The Age of Machines

Chapter 668

"Master, where are you?"

A Xiao patted the wall, and the location shown by Beixi on the map was next to him. There was only one wall between the two of them, but A Xiao felt that they were separated by hundreds of thousands of miles.This is the second time he has reached the vicinity of Beixi, but he can't cross it no matter what.In fact, the map is blank. Except for the red dot marking the location of Beixi, all the routes of the maze are not displayed.Ah Xiao completely walked through one and then found another way. The location of Beixi existed from the beginning. This master-apprentice task is purely for one party to stay in a certain position, and for the other party to find someone in the maze within the specified time is to complete the task. .

Most of the master-student dungeons are fighting monsters, mazes, and guessing riddles.The maze is relatively difficult, and the difficulty of guessing is relatively low, so there is not much experience.Beixi thought about A Xiao's confident look before and told her "know how to play". When she opened the map, she couldn't see A Xiao's location, so even if the two got in touch, she couldn't know exactly what A Xiao was doing now. location.

Even if Ah Xiao asked her for help, Bei Xi could only reply calmly: "I'm in the sky."

A Xiao scratched her head, and said back to her: "Master, you are next door to me."

Beixi: ...

If it wasn't for the time when the task was accepted, the system randomly assigned people to run the maze and stay in the position, Beixi wouldn't let Ah Xiao be the role of running the maze, and she would have to stay in a narrow place and stand for 10 minutes waiting for someone.

Message from [Beixi]: Ah Xiao, you still have 5 minutes.

Ah Xiao covered his face in horror.Even though it was just a sentence, he could still imagine the annoyed tone that Beixi said it.

This maze is very large, surrounded by earthen walls, and the light is not enough. It should be a maze hidden in the jungle.The earth wall and the ground were slightly damp, and Ah Xiao would collapse if he stayed any longer.He walked around in the maze for 5 minutes and still hasn't found the correct location of Beixi.

At this time, Beixi sent another message.

Message from [Beixi]: Stupid apprentice, being a teacher is very boring, and I really want to beat someone up.

Ah Xiao swallowed, and silently closed the message window.Then hurriedly ran forward, turned a corner, and there were countless identical passages in front of him. Ah Xiao was silent for a while, the two on the left seemed a bit far away, and his master was still very close to him. What I wanted to say, It should be not far from your location, so don't take the two roads on the left.

"Come closer."

Ah Xiao muttered, and ran towards the passage that seemed to reach Beixi's position soon. After 30 seconds, looking at the high wall blocking his way forward, Ah Xiao felt ashamed.Is he wrong?
Quickly opened the map, only a few meters away from Beixi, but the ridiculous thing is that in front of him is a high wall instead of a shortcut to the master.Ah Xiao had to go back, the remaining time was not enough, he didn't have more time to try other pathways.Looking at the map, Beixi is behind him at this time. If he wants to find her, he must go around in a circle, but there are not many roads in the maze. Now he still has three roads that have not been taken before him. There will be more choices.

"It's so annoying." Ah Xiao wanted to cry but had no tears.

If it was a simple maze, he would definitely be able to find someone in 1 minute.This maze map is too large, and 10 minutes is a lot of time.Ah Xiao scratched his hair for a while, looked at the three roads, and finally gritted his teeth and chose the middle one and started running.

Bei Xi was waiting for someone bored in every possible way, and 2 minutes had passed since she just talked with A Xiao.Beixi rubbed her chin, thinking that their master and apprentice really aren't suitable for this dungeon.

If it was her running the map, it probably wouldn't waste so much time, it's just that the system is too casual.Moreover, this kind of maze map is also generated randomly. Fortunately, there are no mobs or bosses, let alone organs.However, what makes Beixi helpless is that his apprentice can still spend so much time on such a simple picture.

The maze map that appears in the master dungeon is not an active maze. In this kind of two-person maze, one person is usually teleported to a certain point at random, and then the other person comes to find it. After finding it, the task is considered half completed. After this, the two people need to work together When you reach the end, you are considered to have completed the task.

If the person is found but has not reached the end, the task is not considered a failure or a successful completion, but the player's master-apprentice value will not be reduced.If it fails, the player's mentoring value will definitely be affected, and the difficulty of the next task will be greatly increased.Is the copy of master and apprentice still too difficult?
"Wow, finally found it."

