Chapter 32 The Elevator (9) [So Ah Tan has an identity in the Fairy Realm, ...]
Then Xie Tan got the clue that "it's not time yet" from the elevator and politely knocked on the door.
The fake father and mother tear off their disguises, revealing their hideous true nature and making no attempt to conceal their malice towards Alice's friends.
Then, after opening the door, she performed an epic face-changing act, changing clothes in a second.
Little Chang Mingai lay under the tablecloth, completely bewildered. She even rubbed her eyes, feeling as if she were "sleepwalking" here.
[Drink it all in one gulp! Xiao Ai reacted so quickly!]
So this is Alice in Wonderland?
[That long, flying neck is terrifying! How come you're everywhere?!]
[It's also the one that snitches!]
[The toy house is also... affected by the Happy Beans effect, it even moves its old friend!]
【It's you again, Xiao Ai? How unlucky you are! Are you also part of the main storyline's protagonist group?!】
[If I can survive this time, that's great. But who says the main characters won't die? In our Qi family, the main characters have died the most. Therefore, whether they live or die, Xiao Ai is a member of the main characters!]
【What a hell... 111111】
[It's alright, Lao Qi's forum is mostly filled with posts about burning paper money.]
[This story teaches us not to share names with fictional characters... Okay, this is just a horror story, they just used a screen name! Alice is still a fairy tale!]
It's alright, the succubus has also made her move. Who knows how funny the opening and closing of the door was...?
[Xiao Ai and I were both dumbfounded: Seriously? You guys weren't like this just now!]
[Everyone's posing, hahaha, and it's Ah Tan! What's this 'Sang Biao' thing? I don't understand. I'm just a little kitten~]
[Goblin: Encountering a succubus, unable to defeat her despite all efforts]
[Look ahead, there's another part where the fake dad says something wrong, it's hilarious!]
Xie Tan looked back and saw that the fake father had been called away by phone. They got the enlarging cookie, went outside and turned the clock, but were discovered by the fake mother. The clock fell into the wine barrel and shrank.
The fake father stood hesitantly at the door, holding his phone, while the fake mother wrapped her long neck around the boy and spoke gently. However, Xie Tan's eyes remained fixed on the toy house on the cabinet.
He seemed to be daydreaming, or perhaps deep in thought.
Only when questioned by the fake mother and father did she seem somewhat forlorn as she said, "I have no father; my mother passed away early."
But while the fake couple were secretly fighting for him, his expression in the background was too calm, as if he were watching a farce that had nothing to do with him.
Even when only a few of them are in the frame, he acts like an observer.
[This is hilarious! Xiao Ai: I'm not even going to act anymore!]
It's alright, Ah Tan started acting too, and his acting was even better.
[Is what A-Tan said true? No father, and her mother died early?]
[It's definitely fake. Ah Tan's expression was so convincing, it was just one scene. It's made up to fool people.]
[But one shot is enough. Forget the toy house, we'll even pluck the stars from your sky (creepy crawling), questioning the fake mother, understanding the fake mother, becoming the fake mother.]
[Actually, that second was quite calm, but for A-Tan, that alone was enough to make him feel desolate.]
Yes, I know it's to help Xiao Ai escape, but who wouldn't soften when they see her feigning weakness? It's good that she's willing to put in the effort for me.
[Who knows? Ah Tan seems to be the type who keeps everything bottled up inside, and I'm pretty sure he has a lot of stories to tell. This type is the best at using seemingly casual and joking conversations to tell the truth. I'm betting on it; let's see what happens next!]
Too calm? Xie Tan recalled his emotions and found that his heart was indeed calm.
Like any other time in the past, it was like still water, without a ripple.
This might disappoint some readers of the forum. He was just afraid that his acting was not good enough and that he would be seen through, so he just made up stories based on his real experiences.
Not only does he have no feelings about this fact, but isn't he also using it as a tool to avoid crisis?
It doesn't matter.
He continued looking down.
Indeed, I can smell the knife.
I still lean towards what Atan said casually, because his goal was the toy house. He kept staring at that house, which made it seem like he was doing more than just helping Xiao Ai out of trouble.
