Originally, the difficulty of this [Great Cemetery] maze was not so outrageous.

The normal puzzle solving procedure is for the hunters to solve the problem of the skeleton monsters in the maze first, whether it is a horizontal push and a card or some other method, until they go to the clue similar to the adventurer's note found in the monster pile.

Then go and set off to hide the plot.

It's a long process that requires meticulous exploration.

With clues, even if you encounter the [Secret Keeper] later, you will not be sure to die.

But now someone directly triggered the hidden plot, which caused everyone to face a dead end as soon as they came in.

Ji Xun was lucky because he got stuck in the San value as soon as he came in, and he found a clue.

But the death crisis remains.

......

And the magic of the labyrinth is that it is a "labyrinth".

You don't know where the road leads until you've walked it.

Even if you deliberately avoid it, after going around in a big circle, you may find yourself back in the same place.

Also, there are passages that seem to lead to two very different directions, and you deliberately avoid one of them, but you may still find that the two passages converge at some point in the future.

Ji Xun carefully avoided the direction from which the battle movement came.

But as he walked, suddenly he felt that something was wrong.

In his mind, he had already drawn a route map of the maze like a QR code, and although there was only a corner of the maze, it would not let him take the same path.

However, some of the channels in my brain are shifting more and more, and gradually converging in one direction.

He tried his best to avoid it, but he couldn't stop others from rampage through the maze.

After walking a few forks in the road, it was obvious that they were already far away, but Ji Xun suddenly heard another battle movement in the corridor.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang"...

The movement of a thunderstorm came from all directions.

The only one who can make such a big move can only be the main force of the group of people in the Governor's Palace.

Ji Xun suddenly felt that it was not good and wanted to avoid it.

But no matter how you go back or choose other roads, the movement is still getting closer and closer.

Ji Xun frowned when he heard this, and said secretly: "It seems that you can't avoid it..."

After discerning the direction in which the sound was coming from, he realized that the nearby corridors seemed to be interconnected.

That is, no matter which side you go, it seems likely to lead in the direction where the battle came.

The guys were moving fast, and the sound of the battle was getting louder and louder, and it seemed that in the blink of an eye, they were already in the next alley.

As soon as Ji Xun deduced the route map in his mind, he knew that he might encounter it no matter how he chose, so he simply didn't choose it.

He thought of the description of the Secret Keeper in his notebook, and he didn't choose to avoid it. Instead, he made a decisive decision, and he lay in the corner of a dead end, choosing a place that was not easy to be stepped on.

Then, stand up for the corpse.

It was the only way he could think of to avoid danger.

It is precisely because he did not run rashly that Ji Xun also avoided this fatal crisis in a thrilling way.

Not long after he put on the clown mask and lay down, there was a sudden "boom" at the end of the corridor.

Countless skeleton shelves were shattered into pieces, splattered like a torrential rain.

A few bones "crackled" and hit Ji Xun on the ground, like fragments of a cannonball, making people gasp in pain.

Fortunately, he chose a dead corner and crawled on the ground, and the impact was relatively slight.

Otherwise, if he really wants to be on the main road, just the combat shock wave will probably cost him half his life.

After this explosion, Ji Xun watched as three blue cards flew out of the corner with a cyclone. The cyclone grew larger and larger, turning into a jagged blade the size of a wheel.

Three vortices of wind blades covered the same cross-section, and the skeleton in its path was instantly cut into two sections.

With just three high-level Wind Blade cards, the entire maze of tens of meters was emptied at once.

Immediately after that, I listened to the hissing sound of the steam boiler deflating after energy storage, and there was a loud "bang", and large swaths of skeletons in the entire corridor were crushed into powder.

The high-pressure detonation was rolling like a dragon, Ji Xun was shocked by the aftermath of the high pressure, and he almost couldn't hold back a mouthful of old blood and vomited out, and complained in his heart: "The firepower of this group of guys in the Governor's Mansion is really fierce..."

The combat power of this group of people is indeed enough to sweep through the maze of skeleton monsters.

However, Skeletron's greatest advantage is its numbers, which can create a chain reaction once the aggro is attracted.

They pushed all the way over, and the monsters not only did not decrease, but attracted more and more.

Although Ji Xun didn't see how many people there were for the time being, he also listened to the dense footsteps, and estimated that there were a lot of people.

And the footsteps are very flustered, and when I hear it, I am embarrassed to flee.

The only one who can run after this group of people is the [Secret Keeper].

......

"Protect the Governor!"

"Damn, did you find the exit to the maze?"

"Not yet. The exit from the Hunters' Guild's intelligence has been blocked by a doorstone. ”

“...”

The guys in the battle spoke loudly and spread far and wide in the labyrinth.

Those guys probably didn't expect that a D-class space would trap them here.

Listening to the movement getting closer and closer, Ji Xun lowered his breath as much as he could.

After a few breaths, a gust of wind swept across his scalp, and his eyelids widened slightly as he watched a group of frost knights escort the pot-bellied governor rushing towards him, and there were hundreds of them.

Just the momentum that erupted was like a torrent of steel.

The Frost Knight Legion really lives up to its name.

