Xiao Lou originally thought that the paths chosen by the two teams, the [Heaven Path] and the [Hell Path], would always lead to the depths of the maze, or even lead to the only exit of the entire maze.
As a result, Ye Qi and the others only walked through two secret chambers and ended up back where they started?
In order to confirm, Xiao Lou immediately started a voice call and asked: "Senior Gui, are you sure you have returned to the starting point? Is it another secret room with the same layout as the Six Paths of Reincarnation?"
In the secret room, some similar scenes often appear, making people mistakenly think that they have gone back to the place they just walked through. In fact, they are just replicating a room, which confuses people. In order to avoid this situation from happening, Xiao Lou left Liudao at that time.
I once made an eye-catching mark when I reincarnated in the room.
Guiyuan Zhang said firmly, "It's the starting point. When we entered the Heavenly Dao just now, we placed a marking arrow at the door. The arrow I placed is in this secret room."
Xiao Lou: “…………”
That's right. Veteran maze players know that they need to place arrow marks at forks in the road to prove that they have been there. Since Mr. Gui saw the mark he placed, it means that they have returned to the room they were in just now.
So, Ye Qi and the others took a trip to the path of heaven and humanity, but gained nothing, and actually returned to the starting point of the six paths of reincarnation?
Is the path of heaven and humanity circular?
Guiyuan Zhang said: "It seems that the Heavenly and Human Path is not the exit. We are going to choose another reincarnation gate to go in. Does Professor Xiao have any good suggestions? Among the remaining human paths, animal paths, hungry ghost paths and asura paths, which one should we enter?
"
Xiao Lou was also a little confused.
This maze was more difficult than any maze he had encountered before. It had been more than an hour since he entered, and he still had no clue about the exit, or even the structure inside the maze.
After hearing the discussion of his teammates, Lao Mo took out the map he drew. There were also signs of bends in the hell path. Maybe it was also a big circle. After walking through the eighteen levels of hell, he returned to the starting point...
Xiao Lou thought about it carefully and said, "Try humanity?"
Gui Yuanzhang nodded: "I think so too, then we will enter the reincarnation gate of the human world. If there is any situation, we will contact you."
Xiao Lou warned: "Be careful of predators and be on guard at all times."
After hanging up the call, Xiao Lou looked at his teammates beside him and said: "Our hell path has only reached the fifth level so far. Let's continue. This path may not be the right one, but we can't give up halfway."
Teammates all agreed with Xiao Lou's opinion.
Although this path is not necessarily right...but it is not necessarily wrong either, right?
If you walk back halfway, what if this is the correct exit? Wouldn't it be so regretful that your intestines will turn blue? Therefore, you have to walk the path you choose on your knees, at least after walking it, you can completely rule it out.
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The six people continued to walk forward for some distance and saw the sixth level - the Bronze Pillar Hell.
It is said that those who deliberately set fires during their lifetime, or who set fires for reasons such as destroying evidence or revenge and causing innocent people to be implicated, will be sent to the Bronze Pillar Hell after death. The devils will first strip off his clothes and let him hug someone naked.
A copper pillar with a diameter of one meter and a height of two meters. A charcoal fire is burning in the tube, and the air is blown continuously. Soon, the copper pillar will become hot, and anyone who hugs the copper pillar will naturally be scorched alive.
Countless huge copper pillars appeared in the secret room in front of them.
Each one was burned red by fire, and it was still spinning, making a clicking sound like a rotating metal mechanism.
The distance between the copper pillars is less than 30 centimeters. Once you are accidentally touched by two hot copper pillars, your skin will be instantly burned or even burned to coke.
People like Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan, who are over 1.85 meters tall and have strong bodies, want to pass through a 30cm copper pillar gap, even if they go sideways, it is difficult to ensure that the whole body will not touch the copper pillar, not to mention, the copper pillar
They are arranged in a disorderly manner and cover the whole room. If you step sideways in the first step, you may hit the next copper pillar head-on with the second step...
The six people stood at the door of the Bronze Pillar Hell, and Xiao Lou couldn't help but have a headache.
How to get through? If you force your way through, these copper pillars will burn you into meat patties.
