Escape from Paradise (Twenty-Two)
Li Xia said, "Hey!" "You really didn't wrongly accuse me. I really did do something bad this time."
Fu Fenglou: "Yes."
"Fourth brother, please show some respect to your second brother," he pulled his hair in what he thought was a handsome gesture, "Isn't tonight the last dark period? We're going to see the closing show at the Fifth Ring Road tomorrow. I heard that tickets are required to see the show, and each person gets one white star."
Xu Wei gestured for him to look at Lu Fanye's arms.
"Oh, I saw it as soon as I got here. I'm afraid you don't know how precious the white stars are... I have another piece of news," he said mysteriously, pulling the three of them together and forcing their heads to touch each other, "News from the Player Night Market, someone has detected that Paradise Escape has entered its exhaustion period, and this will be its last opening."
After listening to this, Fu Fenglou rarely responded to Li Xia. He just frowned and said nothing.
Xu Wei didn't know much about the exhaustion period. He learned it from Zhang Yuan. This concept needs to be understood through the copy type.
The dungeon is divided into two operating modes: loop type and closed type. The closed type will be completely sealed after the player enters for the first time, regardless of whether the player has completed the level or not. The loop type will reset itself and open to the player at regular intervals.
Circular dungeons can be further divided into "unchanged" and "variable" types. As the name implies, the levels and components of the former basically remain unchanged, and players can rely on the experience summarized by their predecessors to pass the level, which is also called a welfare dungeon; the variable type is the opposite, and each time it is closed, it will self-update as if consciously, learn from previous experience, and create more complex level rules - Paradise Escape is a typical circular variable dungeon.
Each copy has a period of exhaustion - after being cleared a certain number of times, the remaining power will inevitably disappear after being unable to support the next opening. This is also jokingly called "cleared" by players. Since each update of the "self-changing" copy consumes more power, its exhaustion period is much faster than that of the "unchanged" type.
Paradise Escape summons many players into the dungeon every time it opens, and due to its difficulty, only experienced players are summoned. The increase in the number of players who pass the level aggravates the decline.
If what Li Xia said is true, then it can explain why the strength of the park staff is so weak - to some extent, this reflects the strength of the copy itself, and it can also explain why the difficulty of fighting during the day and at night is so different - the copy is concentrating its strength at night to counterattack as much as possible.
Before fading away, the exhausted copy will desperately devour all the life it can.
It's going to be a busy night.
"Didn't they detect it before? The night market should have sent someone to detect it with props when the dungeon was opened," Fu Fenglou said, "I even bought some information, saying that it hasn't reached the exhaustion stage yet."
So when she entered the dungeon and discovered the internal changes of the paradise, she did not think about the exhaustion period, but only guessed whether it was a new level conspiracy, such as letting the players be careless and then releasing a big move at the end.
"So I said he was going to do something bad. When I separated from you two days ago, I met a buddy, a guy from the Player Night Market. He can contact the outside world," Li Xia winked. "You haven't heard of him, right? His ability can connect the communication between the dungeon and the transfer station. I followed him all the way today, and hey, I heard this useful information."
Under normal circumstances, the communication function of the bracelet can only be used in the transfer station. Even if the two people who hold the contact information are in the copy, they cannot communicate with each other through the bracelet, let alone send messages from the copy to the transfer station.
This person's ability is indeed quite powerful. It is equivalent to being able to contact relatives and friends at the transit station in the copy for off-site assistance.
"Oh, by the way, the people at the night market asked this guy to pay attention to the distribution of red dots on the map. They guessed that tonight's dark period is related to the red dots, and it is likely to be a setting that is beneficial to players." Li Xia added with envy, "If only I had his ability. The people at the night market are all big guys who have cleared the level several times. Being able to directly video chat with them in the dungeon... I'm so jealous."
Fu Fenglou glanced at him from his thoughts, as if to say, look at you, you are worthless.
Xu Wei sighed and looked at the sky. The dark period was about to come, and Li Xia brought the bad news of exhaustion, which made her look quite depressed.
Ever since she entered this dungeon, she has been either fighting or on the way to fight. She has run through more streets than she had run in the first half of her life, which has forced her from a beginner in fighting to a veteran with rich combat experience.
She is no longer the novice who would subconsciously tremble at the sight of blood and monsters.
Niuhulu Xu Wei led the three back to the fountain square where they first met the red hat. It was already 5:50 in the afternoon, and the dinosaur fountain in the square had stopped spraying water long ago, with its head facing the sky and its butt sticking out, looking unruly.
"What kind of dragon is this?" Xu Wei asked, pointing at the dragon's butt.
Lu Fanye: "Velociraptor, a small carnivorous dinosaur."
"Why does he look familiar? Does he often appear in movies?" Li Xia racked his brains.
Lu Fanye nodded: "It's in Jurassic Park. Its other name is Velociraptor."
Li Xia applauded: "You are worthy of being my big brother. Not only are you very skilled, but you are also very knowledgeable. You love to read comics and you also know about dinosaurs!"
He poked his head out curiously: "Brother, are you the kind of sunny otaku who loves sports and likes to stay at home and enjoy his personal world. So do you like the two-dimensional world? Although I don’t watch much anime, I have a favorite two-dimensional girl... "
Xu Wei's fist hardened: "Don't speculate on other people's preferences and habits at will!"
