Chapter 100: Psychological Warfare
Mu Ying pursed her lips, wanting to verify whether Xuanwu's guess is reliable, the easiest way is to summon a road sign to take a look!
Hardly any hesitation, Mu Ying immediately took out the array spirit bead.
As soon as the street sign came out of the ground, she and Xuanwu couldn't wait to get over.
One man and one beast looked at it, and the street sign was really different from the one I saw yesterday!
Although the symbol representing the palace is still there, the route to the palace has taken several more turns.
Xuanwu's guess was right!
The labyrinth formation in the villa is indeed not immutable!
"But I went to the big kitchen in the past two days, and the route hasn't changed!" But Mu Ying frowned puzzled at this time.
"Steward Jiang and they may be old, and they can't clearly distinguish some of the most confusing forks in the route, so they need to take the array spirit beads every day to discern the direction."
"But I can guarantee that the route has never changed!"
"And I went to the mine around noon for the past two days, came here at midnight, and came to the same place at the same time every day, if the formation changes every twelve hours, it doesn't seem to make sense."
"Also, in order to paralyze Ah Da for half a month, Xuanwu, didn't you also figure out the maze line in a small forest around the big kitchen?"
"I haven't heard you say that the formation inside changes every day, how can you explain this?"
"This ......" Xuanwu tilted his little head and thought for a moment, "Could it be that the route change deadline is different in each place?" ”
"For example, the people in the big kitchen are very honest and generally don't walk around, and the maze in the surrounding woods has always remained the same, or it only changes once in a few months, we have been here for a short time, and we haven't encountered the opportunity to change the formation."
"As for the road leading from the big kitchen to the mine, the people in the big kitchen have to walk every day, and this road does not require a high degree of secrecy, and it also becomes slow to ensure that food is delivered to the mine in time."
"And the owner of the village is the core of the entire villa, and around the main hall where she lives, strict security is required, so the cycle of change is short?"
"This ......" Mu Ying couldn't help but nod when she heard this, "There is some truth to this." ”
"I just don't know, what are the places we have walked through in the past two days, what the changing cycle looks like, and how many sets of routes can be changed?"
"If there were thousands of them, I wouldn't be able to remember even if I had a computer around my neck......"
"yes...... What can I do? Xuanwu lay on Mu Ying's shoulder with a frown, very depressed.
It doesn't even bother to study the new word 'computer', which must be a very powerful thing in this context.
"Huh......" However, Mu Ying looked at the 'main hall' sign on the street sign and was close to her point, but an idea suddenly popped up.
"The line between the two points is the shortest, since it is impossible for the main hall to move its position, why don't I break the convention and pass through the middle of the two forks in the road, and not go around those bends?"
Mu Ying thought it was a good idea, and her eyes lit up as she stared at the dense woods in the middle of the fork in the road in front of her.
However, she did not dare to venture in, after all, she was not sure what would happen to trespassing into the woods where there was no road.
Alert?
Pitfall?
Or was it simply swallowed up by some terrifying formation?
Mu Ying won't joke with her own life, but it's still okay to throw a stone to explore the way!
Mu Ying said just do it, picked up a stone on the side of the road, and threw it towards the area in the middle of the fork in the road.
Click!
I only heard a crisp sound, and as soon as the stone sank into the darkness, it was instantly shattered into slag!
"Hiss......" Mu Ying couldn't help but gasp, fortunately she didn't rush in just now!
She knew that the large-scale formations in Chiyun Mountain Villa were already very proficient, and it was impossible not to guard against an opportunistic person like her.
"What can I do?" Xuanwu also became numb when he saw this, "Do we really want to stay here and be a kitchen handyman for the rest of our lives?" ”
Xuanwu said that this was the most down-to-earth identity in his career as a divine beast......
Sure enough, since the owner who is out of tune, let it, which has always been high, perfectly experience the ordinary life of a little person!
"What to do? I don't believe there is no way! Mu Ying still refused to give up.
"When I first entered the villa, Ah Er took me around to find Ah Da, but I didn't use the street signs, didn't I still find it?"
"Ah Er goes out to run freight, and it takes a month every time he says less."
"Ah Da is the second person in the villa after the owner, right? I don't believe that the maze around his residence has not changed. ”
"There must still be a very easy way to discern the direction! It's just that we're trapped by habitual thinking, and we have to think outside the circle to think about ......"
Mu Ying rubbed her chin while pacing back and forth.
Xuanwu also felt that the master's words just now were very reasonable, and gradually walked out of his depressed mood, wanting to set up a room to let himself out of the box.
However, this problem is really difficult to solve, and one person and one beast pondered for a long time, and there was no progress. Bibi eBook
"Lord...... ......At this time, Xiaohuo opened his mouth weakly, "I have an idea, I don't know if I should say it......"
"Say whatever Xiaohuo wants to say!" Mu Ying has always encouraged everyone to brainstorm and nodded very encouragingly.
