In the dark underground palace, a green lamp illuminated a corner.
Ji Xun was still immersed in sorting out the information in his hands, mumbling something from time to time: "'?' in Talung ancient language represents space, '?' represents agency, '?' represents secret passage, and '?' represents curse seal. ,'?' is a corridor or a confusing passage... This '?' seems to point to some kind of noble and supreme existence?"
Not only did he read the information, he also took detailed notes.
In the past two days, he has firmly memorized the hundreds of thousands of characters in this stack of information in his mind.
But in fact, excluding repeated characters, there are less than a thousand characters, and only a few hundred are commonly used.
Whether it is hieroglyphics or alphabetic scripts, a single symbol refers to a certain semantic meaning. As long as the symbol appears multiple times, the general meaning can be slowly decoded by analyzing it in the context.
The frequency of occurrence is high enough, the greater the probability of deciphering.
This is true for any writing system.
The contents that Ji Xun had previously memorized in the 407 space gave him the most direct help.
Asked again about the ninth day of the lunar month, she still remembered some of it.
The two complement each other, and many sentences can be translated directly.
For three whole days, except for meditating and resting, Ji Xun had been translating the ancient Talung language in the literature.
It has to be said that his super high comprehension and photographic memory are really an excellent combination for learning a language. Coupled with his focused nature, he also makes the translation of ancient Chinese a hundred times more efficient than others.
Although not much has been deciphered, and it may not be completely accurate, the general meaning of hundreds of ancient Talung characters has been grasped.
Even if there are unknown symbols, as long as they are connected before and after, you can roughly guess some meanings.
Ji Xun felt that it was almost done.
.......
Three days have passed, and no sound of fighting can be heard in the maze passage.
I guess there shouldn't be any survivors in the maze.
The monsters and other things should have been sorted out by the people at the Governor's Mansion.
At this time, Ji Xun collected the information in front of him, then stood up and said, "Let's go. The group of people in the Governor's Mansion should be almost dead. Let's find a way to get out now."
"Finally leaving?"
Hearing this, Nan Jing jumped up happily.
This kind of sitting time is simply torture for her lively temperament.
She didn't know why Chujiu believed in this guy so much.
Just wait, even if you wait, it will still be three days.
"Um."
Ji Xun nodded.
He and Chujiu had rarely talked to each other. One was translating ancient texts and the other was healing. For three days, the three of them had almost no communication.
Therefore, the rest of the south mirror seems very boring.
She tinkered with her summoning cards every day and made some small skull cards using materials from the maze.
Chujiu listened without speaking and stood up from meditation.
The most important reason why Ji Xun chose to act now was Chujiu's injury.
Her silver hair has now faded, and her injuries have obviously been effectively healed.
This team's "strongest combat power" and "humanoid radar" must be taken care of. This is the best insurance to increase the fault tolerance rate.
...
The three of them got up and walked towards the maze.
Now that they have experience, Chujiu and Nanjing can also deliberately suppress some of their fears and various emotional fluctuations.
As long as you don't encounter elite monsters, you will basically not attract monster hatred.
No matter how careful you were, it was almost impossible to avoid monsters in this large cemetery maze with hundreds of thousands of skeletons.
But it happened that the group of people from the Governor's Mansion ran rampant in the maze, almost using force to push through the corridors in their path.
Although the number of 300,000 skeletons is terrifying, the level is too low, and there is almost no threat in front of such high-level elite legions.
This also greatly facilitated Ji Xun and the others.
Now those guys are most likely dead, and there is no need to worry about being suddenly hit in the passage like last time.
Coupled with Chujiu's super sense, the risk has been reduced to a minimum.
The three of them still chose the corridor with traces of battle. As they walked along, Ji Xun's eyes were still searching carefully for something among the piles of skeletons.
Sure enough, not long after, they encountered the second corpse of the Frost Knight.
The two women looked solemnly at the human corpses killed by the secret keeper for the first time.