None of the single-player games he had played during his college days had such difficult machine formations, and his knowledge had gained a lot today.
Lu Jiuchuan raised his head and said, "The copper pillar is very high, so it shouldn't be possible to fly over it, right?"
Tang Ci said: "I'll send the drone up to take a look."
A miniature unmanned reconnaissance aircraft rose straight up under Tang Ci's control and flew to the top of the copper pillar. He soon discovered that the bottom of the copper pillar was close to the ground, and the top was directly close to the roof. Climbing from the bottom, from
None of the above strategies will work.
You can only go through the middle.
The gap in the middle is too small. Unless you are a 30-pound paper man, you can pass sideways smoothly. If you encounter a fat man, you will definitely get stuck between the two copper pillars.
While everyone was struggling with what to do, Liu Qiao suddenly said: "I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work."
Xiao Lou turned around and looked at the little girl who poked her head out of Lao Mo's pocket: "Xiao Liu, tell me."
Liu Qiao said: "Professor Xiao, do you still remember the fairy tale cards I drew before? The ugly duckling and the white swan. I can transform in groups, turning up to 10 targets into ugly ducklings, or myself into a white swan. After transformation, 30
You cannot be attacked within minutes, but your movements will become more clumsy. I think the average duck is smaller than a human, so ducks should be able to pass through this 30 cm gap?"
Everyone: "………………"
Lu Jiuchuan helplessly raised his forehead: "What kind of cards did you draw?"
Liu Qiao didn't know how to answer this question. Anyway, she had weird fairy tale cards, various ancient characters in Xiao Lou, Uncle Mo was sofas, marbles, dyeing materials and the like, and Captain Yu's weapons were normal.
, it’s a pity that the maze is not used.
Thinking of Liu Qiao's [Ugly Duckling] card, Xiao Lou couldn't laugh or cry: "This is a way to change it into 10 at a time, right? Try turning Mr. Tang's pathfinding ants into ducks first and see if you can pass the test."
Liu Qiao nodded: "Well, I haven't seen how big the duck conjured by this card is."
Tang Ci cooperated and summoned a mechanical ant.
Although Liu Qiao was in Lao Mo's pocket, she could still control the cards smoothly. She found the ugly duckling card and used her skills to transform the mechanical ant into a cute little duck, about 10cm in size.
Width, 20cm long.
Tang Ci controlled it to continue moving forward...
The gap of 30 centimeters is very narrow for adults, but for ducklings...
It's very spacious!
Xiao Lou was overjoyed: "Okay, let's do it."
Liu Qiao reminded: "Mr. Tang, after Ninth Brother turns into a little duck, how about you ride him?" After all, even if Tang Ci becomes the size of a thumb, he has no legs and cannot sit in a wheelchair. Someone must carry him.
, we can’t let him crawl over slowly.
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: "No problem, I will be Xiao Tang's mount."
So, the card in Liu Qiao's hand flashed - Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang, Lao Mo and Lu Jiuchuan instantly turned into four little ducks.
The four little ducks lined up neatly to pass through the Copper Pillar Hell. The scene really looked like a cartoon.
Lu Jiuchuan: "Quack, quack, quack."
Tang Ci was stunned for a moment: "What did you say?"
Lu Jiuchuan: "Quack, quack, quack."
Xiao Lou: "Quack."
Yu Hanjiang: "Quack, quack, quack."
Liu Qiao and Tang Ci without transformation: "…………"
As a human, you can’t understand what a duck is saying!
However, Liu Qiao could probably guess what Lu Jiuchuan meant, which was to let Tang Ci climb on his back and let him carry him, so Liu Qiao helped and let Tang Ci sit on the bed of the last little duck (Lu Jiuchuan).
on the back.
Lu Jiuchuan was relieved now.
Liu Qiao walked in the front and led the way. After all, she only had a big thumb, and the distance of 30 centimeters was a wide road for her.
Four ugly ducklings, Yu Hanjiang, Xiao Lou, Lao Mo and Lu Jiuchuan, followed Liu Qiao. Although they would be clumsy when they turned into ugly ducklings, no matter how clumsy they were, 30 minutes was enough for everyone to get out of this copper pillar hell.