[I agree with the comment above! Did you guys see what happened next? Xiao Ai's toy figure was scary, really scary (the one peeking out and disappearing into the cabinet really frightened me), but when the elevator separated the work groups, the figure, which was originally standing a little further out, was thrown into the elevator, and when Atan got out of the elevator, he took the figure with him.]
[I'm back from the tea party in the latest episode, and Little Love has done a great job! I was wondering why we changed the dare game at the last minute, and Ah Tan actually put the note back. That note looked suspicious, it turns out the little devil had already taken it.]
Ah Tan was probably trying to avoid being scrutinized by the referee, Mouse, since it wasn't Cheshire Cat who took the note, it was "Alice."
[Yes, the minifigures are synchronized with the real person, right? They're also "Alice," aren't they? Sure enough, Ah-Tan was initially drawn to the useful toy minifigures!]
Xie Tan calmly accepted the premise that he wanted the toy figurine from the beginning and continued reading the discussion of other plot points.
[The fake dad mentioned his friend several times and even got called back home. Does he really have this friend?]
[And he kept stopping Ah Tan from helping Xiao Ai, for example, by telling her not to make friends indiscriminately, and by telling the ghosts to keep calling them as soon as they opened the floodgates. They must have a mission, but Ah Tan was just too charming.]
[The suspected mastermind broke down, causing the elevator to separate Ah-Tan and Xiao-Ai.]
[I'm back now. It's Scarface, who's the Mad Hatter here. There's a landline in his parents' bedroom at the tea party; he activated Wonderland.]
【Old Jingjing, what are you up to now! Is it "recycling" again?】
The first episode shows them being separated, with the elevator stopping on the eighteenth floor.
The next episode will open with a full view of the elevator.
But the camera pans slightly, and Chang Mingai, standing in front of the elevator, turns around warily as she hears someone crying.
She arrived at a new floor, but it was still the hallway of her apartment building.
She pushed open the door, and found her mother tied up. The dead parrot came back to life and announced, "The circling race has officially begun."
Then she entered one cycle after another.
She needs to find the right time to leave this floor and set the clock to that time so that the elevator will open.
However, the next floor was still the corridor of her apartment building, but each floor subtly echoed the locations in the original work.
The level she and Xie Tan experienced was the initial shrinking potion and the enlarging biscuit. The parrots on the next level came back to life, the corridor was flooded and turned into a sea, and the fish and shrimp that fell out of the fish tank were actually dodo birds.
On the next level, her parents were crying, the fish and birds in the room were crying, and everyone in her photos was crying, including herself in the photos, which corresponds to the pool of tears in the original work.
In this mutated fairyland, it also became the source of the two upper layers of water.
The order of the Dodo Bird and Tear Pool levels is reversed because the clock hands dropped to the next level first.
She also encountered twins, a singing flower, a caterpillar, a pepper kitchen...
Chang Mingai was stuck on this floor of the Pepper Kitchen and couldn't find the next floor.
Moreover, she brought her mother with her—the mother from the second floor, her real mother, who was also brought here.
My mother also entered this eerie place inexplicably. She said that as soon as she opened the door, she realized something was wrong and that she had been tied up with a talking flower branch by a parrot that had come back to life.
At first she thought she was dreaming, but the real pain told her that it wasn't a dream, she was seeing a ghost!
Fear belatedly surged up, but what terrified her most was seeing her daughter there too; her first instinct was to tell her to run.
How could Chang Mingai abandon her? She led her mother through one level after another, but in the Pepper Kitchen, her mother's leg was broken by the fake mother while trying to save her.
"I'm fine, don't worry." Her mother was pale and her forehead was covered in cold sweat, but she still gently stroked Chang Mingai's head. "Xiao Ai... go by yourself. I can't run for long in this state. Don't worry about me. You must get out of here."
"Don't say things like that, Mom. You watch too many TV dramas!" Chang Mingai gritted her teeth. At this moment, anger completely overwhelmed her long-standing fear.
The angrier she got, the calmer she became, and she made a decisive decision: "If I remember correctly, the next floor should be the tea party, but the Cheshire Cat who guides us hasn't shown up yet, and I don't know when we'll leave this floor... But I found out when the Red Queen plays croquet, so let's skip the tea party and go straight to the Queen's Castle!"
