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Chapter 233: Mechanisms and Directionlessness (asking for monthly tickets!)

“It turned out to be three bullets.”

Seeing the number of bullets in the magazine, Yu Zhun's mood became a little better.

When I obtained the [Withered Revolver] in the simulation, there were only two bullets in it.

It seems that even if the same item is obtained in different strategies, there will be a certain degree of randomness.

Yu Zhun glanced at the three empty spaces on the magazine.

If you are lucky enough, you can get up to six bullets?
Never mind, three isn't bad either.

You will have three chances to ambush someone later.

Thinking of this, Brigadier General Yu put away his props and looked at the other four people, "Shall we continue on this road?"

The four of them nodded at the same time, but just as they were about to move forward, a faint sound coming from the front made the five of them change their expressions slightly.

someone!

Yu Zhun’s expression froze.

Having conducted ten simulations, he was very sure that there were no indigenous people in this copy except for the final boss.

There was only one possibility for the noise coming from not far ahead.

They met other players.

Looking at his four teammates and silently saying the word "players", Yu Zhun pointed to a shadow in front of him where people could be hidden.

The other four understood and followed Yu Zhun into the shadows.

The noise ahead was getting louder and louder, and soon Yu Zhun and the other four could hear their conversation clearly.

"Alei, I suspect that the [Withered Slate Fragment] required for a perfect clearance is related to the stone statues we encountered along the way." The voice was steady and calm. "I got this when I smashed the stone statue just now."

After a slight rustling sound, the voices of several other people were soon heard.

"This is the [Withered Slate Fragment]? It's quite ordinary."

"I don't know how many fragments like this there are in total. I hope it won't be too difficult to collect them all."

"So, we can get it by smashing the statue, right? The statue just now didn't react at all. I feel like it's just a dead object."

"Hey! There's a stone statue right in front!"

"This stone statue is a little different from the one we encountered before, so be careful."

"Don't worry! It's just a stone statue..."

"Be careful!!!"

A low roar echoed in the corridor, and the next moment all the sounds disappeared instantly, and the entire corridor fell into silence again.

Lu Wen slowly took off the black cloth covering his eyes, widened his eyes, and lowered his voice to ask, "What's going on?"

He was already prepared to strike as soon as the opponent entered his attack range, but the opponent seemed to have encountered some kind of accident?
Hermod didn't say anything, but just looked at Yu Zhun who had a serious expression on his face.

Yu Zhun took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"It should be the guarding stone statue."

Hearing this, the others' hearts skipped a beat.

Just now, they have seen the singer stone statue and the hunter stone statue. Now they have finally encountered the last type of stone statue?
The rules regarding guarding the stone statue quickly came to everyone's mind.

When the guard statue opens its eyes, if you are within its line of sight, you must remain motionless, otherwise you will be noticed by the guard statue and randomly teleported to any location in the copy.

Moreover, this teleportation will not be team-bound.

In other words, if a team of five attackers all move in front of the guarding stone statue, they will most likely be teleported to five different locations, greatly increasing the risk of being defeated one by one!
In a sense, it is more dangerous than the other two statues!

"If nothing unexpected happens, the entire team should have been hit and teleported to other places." Yu Zhun pointed in the direction where the sound came from. "Not far from us, there is a guarding stone statue."

"It's relatively easy to target the guard statue if you know the mechanism, but the guard statue has a hidden mechanism." Yu Zhun paused for a moment, "The more [Withered Slate Fragments] there are nearby, the more often the guard statue will open its eyes."

"Then I...go away?" Lu Wen scratched his head.

All the fragments of the team are with him, and his distance can effectively reduce the frequency of the guarding stone statue opening its eyes.

"There is another problem. We don't know the current state of the statue and its direction." Hermod said in a deep voice, "If it happens to be facing us and opens its eyes..."

"Then we will be teleported away as soon as we show our heads."

"I'm somewhat prepared for this." Yu Zhu raised his hand with a smile, and then took out a fist-sized sphere from his backpack. The sphere contained a lot of camera-like things.

"Prop [Flat-ground Self-propelled Detector]!" Yu Zhu slowly placed it on the ground and then pushed it gently.

Under Yu Zhu's control, the ball left the obstructing shadow and rolled towards the position of the guarding stone statue. Yu Zhu took out a tablet-like screen in his hand, on which was the image captured by the ball.

