The masked man's attack was so fast that Jun Yao's consciousness kept up, but she couldn't react effectively, because she found that she didn't have the props to resist this unreasonable attack in an instant. Ghost dolls? It was just an item to alert herself to her surroundings, and she had used it in the hallway of the inn before, and now it was on a cooldown. It's also unrealistic to use attack props, Jun Yao has already learned the ability of the mask man many times, and what he got is just an ordinary low-grade attack prop, even people like Xu Qingran and Lin Mo are still inferior in front of the mask man, let alone himself? But I don't have any other props to use......

At this moment, Jun Yao heard the heavy sound of a stick hitting the ground in his ears, and then a golden light came out from the direction where Jiang Xian was, and then quickly spread outward, dyeing the entire world golden. The masked man was still looking up to the sky and smiling, the claws and sickles stopped in mid-air, Xu Qingran maintained a posture of trying to struggle to get up in pain, and Jun Yao looked at Jiang Xian with an extremely shocked look.

[Dream traveler Jiang Xian, has met the conditions for prop sacrifice]

[New item "Time Scepter" to be generated]

[Completed the sacrificial item "Spirit Scepter"]

【Yes or No】

Jiang Xian didn't have time to think about what this sacrifice was, but she subconsciously thought that she should click "yes", no matter what happened, it would not be worse than the situation of dying now, right?

The white light completely wrapped the time spirit scepter in Jiang Xian's hand, Jiang Xian obviously felt that the scepter in her hand had undergone incredible changes, but the originally smooth authority felt uneven at this moment, as if there were patterns carved on it. The topmost crown has also changed, a circle larger than the previous one, and the style of the crown is no longer a toothed shape composed of countless triangles, but a more elaborate hollow carved sphere, and there is a purple gem inside the crown.

[New item "Time Scepter" has been generated.】

[Scepter of Time: Sacrifice Special Item.] You can pause for as long as you want, limited to 10 minutes, without consuming the user's energy. More than 10 minutes will have a load on the user's body, and the maximum amount of time can be suspended for up to half an hour according to the user's physical fitness. There is no cooldown for this feature. At the same time, the scepter can rewind time and jump back to the space where the user wishes to be at the time node, and the maximum jump that can be performed is limited to 5 hours. Each time you use a time rewind jump, the function enters a cooldown of 10 hours per use.

Jiang Xian didn't say a word, and chose the jump node for the moment when they walked out of the Eternal Sleep Hotel, the golden light was instantly retracted, and the world in front of them became distorted with the return of the light, Xu Qingran and Jun Yao felt that their bodies were light, as if they had a pair of invisible wings and were out of the ground. In the next second, a strong sense of weightlessness hit, accompanied by dizziness, and when he opened his eyes, the Yongxing Grand Theater, the red full moon, the masked man, and its attacks in front of him were completely gone.

The familiar Eternal Sleep Hotel is right in front of the three of them, and the street park not far away is still playing strange music, which will never stop and never get tired of going on over and over again. Xu Qingran looked down at the place where his hand was holding, it was intact, there was no wound and a large amount of blood gushing out, but the pain had not disappeared, and even Xu Qingran felt that a small movement of himself could still affect the non-existent wound and make him feel painful.

Jun Yao took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled turbid air, as if she wanted to drain all the air in her lungs, and repeated this several times, she looked at Jiang Xian, to be precise, at the scepter in her hand.

"Your props seem to be different from before......" Jun Yao felt that a second before they appeared in the Eternal Sleep Inn, the scepter in Jiang Xian's hand first emitted a burst of white light, that white light Jun Yao was very familiar with, it was unique to the system, not a prop effect, not an attack effect in the mission, it was a unique special effect that only belonged to the system. When the white light was gone, they appeared.

The [Time Spirit Scepter] Jun Yao in Jiang Xian's hand had seen it, the first day they first arrived, and when they returned to the hotel to rest in the evening, she once went to the front desk of the hotel because of curiosity, she took off one of the clocks, and then the hotel had a very strange change, time seemed to begin to reverse back, and many hands stretched out out of thin air on the wall full of clocks to catch her. At that time, Jiang Xian took out the [Time Spirit Scepter] to pause time, giving herself a chance to escape. At that time, Jun Yao had observed Jiang Xian's scepter, after all, it was a very powerful prop, and it saved her life, so Jun Yao naturally looked at it twice. This made her remember the appearance of this scepter.

The scepter that Jiang Xian was holding in front of her was obviously different from the scepter she had seen and remembered before.

Jiang Xian smiled helplessly, she didn't know how to explain this matter, she just looked at Xu Qingran, "Do you know what prop sacrifice is?" ”

"What ......? Prop sacrifices? Xu Qingran couldn't close her mouth in surprise, just this reaction, Jiang Xian was sure that Xu Qingran must know about this matter, so she glanced in the direction of the street park, as if she was hesitating to go over and take a look, but Xu Qingran pushed open the door of the hotel first, and pulled her in, "It's not interesting to go to see the situation in the park now, you reset the time, even if we see the three children who should be missing, it is impossible to track where they went. There will even be a repeat of the same mistake and the masked man again. In this case, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

Jun Yao didn't understand what Jiang Xian suddenly proposed by "prop sacrifice", after all, Qi Ming and Chiyo Dong didn't talk too much about this when they told her about the rules before. Qi Ming also said that the rules about the mission are very complicated, just like playing an online game, which itself has a lot of rules, but as a novice, you can't figure out all the rules from the beginning. These rules need to be practiced and explored before they can be discovered, and the fact that the Dream Travelers have formed a union shows that most of the rules have been explored. However, the interval between Jun Yao's novice task and the first official task was too short, and with the popular science in the café alone, Qi Ming and Chiyo Dong could not tell her all these rules no matter how well they spoke. In addition, at that time, Jun Yao was still in a state of half-belief, and the psychological construction had not yet been done, how dare Qi Ming say all the rules in one go. If you don't find someone for your organization, forget it, and scare one crazy, it's not worth it.

