Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 4025 Dark Box Garden
There was a flash of white light, and a somewhat timid one-eyed boy appeared near the statue.

He turned around and looked around. After confirming that there was a crystal field around him, he breathed a sigh of relief...

"I cleared the level! I finally cleared it!"

The one-eyed boy raised his hands to the sky excitedly and cheered loudly.

As he cheered, people around the statue were attracted and asked curiously about his clearance process.

The one-eyed boy was very happy at the moment and was willing to share his experience. No matter who asked him, he would answer them one by one.

Angel also came over at this time and listened to the young man from the Divine Eye Clan describing his situation in the copy.

According to him, he went through three mini-games and saved three children.

The three games are hide-and-seek, hidden object hunting, and cat's tuck.

Hide and seek means exactly what its name suggests, which is to find a child hiding in an old house. This is the easiest one. After the one-eyed boy entered the house, he saw a fat little boy who kept repeating "Can't see me, can't see me" with his head buried in the quilt like an ostrich. Only his head was hidden, while his body was still twisting outside.

Hiding objects is a game played by the one-eyed boy and a kid's parents. The parents will take out two pictures, one of which is a vase and the other is a flower on the wall. He also needs to find these two things in an old house to pass the level.

The last one, catapult play, is the most difficult. You have to compete with a kid. Whoever fails first loses.

The one-eyed boy only spent half an hour on the first two games, but spent a full two hours on the last game, mainly because the kid on the other side was a master at catapult play.

"I even think that the little girl wants me to play with her. After we have a good time, she will let me win a round." The one-eyed boy laughed and said, "In short, it's very easy!"

"How can a commoner like me who has no abilities at all survive!"

The rank of the Divine Eye Clan is determined by the swirl in the eye, and the one-eyed boy has only one swirl in his eye, which means he is just an ordinary civilian.

"So how complete is your exploration?" someone asked curiously.

One-eyed boy: "12%!"

People around were talking about it, saying that this was probably the minimum level of completion required to pass the level.

But the boy himself doesn't care. The degree of completion is not important to him. What is important is passing the level and the text column!

Now, he has a text column too!

Seeing that the others had dispersed and stopped asking questions, the boy squatted down and began to study the text column...

However, at this moment, he heard footsteps.

When he looked up, he saw a young human walking towards him.

"Excuse me, but may I ask you a question?" Angel tried to make his voice sound gentle.

The one-eyed boy was stunned for a moment. It was rare for someone to ask him such a polite question. He quickly stood up and nodded: "Yes, sure."

Angel pointed to the statue of a brave man in the valley and said, "Have you seen this statue in the dungeon? Or someone who looks like this statue?"

The one-eyed boy turned his head to look at the slightly green statue. After a moment, he hesitated and shook his head: "...Probably not."

"You seem to be hesitating." Angel said softly.

The one-eyed boy scratched his hair and said a little embarrassedly: "It's not that I hesitated, but a figure just appeared in my mind."

Angel: "Oh? Is it the person in the copy?"

The one-eyed boy nodded: "Yes."

"Can you talk and listen?"

The one-eyed boy thought about it and felt that there was no need to hide anything, so he said, "In fact, I think the person in the statue looks a bit like the fat boy who played the first game with me, which was hide-and-seek."

“Although this statue looks tall and thin, it doesn’t match the little fat boy at all. But…” The one-eyed boy pointed at his own eyes and said, “We in the Divine Eye Tribe are very sensitive to the shape and expression of eyes. I personally think that when the little fat boy’s eyes grow up, they will be exactly the same as the eyes in the statue.”

"Of course, it's possible that I saw it wrong."

Angel thanked the one-eyed boy and congratulated him on obtaining the text column.

The one-eyed boy chuckled and accepted his blessing.

"Do you want to go in and challenge as well?" the one-eyed boy asked curiously. "I just saw someone go in first. It seems that the dungeon can only accommodate fifteen people at the moment. If you want to go in, you may have to wait for a while."

The number of people in the Brave Copy is not unlimited. One copy can only accommodate fifteen people. Once the limit is exceeded, you have to wait for the person to pass the level or fail, and then leave the copy before others can fill their positions.