Chujiu looked at the shriveled state and murmured: "Curse method?"
Nan Jing also said with a serious face: "It seems that the flesh, blood and soul have been drained."
Ji Xun had already studied the corpse and was not interested in seeing more.
He Liduo collected the dumped items and equipment from the corpse.
There's nothing to be polite about.
...
The three of them just continued to walk along the tunnel strewn with bones and towards the depths of the maze that they didn't know where to go.
Along the way, Nanjing also left marks along the way.
This also saved Ji Xun some time.
The three of them continued walking towards the maze.
Ji Xunlu found three more corpses of Frost Knights one after another.
Including the previous ones, there are five in total.
Five fine armors, five ice swords, five storage rings and some potions, supplies, iron armor, leather armor... there are many good things.
For him, a card master apprentice, these trophies can definitely be regarded as making him rich overnight.
It is a pity that the large army of Frost Knight Legion was not found.
But there is a high probability that it is not expected.
Governor Cao must have died last, and the place where he died must have the most guards, but it must also be full of [Secret Keepers].
...
Along the way,
Just as Ji Xun expected, with Chujiu's "humanoid radar" around, the danger in the underground palace has been reduced to a minimum.
As the three of them walked in the corridor, she could always sense the scent of powerful monsters immediately and avoid danger in advance.
Although the [Keeper of Secrets]'s hatred range was farther than her perception, once they sensed a monster, the three of them ran away.
Using some obstacles prepared in advance, the three of them were able to escape smoothly every time.
Using this method, the three of them met the "Secret Keeper" several times in the maze, but never met him head-on.
Without this biggest fatal threat, all that's left is to crack the maze itself.
Nan Jing has been to the maze before to get skeleton materials, and actually knows the maze walking methods mastered by the Hunter Guild.
But now the sealing stone has fallen, and the original way out has been blocked.
They can only find another way out.
Although Ji Xun picked up an adventurer's diary, the correct moves were not recorded in it.
The three of them wandered around in this maze, and three days passed in a flash.
.......
The area of this maze is really too big.
We also had to avoid some monsters, took many detours, and wasted a lot of time.
Moreover, the complexity of this maze in the cemetery has always been notoriously difficult for the Hunter Guild, and so far it only has an exploration level of about 40%.
The remaining 60% may have been walked by, but they were all trapped inside.
All maze-type extra-dimensional spaces have the same fatal threat, which is food and water.
Although there are storage rings, the supplies carried by Ji Xun and the others can last up to half a month.
Six days have passed now.
In other words, if they can't find a way out in a few days, even if there are no monsters, they will be trapped and die in it.
In the dark passage, the three of them walked leisurely.
Ji Xun's expression remained calm as he walked and observed.
Chujiu said nothing, just followed quietly, focusing on sensing the surroundings.
But the psychic lady seemed a little anxious.
...
Anyone who walked in such a depressing underground palace with no way out for three days would feel anxious.
Oh, no.
That guy didn't!
Nanjing even suspected that this guy was an expressionless zombie.
She could still keep her composure two days ago. After all, Chujiu said that this guy named Ji Xun is a very powerful decryption expert.
Before that, Nanjing still had no doubts.
But based on my observations over the past two days.
She felt increasingly unreliable.
How does this guy look like a master of decryption?
I didn't know anything about anything I asked, and when I chose the corridor, I just chose the path that others had walked, without even marking it.
This made her wonder if Chujiu had been deceived.
Finally, the three of them came to a fork in the road again. Nan Jing saw the mark he had left on the corner for the third time, and couldn't help but muttered: "Ah... do we want to continue walking?"
Ji Xun responded calmly: "Yeah."
Chujiu looked at the mark on the corner. Although he knew what Nanjing was pointing to, he didn't say anything.
But Nanjing couldn't help it anymore and reminded anxiously: "But this is the third time we have come to this corridor. In other words, we are trapped in an endless loop. If we go around like this, we will not only lose money but also waste money."
