Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 917: The Hack and Slash Game

"Can I not ride the carousel? I want to watch you guys play." A middle-aged man said fearfully, "I feel like this carousel is very dangerous."

Some hesitated to get on the carousel, but Doggy's men forcefully pushed them onto it.

Of the thirty-nine people, Doggy brought seven exceptionally strong men, firmly controlling the situation.

After sitting on the carousel, Qing Chen discovered that the patterns on each horse weren't all the same; every other horse had a different color.

The horse he sat on had thunder patterns on its hooves. The horse in front of him had cloud patterns, and the horse to his right in the inner circle also had cloud patterns.

The cloud-patterned horses and the thunder-patterned horses were interspersed, as if dividing the riders into two camps.

Qing Chen looked around and saw that Doggy and his men were all riding cloud-patterned horses...

Moreover, Doggy's men shoved the tourists onto the cloud-patterned horses. All the tourists were pushed onto the cloud-patterned horses, leaving only three new tourists who were pushed onto the thunder-patterned horses by mistake. This wasn't a coincidence; the other party knew the solution to the first level, so they also knew what would happen here, and thus chose the same pattern.

Qing Chen silently got off his horse and switched to a cloud-patterned one.

Doggy glanced at him but didn't speak. When all three tourists were on the thunder-patterned horses,

A girl's youthful voice rang out from the carousel:

"The conditions for the level to start have been met. Everyone ready? Let's begin!" Click, click.

With the clear sound of gears turning, it seemed like machinery inside the carousel was constantly meshing.

At that moment, the horse's head on the carousel opened, revealing a knife handle.

Qing Chen grabbed it and pulled, and with a clang, a Hu-style curved knife was drawn from the horse's body.

The veteran tourists watched coldly, while the new tourists held their knives, unsure of what to do.

Qing Chen understood. This level wasn't about riding the carousel, it was about mounted combat!

The cloud-patterned and thunder-patterned horses were divided into two camps, until one side was completely wiped out! Ding-ding-ding, a clear melody played. A neon sign outside the carousel suddenly lit up, displaying a countdown: 4:59, 4:58, 4:57... a 5-minute time limit.

A group of adults sat on the black and red horses, helpless and waiting. Suddenly, a large mouth full of fangs split open from the back of each horse, ready to devour the riders. A new tourist exclaimed, "What's wrong with this horse? Is it going to eat me?" Click, the footrests under everyone's feet suddenly locked, trapping their feet and immobilizing them. "Brother Doggy, what do we do?" A new tourist cried.

Doggy coldly said, "Shut up and close your eyes. Wait." Slowly, the carousel's rotation speed increased, like a speeding train.

Qing Chen understood. The entire amusement park, strictly speaking, with its twelve levels, was a large-scale escape room. The people on the carousel...

Something must be done to prevent everyone from dying within five minutes! Many people fearfully closed their eyes, waiting for Doggy to solve the puzzle.

As is known to all, the townspeople knew how to solve the first level. This was the reason for their survival outside Forbidden Zone 001.

The town's formation was due to someone who solved the first level. He discovered that by easily clearing the first level each time, he could freely collect strange plants and animals in the outer area.

Thus, relying on his knowledge of clearing the first level, he called together a group of Wilderness Hunters from the Inner World black market to live here. Therefore, before departure, the town didn't tell the tourists the rules; they only said, "Just wait for us to clear it."

Qing Chen didn't close his eyes. Instead, he looked around.

At the entrance to the carousel level, there was a stone jar of about 4000ml capacity, clean and empty, but its purpose was unknown.

Elsewhere, only two fire extinguishers, a trash can, and a guest suggestion box remained. There was nothing else usable.

He looked again at the totem in the center of the carousel. If each level was an escape room game, then the solution must be somewhere in this amusement park.

When the carousel started to spin, the totem seemed to move too.

At first, the images on the totem were incoherent and meaningless.

But when the carousel reached its maximum speed, Qing Chen suddenly found that the images had become coherent.

He was waiting to see, but found that the scene before him was gradually blurring, and his consciousness sank into an unknown realm. Qing Chen was now standing beside that ginkgo tree, very much like the one they had seen in the Forbidden Zone when they arrived.

He watched two people lighting a fire in the distance. The fat man laughed, "What's so good about being the Head of the Qingshi Clan? It's not as carefree as we are now!" The handsome young man in the middle glanced at the fat man, "Why don't I give you the position of Head of the Qingshi Clan? Stop being sarcastic."

Qing Chen froze.

He had seen this handsome young man countless times... Qing Zhen, the ancestor of the Qing Family.

In the silver pendant of the Shadow Gate, in the internal history of the Qing Family, and in the history of the Inner World, this young man had become an indelible part.

Moreover, when he saw Qing Zhen, it was as if he was seeing his own shadow in a mirror. No wonder Old Shen said they were so alike.

Qing Chen also had to admit that among the Qing Family bloodline, he was the one most like Qing Zhen.

These three people sat under the ginkgo tree without looking at Qing Chen once, as if he didn't exist.

Strange, did this totem bring him into a memory? Was this real or fictional? At this moment, a young man with gold-rimmed glasses came over carrying a string of fish, "I caught some fish from the river. There's a dark cove there, and the fish are big and fat, but it's pitch-black inside, and I haven't dared to go down and see what's there. I already brought the drinks, just waiting for your fish!" The fat man said with a smile.

