The Age of Machines

Chapter 354 Heading to the Center
Hearing Ning Que's dignified tone, everyone's hearts began to sink slowly.They heard it clearly and understood the importance of Ning Que's words in their hearts.

"The route is completely different," he said, not "the route is different."

Complete and partial, these are two concepts.

"Ning Que, are you sure the route is really [completely] different?" Ukiyo-e bit the word completely, as if reminding Ning Que to pay attention to the words.

Ning Que handed the blueprint to Beixi. When they just returned the same way, he looked at the map and didn't notice that the route had changed, and he didn't know how Beixi divided the route.

Beixi glanced at it, thinking that the route had changed when he returned from the finish line just now.No wonder she feels there are too many corners...

Beixi asked everyone to come over, pointing at the map, starting to gesture from the end point, and said, "Have you noticed that we pass too many corners?"

In this way, Lollipop also thought of the time when the building blocks flew, and she felt that turning left and right, her head was dizzy, was not as light as when she came.

"It's also because the mount is too powerful..." Beixi sighed when he thought of this, the flying speed was so fast that everyone just leaned over and hugged the building blocks tightly to avoid falling.

Then again, everyone was rushing on their way and couldn't distract themselves from looking at other things, so it's normal that they didn't notice.

Beixi is a mount used to this speed, and even feels that it is abnormally slow...

In the previous life, players generally after level 120, the +110% movement speed of mounts are rubbish.In comparison, the speed of this building block is really slow for her.

Everyone looked at the map and recalled, and found that compared with the original route, they really took many detours when they came back.

"Do you have any impression of the surrounding flowers and trees?"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look around, and glanced at the rows of small flowers and grasses at the base of the wall, not to mention their impressions, they had never seen them before.

Didn't see it, doesn't it mean that they never flew the route with this kind of flowers and plants?
"But I clearly remember, it's in this order..." Lollipop raised his hand and gestured, his fingers circling a few times in mid-air.

When did the route become completely different?

"Ukiyo, didn't you lead the way? Why didn't you find out earlier?" Peacock gave Ukiyo-e a white look.Ukiyo-e was the first to rush out when calling back the same way.They thought that this man remembered the route back and followed them blindly... Unexpectedly, the route had changed a long time ago~ He was still rushing the most furiously, without noticing it at all.

Ukiyo-e stared blankly at the peacock, as if bewildered. "You think I'm leading the way?"

Crowd:  …

"Aren't you leading the way?" Peacock stared and asked in disbelief.

Ukiyo-e spread his hands, "I never said I would lead the way."

"Your sister, why are you rushing so fast without leading the way?"

"I just want to try how fast this mount is~ see if you can catch up to me quickly after being slow for a few seconds. Judging from the results, the performance is really good."

Crowd:  …

They foolishly thought that Ukiyo-e was leading the way.

Fortunately, the route was changed by myself, otherwise, wouldn't a group of them follow Ukiyo-e and fly the wrong way?If you call him stupid, aren't they even more stupid?
Beixi was also speechless, she just overestimated this guy.

"Then we can't find the original road?" Lollipop suddenly realized the seriousness of the route change.

The route they are taking now is completely different from the one on the map, and they only have two options to choose from.One, go back and go back to the dead end just now.

This method is not very reliable. Why, they have made too many detours, thinking that no one will remember that they don’t need to go back, and maybe even the route back has changed?
Second, choose a road at random now, and rely on everyone to memorize the route to pass the maze.

But Lollipop thinks the second one is even more outrageous. The normal maze is based on two intersections, and then expands countless routes. There is only one route to pass the level.

Such a large-scale maze with a long distance may be based on the word "Tian", and the length or width is continuously superimposed to outline a more difficult route in the four mouths.

Or, it is a large picture made up of "工", "コ", "山" and other similar fonts.This kind of maze is roughly in the shape of a cube, and the difficulty is not low. It takes a lot of time for players to solve it.

There are also some mazes, which are three-dimensional, circular, and snail-shaped... These maze diagrams that break through the routine are often difficult.

