Day of Imprisonment

Behind the stone door was a staircase leading upwards, a total of one hundred and eight steps. At the end was another door, and opening it led to this forest. But clearly, this isn't in your game room anymore, or even in Rainbow City, let alone that city.

Luo Xi's eyes gleamed. He squatted down and picked up an arrowhead from the dense grass. He touched the tip with his finger, finding it still very sharp, capable of piercing skin with a little force.

"A metal arrowhead, huh? But it's a silver arrowhead, very extravagant."

"You seem to be talking more than before," Dou Dou, who was behind him, couldn't help but say.

She knew that after passing through that stone door, she and Luo Xi had officially entered 'Fairytale Town'.

This was an extremely mysterious place, even within the 'Company'.

Once, when Dou Dou went to headquarters, she asked a 'supervisor-level' person she had a good relationship with, but she received a stern reprimand and warning.

"Don't inquire about 'Fairytale Town'; it's for your own good."

Clearly, when 'Fairytale Town' was mentioned, even that supervisor-level person, who Dou Dou considered very capable and powerful, showed a hint of fear, as if it were some forbidden topic.

But Dou Dou actually got the result she wanted.

That is, 'Fairytale Town' really existed.

She was able to become an administrator not as a result of her own efforts. Speaking of which, that's another story, related to someone. To Dou Dou, this person was both her best friend and her 'mentor', the most important person in her heart.

She had no secrets from this person, but conversely, that person seemed to have many things she didn't know.

For example, after helping her build the 'game room' scene, the other party didn't want any management rights at all, only requesting design permission for a game project in the game room.

Then he plunged in and began designing 'Journey to Fairytale Town'.

At the time, Dou Dou didn't care about this matter. She had just been promoted to a formal senior administrator and could manage a large project right away. She also had a lot of tedious work to deal with and many new things to learn and adapt to.

Leaving only a letter.

Requesting Dou Dou to close 'Journey to Fairytale Town' and use her administrative rights to completely remove this project facility.

"Simply inexplicable!"

This was Dou Dou's true reaction at the time.

She started looking for the other party, but couldn't find him.

He really seemed to have evaporated from the world.

Even later, the 'Company' sent investigators to investigate where that person had gone.

Still, there was no result.

Or, there was a result, but Dou Dou was not qualified to know.

But she was clear that the other party's disappearance must be related to 'Fairytale Town', so she did not remove the 'Journey to Fairytale Town' project, but hid and sealed it, while blocking the news and secretly investigating information about 'Fairytale Town'.

During this process, she learned that 'Fairytale Town' was actually an incredibly terrifying legend, a taboo that everyone talked about with fear.

But Dou Dou was a strange person.

She didn't care so much.

In her words, there were too many terrifying taboos within the Confined Zone, I don't want to know, and I'm too lazy to investigate.

"But I have to find my brother!"

Finally, one day, she discovered that there was another group of guys exploring 'Fairytale Town'.

Although, this group of guys was very annoying, because of them, the little fox she regarded as a 'sister' was punished by the company and fired.

But she had thought it through.

Actually, it can't be blamed on the other party.

It's just that 'Little Fox' isn't suitable for surviving in this fucked-up world, so it's better to let her return to the amnesiacs and live a life that, from her perspective, is very normal.

As an administrator, it's impossible to individually open a certain game scene, and Dou Dou couldn't possibly violate company regulations and trick unsuspecting Reminiscents into playing the 'Journey to Fairytale Town' game challenge, and even if someone had challenged it before, they couldn't complete it at all.

So, this time, it belonged to her and Luo Xi's mutual pursuit, a perfect match of absolute mortise and tenon.

Especially in her opinion, this person named 'Luo Xi' was very strong.

In other words, this guy had a good chance of cracking the game challenge designed by 'Old Brother' and entering Fairytale Town.

And the fact is, she bet right!

"Dou Dou, on the contrary, you seem to be preoccupied since entering Fairytale Town. Although I don't know what you specifically came to do, if this matter is making you so embarrassed, then it means you should turn around and go back immediately."

Luo Xi stood up and advised at this time.

"Heh, who do you think you are, trying to control me?" Dou Dou sneered, her reaction was very much like a teenager in the rebellious period.

Luo Xi shrugged indifferently, then took out his phone and looked at it. As expected, there was no signal, and the phone had become a brick.

Dou Dou then said: "I have other things to deal with, let's separate for now, but don't worry, I promised to help you with a favor, and I definitely won't go back on my word. If you have anything you want me to help with now, you can ask right away, and if you don't have it now, you can ask later when you encounter it."

Since she had entered Fairytale Town, she naturally had to act alone.

In Dou Dou's view, from the moment she stepped into Fairytale Town, Luo Xi, the 'locksmith', had lost his value.

If it hadn't been for the other party saving her from drowning, she would have left without saying goodbye long ago.

