Goddess Wanhua Mirror

It is worth mentioning that, as a medicine with huge social demand but somewhat unappreciated, the mysterious oil has been sold in a non-public mode. The target users are mainly the rich and powerful who have spare money. The circle is opened, but only those who understand understand it.

The second half of this letter is a personal request from the Duke to Lude, saying that he has a child from a distant relative and hopes to send him to Lude for further study.If Lude agrees, he will send it over before the winter of this year, and the Duke is willing to donate [-] gold coins to the God of Medicine Sect for this.

Although the Duke did not clearly state the identity of the child in the letter, but donating a full [-] gold coins in one breath is enough to explain many problems.

Erwin noticed the change in Lude's expression. Although he was also curious about the content of the letter, it was wise not to ask further.

"Master, have you finished reading?"

"After reading it, if I answer, I need to think about it first."

"Think slowly, anyway, I'm going to stay here for a while. Oh yes! I'm asking you for some news, and I heard that another ruin has been discovered?"

"Are you interested?"

"My employer is more interested. I am still a mercenary on the surface. When my father and the Duke have no tasks, my subordinates and I will still take orders as usual to make money! Not shabby .”

"I thought you wouldn't be short of money?"

Erwin shrugged, the expression on his face seemed a little helpless.

Although he came from a big family, his father was the Minister of Finance who was in charge of the money, but he was not the eldest son of the family, and he was born in a concubine's room, so his father arranged for him to do dirty work like this. For the sake of the future, he secretly communicated with Duke Ganmolin about the song.

Lude thought for a while, and there was nothing to hide, so he gave Erwin a general introduction to the information that can be made public at present.

"According to what you said just now, this spiral abyss is a trap deliberately made by the devil? And in order to lure people into it to die, it also put a lot of treasures in the maze."

"The devil's game can be understood in this way."

"But... I always feel that the devil's logic is a bit strange!"

"Son, why do you think demons can speak logic?"

"Uh……"

Lude told Erwin that he had fought against the demons of Outland for many years, and knew the characters and habits of these demons very well.

Most demons of Outland are chaos and evil incarnate, and they do things according to their own preferences.And the "suffering demon" Heid Taka was the opponent he had the most contact with, and he was an out-and-out tormentor.

He prefers to see mortals suffer than to kill them.

So he created this maze called Spiral Abyss, and seemingly generously placed many treasure chests in it, in order to lure those adventurers into suffering, so that he could feel pleasure from it.

Lude is well aware of the evil taste of demons, but he does not prevent adventurers from entering the abyss to hunt for treasure. Instead, he encourages everyone to go forward bravely, break through the spiral abyss, and pick up all the treasure chests.Because the labyrinth itself is a letter of challenge issued by the devil to the gods and mortals, avoiding fighting is a cowardly expression, and will only encourage the arrogance of these devils, so a strong and powerful counterattack must be given to let them see the backbone of mortals.

In short, you can't let those demons look down on you!

It is precisely because of Lude's explanation and encouragement that the adventurers who were originally greedy for the treasures in the maze suddenly had the high-sounding "righteous name" in them, and they really rushed to the maze one after another. Then he was taught to be a human by various insane institutions in the maze.

Although most of the adventurers and mercenaries came here in embarrassment, there are still a few lucky ones with strong strength who successfully brought out one treasure box after another from the maze. , was once again provoked to conflict with the next copy.

Lu De also did not expect that the traditional RPG routines that have been played badly by various movie games on this side of the earth, copied to another world, can fascinate these bumpkins who have never seen it before.

After listening to Lu De flickering, Erwin couldn't help but feel a little moved at the moment.

In terms of strength alone, his team is at the top level among mercenaries. Since there are already teams that can bring out treasure chests from the maze, they can certainly do the same.

In addition, the Young Master Tring who hired them seems to have brought a lot of good hands with him. It is said that he is also out to hunt for treasure, so maybe he can use it.

End of this chapter

Like a guide NPC in a novice village, Lude threw out a setting that sounded like that, and sent Erwin away.After the other party left, Hume also slowly emerged from the shadow in the corner of the room, looking at the door where Erwin left and said to Lude.

"This guy's employer is the one we're looking for."

"sure?"

"Sure and sure. But seriously, is this maze you made really all right?"

"What could be wrong?"

