to hand him the wooden horse, and then the thorn disappeared and my shoulder was pierced." Ye Sui sighed.
Mu Yu was stunned: "Either you or him?"
"Yes, we can only choose one of the two. The only fortunate thing is that there are not many rooms with Yangyang in the whole process, so..."
Ye Sui hadn't finished his words, but Mu Yu could imagine how he looked like when his body was pierced in several places and he reached the finish line with thorns all over his body.
Ye Sui said helplessly: "That's why I didn't want you to come in just now."
Mu Yu frowned, "Anyway, as long as you can make it to the end and leave this book, the pain will disappear. I can at least help you share some of the burden. But I suddenly remembered that Yangyang seemed to have said that he didn't like painting when he was a child? Was he forced to learn it by his parents at that time, and he was disgusted?"
"Yes, I only remembered this later," Ye Sui paused, "Every choice Yangyang made was not sincere."
The two were silent for a moment.
They met Hong Yang in high school, and the opportunity came from the second dimension.
But at the beginning, Hong Yang was far from being as lively and easy to get along with as he is now.
He has a very bad temper and his body is covered with thorns. Some people in the class stay away from him and their only impression of him is that he is a "difficult little master."
But Mu Yu doesn’t care. As long as everyone likes the same character, they are all his good brothers.
Ye Sui was insensitive and the thorns did not hurt him.
These three people who seem to have very different personalities came together and eventually became best friends.
It was only after they got to know each other better that they realized that Hong Yang's personality was related to his family.
Mu Yu picked up a small wooden horse, hid it behind him, and came in front of Xiao Hongyang.
Little Hongyang raised his head and looked at him in confusion. Mu Yu squatted down and asked, "Do you want to play the wooden horse or draw?"
Little Hongyang hesitated and said timidly: "...drawing?"
Mu Yuban frowned: "Mom and Dad are not here today, we will decide for you, do you want to draw a picture or a wooden horse? No matter which one you choose, we won't be angry, but you have to think it over, you can only choose once."
Little Hong Yang quickly looked around and lowered his voice stealthily: "Are mom and dad really not here?"
"Of course. Look carefully. Don't you see them?"
Little Hong Yang nodded quickly, his eyes finally lit up: "Then, can I play the wooden horse?"
"Of course." Mu Yu took out his hand from behind his back, and a small toy wooden horse stood in his hand.
Xiao Hongyang took it with surprise.
In an instant, a slender conical black thorn shot out from the wall in front!
Xiao Hongyang didn't notice it at all, but Mu Yu dodged quickly.
However, this black thorn was able to track him and fly towards him in a corner.
Ye Sui blocked in front of him, but Hei Ci also bypassed him. Mu Yu pushed him away: "Ye Sui, get out of the way."
The next second, with a "swish" sound, the black thorn pierced his right shoulder, and Mu Yu frowned.
Ye Sui's brows were also furrowed. He didn't expect that when two players were present at the same time, Black Thorn would only chase the player who started the conversation.
"It's my turn next time."
As soon as he finished speaking, something fell from the sky.
——A shiny machete fell to the ground.
Mu Yu was stunned: "What is this? A prop? Did you have it just now?"
Ye Sui was also a little surprised: "...No, I didn't even see a vending machine last round."
...So what's up with this machete?
The two looked up.
The ceiling is right above my head. Is this a prop that fell from the sky?
Mu Yu's dagger was left to Lu Chongnian. Otherwise, he could use it to try to cut off the front and back ends of the thorn on his shoulder, otherwise it would be inconvenient for him to move.
Now he had no choice but to pick up the machete and hand it to Ye Sui: "Help me cut the front and back."
Ye Sui took it and said, "Okay, hold on to this thorn."
*
In the library.
The Hedgehog suddenly began to turn pages.
Everyone else was busy. Only Mu Chenxi noticed that Principal Dou's brows were furrowed. He walked over and looked at him, his face slightly gloomy: "Turning the page again?"
