Chapter Ninety-Five: Failure
"Senior nephew has worked hard," Ce looked at Su Zi's confused eyes that had almost turned into mosquito coils, patted her shoulder, and sat on the ground so casually, "It's already quite gratifying progress to be able to get here in one day, and then the choice of the fork in the road will change hands to me, and you will be responsible for another task." ”
"What task?" It seems that Ce is preparing to use the Dream Possession Technique here.
"I'll need some time to figure out the answers, and the second horror of the maze in the Valley of the Storm is that the longer you stay in one place, the more likely it is to be dangerous. As if he had nothing to do with him, he even grinned at her, "So during the time I fell asleep, I entrusted my life to you, my nephew." ”
"What? you wait!" Su Zi, who was pressed down by an S-class task in an instant, was taken aback, but Ce didn't intend to give her a chance to refute at all, after saying this, he didn't even need to count one, two, three, just leaned directly on the stone corridor on the side, sleep!
Nobita doesn't sleep as fast as you do!
Su Zi, who was forcibly driven to the shelves as a temporary bodyguard, just wanted to vomit blood, and there was danger at any time, wouldn't it be that if he slept for eight hours, she would have to be on guard for eight hours? ! It was impossible to predict whether there would suddenly be a monster or a natural disaster in this place, Su Zi had no choice but to tremble and stay by Ce's side, with a sense of three hundred and sixty degrees without dead ends, and a little wind and grass outside could make her nervous for a long time, and after she survived two hours like this, she probably stepped on the shit of somewhere, and finally there was no accident and waited for Ce to wake up.
Su Zi's stomach grumbled and swallowed it back when she saw his face suddenly deteriorated, remembering that he was also as haggard as if he had stayed up all night on the morning of leaving Xuanfeng, she couldn't help frowning, "If you use the Dream Control Technique, will it affect the state of your body?"
"It's just a little tired," Ce's dismissive, "I want to get results." There's always a price to pay, so what's the matter, are there any uninvited guests coming to bother?"
"Not even an ant. Su Zi shook his head, although he could hear the insects and birds chirping outside. But there were no living creatures in this labyrinth, and when he said this, Su Zi immediately glanced at him, "If I didn't come with me, how are you going to protect yourself when you occupy the dream?"
"Don't worry about it. The mountain man has his own clever plan," Ce was very unbeaten, and then got up and moved his body, "Let's go, and I calculated that it was almost fifty steps." ”
Continuing to move forward, after another fifty steps, Su Zi couldn't even feel the prohibition in the east, or rather, she couldn't tell where the east was now, they had already entered the depths of the labyrinth. And this powerful illusion completely obscured her divine sense, and her divine consciousness could not break through, and the illusion was boundless and naturally ineffective, so the only method they could rely on now was Ce's dream control technique.
This time, he slept for a longer time, and after Su Zi guarded motionless for another three hours, he was glad that there was still no accident, and at the same time, he planned for a longer time, but he still only took fifty steps.
Now the maze has reached the middle of the section. It's getting harder and harder for them to move forward.
As he continued to walk these fifty steps with Ce's answer, the super maze of the Thrilling Valley, which had been only explored by intelligence and luck, finally took an unexpected turn.
I took a step forward and looked at the crazy intersection with a fork in the road that was refreshed in front of me. Su Zi suddenly felt as if she was dazzled. "Uncle Cerate......" she closed her eyes, "It seems that a road has just disappeared over there......"
Ce's expression, which had always been relaxed, finally sank, "It shows that the person who entered the Thrilling Valley before us is now progressing faster than us." ”
"Why is this?" Su Zi wondered.
"The most difficult part of the Maze is that there is only one correct path to the middle of the valley. Although the labyrinth is immensely large, the abandoned route of all the people in the maze will disappear with every step they take, so every treasure hunter who enters the maze is competing with each other to get on the right track before the path to the only correct answer is destroyed. ”
Su Zi was shocked, although Mrs. Jingxia was cheating, but the mechanism in her Jingxia Valley was really big and exquisite! No wonder it had been opened three times so far, and no one had been able to clear this place for nine years, this place not only needed strength, but also needed explosive luck, Su Zi looked at the second fork in the road that disappeared in front of her eyes this time, and couldn't help but get nervous, "Then we have to hurry!"
And just when she pulled up Ce and was about to hurry through this fork, a "gurgling" sound from the depths of her throat from an unknown animal suddenly came to her ears, realizing the danger, she and Ce jumped away at the same time, the bamboo stick and Zixiao had cultivated a tacit understanding after fighting for half a month, and the sword light and shadow were staggered, and the sneak attack creature was slammed back in an instant, and before Su Zi could see the true face of the sneak attacker, it had already fallen into a fork in the road, and this road disappeared in an instant.