In any case, the map has become meaningless. At this time, they undoubtedly fell into the vast ocean, surrounded by water, and no matter how different the routes were, they seemed exactly the same to them.

Can't find directions.

Everything seems to start all over again?

Is it necessary to ask the three presidents to take some time to recompose the picture now?This method is actually no longer necessary.

"This route is driven by the maze~" Peacock bit his nails, he always liked to gnaw his thumb when thinking about things.

"If you want to talk about movement, it must be the movement of an area as a whole. It's like a route, within five meters to 15 meters."

"Or... a corner gap. These are not necessarily!"

Ning Que and Lollipop said at the same time.

No matter how they construct the map, as long as the route moves, the map is like a blank sheet of paper.

Beixi lowered her head and looked at the map carefully. In her impression, the movement of the maze often only exists in the central area of ​​the entire maze.If they encountered [moving plates], then they should be in the central area!
As long as you can reach the central location, you can pick up the mission.The living maze is very large, and only a few of the hundreds of millions of players in the previous life have reached the central area.

Beixi was one of them, but because they couldn't pass the fireball trap... they didn't succeed.At that time, she was not as lucky as she is now, and she was able to find the mobile mount in the maze.

If she had had a flying mount back then, she would have been able to get past the famous fireball trap and get close to the central teleportation NPC!

At that time, she was only one step away from success, but because of the obstruction of the props, she could only stop outside the circle.

No one can understand the regret in my heart.

"How far is it from where we start to where the alley ends?"

"Three thousand and nine hundred meters." Bing Wang replied.

Bei Xi took out his pen and began to count "swish".In her previous life, she ran from the starting point to the central position, a total of 570 meters, and it took a total of 3 hours and 47 minutes.

The basic strategy time is 20 minutes, and she found 267 [time rings], and then added a few hours.

At that time, it was not easy for her to walk to the central position alone.And all the way only rely on one-time acceleration props, such as rockets, pulleys, skateboards and so on.These one-time props have a fixed acceleration distance and will disappear once they are used up.

Unlike this kind of building block mount, it is limited in time.

Time-limited props are more sustainable than one-time props, and the benefits brought to players are not comparable at one time.

Everyone watched Beixi bury her head in writing something. After 2 minutes, she raised her head, looked at everyone and smiled, "I finally know the location."

Everyone looked at her curiously.What position?
After sorting out his thoughts, Beixi said: "I learned about it from the book. [Living Labyrinth] is divided into six areas."

"Six?" The group were surprised.

Wei Shengmo recalled it for a while, then nodded and said, "That's right."

Everyone rolled their eyes, what books are these two people reading all day.No, where does the gap between people come from?They usually feel that they don't have enough time for leveling dungeon activities, but they still have time to watch!Book!

"The first area 800 meters away from the starting point, [Ice World]. Then there are the second, third, and fourth areas that are divided into triangles outside the central position: [Iron Hammer Sawtooth], [Poisonous Mist and Bug Lair], [Fire Tongue] ]. These three areas are distributed in a triangle, protecting the center of the maze, followed by the largest [Cannibal Hunter Area] in a circle surrounding the triangle and the central area."

"I speculate that we are now in the central area. Judging from the distance we have traveled, we have not reached a certain area after running for so long, and we can only run so safely for so long. This distance can only be in the central area. near the area."

[Living Labyrinth], the only safe place to run such a long route is only 1 km west of the starting point.Just now, they passed by the [Iron Hammer Sawtooth] area.

Beixi can now confirm that they are already 2000-5000 meters away from the central location.

Judging from the running distance, the location to the west is 3000 meters. Now as long as you go northeast, you will be able to reach the center within 5000 meters.

"We need to go east."

"Why?" Everyone was puzzled, how did Beixi come to the conclusion?
Seeing their confused expressions, Beixi handed them the scribbled map. "Do you understand?"

Ning Que took it, and the rest of the people pulled their mounts closer. There were a lot of drawings on the map in different colors. The three colors were like graffiti, which made them dazzled.

"Is this route changed like this?" Ukiyo-e was surprised.

