Classic revival of infinite games

Chapter 16: The Shadow of the Chamber
There were shadows in the house, but Ye Man didn't panic.

She stabbed the smooth-edged shadow monster with the shadow reflected by the front end of the straight-handled umbrella.

I saw it twist and dodge, and then walked out of the shadows.

It was a small child's shadow, with tousled curly hair, clinging to the ground like a flexible piece of black paper.

Ye Man squatted on the ground to observe it.

It also straightened up, crossed its hips, and observed Ye Man leisurely.

It even boldly came up and poked Ye Man's shadow with the shadow of its finger.What Ye Man felt was an extremely cold finger.

Ye Man stretched out his hand and waved, making a "Hello" gesture.

It just stretched out its whole arm, waved its hands in a big gesture, and responded enthusiastically to "Hello".

Ye Man pointed to the electric light, and put his hands on his hips as if angry.Meaning: Is the light on the first day a good thing you did?

Tong Ying nodded deeply, exaggeratedly, her whole body seemed to be bowing.

Then it trembled with laughter, bent over and slapped its thighs.

Although the shadow was laughing, he didn't make a sound at all.

"Bear boy, bad boy. You are not good, you are too naughty!" Ye Man said loudly, but it didn't respond to this sentence.

Ye Man tried several times with various styles of words - cold jokes, eccentricities, and exaggerated words, all to no avail.

She finally came to the conclusion that words cannot travel between the world of the living and the world of shadows.

Thinking back, she only heard the rustling of rats, but not their chirping.Seeing people filling the square, you can only hear the tinkling of the blacksmith shop, but not the noisy voices of people.

That phone is the only cross-world communication tool in this world, and it is still one-way.

So now, how should we communicate with this little shadow?

Finally, a non-hostile shadow appeared who spotted her, Ye Man didn't want to miss this opportunity.

After thinking about it, she went to the kitchen and found cans of corn and chickpeas.

She opened the cans one by one, poured the beans and corn on the ground, and spread them in a thin and dense layer.Then she stretched out her fingers and scratched a crack in the beans.

The cut part is found by the light and has no shadow, while the part piled with beans completely blocks the light and is completely black.Through the light and shadow of the beans and the gaps, a "small blackboard" is made in this way.

The little shadow came over curiously.

She wrote "Hi" on the "little blackboard".The child's shadow saw it and waved to her happily.

This method works!

Next, she wanted to confirm a conjecture through this child.

The shadow of this child is most likely the child of the seamstress.

The seamstress is missing a person who is extremely important to her, and I don't know why she came here by chance.

But it was not easy for the shadow to come here.That's why he was directly judged as missing.

Ye Man tried to write "tailor" on the "small blackboard".It's a pity that the Douzi blackboard is not very precise and cannot handle too many strokes.

With an idea, she changed it to "Mum" (mother), took out the small scissors from her backpack, and made a gesture of cutting things.

The child nodded greatly in surprise and turned around happily.

In this way, the conjecture was confirmed: the shadow of the child was the missing son of the seamstress.

Just as Ye Man wanted to confirm his next conjecture, he suddenly felt an irresistible sleepiness.

She struggled to look at the clock with her eyelids, it was 12 o'clock.

The sleep was the same as the night before, as if something was obstinately trapping her and preventing her from waking up.

[Day 3] 10 am.

Ye Man woke up.

Another rose fell.Ye Man is keenly aware that this is a countdown.

She carefully counted the number of petals on the rose—two fell and four remained.

The petals are all falling, which means Game Over, something terrible should happen.

Six petals, six days countdown.

What is her ultimate goal in this countdown?

Judging from the current clues, this city belongs to the undead, and she, the living, does not belong here. Therefore, it is not difficult to speculate that with the six-day countdown, her goal should be to escape from this city.

The house she was in had little hope at present, while the others were inhabited by shadows.

"Is brute force cracking possible?" Ye Man wondered.

She took out her potato shovel and lightly shoveled the wall on the windowless side of the house.

The whole house began to shake, and a lot of wall dust fell rustlingly.

It doesn't seem to work, this room affects the whole body.Do not use this method unless absolutely necessary.

Other methods are also not acceptable.

There are no chimneys in the house, and the vents face the square.

Ye Man walked out of the house and found that the roof of the whole house was arc-shaped, which was extraordinarily smooth.

If you want to climb up, you can't even hang on the rope, let alone rock climbing with your bare hands.

It seems that the game designers have eliminated the possibility of players violently cracking the game in many ways, and there is only one way left to decrypt.

The phone rang as scheduled, and Ye Man picked it up to answer: "How are you recently? Whenever this happens, I will think of you. Especially after my son disappeared, I have nowhere to rest my heart. The days have become more and more serious. He has grown up and can do many things. Our guards have been patrolling frequently during the day recently, hoping to find my son through this."

The previous current shield disappeared, and the key character "son" was unlocked.

The key characters of this dungeon were unlocked one by one, and the background of the whole dungeon gradually became clear.

Lonely single mother, son, plague, white roses, daily phone calls, endless thoughts...

Facing the empty receiver, Ye Man said the second key word of the copy: "A Letter from a Strange Woman."

On the other side of the receiver, a calm electronic female voice really sounded: "Congratulations on unlocking the key word of the famous book - "Letter from a Strange Woman". Now I will play Mr. Otto's voice recording for you."

This time, what sounded inside was no longer the voice of a weird monster, but the voice of a thick man, and many voice clips were played inside:
“Something really bad is happening in this city. The streets are full of biting rats. Hell, I’m getting out of here.”

"Some of the mice look weird and it looks like holding an umbrella at night might help."

"It's all broken umbrellas... I ordered a lot of umbrellas, and a lot of them are still bitten. I'm back and need more umbrellas."

"A figure appeared at night and broke the ribs of the umbrella I had finally customized. Is this a ghost town? Why is that person only a shadow but no entity!!"

"No, I'm going to collapse if I go any further. A strange woman said she could help me. I hope she's serious."

"Oh, thank goodness, her house has a back door! I'm getting out of here, never again, the hell!"

The recording ends here.

The back door of the seamstress is the key to escape from the city.

It's just that the writer and the seamstress were both alive at that time, and because they were the seamstress' crush, they were able to get help out of the city unconditionally.

As a "heterogeneous" in the city, Ye Man needs to survive at night, how can he get help from the seamstress?

She thought of the little shadow, the seamstress' son.

This shadow is the key to breaking the game.

(End of this chapter)