The Age of Machines

Chapter 353 Maze Props
Several people set off according to the map for about 2 minutes, and Beixi found hidden organs along the route.

Everyone stopped, retreated one after another, gathered at the base of the wall five meters away, and began to observe.

In terms of labyrinth mechanisms, there are some that are easy to find, and some that are hard to detect and well hidden.If you want to find the mechanism in the maze and successfully avoid and resolve it, the player's own observation and reaction skills are also very good.

Beixi itself is excellent in all aspects, everyone is eager to hurry, and it is true that they have not even discovered such a common hidden mechanism.If it weren't for Beixi's habit of not missing any corners and details, everyone would have missed this mechanism!

"The walls here are a little more convex than elsewhere."

"President, you are so observant!"

They rushed over from there, looking at the walls around the root of the wall, there was nothing unusual.Because the convex part is slanted, it looks no different from a normal wall from their direction, but once you walk past this wall and look back from five meters in front, it looks strangely convex.

This type of mechanism is very common in the maze, and it has never been a trap type mechanism.In the maze, traps may be accompanied by dangers such as traps, but traps sometimes have benefits such as answering questions and dropping props.

Answering questions can often bring players rich experience, or there will be NPCs that can be teleported.

The dropped props are generally beneficial to the player, so that the player's safety factor in the maze is relatively increased.

"This should not be a trap." Ning Que thought for a while before saying this.

Within a few minutes of leaving the fork, the route widened, and the distance between the walls on both sides was as much as six meters. Occasionally, flowers, trees, rocks, water and other ornamental things appeared on both sides.

Most of the traps can only appear near the narrow roads. If there are any traps in such a wide place, it is probably rolling stones, fighting monsters and the like.

"Back off." Beixi told everyone to disperse, kicked directly at the mechanism, and then jumped three meters away. Everyone stared at that place, holding their breath.

With a few "clicks", cracks slowly appeared near the slanted protrusion, outlining a trapezoidal shape, and then in that shape, the wall soil was scattered little by little, revealing a small gap.

The oval metal thing fell out, and everyone exhaled. It seemed that it was indeed safe, but it was only a prop.

Beixi picked up the props and looked at the names and descriptions of the props.

[Metal Detector]: Maze props that can detect danger and treasure.Please use it with caution, the time limit is 3 minutes, and the props will disappear after the time is up.

Note that this item cannot be taken out of the maze.

"Wow~ Not bad, it's a detector."

Ding, do you want to activate [Metal Detector]?
There was a prompt from the system, of course Beixi chose [Yes] without hesitation.

After she replied, the silver-white metal surface of the detector separated to the two sides, revealing a fan-shaped coordinate map. There was also a cylindrical opening at the top, and a thin metal rod drilled out and began to rotate 360 ​​degrees.

"Let's go." After everyone took a few steps, the detector began to beep. Beixi glanced at the coordinate map, and there were red dots flashing on it.

The appearance of this color is equivalent to a red alert.It means that half a meter in front of them is a trap-like mechanism that does great damage to the player.

"Be careful." Beixi reminded.

Everyone started to walk cautiously. After walking about two meters, Wei Shengmo stopped them. After scanning the surroundings, they found the mechanism hidden in the wall.

The stone was quickly thrown from the hand, and the sharp blade drilled out from the ground, directly cutting the stone and breaking it into two halves.Ukiyo-e also picked up a big stone and threw it forward vigorously. The stone hit the ground with a small sound.

The moment it landed, several flashes of light and shadow flashed quickly, and those with good eyesight found that the sharp knives flew out from under the stone, drawing a sharp and cold edge in the air, and then scattered on the ground, as if There is no threat to them.

At the same time, the big rock placed on the ground has been shattered into powder!The wind blows, and the powder goes with the wind, leaving only tiny holes in the ground.

This type of maze trap sometimes takes two-thirds of the player's blood, which is considered small, and there are countless players killed by one blow.

If the red dot of the detector is still there, it means that there are still organs.If the player does not have a detector, there are really dangers everywhere in the maze.

