Chapter 421: Alien Land (V)
I am looking down at this strange place.
The entire game is actually a system of interlocking missions and events. It is a bit difficult for me to infiltrate and control this game, but I can quietly generate some random events in the game. As long as the game players complete the events and it has no effect on the progress of the game, I can be quietly regarded as a program branch by the game's central system and run further.
For example, now:
Gamer Fan Yingjie picked up a teriyaki chicken sandwich.
He looked at the teriyaki chicken sandwich in his hand with some confusion. The note read: [Can be used to add blood, even a moron knows how to use it. ]
Then Fan Yingjie put the sandwich into his bag.
You see, these are the harmless little props and small foods that are common in mazes. I carefully placed them randomly in the maze, which does not exceed the original limit of the maze system and will not arouse any suspicion. I played a trick in this picking program and wove a small agreement and trap in this event. As long as a player completes the picking task, I can get a little computing power from the game task system. The game system uses a common advantage-biased efficiency algorithm, so I have accumulated a lot of computing power without anyone noticing. As long as I continue, I should be able to sneak into the backdoor of this game soon.
At least for now, while the game is proceeding peacefully, I have to hurry.
I looked down at the entire game.
In this maze, Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui are currently the team with the greatest advantage, followed by Fan Yingjie and the Terminator, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's team can only be ranked third, and the Neligabava master and servant team is currently at the bottom.
But I know that Yan Zhen always surprises me.
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At this moment, Yan Zhen's team has already found out a fact.
"This is a 9 x 9 grid maze." Liu Xingquan said, looking at the paper in his hand.
After encountering a dead end when walking east, Liu Xingquan assumed that their starting point was from the corner, so there were a total of 9 rooms horizontally. Considering that there was a monster in the fifth room marked by Spider-Man for them, they entered the next row of mazes to the south to avoid it, and then pushed open the room to the north in the room that led to the dead end to the east.
As expected, the two doors on the north and east sides of the new room after opening the door were all dead ends. From this, it can be concluded that the room they have arrived at now is the northeast corner of this rectangular maze.
"It should be a 9 x 9 grid maze." Liu Xingquan said, "If we keep going south now and only open the south-facing door, we should reach the southeast corner of the maze in 9 rooms."
"I think so too." Yan Zhen said, "That means there are 81 rooms in total. The monsters, props and exits are hidden in these 81 rooms."
"We have now explored 11 rooms in total." Liu Xingquan sighed, "They won't let us search room by room, will they?"
"So, there must be some pattern." Yan Zhen said, staring at the paper.
"Then may I ask if you have any idea?"
"..." Yan Zhen did not answer. He took out the little spider from his pocket, pulled its hairy legs and shouted, "That's too much. There are 81 rooms in total, and you only let us explore 2! Do you have the nerve to do that? You are too weak as a scout spider!!"
"I don't have enough strength." The little spider rubbed its legs and said, "Come and call me at the next level." It closed its eyes, as if to rest and not to be disturbed by outsiders.
Yan Zhen glared at it hatefully and stuffed it back into his pocket.
After finishing their small talk, Yan and Liu continued on their way.
After that, they opened another monster room. This time, the monster was a giant snail infected with plague. The snail caused 7 points of damage to Yan Zhen. Before Yan Zhen almost died, they killed the giant snail in time.
This time, the big snail dropped nothing.
They consumed the last apple they had.
Afterwards, they found a treasure chest in the new room, and the key in Yan Zhen's hand came in handy. Inside the treasure chest was a [magic scroll]. The moment the treasure chest was opened, the key in Yan Zhen's hand disappeared. It was a disposable item.
[Magic Scroll: Frost Arrow]
1. When used, it can cause 20 HP of damage to the enemy.
2. Can only be used once.
"20 blood damage." Yan Zhen said.
Liu Xingquan said: "The HP of the monsters we have encountered so far is basically around 10. This scroll can kill them instantly."
