Chapter 371: Another fork in the road
"Da, da, da......"
The footsteps of the crowd spread in all directions, hitting the wall and bouncing back into the middle of the passage.
This causes the longer the orcs walk, the more echoes are heard.
At first, there were only a few echoes, but then there were more and more echoes, superimposed on hundreds of floors, as if more than a hundred teams were walking at the same time in a passage, and at the same time making neat footsteps.
Alan stopped, and so did the orcs, and the echo of the passage did not diminish much, still echoing in the passage, back and forth into the ears of the orcs.
Alan turned to look at everyone's faces, but their vision was too dark, and their cheeks seemed to be covered with a pale black mist, so that Alan couldn't see whether their expressions were pain, confusion, or expressionlessness.
He decided to step back, the walls here are special walls, the sound absorption capacity is very low, and the bouncing sound effect is very high, causing the footstep echo to be superimposed all the time, all the time intensifying.
If he spoke, his voice would echo throughout the passage, so Alan didn't speak, only using his body movements to remind everyone to retreat.
The soldiers also followed in Allen's footsteps and slowly retreated, and no one left the group.
After returning to the coin room, the brightness increased, the faces could be seen clearly, and the echoes in the ears gradually faded by 20 percent, gradually reducing to none.
Alan looked at the soldiers' faces, each of them frowning or pale, all affected by the echo.
"Your Majesty Allen, the echo of this passage is too strong, and I didn't think it was anything at first, but when the footsteps were superimposed on the thirty-odd floors, I felt a little dizzy in my brain, and I had the illusion that a second army was walking beside me."
Ivan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his mental fluctuations were not as easy as he described.
Rhodes also had palpitations, "Your Majesty Allen, when the echo is stacked to a hundred layers, my legs are weak, if it weren't for everyone to retreat together, my legs might not obey the call and go all the way forward." ”
"yes, yes, my legs felt this way just now, and I can't walk for a few more minutes."
"It's so horrible that passage, it's hypnotic." The orcs have all taken Allen's class, know psychology, and know what hypnosis is.
In particular, psychology will be a key subject in the old campus, and in the future, a large number of psychologists will be formed in Tomorrow City to conduct psychological measurements on the graduates of the new campus, determine the psychological state of the graduates of the new campus, and check whether they have been hypnotized by a human teacher.
"Fortunately, the three-month special training allowed us to develop the habit of obeying military orders, otherwise we would be finished after being successfully hypnotized." The orcs whispered about the anomaly just now, and they all came to the same consensus, that is, hypnosis.
This channel is an echo-hypnosis channel, and the success rate of being hypnotized is greatly increased by the biological pheromones emitted by the strange flesh silk.
In the end, if it weren't for their physical habits that made them follow Eren back, I am afraid that they would have gone all the way into the depths of the passage.
After knowing that the passage behind him was echo hypnosis, Alan stood in place and thought for a few seconds, "Retreat, change the fork." ”
"Really retreat, we've come here." Captain Felton was a little regretful.
"Captain, you know better than I do that this passage is not the one we can take." Alan shook his head.
The captain only complained slightly, shrugged his shoulders, and retreated at Allen's words.
Rhodes and Heinz nodded heavily and raised their hands and feet in agreement with Allen's decision.
Their mental resistance is not so strong, and being able to survive without being completely hypnotized is already the greatest achievement of LV1's internal strength.
The orcs of the previous expedition did not have such exercises, and Rhodes estimated that the predecessors were hypnotized after walking twenty or thirty steps, and then went to the end.
Twenty minutes later, the orcs returned to the original three-way intersection again, the one on the left was the one they had just walked, and the passage in the middle and on the right had not yet been attempted.
"There is wind on the left fork and in the middle, and there is no wind on the right, which way to go?" The orcs whispered about which way to go, but the discussion was fruitless for several minutes.
"This time, go to the windless passage on the right side and see what the test is in the passage where there is no gas flow." Alan pointed to the rightmost fork in the road, the light ahead was dim and there was no movement of wind.
"The rightmost passage, I remember that there were a hundred or dozens of people last time, going to the far right." Rhodes recalled.
The orcs moved their guns and walked to the rightmost fork in the road.
All three passages have been walked by predecessors, but none of them made it back to Lionheart alive, indicating that all three passages are at risk of death.
The risk of death in the passage on the left has been found by Allen, although it is not to say that he is deprived of life, but the others can't withstand echo hypnosis, so Allen has to retreat and choose other forks in the road.
He believes that there is always a passage that everyone can bear, otherwise there is no point in opening the ruin dungeon, and the lionheart sword of the original Lionheart King is also a relic item.
NPCs can take out powerful items from the ruins, and Allen, as a veteran player, has no reason to fall in the level of the ruins.
After walking for a while, the orcs once again encountered a black metal door, with blood-red flesh strands on the side of the door frame, like rust and blood.
The orcs naturally didn't dare to look at it more, and Eren once again calmly cleaned off the shredded flesh with a dagger.
Pushing open the door, the interior is not the same as the numismatic room.
Alan saw two rows of vertical rectangular vending machines, with their backs to the left and right walls, and the upper half of the vending machines had transparent glass baffles, through which the objects inside could be seen.
"What is this?"
"What a strange thing......"
"It's glass, I'll knock it on the butt." Ivan walked in front of the rectangular vending machine and tapped the glass pane with the butt of his gun, and there was a crisp click.
The room was much brighter than the passageway, and the orcs could see with night vision the five rows of bottles and cans inside.
These bottles are all transparent test tube bottles with unknown liquid in them, and the colors are green, purple, red, blue, etc., which look very beautiful and delicious.
But behind this beauty is a bloody lesson, and the orcs have no desire to eat.
Alan looked back and forth at the five machines, and saw that some of the machines had blood-colored fist prints on the surface glass, and the fist prints were shaped like orc fists.
After identification, Alan learned that the blood-colored fist mark was from a few years ago.
That is to say, the group of people who sailed from Rhodes last time, because they couldn't get the things of the vending machine, used their fists to slap the glass plate, and the glass was unharmed, but the orc's fist had a wound, leaving a few marks on the surface of the glass baffle.
At this time, someone took out a coin and gestured in front of the rectangular vending machine, and an excited voice came out: "Your Majesty Allen, it seems that the ancient coins we have collected can just be inserted into the vertical hole!" ”