Chapter 304: Climbing the Tower (XI)

() After getting the magic beans, the four people did not rush to bury them in the soil, but carried out a comprehensive inspection of the fourth layer.

Clues like those at the end of a rope that can only be discovered if you look closer may not be just one place, you have to check them out. Besides, they also want to know... where did the Tin Woodman go?

It stands to reason that on such soft mud, the Tin Woodman's weight would definitely leave traces. But they only found some footprints next to Don Quixote's body. Just a dozen steps away, the footprints were abruptly interrupted.

If the footprints disappeared by the wall, it could be explained that the Tin Woodman walked into the mural, but that is not the case... The place where the footprints were interrupted was far away from the wall, in an area in the grass, as if the Tin Woodman was there. Suddenly disappeared into thin air while walking.

The mysteries in this script can be said to be one after another, and each one is more bizarre than the last. The Keter-class SCP on the first floor seems to be just a small test... After going up to the third floor, before the whole situation of the Wizard of Oz case was figured out, another Don Quixote died on the fourth floor, and then there was another case of nǎi cows for beans. Such a naughty kid, even Feng Bujue can hardly imagine what he will encounter next...

The exploration went on for ten minutes, but there was no progress, and there was no clear hint as to which area the magic beans should be buried. So, they randomly picked an open space and prepared to plant beans.

"Now I understand why the floor on this floor is made of dirt and grass." Qiu Feng said while using Feng Bujue's folding knife to dig at the ground.

"You don't need to dig too deep. Beanstalks will grow out of the magic beans in the story if you sprinkle them on the soil." The comptroller reminded.

"Tell me, should we plant all the beans, or just plant one and see the reaction?" Feng Bujue took the bag of magic beans, took out one and put it in his hand to examine it.

"Isn't it written as a plot item in the item description?" Honghu said, "It's useless to keep it."

"Maybe there are some hidden attributes, such as eating one to resurrect with full status," Feng Bujue joked.

"That's fairy beans!" Qiu Feng corrected.

"Okay." Feng Bujue said, walked to Qiu Feng and poured a bag of magic beans into the small hole dug by Qiu Feng.

Qiu Feng pushed the soil with his hand and buried it lightly, then handed the knife back to Feng Bujue, patted the dust on his hand and said, "Done."

"It won't be long before there will be changes," the comptroller said.

Feng Bujue said, "How about I give it some water?"

"Why are you holding it back..." Qiu Feng had a bad premonition again, squinting at Feng Bujue and said, "You can't take off your pants in this game, so don't be crazy."

"I said water, but I didn't say water the urine." Feng Bujue said.

"You are the one who mentions shit and urine the most times among all the people I have met since I started playing games..." Honghu couldn't bear it anymore: "From your previous remarks, it seems that you are still in the cultural field. , but why is it worded like this..."

"So what if the wording is elegant? There are many people in my profession who can write well, but their character is not necessarily better than those who speak dirty words. As the saying goes...the Tang dynasty and the Song dynasty are less elegant, and the dirty people are still in the present day." Feng Bujue walked towards a wall as he spoke. After arriving at the wall, he squatted down and used his silver magic shoes to catch some water from the creek on the mural.

"Oh, so there is such a way." Qiu Feng saw the other party coming back with water, and then understood what Feng Bujue meant before.

Two "shoes" of water were poured down, and the water quickly seeped into the soil, and the small mound immediately moved slightly.

The reaction of these four people was not slow. They knew that something was going to happen, and they all backed away a certain distance without being reminded by their companions.

After a few seconds, there was a bang.

A beanstalk as thick as a giant tower breaks out of the ground, advancing straight up like a long dragon. The pointed bud at the top of the beanstalk is like a drill bit, while the stems at the back are intertwined and rolled into a twist.

Players thought that the beanstalk would break through the ceiling of the fourth floor, but unexpectedly, it rushed directly into the "sky" painted on the ceiling.

After a full five minutes, the beanstalk stopped growing and became immobile.

The four of them looked up and could neither see the top of the beanstalk nor what was above the "cloud".

