secret dice.

Chapter 505: Hall of Decision
"It's a corpse! And a treasure box!"

Sun Xiaowei said excitedly and was about to step forward, but was stopped by Yuan Lao.

"Don't be impulsive. Have you ever thought about how he died?"

Sun Xiaowei was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Oh, right...it's obviously a dead end, how could this person die in there?"

"There must be danger." Luo Jun looked at Sun Xiaowei: "Senior, you are a creative person, can you create a cat or a dog to go in and check the situation?"

“Uh…” Sun Xiaowei shook her head awkwardly. “The Creation School is divided into two branches: Creation and Creation. I belong to the Creation School and I don’t know how to create living things…”

"Ah?" Luo Jun sighed: "Then we can only think of other ways..."

He said this casually, but the sigh made Sun Xiaowei feel disappointed. She then said unconvincedly: "Although I can't create, the Creation Department also has its own methods!"

As she spoke, she put her hands on her face, and the mechanical mask that covered most of her face suddenly came to life, began to split into parts and began to deform, fell off her face, and after landing on the ground, it turned into a mechanical spider, with its four legs moving alternately, and it turned flexibly on the ground.

"The thing on your face is not a treasure, but a robot?" Seeing this, Ma Qiao was a little surprised and said, "Is this made by the power of creation? I thought creation can only make some swords, spears, and halberds, and the most powerful ones are houses, guns and other slightly complex structures. How can it even make something as sophisticated as a robot?"

"That's nothing. Our Sanchuan Sun family is an expert in creation!" Sun Xiaowei said proudly, "Not to mention this kind of small machine, my grandma can even make Transformers!"

"The Sun family in Sanchuan City?" Old Yuan was slightly stunned: "Is your grandmother called Li Xiuzhen?"

Sun Xiaowei and Luo Jun were both stunned.

Sun Xiaowei asked, "Mr. Yuan, do you know my grandmother?"

Yuan Shouzhen nodded: "She was also my student back then, and her talent in creation was second to none in the entire Aurora. Your grandfather was the heir of the Sun family, so he was naturally a master of creation, but he was defeated by your grandmother, and I fell in love with her at first sight... I was the witness at their wedding."

"Mr. Yuan and my grandma have this connection?" Sun Xiaowei asked excitedly, "Why haven't I heard my grandma mention it?"

"This..." Mr. Yuan hesitated: "For some reasons, my students..."

"Oh, don't mention those old stories." Luo Jun probably guessed the reason and quickly changed the subject: "Senior sister, is your robot spider powerful? Can you show us a performance?"

"Of course it's amazing!" Sun Xiaowei took off her mask, her expression was written all over her face. She raised her hand and said, "Xiao Hei, go check out the situation."

The mechanical spider received the order, spread its four legs and quickly crawled into the fork in the road. It soon came to the skeleton, then extended two mechanical arms from its back, grabbed the bracelet on the skeleton's wrist and took it off.

But as the bracelet moved, the skeleton's entire body began to tremble, and then hundreds of insects suddenly emerged from under its tattered clothes and from the gaps between its bones, and swarmed towards the mechanical spider!
"What is that!" Sun Xiaowei was shocked. Those bugs were about the thickness of a thumb and more than a foot long. Their bodies were soft and smooth. Their heads had openings and scary mouthparts full of sharp teeth. They crawled onto the mechanical spider and started to bite it!
"Don't be afraid!" Sun Xiaowei gritted her teeth, not knowing whether she was comforting others or encouraging herself: "Xiao Hei is very tough, he won't be easily..."

Before he could finish his words, one of Xiao Hei's mechanical arms had been bitten off, and the jade bracelet fell to the ground. But the bugs were not giving up yet, and they wrapped around it and bit it madly. The seemingly hard mechanical body seemed like paper under their mouths!
"Are their teeth so powerful?" Ma Qiao said with a sour look on his face. "Can metal be bitten so easily?"

"Something's wrong!" Sun Xiaowei's forehead was covered with sweat. "These bugs can devour vital energy! Xiao Hei is a creature of vital energy. Hardness is meaningless in front of their mouths!"

"Remove it." Yuan Lao said, "Creation consumes a lot of vitality, especially a stable creation like yours that has been maintained for many years. If it is eaten, the loss will be huge. Removing it now can recover some vitality."

Sun Xiaowei gritted her teeth. She knew that what Yuan Lao said was right, but she was unwilling to accept it. Not wanting to lose face was secondary. She wanted to prove herself too much, to prove that she could stand on her own, so that she could get closer to that figure...

