“...... It's now!"

Hao turned sideways, and the whole person rolled out a few meters away with his head in his hands, and suddenly revealed the people behind him, and immediately, the magic missile plus at least a dozen and a half magic bullets all hit the cavalry that followed Hao, and the heavy armored cavalry was immediately shattered, along with its skeleton horse mount, and then these broken fragments turned into particles and dissipated.

Ghost Scythe Cavalry, this is an advanced species of skeleton cavalry, a natural third-order undead creature, its powerful nature is equivalent to that of a high-level death knight, high offensive and defensive high speed, if it is in an open area, this is a very terrible and difficult undead, one can wipe out an entire adventure group with a third-order professional.

However, fortunately, the environment in this ruins area made this kind of cavalry unable to give full play to its mobility advantage at all, a total of seven ghost sickle cavalry, only broken by the formation arranged by Hao, and in the end no one was injured, only Hao who was used as a bait was very tired, and there were bruises on his body because of rolling many times.

However, being able to kill seven third-order undead in a row at such a cost, this achievement makes everyone's hearts excited, the elves naturally needless to say, the more they know, the more they know that Hao's ability is really unmatched, at least they can't think of anyone who can achieve Hao's current results with such combat power, this is a weak victory over the strong, and it is a weak victory over the strong, this is definitely not luck or accident can be explained, this is the wise man who has been constantly boasted of in the desolate world, but has not been able to blow it.

As for the human tribesmen, they don't know how powerful this skeleton shelf is, they only know that it is very powerful, so powerful that they can't help but tremble just by looking at them, they all instinctively know that this monster is terrifying, very terrifying, it is a big monster that is enough to destroy their previous tribe, but under the leadership of Hao, they solved this monster without anyone dying, all relying on Hao's arrangement and ability, which the human tribesmen, even if they are ignorant, know it.

After the war, the non-commissioned officer took the clansmen to skillfully start cleaning the battlefield, although these undead were largely dissipated after being eliminated, but occasionally there will still be some things left, these things usually have special effects on alchemy or enchantment, and occasionally some precious things can be found in it, such as in the previous battle against the corpse demon, after the death of five clansmen, a magic artifact was found when cleaning the battlefield, and Ay checked it and judged that it was a high-level magic artifact, called the Ring of the Corpse Demon, which can allow necromancers, or undead creatures to carry a certain amount of magic, which is equivalent to some extra magic, Even if it is a non-undead creature can use a little magic, it is a very precious magic wonder, the only pity is that only negative energy creatures can wear it, which limits its value and wide use, but there is also an immortal vein in the ten thousand races, this ring is almost comparable to a legendary strange thing for the undead vein, and the value is estimated to be around five thousand spirit stones.

The elves watched the humans cleaning the battlefield, and they consciously began to check the equipment parts of the semi-magic weapons, since they entered the artificial structure of the ruins, six days have passed, and in these six days, they have been advancing in this ruins, this ruins seem to be infinite, and they have not explored the border for six days, let alone the location of the magic tower, there is no trace at all.

Hao took out a piece of paper at this time, and many lines had been drawn densely on this paper, and Hao would draw something after every war, and others didn't know what he was drawing.

In fact, in the past six days, everyone has experienced twenty-three battles, large and small, and the weaker ones are nothing more than hundreds of thousands of various non-exiled undead creatures, interspersed with some first-order and second-order undead creatures, powerful such as this time, a total of seven third-order undead, one bad is immediately annihilated, encountering such a battle, although every time is a victory, but except for this time, the rest of the times are all victories standing on the edge of the cliff, there are casualties, and one is not immediately wiped out, twenty-three battles, the number of casualties has reached more than one hundred and seventy, and even one elf died, it can be said that the whole team is about to reach the limit。

