Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang fell silent at the same time.
The small castle in front of me seems to have several floors, but it must not be as big as the big castle, and there are only two floors in total. From the outside, there are only a few rooms, and the yellowish lights in the windows flicker slowly, like faint candlelight. This is the interior of the castle. The top is a high ceiling, and the sky cannot be seen. This small castle is huddled inside. Even though it is the only light here, it is still like a beast imprisoned in hell, terrifying.
Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang didn't move for the first time. They stood at the exit from the maze just now, silently looking at the small castle.
Don't lure those puppets away from Lin Zhen, it's very quiet here.
Yan Weizai looked at the small castle carefully. From the outside, it seemed that there was nothing to see. He raised his hand, nudged Yan Mingguang lightly with his elbow, and whispered, "Ice, what's in this castle?"
Yan Mingguang seemed to be taken aback for a moment.
The man replied slowly, "I don't know."
It's pretty straightforward. Yan Wei didn't expect Yan Mingguang to say anything, just smiled lightly: "You don't know? I think you know a lot. You know the terrain of the small maze just like the castle."
Yan Mingguang suddenly turned his head and looked straight at him.
Before the man said anything, Lin Zhen whispered to the props, "Why didn't I understand? Didn't you, Yan Wei, think of the crow with the crow on its back?"
Yan Wei let out a "hmm" without explaining anything. Lin Zhen had already separated from the two of them at that time, so he naturally did not see the scene where Yan Mingguang "slipped" the topographic map and fell to the ground. He just said to Yan Mingguang: "I actually don't really like people to think I'm a fool."
The moon wheel had been temporarily put into the black ring by Yan Wei, and under the faint candlelight from the small castle, he couldn't see Yan Mingguang's expression clearly, he could only vaguely see the cold and hard outline of this person. Like the memories he has without Yan Mingguang, they are vague and unclear.
He didn't say any more, and Yan Mingguang didn't answer anymore—they both knew what they meant.
Although the old castle in front of me was gloomy, it was also very quiet, and there was no danger to be seen. They chased each other all the way, and when they reached the core, they seemed to have a moment of peace. There seemed to be an abyss behind him, and if he took a wrong step, he would be completely left in this dungeon where both the player and the npc were terrifying. In fact, he should be so nervous that he could break the game without distraction. But Yan Mingguang was by his side, and he could always think of the things he had forgotten in this dungeon. He felt that he should be afraid, but he felt that he had actually been to even more dangerous places, so there was no reason for him to be included in this dungeon.
But it's still a little bit unhappy.
He said: "You can tell me, or you can just say that you have long thought that the topographic map of the castle is the same as the map of the maze, but I don't want this deliberate suggestion."
Yan Mingguang let out a "hmm".
At this moment, Yan Wei naturally wouldn't spend most of his time on things that they had discussed many times before. He was thinking about whether to go in directly, or to make some preparations just in case, when the small castle in front of him suddenly heard a friction-like sound.
The blood-stained, old iron door was slowly pushed open, making a "squeak" and "squeak" sound. Yellowish candlelight spilled from inside. Yan Wei, who had been in the dark for a long time, blinked for the first time, and was stunned by the light.
The "squeak" sound lasted for a while, the door was completely opened, Yan Wei turned his gaze back, only to see a figure standing in the center.
Light and shadow scattered from the small castle, drawing a long shadow in front of this person. The person was backlit, and his face could not be seen clearly. He could only tell that it was a woman from the outline of his body. Yan Wei couldn't sense anything from this woman, neither danger nor safety, not even a person standing there.
She said: "Come in and have a seat."
The voice is rather hoarse, with a bit of old age.
Yan Wei and Yan Mingguang looked at each other.
The woman said again: "Ain has already left, don't worry about his safety."
Yan Wei frowned—Ain? Do you mean... the man in black
The woman had already turned around and walked in, the long shadow swayed, quiet and eerie.
[In this small castle hall, can you teleport back here?]Yan Wei asked Yan Mingguang.
[Can.]
[Then go in.]
"You don't want to take the first place?" the good puppet Yan Wei asked Xu Miaomiao.
At this moment, in front of him was the cake he asked for from Bianhua just now. The good puppet Yanwei took a fork and wiped it back and forth several times with wet towels and paper towels, and then took a leisurely bite, waiting for Xu Miaomiao answer.
Xu Miaomiao said: "Bi Anhua came in, and it wasn't for the first place."
Shan Puppet Yanwei paused, but the movement of eating the cake did not stop. He ate half of a palm-sized Melaleuca in an instant. He also sighed: "You guys are so picky."
"Fifty middle-level dungeon invitations and two hundred points for the cake, all your losses have been recovered, so don't get cheap and act like a good boy."
"Who told you that the way you cooperate is so violent?"
The good puppet Yan Wei ate up the cake.
They didn't seem to have the same tit-for-tat calculation as the previous two days, and they came and went very politely. In the world inside the building, it is never known whether it is an enemy or a friend, and interests are the eternal things. The good puppet Yan Wei has his own plan, but the plan can also change according to the interests.
Just now when he and Xu Miaomiao said about cooperation at the same time, they didn't say anything else, but they both knew it was a success.
Xu Miaomiao was serious this time, and said what she said without any temptation: "Did Lin Qing tell you before Xuanniao came in?"
