Day of Imprisonment

"This corpse is very strange."

"Indeed, although it's rotted beyond recognition, you can tell it's a child. The skull and tibia are the easiest to distinguish. Also, there's a tattered little cloak. Uh, this should be an original 'Little Red Riding Hood'."

"Am I to understand that this is a Little Red Riding Hood who hasn't turned into a werewolf yet? Not a Scavenger infected by a werewolf bite, but the real Little Red Riding Hood?"

"That's right!" Luo Xi nodded, holding a skull covered in dirt, with small insects crawling in the soil when you looked closely.

But Luo Xi didn't seem to mind at all.

"This area might yield new discoveries." An Zhiyan also tossed the already broken and filthy little cloak onto the ground.

This thing no longer had any value.

Twenty meters away, Mad Lion was on guard, wielding the [Bloodstained Iron Hammer]. The power this thing unleashed in his hands was clearly greater than in Luo Xi's.

Based on the principle of making the best use of everything, Luo Xi gave the weapon to Mad Lion.

Having obtained tickets number 1 and 2, Luo Xi and An Zhiyan didn't immediately board the ship, but planned to continue exploring.

As the 'first level' of Fairytale Town, figuring out exactly how many types of tickets there are here is meaningful for predicting the entire Fairytale Town route. So, while it's a bit of a hassle, what needs to be done must be done.

And it can't be done half-heartedly.

"So, that means in each area, there's actually a real Little Red Riding Hood, except some turn into werewolves, and some die unexpectedly, like this one..."

"Are you saying you plan to capture a real Little Red Riding Hood who hasn't turned into a werewolf?"

"I have that intention." Luo Xi nodded, but he quickly remembered something and looked at An Zhiyan: "By the way, what about Hao Xiuwen? Have you seen him?"

"The owner of that card shop?" An Zhiyan shook her head: "I went out with Lin Qiqi at the time. He was still in the shop. Maybe he came out too, but he wasn't with us. After all, he was injured, and in this forest, we've found more than one 'wooden door'. This means that there's more than one passage into the first level of Fairytale Town. If the doors open at different times, we might enter other areas."

Luo Xi nodded.

He regarded Hao Xiuwen as a friend.

So, if possible, he would definitely take care of him, preferably taking him out unscathed.

Immediately afterward, Luo Xi took out a card and activated it.

It was the [Undead Watchdog].

Bang~

After a burst of strange smoke, the watchdog appeared.

The dog instantly became nervous, not only because of the strange and dangerous environment around it, but also because the dog saw Mad Lion.

Bared teeth, low growls, attack mode!

"This dog looks a bit familiar." Mad Lion didn't seem to care about the dog's hostility at all, just scratching his head in confusion.

Luo Xi pulled the watchdog aside, squatted down, and muttered something while hugging the dog's head.

It's unknown what he said, and it's even more unknown how the dog understood his words.

In short, after that, the watchdog's hostility towards Mad Lion lessened a lot.

At least it wouldn't be the kind of hostility that would make it pounce and tear at any moment.

"If there's Hao Xiuwen's scent, can you take us to find him?" Luo Xi patted the dog's head.

The watchdog looked around, wiggled its nose, sniffing here and there.

Afterward, it seemed to have really found something, barked twice at Luo Xi, and then ran forward.

"Search for people first?" Considering it from the perspective of profit and efficiency, An Zhiyan believed that finding Hao Xiuwen was a completely losing proposition.

They had already spent too much time in the first level scene of "Little Red Riding Hood."

Although it's unknown whether the time here is synchronized with the outside world, from the time they entered here until now, more than half a day has already passed, which means that if the time is synchronized, half of a single cycle day has already passed.

If the cycle day ends, certain changes may occur here.

For example, all Fairytale Town players might have a portion of their memories plundered without their knowledge.

This is very possible.

Although none of the hunters had mentioned this situation before, both Luo Xi and An Zhiyan believed that at the end of a cycle day, certain changes would definitely occur in Fairytale Town.

Precisely because no one remembers, the possibility of being silently plundered of memories exists instead, and the possibility of it existing is very high.

"Hao Xiuwen isn't as simple as you think."

This was Luo Xi's answer to An Zhiyan's question.

An Zhiyan fell silent.

Whether this sentence was true or false didn't matter; what mattered was that Luo Xi used this sentence to tell her that he held the leadership of the small team.

You, An girl, are not allowed to question.

The dog ran wildly ahead, sometimes stopping, then circling around, sniffing here and there, then immediately running again, possibly changing direction, but this further indicated that the dog wasn't running randomly.

It was a very powerful tracker.

It was the 'Grandma's Cottage' in this area.

