The Nightingale in the Golden Cage (5)
Jian Tanxi raised the interstellar triangular pyramid and plunged it into her own heart.
At the same time, the wolf king let out a miserable howl and collapsed.
The water in the room disappeared, and all the players and wolves collapsed to the ground.
Qin Man quickly gave Jian Tanxi a resurrection pill, and Jian Tanxi came back to life.
From the moment Jian Tanxi died, the superpower of "being bound by life and death" ceased to function.
So now Jian Tanxi has woken up, but the Wolf King has not.
All the wolves were rendered unable to fight.
These wolves have been modified; they seem to be immortal, only temporarily incapacitated. We need to rescue Nightingale quickly before they recover.
After resting for a while and taking healing pills, the group continued on their way.
This time, however, they walked very slowly, discussing their strategy as they went.
Jian Tanxi said, "The third challenge is ten madmen; we can try to make them unconscious. Sister Qin Man, can you still use your ability to make them unconscious?"
Qin Man shook her head: "No. The Coma Ability can only be used once per game. We can try to give those lunatics sleeping pills."
Not long after, the players heard a strange laugh.
These strange laughs came from several people and sounded a bit creepy.
The players formed a circle, facing outwards, and warily looked around.
Then, ten strange-looking people rushed out. They were all smiling, but their expressions were odd; they didn't look like normal people at all.
Moreover, these ten people were very tall, even taller than Professor Pan.
They were all wielding kitchen knives and attacking the players.
Jian Tanxi and the others took them by surprise and flicked sleeping pills into the mouths of the ten madmen.
However, these ten madmen were very good at evading, and none of the sleeping pills went into their mouths.
The players continued to try, but the madmen dodged them one by one.
The players had almost run out of sleeping pills, so they couldn't continue using that method and had to start fighting directly.
Although these lunatics were not in their right minds, their fighting skills were formidable, and the players quickly found themselves at a disadvantage, with everyone sustaining injuries. Even Qu Chen was slashed twice.
Jian Tanxi, quick-witted, said, "Modify the script's ability activation: 'The madmen are attacking the players with kitchen knives.' Remove the word 'knife' and change it to 'The madmen are attacking the players with vegetables.'"
As soon as he finished speaking, the kitchen knives in the hands of the ten madmen all turned into vegetables. Some held cabbages, some held bok choy, and some held two scallions, creating a comical scene.
Before the players could even laugh, they rushed over to attack them.
The madmen continued to hack and slash people as before, but the vegetables in their hands were no longer lethal.
They were stunned. Taking this opportunity, Qin Man took out the "Don't Move Spray" and sprayed it at them.
This spray can only be used on a maximum of five people. Five lunatics were sprayed and suddenly became unable to move.
Hong Zicheng quickly stepped forward, tied the five of them together with a rope, and then fed them sleeping pills.
Five madmen fell down, leaving only five madmen on the field.
A madman grabbed Qu Chen's hand, and Qu Chen pulled hard on the madman's hand.
Unexpectedly, the madman's hand was pulled longer and longer, exceeding the normal range of a human arm.
Qu Chen grabbed the madman's hand and ran outside.
Qu Chen wouldn't let go, and the madman's hand kept growing longer.
Everyone was surprised. At first, the players thought it was a madman's superpower that allowed him to lengthen his arms.
However, everyone soon discovered that this was actually Qu Chen's supernatural ability. The madman whose arm had been stretched out let out a strange scream, seemingly terrified. The madman tried to break free from Qu Chen's grasp, but Qu Chen held on tightly.
However, the lengthening of his arms didn't seem to have much of an effect on the madman; he just suddenly didn't know what to do and stood there dumbfounded.
Qin Man quickly attacked the madman and took the opportunity to feed him the sleeping pill.
The madman fell into a deep sleep, and Qu Chen had already stretched his hand to more than four meters long.
Hong Zicheng was skilled with ropes; he used the madman's arm as a rope to try and tie up the other madmen.
With the help of his companions, the other lunatics were captured, and Hong Zicheng used his four-meter-long arm to tie them together.
With the sleeping pills gone, Hong Zicheng and Professor Pan knocked out the remaining lunatics.
Now is the time for everyone to quickly take their healing or health pills and move on.
Finally, they arrived at an iron gate.
The iron gate is over four meters high and has a sturdy lock on it.
Players can hear birds chirping inside, so it seems the nightingale is inside.
Jian Tanxi took out his gun and unlocked the door.
Once inside, the players found at least several hundred birds. Some were resting, some were chirping, and others were looking around.
Their birdcages also vary, including iron cages, copper cages, wooden cages, silver cages, and so on.
The players were dazzled and couldn't find the nightingale in the golden cage for a moment.
Jian Tanxi randomly picked a bird, activated her ability to communicate with animals, and asked it where the nightingale was.
However, the bird did not know this.
Jian Tanxi had no choice but to continue trying to communicate with other birds.
She didn't know if she would succeed next time, but she had to try.
After a while, she picked out a rainbow toucan and asked, "Excuse me, do you know where the nightingale in the golden cage is?"