Xiao Lou feels that their team's style of painting is getting weirder and weirder.
Walking through a mirror maze, Mo splashed paint along the way.
Going through a steamer hell, Mr. Tang asked everyone to wear mechas collectively.
Now that I have passed through the Bronze Pillar Hell, I have been turned into an ugly duckling by Liu Qiao...
I don't know who accidentally rubbed against the copper pillar, and the duck feathers on his body were almost burnt, and he exclaimed "quacking".
In the end, it took the six people 15 minutes to pass through the scorching hell full of copper pillars without any danger.
Liu Qiao breathed a sigh of relief, took back the cards, and everyone finally returned to human form.
Lu Jiuchuan asked doubtfully: "Xiao Tang, I just talked to you, why didn't you respond?"
Tang Ci said expressionlessly: "I only heard a few duck calls of quack, quack, quack."
The four people in Xiaolou: “…………”
So, the four ducks just chatted together, and to the ears of Tang Ci and Liu Qiao, they just quacked?
Tang Ci asked: "What did you say?"
Lu Jiuchuan laughed dryly and said: "I'm just asking you what it feels like to ride a little duck, cough, forget it...let's forget what happened just now."
It’s better for everyone to forget the dark history of Gaga as soon as possible.
Xiao Lou chuckled, touched his nose, and said: "The next level should be the Hell of Sword Mountain."
Those who massacre living beings will be sent to the Hell of Sword Mountain after death, where they will be stripped of their clothes and made to climb the Mountain of Swords naked.
The six of them continued walking forward, and sure enough they saw the seventh level of Sword Mountain Hell.
I saw a wide secret room, densely packed with sharp knives, and the cold light was dazzling.
After all, this is an underground maze, and it is impossible for them to climb a mountain, so the Knife Mountain Hell has been improved and turned into a huge pit full of sharp knives, and "knives rain" is constantly falling from the ceiling.
You can't fly directly with Qinggong. If you use a knife as a landing point, you will definitely get cuts all over your body.
This level was much more difficult than the previous scissor hell. Xiao Lou stood at the door and observed for a long time, but found no pattern in the landing of the knife. As a result, Lao Mo suddenly came up with an idea: "My marble floor can be used in the knife pit."
A path has been paved in, and everyone just needs to avoid the rain of knives above their heads."
Everyone is adding firewood and the flames are high. Today everyone's cards are really put to good use.
Lao Mo's marble can be laid flat to pave the floor or vertically to build walls. It is indeed a very versatile building card.
Moreover, this card is limited to 100 pieces of marble that can be used at will. The length of the knife pit is enough to be completely covered by the marble. The marble is of excellent quality, so you don’t have to worry about being punctured by a knife. There is a knife underneath to support it, so you don’t have to worry about falling.
Seeing that his teammates had no objections, Lao Mo took out the marble floor and quickly laid the floor tiles.
The knife pit was originally filled with densely packed sharp knives, which made people's spines run wild just by looking at them. At this moment, the knives under their feet were quickly covered by the marble floor, and a smooth marble floor road was soon paved in front of everyone.
The knives were still falling from the sky, and Tang Ci said: "I will use a phalanx of drones to block the knives. Everyone, please leave quickly."
He usually only summons 1 or 2 drones for flight tests. At this time, he summoned a large number of drones and flew together in the air, as if they formed a metal protective umbrella. The knives falling in the sky were all unmanned.
The machine is blocked.
Under the protection of the drone array, everyone quickly walked across the marble floor.
Xiao Lou couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The seemingly difficult Sword Mountain Hell has actually become the easiest level so far, which shows how important it is to use the cards rationally. If Ye Qi and the others take this level, Mr. Gui's brush will
Floating in the air to open a path, or Ye Qi's teleportation card can also successfully pass through the knife pit. There are actually many methods, it just depends on whether you can use your brain.
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【Chapter 384, Ice Hell】
In the eighth level of ice hell, the entire secret room was frozen into ice.
Before they even entered, everyone felt a chill that hit their hearts, which was even colder than entering the morgue.
There is ice all around, under your feet, on the roof...the whole world is white, and the ice is so slippery that it is difficult to stand firm.
