National Games: Zhongli at the beginning, the sense of security is full

"After all, they are trees from another world. Maybe the annual rings are like this?"

"How can it be so! Are you an orc who understands plants, or do we elves know better?"

"Elizer is right, these are not growth rings."

"What could that be? Except for the different patterns and colors, we didn't find anything else!"

"It's not a seal..."

"Color and pattern are the biggest issues..."

There is an argument between the orcs and elves in their ears. If it continues, it is likely to develop into a quarrel.

Jiang Yuan did not join their argument, and frowned to himself, staring at the tree stump that seemed to be nothing special in the same place, in a daze.

He really hates decryption, especially decryption without any hints.

In comparison, the decryption of Teyvat continent is much easier. At least, things like mechanisms have certain operating rules, and you can follow them to think about how to decrypt them.

Even if you can't think of it or don't want to use your brain, you can still ask other people for help or read the guide.

And what about this current place?

There is no guide, no hints, and no clues. The "players" who came here together may not have seen as much as he did.

At least he could be sure that the tree stump still contained strange energy, so he knew that it was special and not really useless.

"Jiang Yuan, what do you think?"

The few people arguing there began to seek other people's opinions.

"...I don't know." Jiang Yuan was embarrassed, "I can only tell that there is special energy in this thing. It's not dangerous, but I can't describe the feeling it gives people."

"Is there energy in this?" Eliezer came over and stared at the tree stump for a while, "Hmm... I can't tell."

It is very dangerous to try anything rashly when there is no way to obtain any information.

So they didn't try to put energy into it.

But if they still can't figure out anything and the tree stump doesn't change, they can only do this.

I won’t go into details about the experiences of various speculations and attempts. In short, everyone finally tried to use various energies.

Fire, flooding, freezing, or vines not only left no trace on the tree stump, but the energy attached to it also showed no change when it approached the tree stump.

Yidou and Thunder Hammer also picked up their weapons and tried, but they could not see any change in the stump.

The last one to take action was Jiang Yuan. He stopped pretending to be weak and directly showed off the various elemental attributes he could use.

In the shocked eyes of the three orcs and two elves, different colors had different effects, and Jiang Yuan even tried using elemental reaction skills, which finally caused the tree stump to change.

That tree stump has an extra pattern in its cross-section.

Just outside the two circles, one large and one small, there was an extra hand holding a sphere.

There is an arrow between the sphere and the circle, forming a "sphere → circle" pattern.

Everyone suddenly realized.

"Is this a prompt for us to put the beads on?" Eliza said.

"It should be."

"As for the beads, they must be the ones we obtained earlier." Koldin thought.

There have been two beads seen in this world, and they merged into one to form the only one.

Who else could it be?

Paimeng looked at the pattern on the tree stump, then looked up at Jiang Yuan who put away his weapon and took out beads from his backpack, thinking thoughtfully:

"Why do I think this tree stump has had enough of Jiang Yuan's torture and reluctantly gave a hint?"

"..."

Recalling the scene just now, others felt that what Paimon said might have some truth.

Weapons of different sizes and styles were switched in turn from Jiang Yuan's hands. The skills used by Jiang Yuan could keep up with the words "flowery, ahem, gorgeous".

Yidou and Thunder Hammer, one holding a two-handed sword and the other holding a purple-black hammer, looked a bit cruel as they smashed into the tree stumps.

And what about Jiang Yuan? He even took out more than one weapon such as a two-handed sword.

Several people who had not known Jiang Yuan for a long time finally realized how much Jiang Yuan had lied when he claimed that he was not strong enough.

If Jiang Yuan knew what his new friends were thinking, he would probably say that he was still far behind.

He was not strong enough, and he did not use elemental burst because the coverage and formation of elemental burst were too large, so he used elemental combat skills.

Jiang Yuan himself used almost all the character elemental combat skills he had drawn, switching weapons back and forth and almost getting confused.

So after Paimon expressed her feelings, Jiang Yuan thought about it and felt that it was the same thing?

He was silent for a moment and continued to take out the bead containing the oasis from his backpack.

Once the beads were taken out, no one was allowed to hesitate.

The bead held firmly in Jiang Yuan's hand flashed and flew into the air.

Without waiting for Jiang Yuan, whose hands were empty, and the others who saw this scene, the beads flew to the place pointed by the arrow.

That is, the center of the circle of the cross section of the tree stump.

The size of the bead exactly matches the smaller of the two circles.

The center of the tree stump, which had withstood all the attacks from everyone present and still remained unharmed, suddenly dropped, taking the beads with it into the depths of the tree stump.

To be precise, the center of the tree stump seemed to have turned into a viscous liquid. Due to gravity, the beads sank deep into the liquid and were contained by the liquid until no trace was visible at all.

Everyone continued to wait.

The stump was silent again.

"Where are the beads?" Paimon looked over the tree stump for a long time.

The beads were gone, the pattern on the stump was gone.

At this moment, the cross-section of this tree stump is a clean yellow-white color, with no pattern left on it.

Looking down from directly above, it looks like a yellow-white circle with no other patterns or impurities.

"It stole our beads!"

Paimon exclaimed.

The word "self-appropriation"... Jiang Yuan thought about it and thought it was quite appropriate.

I thought it was a reminder, but there was no reaction after the beads went in?

This will not work.

"Hey! Spit out the beads for me!"

Yidou was poking at the tree stump with his red-horned stone pestle: "How dare you steal my good brother Jiang Yuan's beads, be careful I will attack with all my strength!"

Thunder Hammer's face was expressionless and he didn't speak a word. The hammer raised in his hand showed that he had the same intention as Yi Dou.

Paimon was also furious, because she felt that the bead belonged to them just like the wooden cards and other things collected in the game earlier.

Their things were swallowed by the tree stump in front of them, what would happen?

"Jiang Yuan, come on! If you dare to swallow other people's things, this thing should have its own consciousness, right?"

"We have to teach it a lesson and let it know not to take other people's things casually!"

Jiang Yuan thought Paimon was right and took out a collection of Duduke stories.