Chapter 280: A Slim Hope
Returning to the daily life of the labyrinth, nothing has changed much, except for ...... The surroundings become more dangerous.
The aisle is filled with a shallow fog, and the view of the entire aisle from the outside is a little misty. After a while after walking into it, there will be a sticky damp feeling on the body, which is very uncomfortable, and the only good news is that the mist itself is not poisonous.
The so-called danger mainly comes from the monsters wandering in the labyrinth, ranging in strength from one star to three stars, and they can always be encountered by walking. They are strangely shaped, hideous and active, making Thor miss the wolves and four-eyed snakes on the upper floor.
In addition to the increase in strength, the frequency of these monsters has also become more intensive.
On the first day, everyone basically marched all the way under the high-intensity fighting, but fortunately there were no casualties.
After deciding on a resting place and arranging the camp, Thor and Finis each continued to the maze with a group of people. Thor went to find food for the people, and Finis went for a simpler look, looking for water.
This is the more dangerous layer of the maze every ten floors, and naturally people can't be let out like the previous one. Every time you go out, you have to be organized, and at the same time ensure that the team is protected, and this will be the case for the next three months.
It wasn't until Thor and Fenis' team returned safely that everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the first day was over.
At dinner, everyone gathered together to eat.
During the dinner, a female captain asked Thor if Thor had to put on hold on to his plan to hunt demon spirits, after all, there were a lot of battles to face every day, which was the opposite of the situation of the previous level that took the initiative to find monsters.
The journey from the previous break to the next is something that the team has to go through every day. The female captain asked if she still needed to maintain the intensity and intense rest time of the previous layer outside of this journey.
To this, Sol gave a positive answer, because the time for everyone's development is running out, and every bit of time is precious, so that they can be invincible in the future of the same clan. I'd rather rest less every day and take the initiative to hunt demon souls.
The rational analysis finally convinced everyone that the flames of war between the various ethnic groups would eventually ignite, and that the day was not far off.
Just when Thor thought he would continue to follow the team and leave this dangerous labyrinth after three months of hardship, an accident suddenly happened, completely disrupting some of his original plans.
It happened on the sixth day after entering this level, when after arriving at the rest point for the day, Thor continued to lead the people into the labyrinth to help the group find food, and during a break in the battle, Thor accidentally glanced into the distance.
It was this casual glance that made Thor freeze in place as if he had been struck by lightning. He saw four or five figures marching down the aisle in the labyrinth, and the key was that they were wearing white magical robes.
Is that...... Mankind?
Thor was in a trance and couldn't believe it for a moment, but that kind of robe was definitely not the craftsmanship of the fourteen teams. After being stunned for a moment, he immediately pulled out his legs and ran wildly after the group, leaving behind a group of team members who looked at each other.
After seeing Phines's magic hourglass, Thor also asked the team if they had seen other races other than their own race in the labyrinth in the past few hundred years, and Phines replied no, she should not lie to herself.
Thor was running wildly and violently, a little worried that the glance might be a hallucination from the fog.
This madness soon alarmed the other monsters in the aisle, not far behind Thor.
As the distance closed, Thor's heart grew hot, and he saw that it was really five humans, at least in appearance, and it looked like five women. The white complexion of the palms of their robes convinced Thor.
One of the members of the group of five noticing Thor's approach, turned and pointed his wand at Thor and began chanting magic. Thor was now covered in purple skin, and there was a bunch of monsters not far behind her, and she obviously thought that Thor was also a monster.
"My own people!" Thor rolled to the ground in some embarrassment, dodging the oncoming fireball. Then he waved his hands and shouted and ran towards the five, and after running two steps, Thor remembered that they might not know the continental lingua franca, and shouted in human language.
"Who are you?" After clearing the monster behind Thor, the five looked at Thor warily. The five men, wearing hoods and white veils, were mysterious, and the figure who seemed to be the captain was the first to ask questions, and his voice was pleasant.
Suddenly hearing human language in a foreign place a few months later, Thor almost burst into tears. The point is that these people appear in the labyrinth, giving Thor a sense of trance where dreams and reality overlap.
"I'm a human being, I'm stuck in this labyrinth and I need help. Saul replied quickly and truthfully.
It's a pity that his answer is obviously not credible.
"I'm sorry, we can't help you, and with all due respect, are you really human?" replied the white-robed woman.
Thor opened his mouth, a little unable to speak. He couldn't say that he came here because he was in a deep sleep, and he couldn't tell why he had become purple-skinned and pointy ears, and he wouldn't believe these people if he did.
