“Ahh—”
Xia Qizhen and Xiao Ou were groping in the corridor when suddenly, a girl's tiger roar with a changed tone was heard from the entrance of the long and empty corridor.
Xiao Ou's hands trembled and he almost dropped the lighter in his hand. He switched the lighter to his left hand and took out the female thief's weapon, the dagger.
Watching Xiao Ou's smooth operation, Xia Qi stood aside calmly, with no intention of taking out his "holy book".
"Did they encounter a monster?" Xiao Ou asked, holding up the dagger and swallowing.
Now, among the two of them in the overturned car team, he is the only one who has the ability to fight.
Therefore, Xiao Ou was a little nervous. He had not fought a dangerous opponent face to face for a long time. Of course, even when there were conflicts with others in the past, he was the one who ran away the fastest.
Fortunately, Xia Qi has a good eye, so there shouldn't be any big problems if the two of them run away together.
The two of them pressed their bodies tightly against the cave wall and continued to listen to the noise not far away.
Xia Qi put his ear to the wall of the cave and listened attentively. After listening for a while, he did not hear any heavy earthquake sounds or strange monster calls.
Xia Qi shook his head and whispered, "I didn't hear any strange sounds..."
"ah!!!"
Before Xia Qi could finish his words, the woman's exaggerated voice began to scream again, making him feel a pain in his temples.
The two listened for a long time and found that there was still only the female voice howling.
"What's going on? Is she having fun?" Xiao Ou scratched his head and said speechlessly, "Why is she screaming like a ghost? It's so scary."
Xia Qi was also quite helpless, so he said, "Let's go first and ignore her."
The two of them wandered around in the maze for a while, and Xia Qi suddenly stopped and asked, "Do you have any props like markings?"
"Yes." Since he and Xia Qi had become teammates, and this matter concerned his life and property, Xiao Ou did not intend to keep it secret. He opened the system backpack and read out the items one by one. "Simple ones include crayons and flags. More advanced ones also include firework markers and fog markers... What do you want?"
"What is a mist marking stick?" Xia Qi asked.
"It's a thing like a smoke bomb, called a smoke stick. However, unlike a smoke bomb, the smoke it emits will not disperse. When you walk a distance with the smoke stick, it will leave a trail of smoke behind you as a mark." Xiao Ou said slowly and confidently.
"That's right, what I need is a smoke/mist stick. How come you have everything?" Xia Qi praised Xiao Ou.
In this closed environment, marking props such as smoke/fog/sticks are simply born for passing dungeons.
Xiao Ou took out a red cigarette/smoke/stick and said with a smile: "In the sin game, my nickname is 'Ding Dong'."
Xia Qi took the smoke/fog/stick and opened the cap at the tip. Red smoke began to come out of the stick, leaving wisps of marks behind them.
Xia Qi looked back and found that the smoke connection was working well, so he said, "Let's go."
With the smoke stick as a mark, Xia Qi no longer had to record the route desperately. He only had to remember the key nodes.
When the two of them turned the eleventh wall, the female voice roaring like a tiger seemed to be closer to them.
"What's going on? How did we run into them?" Xiao Ou was puzzled. "Is this maze connected
"Yes, this maze is connected in all directions." Xia Qi looked ahead and replied lightly.
Xiao Ou always felt that Xia Qi was unnaturally calm, as if he knew something. He scratched his head and asked, "Did you know this a long time ago? Are you cheating again?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xia Qi couldn't help but glance back at him and continued, "Didn't I say that this is a square maze? The rule of a square maze is that every road has countless exits, and there is never a dead end, so..."
"It will have countless exits!" Xiao Ou said excitedly with his eyes wide open.
Looking at Xiao Ou's expectant eyes, Xia Qi was speechless for a moment, then said: "... There will be countless dead ends on its edge."
"Boo." Xiao Ou couldn't help crying out again after hearing this cruel news. "There are so many dead ends. How long will it take us to get there? I don't think we will die in there."
Xia Qi felt a headache from his noise and said, "The red-bearded NPC said he would wait for us up there, so this dungeon must have an exit."
Hearing this, Xiao Ou slowly stopped crying, and laughed again, patting Xia Qi on the shoulder: "I don't care, anyway, I believe in you!"
Looking at the big drama queen beside him, Xia Qi was totally at a loss.
Sure enough, after they walked for a while, the girl's tiger roar was already near them. Xiao Ou swallowed and asked, "Still going forward?"
Xia Qi glanced at the wall next to him and said, "Keep going."
"Are you really going..." Xiao Ou was a little uneasy. He was worried that he would run into a ghost again when he turned the corner.
Xia Qi ignored him and walked forward with the smoke stick. As they got closer, they heard voices coming from the passage ahead.
"Captain, can you control yourself? You're making me lose all my SP." A man complained. Judging from his voice, he sounded like the animal trainer of Group 5.
Because the passage was very narrow, their voices echoed.
"Ah, I can't control myself, I feel so uncomfortable." This time it was the girl who was shouting who spoke.
Xia Qi and Xiao Ou looked at each other.
This time, they recognized who the girl who was shouting was. Wasn’t she the female Berserker, the captain of Group 5
"Your SP value is really too low." This time it was Mr. Plague who spoke. His voice was the kind of soft voice that made people feel very comfortable. "Otherwise, I'll use poison on you to temporarily raise your SP value."