The fake mother on this floor, who is actually the real Duchess, chased after them again. Chang Mingai carried her mother on her back and ran towards the elevator, which opened successfully.
That's all for this episode.
In the next episode, the person who steps out of the elevator is Xie Tan.
The comic once again uses the opening and closing of the elevator to shift the perspective back to the tea party that Chang Mingai was unable to attend.
The boy followed the sound toward Chang Mingai's house. At the same time, the comic also intermittently showed a few lines of conversation between Zhu Fengliang and Xi Rui.
First, Xi Rui complained that Zhu Fengliang opened the Wonderland and ruined the travel agency's team building activities. Second, the missing clown was actually released by Xi Rui.
Xie Tan noted this information down.
In the previous episode, Chang Mingai's words also reminded him that the Cheshire Cat who was supposed to guide him had not appeared.
He didn't think Zhu Fengliang had really assigned him a role.
So where did the original Cheshire Cat go? Xie Tan thought of the white teeth in the dressing mirror again; the real Cheshire Cat was in the mirror.
Was he locked up to deliberately lure him into the trap, or was there something wrong with the mirror that forced him to be lured in?
No wonder Zhu Fengliang spoke of Chang Ming'ai with such ill intent. It turns out that both Cheshire Cats were trapped at the tea party, and Chang Ming'ai had lost an NPC who provided important clues, so of course things were difficult for her.
However, in the comics, because the camera focused on him being sprayed with fireworks, the real Cheshire Cat's fleeting smile wasn't drawn, even though the Cheshire Cat is also invisible.
He became the real Cheshire Cat.
The camera then pans to the other two people at the tea party.
[It's a loop! Although it keeps going down, it feels like there's no way out or an end. It's terrifying.]
[Xiao Ai is having such a hard time! Those damned Miller Cult, they even kidnapped Xiao Ai's mother!]
[Old Jingjing is still so eerie, my mother's legs are so painful, I can't bear to look at her, if it were me, I would fight back too]
[Xiao Ai is so cool! What a decisive leader! She skipped the level and went straight for the boss because she couldn't go to the next one!]
Where is the Cheshire Cat? Why didn't it appear?
[The Cheshire Cat went to the tea party in her place. I can't take it anymore. Scarface is really out of options. He can't let Ah Tan give Xiao Ai the green light all the way, so he just dragged her to the tea party.]
So Ah Tan has an identity in the Fairy Realm; he didn't just wander in by mistake, did he? Could he also be one of the masterminds behind it all?
[Looking back at the opening of the first episode, before the elevator even malfunctioned, Ah Tan's expression turned cold, with a strong sense of dread. This suggests that the elevator had already become a rabbit hole in Wonderland by then, and he definitely knew beforehand!]
Wow, look at that with a magnifying glass!
[To be honest, the Cheshire Cat's identity does have a bit of a guiding role, which fits the character perfectly, but Ah Tan is too overpowered and was mercilessly banned by Scarface.]
As the ribbons fell, the perspective shifted, revealing the smiling face of a strangely dressed young man, which indeed sparked a heated discussion on the forum.
[Rui Rui! Welcome back, Rui Zi! We've finally waited for you—]
So you were the one who made that clown story!
[I knew you'd be a part of the main storyline; you're the kid longtime fans have watched grow up. *wipes tears*]
When Xiao Ai mentioned the club president, I had a feeling, "It really was you! It was you all along!"
[After all, he's a brat who infiltrated the Mirror Cult, the most powerful force in the Legend of Mir 2, by courting death. He's still alive, and after his gap year at Wudang Mountain, he's even made it into the upper echelons. I'm truly relieved.]
[He's finally found a circle that suits him. Before, I thought he was just watching a brainless kid doing stupid things. But ever since he joined the Mirror Cult in the previous series, his demeanor has completely changed. Although he's still a bit unconventional, he just... has a real villainous vibe. Sometimes when I see him, I get a chill, like I've never met him before...]
I feel the same way; I'm completely a member of the cult now.
[March Hare's post is great! A naive yet crazy rabbit spouting nonsense with unwavering conviction, it's got that cult-like vibe.]
[Hiss, I have a question. Who exactly invited Ah Tan? I have a feeling it was Rui Rui. That "Welcome to join" was a tacit understanding.]
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