"There's no light in the house," An Zhiyan glanced at it, preparing to go forward to investigate first.

She could use the power of the werewolf and possessed a clear mind and excellent observation skills, naturally becoming the well-deserved 'scout' of this team.

Soon, she returned.

She said with a strange expression: "This situation is different from before..."

In the cottage, there was a dark figure sleeping soundly on the bed, snoring loudly.

You could vaguely see that it was wearing 'Grandma's' clothes, but An Zhiyan said that the other party had the aura of a wolf, but it wasn't quite the same as a werewolf.

Also, this 'Grandma' had a very large belly.

"Is there anyone else?"

"No!"

"Your nose isn't as good as the dog's."

"...Are you insulting me?" An Zhiyan looked at Luo Xi with an expression that said you must answer this question.

"No, I'm stating a fact!" Luo Xi pointed to the watchdog over there, which looked very excited, sometimes circling in place, but its eyes were always fixed on the cottage.

"So, what's your plan?"

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"Do you remember the ending of Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma in the story?"

"I remember, they were saved by the hunter... Wait a minute, are you saying..."

"Is that pair of scissors still there?"

"Yes!" An Zhiyan took out 'Grandma's Scissors'.

The two looked at each other, then beckoned Mad Lion to come along, and then tiptoed over, opened the door, and entered the room one by one.

A few seconds later, the silence was broken by a scream.

"Hold it down!"

"Okay~!"

"Be careful!"

"Don't worry."

Soon, the house fell silent.

Someone lit an oil lamp.

The light dispelled the darkness and illuminated the bloody scene in the house.

A big gray wolf wearing a woman's clothes died on the bed, its mouth open, its tongue sticking out very long, its belly cut open, and two people next to it were sitting on the ground covered in blood, panting heavily.

One of them was Grandma, and the other was actually Hao Xiuwen.

"After you all left, you didn't come back for a long time, so I knew something was wrong." Hao Xiuwen gnawed on an apple, he was starving, and finished it in a few bites: "Later, I could only go out by myself, but as soon as I went out, I stumbled and fell, and then I realized that the outside had actually turned into a dark forest. I guessed that this was 'Fairytale Town'."

"I didn't see the others, thinking they had abandoned me and left. I could only save myself, wandering carefully in the forest. Later, I found this cottage and found an old lady inside. She took me in and said she was waiting for her granddaughter. Then, this wolf rushed in and swallowed the two of us into its belly. To be honest, I thought I was done for at the time, but I didn't expect to be saved."

Compared to others, Hao Xiuwen's experience can be said to be quite simple and very uneventful.

But he triggered a very rare plot.

That is, the part in the story where the big bad wolf arrived early and swallowed Grandma.

On the other side, An Zhiyan, who had comforted Grandma, made a new discovery while examining the body of the big bad wolf.

She came over with a ticket with the number 3 written on it and handed it to Luo Xi.

Luo Xi took it and looked at it, his expression not very good.

"Where did you find it?"

"There were other remains in the wolf's belly, and it was found in the pocket of the remains' clothing."

"That is to say, there are more than just two types of tickets here."

For Luo Xi, as the starting point of the route, the more branches there were, the more complex the entire Fairytale Town route would be. If each node had at least three types of tickets, then the lines between each other, the number of nodes, would inevitably form a huge and complex network.

This was indeed a maze.

Moreover, from the current situation, the acquisition of some tickets clearly carried a certain element of 'luck'.

This was definitely not good news.

Because the more hidden the plot, the more likely it was that no one had ever triggered it, which meant that once the 'tickets' that could only be obtained under these hidden plots were related to the real clearance route, the difficulty of finding all the correct number tickets would be very high.

In addition, the number tickets were not 'unique', so there might be more than one way to obtain the 'correct number' ticket.

This was considered good news.

Hao Xiuwen was now looking at the 'resurrected' watchdog in surprise, looking very happy.

This dog was very important to him, so even knowing that it had been zombified, he didn't care at all.

"Now, we already have three tickets in hand, corresponding to numbers 1, 2, and 3. As for the entire forest scene of the 'Little Red Riding Hood' plot, we have already explored 17 areas. Of course, many areas are close to the 'Camp', 'Cemetery', and 'Forest Merchant', so they have already been searched many times by other players. If we regard the scene as a sphere, then our current location is in Antarctica, and although we haven't been to the 'North Pole', I guess it should be the same as here."

Before Luo Xi could finish speaking, An Zhiyan understood.

"That is to say, if nothing unexpected happens, only tickets number 1, 2, and 3 exist at the 'Little Red Riding Hood' node. Are you planning to take a boat?"

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