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After explaining the precautions, the old man left the house and disappeared into the aerial roots.Different from the curved appearance, the furnishings in the hut are very simple, without even a table, chair and bench, it seems that it is really just a temporary resting place.But it is such a somewhat humble house, at first glance, it even has a kind of warmth similar to "home".

The flames in the fireplace crackled and dispelled a bit of the chill in the night. Only then did the group feel a little tired from the long journey, and they sat on the rough wooden floor one after another, regardless of what was particular about it.

"There is still one hour before the tree-cutting time given by the NPC. We can use this time to summarize the conditions required to pass this level." Xu Qing first proposed, and he took out a notebook from his pocket, which seemed to have written down "Combining what the NPC just said and what he said before, we can at least draw these conclusions—"

"First, the key word of this level is 'cutting trees'. According to this NPC, we need to arrange personnel to cut trees outside every two hours. Now there are still eight hours before dawn the next day..." Xu Qing I looked at my watch, "Four teams need to be arranged to complete this task in shifts. There are still eight people left in the team. In order to prevent accidents, I suggest two teams to take care of each other. Do you think there is any problem with this arrangement?"

Seeing that everyone else shook their heads, Xu Qing went on to say:

"Secondly, the activity of 'cutting trees' has designated props." Xu Qing cast his eyes on the rusty ax with curled edges placed in the center of the floor, "I am quite puzzled about this regulation, because I have just checked carefully No matter how you look at it, an ax doesn't look like it can peel a little bark from the main branch outside, let alone cut down a tree."

"And the stipulations of this task are actually very vague - cut down a tree once every two hours, how do you cut it? How much does it count? Is it based on the amount cut down or the time? The NPC didn't even mention it." Zou Qingqing said calmly, When this beautiful woman calmed down, there seemed to be a little snow between her brows, "A vague mission description usually has a lot of traps."

"The NPC said 'the house is broken, and the rain will leak' should refer to the punishment for not cutting down the trees according to the regulations." Zou Qingqing paused, and said with emphasis, "Once the house 'leaks', the injured It will be everyone in the house, so there is a high probability that this is a mechanism of 'one person makes a mistake, everyone suffers'."

"This is the third point I want to talk about." Xu Qing nodded, "Once one person makes a mistake, the consequence may be that everyone in the room is wiped out. So at least at this level, I hope everyone can share information .”

As soon as Xu Qing said this, everyone was silent for a while.

"Of course, I know that this dungeon is based on individual points. It is indeed very difficult to share resources under such circumstances." Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

"It is reasonable to say that it should not be so difficult for newcomers to participate in this dungeon." Xu Qing pointed to Cheng Mo, "But the fact is that from the beginning to the present, we will lose one person in every small level. He Kai and the one named Qianqian The girls are not newbies, and the two non-novices just stop at the beginning, everyone should know the difficulty of this kind of book after playing for so long, and the death rate in the later levels will only increase."

What Xu Qing said was not completely unreasonable.In such a set level, it is indeed safer for everyone to exchange information.The rest of the people were silent for a while and then agreed to Xu Qing's proposal one after another. In the end, everyone's eyes were on Cheng Mo and Qin Chuhe, who had not expressed their opinions for a long time.

Cheng Mo hesitated for a moment, and rationally told him that resources should be shared at this time, but what these people did before made him feel stuck in his throat.In just two levels, he saw a lot of people hiding behind these false masks. For a while, the thought of "need to cooperate with these people" made him feel depressed.

"Promise first."

Qin Chuhe's voice suddenly sounded in his head.He seemed to briefly switch on the group chat again.

Cheng Mo glanced at Qin Chuhe quickly, and at this moment his eyes also moved over.The eyes of the two quickly met and then separated in the air. At the same time, Cheng Mo heard Qin Chuhe's voice again.

"I know what you're thinking, but first promise to come down."

"...I have no objection." After struggling violently for a while, Cheng Mo finally spoke sullenly.

