People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

"Act One! A Great Survival: Death Rolling Ball Game!"

Qin Xuan: "..." By naming it like this, are you trying to turn a living person into a dead person?

"Please listen to the question: In ten seconds, a huge rolling ball will appear in the center of the room, and the speed of the ball will be twice as fast as yours. Please move together and pay attention to the grids on the floor. If you move one grid on average, the ball will roll two grids."

"If the ball catches up with you, it will be considered a failure. If you leave the room early and the ball doesn't stop, and it hits the wall next to the door, it will also be considered a failure. If you destroy or stop the ball, it will also be considered a failure! Now, you still have a chance to move five squares!"

Then, the explanation seems to end here.

"Brother Qin Xuan, what should we do? It seems difficult..."

Ling asked him for help and found that he also had a frown on his face:

"Strange, Wei Weiwei didn't mention the conditions for success..."

Chapter 81 Inception

Subtitle: Ning is the dream maker himself?

Wei Weiwei's voice was not finished yet, but she was not reminding the victory conditions: "Finally, please do not destroy the facilities in the room, otherwise it will be considered a violation and the challenge will be considered a failure!"

"Oh, what should I do, X﹏X..." Ling looked panicked, like a stupid student encountering an extremely difficult problem.

"Don't be impatient..." Qin Xuan said. It seemed that Wei Erwei was leaving no way for her to survive, but this was based on the reality.

Now in the dream, Qin Xuan also has certain dream editing permissions. So he has ten thousand ways to break this situation, of course, that is a violent way to break it.

Because it was most likely related to the trial mission of the "Spiral" engraving, he thought it would be better to abide by the rules a little bit.

"Ling, listen to me. Move the shelf on the left to the outside of the door," Qin Xuan instructed, "I'll move the one on the right."

This kind of small jewelry store environment takes the limited space into consideration when decorating, so mirrors covering the entire wall are installed on both sides. It has no other purpose but to widen the visual space and make customers feel that the place is less crowded.

But that is reality. In dreams, it is another story: the psychological sense of spatial confusion conveyed by visual effects is not as difficult as confusing the real space.

It was not difficult to move the merchandise shelves on both sides, as there were only a few accessories. When the plastic shelves were moved out of the room doors on both sides by Ling and Qin Xuan one after another, the "rolling ball" also appeared.

Qin Xuan deliberately slowed down a step, and before he finished, he found that the ball was indeed coming towards him.

"Brother Qin Xuan——"

"Ling, don't come over here!"

Qin Xuan stared at the rolling ball, which was still some distance away from him. He slowly moved towards the mirror on the wall.

At this time, because the obstruction of the merchandise shelves has disappeared, the two mirrors covering the left and right walls are facing each other.

Under Qin Xuan's interference, the mirrors reflected each other, forming an infinite mirror corridor space inside.

When Qin Xuan arrived in front of the mirror, the ball was already very close. He then took a step back and then a step to the side. However, the ball had to take two steps forward, so the ball hit the mirror under Qin Xuan's gaze.

Then he went in as if without any hindrance.

"..." Qin Xuan turned his head and looked, and sure enough, the ball was rolling in the mirror... No, it would roll forever in the endless mirror space, where it was chasing countless mirror images, and it would never catch up with the reality outside the mirror.

"——Congratulations! You two have successfully passed the magic challenge of the first act! Let's see the audience's reaction——How do you think this performance is wonderful?"

Wei Erwei's voice came at the right time, and then there was a burst of overlapping cheers similar to the previous opening ceremony.

"Wow, it looks like everyone finds this acceptable!"

When Qin Xuan heard this, he knew the answer that he had been unable to figure out: "The victory condition is actually satisfaction or something..."

"Well, next - let's start the thrilling second act: the deadly chaser stairs!"

Qin Xuan: Is it funny that the title is scary?

The scene changed again, and Qin Xuan and Ling were standing on a fairly common staircase. Both the height of the steps and the appearance of the handrails beside them were extremely ordinary. The only unusual thing was perhaps that the length of the staircase was too exaggerated.

From the perspective of Qin Xuan and the others, in the dark environment, the stairs started to extend from the first floor, first extended to the left to the second floor, then went forward to the third floor, then to the right to the fourth floor, and finally turned back to the fifth floor, repeating the cycle and extending upward for dozens of floors.

Qin Xuan had no idea how many floors there were. There was only one door at the entrance of each staircase. There was a lamp hanging on the door, which only illuminated the entrance and part of the stairs. The dark part in the middle was completely invisible, creating an atmosphere of malice and terror.