Food and water alone are simply useless. Why don’t we look for other untravelled routes?”
The more she talked, the more resentful she became. She really doubted whether this guy could solve the maze. He didn't even understand this bit of common sense.
"..."
Ji Xun listened and glanced at her, his eyes slightly narrowed.
Along the way, he did not reveal all his ideas for solving the puzzle too early.
First, I feel it is unnecessary.
Second, many of the ideas are only known to him, and he cannot explain them at the moment.
Chujiu understood the silence and didn't say anything.
But Nanjing didn't understand.
She asked: "Mr. Ji Xun, can you tell me why we continue to follow this path now?"
Ji Xun spread his hands and said, "I don't know."
He really doesn't know.
The complexity of this maze was something Ji Xun had never encountered before.
Because this is beyond the two-dimensional level.
His photographic memory allows the maze map in his mind to form a "QR code".
But now, there are many bugs on this QR code map.
The more times you go, the more bugs you will find.
They have been to this corridor three times.
And Ji Xun remembers it very clearly.
↑←↓←↑→↓←...
This is their fixed move every time.
But the strange thing is that it goes like this every time. In theory, even if it is a loop, the path is exactly the same and the marks should be the same.
But the strange thing is that most of the passages are the same, but there are a few passages along the way that are different.
And if you go twice more, you will find that the number of the passage is different each time.
This is the "key point" he grasped.
Intuition told Ji Xun that as long as he could figure out why those passages were different, he would completely unlock the secret of this maze.
So I can only keep going.
See what the difference is.
However, walking so many times is not completely fruitless.
Perception has not been misled, and memory has not been tampered with.
He was basically certain that the "mystery" of this maze was a physical obstacle, not a mysterious one.
But these findings are all speculation for now.
He didn't want to explain either.
...
When Nan Jing heard the sentence "I don't know", his face instantly became very ugly.
Are you going to die trapped here?
She turned her head and glanced faintly: "Sister Chujiu?"
Chujiu said in a very calm tone: "I believe in Mr. Ji Xun's judgment."
The calmness that never changed from beginning to end is what makes people convinced.
Moreover, she had observed it herself and had already seen the complexity of this maze.
In the current situation, if they were to go it alone, they would have no idea at all.
Nan Jing listened and muttered anxiously: "But..."
After three days of getting along, Ji Xun got to know each other a little bit. Ji Xun knew that this ball-headed psychic lady didn't have any hostility, but she just felt like a headless fly, and she became more and more anxious.
After all, after wandering around in the maze for three days without knowing anything, an ordinary person would have collapsed.
Nanjing performed well enough.
Thinking about it, Ji Xun also revealed a little progress: "The puzzle is almost solved. If nothing else, I can solve it by walking through the maze a few more times."
Chujiu nodded: "Yeah."
"..."
Although Nanjing remains skeptical about this statement, it is difficult to say anything.
The three of them continued walking in the maze.
In a blink of an eye, another half a day passed.
...
The three of them walked two more times in the dim corridor and returned to the intersection again.
Although Nan Jing questioned it, he was not really stupid.
She walked two more times, and only then did she realize Ji Xun's intention of walking this road again, and also discovered that the markings on the corridor changed every time she walked.
But even after discovering it, she figured out why it happened.
But this time it's different.
While walking, Ji Xun suddenly stopped and fell into deep thought.
Chujiu turned his head and looked sideways, seeing the burning eyes under the gas mask, and already guessed what was going on, "What's wrong?"
Nan Jing also cast a curious look.
Ji Xun pondered for a moment, then suddenly his eyes flashed and he said, "I found the correct way to move through the maze."
His tone was very calm, as if he had already expected that he would get an answer after working hard.
Hearing this, Chujiu and Nan Jing both looked bright: Really?
"Um."
Ji Xun already had enough information in his mind, and in this short half-day of walking, he had spliced the information together.
Just now, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of the key word: run.
suddenly see the light!