Although it was rolling, the images fed back by the ball were quite stable, and soon Yu Zhu and his companions saw the guarding stone statue.

Similar to the previous hunter statue, the guard statue is also dressed in armor, but he holds a heavy sword in his hands, holding the hilt with both hands, and stands upright like a door panel, inserting the heavy sword into the ground in front of him.

What relieved Yu Zhun and others was that the guarding stone statue was facing away from them.

This meant they could swagger up to the guarding statue and smash it to pieces.

"This prop is very useful." Hermod looked at the screen in Yu Zhu's hand with surprise.

"This is the work of one of the members of my guild." Yu Zhun smiled, having already recognized that this item was Xiao Sa's masterpiece.

Udyr's heart moved and he thought of a green-haired figure.

She had witnessed how powerful the opponent was before in the [City of Ashes] copy, and she still had an impression of it.

Having easily solved the most worrying problem, Yu Zhun and the other four no longer hesitated and quickly approached the direction of the guarding stone statue.

There were no players to be seen right in front of the guarding stone statue. As Yu Zhun guessed, they were all tricked without knowing the mechanism and were teleported to other places.

If you were unlucky, you might have been eliminated by now.

"boom--"

After successfully destroying the guarding stone statue and seeing three [Withered Slate Fragments] exposed, Lu Wen chuckled, "Good luck."

I actually encountered the three most.

Yu Zhun nodded and was about to say something when the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook violently, causing the entire surrounding space to begin to vibrate.

This is…

Yu Zhun saw the crossbow arrows with gray energy suddenly appearing from all directions, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

"It's a mechanism with the power of decay!"
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"Boom boom boom——"

With a dull sound, a huge rock hundreds of meters in size fell rapidly from the sky. The speed was so fast that it seemed like an afterimage. It was also spinning rapidly while falling, as if it was going to wipe out everything below.

Just as the boulder was about to fall into a bottomless pit below, a clear sword sound suddenly rang out.

"Chong-"

The next moment, a flash of sword light shot up into the sky and pierced through the fallen rocks.

The huge fallen rock instantly split into two, disintegrated in the high-speed rotation, and finally turned into countless stone powders.

A figure jumped out of the pit and looked at the quietly changing terrain around him with a gloomy expression, "This mechanism is really sinister."

If Hermod were here, he would immediately recognize that the person in front of him was a God-level player from the same server as him.

The seventh son of God, Jekal.

"Yeah, it's really a scam." Another figure jumped out of the pit, came to Jekar's side, and couldn't help but click his tongue.

Behind the two, three figures crawled out of the pit covered in dust. If you look closely, you can see that two of them have gray cracks crawling on their bodies like a ulcer attached to their bones. That is the manifestation of being eroded by the power of decay.

"Omisro, use the [Strategy Simulation Card]." Jekar glanced at the Eighth Son of God behind him and said in a somewhat irritable tone, "I can't stand this damned copy of the mechanism anymore."

"Even if you don't tell me, I will use it anyway." Omisro shrugged and took out the [Strategy Simulation Card].

After a moment, he had finished using it and there was a hint of strangeness in his eyes.

"This [Withered Ruins] dungeon..." Omisro said with a strange look on his face, "It's a bit tricky."

"What do you mean?" Jekal looked at Omislo, "Don't keep me in suspense."

"Okay." Omisro sorted out his gains. "The mechanisms in this instance that can cause the erosion of the power of withering all hide [Withering Slate Fragments]. The one we just passed by is one of them."

"There are fragments?" Upon hearing this, Jekar's eyes lit up.

Just now they accidentally entered a mechanism, and because of the teammates' exploration of the way, only one teammate was corroded by the power of withering.

Realizing the danger, they did not push forward but chose to take a detour.

But now Omisro told him that this mechanism contained the [Fragments of the Withered Slate] needed for a perfect clearance?
Thinking of this, Jekar took a deep breath and said, "Let's go back the same way and look for the mechanism now."

"Well, Jekar..." Omisro coughed lightly, "I think we may not be able to return the same way."

Jakar frowned, "What do you mean?"

"We just accidentally broke a shiny stone." Omisro paused for a moment, "That thing is called the [Intricate Stone], and it will irreversibly change the layout of the road."

