Chapter 14: The Treasure Chest
"The previous mark must have been a safety mark, which means it's safe to walk over a brick with ice on it. And while the number of floors in each pattern is about the same, a closer look reveals that only the ice bricks form a path to the opposite side, while the other patterns do not. Xia Chiyu held his chin and groaned.
"It doesn't matter, if it's wrong, will it be killed in seconds?" Xiaoyu asked cautiously behind him.
"Probably not, if it's a second, they don't need to make such a complicated route." Xia Chiyu pointed to a very inconspicuous path of peaks and loops formed by the patterns of those ice cubes.
As he spoke, Xia Chiyu jumped on the ice cube pattern in front of him, and as he expected, he did not trigger the trap.
Of course, these traps usually have some special triggers to prevent the player from using tricks such as flying or space movement to get through guò.
According to the route chosen by Xia Chiyu, he walked over the floor tiles with ice block patterns, although he occasionally needed to walk back, but he finally passed through this area safely and soundly, and did not trigger any mechanism.
After passing this mechanism, two paths appeared in front of them. Xia Chiyu looked at the map and said, "We are already very close to the treasure, and from the location, we are not far ahead, so which way should we go next......
The key to the scavenger hunt is speed, and only the first to find the treasure will be rewarded, and the game is over.
In this mode, this kind of fork is inevitable, symbolizing two routes, one side is the need to solve puzzles, and the other side is the need to fight monsters. The trade-off depends on which one the player is better at, in short, it needs to be solved quickly.
So, Xia Chiyu first explored the way with Xiaoyu to find out which side was the mechanism and which side was the monster.
The two of them descended from the staircase on the left, went around in a semicircle, and then descended to the bottom floor of the palace. The empty hall is very large, and there are only two areas similar to the console on the left and right sides of it, and there is nothing in front of it, only a smooth floor, and there are no marks on the floor from the previous mechanism, but there are no monsters either. Obviously, this is the organ room.
"Let's look at the difficulty of the mechanism, if it's easy, go this way." Xia Chiyu said, taking a step forward, but the floor under his feet disappeared suddenly, and the floor in the entire room suddenly collapsed by half, and the remaining half began to float irregularly in the air and swim back and forth.
However, there is no way to create a path that leads to the opposite gate, and the collapsed areas will continue to spew flames without taking the floor, prohibiting the player from flying or jumping over them.
"So those two consoles are the mechanisms for solving puzzles......" Xia Chiyu looked left and right, and now the row of floor tiles at the door of the room was still in a fixed state, and he could go to the console on the left through a short section of the way. However, the console on the right floated alone in the air, and there was no direct route to get there, so he went to the console on the left to check it out.
"You seem to be in a good mood eating fish." Xiaoyu tilted his head and looked at the various musical symbols floating above Xia Chiyu's head and smiled, although he had no expression on his face. Xia Chiyu shrugged his shoulders, fiddled with the console and said, "Yes, it reminds me of the old days." I used to participate in treasure hunts with a little girl like this, solving puzzles and fighting monsters......"
"Is it a girlfriend? Ex-girlfriend? Xiao Yu immediately asked with great interest, Xia Chiyu frowned and flicked on Xiao Yu's head, and reprimanded: "Stop gossiping." Then he looked up to see how the floor was floating.
As Xia Chiyu pressed those buttons on the console, the route of those floating floors also changed, but the console on the left could only move the front half of the floor, just enough to reach the console floating on the right.
It means that you have to lay the floor to the right console, then observe the law of moving the floor on the right, and then go back to the left console and place a floor that can not only go to the right console but also move with the right console to form a road to the opposite side......
The puzzle was too complicated, so Xia Chiyu and Xiaoyu went to the monster room on the right to take a look. In the room on the ground floor of the palace on the right, there are two stone unicorns of level 30, about ten meters high, whose names are "Qilin Guards". There are also two corridors on either side of the room with traps, because monsters in scavenger hunts can be killed by traps.
Xia Chiyu tried it without triggering the two monsters, and the mechanisms on both sides would periodically continue to spray flames and ice mist after they were opened. Judging from the strength of the flames and ice of the traps, it is impossible for a mage of the same level to reach them, so they can only rely on the two traps in the room to deal with these two monsters.
But after triggering the monster, Xia Chiyu found that the Qilin Guards moved extremely fast, but after the mechanism was pulled down, it did not immediately spray flames and ice, but there was a delay of a few seconds, plus these two monsters have AI to deal with traps, they would wait for a round of flamespray to end before passing through the mechanism, so it would take two rounds to solve these two Qilin Guards.
