Day of Imprisonment

The rooftop.

Due to its unique geographical location, there was no way to escape from this place.

It was essentially a 'dead end'.

But perhaps, this was the key to the fire escape mini-game challenge, because sometimes, what appears to be a 'dead end' may actually conceal a chance for survival.

This wasn't just Luo Xi's imagination, because he had quickly reviewed the entire fire escape process, from when he entered to when he climbed onto the roof, which only took a short five minutes.

In other words, this fire escape was about finding a way out in this extremely short amount of time.

The realistic smoke and scorching flames of a real fire were enough to make anyone's nerves tense, or even panic.

As soon as someone panicked, they might choose the wrong path.

For example, trying to run downstairs through the stairwell without a smoke mask.

Especially in that situation, completely losing sight and having to rely on groping.

Even with familiarity with the environment, it would be impossible to escape, so, choosing either of the stairwells to go down was a dead end.

As for the suddenly appearing 'escape team', the teacher leading the students was likely a form of 'misdirection', used to give the Memory Retrievers participating in this game a sense of侥幸心理, because a larger number of people naturally creates a sense of 'security'.

However, danger often lurks within.

And subsequent events proved that in less than a minute, all the passages were filled with several times the previous amount of smoke, and the teacher and several students would definitely die in the smoke.

So, the only way out was not down, but up.

That was to climb onto the roof from the window, using some tools, such as chair legs or something.

This was the only possibility Luo Xi could think of.

As for whether it was correct, he just needed to wait and see. The smoke pouring out of the building couldn't completely cover the roof, and the flames couldn't burn through the roof, so this became a 'safe zone'.

More than ten minutes later, the smoke weakened.

And the sirens of fire trucks could be heard from over there.

After a while, the fire ladder rose up.

"This fire escape is cleverly designed!"

Luo Xi exclaimed in admiration.

After all, as a Memory Retriever, who would have thought that the way to pass this challenge game would be to find a safe area and wait for rescue.

From the perspective of someone who has been through it, this design is too simple, conventional, and even a bit boring.

Just get to the safe rooftop, do nothing, and wait.

It's practically a freebie question.

But this is an obvious 'cognitive bias', or it can be understood as a 'cognitive trap', because according to the Memory Retrievers' analysis of the various mini-games of the Days of Imprisonment they have already experienced, it will only get harder and harder, not easier and easier.

Because of this, they might take risks, rush down the stairs, or choose to jump off the building and gamble on luck and physical fitness!

The moment he stepped onto the ground from the fire ladder, the fire scene disappeared, and the harmonious and lively campus returned.

"I am very pleased to announce that, through everyone's joint efforts and close cooperation, this fire drill has come to a successful conclusion. Here, I sincerely congratulate every student and parent who participated in it. You have demonstrated outstanding emergency response capabilities and teamwork spirit with your practical actions."

A teacher was loudly announcing over there.

Luo Xi didn't bother listening.

Because he had more important things to do.

He received the completion reward.

A wisp of text appeared in front of him, as if someone had exhaled a puff of smoke, and the smoke formed words.

"...You have completed three challenge projects at Tun Tun Elementary School, meeting the scene completion conditions, rewarding you with one chance to draw a random card!"

"You have cumulatively completed three scene clearances, obtaining reward number 099 [Card Ring], which can store cards and form exclusive special effects based on the user... Generating..."

"Generation complete, number: 099 [Card Ring], attributes: Temperance of the Madman, Hierophant of Perfectionism, High Priestess of Mental Confusion, Fool of Absolute Reason, Devil of Absolute Obsession, Chariot of Never Giving Up. Can be materialized as (Card Album) / (Card Transformation), card slot capacity 999."

"When using specific cards, the attributes of the Card Ring may affect the effect of the card. Note that this may be a good thing or a bad thing..."

Luo Xi's eyes lit up.

Hao Xiuwen wasn't lying. With the memory preserved from the Day of Imprisonment, accumulating three clearances would grant the [099 Card Ring].

Moreover, according to the other party's statement, the Card Ring is of great help to Memory Retrievers.

In addition, each Memory Retriever's Card Ring has different attributes, which will be determined based on the individual differences of the Memory Retriever.

