03 Playing Cards and Mazes
"The first game was titled Labyrinth. With a wave of his hand, a digital screen descended from the ceiling showing the combination lock that was now on the edge of the basement.
"Contestants, please choose any entrance to the maze. When the match starts, the locked code door will be automatically unlocked. Magaba pulled a playing card out of his pocket, "Upon entering the door, each contestant has the opportunity to draw a playing card that has already been dealt with. With a flick of his wrist, the cards disappeared from view.
Macaba coughed twice and continued: "There are a total of thirteen exits corresponding to the face value of the playing cards. The rules are simple, and within 36 hours from now, the players who can successfully get out of the maze will move on to the next round. โ
"There's only one ghost card in it, and you can clear any door at will. โ
"Finally, I hope you will find your way out with the determination to die! Nowโthe game begins!" said Magaba as she walked back inside the wall, a smile on her lips. At this time, all the doors on the outer wall were automatically unlocked, and the players had already scrambled to line up.
It was already five minutes after Chen Yan and his party walked in the door, and although the speed of drawing cards was fast, the queue was too long and some time was wasted.
Chen Yan entered the door, and there was a lonely iron box inside.
"Draw your cards. According to the prompt, Chen Yu took out a card from the box and stuffed it directly into his pocket. After Amu and Fuska had finished drawing, the three of them walked out of the room together.
Pushing open the exit door, the wonderful scenery behind the door is dazzling, in the gloomy and gray basement, there is a green jungle! Birds chirp and flowers are fragrant.
"Wow, I can't imagine this is like this!" exclaimed Fuska.
"It's so beautiful...... Chen Yan curiously touched the big tree next to him, and something seemed to be wrong. The tree doesn't have the roughness of a trunk to the touch, instead has the unique smoothness of metal.
"It's a virtual image!"
Fuska and Xiang Mu also touched the trees next to them, and they knew in their hearts: "A jungle of this scale is not realistic in the underground of the city. If it's a virtual image, it makes sense. โ
Due to time constraints, the trio quickly got up and walked deeper into the jungle. After finding a hiding place, sit around and take out the playing cards.
"One, two, three, flip!" Chen Hui gave the exit order, and the three of them turned the poker together, which were Fuska's club Q, Xiang Mu's diamond 3 and Chen Wei's ghost card......
"Brother Jin, you've won the jackpot!" Fuska couldn't help but exclaim, but Amu covered her mouth from behind.
"Shhhhhโโ!h
"Mmmmmmmmmm
"I'm going to ......"
With a plan in place, the three decided to go their separate ways. Chen Yan has no combat effectiveness, and it is easy to be ambushed when he walks alone, while Amu does not deal with machines, has no mobile phones, no means of communication, and is also afraid of encountering mechanisms that need to be operated, so the two of them naturally form a team.
Fuska, on the other hand, prefers to go it alone, planning to use their phones to share information on their phones after finding an exit or other clues, so as to increase the rate of customs clearance.
"Judging by the plural entrances to the venue, it is likely that we are in the center of the labyrinth. There are many roads to the end, and there must be dead ends in them. In order to prevent the path from being repeated, we need to draw down the routes and features along the path with a pen and mark them along the way. โ
Chen Yu took out a notebook and pen from his bag and handed them to Fuska: "If you meet other players, try to exchange information to save search time." But don't reveal your cards lightly!"
In this way, the maze of Chen and the three began.
Chen Xun and Xiang Mu walked all the way to the south, recorded the fork when they came to it, and drew a cross on the map when they reached the dead end, so the two wandered around the jungle for seven or eight hours, but they did not gain the slightest.
"Amu, after walking for so long, let's take a break!" Chen Yu was a little panting with his schoolbag on his back, and along the way, Xiang Mu didn't stop a single step, he didn't even have the slightest disturbance in his breathing.
It was already 2 o'clock at night, but the sun was still shining in the maze due to the virtual influence. Chen Yan suppressed his sleepiness and continued to walk in the jungle.
Amu slowed his pace and seemed to hear the sound of the water, "There is a river." The two of them continued on their way, through the increasingly sparse woods, and before their eyes appeared a clearing, with a trickle in the distance.
Finally saw something different! Chen Xun rushed forward with some excitement, intending to wash his face well, but when his hand touched the river, he felt lonely.
On the side, Xiang Mu did not relax in the slightest. He was very vigilant, and seemed to notice a few eyes looking vaguely from the shadows, only to see him take out two coins and shoot them straight next to a huge rock: "Who!"
Chen Yan was startled, and hurriedly ran behind Amu to hide.
When the man saw that he was exposed, he appeared from behind the rock, and in his hand he held a thick mace, and roared viciously, "Come out, brothers!"
At that time, seven or eight ruffian-looking thugs emerged from the pile of trees, and slowly surrounded the two.
"Hand over your playing cards, and I'll let you go, or ...... Let you go and never return!" the leader shouted, "Brothers!"
Chen Yan hid behind Amu's back, almost engulfed by this formation, he took out a frying pan from his bag tremblingly, and waved it wildly to show resistance.
Suddenly, Chen Yu felt empty behind him, and Xiang Mu behind him took off and rushed towards the crowd in the blink of an eye.
The group of thugs screamed and pounced on Xiang Mu, and the fight was about to break out!
I saw Xiang Mu raise his hand and slap the knife, turn around and strike with an elbow, squat and sweep the hall's legs, and finally turned over and grabbed the grip, knocking down everyone next to the leader in one breath and shackling the leader's neck.
At this time, the little brother who was confused by Chen Yan's indiscriminate slapping saw that the boss had grabbed his neck, and he was immediately confused.
Chen Yan saw that there was a flaw, and immediately slapped the cucumber and slapped the man to the ground. When he turned around again, Xiang Mu had already put everyone on the ground, and he didn't get a corner of his clothes dirty.
"Playing cards, or handing over lives?" Xiang Mu's eyes were flat, but the strength in his hand tightened by two points.
The leader saw that all his men were slumped to the ground, and he had no choice but to resign himself to handing over the playing cards in his pocket: "Here you go!"
Seeing this, Chen Yan also searched each of the younger brothers, and the two of them gained 9 pokers in one go. They are: three hearts of eights, two jacks of clubs, two nines of diamonds, one ace of spades, and one 3 of spades.
Excluding the ghost cards, they have a total of five numbers in their hand: 1, 3, 8, 9, and 11. That means they can go through five exits! That's great news!
Chen Yan's eyes when he looked at Amu were suddenly full of admiration, "Amu, I'll still call you Brother Xiang in the future!"
Xiang Mu was silent for a while, and finally spit out two words: "No." โ
After packing up the group, Chen Yu and Xiang Mu continued to walk towards the high ground far away from the riverbank, intending to look for clues from the heights.
"According to the clues given by the group just now, there is no correct path in this area. You'll have to keep going to the south outside. Chen Yan took out the sandwich he had made earlier from his bag and handed one to Xiang Mu, "Let's have something to eat, we are camping in the highlands tonight." โ
Xiang Mu took the hand of the bread and paused, took a bite carefully, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully, suddenly his eyes lit up, the movements in his hand became faster and faster, and after eating, he stretched out his hand to signal for another one.
Chen Yan was not stingy, and handed over two more: "It's delicious~ Don't look at me like this, I'm first-class in cooking!"
Xiang Mu nodded rarely.
The two of them didn't know at this time that there were other crises waiting for them at the top of the mountain.