Deadly Game: Almighty Boss’s Guide to Making Money

Chapter 1297. Searching for the Deep Flower (12)

After hearing Chen Luoxue's words, Lin Xi glanced at Zhang Yang without showing any emotion.

Zhang Yang was pretending to look ahead nonchalantly.

Lin Xi gave a cold laugh and lowered her voice.

"Never mind him for now, let's go."

Everyone followed Suqing and walked for about ten minutes before the passage suddenly narrowed.

A light curtain, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, blocked their path.

Through the light screen, the scene inside the passage can be clearly seen.

The passageway is only wide enough for two people to walk side by side, and the ground is covered with colorful runes.

The four colors—red, blue, green, and gold—are interwoven to form a complex pattern, resembling a giant chessboard.

The walls on both sides of the passage were also inlaid with some glowing runes, echoing the runes on the ground. A faint spiritual energy fluctuation permeated the air, yet it made people feel inexplicably uneasy.

Wu Qingquan reached out to touch the light screen, but Lin Xi stopped him.

"Don't touch it!" Lin Xi whispered. "What if these runes are offensive? This light barrier might be the switch that triggers the mystery."

Su Qing nodded.

“That’s right. Most of the Eldar’s defensive light barriers have trigger mechanisms. If you forcibly touch them, they will activate other things. We need to find the weak point of the light barrier, or find a way to activate it, before we can move forward.”

Zhang Yang walked around the light screen, his eyes constantly scanning the runes on the light screen and in the passage.

"Look, the color of the runes in the lower left corner of the light screen seems different from the rest. Is that a weak point?"

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed.

Sure enough, there was a golden rune in the lower left corner of the light screen. Its color was dimmer than the runes in other places, as if it was lacking energy.

Zhao Kai immediately raised his hiking stick, ready to smash it towards the golden rune.

"Who cares if it is or isn't, let's break it open and see!"

"Wait!" Lin Xi stopped Zhao Kai and looked at Zhang Yang. "Zhang Yang, how can you be sure this is a weak point? What if it's a trap?"

Zhang Yang shrugged, his expression somewhat innocent.

"I was just guessing, after all, only this rune is a different color. Are we just going to stand here and not move? You've all seen what happened to Li Han, staying here will only lead to danger sooner or later."

His words did make some sense, and everyone hesitated.

— Zhang Yang is right, we can't just keep waiting, can we?
—I feel something's not right!
— Zhang Yang is up to no good; he might be trying to get someone else to test the waters for him!
—Yes, he took the spiritual herb without telling anyone.

— Players aren't in the mood to watch the live stream anymore, otherwise they would definitely know.

Isn't that exactly what Zhang Yang is taking advantage of?

—That golden rune is really strange. Could it really be a weak point?
Lin Xi ignored Zhang Yang and instead carefully observed the runes on the light screen.

She discovered that although the runes on the light screen were complex, their arrangement followed a certain pattern, as if they were arranged according to some kind of formation.

The golden rune that Zhang Yang pointed to was located at the corner of the formation.

Logically speaking, the corners of a formation are indeed weak points, but they could also be deliberately set traps.

"Miss Suqing, do you recognize the runes on this light screen?" Lin Xi asked. Suqing leaned closer to the light screen and examined it carefully.

"This is the Spirit Race's protective rune array! The golden rune in the lower left corner might be the weak point of the array, but... it could also be a decoy. Most Spirit Race arrays have two sides; the apparent weak point could very well be the switch that triggers a deadly trap."

"A decoy?" Zhang Yang raised an eyebrow, his tone tinged with sarcasm. "Miss Suqing, aren't you being too cautious? We have no other choice but to take the risk. If this really is a weak point, we can successfully enter the passage."

"I disagree!" Chen Luoxue said. "Since Miss Suqing said it might be a trap, we can't take the risk. We can look for other methods; we don't necessarily have to start from here."

Zhang Yang was about to retort when Lin Xi suddenly spoke up: "I have a plan."

She took a small knife out of her backpack, found a long tree branch, and tied the knife to the branch.

"We'll use a branch to touch the golden rune, so even if it's a trap, it won't hurt us."

Everyone nodded, agreeing that this method was very reliable.

Lin Xi carefully held the branch with the knife attached and slowly extended it towards the golden rune in the lower left corner of the light screen.

The moment the branch lightly touched the golden rune, it suddenly lit up, the light screen vanished instantly, and the runes in the passage began to emit a dazzling light, enveloping the entire passage in light.

"It's done!" Zhao Kai was very happy.

But before he could be happy for long, the runes in the passage began to rotate.

Red, blue, green, and gold runes intertwined to form a colorful wall of light that rushed towards the crowd.

Wherever the light wall passed, the stone slabs on the ground were corroded with small holes, clearly indicating that it was highly corrosive.

"No! It's a trap!"

As Lin Xi spoke, she immediately pulled Chen Luoxue, who was beside her, back.

The others also reacted and retreated to avoid the attack of the light wall.

The wall of light crashed into the stone wall with a loud "boom," and the stone wall was corroded into a huge pit.

Zhang Yang turned pale with fright and instinctively hid behind Wu Qingquan.

"Maybe it's because you were too cautious! If you had just smashed it open, you might not have triggered the trap!" Zhang Yang said.

"Shut up!" Zhao Kai roared. "If it weren't for your misguided advice, would we have triggered the trap? If Xiao Bei hadn't reacted quickly, we would all be done for!"

Zhang Yang was rendered speechless by Zhao Kai's scolding and could only shut his mouth in frustration.

Lin Xi ignored the two arguing and instead carefully observed the runes in the passage.

After the light wall completely disappeared, the runes in the passage returned to calm, but their colors were more vibrant than before, clearly indicating that the previous attack was just an appetizer.

"Miss Suqing, do you know the pattern of this rune puzzle?" Lin Xi asked.

Subaru frowned, trying to recall the events carefully.

"Ancient texts say that the rune maze is divided into four areas, each corresponding to a different color of rune: red, blue, green, and gold. Each area presents a different danger. Only by traversing these four areas in the correct order can the maze be solved and the passage reached the other side. If the order is wrong, a deadly trap will be triggered."

"The correct order?" Wang Xiaoyue asked, puzzled. "Then what is the correct order?"

“I don’t know.” Su Qing shook her head, her tone full of helplessness. “The ancient books don’t record the specific order, they only say that the order is related to the totem of the Spirit Clan.”

"The Spirit Clan's totem?" Lin Xi fell into deep thought. She suddenly thought of the Netherworld Flower pattern carved on the stone gate. "Could it be related to the Netherworld Flower?"