His skills can release various viruses, including one that increases his own sp (spirit value).
"No, I'm afraid of the pain." The female Berserker sobbed.
"Not necessarily. It will only reduce some HP, it won't hurt." Seeing that the female Berserker was unhappy, the tamer tried to persuade her earnestly, his ears almost bursting from the scolding.
"No, no, no." The female Berserker still refused.
Seeing that the captain was unwilling to take the poison, the teammates had no choice but to listen to her continue screaming.
Xia Qi listened to their entire conversation and did not intend to avoid them, so he continued walking forward with the smoke stick in his hand.
When Xiao Ou thought that Xia Qi would meet the people from Group 5, Xia Qi suddenly turned a corner and walked into another passage.
After turning a passage, the two came directly to a wall. Xia Qi stopped and looked at the wall in front of him.
This was a pure black wall, covered with a layer of greasy oil-like substance, but Xia Qi smelled it carefully and found that the wall was not painted. Xia Qi looked down and found a large wooden box at the base of the wall. The box looked a bit old, and the lid was covered with a thick layer of dust.
Xiao Ou's eyes lit up and he said in surprise, "Could it be a treasure chest?"
Xia Qi didn't even look at the treasure chest, he just turned around and left: "Let's go."
"Hey, why don't you even have the interest to open it?" Xiao Ou hurriedly followed, chattering incessantly.
"When we reach the wall, it means we have reached the edge of the underground palace." Xia Qi explained, shaking the smoke stick in his hand, "This proves that the route I drew has not reached the edge of the intersection. Now we have to go back to the entrance, find the correct connected wall, and then redraw the color."
“…Oh.” After listening to Xia Qi’s patient explanation, Xiao Ou was confused and realized that he didn’t understand it at all.
Fortunately, he was a big hearted person. Since he didn't understand, he just pretended to be a brainless person and just followed Xia Qi closely.
The two of them walked back following the smoke mark left by the smoke stick. When they turned a wall, they heard messy footsteps and the sound of fighting from the passage in front of them.
“Oh my god!”
"Captain, are you crazy?!"
"Why did you cut me?"
Xia Qi and Xiao Ou paused. Are they from Group 5 again
There was a sound of close combat, and the female Berserker cried, "I can't control myself, wuwuwu."
The tamer's angry voice came: "Damn it, I shouldn't have opened that box just now!"
box
When Xiao Ou heard the people in Group 5 picking up the box, he immediately showed a look of fear.
There really is a ghost in that box!
Just as Xia Qi and Xiao Ou were listening carefully to the noise next door, the female Berserker screamed again and seemed to slash at her teammates again.
"Fuck, the captain is crazy!"
The trainer shouted loudly, and then there was the sound of fierce fighting again. The sound of hurried footsteps came again, and it seemed to be getting closer and closer to Xia Qi and Xiao Ou.
Xia Qi grabbed Xiao Ou's arm and hurriedly took a few steps back. They were about to turn a corner to another passage when they found that the footsteps were following them.
“Ahhh!”
Just as the two were about to change direction, the animal trainer suddenly appeared in the passage on their left, shouting and running towards them.
Xia Qi calmed himself down and looked in the direction of the animal trainer, only to see a short girl chasing after him.
Originally, the female Berserker was a gentle and quiet girl, but now she looked like a lunatic. Her face was covered with bloodstains, her mouth was exaggeratedly open, and her eyes were red as if they were dripping blood. What was even more outrageous was that she held a huge black axe in her right hand and wielded the axe with great vigor, aiming every move at the vital points of her teammate the beast tamer.
She seemed tireless and chased the trainer ferociously.
Looking at the performance of the female Berserker, Xia Qi and Xiao Ou couldn't help but remain silent.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that she is a young lady. When she goes crazy, she is really... like a berserker.
The trainer suddenly saw the two people in the opposite passage and yelled at them, "Get out of the way!"
"Get your ass out of here!" Xiao Ou pouted and ran away.
If this is spread to both sides, whoever is last will be in trouble.
Xia Qi naturally didn't want to be implicated, so he turned around and ran after Xiao Ou. The trainer was so angry that he almost vomited blood when he saw that the two of them ran faster than rabbits.
Xia Qi and Xiao Ou ran for a while, then turned around and saw that the beast trainer and the female berserker were still playing the hack-and-slash game behind them.
"Damn it!" Xiao Ou couldn't help but curse, "This bastard actually relied on us!"
Xia Qi frowned, looking displeased.
He had just finished mapping a small area with great difficulty, and he didn't want to waste time wandering around in useless passages.
"It's a waste of time to keep running like this." Xia Qi looked back at the trainer and said, "Shake them off."
"How do we get rid of him?" Xiao Ou said irritably. This person insisted on following them, what could they do
The key is that they are all players, and it is not convenient to do something bad to them.
In the sin game copy, he always adhered to the principle of not hurting others if possible, for fear that he would have to join forces in the end and his bad mood would affect his clearance.
Xia Qi thought about it, and suddenly changed direction, rushing towards the passage they had just come from.
Seeing Xia Qi rushing towards the dead end wall, Xiao Ou couldn't help but remind him, "Hey, that's where we just encountered the box!"