"That means we can't go back the way we came."

Jakar: “…”
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"That... Lord Ji Chen..."

Looking at the lone figure walking in front of her with a dagger in hand, the only woman among the four people following behind spoke timidly.

"Is there really nothing we need to do?"

Hearing this, Ji Chen paused slightly, turned his head, and a look of strong confidence appeared on his handsome face.

"No need, you just need to follow me."

"I have used the [Strategy Simulation Card] to understand the general mechanism of the dungeon and ensure that I will not be tricked by the mechanism."

"Next, I will lead you to victory."

"I will restore the fame of the First Divine Region to the world!"

After hearing such domineering words from the other party, the woman did not look relieved at all. Instead, she had an urge to cry.

"But..." She said tremblingly, "This is the third time we've come to this place."

Ji Chen: “…”

He looked around at the familiar environment, and looked at the four people behind him with an uncertain tone.

"Have we really been here before?"

"Three times?"

The four people behind him nodded frantically, and another pointed to a knife mark and a pile of rubble on the ground not far away, "Master Ji Chen, those are the marks left after you smashed the singer's stone statue before, have you forgotten?"

Ji Chen looked at the pile of rubble and touched his chin.

emmm...

I remembered.

It seems to be true.

"Snapped!"

Ji Chen pounded one hand hard on the other hand, revealing a look of sudden realization, "So that's how it is."

"I shouldn't have turned left when I came to the fork in the road. I went around and around and ended up coming back!"

The four people behind him nodded frantically.

Yes, you finally found it.

"Let's do it again!"

Ji Chen, who discovered the problem, looked at the four people behind him with great enthusiasm, "This time, I will choose a fork in the road, one on the left and one on the right, and I promise not to turn back..."

"…Come?"

After a moment, Ji Chen returned to his original place and fell into deep thought.

It's the fourth time.

What went wrong?

The four followers were in tears.

The most powerful genius in the First Divine District is actually a person with poor sense of direction?!——
"Ping ping ping -"

Accompanied by a rapid sound of metal colliding, Yu Zhun and Lu Wen, two melee players who had learned [Unparalleled Sword Dance], tried their best to resist the arrows fired from the surrounding crossbows. Udyr also fired arrows continuously to attack instead of defend, protecting Yu Zhu and Hermod inside.

But the crossbow arrows, which seemed to have an endless supply and had almost no blind spots, made them feel extremely stressed.

In terms of damage alone, even Hermod, the most fragile one present, could ignore the damage of these crossbow arrows.

However, these crossbow arrows are tainted with the power of withering. Once they hit the player, the player will be eroded by the power of withering, which is very fatal.

"No, we can't go on like this." Hermod, who was protected inside, looked at the three people's efforts and was anxious, "Is there any way to stop these crossbows from attacking, or let us evacuate?"

"It's difficult to stop attacking." Yu Zhun said in a deep voice, "I have encountered similar mechanisms in simulations. Only by withstanding the attack completely can we find a chance to obtain the fragments contained in the mechanism."

"but…"

The second half of Hermod's sentence gave Yu Zhun some ideas.

He raised his head and glanced at the title he was currently wearing.

Considering that the most important thing in a mechanism copy is the mechanism, the various secret treasures in his hand may come in handy. Before entering the [Withered Ruins] copy, Yu Zhun had changed his title to [Mercenary Legend].

Thinking of this, Yu Zhun temporarily put the dagger back into his waist, and then with a casual wave of his hand, a candle appeared.

Secret treasure [Hidden World Candle].

Under Yu Zhun's control, a pitch-black portal instantly appeared beside the five people.

"Hermod, Yuzhu and Udyr, all go in."

"Lu Wen and I will stay here."

Without having to protect others, the ultimate melee ability brought by [Unparalleled Sword Dance] allows the two to easily protect themselves.

Yu Zhu rushed in first, followed by Hermod and Udyr. As the three entered, the portal to the hidden world closed instantly.

"Why should I stay?"

Realizing that the other three teammates no longer needed protection, Lu Wen's own pressure was gone, and he spoke with a depressed look on his face.

Yu Zhun rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Because I need someone to chat with."

Lu Wen: “???”

You wanna chat, huh? I'll let you chat!

"Everything is silent!"

(End of this chapter)