Bei Xi was surprised, Ukiyo-e observation skills are really good.

The lollipop squeezed between his brows, concentrating, those messy lines gradually became clear and defined.

"Take out half of the dead end and patch it up and down corners. The long and short lines form a path with a diameter of five meters to fifteen meters. These changed routes are nothing more than moving the plates within a radius of ten meters around. As long as they are moved back according to the law, the original The route will be clear." Ning Que frowned handsomely, he didn't expect it.

"These routes will definitely not be fought with the far ones, they are all nearby available resources. It's like far away water can't save near fire..."

"The red outline is the changed route of the 400 meters we just flew?" Lollipop pointed to the corner puzzle drawn by the red line, with a somewhat uncertain tone.

Beixi nodded and said: "The green one is the original route, you can compare it. The blue one is the changed route in the future! Now we have to go back, start from the alley, compare the changed road, and return to Go to the fork, then choose the rightmost road and go straight to the center!" After speaking, Beixi's tone was a little excited.

Everyone believed her words.

Wei Shengmo rubbed his chin in thought and said nothing, Beixi knew too much about this game.

Keeping the distance, Beixi will lead the way this time.Soon they returned to the previous alley, and then followed the new map. After 2 minutes, they arrived at the fork.

But the scene nearby has changed a lot. There were only three forks in the place, and there were two more forks.Beixi held the picture and looked at it for a few seconds, then raised his head and swept across the fork, and flew into the rightmost fork with a group of people without hesitation.

The figures of the seven flew past, and it took only a few seconds to travel 100 meters.

Along the way, Beixi deliberately slowed down, because they were not yet familiar with this speed. If they flew too fast, many of their organs would not be able to detect it.

To play this kind of maze, [time ring] is very important.Beixi wants to collect more annual rings before reaching the center.So it took them 12 minutes to cover the distance of several kilometers.The group are all maze masters, and sometimes they can find mechanisms that Beixi can't find.With the joint efforts of everyone, the number of annual rings found is also very large.

With more time, they have more room to play.

Beixi was also in a good mood along the way.

With the basis of the maze map from the previous life, after confirming the location this time, Beixi is like an automatic navigation, leading everyone to avoid all the traps that can be avoided, and stopping at places where traps and props may appear.

It made everyone think for a while, does Beixi know the strategy of this maze?Or someone from the official game.

But sometimes she is also confused and thinks for a long time.Several people saw her thinking for a few minutes, and immediately gave an answer.

They only thought that Beixi was a monster.

What they don't know is that all of this is based on Beixi's own rich experience!
In the second game, Beixi's own experience is more than comparable to them.

All the way laughing and joking, everyone soon arrived 50 meters away from the central location.A few fireballs in front hung in the air, rolling back and forth in the air, and there was a deep pit below.

The pit was 8 meters wide, and there were flat stones floating in the air, only half a meter in size, some not even half a meter in size.

More than a dozen stones formed a winding staircase leading to the road over there!
Directly ahead, looking down the revolving steps, the woman in the robe was looking at them, smiling.

Here is the fireball trap!

In her previous life, Beixi stumbled here.

Players cannot summon mounts in the maze, so they can only jump over the stones.The distance between each piece varies, some are very close, and some are far away.

Once the player steps on the first stone, the stones in front begin to turn randomly.

There is a 2-3 second stagnation period when turning. If the player safely jumps on the stone, the stone will stop turning until the player leaves.

During the player's jump, the flamethrowers on both sides will continuously create various fireballs, large or small.Intermittently, or perhaps continuously.

These are actually not too difficult for Beixi, and what made her stop most should be the fireball coming out from below.Not only does it roll, but it also shoots flaming darts...

Players have to knock out all the darts. If they don't, the darts will turn into flywheels in the next second.If it is hit by the flywheel, one-third of the blood will be lost in an instant!
And if you are hit by a dart, you will be accompanied by [stiff state], unable to move for 2 seconds.

The situation when I was struggling on the edge at that time is still vivid in my mind.

Beixi only felt that the past was unbearable to look back on, and she would cry if she said too much.

(End of this chapter)