Chapter 108 Narrating the Cage (5)
[The second stage mission goal: enter the five engine rooms, press the button, and go to the warden's room]
[The second stage mission time limit: None]
[Penalty for failure in the second phase of the mission: None]
As the system announcement sounded in due course, Li Sheng dragged his shackles out of the cell and deliberately placed a pillow at the door to prevent the door from closing. . As for the hand-polished key, it got stuck in the keyhole after completing the task of opening the door.
This is in line with the usual settings of puzzle games - things that are no longer valuable will disappear on their own for some reason, avoiding too many options and causing trouble to the attackers.
He walked around the cell and discovered that the outside space was not a regular quadrilateral, but a honeycomb-shaped hexagon. A corridor extends from every corner, and at the end of the corridor are ordinary wooden doors.
A brass door plate hangs above the door frame. From left to right, they are [Flashback], [Continuity], [Reversal], [Warden's Room], and [Misdirection]. , [Protagonist Effect]
In front of the corridor leading to the warden's room, there is a two-meter-high "Pi Shuai" vending machine, which contains chocolate bars, cola, juice drinks, potatoes, etc. Films and even shirts and pants. Everything is also of the "Pi Shuai" brand.
Above the Pishuai vending machine, there is a steel plate embedded with a large text engraved by laser engraving.
[Instructions for Prisoners]
[Dear prisoners, hello! Welcome to the Narrative Cage. To facilitate your life as a prisoner, please kindly read the following instructions]
[1. This prison uses a reality distortion engine and narrative ladder technology, which can influence people at the pataphysical level. Or even modify reality. Any serious damage to the prison itself will be reset]
[2. There is no jailor in this prison. Since many prisoners have the dual identities of "massacre criminals" and "civilized heroes", their crimes are pending trial. , the prison authorities will not restrict the prisoners’ right to wakefulness and activity. Prisoners can attempt to escape on their own by pressing the "Continuity", "Reverse" and other buttons in all engine rooms to get to the Warden's Room. But jailbreak during this process at your own risk. The prison does not bear any medical responsibility]
[3. The prison has the same time flow rate as the outside world, and will provide vital signs maintenance meals at regular intervals according to the physical condition of the prisoners]
[4. Visits are not allowed in this prison. Prisoners can regularly apply for books and newspapers from the prison as a pastime]
Li Sheng’s eyes twitched. According to the urine in the puzzle game, the single cell is just a Appetizers, these rooms are the highlight.
"Is this the curse of multi-threaded thinking?"
He muttered and rubbed his eyebrows. Some single-player script missions are tailor-made for players who are good at fighting. Players are often thrown into the battlefield and have a great time fighting.
Players who are good at reasoning are often thrown into the closed Blizzard Villa to solve puzzles.
Of course, this is limited to certain single-player scenario missions.
Most missions have multiple solutions. However, in regular missions and punishment missions, the system will treat them equally and be completely random.
Li Sheng complained like this, but he still turned around honestly and looked behind him. There are three other cells surrounding his single cell.
A total of four cells are arranged in a "field" shape. The upper left corner is his cell, and the cell door in the lower left corner is closed.
In the upper right corner is the inmate who just spoke next door, and in the lower right corner the cell door is open, and through the gap you can see a disheveled figure inside, sitting on the bedside, with his head facing the wall. corner.
‘The narrative cage that is said to contain universe-level super-ferocious prisoners only has four prisoners? Isn't this unreasonable? Or are these cells just a small part of the cage.'
Li Sheng thought, dragged his shackles, went to the upper right corner cell first, and knocked politely on the cell door, "Hello? I have already I escaped from my cell, can we talk now?"
"." There was silence in the cell for a moment, and then there was the sound of slippers stepping on the ground.
Click.
The door flap of the cell used for transporting food opened, and a figure appeared in front of Li Sheng, which made him raise his eyebrows in surprise.
It was a pink and jade-like little girl with a gray complexion, a delicate and cute face, gray waist-length hair, holding a newspaper in her hand, and wearing a dress that was several times too big for her body. The same blue and white prison uniform. The word "Gray Rain" is clearly written on the prison uniform.
"Li Sheng?"
Both parties were sizing each other up. The little lolita named Huiyu read out the name on Li Sheng's prison uniform, crossed her hands in front of her, and spoke with With a mature tone that did not match his appearance, he said in an old-fashioned manner: "Don't you call yourself the Sith Lord Darth Vader?"
"Li Sheng is my real name, and Darth Vader is my nickname, stage name, No conflict. ”
Li Sheng talked without batting an eye, "Do you need my help to pry open this door?"
"Oh, the door of this single cell is just for decoration, I can get out if I want. "Hui Yu said coldly: "You should have noticed the six corridors and the instructions for prisoners. Do you have any ideas?"
"Flashback, continuity, reversal, misdirection, protagonist effect." Li Shengnian. After reading the words on the door sign, he squinted and said, "Elements of narrative?"
After obtaining the multi-line brain method, he read a lot of strange and practical information, including but not limited to wasteland era handcrafts. Industrial equipment, artillery combat shooting, various calculations, Morse code, intelligence analysis psychology, military reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance...
In my spare time, I also read some books on history, literature, and philosophy to pass the time. .
Narrative elements are concepts in the fields of philosophy, literature, narratology, and screenwriting. To go deeper, you can pull out a long list of books, such as Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths", Roland Barthes' "Principles of Semiotics", etc.
“That’s right.”
Hui Yu nodded and said calmly, “The five engine rooms together form a narrative ladder. Every time an engine room is closed, the position around the prison will be weakened. .
You can successfully escape by closing all the engine rooms.”
The corner of Hui Yu’s mouth raised slightly, with a hint of sarcasm in his smile.
Come to think of it, this prison has written escape instructions on the wall, clearly telling the prisoners that the prison has full confidence in the safety index of the prison.
Hui Yu knew exactly what Li Sheng wanted to ask, and said first: "If you want to escape from prison, I personally suggest that you go to the inversion room first. I won't tell you what is behind the door, because every prisoner The situations we encounter are all different.
In addition, if you can bring me a bottle of freshly squeezed corn juice, I will tell you more information.”
“Corn juice? The one in the cargo plane?" Li Sheng hesitated: "Do you have to put coins in?"
"I don't care about that."
Huiyu pouted, jumped back on the bed, and continued reading the newspaper.
Obviously the appearance is very cute, but the personality is inexplicably bad. Li Sheng rubbed his eyebrows, inexplicably thinking of his cousin.
But he did take an extra look at the newspaper in Gray Feng's hand.
The news title [Unknown virus breaks out on Planet Swan B], the content is "The colonial city of Planet Swan B has recently seen a surge in seriously ill patients. Patients, including mechanical citizens, are showing symptoms such as slowness, insomnia, and joint stiffness. Sometimes metal debris is coughed up. The Health and Defense Department of the Stellar Colonization Committee claims that everything is under control, so people should not panic."
(End of this chapter)