Just as Beixi was thinking, Ah Xiao's voice came from behind.Beixi turned around, the boy's hair was a bit messy, but he was smiling happily, with the joy of success in his eyes.Beixi looked at the time, and there was a little more than 2 minutes left. After the system notified, the destination location appeared on the map.

Not far from them.

Beixi walked over and patted his head. "gone."

Ah Xiao hurriedly followed.

It is not bragging to say that Beixi is an expert at playing mazes.Ah Xiao had heard it from the legend team long ago, but he had never done this kind of dungeon mission with Beixi.

Along the way, Beixi ran very fast without any hesitation, as if he knew the correct path. A Xiao reluctantly followed, watching Beixi's clean turns, turns, and turns, and I don't know how many corners he went around , Finally, a stone tablet appeared in the field of vision.

The word "clearance" is written on the stone tablet, which is the end of the maze.

Ah Xiao was shocked from ear to ear.

Ding, congratulations on completing the [Escape from the Maze] task within the specified time.

Beixi pulled people out of the dungeon.

When he arrived in the urban area, Ah Xiao came back to his senses and couldn't help sighing: "Master, you know everything."

Beixi looked at him inexplicably, "What are you talking about?" He stared at the boy with the eyes of a fool, as if to say, "This is obviously a kind of common sense."

A laugh black line. "My brain is very good, but I rarely play."

"Do not make excuses."

Regarding Beixi's strictness in certain aspects, Ah Xiao didn't dare to talk back, she closed her mouth silently, looked at the person, and waited for the next instruction. "We still don't do this task."

Ah Xiao asked: "Why?" The young man was a little anxious, his face full of doubts and incomprehension.Didn't it do a good job, and it didn't fail.

Beixi raised his eyebrows, "It seems that you really want to do this dungeon mission."

The boy puffed out his chest and said domineeringly: "I need to prove to you that I am not stupid."

"Does this need to be proved?" Beixi asked calmly.

A Xiao said aggrievedly: "Master, it's no good to say I'm stupid."

Beixi smiled: "But there is no harm, right? Let's go, go fight the boss."

When Ah Xiao heard about beating the boss, his fighting spirit came again.

Beixi's goal today is to take him to level 115, and by the way, raise his master-student value to [-] and exchange it for the summoning book of the mechanical beast.Master-student value is a good thing. Compared with its reputation, it can be better in some aspects. For example, the exchanged goods, occasionally the items are top-quality goods. Beixi naturally has no shortage of mechanical beasts, so I want to exchange them. Books, but just for Ah Xiao.

In the master-student mission, the value obtained by the apprentice is lower than that of the master, so Ah Xiao can only look at some summoning books, but cannot get them.He can't do it alone, and Beixi can still hear the occasional small complaints from the legend group.

Leading people to take on a bunch of tasks, Beixi and Ah Xiao started a big sweep around the city of Bremen.

Since most of the people who wandered across the city were players who were in the Alliance with the Machine Age, so I met Ah Xiao a few times, and then saw that the two were in a group, and they were doing the mission of master and apprentice, followed by the man in black robe who was beating the boss violently Players can also guess a thing or two about their identity.For two hours, Beixi took Ah Xiao to sweep from the edge to [Bay Town], the scope expanded, and the missions did not stop. Players in the past have also heard about it, and found that Beixi appeared in the eyes of the public today. Usually much higher.

In the fields and cities around the city of Lele, if you walk around casually, you can see the figures of the two busy fighting the boss.Then some players pointed at them and said, "That's Beixi and his apprentice."

Then there was a sound of surprise.

During this period of time, the players on the same mission were also miserable.

Especially for missions where the target boss is a random monster and not an exclusive monster, there is almost no possibility of killing it when encountering Beixi.So the players called the period from the afternoon to six o'clock at night the "black two hours".

Night is approaching gradually.

Players also began to return to the city to take a break one after another.After the update, the game can already have night vision, but the degree of night vision depends on how far the wild area is from the city.And on the huge map of Karans, a certain city is as night as day.

Nuomi Duanzi looked up at the silver lantern spirits flying in the sky. Under their illumination in Apelas at night, there was nowhere to hide any darkness.At night, Apelas is brightly lit, even if it is thousands of miles away from the city, it can still be illuminated by the light of the holy fire on the sacrificial high platform.

