Chapter 423: Strange Land (VII)
Fan Yingjie shouted: "What kind of damn prediction is this!"
The Terminator did not reply.
"The other party tricked us into playing 1, but thought we were also tricking them, so they predicted that we would play 2, and played 3 to win us. But we thought the same thing!" Fan Yingjie said angrily, "How could this be possible?"
"Let's go." The Terminator said. At this moment, the light of the torch in the maze shone on his sunglasses, making him look strangely majestic. In addition, his outfit was exactly the same as the Terminator in the famous movie. This cold and fierce temperament made Fan Yingjie unconsciously develop a sense of trust in him similar to that of a strong man.
"This was a mistake on our part," Fan Yingjie muttered.
"No, this is just the beginning, and what comes next is the key." The Terminator replied. When he spoke to Fan Yingjie, his tone was always as serious as an elder. He looked at the weapon in his hand, which was the God-given item they got from behind the Cube Gate. "What a pity, we could have taken the opportunity to kill them."
"The result is that we wasted three holy gems." Fan Yingjie said listlessly.
The Terminator took off his sunglasses and looked at the boy in front of him. "Fan Yingjie, this is a team game. I hope we can continue to trust each other."
"..." Fan Yingjie looked at the man in front of him. He was silent for a while and said, "Uncle, can you put on your glasses ? Please don't take them off, okay?"
"?"
"If you don't take off your glasses, I can still imagine you are Schwarzenegger. But if you take off your sunglasses, you are just an ordinary office worker!!"
“…”
Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan are making smooth progress.
After passing the sixth level of the maze, they entered another new maze and successfully obtained another mealworm.
Looking at the little spider happily chewing the mealworms, Yan Zhen said, "You can upgrade now."
As if sensing Yan Zhen's words, the spider's body flashed with a bright light, and the shell under the furry hair appeared with fast-moving silver runes. After a moment, the flashing light faded. Yan Zhen narrowed his eyes. The spider in front of him had undergone some changes, not in the flesh and blood details on its body, but in something invisible. To be precise, the spider's authority was increased through the control of an invisible hand.
Instead of saying meaningless flattery like "Wow, congratulations on your upgrade, you are no longer Spider-Man but Super Spider-Man", Yan Zhen simply asked what it could do now.
"From now on I will mark three rooms on each floor for you," said Spider-Man.
"Only three?" Yan Zhen's disappointment was obvious. "Each level of the maze has 81 rooms, and you only provided information about three rooms? Can this really be considered a god-given skill?"
Liu Xingquan whispered: "Bai Lianlian's team can recruit monsters into the team." His meaning was very clear, translated into Chinese means: Aren't you a bit useless?
Facing the accusations of the two boys, the little spider calmly folded its legs and said, "As long as I have 6 more mealworms, I can reach the next level. Then I can spy out five rooms."
Yan Zhen turned around and said, "This spider is useless. We can set off now."
"Um."
"Wait a moment--"
"Let's go, let's go."
"Um."
"In addition to being able to mark the rooms for you, I now have another ability." The little spider looked at the two teenagers with satisfaction as they stopped and turned to look at it. It announced with full strength: "--that is, revealing information about monsters."
Afterwards, they soon experienced Spider-Man's abilities firsthand.
In front of an unopened room, Spider-Man posted a label. It was no longer a simple skull pattern like the previous ones, but a label with a monster head on top and a description of the monster's health and skills below, as well as a notice listing the detailed dropped items.
The notice indicated that there was a monster named [Mary Moth] in the room.
【Everyone loves Mary Moth】
[Mary Moth has a good network of people. It is weak and helpless, but if attacked, it will summon three or more admirers to help. Usually you will die miserably. ]
[Drop: None. Mary Moth never brings anything with her when she goes out.]
"..." Liu Xingquan said, "In short, this is a very difficult monster to fight."
"And it doesn't drop anything!"
"But this kind of intelligence strategy is not bad." Yan Zhen touched his chin and said, "It is unrealistic to completely avoid fighting all monsters in the maze. We can use intelligence to judge whether the monsters in the monster room are worth fighting. The little spider is indeed useful. It's a pity that there is still too little intelligence about the three rooms on the first floor."
“Then we still need to upgrade it.”
"Well, I hope we have better luck on this floor and get more mealworms."
With the detailed information of the three rooms provided by Spider, and the guidance of Liu Xingquan, the minesweeper expert, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's team quickly explored most of the rooms in this maze. They obtained a dagger that could attack twice and a blood recovery potion, avoided most of the monster rooms, and only stepped on a "monster mine" at the end. With the help of this dagger and blood recovery potion, they successfully killed the monster.
Although this monster did not drop mealworms, it did drop an item.
The prop is called [Megaphone].
【Megaphone】
[Note: The two of you are connected by a thread. Use this item to talk to the specified player once, for a time limit of 2 minutes. A one-time consumable.]
