Chapter 509: Sustainable wool harvesting
Somewhere in the maze, behind a corner, is a lush flower bush full of colorful flowers.
In the center of these flowers is a high platform with a huge treasure chest placed on it.
The appearance of a place like this in the depths of the maze looks like a reward for adventurers. But if you drive it rashly without thinking...
A mechanical dog walked briskly into the flowers. Just halfway through, it was suddenly entangled by a large number of vines emerging from the flowers. The colorful flowers also changed their previous delicate appearance and began to twist one by one. It grew several times bigger, and sharp teeth emerged from the heart of the flower, and began to bite the mechanical dog.
Along with the crunching sound, the metal armor could not withstand the teeth of this strange flower. Seeing that it was about to be swallowed up, the mechanical dog''s head suddenly lit up with a red light, and then exploded with a bang, blasting out a charred open space in the flower field. . But soon, the empty space was filled by the surrounding flowers and vines.
"It seems that the guardians this time are these piranha flowers..." Sun Xiaowei looked at Mr. Yuan: "Flowers and plants are most afraid of fire."
"No..." Luo Jun shook his head: "Do you remember the last treasure box? After it was smashed by Ma Qiao''s energy, the contents inside disappeared. This treasure box is not invincible. It is too dangerous to set fire to."
"Then what should we do?" Sun Xiaowei looked around: "This sea of ??flowers is so big that even steel can be chewed. If we walk in hastily, we may not be able to guard against the gang energy."
"I''ll go." Mr. Yuan volunteered: "Normal Gang Qi can''t do it, but my Ning Yuan Gang Qi can definitely handle it."
"No!" Luo Jun immediately denied: "Let me do it."
"You can''t do it anymore!" Mr. Yuan hurriedly stopped him. Although he knew that Luo Jun''s Ning Yuan Gang Qi was stronger than his, he thought it was not time for Luo Jun to reveal his strength yet, so all the monsters he encountered along the way were... It was Mr. Yuan and Ma Qiao who dealt with it, and he tried his best not to let Luo Jun take action. Anyway, it was easy for him to deal with Class A monsters. This maze monster was not very strong, so Luo Jun didn''t need to take action at all.
"Don''t worry, Mr. Yuan." Luo Jun gave his master a look and came to the flower field. He took out a pair of shoes from the treasure box and put them on. Then he looked at the treasure box on the high platform in the center of the flower field and suddenly stamped his foot.
brush!
Luo Jun''s figure disappeared and appeared on the central high platform almost at the same time, standing next to the treasure chest.
As soon as he appeared, the flower field around the treasure chest immediately surged into life, and countless vines began to grow wildly, spreading towards the high platform. But Luo Jun didn''t give them a chance. He picked up the treasure box, stamped his feet, and teleported back again, placing the treasure box on the ground.
"You can also teleport!" Sun Xiaowei said in surprise: "There are not many treasure phantoms that can flash, not to mention the distance is not close, the grade must be quite high, right?"
Luo Jun chuckled: "I found it on the black market..."
This pair of Shunpo boots was taken from the Hell Creek family. Its effect is that it can teleport three times in a row, up to one hundred meters each time. I had never had a chance to wear it before, but this time it came in handy.
"Come and see what''s inside!" Ma Qiao said excitedly, rubbing his hands.
They detected a total of three treasure chests. The first one yielded three silver ingots and a pile of copper coins worth nearly four thousand yuan. The second one was accidentally damaged by Ma Qiao. I don''t know what they could reveal.
Luo Jun opened the treasure box, and a ray of light lit up. There was a palm-sized transparent crystal ball inside, with a pointer floating inside, pointing diagonally in one direction, and a series of numbers below the pointer.
"What is this?" Several people looked at each other, and there was a piece of paper under the crystal ball, writing the function of this thing.
Origin pointer: No matter where it is, this pointer will always point to the initial point where the player enters the endless maze and mark their distance from that point.
It can be activated by injecting vitality, which consumes five breaths per minute, and can guide the shortest path to the origin.
"Indicate the initial location?" Sun Xiaowei frowned and said, "Isn''t that the big room with twelve doors? What''s the use of indicating this? Can we still go back?"
"At least it can be easily positioned." Luo Jun played with the crystal ball: "I probably know my relative position in the maze..."
Luo Jun looked at the numbers under the pointer, "In other words, the large room with twelve doors is more than 80,000 meters away from us in this direction...more than 80 kilometers away?"
