The Age of Machines

Chapter 832

5 minutes passed.

The civet cat looked at the exit where no one came out after a long time, and couldn't help but turn around and look at Beixi, her eyes met. She saw doubts in Beixi's eyes.

Ukiyoe snorted coldly, although his tone was impatient but a bit worried. "They're so slow."

"It shouldn't be." Lollipop and the three of them are not stupid. Although they are a little rough on weekdays, they are actually smart people.In fact, there are no real idiots in the legend group, it's just that some people are good at showing off, while some people are relatively low-key.

"I sent them a message, but I didn't reply." The civet cat said, with a thought in his mind, he said again: "Why don't you just go in and look for it."

Starting from their exit, you can find your way back to the circular corridor without thinking too much.But from the circular corridor, because there are still many unmarked routes, it needs to be considered.However, civet cats can mark all the way back to the corridor, and then lead people directly to follow the blue mark.

Although this idea is good, it must have a corresponding [Pathfinder Ball].The props on them really can't complete this "project".

The civet cat was asking for Beixi's opinion.

Beixi yawned, "Although I don't know what the three of them are doing, but you can rest assured that they are fine."

"You said that five minutes ago." Tanuki sighed, "Let's find someone."

Beixi neither agreed nor refused.

On the other hand, Ukiyo-e said, "There is Luo Sheng. Even if Tang Tang and Yi Yi were stupid, he wouldn't."

The corners of Beixi's mouth raised slightly, and the civet cat saw this expression, so it had nothing to say, and waited quietly.

Less than 1 minutes.

The sound of hurried footsteps gradually came from the exit, and soon, a ball of light gradually brightened in the dark exit, and then the three of Lollipop came out back and forth.

"You are too slow." Ukiyo-e looked at the three of them, "slower than a turtle. Obviously, most of the routes in this maze have been marked with blue marks, and it is admirable that you can still spend so much time."

Lollipop rolled his eyes at him, and Ukiyo-e asked again: "Tell me, what did you meet in the maze?"

Tanuki couldn't help looking at Ukiyo-e, this man...

Although they are unforgiving, they actually know Lollipop's situation better than anyone else.It's probably the same. The people in the legend group sometimes have harsh words to each other, but because of the deep feelings, some words are purely jokes.

Lollipop: "Meet a monster."

This is strange, they have walked so many times without meeting each other.

"It was almost at the exit, and a monster appeared." One day at a time, he touched his chin and smiled: "Then another NPC popped out."

Sure enough.

Lollipop itself has a mission.

Her mission is a personal mission, not the whole team.Their team just followed her and relied on her to trigger the mission.

Most of the tasks are set until a wave of monsters will appear when approaching the exit of the maze, and then an NPC will appear, and after a dialogue, the player will be given clues.

"What clues did you get?"

"Hmm... That NPC is called [Tana], the guardian of the labyrinth." After killing a wave of monsters, they even fought [Tana] once. Fortunately, they are not at the boss level, but elite at best.Rashomon alone took on the output of the three of them, and wiped out [Tana] in 1 minute.

Later, after a conversation, they learned that the shadow walked through the maze 25 minutes ago.According to [Tana], the black shadow seems to be very familiar with this [corridor maze], and it walked through this maze at a very fast speed.And that black shadow has a terrifying and very familiar aura, just like Lord [Meredith], but there is also a weird smell in it.

"What weird smell?"

A day is a day to recall, how to describe it at that time?
“[Tana] said it was the smell of the woods.”

Ukiyo-e: "What is the smell of the woods?"

"..." A day is a day and a moment of silence.In fact, he doesn't know, but this sentence must not really refer to taste. "I think it refers to the place where the shadow lives."

Most likely.

"Oh~ Then who is the NPC we met who lives in the woods?"

A moment of silence.

"They all met in the woods."

Then this clue is really dispensable.After all, there is no suspect so far. Of course, the mysterious person who first delivered the key to the lollipop may be the leader of the whole incident, but there is no clue about that person.