Rainbow Toucan: "Are you here to rescue it?"
"Yes."
"I don't know."
"Judging from your tone, it seems you know. Why won't you tell me?"
"Then why did you save it but not me? I want to get out too."
"Sorry, our mission is to save that nightingale."
"I'm not telling you."
"Lord Bird, please."
"Begging me won't work."
"Then I'll take you with me too?"
"Keep your word."
Jian Tanxi said to her companions, "Do you have a way to get this rainbow toucan out? It knows where the nightingale is, but we have to rescue it first before it will talk."
Professor Pan: "I have shrinking potion, let's try giving it to this bird."
Professor Pan took out a bottle of shrinking potion and poured it into the rainbow toucan's water basin.
After drinking the water, the bird shrank to a tiny size and finally escaped from the cage.
It said, "Thank you for saving me. The nightingale is right in the middle of Black Rock Spring. However, it's almost impossible for you to get it out."
Jian Tanxi asked, "Why?"
"The golden cage that holds the nightingale is completely sealed, with only one very small hole for ventilation. Even if you give the nightingale shrinking potion to drink, it won't be able to get out through that small hole."
"How do the servants usually change its water and feed it?"
"The servants would first blow sleeping gas into the cage to make the nightingale faint, and then open the golden cage to change its water and add food."
"As long as it can be opened, it's fine. I have [illegible]."
"Even [the police] won't help. That golden cage uses a fingerprint lock, and it can only be opened with the fingerprints of four servants. The specific four servants' fingerprints change constantly; there's no fixed selection."
Why are they so strict?
"Because that nightingale is the most expensive bird in this villa, and also the owner's favorite bird. By the way, you can't touch that golden cage either."
"Why?"
"Because the golden cage is in the very center of Black Stone Spring, and Black Stone Spring is very special, with almost no buoyancy, so it is impossible to approach the golden cage by swimming; you would sink as soon as you entered the water."
"Okay, I'll give it a try. Thanks for letting me know."
Jian Tanxi found out the location of Black Stone Spring, then hid the rainbow toucan in her personal space, and told her companions about her conversation with the bird.
Everyone felt conflicted, but they decided to try first to find out.
Soon, the group found Black Stone Spring.
Black Stone Spring is very large, and in the very center there is indeed a completely enclosed golden cage, not the kind with bars, so you can't see what's inside.
Moreover, there was a chain at the bottom of the golden cage that extended into the water. It seemed that the chain at the bottom had to be cut before the golden cage could be retrieved.
Hong Zicheng first threw out his rope, trying to tie up the golden cage.
However, the rope was not long enough.
Hong Zicheng walked up to Qu Chen and asked, "Qu Chen, can't you stretch a person's arm? Can you stretch my rope too?"
Qu Chen: Smiling.
Hong Zicheng repeated the instructions several times, but Qu Chen wouldn't pull the rope; instead, he just ran around.
Qin Man said helplessly to Hong Zicheng, "I'm sorry, Xiao Chen doesn't always understand what others are saying. And even if he does understand, he might not do it. Actually, even if your rope is long enough, you can't pull the golden cage over because there's a chain at the bottom. I guess the other end of the chain is tied to a heavy object, or it's directly tied to the bottom of the lake."
Hong Zicheng asked, "What should we do now..."
Jian Tanxi felt she had many props, and perhaps some of them would come in handy. So, she rummaged through her bag.
After a while, she actually found something good – a buoyancy ring.
This ring can generate buoyancy in water, so it should be fine even if the water doesn't have buoyancy.
She had Hong Zicheng tie one end of the rope around her waist and hold the other end in his hand.
That way, even if Jian Tanxi sinks into the water, Hong Zicheng can pull her up.
Hong Zicheng did as instructed.
But at this moment, Du Jiaojiao ran over, took Hong Zicheng's rope, and said to Jian Tanxi, "Jian Tanxi, I'll pull you up. I'm quite strong too."
Jian Tanxi understood Du Jiaojiao's thoughts and was somewhat speechless. Even at a time like this, Du Jiaojiao was still wary of other girls contacting Hong Zicheng.
But Jian Tanxi didn't say anything. She put on her buoyancy ring and jumped into the water.
She definitely felt that the water here was different from ordinary water; there was almost no buoyancy that lifted her upwards. Jumping into the water felt similar to jumping off a building; she sank rapidly.
Fortunately, the buoyancy ring on her hand generated a lot of buoyancy, allowing Jian Tanxi to float on the water.
Jian Tanxi tried swimming forward without any problems.
So Jian Tanxi untied the rope around her waist because it wasn't long enough.
She swam to the side of the golden cage and used the interstellar triangular pyramid to cut all the chains above and below the cage.
Then, she held the golden cage in her hands and swam back to shore.
Everyone was very happy and discussed how to open the golden cage.
Jian Tanxi first tapped the cage with a triangular awl, but the cage was completely undamaged, without even a dent.
Jian Tanxi was surprised because she rarely encountered something that even a triangular pyramid couldn't break.
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