The pages turned rustlingly, and black words slowly appeared on the white paper.
【The thorn suddenly became thicker and longer.】
[It pierced Ye Sui's heart and was about to crush Mu Yu's heart...]
Principal Dou immediately pulled out the library card from the back cover of the book, flipped forward a few pages, and placed the card in the middle.
When I looked back at the page where the words appeared, the black words had disappeared.
But both of their faces were still solemn, without any relaxation.
It is true that Mu Yu and Ye Sui are both very smart. They should know where the problem lies after suffering a loss once. However, this time the problem occurred only two or three minutes after they entered. Isn't it too fast?
Moreover, Ye Sui had clearly gone through the entire plot of the book, so how could there still be a problem? Was there any change in the situation?
Less than a minute later, the book began to turn pages again.
[The thorn broke Ye Sui's liver and pierced Mu Yu's lung diagonally...]
Principal Dou turned the page again.
The book turned the pages again.
[The thorn burst Mu Yu's heart and pierced Ye Sui's lungs...]
This has become a killing spree!
The next second, Mu Yu and Ye Sui suddenly appeared in front of them. They fell to the ground with very ugly faces.
Mu Chenxi and Principal Dou immediately walked over and helped the two up.
Mu Chenxi asked in a deep voice: "What happened? What did you encounter in there?"
Mu Yu panted and said, "There are props falling from there all the time, and Ye Sui and I couldn't help but want to use them! But if we use them to cut off the thorns that pierce us, those thorns will become even more exaggerated. According to Ye Sui's experience, we should have been able to make it to the end, but now it's completely impossible."
Mu Chenxi turned around and asked Ye Sui: "We didn't have these props in the last round?"
"No." Ye Sui was also sweating profusely.
——It was the change of position that caused this change!
The answer appeared in their minds at the same time.
At this moment, the sound of turning pages was heard again.
Their faces changed. Which book had problems again?
I immediately stood up and looked over, only to find that the book that was automatically turning pages on the table was actually "Violence".
Hasn’t “Violence” been cleared? What could possibly happen to Lu Chongnian in there?
[Lu Chongnian cut a line on his wrist with a dagger, and blood gushed out.]
[He murmured, not knowing to whom he was speaking.]
[“I can see the situations in the two adjacent books. Each book seems to have different settings related to the thief.”]
[“In “Violence”, there are bullet screens; in “Silent”, there are rules; in “Hedgehog”, Mu Yu and Ye Sui encounter props.”]
[“These settings in each book are not repeated. You can consider whether they are special cases in this copy.”]
——Lu Chongnian is passing clues to them!
[Lu Zhongnian tears off his clothes and bandages the wound...]
All these words disappeared, as if to indicate that Lu Chongnian had found a way to escape danger on his own.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, then became serious.
Mu Yu looked around and locked his eyes on Jiang Shuyue: "Jiang Shuyue, did you encounter any rules, bullet screens, airborne props, etc. in "The Ghost Behind" just now?"
"Ah?" Jiang Shuyue poked his head out from between the bookshelves. "No, gosh, you two came out so soon?"
Hearing this answer, the four people at the table thought quickly.
"The Ghost Behind" comes from bookshelf No. 13, and when Ye Sui entered "Hedgehog" in the first round, "Hedgehog" was still on bookshelf No. 14. These two books are from the same field, and there is no special initial setting in the book.
When "Hedgehog" was moved to bookshelf No. 3, "airborne props" appeared.
Mu Yu summarized: "The initial setting for bookshelves 13-16 is none, the initial setting for bookshelves 17-20 is bullet screen, bookshelves 1-4 drop items, 5-8 are uncertain, and 9-12 are rules."
These elements once appeared together in the copy, but when separated, they reveal a sense of gradualness.
It's like a person participating in a game. At first he is a spectator, but when he gets familiar with the game, he slowly starts to intervene...
Mu Yu raised his eyes and the four of them exchanged glances.
"——This is a history of His evolution." Mu Chenxi said slowly.
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