The next moment, a young man who looked exactly like Qing Zhen ran over from a distance, smiling, "Sorry I'm late."

Qing Chen was stunned. How could there be someone who looked exactly like Qing Zhen? Wait, this is Qing Zhen's bio-clone, Qing Shen! Just like the current Puppeteer Zong Cheng, who is actually just a bio-clone of the original Zong Cheng. Bio-clones are cloned by the Kindling Company.

"Have you figured out the rules?" The fat man asked.

Qing Chen's heart tightened. The totem actually gave a direct hint: the rule. The third brother pondered for a moment, then suddenly looked at Qing Chen: "There's only one gecko statue in the maze, but if you see two at the same time, please don't throw Wishing Cards into their mouths."

Qing Chen frowned. This contradicted the previous instruction: after the blacksmithing sound, immediately go to the maze area and throw Wishing Cards into the gecko statue's mouth. No, this should be considered a progressive supplementary rule.

Could it be that another gecko statue will appear out of nowhere in the maze?

What would happen if you threw Wishing Cards into two gecko statues? Qing Chen felt that not all the rules of the amusement park were necessarily true, and even the tourist information written on the ginkgo tree might contain traps.

At this time, Doggy's voice was heard from the outside: "Attack!" Then came shouts and screams. Qing Chen saw Doggy's men, taking advantage of the carousel's rotation, swinging their knives at the new tourists on the thunder-patterned horses! The carousel spun at high speed, the inner and outer horses passing each other. Doggy's men took advantage of the moment of intersection to swing their knives at the tourists. The new tourists wailed:

"Help! Why are you killing me?"

The three new tourists on the thunder-patterned horses hadn't even realized that they had been assigned to the opposing camp. This was also why Doggy and his men didn't explain the rules to the new tourists from the beginning.

From observations, the carousel must have at least three people in each camp to start.

Some new tourists were doomed to be sacrifices in this hack-and-slash game from the beginning.

When the three new tourists were dead, Doggy's face was already splattered with blood, looking particularly ferocious. He looked at everyone,

Whether veteran or new tourists:

"This had to be done."

Qing Chen frowned. If this violent method of killing was how to pass the level, then the Federation army would have passed it long ago, and it wouldn't have been left to these townspeople to pick up the scraps.

So, this violent method of passing the level must have a problem; it must have side effects. Wait, aren't there a bunch of people with side effects in the town? The carousel slowly stopped. Click, the stirrups under everyone's feet unlocked, and everyone eagerly escaped the carousel, gasping for breath in shock.

Qing Chen looked at the three tourists lying on the carousel, blood flowing, and thought to himself. Doggy looked at him and said, "Don't look. People die for money, birds die for food. They died on the road to making money. It's a worthy death."

Qing Chen shook his head, "It's different. They only know that they can make money here, but you didn't warn them about the dangers here, instead, you tricked them in to kill them."

Doggy looked at him and coldly smiled, "You're pretty smart, you discovered the clues early on, otherwise, you would have been one of them. How about it? Smart people can follow us to make big money."

Qing Chen suddenly smiled, "Okay, let's make big money."

At this time, a clear, pleasant female voice came from the carousel's pillar:

"The rafting area is one person per kayak. But if someone suddenly appears behind you, please immediately paddle the kayak ashore and exit the amusement park the same way, and don't look back."

Doggy pointed to the totem on the pillar, "You saw it too, right?

"Yes," Qing Chen nodded.

Doggy coldly smiled, "Don't think you're the only smart one. We've all seen this totem, and we've all heard that sentence."

"But it's useless. Let's go, let's get out, let's go pick things up in the woods."

At this moment, Doggy had the intention of recruiting Qing Chen, and his tone softened. The work mode of these townspeople was to come here, kill three people, obtain the qualification to survive in the Forbidden Zone, and then go to collect things.

If they directly collected things, they would violate the rules and be killed by the creatures in the Forbidden Zone.

Qing Chen scanned his surroundings.

This carousel area had only two doors, one leading to the second level, the rafting area, and the other was the entrance they came from.

The gate to the rafting area was lit, but they couldn't go out from there; they could only return the way they came.

Qing Chen looked towards the gate, but saw that the gate was already closed, and there was no way to go out.

Doggy and his men carried the bodies off the carousel, cut their throats, and put the blood into the stone jar at the entrance. Qing Chen was startled. To exit the level, it was necessary to fill the 4000ml stone jar with blood.

However, at this moment, a tourist suddenly came to the entrance of the rafting area, and taking advantage of Doggy's distraction, lowered his head, scanned his iris, and quickly slipped into the passage!

Qing Chen watched the tourist's back disappear at the end, and heard Doggy sneer, "Looking for death, don't learn from him, you won't survive."

As soon as he finished speaking, a large group of people came outside the gate, none other than the newly arrived Buddha Master. Wang Tou and Er Hu were covered in blood and held in the hands of the Buddha Master's men, while Gou Sheng followed the Buddha Master safely. The Buddha Master touched his bald head and smiled, "Do you want to come out? Don't rush out, everyone come in and play together!"

Doggy's heart sank. The Buddha Master was going to forcibly explore Forbidden Zone 001!