Chapter 508 Black and White
After running for an hour continuously, the effect of the portable map finally ended, and several people finally stopped.
"It's all over..." Ma Qiao squeezed the brake, stood on the ground with his legs spread, and gasped: "Even riding a bicycle is tiring... How far have we run?"
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"My electric bike has a mileage display." Sun Xiaowei said: "I started switching to an electric bike about half an hour ago, and I have ridden 88 kilometers since then."
"It's close to 90 kilometers in half an hour?" Ma Qiao smacked his lips in surprise: "In that hour, we ran a total of 1,780 kilometers?"
"Not that much..." Mr. Yuan shook his head: "After you and Xiaowei both rode, our speed has increased. The total should be only one hundred and fifty kilometers."
"That's far enough." Ma Qiao exclaimed: "Luo Jun, aren't you an elemental sect? Why are you running so fast?"
"Who said elementalists must run slowly?" Luo Jun curled his lips and said, "Senior Xiaowei can ride an electric bike, but I can't use some wind elements?"
"It turns out to be the wind element..." Ma Qiao believed it and finally felt better.
"Next, let's sort out the harvest from the map." Mr. Yuan said: "For more than 150 kilometers, we tried to run in one direction. Even if we encountered a wall, we would use the map to find a way around it and try to keep the original direction. , Even so, we still haven’t touched the edge of the endless maze. This place is bigger than we imagined.”
"Thanks to the big enough maze, the corridor is as wide as the road, and there is a corner every few hundred meters. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to run fast..." Sun Xiaowei recalled the moment of speed just now. Although she has a weak foundation, her physical fitness and The reaction speed is far beyond what ordinary people can match. The small electric motorcycle with special characteristics is faster than a professional racing driver. Even so, you have to concentrate on the second half of the race to barely keep up.
"It seems that we have to be prepared for a protracted war." Luo Jun took out the video recorder and started to play back the previous video: "If I remember correctly, we saw two stores along the way, and I made a note of the time. Once it was about thirteen minutes and forty seconds, and once it was about forty-eight minutes and fifteen seconds... There are more relics. I noticed six of them, and the time is also impressive..."
With that said, Luo Jun began to adjust the video to verify his memory.
"In addition to the relics and shops, there are also three treasure points. We have never encountered a treasure point before. We don't know what they are, whether there will be mechanisms or monsters to guard them... There is a special room, which will last about fifty minutes. At that time, it should be similar to the Hall of Decision... Apart from these, there are basically monsters and mechanisms. These can be seen almost every minute..."
Mr. Yuan nodded and said: "Even if there is one per minute, according to our speed, these monsters and mechanisms are still two or three kilometers away from each other. This is the straight-line distance in the maze. In fact, we have to walk two kilometers. According to the map You may have to take several detours, and if you wander around without guidance, it will be difficult to encounter monsters.”
"Okay now, we have a guide, follow this video and fight back!" Luo Jun looked at the screen: "Come on, let's go this way, let's go find the first monster first!"
A few people walked around the maze for a while, and soon came to an empty crossroads, with a tall knight's armor standing in the center.
As if sensing someone approaching, the armor trembled slightly, stretched his body, came to life, and rushed towards him with the giant sword in his hand.
As usual, he started with long-range attacks. Ma Qiao picked up the shotgun and fired one at the head. With a bang, the armor was torn into pieces, the parts were scattered on the ground, and a handful of copper coins were scattered.
"So simple?" Ma Qiao was a little surprised. The lanky monster before was only taken care of by Mr. Yuan...
"It seems that Caroline is right." Mr. Yuan checked the vitality fluctuations around him and confirmed that the monster was dead: "The strength of the monsters in the endless maze is not high. Even because of the existence of the store, there are no monsters but it is more powerful." It’s troubling. The one we fought had gold ingots, and this one only had a handful of copper coins. It seems that the strength and value of the two monsters are very different.”
"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat." Luo Jun stepped forward: "Let's keep the money first, everything else is fake."
Several people picked up the copper coins in a hurry, there were two hundred coins in total, and Luo Jun put them all into the smart equipment bag. Then he continued to search back along the video, and soon came to a trap point.
This was the first time for several people to see the trap point. It was more of a challenge than a trap.