"Well... we probably can't penetrate this scenery..." the chief said.

"Not necessarily." Honghu held up his glasses and looked up: "We just tried four walls, but we haven't tried the ceiling yet..."

"Assuming we can indeed climb into the 'sky' along the beanstalk, looking at the height... I'm afraid we won't be able to reach the end within a kilometer or two." Qiu Feng said.

Feng Bujue said with emotion: "Ah... I remember that I climbed to such a high place and grabbed the super holy water from an immortal on the top of the tower..."

"Isn't it Kalinta!" Qiu Feng roared.

"But...it's okay if the chief holds a hat, but Qiu Feng holds a broom, how should he climb?" Honghu said.

"How about holding it in your mouth?" Feng Bujue suggested.

"Come here!" Qiu Feng handed the broom to Feng Bujue unceremoniously.

"Okay." Feng Bujue agreed readily and handed the pair of shoes to the other party: "Hold this for me."

Qiu Feng was completely shocked. He took the shoes dully and stuffed them into his pocket (Qiu Feng's pocket was larger than Feng Bujue's long suit), and then...he looked at Feng Bujue holding the broom with shocked eyes. He bit it sideways and walked calmly towards the beanstalk.

"I remember when I was practicing the three-sword style stunt, I held a knife handle thicker than this in my mouth like this all day long..." Feng Bujue bit the broom, talking incoherently, and his mouth was drooling.

"I'll bet you fifty cents that this guy has mental problems..." Qiu Feng looked at Feng Bujue's back with empty eyes.

The accountant and Honghu beside him replied together: "What's the point of gambling on such an obvious thing..."

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The physical abilities of these four players in the game are far beyond those of ordinary people, and climbing along the beanstalk is quite easy. Not long after, they had successfully entered the "sky" painted on the ceiling. Of course, from their perspective, the world around them is still 3D.

From this moment on, it was unclear which floor they were on. Visually, if they climbed for another ten minutes, the four of them would exceed the height that any building should have.

Just crawling like this... About twenty minutes later, they saw a golden cloud. The cloud was obviously physical, and it was close to the beanstalk. There was a giant leaf on the stem that stretched out towards the cloud side and hung beside the cloud.

Seeing this obvious path, the four people immediately became energetic and accelerated their climb. Two minutes later, they jumped into the clouds.

Standing on the golden clouds, your vision is suddenly clear. This place is like a continent on the clouds, everything is shrouded in a golden brilliance.

Just over a hundred meters away, stands a Disney-style castle that is common in fairy tales. Looking far into the distance, you can vaguely see a long ladder on the highest spire of the castle, which leads all the way to a cloud above.

"From that ladder, you should be able to reach the fifth floor." Feng Bujue said.

"You actually still have the concept of a building now?" Qiu Feng said.

"Compared with the floors, I care more about...where did the Tin Woodman go? Will I encounter him on the floors above?" Honghu pondered.

"I think it's better to focus on the situation at hand first." The Controller said: "If we are still in the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk", in the castle ahead...will there be giants living there?"

"Here, take your broom and pick it up." Feng Bujue ignored what the others said and handed the broom to Qiu Feng.

"Just take it, I'll take care of the shoes." Qiu Feng didn't want to pick up the broom stained with saliva.

"Really?" Feng Bujue asked in a long tone.

"It's necessary." Qiu Feng replied.

"Okay!" Feng Bujue agreed simply, then put the broom horizontally behind his neck, spread his arms horizontally, put his wrists on both ends of the broom, and staggered towards the direction of the castle, saying something He hummed and sang: "The sea of ​​suffering ~ love and hate ~ in this world ~ it is difficult to escape fate ~"

"Haha...haha..." Honghu couldn't help but laugh: "He really... can have fun no matter what the situation."

"I can't help but admire him on this point." The comptroller agreed.

The three of them followed Brother Jue towards the castle, and arrived at the gate a few minutes later.

