Chapter 12: Time Loop?

Avoiding this behavior, while shameful, is a simple and effective means of dealing with it.

Just like Wu Ming now, he, Zhao Xida, and Alex took Lin Jiaojiao all the way to break away from the shadow monsters that stood in the way. Avoiding the battle and not dwelling too much with them is actually a very sensible and correct behavior.

If Zhao Jida, who would choose the best solution at any time, would choose to choose, she would inevitably choose to avoid head-on battles and save considerable physical strength and time to face the next problems that need to be solved, which is the wisest choice.

It's just that the deeper he goes into the fog area, the more Wu Ming feels that something seems to be wrong with his surroundings.

The surrounding street scene was always not much different from the one in their memory, and according to Wu Ming's calculations, they had walked through at least three intersections on the way, passed six corners, and crossed nine sidewalks. According to the map provided by Zhao Xida, they should have gone deeper into the area a long time ago, but Wu Ming always felt that they seemed to be still spinning in place......

No, maybe it's not just the level of spinning in place, the jack-o-lanterns, angels, demons, little succubi, snow fairies, and all kinds of shadow monsters that have left a deep impression on Wu Ming's heart have repeatedly appeared in front of him again and again.

They either roll up swirls of fire, throw icicles and beams of light, or simply use their weight to try to crush shields, repeating familiar and futile attacks.

When Wu Ming led everyone to pass by the same convenience store for the third time, and for the sixth time, he cut Xiugus who was blocking the way to pieces, he grabbed Zhao Xida, who was about to continue to advance, and slowed down the pace of progress: "Old Zhao, the situation is a little wrong, we have been going around in circles. ”

Zhao Jida tried to observe the surroundings left and right, but the fog was too thick, and she couldn't see the reason for looking at it for a long time: "The dense fog hinders all detection methods, manager, I can't confirm where we are now through detection methods for the time being, but I have recorded our movement trajectory from the moment we entered the fog area, and if we take into account the slight angle deviation that will occur when taking steps, multiple turns and other factors, we should be in this area on the map now......"

The puppet girl projects a simple map made of a light curtain, and marks the target points and their locations with red and green dots.

"No, we're still standing still." Wu Ming only glanced at the map, and under the powerful computing power of the auxiliary device, he found their location at the moment, and he stretched out his hand to dot at the edge of the light curtain: "It's here, just entered the location of the caving area." ”

"Dude, are you sure we're going around in circles? It's normal to have difficulty discerning direction in the fog, and there are countless spells and techniques in the transcendent world that can silently affect the senses of others, so it's not just that petite lady who is calculating the angle of her steps and movements, I'm also watching for problems with the direction we're heading......" Alex frowned and rubbed his beard slightly, then lightly pointed at the light curtain map, "According to my transcendent senses, we should be here now." ”

Although the place Alex was pointing to was a deviation from the green dot marked by Zhao, it was also close in position.

Wu Ming pointed to the remains of Xiugus under his feet, which had been twisted into pieces by Zhao Xida's silk threads, and gestured: "The sixth time, I don't know if you can notice this thing in the state of fog, this shadow monster should have been killed by Lao Zhao for the sixth time, think about it, do those flames, ice picks, and beams of light just now also have a sense of déjà vu?" And you haven't been able to see the street view...... From the time I started paying attention to the streetscape until now, we have passed by the same convenience store at least three times......"

“woc! Brother, don't scare me......" Lin Jiaojiao was already cowardly, and some shadow monsters with poor quality occasionally popped up in the fog to shock her, which made this girl's spirit almost tense to the limit, and now the girls who were so frightened were almost intimidated: "Brother, you shouldn't get lost if you are not affected by the fog, right?!" ”

Wu Ming shook his head and said his speculation: "I suspect that it is because I have not been affected by the fog that I can find that we have fallen into some kind of cycle......"

"If it's really a cycle of time clips, it's not impossible to achieve in the transcendent realm, but it needs to meet very demanding conditions...... On the contrary, there are some extraordinary techniques that can achieve a similar effect that makes people feel the illusion of a time loop...... "The puppet girl calculated a variety of possibilities in just a few seconds and calmly gave her own advice, "First we need to confirm whether this technique is a time loop, manager, let's go through it again, record the video information at any time and leave marks along the way." ”

Alex took out more than a dozen knives engraved with runes from the inside of his coat at this time, and nodded in agreement with Zhao Xida's thoughts: "The current information is still too little, don't make conclusions easily, let me make the marks along the way, these rune knives made by the hunter's secret method can resonate with my spiritual power, and each knife has my spiritual imprint, as long as I am nearby, I can sense its existence at any time." If it's a time loop, there's always a bit of a clue left behind......"

Wu Ming gently patted Lin Jiaojiao's back a few times to soothe the fear in her heart: "Well, then let's go again." ”

Several people made up their minds to step over the wreckage of Shogues, and Wu Ming led Wu again to continue walking towards the front of the street.

In this dense fog environment where visibility is less than two to three meters and several people can only see each other, it is impossible to rely on normal senses to identify the road and direction, and only Wu Ming, who is not blinded by the fog, can confirm the surrounding scenery.

Pass the intersection as always, walk across the sidewalk as you always do, and finally walk around the corner as always.

The shadow monsters of the demons are still like hungry wolves, and they are not afraid of death to attack Wu Ming, who is holding up the shield, this time Wu Ming raised his attention and carefully observed the surroundings, although Zhao Xida could not observe the farther place, but she also kept an eye on it this time, and turned on the video mode throughout the whole process, and classified and recorded the shadow monsters that were executed by her own hands, ensuring that the record of the entire trip was foolproof.

"Everything is normal, the position and presence of all rune knives are within sensing range." Alex shook the rune knife in his hand, and the knife made of unknown materials sank into the concrete floor, and its strange force even shook the surrounding cement floor cracks, making Wu Ming tremble.

When the second turn passed around the corner, Wu Ming only felt a flower in front of him, and even the strengthened reflex nerve could not react in time to what was happening, and his face gradually became stunned and confused.

It's the familiar convenience store, it's the familiar vortex of flames, the invisible shields of ice picks and pillars of light, and the swooping of Scuggus......

"Oh, welcome home......"