Day of Imprisonment

According to the rules stated on the admission ticket and the terrifying legends about 'Fairytale Town' that Lin Qiqi and the others mentioned, anyone who encounters the 'Town Mayor' will receive an admission ticket.

After obtaining the admission ticket, you can directly enter 'Fairytale Town' no matter which door you open next.

This is clearly a violation of the laws of the physical world.

However, within the Day of Confinement, the so-called 'laws of physics' simply do not exist. It's not uncommon for different areas to communicate through a medium known to the public, such as 'doors'.

Many level scenarios are constructed using this method.

For example, after entering a door, you might find that the actual scenario area inside is much larger than you thought, or that the scenario inside obviously does not match the characteristics of the building where the entrance is located.

A simple example is the 'Haunted House Escape' scenario in Dou Dou's Game Room. After entering, the scenario inside is very large, completely like an ancient courtyard with corridors, gardens, halls, and rockeries.

These could not possibly be built inside a building.

Another example is the 'Haunted Building', where 'day' and 'night' scenarios alternate.

The 'door' is like a magical and bizarre link that can connect spaces in two different locations, even different dimensions, creating intercommunication.

At this moment, Luo Xi originally thought that after opening the door, he would see a gloomy and terrifying Fairytale Town, or an area that was clearly different from the alley outside the Bikini Bottom Card Shop.

But outside, it was just that alley.

"Strange!"

To confirm, Luo Xi stepped out and looked around.

It was indeed the entrance of the Bikini Bottom Card Shop. Although the sky was gloomy, there was nothing wrong.

"Could it be that there's something wrong with this door? Because it's damaged, it can't serve as a medium for connecting different areas?" Luo Xi muttered to himself. He thought for a moment, turned around, opened the door, and prepared to call Lin Qiqi and the others out to take a look.

But when he opened the door again, Luo Xi was stunned.

The Bikini Bottom Card Shop was empty, without a single person in sight.

He immediately walked into the shop and looked around.

Indeed, there was no one.

Walking to the cashier counter, Luo Xi looked at the remaining bloodstains on the table and reached out to touch them.

They weren't dry.

Liu Rong, Hyena, and Mad Lion were also gone.

Luo Xi took out his phone and dialed Lin Qiqi's number, while also taking out the 'Admission Ticket'. The phone indicated that it could not be connected, and Luo Xi also found a stamp on the back of the admission ticket that wasn't there before.

"This ticket is invalid?"

When checking it before, this admission ticket definitely did not have the 'This ticket is invalid' stamp. Luo Xi was sure of this.

Seeing the words 'invalid', even Luo Xi was stunned for a full three seconds.

"How exactly did that Town Mayor do it?" Luo Xi frowned, carefully examining the admission ticket in his hand: "Could the invisible person silently stamp 'invalid' on the admission ticket in my pocket, or directly replace the admission ticket in my pocket?"

"I've been deceived. That guy doesn't want me to go to Fairytale Town at all!"

Luo Xi was a little angry.

He was actually deceived?

Although he could recognize the lies of others, and no one could lie in front of him, the invisible Town Mayor of Fairytale Town was an exception.

Because he couldn't see the other party's expression at all, he naturally couldn't judge through eye contact and micro-expressions and other details.

Now that Lin Qiqi's phone could no longer be reached, it meant that she might have already entered 'Fairytale Town' with the others.

But Lin Qiqi and the others would not pass through the 'door' without his order, let alone open it on their own. And those three desperados, Liu Rong and Hyena, were even less likely to act rashly. So how did these several living people disappear at the same time?

"Unless, the mechanism for opening the door is not limited to people holding admission tickets, but also includes others opening any door around them, and people with admission tickets will be swept into Fairytale Town. This also explains the fact that Lin Qiqi mentioned before, that those who had obtained admission tickets in the past could not escape their fate no matter how they defended themselves."

This problem immediately became troublesome.

According to rumors, once you enter Fairytale Town, you can't get out, and you'll be trapped inside forever, even if the cycle day is reset, it's useless.

Luo Xi knew that Lin Qiqi was not simple, and definitely belonged to the first or second echelon among the Memory Retrievers.

But she wasn't him.

"Still that question, why specifically not let me go?" Luo Xi thought about this question again.

He already had some conclusions before, but now the situation was different, and he had to think of a way to enter Fairytale Town through this question.

Luo Xi pondered for a few minutes in the already dilapidated card shop, then grabbed the dead watchdog on the ground and stepped out.

When he left, he also hung the 'Closed for Business' sign on the damaged door.

"Excuse me, could I borrow a plastic bag?" Luo Xi asked the shop owner at the entrance of an alley, just as they were about to open for business. The owner initially wanted to refuse, but when he clearly saw that this person in front of him was covered in blood, with a detached gaze but possessing a chilling aura, and was carrying a dog's corpse in one hand, he decisively lent him a large plastic bag.

"Thank you!"

