None of that is available here.
If he stays trapped like this, he will surely die of thirst here in two or three days at most.
Qingchen started moving around again, dragging the kayak for who knows how far.
The infallible memory is rendered useless here, because everything is in flux, and memory simply doesn't work.
"etc."
Qingchen gave up looking for opponents and teammates. He started dragging the kayak forward and back again and again.
Like a headless fly, it kept going back and forth between the walls of this maze.
He actually intended to use the simplest and most brute-force method of exhaustive search to try out all the possible transformations of the maze!
The screeching sound of the kayak dragging on the ground was particularly eerie. The ghost child behind him was tired from jumping around and sat obediently in the kayak, like a child who had gone shopping with their parents and was too tired to move, sitting in the shopping cart.
Time and time again, again and again.
Countdown 96:00:00.
Countdown 72:00:00.
When Qingchen got tired, he would throw the ghost child out of the kayak, lie down on it to sleep, and then continue walking when he woke up.
"This is strange! There are 18,960 variations! Even exhaustive search isn't working!" Qing Chen cursed. "Who the hell designed this maze? There are just too many variations! You come out here and stand in front of me, or I'll knock your teeth out with one punch!"
Countdown 48:00:00.
He lay down to sleep again, and in his hazy state, he murmured, "You won't set up a dead end; its secret lies hidden in my memories."
He began to replay every detail of his experience after entering the amusement park over and over again.
Qingchen explored the maze again and again, trying to discover its secrets from the details he had seen earlier.
Ultimately, all his thoughts lingered on the last few sentences that had been selected:
"Remember, if you hear the sound of metal striking metal, please leave the amusement park as soon as possible. If you cannot leave in time, make sure you are alone and go to the guardian lizard sculpture in the maze area, sit cross-legged, put your prayer plaque into its mouth, and close your eyes until the sound of metal striking metal stops. It will protect you."
"There is only one gecko lizard sculpture in the maze, but if you see two at the same time, please do not throw prayer plaques into their mouths."
Qing Chen suddenly laughed. He laughed hysterically, seemingly laughing at the ingenuity of the word game, or perhaps at his own slow reaction.
There is only one lizard sculpture in the maze.
"But there are 19 here."
"The binoculars gave me enough clues before I entered the slide, but I ignored them. The visitor information said there were 12 areas in the amusement park, but I only saw 10 amusement areas through the binoculars. So the roller coaster area and the haunted house area are part of the amusement park, just that they don't exist in the normal world."
"Moreover, the top of the labyrinth is shrouded in mist, but you are not."
"So you're not in the maze area."
"You're in a haunted house area!"
"A haunted house area that looks like a maze!"
When there is only one gecko, it is the maze area.
When there are two or more geckos, it's a haunted house area.
That bionic form of Qing Zhen, Qing Shen.
What he really wanted to remind visitors on the wooden horse totem was: be sure to distinguish which is the maze and which is the haunted house. If you encounter the haunted house, be sure to go to the roller coaster area on the left or right!
Get out of here, or you'll die!
Throwing a blessing token at the gecko in the maze area is effective; it will protect you. However, throwing one at the gecko in the haunted house area is useless and might even bring it back to life and kill you!
Qingchen knew that Ren Xiaosu once had two gecko lizards, named Dawn and Dusk.
In the previous era of human civilization, one of the geckos was controlled by artificial intelligence and fought against humans; the other protected humans.
Therefore, the lizards in the maze area represent protection, while the lizards in the haunted house area represent killing.
After Qingchen threw the prayer plaque in, the lizard tried to lick the ghost child next to him.
But what is a ghost child? It's an existence created by Qingchen's own subconscious illusion.
Li Shentan once said that hypnosis is about getting someone to hand over their subconscious to you!
If Qingchen had let the gecko eat him, it might have seemed like the gecko was protecting him, but it was actually the amusement park's final step in hypnotizing the visitors.
The person whose body is licked clean of ghosts has actually had their subconscious erased.
This is Li Shentan's method of gradually inducing murder: using a gecko lizard, trusted by everyone, to hypnotize and kill—a cunning tactic.
But... before Qingchen came in, he didn't see any roller coasters on the left or right.
