Lin Huai woke up from the ruins, and there was still a fishy and sweet smell in his mouth. The moment he opened his eyes, he coughed forcefully—and coughed up the foreign object in his mouth.
A hidden blue key.
"You have obtained the key of the Lazy Witch," the system's icy voice sounded in his mind, "The shackles of the Lazy Witch have been released, please leave the Sleeping City before dark."
He sat up from the cold stone bricks, and behind him was the sky-long twilight and a ruined wall—a ruined wall completely different from the gorgeous city-state he had seen in his dream. On the ruined wall, there are many dark thorns growing. They have extremely sharp ends, which look like densely packed spinning cones.
Lin Huai looked at the key in his hand, and hooked the corner of his mouth.
He was right.
Behind the broken wall in the distance came the sound of something being slowly dragged on the ground. Without looking back, Lin Huai picked up the key and stood up slowly.
"Dreams, Sleeping Beauty and True Love's Kiss... very interesting copy." He turned his back to the voices and said.
"In the story of Sleeping Beauty, who was cursed to sleep forever when her fingers touched the spindle, until the prince overcame the thorns and awakened her with the kiss of true love—well, to understand this copy, first, you need Knowing enough about this story constitutes the core of this dungeon. The puzzles set by each witch related to the Seven Deadly Sins are closely connected with the story in the core."
"Just as in the copy of 'Gluttony', it is my own stomach that will eventually kill me, in the copy of 'Laziness', it is my dreams that will kill me. From the moment I entered the city of dreams, I have already I fell into my own dream, and from that moment on, Chu Tianshu, who was walking beside me, changed into a 'person', and became something in the dream, and everything I saw and heard was false Yes. The two Chu Tianshus kept deceiving me, tempting me to take the spinning awl—it is also the curse in fairy tales and the killer move in dungeons; the little girl in white dress is playing tricks, Keep telling me everything is a lie—even so, she is still the only reminder in this dungeon. Since all external things are false, what is the only credible thing?" Lin Huai said slowly, "-It's me."
"Myself, I am the only way out in this dungeon, in this dream. This is also the first reminder in the dream—be careful of everyone in the dream. Everyone in the dream is not worthy of being trusted."
"The second ultimate move in the dream is those houses. If I guess correctly, the black shadows contained in the houses are the fears imagined in the player's heart. Generally speaking, when ordinary players enter such a When they are in a city-state, they will constantly guess what is in the house-the greatest fear of human beings comes from the unknown, and the unknown breeds greater fear."
"So, when I stood in front of the house and thought about what was inside, the silent interior of the house began to move—the power of the things inside took shape with my imagination. The more I feared something, the more What will appear more, I guess, if it is not because the little girl appeared at that moment, as I continue to guess the monsters in the room, the details of the monsters will be more perfect. In the end, the monsters I imagined will be Break through the door and kill me the way I fantasize—only I know what is the deadliest way in a fight."
"What finally made me understand this was the lighting up of the entire city in the end—as the night fell, the ability of dreams reached its peak, and at that moment I realized that the person who should be truly feared in this copy is myself, is I created the whole dream by myself, and I am always observing myself, and will eventually kill myself with my own fantasy. Therefore..." Lin Huai showed a happy smile, "When I see the windows of the whole city, there are I lost my own... When I was lying on the windowpane and watching my own figure, I knew that I was right."
—Therefore, when Lin Huai saw his own black shadow all over the city, Lin Huai's trembling did not only come from trembling!
—It was the shock and excitement that confirmed my own thoughts.
"In this dream, everything except myself is meaningless and a blindfold. I am fear, I am death, and I am life. I am fantasizing, and I am fantasizing itself."
"Therefore, now that you know that the ultimate life door comes from yourself, it is not so difficult to understand what you should do in the end, which is to put the key into your own mouth." Lin Huai continued, "In the original In the story, what awakens the princess is the kiss of true love from the prince, but unfortunately... ”
"My prince, in the dream, was fake." Lin Huai smiled, "This is the initial reminder, tsk... Fortunately, I cut it down in advance, if it is still alive, I might end up in the Meng chose to kiss him in the end instead of kissing the key."
