Chapter 273: Balance and the Gate

Chapter 273: Balance and the Gate

Chapter 273: Balance and the Gate

This time, Luo Xi still didn't take more. Like the copper coins, he only took 100 silver coins and converted them all into cards.

"Can you let me see it?" Doudou stretched out her hand at this time. She knew that people who recall memories have their own advantages.

That's the card.

Administrators have the advantage of directly strengthening their physical fitness.

The Memory Picker can turn card props into cards, and all cards, in addition to lifelike illustrations, also have some "text descriptions".

These are all very critical information.

Luo Xi handed over a few.

Doudou looked at it and was stunned.

[Copper Coin], this is a copper coin, it is a metal currency, representing a certain unit of value - you can use it to buy things.

[Silver Coin], this is a silver coin, it is a metal currency that represents a certain unit of value - you can use it to buy things.

"That's it?" Doudou felt that this description was nothing more than nonsense.

After saying that, he gave it back to Luo Xi.

"Let's go and check the gold coins in the back."

According to the plot of the story of "Tinderbox", the next one is the room of gold coins.

Sure enough, the two of them found the third room very smoothly.

On the equally huge box was a dog with eyes so big that they were scary.

The dog's eyes were so big that a car could be driven directly into them. Doudou's reaction was much greater than the previous two times. Her face was pale as she stared at the third dog. The fear in her heart had reached its peak. This time, she didn't dare to act rashly.

She felt that she could easily control the first dog, and she was evenly matched with the second one. By the third one, she felt that she was no match for this dog. She even had a sense of crisis that the dog would bite her to death immediately, and this feeling was extremely strong.

"Dou Dou, where did you get these dogs from?" Luo Xi was still calm and as if he was moving a flower pot. He picked up the dog with exaggeratedly huge eyes and placed it on the blue plaid apron.

"I told you it wasn't me. Wait a minute, I was wondering about one thing just now. The first dog was fine, but the second and third ones are so big, how come it seemed like you could lift them effortlessly? I'm afraid it would be difficult for me to lift dogs of this size." Doudou wiped the sweat from his forehead, then reacted and asked.

"Because this dog only looks like it has big eyes, but it is actually not heavy. Why don't you try it?" Luo Xi said with a smile, reaching out to touch the big-eyed dog's chin, and teasing it with a sucking sound.

The head cannot be touched.

too big.

"Forget it!" Doudou took a look at the weird big-eyed dog. Although he had some ideas, he finally waved his hand.

Luo Xi walked over and opened the third big box.

In an instant, golden light shone.

The gold coins in the box glowed golden under the light in the room, instantly dyeing the whole room golden.

"It's just like the story of the tinderbox." Doudou looked at the box full of gold coins. If an ordinary person saw so much gold, he would definitely be excited. After all, this is definitely a fortune that is enough for him to squander his entire life.

However, gold does not play a big role during the days of confinement, at least that's what Doudou thinks.

But she still grabbed two handfuls of gold coins and stuffed them into her pockets, enjoying the feeling of satisfaction that she knew was false.

Luo Xi's reaction was the same as when he faced the copper and silver coin boxes before.

He picked up a gold coin expressionlessly, examined it carefully, weighed it in his hand, and then turned it into a card.

It also said: This is a gold coin, a metal currency that represents a certain unit of value - you can use it to buy things.

There doesn't seem to be anything special.

Luo Xi still turned the 100 gold coins into cards and put them into the card book.

"These are gold coins, why don't you take some more?" Doudou's pockets were now full.

"According to the plot, neither copper coins, silver coins nor gold coins are the most important." Luo Xi rummaged through the gold coins in the big box, and soon found something in it.

Reach out and take this thing out.

"A tinderbox is a portable device for storing fire, usually made of metal or hardwood, shaped like a small box, usually containing tinder and flint. This one is exquisitely made, with a brass shell and a curved wooden handle at the end, carved with the sun, flames, flowers and dogs."

Luo Xi was carefully observing the tinderbox in his hand at this moment.

"This thing is so easy to find?" Doudou was a little bit unbelievable. She had read the original story a long time ago and could not remember the specific details. She could only remember the general idea.

A soldier met a witch, who asked him to find a tinderbox in a tree hole. There were three dogs and three boxes under the tree hole. The boxes contained copper coins, silver coins and gold coins respectively. The witch said that all other kinds of wealth could be given to the soldier, and he only needed to bring out a tinderbox from inside and give it to her.

As a result, the soldier found the tinderbox, but instead of giving it to the witch, he chopped off her head with a sword. After that, the soldier killed the king and queen, married the princess, and became the new king.
"To be honest, this fairy tale is quite dark, and its values ​​are not correct," Doudou muttered.

She looked at the lighter in Luo Xi's hand and suddenly realized something.

"If the old woman just now is a witch, then she said that whether or not we can enter Fairy Tale Town next depends entirely on our choice. In other words, you need to choose whether to return the tinderbox to her?" Doudou is the administrator, and many of the games in Doudou's playhouse are designed by her.

