It was quiet in the forest with lush foliage, and only the sunlight penetrated through the gaps between the leaves and fell on the green grass.
A peasant woman wearing a dark purple cloak and carrying a basket walked past in the sunshine. She had walked a long way, she was sweating profusely, panting, and grumbling, "Damn Bai Xue..."
The squirrels foraging in the trees were disturbed by her voice and suddenly stood up straight.
She raised her head and glared at it fiercely.
The squirrel "squeaked" and ran away.
On the other side, a white rabbit wearing a small red flower received the message and jumped to tell the people in front: "It's coming, it's coming."
The man's slender hand fed it a carrot and thanked it.
In fact, they have practiced this scene countless times and gradually mastered the time and skills. This is the last and only chance to determine success or failure.
Abe's clock concept was proven early in the round. They count the disappearance and appearance of boundaries between "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Mermaid". The story of "Mermaid" was divided into five stages by them. When it completed the first stage, the boundary appeared exactly 144 times, which was the same number of times that the second hand and the hour hand overlapped. This is proven.
After having an intuitive sense of the time between the three fairy tales and being able to calculate it accurately, they will have greater confidence in passing the level.
There are still some transparent bubbles floating in the forest, floating fast and slow under the influence of the breeze, even around the small wooden house in the forest. But these bubbles had no effect on the peasant woman; she could not even see them.
The contestant who played Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother escaped another bubble and said in annoyance: "Why isn't it over yet?"
"Hush." Little Red Riding Hood shook her head at him, "It's almost time, don't make a sound."
"Boom, boom, boom."
The peasant woman knocked on the cabin door.
Time goes back to the night of the last round.
The day Abe threw out the clock theory, Ott went to the forest with her alone outside the house and asked her: "You said a word called 'formal round', does that mean you still have a preliminary round?"
His voice shuttled among the rustling leaves, and a quiet and eerie atmosphere spread.
When Abe asked everyone if they had heard the sound of the needle moving, he mentioned the word "official round" to distinguish the round that only had an ending. This word was quickly caught by Ott.
The word "formal round" already gives its message.
Because, in his concept, there is only "the first round".
"Judging from the performance of others, everyone has this round. If we exclude the possibility of mistakes by the program team-"
Abby looked at him.
"Then the one with the problem is my character."
Otto's eyebrows lowered, and an excited smile flashed across his eyes.
The sixth knock on the door.
"Who?"
The queen stood next to the window and said, "I am a passing apple seller. Would you like to buy my apples? I just picked them from the tree. They are big and sweet."
There was no echo in the room, but a shadow appeared in front of the window.
She rolled her eyes and said hurriedly: "Are you afraid that the apple is poisonous? I can eat it for you to see." As she said that, she took a bite of the green-skinned apple, but turned the bright red skin to the person in the window. .
"Apple..." The person in the window slowly approached and opened the window sash. However, during this process, the queen saw the wolf's fangs reflected in the window, "Then I will eat and see."
Grandma Wolf's fangs were completely exposed to the Queen.
"You are not Bai Xue!"
The queen screamed and ran away!
Grandma Wolf pushed open the window sash, jumped out of the window, and pounced on the Queen!
The queen tore off her cloak and ran regardless of her image. However, just before she ran into the forest, she was suddenly thrown down by Granny Wolf and bit her neck. She screamed hysterically and rolled wildly on the ground, trying to shake the wolf off her back.
Grandma Wolf was hit in the nose and said "Ouch". She couldn't bite her to death in time, but its fangs had already bitten her neck, and blood flowed out from it and flowed all over the floor.
The strength of the queen's struggle became less and less...
At this moment, a bright red apple rolled into her hand.
Little Red Riding Hood, who was originally sent to pick up apples, did not see the poisonous apple under the window. When she looked up, she happened to see the Queen using her last strength to stuff the poisonous apple into the open mouth of Grandma Wolf.
Grandma Wolf's mouth closed subconsciously, her teeth pierced into the bright red skin, and she bit off a small piece, which was unexpectedly rolled into her belly by her tongue.
After the queen died, it could not support its body and fell on the queen.
Little Red Riding Hood gasped!
The poison apple is gone, and the important props that can pass the level are gone!