This is an open space fifty meters square. The ground is covered with black and white grids about one meter long, interlaced with each other. At the entrance of the agency, there is a sign with the rules of the game.
The requirement is very simple. Walk through all the white grids, but you cannot step on or cross the black grids. Moreover, after the white grids are stepped on, they will automatically turn into black grids, so you cannot go back. There is only one chance. If you can succeed in the challenge, Then you will be given five hundred coins. If you fail, once you step on or cross the black grid, you will be randomly teleported to other places in the maze.
"I can play this!" Sun Xiaowei volunteered: "As long as you plan the route first, success is not difficult."
As she spoke, she stood outside the venue, carefully observing the grids, and drawing with her fingers to plan the route.
But as time passed by, the expression on Sun Xiaowei's face changed from eagerness to doubt, then to irritability, and finally collapsed completely.
"Something's wrong. There's no solution to this at all. If you don't go back, you'll definitely not be able to get through it!"
Sun Xiaowei pointed to the ground: "Look, there are several white grids here. There is only one way to step on them, but it is easy to get in. When you exit, you have to go back the same way. You can't do it without crossing the black grids... …”
Others have also discovered the problem she mentioned. It does seem to be an unsolvable problem...
"Let me give it a try!" Luo Jun suddenly stood up.
"Don't, what if you are teleported away?" Sun Xiaowei advised: "When you encounter a monster, you won't even have a chance to ask for help!"
"Don't worry, I found a way." With that said, Luo Jun jumped directly into the field.
As he stepped on a white grid, the grid immediately turned black and he could no longer step on it or cross it. Luo Jun walked straight forward without looking behind him, and soon came to a fork in the road.
Turn right here, there are two forked roads, one is to continue moving forward, and the other is a straight line composed of four white grids, sandwiched by the black grids on both sides, extending into a dead end. If you want to step on all four blocks, this is the only way. There is a way to go, but if you want to go back, you have to step on the white grid that has turned black.
"Look, there is no solution to this at all." Sun Xiaowei spread her hands: "Now the road you entered has become dark, and you can't get out even if you want to, so you can only accept your fate and be sent away... You said you..."
Sun Xiaowei was very worried for Luo Jun, but before she could finish her words, she saw Luo Jun jump up his leg, directly cross the three white grids, and step on the innermost white grid. "Eh?" Sun Xiaowei was stunned, and then saw Luo Jun turning around, stepping on the white grid that had just been crossed, and walking back...
Yes, the rules say you can't cross the black grid, but they don't say you can't cross the white grid. As long as you have enough bounce, it doesn't matter how many white squares you cross in one step!
In this way, all the dead ends that were previously thought to be unreachable were solved.
Luo Jun was seen jumping left and right in the map, and finally stepped on all the white grids. The ground suddenly changed color and turned into the appearance of ordinary floor tiles in the maze. Then a brick rose from the ground with a large bunch of copper coins on it.
At a rough count, it's almost five hundred pieces.
"It seems that this copper coin represents one dollar." Luo Jun put the copper coin away: "I just don't know how many copper coins that gold ingot can be exchanged for."
After cracking this mechanism, everyone continued to walk back. They were very busy killing monsters and solving challenges along the way.
As Mr. Yuan said before, most of the monsters in the maze are not very strong, and they basically give you points. Killing one is usually only a few hundred copper coins, and the mechanisms are similar. Most of them cost you three to five hundred yuan. Occasionally, someone will give you a silver ingot. According to calculations, one silver ingot should be worth a thousand copper coins... So, that gold ingot should be worth 10,000 yuan, right?
Could it be that they wiped out the hidden boss in this maze?
Luo Jun thought about it carefully, and it was not impossible. Mr. Yuan has peak-level combat power, and the Bagua Zhihu is even a mythical treasure. With such a configuration, he can create a world of success in special missions. This is only Grade A. Shouldn't he be killing indiscriminately? That monster can withstand the burning of Bagua Zhihu for more than ten seconds, which has proven its strength!
Thinking about it this way, this task seems not as difficult as imagined...
As long as you go back and kill monsters like this, when you get to the store, you have accumulated a lot of money. Even if you don't have enough money to replace the exit indicator, you can also change it to a portable map. If you do this again, it won't take long. You can save enough in just one block.
