Chapter 980
My Wife is a Hacker
âMiss Riddle, please.â Ike gestured with his hand.
Nicole shot a look at Harvey and then walked forward while Harvey and Ike followed closely behind.
Inside Ikeâs car, Nicole was listening to music in the back. Harvey was sitting in the front passenger seat as Ike was driving the car off into the distance.
After twenty minutes, the car stopped in front of an experience center. Nicole looked out of the car.
âThe Octopus Experience Center?â
âYes, itâs a gaming experience. Iâm told itâs a mustâvisit place,â Ike said. âThen letâs check it out.â Nicole took the lead. She got out of the car and headed inside, coming to the door and being stopped by the staff.
âPlease show your number tag.â Ike came up quickly. âHere it is.â
The staff checked the three number tags before letting them in.
âAn experience center with a ticket check? Itâs not like itâs a movie theater.â Harvey complained.
âIt is said that this place only accepts two hundred visitors a day, so it is entry by number only. Whoever comes late will have to wait until tomorrow, and tickets are not preâsold but sold at the counter.â Ike explained to Harvey.
âOh, I didnât know that.â Harvey understood upon hearing Ikeâs explanation. âAre the three of you together?â A young lady with blonde hair and blue eyes approached them.
âYes,â Ike spoke. âAre the three of you experiencing it together?â Ike glanced at Nicole as if asking her opinion. âYes,â Nicole replied.
âThis way, please.â The blonde lady guided them toward the inside. âAfter passing this door in front of you, the game officially begins.â
âHow do you play this game?â Harvey asked the young lady, who just smiled sweetly, saying nothing.
âWhat does she mean? How are we going about it?â Harvey looked at Nicole with a puzzled look on his face.
âSince this is an experience center, certainly we will have to experience it ourselves. Telling you outright would defeat the purpose.â âIf youâre scared, stay. Letâs go.â Nicole said, and then looked over at Ike.
The two pushed the door open. No way Harvey would leave them to spend time alone. So he hurried after them.It was pitched back inside , and the faint light was only enough to illuminate the directional signs. Nicole led the way. The lights came on all of a sudden as a fourâdimensional space appeared ahead of them. Players must find the real one before the clock struck in order to pass the level.
The moment the lights came on, time began as a giant time compass was ticking overhead. âIt seems to be a game of time plus space. Is it for us to experience the feeling of time flying by?â Nicole murmured.
âThere are many oneâway passages here, so we have to choose carefully, or weâll probably get stuck inside,â Nicole explained to them both. âSo, how do we get through?â Harvey looked at Nicole.
âThere must be a pattern to look for.â Ike was good at analysis. There were multiple mirrors in front, and between each mirror was a passage by which it was hard to tell where it would lead to. The only choice was to go in and check it out themselves. The good thing was, they could still come back out if they had not ventured too deep inside. But beyond the mirror door, it would be the point of no return. This was almost exactly what Nicole had thought.
Ike tried to look up to see the time, but the clock compass was gone. In its place was a galaxy. âWhy is the clock gone?â