Section 3481 Wooden Stairs

Angel finally resisted the urge to run.

Although in Angel's opinion, there is no difference between "running" and "walking", who knows if it will violate the prohibition?

Once the road disappears because of "running", you can only start all over again.

This is more time-consuming than pursuing temporary speed.

So, he still suppressed the will that was about to run away and walked step by step.

In fact, in order to avoid mistakes, the frequency and distance of each step he took were exactly the same as the mechanical puppet.

This time, they walked for a quarter of an hour without any wind or waves before the mechanical puppet stopped.

"Should we be there?" Angel muttered in a low voice.

In the process of walking, he actually kept estimating the distance. Just talking about the distance traveled, they were close to the limit of more than ten miles mentioned by Lu Nuo.

However, because many of the roads summoned by the mechanical puppets are winding. If we talk about the straight-line distance, it will take some distance to reach the limit.

Angel didn't know whether the mechanical puppet calculated the straight-line distance or the travel distance.

However, even if we calculate the distance, it is estimated to be only one or two sections.

When Angel was thinking this, the mechanical puppet waved his hand again.

Under its feet, a new long road stretched out, but this long road was completely different from the previous one.

To make an analogy...

The three roads they had experienced before could barely be called "normal roads"; and now, what appeared in front of them was a "track".

From Angel's perspective, the track in front of them, which was up and down, and even had continuous large loops, was exactly the same as the roller coaster track in the amusement park. Oh, no, there is still a difference. The track in the amusement park at least has a roller coaster, but this track has nothing.

It seems... it seems to be forced to walk again?

The next second, the mechanical puppet jumped onto the track, turned around and said a long string of words to Angel and Laplace, with his expression constantly changing during the process, and dancing, as if telling a long story.

After the mechanical puppet finished telling the unknown story, it started on the road.

This time, Angel observed very carefully and finally confirmed that the track this time was indeed the same as before, still "hard walking". However, the mechanical puppet combined "walking" and "running" this time.

On the flat road, it walked slowly, like a stroll.

When the large loop track appeared, the mechanical puppet began to prepare to run, and with the inertia of the swift force, it quickly passed the large loop to avoid falling directly into the void when it was head down.

If it were handed over to ordinary people, this would most likely not be passed, because the curvature of the large loop was too large, and it was difficult for ordinary people to reach the clearance conditions at their speed.

However, for Angel and Laplace, even if they did not use extraordinary abilities and only relied on the strength of their physical bodies, they could still easily pass the large loop.

Because it was a combination of walking and running, the time this time was obviously faster than before.

It took only five minutes to reach the end of the track.

At this point, even if it was calculated as a straight-line distance, it had reached the limit that Lu Nuo said.

So, this should be the end?

Angel looked back and looked around, and could not see anything, neither a glowing point nor a so-called exit building.

Just when Angel was full of doubts, the porcelain-white mechanical puppet suddenly clapped his hands, and the applause attracted his attention.

Under the gaze of Angel and Laplace, the porcelain-white puppet suddenly sang a song.

The lyrics were still incomprehensible, but the song itself... there was nothing to praise, just a very ordinary song, a very ordinary voice.

The only bonus was that the porcelain-white puppet sang in this dark void, with a weird and ethereal atmosphere.

Apart from that, there was nothing else to think about.

After singing the song, the porcelain-white idol was an actor who was about to bow out, and began to express a long list of thoughts. From its exaggerated expression, it can be seen that the content it narrated should be very emotional.

However, for Angel and Laplace who could not understand Ordovician, it was purely a waste of time.

When the porcelain-white puppet finished speaking, Angel thought it was time to "exit".

But what he didn't expect was that the porcelain-white puppet suddenly stretched out his hand and made a familiar gesture to the void - waving his hand.

Then, a new road made of wood appeared behind it.

Angel: "..." And? !

Did Luno make a mistake in his calculation? Or was there another reason?

Didn't he say that it was only a dozen miles away?

When Angel was complaining in his heart, Laplace suddenly said, "No, this road is very short."

Angel said "Huh", and followed Laplace's words and looked into the distance.

This is a wooden stairway, which meanders forward for about a hundred meters and then merges into the darkness. It seems that the end is a hundred meters away?

This is obviously completely different from the previous road!

Could it be that this road is actually the exit?

Angel couldn't help looking at the mechanical puppet. If the front is really an exit, the mechanical puppet will most likely stop directly at the break like the cliff before.

However, the mechanical puppet did not stop as Angel thought. He stepped onto the wooden stairs and began to climb up step by step.

Angel: "...Well, whether it's the last section or not, we'll find out if we follow it."

Before stepping onto the wooden stairs, Angel did not forget to observe the movements of the mechanical puppet.

However, after observation, Angel did not find anything unusual. It seemed to be the same as before?

Angel looked at Laplace, wanting to see what she would say.

Laplace pondered for a moment, and said in the mind band: "It should be the same as before, just a normal walkway. However, just in case, you'd better go up along the path it walked."

Angel nodded. Regardless of whether there are restrictions or not, just follow the puppet's movements to avoid returning to the starting point if you make a mistake.

After making a decision, Angel prepared to step onto the long steps.

Just as he was about to touch the ground, Laplace's voice came from the mind band: "Change your foot."

Angel: "???"

Laplace: "It landed on its right foot first, and it cycled left and right when going up the stairs."

Angel: "...Will it be so strict?"

Laplace didn't know, shrugged: "Just follow its movements anyway."

Angel didn't bother to worry about it, just changed his legs and began to climb the stairs.

At a glance, the mechanical puppet had come to a few dozen meters away, and now it stopped and smiled at them.

Angel did not pay attention to the mechanical puppet. It had "ridiculed" and "talked nonsense" a lot along the way, which was completely meaningless. However, Angel noticed that a faint glow appeared behind the mechanical puppet.

