Chapter 181 Dream Points
The third time the dice appeared was ten minutes after the environment changed.
Shi Yu used his shoes to sweep the insect corpses on the ground to both sides, and threw the small cube in his hand.
The dice hit the glowing tiles with a gurgling sound and stopped.
Six o'clock.
Shi Yu blinked.
His first reaction was not whether his luck had turned, but what he would see after walking up the six steps. It might be a vast ocean that would drown him, or Halley's Comet that occurs once every 76 years, or perhaps a prehistoric dinosaur.
Of course, this thought only lasts for a few seconds.
Shi Yu didn't touch the dice. He walked up the stairs and stopped on the sixth step.
The next second, the roar of a wild beast was heard behind him.
"Bang--"
The rusty shovel was bitten by the beast, and the iron filings scraped by its sharp teeth scattered. The nearly three-meter-tall king of the grassland pounced on the man's cheek, his mane brushed against his face, and his hot breath and the smell of blood hit him in the face.
Shi Yu was knocked off balance by the sudden pressure from the body. There was not even a place to stand on the staircase which was only one square meter. Most of his body was hanging in the air on the unprotected side of the staircase, and was about to fall. The shovel in his hand that he used to block the attack only lasted for a few seconds, and then there was a "crack" and the metal broke into pieces.
The beast bared its fangs and bit directly at his head!
He suddenly fell backwards and his body fell down the stairs.
The inertia of wild animals is even greater than that of humans when they fall. The price of missing the target with their mouth is that they will fall off the narrow steps and directly into the bottomless abyss.
A strong wind blew in the darkness. Shi Yu's hands, which were tightly clasped on the edge of the stairs, turned white. He barely climbed back to the stairs, knelt on the ground and took a few seconds to relax, his fingertips still shaking a little.
The shovel was now completely useless, so he quietly cleaned up the debris and sat on the ground waiting for the rest of the time to pass.
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According to Shi Yu's original guess, after the third round of dice throwing is over and the players return to the primeval forest from the stairs, their positions will not change from before the third round of dice throwing.
But what he didn't expect was that when he opened his eyes, he would be face to face with a lion that was nearly three meters tall. The lion looked exactly like the one that almost bit off his head on the stairs before.
Of course, considering that everything here has been magnified dozens of times, this lion has not received any special treatment. When standing in front of people, it is a real mountain with an overwhelming shadow.
Ji Congyang's neck almost broke from watching so much.
The air was silent for three full seconds, and finally the king of the grassland could no longer be ignored, so it opened its bloody mouth and let out an earth-shaking roar.
The sudden air current from the flat ground almost blew people over, and the sound was deafening.
Shi Yu pulled out a handful of the mane: "Shut up."
“…”
Qiao Yan had originally prepared to use his innate weapon to speed up and lead the two men to run wildly, but he was stopped abruptly by his words. It was not until he saw the beast actually squat down like a good dog that he still felt it was unreal.
Shi Yu asked the beast, "Is there a house nearby?"
The lion lowered its head, and it seemed as if it wanted to use its hairy head to nudge the opponent's palm, but when it saw the size difference between the two, it gave up and only let out a small whimper.
"Not the kind you live in, the kind humans have lived in."
"roar--"
"Which direction? Approximately how far?"
“Roar!”
Qiao Yan originally wanted to ask him about the cross-species communication between him and the lion, or ask him why he was suddenly looking for a house, but the words got stuck in his throat and he couldn't say them.
It's not like I haven't seen the other party ordering venomous snakes to tease tigers in live broadcast replays, but there is a difference between what you see on the screen and in reality. More importantly, it is impossible for people to communicate so freely with animals in reality. It has nothing to do with the strength of ability, but simply the isolation of species.
"You..." Qiao Yan pondered for a few seconds, "Is this the effect of using props?"
"Born." Shi Yu stepped onto the beast's claws and was sent to the top of his head before he jumped down and half-crouched down, "Come up?"
No matter how good his mental state was, Qiao Yan still found it difficult to accept the idea of riding a lion, and a lion that was dozens of times bigger than himself.
Ji Congyang, on the other hand, looked much more comfortable. Except for the initial shock, he had no special expression until he sat on the lion's head.
Qiao Yan attributed this to the filter he used when facing his idol.
Not to mention riding a lion, even if Shi Yu asked if he wanted to take a walk around the lions' lair, the other party would probably agree without hesitation.
After he sat down, he organized his words before speaking: "Third roll of the dice..."
Ji Congyang suddenly interjected: "This is the third time I've met a cow."
"What?"
"It's about the same size as this lion." Ji Congyang felt that this analogy was not right after he finished speaking, and after thinking for a while he changed his words, "It's probably about two or three meters tall, with very, very long horns. It climbed up from the right side of the stairs and hit me with its head."
Qiao Yan frowned: "How do you deal with it?"
"I didn't do anything." Ji Congyang raised his hand, and the lucky copper coin string was lying on his palm. "Didn't you say before that the number of points you threw might be related to what kind of animal you will encounter? People like me probably won't be able to survive even one attack from any animal I encounter, so I might as well not encounter it. So I took it out before throwing the dice."
Shi Yu was unable to comprehend the development process between getting the string of copper coins and being safe and sound in the end.
"As a result, the bull didn't aim at the right direction and hit my bracelet. It jumped too high and I squatted down because I was scared, so we missed it. The bull flew over my head and fell to the other side." Ji Congyang said seriously, "I thought about it later and thought it might be because my bracelet was red and the bull got jealous."
Qiao Yan: “…”
Shi Yu: "...Cows are color blind."
Ji Congyang opened his eyes wide: "Isn't red cloth used in bullfighting? Isn't it because bulls get excited when they see red things?"