Ai Yi came to Hao's side tiredly, sat beside him without any image, and at the same time leaned his head on his shoulder and said: "We may all die here, everyone has reached the limit, you may not have noticed, the children's faces are a little blue, this is a manifestation of staying in the negative energy gathering place for a long time, that is, now that they return to the normal environment, they are estimated to be seriously ill, and there is only one base of ammunition left, we may all die here." ”

Hao's body stiffened, but he didn't answer, but continued to scratch something on the drawing, and then Ay suddenly said: "Speaking of which, I'm still a virgin, I didn't say it when I was a child, when I grew up, my father wanted me to marry, I sneaked out by myself, and I devoted myself to magic, but I became a second-order magician, but I have never been in love in my life, I said Hao, you haven't been in love either, right? It's a pity to die like this, or let's have a ......."

"Shut up!" Hao snorted without looking back.

Ai Yi suddenly pouted, and Hao didn't care about her, just scratched on the paper, a moment later when Ai Yi was drowsy, Hao stood up and directly hit her head on the ground, Ai Yi shook her head, suddenly angry, jumped up and was about to kick Hao's knee, Hao grabbed her and said: "Find the way, gather everyone immediately, we will set off immediately!"

Ay was stunned for a moment, and immediately ran up excitedly, calling the names of the elves and some familiar non-commissioned officers all the way, so that everyone gathered around Hao, and Hao waited for everyone to arrive, and he immediately said to the rest of the people:" This is a labyrinth, not that this ruin is too huge, but this ruin was designed as a maze at the beginning of its construction, or it is more appropriate to say that it is a half-maze and half formation, we have been circling in this maze, and judging from the arrangement of this maze, we have actually passed through the gate of the magic tower several times. ”

Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and they all looked at Hao intently, and Hao took out the paper he had drawn and said: " This is a very peculiar octagonal maze, I found some clues from the more than 20 battles we have passed, in fact, as long as you look closely, you can see that the walls, floors, and ceilings in this maze are carefully carved, almost exactly the same pattern and fancy, angle, orientation, carving, etc., will make people unable to distinguish the real direction, it seems that we have been advancing, but this is actually just a psychological and visual trick, but this design is very ingenious, and there must be a hint of magic in it, so we all turn a blind eye to some of the features of this maze, and in the end, we have been circling in this maze。 ”

Everyone hurriedly looked around, but they couldn't see anything, so Noldor asked strangely: "God, according to what you say, then why do we keep appearing all kinds of undead creatures after we have gone around a few times?"

Hao also looked around, he sighed and said, " This is the reason for what I call the semi-formation, the graphic array of this maze is a bit mysterious, I suspect that this maze can automatically absorb the free energy of heaven and earth from the leyline, and then convert it into magic through the center of the magic tower to maintain the operation of this formation, although there is no specific formation map, but I found some rules of this formation maze, the intensity of the undead attack we encountered, is not disorderly, but regular, every time we reach a corner of this octagon, it will be arranged according to the special of that horn to arrange the undead attack, or no undead attack, I found that this eight corners are likely to represent the open position of the entry direction, there is no resting position for the undead attack, the undead attack is very weak survival position, and the undead attack has some strong injury positions...... To something like this, the death position where the seven third-order undead appear together has a total of eight directions, and every time we walk through the entire octagon, the direction will be changed, and the next time it will not be the previous direction, but the eight directions will be reversed. ”

Everyone listened carefully, but except for a few, most of them didn't understand, but Ai Yi understood what Hao meant, and she gasped when she heard this: "This sounds like ...... This can't be, although the owner of this ruin is a spirit magician, he is a half-blood, and he is not a half-blood of the elves, how can he ......"

The rest of the elves had the same expressions, apparently they were born into the elven clan and knew a lot about that thing......

"Magic Lock!" said Noldor and several elves in amazement.

That's right, it's the Magic Lock.

