Cataclysm King

Chapter 46 San Value

The light in the maze is dim.

The main color of dark cyan is very depressing, and there is a suffocating horror in the air.The corridor was very quiet, and occasionally a gust of wind blew through, bringing out bursts of mournful cries like the moaning of a wronged soul, which echoed in my ears for a long time.

It seems that the end of the dark corridor is the intersection leading to hell, and every step will make people tremble with fear.

Rusty blades and axes, broken clay pots, fragmented bones and other details all imply that there will be terrifying monsters here.

Ji Xun observed it and confirmed that the atmosphere of the maze should be intentional.

This is a very clever psychological hint, which will affect the mentality of the intruder invisibly.

But he still doesn't know what the purpose of this setting is.

As a senior fan of puzzle solving, Ji Xun is very clear that solving puzzles has a very important idea, which is to identify the intention of the layout maker and get rid of interference.

It's like the dubbing of a horror movie. After turning it off, the horror atmosphere immediately drops by [-]%.

The more the environment suggests that you should be afraid, the more calm you should be.

Um.
Originally, he was not prone to fear.

Thinking of this, Ji Xun was even more indifferent, and walked in the maze passage at a leisurely pace.

As he walked, he left some nicks on the wall.

The underground labyrinth is completely sealed. If you don't know the correct way to move, you can only use the traditional marking method to keep trying.

But Ji Xun knew that if he continued to test like this, he would run into a monster sooner or later, so he didn't dare to go too fast.

As he walked, he kept thinking about where the breaking point of the maze was.

30 laborers were killed and turned into monsters, and the probability of encountering them is very high.

But perhaps it was the fierce battle in another place that attracted the attention of most of the monsters. He walked through a few passages without encountering any danger.

Instead, I often see piles of bones in the corner.

I can't see why.

Ji Xun vaguely felt that he was about to grasp some key point.

But he is definitely not the only one who can think of avoiding the group of people in the Governor's Mansion.

Just as he was thinking, he heard hurried footsteps behind him.

"Captain, there are more and more skeletons."

"Don't worry about these skeletons, let's go! We're going to die if we're caught by the Keeper!"

"It's too scary, then [Keeper] killed the Frost Knight with one move! Damn it, what happened, isn't this a D-level space?"

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As soon as the voice came, the three people ran over in a panic as if they were being chased by some monster.

And in the empty corridor behind them, there were dense bone friction sounds of "click" and "click".

He couldn't avoid it, and was hit straight.

Ji Xun took a closer look, and it turned out to be the captain Dong Jiu and two other colleagues of the corpse collector.

But he didn't care who the three were.

Instead, he was attracted by another bizarre scene.

As soon as the three of them came, the bones that were still in a pile in the corridor suddenly seemed to be awakened by some mysterious force, stood up with a click, and turned into a skeleton monster?
Ji Xun narrowed his eyes slightly, and sighed in his heart: "These dead bones are really monsters?"

As if the chain effect had been activated, the original skeletons in the tunnel stood up and became [Skeleton Artisans].

As soon as these undead creatures appeared, in an instant, the entire tunnel became gloomy.

Seeing this scene, instead of feeling horrible, Ji Xun felt a flash of inspiration in his mind.

He seemed to have caught something, pondering in his heart: "In this case, I seem to understand a little bit."

The three fled in embarrassment and were slightly surprised to see Ji Xun in the passage.

Isn't this the newcomer?

Sometimes, just looking at each other, you already know that someone has evil intentions.

The three rushed all the way, and the guy named Baoya had already touched the dagger at his waist with malicious intentions.

Ji Xun was originally thinking about the awakening of the skeleton, when he caught a glimpse of the little movement from the corner of his eye, he murmured: "Isn't it good to be alive?"

He also knew why the three of them did this.

These guys are not stupid, now there are skeleton monsters in all directions, and seeing being 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 see blood bait.

This kind of lure is often used by hunters in the wild.

Baoya confidently drew his knife, probably because he thought that his second-tier Katu ability could easily cut off Ji Xun's thigh?

However, at this moment, a scene that surprised him appeared.

Ji Xun's lax eyes suddenly turned sharp, and he drew his gun quickly.

Almost at the same time as the buck-toothed dagger flashed coldly, a black muzzle of a gun hit the guy's head like lightning.

With a gun pointed at his head, Bucktooth's expression instantly changed from contempt to panic, and his pupils dilated infinitely, filled with shock.

But this is already the last picture of his life.

"Bang" sound.

A thunderous gunshot exploded in the corridor.

Without the slightest sloppiness, Ji Xun pulled the trigger the moment he drew his gun.

He didn't take a second look at the guy whose head had exploded in front of him, and quickly turned his gun, pointing at Captain Dong Jiu a few meters ahead, and decisively pulled the trigger again.

He didn't intend to kill people, but if he really did kill someone, he would never be relentless.

These three are a team.