However, as soon as these groups of people left, the temperature in the huge Yongyong corridor dropped sharply, accompanied by a thick fishy wind. The smell of decay, like a corpse crawling out of a grave, was all too familiar to the corpse collectors.

Even if he didn't look at it, Ji Xun knew that it was the [Secret Keeper] who came.

How terrifying is it to be able to chase down these elite knights in the Governor's Palace?

Ji Xun pressed his breathing extremely low and quietly pretended to be dead, and he was also very curious in his heart.

With a slight glance, a black mist appeared in his field of vision.

In the thick black fog, tall figures riding rotten war horses swept by. Their skin has rotted beyond recognition, leaving only bone and flesh attached. And the shriveled mouth is stitched with needles and threads, which gives people a sense of penetration when they look at it. As the monster approached, the air around it became heavy and distorted, inexplicably terrifying.

【Secret Keeper】

Explanation: Second-Order S-Class Calamity; They are the guardians of the dungeon, the loyal keepers of the royal family; It is a necromantic knight who controls destruction, it feeds on the flesh and fear of living beings, and it is immortal and immortal;

......

"Sure enough, it's an S-class calamity..."

Ji Xun heard the hunters say that all calamities above the A level have some special abilities.

The S-class calamity is a monster with some "special rules" given by the extradimensional space.

This is often an unbeatable rule.

This is also the existence of the color change that hunters talk about.

From the current point of view, the rule given to this secret keeper is - immortality and immortality.

If the space is not destroyed, they will not die.

Regardless of its rank or ability, it is just the characteristic of this "immortal and immortal", even the strongest spell card master has to hide when it comes.

And the horror of this monster isn't just that it's immortal.

Ji Xun just glanced at it, as if he had spied on something beyond his cognition.

Even his state of mind that did not change in the face of death was as if he had been pricked by a needle at this moment, and he was inexplicably shocked.

It's not that people can control their fears subjectively.

Rather, it is an instinctive shudder that arises at the sight of some indescribable demon.

Immediately, the enlightenment was revealed.

"Corrupted by Unknown Pollution, 70% reduction in Clown Mask, +2 Fear, +1 Shock, +1 Soul Pollution

「...」

It's this glimpse.

It was as if the soul was entangled in a nightmare, and an even more terrifying pollution came over.

A cascade of negative states on the status panel is revealed.

"Visual pollution?"

Ji Xun was shocked and quickly closed his eyes.

The picture in the eye is broken, and the pollution ends.

If it weren't for the clown mask, that glance might have gone terribly wrong.

Fortunately, there was a group of people from the Governor's Palace to attract firepower.

chased and fled, the speed was extremely fast, and the two groups of people "swished" past.

It was the moment that this sense of horror hit my heart, and the chill like an ice knife scraping my bones disappeared completely.

The secret keeper didn't seem to see the "corpse" in the corner, and chased the governor and his party in front of him.

......

As if the scythe of death had scraped across his scalp, Ji Xun felt the feeling of a poisonous snake crawling up his back and slippering away.

The scalp tingles.

But if you don't die, this feeling makes people have a bit of an aftertaste.

Waiting for the death crisis on his back to completely fade, he stood up, squinted at the messy road in front of him, and pondered: "This monster is really terrifying..."

It's one thing to see a prompt.

It's another thing to see the horrible pollution with your own eyes.

Thinking back to that moment just now, he still had palpitations.

But he was also glad he saw it.

If he doesn't even look at a group of masters who attract hatred this time, the next time he may see this calamity, he will see the countdown to his death.

Ji Xun's eyes trembled slightly.

But it's not all bad.

Ji Xun's thoughts were racing at this moment, and he analyzed in his heart: "The description of 'monsters' slow perception of non-moving objects recorded in the adventurer's notes before is indeed correct. And it's not just non-moving objects, part of the way pollution spreads is through vision, and closing your eyes can also reduce hatred..."

Just now he lay down and pretended to be dead, avoiding the attention of the monster.

And it has also identified a new piece of information, that is, the contamination transmission route of the [Secret Keeper].

This is also very important.

"But the Keeper is insensitive to static objects, but he is not blind either. And you can't just close your eyes and pretend to be dead next time you encounter it, right? No one attracts firepower, and sooner or later it will be discovered..."

Ji Xun also felt a headache when he thought about it.

No matter how you look at this monster, it's a bug-like existence.

So now the only way out is still only - decryption.

Now that he has seen all the methods used by the people behind the scenes, he feels that the group of people in the Governor's Mansion are dead.

Well... It's pretty much the same myself.

......

Ji Xun laughed at himself in his heart, and didn't dwell on the status quo that couldn't be changed.

All he had to do now was stay away.

On the bright side, at least not for yourself, the situation is not particularly bad.

The advantage of having this group of people is that they are scurrying around the maze and will concentrate all their firepower.

Ji Xun listened to the direction of the battle sound coming from the corridor again.

This time, instead of choosing the opposite route, he chose to go back towards the passage that a group of people from the Governor's Mansion had walked before.

Normally, as long as those guys want to get out of the maze, they will never turn back.

As long as you avoid them, you avoid the greatest danger.

And... One more point.

Either passage is dangerous anyway.

It's better to go back and see, and maybe there will be unexpected surprises.