Chapter 192 Exchange Community Experience (I)
[The Transformation Community Experience Card is not considered an exam or competition, so it cannot be used to determine the difficulty of the dungeon.]
The difference between ideal and reality is that even though the customer service representative really wants to go offline, he still has to answer the question anyway.
Tang Xin Jue ignored the other party's rhetoric: "No matter what game rules it belongs to, since it's an official copy, it should be public. I need all the information I can find about it."
Customer Service: ...You speak more cryptically than I do. Why don’t you be the customer service representative?
The phone interface was silent. Tang Xinjue kindly reminded him, "It's okay. There are still 28 minutes left. We can chat slowly."
“…”
After weighing the pros and cons for ten seconds, the customer service chose to end the torture as soon as possible between long-term pain and short-term pain, and sent the message to Tang Xinjue.
It turns out that the so-called "Transformation Community" is the name of a community. The community is suspected to be located somewhere in the university town and is populated by residents of the university town.
This community is famous for its unique folk customs and rules, and has become one of the famous tourist attractions in the university town...
Just looking at the message sent from the other side, Guo Guo couldn't help but gasp: "Tourist attractions?"
The shadow of the road trip copy is still vivid in my mind. How perverted does this have to be to be a tourist attraction in a university town?
Tang Xin Jue captured several other key words: "What are the specific characteristics of folk customs and regulations?"
If the chat interface could send emojis, the customer service representative would really like to send a hundred innocent eyes to show their sincerity: [This is it, dear, this point is not mentioned in any message, so the customer service representative doesn’t know either.]
Tang Xin Jue: [Isn't it a famous tourist attraction in your area?]
Customer Service: [Dear, in the university town, as long as a place has hosted at least one guest since its inception, it can be called a famous tourist attraction.]
…While we couldn’t find out more about the attraction, the customer service did reveal some of the rules regarding the [Experience Card]:
The experience card can generally be thought of as two round-trip tickets, with both entry and exit handled by the system. The process is generally short, and the specific method is uncertain, but what is certain is that there is an exit after entry.
Zhang You adjusted his glasses: "Well, at least we don't have to worry about being left there."
Of course, compared to these, the nature of the experience card is what most determines the degree of danger for the candidates.
[After checking, it turns out this is a reward-based trial card. Theoretically, the game won't set a guaranteed-death difficulty in reward mode, so please rest assured!]
As the customer service staff gave their solemn assurances, the four of them exchanged glances.
Guo Guo: "Then... go and take a look?"
The three nodded, and Tang Xinjue smiled: "Then let's see what rewards the game has prepared for us."
[Confirming the experience, entering the experience location...]
[Transformation Community has arrived!]
A feeling of dizziness came over him, and Tang Xin Jue immediately activated his mental power, but soon discovered that this dizziness was not from the mental level.
This is dizziness in the physical sense.
The moment she fell heavily, she immediately shifted her attention to balancing her limbs and put her hands against the glass in front of her.
However, as her body fell forward again, she realized that the glass was not only blocking her way, but also surrounded her - it was a glass ball that trapped her inside!
After spinning around twice in the rolling ball, Tang Xinjue finally managed to balance himself and had time to look up and outside.
Outside the glass, countless colorful plastic balls formed a vast "ground." Further out, there were various cotton dolls several times larger than the glass balls: rabbits, bears, pigs, human-shaped dolls...some of which Tang Xin Jue even had to look up to see in full.
At the end of the sight, a high and sharp metal frame confines the entire space, and you can vaguely see the larger and smoother transparent glass covering all sides.
Where is this?
Looking around, a familiar yet strange feeling intertwined and overlapped. It wasn't until he looked up that Tang Xinjue's heart skipped a beat:
A mechanical claw, with a diameter longer than a human body, was hanging high above his head.
It was at this moment that she suddenly realized what kind of environment she was in -
This is the inside of a claw machine!
After quickly calming down and accepting reality, Tang Xinjue determined where he was.