Quinn, Eagle King Merv may all be possible.It's just that the probability of this possibility doesn't seem too high, because Quinn didn't know that they had the [Book of Retribution] in their hands. As for Manlf, although there was too little conversation, they could see his purpose.

"What else did you say?"

After such a long delay, it is estimated that there are quite a few clues.

"[Tana] didn't fully see the shadow because he was afraid of the smell."

"The smell he mentioned is from [Book of Punishment]?" Tanuki asked.

"Probably. He actually said [Meredith], but the [Book of Punishment] belongs to Meredith, presumably that black shadow is carrying the [Book of Punishment]."

"Do you think it is [Meredith] who stole the book?" Ukiyo-e said suddenly.

Several people stared at him without speaking.

Seeing the chills on his back, Ukiyoe coughed: "Am I wrong? Anyway, I think so. After all, the task is not to return the coordinates of Tangtang [Meredith], that woman, the probability of life and death I think there are still more of them.”

"I didn't say you were wrong." Bei Xi was thoughtful. "But there is no reason, because this book belongs to [Meredith]. And the task is to get Tangtang to return the book to her. Why did she go to great lengths to stun us and take the book away?"

"And, the most important point." Lollipop pointed out a very important point, "The person who stuns us throws the bottle not from the inside, but from the outside."

If it's [Meredith], there has to be a reason.

Beixi will not deny Ukiyo-e's idea, but this idea can be overthrown by finding a lot of reasons.Beixi has encountered many tasks, and the final big boss will make players unexpected...

There is still a chance of this happening, but it's extremely small.It is not ruled out that [Meredith] will really be the big boss, but there must be a reason to prove it.There is no reason now, but a bunch of reasons proving that it is impossible for [Meredith] to take away [Book of Punishment].

This is her thing.

Ukiyo-e folded his arms, "Well, I didn't think about this."

Lollipop tilted his head and thought for a moment, and said again: "That [Tana] seemed to say that when the shadow left, he took a look at his hiding place. In the dark passage, he saw a pair of evil eyes."

"And the [squeak] sound of something moving, running very fast."

"Mouse?" Ukiyo-e smiled, "The mouse makes a [squeak] sound and runs fast."

"We haven't met a rat monster before."

Beixi: "This clue is very vague."

"indeed."

"However, in a sense, it also revealed some news to us." The civet cat smiled.

The clues are very vague, which proves that it is not yet time to fully know the identity of the mysterious person. The following clues may not necessarily point out the identity of the mysterious person, but may lead them to a certain place in this palace, and that place, perhaps the final "battlefield".

"Tangtang, come here first to see if there are any clues."

Beixi jumped into the pool, and Ukiyoe made way for her.Several people spread out, leaving a space for Lollipop to look at. The civet cat looked around, wondering if it was an illusion, and always felt that someone was staring at them, but there was no one in the corridor.

Withdrawing his gaze, he met Shang Beixi's gaze.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds, then moved away quietly.

Except for the lollipop, everyone else stood in place without any movement or communication.

Lollipop walked around the pool, and the system gave her a reminder: Look around the holy spring pool, there seems to be something strange.

The light is not dim. Once the magic lamps of several people gather, the light is enough to illuminate the entire area of ​​the holy spring of the palace, and no corner is missed.

"Why didn't you see it?" Lollipop muttered, there is no strange thing near the pool.She had to bend down, search among the weeds by the pool, and walked forward day by day, "What are you looking for, I can't find it after searching for a long time, and I am waiting for the dead."

When Lollipop heard this, he gave him a kick without even thinking about it.

One day at a time, he yelled loudly: "Ouch, hello", and ran away quickly.Lollipop looked angrily and ran to the opposite side to hide day by day, "Can you stop making trouble? If you want to help, just obediently follow."

One day at a time, he smiled and said: "I want to help, but I don't have a task, so I probably won't find out."

