Chapter 8 A Narrow Encounter
Jiang Yunqi stood in front of the gap and squinted slightly.
The reason why he was able to get through the maze in front of the gap was because he exploited the loopholes in the system. When the system released the side quest, Jiang Yundie's location was marked on the map.
Jiang Yunqi silently memorized the direction of Jiang Yundie's movement all the way, and when he entered the formation, he called up the map, carefully recalled the direction of Jiang Yundie's movement, and moved in the formation little by little.
However, after only a few steps, Jiang Yunqi noticed that something was wrong.
The so-called maze is to rely on illusions to confuse people's minds. Walking in it, you suddenly find that there is a cliff in front of you, and people will always subconsciously retreat. If you retreat like this, you may miss the opportunity to understand the formation.
Jiang Yunqi didn't know anything about the formation, and he didn't think that he could be in the illusion, but he still kept his mind clear, so he simply closed his eyes.
In this way, Jiang Yunqi didn't know how many cliffs and abysses he had crossed, how many fierce beasts he had stepped on, and finally walked through the formation and came to the gap.
However, at this time, Jiang Yundie had already died, and there were no more signs on the map for reference.
"System, why can I only see the location of Jiang Yundie and Jiang Yunze, but not the location of the protagonist?"
[The reader and the protagonist are currently in a hostile relationship, so it is impossible to view the location.] Readers are invited to use their ingenuity and wisdom to prevent the protagonist from gaining the vicissitudes of life. 】
Jiang Yunqi was slightly stunned, and soon remembered his main task.
If this mission fails again...... Jiang Yunqi's expression gradually sank, although the system did not mention such horrific words as "obliterating the host", if the mission kept failing, his hope of returning home became more and more slim.
Although he was quite anxious in his heart, Jiang Yunqi still reminded himself to calm down.
The first thing to do now is to follow the protagonist's steps and enter the Jiang family's secret land as much as possible. However, since the Jiang family's secret land is a place of hidden treasures, it must be in danger.
Jiang Yunchi's mind was heavy, and he almost tripped over the vines on the soles of his feet. He steadied himself and looked down, only to see many dead vines shrinking on the ground.
A thought flashed through Jiang Yunqi's mind, he squatted down, wrapped the dead vine into a grass ball the size of a football, and took an extremely long vine and wrapped it around one end of the ball.
After doing this, Jiang Yunqi came to the gap again.
With a hard swing, the ball rolled into the hole. The grass ball hit the ground with a "bang". Jiang Yunqi gently tugged on one end of the vine, trying to pull the grass ball back, and the next moment, he heard a muffled sound from the cave, the sound was so loud that Jiang Yunqi could almost feel the light tremor coming from the soles of his feet.
With a bad premonition in his heart, Jiang Yunqi hurriedly increased his strength and wanted to pull the grass ball out of the gap, but the grass ball seemed to be firmly clamped by something, and he couldn't move it for half a minute.
"Smack."
Xu was Jiang Yunqi used too much force, and he actually tore off the vine violently. The huge strength made Jiang Yunqi take a few steps back, and it was not easy to stand firm.
"It seems that there is indeed a mechanism in this gap...... Jiang Yunqi frowned secretly, raised his head and stared at the crack in the mountain that was wide and narrow, only allowing one person to pass through guò.
"If you enter rashly, I am afraid that you will be ...... before you reach the end Well? Jiang Yunqi was secretly worried, his eyes fell on the half of the vine in his hand, and suddenly a flash of inspiration.
He held up the vine to his eyes, looked at it for a moment, and saw that the vine was yellowing and shriveled, apparently withered and dead.
"This vine is extremely resistant, and there are beautiful mountains and rivers here, how can it dry up and die......," Jiang Yunqi said in a low voice, squatting down and pulling the vines on the ground hard.
After pulling like this, Jiang Yunqi realized that this vine was not born from the ground, but seemed to have fallen from somewhere. Jiang Yunqi looked up and looked around, only to find that above the crack in the mountain, a hemlock tree grew out of the crack in the stone, like a single-plank bridge, across the clouds and mist in the mountain.
Jiang Yunqi looked closely, and suddenly a cold wind blew, blowing a line of dense branches and leaves of the hemlock, revealing a dry vine inside.
"The vine fell from the tree. The vines live by absorbing the nutrients of the tree, and most of them wither, presumably because the tree has been tampered with and turned into a dead tree. Jiang Yunqi moved his hands and feet, and then decided to climb the tree to find out.
The location of this mountain crack is a cliff, the mountain is extremely steep, Jiang Yunqi carefully looked for the gravel protruding from the cliff face to settle, and it took about a cup of tea to climb to the top of the tree.