"He didn't tell me anything, because he thought I knew everything." The good puppet Yan Wei still told the truth.
Xu Miaomiao chuckled, "There's no need to hide like this, is there?"
Yan Wei put down his fork and spread his hands: "Then we won't cooperate."
"..." Xu Miaomiao said, "There is a fixed quota for dungeons above the 90th floor, basically between ten and twenty. This quota needs to be won, and it must be reached by a dungeon of the 89th floor. One hundred and eighty-seven percent of the rewards will be rewarded for completion, and an invitation letter will be obtained."
"The eighty-ninth floor has nothing to do with us."
"But the qualifying match determines the rewards of each organization. Why don't you understand anything?"
"I just went up from the copy on the nineteenth floor to the forty-ninth floor, you expect me to understand?"
Xu Miaomiao was slightly startled: "I regret cooperating now, is there still time to kill you?"
"Little sister, what are you doing talking about beating and killing every day?"
"Because my little brother is too threatening."
"So, the ranking of the competitive dungeon affects the dungeon bonus obtained by each organization. For the organization that ranks first, every player of this organization will get the most rewards and dungeon completion bonuses when they successfully clear the dungeon. Only the No. 1 organization The dungeon bonus obtained by one organization can allow the members of this organization to reach a completion rate of 187% in the dungeon on the 89th floor? Bianhua doesn't want Venus to get this quota." Good Puppet Yan Wei explained the answer thoroughly by himself, "Is the copy on the eighty-ninth floor opened?"
Xu Miaomiao was not surprised that he guessed the whole process: "It's turned on, and the second in command of your Xuanniao should also go in. But the super high-level dungeon takes a long time, and we will end it in a few days no matter what. They finish quickly. That is to say, the end of our ranking will affect the progress bonus they get from fighting with the gods. The invitation letter thrown out this time has been sent twice. , but Xuanniao has taken one, Bianhua has taken one, and Venus has none at present. We, the head of Bianhua, have a big feud with Venus. If we let them in, it will be like adding one more to us. enemy."
This is almost fatal in the kind of high-level copy that is walking on thin ice.
Shan Puppet Yan Wei nodded, it was considered to have accepted this reason.
He said: "Xuan Niao must get the first place."
"I can be third, as long as you can make Qixing second. But if you don't have the ability to be first, then I will swallow you to get first."
"So confident in us?"
"You can replace all the blockers that I tried so hard to hide on the first day."
The good puppet Yan Wei raised his eyebrows: "Mistake, I actually underestimated you."
"So do you have a way to overwhelm Xue Wan?"
"Yes, I really need your cooperation." The good puppet Yan Wei finally looked serious, "I and I have reached a cooperation. Yan Wei can definitely get the scoring method, but the meat grinder is very important. Xue At this time, I can understand that there are only three elements in this dungeon: a meat grinder, coins, and a good puppet. The good puppet is the most difficult to control. The meat grinder is too big to move at all, so he will definitely grab everyone’s coins. Block other people's scoring methods. But in fact, coins are not needed to redeem points, the meat grinder is the key, as long as Bi'anhua can make Venus leave the observatory, Xuanniao can use the meat grinder to get the highest score."
Xu Miaomiao finally showed a surprised expression.
She even stammered for a moment: "No coins are needed? You... Why did you make this conclusion? No, your idea must be based. How do you know that you don't need coins?"
There was indeed no sign of this, and it was even the first time that Yan Wei, the good puppet, had said such words.
He said: "Because this castle itself is a huge coin. It is a symbol, representing the puppets imprisoned in the puppet art, representing capture and imprisonment. The puppets in this castle were originally trapped in the coin, There is no need for extra coins to be thrown into the meat grinder. This is indeed just a speculation without any substantive verification, but if you look at it from the negative side, you will find that this conclusion has an irrefutable premise—the man in black robe The purpose is to catch the puppets. If the coins are really necessary, why does he give the coins to the players? He directly holds the coins by himself, and waits for the players to bring the puppets to the observatory to exchange them and use them? "
If you think backwards from the point of not needing coins, and think about the motives of the man in black, you will find this blind spot in thinking.
It's just that everyone is thinking straight from the fact that the man in black gave the players coins, and will not question the motive of this action from the root.
Xu Miaomiao was stunned for a while.
Then, she said slowly: "Fortunately, I didn't kill you."
Otherwise, the person who died in the end should be her.
Yan Mingguang walked in front, and naturally took Yan Wei's hand, and walked into the gate of this small castle with Yan Wei.
After everyone went in, under the flickering candlelight in the hall, Yan Wei finally saw this woman clearly.
Her face was as pale as death, her lips were bloodless, and her hair seemed to be soaked in blood, drying up into disgusting strands, and half of her face was clotted with dried blood. Her lower body was dripping with blood. Just now I couldn't see clearly from the outside, but now when I walked inside, I found that where the woman walked just now, there was a bloodstain on the ground, as if she was pushing and dragging the blood-soaked clothes.
"You're the first one to get here," she said.
"Don't tell me about your history, there are many guests like you every year... they all fail. Because they are always killing other guests blindly, they are all deeply involved in the game designed by Ain, but no one takes action —Kill Ain."