Thinking of this, Sun Xiaowei formed seals with her hands: "Xiao Hei, fire!"

As she gave the order, Xiao Hei, who was entangled by the bugs, suddenly deformed. The intact parts of his body automatically separated and fell off. He immediately reassembled into a small machine, grabbed the bracelet and ran out.

As for Xiao Hei's body, which served as bait to attract insects, it had been completely submerged.

"Hu, hu..." After getting the bracelet, Sun Xiaowei took two deep breaths and sweat appeared on her forehead.

What Yuan Lao said was right. Being devoured by a creature is very detrimental to one's vitality. Sun Xiaowei's foundation is not very solid. In order to catch up with Ye's pace, she has focused on concentrating her mind for the past six months. Although Xiao Hei's being devoured did not exhaust her vitality, it was still a considerable consumption.

"Well done!" Yuan Lao encouraged, "But don't be so impulsive next time."

"Senior sister, take a breath." Luo Jun took out an energy storage spirit stone, which could hold 200 breaths of energy. It was useless to him, but for ordinary practitioners, if they carried one with them when they went out, they basically wouldn't have to worry about the consumption of energy.

"Thank you." Sun Xiaowei didn't hesitate to take it and took a sip. Her complexion was obviously much better.

"Wow, senior sister has a huge energy reserve!" Luo Jun took it back and saw that 70% of the vitality in the spirit stone was gone. This is higher than the total amount of vitality of most people.

"Maintaining a stable creation consumes a lot of vitality." Yuan Lao explained: "If you want to become a powerful creator, you must have enough vitality. Xiaozhen and her husband are both very spiritual, and their granddaughter must have good talent."

Hearing Elder Yuan's praise, Sun Xiaowei raised her head proudly: "Although I am only at the fourth level of the Solidification Realm, my Qi Capacity has exceeded four hundred!"

This person is indeed a person with good talent. Luo Jun had met her before. According to his judgment, Sun Xiaowei's innate physique is not high, at most not more than 1.5 times that of an ordinary person. She has such a high temperament at the fourth level of the Solid Foundation Realm. Her spirituality is probably not inferior to that of Lao Miaomiao!
Anyway, the bracelet was taken out, and after confirmation, it was indeed a treasure box. And those bugs seemed to be restricted by certain rules and would not leave the dead end. After eating Xiao Hei, they shrank back and crawled under the skeleton's clothes again.

"How do we use this now?" Ma Qiao asked, "Should we try to get a treasure first?"

"Don't worry." Yuan Lao suggested: "We are not short of treasures at the moment. In this maze, supply is the big problem. Besides, teleportation and reminder are very useful functions. Take them with you first and we will deal with them when we encounter a situation."

The few of them put away the bracelets and continued on their way. They encountered many forks in the road along the way and had to choose randomly each time. They also climbed two flights of stairs. According to calculations, they should now be three floors above the initial room.

Three hours passed in a flash, and after turning an intersection, everyone came to a spacious room.

This room was different from the previous ones. When they entered this room, the door behind them suddenly disappeared and turned into a seamless wall.

Looking forward, although there are five doors in the room, they are not open doorways, but closed doors.

Each door is four or five meters high and more than three meters wide. It looks thick and solid, and there is a bolt on the door.

"What does this mean?" Sun Xiaowei asked curiously.

"Look above your heads." Ma Qiao reminded, and everyone looked up and found a rule written on the ceiling.

Hall of Choice: There are five doors in the Hall of Choice. When one of the doors is opened, the other four will disappear. The opened door can be opened for a maximum of one minute. After the time is up, it will automatically close and disappear into a wall. Each door leads to a different route, and not far behind the door, you will encounter a special event, which corresponds to "relics", "stores", "monsters", "mechanisms", and "teleportation". Please choose carefully.

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Special Event?

After reading the description of the Hall of Decision, everyone looked at the five doors around them.

"That is to say, each door corresponds to one of the five encounters, right?" Sun Xiaowei said, "It seems that shops and relics are definitely safer... Monsters and mechanisms are definitely not safe. As for teleportation, who knows where it will lead to?"

"It's not up to us to decide what to choose." Ma Qiao looked around: "These five doors look exactly the same."

"It still depends on luck..." Luo Jun looked at Yuan Lao: "Did Caroline mention the information about the Hall of Decision?"

