“This door can’t be opened anymore. If we want to go to the glass greenhouse, we can only go forward.” The white-collared woman spoke quickly. “There is a 10 minute time limit, go quickly.”
The three of them sped up and quickly passed through this magnificent corridor.
The black tower’s mission came too abruptly and there was a very short time limit. 10 minutes was a very subtle number and no one could say whether it was long or short. It was because they didn’t know where the glass greenhouse was. If the greenhouse was far from the corridor, they certainly needed to hurry up. If the corridor was the greenhouse, they could observe the environment slowly.
In any case, the black tower’s prompt told the players that ‘there is definitely a way to reach the glass greenhouse in 10 minutes.’
Tang Mo was moving at the rear of the team. The white-collared woman had taken control of the team’s leadership from the beginning and she walked in the forefront. Tang Mo ran forward while quietly observing the actions of the baby-faced youth. It was in order to stop him from doing something like ‘punching the window’ again.
But the baby-faced youth didn’t do anything abnormal along the way.
The three people crossed the corridor, pushed open the door and entered a dark room. They suddenly entered darkness. Tang Mo grasped the handle of the small parasol and watched for any unknown dangers in the darkness. The three people stood still and didn’t move. After two seconds, Tang Mo and the white-collared woman pulled out flashlights and turned them on.
The white-collared woman said, “It seems to be an ordinary bedroom.” She used the flashlight and illuminated every corner of the room.
It was a European-style princess room with lace window curtains and a round princess bed, a plush carpet spread on the floor. A dressing table was placed in a corner of the room, three small feather fans inserted into a small cylinder on the dressing table. One had red dyed feathers, one had green dyed feathers and one was strangely dyed bright purple.
After the three of them observed the room, Tang Mo shone the flashlight behind him.
He saw it. “There isn’t a door.”
The white-collared woman hastened towards him and saw that there was a white wardrobe behind the three of them. She exclaimed, “Didn’t we just open a door to enter?”
Tang Mo pulled at the wardrobe. He used 70% of his strength but couldn’t open the wardrobe door. He calmly said, “I once encountered a problem of space time chaos in a game. We just opened a small door and entered the bedroom., Now the door is gone and has become this wardrobe. Perhaps in this game, we need to pay attention to the problem of space.”
The white-collared woman nodded. “Okay. It has been two minutes. We need to find the glass greenhouse.”
Tang Mo followed as the white-collared woman continued to move forward. His flashlight moved around the room, illuminating the baby-faced youth. Tang Mo’s eyes flashed across his face and saw that the baby-faced youth was looking at him meaningfully, revealing a strange smile.
Tang Mo’s expression didn’t change as he continued to go forward.
They left the bedroom and arrived at a strange tunnel. Tang Mo looked back at the door of the bedroom they had just gone through. His eyes narrowed. “Sure enough, the door has disappeared.”
The woman also looked back. “This space game does have some problems but it might be because the glass greenhouse is in a distant location. With our speed, we might not get there in 10 minutes under normal circumstances.” Thus the game would change the space and shorted the distance.
This guess had a hint of truth. Tang Mo wanted to point out the loophole but the woman said, “Come on, there are only 5 minutes and 32 seconds left.”
Tang Mo was slightly stunned and followed.
…This woman’s sense of time was too strong.
Perhaps due to time constraints, the three people moved down this road without any more disputes or discussions. If they encountered a problem, they would speak their guess as quickly as possible before hurrying forward.
The baby-faced youth didn’t speak. He just followed Tang Mo and the white woman while smiling. When Tang Mo and the woman discussed a problem, he listened like he was interested. But when the two of them looked at him, the baby-faced youth wouldn’t give them any response. He just smiled strangely.
This tunnel was much longer than the two corridors they encountered before.
In the dark and narrow tunnel, a small brazier was hung on both sides of the wall in 10 metre intervals. Dim flames faintly flickered on both sides of the tunnel. Tang Mo walked at the end of the team and watched the small braziers on both sides. The small black braziers were engraved with strange curves. There wasn’t a pattern, just these strange curves.
The curves on each brazier was different, as if the craftsmen just drew as they liked and there were no rules to follow.
‘The brazier in this tunnel doesn’t need to be carved with beautiful patterns. No one will see it.’ Tang Mo thought.
Suddenly.
“Ah! I love this!”
A loud voice echoed in the narrow corridor, causing the woman to jump with fright. She turned around and cried out, “What are you doing?”
