Chapter 426: Strange Land (10)
The Terminator took a bite of the sandwich, and the filling had a very satisfying chicken flavor, juicy and tender. It would be difficult to eat such a delicious sandwich in the real world, but even in a dream it would not be such a real experience.
Even though the Terminator has entered the game many times, he still marvels at this exquisite perception beyond reality. He can understand why so many people are addicted to this alien game, but reality is reality, and games are always games. It is a problem for ordinary people on Earth to be involved in this alien game of alien civilization, and it is even more sinful for minors to enter the game. Otherwise, he would not be forced to team up with a kid who has no idea of the situation.
He finished the teriyaki chicken sandwich in his hand, and felt full. His feet, which had been sore from exploring the maze, seemed to be relieved. The Terminator brushed off the crumbs on his knees, stood up, and then it was time to continue exploring the maze.
But no one knew what his teammate, the guy named Fan Yingjie, had done.
A monster hissed and rushed out from the opened room. Its name was "The Procrastinating Cricket". Compared with the agile and powerful monsters they met on the road, its movements seemed a little too slow, just like the slow motion in a movie.
Fan Yingjie raised his gun at this "mole cricket suffering from procrastination".
The Terminator yelled, "Wait a minute!!"
Thunderous gunshots suddenly rang out.
[The Procrastinating Mole Cricket] was shot in the head. The huge impact force caused its head to be blown off instantly, and the violent air wave directly blew a dent in the wall.
"What are you doing?" said the Terminator.
Fan Yingjie turned his head to look at him, the boy's face was full of excitement, "I'm killing monsters." His tone was full of why you ask when you already know the answer. This was not the first time he ignored the advice and acted recklessly. Whenever he heard the boy answer in this tone, the Terminator's temples ached.
"I've already said that you should follow my instructions. You shouldn't act on your own."
Fan Yingjie retorted: "But we have to hurry up, we have already wasted another gem."
"You should have asked me before you acted," said the Terminator. "Back off! This monster is releasing something!"
A puff of black smoke came out of the body of the "Cricket Suffering from Procrastination" who was lying on the ground. A line of words appeared in front of the Terminator and Fan Yingjie at the same time:
[The dying mole cricket has transferred the curse of procrastination to you. Look, the deadline is coming towards you! Procrastinators must die! ]
Fan Yingjie said, “Huh?”
I saw the pointer on the circular clock timer moving forward madly, and it ran for six points before stopping.
Fan Yingjie shouted, "What happened?"
The Terminator said, "Obviously, a time curse, get out of the way."
He walked forward and checked the remains of the [Procrastinating Cricket]. Unfortunately, this monster did not drop any items, which means that killing this monster would only bring a DEBUFF curse.
The round clock in their field of vision showed that they only had a few more rounds left.
The Terminator stood up and said, "See? Now we are one step closer to punishing the BOSS, and we are going to waste another gem. This is the good thing you did by rushing to the front." The Terminator felt a little annoyed when he thought that the few gems he had to hand would be reduced by one. Then he heard Fan Yingjie's somewhat discouraged voice.
"I didn't know it would be like this..."
"I've said it many times before, you have to tell me before you do anything, this is not a game where you can do whatever you want..."
"You're right, okay!" Fan Yingjie responded suddenly. His tone was tough, but his eyes were not. Rather than being a resistance to the Terminator, it was more like a subconscious automatic resistance mechanism.
After shouting this, the boy's eyes trembled uneasily between the cricket that was about to disappear and the ground, and his half-drooped face was intertwined with regret and dissatisfaction. The Terminator suddenly realized that his words just now were a little too harsh. To Fan Yingjie, the Terminator was just a stranger who met by chance. He was just a player who wanted to play games happily and was accidentally involved, but the Terminator used his status as an elder to command and suppress him all the way, and never treated him as an equal teammate.
"...Fan Yingjie." The Terminator slowed down his tone, "I said, we are a team."
“…”
"This game is full of traps. We must cooperate with each other and trust each other." The Terminator said, "I'm sorry, I was too impatient just now."
Fan Yingjie looked up at him, his face still covered with anxiety and discouragement. At this moment, the Terminator deeply felt that the boy in front of him was just a 15-year-old boy, a child in the rebellious period of adolescence. The Terminator, an aging middle-aged man, always had a headache with children of this age.
"Do you want to win?"
Fan Yingjie muttered in a low voice, "Who doesn't want to win?"
"Then I believe you, please believe me too." said the Terminator.
"Yeah." Fan Yingjie wiped his nose with his hand and nodded in agreement.
At this time, the system sound rang in the ears of the two people:
[Brave Bai Lianlian loses the PK match and is judged dead]
[Brave warrior Song Jiarui loses the PK match and is declared dead]
Fan Yingjie shouted, "What happened to the girls' group? Who eliminated them?"