"We still have to go back a long way." Sun Xiaowei said: "If we include the more than 100 kilometers we ran before, our furthest distance from the origin may be more than 200 kilometers... How big is this maze?"
"Endless, maybe it''s really infinite." Luo Jun put away the pointer and took out the camera: "Let''s continue, there are still a few monsters to clean up."
To make a long story short, it took everyone an hour to cover the distance, but in the end it took them two full days to clear the encounter points, and all the supplies they had exchanged before were eaten up.
But Luo Jun was not in a hurry. He waited until the time when the generous people were about to refresh before he came to the last store with an empty stomach.
After knocking on the window, the fat businessman threw a lot of gold ingots and copper coins in front of him without waiting for greetings.
"Change everything into banknotes for me!"
Seeing this mountain of treasure, the fat businessman''s eyes widened. He quickly calculated the amount, and finally exchanged more than 12,700 banknotes for Luo Jun.
At this time, Luo Jun took out the Generosity Badge and exchanged it for three thousand and ten supplies. When the cooldown came, he exchanged ten more supplies and then left the store with satisfaction.
Since then, the team has a total of 20 supplies, more than 14,000 banknotes, seven relics, two random maps, an origin pointer, and a gold ingot of unknown purpose.
There is a big pile of these things, and it is not convenient to carry them normally. However, Luo Jun has a smart equipment bag, so storing items is not a problem at all.
Looking at the abundant supplies, several people were in a trance for a while.
The endless maze, an extremely difficult challenge that no one has succeeded in yet, was actually turned into a farming game? This is not survival at all, it is clearly a sustainable wool collection in a maze!
Although the maze now seems endless and there is no hope of getting out, at least with Luo Jun''s routine, there is basically no need to worry about survival.
But even so, I can''t stay here forever. The endless maze is too big, and finding the exit is far away...
"It seems that there is no other way besides saving money to exchange for exit indicators." Sun Xiaowei looked at the food in front of her. Although the food types in each supply were rich and delicious, and they were changed frequently, she had no appetite at all. No.
"Don''t worry, senior, you can always get out." Luo Jun took a bite of the chicken leg and encouraged.
"But I want to take a bath..." Sun Xiaowei complained.
It has been more than four days since I started this mission. Although there is no shortage of food and basic toiletries in the supplies, it is still torture for this girl who loves cleanliness to not take a shower for more than four days.
Although a few men didn''t care much, she always felt that she was starting to go bad...
"This condition can only be overcome." Ma Qiao said with a smile: "Of course, there is plenty of water here. If you want to wash it, we won''t stop you. Just make sure you don''t peek." "You think so!" Sun Xiaowei said. He glared.
"I heard Caroline mention that there seems to be a hotel-like place in this maze." Mr. Yuan suddenly said: "She seemed to have seen a luxury hotel where you could stay and take a bath, but the tickets were very expensive and she had no money at the time. I missed it, and when I came back after killing a few monsters, the shop was no longer there.”
"Eh? Is it true?" Sun Xiaowei''s eyes lit up when she heard this.
"Senior sister, do you still want to go out?" Luo Jun poured cold water on her: "Didn''t you hear Mr. Yuan say that the tickets are expensive?"
"Please, good junior..." Sun Xiaowei begged: "Just buy me a ticket... When you get out, if you have anything to ask senior, senior will promise you anything!"
Luo Jun waved his hand: "Don''t talk too much now, let''s wait until we meet. And whether we can go out is a matter of two opinions..."
Luo Jun refused while looking at the camera.
"What are you watching?" As if she wanted to get close to him, Sun Xiaowei approached Luo Jun and found that he had cut out the video he had recorded before into short segments and flipped through it.
"What is this for? Haven''t we confirmed these places?" Sun Xiaowei asked puzzled.
"We only confirmed the special places marked on the map." Luo Jun explained: "You forgot to mention it in the map description. This map cannot mark the location of the exit. So what if there is an exit where we pass?"
"Then what''s the use of dividing the video into these short segments?" Sun Xiaowei continued to ask.
"I divided it into small sections and screened them one by one. If I found anything suspicious in any section, I marked it so that I could look it up later." Luo Jun explained.
"Wow, junior fellow student, you are so reliable!" Sun Xiaowei gave a thumbs up: "Can such a reliable junior fellow student satisfy senior sister''s small request?"