Of course, Luo Jun also knew that there was still a lot of luck in getting to this point. According to Mr. Yuan, Caroline stayed in the maze for more than a month and didn't even encounter a shop until she starved to death. I can only say that the dice are really powerful...
Everyone just swiped all the way back. Finally, when they returned to the first store, they already had more than 5,000 copper coins, three silver ingots and one gold ingot!
It feels so good to be rich!
Luo Jun raised his neck and knocked on the window of the store, and the familiar fat man poked his head out again.
"Welcome... Hey, isn't this a regular customer? Are you here again so soon?"
"Do you still remember me?" Luo Jun was a little surprised: "Do you open all the stores by yourself?"
"Hehe, yes, no..." The fat businessman did not answer the question directly. He just smiled and asked: "What do you want to buy this time? After opening, my store can only exist for one hour."
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"Don't be in a hurry to buy anything. Please help me see if these can be exchanged for money." With that said, Luo Jun took out all the ingots and copper coins he had accumulated.
"Oh, I have gained a lot...these silver ingots and copper coins are the same as the banknotes I issued, and can be used directly as currency. Of course, if you want to carry them easily, I can help you change them Banknotes.”
"Change it." Luo Jun was not afraid to carry it, mainly because the copper coins were too loose and were not as easy to count as banknotes.
Soon, the merchant exchanged more than 8,000 yuan for him.
"Eh? Can't this be exchanged?" Seeing that the merchant did not accept the gold ingot, Luo Jun asked in confusion.
"Oh, this gold ingot is different from the silver ingot..." the merchant explained: "This is dropped by a special creature, we don't collect it here..."
"You won't accept it..." Luo Jun heard the implication of the merchant's words: "Then where should I hand it over?"
"We don't accept it from stores with white plaques." The businessman pointed to the tattered plaque on the window: "But occasionally we meet one with a black plaque. They will accept this kind of thing... but the price they give is not high. To be fair, this special monster is difficult to kill, so I don’t recommend that you go out of your way to hunt it.”
"Black plaque?" Luo Jun frowned and said, "Are the things they sell different from yours?"
"It's not exactly the same..." The businessman shook his head: "There are some things that have similar functions but are completely different. We don't have much contact with them, and I don't know much about them. But I don't recommend that you have too much contact with them."
"Why?" Luo Jun asked: "What will happen if you come into contact with them?"
The merchant swallowed his saliva and whispered: "It's very dangerous to trade with them. If you don't exercise caution, you may be eaten...literally!"
"Eat it?" Luo Jun raised his eyebrows. Unexpectedly, there are hidden elements in this maze?
He wanted to ask more about the black plaque store, but the fat businessman couldn't say more anyway.
In desperation, Luo Jun could only use his badge to withdraw another three thousand yuan, and then combined it with the previous eight thousand yuan to exchange for two portable maps.
With a portable map, there is capital for sustainable development. After bidding farewell to the store, Luo Jun left with the remaining more than one thousand banknotes and told Mr. Yuan and others about the black plaque store.
"This may be important information..." Mr. Yuan analyzed: "The shops with black plaques are obviously not in the same camp as those with white plaques..." As he said that, he looked at the fat businessman deep in the communication: "What he said may not be all the truth."
"I think so too." Luo Jun nodded: "But now, we have no other sources of intelligence. For now, white stores can still have friendly exchanges. Since they reject black stores so much, we should at least be more careful. ”
"Let's share this news with other groups first." Sun Xiaowei said: "Let them also remind them."
Mr. Yuan nodded, took out the talisman and lit it, briefly told the news about the black and white store, and reminded everyone to be careful.
... Somewhere in the maze, Li Ying, who was leaning against the wall and covered in blood, took out the talisman and played Mr. Yuan's message.
"The black store may be dangerous? Teacher Yuan, you warned me too late..." Li Ying almost cried. At this moment, he was broken below the waist, and blood and internal organs were flowing everywhere and scattered all over the corridor. Not far from him, you can still see half a bloody human head, which seems to have been bitten by some kind of wild beast. If you look carefully, you can see that it is Zheng Yu who walked with him!
At this time, a frightening roar came, and a thick tentacle stretched out from the depths of the alley, wrapped up the dying Li Ying, and dragged him into a dilapidated door. Above the door, a huge black piece hung. Plaque...
Endless store!
(End of chapter)