Chapter 427: The End of the Alien World
Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan continued to move forward in the maze.
So far, the Nerigabawa team seems to be always hidden in the fog, with no clues visible at all.
The sudden elimination of Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui weighed heavily on their minds. Who eliminated them? How many gems did they spend? And how many gems did they take from Bai Lianlian and the others?
Yan Zhen felt a subtle sense of disharmony, and this disharmony became even stronger after he discovered that Team Nie had left no traces of battle at all.
Liu Xingquan was writing and drawing on graph paper, recording the rooms they walked through.
At this time, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan had already reached the exit of this level of the maze.
"The room passage opened by the Neligaba team can only be described as precise and accurate. They did not take any detours and did not waste any useless time. From the starting point to the exit, the line connecting several rooms is the shortest distance." Liu Xingquan unfolded the graph paper and placed it in front of Yan Zhen.
"It's like they know the layout of the maze," Yan Zhen said. Even though Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan had figured out that this underground maze was essentially a minesweeper game, they still had to take detours and try again and again to find the exit. In order to avoid another time penalty, they had saved as much time as possible, but it was completely incomparable to Team Ner. Team Nerigabawa's swift and accurate clearance speed was like they had seen the map beforehand.
Liu Xingquan said: "There are two possibilities. One is that this may be related to the initial abilities they obtained, and the other is that they have either completed the game before."
"Speaking of this reminds me of a movie called Battle Royale, where the group of students included the previous year's clearing winner. Having the clearing champion mixed in among them is also a common setting in survival mode games."
"Battle Royale is really deadly, don't set random flags!"
"Mr. Air said this is a safe game. Let's get back to the point." Yan Zhen stretched out his hand, "Show me your records along the way."
Taking the record paper from Liu Xingquan, Yan Zhen quickly read it through, "Sure enough..."
"What?"
"We should have almost explored all the maze levels in this underground maze." Yan Zhen pointed at the paper and said, "Look, this is the number of maze levels we have walked through, and we have never walked through the same maze twice. From the beginning, the maze levels we were teleported into are almost all mazes that have been explored by other teams. According to the records, the number of maze levels has never exceeded 30, and now we are always teleporting randomly within 30. I think the number of unexplored maze levels is getting smaller and smaller, so the probability of entering the maze levels now is that other teams have explored them."
Liu Xingquan looked at the record paper and nodded, "That's right. According to what you said, assuming that the maze has 30 floors in total, what will happen when our teams have explored all the mazes?"
"It will be a mandatory team PK battle." Yan Zhen stood up, "Let's go, don't forget our special story mission. The 16th floor is a maze level we have never reached. According to this pattern, I think we should be there soon."
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Another transmission.
This time they arrived at the 19th floor. Judging from the traces of battle in the maze monster room, this floor was another maze that Fan Yingjie and the Terminator had explored.
"Fan Yingjie and his team have experienced two time penalties." Yan Zhen looked at a burned room and said, "Now their gem count is 5, which is a very passive number."
"Maybe they beat the White Company and got the gem from the girls' division."
"Team Nie Sha Sha is more likely to attack the girls' team. Given the low number of gems, the safest way for Team Fan is to proactively request an alliance with the girls' team."
"I don't think Fan Yingjie would think of forming an alliance with girls."
"You're so sure."
"First, Fan Yingjie is a fool. Second, Fan Yingjie is a fool who won't bow down to a girl." Liu Xingquan said bluntly, "If it was Cui Mingzhi, the sweet-talking sea king, he would have tried to win over the girls long ago."
"..." Yan Zhen said, "Liu Xingquan, I now suspect that you have also secretly defined some strange labels for me behind my back."
" Oh, don't worry, it's just a 'young master who likes to lie'."
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I looked at the two teenagers in silence. They were actually using conversation to relieve their nervousness. The unexpected elimination of Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui undoubtedly brought them a huge sense of oppression. The two of them deduced a lot of intelligence based on the existing information, but the crisis was approaching step by step. I could see it.
But now is not the time for me to show up.
Just as Yan Zhen expected, they found the exit of this level of the maze. After being teleported to mazes explored by other teams several times, they were finally teleported to the 16th level.
This floor is indeed a maze that has been explored.
"This floor has been explored by Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui." Yan Zhen said. There were tiny leaves left on the floor of the room they were in. They were traces of battle left by the tree man teammates in the girls' group.
The little spider has now reached a new level. It is no longer the same as before. It quickly identified five rooms, one of which is an unopened trap room. The information on it shows that there is another [suspicious skeleton] in the trap room.
Without stopping, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan quickly came to the trap room. Just like the last time, they had to wait for three rounds before removing the trap.
Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan stood aside, staring at the progress bar bored.
Just as their attention was focused on the room that was about to be opened, a humid breeze blew over.
Yan Zhen saw the spider silk floating in the wind, and the little spider hung on the spider silk and hurriedly swung past him. Then he heard the little spider shouting: "Danger!!!"
Danger? Yan Zhen thought to himself, we haven't opened the monster room at all, so we shouldn't be attacked by monsters. The room in front of us is just a trap room.
But what happened next shocked him. A tall creature attacked him from behind. If Yan Zhen hadn't pushed Liu Xingquan, Liu Xingquan would have been pierced to death by the sharp claws.
