The stone pillars fell like melted candles.

Won or lost?

Seeing the inquiring expressions on his companions' faces, Hohenheim smiled wryly and stepped down the stone platform and stepped on the grass.

"Willing to gamble."

Claude, who also walked down from the platform, threw the three bags in his hand towards Hohenheim at a distance with a cold face.

The latter activated the mage's hand and grabbed three cloth bags of suspicious material in the air, and did not put them into the space storage device.

"This time I lost."

Claude patted the dust on the palms of his three hands, twisted his neck, and said indifferently: "At the bottom of these three cloth bags, there are one, two, and three black dots respectively.

They open when you are attacked by evil and unclean things;

When you hear unreasonable requests;

And, when you are about to leave here;

In strict accordance with these three time nodes, according to the number of black dots, open the cloth bag in turn, which should help you get through the difficulties in the future.

If you open the bag at an inappropriate time, or repeatedly try to explore the contents of the bag,

Something pretty bad will happen ...

Don't blame me for not reminding you. ”

With that, he glanced at the boar carcass on the ground, which had been dissected by David and neatly stacked on plastic sheeting, and said in astonishment: "Why did you decompose it?" It's my dinner! ”

"Huh?"

David was stunned for a moment, and said a little embarrassed: "Uh... I thought you killed this creature to demonstrate with us.

But it shouldn't matter for now, just to help you break it down. ”

"You know the, I'm here to make soup. Just now I hammered its brain directly with my fist, just to ensure that the original flavor of the ingredients can be sealed under the fur, and now it is all ruined by you..."

Claude's eyes were red and babbling for a while, and it took a moment to calm down, take a deep breath, and with a straight face, select a few pieces of wild boar, wrap them in plastic sheets, and tie them into a package.

Bang.

He put the package on his back, turned his head to look at the players deeply, and said with a straight face: "Take this as a starting point, follow the direction of eleven o'clock, go three kilometers, then follow the direction of eight o'clock, go five kilometers, and then go left for two kilometers..."

Claude quickly reported a large section of his route, concluding: "Follow the route I said, and you should not be attacked by wild beasts."

If you deviate from the path, do not respond to any sound you hear, and walk towards a sunny place until you meet with others.

etc. out of the forest,

You'll know where to go next..."

Without waiting for the players to ask questions again, Claude picked up the package containing the pork, stepped on the ground, and ran into the depths of the dense forest, where his figure was quickly swallowed up by the shadow of the longing tree.

"It turns out that such a big wild boar, what a big pot it takes to make soup..."

Ding Zhenji stood in place and smacked his lips, looking at the others, "Do you want to chase?" ”

"No, you don't."

Hohenheim, who was standing at the forefront, shook his head and turned to look at his companion, "Let's follow the route he said, and I'll tell you what happened on the way." ”

A group of players set out on the road, and as Leon had guessed, the actual area of this forest that could be explored was quite vast, and the path pointed out by Claude was intricate, but on the whole, it was still heading in the direction of eleven o'clock,

At the player's speed of travel, it takes almost an hour if you know the road.

Along the way, Hornham begins to tell the story of Fang Cai's coin toss.

In the first two rounds of throwing, he won first, and then immediately Claude won two sets in a row to enter a 2-2 match point game.

"In the fourth round, I had calculated almost all the distractions including the density of the surrounding air, the direction of the wind, the wind speed, the angle of the coin, and so on, but I still lost that game."

"That's when I realized that it wasn't just luck, or a mathematical game of probability," Hohenheim explains.

The essence of coin toss is to compete which of the two sides is more skillful, and can influence and interfere with the coin without being discovered by the other party. ”

David raised his eyebrows, "Cheating? ”

"That's right, it's cheating."

Hohenheim nodded, "There's nothing wrong with that coin itself, it's Claude himself who has the problem."

In the short time I tossed the coin, causing it to fly and spin in mid-air,

He stared at the coin with his gaze, causing a subtle change in its spinning trajectory — something I had discovered in my head before the start of the fifth round, constantly replaying the previous footage.

Every time he tossed a coin, a tiny, almost imperceptible red dot lit up in the depths of his eye.

Although at the beginning of the fifth round, I didn't know what the red dot in the depths of the opponent's eyes had to do with the coin, knowing how he cheated, I was able to interfere and see the move. ”

Hohenheim shrugged his shoulders and said, "The ejection strength of the mage's hand is obviously not good, and it will definitely be interfered with by the other party.