Carefully breaking the branches and leaves of the big tree, I saw a faint glimmer of light under the roots of the tree.
Jiang Yunqi gritted his teeth, inserted the knife he was carrying under the root of the tree, and then shook it slightly, and several pieces of gravel immediately rolled down the cliff.
Beneath the roots of the tree, there is a narrow hole.
Jiang Yunqi frowned slightly, picked up a piece of gravel casually, and threw it towards the cave.
He leaned most of his body against the entrance of the cave, listening carefully to the movement in the cave. The rubble soon hit the ground with a muffled thud. Jiang Yunqi saw that there seemed to be no mechanism in the cave, and his heart was slightly relieved.
But he didn't rush in, although there was no mechanism inside, but the ground was deep and secluded, and it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no miasma or poisonous gas. There was a crisp chirping sound of birds in his ears, and Jiang Yunqi secretly said that he couldn't help it, and bounced a gravel at the bird in mid-air.
The bird screamed, and then fell in a hurry. Jiang Yunqi found some thin vines, kneaded them into a thick rope, bundled the bird's wings, and slowly put them into the hole.
At first, Jiang Yunqi could still feel the power of the bird to break free from the rope slightly, but as the rope gradually lowered, the bird's voice became more and more subtle and inaudible.
It wasn't until a long rope all reached into the hole that Jiang Yunqi pulled the bird out.
Seeing it like this, Jiang Yunqi couldn't help but take a breath, only to see that the bird's body was blackened, and it was already lifeless.
"......" has a mechanism in front of it and is toxic in the back, and it doesn't let people do the task?
Just when Jiang Yunqi was thinking about a complete strategy, there was a loud sound like a dull bell in the cave, and the big tree seemed to be shaken hard, and it trembled heavily.
Jiang Yunqi didn't notice it for a while, and the whole person slipped into the deep hole under the roots of the tree.
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A very secret place in the middle of the cave.
A wolf with a fur as white as snow was galloping.
The wolf's gaze was not fierce, but as calm as water, its limbs strong and powerful, and it raised clouds of dust and mud as it ran.
This wolf is none other than Shen Junyuan.
His strength is low now, but he is better than knowing many little-known secret recipes for refining weapons.
The secret recipe for "Wolf Shadow" was obtained by killing a second-turn refiner in his previous life. To make a wolf shadow, the fur of an adult snow wolf must be completely peeled off, supplemented by a secret method, and refined into clothing.
Shen Junyuan had previously used the Jiang family's secret news that the same cultivator had exchanged for a chance to refine the weapon, and what he refined was this "wolf shadow".
The Wolf Shadow can only be used once, and the user can transform into a wolf within an hour.
The array of entering and exiting the Jiang family's secret place is a "big opening and closing" array.
This array is divided into three layers: inner and outer layers. The middle layer is the core of the formation, and it is also the treasure hiding place of the people who have always set up the formation.
There are a total of 12 doors on the outer two floors, each of which has a mechanism, which is not difficult to open, but when one door is opened, another door will fall.
The gate between the two floors will rotate slowly depending on the time of day and the mechanism opened by the person in the array.
If you want to enter the treasure in the middle, you must follow the method of dissolving the formation deduced by the master of the formation. If the one who will not dissolve the battle falls into the battle, he will find himself often in the dead end, and although the door before him is opened, the next door is closed.
Shen Junyuan walked alone in the world in his previous life, and he didn't know how many dangerous formations he had passed, but he still didn't have a full grasp of the "big opening and closing" array that could be solved.
In this life, in order to find the vicissitudes of life, he had to use an extremely dangerous method to break the formation, that is, to enter the formation with the body of a snow wolf, and every time he opened a door, he went straight to the next door, even if he triggered the mechanism, he had to rush through before the next door fell.
In this way, he doesn't need to think about which door to open first, as long as he keeps running in one direction, he will always reach the central treasure place.
The snow wolf was extremely fast and short, and many of the mechanisms designed for the intruders failed to inflict fatal injuries on Shen Junyuan.
Seeing that he had already broken through the three gates, Shen Junyuan slowed down his body and looked up at the mechanism in the distance.
Previously, he had just broken through the most dangerous Hundred Poison Gate, and now that the Hundred Poison Gate was still behind him, Shen Junyuan planned to repair it slightly.
The most terrifying of the twelve gates are the "Hundred Poison Gate" and the "Thousand Spider Gate", if you encounter these two gates, you can only retreat to the previous gate, wait for the formation to turn, and wait for the original gate to turn away, you can open the formation gate again.
Shen Junyuan turned sideways and glanced at the hideous wound on his abdomen, a hint of determination flashed in his eyes.
