(Foreword)

The road ahead was thorny and bumpy, but there was no turning back.

(Text)

June 2, 2022 at 23:38 p.m

Murong Feng gave us the first hint before and let us solve the first mystery, but this does not mean that the second hint he gave is also true. In the art of war, it is said that if it is false, it is real, and if it is false, it can be taken by surprise and unprepared. Just like now, Murong Feng gave a correct hint first, and if he gave another wrong hint, it would be difficult for us to distinguish the authenticity from the false. But we don't have much else to do now.

We decided to face this challenge, and Xia Cheng and Lin Yun and I resolutely walked out.

Searching without answers is like groping in the dark, and no one knows when hope will come.

My mind returned to the present I was still standing in this hall, but it was completely different from the previous situation, these mechanical arms did not work as before, but at that time, Xia Cheng just pressed a few buttons at random, and those mechanical arms moved again.

At the time, I didn't know what was going on, and the arm wasn't supposed to settle on its own. I watched as the robotic arm began to work. Xia Cheng ran towards that side as fast as he had done before, and the mechanical arm swept towards us as hard as before, and I took a few quick steps back, and then ran forward with all my might, a near-perfect spin in the air, and gorgeously jumped over the mechanical arm. These attacks were not a fear for me and Xia Cheng, but it was a little difficult for Lin Yun to dodge.

Together, we approached the stone wall and came to the switch of the mechanical arms. There are ten switches here, which correspond to a mechanical arm, and I suddenly understand that the numbers that Lin Yun saw on the damaged mechanical arm just now correspond to the numbers on these mechanisms. Thinking of this, I quickly closed all the mechanisms on the wall, originally thinking that the mechanical arms outside the stone wall had been stopped by us, but as soon as I walked out, I realized that those mechanical arms had not stopped at all.

It's not what we think, we look at everything in front of us and don't know what to do. Just when we were helpless, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of us, and that person was none other than Murong Feng.

He didn't say anything more to me, just repeated the previous prompt:

A lot of times things are not what you think they are, and once you get stuck with the present and stick to the old ways, you will never be able to leave this place.

At the same time as he appeared, the mechanical arm also stopped attacking and became motionless, as if it were broken.

After that tip. Suddenly, Murong Feng disappeared in front of us, and at the same time, the mechanical arm began to continue to attack us.

At this point, I found a way to solve the second mystery, but the key to solving the mystery was the calligraphy and paintings in the hall, but now the door to the hall was closed.

We don't have a way to get out of those paintings.

At this time, Xia Cheng made an important decision, he walked towards the mechanical arm, and Nuai mechanical arm chased him, but Xia Cheng's speed was not as fast as the speed of the mechanical arm, so what Xia Cheng should do was to stop immediately and then turn around and jump over the mechanical arm chasing after him, because the mechanical arm is relatively heavy, so its turn is very slow, which is equivalent to creating an opportunity for us to pull away from Hu's mechanical arm, which is what Xia Cheng used before, But now he didn't do this, but ran forward desperately, so that the distance of his mechanical arm was slowly getting smaller, and soon the mechanical arm would catch up with him. It was necessary to hurry up and get Xia Cheng to turn around and jump over the mechanical arm, maybe it would be too late to do so.

But Xia Cheng didn't seem to have the intention of doing this, he was still running forward desperately.

I looked at Xia Cheng who was running towards him, and then looked at the gate behind me, and suddenly understood Xia Cheng's intention, he wanted the mechanical arm chasing him to hit this gate, and rely on the momentum of the mechanical arm to knock the gate open, this idea seems to have a feasible solution, but Xia Cheng is too risky to do this, he will be in danger of being caught by the mechanical arm at any time, I must stop him.

I don't know what to say to stop Xia Cheng, he's already made up his mind.

I moved a few steps to the side, and Xia Cheng was still running fast in the direction of the gate, time passed by second, I looked at Xia Cheng, I was very nervous, how I wished Xia Cheng could run faster.

However, Xia Cheng's speed is still not as fast as the mechanical arm, and the speed of the 100-meter sprint is extremely physically energy-consuming, and the current Xia Cheng is obviously much slower than the speed just now, but the speed of the mechanical arm has not slowed down in the slightest. The distance between the mechanical arm and Xia Cheng is constantly getting closer, getting closer and closer, but Xia Cheng is already very close to the gate, now is the most important moment, it depends on whether Xia Cheng can continue to finish this journey, Xia Cheng's steps are a little staggering, just at this very critical time, when Xia Cheng was about to be caught up by the mechanical arm, Xia Cheng suddenly pounced forward, just dodging the attack of the mechanical arm, and then he continued to roll forward, and the mechanical arm did not slow down, but went towards Xia Cheng.

A loud bang was heard, and the door to the hall was slammed open by a robotic arm.

I hurriedly went to look for Xia Cheng, he must not be fine, and soon I saw Xia Cheng next to the gate, and accidentally hit the wall while rolling, but fortunately, it didn't seem to matter.

I looked around, and sure enough, the calligraphy and painting I had taken off were on the table, and I hurriedly walked to the table and carefully confirmed the verses on it, yes! That's it. "I picked up the calligraphy and painting on the table, but at this time, I suddenly heard a loud noise, just when I felt strange, Zhao Yuyu shouted, I quickly turned around, only to see that even a huge mechanical arm was coming towards us, it turned out that these mechanical arms also broke in from outside the door that was knocked open, now things are difficult to do, before the outside of the hall is good to say, at least there is a lot of space, we can avoid the attack of the mechanical arm, but now we are in the hall, this is very difficult, There's so little room we can dodge in.

