"What should I do now?"
Because of an emergency, several people had to stop temporarily.
Tan Wang bit the stick of his lollipop and strolled from this side to that side, and then from that side to this side, back and forth, pulling his hair as he walked: "Can we only stop here? Can't go on?"
Shi Yu: “No.”
Gu Jinzhao moved his fingers and raised his eyes.
Tan Wang stopped and said, "What do you mean? You won't stop here? But what if you go in like this and melt like that player?"
"He didn't go in the direction of the gears when he entered." Shi Yu said, "If you want to leave, why don't you go in from the right direction?"
“…”
Tan Wang stopped pulling the hair.
That’s right, anyway, as long as he goes through the center exit in the right direction, nothing will go wrong, so why is he so worried?
Tan Wang thought for a long time and finally remembered: "But, why did he just appear in..." that situation?
Shi Yu: "In what direction did he enter the center of the circle?"
Tan Wang was stunned, and subconsciously turned around to look for it: "Wait a minute, I made a mark when I came in to explore the way during the day..."
Shi Yu was waiting quietly beside him.
After Tan Wang found and identified it, he said in astonishment: "...It seems to be walking from west to east?"
The moon climbed from the tree branches to the horizon. Shi Yu looked at the broken corner of the moon and asked, "Do you understand now?"
Tan Wang: “…”
Sir, I really don't understand.
Gu Jinzhao lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then asked tentatively: "Has his existence been erased?"
Shi Yu hummed lightly: "Because when he entered the center of the circle, his direction was neither from north to south, nor from south to north. Instead, it was from west to east."
"If you look at it from a gear, north and south are at least possible directions for the gear to rotate, even if one of them is bound to violate the rules of gear rotation. But west to east is equivalent to sliding from the left side of a groove on the gear to the right side. Either it will slip off the gear or break the gear."
Anyway, it's impossible to make the gears turn.
Shi Yu said: "Obviously, he was unable to break the gear by himself, so he fell from the gear space."
Gu Jinzhao: "Is leaving the game over?"
Shi Yu was silent for several seconds: "You saw his heart exposed before he disappeared, do you think he could still be alive?"
Gu Jinzhao looked at him: "I don't think he can survive, but there's no guarantee that he's dead."
Shi Yu did not deny it: "But if this is the case, everyone can enter the center of the space from the side without knowing it, and it is entirely possible to end the game and leave as soon as they enter the game. Then who will complete the 'disassembly' task mentioned in the system message?"
Gu Jinzhao: "It is entirely possible that the player will die as soon as he enters the game because he goes in the wrong direction and enters the center of the circle."
Shi Yu: "What if the system initially places the player at a location where the straight line from the center of the space circle matches the direction of the gear rotation?"
Gu Jinzhao was suddenly stunned.
"As long as the drop location is set in advance, as long as the player does not deliberately change the direction of his movement when entering the center of the circle for the first time, he can leave smoothly." Shi Yu said, "When entering the center of the circle for the second time, accidents may occur."
Gu Jinzhao stood up straight: "Since you have figured this out, why are you stopping?"
Shi Yu finally looked away from the moon: "I was wondering what he meant by the word 'boss'."
Gu Jinzhao’s body stiffened.
"He mentioned a mission. I don't know what mission his group will assign him, but he escaped from your encirclement. Instead of running away or resisting, he attacked me, and the first move he made was a killing move. I can only think of the call for action with the ultimate goal of killing me."
Shi Yu asked, "Is he a subordinate of the person who posted the message? Or is he a subordinate of the person who took on the task?"
Gu Jinzhao didn't say anything.
"It seems to be the former." Shi Yu leaned against the tree trunk and repeated the tone of the flat-headed player just now, "'Deputy Captain'? The poster is called the boss, and you are the second in command of the poster's team? If so, why did you come to me with the intention of killing your leader?"
Gu Jinzhao still didn't say anything, and his palms were getting wet with sweat.
Finally, it was Tan Wang who stood in front of her, with a vigilant look on his face: "Sister Chao and Chi Feng are indeed in the same team, but she didn't mean to hide it from you!"
Shi Yu listened to this magical theory and asked: "Has she quit the team now?"
Tan Wangyi was stunned: "No..."
Shi Yu: "Has she resigned as the deputy team leader now?"
Tan Wang blinked: "No..."
Shi Yu: "Besides me and you, are there any other people who know that she and your boss don't have a good relationship?"
Tan Wang: “This…”
Shi Yu concluded: "So she hates the boss of her team, but at the same time she doesn't turn against him and maintains superficial peace with him; at the same time she enjoys the title of her team position, but at the same time she comes to me and wants me to get rid of her boss?"
