On the ninth floor of the tower, Qisi heard the sound of the waves after opening the door, and his ears were instantly filled with turbulent noises, like a pouring rain.
The sea breeze carried the salty smell of the sea and hit him. He saw himself standing on a high black tower. The top of the tower was deep into the clouds. Looking down, he could only see clusters of yellow clouds. .
Those yellow clouds sometimes gather and sometimes disperse, with different shades forming thick or thin lines, using the sky as a canvas to outline the outline of huge eyes, which are tightly closed, as if they have been trapped for an eternity. long dream.
Wangless Sea, this is Hopeless Sea, this tower is the bell tower of Hopeless Sea, the time is chimed every two hours...
Fragmented thoughts emerged from the bottom of Qisi's heart , he looked around and saw nothing but clouds around him, unable to search for the hotel and the altar. It seemed that there was only him and the bell tower where he was in the world.
This level is similar to the previous level. The player's activity area is limited to a certain place, so there are no too complicated tasks of collecting clues and solving puzzles.
Qisi looked around and saw the clock hanging in the center. The hour hand was pointing to eight o'clock at the moment.
There is no body of the bell-ringer under the clock, and the rules of this game are clearly written where the lyrics were originally engraved:
[The great Poseidon is sleeping in this quiet dream, accidentally entering Lost traveler in the dream, please leave this tower as soon as possible and do not disturb Lord Poseidon’s sleep! 】
【Lord Poseidon will open his eyes every fifty-five minutes, and close his eyes after five minutes to return to sleep. When the clock hand pointed to eight o'clock, He had just woken up from his deep sleep. 】
[Now open the iron door and climb down the steps to the tower. Please remember, never act when Lord Poseidon opens his eyes, and never let him see you! 】
These words are all refreshed on the system interface two seconds after paying attention.
Qisi glanced at the destiny pocket watch, and the hands were indeed stagnant, and the effect of time retrieval was also blocked, which was exactly the same as the situation in the copy of "Hopeless Sea".
The rules of the game tell players that this is a dream. People's perception of time in dreams is inaccurate. Although Ziss can estimate the approximate time with the help of pulse, it is not enough to make him 100% sure. .
Here, the only thing that can mark the time seems to be the clock hanging in the center that is not sure whether it is correct or not.
And Zisi clearly remembered that the copy of "Hopeless Sea" played a time trick. The clock tower's time chime was very different from the real time. The nominal day actually only had eighteen hours...
So... Do you want to continue the idea of clearing the copy of "Hopeless Sea"?
We know that the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" in the previous level is closely related to the copy of "Dialectical Game". We also examined the problem of "how to beat yourself in the game", and the final solution was to use the first mover. The advantage is to take the initiative in the game, leaving the other self with no choice.
Combined with the scene and mechanism that looked like the Hopeless Sea in front of him, he could basically judge that the various games in the Liuli Tower were closely related to the dungeons of the weird games, as if they were removed from each huge and complicated dungeon. Cut out the core corner of the branches and vines to make a collection.
Or perhaps, at the beginning of its creation, the existing dungeon was just a simple mini-game in the Glazed Tower. After subsequent gradual improvement, the world view and scenes were added on the basis of the core mechanism to construct a A colorful copy.
Is this level, as he guessed, a variation of the core mechanism of the "Hopeless Sea" copy?
The countdown in the upper left corner of the sight has stalled, guarding against any additional prompts.
Qisi stopped staying and pushed open the rusted iron door at the corner of the tower. Several narrow steps were revealed behind the door, but more steps were hidden in the shadows, with no end in sight.
He walked down the stairs, the light behind him gradually faded away, and his body was gradually filled with sticky darkness, as if the memory was brought back to the past copy, the same dark and cramped corridors, walls A skeleton was dug out...
That seemed to be a long time ago, but if you think about it carefully, it was only a month ago, which makes people feel like they are in another world.
