Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 923: All Dead

Is it a solo operation? Qing Chen muttered: No.

Speaking of which, he turned to look at the ghost child following behind him, smiled, patted the two water ghosts hanging on his neck, one on the left and one on the right, and said with a smile, "It's not a solo operation, you guys are with me. When you're not causing trouble, you're quite cute."

Water ghost: ...

Ghost child: ...

In the dark environment, a stone-carved gecko statue, more than two people tall, was perched on a square stone base.

It lowered its head slightly, staring at Qing Chen's direction, as if when Qing Chen rushed out of the slide, it was originally looking elsewhere, but suddenly turned its head. It was chilling.

Qing Chen silently watched this gecko statue, which had appeared several times in the paradox prompts, unexpectedly appeared before his eyes. He thought it was a hidden thing that would take a lot of effort to find! Moreover, there was more than one gecko statue.

According to the 19 people who entered, if each person's entrance had one, then this maze should have at least 19 statues.

But in the totem of the first level, Qing Zhen's bio-body clearly said: There is only one gecko statue in the maze, but if you see two at the same time, please do not throw the Wishing Cards into their mouths.

"Let's see how it will protect me after throwing in the Wishing Cards," Qing Chen took out a Wishing Card and threw it into the statue's dark mouth. The next moment, the stone gecko moved. It twisted its neck, blinked its eyes slightly, and suddenly stuck out its tongue, wrapping Qing Chen's ghost child behind him in its tongue and preparing to suck it into its mouth.

So this is protection, Qing Chen nodded, and quickly grabbed the ghost child's ankle, pulling it out of the tongue. The gecko was stunned.

Qing Chen put the ghost child on the ground: "You've been very well-behaved, you're a good child, no need to feed it." Ghost child...

Qing Chen looked at the gecko: "If they are illusions, then... your tongue-sticking-out action just now was also an illusion. So, in the visitor's notice, asking everyone to find you after the sound of metal clashing is not to protect us, but to gather everyone here, making it convenient for some unknown existence to find us. Or, to make it convenient for you to find us." Qing Chen smiled again: "Of course, this is just a guess, the evidence chain is not complete."

But why did the visitor's notice and Qing Zhen's bio-body both say that there is only one gecko statue here... Is it saying that there is only one statue, and the others are living things? After saying that, he patted the ghost child's head: "Let's go, let's go in and have a look."

At this moment, he seemed to have completely fallen into chaos, but strangely, he was able to govern himself in this chaos and maintain efficient logical analysis ability. He knew all this was an illusion but still interacted with the illusion on his own. Strange. Crazy.

The next moment, Qing Chen dragged the kayak behind him with one hand, and held the paddle with the other hand, walking into the darkness inside the maze. The two water ghosts were tugging at his cheeks, and the ghost child was hopping and jumping behind him. The maze had high green walls, with thick plants densely packed together, completely obscuring what was behind the walls.

Overhead was a dense night, but there was moonlight shining down, casting shadows, causing the maze's paths to be shrouded in the shadows of the maze walls.

At this time, the ghost child suddenly stopped and looked back. The gecko statue had turned its head at some point. It no longer faced the outside of the maze, but quietly stared at the darkness inside the maze.

Qing Chen turned to the ghost child and said: "Don't get lost, keep up."

The ghost child continued to hop and jump behind him, silently opening and closing its mouth, as if singing an inaudible lullaby.

Qing Chen precisely calculated his steps after entering the maze. After walking 1000.2 meters, he retreated back to the original point. But the place that should have been the entrance had become a wall. The gecko that should have been guarding the entrance was also gone. Did the path shape change? Yes, it changed, Qing Chen said seriously. The path of this maze did change after he walked through it.

At this time, he not only thought that there might be many living things among those gecko statues, but even the maze itself might be a living thing! While pondering, a shrill scream suddenly came from a distance.

The scream pierced through layers of tree walls, then abruptly stopped. The person must have died. Qing Chen recognized it, that was one of Doggy's subordinates. Who, who killed this subordinate in the maze?

He dragged the kayak and quickly ran through the maze, but he was clearly running towards the source of the sound, but in this winding maze, he couldn't get closer to that direction. All the roads leading to that direction were dead ends.

At this moment, he suddenly turned his head and saw a figure hidden in the shadows of the wall behind him, staring at him with wide eyes! In the darkness, the other party's limbs were twisted, like a broken puppet!

Qing Chen calmly walked over, but found that a person's hands and feet were bizarrely broken, embedded in the maze wall, as if they had become part of the maze wall. There were no wounds on his body, yet he died silently.

Qing Chen recognized the person. This was the person who entered the second level alone in the Trojan Horse area. Strange, why did you die here, and who killed you? Qing Chen pondered.

There must be something killing people in this maze. Doggy's subordinate is already dead. If more people die, he won't be able to continue the game.

Qing Chen turned and continued to walk forward. When he felt something was wrong and wanted to go back to look at the corpse, he found that the corpse on the wall was no longer that person, but Doggy's subordinate! For a moment, his hair stood on end.

He had the memory palace. He couldn't possibly be wrong about what he had seen. He was very certain that the person embedded in the wall was definitely not Doggy's subordinate. But he had only walked more than ten meters and turned a corner, when he came back, he suddenly found that everything had changed.

Qing Chen slowly backed away. The terrifying feeling enveloped his heart like darkness. The ghost child on the kayak also stood up and opened its mouth towards him, revealing the sharp teeth inside. Don't make me slap you.

The ghost child closed its mouth and sat back obediently.