"Let's go back to the puzzle room...... Xia Chiyu sighed helplessly, and walked back with Xiaoyu. As I said before, the key to the treasure hunt is speed, as long as someone finds the treasure, the game will be over, but now there is no way to solve it quickly on both sides, Xia Chiyu would rather choose to solve the puzzle, at least he will not be killed by the monster if he makes a mistake.
Xia Chiyu tinkered with the table on the left side of the puzzle room, trying to note down the sequence of the slate movements changed by the buttons on the table, and trying to make those floating slate connect into a path to the right table at some point.
This is not too difficult, and soon he spelled it out, and then came to the right console with Xiaoyu.
The trouble is only beginning now, to write down the movement law of the right console to the second half of the slate, and then cooperate with the movement of the left console to arrange the second half of the slate in advance, and then return to the left console, with the second half of the slate that has been arranged to spell out a road to the opposite side.
Just thinking about Xia Chiyu made him anxious, but he could only sigh, stabilize his feelings, and patiently observe the movement of the slate in the second half. But as he was tinkering, all the stone slabs in the room suddenly stopped, and then the floors that had sunk before also rose again, and the whole room was restored to its original state!
"How is this ......" Xia Chiyu muttered to himself, his first reaction was that the game was over, but they should be teleported out when the game was over. Therefore, Xia Chiyu looked back at Xiaoyu, and the girl hurriedly raised her hands innocently, pointed to the back of a stone pillar in the corner of the right console and said, "I just touched this, and it became like this!" ”
After taking such a closer look, Xia Chiyu found that on the wall behind the decorative stone pillar, there was actually an inconspicuous stone lion relief! This stone pillar has one on each side of the operating table on the right, it is symmetrical, Xia Chiyu originally thought it was just decoration, if it wasn't for Xiaoyu pointing it out, he wouldn't have noticed it at all, and this one is......
"It's actually a backdoor program...... Xia Chiyu was secretly surprised. The so-called backdoor program is a mechanism that can directly dissolve all puzzles, which is unique to puzzle solving rooms. The relative monster room is unique to the monster "second kill point",If you can find out the monster's second kill point, you can also kill it with one hit without guò mechanism.。
But these two require not IQ or strength, but luck, because there are no rules to speak of. And it takes too long to find spikes and backdoors, which makes no sense for a time-grabbing scavenger hunt.
"Forget it, luck is also a kind of strength, which is also the meaning of setting up spike points and backdoor procedures." Xia Chiyu sighed secretly, then looked at the door on the other side of the hall and said, "Let's go, take the treasure!" ”
Along the passage across the room, to the bottom of the palace, the golden treasure chest finally appeared in front of them!
Xia Chiyu turned to Xiaoyu and said, "Come on, everyone says that the girl has a red hand." ”
"Hmmm! Today I look like I am in luck! Xiao Yu said with a lot of fighting spirit, came to the golden treasure chest, stretched out his hand and pressed on the treasure chest, the treasure chest slowly opened, the golden light overflowed from the gap in the treasure chest, and the drop list appeared in front of the two of them.
The experience gained in the treasure hunt game is calculated as a percentage, and the player is given a fixed fifty percent of the experience at the low level, and a little less at the advanced level, so Xia Chiyu and Xiaoyu have each been upgraded by one level, and now they are level twenty-six and twenty-nine. But experience is secondary, and at low levels, it's not that much experience, and the treasures dropped are the key.
"Ahh......h Good luck or bad luck! Xiaoyu grumbled as she looked at her drop list.
AO's equipment includes helmets, shoulder armor, boots, gloves, formal wear, and capes, with formal wear including clothes, pants, and belts, of which gloves and boots have the lowest stat bonuses. And Xia Chiyu's fall ...... There is not even a piece of equipment, only experience, a little money, and something like a treasure map, but there is no map on it, only some patterns of equipment, and the guò arrow is connected to a monster, which seems to mean that the equipment was dropped by these monsters.
Although most of the equipment in AO is dropped randomly, and the equipment of the same level is only different in appearance and name, the attribute bonus is similar, but there are exceptions.
Some equipment is only available from certain bosses, and that is the brown "Hallows" and orange "Artifacts". The Hallows have the same stats as the purple Epic gear, but have some additional special effects, such as increased hitstun or flight speed. The artifact is an epic equipment with special effects and slightly higher attributes than purple.
This drop map can be scrappy or expensive, depending on the level of those particular pieces of equipment. Xia Chiyu wasn't too sure, so he put it in his bag first, and then sent it back to the guild with Xiaoyu.