Roller coasters are very tall, so if they're on either side, they should be visible.
If you find the haunted house area, then head over to the roller coaster area.
But how do we get there?
Chapter 924, Roller Coaster, Left and Right
Ren Xiaosu, Qing Zhen, and Li Shentan set up this amusement park hoping that someone could pass the level, not that everyone would die here.
Therefore, if Qingchen has entered the haunted house area, then the way to leave the haunted house area must be hidden in all the information he has seen, heard, and experienced in the past.
information!
already!
Here you go!
Whether you can spot it or not is your own problem!
First, let's explain why Qingchen entered a haunted house instead of a maze.
There's only one explanation for why Qingchen entered the haunted house area: the visitor information states that visitors should ensure they are alone when going to the maze area.
Therefore, if he enters the slide alone and slides the entire way, he will enter the maze area and see the unique gecko lizard.
If all 19 of them go down the slide together, then everyone will end up in the haunted house area.
The answer lies in the riddle itself. The person who set up this game has taken wordplay to the extreme, hiding all the information unexpectedly.
So here's the question: why did the person who entered the second level alone and died in the haunted house area end up in the haunted house area?
There are two possibilities. The first is that any visitor who tries to complete the game in the wrong way will be unknowingly trapped in the haunted house area and die. The amusement park doesn't kill people directly; it just uses game mechanics to kill them.
The second possibility is that someone brought him here? Or was there another person on the slide when he went down? Who was with him?
Let's think about how to leave first.
Just as Qingchen thought, the message of leaving must also be hidden in the past.
Qingchen lay in the kayak looking at the sky above the maze: "This wall isn't high, I can jump over it. No matter if it's on the left or the right, as long as I keep jumping, I can ignore the maze and jump out. It's a pity I can't fly, otherwise it would be even easier."
He looked at the ghost child: "What do you think?"
The ghost child stood there dumbfounded, but did not answer.
"Silly child."
Qingchen stood up, carried the kayak, and leaped to the left. He cleared a maze wall more than four meters high and jumped to the next side. Thud, the ghost child followed suit and jumped over.
As he took off, he looked into the distance and saw the edge of the maze! And beyond that edge, a roller coaster!
There's hope!
As he landed, he turned to look at Gouwa, who lay dead with his eyes wide open, embedded in the maze wall: "Long time no see."
As he spoke, he continued to jump forward.
Qing Chen is a very distant person because distance is something he can easily calculate. As long as it's not pitch black and there's a point of reference, it's not a problem.
He gradually realized that he was jumping around in a straight line, but he wasn't getting any closer to that edge...
The next moment, Qingchen landed again and saw Gouwa, who was embedded in the maze wall, reappear.
"What a waste of all that effort," Qingchen lamented. "I was exhausted, and you only just showed up? If you had shown up sooner, I would have stopped jumping sooner."
Gouwa remained silent.
It has now been proven that the maze does indeed have spatial issues, meaning that Qingchen entered a strange space during his jump.
Unless he can fly directly, he must find some rule of this space in order to get out.
Countdown 24:00:00.
Qingchen threw the kayak on the ground and lay back down to think.
"Clue 1: If you see a haunted house, do not enter. Immediately go to the roller coaster area on the left and take the roller coaster to the exit."
"Clue two: The roller coaster area is not on the left side of the haunted house, but on the right side!"
These two pieces of information indicate the location of the roller coaster, but it keeps switching between left and right – how can we make sense of that? The clues themselves are contradictory.
Wait a minute, this roller coaster area is just like all the other amusement parks now. Will it move?
Is there anything that moves from left to right?
If these two pieces of information are not a paradox, then it means that the roller coaster area really does move.
Qingchen lay on the kayak, looking at the sky...
He suddenly turned to look at the obedient ghost child sitting to one side: "Moon, sun?"
The ghost child nodded.
Qingchen asked again, "Shadow?"
The ghost child nodded again.
Qingchen smiled and said, "So good."
It wasn't that the ghost child had gained wisdom, but rather that he answered Qingchen.
It was Qingchen's own subconscious that answered him.
He was gradually losing sight of reality and illusion. The only reason he hadn't lost his rationality was because Yangyang was still waiting for him to come back.