"Won't it be suspected of being a conspiracy?"

"There is no need to doubt this. It is a conspiracy in itself, but it is just a devil's conspiracy. If someone comes here and asks him to find Miyazaki × Gao, what does it have to do with me, Lu?"

Throwing all the blame to his vest with a righteous face, Lu De felt that as long as he lit another cigarette at this moment, he could be cold-hearted.

The labyrinth created this time was an idea Luther had long ago, but there were no conditions at the beginning, and it was not until the three craftsmen joined that they were finally being put into practice.

It is no exaggeration to say that the entire labyrinth is a large-scale testing ground jointly built by Lude and the three sisters, and those adventurers who are attracted by the treasure chest are guinea pigs.

With the three sisters' powerful digging abilities comparable to Steve's, it took less than half a day to complete the nine-story underground space, and then filled the inner space with various traps.During this process, Lu De gave full play to his rich experience as a Black Soul player, provided a lot of technical guidance, and restored many classic "famous scenes" in the maze.

The three sisters feel sincere admiration for Lu De's endless "wonderful ideas".Especially the eldest sister Atropos, looking at Lude, is no less than a devout believer worshiping the supreme god in his mind, and even the title has been replaced with a unique honorific title.

"It's worth it, my lord, how can this be a mechanism that people can think of?"

It is worth mentioning that the current Spiral Abyss is said to have nine floors, but in fact only the first three floors have been completed and put into use.

However, this does not prevent Lude from putting the maze into use in advance, because the difficulty of the first three floors alone is quite enough to make most adventurers feel overwhelmed.

Before entering the maze, many adventurers will take a copy of the maze map on the back of the metal monument with them. Not only is there a map of the maze structure on it, but it also clearly marks the location of the treasure chests on each floor, just like the game guide Just as caring.

However, all those who think this way will realize that they have been fooled by the devil shortly after officially entering the maze!Because the map on the monument is incomplete, the route given is only a few main roads, but there are a large number of branch roads inside the maze, and people can be dizzy if they go around.

The other big hole is on the treasure chest marked on the map.

If you can't just look at the complete map, the treasure chests are all in some "big rooms", but these big rooms are actually all independent small mazes, and the density of organs inside is far higher than that of the main road.Many adventurers went to the treasure chest excitedly, and then fell into the trap.

After a few days, dozens of teams and hundreds of adventurers entered the spiral abyss, but they didn't even get through the first floor, and only managed to explore less than one-fifth of the area. Without exception, they encountered a gatekeeper golem at a third of the main road, and were hung up and beaten by it.

Since this golem wielding a giant knight's spear will only attack living people who step on the platform it is on, the adventurers who went to break through the level gave it a very easy-to-understand scornful name, called "watchdog" .

And as more and more adventurers were tortured by it, some friends who were frightened by the beating began to respectfully call him "Brother Dog".

In fact, Brother Gou was the first failed product of the three sisters trying to make a god puppet. Because the infusion of gods was unsuccessful, he himself had no intelligence and only had a few fixed attack modes.

Middle and low-level adventurers can't beat it, because the god puppets are created by gods. Even if they are defective products that have not been able to form intelligence, their own speed and strength are there. of.

But the reason why Brother Gou is still arrogant right now is because everyone hasn't figured out its attack methods, and the second is because the high-level teams are still waiting and watching. Plan before moving.

So as the first small boss, it will be a matter of time before Brother Gou is defeated.

Hume was opposed to the devil's labyrinth created by Lude at the beginning, and always felt that it was thankless.With so many materials, it would be better to build a grand temple, which would be more conducive to the collection of beliefs, but Lude didn't think so.

It is true that the construction of the labyrinth was costly, and the three sisters put all their savings into it, only to finish the third floor, one-third of the project.In addition, in order to attract adventurers to go in and suffer, there must be a large number of treasure chests in the maze, which are all money spent and coins scattered!

But the benefits that this maze can bring are also huge. The first and most obvious improvement is influence. The appearance of the maze will attract a large number of adventurers and businessmen, which will help the future development of Pine Tree Town.

The second is the income at the level of belief. The maze is indeed not a temple. Adventurers enter it to seek wealth, not to pray to the gods, but when they encounter a crisis in the maze, they have to use various medicines purchased from Lude Faith arises naturally when there are tools and props, and it is far stronger than when praying in the safety of a temple.

