Vincent laughed heartily: "Okay, you should already understand the core concept of this game, now let me explain some details." The big screen behind him changed following his speech: "This It’s a top view of New York State, what you see in front of your eyes is a piece of land of more than 1,200 square kilometers, for those of you who can’t use your abilities, I think it’s a bit bigger, so I narrowed down the game area.”
Regardless of everyone's reaction to the sentence "can't use abilities", he pointed to a darkened map on the big screen and said: "Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, these four places together Together as your game area, I have left teleportation points in many places, but it is a bit difficult to find, you need to use your 'game assistant' and your own wisdom to find some clues." He looked back at everyone: "When After you find and enter the teleportation point, you can leave New York 'temporarily' and go to another place to complete a puzzle. As for where you will go, I don't know, all the puzzle-solving spaces come from In the not-so-long but extremely rich fantasy history of human beings."
"Every time you solve a puzzle, you can get a customs clearance reward, and the more customs clearance rewards you get, the closer you are to victory." He suddenly smiled: "Oh, don't forget, 'seeking swords' is the basic core of the game. It will help you when solving puzzles."
Woody smiled wretchedly at this time: "Hey... Well, it's useless to say more, those FAQs and the like, you can check the 'Game Assistant', my uncle and the council's technical consultants spent a lot of thought to make it Those things in your hands, please be sure to protect them as assets more precious than your own lives." He pushed his glasses glowing with white light: "Also, from now on, don't think that you are still on the earth. It's 'New York' and it's not 'New York', and as Vincent said before, we certainly have ways of keeping you from 'staying where you are' and waiting for a winner."
The four of them disappeared so abruptly after finishing what they had to say, leaving only the contestants and their advisors standing in the empty Times Square at a loss.
There is no obvious hostility between the people, but as the saying goes, the heart of defense is indispensable, and each other does not know the details of the other party, so it may not be so easy to form an ally.
"Comrade!"
"Comrade!"
Wang Xu and Li Yadi's eyes were bright, and they looked like they hated seeing each other late, and they held each other for a long time, as if they were meeting with national leaders.
"Same size as you!" Master Cat shuddered over, grabbed Wang Xu by the back of his neck and dragged him away.
"Dimi, it's time for us to go." A fat man munching popcorn patted Riadi on the shoulder. He seemed to be Riadi's advisor.
Seeing the two parting ways, the other contestants also shrugged their shoulders and walked in their own direction...
After Wang Xu was dragged out of three streets by Master Cat, she finally gave up struggling and said, "Hey... did you make a mistake, everyone has no spiritual power, you still have such good physical strength?"
The restrictions they encountered this time were very thorough. Even Wang Xu's power of dominance disappeared, and the strength of the unity of the spirit and body no longer existed. It can be said that the two of them are completely ordinary people now.
Master Cat suddenly stopped in his tracks, and as soon as he let go, Wang Xu staggered and almost fell, but Master Cat pretended not to notice and said, "Take out your game assistant."
Wang Xu was taken aback: "Hatchet?" He said with disdain on his face: "I said that your bad friend four-eyed boy can talk nonsense, and he 'spent a lot of thought on making it'. The products he made are not daily necessities, but Toys... Maybe I can get the hatchet because of the strong relationship between the two of you, after all, it can be regarded as a weapon..." He touched his waist while talking, but his expression suddenly changed when he touched the thing: " what's the situation?!"
What Wang Xu took out was no longer a hatchet, but a Gameboy.
"It's deformed!" Wang Xu's expression was very ridiculous.
Master Mao looked as usual, without any surprise: "Turn on the switch and try."
Wang Xu did so dully, and then a line of words appeared on the ultra-small black and white screen: "Phoenix".
Master Cat glanced at it, and immediately said: "Follow me." Then he took a step forward.
Wang Xu said: "What? Where? What? What do you know?" Although he asked a series of questions, he didn't stop and followed closely behind Master Cat.
Master Mao said as he walked: "Foreigners don't distinguish between 'phoenix' and 'huang'. In their language, Phoenix is a kind of fire bird that can be reborn in flames. From the different shapes of tail feathers, we can see the Phoenix in Western legends. It is different from the Phoenix in the East."
"Hmm... Does this have something to do with the current situation?"