Ziss took out a flashlight from his backpack and lit it up. Compared with when he first became an official player and matched the official pool copy, his prop reserves were much more sufficient and he would not be stretched thin.
The cold white aperture illuminates the steps clearly. Turning a few angles, you can see the clock hanging on the wall, with the hands still spinning tirelessly.
There is a clock on every floor. Time has become a part of this clock tower and cannot be separated.
While Qisi walked downstairs quickly, he paid attention to the time displayed on the clock. I wonder if it was his imagination. There were many more steps here than in the copy of "Hopeless Sea". It seemed that he could never finish it. .
Is it to test the player's physical strength, or is it something else?
The time indicated by the clock on the wall was already eight fifty-nine. According to the rules of the game, he needed to stay for five minutes at nine o'clock, waiting for Poseidon to close his eyes before continuing.
But if calculated according to the mechanism of Wuwanghai, the real time of three minutes actually corresponds to the four minutes on the clock. He only needs to stop when the clock hands point to nine-twenty.
Being inside the bell tower, surrounded by walls, he could not see the state of Poseidon's Eye outside; he could not return to the top floor, otherwise Poseidon would see him.
There is no way to judge the opening and closing of Poseidon's Eye, and naturally there is no way to verify the correctness of the two ideas. Should it stop at nine o'clock or nine twenty?
Or...just to be on the safe side, stay for a while?
...
On the other side, Liu Yuhan entered the tower after a lot of spinning. When she opened her eyes again, she saw herself standing in front of a huge clock.
She stood side by side with the clock at the highest point of the world, surrounded by thick yellow clouds. The dark and dark colors harmoniously outlined the closed eyes of Poseidon, and she didn't know when she would open them.
“Is it actually based on the copy of "Hopeless Sea" as the starting point?" Liu Yuhan squatted down next to the clock, reached out and touched the game rules engraved on the wall, slightly startled.
When Chang Xu was still in the tower, he once conveyed some information to her, telling her that the game she experienced in the Liuli Tower was related to the dungeons she had cleared in the past.
Liu Yuhan thought to herself that she had cleared dozens of dungeons. If the ones designated to enter were included, the number would even be in the hundreds.
She did not expect that the tower would accidentally select a copy of "The Hopeless Sea" - the beginning of her being enveloped by the nightmare named "Ziss".
“Activate for fifty-five minutes, stop for five minutes, until you get to the bottom of the tower... What does this game want to test? Physical strength? Time concept? Or... various crises will occur during the process of going down the tower. Disrupting the player’s plan?”
Liu Yuhan made random guesses, her brain automatically searching for information that could cope with the current situation from past experiences and knowledge reserves, and a dialogue at the end of the copy of "Hopeless Sea" was retrieved from her memory in due course. , echoing at the bottom of my mind.
——‘So, what’s the right time? ’
——'During the stipulated sleeping time, the clock tower missed three times in total, namely eleven, one and three. When converted to a twenty-four-hour clock, six hours were missing per day. In other words, what you think is a whole day is actually only eighteen hours. ’
——‘What will happen if you don’t go to sea at the specified time? ’
——‘Who knows? Maybe he will die. ’
There is a problem with the timing of the copy of "Hopeless Sea", so what about this small game designed based on "Hopeless Sea"?
Is the time shown on the clock real? Which timing method does the time in the game rules refer to?
Liu Yuhan lowered her eyes slightly, opened the iron door that was ajar in the corner of the top floor, and stepped onto the stairs going down.
......
The hour hand pointed to the Roman numeral nine. Qisi stopped where he was, and at the same time took out the [Poseidon Scepter] from the item bar and held it in his right hand.
The phantoms of marine life are suspended in the void. The sound of the tide that had gone away due to the barrier of the wall is roaring in my ears again. The moist salty smell crawls all over the ground, and slippery salt particles precipitate around the feet. .
Zis put his consciousness into Poseidon's scepter, trying to capture the connection with Poseidon, and explore the state of Poseidon.
But there was nothing inside.