Finally, there are financial benefits. Regardless of the fact that each treasure box contains a lot of things, the lowest level of common boxes can be worth two to three hundred gold coins, but the things that Lud stuffed into the boxes were all things that could not be obtained before. The "black goods" that went out.

The magic crystal is a mine dug out by the three sisters underground, and various enchanted weapons and magic props are the products of their experiments, some of which are even failed and defective products.In addition, the stolen goods that Hydera robbed at sea before were also processed and stuffed into the treasure chest.

After these treasure chests are taken by adventurers, they will be brought back to Pine Town to find merchants to exchange for money, and then spend in the town to purchase various consumables.The magic potion, which is currently on sale, is usually the first choice of these adventurers. After all, exploring the maze is always accompanied by risks. Everyone hopes to carry a bottle of potion that can save lives at critical moments.

So after this round of consumption cycle, all the black goods that Lude put into the maze treasure chest turned into clean gold coins, and a considerable part of them returned to him.

End of this chapter

Although the methods are not upright at all, but Lude does things regardless of his intentions. The targets of his tricks and abductions have always been the rich and powerful, and the money he got is not for his own enjoyment, but to invest the money in education, infrastructure and In terms of people's livelihood, try our best to improve the lives of most people at the bottom.

As the saying goes, getting rich first leads to getting rich later, if those rich first are unwilling to bring along, then Master Lu will naturally find a way to make them willing!

The current maze is still in the "trial operation" stage. According to Lude's request, the three sisters have arranged a large number of "peeping eyes" in the maze, just like surveillance cameras, watching every move of the adventurers in the maze.

In fact, Lude really wanted to create a maze that would not kill people at first, just like a playground for adventurers to explore.After all, many adventurers and mercenaries are not bad people. They do the job of licking blood with the tip of a knife to support their families.But the reality is that such thinking is both naive and unrealistic.

On the first day the maze was opened, the first batch of adventurers who entered it lost four of their lives.

But Lude discovered through the peeping eyes that only two of the four dead fell on the mechanism in the maze, and the other two unlucky ones, one was dragged down by his teammate, and broke his neck on the spiral staircase. The other was simply a deliberate murder. The deceased was stabbed in the back by several of his teammates, and the body was abandoned in the maze on the spot.

Lu De witnessed this murder in a hidden corner. Although he knew that he could not testify against these traitors in person, he still tried his best to investigate the truth and try to find out their motives for killing.

He sent Elaine to spy on this team of adventurers secretly, and sneaked into their dreams to find the truth, but the truth he found was extremely bloody.

The old man who was killed was a senior yellow-haired man. Relying on his special skills, he slept with the wives and girlfriends of several of his teammates, so the bitter masters who discovered the truth united and killed the tauren in the maze.

After that, the adventurers who poured into the maze one after another continued to contribute their lives at an average rate of 8 to 10 people per day, and the number of injured people exceeded a hundred every day.

It seems that there are heavy casualties, but according to the statistics in Lude's hands, the overall death rate of adventurers has actually dropped by more than 50%.

Because before the emergence of the maze, the adventurers used to be tasked with exploring the vast and dangerous Void Forest. Many people entered the forest and never came out again.

But the maze is different. Although it is full of dangers inside, as long as it is confirmed that it is impossible to move forward, there is always a way to return to the original path, and the success rate of life-saving has been greatly improved.

Therefore, in order to facilitate the rescue of these injured adventurers, Lude specially dispatched a medical team to the entrance of the maze to save the lives and heal the wounded for the adventurers.Lu De's "benevolent deed" has also been unanimously praised by everyone.

In general, it is very "magic reality"!

On the eighth day after the maze appeared, Gulig, the patriarch of the Steel Whip clan, sent someone to contact Lu De to ask what was going on with the maze.

It has been almost a year since the dwarves took back the ancient city. During this period, many expedition teams were sent to survey and map the forests around the ancient city.They had sent people to the place where the maze was located before, and they didn't find any abnormality at that time, there was only a very ordinary crypt, but after less than half a year, such a large ruin suddenly appeared, which surprised the dwarves.