Master Mao continued: "The display on your game assistant is in English, so it is clear that this prompt has nothing to do with Nine Heavens Xuannv, King of Birds, Dragons, Buddha, etc. Thank God, if it is the East The amount of clues that need to be filtered in Phoenix is too huge.
All in all, at present, the prompt Phoenix has four possible meanings, first, fire; second, rebirth; third, place name; fourth, flight.
Times Square is in Manhattan. Vincent gave us four areas. Although he didn't say it himself, I think there is a 80% chance that these four areas represent the four worlds in "Seeking Sword".
The fourth possibility 'flying' I just mentioned should have something to do with 'air world', but the first three possibilities all point to the answer of 'fire world'.
So, the conclusion - when we were in Manhattan, the first hint we got from the game assistant was that this was 'Fire World'. "
It took Wang Xu more than a minute to finally catch up with the train of thought, and then asked: "Hey... the place name refers to Phoenix City in the United States. This clue is not clear. Why does it point to the world of fire?"
Master Cat replied: "On the contrary, this is the most conclusive thought for me. Phoenix is called 'Hoozdo' in the language of the local Indians, a hot place."
"You know Indian?!"
"That's called the Navajo language. Different Indian tribal civilizations have different languages. Don't ask stupid questions. How can there be a completely unified 'Indian language'? If all Indians speak one language, wind language Hasn’t the author’s password been cracked long ago?”
The corner of Wang Xu's mouth twitched: "You didn't understand the point of my question just now... Forget it, anyway... After all, this is the world of fire, right? You should tell me first, where are we going?"
"Atziluth."
"speak English!"
"Vincent's reminder is very important. The world of fire is designed according to the graph of the Kabbalah tree of life, and he also specially showed us the top view of New York just now. The area of Manhattan looks like a long and narrow area from the map. Small island, then I will vertically arrange the order of the upper city, middle city, and lower city of this island in my mind to form an upright rectangle as much as possible, and then overlap the graph of the tree of life with it. Then, we only need to go to the map The position of Atziluth is fine." Master Cat glanced at him: "By the way, the so-called Atziluth is the 'divine realm', and in the system of the Kabbalah tree of life, there are four levels of fire, geomantic omen, and water, and the world of fire It is the highest and most perfect in this system, and it is the basis for creating other worlds, representing pure souls and thoughts, as well as the will of God. Of course, it is said that Adam and demons all live in this layer... "
"What are you... the spread of EVA knowledge."
Master Cat snorted coldly: "Cut...don't take ignorance as your personality. The tree of life in EVA is upside down. They want to return the material world to the spiritual world and break the 'wall of the heart' of people. Follow me." What I’m talking about is two different things. So I said, young people these days just sit there and stare at the computer screen all day, and don’t know how to read a few more books to cultivate their sentiments. Like "Genesis", "Revelation" "Ah, and Dante's "Divine Comedy" and so on, what a wonderful book!"
Wang Xu's expression was dull: "I read "Invincible Mandarin Duck Legs" when I was a child, the version with illustrations, and there was a domestic movie of the same name in the 1990s, I also watched it, does it cultivate my sentiment?"
Master Mao looked at him with even more contemptuous eyes: "If you can use a few tricks now, then you haven't wasted your youth in vain."
"Okay, you stand still, don't hide."
Master Mao said: "You deal with the group of guys behind you first, and then consider kicking your own people."
Wang Xu turned his head when he heard the words, and he actually saw... Zombies, a large group, filled the entire street, and slowly came out in groups of twos and threes from the streets and alleys.
"I get it... it's New York, it's not New York, and 'can't stay put,' it turns out to be such a game…"
Master Mao said: "Aren't you afraid? If you don't leave, you will be surrounded."
Wang Xu laughed twice: "What's so scary about zombies? Even if you lose your spiritual power, you can always deal with them for a while if you just copy a few pieces. Haven't you seen zombie movies? These bastards move slowly. Low IQ..." As he spoke, the zombies were gradually approaching.
"Hmm... It seems that these dudes belong to the enhanced version. They walk a little faster than ordinary zombies, but that's all." He growled, then accelerated crazily, galloping like a sprinter.
"Damn it!" Wang Xu yelled, and was about to say to Master Cat, "Run!" But when he turned around, he found that Master Cat had already run 50 meters away by himself...