A maze is a maze. When chased by a gatekeeper, Yu Xing and Carlos couldn't try every path and could only choose at will.
The gatekeepers were able to keep up because they made too much noise.
However, Yu Xing was not worried about finding the way, because he had memorized all the roads he had taken. If he reached a dead end, he would turn back the same way, even if the ghost gatekeeper was behind him.
After seeing the ghost, he had a clearer assessment of the strength of the gatekeeper ghost.
It’s okay to meet face to face.
The distribution of the night pearls in the corridor was much more dispersed. It seemed that the interior of the corridor was relatively dark and there were no other people around. Yu Xing jumped up, kicked on the wall, and used the reaction force to pass around a corner at an extremely fast speed.
Carlos quickly followed. The magician's physical fitness was unexpectedly strong. As he ran wildly, his jacket made a hunting sound, as if a bunch of colorful blocks were dancing wildly.
Even though the surroundings were getting colder and colder, white mist appeared in their breathing, but their bodies gradually warmed up under the intense exercise.
“San, don’t you think this place is too big?”
What is the concept of building a maze underground? How much manpower and material resources will it require?
"Of course it's too big." Yu Xing gasped. His physical fitness was only at the normal level now. He might not be able to run if he ran for a while. "The maze is not just a maze, it is a formation. Everything we perceive now is not
It must all be true.”
Carlos is just looking for something to say when he has nothing to say: "Hey, you"
Before he finished speaking, the gatekeeper roared, and the sound penetrated the minds of the two of them, making them feel as if their brains had been hammered hard and buzzing.
Both of them stumbled. Yu Xing rushed too fast and failed to stop the car. He accidentally hit the wall in front and his arm hurt.
He was forced to stop. Carlos glanced at him, stopped, and pulled him: "Don't stop!"
"Don't worry." Yu Xing stood up straight and looked at the guard ghost who was approaching.
The sleeves of the janitor's robe were in the way, his withered hands were raised, and his toothless mouth was split open, revealing a disgusting and creepy smile.
It seems to know that two living people are no longer able to move, which means it can get back its ghost control seal!
Yu Xing glanced at the time distractedly, and there were still five and a half minutes until the ten-minute countdown.
The chain on the janitor's wrist was hitting him like a meteor hammer. He narrowed his eyes, turned his head to avoid it, and fumbled around in his bag.
“Carlos, do me a favor.”
Yu Xing got what he wanted and rolled away from the janitor's chain: "Help me hold it for thirty seconds."
Carlos knew what he had come up with as soon as he saw it, and he immediately responded: "Okay, I only have thirty seconds. If there is more, I will run away first."
Yu Xing ignored him. After moving away from his seat, he turned his wrist and revealed what was in his hand.
A dirty incense burner.
Yu Xing didn't notice how Carlos was delaying his time over there. He just shook the incense burner, took out three incense sticks, opened the lid of the burner, and inserted the incense sticks into the messy incense ashes.
As soon as the incense was inserted, it ignited without fire. Yu Xing half-knelt on the ground, placed the incense burner steadily, and smelled the smell of burning incense.
This is one of the two props he can use. Its function is...to appease the sneaky corpse.
He maintained a half-kneeling posture and moved the incense burner to a position between him and the gatekeeper ghost. In this way, he seemed to be worshiping the gatekeeper ghost.
After doing this, thirty seconds have come. Carlos blocked the chain with a dagger and said without looking back: "Are you ready?"
“Okay, get out of the way.” Yu Xing said.
Carlos quickly withdrew, leaving only the janitor standing there.
The strange thing is that the gatekeeper ghost is no longer as excited as before, as if it has really received some kind of sacrifice. The ferocious aura on its body gradually subsides, and its hands hang down.
Carlos breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene. He felt that he couldn't talk and disturb him at the moment. He also saw the ghost seal that Yu Xing conveniently placed on the ground next to him.
Yu Xing is half-kneeling now. I don’t know if it is a compulsory requirement to use sacrifices or props. Carlos’s eyes linger on the ghost seal, and he tiptoes around Yu Xing’s line of sight, trying to steal it.
“You really want it that much? While I’m dealing with the ghost guard?” Just when Carlos bent down and his fingers were about to touch the ghost seal, Yu Xing suddenly laughed.
He spoke to break the silence, but the gatekeeper didn't react at all. He seemed to have been calmed down very well.
Carlos froze: "Isn't this stolen based on my ability?"