"Since the prince does not exist, the only thing left as a means of survival is the concept of 'true love kiss'. And kisses, that is, lips, are the life gate in this game. A person may not truly love others, but The only one who can be sure of true love must be myself. So after getting the key, the first thing I did was to kiss it—with my own lips. As I said before, the hint I experienced in the game, in the dream Here, other than myself, other existences are meaningless."
"If you directly touch the key in the dream with your fingers, you may die too—in that dream, all the keys will turn into spinning cones the moment they are touched? Therefore, it is possible to break the curse of the dream, Just my own lips."
"Am I right? Lazy witch?"
In the setting sun, Little Red Riding Hood in a wine-red cloak looks back. There was a pleasant smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she was ready to face the lazy witch.
Then…
Lin Huai: ...
He lowered his head slowly, and saw the hand of a puppet that seemed to have just struggled out of the ruined wall.
Lin Huai:?
Wait, wait, I finally finished pretending, as the ultimate big boss, shouldn't you show up with a smile and hold a red wine to applaud me? It's so rare that I moved my brain and said such a handsome line... The corners of Lin Huai's mouth twitched, her eyebrows twitched uncontrollably, you...
Holding the ax and the key, he walked step by step towards the twitching hand of the puppet, and then...
He saw the hand twitch hard twice in the air, and then stopped.
"Ah," came a lazy and slightly sighing voice, "this puppet is still not the real body, forget it."
Lin Huai looked up, and a tall and tall beauty in a hunting suit came from the setting sun. Twilight gilded the ponytail tied behind her head with a layer of soft gold, and the two strands of curly hair hanging by her ears were playful and cold.
Lin Huai:?
He looked at the long-legged Chu Tianshu, then at the ruined walls, and then remembered the beautiful city-state when he just entered the Dreamland City...
Lin Huai: ... What did you do while I was asleep
"Yo," after seeing Little Red Riding Hood behind Ruan Yuan, the beauty in hunting suit whistled and waved to him, "Are you awake? Have you got the key?"
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "You fell asleep as soon as you entered the city. I have no choice but to find the witch by myself. There are too many houses here, and it's a bit troublesome to find one of them, so..."
...so you bombarded the whole city
Lin Huai shook the key in his hand and looked at him with vacant eyes: "Why aren't you asleep?"
Chu Tianshu said: "Maybe it's because programmers are better at staying up late."
… Hearing this reply, Lin Huai, who was quietly holding the axe, relaxed his fingers slightly.
The reply flavor of this sand sculpture is undoubtedly his boyfriend.
Chu Tianshu came over, looked at the puppet girl drawn out on the ground, and knelt down on one knee to observe: "Different from the big mosquito that was gluttonous, this lazy witch seems to be playing with dolls. On the surface, they are all puppets controlled by her. This is just hidden in the castle. I chased it for a long time, and it kept sticking out the wire to stab me... "
Lin Huai: "...and then?"
Chu Tianshu: "I have no choice but to pass a high-voltage electricity to her."
Lin Huai: "..."
Chu Tianshu: "It seems to be a bit burnt out now. I guess the lazy witch who is pulling the other side of her thread is also burned out."
As he spoke, he lowered his body and turned over the twitching and out-of-function puppet with a wooden stick. After a long time, he said: "I feel that the quality is not bad, first pick it up in the package, and maybe you can sell it for money after taking it back."
Lin Huai: ...
OK, this taste of poverty. He was even more sure that this person was his boyfriend than before.
With a big wave of his hand, Chu Tianshu put the doll into his package. Lin Huai looked up at him, and after a while he felt a little uncomfortable again.
This is what Chu Tianshu saw when he recovered the last ball joint—Little Red Riding Hood who was standing by and watching him suddenly ran away. Little Red Riding Hood walked to the other side of the ruined wall, she seemed to observe the height of the ruined wall, and then climbed... jumped up very lightly.
Chu Tianshu:
He watched Lin Huai walking towards him on the ruined wall many times in one fell swoop, and finally gained a higher geographical location than him. Then, Lin Huai looked down at him.
Chu Tianshu: ...
"Let's go, this witch's scourge... It's over, and there are no props or buildings left in the city." Chu Tianshu scratched his head, and he shook his ponytail unaccustomedly, "Let's go to the next city Go? I just found a ticket for the Witch of Envy."
Lin Huai: "You cost me a chance to act aggressive."