"Please listen to the question: After the challenge begins, a terrifying pursuer will appear at the entrance to the first floor. Every time you move up a step, the pursuer will move half the distance between you and the pursuer."

Achilles and the Tortoise's pursuit problem?

But soon, Wei Weiwei's next voice denied Qin Xuan's guess:

"Attention! The pursuer's speed will increase slightly every time he passes four floors. Please don't harbor the illusion that you will never catch up!"

"And the most important rule: You cannot leave the stairs, otherwise you will be judged as the loser! If the pursuer leaves the stairs, you will also be judged as the loser! If you are caught up by the pursuer, you will be judged as the loser! If the pursuer stops for other reasons, you will still be judged as the loser!"

Then, this time, Wei Erwei did not give Qin Xuan and the others time to prepare, and directly announced: "Begin!"

"Gu...!"

This time Ling was really scared. After all, the environment and setting were very gloomy, and Ling didn't grow up watching horror movies.

The little hand that was holding Qin Xuan's arm was already cold and was trembling almost imperceptibly.

"Okay, don't worry, Ling," Qin Xuan comforted her, "This challenge is even easier than the last one."

Come to think of it, this is a dream space, not reality.

There is no purely objective world here; everything is detected by subjective consciousness.

Let's analyze what the scene will be like for someone who walks up the stairs subjectively: the same stairs forever, go upstairs, encounter a staircase, turn, go upstairs, and continue to encounter a staircase... over and over again, even when occasionally looking to the side, what you see are the same layers of stairs.

In other words, although (from a practical perspective) people who walk up the stairs go upstairs, psychologically they do not feel any difference between the lower floors and the upper floors.

Well, all you have to do is realize this psychological feeling - there's no need to set up obstacles on the stairs or replace them with anything else, just let the pursuer actually be chasing but not catching up.

"--Penrose Stairs."

As Qin Xuan operated, the place where the pursuers stayed below began to change quietly. The stairs had become a structure similar to a Möbius strip or a Klein bottle.

Then, Qin Xuan walked up with Ling, while the so-called pursuer, as expected, kept moving forward and circling in the same place.

Of course, Weiwei didn't let them walk up the stairs rigidly. After they had walked for a while, her voice began to announce the results:

"Congratulations! You two have won again! Let's see how the audience reacts to this—"

There was another familiar round of applause and cheers.

"Yeah, it seems very hot!"

"Well then, you two, let's move on to the third act! The Eternal Spiral Workshop!"

Chapter 82 The Deepest Place

Subtitle: The situation is getting complicated.jpg

"Welcome - you two have come to the spiral workshop of 'Vilvi'. Please look around. Yes, these exquisite magic devices are exactly the same as the levels you have passed! In addition, there are countless mysteries and surprises!"

What Weiwei said was probably correct.

The third act unfolds in the workshop of Weiwei herself, but it is not so much an ordinary workshop filled with scattered devices and parts as it is a small exhibition hall with a lot of details. Various microscopic devices are neatly arranged on the tall display racks like bookshelves. They look like models, but considering the dream elements, they may be the real bodies.

For example, there is a model of a small house with mirrors facing each other in one corner - the Mirror House, and there is an infinite spiral of building stairs - the Chaser Stairs. For example...

Qin Xuan noticed the only flat device, "A painting?"

And it's not an ordinary oil painting, but a moving one. What's shown on the screen is a person pushing a boulder up the hillside, and then the boulder is pushed down again by an invisible force, and the person has to go down and push the boulder again, and the cycle continues.

"Sisyphus?"

"Okay, now please listen to the questions," Wei Wei reserved enough time this time, as if she wanted to give the two of them enough time to fully appreciate her workshop. "All the display racks in front of you, all the 'exhibits' on them are 'magic questions' one by one. What you need to do is to find the real 'third act' among these questions!"

"The way to trigger it is to touch the 'test question' with your hand, and you can be transferred to the corresponding magic scene. Attention! Except for the real questions in the 'third act', the fake questions can also be triggered, but their difficulty is not the same as before!"

"But don't worry! This time the chances to try are - 'unlimited'! Fortunately, you have already solved two of the real questions. There are only so many other questions 'forever'. In the remaining time, even if you try slowly and error one by one, you will definitely be able to pass it, right?"

And then there was nothing else. Weiwei did not announce any "beginning", but in fact a new test had already begun.

