Chapter 33 The Rabbit's Cell

"Don't act so confident." Rabbit said to the puppet, "But... you're right, I won't let this traveler kill you." It turned to Feng Bujue again, "You, go and catch him for me first."

"Catch 'him' for you?" Feng Bujue glanced at the puppet and repeated, "Him?"

Rabbit replied, "At the forty-first minute, I already gave you the bottle of potion I had. You also caught him at that time." It pointed to the fourth corridor, "You came from there back then."

[Current quest has been changed, main quest has been updated]

The system prompt sounded at this moment. Feng Bujue opened the game menu and saw that in the sub-menu of the original [Find the chemical potion (04)], there was an additional quest [Find and capture the puppet Billy in the fourth corridor and bring him to Rabbit to exchange for a bottle of chemical potion.]

Feng Bujue raised his head and took a deep breath. "I have a hypothesis. If I go back now and catch him, hand him over to you at the forty-first minute, and then I don't take the potion..." He paused for a second. "Then, will the things happening now change?"

Rabbit said, "Are you saying that if you did that, the potion in my hand should still be there, right?"

"Yes," Feng Bujue said.

"But you already took it." Rabbit looked into Feng Bujue's eyes. "Can you understand?"

Feng Bujue was stunned for a few seconds. "Are you saying..."

"Because you took it at that moment, that's why you're asking me this question at this moment." Rabbit replied, "According to another possibility... Suppose you didn't take it at that time, then I would give the potion to you at this moment, but even so, you still have to catch Billy, because if you don't catch him, my cell at this moment will be empty, and I won't give you the potion. This is a paradox.

"And if you catch him as usual and return to the forty-first minute, there are two possibilities. The first is that you take my medicine, then the previous you will be negated." Rabbit said, "And if you don't take it..."

Feng Bujue interjected, "The me who is discussing this issue with you will also be negated."

Rabbit raised its hand. "Think about it. If you choose the wrong path and cause a space-time paradox..."

"The game will directly fail..." Feng Bujue pondered. He turned his head and looked at the puppet. "I really fucking want to talk about life with you."

"Hehe..." The puppet Billy chuckled in a deep voice. "How do you know we haven't talked before?"

Feng Bujue paced back and forth in front of the four corridors. "Did I bring him back from the fourth corridor..." He asked again, "Where are the other three bottles besides the potion in your hand?"

Rabbit replied, "The bottle in my hand is actually Alden's." It waved its hand and gave Alden a wink. The latter disappeared instantly. Rabbit continued, "He is the more cooperative one of the four."

"Four?" Feng Bujue's gaze shifted to the four cells.

Rabbit knew what Feng Bujue wanted to ask. It replied directly, "There should be four prisoners in these cells. The former warden here, Samodir... I think you should have heard of him. He thought he was also a prisoner, so one day, he opened four doors and let these prisoners out and defected." It sat back in the chair and turned off the light in Billy's cell. When the light went out, the puppet seemed to enter another space, completely isolated from this place.

"So, the master sent me to take over here." Rabbit continued, "Alden is more cooperative. He just likes to stay in dark and confined places and occasionally listen to ghost stories. He didn't show any aggressiveness or intention to resist. I regard him as a model prisoner, so I made him my assistant."

"A traitor..." Feng Bujue said.

"What did you say!"

"Never mind, I didn't say anything." Feng Bujue smiled and brushed it off.

Rabbit snorted and continued, "There is a bottle of potion you are looking for in each corridor. The bottle in the third corridor where Alden is located has already been given to me by him, and I have already given it to you 'later' 'before'." It paused and stroked its beard, seemingly thinking that its own words were a bit convoluted. "The puppet Billy was hiding in the fourth corridor before. He also has a bottle there. You who caught him naturally got that bottle too."

"Okay, I understand everything." Feng Bujue said, "That is to say, there is currently a bottle of potion in each of the first, second, and fourth corridors, and another bottle is what I got after entering the first end of the fourth corridor, catching Billy, and sending him here."

Rabbit nodded, indicating affirmation.

"Last two questions. First, purely in terms of distance, which corridor is the shortest?" Feng Bujue wanted to find the shortest corridor and run back to the first end first, because it was already around the eighty-fourth minute, and he was worried that the time difference would not be enough for him to deal with the small Boss in the first or second corridor, and then return to the first end.

He planned to go back first, and then enter the fourth corridor from the first end to rewind the map time, so that he would have time to stop and do something while passing through the corridor.

"I don't know." Rabbit replied, "I've only been to the first corridor. I haven't been to any of the others, so I can't compare which is longer and which is shorter."

"What? How did you become a jailer?" Feng Bujue asked.

"If I could come and go as I pleased, I would have caught all the prisoners myself. Would I still need you to do it for me?" Rabbit replied righteously.

"What about the guy hiding in the first corridor? Has he been caught by you?" Feng Bujue raised his head and looked at the four dark cells behind Rabbit. "Which one is he locked in? Where is the potion on him?"

"I just said... I've been to the first corridor, but I didn't say I caught him." Rabbit replied, "That guy... is quite special. I personally suggest you go to that corridor last."

"Damn it!" Feng Bujue complained and turned to leave.

"Hey! Didn't you have two questions? What's the second one?" Rabbit asked.

While running towards the second corridor, Feng Bujue shouted back without turning his head, "The second question is... why don't you go and catch them all yourself!" His figure quickly disappeared into the corridor.

At this moment, according to Feng Bujue's mental calculation, the time he personally experienced was approaching forty minutes.