"Me neither." Qin Chuhe spoke steadily at the end.And Cheng Mo also found that several people seemed to be relieved without any trace, as if what they had been waiting for was just a guarantee from Qin Chuhe.

What these people think...is it actually just Qin Chuhe's resource sharing?But that's right, after all, Qin Chuhe hasn't made a single mistake since the beginning of the game. With such a person who knows everything, it will be much easier to pass this level.

Cheng Mo somehow felt aggrieved for Qin Chuhe.Why should such a person who doesn't fight or grab be used in vain by these thoughtful people?He wanted to say something to Qin Chuhe, but inadvertently caught a glimpse of the playfulness in Qin Chuhe's eyes, as if this proposal was right in his heart.

Qin Chuhe seemed to have noticed Cheng Mo's eyes, he turned his head to look at Cheng Mo, and winked at Cheng Mo quietly when no one noticed.

"Since you don't have any objections to this proposal, don't waste your time here talking about it, and hurry up and assign people to cut trees together!" Wei Guoqiang couldn't help urging, his expression seemed to be very anxious.

"A group of two, everyone can form a team freely, and we will draw lots to determine the order of shifts." Xu Qing tore a piece of paper from his notebook, cut it into four pieces of equal size, and wrote the serial numbers 1-4 on them. , "Each group will send one person to draw, and we will take turns according to this number."

The final result was that Zou Qingqing and Xiqian were in the first group, Liu Qian Guoguo was in the second group, Cheng Mo Qin Chuhe was in the third group, and Xu Qing and Wei Guoqiang were in the last group.

When the stipulated time was up, Zou Qingqing and Qianqian picked up the ax and walked out the door. After a while, the sound of "Du, Du, Du" felling trees came from outside the house.The rest of the people sat on the ground in the room. Because of the first group, most of them didn't feel sleepy, and they all stared at the small floor in front of them motionlessly, and the oppressive atmosphere enveloped the entire hut.

Among the group, only Qin Chuhe put his coat on backwards, and leaned against the fireplace, sound asleep.Sitting next to him, Cheng Mo stared blankly at the outline of his facial features, which became more and more erect and profound in the firelight.

The sound of "tuk-tuk" outside the house was monotonous, and the firewood in the fireplace crackled occasionally, making Cheng Mo gradually feel a little sleepy.Just as he rubbed his eyes and was about to find a comfortable place to sleep, Qin Chuhe suddenly opened his eyes, stretched out his long arms, and brought Cheng Mo to his side.

The coat with his body temperature covered Cheng Mo's body.

"Sleep for a while, the night is still long, you can't stand it."

In the warm yellow firelight, Qin Chuhe's cold face that had been frozen for thousands of years was also stained with a gentle orange.In this fleeting warmth, Cheng Mo felt a sense of reassurance that was so long ago that it was a little strange, but inexplicably familiar.

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Cheng Mo woke up to the "squeak" sound of the door being pushed open - Zou Qingqing and Qianqian came back.

He looked at the time. The two of them had been out for nearly two hours. Because of the cold outside, both Zou Qingqing and Qianqian's faces turned blue from the cold.Of course, it didn't seem that it was just because of the cold outside that made their faces turn blue.

Qianqian threw a piece of wood the size of a palm to the ground with an extremely ugly expression on her face.

"This broken axe, whoever can split a big piece of wood, I'll call him grandpa." Zou Qingqing sneered, and handed the ax to Liu Hui, who was in the next group. A small piece. And those broken lights on the tree—the ambulance lights didn't flash as fast as they did, and I nearly blinded myself."

"Bringing back the wooden block, you should have already passed this level." Xu Qing comforted, "This level does not clearly stipulate how big the wooden block should be, and we have not heard anything else in the room. Sounds, both of you have come back safely, this checkpoint should be passed just like you did."

"Let me borrow your good words." Zou Qingqing didn't take Xu Qing's words too seriously, she just snorted coldly and turned to look at Liu Hui, telling her, "Be careful when you two go out later."