Tan Wang: “…”
Shi Yu's tone was filled with doubt: "Are you hiding it on purpose?"
Gu Jinzhao closed his eyes: "I did it on purpose."
Shi Yu said nothing.
"I haven't torn my face with him because I'm not strong enough and don't have the courage to confront him head-on; I haven't shown my dislike for him because I'm worried that if he knew there was someone around him who wanted to stab him to death every day, it would be much more difficult for him to succeed; I kept it a secret from you because I was afraid that if you knew about my relationship with him, you would not agree to work together." Gu Jinzhao opened his eyes and looked at him directly, "Didn't you guess it before? I dislike him, even hate him, but I don't have the ability to do anything to him. So you don't have to worry about me turning against you at the critical moment."
Shi Yu listened quietly, then nodded to show that he understood, then stood up and walked towards the center of the circle in the open space.
Gu Jinzhao stared at his actions in a daze: "Don't you have anything to ask?"
Shi Yu thought for a moment and said, "Yes."
"What?"
"Is Chi Feng a pseudonym created by a player from Shangjiutian?"
"……?"
Gu Jinzhao probably didn't expect his focus to be here, and his expression was complicated for a while: "No, he and I entered the Divine Realm together and participated in the first game together. At that time, we didn't have player bracelets, and I was sure that he was a player from the Lower Nine Heavens."
Shi Yu listened to this answer: "But players in Xiajiutian don't have the authority to form a team."
"We are not forming a team, we are a guild." Gu Jinchao understood what he meant. "The main guild was founded by players from the Upper Nine Heavens, but they occasionally accept players from the Nine Heavens. He and I were chosen from the Lower Nine Heavens. He is the guild's agent in the Lower Nine Heavens now."
She paused here, and after a moment, her voice tightened: "In the Upper Nine Heavens, our guild is called 'The Temple'."
That was an existence that almost everyone in the entire Upper Nine Heavens knew about, but she didn't say it out loud.
Shi Yu was slightly startled and remained silent for half a second: "Oh."
Until the three of them found the correct direction to enter the center of the circle and left the space where the ancient castle was located, Gu Jinchao still couldn't figure out what the attitude of his "Oh" was.
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After the forest scene disappeared, what appeared before their eyes was the dim interior of a building.
I don't know how this place was designed, the windows were as high as two floors of a normal building. Observing with the little moonlight coming in through the narrow opening, it seemed to be a quite spacious building with many dark cabinets inside.
It was the middle of the night.
As soon as Tan Wang arrived at the place, he couldn't help but say a swear word. When he backed away, his shoulder hit the cupboard, and something fell from the cupboard and hit him on the head.
Shi Yu waited until his eyes adjusted to the light, then raised his hand and touched the nearest cupboard, feeling the touch of an object under his hand.
It is cool and smooth, yet not hard. If you apply a little force, you can even feel a slight dent in the object under your hand.
He didn't touch it again, but walked towards the wall of the building, holding on to the cupboard, groping along the wall, and finally touched the protrusion of the light switch.
The power switch is not far away.
Tan Wang had curled up on the ground, trembling, "Sister Chao, help, help, help..."
“Pah—”
The lights above my head suddenly became bright.
Everyone subconsciously closed their eyes, and when they opened them again, they could finally see the scene clearly.
This place looks like an exhibition hall in a museum. The display cabinets are neatly arranged, but the exhibits on the cabinets are not antiques, but dolls.
Some with long hair, some with short hair, some in princess dresses, some in uniforms, some with eyes open, some with eyes closed, some happy, some crying. There are all kinds of styles, but without exception, they are all made very beautifully, and at first glance you can't even see the slightest trace of joints.
Obviously, this is an exhibition hall for puppets and dolls.
The exhibition is not even the ordinary kind of exhibition where exhibits are lined up one by one on the cabinets. On the contrary, a very unique scene is set up on each display cabinet, and the dolls are placed in the scene like residents, posing various different actions.
Tan Wang got up from the ground, walked around the low cabinet in front of him three times, and muttered quietly: "Who has money to spend on so many dolls?"
Gu Jinzhao glanced at him and said, "Why do you care about other people's happiness?"
"It's so late at night, and I suddenly see so many weird and scary things." Tan Wang poked the face of one of the dolls with his finger, "It looks just like the real thing."
Gu Jinzhao did not deny this.
It really does look like a real person, but the facial features and body proportions are not so faithful to the real person, it's mainly the joints and skin. Not only are there no traces of splicing on the limbs and neck, but even the face does not have the common problem of cheap dolls' overly stiff and pale skin.