At this moment, Ji Xun looked at the passage in front of him and already understood what clues the adventurer named "Yuri" left in the diary.
Ji Xun solved the puzzle that had puzzled him for several days and let out a long breath.
Nan Jing couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Ji Xun, how should we go now?"
Ji Xun said to the two of them: "You will run after me as fast as you can in a moment."
Nan Jing didn't know why: "Huh?"
On the ninth day of the lunar month, I was thoughtful.
Now that the idea is clear and there is nothing that cannot be said, Ji Xun explained carefully: "This maze is actually not as big as the legend says. At least it is not as endless as what we can see with the naked eye."
Chujiu was used to this kind of out-of-the-box thinking and looked over it as usual.
But Nan Jing was surprised and puzzled: "This...but haven't we reached the end in the past few days?"
They walked for several days without getting out. The maze was so big that they had experienced it personally.
But now they say it’s not that big?
Ji Xun said meaningfully: "If you think in a two-dimensional way, you will never be able to crack the mystery of this maze."
After a pause, he added: "Because these corridors are not on the same plane at all!"
After saying this, the two women immediately frowned, obviously unable to understand the exact meaning of this sentence.
Ji Xun didn't mince words and directly prompted: "Have you ever played the 'Rubik's Cube'?"
With this statement, Chujiu vaguely understood something.
Nanjing was slow for a moment and had not yet reacted.
Ji Xun said: "This maze is like a Rubik's Cube. It is not a flat maze as seen, but a three-dimensional maze that can move and change."
Before the two of them asked, he explained directly: "Actually, the exit may always be in a certain direction, such as the top of the Rubik's Cube. But every time we approach the exit, the passage of the maze will change, leading us into the wrong direction.
Path up. This is the reason why we have been stuck in the loop before. The principle is also very simple, that is, there is a sensing mechanism at the entrance of some passages. When we step into it, the maze starts to rotate. Because the distance is far enough, we are not
Unable to perceive the movement of the maze."
This has been said in a very simple and easy-to-understand manner.
Nan Jing's pretty face was overjoyed, she already understood, and continued: "That's why we have to run! Use the speed of running to reduce the time difference in the movement of the maze, and finally find the exit before it completes its movement?"
"Um."
Ji Xun nodded with a smile and added: "And we have to run on the right route."
As soon as this idea of solving the puzzle was revealed, all the doubts suddenly disappeared.
When Nan Jing looked at Ji Xun now, the doubts in his eyes had completely disappeared and turned into deep admiration.
Only then did she understand why the words "Mr. Ji Xun is a master of solving puzzles" that Chujiu often said were so valuable.
Only when you see it with your own eyes can you know how powerful it is!
Now that the method of cracking this maze is explained, it may not seem difficult at all.
But it is really difficult to stay trapped in a maze for a few days, ignore the interference of the solution, and analyze the structure of the maze with absolutely calm thinking.
Just like herself, she couldn't find an exit these days, and the environment and supplies had made her increasingly anxious.
Moreover, how can a normal person's decryption ideas go back and forth for a day or two in a channel that they know is loopy?
This kind of almost paranoid behavior seemed to Nanjing to be "stupid" before.
But now I know that this is due to the precise judgment and confidence brought by his super puzzle-solving ability!
There is also a magical brain circuit like the "Rubik's Cube". How did he come up with it?
Only then did Nan Jing realize that she had misunderstood before. She was not pretentious and said directly: "Mr. Ji Xun, I'm sorry, I was too rude before."
Ji Xun responded with a smile and didn't care at all.
After spending three days together, he had a good impression of this psychic lady.
He added: "However, it is not absolutely safe to find the right way to move. After entering that space, you may encounter many monsters. I am not sure what the situation is, and the risk must be high. We also need to make some preparations in advance.
."
"Um."
The two people on Chujiu also nodded.
Finding a breakthrough is already the best news.
If not, I'm afraid I will really be trapped in this maze.