"But... this is not right." Qin Xuan looked at all the exhibits, all of which were magic devices of different styles. "This is not Wei Wei's workshop, but just the workshop of one of her personalities - the 'Great Magician'."

Moreover, Qin Xuan discovered that he had already obtained the "spiral" engraving...but Wei Liwei continued to "ask questions".

"My previous guess was wrong... The decision of whether or not to pass the 'trial' is not in Ying Jie's hands."

"——Ling, stop it," Qin Xuan called Ling back from studying the magic device, "We won't play with her anymore."

"Ah, ah, okay!" The little girl had been worrying about not being able to help and was under a lot of psychological pressure. She was relieved that she didn't have to do any useless work.

"—"

Qin Xuan began to violently decipher the dream. The magic devices and the entire display stand were pressed into the wall as if they were flattened in two dimensions. Then the entire wall became even flatter and as thin as paper.

Then Qin Xuan pushed, and the "wallpapers" fell back. The surrounding walls and ceiling were suddenly lifted off like cardboard, revealing the scene outside.

"An island?"

This is probably a scene from Wei Wei's memory, but it's not important at this moment. The point is Wei Wei——

At this moment, she was sitting on a chair with a loudspeaker in her hand - this was the tool she used to broadcast her voice when hosting magic shows. There was also a tape recorder next to her, which was playing various recordings of audience applause, cheers, etc. in a loop.

"Huh? Wait, how did you solve the problem so quickly? I haven't even seen the solving process yet!"

Wei Wei's expression immediately became complicated. Rather than being surprised, it was more like she was very interested in Qin Xuan's "violent method of breaking the deadlock".

"Wait a minute," Qin Xuan didn't have time to chat with her about this. It would have been fine if the Eden people hadn't come out before, but now that he had caught Ying Jie, he had to take the opportunity to ask him, "Who are you?"

Wei Wei raised her eyebrows when she heard that. "Of course I am me. I am Wei Wei - the great magician of the Twilight Era, from the Spiral Workshop -"

"No," Qin Xuan denied, "You are just a 'great magician'."

"Oh?" It was rare for Wei Liwei to hear a voice that understood her situation so well.

"Just a question, do you know who I am? Do you know about the trial?"

"I know."

"But in this trial, you didn't set up the so-called third act. The painting of Sisyphus indicates that you want us to perform all your magic tricks. Instead, you keep coming up with new topics - you are just satisfying your own desires."

"And you call yourself Velvet - let me ask you, what about the other 'experts', 'scholars', 'chefs'...?"

Weiwei's high spirits gradually disappeared, and she seemed to realize that something was unusual.

Qin Xuan knew that this was because the dreamer was not aware that she was dreaming and subconsciously ignored certain unreasonable things, just like she now only had the personality of a magician.

And if this magician personality came from the paradise of the past, then Eden is most likely the same. No matter who did it, it means that there are more than just him and Ling in this dream-3 layer.

However, to Qin Xuan's surprise, Wei Erwei's next sentence revealed another key message:

"It's incredible! And - I don't have a magic device called "Sisyphus" or a painting! - Wow!"

As soon as Wei Wei finished speaking, she found that her body became lighter and disappeared almost in the blink of an eye.

Qin Xuan felt that this was not a trick, Wei Erwei no longer existed here. Did she... wake up from a dream? Because she was reminded, she guessed that she was dreaming?

After all traces of her gradually disappeared, the chairs, machines, wallpaper and other things that were originally there disappeared.

Yet the painting of Sisyphus is still there.

He felt this foreshadowed the next entrance.

"A new location has been unlocked... Ling, don't go there--"

Ling held Qin Xuan's hand tightly and shook her head.

"Lin, you see, right? This isn't a 'play' level."

Now it is no longer Ling's single-player story, but a "shared dream" of multiple heroes, but Ling still follows her inner desire of "not wanting to be alone".

Qin Xuan thought about it and decided to take her with him. He felt that taking Ling with him might be a good choice. Among the remaining heroes that he "hadn't met", the only connection between Ling and him might be Ying.

"gone."

When he was about to trigger the painting, the world turned upside down, the island scenery disappeared in an instant, and turned into a dark passage. Before them, a gloomy and terrifying prison door opened to the two of them.

ps New information:

"Spiral" Marking: Mechanical Control

Chapter 83: Destroy! Destroy! Corridor! Pillar!

Subtitle: Sunny and cheerful big boy (referring to Qianjie

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