Walking along the memory in my mind, I saw an old man lying on a wooden rocking chair, who seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, and he was still holding a fan in his hand, shaking it for a while, no different from the old man in the countryside after dinner.

On the side of the old man's recliner, there was a female doll on the same level as the rocking chair, who was looking down and turning over the red rope, playing seriously.

"Hey kids." Shen Feng approached and squatted down to level with the girl, smiled and whispered hello.

The little girl looked up, her pale face and swollen dead fish eyes matched with brightly colored red lips, which frightened Shen Feng and almost sat on the ground.

[In this world, can you be kind to Yan Dog! ] The villain in Shen Feng's heart burst into tears.

The child stared at Shen Feng and didn't make a sound.

Shen Feng noticed that her pitch-black eyes were white and there was no light.

"Ahem, do you know how to get out?" Shen Feng asked softly, he had already seen an NPC, and he didn't want to disturb the little one who provoked the old one—the old man who looked like a deep sleep was not easy to mess with.

When the girl heard this, as if the mechanism had been activated, her eyes gradually brightened, and she asked rhetorically, "Are you a friend of the clown?" ”

I'm not me, don't talk nonsense without you.

Shen Feng reflexively wanted to deny the triptych.

Be friends with the person who cut her twice and forced her to jump off the building, and the most important thing is that she is bald and hurts her eyes, her taste is really not so heavy!

But Shen Feng didn't have the courage to deny it directly, and he knew from the little girl's tone that she cared about the clown very much.

A suffocating silence pervaded.

Fortunately, the little girl is beautiful (Shen Feng: The cliff is beautiful!!) Kind-hearted, I didn't think that Shen Feng had to speak, and laughed happily to himself, that smile was innocent and lovely, and it was joy from the heart: "You must be his friend!" It's so good that the clown has been lonely for so long, and finally waited for his best friend! Only people with friends can live forever, and that's good......"

The little girl who was silent and stiff turned into a chatterbox.

I can see that I am really happy for the clown.

"Only those who have friends can live?" Shen Feng heard this sentence and interrupted the little girl's excitement.

The little girl was happy, but she wasn't. Shen Feng doesn't think he is a clown's friend, although there is also a hint in the song that "the clown just wants a friend", but a friend who splits people with an axe, forget it.

That's an absolute unbearable weight of life!

Let's start a casual topic and ignore the clown first.

"Would you like to be my friend?!" Shen Feng asked the little girl with an expectant seduction, compared to the thing that could kill him at any time, even if the little girl looked unsatisfactory, she looked extremely cute and safe.

"Huh?" Who knows, as soon as Shen Feng's words fell, the little girl seemed to be on an intermittent clockwork, the light in her eyes disappeared, her speech was intermittent, her neck was stiff and twisted, and she turned to the old man lying on her side, "I...... Need...... Want...... Ask...... Under...... I...... Father...... ...... Grandpa"

No, you can just refuse me, and you don't have to bother her old man!!!!

Shen Feng felt good in his heart, knowing that he should have encountered a taboo.

What happened next was very unexpected.

The chaise longue, which had been shaking and rhythmic, stopped, and the old man sat up, his face so thin that he could see the shape of a skull. He stroked the top of the girl's hair with one hand, pointed at one side with a puff fan with the other, and said slowly and compassionately: "Look, your friend is here." ”

This sentence seemed to open some kind of mechanism, Shen Feng heard the sound of the time gear accelerating rapidly, and looked in the direction that the old man was pointing, and could vaguely see a certain swaying figure, and in his ears was the unique and obvious footsteps of the clown.

Countdown to one minute!

When she turned back again, the old man and the child disappeared out of thin air, as if everything that had happened before was her delusion.

It seems that "friends" are the theme of this world, and it is easy to touch the scales of NPCs.

Shen Feng cursed in a low voice, but he didn't expect that talking to NPCs could directly trigger a deadly countdown!

She was supposed to have close to 7 minutes of safe time, just like the second week, but who would have thought that just a few words would directly cause the clown to catch up.

I can only test whether the guess is correct or not.

Shen Feng touched the tile bowl in his arms, changed his plan, and ran towards the window close downstairs.

"The purpose doesn't have to change, it's still out of this building. Anyway, it will definitely be impossible to escape death, and there is still some time, how many floors can be lowered, as close to the ground as possible. If the information learned from the third week is useful, this time the reincarnation blood is earned. In addition, the floor I saw before was not high, and if I didn't die by jumping off the building, it would be another way to achieve the goal. ”

Shen Feng cheered himself up, counting down the time, and ran downstairs at high speed.

"Tread, trample." The footsteps were getting closer, close enough to smell blood.

Almost......

"Ugh! Convex (艹)! Estimating that the time was about the same, Shen Feng, who originally wanted to run to the window, was tripped by himself and wasted a lot of time when he stood up in a hurry!

This unexpected situation that was not in the plan made Shen Feng have no time to think that he had no time to commit suicide, and the other party had already caught up!

She pounced on the window with the inertia she had planned, and at the same time, holding the bowl in one hand and wiping the blood clot at the bottom of the bowl with the other.

Say it's too late, then it's too soon!

At the same time that Shen Feng heard the axe breaking through the air, she looked at the river outside the window and the blood on her fingers, and her heart was so nervous that the green tendons of her hands holding the edge of the window burst out.

“……“

There was silence, no axes, no footsteps.

