Chapter 533 The truth about the maze
After sending Mr. Yuan away, Luo Jun looked at the door that had been closed again, but did not try to open it again.
Mr. Yuan successfully left, and Luo Jun's hanging heart was relieved. Next, he was the only one left in this huge maze, and he could finally let go!
After stumbling around in this maze for more than a month, there were a lot of messy things. If he left in such a daze, Luo Jun would probably die from exhaustion, which would be a good comment.
Although he has no shortage of Noble Phantasms and doesn't pay much attention to mission evaluation, this mission is different. The difficulty and complexity of the endless maze far exceed that of normal missions. The secret behind this makes Luo Jun very excited. interested.
Furthermore, after being tortured for so long and still being on tenterhooks, Luo Jun also had resentment in his heart, and he would not be happy if he did not get an explanation!
As for the so-called replacement of chaotic matter, Luo Jun is not afraid anymore. Not to mention that the natural replacement speed in the environment is extremely slow. Even if he is invaded by powerful chaotic creatures, he can withstand it and ignores mere environmental changes.
And the exit that can escape... Even after these twenty-four hours, Luo Jun still has three directional teleporters and a locking charm in his bag. As long as he gets another exit indicator, he can leave at any time with his own mobility. .
It's time to clean up this damn maze!
The first step is to start with the black store.
Luo Jun took out the black map and activated it, then started running at full speed in the maze. Soon, the location of a black store appeared on the map!
Luo Jun came all the way to the store door and knocked on the door. A beautiful head was quickly revealed inside.
It was the ring-finger businessman. The woman glanced at Luo Jun and said, "You are still alive. You are so tenacious." Obviously, she had seen many past players, and few of them could survive to this point.
As soon as she finished speaking, the woman suddenly frowned and sniffed: "Why does it smell bad?"
As she spoke, her expression began to distort uncontrollably, the iron door began to tremble, and rustling sounds came from inside the door, as if she was about to turn into a terrifying monster at any time.
At this moment, Luo Jun suddenly grabbed the iron door and pulled it open. At the same time, the Gang Qi in his body surged, and he used his mental power to release terrifying pressure!
Sure enough, the body of the ring-fingered businessman's big hand had begun to mutate, and uneven textures appeared on the dry skin, which seemed to be about to expand and proliferate.
But when Luo Jun's pressure came down, all these signs of mutation suddenly disappeared, his distorted face returned to its original smooth and beautiful appearance, and his eyes became much clearer.
"Don't worry, I'm human." Luo Jun patted his belly: "The stench you smell can't come out here."
"What?" The ring-finger businessman showed a rare look of surprise on his face and looked at Luo Jun carefully.
"Do you believe it?" Luo Jun spread his hands: "I want to buy something, can I go in and say it?"
"If I said no, you wouldn't come in?" The businessman Wu Mingzhi snorted coldly, turned around and entered the store.
"That's right." Luo Jun chuckled and followed in.
"What do you want to buy?" The merchant with his ring finger pointed at the pile of junk behind him: "You should have seen my products countless times, so I don't need any more introduction."
"I don't want these things." Luo Jun waved his hand: "I want to buy some information."
The beautiful lady of the ring-finger businessman frowned: "Have I given you enough information before?"
"That's not enough." Luo Jun shook his head: "I want to know more secrets about this maze."
"I would like to advise you, if you want to pass the customs, it may be better to know less." The ring-finger merchant said.
"My companion has left the maze, and I can clear it at any time." Luo Jun said with a smile: "Even if I can't clear the level, I think there is nothing wrong with living here."
"What did you say?" The ring-finger businessman was completely shocked this time: "Someone left this maze?"
Luo Jun nodded. The ring-finger merchant looked at him for a long time, and finally sighed: "You seem...not lying."
"The mood is very complicated." Luo Jun shook his head and said: "After all, this is a goal that you have never been able to accomplish."
The ring-finger businessman looked at Luo Jun: "Do you know everything?"