She should be in a crystal ball. Although it is made of glass inside, it is covered with a thick layer of transparent skin on the outside. It is solid and difficult to break.
The crystal ball is located in the center of the machine, with dozens of dolls of various shapes and sizes arranged on either side. Judging by the proportions alone, it looks no different from a real-life claw machine.
So, was she placed in one of those ridiculously huge claw machines, or was she scaled down into a toy crystal ball in an ordinary claw machine?
Before the answer to this question was found, a faint voice came into his ears through the crystal ball.
Following the sound, Tang Xinjue's eyes fell on a Barbie doll sitting folded at 90 degrees.
The doll's dark pupils trembled slightly, as if there was an immobile person inside.
"Secret... Heart Secret..."
Tang Xinjue recognized the voice, it was Zheng Wanqing's voice!
Combined with its long black hair, the doll's delicate face actually bore a passing resemblance to Zheng Wanqing. It couldn't utter complete sentences, only intermittent syllables squeezed into the glass ball, blurry and difficult to hear.
"Wait for me."
Tang Xinjue found the angle and began to push the glass ball forward, letting it roll towards the Barbie doll's position.
While moving, she kept observing her surroundings.
She turned into a crystal ball, Wanqing turned into a Barbie doll, what about Zhang You and Guo Guo?
If all four of them are in the claw machine, where are they?
"Mom! I want this!"
A shrill giggle suddenly erupted from overhead. Tang Xinjue looked up and saw an enormous child's face pressed against the window of the claw machine, its face brimming with excitement.
Tang Xin Jue stopped moving immediately, but the crystal ball had already caught the child's attention. His dark eyes stared straight at her, and his palms kept slapping the glass:
"I want to catch this ball!"
Next to the child, a larger, fatter face slowly lowered itself. Its sticky gaze swept around the glass box, and a muffled voice said:
"Why are you catching me? I still need to take you to collect your living expenses!"
After saying this, the mother forcefully grabbed the child by the collar and was about to take him away.
Tang Xin Jue noticed that even compared to the proportions of a typical claw machine, this mother was ridiculously obese. Her waistline was thicker than the four people in her dorm tied together, and heavy flesh piled up from head to toe. If it weren't for the visible facial features, she would have looked like a moving mountain of flesh.
In comparison, the child next to him, who was about seven or eight years old, was extremely thin: his whole body was like a skeleton covered with skin. If you didn't look closely at his face, you might even mistake him for an alien.
She held her breath, waiting for the two to leave.
But the child cried loudly: "I don't want to leave, I want to catch the doll!"
The mother raised her fist and began to beat the child's head violently. Each blow was accompanied by a whistling sound, making people think that a bloody murder scene would happen in the next second. However, the boy's thin body was remarkably resilient. He withstood dozens of blows, and his crying did not subside in the slightest.
Finally, when his mother was tired of beating him, she threw him to the ground and repeatedly emphasized, "You can only catch me once at most."
The child burst into laughter and ran to the claw machine, took out a game coin and put it in. With a sharp crackling sound of electricity, the mechanical claws began to shake and click.
Seeing that the claw was about to fall, Tang Xinjue could only roll forward and make the crystal ball roll in the claw machine.
The child's shouting became louder: "Mom, look, the ball is running."
His mother slammed him down again: "Are you stupid? This ball that moves on its own must have been deliberately placed there by the wicked Wang Group, just to keep you from catching it! Hurry up and catch something that can't move."
The child then reluctantly manipulated the mechanical lever to change direction, and soon his eyes lit up again: "This big eyeball is so cute!"
Looking in the direction of the mechanical claw's movement, Tang Xinjue saw a pink eyeball-shaped doll placed high up, with its small black pupil trembling wildly.
Just by looking at her, she recognized that it was Guo Guo inside.
There was no time to stop it, the claws had already fallen, and the child clapped his hands happily, his ten bony fingers snapping:
"Great! We caught it!"
