Chapter 49: The First Challenge
On the bluestone ring, the 3D dragon walked around in front of Tuohai for a while with two lines of subtitles, and his figure flashed and disappeared directly above the bluestone ring.
Takumi hurriedly searched around for the figure of the 3D dragon, and found that this guy who resembled a guide elf was floating on the edge of the bluestone ring, and above his head appeared a scoreboard that could be seen at any time in the video game city.
"Time: 15:00"
Score: 0
It seems to have noticed Tuohaitou's gaze, and in the sky above the scoreboard, the colorful version of the subtitles appeared again.
"Ah, those gophers are about to appear, seize the opportunity and destroy them all! I believe that these gophers who faint at a casual touch are definitely not your opponents! ”
Feeling the slight vibration coming from the soles of his feet, Takumi suddenly knew that time was pressing, and he didn't hesitate, and directly threw out all four of his Poke Balls.
"Six-tailed, Little Lada, Aba Snake, Big Needle Bee!"
"See these holes? As soon as something comes out of it, just punch it back! ”
"Remember, you can't let any of them go!"
Watching the four Pokémon nodding and scattering, Takumi calmed down a little, but looking at the dense holes, Takumi couldn't be optimistic.
1500 gopher holes, Takumi himself plus four Pokémon, on average, each person (only) has to be responsible for 300 gopher holes, and the location where the gopher emerges is never fixed, and the energy involved in it is powerless just thinking about it.
However, reality often does not allow human will to operate.
"Bigoo, Bigoo, Bigoo......"
A huge white light shield rose, directly enveloping the entire bluestone ring, and Takumi also heard the continuous sound from the ground.
Raising his eyes to look at the location of the 3D dragon, Takumi immediately shouted when he saw that the time on the scoreboard was 14:59 in the blink of an eye.
"Everyone, here we go!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Takumi found a gopher emerging from the ground in front of him, with a brown oval body and a red nose larger than its two eyes combined.
"Bigoo!"
A friendly hello to Takumi, the voice instantly woke Takumi, his body was a little faster than his brain's reaction, and Takumi instantly pounced towards the gopher.
In the panicked eyes of this gopher, Takumi's two hands slapped on the gopher at the same time.
Watching the gopher turn into a white light and fly towards the scoreboard, turning the '0' under the original score into a '1', Takumi couldn't help but cheer.
Out of the corner of his eye, he swept a few white rays of light flying towards the scoreboard from all over the ring, Takumi knew that the four Pokémon should also have a harvest, and Takumi, who had made a good start, was in a good mood in an instant.
However, after more than ten seconds, Takumi realized that he seemed to be happy too soon......
With a hard kick, he trampled a gopher into a white light, turning the number on the scoreboard into '12', and two 'Bigoo' sounds had already reached Takumi's ears.
Looking at the two gophers that were nearly five meters apart and emerged from the ground at the same time, Takumi's face turned black in an instant, and he directly burst out at the highest speed to make a switchback run.
After a big stride with his left foot just stepped on a gopher on the left, Takumi's entire body quickly changed its center of gravity, and sprinted towards the other gopher, which could be touched before the gopher retracted into the ground.
Before he could catch his breath, two more gophers appeared in the area near Takumi at the same time, and Takumi had to sprint again......
Twelve minutes have passed, and the twelve minutes of continuous sprinting have made Takumi's whole body ooze beads of sweat, his brown hair has been wet with sweat, and the beads of sweat on his forehead are also constantly gathering together, swaying on his clothes or bluestone ground with Takumi's actions.
In fact, from three minutes onwards, with the decline of physical strength and energy, Takumi directly missed the first gopher.
And this time the leaky knife seemed to have turned on a switch, and not only Takumi, but even the other four Pokémon began to leak.
Six-tails and Little Lada are small in stature and have good speed, but when they encounter gophers that are too far apart, they will always come into contact with only one.
In the first five minutes, the relatively thick Aba snake relied on the explosive power of its own muscles to mix like a fish in water, and not a single gopher was missed.
However, as five minutes passed, the frequency of gophers increased again, and in the face of the irregular appearance of gophers, the snake also showed the problem of slow turning, and began to leak the knife.
Even the large needle bee, which can fly flexibly, begins to be a little overwhelmed at the time of eight or nine minutes, but with the long-range attack method of the missile needle, the large needle bee, which has an advantage in flexibility, is the best member of the team.
Morale was low and survived the last three minutes, Takumi was like a frosted eggplant, the whole person's spirit was not very good, and the six-tails who shrugged his ears also came to Takumi's side and screamed softly, and after Takumi stretched out his hands, he jumped into Takumi's arms.
