Night’s Nomenclature

Chapter 924: Roller Coaster Left and Right

After Qing Chen figured out that encountering more than one gecko sculpture meant entering the haunted house area, he gradually connected all the clues in this amusement park. Qing Chen pondered that in the amusement park, the haunted house area was the most dangerous place.

But the problem is that Ren Xiaoli, Qing Zhen, and Li Shentan set up this amusement park hoping that someone could pass the level, not hoping that everyone would die here. Therefore, now that he has entered the haunted house area, the way to leave the haunted house area must be hidden in all the information he has seen, heard, and experienced. For example:

You can't enter the roller coaster area casually, but if you do, there are two ways to leave: open your eyes or close your eyes. You can't enter the maze area during the day, but you can at night. You can't enter the water park at night, but you can during the day. This information, the amusement park has literally put it on your face. The information has been given to you!

Whether you can find it is your own problem! First, let's talk about why Qing Chen entered the haunted house instead of the maze.

There's only one explanation for why Qing Chen entered the haunted house area: The visitor's notice says, "When heading to the maze area, please ensure you are alone." So, if he were to enter the slide alone and slide the entire way, he would enter the maze area and see the unique gecko. Since 19 people entered the slide together, everyone would arrive at the haunted house area.

The answer is on the surface. The person who designed this game played word games to the extreme, hiding all the information unintentionally. So the question is: Why did the person who entered the second level alone but died in the haunted house area enter the haunted house area?

There are two possibilities. The first is that all tourists who pass the level in the correct way will unknowingly be arranged to be trapped and killed in the haunted house area. The amusement park doesn't directly kill people; it just uses game mechanics to kill people.

The second is that someone brought him here, or was there someone else in the slide when he entered? This possibility is smaller, because if he passed the level accurately, he shouldn't have reached the slide; he wouldn't be able to get past the bumper car area. Qing Chen favors the first possibility.

Secondly, why did everyone else die, but Qing Chen is fine?

Qing Shen's reminder is very clear: If you enter and can determine that there is more than one gecko here, then you have reached the haunted house area. At this time, do not throw Wishing Cards, because this is the fatal key. The geckos in the maze are responsible for protection, and the geckos in the haunted house are responsible for killing. When Qing Chen threw in the Wishing Cards, the gecko wanted to lick the ghost child beside him. But what is a ghost child? It is an existence that Qing Chen's own subconscious mind conjured up. Hypnosis is to let others hand over their subconscious to you!

If Qing Chen had allowed the gecko to eat him at that time, it would seem that the gecko had protected him, but in fact, it was the amusement park's final step in hypnotizing the tourist. Those who have their ghostly objects licked away will completely become offerings to the amusement park.

This is Li Shentan's method of inducing murder step by step, using the geckos that everyone trusts to hypnotize and kill people—it's tricky. After Qing Chen figured out these two points, his mind was no longer so relaxed. He only needs to think about two things: how to leave and how to pass the level. Let's consider how to leave first.

Just as Qing Chen thought, the information to leave must also be hidden in the past time.

Qing Chen lay in the kayak looking at the sky above the maze: "This wall isn't high; I can jump over it. Whether it's on the left or right, as long as I keep jumping, I can ignore the maze and jump out? Unfortunately, I can't fly; otherwise, it would be more convenient."

He looked at the ghost child: "What do you think?" The ghost child was dumbfounded but didn't answer the silly child.

Qing Chen stood up, carried the kayak, and leaped to the left. He saw him cross the maze wall, which was more than four meters high, and jumped to the next section. Plop, the ghost child also jumped over. When he jumped up, he looked into the distance and saw the edge of the maze! And the roller coaster beyond the edge! There's hope!

When he landed, he turned to look at Doggy, who was embedded in the maze wall with his eyes wide open: "Long time no see." He continued to jump forward.

Qing Chen is a person with a strong sense of distance, because distance is something he can completely calculate. As long as it's not pitch black and there's a reference object, it's not a problem. So he slowly discovered that he was jumping in a straight line but not getting any closer to the edge... The next moment, Qing Chen landed again and saw Doggy reappear embedded in the maze wall.

"This wasted half a day's effort," Qing Chen sighed: "I'm exhausted, and you only appear now? If you appeared earlier, I wouldn't have jumped." Now it's proven that this maze does have spatial problems, which means Qing Chen entered a strange space while jumping. Unless he can fly directly, he must find a rule of this space to get out. Maybe he can't even fly out. Countdown 24:00:00.