Ay said to Hao: " The magic lock is the secret of our elf race, in addition to the three people with the highest royal succession power can learn, only the core heirs of the principalities can learn, if it is an ordinary elf clan, then at least after becoming a demigod can learn a little, of course, there must be loopholes in such regulations, such as the heirs of the principality can learn a little sporadically, and the royal family can let the professionals close to them learn a little sporadically, these are all there, but as far as the core is concerned, it is really not going to be passed on, and even the holy gods may not have learned all。 ”

Hao nodded and said, "I also know this, to be specific, why do you think that this maze has something to do with the magic puzzle?"

"Because it's alive. Aye said bluntly.

Then she thought about it and shook her head again: " It's not very accurate to describe it this way, the biggest difference between the magic lock and all other magic is that the magic used by the magic lock has the characteristics of being alive, ordinary magic, generally according to the fixed magic formula to produce effects, so that there will only be one or two fixed effects, such as curse magic, that is, curse, repair, is repair, what magic should be what effect, and magic has a characteristic, that is, as you mentioned before, as time passes, it is the constant magic of the spirit magician, and it will gradually dissipate with the passage of time。 ”

"But the magic lock is different, the magic used by the magic lock will borrow a lot of free energy from heaven and earth, and at the same time, it also has an application to the leylines. Alive's characteristics, such as the current high-level magic tower will basically have a constant magic tower activation technique, which was originally improved by our ancestors with magic locks, so the magic tower will have an activation mind, can help the owner of the magic tower to manage the entire magic tower, in addition, the magic lock also has the characteristics of not being weakened by the passage of time, otherwise why do you think our elves are famous for magic, it is because we have a magic lock above all magic. ”

Hao nodded, he understood why these elves thought that this maze formation was a magic lock, because this "alive" characteristic was indeed very similar to a magic lock, so he said: " Regardless of whether this maze formation is a magic maze or not, I will consider it later, I will continue the topic just now, this maze is based on the octagonal direction, we keep circling around these eight corners, and every time we turn around, these eight corners will change again, not only the specific content changes, but also the direction will change, just saying this you may not understand, so I will cover it up for you. ”

At that moment, Hao folded out an octagonal hollow round box with some paper, and then continued to fold the paper, made a circle around the octagonal circle, and filled some paper wrapping in this octagonal circle, and then everyone saw that Hao made a hole in the outermost circle and the octagonal hollow round box, he pointed to this hole and said: "The place where we came in is here, and then we entered this octagonal circle, as we move forward or backward, because the corners of the octagonal circle experienced are different, it begins to rotate." ”

As he spoke, Hao rotated the octagonal hollow round box in the middle layer, so that this octagonal hollow round box was no longer the same direction as before, and they couldn't find a way out, but kept moving forward, as long as the distance was long enough, as well as the various patterns, carvings, textures, and magic hints that Hao mentioned before, then they would not feel that they were taking a detour, but kept moving forward until the entire team was wiped out.

"At the same time, there is an entrance. ”

Hao continued to make a hole in the octagonal hollow round box and the core, and then turned the octagonal hollow round box and said: " The key now is to find this entrance, although I am not sure yet, but the magic tower is the greatest possibility in this core, otherwise the transmission of magic power cannot be so fast, and the total amount of magic power cannot be so sufficient, only the magic tower is next to it, and there can be no magic tower outside the eight corners, so the biggest possibility, the magic tower is in the eight corners of the staggered inward, that is, the core position!"

Everyone looked at the rudimentary paper model that Hao had made, and Ay immediately asked, "Then how do we find this entry point?" You also said that as we move forward or retreat, this formation is always changing, does it depend on luck?"

Hao shook his head and said: "Although luck is also a way, but the probability is too small, if I guess correctly, there are a total of eight changes to the eighth power, tens of millions of changes, if you want to rely on luck to find the entrance, then I am afraid it has to be destiny, so we must find the right calculation method to solve the answer." ”

Everyone immediately looked at Hao expectantly, and Ai Yi asked again, "Then have you untied it?"