The extremely low temperature made everyone's teeth chatter from the cold just standing at the door.
There were no dangerous traps found in this level, but it was very uncomfortable to walk into the ice room.
Moreover, the time flow rate in the hell realm is deliberately compressed.
They stayed in the ice room for 1 minute. According to the body's metabolic rate, they actually stayed in the ice room for an hour.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou hurriedly summoned Bai Juyi.
Bai Juyi's 1st skill, Charcoal Seller, can generate charcoal fire in any environment. I didn't think it was too important to make a fire before, but now, in this extremely cold ice room, the charcoal fire lit by Bai Juyi - that is the real thing.
It’s really a “help in times of need”!
Lu Jiuchuan no longer wanted to comment on Xiao Lou's cards.
Bai Juyi actually came out and lit a pile of charcoal for everyone...
Xiao Lou quickly took out a compass and skillfully made four warm charcoal stoves according to the previous method. He put the charcoal fires lit by Bai Juyi into them and gave one to each of his teammates. He said: "Everyone, take the stoves and get through the ice as soon as possible."
Hell. Time here has been compressed. If we stay here for too long, our bodies will get frostbite."
Yu Hanjiang took the lead: "Let's go."
Only when he actually entered the ice room did he realize that the cold outside was just a drop in the bucket. When he was in the ice room, all the blood in his body was almost coagulated. There happened to be some water droplets on Xiao Lou's eyelashes, and he was frozen almost instantly.
They all felt strenuous. The sweat on Lu Jiuchuan's hair had also formed a thin layer of ice, and his whole body seemed to have a white head.
Everyone was shivering from the cold and frightened. If it hadn't been for Xiao Lou's heater, they would have quickly lost consciousness and turned into an ice sculpture.
Tang Ci released a drone for reconnaissance and quickly came to the conclusion: "The ambient temperature is minus 50 degrees, and humans cannot survive at all. Hurry!"
After walking only a few steps, everyone's legs were almost frozen and their teeth were chattering.
Lu Jiuchuan had no choice but to summon Suzaku.
The skill of the mythical beast Suzaku is Suzaku Sky Fire, which can throw flames and ice in a wide range. Of course, the most feared thing is fire. Even if Suzaku Sky Fire cannot completely melt the ice chamber, it can at least alleviate the low temperature of the environment.
As Suzaku flapped its wings, large swaths of flames spread in all directions——
This is also the first time Xiao Lou has seen the power of Suzaku, which should be the strongest group attack card in the team currently.
Lu Jiuchuan deliberately skipped the passage in the middle. Everyone took advantage of the flames to flow around and the temperature in the ice room to rise to quickly escape from the ice hell.
Xiao Lou was originally worried that there might be unexpected "surprises" such as ice cubes falling and ice surface collapsing in this ice hell. Unexpectedly, the gatekeepers were kind to them. This level was just extremely cold. Other than that,
There is no other danger outside.
After walking through the Ice Hell, everyone arrived at the ninth floor.
Pan hell.
Not exactly the opposite of the extreme cold just now, it is extremely hot here.
It is said that people who have done many evil things during their lifetime will enter the oil pot hell after death, where they will be stripped naked, thrown into the oil pot and fried...
The long and narrow room was arranged like a huge bathtub, with no way to stand on it. Unfortunately, what was boiling under this "bathtub" was not hot springs, but scalding oil!
Once it accidentally falls into the oil pan, the consequences will be disastrous.
The air was filled with a strange smell of burnt meat, and everyone felt sick to their stomachs when they thought it was the smell of fried human flesh.
In the mountain of knives just now, Lao Mo couldn't lay a marble floor because the knives underneath could be used as support points. But the oil pan couldn't support the marble. The weight of the marble would sink instantly as long as it was put into the oil pan.
Lu Jiuchuan said: "The passage here is only about 1 meter wide, and my Suzaku cannot fly."
If you want to pass the oil pan, there are only two ways -
First, fly through the air.
Second, use "Immune to Damage" or "Not Afraid of High Temperature" cards to swim through the oil pan.
