As he spoke, Lin Huai knelt down and "observed" the chessboard opposite him.
"I have to say that after taking off the head, everything becomes more convenient." Lin Huai lifted his head, like using a searchlight, and used it to shoot at the opposite grid, "If the head is still there If it's on the neck, I might have to lie on the ground to see it... Tsk, it's so troublesome... "
"Don't make such a frightening move! Put your head back!" the puppet screamed.
Lin Huai ignored him at all. He looked at the corpse on the opposite side, and after confirming the blood-stained place on the uniform, he nodded and said: "Well, it is indeed the Chenxing uniform on the ghost I saw before... But how could it be picked up by someone? It got down and passed on the corpse of this ghost?"
Hearing this, the puppet also looked in the direction of Grid. It was obviously less interested in it than Lin Huai.
"What else? Of course, it's the intrigue and mutual calculation that you humans are best at." The puppet muttered, "Compared to this... you should think more about how to get out of here... Ha ha."
Lin Huai clicked his tongue and laughed: "But compared to this... I am more interested in another thing. For example, do you think..."
"Is this place familiar?"
Lin Huai turned her head and looked behind her. Not far away, a mass of jet-black hair lay quietly on the ground.
"Walking around for half a circle, I searched and looked deserted, and finally walked back to the original place." Lin Huai took out a note from the black wooden box and walked to the place where the black hair was, "Back to the original starting point... "
He reached out and touched the hair.
Lin Huai: ...
At the same time, he felt the hair on the top of his head falling like autumn leaves.
Lin Huai turned his head and gave the puppet a kind smile, and the puppet smiled at him with difficulty.
Lin Huai: "Huh?"
Puppet: "Will, comb your hair to look like an adult?"
Lin Huai: ...
... Ten minutes later, Lin Huai's hair grew back again. The ground was so dirty that he had to sit on the puppet with his chin resting on his fingers.
"Theoretically speaking, the black and white chessboard is a plane, but this way, I have returned to the original position." Lin Huai said to himself, "This means..."
"This shows... the entire chessboard has been connected end to end from the very beginning, and the way to escape from the chessboard is definitely not to get out of the chessboard!"
"However, we still need to verify..."
Lin Huai lowered his head, and he met the face of the puppet still under him, the puppet's face was really ugly.
Lin Huai: "bingo."
He stood up from the ground and looked up at the sky quietly. Finally, the puppet carefully crawled out from under him.
... After going out, he must use his own body to prevent Lin Huai from living or dying! !
The puppet thought through gritted teeth.
Coincidentally, according to the rules of the game, when Lin Huai solved the puzzle and was taken out of the game, it also complied with the rules of leaving and was taken out... Of course, what the puppet originally wanted to see was not what Lin Huai successfully solved. Get a way to pass the level without taking damage. What it wants to see more is that the players leave the dungeon with one life for another, um... It's a pity.
Forget it, nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in life, since this is the case, there is nothing to say. The puppet thought gloomily, when Lin Huai left the dungeon, it would be his turn...
Thinking of this, he was even more excited than Lin Huai.
The puppet waited and waited, while Lin Huai looked at the sky, but was always thinking.
Finally, the puppet couldn't help it anymore: "What are you still thinking about???"
"I'm thinking about the second cosmic speed away from the earth."
puppet:? ?
"what???"
"The ancients said that the sky is round, and the ancients looked at the ground. Because the ground is flat, they also thought that the earth is flat. In fact, it is not." A plane…”
"...instead, a checkerboard ball!!"
Puppet: ... What's going on, this believable feeling... If I didn't design this Mobius ring, I would have believed you! !
"So, I decided to run. As long as I run fast enough and add a little upward acceleration, I can fly out of this chessboard and get the ultimate relief." Lin Huai rubbed his chin and said, "Well... the basic situation is like this Now, as a red-clothed ghost, my speed should still be... "
puppet:…
"what!!"
In the distance, a woman's shrill scream suddenly came.
"Help me!! Help me!!"
"Don't kill, don't kill me!! Ugh!!!"
Lin Huai:
Lin Huai stopped calculating the escape velocity, and looked towards the direction where the scream came from: "What is this?"
Then, he heard the eerie laugh of the puppet.
"There is a person who, using the second method, has obtained the qualification to escape from the chessboard... Didn't I tell you?" The puppet shrugged at him, "If you want to leave the chessboard, you have to exchange it with something equivalent, such as..." ,
"If you want to save your own life, you have to exchange it with another life."
…
"Did there be any sound just now?" Qiu Ran asked.
"It sounded like a woman screaming."
"Do you think this is the voice of a ghost, or the voice of a player?"
Qiu Ran followed Xia Xingye with her bow on her back. Holding the measuring plate in his hand, Xia Xingye said slowly, "I don't know, this is not something we should care about right now."
His voice was still weak and pale, obviously the previous injury had exhausted most of his strength.
After shaking briefly, the pointer of the measuring disc pointed in another direction. Xia Xingye raised his chin in this direction: "Go this way."
"This is a Mobius ring. If you want to walk along the ring, it is impossible to get out. People who walk along the ring will only cycle in it for a lifetime, and continue to cycle until the moment of death." Xia Xingye said, "However, the ring itself has a slope of curvature, so I use this measuring disk as a guide to walk to the edge of the ring."
"As long as you can reach the edge of the ring, can you get out of the ring?"
"At least, it's worth trying." Xia Xingye said.