"Nope. ”

Hao said calmly: "It seems that there are only eight corners, but the attributes of each corner are different, and we move forward or backward, which will cause different changes, and each change may produce new changes, I just have this guess, to really find the answer, I still need to conduct further testing, but ......"

Hao fell into deep thought, or hesitation, because according to his estimate, in order to get detailed data, then the entire maze array must run eight hundred and sixty-four times again, in other words, they estimate that they will have to deal with at least hundreds of undead attacks, which is almost impossible to survive, at present, they have reached the limit of light casualties, and if they continue, Hao estimates that there will be at most ten more undead attacks, then they are very likely to be wiped out.

And we must take into account the arrival of the underworld camp, so many days have passed, Hao will never underestimate the action of the underworld camp, under the actions of countless unintelligent undead, not to mention a few hundred meters of collapsed tunnels, even a small mountain can be hollowed out in a few days, that is tens of millions of numbers, and will not be tired, will not complain, will not slack off, the horror of this power is simply unimaginable.

So, they're running out of time......

(So...... Is it time for me to sacrifice myself?)

Hao didn't speak for a while, just looked up, his eyes were blank, not so much looking at something, but remembering.

When he asked his people to face death with their spears, when he asked him to die on the spot, when he asked everyone to go with him to face the herd of demonic beasts, when he said that he could kill himself in the way of marching......

There is a great terror between life and death, and Hao will also be terrified, because he still has his own wish unfulfilled, he wants to find the human city, even if it is just a glance, he wants to see that city, that is the holy place in his heart, before that, he really doesn't want to die, he definitely doesn't want to die......

But it's not fair that he can't demand death from others and then be lenient with himself and let himself enjoy life!

"Aye. Hao suddenly spoke.

Ai Yi was stunned for a moment, and agreed, Hao looked at her seriously and said, "I want to sign a cipher contract with you." ”

Ai Yi was stunned again, she looked at the people around her, thinking that Hao had a layout that was not suitable for saying on the spot, she thought about it, or stretched out her hand to the void, and immediately a magic rune appeared, and soon, a piece of void paper appeared, and Ai Yi said: "The cipher contract is only known to both parties, and you can't tell anyone else before it is reached, and there is ......"

"I know. Hao stretched out his hand and pressed it on the ciphertext contract, and after a moment he let go of his hand and said to Ayi, "You also pressed your hand and signed it." ”

Ay stretched out her hand in a daze, and then a shocked look appeared on her face.

Hao signed a secret contract attached to the master and servant, which stipulated that once he died, Ai would be disconnected from his master-servant relationship, and at the same time, he would have access to his memories of the location of the Venerable Remnant, and that he must inform Illuvita of the location of the remnant, and lead the remaining surviving Terrans out of the place and settle them properly.

Then Hao didn't look at Ai Yi and the others, his eyes stared, looking at the paper with an octagonal pattern, and the whole person entered a super state.

In an instant, infinite information was displayed in front of Hao's eyes, numbers, eight to the eighth power, tens of millions of calculations, as simple as one plus one equals two, the orientation when they first entered, the current direction, entrance, exit, the location of the magic tower, the enemies that may be encountered, and so on, everything was presented in front of him.

Not only that, this infinite amount of information has been deduced downward, and suddenly in an instant, this infinite amount of information seems to be stuck, as if it has encountered a huge numerical problem, and then, eight strange runes loomed, showing in front of Hao.

(Octagon, no, it's gossip...... Nine Palaces Retrograde, Bagua, Five Elements, Four ...... ）

"Qian, Kun, Zhen, Gen, Kan, Li, Xun, Dui......"

Hao Nian muttered this, and before the true meaning of these eight runes appeared, the epidermal blood vessels on his head began to burst one after another, and at the same time, one of his eyeballs burst directly from the eye socket, and the surface of his body began to crack densely, at this moment, Ai Yi suddenly beckoned to him, and a huge force hit the back of his head, directly knocking him unconscious.