Chapter 542: Jumo Island (Forty-Eight)

"I used this concept to survive the illusion of the source of trembling." Feng Bujue continued, "This is called 'reverse guidance'." He smiled, "Maybe the situation later became a little 'out of control', so the heart of fear said that."

"Okay, you don't have to say it anymore, just pretend I didn't ask." Xiao Ma turned his head away.

"I'm not interested anymore..." Hong Hu also said. He was also helpless. Every time he teamed up with Brother Jue, his sanity (sanity, the player value of the Cthulhu Mythos board game, representing mental strength or mind) dropped sharply...

So, Brother Jue once again successfully fooled the matter... Then, he took the opportunity to change the topic and led his teammates to move forward.

This time, the players are no longer searching aimlessly. Because before the heart of fear died, it had already told the way to the cage of despair.

In fact... the path of this crystal maze has a certain pattern, and this pattern is hidden in the surrounding crystal pillars.

The Heart of Fear did not tell the players all the rules, it only said one of them: When you encounter a fork in the road (two or more are OK), stand at the center point between any two forks, calculate the distance between the top of the first crystal column on the left and the top of the second crystal column on the right, and the angle between the straight line between the two points and the ground. If these two values ​​are within a certain range, it means that you are not wrong.

Using this method, it doesn't matter even if you face four or five or even more forks in the road, as long as you try them one by one between two.

At present, Feng Bujue, Honghu and Tianma Xingkong are following this rule and moving forward continuously.

At first they walked very fast and smoothly. But after a while, the forks in the road ahead gradually increased, and the crystal columns became more and more dense and complex, which made their speed begin to slow down.

Of course, this is also a normal phenomenon, because the closer you get to the center of the maze, the fewer roads that meet the conditions will be. There are many meaningless paths similar to mazes in the center of the maze, which are used to confuse outsiders.

To make a long story short, the time spent on this trek was more than four hours...

During this period, Feng Bujue and his team stopped to eat again and encountered several monsters. Fighting was naturally inevitable, and the three of them paid a certain price, but fortunately there were no further casualties.

Finally, in the fifth hour...

"I said... this road seems to be particularly long." Feng Bujue, who was walking in the front, said.

Along the way, he was still the main person leading the way. Leading the way in the darkness, he did have various advantages that others did not have.

"I am a little doubtful whether we are walking the right way..." Tianma Xingkong responded listlessly.

Obviously, after a long trek, various unexpected frightening plots, and many difficult and tedious battles. Xiao Ma's morale has dropped to the freezing point

"Could it be... that the Heart of Fear deceived us?" Hong Hu pondered, "Maybe it deliberately gave us a set of wrong theories to make us go around in circles?"

"We didn't go around in circles." Feng Bujue replied, he seemed very calm and determined, he immediately asked, "Did you see repeated scenery along the way?"

"I remember... no." Hong Hu replied.

Tianma Xingkong said: "I don't remember..."

Feng Bujue didn't need them to remember, because he remembered it very clearly, "I did build a map in my mind, if I remember correctly... after killing the Heart of Fear, the route we took was roughly in a spiral shape." He raised one hand, raised it high and gestured in circles, "We are approaching a certain 'center point', and... we are already very close."

Brother Jue's words are always convincing. Even if he can't produce any evidence, his teammates are willing to believe him just by saying "I drew a map in my mind".

Even the "wise general" Honghu could not deny that Feng Bujue had this kind of personal charm... a temperament that made people feel that they could rely on him in adversity.

"Heh... look." Not long after Brother Jue finished speaking, the searchlight in his hand illuminated something, "Things in this world just can't stand being talked about."

Tianma Xingkong and Honghu heard this and both turned their heads to look forward. But they saw... the crystal crust on the road ahead had been interrupted.

The three walked forward for about ten meters and came to the end of this path. What appeared in front of them... was a large pit with a radius of several dozen meters, surrounded by towering crystal pillars, with a dark and bottomless center.

"Ah... anyway, my searchlight can't reach the bottom." As he spoke, Brother Jue had raised his arm and punched the crystal pillar next to him.

The next second, he picked up a piece of crystal fragment that had been knocked down and threw it into the pit.

Whoosh——

This was the sound of crystal falling. Then... nothing happened...

"Wow~ a bottomless pit..." Tianma Xingkong leaned over and looked down, holding his hands on his knees.

"Yes, there is also the Diyong Lady (the golden-nosed white-haired mouse spirit in Journey to the West) living down there." Jue Ge complained, "I'm already itching to make a move... oh~"

"What kind of 'oh' is this..." Honghu said with a twitch in his mouth, "I'm telling you, Jibe is dead now, we may not know all the jokes you're playing, if you keep making such a fuss, we'll just think you're just acting crazy alone."

"Heh... forget it." Feng Bujue shrugged, "Anyway, I'll go down first." As he said that, he took a few steps back and prepared to run.

[Current task completed]

[Main task updated]

At this time, two consecutive system prompts sounded, slightly interrupting Brother Jue's actions.

Players opened the game menu and checked the task bar, and saw that [Reach the Cage of Despair] had been checked.

The new task below was: [Find a way to open the cage]

"What's going on?" Tianma Xingkong thought, "This is obviously a pit, and there is no lid... How can it be considered 'opened'?"

"Maybe... 'Cage of Despair' is not the pit itself, but somewhere under the pit." Honghu hypothesized.

Feng Bujue said: "Okay, I'll understand everything after I go down and take a look."

"No need." Suddenly, a strange voice sounded.

At the same moment, a hand was placed on Feng Bujue's shoulder.

"I'll help you open it, travelers from other worlds..." the man said, and slowly emerged from the darkness. (To be continued...)