Day of Imprisonment
#272 - Tinderbox
Luo Xi nodded and straightened his body.
"I'm ready!"
"Then, for the first choice, I can give you something, but you need to specify what it is. Note that your choice determines whether the following process can proceed correctly. If you choose wrong, you won't be able to truly explore Fairy Tale Town. Also, you only have one chance, so think carefully before you choose."
"What kind of game is this? If you choose wrong, you won't have another chance, but she didn't say what counts as right or wrong," Dou Dou couldn't help but whisper at this moment.
Then she thought for a moment and immediately said, "Can I participate?"
She just asked casually, but unexpectedly, the old woman nodded, "Of course, if you're willing, but you can't choose anything, you can only follow him."
"You choose," Dou Dou whispered to Luo Xi, "Don't worry, since you saved me once, I'll help you at a critical moment. I, this陪玩, will definitely do my best."
Luo Xi really wanted to say that it was easy to see through her when she lied, but after thinking about it, he decided against it.
After all, there weren't many administrators as 'naive' as her. He guessed that she was definitely a rare find in the 'company'.
But rare things are even more special.
Because a naive person like her can survive to this day, and even become the administrator of a medium to large-scale checkpoint scene, almost a supervisor, it's impossible without some skills and support.
Obviously, she wanted to go to Fairy Tale Town herself, and was just using him as a 'free ride'.
Luo Xi looked at the old woman over there.
His eyes quickly scanned her.
"But if you ask me, I think you should choose the lamp in her hand. After all, in this place, it's impossible to move without light... Or, the emerald green cat's eye ring on her finger. It looks very unusual, maybe it's a card tool," Dou Dou said to Luo Xi to choose, but still gave her own suggestion.
Luo Xi shook his head, then said to the old woman, "I choose that blue checkered apron on you!"
"..." Dou Dou was stunned. If Luo Xi hadn't said it, she probably wouldn't have noticed the blue checkered apron.
Looking closely, the apron looked ordinary and not clean, blending in with the old woman's robe, making it impossible to notice if you didn't pay attention.
The old woman on the opposite side was stunned, then smiled eerily, reaching out and taking off the blue checkered apron, "Take my blue checkered apron. And next is the second choice. There are two paths behind me, which one do you choose to take?"
After the old woman finished speaking, she stepped aside, revealing a fork in the road behind her.
A wooden sign was nailed to the ground at the fork, with the words 'Left leads to the tree hole, right leads to the dock'.
"Another inexplicable choice," Dou Dou muttered. She felt like it was a fifth-grade elementary school math test, but she was only a third-grade student.
She couldn't understand or comprehend it at all.
In her opinion, these two choices must represent two different meanings, but she didn't know, she could only guess, commonly known as blind guessing.
Luo Xi patted the dog's head and strode over, using his actions to show his choice.
He first took the blue checkered apron from the old woman, then walked to the left.
Dou Dou followed behind, while the old woman didn't speak, holding the lamp and following behind Dou Dou.
Soon, Luo Xi saw a large tree at the end of the path ahead.
This tree was very large, at least two people could hug it, and the bark was old and full of wrinkles.
The old woman stopped talking when she got here, just looking at the two of them with a gloomy face.
Luo Xi reached out and pressed the dog's head, pinching it.
Bang~
The guard dog was immediately carded.
Regardless of life or death, the guard dog was a card creature, and this would not change.
He looked back at the old woman, "So, there are no hints when you get here, but there's really no need for any hints."
Luo Xi started climbing the tree.
"Are you going up?" Dou Dou asked from behind.
"Yes!"
As soon as Luo Xi said a word, he felt himself being grabbed by a hand, as if he had suddenly boarded an upward elevator, and was pulled straight up.
Dou Dou grabbed Luo Xi with one hand, then relied on the other hand and her feet to climb to the top of the tree at an extremely fast speed.
There was a tree hole here.
Obviously, this old tree was hollow. Looking down from above, the oil lamp in the eerie old woman's hand looked extremely dim.
So she preferred to stay in spacious and bright places.
Luo Xi answered with his actions. He took the lead in drilling into the tree hole. Dou Dou rolled her eyes, feeling helpless, took a few deep breaths, and followed closely behind.
It was difficult to climb down at first, but when they actually passed through the trunk, drilled through the dense roots, and entered a cave underground, it was a little spacious, but it was only relatively spacious.
"There are bugs!" Dou Dou reminded at this time.
She found that there were many white fleshy worms the size of palms in the tree hole just now. A little further down, there were black-shelled beetles larger than palms. When they reached the roots, there were large centipedes thicker and longer than arms, and even she felt a tingling scalp.