Qing Chen suddenly sneered. He walked forward a few steps, turned a corner, and came back. It was still Doggy's subordinate on the wall. He continued to drag the kayak deeper into the maze, walking and walking. He heard Doggy's screams. He heard other people's screams.

Counting the number, almost everyone in this maze was dead, leaving only him. Is it an illusion? It's impossible to determine.

There was no competition, no race. This maze area was like a meat grinder, with everyone being pushed into the machine one by one. But if those people were really all dead, then Qing Chen would no longer have a chance to continue the game unless he went back first and brought another group of people in. Then, Qing Chen saw Doggy and his subordinates in the walls, all absorbed into the maze itself in bizarre shapes. He finally plucked up the courage to pull away the vegetation on one of the maze walls, and saw the roots of those plants entangled with many people. "All dead!" "All dead!"

Qing Chen stood blankly in the maze. This maze seemed to have no end.

He began to run wildly, running from dawn until noon the next day. But no matter how he ran, he couldn't get out of this maze. According to his speed, even if he ran at a constant speed to conserve energy, in these 8 hours he would have run at least nearly a thousand kilometers, but the maze still had no end. The sun shone on Qing Chen's face, causing his lips to crack.

The mental pollution became more and more serious. The child on the kayak had grown into a young man in 8 hours. Qing Chen turned his head and said: "You were cuter when you were young, change back." The ghost youth turned back into a ghost child...

Does that mean that once you enter the haunted house, you will die? Qing Chen wondered: But why didn't I die? Where is my difference from Doggy and the others? Is it because I am strong, so no one dares to kill me, or did I do something different?" He thought for a long time, but got no result.

Night fell again, and the first day of entering the maze passed.

Qing Chen was too tired. Since entering the amusement park, he had been in a state of mental tension, and his brain had been running at high speed. Now he was tired. He lay down on the soft kayak and simply slept. He lay flat, gave up, If anything wants to kill me, then come on! Let's fight!

When Qing Chen woke up again, he glanced at the countdown on his arm: 112:00:00. He had actually slept for so long.

But the problem is, nothing came to kill him.

This is what Qing Chen is most worried about. It's fine if someone comes to kill him, then he can directly kill his way out. Even if he dies here, he can take someone with him. But if he is trapped to death here, it would be the most desperate and the most humiliating. Water, food. There is none here.

If he continues to be trapped, in at most two or three days, he will definitely die of thirst here. Qing Chen started to move again. He dragged the kayak and walked for an unknown distance.

The invincible memory is in trouble here, because everything here is changing, and memory is useless. "Wait."

Qing Chen gave up looking for opponents and teammates, he began to drag the kayak forward and backward again and again. Like a headless fly, he kept going back and forth among the walls of the maze. He was going to use the simplest and most brutal exhaustive method to try out all the changing ways of the maze!

The rustling sound of the kayak dragging on the ground was particularly creepy. The ghost child behind him was too tired to jump, and sat quietly in the kayak, like a child who followed the leader to the supermarket and was too tired to move, sitting in the shopping cart. Again and again, again and again. Countdown 96:00:00. Countdown 72:00:00.

Qing Chen was tired, so he threw the ghost child out of the kayak and lay down to sleep. When he woke up, he continued to walk.

"Strange, 18960 changes, even the exhaustive method doesn't work," Qing Chen cursed, "Who the hell designed this maze, the changes are too many! Come out and stand in front of me, and I'll knock your teeth out!" Countdown 48:00:00.

He lay down to sleep again, muttering in a daze: "You wouldn't set a dead end. Its secret is hidden in my memories." He began to replay all the details since he entered the amusement park over and over again. Qing Chen played over and over again, wanting to discover the secret of the maze from the previous details. Finally, all his thoughts stopped at the few sentences that were finally screened out:

"Remember, when you hear the sound of metal clashing, please leave the amusement park as soon as possible. If you fail to leave in time, please make sure you are alone before the gecko statue in the maze area, sit cross-legged, throw your Wishing Cards into its mouth, and close your eyes until the sound of metal clashing ends, it will protect you."

"There is only one gecko statue in the maze, but if you see two at the same time, please do not throw the Wishing Cards into their mouths." Qing Chen suddenly laughed, his laughter was neurotic, as if he was laughing at the ingenuity of the word game, and as if he was laughing at his own slow reaction. There is only one lizard statue in the maze. "But there are 19 here."

"Before entering the slide, the telescope had already given me enough hints, but I ignored them. The visitor's notice says there are 12 areas in the amusement park, but I only saw 10 amusement areas in the telescope. So the roller coaster area and the haunted house area are part of the amusement park, but they don't exist in the normal world." Moreover, there is fog on top of the maze, but you don't. So you are not the maze area. You are the haunted house area!

When there are more than two gecko lizards, it's the haunted house area. That Qing Zhen's bio-body, Qing Zhen.

What he really wanted to remind tourists on the Trojan horse totem was: You must distinguish which is the maze and which is the haunted house. If you encounter a haunted house, you must go to the roller coaster area on the left or right! Leave here, or you will die!

Throwing Wishing Cards to the gecko lizard in the maze area is useful, it will protect you. Throwing it to the gecko lizard in the haunted house area is useless, and it might even bring it back to life to kill you! Qing Chen knew that Ren Xiaosu once had two gecko lizards, named Dawn and Dusk.

In the previous human civilization era, one of the gecko lizards was controlled by the AI Ling, killing humans. Therefore, one represents protection, and the other represents killing.

But... before Qing Chen came in, he didn't see any roller coasters on the left or right. Roller coasters are very tall. If they were on both sides, they should be visible. If you encounter a haunted house area, you should go to the roller coaster area.

But how do you get there?