Regarding the dwarves' inquiries, Lude naturally couldn't tell the truth, telling them that this is a maze created by the three sisters I asked you to believe in, and that the black blame was customarily pinned on Heid Taka, and the previous set of rhetoric that fooled adventurers was repeated. Come out and repeat it again.

After the dwarves learned about the situation, they were also very interested in the sudden appearance of the demon labyrinth, and at the same time they were also worried.So within a few days, Gulig came to Pine Tree Town in person, hoping to form an elite exploration team with Lude to break through the maze once and for all.

Lu De thought in his heart that I was still thinking about being able to flow slowly, you dead-headed dwarves, don't make trouble for me, okay?But this cannot be said directly, so he changed to a more euphemistic rhetoric.

"Master Viscount, I don't think it's appropriate to make big moves now."

"Why? I have prepared the elite of the clan and sent out invitations to other strong men I know well. When the time comes, the elite soldiers will gather and it should not be difficult to directly attack this demon lair."

"That's what I said, but what if the devil who built this maze actually thought so?"

"Uh...you mean, this is a trap?"

"I can't rule out this possibility. After all, demons are cunning. The information we have about the maze at this stage is seriously insufficient. Most adventurers can't even break through the first floor. No one knows what's underneath. It's better to be cautious than careless." Mistake, you don’t want to bury those elites in the maze, do you?”

The dwarf patriarch scratched his head, and Lude's words hit his weakness just right.The fertility rate of the dwarves is not as good as that of the human race. After 300 years after the war of gods, the population has not recovered to the peak period, so Gulig actually has this concern. He is afraid that the loss of his elite will be too great, and the clan will be in a slump. That's why I hope to call Lu De, the "top nanny".

"Well, what you said makes sense, so what should we do?"

"Be careful, step by step. Doesn't the devil want to play? Then we will have fun with him and turn his maze into our training ground!"

Under Lude's persuasion, Gulig accepted his suggestion, instead of concentrating the elite to break through the maze in one go, but to lead the team with veterans and organize young rookies to enter the maze for trial.

Flicking away Gulig, Lude wrote another letter and sent someone to the Tower of Three to introduce the same suggestion to the magicians. With Hamilton's relationship, I believe the other party will agree.

At the same time, on the other side, Dick, the necromancer who had been squatting in the detention center for a whole week, was finally released after serving his sentence.

When he walked out of the gate of the detention center, Dick looked up at the cloudless clear sky. He was used to going out at night, but he rarely came out in broad daylight, so he was not used to the warm sun. I could hardly keep my eyes open.

"The sun outside is so dazzling!"

Leaving the detention center, Dick followed the road signs along the way to an empty house in the southeast corner of the town.This is the hiding place arranged by Lude for him to stay temporarily after leaving the detention center.

Dick has already learned that the tail that has been following him has also come to Pine Tree Town a few days ago. They don't know their movements yet, and their attention is attracted by a newly discovered maze relic in the forest.

And "Old Senior" Lude has agreed to help him to solve these annoying guys in the maze once and for all!

End of this chapter

In a small hotel in the north of the town, Young Master Tling, who directly rents out the shop, is listening to Erwin's introduction of information in front of him boredly at this time, with a face that is completely awake.

After Erwin finished speaking, he raised his head and replied in a neutral manner.

"It's over, that's it?"

"Indeed, that's all. Of all the teams that have entered the maze so far, no one has been able to break through the gate guarded by the watchdog. Many high-level teams are still on the sidelines just like us."

"Hehe, the so-called adventurers are nothing more than that!"

Looking at Trin with a contemptuous face, Erwin smiled noncommittally, seemingly not paying attention at all, but his teammates who were familiar with him could clearly feel that his boss's anger was soaring.

Because from Trin, Erwin saw the shadow of his elder brother, who was an incompetent but very arrogant guy.

Erwin always had resentment towards the family that never valued him, but he never hated his two talented younger brothers, and all the resentment focused on his elder brother who was the eldest son.

The other party's ability to become the heir of the family depends entirely on the power of his mother's natal family, while Erwin was born of a concubine. He was also assigned to do dirty work, which was almost equivalent to being kicked out of the house.

Erwin knew without asking, that this must be the eldest lady's idea, in order not to let himself threaten the status of her own son.

He didn't know that he had inadvertently touched Erwin's anger, he didn't pay attention to the mercenary in front of him, he only regarded them as hunting dogs he paid to work.