Or maybe it shouldn't be described as long claws, but rather as abnormally hard mutant branches. The leaves rustled, and the sap flowed through the cracks of the rough bark. It - a mutant tree man - was waving a tendril with long leaves like sharp teeth, and damp water vapor was rising around it. The bark, which should have been expressionless, was clearly filled with naked hatred and anger.
"Hiss—hiss—kill you—" the tree man roared.
"It's Bai Lianlian and her tree man teammates!" Liu Xingquan shouted.
This treeman teammate of the retired ally was now more terrifying than the monsters in the monster room. It spewed malice, and its tendrils were as sharp as arrows and stabbed at them.
Yan Zhen rolled over and sat on the ground, avoiding the long leaf that was stabbing at his vitals. "Where's the round-based system?" He whimpered.
The current attack is no longer a turn-based mode where you encounter monsters along the way, but a real-time fight between life and death. This is an unexpected situation outside the rules. Players cannot use force to fight each other, and the tree man is not a player. After Bai Lianlian and the others left, he became an exception.
"Kill you--" the tree man shouted, "traitors--"
Its branches and tendrils attacked like a venomous snake, and Liu Xingquan's feet were entangled. Just as Liu Xingquan was about to pull the strange tendrils away, Yan Zhen threw out a magic scroll [Whirlwind Ring]. A fierce whirlwind wrapped around the tree man. The tree man let out a hissing sound, and in the whirlwind, several of its tendrils and branches were twisted and torn, and a thick branch was directly broken.
Yan Zhen took the opportunity to pull Liu Xingquan over. But the mad tree man did not give up. After enduring this blow, he regrouped with a more ferocious attitude. The sharp long leaves fluttered everywhere, and the nimble tendrils of the branches like venomous snakes waved again. Its speed and strength were far greater than Liu Xingquan and Yan Zhen. It was only a matter of time before they were strangled to death on the spot.
"Kill the betrayer—"
At this moment, Yan Zhen suddenly stood up and pushed open the door behind him.
He pushed the door open with all his strength and then fell down. The tree man chasing him rushed into the room out of inertia. Liu Xingquan cast a [Wind Power] scroll from behind and pushed the tree man completely into the room.
There was a loud bang in the room, and the trap that had not yet been dismantled was activated.
Pure energy exploded in the room, sending gusts of wind and breaking tendrils, branches, leaves, and remnants of the tree man's tissue flying in the air.
Liu Xingquan and Yan Zhen lay on the ground, and it took them a long time to get up from the ground covered with branch and leaf debris.
They limped into the trap room, where the dying tree man was lying in the trap. The dying tree man suddenly wrapped his last tendril around Yan Zhen's wrist. "Why betray... Why betray them..."
"Betrayal? What are you talking about?" Liu Xingquan asked.
"They trust you so much, why... betray them..." The curled branch weakly loosened from Yan Zhen's wrist.
"Betray who? What are you talking about?"
The tree man was no longer making any sound.
"Liu Xingquan." Yan Zhen suddenly said, "I understand."
Liu Xingquan turned his head and saw Yan Zhen holding another piece of [broken note] in his hand.
[The Broken Note]
The Queen must be told, and must be warned! Those shadows in the darkness have already infiltrated us. They have long since disguised themselves as one of us, and they have been secretly controlling everything...
Yan Zhen said: "Someone disguised himself as us and deceived Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui."
"What?"
"This is why the girls' group failed. They pretended to be us to deceive Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui, and stole their gems." Yan Zhen's face changed. "We must warn Fan Yingjie and the others, otherwise..."
At this time, the system sound rang in the ears of Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan.
[Brave warrior Fan Yingjie lost the PK match and was declared dead]
[Failure in the Brave Terminator PK match will be considered death]
"!!!?"
"Sure enough, they disguised themselves as me and deceived Fan Yingjie again." Yan Zhen gritted his teeth.
The soft system voice continued: [The 30th floor of the underground maze has been explored. The maze elevator is now open. The heroes can freely go to the maze level they want to go. Each team can only send one person to the deepest 31st floor. After the two teams have decided the winner, they can leave the 31st floor. The duel between the two teams is only allowed to use PK competition. Only the final winner can meet the good god and obtain the antidote. Heroes, the good god is waiting for you to decide the final victory. ]
At the same time, a new task prompt appeared on Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's retinas:
[Special Mission Plot: Defeat the pretender who has infiltrated the brave team.]
Liu Xingquan whispered, "They deceived Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui, and now they have used dirty tricks to defeat Fan Yingjie the Terminator. They have taken away all the gems from both teams. How many gems do they have now?"
The essence of the PK competition is to compare the size of gems, and the one with the most gems will be the winner. There is no need to save gems for the final match, and psychological games are no longer applicable. The winner is determined by one battle, and the reason is simple: whoever has more gems will win.
No matter how you calculate it, the gems of the Neligabava master and servant team are now far superior to those of Yan Zhen's team.
The truth is so hopeless.
He looked at Yan Zhen and asked silently: How can we win?
"We have seized six from the Bailian team and five from Fan Yingjie's team. We now have a total of 16 holy gems." The servant said, "Yan Zhen's team will not have more than seven gems."
"Let's go and reap the fruits of victory once and for all," said Neligabawa.