Now the situation is very dangerous, the mechanical arm keeps attacking us in the hall, I dodge left and dodge, so I was not caught by the mechanical arm, but Zhao Yuyu didn't take a few steps far, and was held in the air by the mechanical arm.

I picked up the calligraphy and paintings on the table and ran towards the door, but as soon as I reached the gate, there was a mechanical arm outside the door blocking my way.

Now we have to figure out a way to get out of here as soon as possible, and I'm dodging the mechanical arm as I think about how to get out of here.

Murong Feng, who was not far away, looked at us like a bystander, and the mechanical arm did not attack him.

It was then that I suddenly felt my head ache again, and the scene in front of my eyes became blurry.

It was as if my mind had left the area, like a time travel, no time, no purpose, until I could open my eyes.

The scene in front of me is very familiar to me, it's the middle-aged man again, and we're still in the game.

It was the familiar voice again, and when I opened my eyes, it was the same table-style chessboard again.

By the bright light, I saw a middle-aged man sitting across from me, with a serious expression that didn't seem to smile, wearing a striped shirt and a mechanical watch in his right hand. It's so familiar and so strange.

But soon I left the scene again.

I finally opened my eyes, and the scene in front of me shocked me, Cui Li did not dodge the attack of the mechanical arm, and was also caught in the air, but Xia Cheng on the side was hit hard by the oncoming mechanical arm and fell to the side, this ...... This... How so? How so? I kept asking myself why this was happening! Zhang Han walked in front of me, but as if he didn't see me, he rushed to the mechanical arm and fell to the ground wearing cool headphones.

I listened to the lyrics from my headphones, but I couldn't believe what was happening in front of me. What the hell is going on? I looked at the scene in front of me and couldn't speak.

Instead of looking back, he rushed towards the robotic arm. He grabbed the bracket of the mechanical arm, and then ran up, all hope was in his body, and even though the mechanical arm shook violently, he just grabbed the mechanical arm tightly and did not let go.

Zhang Han struggled to climb to the top of the robotic arm, and I didn't know what he wanted next.

But at this moment, Zhang Han suddenly jumped into the air and jumped onto the mechanical arm that grabbed Cui Li. Then he took out a small hammer and hit the parts on the mechanical arm hard, and sure enough, the mechanical arm seemed to be somewhat damaged, grabbed Cui Li's arm, and gradually let go, but if he fell at such a high distance, even if he couldn't lose his life, he would be seriously injured.

It's too dangerous! I was scared into a cold sweat when I saw it.

When the mechanical arm was about to fall to the ground, Zhang Han and Cui Li saw the opportunity and jumped hard to land safely.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the mechanical arm recovered, quickly grabbing Zhang Han up.

Damn it! It turned out that the previous mechanical arm was not damaged by Zhang Han's hammer blow, but only deliberately did so, so that Zhang Han could take it lightly and catch him.

Not long after the mechanical phone grabbed Zhang Han, the mechanical arm outside the door also rushed in and grabbed Cui Li tightly, so it seems that I am the only one left.

I had to rescue them, and I rushed to one of the mechanical arms, but the mechanical arm didn't seem to notice me and didn't do anything.

While I was shocked, I didn't notice a mechanical arm coming towards me, but when I did, I didn't have time to dodge.

I watched the mechanical arm coming towards me, but something strange happened, I wasn't hit by the robotic arm, but since my body passed through the robotic arm, what was going on?

Everything around you has become very strange. People don't seem to see me.

No matter how much I shouted, no one paid any attention to me, it was like they had disappeared, and they had no sense of existence at all. What the hell is going on? I asked myself again and again, but I didn't know what was going on.

Just when I was completely directionless, my head began to ache again, my mind once again pulled me far away, and I vaguely opened my eyes again.

It's another game, what the hell is going on, just when I open my eyes again.

Everything is back to the way it was.

Did I fall? I looked at Cui Li inexplicably...... Why don't I know at all? What the hell is going on.

I looked around me differently than I had just seen, but I didn't have time to think about what it was all about.

Xia Cheng and the others found that there seemed to be a controller device on the top of these mechanical arms, and they guessed that if they wanted to dismantle this control, then they could stop this mechanical arm.

Controller? The tip of the robotic arm? I suddenly remembered the scene that appeared in my mind before, at that time, Zhang Han just climbed to the top of the mechanical arm and smashed a part with a small hammer, but in fact, it was impossible to stop the mechanical arm, and I had to find a way to stop this.

This plan didn't work at all, I didn't forget the fake console before, these were all designed in advance, and the controller on the robotic arm looked too obvious, and it was clearly deliberately made for me to find out. I tried to stop Xia Cheng from their plans, but it didn't have any special effect

Cui Li threw the escape hammer in his hand to Zhang Han, Zhang Han caught the escape hammer with a quick hand, and saw that everything before was about to be reproduced in front of my eyes.

Suddenly the mechanical arm chased after Zhang Han, Zhang Han ran quickly, and at the same time another mechanical arm also chased him, so that Zhang Han had no chance to jump on the mechanical arm at all, Xia Cheng went to help and led away one of the mechanical arms, but because Xia Cheng was injured, he was slightly slow when he turned around, and he was hit to the ground by the mechanical arm heavily. After Cui Li saw it, he hurriedly ran to save Xia Cheng, but who knows, just when Cui Li was not close to Xia Cheng, a mechanical arm quickly grabbed Cui Li.

I watched everything that happened, and now I had to find a way to stop Zhang Han.

I looked at everything in front of me and at least the decision was the right one.

(End of chapter)