Speaking of which, so far, all members have completed the Brave Copy without any failure.

This is also a record.

Angel shook his head: "I just came here to get some information. Whether I come in or not is another matter."

"By the way, after you entered the dungeon, did you encounter any other challengers?"

The one-eyed boy nodded: "I met one when I first entered, but he and I were not doing the same test, so we separated. I never met him again afterwards."

After all, this copy is the size of a small town, with only fifteen people thrown in, and all of them are playing small games, most of which are indoor games, so it is normal that they don’t meet each other.

Angel nodded and stopped asking questions.

After bidding farewell to the one-eyed boy, Angel walked towards the statue of the brave man.

"Sir, are you going to use a prop?"

The one who spoke was Gabriel. When Angel went to the boy from the God's Eye tribe, Gabriel flew into the air to play. When he saw Angel returning, he quickly floated down again.

Angel ignored Gabriel and walked to the statue on his own. He walked around a few people who were looking at him curiously and reached out to touch the statue of the brave man.

The next second, the corresponding copy information appeared in the text column.

"The special dream "The Adventure of the False Hero" has begun."

Current number of participants: 15

"Mission objective - complete the test and save the children who were captured by the bad guys."

"The current maximum exploration degree is: 36%"

All challengers who touch the statue at this time will see the same information.

Judging from the basic information of the copy alone, there was no hidden trick. Angel thought about it and simply turned on the God's perspective, looking at the world in the copy with a gaze outside the box.

In an instant, Angel's vision quickly dived into the fog.

After a while, the fog dissipated, and what appeared before his eyes was a small garden modeled after a small town.

What surprised Angel was that this small town box did not exist alone from the God's perspective.

Below this small town's garden, through deeper fog, there is another garden, but it is still pitch black and nothing can be seen.

It seems that it is not activated? Or maybe it is for some other reason. In short, this small garden is currently dark and empty. However, judging from its size, this small garden should be larger than the small town garden above.

Although we don’t know what the Dark Box is, it is most likely an unactivated hidden map.

When he saw this hidden map, Angel roughly understood why the exploration completion rate of the Brave Copy was so low... How could it be high if the map was not even opened?

Angel had thought before that there might be something fishy about this copy. Although the secret has not been completely solved now, the answer is almost there.

I think there should be some hidden clues on the town map, and these clues combined can activate the hidden map.

This is the trick of the Brave Copy!

Angel looked towards the small town garden, where he found fifteen challengers who were undergoing tests in various places.

Ingres took a quick look and saw that most of them were small games like hide-and-seek and hopscotch.

As long as you put in a little effort, you can pass it.

He did not focus his attention on these challengers, but was looking for the fat boy mentioned by the young man from the Divine Eye Tribe.

Since he didn't ask about the specific appearance, he could only search randomly.

A moment later, he saw a fat boy being pinched on the ear and scolded by a little girl in a small house east of the town.

"Why are you so stupid? We finally have someone from outside to play games with us, but you couldn't even last ten seconds!" The little girl couldn't help but pinched the fat man's ear hard.

The little fat boy was in so much pain that tears welled up in his eyes. He said aggrievedly, "I didn't want to do that either. Who made him find me so quickly? He is a master at hide-and-seek!"

"What a master!" the little girl said angrily, "You just hide your head and your butt is still out there, anyone can catch you, okay?"

The little fat boy felt wronged: "...I thought he couldn't see me."

"He can't see your head, but he can see your big butt! Why are you so stupid? You still shout about being a hero every day, but with your stupid head, it's strange that you can be a hero, you're almost like a fool!" Although the little girl said that she was blaming the fat boy, she still used a handkerchief to wipe his tears.

"But, but didn't you lose too..."

The little girl just wiped his tears and heard his mumbling. She couldn't help pinching his ears again: "You are stupid, I lost on purpose. Who can beat me in catapult? I was tired of playing and let him win on purpose!"

Listening to the conversation between the little girl and the fat boy, Angel was certain that these two should be the two little "examiners" that the boy from the Divine Eye tribe encountered.

The little fat guy among them is the one the boy from the Divine Eye Clan mentioned, whose eyebrows and eyes are very similar to those of the brave statue.