"You've only eliminated 1,296 gophers, and 1,704 gophers are at large, am I looking for the wrong person?"
The scoreboard above his head disappears, and the 3D dragon floats in front of Takumi, and a line of colorful subtitles appears above his head.
If it weren't for the fact that this guy probably didn't have his own wisdom and only knew how to do things according to the procedure, Takumi probably couldn't help but punch him......
Snorted coldly, seeing that the light shield shrouded in the bluestone ring had disappeared, Takumi jumped directly out of the ring with four Pokémon.
"Little Lada!"
Looking in the direction indicated by Little Lada, Takumi's brows couldn't help but furrow, and the place that was empty before the game was played, at this time, a low altar with a simple style actually appeared.
The portal was just behind the low altar, but at this moment, a large red cross appeared in the center of the portal, telling Takumi that it was impassable.
With a move in his heart, Tuohai walked towards the altar first, the space that came in from the teleportation light door was not large, a distance of dozens of steps, not a minute, Tuohai had already come to the ancient altar.
The curious Six Tails suddenly jumped from Takumi's arms to the altar, his eyes first showed a look of doubt, and then he was extremely happy to lie on the altar and roll, that kind of comfortable expression, no matter how it can be faked.
Takumi, who was still worried, blinked his eyes twice, and followed the six tails to the low quaint altar, and at the moment when Takumi stepped on the altar with both feet, a slightly cold feeling rose from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, making Takumi subconsciously shiver.
A feeling of comfort from the soul made Takumi almost moan, and the severe physical exertion after [whack-a-mole] seemed to be relieved a lot under the effect of this cold feeling.
Takumi and Sixtails' reaction made the remaining three Pokémon curious, and after glancing at each other, they hurried to the altar, and then were instantly captured by the mysterious cold sensation and lazily collapsed on top of the altar.
Looking at the 3D dragon that didn't know when it came to his side, Takumi subconsciously looked at the top of its head, but he didn't see the imaginary altar introduction.
After thinking about it for a while, Takumi's left hand brushed the back of his right hand, and a light blue translucent interface appeared in front of his eyes, and after carefully searching for the [Information] option, a smile appeared on the corner of Takumi's mouth.
"Blessing of the Unknown Altar: Physical, mental, and injury recovery effects are slightly increased."
With a chuckle, Takumi immediately lay down on top of the altar, closed his eyes, and began to think about the game just now.
The main quest requires him to clear the three games created by the 3D dragon, so no matter how difficult it is, as long as he doesn't want to stay in this unknown space for the rest of his life, then he has to do his best to complete these three games!
Focusing on the present, how to clear this [whack-a-mole] game is the most urgent thing for Takumi at present.
"1,500 gopher holes, 3,000 gophers, the difficulty of this game is that these two data are too scary, and the difficulty is completely based on the number of accumulations."
"According to the observation just now, each gopher will last for two seconds after it emerges, and nothing happens with the passage of time, the gopher outcropping time decreases this kind of pit setting."
Turning over on the altar, Takumi's right hand rested on Sixtails' body, and his index finger subconsciously tapped on Sixtails' soft fur, as if thinking that this was Takumi's spoiling, Sixtails narrowed his eyes, relaxed his body and gradually fell asleep.
"The key to solving this game is how to accurately reach each gopher under the intense consumption of physical strength and energy!"
Takumi remembered his performance just now, and he couldn't help but despise himself, as a trainer, he ended up dragging four Pokémon back in this mission.
"Judging from the performance just now, the big needle bee performed the best, followed by the Aba snake, then the six-tailed, and finally the little Lada, well, I won't count it myself for the time being......"
Skipping his own performance as a matter of course, Takumi continued to think in his mind.
"Obviously, the division method of dividing the bluestone ring into five pieces on average is too rough in the past, and if you want to successfully clear this task, it is an indispensable prerequisite for those who can work hard."
Glancing at the large needle bee that stretched out its limbs, Takumi had already decided to add some burden to this new Pokémon.
"Little Lada has no long-range attack means, and when the frequency of gophers increases, and when the physical strength is consumed a lot, Little Lada is completely incapable of holding one-fifth of the bluestone ring alone, and it must be given a reduction in the area of responsibility!"
Thinking carefully about the situation of the Six Tails and the Aber Snake, Takumi felt that if he got used to this rhythm, the two Pokémon would barely have a problem taking charge of one-fifth of the area.
"Then, the key to breaking the game is on me~"
Thinking of this, Takumi's face instantly became extremely exciting......