"Inside the wall." Ning Que and Peacock also took out their puppets.

Throwing it forward suddenly, the two puppets of different colors made a "pop" at the moment they were about to hit the ground, and suddenly became bigger.

"Stand-in doll?"

The puppet twisted its soft body and took two steps. The wall suddenly spread out to both sides. Qi Qi's sharp arrows were inserted deep into the thick wall, waiting for the prey to pass by and step on the hidden red line. Touch the mechanism, and then shoot all the sharp arrows, and take down the prey with one move!
Like the player, the puppet also has blood volume.The sharp arrows were deeply buried in the bodies of the two dolls, and the white cotton was also brought out, and they were completely changed.

If this scene happened to the player, it would be horrible.The puppet disappeared, and the red dot on the detector also disappeared, and everyone was relieved.

With detectors, walking in a maze is really cool.

There was no time to delay, just after passing the organ, the detector sounded again.This time is different from just now, because the blue dots are flashing on the map, and the blue dots are very large, which proves that the treasures or props are very useful to them!

Probing around and probing, the sound was the loudest when facing the ground. Everyone understood this situation and didn't dare to waste too much time. The soldier king thrust his sword into the ground, and then he noticed it about half a meter below the ground. hinder.

Clenching the hilt of the sword with both hands, he exerted a sudden force.Picking up all the thick soil, Beixi immediately made up the attack and shook the soil away.

Everyone surrounded the pit, and the dilapidated treasure chest appeared in sight. Lollipop took out the thing, and when it was locked, he handed it to Wei Shengmo.

Thieves have the ability to pick locks, so this kind of locked treasure chest is naturally better handled by Wei Shengmo.His lockpicking skills are already at the master level, and he can open many treasure chests in the maze.

It only takes 5 or 6 seconds to unlock.

Opening the treasure box, I saw colorful pocket-sized building blocks scattered inside the treasure box.

Counting the number, there are 15 building blocks of about the same size, and most of them are in the shape of animals.

"This is?" The peacock had just picked up a piece of lollipop, and the peacock had already made a sound. "Nice job~ This is a flying prop!" If they hadn't discovered the detector, they probably wouldn't have known that there was something buried in the ground.

95% of the props and treasures buried in the maze will not be easily found by players, unless they have specific signs or are placed very clearly... Otherwise, players generally will not consider props buried in the ground.

"Sure enough, the props buried in the ground are the best!" Ukiyo-e sighed with emotion.This kind of props that can speed up in the maze, which is equivalent to a mount, is very rare.

Players cannot use mounts or summon beasts in the maze.Sometimes it's not that players can't clear the maze, but the maze is too big, relying on them to run, the speed is not very fast, and the time is simply not enough.

This kind of mount-like building block has a speed of +80%.

In other words, as long as there is this thing, passing the maze is absolutely a piece of cake.It only takes 500 seconds to move 30 meters in one move, and can avoid many ground traps, allowing players to easily pass through the maze.

Usually this kind of prop is very rare, but this time it is good.Because of the detector, as many as [-] were found as soon as they were discovered. It is no wonder that Ukiyo-e said "exquisite".

For this section of the road, they only have 4 minutes left to complete the maze. If they can't pass within 4 minutes, the only thing waiting for them is death!

"Everyone takes a building block, and we follow the speed of the map."

Everyone also knew that time was running out, and now they had three maps available in their hands. When they encountered a fork in a while, the maps were all different routes.If they choose one and the end point is a dead end, then they have no extra time to start over.

The appearance of building block mounts gave them a choice.

[Building Block Flying Fish]: Maze props, can only be used in the maze.The volume of the prop becomes larger after touching the ground, and the player can fly in mid-air after riding it, and the movement speed is increased by 80%.

A building block mount is limited to one person, and the use time is 15 minutes.After the time is up, the blocks disappear and the player's speed resumes.

The lollipop threw the fish baby, and the small red thing just landed on the ground, it suddenly became countless times bigger, stepping on the ladder beside the fish, the lollipop sat on the body of the building block fish.

