"Hmmm......"

"How many candles are there?"

"Eight out of sixty. ”

"Huh?!"

"You've counted!"

“...... You've asked how many of them, and then come and ask me if you count, this question... Isn't it putting the cart before the horse?"

"Huh?"

"Ahh

"I'll just ask casually~"

"Who bothered you to answer?"

“... Poof!"

"Yikes!"

Facing the big horse monkey squatting on the ground opposite...... You're a big horse monkey!) Viciously projected over, that kind of almost murderous gaze, out of instinctive reflex, Xiao Jing subconsciously raised his hands, tightly covered his little faces on the left and right, and then jumped up all of a sudden (originally both of them squatted there very regularly to light candles), and retreated back as quickly as the wind!

"What are you running for... I won't eat you again......"

So, the big horse monkey who was squatting on the ground and continued to light candles smiled (not so much 'laughing', but actually looked more evil than Snow White and her stepmother), turned his head sideways, and called out in a 'gentle and amiable' manner: "Okay, okay, okay, I won't mess with you, I'm still running so far... Really!"

"Come back quickly!"

"Let's finish the rest of the candles together~"

“@^__^@”

“......”

Although, the very hypocritical expression of the 'stepmother' is very suspicious, but after the pure and lovely Her Royal Highness Snow White listened to its amiable 'Zhao'an document'. I still couldn't help but be suspicious, although my feet didn't move, but my mouth was stubborn and simple and tentative: "Don't, don't, don't!

"I'm not going back~"

"Humph!"

"How so?"

When the 'stepmother' heard this, she changed her weak and innocent expression again, and tried her best to 'confess her true feelings': "I'm not so boring! I just want to light the candles quickly, and then pass the level of this floor, so let's go up to the sixth floor of the lighthouse to receive the reward!"

“......”

"Isn't it?"

"Naturally, yes, yes!"

"Oh......"

"Alright then!"

At this point in the dialogue, the poor girl from a good family, who had been abducted and sold by a witch, walked back in such a stupid and stupid way......

Walk back. Before she could squat down. The big horse monkey next to her who hated her to the bone marrow immediately pounced, stretched out a pair of 'monkey paws', grabbed her little face hard, and pulled it out hard-

Pull on the side. While grinning. 'Hey, hey, hey' The traitor smirked wickedly, "You dead girl." See if I don't pinch you to death today~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"

"Wow!!"

"Pain, pain, pain... Pain Pain Pain Pain ......"

The poor, innocent and ignorant Highness Snow White had tears in her big beautiful eyes. In this way, she handed over her little face, which was as delicate and white as dough, to the demon's minions, and fell miserably and helplessly into the trap set by Gargamel......

╮(╯_╰)╭

...

So, the total number of candles was only sixty-eight, and the two children lit them for ten minutes before they were fully lit.

It's all lit~

And then?

Click, click... Boom Boom Boom......

The entire 'floating island', whether it was the 'small circle' part embedded in it, or the 'crescent' part with two or three staircases, after all the sixty-eight candles were lit, they all trembled violently as if they had been hit by a moderate earthquake!

At the same time, Wen Bin and Yan Jing were sensitive to the fact that the small piece of ground under their feet, that is, the piece slightly above the ground where the candles were placed, was slowly rising......

"Yikes!"

Out of instinctive conditioning, both of them jumped back sharply with great acuity!

And then, as they avoided each other, they saw, well, what, uh, 'Statue of Liberty'? just holding the 'tray' in both hands (i.e., the sixty-eight candles, the one that had risen a little above the ground before), elegantly held up over the top, and then slowly rose from the ground......

"Wow~"

The earthquake continued, but Xiao Jing, who witnessed the scene from the side, was already stunned.

“......”

A certain article was not stunned... He was just re-impressed by the game's grandeur, and these inexplicable settings shocked the whole person into a super speechless state like an idiot.

All right... Well, because the two of them had lit all the sixty-eight candles in the center of the 'small circle' platform, at this time, in that place, a large stone sculpture of a goddess like a fairy of the Nine Heavens (about a height of about a foot by eye).

And then?

And then?

...... At the same time that almost all of the attention of these two people was attracted to it, the 'floating island' that was originally a combination of the 'small circle' and the 'crescent' in the shape of a circle was also quietly disintegrating in the violent tremor - the original 'crescent' part remained unmoved, and the 'small circle' part embedded in it gradually broke away under a series of roaring shocks and became an independent entity.

"Huh?"

"This—This is ......"

