Skirt took a deep breath: "…Want to run?"
"No, just go a little faster." Yuan Yuxue said, "You can shake it off."
The "dog" was very fast, and if it had maintained its normal speed, it would only take a minute to catch the player. But fortunately, every time it entered the secret passage, its movements seemed to be a little slower, giving the two players some time to escape.
From now on, Yuan Yuxue's requirements for choosing a route include not only spanning multiple areas and having more than one exit to allow for flexible route changes, but also calculating the length of the secret passage to ensure that the "dog"'s deceleration state can be kept to the maximum.
At the beginning, Skirt noticed that the color of the surface of the Nightmare Watch changed obviously. Sometimes it was a light pink, as if there was a layer of mist; after a while it turned into a sharp scarlet. The color almost made Skirt think that the ghost had followed her, they had been discovered, and the game failed.
But fortunately, the worrying imagination never happened.
Yuan Yuxue deliberately took a detour.
He needed to calculate the specific speed of the "dog" and the impact of different secret passage terrains on it.
There was no need to use the Nightmare Watch to determine the distance, Yuan Yuxue's detection mechanism could do this. However, based on the principle of double confirmation, Yuan Yuxue still took the time to look at the item on her wrist, and from its feedback, it could be seen that the judgment was consistent.
The length, space, and winding degree of the secret passage all affect the tracking speed of the "dog". The longer, more winding, and narrower the secret passage is, the slower the "dog"'s speed.
After passing through the secret passage once, the deceleration effect on the "dog" will be greatly weakened, and perhaps it will be completely ineffective when passing through it again.
Therefore, the route cannot be a complete closed loop, and each secret passage can only be used once.
After discovering this, Yuan Yuxue replanned the route.
From this moment on, the Nightmare Watch no longer issued a bright red "high-risk warning" and almost always remained in a light pink state.
The most thrilling time was when the "dog" seemed to be getting close and the warning from the props reached a high-risk level.
Yuan Yuxue and his companions came out of the secret passage and came to a study room with a high and wide dome and piled with thick paper books. Yuan Yuxue had almost no time to react, and he immediately activated the switch on the bookcase - compared with other secret passages, it was just a different mechanism that was more concealed. This time, the switch of the mechanism actually required solving a chessboard!
At that moment, cold sweat had already appeared on my skirt and my hair stood on end.
The time for thinking was too tight and they were trapped in the study. They didn't expect that even the mechanism was a trap.
But before Skirt could calm down and see the chessboard clearly, she saw the newcomer's slender, dazzlingly white fingers moving the black flag very quickly. The next second, the secret passage behind the bookcase revealed a dark hole to them.
Although Skirt's thoughts were confused, her reaction was still very quick, and she immediately went into the secret passage with Yuan Yuxue.
The moment the entrance closed, she seemed to hear the study door being pushed open by something, and then the dense sound of footsteps, like four legs crawling, fell behind her.