Screaming Cycle (Infinite Flow)

While waiting for Su Rong's return, Ji Thrush and the others sat together, under the cover of the woods, and began to discuss where the "exit" of this secret realm would be.

"Just like the Taoist priest said, I think the key clue should be in those two poems."

Baroque picked up a twig and wrote two lines of text stroke by stroke on the soft sandy ground.

He is a foreign doctor who studies the history of world art, and his knowledge of ancient prose is surprisingly good. He can memorize them verbatim after only listening to them once.

"Who would want to live in a lonely mountain? A Taoist has a way and a mountain is not alone."

At such times, Mo Tiangen has always actively participated in the discussion, and this time he also took the initiative to express his views.

"According to my experience of reading novels and listening to storytelling, in strange novels or legendary story books, when those masters of Taoism want to give some hints to ordinary people, they always like to give a riddle, so that people can go to it with enthusiasm. Guess."

Teacher Dagen touched his clean-shaven chin and said seriously:

"Do you think this is an anagram? Like splitting a character, picturing a shape, or raising a sound."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Ma Ke looked at Mo Tiangen with interest in his bi-color pupils, "So, you are an expert?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the two lines of writing on the ground, "Then what kind of crossword puzzle is this?"

"Hey, I'm just raising a possibility!"

Mo Tiangen shrugged and spread his hands, "If I can guess it, I'll tell you the answer right now!"

Marco sighed in disappointment and muttered something in French that probably no one but Baroque could understand.

"Sure enough, I knew that it was so easy to find clues!"

"No, I don't think this poem will be some complicated anagram."

Baroque shook his head.

"Have you forgotten? There are several participating teams this time, but at first glance, they are not Chinese!"

When Ji thrush heard this, he let out a low "oh".

Indeed, among the ten teams, three looked like they came from a European-style western fantasy world. Among these teams, one was a group of wizards who could directly enter the set of "Harryet" without makeup, and the other looked like The Mages from "Merlin" or "Dragon Gun", and a group of people simply wore armor from the middle world, and everyone had thick and messy beards hanging down to their chests.

Ji Xiaoniao even doubted whether they could understand Chinese Mandarin, let alone understand and accurately understand ancient poetry.

So, if Taoist really gave a word game word puzzle in the first level, wouldn't that be equivalent to knocking them out of the game?No matter how you think about it, it feels really unfair!

Obviously, everyone also thought of this level.

"Indeed, if it's an anagram, it's too unfair to some teams."

Fan Hemian's eyes fell on the two lines written by Baroque on the ground, he frowned and thought for a moment, and then expressed his guess:

"If the teams whose mother tongue is not Mandarin Chinese can also get hints, will the key words be directly hidden in these two poems?"

Baroque turned his head and smiled at the Fan family sister, "That's right, I think so too."

Then, he picked up the twig again and scratched it on the ground a few times.

Everyone saw that the words he pointed out were the three "solitary" characters in "Who would live in a lonely mountain? A Taoist has a way and a mountain is not lonely".

"What do you mean?"

The mechanical hand pulled his high raised Mohawk head, and thought for a while, "Could it be that we are looking for something with the word '孤' in its name?"

Baroque shook his head.

Ji Thrush noticed that Baroque, a talented student of art history, has a strong scholarly temperament. Even though he is already a senior participant who has challenged the S-level difficulty for many times, his attitude towards others is still very gentle and polite, and he is always easy to talk to. He looks like he can chat with anyone calmly, not at all like Bingxie who rejects people thousands of miles away.

"No, that shouldn't be the case."

Baroque looked around at everyone, and continued to prompt:

"Think about it carefully, what is the name of this secret realm we are in now?"

"It's called 'Wu Shuang', why?"

Mo Tiangen answered casually.

"Ouch!"

He suddenly exclaimed, "I understand! I understand!"

Teacher Dagen slapped his thigh and said excitedly:

"Since it is 'Wu Shuang', then of course everything is unique, and it must be 'Lonely'!"

"That's right!"

Fan Luming also understood the meaning of Baroque:

"Since 'one copy' is the rule of this secret realm, then the exit should be hidden in those things that are in pairs?"

Everyone thought about it carefully, and they all felt that without any other hints, this current guess seems to be the most reliable.

So Bing Shang immediately gave instructions to everyone. After Su Rong came back from surveying the terrain, everyone divided into four groups, looking for anything that seemed to be "repeated" in different directions.

"Manipulator, take the thing out."