She seems to be a little more kind to people of the same sex.

Liu Hui thanked him, and led Guoguo out the door. After a while, the sound of chopping wood was heard again.

Cheng Mo woke up from a light sleep, and he was still a little dazed. He seemed to see a flashing fluorescent mark on the foreheads of Zou Qingqing and Qianqian, which vaguely looked like a small bee. I saw it but disappeared again.Just as he was about to raise his head and ask Qin Chuhe if he had seen the mark, he found that Qin Chuhe was also staring at Zou Qingqing and Qianqian with a pensive expression on his face.Cheng Mo opened his mouth, but was suddenly cut off by a series of rapid tree-cutting sounds from outside the door.

Unlike Zou Qingqing and the others, Liu Hui and Guoguo chopped fast and anxiously. Wei Guoqiang didn't know what tricks they were up to, and was very agitated by the series of "dun du" sounds, and couldn't help but angrily said:

"Aren't you afraid of breaking your waist when you chop so fast?!"

Fortunately, the rhythm of tree-cutting gradually slowed down after a while, and the sound of "tuk-tuk" became slower and slower, and stopped after a while.

Liu Hui led Guoguo and walked in. The two who came back this time had nothing in their hands except for the curled axe.

"We want to see if we can cut it down quickly, but it doesn't seem to work." Liu Hui smiled apologetically, "I didn't bring back the plank, sorry."

"Why don't you try for a while longer?!" Seeing that they were empty-handed, Wei Guoqiang immediately went crazy, almost ran over and grabbed Liu Hui's neck, but luckily he was held back by others, "You didn't bring anything back, what should we do? ! Ah?! Die with you?!"

"Aren't you still alive and kicking?" Liu Hui remained silent, and Guoguo, who was always smart, turned pale with fright.Seeing that the child was wronged, Cheng Mo couldn't help but say something.

"If there was something wrong with their methods, we would have had an accident long ago." Qin Chuhe said coldly with his arms folded. He looked at Liu Hui's mother and daughter without showing emotion, "How did you cut it?"

"...We don't have any tricks." Liu Hui glanced at Guoguo and said, "The beehive lights on the tree made me flustered, and I couldn't help but cut it faster at first, but then the lights flickered slowly, and we were both tired. Now, the action will slow down."

"Can't you just say fast first and then slow?" Wei Guoqiang glanced at Liu Hui dissatisfied, then took a deep breath with some headaches, and said to himself, "If you two groups are fine, don't you just take it easy?" How can I cut it?"

Indeed, judging from the current results, it seems that whether or not the wooden blocks are cut is not a condition for judging whether the level fails or not.

Cheng Mo's thoughts were rushing in this direction, while the time in the other was flying fast. Before he could figure out why, Qin Chuhe patted him on the shoulder and said:

"time to go."

Cheng Mo followed Qin Chuhe out of the hut, and the two stood still under the huge crown of the banyan tree.Cheng Mo looked at the flickering lights and shadows on Qin Chuhe's face, and suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart.

——The firefly hives hanging above the head at this moment seem to be a little different from the first time I saw them.

He raised his head and stared at the bright lights soaked in blood and minced meat, and found that they seemed to be flickering at the same frequency in unison.And when they first came to the back of the main tree, the flickering frequencies of these hives were obviously different.

Reminiscent of what they saw before, the back of the old NPC slowly chopping down the tree-this curled-edged ax can only leave a shallow chiseling mark on the tree, and the string of rhythmic "tuk-tuk" But he still remembers it clearly.Cheng Mo suddenly had a bold idea in his heart.

"Tell me, when the old man said about cutting trees, does it mean that we are not asking us to cut something from the tree, but just the act of 'cutting'?"

"In other words, the point of this level is not to 'get' something from the tree, but just want us to make the action of 'cutting with an ax' at a certain time and at a certain frequency?"