The author has something to say: After hesitating for a long time, I still plan to rewrite this story. I am really sorry for bringing you a bad reading experience.
Before, Kawen was too stuck to write, and there were some problems with the setting of the story (I will explain this to you later), but now I have changed the outline again, it is still drawing cards + maze, but it can almost be treated as a brand new story up.
In the next few days, I will update 9,000 times a day, and the revision will be completed as soon as possible.
As soon as Xia Nuo opened his eyes, he heard a notification from the game system: "The player is currently at a latitude of 180 degrees, the outermost edge of the maze, and the exploration progress: 0%."
The entrance is a series of walls covered with murals, which form a corridor extending in all directions, and each corridor leads to a different direction, so the player's initial choice is very important.
The condition for clearing the game this time is to get out of the maze, other than that, the system did not give any hints.
Before Xia Nuo now, there are three choices.
left? right? Or in the middle
On the middle road, on the mural at the entrance, a pure white and flawless angel is lowering her eyes, smiling holy and compassionately, but in the figure in the mirror behind her, the gray-black wings are indistinguishable.
The mural on the left depicts a mermaid floating in the sea. She is affectionately sticking her lover's head to the side of her face, with a greedy and satiated expression on her face.
On the mural on the right is a tree man with light green skin, with a bright and enthusiastic smile, but there are many white bones under his feet.
Shano: "..."
What are these murals trying to reveal? Under the hypocritical appearance is the real cruelty
After hesitating for a moment, he walked into the passage in the middle.
On the one hand, he is more inclined to trust his intuition in this situation without any prompt; on the other hand, he always feels that the mirror behind the angel seems to have a special attraction for him.
——Like a road sign, guiding him to make a choice.
Xia Nuo was walking in the passage. The walls on both sides were so tall that they almost went straight into the sky. He tried to raise his head, but he couldn't see their tops.
Such a wall can effectively prevent players with flying props from cheating.
While thinking this way, Shano began to examine his props.
Although he has experienced two worlds and is out of the novice category, his props are still relatively small.
However, although the number is small, the level is very high.
Two S-level props, "Raven's Eye" and "Manor Lord's Invitation Letter", two A-level props, "Blessing of the Sacred Tree", "Heart of the Sacred Tree", and one B-level prop "Hourglass".
The "Manor Owner's Invitation Letter" doesn't seem to have any effect at the moment, and as for the "Eye of the Raven", it seems that it has no use for it now--Xia Nuo, who still doesn't understand the mechanism of the labyrinth, thinks so.
As for "Blessing of the Holy Tree" and "Heart of the Holy Tree", they are all auxiliary props.
Use the "Blessing of the Holy Tree" to get the affinity bonus and luck bonus of plants, and the "Heart of the Holy Tree" is a healing item.
"It can heal all wounds caused by physical and magical attacks, and it is an excellent energy storage item." This is how it is explained in the introduction.
It sounds very practical. Although it can only be used three times a day, it is a good life-saving tool if used well.
Xia Nuo's eyes turned to the final b-level prop "Hourglass".
To be honest, he couldn't remember how he obtained this item.
The spindle-shaped hourglass stands quietly in the independent space grid, and the golden sand grains flow downward continuously, and even the subtle sound of the sand grains flowing can be clearly heard in the quiet space.
"Chang'an." He heard a male voice calling.
Xia Nuo didn't know where he was for a moment, he closed his eyes, his consciousness was drowsy.
The voice seems to be far away in the sky, but also seems to be close at hand, ethereal and clear.
"The day has finally come."
"Don't be afraid, I've arranged everything and I'll find you soon."
"Chang'an... Chang'an..."
——The voice called this name, as gentle as a whisper between lovers.
…
"Hahaha--"
A burst of wild laughter suddenly awakened Xia Nuo, who was stuck in an unknown memory, he took a step back subconsciously, and followed the sound.
On the mural on his right side, a black demon shrouded in smoke and half protruding body appeared at some unknown time.
Xia Nuo's glance coincided with the demon's gaze, and the demon's green eyes rolled around maliciously, and he grinned at him, revealing a mocking smile——
"It's been a long time since I saw a newcomer coming! I wonder if your soul smells so delicious?"
Its level is not very high, so it finds a unique way to wait for new players here. At this time, the players have just arrived and have not yet improved their strength, which happens to be soft persimmons in the eyes of labyrinth creatures.
Even so, the probability of the devil succeeding is not very high.
Because most players may not be very powerful, but generally they also have a few life-saving props at the bottom of the box. Sometimes when encountering experienced players, the props in their hands can even cause damage to them.
