The Righteous Player(s)

Chapter 144: Time and mirrors

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Delicious Wind Goose tentatively continued to walk forward.

As he walked forward... the demon and hound that appeared on the opposite side of the corridor also began to retreat back in sync.

When he was about to reach the end, they all disappeared.

But the same—

After the demon and the hound are gone.

The door in front of Delicious Wind Goose also disappeared.

It disappeared directly, turning into a wall sealed with bricks. It's the same as trying to turn around and go back in the dreams of the previous layers.

The delicious wind goose took a bold look and looked back.

In front of him was a long and deep corridor.

The hallway doesn't end with a wall... it's a door.

Like an hourglass turned upside down—

The old goose quickly reacted:

Yep, he's back where he started.

"Definitely, I'm really stuck."

The delicious wind goose couldn't help cursing: "I don't even know how to die!"

He summoned up his spirits again, and barely walked halfway forward.

After that, he simply sat on the ground again, exerted strength with his hands, and squirmed forward with his legs crossed for a while.

After confirming that this mechanism was not triggered by legs and feet, but by "distance", the old goose finally sighed, and simply squatted on the spot, leaning sideways against the wall. His legs kicked against the wall on the other side like an uncle, thinking motionlessly.

Just as he had guessed, the demons and hounds chasing after him also stopped at the same time as he stopped moving.

Annan was thoughtful.

—he had seen the puzzle.

This is similar to a certain level in a horizontal platform action game called "Braid"... In that level, the space axis and time axis of the player character are combined into one.

Even when the player character moves to the left, time goes backwards; when the player moves to the right, time goes forward. When standing still, or moving vertically, time remains stationary.

Currently, Delicious Wind Goose is the current situation.

How he talks on the spot, how his upper body moves, time is still.

But as long as he goes backwards... time will change.

He could only go forward and enter the gate.

But after he got close enough, the door would turn into a wall.

Annan was also thinking.

How can I break through...

at this time.

Something that surprised all players happened—

"I warned you, Amos! Don't use this gramophone again!"

At this moment, a melodious female voice sounded like a hallucination with many echoes.

That was Ellie's voice!

But unlike in the nightmare, her tone was neither cute nor polite.

Her voice sounded from all directions at the same time: "You don't understand its principle at all... and you don't know the price of using it! You have been seen by the eye of time lag!"

"But I have no choice, Ellie. At least the lord is far away in winter..."

"Amos" took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "But the police have already arrived... We have been found! And they are right in front of us!

"I swore I'd never use it again, but... there's always an exception."

After he finished speaking, he paused slightly.

On Amos's face, the bewildered look of a delicious goose appeared again.

"—Holy shit, how did you get into cg?"

"—Ai Lei, where are you! (shock)"

"—gramophone? Are there already gramophones in this day and age?"

"—Don't move, old goose, I want to hear Miss Alley's voice! Ah, I'm dead..."

"—Wait, Ellie was a teenager forty-five years ago, so now she's..."

"—What is the Eye of Time Lag?"

The cg dialogue with too much information caused the players to start discussing it one after another.

Annan, on the other hand, was really taken aback.

Lag eyes

Isn't that... the title of Master Michelangelo

Why can I still hear Michelangelo's name in this nightmare

Isn't this... the frozen water port of forty-five years ago

Annan suddenly paused.

Yes, time, mirrors...

This is indeed Michelangelo's handwriting!

Suddenly, he realized a problem that he had neglected for a long time...or rather, it was a problem that he had never thought about.

Master Michelangelo, did he choose Roseburg as the respawn point on purpose

Is he purely based on the symmetry of the spatial position...or did he premeditate

Just when Annan's thoughts drifted out of the dungeon, after listening to the conversation between Amos and Alley, Delicious Wind Goose was thoughtful.

"... I seem to understand Brother Moe."

As he spoke, he slowly stepped back without turning his head.

The flow of time around him advances as he approaches the midpoint; and continues to speed up as he moves away from the end.

The bullet screens laughed one after another:

"—Old Goose, are you planning to retreat backwards?"

"—sorry to interrupt (door closed)"

"—Don't think about it, the door has been sealed, no one is allowed to run today!"

"Don't make noise, watch me operate and it's over..."

Delicious Wind clicked his tongue and retreated to about one-sixth of the entire corridor.

That is, when the floor under his feet was just beginning to be covered with traces of decay.

The delicious wind goose is around here, moving forward and back several times, and the bullet screen is gradually understood:

"—are you looking for cracked floorboards?"

Seeing this line of words, the other players immediately understood.

Tasty Goose is looking for "interactive" items.

This kind of decryption space about time must have something that cannot change with time. Otherwise, it must be an infinite loop.

Well, this hallway is empty and empty of anything.

What can Delicious Wind Goose investigate

It turns out... Even if the corridor is empty, there are at least two things that can be investigated.

One is the walls.

- The second is the floor!

The floors are cracked, decayed, and crumbling.

But it didn't collapse and disappear out of thin air, but fell into the next layer.

"—From the wall on the right to the left, the third one!"

A barrage confirmed all this with a third-person perspective, and issued a reminder: "It had cracks at the beginning, but it didn't fall until the back!"

In other words...

Delicious Wind Goose can give it a try and pull out this floor. Take to mirror space and see what happens!

"Thank you brother!"

Delicious Wind Goose's eyes lit up, he lowered his head and grabbed the floor, and lifted it up.

Its sides had cracked and fallen off.

In the beginning, Delicious Wind Goose used it as a trap - it was clearly not secure and had detached. If you step on it, the old goose will definitely fall.

But here comes the problem.

Since it is not stable enough, it can be used as a trap to step on it and collapse...

Naturally, it should be able to be pulled out directly!

It's still a little firm at the tip at first.

The delicious wind goose grabbed the floor tightly with its right hand and walked a few steps forward.

It really looks like "in history", the tip is rotten and falling off.

But it didn't fall down.

Instead, it fell into the hands of Delicious Wind Goose!

"... Let me try and see if I can blow their heads off."

Delicious Wind Goose said in a low voice.

Holding the board with his right hand, he moved forward slowly.

As he stepped across the center line, the violin sounded again, and time began to turn back. The signs of decay and the demons and dogs are starting to fall back...

But when he walked to the symmetrical position to take away the "wooden board in his hand", the wooden board in his hand suddenly ignited a scorching black flame.

Before the delicious wind goose could react, it came out of its hands and landed on the ground. And branded a big hole in the ground.

The fire only burned him lightly, reducing his health to only 3%!

But Delicious Wind Goose is thoughtful.

He walked forward to the bottom and looked back.

It was found that the only board that could be removed had been regenerated.

He finally laughed.

"It's a javelin game."

He said resolutely: "If it is said that two items of the same timeline cannot appear at the same time...

"So that means, let me before that. Throw this floor out...

"Is this to make me kill those monsters

"—Or let me biu open that door?"