Prehistoric Calendar

Chapter 653, Anise and Sacrifice
"……It's now!"

Hao turned sideways, rolled over several meters away with his head in his arms, and immediately revealed the people behind him. Immediately, the magic missiles plus at least a dozen and a half magic bullets bombarded the people who followed Hao. On the cavalryman, the heavy armored cavalryman was smashed to pieces immediately, along with its skeleton horse mount, and then these smashed pieces turned into particles and disappeared.

Ghost scythe cavalry, this is an advanced species of skeleton cavalry, a natural third-order undead creature, its powerful nature is equal to that of a high-level death knight, and its attack speed is fast. If it is in an open area, this is a very scary and difficult One undead entangled can wipe out an entire adventure group with a Tier [-] professional.

Fortunately, the environment in the ruins area makes it impossible for this kind of cavalry to give full play to their mobility advantages. There are a total of seven ghost scythe cavalry, and the formation arranged by Hao was only broken, and no one was killed or injured in the end. Only Hao, who was the bait, was very It was fatigue, and there were bruises on my body from rolling and rolling many times.

However, being able to kill seven third-tier undead in a row at such a price made everyone excited. Naturally, the elves needless to say, the more they knew, the more they knew that Hao's ability was truly unrivaled. At least they can't think of anyone who can achieve Hao's current results with such combat power. This is the victory of the weak against the strong, and every time the weak defeats the strong. This is definitely not luck or chance. He has been boasted all the time, but he is a wise man who has never been blown away.

As for the human race, they don't know how powerful this skeleton is, they only know that it is very powerful, so powerful that they can't help trembling just looking at them, they all instinctively know that this monster is terrifying, very terrifying, It was a big monster enough to wipe out their previous tribes, but under the leadership of Hao, they managed to get rid of this monster without dying. This was all due to Hao's arrangement and ability. People, even those who are ignorant of the human race, know it well.

After the war, the sergeant led his clansmen and began to clean the battlefield skillfully. Although these undeads generally dissipated after being eliminated, occasionally there were still some things left behind. These things usually had special effects of alchemy or enchanting, and occasionally they could Some precious things were found in it. For example, in the previous battle against the corpse demon, after five tribesmen died, a magical strange object was found when cleaning the battlefield. Ai checked and determined that it was a high-level magical strange object. It is called the Ring of the Corpse Demon, which can be carried by necromancers or undead creatures with a certain amount of magic power, which is equivalent to a little extra magic power. Even illegal undead creatures can use a little magic. It is a very precious magic item, the only pity is that only negative energy creatures can wear it, which limits its value and wide use, but there are also immortals in the ten thousand races, this ring is almost impossible for the immortals. It is comparable to a legendary wonder, and its value is estimated to be around five thousand spirit stones.

The elves looked at the humans cleaning the battlefield, and they consciously began to check the equipment parts of semi-magic weapons. It has been six days since they entered the artificial building of the ruins. During these six days, they have been in the ruins Going forward, the ruins seem to be infinitely large, and the border has not been explored in six days, let alone the location of the magic tower, there is no trace to follow at all.

At this time, Hao took out a piece of paper, on which many lines had been drawn densely, Hao would draw something after each battle, and others had no idea what he was drawing at all.

In fact, in the past six days, everyone has experienced 23 battles, large and small. The weaker ones are nothing more than hundreds of thousands of various undead creatures, mixed with some first-order and second-order undead creatures. For example, this time, there are a total of seven third-tier undead, and if one is not good, it will be wiped out immediately. In such a battle, although every time it is a victory, except for this time, the rest are victories standing on the edge of the cliff. There were casualties, and one group was not destroyed immediately. After 23 battles, the number of casualties has reached more than 170, and even one elf died. It can be said that the entire team is about to reach its limit.

Ai Yi came to Hao's side exhaustedly, sat beside him without any image, and leaned his head on his shoulder at the same time and said: "We may all die here, everyone has reached the limit, you may I didn't notice that the faces of the children were a little blue. This is a sign of staying in a negative energy gathering place for a long time. Even if they return to the normal environment now, they will probably suffer from a serious illness, and there is only one base amount of ammunition left. , we might all die here."

Hao's body froze, but he didn't answer, but continued to draw something on the drawing, at this moment Ai Yi suddenly said: "Speaking of which, I'm still a virgin, and I won't talk about it when I was young. When I grow up, my father will I got married, I sneaked out by myself, and devoted myself to magic, but I became a second-level magician, but I have never been in love in my life. I said, Hao, you have never been in love, have you? It would be a pity to die like this. No, let's have a game..."

"Shut up!" Hao shouted without looking back.

Ai Yi pouted all of a sudden, and Hao didn't care about her, just scratched on the paper. After a while, when Ai Yi was drowsy, Hao stood up and let her head hit the ground directly. Shaking his head, he was furious and jumped up to kick Hao's knee. Hao grabbed her and said, "We found the way, call everyone immediately, and we will set off immediately!"