Now that you do it, you must kill it quickly.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

Shot twice.

In an instant, the bullet shot two streams of air in the air.

Dong Jiu kept glancing at this side from the corner of his eye, and was startled when he saw Bao Ya being shot in the head.Seeing that the muzzle of the gun was pointed at him, and the moment his hairs blew up, he also instinctively stopped and turned sideways, and the fighting technique under his feet made him dodge to the extreme.

He is an apprentice card master with six levels of spell power, and he still takes the "fighter" route, and his nerve reaction speed and muscle burst 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 hit the shoulder.

The warhead passed by.

Moreover, the extraordinary's physical toughness is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and this shot did not cause much trauma.

"you!"

Dong Jiu looked at Ji Xun, who was aiming at him indifferently with a gun, and looked extremely shocked.

Is this really the cowardly rookie in my team who has been deducted from his salary?

Before he had time to think about it, Dong Jiu endured the severe pain in his shoulders and turned over and kicked on the ground suddenly. The muscles in his thighs burst out, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the ground with a "squeaky" sound. He rushed towards Ji Xun as fast as a cheetah .

Extremely fast!

So what if you have a gun?
At such a close distance, firearms are not necessarily faster than fighting skills.

Ji Xun saw that the two shots did not kill Dong Jiu, and his expression did not change at all from the beginning to the end.

I have to admit that Dong Jiu is really not bad.

He bought a large amount of supplement medicine with the money obtained by squeezing newcomers. His physical fitness is much stronger than ordinary people, and his fighting skills are not bad.

With the two shots just now, Ji Xun thought he couldn't avoid it if he was himself.

Great power does not mean that it will be used.

This is the gap in fighting skills.

But even if the gun was empty, he couldn't see any expression fluctuations on his expression.

His eyes were fixed on Dongjiu all the time, and after his arm stabilized the recoil of the previous shot, he pulled the trigger decisively again.

However, the third shot also missed.

This distance is no longer suitable for guns.

Just before the shooting, Dong Jiu lowered his body and slammed into Ji Xun's waist, secretly delighted: "This guy is dead!"

Now that he is close, this is the most ideal over-the-chest throwing posture 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.

In the next second, his face changed drastically!
Instead of picking him up as expected, Dong Jiu felt as if he had bumped into a strong bull, and was startled in his heart: This guy didn't move at all?
How can it be!

He already has six levels of spell power, so he can definitely be regarded as a master among card master apprentices. His strength and explosiveness are not bad, and he is still an intermediate fighting professional, so he didn't hug this newcomer?
Dong Jiu also realized: This newcomer is also an apprentice of a melee card master!And the power is stronger than yourself!
But he also couldn't figure it out. For such a strong guy, no matter whether he was a hunter or other income, he was definitely better than being a corpse collector. Why did he come to be a corpse collector and pretend to be a weak chicken?
However, Ji Xun didn't give the enemy time to figure it out.

Seeing himself being hugged by the waist, he took a step back to stabilize his body, put the muzzle of the gun against Dong Jiu's waist, and decisively fired twice.

This distance is deadly.

But guns are deadlier.

At least for these card master apprentices who don't have magic body protection, bullets can easily penetrate the muscles and bones.

The gunshot rang out, and blood gushed like a fountain in an instant.

The bullet pierced through the internal organs, and the blood on Dongjiu's face faded quickly.

Ji Xun looked at Dong Jiu who was slowly lying on his feet, still panting, and shot another shot in the head.

This is completely dead.

The body lay in a pool of blood.

Ji Xun killed two people in a row, without even taking a second look at the corpses on the ground, he turned his gun around again and aimed at the last living victim in front of him.

Scarlet Liu was completely stunned, only fear and disbelief remained in his eyes: Captain Dongjiu is dead?
How could he never have expected that the submissive rookie on weekdays would be so ruthless that he didn't even shake his hand when he killed two people?
Scarlet Liu looked at the gun aimed at him, and his body trembled with fright: "Brother, no, big brother, don't kill me!"

Ji Xun tilted his head to look at it, but didn't pull the trigger, just staring at it coldly.

Pulling the trigger didn't waste one more bullet, but he didn't.

leave a mouth alive,
Just to verify the judgment I just made.

Killing is only a few breaths, and at this time the skeleton monsters in the maze are gradually approaching.

These skeleton monsters are not fast, and their attack power is not strong. Only when three or five small skeletons attack together can they pose a fatal threat to ordinary people.

But the combat power is not enough, there are a lot of them.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of bone skeletons were rushing into the corridor where the two were.

There are more and more behind.

And some of these monsters are holding old axes, swords, and shields in their hands.

These weapons are shabby, but deadly as well.

Seeing more and more bones and skeleton monsters coming, Scarlet Liu was already scared to death.

He wants to escape.

But he was pointed at by a black muzzle and dared not escape.