There was continuous laughter from a certain wine shop.

"Nuomi, have a toast. Thank you so much for today." Hoshino raised his wine glass carelessly, and swung it in the direction of Nuomi Duanzi. In one afternoon, this group of people got acquainted with Nuomi Duanzi.I have to say that when we first met, I felt that the aura put everyone a few meters away, but when I got to know each other well, I found that the other party was so easy to talk to.

In the game, I have made many friends, and I will never feel lonely wherever I go.

Nuomi Duanzi boldly raised his wine glass to touch him, "Damn it."

Wine glasses collide, crisp sounds and laughter are mixed. In the wine shop of Apelas, players can abandon all the barriers between people in normal times. A glass of wine is a friend, and the laughter will not stop.

After a long time, the glutinous rice dumpling walked out of the wine shop, and it was still snowing in Apelas.The chill of winter doesn't exist here. Players come and go on the street, a scene of prosperity, but it is different from the emperor's demeanor.

The glutinous rice dumpling fell in love with it.However, it is too far away from Lecheng, and there is a random scroll to go back and forth, which costs money after all.

The pocket watch rabbit walked out of the wine shop slowly, and Nuomi Duanzi couldn't help but look back when he heard the strange movement behind him, quite surprised. "What are you doing out there?"

The pocket watch rabbit smiled: "Is the wine good?"

"Of course. There's no such liquor in Karans." Nuomi Duanzi said, looking at the pocket watch rabbit thoughtfully.At first, Nuomi Duanzi was surprised that Apelas players could work in NPC wine shops.After all, this kind of money-making good thing, if it is placed in the imperial capital and the city of Bremen, the players can earn a lot of money.A hundred gold a day is not a big amount for current players.But just a year ago in the prosperous age, these hundreds of gold are still not a small amount.

If she had discovered such a place earlier, Nuomi Duanzi thought she wouldn't have to worry about skill money in the early days.

Look back.

Pocket Watch Rabbit has changed back to normal clothes, and she has special work clothes when she works in the shop, and the clothes will return to the original only when she leaves the work mode.Nuomi Duanzi couldn't help guessing the purpose of her coming out, could it be to see her off?
The pocket watch rabbit saw her lost in thought, and said, "Are you going to continue to Crocodile?"

Nuomi Duanzi couldn't help being curious, "How can I tell that I'm going to the Crocodile Temple?"

Of course the pocket watch rabbit could tell.Nuomi Duanzi came back 10 minutes after she separated from them before. Although they didn't know why she came back so early, after all, there were dark bosses everywhere in the temple. It took Nuomi Duanzi 10 minutes to return to their team safely.

How do you think, the task should not be done well.

It may be because they have too many monster-fighting missions. Because of Nuomi Duanzi, Hoshino and the others encouraged them to accept a lot of high-level monster missions. After Nuomi Duanzi left, the progress became very slow.Perhaps because of them, the glutinous rice dumplings will come back soon.

"Am I right?"

Nuomi Duanzi smiled, "Crocodile is really big, and you can't do anything in 10 minutes. At most, you can just walk around the neighborhood. Now I'm really planning to go again, but I need a guide, preferably one who has been in Crocodile." Rockdale and people who are familiar with the map..." After finishing the words, he looked at the pocket watch rabbit.

"I think I should meet your conditions."

The two met and smiled.So they went to the Crocodile Temple together.

Pocket Watch Rabbit has a conjecture about the Dark Years.For some reason, there are so many dark creatures in Crocodile, and the power of darkness has continuously invaded the territory of Apelas since the day the Crocodile Temple came out.Now that the scope has expanded, the territory is gradually lost. Once it is enveloped by black air, everything will lose its vitality, and even ordinary animals will become abnormal.

When the players bring benefits to the new expansion pack, they also forget that this darkness is incompatible with the present world.

According to previous historical records, the disasters brought by monsters to human beings are immeasurable. At this moment, this group of players is about to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors due to the return of darkness. Pocket Watch Rabbit feels that this is not something to be happy about.

Darkness is scary.

She thought that if she followed the glutinous rice dumpling to go to the interior of Crocodile again, she would have a better understanding of the content of the future Dark Chronicle expansion pack.

Since Rashomon left, no one in Apelas, the source of darkness, dared to set foot at will.

Now, what has become of it?

(End of this chapter)