Ai Yi froze for a moment, then ran excitedly, calling the names of 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 them. Humanity: "This is a maze. It's not that the ruins are too huge, but that the ruins were designed as a maze at the beginning of construction, or half a maze and half a formation is more appropriate. We have been circling in this maze all the time. And judging from the arrangement of the maze, we have actually passed the gate of the magic tower several times."

Everyone was pleasantly surprised when they heard the words, and they all looked at Hao attentively, and Hao took out the paper he had drawn and said, "This is a very peculiar octagonal maze. I discovered it from the more than 20 battles we have passed through In fact, as long as you observe carefully, you can see that the walls, floors, and ceilings in this maze are all carefully carved, and the almost identical patterns and patterns, angles, orientations, carvings, etc., will make people Can't tell the real direction, it seems that we have been moving forward, but this is actually just a psychological and visual cover-up, but this design is very clever, and there must be a hint of magic in it, so we are all familiar with this maze. Turning a blind eye to some of the features of it, in the end, just kept going round and round in this maze."

Everyone quickly looked around, but they couldn't see anything, and Nuo Duo asked strangely: "God, according to what you said, then we went around a few times, why do all kinds of undead people keep appearing?" What about creatures?"

Hao also looked around, he sighed and said: "This is 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 veins of the earth, and then pass through The center of the magic tower is converted into magic power to maintain the operation of this formation. Although there is no specific formation map, I have discovered some laws of this formation maze. The intensity of the undead attacks we encountered is not disorderly, but regular Yes, every time a corner of this octagon is reached, undead attacks will be arranged according to the special characteristics of that corner, or there will be no undead attacks. I found that this eight corners probably represents an open position for entering the azimuth, and there is no rest for undead attacks. The position, the survival position where the undead attack is very weak, the position where the undead attack is somewhat powerful and injured... to the death position where seven third-order undead appear together, there are a total of eight directions, and every time we walk through the entire octagon, The orientation will be changed once, and the next time it will not be the previous orientation, but the eight orientations will be exchanged."

Everyone listened carefully, but except for a few people, most people didn't understand. Ai Yi understood what Hao meant, and she gasped when she heard this: "This sounds like... ...This is impossible, although the owner of this ruin is a spiritual magician, but he is a half-breed, and he is not a half-breed elf, how could he..."

The rest of the elves also had the same expression. Obviously they were born in the elves, and they generally know the common sense of that thing...

"Magic Mystic Lock!" Noldo and several elves said these four words in amazement.

That's right, it's a magic lock.

Ai Yi said to Hao: "Magic fan lock is the secret of our elves. Except for the three people with the highest power to continue the royal family, only the core heirs of the duchies can learn it. If it is an ordinary elf, then at least You have to become a demigod before you can learn a little bit sporadically. Of course, there must be loopholes in this rule. For example, the heirs of the principality can learn a little bit sporadically, and the royal family can let professionals who are close to them learn a little bit sporadically. Yes, but as far as the core is concerned, it will never be rumored, and even the holy gods may not have learned it all."

Hao nodded and said: "I also know this. Specifically, why do you think this maze is related to the magic lock?"

"Because it's alive." Ai Yi said bluntly.

Then she thought for a while, then shook her head and said: "This description is actually not very accurate. The biggest difference between the magic lock and all other magic is that the magic used by the magic lock has the characteristic of being alive. Ordinary magic, generally It works according to a fixed magic formula, so that there will only be one or two fixed functions, such as curse, which is a curse, and restoration, which is repair. What kind of magic should have the effect, and magic has one The characteristic, that is what you mentioned before, as time goes by, even the constant magic of the spiritual magician will gradually dissipate as time goes by."

"But the magic fan lock is different. The magic used by the magic fan lock will borrow a lot of free energy from the world, and it will also be applied to the earth veins. Not only that, the magic used by the magic fan lock also has the characteristics of 'alive' , For example, now high-level magic towers 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 activated thinking, which can help the magic tower owner manage the entire magic Tower, in addition to this, the magic fan lock also has the characteristics of not being weakened by the passage of time, otherwise you think why we elves are famous for magic, because we have magic fans that are higher than all magic. Lock it."

Hao nodded, he understood why these elves thought this maze formation was a magic fanlock, because this "alive" feature was indeed very similar to a magic magic lock, so he said: "Whether this maze formation is a magic magic lock or not, these And think about it later, I will continue the topic just now, this maze is based on the octagon, we keep turning around these eight corners, and every time we turn around, these eight corners will change again, not only It is the specific content that changes, and the location will also change, so you may not be able to understand it, so I will cover it up for everyone.”

Now Hao folded some paper into an octagonal hollow circular box, and then folded the paper again, making a circle around the octagonal circle, filling the octagonal circle with some paper wrappings, and then Everyone saw that Hao made a hole between the outermost circle and the octagonal hollow circular box, he pointed to this hole and said: "This is where we came in, and then we entered this octagonal circle, as we advance or retreat , because the corners of the octagonal circle experienced are different, and it starts to rotate."