"Helping out? Actually, there is something. You're fast, take me for a spin. Uh, if we encounter danger, no need to attack, just run away. I think, with your abilities, it shouldn't be difficult to do that. Moreover, this matter doesn't violate any rules. I believe even the higher-ups at 'the Company' couldn't find fault with it."

"Just take you for a walk around here? That's simple. I agree. Once this is done, we'll be even," Dou Dou said, stretching her limbs. Then, she stepped forward, squatted down, and patted her shoulder: "Get on!"

Luo Xi climbed onto her shoulders.

It looked very strange, like a small horse pulling a big cart, or an adult riding a child's bike.

But the next moment, Dou Dou, upon standing up, unleashed the formidable strength of an Elite B-rank.

Sprinting, dashing... She was like a cheetah, charging into the forest.

Luo Xi also began to focus his attention on the surrounding environment.

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"The moon overhead is too big compared to a normal moon. Also, there are many broken corpses in the forest, some already rotting. In the distance, there seems to be a little girl singing, is that Little Red Riding Hood? It should be. So, the plot here corresponds to the carvings on the stone door. Then, where are the river and the boat?"

"This is already the third wooden house that looks exactly the same. It should be 'Grandma's house' from the Little Red Riding Hood story, but why are there so many? Does Grandma run a real estate business? If it's a trap, of course, the more the better. Also, there seems to be more than one Little Red Riding Hood. Some have golden hair, some have brown hair, some are in werewolf form. Dou Dou, run faster, be careful of being caught by that werewolf!"

"Can you shut your mouth for me?" Below him, Dou Dou was panting and running wildly.

And wouldn't you know it, she actually ran past a terrifying werewolf, leaving it far behind.

"There seems to be a river ahead, I see it. This river... is actually colored!" Luo Xi was also stunned. A strange river appeared ahead, the water looking like it was sprinkled with countless rainbow candies. Although it looked dazzling, both Luo Xi and Dou Dou could sense a deadly threat.

That was, absolutely do not touch this river water.

Looking closer, those colorful things were actually palm-sized fish.

Different colors, tens of thousands densely packed together, forming a colorful appearance.

"Colorful piranhas?" Luo Xi rubbed his hands and patted Dou Dou's shoulder: "Can you help me catch one?"

"No way. First, it might violate the rules, and second, I wouldn't dare touch that thing," Dou Dou refused directly.

Next to the river formed by the terrifying rainbow fish, there was a small pier. On the pier was a boat.

The boatman looked like a severely burned patient, wrapped in bandages, wearing a gray tuxedo, standing motionless at the bow.

Luo Xi was very bold and actually went directly to try to communicate. As a result, he found that it was surprisingly smooth. The boatman was very polite, saying that he was responsible for ferrying passengers to other places, but to board the boat, you had to pay a fare, and only according to the number on the ticket, could the passengers be safely sent to the corresponding destination.

"Tickets with numbers?" The image of the picture on the stone door appeared in Luo Xi's mind.

On the winding river, there were many pier and boat patterns, corresponding to the iconic figures of different fairy tales.

"In other words, through the river's piers, using designated number tickets, you can switch between different fairy tale story scenes, and at the end of the river, there is another door, that should be the exit of Fairy Tale Town!" Luo Xi smiled: "In other words, this is a checkpoint scene for obtaining corresponding number tickets, but specifically which number ticket will send people to what place, this needs to be explored, and how to obtain the number tickets also needs to be figured out. Not surprisingly, this is the 'Fairy Tale Town' gameplay. But so simple, how could it become a forbidden place that you can't get out of once you enter? Why is that?"

Luo Xi believed that there were many smart people in the world.

There's an old saying that goes, 'There are people beyond people, mountains beyond mountains.'

Dou Dou continued to run wildly. She was like a small human-shaped mount. Don't look at her short stature, but she was really fast when she ran.

"Isn't that enough? We've been wandering around for quite a while," Dou Dou couldn't help but say at this time.

"Stop," Luo Xi suddenly shouted at this time.

Ahead, there seemed to be a very desolate 'cemetery'.

However, having a cemetery in this forest was a very strange thing in itself.

What was even stranger was that Luo Xi saw people fighting over there.

A strong and sturdy man was fighting with two other people. It was all hand-to-hand combat, punch after punch hitting flesh. The strong man, one against two, was not at a disadvantage, and could even be said to be beating two people by himself.

Dou Dou, carrying Luo Xi, this strange combination suddenly rushed over, immediately causing the three people who were fighting to stop.

The two who were being beaten looked vigilant, staring at the little girl carrying a person. The other party's speed just now was extremely fast.

Definitely not ordinary people.

And Luo Xi's gaze was fixed on that big guy.

"Mad Lion? What are you doing here? Where are the others?" Luo Xi jumped down from Dou Dou's shoulders.

He recognized from a distance that this tall and sturdy man was Mad Lion from Liu Rong's trio of bandits, the one who single-handedly killed the guard dog.

But at this moment, Mad Lion's expression when looking at Luo Xi was very strange.

Not surprised, nor afraid, but... unfamiliar.

"You... who are you?"