Manipulating gravity, wind and other means is estimated to be detected by the other party on the spot and caught on the spot.

So my solution is to use light. ”

Ding Shinji frowned, "Light? ”

"That's right."

Hohenheim nodded: "Although light does not have a static mass, it has momentum, which is manifested in the macroscopic world, which is commonly known as light pressure.

The thrust generated by this light pressure is negligible in the vast majority of cases,

However, in special cases, such as when I use a spell to increase the sunlight and form a macroscopic light tweezer, the thrust generated by the light pressure can interfere with the rotation of the coin.

At the beginning of the fifth round of throwing, I pretended to throw with regular force, and then suddenly increased the force so that the coin bounced high and flew through the canopy in an instant.

Claude hadn't anticipated this, and when he jerked his head up to focus his gaze on the coin, I had used a spell to interfere with the light pressure above the canopy, causing the coin to rotate at an angle.

The potential energy of the coin began to convert into kinetic energy, and it fell straight down into my mage's hand.

Claude was not given enough opportunity to interfere with his sight.

In the end, I won the game and didn't break the rules – I just threw a little bit harder. ”

Hohenheim paused for a moment and said slowly: "Now that I think about it, Claude's gaze should be an ability based on the law of cause and effect.

When he enters the observation state, the coin will rotate in the direction he wants.

Maybe in addition to light pressure interference, I was able to win the race by cutting down the trees around me, changing the direction of the wind, or blocking his view.

After all, he was too big, and in the fifth round, he still chose to fight against him for the throwing result.

In the first three shots, as long as there is a positive, it will definitely lose. ”

"I see."

David nodded, looked at the three cloth bags that were held by Hohenheim with the mage's hand, and asked, "Aren't you tired of casting spells and holding the bags all the time?" Don't put it in the backpack bar? ”

"This thing appears as a binding item and won't fit in the backpack slot."

Hohenheim's expression became a little strange, and he made the description of the contents of the cloth bag public.

[Name:Suspicious Cloth Bag]

[Type: Quest Item]

[Quality: Normal]

[Special Effect: Containment.] A strange cloth bag containing something dear to the three-armed eccentric Claude]

[Cost: None]

[Cooldown: None]

[How to use: Untie the bag]

[Note: Quest items cannot be placed in the backpack slot or space storage device]

[Notes: Once upon a time, Claude the Three-Armed Monster was a famous chef who developed every dish he developed to spark a trend in the kingdom.] Until one day he was discovered that his culinary secret was to add his own body parts to each dish, such as nails, dandruff, bath mud, saliva, snot, etc.]

[Notes: Claude, a celebrity chef who was kicked out of the kingdom, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain, repented and reformed, but his personal hygiene condition deteriorated. Personal advice... It's best not to touch anything he gives him with the palm of your hand.]

"This...."

David was stunned for a moment, smelling the strange smell emitted by the cloth bag, and countless possibilities flashed through his mind in an instant, "Okay, I understand why you are holding it with a spell hand..."

"But if you can't put it in the backpack rail, you have to carry it with you all the time."

Ding Zhenji thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Hohenheim, didn't you use a spell to observe what was inside?" ”

"I tried, but it didn't work."

"This bag absorbs energy," Hohenheim said. Detection spells don't work, but depending on shape, weight, sound...

The first bag was supposed to contain metal products, the second bag contained stones, and the third bag contained a piece of meat or rubber products.

Considering that this thing is a quest item, it will definitely be useful later, so it's better not to destroy and disassemble it, according to Claude. ”

With Hohenheim's narration, it didn't take long for the group to get out of the jungle without encountering additional trouble.

They stood outside the woodland and looked behind them, and the dark and deep forest was like a huge demonic beast, silently opening its bloody mouth and devouring people.

"Walked out."

Ding Zhenji took a deep breath and looked at the remaining power in the cockpit, which was still ninety percent.

The Kui Niu mecha has undergone a wave of comprehensive upgrades after the battle for the door, and the overall power is much higher than before, and there are two large-capacity energy devices in his backpack bar, which should be enough to cope with the next script tasks.

"Hmm."

Li Ang nodded slowly, "Standing outside and looking at it, the phenomenon of this forest moving is really obvious." ”

From the player's point of view, the entire dark jungle is changing in a strange way, and the canopy of trees at the edge of the forest is blown by the wind in the last second.