Elder Yuan shook his head. "Chaos missions are also constantly evolving. The same mission may evolve into new mechanisms after a few years. It has been more than ten years since Caroline came out of the Endless Maze. Moreover, her exploration of the maze was very limited. It is normal for her to encounter things she has never seen before."

"What about the store?" Luo Jun asked, "How does the store exchange things? Did she mention it?"

When Mr. Yuan shared intelligence with everyone before, he didn't seem to mention this point.

"The store should have existed at that time, but it was very rare. Caroline said she had never encountered one," explained Mr. Yuan.

So... Luo Jun looked at the five doors. The dice would finally come in handy, but the question was which one to choose.

Relics are definitely useful, but the key is the shop. I don’t know what I can buy and what I can use to buy it…

"Then how do we choose?" Sun Xiaowei said, "They are all the same doors, so we can only push them randomly."

"Let's just leave it to fate." Luo Jun took out the small pistol again: "Let it spin on the ground. We'll push open the door that the muzzle is closest to."

There was no other way, so everyone had to agree. Luo Jun put the pistol on the ground and activated the Tianji dice.

"Point to the door leading to the store!"

In the end, he chose the store. Even if he couldn't buy the item temporarily, at least he could remember the location and come back to use it when he had the chance.

"Ding! Event difficulty 81 points, final score 37+5 points, event failed."

Unexpectedly, the maximum number of the two dice rolls was only over 30, which made him extremely upset. Calculating the time, it should be refreshed soon, so Luo Jun activated the regret function and rolled again.

This time, a pair of 51 points and a pair of 87 points finally succeeded.

As the prompt sounded, Luo Jun turned the pistol. After more than ten seconds, the turning stopped. The muzzle of the gun was facing diagonally between the two doors, but it was obviously closer to one of the doors.

"This is it!" Luo Jun took the lead, opened the bolt, and pushed open the heavy door.

At the same time, the other four doors in the room disappeared.

Looking out through the open door, there was a corridor in front of me, and a corner about a few dozen meters away. I couldn't see what was behind it.

The door could only be opened for one minute, and the four people hurried through. Then the door behind them closed and they disappeared.

The crowd could only keep moving forward, and after turning the corner, they saw what was still a dark corridor.

This endless maze is very strange. There is no light source, but the maze is always bright enough. If you look closely, it seems that the walls, the ground and the ceiling are emitting a hazy fluorescence that illuminates the entire maze. However, the intensity of this fluorescence is limited, and it can only guarantee visibility of more than 100 meters. The scenery in the distance seems to be trapped in the dark fog and cannot be seen clearly.

Therefore, even if it is a straight corridor, you don’t know what is ahead unless you walk up it.

After walking several hundred meters in the corridor, they suddenly saw a branch in front of them. They became alert and carefully went forward to check. They found that the branch was about ten meters deep and at the end was a small closed window. Above the window hung a tattered plaque with the words "Endless Store" inscribed on it.

"Is it a store?" Sun Xiaowei said excitedly: "What good luck!"

"Don't take it lightly." Yuan Lao reminded: "Maybe it's some kind of trap or a device... I'll go check it out, you guys wait here."

Only Luo Jun knew what was going on here. He knew that this was a real store, so he did not try to stop it.

I saw Mr. Yuan walked up and knocked on the window. The window opened and a fat face with a mustache poked out.

"Are you a customer? Welcome, this is the Endless Shop, how can I help you?"

It really seems to be a store? Yuan Lao asked curiously, "What do you sell here? How can I buy it?"

"I have everything here. You can look at the product list for details." Then, the man with a mustache handed out a booklet. "Everything listed here is sold in our store, with clear prices."

When Old Yuan opened it, he saw that it contained everything from food supplies to weapons and equipment. There was a number at the end indicating the price, most of which ranged from tens to hundreds of yuan. Turning further, there were also some that cost thousands of yuan or even more.

"Where does the money come from?" asked Mr. Yuan.

"If you don't have money, you can exchange it with treasures. Different levels and qualities have different prices." The mustache merchant smiled and said, "The relic treasure boxes found in the maze can also be exchanged for money, one thousand yuan each. You can also get currency by killing monsters, opening treasure chests, and breaking mechanisms."

"I see..." Elder Yuan nodded, "I'll discuss this with my companions."

"Okay." The businessman nodded with a smile, "But the Endless Store won't stay in one place all the time. I'll be here for an hour at most. If you want to buy something, you'd better collect enough money within an hour."

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(End of this chapter)