He only has one hour, and if he can't retrieve the vicissitudes of life before then, then I'm afraid he will be worried about his life.
He suddenly raised his body and knocked on the door in front of him.
The array door opened, and Shen Junyuan rushed forward, but soon a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.
In the long corridor in front of him, there were many white chrysalis. The chrysalis agitated slightly, and soon, the long thorns glowing with a ghostly light pierced the white chrysalis.
Shen Junyuan immediately turned around and ran towards the door where he came.
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In a hidden deep hole beneath the roots of a tree.
Jiang Yunchi's body fell rapidly, the cave wall was extremely slippery, and there was moss about a finger thick on the surface, Jiang Yunqi reached out to grab the cave wall, but he couldn't stop the downward trend.
Thinking of the poisonous gas at the bottom of the cave, Jiang Yunqi's mind flew around, and he subconsciously pulled out a knife and looked at the cave wall.
The knife was originally cast from Xuanxing steel, and the surface layer was embedded with "broken" beads, which cut through the cave wall at this time, and soon left a shallow mark.
Jiang Yunqi pressed most of his body against the knife, wanting to press the knife into the stone wall, so that he could have a place where he could bear the force.
There was the sound of the wind whizzing in my ears, and the screeching sound of sharp air cutting across the stone walls.
"K-"
With a loud bang, Jiang Yunqi finally stabilized his body with the help of the knife.
He stared with bated breath, his legs pressed against the stone wall, his body bowed slightly, and his hands gripped the sharp knife.
The cave was extremely quiet, and it was pitch black as far as the eye could see.
Jiang Yunqi didn't dare to move, for fear that the knife would slip out of the crack and his whole body would fall to the bottom of the cave.
Exhaling slightly, Jiang Yunqi closed his eyes tightly to keep himself calm.
Suddenly, a chill crept up Jiang Yunchi's calf. It seemed as if a very thin air stream was slowly blowing on the surface of his feet.
"There is an airflow...... Is there a cave in the walls of this cave? Jiang Yunqi was overjoyed, and hurriedly raised his foot and kicked the cave wall, and with such a kick, Jiang Yunqi heard the sound of the stone door crushing.
The deep cave that was originally dark and lightless suddenly shone into a ghostly light. Jiang Yunqi subconsciously closed his eyes, and only slowly opened his eyes until he adapted to the light.
The light shot out from the bottom of the cave, Jiang Yunqi secretly suspected, he seemed to have touched a mechanism, and then opened the door at the bottom of the cave.
It's just that...... The bottom of the cave is full of poisonous gas, and I don't know if it's safe behind the cave door.
Jiang Yunqi gritted his teeth, he was now hanging in the air, and he couldn't go up, so it was better to gamble, hold his breath and jump into the bottom of the cave, maybe there was a way out behind the door.
Jiang Yunqi took a long breath, exerted a slight force, and pulled the knife out of the crack in the mountain, and his whole body fell towards the bottom of the cave again.
Jiang Yunqi followed the previous method, and smashed the knife into the cave wall from time to time, stopping the rapid fall.
He landed slowly, and as soon as he stepped into the door, he felt remorse.
In a long and quiet corridor in front of you, there are many stalactites hanging above the dome, and from time to time there is a dark green liquid on those stalactites.
As soon as the dark green liquid fell into the mud, it burned the mud to a grayish white, and what was even more terrifying was that the pointed cone-shaped stalactites were still slowly growing and were about to plunge into the mud.
"Run!" There was only one thought left in Jiang Yunqi's mind.
This place is quite strange, if you don't leave, you will either make a sieve for this stone, or you will be corrupted by the strange venom.
Jiang Yunqi ran wildly towards the end of the road.
Shen Junyuan was also running wildly towards the place where he came.
Seeing that the array gate was in front of him, Shen Junyuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the hundred poisonous gates had been removed, and it should be quite safe here, as long as the poisonous spider was closed behind the door......
“!” The array door opened slightly, but Shen Junyuan suddenly stopped.
Wasn't that extremely familiar dark green liquid the Thousand Poison Gate that he had just walked through?
Why- turned back here?!
Jiang Yunqi was almost ecstatic.
Seeing that there was no way out in front of him, there was a sudden sound, and a door slowly opened.
Heaven have mercy on me!
Jiang Yunqi didn't have time to sigh, and hurriedly ran towards the door.
A pair of surprised eyes met a pair of angry eyes.
The most terrible thing in this world is not that you and your opponent meet in a narrow way.
It's that you're running for your life, and you run into the other person head-on, only to find that the other person is also running for your life.
At this time, there is no third way to go.