"Don't be afraid to say the wrong thing, anyway, we are now in the dark, maybe someone's inadvertent sentence will open everyone's mind!"
"Okay, then I'll talk about it!" Xiaohuo was encouraged, and he spoke without hesitation.
"The master just said that the line between two points is the shortest."
"Although we can't get through the middle of the fork in the road and put this sentence into practice."
"But we know that the main hall will not move its position, as long as we remember the direction where it is, even if we go around in the fork in the road, we will always travel in that direction, try a few more times, and we will always find the right route!"
"No, no, no!" However, as soon as Xiaohuo finished speaking, he was ruthlessly denied by Xuanwu.
"Have you forgotten, when we were still in the Loess Wasteland, why did we go around and go back to the original point?"
"Because the master said that our reference was not chosen correctly, and we were all confused by the fake sun overhead!"
"Although the master later used the method of inserting branches in the ground to make us walk in a straight line again, the use of that method is conditional."
"The wasteland has a wide view and can be used, but if we can't go far in the labyrinth, we will be obscured by the twists and turns of the road and the lush vegetation, and we can't see the distribution of all the branches, so we don't know if the direction is right."
"In general, the stars overhead cannot be used to distinguish directions, and the surrounding environment is not good, and we can't find a reliable reference."
"Maybe it's going to turn around, and it's back to square one, and it's still a ...... in circles."
"Big brother has a point...... Xiaohuo also wilted when he heard this, "Alas...... I knew I didn't have the talent for formations......"
The two little brothers poured bitter water on each other, but Mu Ying on the side was pondering Xiaohuo's words repeatedly in her mind, as if some inspiration flashed in her mind.
"Wait!" Mu Ying pondered for a while, and couldn't help waving her hand, signaling the two of them to be quiet for a while.
"Actually, Xiaohuo's method, I also thought of it before, but it was quickly denied by me, because the reason why I denied it is the same as what Xuanwu just said."
"We suffered losses when we were in the wasteland, so we subconsciously thought that the inside and outside of the mountain villa were the same, and the time changes here were all controlled by the formation."
"But we haven't tried it in the villa, so how can we easily rely on experience to draw conclusions? Empiricism is absolutely unacceptable! ”
"That's it, there's no better way anyway, a dead horse is a live horse doctor, let's treat the moon above our heads as real, use it as a reference, and try it with the method that Xiaohuo said."
"Anyway, we have a spirit bead in our hands, even if we really fail, we won't be trapped inside."
"It's done!" Xuanwu's eyes lit up, and he immediately agreed: "Anyway, try it and don't need money!" ”
Xiaohuo was also excited, after all, this method was proposed by it!
Now that she had made up her mind, Mu Ying did what she said, no longer pacing back and forth in a panic, but stood at the fork in the road, looking towards a dense forest in the middle of the two forks.
"If memory serves, the main hall is due north of where I am now, estimated at a distance of two hundred meters."
"The route given on the street sign just now is the one on the left, and this route must be correct, so there is no need to verify it again."
"Let's choose the right fork in the road next to test, our method is feasible or not."
"Good!" The two little ones spoke in unison, confidently following Mu Ying's footsteps.
Next, Mu Ying always calculated how many steps she had taken to the fork in the east, and then converted how to choose which fork in the next intersection according to the angle of this fork, so as to get closer and closer to the target in the northwest direction.
Turning around like this, although it was really tossing for a while, when Mu Ying finally saw the familiar and tall red lacquer palace gate at the end of the road, she was so excited that she wanted to jump.
"Hah! Finally let us get around! ”
"It turns out that the sun, moon and stars in the villa are real! There is more to the route to the destination than the one marked on the street signs! ”
Although the road sign is definitely the best route, even if you choose the wrong fork in the road, you can always get around it in the end!
However, I still have to say that this seems to be a huge loophole, but in fact, it also reflects that the people who designed the maze inside and outside the villa are really ingenious and bold!
If someone who doesn't know anything about the formation comes in and is warned repeatedly, he naturally doesn't dare to walk around in order to save his life.
Even if she accidentally catches a person who knows how to form a formation, people in the wasteland will be in a circle and suffer in a circle, and then come to the inside of the villa, she will definitely be bound by inertial thinking like she did before, and dare not use the most intuitive celestial phenomena above her head as a reference.
In the end, no matter who was caught, they had to be willingly trapped in the villa and not allowed to enter and leave at will.
This psychological warfare is beautifully played!
However, this trick was still broken by her Mu Ying!
"Very good, we now understand the routine of the maze, as long as we figure out the azimuth angle and distance between each target, this villa will be difficult for us."
"It's not early today, go back and rest first, let's do business tomorrow!"
In this way, Mu Ying took the excited two little ones and took advantage of the night to go back to the big kitchen.
However, not long after they left, a team member hurried to the fork in the road that had previously made Mu Ying entangled.
One of the leaders scratched his head even more in confusion, "Strange, just now the formation clearly sounded the alarm, saying that something is intrusive here, why is there nothing?" ”