Bu Tian Gang

After talking about the business, everyone lost interest in nonsense. Liu Qingbo simply got up and arranged sleeping bags. Outdoor teams come out for fun and adventure.

During the winter solstice, I didn't expect that the rigid-looking British only brought sleeping bags like them, while the carefree Americans carried tents all the way. Although they only carried two tents, it was enough for five people to sleep.

Seeing the Americans put up the tent, the others didn't say anything, and I couldn't help but feel a little envious in my heart. Then I looked at the shabby sleeping bag in my hand, and suddenly lost interest.

Although there are many people, everyone still maintains a certain degree of vigilance. Each team has someone in charge of the night watch. The night watchmen gather together to warm up and chat, which is quite lively. The person in charge of the night watch in Southern Europe is a Greek. English is not very fluent, most of the time just silently listening to others.

Winter Solstice also wanted to keep watch at night, but William quietly pulled his clothes and took him to the tent.

"We suspect that there are no golden apples on this island." William lowered his voice, clearly not wanting to be heard by the two parties outside.

Winter Solstice also learned from him to lower his voice, like an underground party joint. "Why do you think so, you got the news in advance?"

William smiled bitterly: "Why don't you believe me? If we got the news in advance, can we let our companions get trapped in it?"

Winter Solstice: "Okay, sorry, please continue."

William: "There are two main reasons for my doubts. One is that it doesn't match the riddle of the golden apple. The beauty shrouded in clouds and mists will eventually take off her veil. Don't you think this riddle seems to be talking about the mystery hidden in the mist?" Is it one of the mountains here?"

Winter Solstice: "All the islands are shrouded in mist, including the maze here. I think the riddle itself is very unreliable. It seems that every island can apply a riddle, and it seems that none of them match."

William: "But the maze is so ugly, it's obviously not a beauty, and the name is even less similar. Diana Island and Princess Island are more similar in name!"

Winter Solstice: "...Maybe there is a beautiful woman waiting for us in the maze?"

William shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, that's terrible! Didn't you think of something when you saw this maze?"

Winter Solstice was at a loss: "What do you think of?"

William sighed: "Oriental people! Forget it, as I told you before, the people in charge of organizing the competition are obsessed with Western mythology, especially Greek mythology and Nordic mythology! I suspect that the maze here is a copy of the one in Greek mythology— —The Labyrinth of Crete, have you heard of this myth?”

The winter solstice came to him, he remembered.

This is also a well-known Greek mythology, but it can’t be blamed that Dongzhi didn’t think of it for a while. After all, he is a native of the East. If William said something about it, he would immediately realize that it was the story of Gonggong.

Legend has it that the wife of the king of Crete had an affair with the bull of Poseidon and gave birth to a son, the half-man half-bull monster Minotaur. The king built a labyrinth for him and imprisoned him in it. Send the boys and girls in to it.

Winter Solstice: "So you mean, the monster in the labyrinth may be that half-human, half-bull monster?"

William: "That's not necessarily true. Even if the organizing committee can find the Eagle Claw Banshee, it may not be able to find this legendary ancient monster. Besides, it has been killed long ago. Maybe it's something else, but that's for sure. There is a certain degree of danger, after all, our companions have already fallen into it. What's more, there are monsters watching around this time. The possessed Japanese you mentioned will not be the first one, nor will it be the first one. the last one."

Winter Solstice suddenly showed a sinister smile: "That's right, I might also be possessed by a monster."

William was shocked, and quickly reached out to touch the gun, and then saw Dong Zhi smirk, and realized that the other party was deliberately scaring him, and his shoulders couldn't help but collapsed: "Dong, don't scare me, my bullet doesn't have eyes!"

Winter Solstice smiled: "Just a joke to adjust the atmosphere, I didn't expect you to draw your gun quite fast!"

It's not only pretty fast, in the blink of an eye, William's gun is in his hand. Before the winter solstice, he always had a playful smile when he talked, and he couldn't help but feel that the other party was fooling around. But now it seems that the strength of the Americans is still very impressive.

William winked at him: "Then do you want to consider helping me persuade Miss Li to date me?"

Winter Solstice: "No problem, I can convey it to you, but whether she agrees or not is up to her."

"Oh my god, you are the cutest person I've ever seen! As soon as I saw you, I knew you must be a lovely friend and rival!" William wanted to give him a hug, but was completely touched by the winter solstice. Push away mercilessly.

"Hurry up and get down to business!"

William said: "Well, I suspect that someone outside has been possessed by a monster."

This time it was Dong Zhi's turn to be surprised. He subconsciously thought that William was joking with him, but when he raised his head, the other party's expression was very serious.

He also became serious: "Are you sure?"

