451 Rules of the Game
"Gee, it looks like that's all it takes." Looking at the black and yellow, but full of corrosive smell of the earth in front of him, Tang Cheng shook his head helplessly and jumped off the head of the huge dinosaur.
To be honest, after getting this huge dinosaur as a mount, the speed of the group has increased somehow, and the distance they have traveled in the first five days is not even a tenth of the second five days.
Of course, this is not surprising, first, the pace of the giant dinosaur is very large, it is just an ordinary run is equivalent to the full speed of a first-class telepath, if it runs at full speed, it is almost no different from taking a high-speed train, and its body is also quite abundant. Second, the giant dinosaur is a native creature of the Dark Continent, and it has long adapted to the cruel environment here, and its wild intuition will instinctively avoid unnecessary dangers, saving everyone a lot of time.
But the time for everyone to be so relaxed was only these five days, because when they came to the black and yellow land in front of them, no matter how Tang Cheng urged, the huge dinosaur refused to take a step forward, but kept retreating, chatting in a low roar revealing a bit of fear.
Although everyone does not know why it is afraid, they understand that there are never invincible creatures in nature, the lion is the king of beasts, but it does not go to the sea to hunt, the shark is the hegemon of the sea, but it cannot survive on the ground, the eagle is the hegemon of the sky, but when it reaches the ground, it will become quite weak...... Each creature has its own habits and its own realm of existence, and their wildness and instincts will repel those places that are not suitable for them.
Obviously, this black and yellow land is not the habitat of giant dinosaurs.
In this case, Tang Cheng was no longer reluctant, and obediently jumped off the dinosaur's head, and when everyone stepped on the ground, the huge dinosaur roared as if it had finally been liberated, and then turned around. Boom roared back the way it came.
"This guy is really unkind." Tang Cheng muttered to himself, and seemed to have a lot of opinions about the ruthlessness of the dinosaurs.
No one complained to him, looking at the black and yellow land in front of him, everyone had an incomparably solemn ...... Although the huge dinosaur was vulnerable in front of Tang Cheng, they could see it very clearly all the way, along the way, no matter how big or small, ordinary and strange, almost more than ninety percent of the creatures were afraid of that dinosaur, under its Weiya. There are almost no creatures that dare to take the initiative to provoke.
So, what kind of danger is there in a place that even such a hegemon is afraid of?
And one more problem that needs to be faced until then...... They only had five days left, and in the previous ten days, they still hadn't gotten the slightest clue about the World Tree, so in those few days, would they really be able to find the World Tree? Are they really going in the right direction?
"Either way, we don't have a second choice but to move on." Looking at the anxious faces. Tang Cheng said indifferently, and was the first to step into the black and yellow land as usual.
"Tang Cheng, there must be some clue in your heart, right?" Spring followed him and asked.
"Clues. If you want to say no, you can't say no, but if you want to say that there is, you can also say that there is ......" Tang Cheng said as if talking to himself, and found that everyone was full of confusion, and couldn't help laughing. "Well, in fact, my so-called clue was not found in this world, but a game that was played before."
"Games?"
"Hmm." Tang Cheng nodded. Said, "I used to play a game with people when I was young, the theme of the game is to find, similar to finding people and things, first let a person hide a thing within a limited range or mark a target person, and then another person will find it within a limited time, so as to decide the winner, although the rules are very simple, but this game is not everyone can play. ”
"Why?" Everyone couldn't help but be stunned, in their opinion, this game seems to be very simple.
"Hmph." Tang Cheng smiled mysteriously, "When people play this kind of game, they will give one or a few important hints, such as some guessing things, give you a few keywords, guess what these words represent, if you can guess, then it will be easy to find, but we don't play like this, after all, this is too pediatric for us." ”
"I remember the first time we played at 11 o'clock at noon, and I came up with a question like this: There's a crown in City A, go out, bring it back before dawn tomorrow, you don't need to know what kind of crown it is, you will know when you see it."
"This?!" Hearing this, everyone's faces changed suddenly, their eyes were full of surprise, there were no hints, no clues, only less than a day, to find a crown in the entire city, this is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.
In the spring, several challengers were shocked not only by the difficulty of the question, but also by the ...... Déjà vu.
"So, what about the result?" Spring couldn't help but ask.
