Chapter 46 San Value
The light in the maze is very dim.
The main color of dark cyan is very depressing, and there is a suffocating atmosphere of terror in the air. It was very quiet in the corridor. Occasionally, a gust of wind blew through, bringing with it bursts of shrill cries like the moans of wronged souls, which echoed in the ears for a long time.
It seems that the end of the dark corridor is the intersection that leads to hell, making people tremble with fear every step they take.
Details such as rusty swords and axes, broken clay pots, and fragmented bones all hint that there will be terrifying monsters here.
Ji Xun observed it and confirmed that the atmosphere of the maze was probably intentional.
This is a very clever psychological suggestion, which will invisibly affect the mentality of the intruder.
But he still doesn’t know what the purpose of this setting is.
As a senior enthusiast of puzzle solving, Ji Xun knows very well that there is a very important idea in solving puzzles, which is to identify the intention of the planner and eliminate interference.
It's like the dubbing of a horror movie. After it is turned off, the scary atmosphere immediately drops by 90%.
The more fearful the environment suggests, the calmer you should be.
Hmm.
Originally, he was not prone to fear.
When Ji Xun thought of this, he looked even more indifferent and walked in the maze passage neither quickly nor slowly.
He walked along, leaving some scratches on the wall along the way.
The underground maze is completely sealed. If you don't know the correct way to move, you can only use traditional marking methods to keep testing.
But Ji Xun knew that if he continued to test like this, he would bump into a monster sooner or later, so he didn't dare to walk too fast.
As he walked, he kept thinking about where the breaking point of this maze was.
Three hundred thousand workers were killed and turned into monsters, and the probability of encountering them is very high.
But perhaps it was the fierce battle elsewhere that attracted the attention of most of the monsters. He walked through several passages without encountering any danger.
I often see piles of bones in the corners.
I can’t see why.
Ji Xun vaguely felt as if he was about to grasp something key.
But I am definitely not the only one who can think of avoiding the group of people in the Governor's Mansion.
While I was thinking, I suddenly heard rapid footsteps behind me.
"Captain, there are more and more skeletons."
"Don't worry about these skeletons, let's go! If we are targeted by the secret keeper, we will be dead!"
"It's too scary. Well, the [Secret Keeper] actually killed the Frost Knight with one move! Damn it, what happened? Isn’t this a D-level space?”
“.”
As soon as the words came out, in a blink of an eye, three people were seen running over with panic on their faces as if they were being chased by some monster.
And in the empty corridor behind them, there was a dense sound of bone friction.
I couldn't avoid it and was hit hard.
Ji Xun took a closer look and saw that it was Captain Dong Jiu and two other colleagues who were collecting corpses.
But he didn't care who these three people were.
But I was attracted by another bizarre scene.
As soon as the three people arrived, the bones that were still a mess in the corridor suddenly seemed to be awakened by some mysterious force. They stood up and turned into skeleton monsters?
Ji Xun narrowed his eyes slightly and thought softly in his heart: "Are these withered bones really monsters?"
As if a chain effect was activated, all the skeletons in the corridor stood up and changed into Became a [Skeleton Craftsman].
As soon as these undead creatures appeared, the entire corridor became gloomy.
Seeing this scene, Ji Xun not only did not feel scared, but an idea flashed in his mind.
He seemed to have caught something, and thought in his mind: "In this case, I seem to understand a little bit."
The three people running away in embarrassment were slightly surprised when they bumped into Ji Xun in the passage.
Isn’t this the newcomer?
Sometimes, just by looking at each other, you can already tell that someone has evil intentions.
The three of them ran all the way, and the guy named Bucktooth had already touched the dagger on his waist with malicious intent.
Ji Xun was originally thinking about the awakening of the skeleton, when he caught sight of the small movement from the corner of his eye and murmured: "Isn't it good to be alive?"
He also knew very well why the three people did this.
These guys are not stupid either. There are skeleton monsters in all directions now, and seeing them entangled is almost a dead end. Apparently they felt that a bait that could attract the hatred of monsters would keep them alive.
It is best to use bloody bait.
Hunters often use this method of luring monsters in the wild.
Bucktooth drew the sword confidently, probably because he thought that with his second-level Katu strength, he could easily cut off Ji Xun's thigh in front of him?
However, at this moment, an unexpected scene appeared.
Ji Xunchan's distracted eyes suddenly turned sharp, and he quickly drew his gun.
Almost at the same time that the cold light of the buck-tooth dagger suddenly appeared, the muzzle of a dark gun was pressed against this guy's head like lightning.
With a gun pointed at his head, his buck-toothed expression instantly changed from contempt to infinite horror, and his pupils were infinitely dilated, filled with shock.
But this was the last scene in his life.
There was a "bang" sound.
Thunder-like gunfire exploded in the corridor.
Without any hesitation, Ji Xun pulled the trigger the moment he drew his gun.
Without taking a second glance at the guy with his head exploded in front of him, he quickly turned the muzzle of the gun, pointed it at Captain Dong Jiu a few meters ahead, and decisively pulled the trigger again.
He had no intention of killing, but if he did kill someone, he would not show any mercy.
