Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 12: New Game Launch [Complete]

1496: Bumping into a Gun... Or Rather, a Pen

Unexpectedly, her idea actually worked—no, her idea should have worked from the start.

Lin Sanjiu urgently called out to Yu Yuan and ran out of the apartment building made of words. She listened for a few seconds and then started running towards the direction of the ringing sound, completely forgetting to look back at Yu Yuan.

Lily was completely turned into words, not leaving out anything external. Thus, when Whit E. was transformed into words, naturally, the communicator in his hand was transformed too. So, that communicator should be somewhere in this blank space with Whit E.

The real question was, can that communicator make a sound in this blank world?

"Was it that robot JoyBee that gave you the idea?" Yu Yuan caught up with her, adjusting his path according to the sound. "After thinking about it, the only thing that could've provided you with a clue was JoyBee."

Lin Sanjiu, while running, replied, "Yes – even though JoyBee is just a structure of words here, when projected into the building, it speaks. This means that even if these things are made of words, they don't lack any functionalities and can still produce sound."

"Ah, now I get why the punishment you heard from the game was different."

Yu Yuan jogged along – this was the first time the two were running flat out on level ground. After only a few steps, Lin Sanjiu realized that the combat abilities of the body Yu Yuan was in now weren't good. Perhaps he made this body look like Yu Yuan, but it certainly wasn't the original body.

"Yes, I think the 'JoyBee' word structure contains two different loser punishment messages. One for me to hear, and one for them."

Lin Sanjiu sighed inwardly and said softly, "I've always been puzzled about how it managed to let me hear a different punishment message... but if the projected sounds were different in the first place, that would explain a lot."

If these peculiar word structures can project sound, it indicates they still have the conditions to produce sound. Then, if a word wasn't written down and didn't need to project anything onto the ground, but its sound-making function was triggered, would she hear it?

Fortunately, the answer was yes.

After an indeterminate amount of time, Lin Sanjiu slowed down amidst her doubts, and called the communicator again. She listened carefully to the long, muffled beeping. She circled around a few times following the sound, becoming both amazed and suspicious, and asked Yu Yuan, "Do... Do you hear where the sound is coming from?"

Yu Yuan also looked around.

She had followed the sound all the way here, and now the faint beeping of the communicator was clearly very close, definitely right beside her. However, all she could see was endless, oppressive whiteness. The word clusters behind her had disappeared from view, leaving only an unending pure white.

"Hold on," Yu Yuan said, slowly crouching down. "I think... the sound might be coming from beneath your feet."

Lin Sanjiu suddenly jumped to the side, revealing the empty white beneath her. She quickly lifted her foot to check the bottom of her boot, but there was nothing there either. She fell to the ground and redialed the communicator, pressing her ear to it. A faint, unmistakable series of beeps echoed, sounding like muffled cries for help from beneath the vast expanse of white. Before she could even react, the sound faded away.

"It's really coming from below," she murmured, feeling her mind turn into a tangled mess. "Why is it coming from below? What's beneath us? How do we get there?"