The entire maze has only one exit. Since the Scorpion King is not in the maze, it must be at the end of the stairs, which is the secret room that Fang Ru mentioned. So Meng Xiang was more careful, and all his strength was ready to move. As long as there was any movement, Meng Xiang was ready to blow away all obstacles at any time.
In order to recover their strength, Meng Xiang and his companions rested for dozens of minutes at the exit. In other words, he didn't have much time left. However, since this was a branch plot designed specifically for him, he didn't have too many worries.
As he walked up the stairs, Fang Ru's face became more and more ugly, as if he remembered something, but it was very vague, making him very confused.
At the end of the stairs, there was a ball of light, which seemed to be an exit with light. That should be the secret room that Fang Ru mentioned, and also where the Scorpion King was hiding. Meng Xiang's strength was almost overflowing, and the spiritual energy that emanated from him illuminated the corridor.
However, when the three people walked towards the light, the scene they saw made them feel chilled.
There was no magnificent palace inside, but a hell filled with white human bones. The ground was covered with pitch-black beetles, which were chewing the remaining flesh and blood on the bones. Next to these bones were many weapons exchanged in the main god space. Some people's lower bodies had turned into bones, but they were still able to survive with some power. They were constantly bombarding the beetles on the ground with the weapons in their hands, but they were outnumbered and were soon overwhelmed by the beetles.
Mu Fei'er screamed "Ah", but Meng Xiang picked up the Diamond Axe and rushed in, ignoring the beetles on the ground or the dying people who were still alive. He even passed through those people's bodies and swung the Diamond Axe at an empty spot in the secret room.
Before Mu Fei'er could react, she heard a "crack" and a black liquid splashed out from the place that was hit. Then with two "pops", two pieces of corpse were forced to both sides by the powerful air waves. These two pieces of corpse were the Scorpion King that was scraped apart from the center by Meng Xiang.
Meng Xiang let out a long sigh and said, "I have completed the side story. I received a tip from the Lord God and received 5,000 points and a *-level side story reward."
"Brother Meng, around your feet..." Mu Fei'er asked in surprise, because in her opinion, Meng Xiang's feet were surrounded by beetles that devoured corpses, but those beetles ignored Meng Xiang and did not attack him at all.
Fang Ru said calmly: "Those beetles and their remains are just phantoms. These phantoms are very real, but they can't deceive the powerful people with the keen sense of touch. Even I quickly recognized that these beetles are not real. The Scorpion King is hidden in the phantom. If we hadn't unlocked the potential lock level 3, we might have been killed by the Scorpion King behind the phantom. Sure enough, everything is specially designed for Meng Xiang. Even the points are in line with the difficulty of the plot. It's amazing that the previous generation of strong people considered it so carefully."
"Why do you say that?" Meng Xiang walked over with a smile. Killing the Scorpion King so easily not only saved them from the crisis, but also earned them points unexpectedly. He felt very happy.
"It's very simple. Although the illusion can't deceive a Level 3 potential lock expert, the deprivation of power, the Scorpion King, the maze, etc., for Meng Xiang, this very easy side story is actually absolutely difficult. In order to prevent the Lord God from thinking that this side story is a bug, the expert who set up this side story has thought it through. The difficulty and task setting are no different from those set by the Lord God, but for Meng Xiang, it's like cheating, and he easily dealt with the Scorpion King. The illusions in front of us are like children's toys, and they didn't hinder us at all. But these illusions should be the projections of my subconscious mind..."
Meng Xiang's heart moved, and he blurted out: "Could it be that the other soul in your body has experienced this horror movie before?"
Fang Ru shook his head and said sadly, "Not only did he experience it, but another soul probably died in this horror movie. Didn't Carter from the Beizhou team say that the wise man from the Nameless team lost to Einstein and even implicated the Zhongzhou team and its subordinate teams, and then became distracted in the following horror movie and almost wiped out the Nameless team? I have always had a fear of this secret room in my heart. Maybe one of the remains on the ground is his."
"That is to say, the predecessor of the Nameless Team, the Tianlong Team, was almost wiped out in The Mummy 2 due to the wise man's misjudgment. The wise man's soul merged with yours. Well, this connection is very credible." Meng Xiang understood Fang Ru's feelings very well, so he changed the subject and said, "Then let's look for it here. Fei'er, your mental strength has been restored. Have you realized that this illusion is fake?"
