Ricky and Eric are in an eerie space.

It was pitch black all around, but directly in front of the two of them was a huge light curtain that showed the adventures of the remaining eight. They were slowly descending the mountain road with torches in hand, and the two of them could even watch everyone's expressions by switching angles.

Eric zoomed in front of the elf, and the screen was filled with Amacer's face.

"Tsk, this guy's face is so beautiful, no matter what angle you look at, there are no flaws." Eric's voice was undisguised with jealousy.

Ricky rolled his eyes, and he cut his perspective to Uno.

Suddenly, the half-race hipster's beard and curly hair took over the screen, and his lips were still stained with unwiped fish scraps.

"See, Uno, a fusion of the soft beauty of the Tallinn people and the unrestrained beauty of the hipsters, is called manhood, and Amacer doesn't even have a beard!" Uncle Ricky said, with pride in his tone.

"I really don't know how you like Momoya with this aesthetic," Eric lay limply on the ground, crossed Jiro's legs. "I think you need to learn more from Miss Grace how to be a well-bred nobleman, right, Your Excellency Prince Ricky."

Ricky smiled and lay down like him, but unfortunately with his height, he had to move up a bit to catch up with Eric.

"Hey, great writer, I'm curious why they should be allowed to do this, and risk their lives?"

"It's not hard to think of that," Eric said, ignoring the second question directly. "I put myself in the shoes of the creator of this world, the Lord Shans, and I certainly don't have a key that can open all the locks. The real 'fun' lies in the fact that the chest you open with the first key hides the key to the second chest, so as to pass it on, and the final 'chest' is the most rewarding reward, you ...... Do you understand? ”

The Tallinn nodded, "You mean that the teleportation array can only help one person fulfill their wishes, and then it will be invalidated?" ”

"That's right, I call it a 'disposable' item, and it's only for the indigenous people of this world, not us. Of course, this is just a rudimentary, templated idea, and that's what Shans is doing. If I were him, I would design it this way. Eric was interested, sat up and gestured:

"If there are five boxes, I would have the second box have two locks and require the first two keys, the third box has three locks and need the keys from the first two boxes, and the fourth box will involve the keys in the second and third boxes...... And so on. This makes better use of the previous design. ”

Ricky snapped his fingers and calculated, "Are you saying that except for the first key given at the beginning, the remaining times are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?" ”

"I'm starting to understand why Uno is so 'simple'." Eric teased, "The correct answer is 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, I call them the Eric sequence." ”

"It can even be a little more complicated, and disrupting the order is like rearranging a bunch of numbers, which is a new test for the participants." He shrugged, "But apparently this designer isn't as smart as I am, and I can't think of that." There is no clue from beginning to end that Kelly's 'home' is, and it is a waste that his wish will not appear in front of our eyes once it is fulfilled. ”

Ricky smiled too, "You said that if that guy named Shans heard you taunt him like this, would he want to jump out and smash your mouth?" ”

"Then he has to reach it." Eric made a joke, and the two laughed.

The laughter died down and fell into a brief silence, and after a moment, Ricky suddenly asked, "But you haven't answered me yet, why did you send yourself here?" ”

Eric's expression froze, and he turned his face without a trace, scratching his head.

"Ah, you say this......"

His tone was dry, and it was easy to hear the unnaturalness. But then I seemed to clear my thoughts, and as the words increased, they became much smoother.

"Actually, I was thinking at the beginning, there are four levels in the whole trial, but if you pass it alone, it is considered a team victory, so is this difficulty fluctuating or fixed from the beginning?"

Ricky frowned, "You mean ......"

"Yes, I think it's fluctuating." Eric said firmly: "I was thinking about why Xu Fu came out the moment you left the scene, it seems to be a 'sacrifice' - sacrificing one of us, using his life to break through the puzzle, omitting this link." Didn't Shans say the same thing at the beginning, 'When you want to make certain trades, you have to pay for your blood.'" ’

"To put it another way, if you don't leave, we'll get other clues, and we'll decipher them, and then we'll end up with an answer in one way or another.

"But can we make it easier by 'man-made', 'deliberate' sacrifices?

"Since difficulty is resilient, why not leave those who are most likely to make it to the end and take the initiative to let go of the 'burden'? Amacer and Surya, for example, have been through the test of courage, and it is better to continue. ”

"But you're not a burden, you're the brains of the team......"

"No, Mr. Ricky, I just offer a way of thinking, a new way of thinking, that can be inherited by others, but not by personal strength. Maybe my light is too bright and my voice is so loud that you ignore others, isn't Jerry smart? And the wisdom of Mr. Glazer. Of course, it is undeniable that the most laid-back people on the team are Uno and Ms. Grace, but Grace has excellent diplomatic acumen, and Uno is the most special one. ”

Ricky had been listening very carefully, but at this point he felt like he was talking nonsense.

"Uno...... What's so special about it? ”

"You know, it's ......" Eric racked his brains and suddenly came to inspiration: "He is obviously an ordinary person with no combat effectiveness, but he can resist the cold of the snowfield, this is an extraordinary performance, right?" If the difficulty of the task depends on individual strength, then when he is the only one left in the team, he will surprise his opponent - an ordinary person who is far beyond his own strength, it feels very powerful to think about. ”

Ricky rolled his eyes, "Uno's must be glad you said that." ”

"Thank you."

Eric breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that he was a genius.

"But that's what you're talking about," Ricky chimed in with a sudden smile, "I also remember Amather mentioning the 'trials' they went through in the Wind Firmament, the last part of which was to face everyone's fears. If it's Uno, I really don't know what he's afraid of, maybe it's the River Styx? Or maybe it's a venom wasp? I remember when he was a kid and he was stung and rolled all over the ground by this thing, it was so cute......"

Eric didn't say anything, just smiled.

Yes, they said, Surya said that she had met her grandfather, who had feared her most when she was a child, and Amatho said that she had relived the murder of her lover...... What if it's him? What will he go through himself?

All this time, he had concealed everything he had experienced in Nightlight as "Anthony", and everyone tacitly didn't ask much. Of course, he understands that as long as he doesn't take the initiative to die in this adventure, everyone on the team will help him to the last level, even at the expense of themselves.

But then?

And then go through all those nightmares?

Forget it, it was too painful, Anthony was dead, gone with the wind, and the huge head was withered. The quick-thinking writer in front of everyone now is called Eric, he likes to write reasoning, although he is an ordinary human but has a good elven friend, and even a group of "brains" of fellows who can't be more outstanding.

Such a life could not be more perfect.

Moreover, if I leave like this, I am not considered a "coward", right?

Eric thought.