The two continued walking towards the edge of the Mobius ring. None of them are talkative people, so no one spoke along the way. Walking and walking, Qiu Ran frowned and said, "I'm still a little worried about that voice just now. I feel that she..."
"she?"
"It's not like a ghost's voice, it's like a human voice." Qiu Ran said with determination, "I seem to have heard her cry for help. And, I feel..."
"What does it feel like?"
"There is another person's voice." Qiu Ran said, "The one who killed her, I suspect, was another person."
Xia Xingye fell silent.
"Oh, then this seems to be a good thing." He said lightly, "We are walking in her direction."
Qiu Ran's face suddenly became very pale.
"Wait, the front... Isn't that the place where the incident happened?!"
Xia Xingye followed her finger to look. The place was too far away, and only archers could see it clearly. He didn't realize that large patches of blood were flowing there until he walked over.
There are even traces of battle left on the chessboard, and there is not even a single person other than that. After seeing no one, Qiu Ran breathed a sigh of relief, "It looks like that woman escaped..."
"no."
"What's not?"
"Didn't escape." Xia Xingye's face was ugly, he knelt down and confirmed the scene, "The blood has been drained, she was made into... a doll."
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he stood up decisively.
"We can't procrastinate any longer." Xia Xingye got up and said, "We have to get out of here and leave this chessboard quickly!"
His steps were faster than ever. Qiu Ran hurriedly followed him: "Puppet? What do you mean, that person's death was caused by Xiao Hui... that puppeteer?"
Xia Xingye nodded with his back to her. He said: "That man is a lunatic, we'd better never confront him."
He stopped suddenly.
Unobtrusively, he glanced behind him.
"Here we are."
"Arrived?"
Qiu Ran looked forward from behind him, and what appeared in front of their eyes was the edge of the chessboard, and below the edge, an extremely deep abyss. The abyss is bottomless, and you don't know where you will reach if you fall.
But it's definitely not a good place - just being close to here makes people feel chills all over.
"This doesn't look like a... exit?"
"The puppeteer will catch up sooner or later." Xia Xingye held the lamp and looked under the abyss. He seemed to be at the end of his battle, his face was as white as gold paper, "So..."
"So, here I am."
Sunshine's smiling voice came from behind the two, and the two turned their heads unexpectedly. A tall young man in gray clothes is coming from a distance. He tilted his head, watching them excitedly.
"Don't be so surprised, I just made a deal to exchange my body back—you know, only my body is so suitable." The young man took a breath of air intoxicatedly, then he tilted his head and looked at To two people.
He slowly grinned, revealing an innocent smile: "You two, who will come first? It's a pity that before this..."
He opened a black box first: "I have to save enough travel expenses first. It's only a few dozen steps, not too much."
"you!"
Qiu Ran stepped forward, but Xia Xingye stopped her: "Get behind me."
Qiu Ran shook her head: "No, we are teammates."
Xia Xingye said in a low voice: "He came for me. As long as he kills me, he will leave. And..."
He smiled wryly, "You don't owe me anything anymore."
The puppeteer in gray approached the two step by step, Qiu Ran took a step back, but said: "You killed your former friend to save me..."
She shook her head, but her eyes were clear: "No matter what, I can't let you die here..."
She did.
Xia Xingye turned to look at her. He looked at the girl standing behind him and sighed.
Then, he looked at her fixedly, and smiled almost perfectly: "OK."
He patted each other on the shoulder.
A smile appeared on Qiu Ran's face. She heard Xia Xingye who put his hands on her shoulders and said to her in a low voice: "When he comes over, you are here, you..."
just what
She was so absorbed that she didn't have time to hear the next sentence.
The next moment, she saw in amazement that she was already floating in the air, and what pushed her off the edge of the chessboard was a thrust, a thrust from Xia Xingye.
She watched her hair grow up, and then she was falling down.
Xia Xingye stood in the checkerboard grid with a blank expression on his face. White lights rose around him - it was the white light that confirmed that he was eligible to be sent out of the game.
One life for another, he has the qualifications to leave the chessboard.
"It seems that our cooperation is perfect." The moment Qiu Ran was pushed off the checkerboard, the puppeteer in gray showed an innocent smile again, "The rewards for the advanced stage are distributed according to the head. However, as long as we kill all the players except the two of us, we can get the most rewards-"
"This is the hidden rule of the game I told you just now."
"Yeah, so I chose to give up the internal strife and continue to cooperate." The puppeteer smiled, "Let's go, there is still a player on this chessboard! Let's go and kill him!"
Xia Xingye looked at the black abyss quietly, and suddenly, he smiled softly.
"It's really easy to gain other people's trust, isn't it?" He said softly, "It's like doing business. A half-truth in the past, a piece of clothing, and a show can make you feel like you're in business." A person who was deceived by you and who doubted you was deceived by you again...but who can blame it?"
"Those who set up the game are smart and stupid, and only those who enter the game." He whispered, "To be deceived by a mere scene is really stupid, extremely stupid—"
The puppeteer frowned at him. He spread his blood-stained hands and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? You've become a woman on the outside, and your heart has also changed? Are you going to—"
He couldn't finish his next sentence.
The next moment, he saw the gentle smile on the face of the young man wearing a black hood, completely cracked.
It's hard to describe the expression on his face now—there's nothing positive about his face, but instead it's all disgust, all disgust, all disgust.
But he—
The black cloak flashed on the edge of the chessboard, and soon, it was swept down by the abyss.
——Xia Xingye, who instinctively left the chessboard, jumped off.
—Jumped off the abyss that originally belonged to the victim.