Chapter 037: Eating Watermelon at the Ladder Apartment (3)
If everyone is still on the top floor, then when they stand on the platform and look up, they should only be able to see the rooftop.
But at this moment, Feng Xiansu saw that there were many more floors above.
They seemed to have descended twenty or thirty floors in one breath.
Looking down, it was much closer to the ground.
Zhou Songyang was afraid of heights and did not dare to walk to the railing to look up.
Although Feng Xiansu disliked her brother, she still impatiently explained to him what she had seen.
When he heard that the floor had been lowered a lot, my brother could no longer hide the joy on his face.
He said excitedly, "If walking horizontally through a room is equivalent to going down twenty or thirty floors, then we can complete the game very quickly!"
Ji Zehan looked at the innocent Zhou Songyang and said, "Although this dungeon is not difficult, it shouldn't be that simple."
Mo Qianhe started to discuss with the others: "You guys wait here, I'll go check outside a few more rooms."
Liu Tang followed Mo Qianhe's footsteps without saying a word, and the two went to the right door of the circular room together.
Returning to the first room and opening the main door opposite the window, Liu Tang and Mo Qianhe walked to the handrail to confirm that they were back to the top floor.
Looking down, you can see Pavilion Master Ji and Feng Xiansu looking up from the 20th or 30th floor.
Then go from the right door of the top floor room to the room on the right, open the main door and walk to the handrail.
Liu Tang and the other two discovered that the floor where Pavilion Master Ji and others were located appeared above them.
After testing this method in multiple consecutive rooms, they came to the conclusion:
There is no obvious pattern in the floors corresponding to adjacent rooms, and they should be randomly distributed.
Pavilion Master Ji took out the item "Infinite Marking Stickers" from the system backpack.
Others saw a stack of things similar to sticky notes in his hand.
He tore off a piece and stuck it on the railing where he was at the moment, and marked the specific plot of that floor on the sticky note: Mother Rabbit came home from shopping and found that the little rabbit was not at home.
At the same time, a notebook icon appeared in his system panel.
Clicking on the icon, it recorded the notes he had just left on the sticky note.
As long as he clicks on the annotation and selects "Highlight", he can see the sticker emitting a bright orange light in his field of vision no matter how far away he is.
Zhou Songyang saw what the man was doing, and although he was far away, he still asked curiously, "Won't this note be blown off the railing by the wind?"
Ji Zehan's expression remained unchanged, revealing no sign of his likes or dislike for the question. He simply explained in a cold, hard voice, "This is a causal prop. Once the note is affixed, it will remain on the railing no matter what happens."
Liu Tang and the other two had also rejoined the main group. After hearing Pavilion Master Ji's explanation, they praised him, "That's impressive, but making a mark takes up an item's use. Isn't that a bit of a loss?"
Before Ji Zehan could open his mouth, Mo Qianhe rushed to explain, "What's even more powerful about this item is that, as long as you're in the same instance, no matter how many times you post a note, it only counts as one use of the item."
Liu Tang exclaimed, "Wow, Boss Mo really knows a lot."
Mo Qianhe raised his eyebrows proudly and continued, "But this item is still disposable after all. There are only 50 of them in total. And once you start using it in the dungeon, regardless of whether you have used it up or not, the item will be consumed after leaving the dungeon."
"I see."
Ji Zehan was interrupted, but he didn't show much emotion.
He is used to meeting new people, and no matter how simple the questions they ask are, he will answer them rationally.
But Pavilion Master Ji wasn't a very enthusiastic person, and he didn't like to answer other people's questions endlessly. Mo Qianhe's interruption actually gave him a lot of free time.
As they explained, they walked into the room and returned to the first room on the top floor through the right door.
This is the starting point for them to come into contact with the dungeon, and everyone more or less uses it as an anchor point for exploring the dungeon.
To facilitate communication, they named this room "Rabbit House Room 0".
Everyone has confirmed the image of the room to the left of Room 0 in the Rabbit House.
Now go to the room on the right.
After closing all the doors and waiting for a while, everyone saw the door on the left being opened.
A fox wearing a beret walked into the room with Mother Rabbit on her arm.
The rabbit mother seemed to have cried until she was exhausted. There were still traces of tears on her cheeks, but her eyes were dry.
She murmured weakly in a dry voice: "Little rabbit, my little rabbit, how could it be..."
The fox uttered a gentle male voice, comforting the rabbit mother: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry. Don't worry about the rest of the matter, I will take care of it for you."
Mother Rabbit continued to murmur, "It's all my fault... It's my fault... I shouldn't have gone out..."
The fox retorted gently, "This is definitely not your fault. Don't blame yourself."
After the video ended, Grandma Du was the first to speak, sympathetically saying, "Poor rabbit, your child is gone just like that."
Her granddaughter Du Qiuyun, who was standing next to her, also sighed.
Ji Zehan analyzed coldly: "It seems that the fox is the rabbit mother's brother-in-law."
Feng Xiansu sneered: "I wonder if this brother-in-law has any inappropriate thoughts about his sister-in-law."
The Du family's grandfather and grandson both looked at Feng Xiansu with strange eyes.
In the face of such a tragedy, she still came up with those romantic speculations. This girl is a bit vicious.
Zhou Songyang's face turned unhappy when he heard his sister's words. He said softly, "Just shut up."
Feng Xiansu met the Du family's gazes and smiled, "If you knew what I went through in 'Evil Mirror Ding Ba', you wouldn't find it strange that I think this way."
The grandfather and grandson did not speak.
Ji Zehan walked calmly to the railing and marked it, seemingly having no reaction to what others said.
Liu Tang noticed the causal relationship between the fox and the rabbit mother in the video, and was not so quick to deny Feng Xiansu's guess.