William nodded: "At that time we decided to go to Rose Island to see the situation, and it happened that the British and the southern Europeans were fighting the eagle-claw banshee. I have already said this outside, but what I didn't say is that after that we Searching for the whereabouts of the golden apple on Rose Island, I spent the night by the way. That night, I was sleeping soundly, and suddenly felt a cold on the back of my neck, followed by a pain in my back. If I hadn’t woken up quickly, I might have died Dead."

As he spoke, he took off his coat and pulled down his clothes. Dongzhi saw five purple bloody marks on his back, which looked like a person's five fingers. The force was so great that he might want to penetrate the flesh and tear out his heart.

"Who is next to you?"

William said: "The deputy head of the British regiment, the person sitting next to Liu just now, but it should not be him, because he was fast asleep when I woke up, but it is not ruled out that he is pretending. I thought it was The monsters lurking in the dark just quickly asked other people to be alert, nothing happened afterwards, they even laughed at me for making a fuss, but then I heard you talk about the Japanese being possessed by monsters, I feel that there may be some Some weirdness. In short, be careful, I only told Lilith about this matter, we are still observing whether the people in our team are reliable or not."

Winter Solstice: "Thank you, I will pay attention when I go back."

William laughed: "Is it just a verbal thank you?"

Winter Solstice: "Do you think I owe you a favor?"

William: "Okay, let Miss Li date me."

Winter Solstice expressionless: "Get lost."

Leaving William's tent, Dong Zhi had no abnormality on his face, but when he passed the bonfire, the bell on his body suddenly rang.

Jingle Bell!

The voice was so small that only he could hear it.

The footsteps of the winter solstice are full of life.

There were five people sitting around the campfire.

An American, two British, and a man and a woman from two southern European teams, Dongzhi remembers that they seem to be Italian.

Liu Qingbo and the others are not introverts, they just don't like to deal too much with practitioners from other countries. Although the other three teams are from different countries, they have similar growth backgrounds and values, so it is easy to chat together. At this moment, Liu Qingbo They're almost going to rest, and they're still chatting vigorously, but they didn't bring some barbecue over for the party.

The ringing of the bell has a limited range. Li Haner said that it will only ring if you are very close, such as the distance between the winter solstice and William in the tent just now, but William is normal, and the bell will not ring naturally.

And now the winter solstice is also very close to these five people, so the bell rang.

Was it the Englishman closest to him, or the two Italians?

Although the Americans on the opposite side are farthest away, they are also suspected.

Solstice is considering walking around them to test it out, but that would be a bit obvious.

He stood still and had already attracted the attention of the five people.

"Hey, Dong, why are you standing still, do you want to come over and warm up together?" the Italian greeted.

"He seems to have lost his mind as soon as he came out of William's tent. Could it be that he was rejected when he confessed to William?" the British joked.

Everyone else laughed.

Winter Solstice also smiled: "I'm just a little hungry when I heard you talking about barbecue."

When he mentioned barbecue, the others couldn't help salivating.

In fact, it may not be hungry, but since the beginning of boarding, everyone has not eaten any delicious food. After going to the island, they ate dry food for several days. Now let alone barbecue, even grilled sausages are delicious.

Then everyone smelled a fragrance.

At first they thought they were hallucinating from greed, but when they turned their heads, they saw Dong Zhi take out a bunch of vacuum-packed small sausages from his backpack at some point and hand them to his team members respectively. Yang Shou thought as soon as he took the sausages. Grilled on a skewer, the sword was only stained with the flesh and blood of zombies the day before. Li Han'er couldn't stand it, so he took out a bamboo hairpin and asked him to bake it with the bamboo hairpin. After the roasting, he replaced the sausage, and then roasted the next one.

Everyone has become numb to the seemingly endless surprises in the leader’s backpack, but it’s the first time for other foreigners to see it, and their eyes are straight. The Americans even brought tents, but they didn’t bring sausages. William Hou The cheek came over to eat, and Dongzhi gave him one.

"The last one, you just caught up."

William looked at a small and exquisite sausage in his hand, opened the package, ate it three times five times, and ate it under the envious eyes of others, and finally smacked his lips: "This is really the most delicious sausage I have ever eaten. There is a faint fragrance left by Miss Li's bamboo hairpin!"

Yang Shouyi rolled his eyes, why didn't he praise him for cooking well!

The corner of Dong Zhi's mouth twitched, and he patted William on the back: "Spit it out, that's my sausage!"

William hurriedly said: "Don't, thank you for your gift, I can eat such delicious food!"

When the two were fighting, Dong Zhi took the opportunity to lower his voice and talked about the bell ringing just now.

William's expression froze: "Who do you think it is?"

Winter Solstice said: "I'm not sure, your companion was the farthest away from me at that time, and the other four people were more suspicious, you should also observe it, and communicate any news at any time."