These three people are in the same group.
Since you take action, you must kill quickly.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Fired twice.
In an instant, the bullet created two streams of air in the air.
Dong Jiu kept glancing here from the corner of his eye, and was shocked at first when he saw Bucktooth's head blown off by a gunshot. When he saw that the muzzle of the gun was pointed at him, and the hair on his hair exploded, he instinctively stopped and turned sideways, and his fighting skills at his feet allowed him to make extreme dodge movements.
He is a card master apprentice with the sixth level of spell power. He still follows the route of a "fighter". Both his nerve reaction speed and muscle explosion are several times that of ordinary people.
This extreme dodge also caused the two shots originally aimed at the chest to miss, and the other to hit the shoulder.
The bullet passed by.
Furthermore, the physical toughness of extraordinary beings is much stronger than that of ordinary people, so this shot did not cause much trauma.
“You!”
Dong Jiu looked at Ji Xun who was holding a gun and aiming coldly at him, with an expression of extreme shock.
Is this really the cowardly newcomer in his team who doesn’t even dare to say a word even though his salary has been deducted?
Without any time to think, Dongjiu resisted the severe pain in his shoulder and turned over and kicked the ground. His thigh muscles became knotted, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the ground with a "squeaking" sound. He rushed towards Ji Xun as fast as a cheetah. .
Extremely fast!
So what if I have a gun?
At such a close distance, firearms are not necessarily faster than fighting skills.
Ji Xun’s expression did not change at all from the beginning to the end when he saw that Dong Jiu was not killed by two shots.
I have to admit that Dong Jiu is really not bad at strength.
He bought a large number of supplementary medicines with the money he got from squeezing newcomers. His physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and his fighting skills are not bad either.
With the two shots just now, Ji Xun thought that he would have been unable to avoid them.
Great power does not mean you can use it.
This is the gap in fighting skills.
But even if the gun was empty, no expression fluctuations could be seen on his expression.
His eyes were always fixed on Dongjiu. After his arm stabilized the recoil of the previous shot, he decisively pulled the trigger again.
However, the third shot also failed.
This distance is no longer suitable for using a gun.
In the gap between shooting, Dongjiu lowered his body and rushed into Ji Xun's waist. He secretly rejoiced in his heart: "This guy is dead!"
Now that we are close, this is the ideal over-chest wrestling stance in close combat. As long as you use inertia to lock the opponent's waist, you can immediately turn over and throw him to the ground. The target's skull and vertebrae can be broken in an instant.
This move is a fatal move. However, Dongjiu's happiness only lasted for a moment.
The next second, his expression changed drastically!
Instead of picking up the person as expected, Dongjiu felt as if he had hit a strong bull, and was shocked: This guy didn't move at all?
How is that possible!
I have reached the sixth level of spell power, and I am definitely considered a master among the card master's apprentices. My strength and explosive power are not bad. I am still an intermediate fighting expert, but I didn't hug this newcomer?
Dong Jiu also immediately realized: This newcomer is also a melee card master apprentice! And the power is stronger than myself!
But he couldn't understand why such a strong guy, whether he was a hunter or had other incomes, was definitely better than being a corpse collector, so why did he become a corpse collector and pretend to be a weakling?
However, Ji Xun did not give the enemy time to figure it out.
Seeing himself being hugged from the waist, he took a step back to stabilize his body, put the muzzle of his gun against Dongjiu's waist, and fired twice decisively.
This distance is very fatal.
But guns are more deadly.
At least for these card master apprentices who do not have magical protection, bullets can still easily penetrate muscles and bones.
The gunfire rang out, and blood surged out instantly.
The bullet pierced the organs, and the color on Dongjiu's face quickly faded.
Ji Xun looked at Dong Jiu, who was slowly lying at his feet, still breathing, and shot him again in the head.
I am completely dead now.
The body fell in a pool of blood.
Ji Xun killed two people in a row without even glancing at the bodies on the ground. He turned the gun again and aimed at the last living person in front.
Scary Liu was completely stunned, with only fear and disbelief in his eyes: Captain Dongjiu is dead?
He never expected that the usually obedient newcomer would be so ruthless and ruthless, killing two people without even shaking his hands?
Scabby Liu looked at the muzzle of the gun aimed at him, trembling with fear: "Brother, no, don't kill me!"
Ji Xun tilted his head and looked at it. He didn't pull the trigger, just stared coldly.
Pulling the trigger would only waste an extra bullet, but he didn't do that.
Leave one alive,
just enough to verify your judgment just now.
The killing was only a few breaths away, and at this time, the skeleton monster in the maze was gradually approaching.
These skeleton monsters are not very fast and their attack power is not strong. Only the combined attack of three or five small skeletons poses a fatal threat to ordinary people.
But the combat power is not enough, there are many.
In the blink of an eye, the corridor where the two of them were was filled with hundreds of skeletons running around.
There are more and more to come.
And some of these monsters still hold worn-out axes, swords, and shields.
These weapons may be tattered, but equally deadly.
Seeing more and more bone-white skeleton monsters coming towards him, Scarlet Liu was so frightened that he lost his mind.
He wanted to escape.
