Does the unfinished love heart represent a love that has no ending.
"This door can no longer be opened, if we are to travel to the glass bower we can only go forward." The white-collar woman said quickly, "There's a ten-minute time limit, so hurry up."
The three of them pick up speed, and together they move quickly through the ornate corridor.
The Black Tower's side quest came too suddenly, and also gave a very short time limit. Ten minutes is a very delicate number, no one can say whether it is short or long. They didn't know where "the glass house" was. If it was far away from the corridor, of course they needed to step up their pace; if it was right outside the corridor, it was fine for them to slow down a bit and observe the environment.
But in any case, this hint from the Black Tower tells the player that there must be a way to reach the glass bower in ten minutes.
Tang Mo has been walking at the end of the group, while the white-collar woman, who has been in control of the group since the beginning, walks at the front of the group. Tang Mo runs forward, quietly observing the baby-faced young man's behavior to prevent him from "knocking on the window".
Yet all this way, the doll-faced youth didn't do anything else out of the ordinary.
The trio crosses this corridor and pushes open the door to a darkened room. Suddenly entering the darkness, Tang Mo holds the handle of Yang San's umbrella vigilantly, wary of unknown dangers in the darkness. All three of them stand still, and after two seconds, Tang Mo and the white-collar woman both take out a flashlight and turn it on.
The white-collar woman said, "It seems like a normal bedroom." She took a flashlight and illuminated every corner of this room.
It was a European-style princess room, with lace curtains and a round princess bed, and a plush carpet on the floor. A dresser was placed in the corner of the room, and three small feather fans were inserted into a crystal cylinder on the dresser, one with red feathers, one with green feathers, and one with a strange bright purple color.
After the three of them have observed the house once, Tang Mo shines his flashlight behind him.
He gave a glance, "Not the door."
The white-collar woman hurriedly looked toward him, seeing in passing the tall white closet behind the trio. She exclaimed, "Didn't we just open a door to get in?"
Tang Mo reached out and pulled on this closet, he used seventy percent of his strength, but he could not open the door of the closet. He calmly said, "I once ran into the problem of temporal chaos in a game before. Just now, we did open a small door and enter this bedroom, but now that door has disappeared and turned into this closet. Maybe in this game, one has to pay attention to space."
The white-collar woman nodded, "Good. It's been two minutes, let's hurry up and find that glass bower again."
Tang Mo followed the white woman and continued on his way. The glow of his flashlight flickered across the room, illuminating the face of the doll-faced youth. Tang Mo's eyes flickered past his face and he saw the doll-face look meaningfully at himself and flash that odd smile again.
Tang Mo continues to walk without changing his face.
Leaving this bedroom, he came to another strange tunnel. Tang Mo looked back again at the bedroom door he had just walked through and his gaze froze, "Sure enough, that door is gone too."
The white-collar woman also looked back, "There is indeed something wrong with the space of this game, but it could be because the glass bower is in a very distant location, and with our footwork, it would be impossible to get there in ten minutes under normal circumstances." That's why the game changed the space and shortened the distance.
There was a grain of truth in this deduction, and Tang Mo was about to point out the holes in it when the white woman said, "Come on, only five minutes and thirty-two seconds left."
Tang Mo froze slightly and followed.
...... This woman has such a great sense of timing.
Perhaps because of the time constraints, the three people didn't break out into any arguments or discussions along the way. When they encountered any problems, they also stated their guesses as soon as possible, and then they grasped the road.
The baby-faced young man never said a word, but just followed Tang Mo and the white-collar woman, smiling and laughing. When Tang Mo and the white-collar woman were discussing the problem, he just listened at the side as if he was very interested. However, when the two looked at him, the doll-faced youth would not give them any response, only that odd smile.
This tunnel was much longer than either of the two corridors encountered earlier.
In the dark and narrow tunnel, every ten meters, there was a small fire pit hanging on both sides of the wall. The dark flames flickered faintly on both sides of the tunnel, Tang Mo walked at the end of the group, he had been observing the small fire pots on both sides. The small black fire pots were carved with twisted curves, there were no patterns, only these strange curves.
The curves on each of the fire pans were different, as if the craftsmen had drawn them on at random as they were forged, with no pattern.
"A fire pit placed in a tunnel like this really doesn't need to be carved with any beautiful patterns, and no one will see it." Tang Mo thought secretly.
Suddenly.
"Ah! I love this!"
The loud voice echoed in the narrow tunnel, startling the white-collar woman, who turned her head, "What are you doing!"
Tang Mo was already on guard against all the moves of this doll-faced youth, and he stared coldly at the other party, only to see that the doll-face directly stretched out his hand and touched a small fire pit on the wall. The black iron fire pit was scorched by the flames, and when the doll-face covered his hand, the sound of roasting meat clearly reached Tang Mo and the white-collar woman's ears.