“The problem is that it’s a disposable consumable and can only be used once.”
"Um."
Yan Zhen looked at the scroll and said, "Come to think of it, our players all have 10 HP."
"..." Liu Xingquan did not respond.
The health of each player is 10. This means that this magic scroll can not only kill regular monsters in the maze instantly, but also kill the game player instantly.
In this maze game, players from different teams are competitors and enemies. Spider-Man once told them that they might meet other teams in the maze, which means that this magic scroll can also be used on the players' opponents.
What is more likely is that if they can pick up such a magic scroll, then similar scrolls that are equally powerful will also be obtained by other players.
"One strike will kill." Yan Zhen whispered, and he put the magic scroll into his bag.
After that, the two continued to explore the remaining rooms in silence.
Room after room, most of them were still empty, but there were still props in some rooms. In one room, they found a [Magic Scroll Fireball] that could kill the opponent by 5 points of health, and in another room, they found a [Lighter].
Afterwards, Yan Zhen picked up a [Crude Baseball Cap] that could defend against 1 point of damage, and Liu Xingquan picked up another key.
Then they encountered a monster in the new room that opened.
This time the monster is a green slime monster of the same type as the first one.
Considering that they now have no food or medicine, and their health is only a pitiful 10 points. In order to reduce the damage, Yan Zhen used the [Magic Scroll Fireball], plus a critical hit, and simply killed the slime monster.
This time the slime monster finally dropped a mealworm.
The little spider chewed the mealworm happily, "Delicious, delicious."
Yan Zhen asked with a fake smile: "So, can you upgrade your reconnaissance capabilities now?"
"No, not yet." Spider-Man said, "I don't think my strength has recovered yet."
Yan Zhen shook the little spider vigorously: "Spit it out right now! Right now!!"
"Two more." Spider-Man shouted, "Two more!! Then I can level up!!"
Yan Zhen angrily stuffed the little spider into his pocket. They had no medical supplies at the moment, and they were still a little injured in the battle with the slime monster just now. Yan Zhen currently had 5 health points, and Liu Xingquan had 8 health points. Both of them were in a precarious situation and could die on the spot if they were hit by a monster.
At this moment, both of them already had a strong sense of crisis. If they continued like this, they might really stop here before finding the next food to replenish their blood.
"Look, our timer has moved a few more steps." Yan Zhen said, "This is definitely not an illusion. Once we fight a monster, our timer will speed up. I don't think this is a good thing."
Liu Xingquan stared at the paper in his hand without saying a word, his eyes shifting between the squares.
"The elder said that the one who reaches the bottom floor the fastest will win, which means the one who solves the maze the fastest will have the correct answer." Yan Zhen paced in the room, "This kind of square maze must have some pattern..." His eyes swept across the wall, "Speaking of which, Little Spider once reminded the Good God to pay attention to the patterns on the wall. These patterns are exactly the same..."
He moved closer to the wall and looked at it carefully again and again. His eyes suddenly lit up, "Liu Xingquan, wait here for a moment. I'll go to the next few rooms to check ."
"Um."
Yan Zhen left the room in a hurry. After a moment, he came back like the wind.
He pointed at the wall and said, "My memory is correct. There are two lines on the leaf on the wall. The lines in the next room are exactly the same, but there are no two lines on the leaf in the separated room!"
Liu Xingquan stared at the goddess pattern on the wall for a while, then pointed to the graph paper and said, "The first four rooms are where we found the baseball cap. I'm going to take a look now."
Two minutes later, Liu Xingquan ran back, "Yes, there are no two lines on the leaves on the wall of the room where I picked up the baseball cap." He held up the paper, "I can now infer that the essence of this maze is-"
These two boys were already extremely intelligent and quick-witted, and now they understood each other even better.
They said in unison: "It's minesweeper!!"
Props, medicines, treasure chests and other items are ignored in the maze, but only the monster room will be automatically prompted by the maze system. Specifically, the central room marks the number of monsters in the eight surrounding square rooms and marks the numbers with patterns on the leaves on the wall.
Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan opened two monster rooms on the way. After they checked back, they found that as long as the two monster rooms were within the eight squares around them, two marks would appear on the leaf on the wall. These murals were almost identical, with only a small difference on the most inconspicuous leaf in the mural. If it weren't for the extra reminder from the good god, it would be almost impossible to be noticed.
“It turned out to be a minesweeper.”
"Then it makes sense now." Yan Zhen said, "The old man said that the player who reaches the bottom floor the fastest is the winner. Dealing with monsters will take a lot of time, so the essence of this maze is to let us avoid the monster room and find the exit as soon as possible!"
"That's easy." Liu Xingquan's mouth curled up slightly, "Did I tell you?"
"What?"
"I'm a master at minesweeping."
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Liu Xingquan picked up the graph paper, quickly marked the numbers on it, and then led the way.
"This door is safe."
"Safety."
"Safety."
"There's something strange."
"Safety."
"There's something strange."
Once they understood the rules, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan were able to cut through several maze rooms in the blink of an eye.
Soon, they found the lower exit of the maze in a safe room.
When Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan walked down to the exit of the lower maze, they heard a clear and pleasant prompt.
[Congratulations to Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's team for leaving the first level of the maze. ]
【Please collect your rewards. 】
Several sparkling gems appeared in Yan Zhen's hands.
"So shiny." Yan Zhen picked up a crystal clear gem and said, "It looks a bit like a Saint Quartz. It makes my liver hurt just looking at it."
[The reward is 10 holy gems. ]
Yan Zhen asked: "What's the use of this?"
[This is a very important item for the team, please protect it and use it properly. ]
"So what is the use of this?" Yan Zhen asked, "Shopping? Are there traveling merchants in the underground maze? Or can these gems be used for attacking? Or can they be exchanged for cash when you leave the game in the future? You can't use them to summon heroic spirits."
[You will soon know its use. ]
"What's the meaning?"
[This is a PK item for the underground maze. ]
"What?"
[You will encounter another team of brave warriors in the next maze you are about to visit.]
"ah?"
[The PK rules have been updated. When heroes from different teams meet, the PK mode will be activated. ]
The specific rules are as follows:
[1. Do not give up fighting. When heroes meet, they will be forced into PK mode.]
[2. The two teams of heroes each offer their own holy gems to the good god, and the number cannot be zero.]
[3. The good gods compare the number of holy gems offered by the heroes, and the hero with the larger number gets the first move.]
[4. Each team sends one person to fight, and the team that takes the first move has the right to attack first.]
[5. After the battle, the winner can freely take the items from the loser. ]
[6. The team whose life reaches zero is considered to have failed the challenge and becomes a sacrifice to the good god.]
【7. The team without the Holy Gem will be automatically considered a loser.】
[The above rules have been updated in the memo of all heroes. 】
"This rule..." Yan Zhen said, "The essence of this rule is to see who takes the first move."
"Well, I guess other players will also pick up the magic scroll that kills 20 HP. " Liu Xingquan whispered, "It can be said to be a one-hit kill."
"That is to say, whoever plays first actually wins. The key is to see how big the game is."
Liu Xingquan said: "Look at the last two, this means the other party can rob and directly kick the other party out."
"..." Yan Zhen said, "System, are you here? I have a question. Do you have to compete in this kind of PK match every time you meet other teams?"
[Yes, every time we encounter another team, we will be forced into this PK mode. ]
"What do you recommend?"
[Considering that you will encounter other teams later, it is not recommended to offer a large number of holy gems in the first game. The good gods will not return your offerings. ]
"That means we have to use them sparingly. There are teams behind us, so we can't use too many stones right away." Yan Zhen whispered, "The number of holy gems used is the key point of the PK competition."
[May the Queen bless you.] The system sound disappeared.
Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan walked down the stairs. In front of the maze, Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui were watching them.
