Chapter 129: The Labyrinth
Although I knew from the beginning that some incredible things would happen in the labyrinth, the invisible walls that could change the layout of the labyrinth, and the strange people who looked like the walking dead, were not in my imagination. These two unknown elements make me feel as if I have underestimated this labyrinth.
Now, the biggest enemy of this may not be the people of the Hunter family.
Knowing what was going on before they were would be in my best interest at the moment. So, I chose to go to the center of the maze first. Relying on the map in our heads, our route was smooth and there were no invisible walls as we had thought.
This made my heart lift a little bit and relax a little bit of play.
"Brother, what does that pattern you said look like?" On the way, Jing Ye suddenly asked me a question.
She didn't seem to be interested in the patchwork map at all, and she hadn't looked at it closely, so she hadn't paid attention to the weird triangle in the center of the map.
Speaking of which, the pattern wasn't my focus in the first place.
I thought it was the layout of the labyrinth, and maybe the center was built with that pattern. But later Du Youlan reminded me that although this labyrinth map is very large, there is no place that is not connected, that is, no point in the map has been sealed.
So the triangle that is blocked out alone is not quite like a part of the overall structure of the labyrinth.
So, I thought maybe the pattern represented something else.
To say it's weird is just my subjective opinion. It's actually just an ordinary equilateral triangle, but with an eye-like pattern in the middle.
"There's an eye in the triangle, what, what do you think of?" Silent Night occasionally recalls some childhood episodes, very brief and vague, and I thought she was the same again this time.
But the answer to Silent Night surprised me.
She said to me, "No, I actually just saw a triangle...... Speaking of which, that thing seems to be the same as the triangle described by my brother. ”
I was stunned, "Where did you see that?" ”
"Just before I ask you."
I immediately pulled the silent night back the way I came, and sure enough, there was a faint triangular pattern carved on the wall! The pattern in the center of the maze is exactly the same!
"Have you only seen this once?" I asked Silent Night.
"Well, I've only seen it once, but I don't know if it's not the first time. I just had a glimpse of it by accident. ”
Indeed, I was so focused on looking back at the map in my head that I didn't pay too close attention to what was on the walls around me.
"We'll keep walking that quiet night, but you'll have to help me see if this triangle will continue to appear on the walls around me."
"Okay brother!"
However, in fact, there is no need for Silent Night to help.
The pattern, as we move forward, becomes more and more numerous, not only more, but in the end it even looks faintly glowing with a turquoise light, and the intensity of the light becomes brighter and brighter as we move towards the center.
It's like a blue-green eye, staring at where we're going.
"Brother, what are these eyes?"
"I don't know."
"Will it poison us? Or something else? ”
I shook my head again.
I don't know, but it's all possible.
I cut off a small piece of meat from myself, "Every three minutes, eat one and keep our evolution as synchronized as possible." "I don't want to be hurt too much by the silent night.
But just as I was bringing the meat to the mouth of the silent night, in a labyrinth beside me, there was a sudden intermittent strange voice, and when I listened closely, it seemed to be a human voice, muttering repeatedly in English, "Eat...... Food, food ......"
Gradually, his form appeared, getting closer and closer to me.
Tall, wearing a blood-stained coat, armed with a machete, and wearing a half-mask on his face, which obscures the average face, and half of it is exposed. The face exposed to the air was full of pitted scars, without a single hair, as if it had been burned by fire.
He seemed to have a wound on his foot, limped as he walked, and slowly approached me.
But this was just the beginning, and as we got closer, he got faster and faster.
Although his eyes are blank, although his face is blue, he is different from the strange man who suddenly appeared before, this guy is obviously trying to attack me and Silent Night!
His brisk walk finally turned into a wild run!
He pounced on me in an instant and slashed me with a single blow! It's a lot of power and it's fast, but it's all within my acceptable range. I dodged his attack, distorted with my left hand, and slammed him on the back of the neck, knocking him to the ground! The face collided violently with the ground, causing the mask to tear apart and blood splattered.
But instead of fainting as I had imagined, he got up again, staring at me with empty eyes and intermittently shouting words like "food", and it became crazier and faster than before!
Although I still dodged this time, he cut a long gap in the clothes on my body.
"Brother, don't show mercy to your subordinates, this guy is getting stronger and stronger! Just like you! ”
It's kind of that meaning.