In the next second, the tree suddenly changed its stubble,

The shapes and colors of trees, shrubs, and meadows have changed.

But there was nothing obvious about it, as if the new tree had grown there in the first place.

"The trees change with the ground below, but the leaves that fall from mid-air do not move."

Liu Wuxian observed for a while and said calmly: "It is possible that the change in position is based on the ground.

If we don't encounter NPC Claude, or lose a coin toss, we should be able to get out of the forest by levitating.

Maybe a little faster. ”

"But it may take more time to find the pattern of levitation."

Hohenheim said lightly, turning his head to look ahead, "There should be a holy mountain ahead." ”

Everyone turned around and saw a majestic snow-capped mountain, located in the distance.

The craggy rocks on the mountainside are blue-black, and the snow on the peaks is quite heavy, white and flawless, and the clouds and smoke are swirling, just like a fairyland.

And on the top of the snow-capped mountain, there stands a towering strange building.

The building was in the shape of a cube and pitch black, covered with golden straight lines that intersected each other, dividing the building into pieces.

Like a Rubik's cube, abruptly inserted on the surface of the snow-capped mountain,

The volume of the building that goes deep into the snow does not know how large it is.

"The Holy Mountain..."

Hohenheim narrowed his eyes, "Let's go." ”

The goal of the first phase of the mission is to "walk through the forest and reach the foot of the Holy Mountain"

The first half of the player has been completed, and the second half still needs to move on, and the mountain is running a dead horse, even if it is at the player's speed, it is better to be a little faster.

After a short rest, the crowd moved forward again.

After stepping out of the forest, the barrier of lightning strike still exists,

Due to the inability to use modern vehicles and summons,

Leon simply used the soil of this world to release alchemy, pinched a few sleds with spring shock absorption systems, and let everyone sit on them,

It was up to Ding Shinji to turn on the pulley function of the Kui Niu mecha, drag the rope in front, and pull the sled forward.

The Kui Niu mecha was originally made to adapt to the harsh environment, and in the environment with very low free energy, it can also adapt to the "altitude sickness" of lack of energy.

It moves faster than others, and by the way, it can also help others save energy.

For the high-level players present, there is quite a kind of "ordinary is real" experience.

Soon Ding Shinji pulled his other companions and climbed several small slopes to the foot of the holy mountain.

When the soles of the Kui Niu mecha stepped on the blue-black rock, the system prompt immediately sounded in everyone's ears.

[Phase 1 Mission Completed]

[Phase 2 Mission Objective: Find a way to enter the Holy Mountain]

[Mission time limit: 5 hours]

[Reward: None]

[Mission Failure Penalty: None]

"Find a way to the Holy Mountain?"

Ding Zhenji was stunned for a moment, then let go of the sleigh rope and turned to look at the others, "Does this mean we can't go in directly?" ”

"It's about entering the holy mountain, not climbing the holy mountain."

Hohenheim frowned and said, "We are already within the range of the snowy mountains,

The description of the task of the system, in the literal sense of the word,

Maybe let's pass through that Rubik's cube-shaped building and enter the interior of the Holy Mountain?

Or just dig a tunnel. ”

"Another 5-hour time limit..."

David squinted his eyes and said slowly, "It's unlikely to dig a tunnel. These stones at the foot of the snow-capped mountains are problematic and have much higher hardness than ordinary stones in the real world.

It is estimated that you can only walk from the Rubik's Cube building.

However, the height of the Rubik's Cube building from the ground was above the height we had detected earlier that would cause lightning strikes.

Rushing to climb a snowy mountain may cause a lightning strike.

In addition, there is also a risk of being attacked by monsters and encountering avalanches on snowy mountains.

Well? ”

Suddenly, as if sensing something, David instantly pulled out the spear of judgment from the backpack bar, and the power surging from his body flowed to his right arm.

The surging electricity pierced through the golden spear, and the tips of the hairs crackled through the air.

"Who's there? Come out! ”

David roared towards some empty clearing at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, and the spear in his hand was ready to be thrown at any moment.

"Don't attack, don't attack."

Listen only to the call of the old man, which sounded in the clearing,

In the seemingly empty open space in front of everyone, the light shook and changed, revealing a small mountain village composed of wood and stone buildings, and a group of skinny .... Bloodline?