Shi Yu did not participate in their discussion. He left the switch and walked towards the gate not far away.
As I reached the door, the alarm above my head suddenly lit up red, followed by a shrill beep, like thunder in the night.
Tan Wang was so frightened that he dropped the doll in his hand: "What's going on?!"
Shi Yu didn't continue walking, but looked towards the gate: "Maybe he was discovered."
This is an exhibition hall after all, both public and private, but it is obviously impossible for it to be open in the middle of the night.
In this case, they had just suddenly turned on the lights, which obviously alerted the alarm system.
Gu Jinchao walked quickly to the door: "There may not be anyone on duty in this kind of place at night, so let's leave now while no one is coming."
"I'm afraid not." Shi Yu pushed the door open a crack and tilted his head to look at the scene outside. "Someone is already here."
Gu Jinzhao's eyes lit up: "If there are few people, we can just..."
Shi Yu said, "I estimate there are no less than twenty people."
"..."Gu Jinzhao paused.
Tan Wang had a look on his face as if he had been struck by lightning: "Twenty? What's on display here aren't humanoid dolls, but golden statues of Arhats, right?!"
Shi Yu walked back to the switch and turned the light off again.
Back in the dark environment, Tan Wang swallowed his saliva, tried hard to suppress the urge to tremble, and looked up at the window whose presence had once again reached its peak: "Is there any way out?"
Shi Yu: "The windows are sealed."
Tan Wang: "If you smash it open..."
Shi Yu: "People outside will hear it."
This is really a vicious circle.
The worst thing is, they simply don't have that much time.
"Bang--"
The door of the exhibition hall was violently pushed open, hit the wall, and bounced back.
The leader narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to turn on the light.
The exhibition hall was brightly lit, but there was no one in sight.
He glanced at the cupboard in front of him and tilted his head.
The person beside him understood, and walked into the exhibition hall with a few other people and began to search for the Tibetan.
No one spoke, and the exhibition hall was eerily quiet. However, the sound of searching footsteps was not deliberately lowered, and each step seemed to be able to knock into people's hearts.
Shi Yu leaned against a cupboard, looking down at the shadow under the light getting closer and closer.
First the head, then the body, and then the legs.
If he took two more steps forward, anyone who came would be able to see him hiding nearby unless he was blind.
But at this moment, the other party stopped. After a few seconds of silence, the other party suddenly said, "Sir, are you not going to come out?"
Shi Yu didn't move.
The other party spoke again, with a hint of laughter in his voice: "We are all naked, is it fun to play hide and seek?"
“…”
As soon as he finished speaking, a cold light suddenly penetrated the cupboard behind him and rushed towards the back of his neck!
Shi Yu squatted down subconsciously and saw wood chips flying everywhere in his sight.
The cold light flew past his head, suddenly turned around, and its direction suddenly changed sharply downward, flying towards his face again.
He grabbed the cupboard to gain leverage and stood up, this time dodging to the side.
Being brushed by the cold light again, Shi Yu was now completely exposed to the light. He clearly heard the man's voice behind him and felt the force that was already attacking him.
Someone leaned over and pinned him to the ground while he was falling, holding his wrists with both hands and pressing his legs with his knees: "Are you finally willing to come out?"
This was the first time Shi Yu felt such a strong sense of oppression since entering the divine realm.
Even though he had faced evil spirits, monsters, and even the emperor above millions of people in the past, none of them had the pervasive aggressiveness of the man before him.
The other searchers found Tan Wang and the other man hiding in the exhibition hall, tied them together with the same rope, and brought them over to throw them on the ground: "Boss."
The man raised his eyes, glanced at Tan Wang who was shocked, and then looked at Gu Jinzhao: "What an ungrateful person."
He lowered his head and said, "Is this the helper you found?"
Shi Yu's wrists were restrained by a hand, and the other party's free hand leisurely lifted the long hair from his face, allowing him to see his face clearly.
The force on the wrist suddenly increased.
The other party laughed and said, "It's easy to get it."
Shi Yu was suppressed by him, listening to the people around him calling him, watching Gu Jinzhao and Tan Wang's reactions when they were thrown to the ground, and the other party's inexplicable words "It's easy to get it".
He asked, "Chi Feng?"
Chi Feng lowered his eyelids and said, "My dear Master, I have long heard of your great name."
The sharp cold light that had split the cupboard emerged from his palm like a stream of water and then turned into a sharp blade.
Chi Feng raised his lips, grasped the knife, and stabbed the tip of the knife into his heart without hesitation.
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