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Gu Xinghe's voice echoed in the room, but the only response he received was the increasingly fierce attack from the "evil dragon".

"Brother Xie, you wait, I've got my eye on this!"

"One minute countdown is over, game restarts." The cold message made Gu Xinghe's expression even worse.

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Xie Linyu ran more than ten meters before stopping to catch his breath. He silently apologized to Gu Xinghe, but vowed not to do it again.

He took the wooden box out of his pocket, opened it, and sure enough, inside was a golden badge with a sword engraved on it.

He smiled slightly, put the badge away, and continued walking toward his next target.

He went up to the third floor, where the corridor was even darker than the second floor. The wall lamps flickered with a dim yellow light, enveloping the entire space in an eerie atmosphere.

Xie Linyu slowed his pace. The layout of the third floor was different from that of the second floor. The doors were no longer arranged in a neat row, but were distributed in a staggered manner on both sides of the corridor. Some doors were even hidden behind the murals and could only be found by careful observation.

According to the markings on the half-map, the third badge should be behind the mural, but Xie Linyu walked back and forth in the corridor and did not see the mural.

He frowned and took out the map again to study it carefully.

The mural is indeed marked on the map and is on the third floor.

Xie Linyu put away the map and carefully scanned the walls on both sides of the corridor.

Landscape murals—what kind of murals qualify as landscapes?

He slowly walked along the corridor. There were many paintings on the walls, including portraits and abstract patterns, but no landscapes.

He stopped in the middle of the corridor, his gaze drawn to a huge oil painting. The painting depicted a noblewoman in elegant clothes, with a dignified face and deep eyes, against a blurred, dark background.

Xie Linyu stared at the painting for a few seconds, feeling that something was wrong. There seemed to be a tiny gap at the hem of the noblewoman's skirt.

He reached out to test his judgment, and as soon as his fingertips touched the canvas, the gap slowly widened, turning into the outline of a door.

Xie Linyu's eyes lit up. He pushed hard, and the picture frame rotated inward, revealing a hidden door. The mural that flipped over was a landscape painting of a manor.

"I see." He smiled and pushed open the door to go inside.

The room was surprisingly bright, with an entire wall of floor-to-ceiling windows that let in sunlight, making the whole space bright and warm.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the scenery resembles a painting, making one marvel at the romance of the manor's owner.

Xie Linyu stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the scenery outside that was exactly the same as the mural, and the corners of his lips turned up slightly.

But he didn't pay much attention to the scenery; his gaze quickly swept across the room and finally landed on a desk by the window.

There was a familiar wooden box on the table.

Xie Linyu walked over quickly, but did not rush to touch it. Instead, he carefully observed the surrounding environment. Based on his previous experience, he knew that every wooden box contained a "surprise".

The room was quiet, except for the sound of the wind outside the window. There was nothing unusual. He tentatively reached out his hand, and the moment his fingertips touched the wooden box, nothing happened.

He paused for a moment, then opened the wooden box to confirm that it contained the Knight's Glory.

Xie Linyu raised an eyebrow and put the badge into his pocket. In an instant, the ground suddenly changed, and square grids appeared, each about half a meter square, all of them uniformly white.

Xie Linyu thought to himself, "They're here!"

Then a prompt appears: "Welcome to the 'Path of the Hero'. Beneath these seemingly peaceful white squares lie two completely different destinies: the 'Smooth Path' and the 'Abyss'."

If you step on the "smooth path," you can continue forward; if you step on the "abyss," you will fall, the game will be over, and you will have to start the challenge from the beginning.

"Each time you step on a square, a corresponding number will appear. You can use the number to determine whether the surrounding empty squares are 'smooth paths' or 'abysses'."

"But remember, true heroes are never afraid of the unknown."

"Now, the game begins. Please start from the square you are on and reach the exit on the other side."

After hearing the rules, Xie Linyu's lips curled up slightly. It turned out that it wasn't purely based on luck, but rather there were patterns to follow.

He looked down at the grid beneath his feet, his starting point, where a number appeared: 2.

This means that two of the eight surrounding squares centered on this square are "Abyss".

Xie Linyu's gaze swept across the seven squares in front of him, and he began to calculate quickly.

The square he's standing on is the starting point, so there are three squares in the first row in front of him, two in the second row, and two in the third row.

The number 2 indicates that two of these seven squares are abysses.

He tentatively stepped out with his right foot and landed on the first square directly in front of him.

The grid firmly supported him, and then the words "Smooth Road" appeared on the grid beneath his feet, followed by the number 1 appearing on the surrounding surface.

Xie Linyu's eyes lit up; it seemed his judgment was correct.

All you need to do next is continue following this pattern.

Xie Linyu quickly reached the door. He didn't open it immediately to leave, but instead waved at the camera, saying, "This level of difficulty isn't enough to trap me!"

However, the next second, his smile froze on his face.

The door, which was so close, remained completely still.

He reached out and pushed, but the door seemed to be welded shut and didn't react at all.

The notification sounded again in the room: "Congratulations on successfully traversing the 'Path of the Warrior,' but the real test has just begun. The 'Abyss' behind you has been activated. Please complete the final challenge within thirty seconds, or you will be eliminated."

Xie Linyu turned around abruptly and saw that the squares he had just walked through were flipping downwards one by one, revealing the bottomless darkness below.

And the darkness was spreading toward him at an extremely fast speed.

"What's going on?" He stared wide-eyed, instinctively taking a step back, his back slamming into the closed door.

The prompt continues: "Please answer the following question within ten seconds: How many 'smooth' squares did you just traverse?"

Xie Linyu: "???"

The production crew is waiting for him here, aren't they? How malicious!

He looked down at his feet. The square he was standing on was the last "smooth path," the one he had just stepped on.

But those things we've been through...

My brain was working at lightning speed, recalling and calculating at the same time.

How many steps did he take from the starting point to the finish line?

The first step is the starting point, not yet considered "passing through". The second step, the third step...

Those numbers flashed through his mind.

The abyss was closing in, already swallowing up two-thirds of the distance he had just traveled.

Beads of sweat appeared on Xie Linyu's forehead.

How many steps did he take in total? From the starting point to here, every step he took was on a smooth path, but he didn't deliberately remember the exact number; the production team deliberately tricked him.

Only the last three squares behind him were still struggling to hold on.

"Five seconds." The notification sound rang out coldly.

"Four seconds."

"Three seconds."

Xie Linyu took a deep breath and shouted into the camera, "Sixteen steps! Not including the starting point, I walked a total of sixteen flat squares!"

The room was silent for a second.

The abyss abruptly ended at his heels, with the nearest grid less than half a meter away, revealing a dark void below.

"Correct answer." The notification sounded, "Congratulations on passing the ultimate test of 'Path of the Warrior'."

The tightly closed door made a soft "click" sound and slowly opened.