For a moment, the contrast of falling from the sky to the ground was difficult for Xu Ning and Zhang Li to accept.
Xu Ning's face turned pale as he asked, "What if we can't finish this nursery rhyme in three days?"
"If I can't complete the work and can't find the main monster, then of course I have to leave the dungeon," Zhang Li panicked for a moment, but he swallowed hard, trying to calm himself down, and gritted his teeth and said, "It won't be unfinished. It's just making people out of plasticine, how can it be impossible to finish it!"
Song Yang said calmly, "Indeed, although each day in this instance is very short, adding up the three days, we only have nine hours left to work. But as long as we speed up, there won't be a problem of 'not being able to finish'."
"The question is - how will the main monster of this dungeon kill the player during this process?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Song Yang said: "Everyone should try to be more meticulous during the production process."
He didn't think the main monster would just barge into the room and start killing them.
The only delicate connection lies in the production of nursery rhymes.
A few people took a deep breath and resigned themselves to searching for production materials in the corner.
Xia Jing walked to the iron fence at the entrance of the stairs and pushed it.
The iron gate did not move at all, and there was no keyhole on it. This was not a door that could be opened regardless of the rules just by finding the key.
"You can only go upstairs if you finish your work for the day ahead of time," Song Yang whispered behind him, "provided you have work for the day."
In other words, players don't have to worry about completing their work in the first two days, they can spend all their time exploring the dungeon on the third day.
If there is no work on the third day, the player may not even be able to open the iron gate.
They have to spread the workload over three days.
The ten people quickly found the materials from the pile of debris and sat down at the long table.
Most of them are very unfamiliar with handicrafts.
Xu Ning is a preschool teacher and usually teaches children handicrafts, so this job is relatively easy for her to get started.
Although Sun Qianqian is still a child, she is already in junior high school and is very far away from handicraft classes.
Li Shanyin is a father, but he didn't take care of his children much before his divorce. He never did handicrafts with his children, not to mention that they have been divorced for many years now.
The others are even more so.
When we first start making toys, most people are a little overwhelmed.
Xia Jing and Song Yang re-examined the nursery rhyme they had obtained.
The nursery rhyme "There is a Gentleman in Our Town" has only one protagonist, and the related props are only "thorn bush" and "eyes". To create these nursery rhymes, it is nothing more than a matter of placing the same props back and forth.
Xia Jing said: "Let's do the first two sentences today."
Song Yang had no objection: "Okay."
The two men started fighting.
Sun Fujing and Sun Qianqian, the grandfather and grandson, also chose to do the first two sentences on the first day.
Sun Fujing is old and a little presbyopic, so he can only help out on the side. Sun Qianqian lies beside the table, carefully making clay figures according to the sentences.
Wang Lian and Li Shanyin chose to do the first four sentences on the first day.
"Jack and Jill, let's each do one," Li Shanyin frowned and cursed. "What kind of a crap mission is this? How am I supposed to know what 'Jack' and 'Jill' look like?"
"Just make it casually. Isn't it enough to make two people?" Wang Lian glanced at the four sentences again while doing it.
"Jack and Jill,
Go up the mountain to fetch water.
Jack hit his head.
Jill rolled down the hill."[Note 1]
Wang Lian said, "Apart from these two characters, we only need to make the 'mountain', right?"
Li Shanyin nodded casually: "There's nothing else that needs to be made."
The two looked at the time - the clock showed one o'clock, and there were two hours left before the end of today's work. They had to speed up.
Zhang Li and Xu Ning also chose to do the first two sentences, but compared with other groups that did the first two sentences, their workload seemed to be very heavy.
This is because there are six characters in the first two lines of their nursery rhyme - three mice and three ducks!
Zhang Li impatiently kneaded the plasticine, but the thing he made looked neither like a duck nor a mouse. Xu Ning, who was standing by, hesitated and said, "Uncle Li, I think we should try our best to recreate the characters in the nursery rhyme..."
Zhang Li said with sweat dripping down his face, "But I'm clumsy, I really can't make it well. Doesn't it look like a duck? I think it does!"