Tang Cheng shrugged his shoulders, "The result is that before dark, that guy brought the crown back, after all, it's the first time to play, I'm worried that the challenge is too high and it will cause trouble, so I relaxed the difficulty a little." ”
"How did you find the crown all over the city without any hints in just a few hours?" The crowd was puzzled.
Tang immediately smiled, "Actually, it's not without hints, just this question itself has a hidden hint, that is, these three words after going out." As you all remember, I didn't add any twists to the end of these three words, that is...... Once you're out the door, walk straight ahead and you'll find the crown. ”
"This ......" Everyone was so surprised that they couldn't speak, Rao couldn't imagine that these three words would be a hint because of their IQ, no, this kind of hint has nothing to do with IQ.
"If you don't know enough about what you're saying and doing, you won't be able to spot this kind of hint." Spring said in a deep voice.
Ka!
Tang Cheng immediately snapped his fingers, "Yes, it is impossible for ordinary people to find hints from this sentence, only people who are familiar with my way of thinking can understand it by thinking backwards, so on the contrary, taking the main quest we received, it also has two hints." The first is the final annotation, which reminds me of the rules of the main quest, and the second is the fact that I will go to the Dark Continent in a limited time, since there is not much time left, it can be described as urgent, and the slightest waste is not allowed, so how can I not waste it? Yes, of course...... The shortest straight line between two points. ”
"So ......" Tang Cheng stretched out his hand to point ahead and said with a smile, "We just need to go straight in the direction of going to sea." ”
Autumn couldn't help but widen his eyes, "That is, this direction we are moving in now......"
"That's right, although we have made a lot of twists and turns along the way, all the routes are in my mind, and now the direction we are going is exactly the direction of going to sea."
Hearing this, everyone was so shocked that they couldn't speak, the Phantom Brigade and Kurapika and the others were shocked by Tang Cheng's memory, more than two months have passed since he went to sea, and he has bypassed a lot of bends on both sea and land, unless there is an incomparably accurate recording pointer, otherwise, even if it deviates a little, its direction will be completely different, but Tang Cheng is obviously still stepping on a straight line.
And what Spring and the others care more about is the relationship between this main quest and Tang Cheng, the rules of this game are studied by Tang Cheng himself, but now the main quest is carried out according to his rules, this is Tang Cheng's self-righteousness, or ...... What the hell is going on, everyone can't understand it at all.
It's just that vaguely, they all feel that this copy world may not be as simple as a copy.
Thinking of this, everyone stopped talking, but just followed Tang Cheng's footsteps silently.
And in the short time later, everyone finally understood why the huge dinosaurs did not dare to enter this black and yellow land, because this is the acid rain zone, when the tiny raindrops fall from the sky and sprinkle on the skin, there is a burning pain, and bursts of smoke rise from the ground.
Fortunately, everyone knew some of the situation in the Dark Continent, and they had already prepared, at the beginning of the rain, everyone had already put on a raincoat against strong acid, but even so, when the rain changed from weak acid to strong acid, the thick smoke rising on the ground was already so hot that it was almost impossible for people to move an inch.
In the face of such a treacherous environment, no creature can survive in this black and yellow land!
Thankfully, the rain didn't last long, and after a few hours, the sky cleared again, and there was no acid rain for several days.
In the end, when there was only one day left in the time limit, everyone finally walked out of the black and yellow land, but there was no magma, no world tree, only an endless plain.
"It's over, it's over...... It's too late. Li Ping immediately sat on the ground, his face full of despair, and even in spring and autumn, he gritted his teeth helplessly...... The eye of the sky in spring has already extended a hundred miles away, but they still can't see where the World Tree is, if it wasn't that they went in the wrong direction, it means that the World Tree is still far, far away.
And the remaining time is no longer possible for them to arrive.
"Nope." Only Tang Cheng, his eyes were full of confidence, and said with a smile, "If it could only be regarded as a guess before, then now I can be 100% sure that this main quest uses my game rules, and we don't need to move on." ”
"What do you mean?" The crowd looked at him in bewilderment.
Tang Cheng looked at the sky and said to himself: "Challenges, rules that are often used in finding people, but I don't like to use them very much...... If I'm not expecting it bad, someone should be picking us up soon. (To be continued......)