But Hao Xiuwen didn't say what the specific basis was.

With a thought, the card materialized into a ring.

But after seeing the real thing, Luo Xi was stunned.

Is this thing really a ring?

Why is it different from the Card Ring Hao Xiuwen took out?

Even the eyeball ring that the other party took out, which looked like a mutated monster, Luo Xi felt was more normal than his own Card Ring.

Because his Card Ring was a joint ring.

That is to say, it was composed of multiple rings, connected to each other by tiny iron chains.

There were six rings in total.

It could be seen that there was one for each finger from the little finger to the thumb, with two on the index finger, which should be able to be worn on different knuckles.

The problem was that these six rings were very strange.

Because they were actually six 'human faces' with different appearances and expressions. Of course, some could not be called 'human'. One of them was obviously a ferocious human face with goat horns, but this was already very bizarre.

"A human-faced ring?"

"I feel like my Card Ring is a bit abnormal. Could it be related to the attributes? Coincidentally, the Card Ring has six attributes, and there are exactly six rings. It should be, otherwise, it wouldn't be such a coincidence!"

Luo Xi looked at the very small, but extremely detailed six human faces and put on the Card Ring.

The newest novels are on six-9-shu-ba first!

Bang~

Luo Xi snapped his fingers, and immediately a card album appeared in his hand.

His card album was also not normal.

The cover was an enlarged version of the six faces, which looked very crowded at the moment, almost face to face, squeezed on the limited cover of the card album, and the facial features were even moving, just like living people.

It could be said that it was even more eerie and crazy than the card album with an eyeball.

Six faces, six different expressions, some laughing strangely, some firm, some sublime, some vicious...

Just looking at it could make a normal person mentally disordered.

"Could it be that because my situation is special, they customized the Card Ring for me?"

Luo Xi opened the card album and found the small print written on it.

"Card Album Effect [Absolute Reason], number 016, cards are abilities, and this is an invisible card. Absolute Reason, as the name suggests, is to maintain reason at all times - it is a luxury to keep humans rational in any situation, so, are you human?"

"Card Album Effect [Lie] Conversion, can consume any two cards and convert them into a [Lie] with number 041."

"[Lie], your lies will not be exposed before twelve noon, but please note that lying is also a skill, it originates from reality and is higher than reality. When you master it skillfully, you can even distort reality. At this moment, it is completely upgraded to art."

"Card Album Effect ???, not yet activated."

"Card Album Effect ???, not yet activated."

"Card Album Effect ???, not yet activated."

"Card Album Effect ???, not yet activated."

The same text appeared four times in a row, and Luo Xi thought that the ethereal smoke was doing copy and paste.

"That is to say, my card album has other effects? Not yet activated, is it because the activation conditions have not been met?"

He refocused his attention on the [Absolute Reason] and [Lie] effects.

Absolute Reason is indeed very easy to understand.

What about Lie?

"Your lies will not be exposed before twelve noon..."

Luo Xi looked at the time, it was almost dinner time.

"I can only wait until next time."

Luo Xi found the mannequin, who was not surprised by Luo Xi's arrival.

There was only one person, the mysterious Teacher Liang had already left.

Luo Xi was full of curiosity about that Teacher Liang.

Because the other party had previously clearly done something that, in his opinion, violated the rules.

That was leaving from the school gate.

He originally thought that the area at the school gate was the activity range of this scene manager.

So, was his judgment wrong, or was Teacher Liang different from other scene managers?

"You passed the challenge? Okay, congratulations. Your previous [Memory] is returned to you. Because you cleared the Expert mode, you have an extra chance to draw a card."

The mannequin seemed a little disappointed.

Perhaps it was because Luo Xi didn't die, because according to the rules, when challengers die, they, who are specifically responsible for the game project, would 'score'.

Luo Xi completed the 'lottery' with ease.

But this time the luck was average, and he actually drew another [Memory] card.

Luo Xi didn't say much, he put all the cards into his card album, covered his neck and turned to leave.

The wound on his neck was slowly bleeding, the effect of [Unstoppable Bleeding] was constantly continuing, and now he felt cold all over, dizzy, and it seemed that he couldn't last much longer.

He had to hurry up and find Old Wang.