Chapter 17: First Mission Accomplished

There weren't many blood stains on the ground, only a few places with a relatively large amount of bleeding Although Shi Leiyin didn't understand detection, he could still judge from experience that the ten adventurers were not too injured. Judging from the remaining traces and magical elements, the adventurer should have entered the ambush circle of the sweeping mercenaries, and the profession that can use magic was knocked down without being able to release a single spell. And the warrior class has only two decent resistance. But at the same time, it was this resistance that led them to take relatively heavy damage.

The armor fragments in the bloodstains indicated that the attack on them must have been some kind of powerful monster mercenary. Judging by the footprints left on the ground, Shrayin judged that he was a member of the Minotaur tribe who liked to wield sledgehammers and great axes.

After observing the entire battle traces a little, and also missing the blood stains left at the scene, which no longer had any effect on him, Shi Leiyin began to clean up.

The requirement of the task is to clean up the bloodstains, but it is more convenient to simply clean the bloodstains than to directly clean the entire site. Shi Leiyin can't use earth-based magic, but she can use wind-based magic to scrape off the entire ground. Cooperate with yourself to clean with your tentacles, and soon the entire battlefield will be completely cleaned.

While cleaning up this place, Shi Leiyin also released several clones responsible for exploration. The labyrinth area I am responsible for, although not large, is the size of a small village on the earth, and there are all kinds of maze traps blocking the view, and it is obviously a waste of time to look for traces by myself if you want to complete the cleaning work quickly.

If the size of the maze is evenly distributed according to the area, Shi Leiyin calculated slightly, there are four large regions in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and each region is divided into ninety-nine districts, so the thirty-first district in the west that he is responsible for is almost two square kilometers. That is, a square with a side length of about 5,000 meters or a circle with a radius of more than 2,000 meters. However, it is clear that the division of the area is not so even, and soon after Shi Leiyin's clone is released, he encounters a deliberately closed route. After silently calculating, Shi Leiyin found that the West Thirty-One District that he needed to clean should be less than half of the estimated area, no wonder not only was there no additional gold reward, but the points were also a minimum of ten points.

Because the area that needed to be cleaned up was much smaller than expected, Shi Leiyin quickly found the rest of the places with more blood stains through the guò clone. The mission requirement is to clean up the bloodstains and battle traces though. However, it is not necessary to remove all blood stains from the area, as sometimes injured adventurers or monster mercenaries may leave sporadic traces of blood on the way to escape or retreat, which are difficult to detect with sight after drying. Therefore, the main thing that needs to be cleaned up in the mission is relatively large or obvious blood stains and battle marks. With the powerful olfactory ability obtained by Tong Guò fusion and devouring, Shi Leiyin found almost all the bloodstains in the area that were more than the size of an adult's palm.

In addition to the red bloodstains, Shi Leiyin did find the non-red bloodstains that were specifically noted in the mission description. The cyan and green blood stains looked more like caterpillar body fluids, and even tasted different from normal blood stains. If it weren't for the fact that he was in the midst of a relatively large battle, Shi Leiyin might have really ignored it. From the distribution of battle marks and bloodstains, it can be seen that this battlefield was an encounter between the monster mercenaries and the invading adventurers. Both sides met unprepared, so the monster mercenaries suffered a lot of losses, and most of the blood stains left on the ground came from the monster mercenaries. However, it seems that the battle did not end in the West 31st District, which Shi Leiyin was in charge of, but the two sides moved to the 30th District next door while fighting. Judging from the traces, although the monster mercenaries suffered a big loss when they first encountered it, they were deliberately luring adventurers into the Thirty District. According to Shi Leiyin's prediction, there should be some traps and other things in District 30 waiting to fool that group of adventurers.

After cleaning up the traces of the battle in this place, Shi Leiyin also came to the border of Area 31 and Area 30. The clone sent before was specifically responsible for finding it, and it had a certain degree of autonomous feedback ability, so Shi Leiyin didn't use the vision of the guò clone to check the situation of the boundary passage. When the main body arrived, Shi Leiyin carefully observed the appearance of the boundary.

Since the labyrinth itself is underground, it is made of rocks both under your feet and overhead. However, the labyrinth on the first level is very tall, and the top is at least fifty meters above the ground. There is also something on the top that is supposed to be glowing moss that illuminates the entire labyrinth area of the first floor, making it seem that the average person entering the first level will feel like they have left the cave and entered the outside.

Although the first layer of the maze has been completed, there is no barrier to flying. Therefore, if you have the ability to fly, you can avoid most of the traps and blocking monsters and go straight to the entrance to the second floor. Of course, this is just Shi Leiyin's speculation, maybe there will be powerful monster mercenaries stationed at the entrance. Or maybe there will be a weapon that is specifically designed for anti-aircraft use. After all, the height of the first layer of the maze is only fifty meters, and although it is very high from the ground, for a weapon like a mechanical crossbow, fifty meters is not a distance at all.

The West 31st District where Shi Leiyin is located and several nearby areas are open labyrinths that resemble hills. The main thing is the wide range of roads and almost identical hilly formations, relying on this exact consistency of reference to give the intruder the illusion that they will return to the same place as they walk around. The advantage of such a maze is that it can be easy to get lost when the maze itself is not damaged. The downside is that it's not just the intruders who get lost, but the monster mercenaries who are responsible for driving them away can also get lost. As a result, almost all teams of monster mercenaries responsible for driving away adventurers in this kind of labyrinth will be required to have monsters with the ability to fly for a short time. After all, as long as you fly into the air, it is still very simple to crack this maze.

In addition to the labyrinth's labyrinth effect, Shi Leiyin also noticed that almost all the hills that could be climbed were set up with traps and the like. These traps are insidiously placed near the most suitable routes to climb. Anyone who tries to climb to the top of a hill to observe the terrain is bound to be hit by a trap. However, this time, Shi Leiyin didn't see any blood near the hills where the traps were set, perhaps because the first layer had been invaded by adventurers for a while, and most of these traps had already been known.

The boundary is closed according to Shi Leiyin. However, when Shi Leiyin saw it, there was nothing more than a large number of falling rocks on the passage to District 30, blocking the passage. The falling rocks are only two or three meters high, and according to the adventurer's physique, it is not difficult to flip through it, so it is no wonder that even if the passage has been closed, there will still be adventurers who accidentally enter the West 31st District.

However, this closure method still works very well, because the location is a rice-shaped intersection, and in addition to a passage to the 30th district, there are two other paths on the left and right that seem to be going in the same direction. It is easy to think that the other two passages lead to the direction of the 30th arrondissement, but in reality those two routes turn in an imperceptible arc, and in the absence of the sun as a reference overhead, few people will find themselves walking in the opposite direction while walking straight.

With the help of the clone, it took Shi Leiyin less than half a day to complete the cleaning of the entire area. With more than thirty traces of battle and more than this amount of bloodstains in this small area, it's no wonder that a special cleanup mission has been issued to deal with them.