The black mass of plasticine in his palm looked completely different.
Xu Ning checked the time, thought for a moment, and said, "How about this? I'll make the mouse and the duck. Uncle Li, how about you make three black felt hats for the mouse and three big straw hats for the duck?"
Xu Ning's words saved Zhang Li. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, okay, Teacher Xu, it's really great to have you here..."
Xu Ning pursed his lips and smiled.
Zhang Li took two more pieces of plasticine and started making three hats.
The hat is much simpler. It doesn't matter whether it is a black felt hat or a big straw hat. As long as it is a hat, right?
…
Time passed by minute by minute, and the ten people in the room kept working.
Wang Lian and Li Shanyin were the first to finish, and their cheers startled everyone.
The other eight people watched as the two men excitedly ran to the iron gate and gently pushed it open.
Wang Lian was a little surprised. Li Shanyin turned around and urged, "Are any of you almost done? If so, let's go up together. There's safety in numbers!"
But no one paid any attention to him.
Zhang Li's team had always been at odds with the two of them, so they simply ignored them. The other three teams were still working carefully.
Li Shanyin froze upon seeing this, spat, and said with a sullen face, "Let's go up on our own. We shouldn't waste time here with them!"
Wang Lian swallowed and whispered, "What if we encounter the main monster..."
Li Shanyin: "It's okay, I have props, both protective and offensive. Let's go!"
Hearing Li Shanyin say this, Wang Lian nodded quickly and followed him up the stairs.
After the two of them disappeared, the iron bars closed automatically and turned back into the door that couldn't be opened.
The remaining groups exchanged glances.
Sun Fujing whispered to Sun Qianqian, "Qianqian, we are not in a hurry. Let's finish making the toys first."
Sun Qianqian nodded heavily: "Yes!"
On the other side, Feng Shi and Bian Ya did not communicate much, but just cooperated tacitly to build the "iron bridge".
"London Bridge fell down,
Collapse, collapse.
London Bridge collapsed,
My good girl."[Note 2]
The "good girl" that appears in the last sentence does not actually do anything specific in this story and should not be a part of the story.
But the NPC also told them not to miss any characters or items in the nursery rhyme.
Bian Ya pinched the little girl and said nonchalantly, "How do you think the main monster will test our finished product?"
Feng Shi thought about it for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I don't know."
They don't have any clues at all now.
Bian Ya glanced at the "London Bridge" that Feng Shi was still meticulously improving, and suddenly said, "How could such a sturdy bridge collapse?"
Feng Shi was startled for a moment, then he quickly realized something and frowned, saying, "You're right. I'll take care of it."
The tasks in this dungeon that concern the players' lives may be more complicated than they imagine.
Opposite them, after finishing sculpting the characters, Song Yang and Xia Jing thought for a moment and also fixed their eyes on the four words "our town".
The five nursery rhymes that the ten of them got seemed to have very clear elements at first glance, but if they really looked closely at the hints given to them by the NPC, they would find that there were actually many hidden traps in these five nursery rhymes.
The two looked at each other and raised their eyebrows.
Xia Jing said, "Go on, Doctor Song."
Song Yang resigned himself to his fate and picked up another ball of plasticine.
The two began to make all kinds of houses.
Zhang Li and Xu Ning finally finished the work at hand, breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, only to find that the other three groups were still busy.
Feng Shi was carefully carving a crack on the iron bridge, the grandfather and grandson were making the "home" of the protagonist of their nursery rhyme, and Xia Jing and Song Yang even made the roads in the town.
Zhang Li was shocked: "You guys are so meticulous?"
Sun Qianqian raised her head and said seriously, "The NPC told us not to miss any details. Uncle Zhang, you'd better check your results again."
Zhang Li didn't take Sun Qianqian's words seriously, but he still subconsciously glanced at the finished work of him and Xu Ning.
Xu Ning is worthy of being a preschool teacher. His handicrafts are excellent. The three little mice and three little ducks he made are lifelike.
