Chapter 88: The Colorful City 17 When my life was at stake, you actually...
An Ran walked up to Bai Chuan in confusion, looked at everything in front of her with her beautiful eyes in puzzlement, and then she and Bai Chuan stood there in a daze.
Behind the door was a spacious cloakroom with gorgeous and exquisite dresses hanging on both sides of the cloakroom, many of which were the ones they saw Papa wearing in the castle, so it was obvious that they had broken into Papa's cloakroom.
It is not strange that the Holy Father has a cloakroom in a magnificent castle. What is strange is the jewelry rack in the middle of the cloakroom. In ordinary cloakrooms, there is usually a sofa for the owner to change clothes, but Papa's cloakroom is obviously not an ordinary cloakroom. In the spacious central part, there is not a sofa, but a series of high and low jewelry racks made of human arm and leg bones. On the top of each rack is a human skull. Each skull is wearing a colorful hair that is unique to the citizens of the Colorful City.
Long hair, short hair, curly hair, straight hair, it's like a store specializing in wigs, with a dazzling array of products.
An Rao roughly counted and found that there were nearly fifty wigs here.
"So, the hair on that monster's head is fake." Baichuan said.
"Ah!" An Rao exclaimed softly, "I remember now, so that's how it is, now it makes sense!"
"What?" Baichuan looked at An Rao, who was excited, and was a little confused.
"When I was at the circus before, I noticed a monster in the monster audience area. He looked polite and well-dressed. Compared with the monsters with countless compound eyes and countless tentacles dripping mucus, he was an absolute gentleman."
"When your life is at stake, you can still pay attention to men?" Bai Chuan raised his eyebrows.
"Uh," An Ran was speechless for a moment, then waved her hand, "Don't worry about these details!"
Bai Chuan:......
"Anyway, I noticed this monster. He had white hair in the circus. I remember when Miss Rabbit came to let the monster place a bet, he gave out seven little paper figures, and then he won a round and got back fourteen."
"You observe very carefully." Baichuan praised expressionlessly.
"Of course!" Although it was a compliment, An Rao felt a chill on the back of his neck for some reason. He touched the back of his neck uncomfortably and continued, "So this is all connected!"
"So he doesn't have the same colorful hair as the citizens of the Colorful City. He has white hair, or he may have no hair at all! Therefore, he is not from the Colorful City at all. So fourteen players were involved this time, entirely because he won fourteen white paper figures in the circus." An Rao felt that his mind was clearer than ever. He was a little excited. Through the betting gentleman in the circus and this wig monster in the Colorful City, they finally pulled out a small thread from the mess of the amusement park.
“So the number of players involved in different games can be adjusted by betting in the circus, which is why some games involve more players and some games involve fewer players.”
"So the purpose of the circus is just to let the monsters trade for players' places?" An Rao began to tap his fingers again. "I feel like things shouldn't be that simple."
"Do you still remember the garden guide?" Bai Chuan pulled out the Garden Guide from the tight sleeves of his armor inner robe. "The third article of the garden guide is that the amusement projects in this garden are marked on the map. There is no circus in this garden. If you see a circus sign, please ignore it. The fourth article is that if you are in the garden on the closed day of each month, please keep quiet no matter what you see. Don't let any of their eyes see you. If you are discovered, the third article of this guide will be invalid. Please go directly into the circus."
"There are only ten rules in the park, but two of them are about the circus. And the words between the lines seem to be taboo for players to find out about the circus. The park doesn't want players to know about the circus," An Rao said. "I thought these two rules were weird before, but I don't know why. Although I know the intention of the park after experiencing the circus, the whole thing has become even weirder."
"The players are not allowed to know about the circus. Once they know about the circus, they must enter the circus. And as you know, players will die if they enter the circus. The amusement park uses these two rules to hide a fact from the players, a fact that even the amusement park itself cannot control and is unfavorable to it." Baichuan said, looking at the "Garden Guide" in his hand.
"On the night of the full moon, the monsters and even the entire amusement park will lose their ability to follow the rules, so players must stay in the hotel where they are staying and cannot go out to prevent them from discovering that the monsters have lost their abilities. If this still cannot prevent players from discovering them, then throw the players who discover the circus into the circus and kill them through free fighting." An Rao said coldly.
"So at night in the circus, the monsters who were unable to maintain the killing rules just sat obediently in the audience seats and watched humans kill each other, and even bet on human lives for fun, until the next day when they regained the ability to kill according to the rules."
"So this amusement park has a flaw, and the full moon night is the flaw." An Rao inexplicably felt a hint of excitement, as if a layer of tiny sparks were aroused all over his body, making his hair stand on end. After their lives were on the line countless times, they finally found out a little secret about this amusement park!
