Gamers Are Fierce

After discussing the plan, the players took action and entered the grotto in batches.

After entering the grotto, a team of players will be teleported to a simple and crude square stone chamber.

There are only simple furnishings such as tables, chairs and benches in the stone room. A white candle is placed on the table, emitting a faint light.

There was an open door on each of the four walls, leading to the next almost identical room.

After exploration, the players confirmed that the room in the grotto looked a bit like [Schrödinger's cat].

When there are no observers, the room is constantly changing,

But when the observer appears, the room becomes fixed,

And as long as you leave a mark, the room will remain fixed.

In other words, the room will not change randomly and there will be no infinite loop.

The first task of the players is to find and destroy King Shibi.

In order to achieve this, it is necessary to confirm the position of other teams as soon as possible and correspond to each other's travel routes.

Put the map together completely.

The use of electronic machinery and GPS positioning systems is prohibited in the grottoes. The position and direction are unknown.

Several teams entering the grotto communicated with each other through walkie-talkies.

Someone in each team draws a map and records the route.

Moreover, every time you enter a stone room, you will leave a mark on the stone room.

Mark the team number, current time, which stone chamber you are currently in, and the previous map.

In order to discover traces of other teams as early as possible,

The player team is centered on the starting point and walks through a hundred rooms in one direction.

In the 100th, 200th, and 300th rooms, turn left and come out of a huge square.

If players can see the marks left by other teams while traveling, it means they know the location of the other team.

And if you don't see the mark, then continue to increase the side length of the next square.

If you can't meet the other person for a long time, then you have to consider other situations.

For example, the grotto divides them into different layers.

So, your bell tower won't use owls to send admission notices to freshmen's homes?

Li Ang, the leader in a white coat, asked casually while walking in the grotto maze.

Twenty minutes have passed since the players entered the grotto in batches.

By the tenth minute, almost all five player teams had seen the marks left by others.

After piecing together the map, the players confirmed that they were not far apart from each other.

Everyone is within a square range of 600*600 rooms.

The Grotto Mystery Lock itself is definitely not that big, and if you move it at will, it is likely to get further and further away.

The players discussed for a while,

In order to avoid too many people gathering together and causing changes in the grotto,

Everyone didn't get together for a while, and they still moved in groups according to the original, and continued walking in different directions.

I plan to find the boundary of the grotto and then slowly find the location of King Sibi.

Owl? Of course not,

Hohenheim smiled bitterly and shook his head, We in the clock tower don't have the Sorting Hat or the Triwizard Tournament.

That JK Rowling is not a student who graduated from our clock tower and recorded his own mage story in the form of a novel.

Before the killing game started, our bell tower's talents were withering and manpower was scarce. It was already very difficult to maintain it. We didn't have so much energy to select talents from the private sector.

Now, our living environment is better - British officials will assist us in our work and help us find talents among the people who are born with magic circuits and have mage qualifications.

In the future, we will expand the search scope and set up patrol monitoring stations in all cities across the country.

All school-age children and adults can measure their magic circuit qualifications by touching the crystal ball at the traveling monitoring station.

Hey, there really is a crystal ball test for children's qualifications.

Li Ang clicked his tongue and said in wonder: I wonder if there will be a peerless genius with [full affinity to the nine magic elements] by then.

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A loser with [all nine magic elements having zero affinities].

what is that?

Hohenham didn't understand this idea. Just when he was about to ask, his brows instantly furrowed. The mage's robe automatically moved without wind, and several crystal-shaped spell turrets emerged in the void behind him.

His hostility is not against Li Ang, but against the grotto itself——

An unknown gust of wind blew towards us, extinguishing the white candle on the table in the stone room instantly.

The four doors at the front, back, left and right of the stone room all closed with a bang, plunging the entire room into darkness.

The players in the room were all elites among the elites. Facing the sudden darkness, they did not panic at all.

Or put a defensive barrier on yourself and your companions,

Or release a spell to give everyone the ability to have dark vision.

One second, two seconds,

No further changes occurred, and the room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

“A candle cannot be lit with a flame.”