But what Laidou Liu couldn't understand was that the newcomer who pointed a 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, just raised his gun, and quietly retreated to another fork in the road.

The experience of [407 Abnormal Biology Research Institute] gave him a lot of experience and inspiration.

He now knows that obeying the rules of the space is the only reasonable way to clear the level.

Although the information obtained from Enlightenment just now is not much, it is already obvious.

The key words are: puzzle solving.

30 laborers were killed in this maze, that is to say, there were 30 skeleton monsters.

For a spell card master, these low-level skeleton monsters are indeed one punch at a time.

But there are 30 skeletons in this necropolis maze, can you punch 30?
What's more, it sounds like there is a [Keeper of Secrets] who can instantly kill Frost Knight.

Ji Xun doesn't think killing monsters is the correct way to clear the level.

So, at this moment, he has to figure out some things first.

For example, the monster's hatred mechanism.

Ji Xun's eyes are always carefully observing the various body details of the skeleton monster.

Standing at a fork in the road, in case you make a wrong judgment, you can retreat calmly.

With both hands ready, you can advance or retreat.

Ji Xun naturally has nothing to panic about.

But the scarlet Liu who was pointed at was already scared to death, and his face was as pale as a sheet of fear.

He also couldn't figure it out, the monster was already here, why didn't the guy on the other side run away?

At this very moment, the skeleton monster approached menacingly within ten meters, and the sound of crunching and rubbing bones made one's hair stand on end.

Scarlet Liu finally couldn't bear the fear of approaching death.

Everywhere is dead!
It is better to escape than wait for death!
This guy let out a strange cry of "Ah", and regardless of pointing at the muzzle of his gun, he turned around and ran towards another passage crazily.

Immediately, a large number of skeleton monsters chased after him.

Seeing the skeleton monsters coming like a tide, Ji Xun still didn't make any changes.

He didn't shoot, he didn't run away, he kept his breath 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 who were close at hand in the passage, and they all went after the escaped scarlet Liu.

Seeing countless skeletons running in front of his eyes, Ji Xun's eyes were bright: "So that's how it is."

At this moment, he finally came to an accurate conclusion in his mind: the skeleton monster's ability to capture targets relies on fluctuations in sanity value.Or in other words, the San value in the previous life concept!
When Ji Xun heard Dongjiu and the others talk about the skeletons in the labyrinth in the car before, he had a doubt in his heart: those skeletons only have skeletons, how did they perceive and lock on the target?
Ordinary organisms rely on various sensory organs to complete target perception, such as smell, temperature, vision, and sound.
But skeletons have no organs.

Not even brains.

This is a magical and magical world, but it does not mean that there is no basic logic.

Since skeletons can perceive living people, it must be caused by some objective factors.

I couldn't do anything when I was alone just now, but I didn't expect to meet Dong Jiu and the other three.

Fortunately, there are conditions for verification.

There were two corpses on the ground, their flesh and blood still fresh.

There is temperature and there is smell.

But the skeleton monster is not interested at all.

It also directly proves that flesh, smell, and temperature are not factors that attract the hatred of skeletons.

The range is immediately reduced.

And Ji Xun left alive just now to rule out the last few possibilities.

In fact, when the three broke in at first, Ji Xun carefully observed the body reactions of those skeletons and found something abnormal.

The moment the skeleton monster appeared from the corner of the corridor, almost all the skulls found the target, and the skulls had a tendency to "look".

This doesn't mean that their empty eye sockets really saw anything, it's most likely an instinct left behind during their lifetime.

But it can be judged from this that the target of the monster's hatred.

Obviously, their attention was all on Dong Jiu and the others, and they didn't see Ji Xun at all.

Only a few [Elite Skeletons] with tall skeletons noticed it and turned their heads to look over.But as soon as he put on the clown mask and suppressed his mood swings, the monster instantly lost its target.

Ji Xun thus ruled out the two perception pathways of skeletons: soul and breath.

Not much left.

Both are two living people, the biggest difference is that one is full of fear, while Ji Xun controls his fear.

The facts were right in front of them, and the skeletons all chased the terrified scarlet Liu.

So come to the final conclusion: the reduction of San value caused by fear is the most important incentive to attract skeleton monsters!
And thinking about walking alone in the corridor before, those dead bones did not wake up, Ji Xun didn't understand why at that time.

Thinking about it now, it's just that from the first moment he entered the maze, his San value fluctuated very little, it just didn't reach the critical value to arouse the hatred of monsters.

And the environment of the labyrinth hints at terror all the time, also to affect the San value of the intruder.

This had little impact on Ji Xun, who had discovered the anomaly earlier.

Figured this out.

The danger in the maze was immediately reduced by half.

This is the difficulty that the original [Great Cemetery Labyrinth] should have when it was classified as a D-level space.

Ji Xun has already seen the hope of breaking the game.

Of course, this does not include the [Keeper of Secrets] that no one has seen.

(End of this chapter)