This item means that you can communicate with other players remotely, but the chance is only once. Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan looked at each other. In a psychological game like the maze PK competition, communication with other players often means the possibility of changing the situation.
"Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui are already our allies," Liu Xingquan said. "Maybe we can use this megaphone to contact Fan Yingjie."
"oh?"
"What I mean is that we can turn Fan Yingjie against us."
“…”
"Yan Zhen, the key to the PK competition is the psychological game between the teams. The key to victory is to produce more holy gems than the opponent. It won't work if you just rely on luck. The Nerigabawa team is two strangers whose background we don't know at all, but Fan Yingjie is our classmate. We may be able to pull him to our side."
"I understand what you mean, but now Fan Yingjie and the Terminator are sharing a common destiny." Yan Zhen said, "Are you on good terms with Fan Yingjie?"
"I don't know him well."
"Fan Yingjie and I are not that familiar with each other." Yan Zhen sighed, "If he is Cui Mingzhi, I am confident that I can persuade him to be the insider."
Liu Xingquan stared at Yan Zhen and said, "I don't believe you can't see it."
"Um?"
"Fan Yingjie..." Liu Xingquan said, "He has always wanted to gain your approval."
"Really?" Yan Zhen smiled, "Why do I feel like this guy always contradicts me in class?"
"He wants to get your attention."
“…”
"I can see that Fan Yingjie has always been very..." Liu Xingquan frowned and considered his words, "He cares about you a lot."
"I can also say that he has always admired you, the top student in the grade."
"It's different." Liu Xingquan lowered his eyes. "Yan Zhen, you don't know how popular you are in the class. Remember when the glass in the teacher's office was smashed by someone, and several boys in our class happened to pass by at the time, the head of the grade determined that they were the ones who broke it and asked them to write a collective self-criticism? In the end, you found the real culprit and let them avoid punishment. Fan Yingjie was one of the parties involved."
"It's not a big deal."
"There are many such things. I remember them very clearly. It's not just Fan Yingjie. Do you know the rumors about you circulating in our class?"
Yan Zhen smiled: "Could it be that I am still some legendary figure in No. 4 Middle School?"
"Yes." Liu Xingquan looked straight at him and said seriously: "Many classmates like you. They...all want to be your friend."
Yan Zhen blinked and decided to shamelessly accept all of Liu Xingquan's compliments.
"Well, even if what you said is true. Fan Yingjie has a crush on me, but with a 700 million bonus, it's not certain that Fan Yingjie will automatically side with us. Maybe he's getting along well with that Terminator cosplayer now."
"..." Liu Xingquan's eyes wandered for a moment, and he whispered, "I always feel that this Terminator looks a little familiar."
"Um?"
"nothing."
Yan Zhen threw the megaphone in his hand up and caught it again. "This item can only be used once, so we must be cautious. Maybe our allies Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui will also have changes."
"Um."
Yan Zhen looked at the timer in his field of vision. The pointer on the round clock had already reached the 9 o'clock position.
"Actually, what I want to know most now is what will happen when the timer reaches 12 o'clock."
"have no idea."
"Perhaps something terrible will happen in this strange world at 12 o'clock."
“Don’t make random flags!”
…
…
After successfully passing this level, they came to a new level. The number marked on the door of this level was 11.
"I really enter the maze level randomly. There is no pattern at all. How many levels are there?"
"I have an idea."
"What?"
"Let's talk about it after we explore a few more floors."
Liu Xingquan picked up his recording paper, and he recorded every room on every floor. He carefully controlled the space recorded on the paper and carefully drew another 9X9 maze.
On the 11th floor, there were two monster rooms among the three rooms marked by the little spider. The two monsters were not very strong, but the information showed that they dropped mealworms among the props. So Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan bravely blew up the two rooms, used the magic props they picked up along the way to bombard the monsters, and successfully obtained four [mealworms].
"With two more mealworms, our little spider will be able to upgrade its skills!" Yan Zhen announced. The little spider poked its head out of his pocket and stretched out its eight legs to applaud enthusiastically.
"This monster also dropped this." Liu Xingquan said as he picked up a [fragment of a book page].
There is a poem written on it:
Sing, sing,
[This is where the queen descends. ]
He said : "This should be connected with the fragment of poetry I picked up earlier."
As soon as Liu Xingquan finished speaking, with a ding-dong sound, a line of task prompts appeared in front of them at the same time, [Yan Zhen, Liu Xingquan's team triggered a special plot. Special plot task started: Find out the truth behind the poem. ]
"We are lucky. We have opened a special plot." Yan Zhen touched his chin and said, "Will there be any special rewards?"
"that……"
"What's wrong?"
“It’s a bit bad.”
"What?"
Liu Xingquan said: "It took too long to fight those two monsters just now. Our timer has reached 12 o'clock!!"
Yan Zhen looked up, and in his sight, the pointer slowly moved to 12.