The wolf and the queen are both dead, but the witch is not. The dagger made by the witch herself will never kill her.
Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother immediately cursed, “What are you doing?!”
"It wasn't me..." Little Red Riding Hood felt confused, "When I arrived, the apple was gone!"
At this time, hunter Lucas came out, "It's really not her. I did it."
It was he who kicked the apple to the queen.
Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma both looked shocked: "Lucas? Why?!"
There were more corrosive bubbles floating in the woods than before, grand and warm, as if they were warmly welcoming their failure to pass the level.
"because… "
At the end of the last round, Abe and Otto were not planning to return to the world of "Mermaid", but were planning to stay in the Forest of Little Red Riding Hood and wait for the reset and refresh.
Just when the mermaid, who had replaced her fish tail, entered the depths of the forest and was about to face death when she turned into bubbles, Lucy appeared.
The leaves he crushed disturbed Abe, causing her eyes to turn to him.
The moonlight fell, illuminating his face clearly, and he suddenly asked: "Does your leg hurt?"
"Huh?" Abe tilted his head.
"She got a pair of the most beautiful little white legs that only a girl can have, but she felt that every step she took was like walking on a sharp blade..." He folded his arms and leaned against the big tree, whispering sentences from fairy tales. . At this moment, the moonlight shone in his hair, dispelling his usual icy indifference, "You are a mermaid now, won't your legs hurt when you walk?"
Abe looked at him quietly for a moment, "Yes." She said honestly.
It will hurt, but it can be tolerated.
She was so used to it that if he hadn't said it, she wouldn't have even remembered that she felt pain in her body.
Because she didn't show anything, neither the audience nor Otto, who had been walking with her, noticed it. But for Otto, he probably didn't think the pain was a big deal.
There seemed to be some emotion surging in his eyes. After a while, his eyelids drooped, "Then next time, you can consider not turning into a human. You can leave everything on land to us to solve, and you can always stay in the sea. , maybe..."
"good."
Before he finished speaking, he got her answer.
Lucas' expression was stunned for a moment, "What did you say?"
Abe walked towards him from the grass not far away, and with every step she took, it felt like sharp ice edges were piercing the soles of her feet. It was precisely because of this pain that the Little Mermaid stayed at the beach after realizing that there was no hope, refusing to take a step away.
He also felt a stinging feeling in his heart as if he had been scratched by fragments, but he did not move and just watched her walk up to him.
"Aren't you afraid of heights anymore?" She smiled at him, "That's great."
He thought he was no longer afraid of heights, but the moment he heard these words, he felt like he was falling from a high altitude, and his heart palpitated like pain swept over him in an instant.
"You..." When he opened his mouth again, his voice was hoarse, "When did you..."
"When you gave me your coat, and when you asked me if it hurt." She tilted her head slightly. Like many moments he had seen, this action made her look innocent, as if she was in pain. She said that he was one of the few people who cared about her and was a special being.
But he knew this was just his own illusion.
She is like a hallucinogenic mushroom, with bright red skin and cute round white spots. Just looking at it from a distance will give people a psychedelic illusion.
"Should I say, thank you for remembering me?" He smiled.
She shook her head.
"Because you feel you owe me once, so you agree to my request?"
"No, I must come to the ground, unless you can trust my judgment and do one thing for me."
She turned away from the moonlight, like a little mushroom growing in the dark and moist soil, shaking the rain and dew on her body, looking pitiful and harmless. She said seriously: "As long as you believe me, I promise you."
He made a request for her benefit, but she said that she would only give up hurting herself if he fulfilled her conditions.
Are there any such unreasonable people in this world
But precisely because he clearly knew who she was, he also knew that she didn't care how much pain she had.
And he couldn't ignore it.
Do you believe it
Many images flashed through Lucy's mind at this moment.
From the rusty prison bars, to the high-rise buildings with twinkling lights, to the hanging suffocation like drowning.
"I..." His throat tightened slightly, and for a while, he seemed to be smiling to himself.
From the moment he participated in this competition again, there was no second answer.
"Why did you suddenly change your plans?"
Grandma Little Red Riding Hood looked at Lucas solemnly, "Even if you have a new plan, you should discuss it with us first."