Qing Chen threw the kayak to the ground and lay back on it to think.

If you see the haunted house, don't enter; immediately go to the roller coaster area on the left and take the roller coaster to the exit. "The roller coaster area is not on the left side of the haunted house, but on the right side." Qing Chen sorted through it for a long time, and only these two pieces of information indicate the location of the roller coaster. But sometimes it's on the left and sometimes it's on the right; where can I reason?

Wait, this roller coaster area is the same as all the amusement areas. Will it move? Is there anything that is sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right?

If these two pieces of information are not paradoxes, it means that the roller coaster area really moves. Qing Chen lay on the kayak looking at the sky...

He suddenly turned to look at the obedient ghost child sitting beside him. Moon, sun. The ghost child nodded.

Qing Chen asked again: "Shadow?" The ghost child nodded again. Qing Chen smiled, "So good."

It wasn't that the ghost child had gained wisdom and answered Qing Chen, but that Qing Chen's own subconscious answered himself.

He was gradually unable to distinguish between reality and illusion. The only thing that kept a little bit of sanity from being polluted was because Yang Yang was still waiting for him to go back. He had to go back alive.

Qing Chen smiled and closed his eyes and slept for eight hours, until dawn when he opened his eyes. At this time, he stood up and vaguely saw that the left maze wall, under the sunlight, cast a Shadow path in the corridor.

So, this is why the amusement park's reminder sometimes says the roller coaster is on the left and sometimes says it's on the right. Because he must walk in this Shadow to avoid the influence of the chaotic spatial rules and find the path to the roller coaster area! He had been constantly enumerating, and the changes in the road were as many as 10,000, and they were not the same, precisely because he constantly crossed the boundary between the Shadow and the non-shadow area. Qing Chen laughed loudly, laughing until tears came out: "So that's how it is."

No wonder his trial-and-error method didn't work, because he passed through and encountered the Shadow during the day, but as long as he didn't keep walking in the Shadow, the space would keep changing. Qing Chen dragged the kayak and walked in the shadow. This time, he walked 300 meters forward and then retreated. Yes, the road had not changed. During this time, he confirmed that it was okay to expose his body outside the Shadow; as long as his feet were in the Shadow, the haunted house would judge that he was still walking the right path! He passed quickly, and when he encountered a break in the Shadow, he jumped over.

After walking for four hours, he turned around and suddenly found that the ghost child's eyes had changed from black to red. Qing Chen: "My mental pollution is very slight, isn't it?"

The ghost child nodded again.

If I find the real maze area in time and throw the Wishing Cards to the gecko, can I be temporarily safe? The ghost child nodded again. Qing Chen: "Understood."

If seen by outsiders, he would seem to be talking to the air. But Qing Chen knew he had gotten the answer.

He pulled at an evergreen tree on the maze wall, wanting to pull some leaves to eat and replenish some water, but this thing was part of the Forbidden Artifact and couldn't be pulled off at all. "This damn thing!" Qing Chen laughed and cried as he continued forward.

At noon, when the sun was high and the Shadow gradually disappeared from both left and right.

Qing Chen stood still until 3 p.m., when the Shadow on the right appeared and was enough for him to walk on, he stepped onto it, ending the right turn. By evening, Qing Chen stared blankly ahead. There was a 100-meter-long open road, no more maze walls, only a large roller coaster...

A clear path, the high ring outside.

He sniffed and walked out: "Grass."

For a short six days and eighteen hours, Qing Chen felt like he had experienced a century. More than that, in fact, he had experienced that 17-year dream over and over again in his mind, adding up to several centuries. "When I see Yang Yang again, I'll feel generally close," Qing Chen patted the ghost child's head. Because he has been with Yang Yang for several centuries. Let's go! Qing Chen dragged the kayak and walked out.

Walking out the door, he threw away the kayak and paddle, stretched, and let out a sigh: "Ahhhhh!" Qing Chen vented his depression unscrupulously: "Ahhhhhhh... Grass!" His voice stopped abruptly.

"It seems you were quite happy inside," someone chuckled from the opposite side.