Poseidon has disappeared since the copy of "Frog Hospital". The yellow Poseidon's eye outside the bell tower seems to be just a poor reproduction and a remnant of a dream.
It is like after the death of a rare creature, its bones are sliced into layers, soaked in formalin or resin, and made into specimen handicrafts for later generations to view.
A strange association quietly emerged. Qisi was amused and slightly raised the corners of his lips, but it did not cause any dangerous consequences.
It seems that the so-called [prohibited actions] in the game rules are not as strict as imagined, or... this moment is not a prohibited period in the game rules.
But, who knows?
More and more shadows are swimming around you, and fluttering seaweed and shellfish are randomly dotted in every corner of the corridor. The field of vision shows the fuzzy texture of folded plastic products, as free as gauze immersed in water. Drifting is reminiscent of the interlacing and overlapping of countless spaces. Liu Yuhan stopped at 8:59 to avoid not reacting in time and inadvertently violating the rules.
Moisture grows in the silent darkness, as if the whole person is immersed in the deep sea with the tower-like building. Once the wall is damaged, seawater will pour in and submerge the top of the head.
The inexplicable imagination made the five senses more sensitive, and Liu Yuhan had the illusion that the tide was noisy and hitting the wall one after another.
No, maybe that's not an illusion. The sound of the waves is indeed getting louder and louder, as if it comes from another overlapping space, about to penetrate the invisible barrier, break through the barriers imposed by higher dimensions, and merge into one.
At a certain moment, inspiration captured the "click" sound of broken glass, and a figure in a blue dress suddenly appeared in front of Qisi's eyes. His face was blurry like fog at first, and as the picture settled in his field of vision, it became Clear and quite familiar.
Liu Yuhan was actually teleported into this level...
The game arrangement in the Liuli Tower is obviously consistent with the player's past experience. All seemingly random experiences seem to have been planned in advance. The written program arrangement...
What kind of existence is the Colosseum?
If Qisi realized something, he narrowed his eyes.
Liu Yuhan saw Qisi holding the Poseidon scepter, and the young man in a red suit standing loosely not far away, looking directly at her with scarlet eyes under half-closed eyelids.
A picture flashed before her eyes. It was the end of the copy of "Hopeless Sea". The young man strangled her neck and held her hostage to force Chang Xu. Chang Xu took the Poseidon Scepter and handed it to the young man as promised. , the latter took the scepter and stabbed it into Chang Xu's heart with his backhand, causing blood to flow freely.
Death in a dream will not lead to real death, but who knows the mechanics of this game?
The Hopeless Sea is the home ground of Zeiss, who possesses the Poseidon Scepter. He can easily kill her, and considering her previous betrayal, he has no reason to let her go...
Liu Yuhan's body trembled slightly, but she suppressed it and pretended to look calmly into Qisi's eyes.
Chisi looked at her with interest, and after a while he suddenly laughed, showing his white teeth.
At 9:05, Qisi flipped his wrist and stabbed the Poseidon scepter at Liu Yuhan.
Liu Yuhan was well prepared, turned around and fell to the side, dodging the scepter while rolling down the steps.
The power of Poseidon's scepter spurts out from the tip, suppressing every move of all living creatures.
Liu Yuhan had no way to activate the props or make any further responses. She could only rely on gravity to hold her head and roll down, hoping to escape from the control of the Poseidon's Scepter.
Qisi held the Poseidon scepter in his hand and was not in a hurry to chase. Instead, he leisurely walked down the steps step by step.
Carried away by the sea breeze and waves along the way, the shadows of shellfish and fish float up and down, swimming lightly, but form a large transparent net that blocks the movement of living creatures within the territory.
Liu Yuhan rolled down slower and slower, and finally ran aground at a corner, and was immediately sealed under the hood of the powerful hood inside the scepter.
The suffocating air pressure enveloped her whole body, and she could no longer move any further. She could only lie half-curled up, like a dead fish washed up on the shore, staring blankly at Qiss.