Death time has been refreshed!

Shen Feng breathed a sigh of relief and sat down against the wall, lamenting his luck.

The bowl in his hand disappeared in front of Shen Feng's eyes like the previous pair of grandchildren, allowing Shen Feng to confirm that the blood clot at the bottom of the bowl and the river outside the window were another set of conditions to refresh the time of death.

The scene where the props disappear when they run out of props also explains why she went to the left side for the second time in the second week and didn't find the pair of grandchildren's doubts.

In fact, since Shen Feng realized her third reincarnation, she noticed that she had been repeating the ballad since the beginning, as if she had to understand the song she had memorized.

Who chatters with an axe,

Repeat for the immortality of the unchanging,

The different touches make the blood half push,

My name is Joker, and I just want a friend.

There is nothing for no reason, not to mention that this nursery rhyme exists extremely high, although the tune is unpleasant, but the unexpected words are correct and round, as if the player is afraid that he will not understand.

"The implication of this hint is too obvious." Shen Feng said to himself, this kind of information, which seems useless at first glance, is generally the key to the door of life in decryption novels.

But obvious meaning does not mean obvious meaning. Especially the first two deaths were unknown, Shen Feng knew that this should be related to the reason why he was a sub-personality, which led to the first two almost physical instinctive activities. But in any case, the shadow of death is real.

Fortunately, death was not in vain.

At least these three deaths let Shen Feng know that the cycle of death, that is, reading files, is the rule of this space, and the lethal mechanism is also one of the rules of this game.

Once the time expires, it is absolutely necessary to die, the difference is only that it is either the clown who hacks to death or commits suicide.

It is estimated that even if you are invulnerable in this space, it is useless, and the magic should not be able to defeat the clown. After all, it's a game-like existence.

So it's not so much a lethal mechanism as a finite survival time - this should be the first law of this space. As for reading files...... If it weren't for Shen Feng's own abnormality, this kind of file reading would have changed from a normal suspenseful decryption escape game world configuration to a rule restriction.

So re-review and reorganize,

In the first week, she survived for the original five minutes.

The second week is longer, and the survival time is about twice as long as before.

In the third week, the first time I heard footsteps was the same primitive time as the first one, and then until I climbed the stairs to jump, the clown disappeared. This means that her survival time has been refreshed to eight minutes (at seven minutes the Joker's footsteps appear). That is, the original five minutes are refreshed, and three minutes are added to meet the conditions.

In fact, the speculation about time is that Shen Feng chose the most pessimistic possibility, and it is impossible to judge whether the survival time is cumulative or refreshed by relying on the uncertain inventory duration of the second week.

The change in time does not prevent Shen Feng from revealing another rule of the game: what conditions can the survival time be increased.

If we only look at the survival time, the first and third weeks are the same, both of which are the original five minutes, while the second week is greater than five minutes. The difference is only whether she has met the strange grandson.

So from the beginning, Shen Feng was able to confirm that the pair of grandchildren was one of the key points to change the survival time.

Later in the third week, the Joker's sudden disappearance means that she has inadvertently met the conditions to change her survival time.

So here's the problem.

After seeing the clown in the third week, she did something that triggered a condition similar to that of seeing the grandson.

I was ready to jump, so I jumped to the window with one foot (because I was injured), opened the window, turned the window, and saw the view outside the window.

Among them, there must be a link that meets the conditions for increasing survival time.

Later, I learned from the grandfather and grandson NPC that the theme of this world is "friends".

When it comes to friends, I think of pairing.

That is, at least two.

And this is also in line with the existence of grandchildren.

Then the third sentence of the nursery rhyme: Different touches make the blood half-push and half-push the difference, which is also the meaning of two. In addition, "let the blood be half pushed and half pushed" doesn't it mean that the blood will be shed later!

So Shen Feng guessed that the second rule of the game was to encounter two opposite things.

Coupled with the extremely strong presence of the bowl and the blood clot at the bottom of the bowl in the first or second week, this sudden existence of something almost almost marks its own specialness. Thinking of this, something flashed through Shen Feng's mind, but unfortunately she didn't grasp that hint of inspiration.

If this notion is preconceived, it seems that only the river can barely be called "different" from a blood clot.

But this speculation is extremely uncertain, and the speculation that "the blood clot at the bottom of the bowl actually has another meaning" is very likely. And if it is "different", the two roads outside the window are also a pair.

For the fourth week, Shen Feng's plan was to try to talk to each other, and then go out to check the two completely different roads that he saw in the window when he jumped off the building before. By the way, verify the conditions for the second pair of increments.

However, when he opened his eyes, Shen Feng found that the number of times he read the game resurrection was limited, and he couldn't wave it as he wanted.

But......

Who knew that there were risks in this year?!!

The old man directly reduced her survival time, forcing her to switch the main and secondary tasks of the fourth week, and had to gamble once.

When he ran to the window, Shen Feng didn't know whether it was a blood clot & river, or a trail & road that conformed to the second law. But in order to reduce the number of deaths, she took a clay bowl with her after hesitating when she went out.

"Fortunately, I thought it wouldn't have much impact anyway, so I still brought the bowl!" Shen Feng looked at the disappearing bowl and sighed his luck in his heart.

After resting for a while, estimating the remaining time and the purpose of this reincarnation, Shen Feng walked towards the door that was close downstairs.

After nearly dying for the fourth time, she finally stepped out of the building.