Mu Feier nodded and whispered, "It's fake. I'm so useless."
"Don't say that. It's normal for girls to be afraid of beetles. Otherwise, why would we men come here?" Meng Xiang smiled lightly, but found that Mu Feier's face became paler and her breathing became faster, as if her injuries were more serious than expected.
Fang Ru walked into the secret room tremblingly, handed Mu Fei'er to Meng Xiang, then completely ignored the phantom in front of him, unlocked the potential lock level 3, and searched almost the entire secret room. However, the secret room was empty except for the body of the Scorpion King that was chopped into two pieces. Fang Ru couldn't help but be disappointed.
"Will it be at the top of the tower?"
Fang Ru shook his head and said, "Impossible, the top of the tower is just the exit. This secret room must be hiding some clues." He searched again, but Meng Xiang found that Mu Feier's body was gradually getting colder and her breathing was getting weaker and weaker. He hurriedly put her on the ground, tore off her shirt, and reapplied the healing medicine, but the effect was not obvious.
"Hey, Brother Meng, I won't be a burden, don't worry about me." Although Mu Fei'er was getting weaker and weaker, she was still holding on. Meng Xiang checked her injuries again and found that her injuries were more serious than expected.
Mu Fei'er's intestines were broken into several pieces and were showing signs of rotting. Given her injuries, she would not survive more than a day.
Fang Ru stopped searching, glanced at Mu Fei'er's injuries, and said, "We can enter the dream within the dream, that is, the second and third layers of dreams, not because of drugs that anesthetize our bodies, but a kind of mental hypnosis. So we may not be able to go back before the powerful tranquilizers in the real world wear off, but Mu Fei'er can definitely do it with her mental strength to go back from the third layer to the second layer, or from the second layer to the first layer. Either let Mu Fei'er go back first, otherwise if it's too late, her body will be even weaker, and she may not have enough willpower to escape from the third layer of dreams."
Meng Xiang knew this was the only way, but Fang Ru looked at the phantoms around him, his face changed slightly, and then he said: "However, we have to stay here for another 5 days before we can go back. During these 5 days, something might happen. Meng Xiang, you have a broken arm, and there is not much water left in the ring. How about this, let's go back together."
"How about we go back together?" Meng Xiang asked hurriedly.
"According to the setting of Inception, 'falling' can wake up people in dreams. We can let Mu Fei'er go back to the agreed time to fall together. As long as we fall from a high altitude while sleeping in the second dream, we can go back." His face turned cold and he shook his head and said, "No, it's too dangerous. If we make a mistake, we will enter the Lost Zone. Even if we are aware of it, we may have to stay in the Lost Zone for decades."
Meng Xiang felt that living with a boring man like Fang Ru in the Lost Domain was worse than death, so he quickly said, "Let Fei'er go back by herself. It's better for me to stay here with you for 5 days than to stay in the Lost Domain for 50 years." As soon as he finished speaking, a chilling "rustling" sound suddenly rang out from the entrance of the secret room, and then countless black beetles swarmed in. These beetles were not phantoms, but real. As soon as they swarmed in, they kept biting, even the walls of the pyramid.
Even Meng Xiang couldn't control himself after seeing such a shocking scene, and shouted, "What's going on? Didn't they say that this was designed by the powerful people of the previous generation? Why is there such a plot of inevitable death?"
Fang Ru's face turned livid, but suddenly his eyes lit up. He stared at the remains of the Scorpion King that had been cut in two, and said to Meng Xiang, "Meng Xiang, hand Mu Fei'er over to me, and you pick up the remains of the Scorpion King, and we'll climb to the top of the tower together."
"What do you want the remains of the Scorpion King for?"
"I don't know. Anyway, there is only this wreckage in this secret room. The clue may be in the wreckage." Fang Ru has snatched Mu Fei'er from Meng Xiang's arms and tried his best to get to the top of the tower.
At this time, countless beetles had already swarmed in, swallowing the ground and walls like delicious food. Meng Xiang didn't have time to think about it. He only had one hand and couldn't lift the two pieces of debris separately. In a hurry, he held the two pieces of debris in his arms like treasures and quickly climbed to the top of the tower.
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