"The purpose of using red is to excite the audience," said Shi Yu. "Besides, the only light source on the stairs is the glowing steps, which are not very bright. In that case, unless you are born with excellent eyesight, you can't tell the specific color of your bracelet at all."
Ji Congyang said in confusion, "Then why am I okay?"
"Maybe your body didn't move at the time, only your hands were shaking, so it attracted its attention." Shi Yu thought for two seconds and added, "It may also be that the props blessed good luck."
He finally brought the topic back to business after he finished speaking: "What time did you throw it?"
Ji Congyang answered honestly: "Five o'clock."
Shi Yu said "hmm" and turned to Qiao Yan: "What did you want to ask last time?"
"You said there might be more than one staircase, because when the player is in it, he can't see anything except himself." Qiao Yan looked at him, "But now, I probably know why this game doesn't allow players to see their own environment clearly."
He said, "I rolled a three on my third roll of the dice, and on my second step I turned left."
Shi Yu paused: "This staircase doesn't go straight?"
"At least the one I walked into wasn't one of them." Qiao Yan said, "In the first two rounds, I threw four and six respectively, and after the third round, I encountered a goshawk."
Shi Yu lowered his eyelashes and said nothing.
Qiao Yan: "Why are you asking about the house?"
"Because of the mission."
"Do you have any ideas?"
"It's just a guess." Shi Yu said, "The mission is called Dream, so there must be a creature that creates the dream, whether it's a human or an animal."
Qiao Yan didn't interrupt.
"This forest and that staircase, there must be one dream and one reality in these two places, or both places are dreams, and you have to escape the dream to get to reality, otherwise there is no need for the system to use dreams as the name of the game." Shi Yu said, "I thought this forest was a dream at first, because the plants and trees here are too lush, and they don't meet the normal size standards for humans. But now I realize that maybe the staircase is the dream."
Qiao Yan had also thought about this question, but he had never found a suitable answer: "Why?"
Shi Yu tapped the mount beneath him with his fingertips: "Because it will listen to me." But the beast that appeared on the stairs would not.
For a moment, Qiao Yan didn't know how to evaluate his verification method.
"Before the third round of dice rolling on the stairs, there was no lion here." Shi Yu said, "If the players' bodies jump when they jump from the stairs to the forest, it shouldn't stop here."
Qiao Yan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Because when the player appears on the stairs, it is actually equivalent to falling asleep in the forest? So every time he wakes up, he will appear in the place before falling asleep?"
"If the stairs are a dream, the dreamer should be in the forest." The running beast stopped, and Shi Yu turned his head to see the magnificent building in front of him. "Let the dreamer wake up is the key to leaving the game."
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The lion was very fast and took the three people through the forest. It stopped in front of a fairy-tale-like castle with patterned walls. After putting the three humans down, it refused to come any closer.
It's almost like writing "There's something wrong with the house" on it.
Without the help of animals, it would be basically impossible to open the castle door by manpower.
Ji Congyang stood in front of the gate and suggested: "Should we look for a dog hole?"
“…”
"Don't you think this scene is very similar to the castle in the Giant Kingdom that Jack went to after planting the magic beans?" Ji Congyang said sincerely, "If we find the dog hole, we can get in and steal the giant's golden eggs."
Shi Yu had never read the fairy tale of magic beans, and he didn't think that a castle would have a dog hole. Even if he had originally come out of a mole hole, he didn't have the ability of a mole to dig holes, and given the size difference, it was impossible for him to climb over walls or windows.
So the only viable route was the main gate.
Qiao Yan asked, "Do you want to try it?"
Shi Yu: "Two more minutes."
Qiao Yan nodded and put on his ice skates.
Ji Congyang looked at this and that, and couldn't figure out what consensus the two had reached in that sentence just now: "What do you mean two more minutes?"
"It's two minutes to get back to the stairs."
"Why?"
"The time it takes players to roll the dice on the stairs will determine how long they can stay in the forest."
Ji Congyang subconsciously asked: "Then should we try to delay the time as much as possible in the next round of dice throwing? This way we can stay in the primeval forest longer?"
"It's better not to." Shi Yu said, "You don't know if it's also a rule not to spend too much time on the stairs."
Time was running out, so Qiao Yan pulled Ji Congyang and rushed to the front door.
Ji Congyang pulled his arm and looked back: "Why don't you bring my idol with you?"
"Be considerate of the injured."
Before Ji Congyang could react to what he meant by "injured", Qiao Yan had already placed his hand on the tall stone wall of the castle gate.
The next second, a clear mechanical sound was heard.
[Detected alien creatures attempting to invade, immediately annihilate]
“…………”
Ji Congyang was shocked: "Why would a castle like this be equipped with an access control system?!"
Unfortunately, the door did not answer, and a row of cylinders were recessed in the wall.
When Shi Yu looked up, he was met with a huge, black muzzle of a gun aimed firmly at him.
The bullet emitted white smoke as it slid out of the barrel.
Qiao Yan was able to dodge in time with the help of his life-saving item, but it was too late to rush back to rescue.
The artillery fire came suddenly and fiercely, like a rainstorm, and ripples suddenly appeared in the air.
The water that came from nowhere formed a water curtain, rolled up snow-white waves, and surged forward, rushing towards the dense rain of bullets.
Shi Yu turned his head to look at the figure that fell from the sky beside him: "How long have you been following me?"
The other person was standing in front of the water curtain. When he turned around at that moment, his emotions were extremely strong, yet so contradictory that it was frightening.
The guns buried in the wall had stopped firing. Qiao Yan pulled Ji Congyang around the water curtain and heard the other party moving his lips.
"Lord God."
Everyone just felt that the environment suddenly became dark.
The fourth round of dice rolling begins.
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