Tang Mo had already prepared for all sorts of actions from the baby-faced youth. He stared coldly at the other person as the baby-faced youth reached out and touched a small brazier on the wall. The black brazier was hot from the flames. When the baby-faced youth touched it, a sizzling sound entered Tang Mo and the woman’s ears.
The baby-faced youth didn’t seem to feel the heat or the pain. He smiled and touched the brazier, his finger moving over the curved patterns. “Isn’t this like a heart?”
Tang Mo looked at this small brazier.
This small brazier had a crooked curve. Perhaps it was unintentionally but after this curve was bent, it vaguely looked like a little love shape It was just that the last stroke wasn’t good, making the ‘love’ shape miss a part.
The baby-faced youth touched it a few times before retracting his hand. The speed of his hand was very fast but Tang Mo’s sharp eyes noticed that his hand was intact and wasn’t burnt at all. He said regretfully, “It is a pity that this heart wasn’t finished. Do you think it is implying something about the game?” The baby-faced youth suddenly turned to look at Tang Mo.
Tang Mo was calm and didn’t speak to him.
He smiled and looked at the woman. “An unfinished expression of love, it might represent a love with no ending.”
The woman, “…”
“You are sick!”
The baby-faced youth wasn’t angry when he was scolded. He just laughed. The woman no longer paid attention to him and took the time to move forward. The baby-faced youth also followed. Tang Mo carefully observed the youth for a while before looking at the brazier’s patterns again. This time, he no longer merely observed the curves. He started to pay attention to the graphics formed by these curves.
A heart pattern was purely a coincidence and Tang Mo didn’t see any similar special patterns. But the more he looked at these intricate curves, the more a sense of familiarity filled his mind. His gaze was fixed on these curves and couldn’t be removed. The sense of familiarity was so strong that Tang Mo couldn’t think about what it was.
The trio walked for three minutes and still hadn’t left this tunnel.
Just then, a strange laugh was heard above their heads. Tang Mo immediately clenched his small parasol, while the woman and the baby-faced youth looked above them. There was the sound of spluttering flames in the narrow tunnel and Tang Mo continued to search the top of the tunnel. He soon saw something.
“What is that?” The woman was surprised. She looked to the side and said again, “There is another one!”
At the top f the tunnel, there were two small crow status hanging on both sides of the wall. Once the woman found the two stone statues, one of the crows unexpected spoke. “Charles, have you heard that the queen once again seized an underground person and threw him into Gem Corridor?”
“Dear Reed, what makes you think that you are more well-informed than your older brother? Of course I know. The Queen of Hearts seized a dirty and smell underground man and threw him into her favourite Gem Corridor. I also know that the underground man has become a statue! Just like you and me, the underground people who can’t find the exit of the corridor will become stone statues and become a decoration of the Queen of Hearts’ beautiful gem castle.”
The other stone statue, Reed said, “Dear Charles, you are only one minute ahead of me. Don’t call yourself my older brother again. It makes me sick.”
“But dear Reed, even when it came to turning into a crow statue, I changed three seconds earlier than you. So I will always be your older brother.”
“This is awful!”
The two crows screamed together and laughed. They seemed to be competing over who was louder. Once this lasted for a moment, one of the crows asked, “Dear Charles, do you think these three humans will also become stone statues? There are a few people in the world who can get out of the Gem Corridor, such as that little girl. I think they will become bug statues, like that big bug outside the castle.”
Big bug, big bug outside the castle.
Tang Mo thought about how the Big Mole once said there was a bug on the second floor of the black tower. The Iron Shoemaker also said that the unique poison used by Xing Feng was from the second floor of the black tower.
Was the Gem Castle of the Queen of Hearts located on the black tower’s second floor? This was the same as the floor number he was attacking. The woman and the baby-faced youth, were they also attacking the second floor of the black tower?
“Not good, there are only 45 seconds left!” The woman suddenly shouted loudly.
Tang Mo’s heart tightened.
Just now, the crow statues had suddenly spoke and the three of them stopped moving. Now there were only dozens of seconds left. The three people no longer thought about others. Tang Mo rushed to the small wooden door at the end of the tunnel at the fastest speed. He kicked the door open and hadn’t yet entered. A black shadow rushed through the door right after he kicked it open.
Then Tang Mo ran in and he was followed by the woman. She ran the slowest but also successfully left the tunnel.
Once the three people left the tunnel, a loud voice was heard in their ears.
“Ding dong! The branch mission ‘Arrive at the glass greenhouse within 10 minutes’ has been completed.”
“Ding dong! Triggered branch mission two: Find the moon flower that loves to lie.”