The six hats he made were a little crooked, but they were still hats after all...
Apart from the characters and the hats, there aren't many other elements worth noting in their two nursery rhymes.
Thinking of this, Zhang Li was too lazy to waste time with the remaining six people and said to Xu Ning, "Teacher Xu, let's go. I have props too, don't worry."
Xu Ning glanced hesitantly at the six people who were still working carefully, smiled uneasily, and said, "Yeah."
…
Not long after these two people left, Sun Fujing and Sun Qianqian also completed their work.
Sun Qianqian volunteered to stay and wait for Song Yang's team or Feng Shi's team to finish.
Then the sealing team was completed, and Song Yang asked them to go up and look for clues first without waiting for him and Xia Jing.
In the end, Song Yang and Xia Jing were the only ones left in this huge room.
Time slowly passed to two o'clock.
The "town" in their hands gradually took on a complete appearance.
Scattered houses, the main road in the middle of the town, trees, flowers and plants, and the majestic "Mr." standing in the town.
The two stopped what they were doing.
Xia Jing looked around and saw that most of the materials everyone used today were plasticine.
The stock of plasticine in the pile of materials in the corner of the room is already very scarce. I wonder if the NPC will replenish it.
Song Yang stood up, checked the time, and said, "Let's go upstairs."
The two walked to the stairs and pushed open the iron fence.
*
In this instance, ten players appeared inside the building as soon as they logged in.
It was not until they stepped onto the stairs and reached the second floor that Xia Jing and Song Yang looked up and realized that this seemed to be a tall tower.
——A conical tower.
From the second floor upwards, each floor is hollow in design, with corridors surrounding it, and the space becomes narrower as you go up.
The clear laughter, crying and shouting of children came from all directions, layer upon layer, like echoes, which was a bit noisy and could easily make people uneasy.
Song Yang opened the holographic screen - this copy was special, players could bring in holographic screens, but the forum function had been closed, so they could only use the contact function.
He asked where the seal was.
Feng Shi: "We are on the fifth floor."
Song Yang was surprised: "You searched so quickly?"
Feng Shi: "You'll know once you get here. It's hard to describe in a few words."
Song Yang and Xia Jing exchanged glances, and both of them walked to the right side of the stairs.
Throughout the building, each floor seems to be surrounded by classrooms.
When he and Xia Jing walked to the classroom door, they knew what Feng Shi meant by "it's hard to put into words".
Xia Jing calmly glanced at the nearly one hundred children in the huge classroom.
When the two appeared at the classroom door, all the children stopped talking and turned to look at them.
The same pink lace dress, the same shoulder-length curly blonde hair, the same big, twinkling eyes.
Same facial features, same stature.
Same thing, it doesn't look like a real child at all, but has the texture of a Barbie doll.
These one hundred copy-and-paste "children" all stared at the two of them.
Then they all laughed, bursting into laughter.
"Hello, big brothers!"
"Hello!"
"Hey big brothers, hello!"
"Hello everyone!"
"Cluck, cluck, cluck!"
If anyone else stood here, goosebumps would probably have suddenly crept up their backs at this moment.
Xia Jing's eyes turned, and he smiled gently at the little girl closest to him and said, "Who is Jia Jia?"
The little girl blinked: "Jia Jia? I am Jia Jia!"
Song Yang and Xia Jing's eyes moved slightly.
But then, the girl behind the little girl raised her hand: "I'm Jiajia!"
The girl on her right stood up and said enthusiastically, "I'm Jiajia too!"
"Me too, Jiajia!"
"I'm Jiajia!"
"I am Jia Jia!"
"I'm Jiajia!"
"I'm Jiajia!"
These sounds gathered into an ocean, rushing towards the two people's brains.
Song Yang and Xia Jing took a step back and left the classroom.
Song Yang exhaled, rubbed his eye sockets and said: "All the children look exactly the same, no wonder Feng Shi and them got to the fifth floor so quickly."
Xia Jing looked at the huge space inside the tower and smiled with a hint of interest: "This copy seems to be very interesting."