When the new quest was triggered, Little Tan and Dispirited were still walking through the caves underground, looking for a way out.
Although the rock said that they would definitely go out in one day and one night before it's gone, it was clear that the guy had a problem with his calculations.
A day and a night, as it is called, might be twenty-four hours of uninterrupted progress.
Players naturally cannot go this way. They are conditioned by their energy expenditure and must stop and rest from time to time. Their level is both 17 right now, and the full state is 1700 Physical Value. Even then, they should keep their strength at least a quarter. Otherwise, it would be hard to deal with monsters in case of an emergency.
The monsters and puzzles in this cave are not Pokémon's landmines and endless triggers 1), but there are enough flags on the map. In general, they can’t go around if they want to go forward. Now and then there’s a reward or something, like a candy that comes after a slap in the face… So, the two of them basically entered a state of playing traditional RPG games: Exploring, triggering events, getting rewards, taking breaks, continuing exploring… The cycle repeated. Imperceptibly, the map they explored grew larger and larger. Because they didn't know the exact location of the exit, so they’ll explore as much as possible.
By the time they finally found the exit, it was past midnight of the next day. About thirty-five hours had passed since they first fell into the cave.
This kind of long-line script in Thriller Paradise can create a weird feeling of fatigue. The player’s body is asleep in the game cabin, while the mental world is moving as if in a controllable dream.
If the dream lasts longer than a day, or even two days, people’s sense of time can be problematic. This situation is not too strong in the scenario, the real impact should be when players leave the game cabin. At that point, players may feel like they’ve been up all night, but they’re not physically tired, they just mentally feel like they’re not getting enough rest.
“It must be here right?" Wang Tanzhi took off the miner’s cap and put it away.
Dispirited also turned off the flashlight, looked up. “It's even higher than the place we fell down.”
At the moment, the battery has been changed twice. She did not expect that the script would require a long time to use the lighting equipment, so she only took four spare batteries with her. Now she has used up all the batteries. In fact, after talking to the stone, she realized that the battery of the flashlight might be untenable for a long time in the future. Without the light, her actions with Little Tan would be more difficult and dangerous. So, she quickly suggested that the two of them switch on the light at the same time and turn off the light at rest to save some power.
Thankfully, they found the exit before the power ran out.
It was a cave similar to the one where they fell, with no roof and a passageway above. The channel here was not an inverted funnel, but a normal cylinder. There was a pool in the middle of the cave, and on its walls were yellow knotted vines thickly like natural ladders, which hung intricately over the walls and stretched to the top.
They looked up and saw light coming through the top of the tunnel, which was covered with vegetation, like a canopy over the top of the tunnel.
From the bottom of the dark hole, the moon shone in a daze through the gaps in the plants. It’s not a spectacular sight, but could still be called beautiful.
“Well… I'll go first OK?” Wang Tanzhi said, “Oh…By the way, shall we get a rope to tie each other together like a safety rope for climbing? "
“You occasionally have good ideas.” Dispirited answered. That’s a rare compliment.
Little Tan just smiled and said nothing about it. It was a virtue. If it's Feng Bujue, he must boast a few more lines shamelessly.
Dispirited had ropes in her bag, and it’s the kind of climbing rope that comes with safety buckles. It’s a store expensive item while it's worth the money in terms of practical use.
They tied the rope to their shoulders and loins, and the length of the rope ran seven or eight meters between them so that they could move without interfering with each other’s climbing. Of course, it’s just for insurance, and it doesn’t rule out the possibility that another person is being dragged down by the force of the fall.
Before climbing, they took a break to get their fitness level as high as possible to avoid falling down when they are halfway through the climb. Then, led by Little Tan, the climb began.
Climbing a wall is a basic skill an assassin must master. Like eating, sleeping, breathing, blinking, an assassin can forget how to talk, but not how to walk up a wall. 2)
Of course, Wang Tanzhi is not an assassin, he just wore a classic assassin’s creed costume, with the development trend of agility, combat, detection as the main specializing players. But it was easy and comfortable for him to get up in the face of the properly arranged climbing paths in the game. After all, the walls were full of falling places, and the vines were so strong and tough that they were unlikely to be able to fall.
Although Dispirited's physical strength and physical skills were a little bit less, her weight was relatively light so it's not difficult for her to climb up. Because there were people on the road and ropes attached to her, she was also more relaxed psychologically. She followed the rhythm of Little Tan and quickly climbed halfway.
Wang Tanzhi looked down and saw the darkness below him. He could only hear the faint sound of the pool, but he could not see the bottom. Looking up, the moonlight that pierced the vegetation grew brighter.
The climb had been going on for nearly twenty minutes, and the two players approached the top exit. The excitement and joy of finally escaping the cave diluted the physical and mental fatigue accumulated in these dozens of hours, and the hardships along the way were vividly remembered… Endless tunnels, monsters that don’t know when they’re going to pop up, puzzles that kept them off the road, sudden scares… It’s all over at last.
The mood at this moment is like a cold drink of Cola after soaking in the bath.
“…… Finally!" When they came back to the ground, they were lying on their backs in the air on the grass under the stars.
Now they were in a forest, and the bright moon shone around them. The place was sparsely forested and slightly sloped, and there was no immediate danger.
“Well… Is it already the morning of the third day?” Asked Wang Tanzhi
“Yes, the duel is tonight.” Dispirited said, “In about ten hours.”
“Er… From the mainline mission, Jue-Ge and Rain-Jie should still be in the Area in the Vajra Bell, right?” Little Tan asked.
Dispirited heard the words and seemed to think of something: “Yes! How can we deal with the breakthrough in martial arts for Su Shang?”
Wang Tanzhi gave a worried look. “Hmmm, anyway, from the team column, Ji Bu is not dead yet…. “
I believed that readers played Pokémon would say the same thing… The pattern of Pokémon was basically "Walk", "Trigger", "Fight" and "Walk". Sometime it will become really boring.2) The game series Assassin's Creed told us the story of how an assassin climb walls in the city all day and forgot to do the main mission:)