Li Ang checked the candles on the table in the dark with extra calmness, and said to Hohenheim: Ask other people what's going on.

Um.

Hohenheim nodded, while releasing the light spell, lighting up the room.

While picking up the walkie-talkie, he asked about the situation of other teams.

It's the same here. A gust of wind blows over, the four doors close automatically, and the candles naturally go out.

On the intercom channel, Nebula from the third team said: The same goes for David and the others.

Xing Hechou from the second team asked: When we teleported in, doors of different shapes appeared at the entrance of the grotto.

But after we teleported in, everyone was on the same map, all in the same stone room.

Now that the candle is out, what does it mean?

People can think and set up conspiracies, but mystery locks can't.

The Fourth Team's Side of Truth said hoarsely on the intercom channel: Mystery has a certain amount of intelligence, but this intelligence is relative.

In the absence of a controller, all actions of Mysuo follow a set of basic logic.

There must be a cause and an effect, and everything in the Mystery Barrier has its own meaning.

The door is closed and the candle is extinguished, which is likely to be a signal of special significance.

It implies that from now on, the Mystery Lock Barrier has entered the next stage.

Like the air raid sirens in Silent Hill?

Xing Hechou thought for a moment, and just when he was about to ask further, he heard a miserable and inhuman cry coming from the intercom channel, Gahwu——

Xing Hechou was startled, What's the sound?!

Uh...it's Li Risheng. He's playing with that rubber toy, the Screaming Chicken.

Hohenheim twitched his eyes and handed the walkie-talkie to Li Ang.

Hello, good afternoon everyone, my name is Li Risheng.

Li Ang held the Screaming Chicken in one hand, took the walkie-talkie in the other, and said lazily: Old Xing, others don't know, don't you still know?

The old rules of our gold business,

People light candles, ghosts blow out lamps, and roosters crow and lamps go out without touching gold.

This time it was our ancestors who gave us a hint that it was time to stop and retreat.

? ? ?

Where are you filming Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp here?

Moreover, when the rooster crows and the lights go out, how could you possibly commit a foul by pinching a squealing chicken like this?

Xing Hechou couldn't say anything, and the corners of his eyes twitched twice, so he could only sigh: Brother Li, if you have any idea, just say it.

My method is very simple: heaven, earth, people, ghosts, gods, Buddhas, demons, animals, deterrence, suppression, escape, things, transformation, yin, yang, and emptiness.

Li Ang said righteously: This sixteen-character Yin-Yang Feng Shui secret technique captures the secrets of heaven and earth. It gathers the wisdom of the sages. It can observe celestial phenomena and understand fortune-telling. It can predict the earth's veins and lead to myriad changes.

Unfortunately, I don't have a compass, a live chicken, a black donkey's hooves, a diamond umbrella, or a gold-touching talisman. Moreover, this is India, and Feng Shui may not be effective.

So what are you talking about?

Xing Hechou's mouth twitched again,

Li Ang waved his hand casually and said: But I agree with what Side of Truth just said. The closing of the door and the extinguishing of the candles are signals that the Mystery Lock Barrier has entered the next stage.

You have stayed in the same room since just now and haven't moved, right?

Xing Hechou replied: Yes, what's wrong?

Stay where you are, don't move.

Li Ang said: I'll go to the next room and have a look. If there is no problem, I will call you.

Hohenheim frowned and said, Are you okay alone?

fine.

Li Ang shook his head without explaining much.

The Mysterious Barrier has a certain suppression effect on foreign players.

But now that he is full of spiritual energy and swamp power, he can transform into the dead wood Titan form at any time, and he also has the [Shining Dice of Destiny] as a guarantee, which is completely justified.

When you act alone, you don’t have so many worries.

He threw the walkie-talkie to Hohenheim and walked toward the front of the room.

The four stone doors in the stone chamber are not sealed, and it feels like they can be pushed.

Li Ang pushed open the stone door in front of him and found that the moment he pushed the door open, the candles in the next room were extinguished inexplicably.