While speaking, Hao rotated the octagonal hollow circular box on the middle layer, so that the octagonal hollow circular box was no longer in the previous position, and they could not find the way out, and kept moving forward, as long as If the distance is long enough, and the various patterns, carvings, textures, and magic hints mentioned by Hao before, they will not feel that they are taking a detour, but will keep moving forward until the entire team is wiped out.

"At the same time, there is another entrance."

Hao continued to make a hole between the octagonal hollow circular box and the core, and then turned the octagonal hollow circular box and said: "The key now is to find this entrance. Although I am not sure yet, the magic tower is here. The core is the greatest possibility, otherwise the magic power transmission cannot be so fast, and the total amount of magic power cannot be so sufficient, only the magic tower is next to it, and it is impossible to have magic towers outside the eight corners , so the greatest possibility is that the magic tower is at the intersection of the eight corners, which is the core position!"

Everyone looked at the crude paper model Hao made, and Ai Yi immediately asked: "Then how do we find this point of entry? You also said that as we advance or retreat, this formation will always be It's changing, is it all about luck?"

Hao shook his head and said: "Although luck is also a way, but the probability is too small. If I guessed correctly in the whole formation, there are a total of eight to the eighth power of changes, tens of millions of changes, if you rely on luck To find the entrance, I’m afraid it must be destiny, so we must find the correct calculation method to solve the answer.”

Everyone immediately looked at Hao expectantly, and Ai Yi asked again: "Then did you untie it?"

"No."

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

Hao fell into contemplation, or hesitation, because according to his estimation, to obtain detailed data, the entire labyrinth must run 64 [-] times again. In other words, they estimate that they have to deal with at least hundreds of undead attacks , It's almost impossible to get over it. At present, they have reached the limit of light casualties. If they continue, Hao estimates that there will be at most ten undead attacks, and they will probably all be wiped out.

Moreover, the arrival of the dark camp must also be considered. So many days have passed, Hao will never underestimate the action power of the dark camp. It's real, even a small mountain can be hollowed out in a few days, that's tens of millions, and there will be no fatigue, no complaints, and no slowing down of work. The horror of this kind of power is simply unimaginable.

So, they are running out of time...

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

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

When he asked his people to face death with long guns, when he asked Mu to die on the spot, when he asked everyone to go with him to face the Yazi monster group, when he said the law of marching, even himself When you can kill...

There is great terror between life and death, 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 what he wants Holy land, before that, he really didn't want to die, absolutely didn't want to die...

However, he can't demand others with death, and then treat himself leniently, allowing himself to enjoy life, it's not fair!
"Ai Yi." Hao suddenly spoke.

Ai Yi froze for a moment, agreed, and Hao looked at her seriously and said, "I want to sign a ciphertext contract with you."

Ai Yi was taken aback again. She looked at the people around her, thinking that Hao had some layout that was not suitable for her to say on the spot. After thinking about it, she stretched out her hand a little, and immediately a magic rune appeared. Soon, a A piece of empty paper appeared, and Ai Yi said: "Only the two parties who signed the ciphertext contract know, and they cannot tell others before it is completed, and..."

"I know." Hao stretched out his hand to press the ciphertext contract, he let go of his hand after a while, and said to Ai Yi: "Press your hand on it too, and sign it."

Ai Yi stretched out her hand in a daze, and then a shocked expression appeared on her face.

Hao signed a master-servant ciphertext contract, which stipulates that once he dies, Ai will break away from his relationship with his master-servant, and at the same time, obtain his memory of the location of the Venerable's legacy, and The requirement is that he must inform Iluvita of the location of the marsh, and lead the remaining surviving human tribes out of here, and arrange them properly.

Then Hao didn't look at Ai Yi and the others. He focused his eyes and looked at the paper with an octagonal pattern on it, and he entered a super state.

In an instant, infinite information appeared in front of Hao's eyes. Numbers, the eighth power of eight, tens of millions of calculations, seemed as simple as adding one plus one equals two. The location when they first entered, the current location, The entrance, exit, the location of the magic tower, the enemies he might encounter, etc. were all presented in front of his eyes.

Not only that, this infinite amount of information has been deduced downwards, suddenly for a moment, this infinite amount of information seemed to be stuck, as if it had encountered a huge number problem, and then, eight strange runes were looming, and at this point It was displayed in front of Hao.

(Bajiao, no, this is the Eight Diagrams... Nine Palaces are reversed, Eight Diagrams, Five Elements, Four...)
"Qian, Kun, Zhen, Gen, Kan, Li, Xun, Dui..."

After Hao chanted this sentence, before the true meaning of these eight runes appeared, the epidermal blood vessels on his forehead began to burst open one after another. At the same time, one of his eyeballs burst directly from the eye socket, and the surface of his body also began to burst. Cracks appeared densely, and at this moment, Ai suddenly waved at him, and a huge force hit the back of his head, knocking him unconscious.

(End of this chapter)