At this rate, I will be knocked down three or five more times, and I will be able to hit my vital point with one blow when I get up.
I didn't give him that chance, and my split tongue pierced the weirdo's head.
Although he couldn't be knocked out, this fatal injury still worked.
He collapsed to the ground, convulsed for a while, and then lost his breath. I was a little curious about this guy, and I was going to examine his body, but just as I crouched down and was about to touch it, his body suddenly disappeared like sand in the wind.
As the corpse shredded and disappeared, I suddenly smelled a smell that I hadn't seen in a long time!
The smell made me stand up suddenly: "King worm! ”
"What's wrong, brother!"
"This corpse smells of worms, king worms, the kind that resembles me but is different, but it's ......"
But here's the problem.
The smell did appear at the moment when the corpse shattered, but it was only for a short moment, and now I tried to capture it, but I couldn't find it anyway.
It was as if the smell I had just smelled at that moment was just my hallucination.
"Strange ......" I lay on the ground, lying on the spot where the body had disappeared last.
My nose was almost close to the ground, but I just couldn't catch the smell anymore.
Jingye also squatted down at this time, and suddenly asked me: "Brother, have you noticed, this ground is very clean, there is no sand." ”
I touched the ground, and it was.
But this is impossible, the corpse has just turned into grains of sand, and although there is some faint wind around it, it will not blow it all away in an instant, and it will leave on the ground for a long time. But now I can't find it at all.
Just like that tastes.
"Why, exactly?"
I was confused.
"Silent Night, do you see that the man I just killed, his clothes, and the strange person we met before, are they a little similar?"
"What, isn't it very similar? Oh! Brother, what are you talking about, are they all a little out of the times? ”
"Yes......" Thinking of this, I quickly cut off another piece of my own meat and fed it to Jingye: "From now on, eat a piece a minute." ”
The appearance of these two strange people one after another made me feel more and more uneasy.
I never understood what was really dangerous in this labyrinth, and that was the most dangerous.
But this little girl was a little happy: "Quiet night is so happy today!" ”
She finished eating, and we continued walking.
But not long after walking, another strange footstep sound came from the direction in front of me, and it was getting closer and closer. This time it was slow, similar to the one that appeared for the first time. A moment later, a figure appeared before us, this time a woman, in her mid-thirties, like the strange man we had seen for the first time, with a dull expression, as if she had no soul.
She walked forward blankly, to my side, I thought it would pass directly, but without warning suddenly stopped, her neck stiffly twisted towards me, her originally godless eyes suddenly focused on my face, her pupils were black and bright, dilated, like a dead person: "Excuse me, sir......"
She spoke!
I pulled Silent Night behind me and asked, "What?" ”
"You...... Know...... How to get out of this hellish place? ”
I really didn't expect that she was asking this question.
I shook my head.
She sighed, her voice filled with vicissitudes and deep despair, and she turned her head away, no longer looking at me, and then continued walking, passing me.
"Wait," I called her.
But she didn't move.
"Who are you?" I asked.
She still didn't give me an answer.
And so, it fades away until the footsteps are completely inaudible.
"Brother, did you say that these people we met just now could it be ......" Jingye had an idea.
Me too.
From the moment I met the first person, that weird thought flickered in my head.
"It's someone who once walked into a labyrinth in a small town, but couldn't get out." I responded.
"Will we end up like this?" Jingye asked again.
I shook my head, "I don't know, let's go to this center first." ”
"Hmmm......"
As we walked on, as we got closer to the center, we met more and more strange people along the way, including men and women, old people, and children. Almost all of them were glazed over, and occasionally someone would stop and ask me the question my woman had asked, and I couldn't give an answer, and they went on their way as if they had lost their minds.
There are also others, with hideous faces and other purposes, who will slash and kill me when they see me, like the masked man before. They were killed by me in self-defense, and the moment they died, they erupted with that familiar smell.
I concluded that the inability to get out of this strange area must have something to do with a certain king worm.
Will it be in that center?
This became my biggest doubt right now.
However, this was by no means the whole story, and soon there was another thing that I could not have imagined. A madman with a half-mask rushed at me! Crazy slash at me!
That guy was clearly the first person I killed in the maze before!
Dead and resurrected?
Yao Qianwen is like this, and this is the case in the labyrinth, when did the resurrection become such a cheap setting?
I don't believe it's coming back from the dead this time! These things are by no means human, but what are they?
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