The doll face didn't seem to feel any heat or pain at all as he grinned and touched this fire pit, pointing at the curved pattern on it with his other hand, "Does it look like a love heart?"
Tang Mo looks over to this little fire pit.
There was a crooked curve, perhaps unintentionally, on this tiny fire pit, which, when bent, was vaguely in the shape of a love heart. Only the final stroke of this love heart was not closed, it was a love heart with a corner missing.
Dollface touched it a few times and withdrew his hand. He retracted his hand so quickly that Tang Mo noticed with a sharp eye that his hand was intact and had not been burned at all. He said with great regret, "It's a pity that the heart wasn't finished. Do you think it is hinting at this game?" Dollface suddenly turned his head to look at Tang Mo.
Tang Mo looked calm and didn't pay any attention to him.
He laughed a little and looked at the white woman again, "The unfinished love heart may represent a love that has no ending."
Female White Collar: "......"
"You're sick!"
The doll-faced youth laughed instead of being angry after being scolded. The female white collar no longer cared about him and grasped her way forward. The doll face also followed. After Tang Mo scrutinized the youth for a while, his eyes returned to the patterns of those fire pits. This time he no longer observed the curves alone, he began to pay attention to the shapes they formed.
A love heart pattern was purely coincidental, and Tang Mo never saw any similar special patterns after that. But as he looked at these intricate curves, a strange sense of familiarity crept into his mind. His eyes began to rest on these curves, unable to move away. But no matter how strong the feeling of familiarity was, Tang Mo could not figure out what it was all about.
The three of them had been walking for three minutes and hadn't left the tunnel.
It was at this moment that a strange laughter came from above the heads of the three. Tang Mo immediately gripped the small Yang San tightly, and the white-collar woman and the baby face also raised their heads and looked above their own heads. The crackling sound of burning flames echoed softly in the narrow tunnel, Tang Mo's sight kept searching at the top of this tunnel, and soon, he saw something.
"What's that?!" The white woman said in surprise as she looked further to the side, "There's another one!"
Only at the top of the tunnel, there were two tiny stone sculptures of crows hanging on either side of the wall, looking at each other. When the female white collar found the two stone statues, one of the crows actually spoke, "Charles, have you heard, the Queen has captured another underground man and thrown him into the jeweled corridor!"
"Dear Reed, what gave you the illusion that you would be better informed than your brother? I certainly know that the great Hong Tao, the Queen, has captured another dirty, smelly subterranean man and thrown him into the Queen's favorite jeweled corridor. I also know that the subterranean man has been turned into a stone statue! Just like you and me, any Underlander who can't find his way out of the corridor will be turned into a stone statue and become an ornament for Queen Hong Tao's beautiful Jeweled Castle."
The other raven gargoyle opened his mouth and said, "Dear Charles, you were just born a minute before me, please stop calling yourself a brother, it really makes me sick."
"But Reed dear, even if I turn into a raven stone statue, I've turned three seconds before you. So I will always be your brother."
"This is awful!"
The two ravens quacked together, as if they were laughing, and as if they were competing with each other as to who would caw louder. When they had cawed for a while, one of the crows said, "Dear Charles, do you think these three humans will turn into stone statues as well? How many people in this world would have managed to get out of the jeweled corridor like that little girl. I think they will definitely turn into bedbug stone statues, exactly like that big bedbug outside the castle."
Big stinkers. Big stinkers outside the castle.
Tang Mo remembered that the Big Mole had once said that there was a worm on the second floor of the Black Tower. He also remembered that the Iron Shoemaker had said that the poison used by Xing Feng was a poison unique to the big centipede on the second floor of the Black Tower.
Queen Hong Tao's Jeweled Castle is located on the second floor of the Black Tower? That's the same level as the tower he's going to attack. So for the white-collar woman and the doll-faced youth, is it also the second floor of the Black Tower that they're going to raid?
"No good, only forty-five seconds left!" The white-collar woman shouted.
Tang Mo was shocked.
Just now, when the crow stone statue suddenly spoke, all three of them stopped their steps and did not advance any further. Now that there were only a few dozen seconds left, all three of them no longer had the heart to care about others. Tang Mo stomped on the ground and ran as fast as he could towards the small wooden door at the end of the tunnel. He kicked this door open and before he could enter, a black shadow logically entered the door after he kicked it.
Then Tang Mo ran in again, followed by the white woman, who was the slowest but made it out of the tunnel.
As the three left the tunnel, a loud voice rang in the ears of the trio -
"Dingdong! Completion of Side Quest 1: Arrive at that glass bower."
"Dingdong! Triggered side quest 2: Find the Moon Flower that loves to lie."
Published at: 05/23/2024 03:00