Qing Chen looked towards the opposite side in a daze, and saw the Chen Family Demigod, Chen Yu... sitting on a green ox and flying over. The green ox was also dragging a chain, and six scrolls were stuffed in the chain on both sides. It seemed that they were searching for the secrets of this place and coincidentally met Qing Chen who had just come out.

Qing Chen:... I advise you to disappear. I don't want to slap you now.

The smile on Chen Yu's face gradually subsided: "Arrogant." The next moment, Chen Yu directly tore four scrolls! For this Chen Family Demigod, since he left the mountain, only Shendai Qianchi was qualified to make him use so many scrolls at once. Who is Shendai Qianchi?

Even if his temperament is not good, he is a Yin-Yang Master who actually controls twelve Demi-God-level Shikigami!

And now, Chen Yu is dealing with Qing Chen with such a serious attitude from the start, and these four are all flying God Women! In an instant, four Flying God Women with red ribbons floating around them flashed like thunder in front of Qing Chen.

When Chen Yu tore the scrolls, Qing Chen had already begun to retreat rapidly... At that time, he had already realized that this wasn't an illusion; this was really Chen Yu! The old boy who acted alone but died in the haunted house was with Chen Yu!

Chen Yu was already in this amusement park, arriving earlier than himself! Did he fly in? But facing a Demi-God, A-class is still only A-class.

Qing Chen retreated frantically. When the Flying God Women came in front of him, Shinkiri!

He was surging with thunder, using Shinkiri to dodge the opponent's palm to the limit, opening a distance of 30 meters.

If Qing Chen were a Demi-God of Thunder, his Shinkiri distance in reality should be farther than in the Virtual Realm because his thunder power is far more powerful than in the game. But the problem is that he is only A-class now.

A distance of 30 meters is nothing to the God Woman; it's just a matter of a flick of the finger. Another God Woman has already arrived in front of him. Shinkiri!

Qing Chen opened a distance of 60 meters in one breath, and behind him was the haunted house, but a Flying God Woman struck from the side. He forcefully raised his arms to cross in front of his mouth. With a loud bang, his radial and ulnar bones were all crushed in an instant. Qing Chen flew out.

The power of the Demi-God's paintings could not withstand this blow, even bones enhanced by Dragon Fish!

Although Qing Chen has killed Demi-Gods, those were Demi-Gods whose tendons and hamstrings had been severed by Boss He, and most of their energy had been consumed. If he faced the Silver Duke himself, the opponent could kill him in three rounds at most.

Yes, the Silver Duke's three moves would not exceed one second. It's not an exaggeration to say it's an instant kill.

At this time, another Flying God Woman had already flown over. She raised her slender arm, and in the midst of the fluttering red ribbons, she struck Qing Chen in mid-air.

Qing Chen gritted his teeth and forcefully twisted his waist in mid-air, rotating his body to avoid the blow aimed at his chest and abdomen, taking it on his shoulder, and at the cost of his shoulder bones being completely crushed, he used this blow to get closer to the haunted house maze!

Qing Chen turned into a white line, forcefully piercing the wall and falling into the shadow behind the maze wall.

The four Flying God Women flew freely in the air. They did not touch the boundary between the maze wall's shadow and reality at all; they could search for Qing Chen directly. The next moment, Qing Chen, with his arms hanging weakly, ran desperately through the maze. He frequently crossed between shadow and reality, doing everything he could to evade the pursuit of the Flying God Women. Huh?

This time, Chen Yu was surprised. He flew out of the haunted house area riding a green ox, so he didn't pay much attention to the peculiarities of the haunted house area.

For Demi-Gods, it's difficult to pass this place with intelligence. Even if they forcefully break in, they can't find the exit, so they can't actually pass the level and can't get the rewards.

They can only break in and then break out.

But for Demi-Gods, they don't have to take the usual path.

However, when Chen Yu used the Flying God Women to pursue Qing Chen, he discovered that the opponent seemed to have mastered the rules here and was selectively shuttling through the shadows, and in just three breaths, he had opened a distance of hundreds of meters from the Flying God Women! Playing hide-and-seek? Chen Yu said excitedly: "See how long you can hide."

This amusement park, I've put all the information on the surface as much as possible, so that Qing Chen and everyone don't have information differences, including the information to pass the level. Actually, understanding this amusement park, the information to pass the level is not difficult to guess. Everyone can guess and participate.

Although this kind of plot is tiring to write, it's quite fun to change my writing style from time to time.