Day of Imprisonment

The bespectacled man conceded defeat.

No matter how well he had disguised his intentions, no matter how he tried to mislead, he couldn't change the outcome of his loss.

All his previous actions were aimed at confusing the situation, making Luo Xi hesitate among the three candidate idioms; if the other party didn't choose 'a fishbone in the throat' as the first idiom, he could win, otherwise, he would lose.

It was simple, but in the process, he hoped to engage in some back-and-forth, a bit of a game.

However, Luo Xi didn't take the bait with any of his interference or misleading tactics.

So, this time, he lost completely and utterly.

According to the agreed-upon rules, he had no choice but to honestly reward Luo Xi with 36 [Memory] cards.

Having received his reward, Luo Xi turned to leave.

Seeming too lazy to say another word.

However, the bespectacled man adopted a very humble posture, even with a hint of pleading in his tone: "Please wait a moment."

"Is there something else?" Luo Xi turned his head to look.

The bespectacled man sighed: "I just want to know, did you choose that idiom as the starting point by chance, or did you determine that I couldn't follow up on that idiom?"

He probably wanted to know exactly where he went wrong, even in defeat.

"I never believe in luck," Luo Xi's answer was very simple; after speaking, he walked to the elevator, pressed the button, and the door opened.

Okra also hurriedly followed.

The bespectacled man's expression was one of astonishment; he looked back at the densely packed letterpress on the ground.

"He knew what idioms I could form because he memorized all the letterpress? That's impossible, absolutely impossible."

Inside the elevator, Okra's attitude was completely different from when they first met.

"Did you memorize all the letterpress you could see?"

Okra asked a question, her thoughts aligning with the bespectacled man's.

Luo Xi chose the idiom 'a fishbone in the throat' because he knew that among the opponent's thirty-six characters, there was no character for 'throat'.

In that case, it was impossible to follow up.

"Yes!" Luo Xi didn't hide it and admitted it directly.

The matter and the reasoning were simple, but to truly achieve this was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Okra took a deep breath, she changed the question: "Are you really confident in breaking the shackles of the Day of Imprisonment and liberating all of us?"

This was the doubt in her heart.

Within Luo Xi's team, this was already common knowledge, only Okra herself didn't believe it.

To this question, Luo Xi's answer was also just one word.

"Yes!"

Okra was also starting to get used to Luo Xi's way of speaking.

Concise, accurate, and efficient.

"Can you tell me specifically how to do it?" Okra already believed that Luo Xi could do this, and this was also what she wanted to do.

If she could help, she would spare no effort.

However, Luo Xi's answer made her a little annoyed.

"I'm sorry, I can't tell you about this," Probably sensing Okra's thoughts, Luo Xi rarely explained: "Not just you, everyone, including Lü Ting, they don't know, only I know about this."

Okra thought for a moment: "Is it because you need to keep it a secret? But have you ever thought that if this takes a long time, a lot of effort, or even sacrifice, then if you lose your memory, the plan will be interrupted; you need someone to continue your work."

"Everyone will lose their memory, and besides me, no one can complete this plan!" Luo Xi's answer sounded very arrogant and conceited, but his tone didn't have any forced sophistry; Okra frowned, but soon she realized something.

"Do you mean..."

"The situation is special, the enemy is strong and we are weak, it's not the kind of strength comparison you think of, one against a hundred, one against a thousand, but a gap in different dimensions; strictly speaking, in front of that enemy, we are like small dots on a flat piece of paper, the other party can erase us with a single stroke."

Okra followed Luo Xi's description and imagined that scene, suddenly feeling a chill all over her body, a chilling sensation.

Most importantly, each challenge here is not simple.

In Okra's opinion, the challenge on this fifteenth floor, if it were her, she would definitely not be able to pass, in fact, she didn't even know what happened.

The specific situation was to walk from one end of a corridor to the other.

It seemed easy, but only by actually walking it would you know how difficult it was.

The reason why Okra felt this so deeply was simple, because she also participated in this challenge, the rules of this challenge were that no matter how many people there were, there were enough corridor entrances to enter, and each person's route was independent.

Another rule of the challenge was that as long as one person successfully came out, the challengers would be considered to have won, and other participants could also pass.

That is to say, whether Okra or Luo Xi passed, they would be considered to have passed this challenge.

Okra didn't know the situation on Luo Xi's side, she only knew that after she confidently entered the entrance, she discovered an incomprehensible situation.

She was clearly walking forward along the only route, but after walking for a while, she would always walk out of the only door in front, only to find that she had reappeared at the entrance.

In other words, it was like an extremely strange maze or a ghost hitting a wall, always sending her back to the starting point.

At first, Okra thought she had overlooked some details, so next, she carefully observed, taking one step and looking three steps ahead, but she didn't find any clues or hidden hints, but the result still didn't change, the same route as last time, reaching the door at the end, opening it, and returning to the origin.

So she thought, perhaps this corridor could confuse perception, after entering, thinking that you were moving forward, you were actually moving backward, then she could do the opposite and walk in the opposite direction.

As a result, unsurprisingly, she still returned to the starting point.

After many attempts, she couldn't hold back her anxious mood.

"Wait a minute, I don't seem to have seen Luo Xi appear," After another attempt, still getting the same result, Okra was anxious, she suddenly realized this problem.

So, this time she didn't act, but waited in place.

According to the time of her previous attempts, if Luo Xi also encountered a similar situation and was forced to return to the starting point, then he should have appeared long ago.

But Okra didn't wait.

This showed that Luo Xi might have cracked the game mechanism of this 'infinite corridor', and must have been ahead of her.

"If that's the case, my wisest choice is actually to respond to all changes with constancy, simply wait for Luo Xi to pass the level; as long as he wins the challenge, then according to the rules, I can also pass here," After Okra's mindset changed, she also calmly accepted this idea.

So, she didn't choose to continue forward, but waited in place.

About ten minutes later, the entrance and the side door opened at the same time, Luo Xi walked out of a door, waved to Okra, the latter walked over, and followed Luo Xi through a door into the elevator.

When the elevator door closed, and Luo Xi pressed the button for the twentieth floor, Okra had already made her own decision.

"Luo Xi, if you need me to do anything, just ask, I will do everything I can to help you."

At this moment, Okra truly recognized Luo Xi.