There was the end of the wooden stairs.

There was light at the end?

Could it be! That was the exit?

Angel's heart moved, and his steps quickened. Not long after, Angel saw the light not far away.

However, the light looked like a glowing light surface. Is it... a mirror?

Is the mirror an exit? If this relic was created by the creatures of the Daytime Mirror Domain, then the mirror surface is most likely the exit; but this relic was created by the Ordovicians, and the probability of the mirror surface being the exit does not seem to be high.

Angel shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Anyway, it was only a dozen meters away, and he would know when he went over.

Angel took a big step and prepared to quickly go to the light source.

However, the next second.

The ground was empty, and he fell straight down like an onion.

Angel quickly adjusted his posture and looked up, and found that the wooden stairs had disappeared, and Laplace and the mechanical puppet were floating in the air.

The mechanical puppet sneered at the falling Angel.

Then, the mechanical puppet slowly flew back.

Seeing this, Angel immediately summoned the power of the wind element around his feet, and flew to Laplace.

Angel: "... Is this, wrong?"

Laplace shook his head gently: "I don't know what went wrong, let's follow the puppet back first."

Their current location is in an unknown dark void, and they can't see the cliff. Once the puppet is lost, there is a high probability that they will get lost here.

So, in order to avoid this situation, Angel and Laplace didn't talk much at this time, and quickly flew towards the direction of the mechanical puppet.

During the flight back, the mechanical puppet did not speak, but hummed the previous ditty.

Accompanied by its occasional laughter, Angel was a little angry. ——If Lu Nuo hadn't said that the exit was not fixed and had to be opened by the mechanical puppet, he really wanted to beat the mechanical puppet up.

Flying back in a straight line, it took less than three minutes to reach the cliff.

Angel didn't waste any words and reactivated the mechanical puppet. In its chanting, a new journey was opened again.

Fortunately, the road summoned by the mechanical puppet would not change in a short time.

It was still the previous black and white checkered road, the dark blue water road, the stone road, and the roller coaster track road.

With experience, their speed increased a lot...? No, it didn't increase at all. It was mainly due to the restrictions of the rules. Their speed was no different from before.

About an hour later, they returned to the wooden stairs.

During this process, Angel and Laplace also kept communicating in the mind band, trying to find the mistakes they made on the wooden stairs before.

They didn't analyze where the specific mistakes were.

But there was one thing that made them very concerned. After climbing the wooden stairs, there was no problem immediately. Instead, they violated the ban after walking dozens of meters.

Why is this?

"Before, our attention was attracted by the light source, and after climbing the wooden stairs, we lost our vigilance because we did not violate the prohibition at the beginning."

"So, we can't make a mistake this time, we must keep an eye on the puppet." Laplace: "Especially the place where you violated the prohibition before, you must pay attention to see if the puppet has any abnormal movements there."

Angel nodded, he also understood this truth, but... it is not so easy to fully observe the movements of the mechanical puppet.

Because the wooden stairs are not all the way up, it has ups and downs.

Moreover, they cannot use any energy in the chimeric space, and even their mental power cannot leave the body, for fear of violating the prohibition and playing a little song to go home; therefore, if they want to observe the mechanical puppet, they can only use their naked eyes.

Observation with the naked eye is never as wide and detailed as the vision of mental power.

Angel cheered up and carefully observed the movement of the mechanical puppet.

Not long after, the mechanical puppet came to the place where Angel violated the prohibition before.

Angel's pupils shrank slightly. He found that the mechanical puppet did not continue to move forward, but stopped and turned to look at them.

"The mechanical puppet stood here before." Laplace: "However, it would stand in several places on each road, and then turn back to wait for us."

"This should be its inherent pause mechanism, not a ban..."

Angel looked at the mechanical puppet and smiled back, and said at length, frowning: "We can't imitate it and say this long paragraph, right?"

Laplace shook his head: "It shouldn't be. Lu Nuo said that we can pass the test by being silent throughout the whole process. It definitely didn't ask us to imitate it."

Angel: "What could it be? What went wrong before?"

Laplace couldn't answer for a while. She looked at the mechanical puppet in front of her and suddenly thought of something: "If you don't step on the wooden stairs, it won't continue to move forward."

"You go up first, or move forward according to the previous method. There will be no problem in the early stage."

Angel nodded, staring at the mechanical puppet, and then stepped forward.

As Angel stepped onto the stairs, the mechanical puppet finally turned around and started moving. As it continued to move forward, Laplace's eyes suddenly lit up and he shouted, "It changed its feet!"

"Before, it stepped into the wooden steps with its right foot, and then went up alternately with the left and right feet. According to this rule, it should have stepped forward with its left foot just now, but after it stayed in place waiting for us, it turned around and stepped with its right foot!"

"This does not conform to the previous left-right alternation rule!"

While Laplace was still talking, Angel had already calculated based on the number of stairs that the puppet had indeed stepped left and right at this time.

However, was it really a problem with the left and right feet?

Angel pondered for a moment: "We'll know if we try it."

This time, Angel and Laplace climbed the wooden stairs together.

There were no problems at all for the first few dozen meters. Soon, they came to the place where they fell into the pit before.

This time, it was Laplace's turn to explore the way.

She paused in place for a while and stepped up with her right foot.

Angel's heart was already hanging in the air. When he saw Laplace landed smoothly and the wooden stairs did not disappear, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Angel had previously complained that Laplace said that the right foot should be taken first, which was a bit too detailed. But now it seems that he is the clown.

The previous mistake was indeed the question of whether to take the left foot first or the right foot first.

I have to say that the mechanical puppet is really a rip-off.

The previous rules did not have any problems with the left and right feet, but this section of the road near the end actually began to be divided into left and right feet...