"One day, stop making trouble." Beixi said.

Touching his nose every day, in fact, he just wanted to take the opportunity to see where the person who was secretly watching them was.After all, he couldn't look around openly, for fear that the thing would find out that they had already noticed his existence.

"Oh, I found it." Lollipop straightened up in surprise at this moment, held something to observe repeatedly, and then walked to Beixi and the others with it.

"Look."

His eyes focused on the palm of the lollipop, which was a ring.On the dark gold ring, there is a touch of purple in a red gravel, which looks like an eye. There are distorted words on the ring.

"Does this ring have a name?"

Lollipop blinked, "This is called the [Vermilion Eye]."

"Zhu, spider?" Ukiyo-e's eyes lit up, "It belongs to Quinn, right?"

Lollipop is speechless. "It's not a spider's spider...it's Zhu, the [Zhu] with the surname. Although it sounds the same, it doesn't necessarily mean it's Quinn."

"This ring must be useful."

Otherwise, it would be impossible for them to go through an extremely difficult maze to come here.

Lollipop looked at the ring repeatedly. The material is very good, but they have no impression of this ring... Maybe someone has worn it, but they generally really don't pay attention to these details.

"Huh?" The lollipop finger pads slid across the gravel, obviously feeling a little loose.She raised her eyes to see a few people showing puzzled expressions, and said: "This gravel seems to be movable." After speaking, she carefully fiddled with it, and found that it was indeed loose, but she couldn't take it off, but she could turn it left and right.

The lollipop twisted around.

The gravel of the ring emitted a faint light, and a picture was projected from the ring.Does this ring have video function?
In the picture, a man in a cloak ran out from the exit.

"what?"

Isn't this ring owned by the person who took away the [Book of Retribution]?
The man in the cloak quickly came to him, holding something in his right hand, and when he got closer, he pulled the cloak away, revealing the familiar book.

"It's [Book of Punishment]."

The ring should be worn on the hand. They couldn't see the appearance of the book thief, let alone the appearance of the person wearing the ring. They could only see the black cloak throwing black arcs continuously with the person's large movements.

They should be talking, and possibly arguing.

Afterwards, the picture was upside down and chaotic. During the struggle, the ring fell to the ground, and the blood dripped. Then, in this corner, the cloak appeared on the camera again. Come, and then the camera shakes a little, the man in the cloak holds the [Book of Punishment] and walks towards another door next to the exit of the maze.

The screen is terminated.

The scene fell into silence for a while.

After a long while, he opened his mouth to break the tranquility day by day. "I'm going, I don't understand. The picture given by this ring is not nutritious yet."

"So in the beginning there were two people who were using us from the shadows?"

"Then one person killed the other, presumably there was a fight over the book." Rashomon saw the blood.

"Then there are no dead bodies here~"

this is a problem.

When they first came to the circular corridor and looked down, there were no corpses at all.Even after getting out of the maze, there was still nothing.However, from the footage recorded in the ring, it seemed that someone had indeed died.

What about the dead body?
Also, the camera shake at the end is confusing too.

When it was shaking, the picture was blurred for a moment, and then after it became clear, I saw the person in the black cloak holding the [Book of Punishment] and leaving.

"Have you noticed the hand?"

"what?"

Tanuki said, "The person who held the [Book of Punishment] at the beginning has very white and slender hands, like a woman's hands."

"Then, when the camera was shaken and blurred at the end, the hands of the person holding the book and leaving were not so slender and tender."

Lollipop quickly turned on the video in the ring again.

Played it again, this time a few people paid more attention to details.As Tanuki said, the hands of those who left before and after are indeed different.

"Wow, sister civet cat, you are really good." Lollipop stared at her adoringly.

Beixi also said: "Her eyes are so bright, the kind that can blind people."

The civet cat couldn't help but roll his eyes at her.

"Cat, the eyes must be very bright."

(End of this chapter)