“…”
"what happened?"
"Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's team are familiar with the girls' group. If they were smart, they wouldn't have fought each other at the beginning. The most likely team to take action is Nerigabawa." The Terminator said, "There are only three teams now. Let's go, the next step is the key."
"Um."
"Fan Yingjie, please remember that we are a team."
"I see."
Fan Yingjie followed behind the Terminator. Suddenly, a familiar voice rang in his ears. "Fan Yingjie, Fan Yingjie?"
"Yan Zhen?"
"Don't let anyone find out I'm talking to you."
Fan Yingjie looked up at the Terminator walking in front of him. He covered his mouth and said in a low voice, "Where are you? How can you talk to me?"
"This is the prop [Megaphone]." Yan Zhen said on the other side, "Don't let the Terminators around you know about our conversation. Bai Lianlian and the others were eliminated by the Nerigabawa team. Now I have a plan."
Fan Yingjie's eyes lit up.
"Why were Bai Lianlian and the others eliminated? What happened?"
"..." Yan Zhen didn't say anything. There was no doubt that the only two teams other than theirs could eliminate Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui's team. So which pair eliminated the girls' group?
According to his calculations, the number of gems in the girls' group should be higher than that of Team Nie and Team Fan. The girls' group has an advantage, so why were they eliminated so quickly?
Is it because Bai Lianlian and the others played conservatively and didn't produce many gems, or is it because of some other reason...
"We can only hope that the girls' team will stake a large amount of gems in the PK battle, so that the number of gems that the opponent can snatch after they are consumed will be limited." Liu Xingquan muttered to the side.
Yan Zhen said, "Let's first see what's inside this [suspicious skeleton]."
It took three rounds to dismantle the trap. Yan Zhen squatted down to examine the [suspicious skeleton], and soon they found a [broken note] in the skeleton.
[The Broken Note]
Our planet is corrupted. This plague was a conspiracy from the beginning. They deliberately created this terrible tragedy. I am about to die, but someone must tell the Queen the truth...
Note: The lower half of the torn note is on the 16th floor of the maze.
"What I hate most is leaving things unsaid!" Yan Zhen shouted.
"Anyway, we have to go to the 16th floor to find the lower half of the note." Liu Xingquan said, "Before, we have always entered other levels of the maze randomly. Whether we can go to the 16th floor depends on luck."
"If we're unlucky, we might encounter other teams." Yan Zhen sighed.
"I never thought that our unbreakable alliance would be gone like this."
"The word unbreakable is full of the flavor of flag."
"So I said it would be a good idea to find Fan Yingjie as an insider."
…
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The maze level to which Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan were teleported this time was the 13th level.
This level of the maze is another level of the maze that has been explored by other teams.
"This floor is really..." Liu Xingquan looked around the room, "It's clean."
While exploring the maze, Liu Xingquan and Yan Zhen have cracked the code of the maze's rules, and with the upgraded Spider-Man's investigation bonus, they can now accurately avoid most monster rooms, but this does not mean that Liu Xingquan and Yan Zhen can completely avoid monsters.
Even Liu Xingquan, a master of minesweeping, could only rely on his luck to open the only safe room when faced with three straight rooms with 2, 2, 2 leaf pattern marks on the walls. Of course, their luck was that of ordinary people. Sometimes they could avoid it, but sometimes they stepped on a mine.
During the battle, they often rely on the magic props they picked up to fight without powerful weapons, and after a fight, the room will always leave traces of the battle. This is true for both Bai Lianlian and Fan Yingjie's team. Bai Lianlian's team has powerful tree people teammates, and their battle rooms often have residual small leaves and humid water vapor. Fan Yingjie's team has powerful weapons, and the walls and floors of their battlefield rooms will have obvious damage.
But the rooms they walked through were very clean, too clean. This was not the first time they entered this kind of maze. As soon as they saw this scene, Yan Zhen and the others knew what was going on.
"This is the labyrinth level that the Nerigabawa team explored." Liu Xingquan said, "It looks like there has never been a battle."
"Look, we've only walked through rooms that have been opened by Team Nie. There are monsters in the unopened rooms." Yan Zhen pointed to a room and said, "I'm thinking..."
"What?"
"They are the only ones who have no traces of fighting along the way." Yan Zhen said solemnly, "And we all saw the rooms where Team Bai and Team Fan were punished by time, but we didn't see this master-servant team at all."
"You mean... they almost perfectly avoided all the monster rooms and didn't waste time like our teams did." Liu Xingquan said, "In other words, they didn't suffer any time penalties."
"This master-servant team may be more terrifying than I thought." Yan Zhen murmured.