Until this time, even if the two of them were slow to react, they naturally discovered the strangeness: the two or three steps that were originally seamlessly connected to the circular platform they were on had been pulled out of a distance of six or seven or eight feet away from them at this time!

Originally, it was completely coherent, at most it was connected by a ladder in the middle, and it originally presented a floating island in the shape of a 'big circle', but at this time, it was really shaken into two pieces!

And, inside the circular platform at the feet of the two. As if some ancient gear had been activated, it roared and trembled violently as it drifted towards the front.

"What's going on?"

"Where is it—where is it going?"

“......”

"This kind of esoteric question, you ask me, I ask the ghost?"

"Ugh. ”

A certain Wen and Xiaoqing, who had not yet adapted to it, stumbled a little under their feet (mainly because the 'ground' itself was moving forward at a constant speed & trembling too much) looked around, and couldn't help but look a little panicked in the face of such a sudden change.

"Ahh

Suddenly, Xiao Jing shouted: "Xiao Wen, look-"

As she spoke, she stretched out an arm. He pointed over the head of the 'Goddess Statue'.

"Huh?"

Wen Bin was slightly stunned. Subconsciously looked in the direction of her finger: I saw the golden candlelight blooming from the sixty-eight candles, and at this time, it was very miraculous to form a natural light wall shield with a soft color!

From the outside, the natural light wall shield looks like a three-dimensional circular shape, and the range is not large. It just wraps all the candles and the chronograph numbers that float above their flames. It feels like ... Well. It's as if the 68 candles were specially kept for protection.

This... What is such a setting......

Wen Bin hadn't figured it out yet, and he was stunned. Another strange thing was discovered:

At the foot of the statue of the goddess that rose from the ground, it was originally stepping on a painted lotus platform, but at this time, the painted images painted on the lotus platform actually jumped out of it one after another, turning into dwarfs dressed in ancient costumes, looking about the size of children of six or seven years old.

“......”

If it weren't for the preconceived notion that 'this is just a game' in his consciousness, Wen Bin felt that he would definitely be frightened by this completely unbelievable scene in front of him.

Though... Since being set as the protagonist of this story by a pig's head (the author [I] raised his hand to say: It's not me!), most of the experiences in the past year or so have been some strange and unusual events that can't be imagined by ordinary people's thinking, but it seems that there are still not many weird things like this now.

"One, two, three...... Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. ”

A quick glance: twelve.

They all jumped off the lotus platform, so that the originally fancy looking lotus platform compartment was now empty, and only the faint background was floating.

Of course, this is not the key, the key is that those dwarfs who jumped down from the upper layer of the lotus platform, dressed in various national costumes, spontaneously formed a group of six people, with the goddess stone sculpture as the axis, and stood in two circles at intervals before and after, surrounding them.

And, not only that, after standing still, one by one (sorry, because they are too small, they have always been regarded as 'small animals' by a certain Wen and Xiaoqing) also summoned all kinds of weapons that they were good at, and showed a posture of 'preparing for battle' with full attention.

Well......

The posture and expression are similar, but... They are so small, they are just like weak children, and they also reveal movements and expressions that are extremely incommensurate with their 'weak image', which makes people feel really a little ... Funny & speechless.

“... What are they doing here?"

When Xiao Jing saw it, she was very curious, originally the girl naively wanted to lean over and reach out to touch it, but fortunately Wen Bin stopped her in time.

"I don't know!"

After making sure that his 'savage girlfriend' would not do some strange things that were beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, a certain text shrugged his shoulders and waved his hand indifferently in passing: "Leave them alone... Well, you look at the above. ”

At this point, he himself was the first to raise his head vigilantly and look at the long list of new 'plot tips' in the sky.

What are you talking about?

It's actually quite simple:

[My friend and I went through a lot of hardships and finally set foot on the drifting war drum that led to the 'sixth floor of the lighthouse' (well, maybe it can't be seen from the angle of a certain Wen and Xiaoqing, but in fact, if you look at it from another distant angle, you will find that the 'circular platform' they are standing at this time is actually a huge war drum full of three-dimensional sense), but this is not a natural smooth road, the process is far away, and there are many thieves and demons, they kill, rob money, plunder goods, run amok, and do all kinds of evil.

In order to protect the Drifting Drums that carry them, and the sixty-eight now fully lit candles that are the driving force behind them, my friends and I have to do everything in our power to deal with the evil Marauders who have come in uninvited!

Another long and arduous journey is about to begin......] (To be continued......