At the same time, the other three stone doors in the original room were all sealed and could no longer be pushed open.

What do you mean? You can only choose one direction?

Li Ang muttered and walked into the next room and checked it out.

All the furnishings in the new room remained unchanged except that the candles went out automatically.

And when he tried to push open the door in the second room, he found that all four doors in the second room were also sealed and motionless.

Well...

Li Ang thought for a moment, walked back to the original room, closed the door in front, and tried to open the door on the left.

I found that the room on the left cannot be opened.

The door at the back or on the right cannot be opened either.

Only the front door can be opened, and after opening, the candles in the second room will automatically extinguish.

So, Li Ang asked players from other teams to try it through the intercom, and the others also encountered the same situation.

What does this mean? All rooms are in a quantum state and can only be collapsed and fixed into a solid state by observation?

Li Ang muttered, lost in thought,

After a while the attempt was made again.

He asked other people in the room to enter the second room with him,

After everyone enters the room, the rear door automatically closes and there is no way to return.

In the second room, only the door on the left can be opened.

Follow the door on the left and enter the third room. You will find that the candle goes out automatically. This time, only the door on the left can be opened.

The third room is the same.

The fourth room is the same.

When everyone entered the fourth room, they were all confused.

Nothing happened along the way, except that the candles kept going out,

According to the rule of constantly turning left, they will return to the initial room in the next step.

Is it possible to have an infinite loop?

Li Ang opened the left door of the fourth room with flickering eyes, and sure enough he saw the initial room marked on the wall.

But this time, the candles in the room automatically lit up the moment the door was opened.

The candle burned itself?

Hohenheim frowned, walked into the initial room, and released a dozen detection spells.

Candles are not Boruto. Of course they are flammable.

Li Ang said casually and looked around the initial room.

Except for the lighting of candles, the furnishings in the room did not change.

The candle itself should also be part of the mystery lock. It only emits light and heat, and there is no sign of dripping candle oil or shortening.

What does this mean?

Hohenheim pondered: Are you going to trap us here forever?

Probably not.

Li Ang said: If you simply want to trap us in place, just seal the room, there is no need for us to take a detour here.

And the mystery chain cannot trap it - it originally relies on the power of faith provided by ordinary believers outside to maintain it.

If we are pushed into a hurry, and we don't care about the life and death of ordinary people, and violently dismantle it, the Mystery Lock will definitely not be consumed.

The current situation is more like a delaying tactic.

Hohenheim frowned, tactics?

To drag it, just drag it hard.

Li Ang waved his hand and said: The ultimate goal of Mysuo is to protect King Shibi at the core of Mysuo, that is, to let outsiders find him as late as possible.

But the puzzle lock cannot trap the player.

Any player team has the ability to violently dismantle one or more doors in a short period of time. If this fails, there is Michael outside who can provide support.

In other words, what the Mystic Barrier can do is to use the rules as much as possible to guide outsiders away from King Sibi.

And the strange phenomena happening in these rooms now,

For example, candles are automatically lit and extinguished, and doors are sealed. These are the rules provided by the Mysterious Lock Barrier.

What we have to do now is to find out the path that the Mysterious Barrier originally wanted us to take.

The true form of King Sibi is probably in the opposite direction of that path.

If I guess correctly, when we entered the initial room again, the rules here changed in some way...

As he spoke, he tried to open the four doors in the four directions of the initial room.

Before, he pushed open the front door and entered room two.

But this time, the front door of the initial room was locked.

Instead, the back door can be opened.

If the initial room is used as the coordinate axis, then the room they are entering now is (0, -1) room.

Move for the fifth time, enter the (0, -1) room, the candle changes from light to dark, and the door on the left opens.

Move for the sixth time, enter the (1, -1) room, the candle changes from light to dark, and the door on the left opens.

Move for the seventh time, enter the (1,0) room, the candle changes from light to dark, and the door on the left opens.

Move for the eighth time, enter (0, 0), return to the initial room, the candle changes from dark to bright, and the door on the right opens.