"It's obvious when you get here." Feng Bujue said: "At least judging from the size of this door, the people living in this castle are not giants." He was right. Although the height and width of this door are relatively large, Large, but apparently still for normal-sized humans.

"Then shall we knock on the door or..." Before Chief finished speaking, Feng Bujue had already retreated ten meters away.

"I support you mentally!" He stood at the back and shouted as if it was a matter of course.

"Then let me call the door this time." The chief accountant said. He has not taken the lead so far. According to the rotation system, it is his turn.

Pang pong pong——

The chief grabbed the ring on the door and knocked three times. After about twenty seconds, there was no movement in the door, so he knocked three more times.

After a minute, there was still no response.

They separated to the left and right, trying to look in through the windows, but the windows of the castle were very high and made of tinted glass. Under the golden light, they could not see the situation inside at all.

"There is no other way... let's break through." Qiu Feng suggested.

Honghu nodded and hummed in agreement.

The controller rushed forward and said: "Leave it to me. I can still open a door of this level." He faced the door, took a stance, moved his skills as he pleased, and pushed out with one palm.

As a result... nothing happened.

"Haha... I'm sorry, my fighting expertise is only level E, and my skill failed." The chief controller said with a naive smile.

Honghu and Qiufeng both smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's normal."

The accountant said, "I'll try again." After that, he did it again.

This time it seemed to be successful. I saw a palm wind whistling forward and hitting the door lock area. A washbasin-sized hole was blasted in the middle of the thick door. The two door panels immediately became loose and moved towards both sides. Move away slowly.

Among non-combatant players, basically everyone has this kind of practical E-level active fighting skill. Even if they can't get it in the script, players will go to the auction house to collect one. Anyway, this skill is not expensive, and the price/performance ratio is good.

Only Feng Bujue takes the puzzle route and doesn't specialize in buying skills, but he messes around and gets his fighting expertise to C level...

"Crazy brother, it's not dangerous. Can you come here?" Honghu turned around and shouted: "If the door suddenly closes automatically, it will be troublesome."

Feng Bujue didn't need him to remind him. He had already been squinting in the distance for a long time. When Honghu opened his mouth, he was already moving forward.

The four people walked into the castle together. After opening the door, there was an upward curved staircase diagonally in front of them. The stairs clung to the four walls and went upward in a circle. A giant chandelier is suspended from an extremely long chain, hanging from the top. The dome is very high, but this chandelier is very close to the ground, only more than two meters high, and can be reached by reaching out.

Bypassing the stairs leads to both ends and the back of the first floor of the castle. Naturally, the four of them did not go upstairs immediately, but planned to explore the first floor of the castle to see if there was any equipment or clues.

In the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk", the castle where the giant lives has a "chicken that lays golden eggs". Even if there are no golden eggs in the castle in front of you, it would be good to have a few tips.

But it doesn't matter if you don't explore it, you will lose your sanity points if you explore it...

This castle is more bizarre than magnificent. In the golden, dreamy light, the castle did not give people a fairy tale feeling at all, but instead had an indescribable weird atmosphere.

The design of the stairs and chandelier at the front entrance is already a bit baffling, but this is just the beginning. Designs like this are everywhere inside...

For example, in the restaurant on the first floor, there is a long table in the middle, more than ten meters long. It is actually covered with a zebra-print tablecloth, and there are dozens of huge high chairs on both sides... It looks like it is for tennis match referees.

There is also the kitchen sink and cooking table. The former is as big as a bathtub, and the latter is as small as a mobile phone screen; the stove is as low as the squat pit in the toilet, and firewood is added from a sloping slope. of.

Let's talk about the dance hall. The dance floor in the middle is not round or square, but in the shape of a lightning bolt, the kind where a fast cobra can run with lightning. The stage for the band to stand on is like a concave slope for skateboarding, and the U-shaped ground cannot place large instruments flatly.

"Hmm... This castle looks like a twenty-nine-year-old woman." Feng Bujue commented leisurely when the four of them returned to the main entrance on the first floor after visiting the castle.

"Endocrine disorder?" Qiufeng asked.

