Chapter 19: Stuttering
It's impossible to wait!
Watching the heroine's back disappearing into the stone gate indifferently, Gu Jinli finally let go of his worries.
The most dangerous person has already gone in, now she just needs to choose a different tower floor than that person.
"Take a break!"
The guard of the sixth floor had just been killed by the heroine. Until the next challenger entered, this floor would not be reset for the time being, so she was still safe.
But the respite was short-lived.
How to choose?
Sitting down in front of the stone door that had been closed again, Gu Jinli was in a state of confusion.
Although separating from the heroine is a good thing, it is impossible for me to stay on the sixth floor forever.
There is no other way to get out of the Tower of Babel except to pass it.
If she wanted to leave here, she had to keep going up.
“…”
The more I think about it, the more I feel that I shouldn't have followed the heroine into the tower rashly. If I hadn't come in, she would have had many choices instead of being like this now.
In the original book, she only described the contents of the top three floors of the tower, and almost glossed over the other floors.
But now that she is in the game, these things will be automatically supplemented by the world. Even she, the creator, is not clear about the levels of those unknown tower layers.
That is to say, there are thirty-six floors in the Tower of Babel, and she doesn't know what's inside the thirty-first floor.
This is a difficult situation.
The heroine followed the original storyline and went to the levels she knew.
If you don't want to meet the heroine, you have to avoid her.
Therefore, she could only choose other unknown levels...
It is known that her current combat power is extremely low, and her only golden finger is immortality.
If it is an unknown level, you can easily tell that you will die many times in various ways.
The thing is...she left the heroine just because she didn't want to die so many times.
If more people die without the heroine, it would be meaningless.
"Whatever."
As long as that person is gone, many deaths seem to be avoidable.
Gu Jinli didn’t think that she was that weak and would be killed as soon as she entered.
So after some hesitation, she stepped forward and pressed the 12th floor very quickly.
Yes, she decided to jump to the next skip point and hide there, waiting until the time was right and the heroine left the 33rd floor before jumping there in one fell swoop.
The main focus is on time difference.
After making this decision, Gu Jinli walked straight in after the stone door opened.
As the familiar light faded, the situation at the 'Twelfth Floor' level came into view.
Formation.
One formation after another covered the entire ground.
Such a familiar scene made Gu Jinli feel as if she had arrived at the 33rd floor.
She remembered that in the original book, the thirty-third level was the level with the most formations, and each formation was a different realm.
The layers of illusions outline an independent and complete world.
The challenger needs to experience "life" well and successfully break through the illusion before he can pass the level.
To be honest, this level is probably the mildest one in the entire Tower of Babel.
But this is just an appearance. After all, the fact that it was written separately by Gu Jinli and placed on the thirty-third floor is enough to show its cruelty.
"Didn't I choose the twelfth floor?"
The more he looked at it, the more familiar the formation seemed to him. Gu Jinli confirmed again and again in his mind that he had chosen the twelfth floor, no doubt!
There is such a huge difference between twelve and thirty-three, and the positions are so far apart, that it is impossible to make the wrong choice.
"Could it be possible that the twelfth floor has also been transformed into an illusionary layer?"
Gu Jinli could only attribute everything to the automatic replenishment of the world. She pursed her lips, carefully lifted her legs and walked forward.
Now that she was here, she had no choice but to go ahead with it.
And the next second after Gu Jinli raised his foot forward, the formation on the ground activated.
A complex azure blue magic array instantly filled the entire tower, pressing down on her from top to bottom.
Then there was a burst of bright light, completely covering her without giving her any chance to react.
When I looked over again, there was no one on this floor.
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"Quick! Catch this stutterer!"
"Catch her! Catch her!"
"Beat her to death!"
…
The noise came from all directions, coming from far away like a tide.
Before Gu Jinli could react, she felt something grabbing her arm and then dragging her hard. She staggered and fell heavily to the ground.
"Hiss~"
His knees hit the ground and it was burning with pain. When Gu Jinli opened his eyes, he found that his body had shrunk.
What's going on?
Looking at her palm which had obviously shrunk, she sat on the ground in a daze, her eyes full of astonishment.
Didn’t she enter the twelfth floor?
Have I entered a fantasy world?
As she was thinking this, Gu Jinli felt a flash before her eyes and saw several figures running towards her.
"Stinky stutter!"
"Kill her! Kill her!"
"Pooh!"
…
Punches and kicks rained down on his body without mercy. Gu Jinli gasped in pain, his face changed immediately, and he glared over fiercely.
Okay.
They are all a bunch of little brats.
Looking at these children, Gu Jinli frowned and subconsciously wanted to scold them.
"You! You..." What are you doing!
But as soon as the sound was uttered, she immediately realized something was wrong.
An ominous premonition came over me.
"I?!"
What's going on? !
She opened her mouth in astonishment and tried several more times: "I, I...I!!!"
“H-How…?!”
“…”
What's wrong with her? !
Why is it so hard to speak? !
After repeated attempts, Gu Jinli had to come to the conclusion that she seemed to have become a stutterer, and a young one at that.
Lying on the ground, he quickly looked around to avoid the eager eyes around him. Gu Jinli soon noticed where he was now - a shabby little village called Lihua Village.
Judging from the earthen houses in the village and the pale and skinny appearance of the children, it is easy to infer that this is a very poor village.
Although I don't know why my memory is still there, this identity is not that good.
"Look! That's it!"
The child pressed Gu Jinli to the ground and took something from her arms quickly while she was distracted.
The child tightly grasped the spoils in his hand and said to the children around him: "This stutterer stole the vegetable cake!"
Wild vegetable pancakes?
As the child spoke, his lifeless eyes fell on the other person's hand. Gu Jinli, who was pressed to the ground, finally realized that his things had been stolen.
This is her pie.
Gurgle~Gurgle~
His belly was so shrunken that it seemed to be sinking in. He hadn't eaten in who knows how long. He couldn't help but feel pain at the sight of food.
“Give it back…!”
Give it back to me!
This piece of dry biscuit was probably the original owner's only food. After figuring this out, the hungry Gu Jinli finally began to resist.
She struggled to push the child away and pretended to pounce on him to snatch him away.
But her reaction was quick, but the children around her were even faster.
Almost at the same second when she pushed the child away, there was a huge push from all around, and she fell to the ground again before she even had time to stand.
"Stuttering wants to grab the dry biscuits!"
"Beat her! Beat her to death!"
"This has happened so many times! You just steal things!"
…
The familiar insults kept coming out, and fists rained down on my body one after another.
These kids were not very strong, but they were outnumbered. Even though Gu Jinli had tried her best to resist, her biscuits were eventually snatched away from her.
When the children dispersed, she lay on the ground, panting, looking at the sky above for a long time without moving.
This world is all too real.
The stomach aching from hunger, the weak limbs, the feeling of powerlessness from being pushed and hit by the children, the breeze blowing around me and the scorching sun above me.
They all told her very clearly that all of this was real.
Is this really just an illusion on the twelfth floor?
Gu Jinli couldn't help but feel suspicious.
Did she enter a fantasy world, or did she travel through time again?
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