Chapter 18: The Contest Begins

Soon after, Ji Yao's group of cars arrived at the destination of the trip.

As soon as Ji Yao got out of the car, he was greeted by a dense and life-filled forest, and the entire forest was shrouded in a translucent barrier.

A small fortress is set up not far from the barrier, with some mages patrolling the area and others adjusting the circle next to the barrier.

Dean Jin Mian walked at the front and said to the mage who was standing in the middle and was debugging the enchantment, "Xu Yuan, have you completed the preparations for the teleportation array?" ”

Xu Yuan turned his head and saw that it was Dean Jinmian, and immediately smiled and said, "Dean Jinmian, you have personally led the team, I naturally finished it a long time ago!" The teleportation circle can be opened at any time. ”

"Well, that's good, let's open the circle." Dean Jin Mian said, then turned to the students and continued: "According to the previous arrangement, the first to enter is Team 6, Li Fei and Chi Yao, come over and stand on the magic circle next to you." ”

After Chi Yao and the others stood on the teleportation array, Xu Yuan handed out a palm-sized button device to each of them, and explained: "This is an emergency teleportation device in the enchantment, when your life is in danger, you can press the button, and the enchantment will receive a signal and teleport you back." ”

"When you teleport back, the points you earn are instantly fixed. And when all members of the squad are teleported back, the squad is out of the game, and the points are set. ”

"By the way, the teleportation destinations are randomly distributed, good luck to you."

Without waiting for Chi Yao and the others to say anything, Xu Yuan had already activated the teleportation array, and the silver light that had gathered had already enveloped them, and with a "whoosh", Chi Yao and the others disappeared.

“?? What's going on, how did the circle resonate happen? Xu Yuan noticed the strangeness of Chi Yao and the others' teleportation location.

"What's wrong with the teleportation?" Dean Jin Mian immediately stepped forward and asked while observing the situation of the magic circle.

"Well, it's not a big problem, it's just that there is a little deviation in the teleportation location, they went to the Lost Temple, I don't know what's going on, this teleportation resonates with the ancient circle over there." Xu Yuan explained.

"The Lost Temple, the ancient ruins we've explored? That's okay, it's been checked and there's no danger. Dean Jin Mian said, his face calming down.

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When Ji Yao opened his eyes, he found himself in a ruined stone hall, and the stone slab under his feet was carved with patterns similar to those of the teleportation circle, which had been eroded by green moss.

Chi Yao looked up, the stone roof at the top of the stone hall had long been gone, and only a few stone pillars of different lengths were left with vines entwined, and this ruin-like scene seemed to tell the ancient history.

Continuing to look into the interior of the main hall, you can clearly see a box placed in the center of the pattern of the magic circle, and the box is marked with a large number 3.

"That's the box? I'm not mistaken, right, it's still level 3?? Lin Cai exclaimed.

"That's right. That is, level 3. Zi Hanyan said as always.

"It's a burst of luck, come up and pick up a level 3 box for nothing!" Ye Lan cheered.

Chi Yao glanced at the 7 points of luck on his panel, and then at Li Fei's 8 points of luck and primary luck aura, and thought with relief: "Although it is a little strange, but luck is really uncertain, with me and Li Fei, the two lucky people, it is not unreasonable." ”

Li Fei said solemnly: "We have entered the enchantment, be careful in everything." ”

As he spoke, Li Fei unleashed a weakened water arrow technique and washed over the level 3 box.

"Tick, tick"

There was only the sound of water droplets, and no mechanism was triggered.

Chi Yao stepped aside, turned his back to Li Fei and them, and briefly turned on the Death Demon Eye and Wind Breath Technique for a while.

Chi Yao could clearly see that everything in the surrounding environment was normal, it was a dead line belonging to the stone slab, and the Wind Breath Technique did not notice anything unusual, and after confirming it, he immediately closed the Straight Death Demon Eye and the Wind Breath Technique.

Ji Yao walked to the box, observed it carefully, and said, "This is a decryption type of box, there are no traps. You see, at the top of the chest, there is an elemental grid that needs to be reorganized and sorted according to some law. ”

Li Fei also stepped forward, took a look at the arrangement of the elemental grid array, and said, "Well, this should be arranged according to the activity of the elements. ”

"It's like an element version of Sudoku, where different elements have different levels of activity, which means different numbers." Ji Yao thought about it, and soon came up with a solution.

In just two minutes, Chi Yao had completed the decryption, and as all the elemental squares came to the correct position, the whole box vibrated a little, and with the sound of "click", the box was opened.

Inside the chest is a black box marked with the number 3.

Upon opening, the box revealed a strange, charred black object with branched branches.

"What is this?" Ye Lan was puzzled, and was about to reach out to grab it, but was immediately stopped by Li Fei.

Li Fei explained: "If I guess correctly, this is part of the branch of a lightning strike wood, which contains the two powers of thunder and wood, and if you touch it rashly, you will be injured." ”

"These are all level 3 magic materials, I didn't expect the academy to be so generous?" Lin Cai was a little surprised.

"Well, Chi Yao, you take it first, we are the only one in the thunder system." Li Fei said and handed over the box directly.

Chi Yao took it with one hand and put it directly into the empty ring: "Okay, this lightning strike wood can also be used as a one-time thunderstorm bomb at the critical moment." ”

"Let's go, let's explore the stone hall first." Ji Yao said.

Everyone first explored the entire stone hall and found that this was an ancient ruin, and it had been explored.

After exploring the stone hall and finding nothing else, everyone walked out of the stone hall and looked at the surrounding forest environment, trying to identify the direction.

Chi Yao compared the map and said with some doubts: "On the map, there is no mark of this stone hall, but there is the mark of the level 3 box, and it is right to compare the terrain by looking at the surrounding environment, we are now in the easternmost part of the southern region." ”

"Well, where do we go first?" Ye Lan asked.

"Let's go and get the 3 level 1 boxes nearby, let's go south first, we need to exercise our combat ability in the forest first." Ji Yao said.

"Okay, so what do we do first?" Lin Cai said.

"Gray Demon Snake, according to the map marking, and the general habits of the gray pattern demon snake, the number of this nest of demon snakes should be 1-2, within our range." Ji Yao said.

"Okay, let's go!" Li Fei hit it off.

So the people followed the map and headed south.

On the way, everyone also experienced the difficulty of the forest environment, with a thick layer of soft soil deposited under the dense deciduous branches, which would fall into it as soon as you stepped down, and there were tree roots under this soft soil, which was extremely easy to trip over.

Fortunately, Li Fei made special shoes prepared in advance according to Chi Yao's requirements, which provided a lot of convenience for everyone to hurry.

After a long journey, Ji Yao spotted his target, gestured to his teammates not to make a sound, and stretched out his index finger to point 30 meters ahead under a tree trunk on the right.

The teammates also stopped and looked in the direction that Ji Yao was pointing.

It was a giant tree, and a hole had been dug out under its trunk, and in front of the hole, it was a gray-veined demon snake resting.