The hunter's leather boots walked all the way to the two corpses of a man and a wolf. He leaned down and said in his voice: "It's not that I didn't tell you on purpose. But when we have two clearance plans at the same time, the only choice we can make is once."
"So you made the choice for us without permission? Do you think you are right?!"
"No." Lucas opened the big bad wolf's mouth and pulled out the poison apple from its fangs, "I just bet that her choice was right."
The big bad wolf only bit off a piece of apple peel, but did not swallow it whole. I believe no one would come to kiss it awake.
Lucas threw the poisonous apple stained with the saliva of the Big Bad Wolf to the other party, "You can also send it to "Mermaid" now."
Grandma Little Red Riding Hood knew as soon as she heard that he had reached an agreement with the "Mermaid" contestant privately, and did not foolishly ask who "she" was. He looked at the big bad wolf that had been poisoned to death, frowned and said, "Who knows if it's still useful."
But even if it didn't work, he would give it a try.
Just like what Lucas thought, people will only believe in their own judgment. Even if he tells her all his thoughts, it is difficult to say which option they will choose. This is a gamble in itself.
Although Grandma Little Red Riding Hood has been following Lucas in the semi-finals, she is also an independent anchor and has her own thoughts and will not obey his decisions unconditionally. Before he left, he also pulled Little Red Riding Hood up. Little Red Riding Hood can be said to have "made a mistake" in this action. To her audience, if she failed to hold on to the poisoned apple and was ruined by Lucy, then she failed.
She couldn't help but sigh. She didn't want to choose separately from Lucas, but who knew that after working together for so long, he had no intention of telling them his plan. Otherwise, she would support his decision. As long as she stays on her side, she won't look so passive and embarrassed right now.
A woman's intuition is sharper, and she also thinks things are not that simple.
It's a pity that she failed to join that side and did not give the audience the clues and instructions they should have. Now she has to walk on another road.
The two of them hurried to the boundary line with unknown poisonous apples, but the boundary line had not yet been opened, just in time when the two fairy tales did not overlap.
Grandma Little Red Riding Hood looked at the sun in the sky, her expression relatively stable, but the anxiety in his heart could be seen from his constant pacing back and forth.
They also have to avoid more and more corrosive bubbles in the air to prevent failure.
"Even if we go there, how are we going to get to the bottom of the sea?" Little Red Riding Hood asked.
"Fortunately, I saved something. I went to "Mermaid" and got to know one of the contestants. She is one of the mermaids." Grandma Little Red Riding Hood thought, "You can give her the apple to deal with the witch. This is a huge gain. I don’t think anyone will refuse this opportunity, which is a good opportunity to gain more views and serve as the key to clearing the game.”
A mature player will never bet on one person.
When the player named Abby told them all the information, he was surprised that there were such naive people in this game. He didn't expect that she could persuade Lucas to betray their team at the last moment.
If the person who did the manipulation wasn't exposed, he wouldn't be so careless.
Finally, after a long wait, the thick fog dissipated and the stories reunited.
His eyes lit up, and he immediately called Little Red Riding Hood and entered "The Mermaid" together. The two of them walked for a while before finally arriving at Jinsha Beach.
The deep blue night and the sea, the same color as the sea and sky, are intoxicating like a specially prepared cocktail.
Grandma Little Red Riding Hood used the method she had discussed with others before to transmit the sound through the conch, waiting for the mermaid to appear. In this minute and second, the outline of the sun's disk suddenly appeared on the horizon.
The time is almost up.
A bald mermaid emerges from the sea in this silhouette.
Grandma Little Red Riding Hood immediately gave the poisoned apple to the opponent, "Quick! This is a prop that can kill the witch. If you trick the witch into eating it, you can pass the game."
"What?" The little mermaid looked at the saliva on the poison apple with disgust.
"I don't have time to explain so much, you just do it."
The Little Mermaid's movements are still slow, and she doesn't seem to be happy about mastering the key props. At this time, Grandma Little Red Riding Hood looked at her disappearing hair and suddenly noticed something was wrong.
"Wait, you changed the dagger?"
If she wanted to kill the wolf with the poison apple, she would no longer need a dagger, since witches cannot be killed with daggers.
What is their plan
"Where's the dagger?"