However, it seems that the rules of "prop sacrifice" in Jiang Xian's mouth should also be a rare type, right?

Xu Qingran sat on the sofa and looked down at his abdomen again, obviously still apprehensive about what had just happened.

Jiang Xian smiled lightly, as if to ease the atmosphere, and seemed to have some other emotions, "Don't worry, it has returned to the state we were in when we left the hotel, and your abdomen is intact and there are no wounds." ”

Xu Qingran looked up at Jiang Xian on the other sofa and smiled, "Then let's get down to business, you just mentioned the 'prop sacrifice'?" ”

"That's right, prop sacrifices. Jun Yao also said just now that my scepter is different from the previous one, both its appearance and function are different from before. Jiang Xian nodded and said, "The name of the previous prop is called [Time Spirit Scepter], it looks quite simple, it is estimated to be a mid-level and low-level special prop, you have also seen it here before, that is, the suspension time, at most five minutes, and it will also cause a load on the user's body according to the use time." ”

"And the name of my current scepter is called [Time Scepter], although it is said that it is one word less than the previous [Time Spirit Scepter], but the effect has greatly increased by one space. If my [Time Spirit Scepter] was a mid-level and low-level special item before, then the current [Time Scepter] can be regarded as a real high-level item. ”

"It has two functions, first, it can pause for a minimum of 10 minutes and a maximum of half an hour, but the maximum time is adjusted according to the user's physical fitness. Although it is a difference in time compared to the previous item, from a maximum of five minutes to a maximum of half an hour, it is not just a quantitative change, it should be regarded as a qualitative change. And the first 10 minutes of my use did not have any effect on my body. And this second function, which I just used, saved our lives - I can choose to go back five hours from now on, jump to appear in the space where that time node belongs. ”

Jun Yao thought carefully about the second function Jiang Xian described, "Is this what we call a time jump?" But as soon as the words came out, Jun Yao shook her head again and said to herself, "No, this should be a space jump, right?" But it's not a complete space jump, it's a space jump with a time state backtrack. ”

Jiang Xian nodded, Jun Yao's summary of this function was very good, "And the reason why I suddenly got this powerful [Time Scepter] prop stems from the fact that I confirmed an option provided by the system - whether to sacrifice the prop. I still don't know what this prop sacrifice is, but I didn't have the time and energy to think about it at the time. I only know that with the [Time Spirit Scepter] in my hand, the time of the masked man can be suspended for a maximum of five minutes, which is the bottom line of our escape. And Xu Qingran was already injured at that time, and when the props were used up, I would also become an extremely weak person, and then only Jun Yao would be left with complete combat power, but it was impossible for Jun Yao alone to win the mask man. We can't change this outcome even if we have five minutes to breathe. ”

"I naturally confirmed the inexplicable option prop sacrifice without hesitation and without thinking, anyway, it's all a death, it's better to gamble and see what kind of variables this will produce." Jiang Xian explained the whole process, Xu Qingran nodded on the side, and after Jiang Xian finished speaking, he finally spoke, "I didn't expect you to encounter such a good thing as 'prop sacrifice'." ”

"Huh?" Jiang Xian and Jun Yao both made a look of deafness.

"The average dream traveler rarely encounters such a good thing as 'prop sacrifice', and the probability of its occurrence is extremely low, because it needs to meet a lot of conditions, and it is not quantifiable. To put it simply, you can think of 'item sacrifice' as an upgrade of props, just like if you go to play a game and get the equipment distributed to you by the system, but as your level increases, your ability and the ability of the opponent you have to face will also increase, so the original equipment cannot be used at this time, because it is useless and not suitable for such a situation. So at this point, you have two options for your equipment, discard it or upgrade it. It's just that this upgrade condition is very strict and has particularity, the conditions that need to be met by each equipment are different, and this condition system will not be shown to you, you can only speculate by yourself or be like Jiang Xian, by mistake. ”

"The items obtained through sacrifice basically have the same abilities as the mission boss." When Xu Qingran said this, he looked at the scepter in Jiang Xian's hand, and actually showed a trace of regret, "Special props, after all, still lack attack power...... If you're sacrificing an offensive item, we're going to rush out and fight that masked man right now, or even go on a killing spree in town. ”

However, Xu Qingran was just joking, and the three of them didn't take it seriously.

Jun Yao suddenly yawned, Xu Qingran saw this, glanced at the time displayed on the clock, and then glanced at Jiang Xian, she also looked tired.

Everyone has consumed too much physical strength and energy, and it is time to rest. It seems that there is nothing to be found tonight, and we can only wait for tomorrow when the clues about the children's disappearance come again.

"It's not too early, everyone is sleepy, let's go back to sleep."

"Okay."

"It's so hard."