Feng Bujue said: "I originally wanted to say it was hysterical and unreasonable, but I didn't expect you to say such words with a personal attack."

"Who is the person who is attacking you personally? You pointed out your age, gender, and personality, and I just mentioned a physiological phenomenon, and it turns out that I am being attacked personally!" Qiu Feng roared.

"Okay... the decoration design here has nothing to do with us." Honghu said: "Since there is nothing to gain from the first floor, let's go up and have a look."

Everyone immediately climbed up the stairs at the main entrance. The stairs actually led them all the way to the top, without even a door or entrance in the middle.

"It seems that in order to enter the middle floors of this castle, you need to take a detour from the top." The chief inspector said: "Or... there is a secret passage hidden on the first floor, and we didn't find it?"

"No, no, no... castles are usually like this." Feng Bujue denied: "If you have a cross-section of the castle, you will understand that the area in the middle is often the last to reach, you have to follow the In a certain order, you pass through various places such as the front porch, chapel, back porch, butoh pavilion, underground water basin, and clock tower, and finally reach the middle.”

"The middle area is called the 'Highest Level of Castlevania', right? Before, you had to kill a BOSS every time you went to a place, and then get a new skill, right?" Honghu couldn't help but complain.

"Yes." Feng Bujue nodded and said to the chief accountant: "Look, this is someone who knows his stuff."

"You know what you are doing, as if no one has ever played Castlevania..."

Everyone chatted and soon came to the end of the stairs. There, there is an arched wooden door.

Qiufeng walked at the front and was the first to see the words written on the door.

It was a line of golden engraved text, in English, with a rather fancy font. The content was: [Unreasonable things may not always be obvious. 】

"Are you coming?" Qiu Feng said, "That goes without saying... there is a corpse waiting for us inside the door." After saying that, he simply pushed the door open.

Four players filed in, and what appeared in front of them was a bedroom.

This was probably the most normal room they had seen since entering the castle. With pink walls and ceilings, wooden floors, a large bed in the middle of the room, and a dressing table and wardrobe beside the wall, this is obviously a woman's room, or... a princess's boudoir.

"Hey... there's someone on the bed." Qiu Feng noticed at a glance that the quilt on the bed was slightly raised, and the body sleeping in it was still rising and falling slightly.

"Leave me alone!" Feng Bujue reacted quickly, shouted loudly, swung the broom to the ground and rushed forward.

The other three people restrained him at that time, and the chief was the first to ask: "What do you want to do?"

Before Feng Bujue could answer, Qiu Feng said first: "Isn't this the lice on the bald man's head? It's obvious..." He snorted coldly: "Looking at this situation, the story of Sleeping Beauty is gone."

"Well... according to the order of taking turns to lead the attack, this time it should be..." Honghu's glasses glowed with white light, and he stepped forward as he spoke.

"Trident grapple!" Feng Bujue rushed forward with all his strength, blocking Honghu from behind and throwing him to the ground: "Hmph...Mu Mu, do you think you can get away with it by pretending to be calm?"

"Even if you forget for a moment that my ID is Honghu... Mu Mu is too..."

Before Honghu finished speaking, Qiufeng said, "What are you doing? It's so ungentlemanly. The princess will be so disappointed when she wakes up." He said, straightening his collar, "In this situation, I'll take care of it..."

"Invincible Beacon Wheel!" Feng Bujue rushed towards Qiufeng again, "Lei Qiu, I advise you not to act rashly... There is a long row of steps outside the door. With my Invincible Beacon Wheel, even God will kill you!"

Although the three of them were having a good time, it was just a joke. Teammates could not really hurt each other.

However, looking at the behavior of these people, the more stable chief accountant still stood by and shook his head.

"Ah..." Suddenly, a man's low voice came from the quilt.

This voice instantly froze all four players.

"You are so noisy... so noisy!" The voice roared domineeringly.

The next second...

But then, a tall werewolf with gray mane all over his body, wearing a pink bathrobe and a plastic shower cap, lifted the quilt and sat up. (To be continued.)