"I guess I guessed it, so I came to confirm it with you." Luo Jun said with a smile: "The black shop, including you finger merchants, and those virtual monsters, were all challengers who came to participate in this mission, right?"
"Your purpose all along seems to be to prevent challengers from leaving. In fact, you want to prevent chaotic creatures from taking the opportunity to escape to the main world, right?"
The ring-finger businessman sighed: "It's not entirely accurate, but it's almost the same."
Now that she had made it clear, she no longer had any intention of being a Riddler, and directly told the truth what she knew: "We are all former challengers, but our current purpose is not simply to prevent you from leaving, but also to prevent you from changing. A new chaos monster."
"I have never seen the original appearance of this maze, but according to speculation, it was once just an ordinary Class A mission. It was not as huge or complex as it is now."
"Later, it was speculated that due to the invasion of chaotic creatures, the rules here began to be distorted. Many challengers, under the temptation of those monsters, were replaced and assimilated into new chaotic creatures, and the chaotic creatures also hoped to use their help. The challenger's skin left the maze and invaded the human world."
"But the correction mechanism of the maze mission itself does not support the departure of these monsters, so the rules are constantly increasing and changing, and the size of the maze is getting larger and more complex, and even restrictions are opened. Only if there are still challengers to survive When the time comes, the exit will open and move irregularly, but even so, it can't stop these chaotic creatures from using various methods to keep approaching the exit."
"Later, Maze probably realized that it could not restrain these creatures through its own power, or maybe the challenger who noticed the problem wanted to protect the main world from being invaded. In short, at a certain moment, a powerful challenger used In a special way, he signed a contract with the labyrinth and became part of the mission rules. In this way, the first black store was born.”
Luo Jun frowned: "So, the props you sell seem to be helpful to challengers, but in fact, they just use gold ingots to lure challengers to hunt chaotic creatures. Many of the effects inside are deceptive? "No..." The ring-finger merchant shook his head: "The effects of the props are all real, and at best some of the descriptions are incomplete."
"Like a void pass?" Luo Jun thought of Chen Ni's reminder in his diary.
"The effect of the Void Pass is no problem." The ring-finger merchant shook his head and said: "It means I'm not lying. Within one hour, you can indeed get the effect of the Void Pass, and you can travel through the walls at will. But what is not mentioned in the effect is that this virtual effect The status can be switched on and off at any time.”
"As long as you turn off the void effect within an hour and don't activate it before the time limit, then this is a useful prop for walking through walls. But if you don't find the exit within an hour and feel unwilling to do so, If time does not turn off the state of nothingness, it will never turn off. Even slowly, it will become unable to control its own actions, and eventually it will become a slave of the black shop, and it will never be able to leave this maze.”
"It's cruel to treat compatriots from the main world." Luo Jun shook his head.
"We don't want to, but this is a maze after all, and it is still restricted by the task rules. Many props and many functions cannot be set casually according to the effect we want." The ring-finger businessman shook his head: "What's more, , the Chaos Monster has been working against us and interfering with our power.”
As she spoke, she grabbed a piece of food. Those weird meats, crawling worms, and smelly mucus made people feel physically uncomfortable just by looking at them.
"Our food has ingredients that inhibit human beings from being replaced, especially this kind of meat. If we can, of course we hope to make these foods delicious. But unfortunately, under the interference of rules and enemies, we can only do it in this way way to present.”
Luo Jun picked up a piece of weird meat: "So, this thing, combined with the monster-attracting incense, can attract chaotic monsters. Is this a function you designed?"
"No, this is a coincidence." The businessman Wumingzhi shook his head and said: "Our food raw materials actually come from the main world, but they are distorted by the rules of chaos. And the taste of the main world is originally very attractive to chaos monsters. The attraction is just to attract the strange fragrance and further amplify this attraction.”
"As for the cruelty you mentioned, I don't think it's accurate." The ring-finger merchant put down the food: "At least the void pass can not only be used to capture slaves, but can also be used to save people."