Luo Xi put the watchdog's corpse into the plastic bag and strode away.

The location was very close to the Sega Apartments. Luo Xi ran all the way there, went upstairs, entered an empty room, and then called Mao Ge and the others.

Before long, Mao Ge, Wu Rui, Guo Zening, Qian Pangzi, and Ke Lan, who had just 'returned from work,' entered one after another.

Luo Xi was washing his face. Blood-stained clothes were tossed on a chair next to him, and on the floor was the watchdog's corpse, still inside the plastic bag.

The owner of this house was not at home, as was the case every cycle day, so this place, including several other uninhabited rooms in the apartment building that they had already scouted, became their gathering, resting, and planning place.

"What happened?" Mao Ge knew something big had happened as soon as he saw the situation.

Wu Rui also walked over immediately, but after noticing that Luo Xi himself wasn't injured, she breathed a sigh of relief, then turned her head to look at the black Labrador in the plastic bag. Suddenly, she froze.

"Isn't this the one from the Beachtown Card Shop?"

Wu Rui had gone to Hao Xiuwen's place with Luo Xi. Although the dog was covered in blood and already dead, she could still recognize it at a glance through the collar around its neck and some other features.

"Something happened at the card shop?" Wu Rui roughly guessed what had happened. The dog was beaten to death, indicating that the enemy was very strong. One should know that ordinary Recollectors were no match for this dog.

"Things are a bit complicated." Luo Xi had already washed his face clean and wiped away the blood on his body.

He turned his head and glanced at the others: "Has anyone heard of 'Fairytale Town'?"

Mao Ge, Guo Zening, and Wu Rui all looked blank.

The few of them became Recollectors at the same time as Luo Xi. It could be said that if it weren't for following Luo Xi, they would still be struggling on the 'subsistence line.'

Some of them wouldn't even have been able to survive until now.

Naturally, they didn't know or hadn't heard of it.

But as soon as Qian Pangzi and Ke Lan heard the words 'Fairytale Town,' their expressions changed.

Clearly, they had both heard of it.

This was normal. Ke Lan was originally a very powerful Recollector in all aspects. Although he was a lone wolf before, he must have had his own intelligence gathering channels.

As for Qian Pangzi, this guy ran to places like the Time Assembly Hall whenever he had nothing to do. He knew what others knew, and he also knew what others didn't know.

Luo Xi explained the general situation.

"Regarding Fairytale Town, tell me everything you know, even if it's some information that sounds problematic or has been identified as false."

Only Qian Pangzi and Ke Lan could provide information.

The two pondered for a while and gave some information respectively.

"Big Luo, 'Fairytale Town' is an unconfirmed checkpoint scene that may or may not actually exist. I specifically inquired about it at the Time Assembly Hall before. Basically, no one has actually experienced that checkpoint scene. All the information comes from other people's accounts. But what's strange is that people who clearly said they encountered the 'Town Chief' and obtained a 'Fairytale Town Admission Ticket' have indeed disappeared. Of course, there are also some who bragged, saying they had obtained an 'Admission Ticket' and even said they had been to 'Fairytale Town,' but were later proven to be lying, it was false!"

Qian Pangzi was sharing and analyzing very seriously.

Because Lin Qiqi was missing.

Qian Pangzi thought this matter was very big and must be taken seriously. Moreover, Lin Qiqi was a member of their small group, and he was also very worried.

"But as far as I know, there are very few Recollectors who have actually disappeared because of obtaining an admission ticket, which has led a considerable number of people to believe that 'Fairytale Town' doesn't exist at all. It's just someone's fantasy, or, purely a bluffing lie."

"Facts have proven that it is not a lie." Luo Xi looked at Ke Lan, who said concisely: "I once saw information about 'Fairytale Town' in a place."

"Where?" Even Qian Pangzi was shocked. He didn't know about this at all.

"Rainbow City, Doudou Game Room. There's a game called 'Traveling Fairytale Town,' but this game has never been opened. I once asked the administrator there, and the other party said that the game hadn't been fully developed yet. But when I went again later, I found that the game's area and entrance had completely disappeared. At that time, I didn't pay much attention to it. Later, I heard rumors about 'Fairytale Town' and wondered if there was any connection between the two, but you know, exploring this kind of thing is meaningless, so I slowly forgot about it."

Ke Lan told what he knew.

He then added: "By the way, I haven't seen the Fairytale Town Admission Ticket yet, Boss. Why don't you take it out and let us feast our eyes?"

Luo Xi took out the admission ticket stamped with 'This Ticket is Void' from his pocket and handed it to Ke Lan. Qian Pangzi and the others also hurried over to take a look.

"It really is blood-red, as if it has been soaked in blood."

"There's also a fishy smell, and even the words on it are very strange."

"I didn't expect such a thing to really exist. I'm getting goosebumps."

"Wait a minute, I've seen this thing before." Suddenly, Wu Rui pointed at the admission ticket and said.