"But why would a rule-based monster amusement park inevitably lose its rule-based killing ability one day - um -"
"Shh—" Baichuan covered An Rao's mouth as he was about to continue speaking, and dragged him into the depths of the layers of gorgeous clothes.
After all the noise they made was wiped out, An Rao heard the sound of the door outside the cloakroom being opened deep in the gorgeous clothes. The monster was back.
They heard the monster humming a song as it walked into the cloakroom, and through the gaps in the clothes, they saw the monster kick off its diamond-studded leather shoes, then take off its gorgeous clothes and throw them casually on the ground, then take off the rings on its fingers one by one, and then stand naked in front of the dressing mirror.
An Rao subconsciously wanted to look away, but had to force himself to stare at the eye-sore scene in front of him. A big hand covered his back, and Baichuan comforted himself in his unique way.
The naked monster seemed to be in a particularly good mood. He hummed an unknown song and started scratching his ears with his hands.
What is it going to do? An Rao frowned and glanced at Bai Chuan, who just motioned for him to keep looking.
Soon, a horrifying scene unfolded in front of An Rao and Bai Chuan. The monster kept scratching and finally picked up a corner of its hair near its ear. Then, soon, a head of colorful hair was lifted up along its head, revealing its real head of white hair.
It really is the white-haired monster in the circus!
An Rao's heart jumped suddenly. This proved that everything he had discussed with Bai Chuan before was true! The flaw in the amusement park was on the day of the full moon!
An Rao and Bai Chuan watched through layers of clothes as the monster in front of them hummed a song and took off the ten rings on his hands one by one. When all the rings were taken off, his skin seemed to lose its restraints and instantly became loose. The monster fumbled around the back of his neck for a long time before pulling something like a zipper head. Its sharp nails pulled the zipper head slowly down along the direction of the spine, and soon, the entire skin fell off his body.
Under the human skin was a pure black monster, with pits and scales covering its skin, and a long black tail stretched out on the ground. Papa now looked like a black giant lizard with long white hair, ugly and disgusting, making people want to vomit when they saw him.
The monster was obviously very pleased with his own image. He twisted his tail and admired his appearance in front of the mirror.
Perhaps it was because it could finally relax after being held back for a whole day, the long tail swung wildly in the cloakroom, and several times it almost swept over the area where An Rao and Bai Chuan were hiding.
Not knowing whether the monster's tail was as sensitive as human fingers, Baichuan had no choice but to pull An Rao as close to the wall of the cloakroom as possible.
But the tail fell in love with the feeling of rubbing against clothes, and without noticing, the tip of the tail poked An Rao's thigh.
"Hmm." An Rao let out a mosquito-like groan, but Bai Chuan covered her mouth tightly as soon as she uttered it. However, it still seemed abrupt in this quiet cloakroom.
The monster's movements froze instantly, and its tail, which had been swinging comfortably, suddenly stopped. The monster shook its ears and slowly turned towards the direction where An Rao and Bai Chuan were hiding.
Baichuan's heart sank suddenly. He subconsciously blocked An Rao behind him, tensing the muscles in his shoulders and back, ready to deal with the attack of the monsterized Papa at any time.
The monster had vertical pupils emitting a faint light under its strange white long hair. It walked towards the place where the sound came from and made a low roar from its throat, as if warning the intruder.
An Rao's heart was beating like thunder, and fear almost overwhelmed him, but his instinct for survival made him try to stay calm. He held Bai Chuan's hand tightly, and his nails almost dug into the other's palm.
Just as the monster was approaching step by step and the stench was clearly audible, suddenly, there was a burst of hurried footsteps and knocks on the door outside: "Papa, there's something wrong in the hall!"
The monster paused, and its bumpy white-haired head turned towards the door, as if it was weighing and hesitating about something. After a moment, it turned around quickly, grabbed the human skin on the ground, put it on, and hurried out.
"Bang." The door of the room was closed. Baichuan and Anrao hid where they were, not daring to move or even breathe, until they heard someone outside reporting something to Papa in a hurry. Then, the noisy footsteps gradually faded away, and the two of them slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"But what happened in the hall that made it just give up on us who were within its grasp?" An Rao was puzzled.
"Maybe there's something wrong with the hourglass." This is all Baichuan could think of.
"Something happened to the hourglass... That's a big deal, but the monsters should soon know that the ones hiding here are ours. It won't be too late to find us after they've dealt with us." An Rao was a little desperate. "Anyway, they can't escape the castle, so killing us is just a matter of mood..."
"Tomorrow is the full moon day. There will be a grand morning prayer in the morning and citizens from the entire Colorful City will be present." Baichuan's eyes were solemn.
"In that case, let's just go all out..."
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