The white-haired youth gave instructions to Mohawk.

The manipulator responded without asking what the team leader wanted, and simply opened a hidden compartment on the mechanical box, took out twelve sets of exquisite gadgets, and distributed one to each of them. set.

Ji Thrush took a look and found that it was a hidden earphone that could be completely inserted into the ear canal, a button-shaped microphone pinned to the neckline, and a small machine that looked like a fruit phone from half a century ago .

"It's 'location tracking anytime, anywhere.'"

The manipulator turned to Ji Thrush and the others, "Have you used it before? Do you know how to use it?"

As soon as Ji Xiaoniao heard the name, it became clear.

This is the "Anytime, Anywhere" prop series produced by "Taohuayuan".

Ji Thrush and the others used one of this series of "Anytime, Anywhere Web Conference" in the "SCP Containment Campaign".

It’s just that the props of this series have always been very expensive. The “Internet Conference” starts at 12 points, and the “Location Tracking” costs as much as [-] points. It is a "huge sum" of [-] points!

— Tsk, it's so embarrassing!

Ji thrush was stunned in his heart.

——The Qinxue Society is indeed the largest high-level participant guild in the entire "Peach Blossom Spring", and it is really rich and powerful!

Xiaoniao, who had to calculate how to spend his points with his fingers every time during the preparation period, even felt a little sour.

"I have already adjusted the channel for you in advance, just turn on this button, do this, that, that..."

The manipulator quickly taught Ji Thrush, Ren Jianmo, Mo Tiangen, and the Fan family how to use it.

Just as a few people were talking, they suddenly heard a piercing siren.

Everyone immediately fell silent and listened carefully.

They were all too familiar with this sound, it was the beep they had heard several times when they were dealing with the steel golem just now.

It's just that this time, the sound source is a little farther away, and it's obviously not aimed at them.

After about 3 minutes, the sirens stopped.

"There should be other teams nearby."

Marco frowned, and said with some worry:

"A Rong, something must have happened to her, right..."

"Shh!"

Zero spoke on his own initiative.

He made a silent gesture to Marco, then pointed to the sky, "She's back."

Sure enough, soon, there was the sound of a large bird flapping its wings in the sky, and a figure fell from the sky and rolled down in front of everyone.

"Arong!"

Marco, Robot and Baroque shouted together:

"You are hurt!?"

Su Rong's appearance at this time can only be described by the word "worry".

Her long hair tied into a ponytail was scorched by something. There was a hole the size of a coin on the left wing, and blood was bubbling out. There was a deep bone scar on her left shoulder. There is also a mass of thick black air covering it, lingering.

Fan Luming pushed aside the others, and went to check on her wound.

"The injury on your shoulder is not an ordinary injury!"

As a doctor-to-be and professional dad, he tried to drive the ability, and immediately discovered the problem:

"My ability can heal your flesh wounds, but it can't dispel that layer of mist... What did you encounter?"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Su Rong covered her chest, coughed twice, and retracted her wings behind her back.

It's just that the disappearance of the wings did not allow the wound to heal at the same time. Immediately, there was a bloody hole in the position of her left shoulder blade, the size and depth of which were almost the same as before.

"On my way back, I met that team of people in black robes at the foot of the mountain."

Cold sweat broke out on Su Rong's forehead, she endured the pain and said:

"That group of people seem to be magical... They besieged me, and I almost couldn't get away."

She looked at the dark mist on her shoulders, and a deep knot formed between her brows:

"However, an iron puppet just appeared at that time, distracting their attention for me, and I was able to take the opportunity to escape."

Now everyone understands.

It turned out that the siren they heard was caused by the team of black-robed magicians, and they also took the initiative to attack Su Rong who was alone!

"How long will it take for you to heal her injury?"

Binglao lowered his face and asked the younger brother of the Fan family who was using his supernatural ability to heal Su Rong.

"The two wounds are not serious, just give me 2 minutes."

Fan Luming replied:

"It's just that there's nothing I can do about the black mist on her shoulders."

"very good."

Binglao turned to everyone, and said in a deep voice:

"After her injury is healed, we will divide into four groups according to the original plan and search for clues everywhere."

Then, the white-haired young man turned his gaze back to the injured Su Rong, "As for the thing on Ah Rong's shoulder..."

There was a sneer on the corner of his lips, and he gave a very efficient solution:

"If you meet those black-robed people again, just catch one and ask what it is and how to get rid of it."