William made an OK gesture.

With this discovery, Winter Solstice had to stay at night to watch the night. He first called Liu Qingbo and the others together, and told the story in private, so that everyone should be more vigilant and observe secretly. But after the night passed, nothing happened. Before dawn, everyone had already packed their things and was ready to set off to enter the huge maze.

From a distance, the maze looks like a huge city, standing on the yellow Gobi, blending with the island. When you get closer, you find that the maze is bigger than you imagined. Looking up from the bottom of the city wall, there is a sense of insignificance. If it is not a practitioner, once an ordinary person enters, it is really difficult to get out easily.

The four teams entered the maze together, and no one could predict the future with a ball of wool on their body, so there was no way to use the method that the princess of Crete taught the hero to get out of the maze in mythology, but everyone made marks on the ground or walls to avoid getting lost.

There is nothing in the labyrinth except the tall city wall. The wall is rough but strong. Zhang Song used his sword to mark the wall. It took a little effort to draw the Taoist talisman. Others also came up with their own unique tricks. Then use a branch dipped in red ink to insert into the gap between the masonry.

Sure enough, as the Americans said, after walking not far, everyone turned a corner, and there were three forks in front of them, leading to three different directions.

There was a female astrologer among the southern Europeans. She took out the Tarot cards on the spot and calculated that the middle one was the most auspicious, so she decided to go in the middle. The British looked at Dongzhi and Lilith, and followed the southern Europeans. .

Lilith asked Winter Solstice: "Which way do you go?"

Winter Solstice said: "We can do whatever we want."

Li Han'er said: "Life is death, and death is life. The gates of life and death here are interconnected. Every road contains vitality and hidden energy of death. Whichever way you go, the result will not change."

She didn't speak English, Lilith couldn't understand, so Dongzhi said: "My partner means that everything is relative, and safety is also accompanied by danger. You choose first."

Lilith: "Then let's go to the right."

William waved his hand towards the winter solstice: "Hold your mobile phone, and contact me anytime if you need anything."

The winter solstice couldn't laugh or cry, and thought that if it was a long way away, even if I got in touch, I wouldn't be able to catch up.

Watching the Americans walk away, Zhang Song made a mark, Dongzhi asked Liu Qingbo: "Why did you keep staring at that female astrologer just now?"

Liu Qingbo said: "She was one of the five people by the campfire last night."

Dong Zhi said: "You doubt her?"

Liu Qingbo: "I don't know, but after you said it last night, I went to try it out. So far, I have had close contact with three people, and none of the bells rang. The only one who didn't have the opportunity to get close to him was this female astrologer. and another Englishman named Luke."

Li Han'er suddenly said, "I think it's a female astrologer."

Liu Qingbo raised his eyebrows: "The reason?"

Li Han'er: "When the boss took out the sausage last night, everyone else's attention was more or less attracted. Only the woman glanced at her and didn't show any desire to eat at all."

Zhang Song said: "It may be that she is losing weight, or women are more reserved."

Li Han'er raised her eyebrows slightly: "Do you really have to argue? I saw her several times. She didn't look like she wanted to eat but couldn't hold back. She was not interested at all. She was completely different from other people, unless she was a vegetarian. Otherwise, after eating dry food for several days, when they suddenly smell the smell of grilled sausages, they will at least take a look."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Dong Zhi hurriedly smoothed things over: "Okay, anyway, we didn't go with them, just be careful."

The labyrinth that occupies most of the island is indeed very vast. After the Winter Solstice team separated from the others, they walked along the road for several hours and encountered countless forks. Until noon, the big sun hung overhead , they themselves don't know how far they have gone, they can only recognize from the marks that they have probably reached the center of the maze.

Everyone leaned against the wall to rest for a while, Liu Qingbo couldn't help complaining: "When will this go, it's better to fight zombies!"

As if in response to his words, there was a bang not far away.

"It's gunshots!" Li Han'er reacted quickly.

In fact, Winter Solstice and the others have also received training on firearms, and each of them was given one before departure, but they were filled with ordinary bullets. Everyone's guns were pressed at the bottom of their backpacks. If they hadn't had to turn them in when they went back, they all wanted to throw them away to save trouble.

Needless to say now, the ones with the guns must be members of the other three teams.

After one sound, there were three or four more sounds, vaguely mixed with shouting sounds, which made people's hearts go up, but they couldn't see what happened, and they couldn't help but feel anxious.

Everyone couldn't help pricking up their ears to listen, but after that sound, the surroundings became quiet again, but there was a kind of calm before the storm.

They looked at each other, stood up at the same time, clenched the weapons in their hands.

Winter Solstice was about to say to keep going, when there were hurried footsteps approaching from a distance, and a familiar figure appeared in front of them.