Especially this kind of behavior of generalizing because of a certain point!
Lu Fanye clenched his fist to his lips and coughed lightly.
"Um."
"But I don't have any favorite 2D girls."
Xu Wei looked Lu Fanye up and down as if he had seen a ghost. He confirmed three times that there was no mistake in his anchor point, but he still suspected that he had been possessed by some omniscient and omnipotent being.
So why did you answer him?
Facing her incredulous gaze, Lu Fanye said with embarrassment for the first time: "I want to explain."
So why are you shy?
Xu Wei had so many complaints that he wanted to rant about, but he held it back.
Fu Fenglou glanced at them and formed a united front with Xu Wei: "Men are really strange. I don't understand you."
Business was more important, Xu Wei didn't bother to care about these two strange people. She looked at the man in a red hat who was receiving customers.
His customer was a player in blue, who seemed to be doing a task similar to that of a large cup of blood ice cream.
Red Hat took the order hesitantly and quickly began to make it methodically. He first took out the crispy cone, put the sea salt flavored sundae on the ice cream machine, and then put it aside and inserted fruit pieces and decorative cookies.
Then, he took out a pair of tweezers, first tested its sharpness, and then inserted it into his eye socket and took out the eyeball which was still bloodshot.
He was in so much pain that he groaned in pain, but he couldn't even cover his eyes. He could only mechanically press his eyeballs into the sundae, then pick up a knife from the wooden board for cutting fruit next to him and cut his wrists. Blood trickled down the crispy cone, and a new cup of blood ice cream was ready.
The player paid, whispered a thank you and ran away. Red Hat fell in the car, finally freed from control, and covered his eyes with shaking hands.
His other eye was filled with tears because of the pain, but they never fell.
If the player fails this mission, he will have to dig out another eyeball, just like the blood ice cream he made for Xu Wei and the others.
Every day lost organs grow back, but there is always a new loss.
Five fifty-nine.
Xu Wei put the nameplate on and turned to look at his teammates: "See you at the Five Rings."
"See you in the Five Rings."
"Be safe, sister."
"Okay!"
Six o'clock in the evening.
“Boom!”
Xu Wei split the beverage cart in two with a knife, and watched the man in the red hat gropingly stand up from the cart.
This time he did not follow his hunting instinct to chase the player in front of him. Instead, he took his first step slowly and even cautiously.
Card rain fell on the earth, piling up layer by layer on the ground until it reached Xu Wei's knees.
She wasn't teleported away.
The ground seemed to be covered with a layer of loose snow, and as you walked a few steps the cards would float lightly close to you.
Xu Wei quickly threw away the cards on his body, and the teammates around him disappeared. If nothing unexpected happened, they would fight on their own tonight and meet at the agreed location of the Fifth Ring.
Considering the danger of tonight, they did not plan to force a meeting at night. The primary goal was survival, and there was still time to go to the agreed place during the day.
The man in the red hat stepped out of the beverage cart. The blood in his eyes had dried up, but there was still bright red blood on his face, but the corners of his mouth were curved. He stretched out his slender arms—long enough to reach his ankles, grabbed a handful of cards and threw them into the air, raising his head to feel the subtle touch of the paper falling on his face.
"Freedom, mine."
He happily scattered several handfuls of cardboard and called Xu Wei to celebrate with him.
The latter had no time to share his joy and was busy searching for a usable card in the pile of fallen papers.
There are only five minutes left. After five minutes, the nameplate rules will take effect and you will start to spawn monsters.
Xu Wei counted silently in her mind and busily flipped through the pile of cards. As she was flipping through them, a slender leg stepped in front of her.
Looking up, it was the man in the red hat looking down at him.
He was really tall, about three meters tall, with a broad torso, extremely thin arms and legs, and a dark body. He looked a bit like a Western monster in Earth's culture—a thin and long figure, with a black irregular square head. His facial features were similar to those of a human, but he had no eyebrows, and his mouth was very big. With that dirty red hat and pink bib, he looked very weird.
No wonder Li Xia was so frightened when they met last night.
"I can, together."
He pointed at the person in front of him, then pointed at his shoulder.
Xu Wei glanced at him and found that he had no intention of attacking him, so he took a few steps back and continued to pick up the notes indifferently.
Do not disturb, I am picking up junk.
The man in the red hat took a few steps forward, stammering some illogical words. Seeing that Xu Wei had been ignoring him, he became anxious and stretched out his long hand to grab him.
Xu Wei reflexively held the knife across his face and looked at him warily.
The man in the red hat kept moving and smiled at her strangely, which made Xu Wei so angry that she almost slashed him with a knife. Fortunately, she didn't sense any murderous intent and managed to hold back.
"Let's do it together." He gently lifted up the little person in front of him and placed him on his right shoulder.
Xu Wei’s first reaction was: Can his thin legs support his heavy body and her?
The man in the red hat took a step forward, walking steadily.
Xu Wei estimated the distance between his shoulder and the ground. If he jumped down without the nameplate, he would probably break a bone.
"Where are you taking me?" she asked.
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