Chapter 162: The Trap in Juhuang Mountain
The five of them came to Juhuang Mountain.
As soon as I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I encountered a problem.
It turned out that after the withdrawal of the Empire's ironclad regiment, hundreds of mid-level traps were set up in the mountains, "Bounce Phantom Zones". Although this trap does not have much lethality, it can only gradually weaken its effect over time, but it cannot be broken.
Anyone who steps into the mountains and forests and strays into this trap will immediately be enveloped in a cloud of earthy yellow psionic steam, forming a special earth-attribute enchantment, which can be regarded as a kind of imprisonment trap.
After the barrier is formed, once someone wants to enter or go out of the barrier, the ground will immediately turn into a bottomless quagmire, and anyone who steps into it will immediately sink into the body, until the body is completely trapped, and then it will spring back to its original position, repeating the cycle.
The barrier formed by the "Bounce Phantom Zone" will last for three years before gradually decaying, which means that if you can't avoid the trap before it is triggered, the entire mountain forest may be covered by the triggered "Bounce Phantom Zone", and it will become difficult to move forward.
Although Yu Changsheng has fallen into the trap of "resisting self-explosion", Sha Juele is still not at ease, he has always let Yu Changsheng walk in the front to explore the way, and the others have been following Yu Changsheng, Sha Juele directs the direction of Yu Changsheng's progress.
After entering Juhuang Mountain, Yu Changsheng originally planned that when one of them strayed into the trap, he would immediately seize the opportunity to sneak attack, first find a way to control Sha Juele, make it difficult for him to give orders, it is best to kill him directly, and then subdue the others.
But Sha Juele may have been a demon hunter for too long, and he was too cautious, and he kept Yu Changsheng in front of him, always within the range he could monitor, which made Yu Changsheng's plan impossible to implement.
Yu Changsheng took a cigarette in his mouth and continued to carefully explore the way, although he was also very worried in his heart, but he had no better way to get out now, so he had to move forward.
Fortunately, the traps in the mountains were all "rebound phantom areas", and Yu Changsheng was only ejected again and again, and he did not suffer any substantial damage.
As the number of failures increased, Luquan began to be a little worried:
"Lao Sha, if it goes on like this, the rebound phantom zone will all be activated. In that case, we'll probably never be able to enter the military base up there again. ”
Sha Juele stopped and said disdainfully:
"Brother, don't you know me? In terms of traps, I am in the entire eastern region of Qiuchi Country, even if my level is not called a master, I can definitely rank in the top ten. This kind of intermediate trap, I naturally have a way to deal with it. Let's explore the path first, and I'll see if there is any pattern to these traps. ”
"Lao Sha, of course I can trust you, otherwise how could I have asked you to cooperate? But I still don't understand that it's a bit dangerous to hit a trap so recklessly, and it's very obvious that there will be a trap around the whole mountain. Tell me, what exactly are you going to do? Lu Quan asked.
Sha Juele pointed to the activated rebound phantom area in the surrounding mountains and forests, and said:
"As you can see, the range of each bouncing illusion area is about thirty meters, and considering the special terrain, the coverage of a single trap may be a little wider. Even so, if you want to cover the entire mountain forest, I'm afraid you have to use at least 10,000 traps, but if you think about it, after an accident happened at that time, the army should have been evacuated quickly, and it was impossible to lay so many traps. And this kind of mid-level trap is not cheap, and it is impossible to mass produce tens of thousands! ”
Lu Quan nodded and said:
"Yes, then you mean that these traps should only be on the outskirts of the forest, right?"
"Well, or to be precise, on the main road. This kind of trap takes a lot of time to lay, but to remove a single trap, in addition to the person who set it up to provide a psionic key, it also takes a period of time to operate, which is also very troublesome. So I speculate that some of the remote paths in this Juhuang Mountain may only cover a few traps. Give me a little time, and I should be able to deduce an area with fewer traps and find a way to destroy the traps in it! Sha Juele analyzed.
"Okay, leave this to me, I've done a detailed survey before you came, and I've marked a few remote trails on the map, including some cliffs that you might climb up, so we can try them one by one." Luquan pulled out the map in his backpack.
"Hehe, why are you bothering so much." Yu Changsheng said suddenly.
"Huh? What do you mean? Sha Juele looked at him.
Yu Changsheng spat out a smoke ring and said slowly:
"Don't forget, those young beasts also came down from this Juhuang Mountain. And according to your assumptions, isn't it supposed to transport food to the mother body in the base? In this case, they must have a way to descend the mountain, as long as we find that kind of young beast, or find their traces, won't we be able to find the way to the base? ”
"Do you think you're smart? I've thought about this for a long time, but it's a pity that those monsters can take a path that we can't take, and that's how they get back and forth to and from the base. Luquan said.