Qisi stood still in front of Liu Yuhan, lowered his hand and put the sharp edge of the Poseidon scepter against the latter's heart, and smiled very softly: "If I stab you a few times with the Poseidon scepter, you might end up like Chang after you go out. Xu has more in common. "
It's this unreasonable sense of humor...
Liu Yuhan looked away and asked in a harsh voice: "You will kill me, right?"
She has calmed down and feels that there is nothing wrong with dying here.
After her death, the game coins, points, food and other resources she owns will be transferred to Chang Xu, who will have 2,500 points and two game coins.
You only need to clear one more game and choose five hundred points as a reward, then you can find the Sphinx to fulfill your wish and kill Qiss...
"I will not kill you." Qiss will give the power of Poseidon to you The staff moved downwards and stabbed into Liu Yuhan's abdomen. It penetrated her body and then sank into the hard stone slab, pinning her to the ground of the bell tower.
Blood spilled out, dyeing Liu Yuhan's dress red like red paint painted with ink, and spread out from the wound to all sides.
A few drops of blood splashed on Qisi's trousers and seeped into the red fabric. The similar color was indistinguishable.
Cold sweat broke out on Liu Yuhan's forehead, her cry of pain was suppressed in her throat, her fists clenched and unclenched, and all her movements were suppressed by the power of Poseidon's scepter, as if they were painted in gum. Insects, unable to move in their sticky bonds.
Qisi smiled calmly, slowly took out the paper knife from the toolbar, and pricked Liu Yuhan's palm.
[Name: Paper Knife for Self-Injury]
[Type: Prop]
[Effect: No matter what kind of wound is caused, the injured person will not lose consciousness , and will not really die]
[Note: Its original owner sank in great despair, but ultimately lacked the courage to achieve final relief, and could only use self-harm to release the pain]
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This is a prop he bought after coming out of "Frog Hospital". It is suspected to have a causal effect and can maintain the life and consciousness of the injured.
It doesn't matter even if it doesn't have this effect. He deliberately made the Poseidon Scepter avoid the vital point. Liu Yuhan will not die in a short time.
As for what to do if there is excessive blood loss...
Qisi took out the human skin book, tore off a piece of paper and sprinkled it on Liu Yuhan's wound.
[Name: Netherworld Yin]
[Type: Prop]
[Effect: Consume a page to transform any being into a ghost. (The duration is 60 seconds, and the number of pages is refreshed once for each copy)]
[Remarks: He is responsible for the underworld, and he is in charge of the affairs of the underworld. Whoever is said to be a ghost is a ghost. 】
Ghosts have a tenacious vitality in weird games and will not die from mere penetrating injuries.
And the time in the dream is stagnant compared to the real world. A page of ghost quotes is enough to continue to take effect until the dream world collapses, allowing Liu Yuhan to survive as a ghost most of the time.
Ziss knew that in the same team, if one person dies, resources will be pooled to his teammates, making the person who survives more difficult to deal with.
So, before killing Chang Xu, Liu Yuhan must be alive to prevent Chang Xu from accumulating three thousand points in advance after getting her points and game coins.
It would be great if Liu Yuhan's movements could be restricted. She would not be able to clear more dungeons and save more resources including points and food.
Qisi intends to keep the total points of Chang Xu’s team below 3,000, so it is imperative to use the Poseidon Scepter to imprison Liu Yuhan in this level.
Liu Yuhan was nailed to the ground by Poseidon's scepter. The wound was covered with human skin paper. After being soaked in blood, it stuck closely to the skin, exuding a slight coolness.
The severe pain stimulated the brain to secrete endorphins. Liu Yuhan felt that her consciousness became as slow as a zombie, and her body became cold, as cold as ice.
She raised her head with difficulty, and saw Qisi leaning down, with undisguised malice in his smile: "Let's rest here for a while, there are still five hours, and today's beast fighting game will be over. It’s over.
“It shouldn’t be too difficult for you, right? "(End of this chapter)