"winter!"

Winter Solstice had never seen William showing such an anxious expression. The other party always had a playful smile on his face, but now he was full of panic, as if he had encountered the most difficult thing in his life.

"There are monsters, my companions have been attacked, come and help me!" he said anxiously.

They didn't have time to think about it during the winter solstice, so they hurriedly followed behind.

"Did you fire the gunshot just now?"

"Yeah!" William didn't turn his head. "A huge monster with many tentacles popped out of nowhere. Everyone else was attacked, and I was the only one who ran out!"

Dongzhi: "Then how do you know we're here?"

William: "I was running around, didn't I see you?"

"Wait!" Winter Solstice said.

William stopped in his tracks and turned his head impatiently: "Please, Dong, my companions are still waiting for me to rescue them!"

Winter Solstice took out a mobile phone: "Return the phone to you, you left me here just now!"

William stretched out his hand to take it, but the hand that handed over the phone suddenly turned into a sword. He was startled and hurriedly backed away!

Liu Qingbo attacked him with a sword, William had to dodge and yelled angrily, "Are you crazy!"

Dong Zhi said: "When you saw us just now, there was no surprise on your face at all, as if you had expected it a long time ago, who are you?"

Zhang Song and Yang Shouyi also blocked the opponent's escape route from the left and right, and directly forced the opponent to the base of the wall.

However, William suddenly smiled strangely, and his body turned into a huge purple-red flesh pillar, which danced wildly and rolled towards the crowd.

Liu Qingbo scolded his mother, "What the hell is this!"

"It's squid whiskers!" Yang Shouyi suddenly shouted.

"Your head is a tentacle!" Zhang Song said angrily.

The flesh column is thick at the top and thin at the bottom, with the tail rolled up slightly, and there are dense suction cups attached to it. It seems that there is a special gravitational force that can attract the sword to it. They have to use force to pull the sword back. When the sword cuts up, I can still feel a slight elasticity, isn't it just a huge tentacle?

It was unheard of that the tentacle would turn into someone they were familiar with and could even speak, but at the moment, everyone didn't think too much about it, they just wanted to keep the tentacle and study it. Liu Qingbo jumped up and hugged Grabbing that tentacle, he slid along it to the top, only to find that this tentacle had crossed the city wall of the maze, and at the other end of the city wall, there was a longer tentacle attached to it, coming from this side of the wall. Head, around to the mouth of the wall.

Liu Qingbo gasped.

I'm afraid it's not a tentacle spirit, is it?

He didn't say anything else, the Fumo Sword directly turned into a tentacle that was slashed towards the wall by the light of the sword. For spirits and monsters, the Fumo Sword was their natural nemesis. Under the light of the sword, the tentacle that was as thick as an adult man's body suddenly It was cut into two ends, and the other end seemed to be suffering from pain, so it quickly retracted, and soon disappeared.

And the big part that was cut off by him fell heavily on the ground, Zhang Song's dodge was a bit slower, and the tentacles hit his feet directly, causing him to groan in pain, and said angrily to Liu Qingbo: "Don't you pay attention! "

Liu Qingbo's answer was to directly roll his eyes.

Everyone looked at that tentacle again, good guy, I didn't feel it curled up when I attacked just now, but now it is at least three meters long when it is straightened, and the tail is relatively thin, but it is as thick as an adult man's thigh.

Liu Qingbo jumped down. "This should be just a part of its body, I seem to have seen it run away just now!"

Li Han'er picked up the tail of the tentacle and smelled it: "It smells like the sea."

Zhang Song: "That's the octopus monster. How did this thing come from the sea to the maze? And a tentacles are only this big, so how big is the body!"

Proportionally, the octopus behemoth would be no more surprising if it were about the size of the maze, but where it hides is the question.

Yang Shou recalled that it had changed into William's appearance just now, and it could speak human language, so he asked in disbelief, "Can the octopus monster transform into a human form?"

Liu Sidao: "Ordinary octopuses have the ability to disguise themselves as other creatures in the ocean. If this one is so huge, it is not surprising that it can turn into a human form and speak human words. But in the final analysis, this is also an illusion, so the old man just now As soon as Liu's sword hits it, the illusion will be broken."

Li Han'er said solemnly: "Then we must be careful, if it turns into our appearance and replaces one of them, it will be very dangerous without anyone noticing."

Zhang Song disagreed: "We didn't leave separately. Even if it wanted to plot against it, it would be hard not to be discovered. At most, it could only change into our appearance to deceive people from other teams. Just like just now, it was suddenly caught We figured it out... what are you doing?"

He looked at Dong Zhi who was squatting on the ground, who was taking out a small knife and cutting the tentacles into pieces.

"Cutting supper!" Winter Solstice didn't lift his head.

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