If it is the first method, it is easy for Liu Qiao. She can transform into a white swan and fly for a long time. However, the Qinggong card of "Light as a Swallow" does not mean long-term flight. She must find the landing point within 3 seconds. Oil pan
Where is the landing point? Once the toes touch the hot oil, those feet will be instantly useless, so the Qinggong card of being as light as a swallow cannot be used in the oil pot hell.
The second method is to swim over. Tang Ci's mecha is not afraid of high temperatures, but the mecha lasts for 30 minutes and can be used once every 24 hours. Everyone has already used it in Steamer Hell and cannot use it again now. As for other
Cards with similar "invincible" effects currently only have Xiao Lou's compass circle. Unfortunately, the compass must define a range. If it goes out of the range, it will still turn into fried human flesh.
what to do?
Swimming through the oil pan obviously doesn't work, so we have to find a way to walk through the air.
Xiao Lou fell into deep thought.
Floating... paving the way...
Suddenly, a prop that often appeared in sports events appeared in his mind - the balance beam.
The balance beam in gymnastics is in the air. Lao Mo happened to have a "solid wood floor" card. Moreover, this wooden board can be cut into any desired shape. The large wooden board is cut into narrow wooden strips and then put together to form a single-plank bridge.
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The question now is how to float the wooden floor?
It's definitely not possible to put the wood directly into the high-temperature oil pan. There must be something to support it.
Xiao Lou thought about it carefully, and some pictures appeared in his mind again...
A long time ago in the Spades Chamber, he often used compasses to draw circles and used those circles as hidden weapons.
One or two rings are not enough to support the weight of the board and teammates, but what if hundreds or thousands of them are connected together?
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou hurriedly said: "I have a way!"
Everyone looked back at him and saw that he took out his S card compass and began to draw a circle on the ground seriously.
What he painted were primitive objects about one meter in diameter.
Every time you draw a circle, a metal ring will appear on the ground, just like magic.
Lu Jiuchuan watched Xiao Lou's work curiously from the side.
Drawing one circle every second, Xiao Lou drew hundreds of circles in the blink of an eye. Those metal circles were almost piled up into a mountain next to him. Then, he stopped and gently raised his hands.
I saw that those rings seemed to have consciousness, and they all floated into the air according to Xiao Lou's instructions!
Then, they were connected one after another, stacked together, and quickly extended forward in the direction of the oil pot hell. From their location to the end of the oil pot, which was more than 50 meters away, every other meter, there were
A dozen rings stacked on top of each other are floating. From a visual effect, it looks like a series of disks floating in the air.
Lu Jiuchuan discovered that Xiao Lou's operation was really bad, and the masters in the game were not that cool either.
Yu Hanjiang understood what Xiao Lou meant: "You want Lao Mo to use the ring as a leverage point in the air to build a wooden bridge in the air?"
Xiao Lou smiled and nodded: "Well, give it a try and I will split your board."
If the rings are stacked densely in order from small to large in diameter, they can actually be made into solid circles and suspended in the air for teammates to step on, but then Xiao Lou’s workload will be too much. It is estimated that one
I can't finish the painting in an hour.
He just drew some circles of the same size and stacked them together as support points, which made it much easier for Lao Mo to build a bridge.
Lao Mo took out the solid wood floor. This solid wood floor was enough to cover a 140-square-meter house. Therefore, if Lao Mo cut it to 10 meters x 1 meter in length and width, it could completely lay a wooden bridge.
Mo Xuemin was also very familiar with his own furniture cards. He quickly cut the wooden boards and placed them on the ring of Xiao Lou.
Xiao Lou said: "After the wooden plank bridge is paved, everyone can walk across it."
He and Lao Mo cooperated with each other, and within a moment, a wooden plank bridge suspended in the air was officially completed.
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: "We are almost turning into a construction team."
Go to the Hell of Daoshan, paved with marble;
Going through the hell of a frying pan, we directly built a wooden bridge in the air...
Is there a better construction team than them?
Everyone followed Yu Hanjiang and jumped onto the wooden plank with mixed emotions.
Under the bridge is a boiling oil pot.
On the wooden plank bridge, everyone lined up and moved forward calmly, as if they were crossing a small river that was not something to be afraid of...