“Oh, then try it.” Yu Xing smiled, which made Carlos hesitate.
Aren’t the four words “then you try” usually used in a threatening tone?
Try it and you will die.
“You’re bluffing me.” Carlos said firmly.
Yu Xing’s smile deepened: “I didn’t bluff you, just take it away.”
“Do you think I’m scared?” Carlos clicked his tongue, picked up the Ghost Seal, and quickly backed away.
He thought Yu Xing would take some measures against him, or at least express his disappointment in words, but Yu Xing remained motionless.
The incense burned shorter and shorter, and Yu Xing saw that there was another layer of ash accumulated in the incense burner.
Perhaps because the gatekeeper ghost is still very strong, the incense seems to be consumed, burning several times faster than normal incense.
When there was only one piece left, he made a gesture to put away the incense burner.
The gatekeeper ghost has completely calmed down. The item [Dirty Incense Burner] can only be used three times in total, so it is very effective.
Yu Xing is the user of the prop. He can get feedback. In his perception, the gatekeeper should go crazy again in ten minutes.
During this period, he could have left quietly so that the gatekeepers could not find him.
“Carlos.” Yu Xing took back the incense burner and called Carlos.
Carlos played with the small card of the Ghost Seal between his fingers and tilted his head, "Huh? It might be a little too late to snatch it back now? There are only two minutes left."
"I don't want to tell you this, I just want to say..." Yu Xing raised his head and glanced at the top of his head with unclear meaning, "Something is coming again."
The gatekeeper ghosts have been appeased, but the things that exist in the maze have also been attracted by them staying in the same place for a long time.
That’s a lot of hair.
No one has ever said that except for the gatekeepers, the maze is safe. Ordinary tombs are still full of dangers, let alone the tombs with weird evil ways everywhere.
I don’t know when it started, but the corners of the winding corridors have been filled with hair. They are spreading and squirming like worms, but they make no sound.
Carlos was shocked to notice the existence of hair after Yu Xing reminded him. He looked up along Yu Xing's line of sight and saw a strand of hair hanging on top of his head, almost reaching his forehead.
The top of this strand of hair is tied into a knot, which looks like a hanging rope.
Carlos felt a shiver in his heart. The danger was so close to him, and he didn't even notice it!
It seems that this hair ghost is very good at interfering with people's perception. Even if he sees dense hair, his brain cannot make corresponding analysis, as if his brain ignores them uncontrollably.
I'm afraid that ordinary people standing here will not realize that they are in a pile of hair that should not be there until the hair is wrapped around their necks and they feel suffocation and pain.
Yu Xing was also surrounded by hair, which swept over him like a wave. He lowered his eyes, put on his backpack, and drew out the Tang Dao.
A tuft of hair climbed to the top of his head, formed a hanging rope, and hung down in front of Yu Xing.
As long as he walks forward normally, he will put his head in with his own hands.
A bit of silvery cold light flashed, and the knots fell lifelessly to the ground. Yu Xing put away the knife and walked forward with a normal expression. Carlos had already moved forward a lot to avoid these hair knots. There was no rush in front of him.
Hair coming out.
Walking into Carlos' line of sight again, Yu Xing paused: "I have calmed the gatekeeper ghost. Let's leave the area as soon as possible and walk a while longer before it wakes up. Then you can use your paper man
Went to find them."
“Hmm.” Carlos opened his mouth, and suddenly his pupils shrank, “Wait.”
It seemed that Yu Xing didn't see the knot of hair hanging down in front of him, and he couldn't avoid it and was about to hit it.
For a moment, a thought flashed through Carlos' mind.
It’s not “If he dies here, no one will compete with me for the Ghost Seal”, but...
“This guy just reminded me that there were other ghosts, and now he pretends not to see them. Isn’t it just to test whether I can be cruel to him and then decide whether to take the ghost control seal back?”
In a moment of weighing, he not only shouted to be careful, but also directly started to cut off the knot in front of Yu Xing with a dagger.
This kind of hair is plentiful and not really tough, so it is a type that is easy to cut.
Yu Xing's "crisis" contact, he looked into Carlos' green eyes, and the countdown on the persona panel came to the last twenty seconds.
“Can you please stop testing me with such a weak-minded behavior?” Carlos turned the ghost seal on his fingertips dissatisfied, “No one with any brains and emergency response ability will believe you.”
“I’m not testing your attitude, I’m just testing your IQ.”
Carlos never expected that Yu Xing could say such shameless words. As he spoke, they had already left the range of hair knots and came to a brand new area that they had never seen before.