Ingres looked at it carefully, observing it from a God's perspective while comparing it with the statue.

The contours of the eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar, and the eye colors are in the same color family, just one is darker and the other is slightly lighter. The face shapes are not similar, but this is because the child has a round face. If he loses weight and makes his face a little longer, he should be similar.

If I have to say it...

It seems to be really similar.

But it feels a little off.

Angel couldn't be sure what the relationship was between this little fat man and the brave statue, but judging from his features, they should be related by blood.

Perhaps we can find clues about the statue of the brave by observing the fat boy's family?

Next, Angel continued to observe the fat boy and thus heard the conversation between him and the little girl.

"I don't know if there are any outsiders today... However, it's already dark, and even if there are, I guess they won't be able to play games with us. Let's see tomorrow. I'm going home first, and you should go to bed early too." The little girl waved goodbye to the fat man.

The fat boy grabbed the little girl's hand and said, "Can you please not lock the door?"

The little girl immediately shook her head: "No, the door must be locked, otherwise what if you get sick again?"

The little fat boy stammered a little aggrievedly: "But, but I haven't had an attack for a long time."

"That won't work either." The little girl still refused: "Mom said that you are most likely to get sick when there are outsiders."

Fatty: “I…”

"Don't worry about me." The little girl said: "Be good, I will come early to open the lock tomorrow morning."

The little fat boy lowered his head and finally said "hmm".

The little girl patted his shoulder comfortingly, "Tomorrow I'll find you a stupid outsider to play hide-and-seek with you!"

After saying this, the little girl turned and walked out of the cottage, waving goodbye and closing the door.

After closing the door.

Angel saw the little girl take out a red flower rope, tie it around her wrist, then open her palm and press it on the door. Then the little girl muttered a spell.

The next second, there seemed to be a flash of light from the door of the cottage.

After doing all this, the little girl put away the flower rope again and skipped towards home.

When Angel saw this, he already felt something was wrong.

He continued to watch for a while.

I wanted to see if the little girl would talk to her family about the little fat boy after she returned, but she didn't.

She just said "it's locked" and nothing else.

As for the little fat boy, after finding that the door was closed, he sighed deeply, lay on the bed, muttered "I hid well", and then fell into a deep sleep...

From beginning to end, Angel didn't find anything abnormal about the little fat boy.

But both the intuition of the young man from the Divine Eye Clan and the words of the little girl just now made Angel have a vague premonition: the hidden plot of this copy might be about this little fat boy.

But, what secrets does he have?
What kind of illness did the little girl refer to? Why did she lock a child who looked only six or seven years old in a small room?
There is not much information about Ingres at the moment, so we can only leave it alone for now.

……

As soon as Angel retracted his gaze, he heard a timid voice behind him: "Are you going in or not? If not, can you let me in?"

He looked back and saw that a group of people had gathered behind him. The one who was speaking was a young man from the Crystal Eye tribe standing at the front. The boy looked nervous and his voice was trembling slightly.

Everyone was afraid to get close, for no other reason than that Gabriel was standing by Angel's side.

Gabriel is a well-known chaotic evil mouth among mirror ghosts, and his deterrent power is still very large. Even though he is already famous and many people know that he is a "neutral mirror ghost", no one dares to approach him.

Angel glanced at Gabriel, who understood and whispered, "Two people just came out of the copy, and they want to make up for it."

As a result, Angel and Gabriel stood in front and these people did not dare to move forward.

They thought that Angel and Gabriel were going to enter the dungeon, so they didn't dare to go forward rashly. As a result, they waited for nearly a quarter of an hour, and seeing that they had no intention of going in, they mustered up the courage to send the Crystal Eye Clan boy forward to ask.

After listening to this, Ingres felt a little embarrassed.

He had just been paying attention to the follow-up situation of the fat boy and the little girl, and had not paid any attention to the situation outside.

So much so that without realizing it, I was blocking others.

He coughed lightly with some embarrassment, turned slightly to make way, and nodded to everyone with a slight apology.

"Please."

Then he turned around and left quickly.

(End of this chapter)