Others also sat on the building blocks and floated in the air.Ukiyo-e shows tigers, peacocks show birds, soldier kings show black bears, micro-inks show wooden horses, and Beixi shows alpacas.

Seven people riding different colors and different types of mounts lined up back and forth, this scene looks extremely funny.

Leaving aside that the building blocks themselves are quite childlike, the men are all tall and big, imposing and imposing, and they are majestic when they are expressionless, but now they are all riding cute mounts, which look funny instead.

Especially Bingwang and Ukiyo-e, the two sitting on it, the tiger and the big black bear looked very cute, but the two of them pulled their faces together, and their temperament seemed incompatible with the building block mount below.

With a mount, the speed of movement is simply not comparable to before. +80% movement speed, which is definitely the best among the current mounts!
Everyone followed the route and soon reached the second fork.According to the maps constructed by the three of them, the second fork was indeed drawn, and the distance between them ranged from 400 meters to 800 meters.

It only took a few tens of seconds to go all the way. If they had followed the previous speed, they would have failed and died as soon as they reached the second fork.

With the guarantee of the mounts, everyone chose a fork at random to continue walking. The similarity between the routes along the way and the three maps reached 90%, of which 10% were mostly corners and extra routes.

But as long as they find the route, it will be the same as the route on the map after walking a certain distance.

The group had just flown a few hundred meters, and they had harvested a lot of props along the way, and there were also many traps to avoid.

The reason why a living maze is difficult to overcome is nothing more than the fact that this kind of maze itself gives very little time, and the maze map has a large range.Players often just find out a route, and the remaining time is basically not enough.

But later, the more players played, the more types of props they found in the [Living Labyrinth].

It's like having props that can increase the maze time.This kind of props is the most widely distributed and the most in [Living Labyrinth].

Along the way, 20 of the 15 props found by the detector were added to the time.

However, although there are many such props, there are very few top-quality ones.Generally add time, at least 10 seconds, at most...Beixi doesn't know.In the previous life, the player found the [Time Ring] that added the most time and added 10 minutes.

15 [Time Rings], they now have an extra 20 minutes.Discovering that there are props that can increase the time, the group seems to see the hope of being able to conquer this maze again.

However, the time for the detector is coming soon. If it weren't for the detector, they probably wouldn't have been able to find such weird props along the way.

In a maze, it is difficult to find a second detector.

As the props in Beixi's hands slowly disappeared, everyone couldn't help but sigh.Without the detector, it means that in the next time, their chances of finding the props will be reduced to 30%, while the degree of danger will increase to 85%.

They need to tread more carefully.

When everyone followed the first map for another 3 minutes, they finally saw the end point drawn on the map, but what they faced was a dead end.The player's composition is based on the conventional maze diagram, on which there are countless possibilities.

Now the first image is invalid.Then they also ruled out some basic routes and advanced routes, and then they need to return to the fork on the original road, and then choose another fork.

Along the way, they traveled about 900 meters from the initial location to this dead end.At the beginning, because of the microbiological ink punch, the maze was randomly changed, and their positions were also changed, not at the starting point, but at a certain coordinate point in the maze.

Or the farthest corner, or the central location.900 meters, which is twice the size of the usual maze, and it is impossible to finish running at the speed of a player in 20 minutes.

Therefore, there will also be props that increase time in the maze. Whether they can be found depends on the player's strength, and how much time can be added to the annual ring, depends on the player's luck.

A group of people were going to return to the fork according to the original plan, sitting on the building blocks and talking about moving quickly, Ning Que was still deeply researching what went wrong with the map that had just been scrapped.

After only driving about 200 meters, Beixi called to stop. "What's wrong?"

"We walked this route before?" She had never seen the flowers and plants at the base of the wall along the road.

Hearing this, Ning Que immediately began to check the route on the map in his hand, while the few people beside him waited silently.

Tens of seconds later, Ning Que raised his head, his serious expression seemed to verify the president's words.

"The route is really completely different."

(End of this chapter)