It wasn't that she couldn't beat them, it was just purely disgusting.
But Luo Xi didn't seem to feel any discomfort. If there were bugs blocking the way, he would gently push the bugs aside like he was parting flowers and plants.
The bottom of the tree hole was not completely dark. There were bugs the size of thumbs, like fireflies, emitting a faint fluorescent light from their butts. When they reached the bottom, they stretched forward, gradually brightening, and the passage became wider, with many lights hanging on both sides.
Making it look quite bright here, and the passage was the kind that was artificially excavated.
"Did you know there was a passage here?" Dou Dou looked around, very surprised.
As the administrator of the game house, she didn't know the specific situation here. How did the other party know?
"Dou Dou, have you ever read a fairy tale called 'The Tinderbox'?" Luo Xi asked at this time.
Dou Dou thought for a moment and nodded, "I vaguely remember, but I don't remember it very clearly. It seems that the content of the fairy tale is about a soldier who met an old witch on the road, and then wait a minute, wouldn't the old woman outside just be... This, is this the scene of that fairy tale?"
Her reaction wasn't too slow.
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"Most likely," Luo Xi nodded.
"No wonder you know how to choose. Let me think about the story of The Tinderbox. It seems that the soldier was tricked into the tree hole by the old witch, and then met several dogs..." The two of them were groping forward while talking in low voices. Just as Dou Dou said here, a larger room appeared ahead.
In the center of this room was a large box, and a dog was sitting on the box. This dog was extremely strange, with eyes as big as teacups.
"Oh my god, there really is one... I remember this story, it's this one, the first dog, its eyes are as big as teacups, and the box under it is full of copper coins," Dou Dou was still talking when the big-eyed dog looked over, and a strange feeling was like a slowly rising fog, spreading quickly, but Luo Xi moved very quickly, he had already spread the blue checkered apron on the ground in advance, then walked over quickly, picked up the big-eyed dog, and put it on the blue checkered apron.
The checkered stripes on the apron seemed to emit a faint glow, and the dog instantly stopped moving. The ferocity in its original big eyes also quickly receded like a tide.
"Even without this apron, I can suppress it," Dou Dou was somewhat dismissive.
Her power was very strong. Within the Days of Confinement, almost no existence was her opponent.
So solving problems with 'force' had become a habit for her.
"You forgot what the old witch said, choosing is very important to whether you can truly explore Fairy Tale Town," Luo Xi walked over, first touched the heavy wooden box, then opened it with force.
Sure enough, the entire wooden box was full of copper coins.
There were extremely many of them.
The copper coins emitted a pleasing metallic luster under the surrounding lights.
After touching them, it could be confirmed that these copper coins all belonged to 'props' that could be carded.
"These things should be useful to you," Dou Dou was an administrator. She didn't have a card ring and wouldn't use cards.
Of course, taking away some physical copper coins was no problem.
Luo Xi grabbed a handful of copper coins, thought for a moment, and pinched them with his hand, bang bang bang~
Continuous sounds rang out, a cloud of white mist dissipated, and he had a stack of cards in his hand.
So he continued to card the copper coins.
After making about a hundred cards, he stopped, then put all these cards into his card book.
"Don't take more?" Dou Dou grabbed another handful and stuffed them into her pocket.
"That's enough," Luo Xi looked down and closed the box.
He picked up the dog and continued walking behind with the blue checkered apron.
Soon, they came to the second room.
Unsurprisingly, there was also a large box here, with a dog sitting on it, and this dog's eyes were even more exaggerated, as big as a waterwheel. From the moment she saw it, Dou Dou felt an uncontrollable fear.
She was like a frightened cat, her muscles tensed, and the hair on her body stood on end. If Luo Xi hadn't pulled her at a critical moment, she would have almost made an instinctive reaction.
In front of this big-eyed dog with huge eyes that could immediately evoke human fear, she still maintained absolute reason and calmness.
Following the same pattern, this dog was also placed on the blue checkered apron.
The dog calmed down.
"This dog is not right," Dou Dou's forehead was covered in sweat, and she could even clearly feel her frantic heartbeat, even deep breaths couldn't suppress it.
Luo Xi opened the box.
Dazzling silver.
This box was full of coins, the silver light even illuminated the originally bright room, making it even brighter, even a little dazzling.
But this time, Luo Xi just looked at it and didn't take it immediately.
"What are you waiting for? Take it. In the fairy tale 'The Tinderbox', the soldier didn't miss a single copper coin, silver coin, or gold coin later. We have to follow the plot of that story," Dou Dou smiled and picked up a coin to observe.
The patterns and prints on it, combined with the unique texture and weight of silver, could indeed make people feel happy.
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