"Then who are you, and why are you in this labyrinth? Don't get me wrong, it's not for information, it's just that I haven't seen humans for a long time, but I can't leave here, so I'm looking for a way to leave. Saul asked.
"We are from Pandor. After a brief silence, the leading woman hesitated, but replied
"Ha, I know the city of Pandor, right in the south? You are indeed from the mainland of Salvinia. Thor shouted, and jumped down in reflexion, startling the women into pointing their wands at him.
"So be it, we have something to do, good luck!" the leading woman spoke, and the five of them stepped back guardedly.
"Wait, I know that my appearance at this time is difficult to trust, and the reasons for this are a bit tortuous. ”
"I'm a lord on the northern border, and I'm the lord of Saul Drake, so you can inquire about that. If you can take me away, I will thank you for going back. Thor stopped the crowd.
This human identity may not be of much use, after all, the people in the south may not know what the lord of the north is, but at the moment, Thor can't take care of it much, so he will throw it out first to win the trust of the other party.
"Are you Saul Drake, the one who slaughtered at a dance party in the South, and then went to the North Byron Bian to create a shocking deception and cheat many big families?"
"Uh, this...... Yes. Thor felt a little ashamed when his evil deeds were suddenly mentioned, and at the same time he was a little wary of the other party's reaction. Your luck won't be so bad, right? Running into this maze where birds don't poop will you meet enemies?
"I don't believe it, how do you prove it?" asked the woman in the lead.
How else can I prove that I'm like this?And in the absence of corroboration, it's as hard to prove who someone is as hard as it is for a man to prove that he's a man, Saul was silent.
"I really can't prove it, so how can I get out of here? by what means?" Thor asked.
"How did you come naturally how to get out, you can't open the door of the secret realm in the secret realm, so I'm sorry we can't help you. The woman in the lead replied.
"You say it's a secret place?" Thor almost popped out in his eyes.
"Yes, this is the thirty-eighth layer of the Abyss of Annihilation, and our secret realm gate is on the first level. Unfortunately, we still have our own mission to complete, you follow the maze back to the first level, and maybe you can get back to Pandor through our door. ”
After the leading woman finished speaking, the five people retreated, and one of them waved his staff, and a viscous transparent gel suddenly appeared in the surrounding space, sealing the entire aisle. The other party's meaning is obvious, and he doesn't want Thor to follow behind.
Thor didn't pester the five people anymore, but rushed back with a frenzy in his heart, the thirty-eighth floor, the first floor should not be too far away.
But after running out for a while, Thor was suddenly stunned, God is special thirty-eight layers, this is three hundred and seventy-nine layers, is it good?
He was in shock before, and he didn't have time to think about it, but then he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
'Dungeon of the Gods' and 'Abyss of Annihilation', it's not surprising that the names are different because of different races, but the problem is that he followed Fenis's team and came here from the upper floor.
So who exactly is the person on both sides who deceived himself?
The first to say that this labyrinth is called 'Dungeon of the Gods' was Kratan, who happened to come to himself at that time, and it is unlikely that he would lie, and the point is that it doesn't make sense to lie on the number of floors of the labyrinth.
There is no need for these five people I met today to lie, they don't want to say that they can not say it at all, is it just to make up an answer to get rid of themselves?
So if both sides weren't lying, what was wrong? Thor stood a little messy in place.
After thinking about it calmly, Thor finally grasped something, the three hundred and eighty layers of the labyrinth, and every ten floors appeared a dangerous floor, which corresponded to the thirty-eight floors. Does this mean that the labyrinthine environment experienced by humans and Phines' race is different?
On the human side, there is a dangerous floor, and each floor is a dangerous floor, while on the Phineth side, there will only be a dangerous floor every ten floors, which means that the two secret realms will only overlap briefly on the dangerous layer. Is this possible?
Soon a bitter taste appeared in Thor's mouth, and he realized that it was useless to guess correctly.
When these five women go back, they only need to go down from thirty-eight to thirty-seven, and they have to climb up from three hundred and seventy-nine to three hundred and seventy-eight to return to the first floor, which obviously has a problem of spatial dislocation.
The problem is that you may not be able to return to the first floor in a hundred years, and you will already die of old age on the road by then.
And this labyrinth is said to be irreversible, so will the human side be chased by Themoor?
A whole bunch of questions were left unanswered, and the slim hope that had just emerged was just gone.