Following the person in charge, we continued to dive into the sea. The sand was spread out in patches on the seabed, and the slender seaweed swayed slowly with the waves.
On the white seabed, an arch made of sand rises high. That is the entrance to the underground maze.
In the Principality of the Ocean, except for the underground mazes that appear on the high seas, which can be conquered at will, other underground mazes that appear in other people's territories can only be conquered if you depend on other people's wishes.
Therefore, most of the underground mazes will be solved by each race on their own. If they cannot be conquered, each race will stop conquering them according to the situation, or outsource the task to an adventure group to work together.
From the sentry, Yang Yu learned that the underground maze had been conquered to the ninth floor, but due to strange mechanisms, they had no way to conquer the ninth floor.
This is a blessing in disguise.
It would be too embarrassing if the underground maze had been conquered before Yang Yu arrived here.
Under the guidance of the person in charge, Yang Yu and his team passed through the arch made of sand, stepped onto the narrow passage, and finally passed through a thin layer of bubbles and arrived at the first level of the wet underground maze.
A new task quickly popped up on Yang Yu’s task panel:
[Underground Labyrinth Strategy Mission: [Hall of Will]
Mission requirements: conquer the dungeon maze and defeat the guardian of the last floor.
Mission Reward: Experience 50,000, Gold Coins 100,000, Free Attribute Points +100, Skill Points +50]
This mission is not much different from the previous strategy missions, but it is difficult to make a conclusion about the difficulty.
The first floor of the Hall of Will has been completely emptied out, all the walls have been knocked down, and the stairs leading to the second floor can be seen at a glance.
Currently, there are only five thorn-scaled lizards and sixteen murlocs stationed here.
At this moment, they all gathered here to welcome the arrival of the commander.
Yang Yu glanced at He Meng, who had become Chong Du. As Yang Yu expected, He Meng asked the surrounding spiny-scaled lizards about the situation in the underground maze:
"These attackers are unfamiliar with the area. I hope you can introduce the situation of this underground maze to them so that they can attack it more easily."
"OK."
The person in charge responded and then introduced the situation of this underground maze to Yang Yu and the others.
The early strategy for this underground maze is not difficult. The first five levels are just ordinary monster hunting and treasure drops, and the monsters range from simple to difficult.
Starting from the sixth floor, the maze begins to change dramatically. Some strange elite monsters will appear on the seventh and eighth floors, which require certain skills and knowledge to conquer.
For example, some monsters will have flashing red dots appearing on their bodies at random. If you don't hit the red dots, normal attacks and skills will not cause any damage to them.
For example, some monsters will mark others and fight one-on-one with that person. Only when you are covered in blood and keep fighting can you cause a lot of damage to the monster and kill it.
The thorny-scaled lizards and the fishmen tried various methods before they gradually found the way and reached the ninth floor step by step.
However, the ninth floor was a huge pit, completely different from anything they had encountered before and extremely evil.
It is quite difficult to explain what it looks like specifically, so the person in charge decided to take Yang Yu and the others to see it for themselves, so that they could understand the so-called weirdness in his words.
Descending the stairs one level at a time, Yang Yu took a quick look and arrived at the entrance to the ninth floor.
After walking up the last flight of stairs, Yang Yu saw huge blocks as high as three meters appearing in front of him, placed on a 20x30 chessboard that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Each square has an extremely smooth surface and moves aimlessly on the chessboard.
"We tried to push these blocks, and at first the speed of the blocks would gradually decrease, then stop completely for two or three seconds, and then move forward in the direction of the push.
When the boxes reach certain areas, monsters will pop out from other boxes and fight with us.
But after defeating those monsters, nothing happens. Push the box again and a red square will appear on the grid of the chessboard.
Continue to push the cube and it will move away from the grid, but the red box on the grid will not disappear immediately. Instead, it will continue to turn red over time until it finally emits light, inducing the cube to move frantically.
Since the frantic movement is completely random and very fast, many of our friends who had worked together on the game have been crushed to death by the blocks.
After many experiments, we all agreed that the red box should be some kind of danger signal.
It’s a landmine.”
Yang Yu asked, "Have you ever tested how long it takes from the appearance of the red box to the random movement of the box?"
The person in charge nodded and said, "Of course we have tested it, and the results show that the recovery time is exactly the same."
"Very good. Let me ask you again, after resetting, is the position of each red box the same?" Yang Yu asked again.
The person in charge shook his head. "Every time the block moves quickly, the position of the red box will change. This is also one of the reasons why it is difficult to progress in the strategy."
Looking at the slowly moving cubes, Yang Yu thought about the possible mechanisms and strategies that might exist on the ninth floor.
When Yang Yu saw the blocks, grids and the red boxes that appeared, the first thing that came to his mind was the game of pushing the box.
If this is really a box-pushing game, it is also an advanced version of the super box-pushing game. Not only will monsters pop out, but it will also reset itself and change the map. Moreover, you can't see where the box should be pushed.
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Yang Yu asked Lotkar and himself to do an experiment. Yang Yu only used half of his strength to push, while Lotkar pushed with all his strength, and could even use the power of 9999 of [Wheel of Reversal] to push. As a result, the ease of pushing the block has no direct relationship with the strength, but is related to the time the hand is in contact with the block.
Just keep touching the block and change sides, and you can easily push the block from the other side.
Thinking about this, Yang Yu gradually figured out some of the problems he couldn't figure out.
So that's how it is. Those monsters come out to disrupt the situation. As long as they can make the person pushing the block let go of the block with both hands, they will be considered successful.
Since the difficulty of pushing the block is related to the length of contact time, the speed cannot change quickly when the block changes position and recovers.
This means that once you are forced into a dead corner and fail to escape in time, you will definitely be crushed into a meat paste by the blocks.
Yang Yu then thought about what would happen if the blocks bypassed the red circle and were all stuffed into the blind spots.
All the blocks were stuffed into dead corners, and perhaps the positions of the blocks could only be restored after the underground maze refreshed itself.
However, Yang Yu has every reason to believe that the designer would set the red boxes in certain blind spots to prevent people from wasting unnecessary time.
(End of this chapter)