But he was pointed at by a dark gun, and he didn’t dare to run away.
What the maniac Liu couldn't understand was that the newcomer who pointed the gun at him didn't even run away?
Don’t you just want to use me as bait? Why don’t you run away?
Ji Xun didn't say a word, he just raised his gun and quietly retreated to another fork in the road.
His experience at the [407 Abnormal Biological Research Institute] gave him a lot of experience and inspiration.
He now knows that obeying the rules of space is the only reasonable way to clear the level.
Although the information that Qidi got just now is not much, it is already obvious.
The key word is: solving puzzles.
300,000 workers were trapped and killed in this maze, which means there were 300,000 skeleton monsters.
For a spell card master, these low-level skeleton monsters are indeed one punch at a time.
But there are 300,000 skeletons in this cemetery maze. Can you punch 300,000?
Besides, it sounds like there is a [Keeper of Secrets] who can kill the Frost Knight instantly.
Ji Xun doesn’t think killing monsters is the correct way to clear the level.
So, at this moment, he needs to figure out something first.
For example, the hatred mechanism of monsters.
Ji Xun's eyes were always carefully observing the various body details of the skeleton monster.
Standing at the fork in the road is so that if you make a wrong judgment, you can retreat calmly.
Be prepared with both hands, you can advance or retreat.
Ji Xun naturally has nothing to panic about.
But the maniac Liu who was being robbed was already frightened to death, and his face was as pale as a sheet of paper from fear.
He also couldn't understand. The monster was already here. Why didn't the guy on the other side run away?
At this moment, the skeleton monster was approaching within ten meters, and the sound of crunching bones making people's hair stand on end.
Scaly Liu finally couldn't bear the fear of approaching death.
Death in any case!
It's better to run away than to die!
The guy screamed "Ah" strangely, and regardless of the gun pointed at him, he turned around and ran madly towards another passage.
Soon, a large number of skeleton monsters were chasing after him.
Seeing the skeleton monsters coming like a tide, Ji Xun still made no move.
Didn’t shoot, didn’t run away, kept his breathing as low as possible, and hid in a dark corner.
Because a bizarre scene is taking place.
Those skeleton monsters seemed to be unable to see the living people so close in the passage, and they all went after the escaped maniac Liu.
Seeing countless skeletons running in front of him, Ji Xun's eyes were filled with excitement: "So that's it."
At this moment, he finally came to an accurate conclusion: the skeleton monster relies on to capture its target. Sanity value fluctuates. In other words, it is the San value in the concept of past lives!
When Ji Xun listened to the Dongjiu trio in the car talking about the skeleton monsters in the maze, he had a doubt in his mind: Those skeletons only had skeletons, so how did they sense and lock onto the target?
Generally, living things rely on various sensory organs to complete target perception, such as smell, temperature, vision, and sound.
But skeletons have no organs.
Not even a brain.
This is a magical world, but that does not mean there is no basic logic.
Since skeletons can sense living people, it must be caused by some objective factors.
I couldn't help it when I was alone just now, but I didn't expect to meet Dongjiu and the others.
Luckily, I have the conditions for verification.
There are two corpses on the ground, the flesh and blood are still very fresh.
There is temperature and smell.
But the skeleton monster was not interested at all.
This directly proves that flesh, smell, and temperature are not factors that attract the hatred of skeletons.
The range immediately became smaller.
The reason why Ji Xun left him alive just now was to rule out the last few possibilities.
In fact, when the three people first broke in, Ji Xun carefully observed the physical reactions of the skeletons and discovered abnormalities.
The moment the skeleton monster appeared from the corner of the corridor, almost all the skulls found the target, and the skulls all moved towards "looking".
This does not mean that their empty eye sockets really saw something. It is most likely an instinct left behind during their lifetime.
But you can judge the monster's hatred target from this.
Obviously, their attention was all on Dongjiu and the others, and they did not see Ji Xun at all.
Only a few tall [elite skeletons] noticed it and turned their heads to look over. But as soon as he put on the clown mask and suppressed his emotional fluctuations, the monster instantly lost its target.
Ji Xun thus ruled out the two ways of perception of the skeleton: soul and breath.
Not much is left.
Both are two living people. The biggest difference is that one is full of fear, while Ji Xun has controlled his fear.
The facts are before our eyes, and the skeletons are chasing the frightened maniac Liu.
So we come to the final conclusion: the reduction of San value caused by fear is the most important inducement to attract skeleton monsters!
Thinking again about walking alone in the corridor before, those withered bones did not wake up. At that time, Ji Xun didn't understand why.
Thinking about it now, it was just that from the first moment he entered the maze, his San value fluctuated very little, and it did not reach the critical value that aroused the hatred of monsters.
The ever-present hint of terror in the maze environment is also intended to affect the San value of intruders.
This had little impact on Ji Xun, who had discovered the abnormality long ago.
Thought this through.
The danger in the maze was immediately reduced by half.
This is the difficulty level that the original [Cemetery Maze] should have when it was classified as a D-level space.
Ji Xun already saw hope of breaking the situation.
Of course, this does not include the [Secret Keeper] whom no one has ever seen.
(End of this chapter)