The world is a huge pool of dog blood, and even if tragedy happens, it cannot change this.
There was just one thing he cared about.
The fox's brother should also be a fox.
[So...if a fox marries a rabbit, can they give birth to a rabbit?]
When Mo Qianhe heard this, his thoughts were stuck for a second or two.
Pulling back his thoughts that had been led astray by Liu Tang, Mo Qianhe analyzed the connection between the images in the three rooms: "Currently, the images playing in the rooms connected to each other on the left and right are arranged in chronological order. From left to right, the chronological order is from morning to night."
Several people echoed. The leftmost room was where the rabbit mother came home to cook and found that her child was not at home; the middle room No. 0 was where the rabbit mother learned from the kitten that the baby rabbit had drowned; the rightmost room was where the rabbit mother had already learned the news of her child's death.
It is indeed consistent with the conclusion drawn by Mo Qianhe.
Ji Zehan stood by the stair railing and said, "It's a pity that although the rooms are arranged in chronological order horizontally, the vertical floors are irregular. There is no way to find the fastest way to pass through it."
Mo Qianhe remembered that when they first met, Pavilion Master Ji deliberately mentioned his title of "Humanoid Clearance Guide" to prove that he was more suitable to be bound to Liu Tang than him.
At this moment, he said to Pavilion Master Ji in a somewhat provocative manner: "Don't you know a lot of dungeon strategies? You don't know the strategy for this dungeon?"
Ji Zehan didn't feel offended by this and simply explained, "I've seen dungeons with similar mechanics, but none with exactly the same plot. You know, players like me who have a lot of information and a high clearance score will receive 'special treatment' from the system when it comes to dungeon draws."
Mo Qianhe rolled his eyes slightly.
Of course he knew this, he was once one of the top ten players in terms of points.
Seeing everyone standing there in a daze, Feng Xiansu interrupted Mo Qianhen's unilateral "rivalry" and urged, "Stop talking nonsense. What should we do next? Should we continue to explore the rooms on the left and right to see if there are any rooms leading to the ground floor?"
Zhou Songyang thought that this way they wouldn't have to use the suspended spiral staircase outside the apartment, so he was the first to raise his hands in agreement.
Liu Tang raised a question: "Do you think that all the floors in this apartment are the same room?"
Feng Xiansu looked at Liu Tang. Ever since she went crazy, it seemed that she had ignored her fear of the dungeon boss.
So the girl asked rudely: "What do you mean?"
Pavilion Master Ji thought that he hated explaining things, and his benefactor probably wouldn't be happy about it either, so he started to explain: "What I mean is, if we keep going horizontally to the left and right rooms, no matter how many times we change, we'll always be in the rabbit's home. But this apartment might also contain the homes of other animals, and we might find images from different perspectives inside the rooms."
Feng Xiansu: "So?"
Mo Qianhe put his arm around Liu Tang's shoulders and said as they walked out, "So we have to walk outside and see if the rooms on the upper and lower floors are the same."
"Ah?" Zhou Songyang was about to cry.
When they went downstairs, Liu Tang asked Mo Qianhe curiously, "What did Pavilion Master Ji mean when he told you that you were being 'specially cared for by the system'?"
Mo Qianhe patiently replied, "You also know that after watching the live broadcast and reading the guide, clearing the dungeon will become easier. In this way, although the increase in clearance points will be smaller, it will still increase steadily."
Liu Tang nodded.
Mo Qianhe continued, "So no matter what, the vast majority of players can smoothly accumulate 10,000 points, completely complete the game, and 'gain a new life,' right?"
Liu Tang continued to nod, which was consistent with his current understanding of the "18th level of hell".
"However, there are not many players who can actually complete the game. It can be said that they are rare. Why?" Mo Qianhe asked.
Liu Tang pondered for a moment and offered a guess: "Could it be that as a player's points increase, their chances of drawing a dungeon for which they already know the strategy might decrease? If a player has been relying on strategies to clear dungeons early on, and suddenly encounters a dungeon they're completely unfamiliar with, they'll be more likely to be eliminated."
Mo Qianhe rubbed Liu Tang's head and said, "That's right. When you reach Ji Zehan's score level, the probability of drawing a dungeon with a known strategy is infinitely close to zero. He might even draw the dungeon type that is most difficult for him to deal with.
"This is what we call the system's 'special care'."
Liu Tang understood. It seems that if he wants to pass the "18th Level of Hell", he can't just rely on strategies. He must be strong enough to pass it safely.
Even Ji Zehan, who holds all the information in Wantong Pavilion and is known as the "Humanoid Clearance Guide", is no exception.
While thinking, the group quickly went downstairs through the spiral staircase outside.
Except for Zhou Songyang who went down the stairs on his butt.
Feng Xiansu squeezed past Liu Tang and the other two and was still the first to arrive.
This time she didn't wait for anyone else to open the door, but turned the handle and pushed it open herself.
When she saw the scene in the room, she hesitated slightly.
Liu Tang was the second one to arrive after her. When he saw the room, he exclaimed "Wow".
This room looks like it's underwater.
There are no boundaries in sight.
Liu Tang originally thought it should be the bottom of a lake or the sea, but there was nothing around except water, with only two doors standing on the left and right and a window floating in front.
Looking up, I couldn't see the ceiling, only the calm surface of the water.
The blue sky and white clouds shone through from above in a somewhat distorted manner, illuminating the entire bottom of the water.
Liu Tang remembered that the kitten had told the rabbit mother that the little rabbit had drowned in the reservoir, and he immediately understood: "Is this the bottom of the reservoir?"
Mo Qianhe agreed with his speculation.
Pavilion Master Ji, who was walking behind, paused slightly when he heard Liu Tang's words before continuing forward.
If someone observes him carefully, they will find that his speed has slowed down significantly.
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