"Why did you come out at such a time...... Although the demon beast had been easily solved, Su Zi was really taken aback.
Ce clenched the bamboo stick in his hand and said in a deep voice: "The more people in the maze, the more fierce the competition, and the more obstacles appear, now is the time to fight for speed, go quickly!"
"Good!"
Don't dare to make a mistake and take any wrong step, the two of them are judging the direction while moving forward, but even if they have the predicted correct answer in their hands, but the other competitor who doesn't know where, let alone who it is, is very magical and has been steadily one step faster than them, every step can see that the fork in the road is disappearing, and the various obstacles that suddenly appear are becoming more and more frequent, Su Zi was more and more nervous by this kind of racing competition where he couldn't see the opponent, and when the earth attribute formation suddenly appeared in the middle of the maze to delay their pace, Su Zi actually made a mistake by breaking the formation with a sword, and suddenly the excited formation directly made several mountains to block their wayAlthough Ce's efforts had been made as fast as he could, the path in front of him had completely disappeared by the time he poked a blow through the rock wall that stood in the way of the correct option.
Su Zi was completely dumbfounded.
"This ...... What to do?" The only answer is gone, and their desperate efforts before are in vain.
"No way, it seems that the other party is more than one step faster than us. Ce wasn't too disappointed. Just shrugged his shoulders, "Let's go, this opportunity is a failure." ”
Su Zi stared at the place where the passage disappeared, and was extremely unwilling. "And when is the next chance?"
"After ninety-nine eighty-one, the labyrinth will be reshaped. Ce looked at her pursed lips, hooked the corners of her mouth, and directly pushed her back with a bamboo stick, "You can't do it without a strong heart." But the heart of gain and loss can't be too heavy, don't worry, no matter who that person is, this Shocking Valley is by no means so easy to overcome, listen to Uncle Strategy's iron mouth, three months later, we still have a chance. ”
Su Zi's feet shook, and she grabbed his bamboo stick speechlessly, although she was unwilling, she was not so extreme that she couldn't be relieved. It's just that every time she fails, her desire to become stronger becomes stronger, and she stares at Ce, "Then may I ask this iron mouth straightforward, can't you predict who will break the Thrilling Valley in the end, and who will get the ruthless tears?"
Ce Yi knocked her on the head, "The sky is unpredictable, and it changes at any time, since you also have talent on this path, keep it in mind for me." Some things can be counted, and some things can't. ”
Su Zi's heart moved, and he asked the root of the question: "Why?"
"Didn't I say that you have to get results. There is a price to pay, even if you have abilities that others can't envy, but if you ask too much, there will always be a day when you can't afford the price. It was rare for him to be so serious, although he was looking at Su Zi, he seemed to be looking at himself through her. "It's not necessarily a good thing to be able to peek into the heavens. ”
Su Zi was silent, she suddenly thought of the Zhaoyang Sect member she met in the imperial capital, Shen Sleeve, the only requirement he asked for her to give up the magic boundless was for her to calculate a hexagram for him, and paid such a valuable bargaining chip, what did he want to calculate?
The two of them were silent for a while, the maze that was so difficult when they moved forward, but it was only a distance of five steps to exit, and they chose the road five times at random, and Su Zi and Ce had already come to the starting point where they entered the maze.
After packing up her mood, Su Zi looked at Xiang Ce, "We have to wait for eighty-one days, do we have to go back to Xuanfeng first?"
"Compared to this ......" Halfway through his words, Ce's sudden smile revealed a dangerous taste in Su Zi's eyes, "If I'm not mistaken, the reason why we failed just now seems to be because of my nephew?"
"Uh......" Su Zi silently took half a step back.
Su Zi, who wanted to escape but was caught by Ce in an instant, heard the bad news, "It's so easy to be affected by the surrounding environment, senior nephew, your experience in breaking into the secret realm is still far behind, and you still want to go back to Xuanfeng to enjoy the blessings?" He suddenly raised his hand and conjured five scrolls and poked them in front of her, "Smoke one." ”
What is it...... Su Zi, who had a bad premonition, glanced at Ce, who seemed to be kind with a smile, obediently touched a scroll from his hand, shook it open, and the first thing that jumped into his eyes was the four big words "advanced mission".
"Location, Baifang Town, Tong County, Qiongzhou, Mission, Hunting Seventh-level Demon Beasts and Mountain Owl Ghosts......" Su Zi read out the above content.
"It's just a seventh-level demon beast," Ce looked at her with a bright smile, "Eighty-one days, is it enough?"
Closing the scroll, Su Zi took a deep breath, "More than enough." "I finally understand why Liangyu likes to talk to people so much, although he is cursing this guy for abusing children, but ...... The more this is the case, the more I don't want him to look flat!
"Then I'll be waiting for the good news from my nephew in Xuanfeng. (To be continued.) )