With five seconds left, Yu Xing raised his hand and handed Carlos a golden sign wrapped in an unknown material layer: "Take it."
ˆ Carlos: “?”
He took the sign, and the first thing he thought of was that Yu Xing could steal things, and he could steal the Ghost Control Seal back without anyone noticing, and as a top magician, he didn't notice it at all. He was too comfortable.
However, the next second, he touched the ghost-control seal he had taken before, and the small card was still in his pocket.
It means that what Yu Xing gave him and what he took away are not the same thing. There is a difference between the two if you look carefully. The former is covered with a layer of translucent material, smooth and hidden, and cannot be seen without looking carefully.
The latter is a bit black, like normal gold that has been left for a long time.
When five seconds are up, the system countdown stops abruptly.
【The time has expired, after judgment, the ghost control seal is not in your hand】
【mission failed】
【Mission punishment: The plot kill will come within thirty minutes, the survival rate is 50%, please be prepared】
Three reminders flashed through Yu Xing's mind, indicating that he had failed in a rare mission.
Different from Yu Xing.
Carlos received a reminder that the task was completed, and realized later: "Did you make a fake ghost seal? When and how did you have time?"
"You don't need me to do it. Didn't you see that there are many things on the gatekeeper's belt?" Yu Xing was moved by his wit. The gatekeeper's belt was simply something designed to fool people. It was covered with scales.
The gold brand is intentionally made similar to the Ghost Seal. It takes a long time to find the Ghost Seal mixed in.
I'm afraid that the evil spirit had such a wishful thinking at the beginning, so that the tomb robbers thought that the ghost mark was on the belt, and after searching for it for a long time, they ignored the position of the tongue base of the long tongue.
"But...since you were so cunning and fooled me with the fake one, why did you give me the real one?" Carlos couldn't understand. This was a plot kill with a 50% survival rate. It was so dangerous.
This is equivalent to a targeted attack in the middle and late stages of a normal deduction. Yu Xing actually gave up the safety opportunity like this?
Not to mention a key clue for the mission reward.
"I saw that you took the fake one without raising any suspicion. I once suspected that there was something wrong with your IQ." Yu Xing glanced at him, "Then I thought about it for you. You haven't looked at the Ghost Control Seal carefully, so it's normal that you can't recognize it.
And maybe you are not good at identifying authenticity. So, I decided to test you from another angle."
“It turns out that your grasp of human psychology is quite accurate.”
“So what does this have to do with you helping me?” Carlos raised his eyebrows.
"You have proven that you are a more valuable teammate. Relatively speaking, you are more important than the 50% survival rate." Yu Xing may encounter a plot kill at any time now, and he waited with faint joy, "For me,
Say, 50% mortality rate is too low and not very important."
“I’m convinced. If you had said it earlier, I wouldn’t have worried about myself.” Carlos was surprised by Yu Xing’s tolerance and respect for his teammates, but was also speechless by Yu Xing’s usual bad taste.
It’s hard to say whether the 50% mortality rate is low or not. Many bosses definitely think it is low, but Yu is lucky to have resurrection items.
Carlos is still thinking about the resurrection he saw in Coffin Village. Carlos has only heard of this kind of sacrifice with incredible power, but has no chance to get it.
"What's the point of saying it earlier? Let me see your reaction first." Yu Xing smiled and said the second half of the sentence.
After watching it, I must say that Carlos, a young man, looks like a wild wolf cub who is difficult to control, but he is very talented in some aspects and deserves attention.
The two of them walked lightly. After more than five minutes, they had turned five or six forks in the road, and could no longer hear the janitor's cries that had become more frequent again.
There was no silence for a while, Carlos walked next to Yu Xing and elbowed Yu Xing.
"Do you have any more questions?" Yu Xing asked proactively without waiting for him to speak.
“How did you realize the hair ghost just now?” Carlos stood there and didn’t even react. Yu Xing was squatting there, paying attention to the janitor ghost. How could he multitask?
"It's simple, because I saw something in the corridor just now that shouldn't be here." Yu Xing answered matter-of-factly, "It's on the ground, something left by modern people. No one from Oster Company opened the door.
Ghost's coffin, if that team dropped something in a hurry, what could be the reason? I can only guess that there are other dangers in the maze."
“Thinking of this, I woke up and noticed the hair.”
He took out a palm-sized miniature doll from his pocket. The eyes of the little boy in a black suit were full of hope: "This is it."