"How?" Sha Juele asked.
"To the southwest of Juhuang Mountain, there is a very high cliff from which they can jump or swing back through the tall trees below the cliff. I've found traces of this kind of monster there, but I know that only they can do it, and we can't go there. Luquan explained.
"Oh?" Sha Juele's eyes narrowed, "So, how many times have you been to this Juhuang Mountain before?" ”
"Of course, I've told you, I've been here a few times since I asked Mayor Mare for this map, and I've triggered a few traps. Later, I really didn't have a choice, so I thought of asking you to help! Lu Quan said helplessly.
After all, no one wants to share the spoils of war with others.
Sha Juele stopped, with a sly look flashing in his eyes, and asked:
"No, Brother Deer, with the effect of your curse, you should be able to jump over that cliff, right?"
Lu Quan was slightly stunned, then sighed, and said helplessly:
"Yes, I can go up. Unfortunately, after I jumped on it, I accidentally triggered the trap, and now the road has been blocked. ”
The speaker had no intention of listening, and Yu Changsheng secretly noted in his heart the possibility of the effect of the Luquan curse.
This time, without waiting for Sha Juele to question, Yu Changsheng had already spoken first:
"You're lying, if there was a trap on that path, the monsters that entered and exited there must have already been triggered. In other words, if those demonic beasts locked in the mountain had broken in, the trap of the entire mountain would have been triggered long ago. There is no way we can enter this mountain again. ”
Lu Quan couldn't help frowning after hearing this, he didn't feel uncomfortable with Yu Changsheng's mouth, and he also seemed to have some doubts.
"That's right, in this way, when the army withdraws, maybe these traps were not set up to prevent others from entering, but to lock up those demonic beasts, in this case, the traps on this mountain may have been fully activated."
Sha Juele thought for a while, shook his head and said:
"This is not a contradiction, when this trap is set, the target can be preset according to the breath. Now that you've seen Warcraft infested with your own eyes, and as things stand, most of the traps here are still inactive.
In other words, the preset target of the trap should be a creature carrying an alien breath, so that the local creatures of Juhuang Mountain will not trigger the trap when they move freely.
As for the base on the mountain, they should have used other methods to block the demonic beasts inside. The ones that are now in the town should have been before the army left, or when they were evacuated. ”
Fei Cao also interjected:
"And I feel that if the heads of those ironclad people don't get into the water, it will never be possible to leave no way back, after all, if all the traps are really activated and the mountains and forests will be blocked, then they won't be able to go back in a short time."
"In that case, let's just use the easiest method, let's activate all the traps, and then the entrance will naturally be revealed." Fei Hua said.
"You're really iron-headed, and you're not afraid of dying of exhaustion." Fei Cao said as he pounded his somewhat sore legs.
Sha Juele also immediately objected:
"The possibility of the Imperial army blockading this place cannot be completely ruled out, and if all the traps are really activated, there is no way to do it at all."
"So is there a way for us to simulate the breath of creatures in the mountains and forests? Then disguise yourself as a creature here and jump straight over the trap! Fei Cao asked.
"It's not going to work, it's too much time and effort, and it's not going to be very good at camouflaging. Now the only way is to find a place where the trap is relatively not dense, and I 'trap blast' directly bombarded the trap there, blowing up a gap, so that we can enter smoothly. Sha Juele said.
As soon as he heard that Sha Juele was going to use the advanced trap of "Trap Blasting", all the non-flowers and non-grasses were dumbfounded.
"Hey, boss, you're going to use a high-level trap again, you won't lose too much in this deal, right?" Fei Hua staggered.
"Brother Deer never lets me down." Sha Juele looked at Lu Quan meaningfully, and the expression on his face became a little grim.
Lu Quan was not deterred by his gaze, and said solemnly:
"Don't worry, it's definitely worth the money to kill that demonic beast!"
"Well, that's good, but I only have one 'trap blast', and the range of action is only five meters, if there is no trap within five meters, then it is equivalent to wasting a waste. So, this location, it has to be accurate. "Sha Juele is right.
"Understood, then let's hurry up, it's going to get dark soon." Lu Quan urged.
It was getting late, the sun was already casting a faint orange glow, and the light in the forest was indeed getting a little darker.
So, everyone continued to move forward and began to follow the locations marked on the map on Luquan, and continue to look for areas with relatively few "rebound phantom zones......