Luo Jun glanced at her sideways: "Let''s wait until we meet."
"Then I''ll take it as your promise!" Sun Xiaowei returned to her seat with a smile, then picked up the chicken legs, which immediately felt much more delicious.
Luo Jun sighed and flicked through the videos with his fingers...
He divided the video into so many sections not because of the so-called convenience of searching. As mentioned just now, there is no exit shown on this map at all. Even if he is blinded, he cannot see what is not there. The reason for this division is actually for other purposes.
Luo Jun swiped with his finger, and the dozens of separated videos began to scroll rapidly along the list. Moreover, he set it to scroll in a loop and would not stop just after scrolling to the end.
"Tianji dice!"
"Click on the map to see the video containing the exit location!"
That''s right, Luo Jun''s real purpose is to hope that he can find an exit through the help of Tianji!
If he happened to pass by while running wildly and the exit was scanned on the map, then using this method, he could lock the location of the exit within a few kilometers!
It will be much easier to find it then!
However, things did not go as smoothly as he imagined.
"Ding, this event is an inevitable event and cannot be determined."
It seems that I haven’t passed through it. It’s really not that easy to find the exit...
Luo Jun sighed and put down the video recorder.
At this time, everyone had basically eaten and drank enough. Mr. Yuan looked at the leftover food and the abundant materials in the storage space, and suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Let''s contact other people."
"What?" asked Ma Qiao.
"It''s been four or five days since we came here. We have eaten and drank, but the other people don''t know anything. Even if a cultivator has stronger physical strength than ordinary people, he will be very weak if he doesn''t eat for four or five days." Old Yuan sighed. Tone: "I think, let''s share some supplies with them. Anyway, now that we have the map and Ronaldinho''s tactics, we don''t have to worry about supplies for the time being."
Everyone has no objection to this. After all, if one more person survives, there is one more chance of finding the exit. But the key point is that so many days have passed and no one knows where they have gone. How can they meet up with others?
"Don''t we have an origin pointer?" Old Yuan said: "Use the pointer to return to the origin. This is the only meeting point that everyone has a chance to find."
No one had any objections. After a brief tidying up, Mr. Yuan took out the talisman and lit it, sending a message.
The specific content is that they now have sufficient supplies. If they are short of food and water, they can go to the origin to get them. But from now on, they will only wait at the origin until forty-eight hours later.
In two days, a maximum of eight supplies would be consumed. In fact, taking into account individual differences, each portion of the supplies is very affordable and can ensure that even those with big appetites will be full, so save some money, as one portion of the supplies will not be enough to finish in one day. What''s more, if you just wait, you won''t consume so much. You may only consume four or five servings in these two days.
After sending the message, Mr. Yuan activated the origin pointer, and a green line immediately appeared on the ground, corresponding to the shortest route back to the origin.
Several people set off immediately, and Sun Xiaowei and Ma Qiao got on the car again and ran all the way. As a result, after walking for a while, I found that the route was often contrary to intuition. The pointer originally pointed forward and diagonally upward, but the route told you that you should go down the stairs here, and then walked back and went around in a long circle before finally finally Return to the direction of the pointer.
But according to the description of the prop, this thing should indicate the nearest route. This means that if you choose a route based on intuition, you may not reach your destination even if you specify the direction.
This reminded them of the exit indicator again... From this point of view, even if they spent one hundred thousand, the possibility of getting out was slim, which cast a shadow on everyone''s minds.
"Don''t be discouraged." Mr. Yuan saw the frustration of others and encouraged: "At least we now have a way to survive stably. As long as we keep exploring, we will always find a way out."
"I hope so..." Sun Xiaowei curled her lips: "Mr. Yuan, how far do we have to go?"
"The straight-line distance is still more than 30,000 meters..." Mr. Yuan took a look and said, "It should be almost..."
Halfway through his words, Mr. Yuan suddenly froze and motioned for everyone to stop.
The team advancing at high speed braked suddenly and almost rear-ended them.
"What''s wrong?" Ma Qiao finally stopped the bicycle.
"Look over there!" Luo Jun also discovered the problem and pointed to a diagonal road ahead.
"That''s..." Ma Qiao and Sun Xiaowei were both surprised after seeing it clearly.
I saw a black plaque hanging at the end of the fork in the road...
(End of chapter)