As she spoke, she made a deafening snap with two huge fingers.
Then, an illusory figure walked through the wall of the store and came to Luo Jun. The figure was somewhat familiar. Luo Jun took a closer look and shouted in surprise: "Senior Brother Li Ying?"
Xuying nodded, Luo Jun couldn't believe it and said: "No, haven't you been replaced by a chaotic creature? I killed it myself."
Li Ying glanced at the ring-finger businessman next to him, then at Luo Jun, and said with difficulty: "They only replaced half of me..."
"He and another challenger were attacked by two chaotic creatures." The ring finger merchant explained: "He was cut off in the middle and was barely alive, while the other person had almost been replaced. At that time, the black store happened to be refreshed near them. , he saw Then we used our last strength to crawl over. We smelled the smell and launched an attack, killing the replaced companion and pulling him into the store, while the other chaotic creature escaped with his severed lower body. ”
"If you encounter a chaotic creature that looks exactly like him, it should be a new monster that has been replaced and grown from his lower body."
"And we can only use the power of the void pass to void his upper body, and then treat him, and finally turn him into a void slave."
"So that's how it is..." Luo Jun sighed, feeling deep sympathy for his senior brother's experience.
"These void slaves are also our important combat power." The ring finger merchant said: "There are only five black shops in total, run by five fingers. Although they can move in the maze, the number is too small. It is difficult for us to fight against the chaos monsters alone. . So we will organize marches of virtual creatures from time to time. On the one hand, we can kill chaos monsters, and on the other hand, we can also kill ordinary maze monsters to earn some extra money in exchange for more permissions in the maze."
"So the destination of those void armies is pointed at the black store, and they will kill the monsters they encounter along the way, especially the chaos monsters!" Luo Jun nodded and concluded:
"Your black shop is an alienated human being. Your purpose is to prevent the main world from being invaded."
"The maze, the white shop, ordinary monsters, various mechanisms, treasure chests, relics, the first floor of the rest area, etc. are all the rules of the maze mission itself. The stance is that of a chaotic mission, setting up difficult problems, but also leaving space for challengers to clear the level. possible.”
"And those monsters that can replace humans, as well as the second floor of the rest area, and the chaotic matter that permeates the maze, are all the forces of chaos monsters. Their purpose is to replace humans, leave this maze, and invade the main world?"< br>
"That's understandable." The ring-finger merchant nodded: "Now, you know the secret of this maze. Are you satisfied?"
"It's not enough..." Luo Jun shook his head: "I still want to know how to end all this!"
"End?" The ring-fingered businessman asked in surprise: "What do you mean? You can now complete the mission. You are the first challengers to clear the endless maze in so many years. Isn't this satisfying?" < br>
"The end I said is not that simple." Luo Jun said with a smile: "What I want to do is kill those chaos monsters and return this maze to normal!"
"What are you talking about in your sleep?" The ring-finger businessman couldn't calm down at all: "So many people, including the maze itself, after so many years, have been unable to prevent the invasion of chaos monsters and can only maintain the status quo. What makes you think that you can Change all this? ”
Luo Jun smiled and patted his belly: "I am immune to the substitutions of those monsters."
As he spoke, Luo Jun's throat squirmed, and then he spit out two gold ingots from his mouth.
"It seems that he has finished digesting it." Luo Jun placed the gold ingot in front of the ring-finger merchant: "It's a little dirty, don't mind."
Looking at Jin Yuanbao blankly, the ring-finger merchant finally sighed, shook his head and said: "Okay, if you insist, come with me, and I will take you to meet someone."
As she spoke, she walked deeper into the store.
"Who are we going to see?" he asked, but Luo Jun did not stop and followed closely behind the businessman.
The ring-finger businessman came to the back room and tapped the wall with his index finger. The wall slowly opened, revealing a portal. She turned around, glanced at Luo Jun, and said slowly:
"Let's go meet the thumb."
(End of chapter)