However, Xia Nuo obviously does not belong to this "most".
After finishing the last game, returning to the system space, what awaited him was a dead silence. The system didn't know where it went. Before entering the game, Xia Nuo hadn't seen its shadow.
As for what information you want to get from it, it is even more impossible. He didn't even know the name of the game world he was about to enter until the last day, and the system didn't show up at that time, and the black book representing the game world popped out of the bookshelf automatically when the time came.
Xia Nuo had never seen other systems, so he didn't know if they were as irresponsible as this one. Anyway, his perception of the system had gotten worse.
It was also because of the irresponsibility of the system that Xia Nuo couldn't even exchange items. He had some money but nowhere to spend it, so he was probably the one talking about it.
Xia Nuo backed away slowly, thinking about countermeasures in his mind, he knew that he was no match for that demon, but it was impossible for him to sit still and wait for death.
The attack and defense abilities of "Raven's Eye" can come in handy at this time.
Attack: Follow the master's command to launch an attack, and the damage to the spirit body will be increased.
Guard: There is a 50% chance to protect the master when the master is attacked.
Although I don't know what its attack power is, but S-level props are not too weak, right
The devil watched Xia Nuo retreat step by step to the wall on the right side with cold eyes, and did not stop him. To it, this small distance was nothing.
"Do you want to escape?" It smiled hey, "You can escape as much as you want. Human cowardice is my favorite wine with table wine. Similarly, the despair when human beings find themselves with nowhere to escape is also the best for me. Delicious hors d'oeuvres.”
Speaking of it, as if recalling something, he greedily licked his lips with his long scarlet tongue.
"...are all demons as talkative as you?"
While the demon was speaking, Xia Nuo was already ready to release the "Eye of the Raven". Looking at the demon who didn't know anything about it and looked full of complacency, he couldn't help but complain.
"Human? What do you mean? This is the only kindness you can get before you die. You don't know how to cherish it?"
The devil stared viciously at the "ignorant" young man in front of him, and after he finished speaking, he made a gesture to pounce on him, and Xia Nuo also began to count silently in his heart.
one two three!
Just as the pitch-black crow flew out of his hand, Shano heard a terrified scream.
"You, your back!"
Xia Nuo suspected at first that it was trying to divert his attention, after all, no matter in novels or movies, cunning is the innate nature of demons.
So he didn't look back, because of this, he witnessed an extremely strange scene.
The demon who taunted him and regarded him as a prey seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying, turned around and wanted to escape, but its movement was a step slower - a jet of black flame suddenly fell from its head, The flames surrounded the demon, and it howled and struggled in the flames:
"Ah--I know I was wrong! I shouldn't snatch the prey you fancy! The devil..." My lord--! ! !
Before the words fell, it had been burned to a mass of ashes.
"one."
At the same time, the low counting sound was covered by the demon's sharp howling before it died, and was not heard by Xia Nuo.
At this time, Xia Nuo was also full of bewilderment. The crow hovered around and found that the enemy was dead, so it folded its wings and fell back to the boy's shoulder.
"what happened?"
Xia Nuo glanced at the crow on his shoulder, the crow shook his head, indicating that it didn't do it.
He recalled the performance of the demon before he died, and couldn't help turning his head.
――Is there really something behind him
However, what faced him was a dark wall with nothing on it.
"No... I remember there was a mural before this..." Xia Nuo murmured in confusion.
Probably only the dead demon knew—at that moment, a man with black hair and blue eyes suddenly appeared behind the boy, stared at the boy in front of him with a protective and possessive attitude, and then raised his hand towards it. The iconic snake-shaped staff...
Only then did it realize that it had provoked an extraordinary person, but it was too late...
…
By the way, before the devil died, didn't he call... the devil's king? What else is there to say that you shouldn't snatch the prey you fancy? Could it be that he was being targeted by a more powerful demon
Xia Nuo shivered involuntarily, determined to leave this place of right and wrong quickly.
However, I don't know what kind of bad luck he had today. Just as he took a step, he heard a clear and clear child's voice shouting behind him:
"Ahhh, little brother, help me!!!"
He looked back and saw an eleven or twelve-year-old girl in overalls running towards him desperately. Behind her was chasing countless monsters with ferocious animal heads. The smoke and dust are billowing, which is enough to show the size of the formation.
Shano: "..."
If it is said that the crow was able to deal with the previous demons, Xia Nuo was still somewhat sure, but to let it deal with such a large number of monsters...
Xia Nuo shook his head, throwing away this unrealistic fantasy.
There is only one passage, and for the present plan, there is no other way but to run away with the little girl.