Therefore, this selective plot, which is based on the original plot as a blueprint for secondary creation and processing, can be easily deduced.

"So, should we choose to give it to her or not?" Luo Xi asked back at this time.

Indeed, if "whether to return the tinderbox" is a choice, then one does need to choose between two options.

Different choices will inevitably lead to different results.

"I think we should just follow the plot, and the tinderbox must be a key prop. If I were a game designer, I would be able to think of this possibility. But the company's requirement is to design puzzles and traps within the rules as much as possible to make the Memory Collector fail or trigger a trap that leads to his death. If it's that simple, it deviates from the original intention!" Doudou was obviously caught in some kind of entanglement.

She was thinking, if her goal was to "enter the fairy tale town", then which path should she choose at this critical fork in the road.

The old woman said it clearly just now. You only have one chance to make any choice. If you make the wrong choice, the game will fail, and you will naturally not be able to travel to the real fairy tale town.

She began to scratch her hair anxiously.

Luo Xi flipped his hand and turned the tinderbox into a card, then materialized it, and then turned it into a card again, repeating the cycle over and over again.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing." Luo Xi restored the card-like tinderbox and thought for a moment, "According to the story, this thing can summon the three dogs we met before. If you strike the fire once, the dog on the copper coin box will come. If you strike the fire twice, the dog on the silver coin box will come. If you strike the fire three times, the dog on the gold coin box will be summoned. All three dogs will obey orders. In addition to fighting and bringing copper, silver and gold coins anytime and anywhere, they can also satisfy their owner's desires like Aladdin's magic lamp."

After saying that, Luo Xi took the tinderbox in his hand and murmured, "It's not surprising at all to give such a powerful thing a number."

"What?" Doudou was stunned.

She looked at Luo Xi's hand. The tinderbox in the other's hand was turned into a card again. Looking closely, it turned out to be a numbered card.

No. 019 [Tinderbox].

Doudou's eyes widened in disbelief, with an indescribable emotion at the same time.

“It turned out to be a numbered card”

"Yes, I was also surprised when I got it just now. How should I put it? The difficulty of obtaining this numbered card does not seem to be high, or it should be said that there is no difficulty at all." Luo Xi materialized the card again.

"It can't be said that there is no difficulty. At least this process from the previous entrance to taking the boat and then entering here is not easy. If you make the slightest mistake, you may fail or even lose your life!" Doudou said after thinking about it.

"This difficulty level is not worthy of this numbered card. It's like an appetizer before the main course. The taste is too bad. Compared with the main course, the grade is totally inconsistent. So this main course looks more like a piece of sweet cheese in a mousetrap. It's obviously a bait."

Luo Xi smiled and threw the tinderbox back into the big box full of gold coins.

"You don't want it anymore?" Doudou saw what Luo Xi was planning.

Luo Xi nodded: "The description on this card is, a tinderbox with magical power, which can summon a loyal demon dog to execute any of your commands. It can also bring you wealth that you can't imagine. The small print at the back is, a desire amplifier!"

"Desire?" Doudou seemed to have figured something out: "This thing is a double-edged sword. Using it will bring some disadvantages!"

"Obviously, although I don't care about the disadvantages of this card, and even want to take this card prop out for myself and try its power, I can be 100% sure that if I take this tinderbox, I will definitely miss the Fairy Tale Town." Luo Xi stood up and continued to move forward.

Doudou immediately followed, but couldn't help but look back: "How do you know? Don't tell me this is your sixth sense."

"In addition to the sixth sense, there are other bases. For example, in your analysis just now, you think that 'returning the tinderbox' is a choice, but I think the real choice is 'removing the tinderbox'. Because the protagonist of the fairy tale is the soldier, you will inevitably bring this role into consideration when considering the plot, but in fact, neither you nor I are the protagonists. So, if you look at this matter from the perspective of an observer, a situation will occur. The tinderbox is still here, which means that the 'soldier' ​​has not come yet. If we take the tinderbox away, then the fairy tale plot we know will not happen."

Just as he said this, Luo Xi discovered that there was another fork in the road ahead.

The passage on the left is blocked by an iron door, and the passage on the right also has an iron door, but it is open.

Obviously, the only way to get to this fork is to go to the right.

The two men passed through the iron gate on the right and continued forward. Soon, they came to a very strange place. There was only a suspension bridge here, connected to a large device about ten meters ahead that was obviously tilted to one side.

And all around, there was a bottomless abyss, pitch black and dark, with no bottom in sight.

"What is this place?" Doudou was stunned.

"Aren't you playing together? I should be the one asking you this question." Luo Xi joked.

Looking closely, although the large device in front is tilted to the left and right, it looks very symmetrical. It is connected by a pillar that looks like a log, and there is a huge metal basin like a bowl on each side.

Doudou suddenly reacted.

“This looks like a balance.”

Luo Xi nodded, but his eyes were looking at a door behind the balance, hanging on the rock wall opposite the cliff.

(End of this chapter)