Absurd deduction game

A maze is a maze. With the gatekeeper chasing them, Yu Xing and Carlos couldn't try one path and could only choose at will.

The gatekeepers were able to keep up because they made too much noise.

However, Yu Xing is not worried about finding the way, because he has memorized all the roads he has taken. If he reaches a dead end, he can just turn back the same way - even if the gatekeeper is behind him, he is not false. He has seen it with his own eyes. After the Gatekeeper Ghost, he had a clearer assessment of the Gatekeeper Ghost's strength.

It's okay to meet face to face.

The distribution of the night pearls in the corridor was much dispersed, making it appear that the interior of the corridor was relatively dark, and there were no other people around. Yu Xing jumped up, kicked on the wall, and used the reaction force to pass around a corner at an extremely fast speed.

Carlos quickly followed. The magician's physical fitness was unexpectedly strong. His jacket made a hunting sound as he ran wildly, as if a bunch of colorful blocks were dancing wildly.

Even though the surroundings were getting colder and colder, and white mist appeared in their breaths, their bodies gradually warmed up under the intense exercise.

"San, don't you think this place is too big?"

What is the concept of building a maze underground? How much manpower and material resources will it require?

"Of course it's too big." Yu Xing gasped. His physical fitness was only at a normal level now. If he ran for a while, he might not be able to run. "The maze is not just a maze, it is a formation. Everything we perceive now is not It must all be true.”

Carlos was just looking for something to say: "Hey, you——"

Before they finished speaking, the gatekeeper roared, and the sound pierced into the minds of the two of them, making them feel as if their brains had been hammered hard and buzzing.

Both of them stumbled. Yu Xing rushed too fast and failed to stop the car. He accidentally hit the wall in front and his arm hurt.

He was forced to stop. Carlos glanced at him, stopped, and pulled him: "Don't stop!"

"Don't worry." Yu Xing stood up straight and looked at the guard ghost who was approaching.

The sleeves of the gatekeeper's robe were in the way, his withered hands were raised, and his toothless mouth split open, revealing a disgusting and creepy smile.

It seems to know that two living people are no longer mobile, which means it can get back its ghost control seal!

Yu Xing glanced at the time distractedly, and there were still five and a half minutes until the ten-minute countdown.

The chain on the janitor's wrist hit him like a meteor hammer. He narrowed his eyes, turned his head to avoid it, and fumbled around in his bag.

"Carlos, do me a favor."

Yu Xing got what he wanted and rolled away from the guard ghost's chain: "Help me hold it for thirty seconds."

Carlos knew what he had come up with at the first glance, and immediately responded: "Okay, there are only thirty seconds. If there is more, I will run away first."

Yu Xing ignored him, and after moving away from his seat, he turned his wrist and revealed what was in his hand.

A dirty incense burner.

Yu Xing didn't notice how Carlos was delaying time over there. He just shook the incense burner, took out three incense sticks, opened the lid of the burner, and inserted the incense sticks into the messy incense ashes.

As soon as the incense was inserted, it ignited without fire. Yu Xing half-knelt on the ground, placed the incense burner smoothly, and smelled the smell of burning incense.

This is one of the two props he can use, and its function is to... calm the sneaky corpse.

He kept a half-kneeling posture and moved the incense burner to a position between him and the gatekeeper ghost. In this way, he seemed to be worshiping the gatekeeper ghost.

After doing this, thirty seconds were up. Carlos blocked the chain with a dagger without looking back: "Are you ready!?"

"Okay, get out of the way." Yu Xing said.

Carlos quickly withdrew, leaving the janitor alone.

The strange thing is that the gatekeeper ghost is no longer as excited as before, as if it has really received some kind of sacrifice. The ferocious aura on its body gradually subsides, and its hands hang down.

Carlos breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene. He felt that he couldn't talk and disturb him at the moment, and he saw the ghost seal that Yu Xing conveniently placed on the ground next to him.

Yu Xing was half-kneeling now. I don't know if it was a compulsory requirement to use sacrifices or props. Carlos' eyes lingered on the ghost seal, and he tiptoed around Yu Xing's line of sight, trying to steal it.

"Really want it that much? While I'm dealing with the janitor ghost?" Just when Carlos bent down and his fingers were about to touch the ghost seal, Yu Xing suddenly laughed.

He spoke to break the silence, but the gatekeeper showed no reaction and seemed to have been well appeased.

Carlos froze: "Didn't you steal it based on your ability?"

"Oh, then try it." Yu Xing smiled with a smile, which made Carlos hesitate.

Don’t the words “then try it” usually appear in a threatening tone?

Try and die.

"You're bluffing me." Carlos said firmly.

Yu Xing's smile deepened: "I'm not bluffing you, just take it."

"Do you think I'm scared?" Carlos clicked his tongue, picked up the Ghost Seal, and quickly backed away.

He thought that Yu Xing would take some measures against him, or at least express his disappointment in words, but Yu Xing remained motionless.

The incense burned shorter and shorter, and Yu Xing saw another layer of ash accumulated in the incense burner.

Perhaps because the gatekeeper ghost is still very strong, the incense seems to be consumed, burning several times faster than normal incense.

When there was only one piece left, he made a gesture to put away the incense burner.

The gatekeeper ghost has completely calmed down. The [Dirty Incense Burner] can only be used three times in total, so it is very effective.

Yu Xing is the user of the prop, and he can get feedback. In his perception, the gatekeeper should go crazy again in ten minutes.

During this period, he could have left quietly so that the gatekeepers could not find him.

"Carlos." Yu Xing took back the incense burner and called Carlos.

Carlos played with the small card of the Ghost Seal between his fingers and tilted his head, "Huh? It might be a little too late to snatch it back now? There are only two minutes left."

"I don't mean to tell you this, I just want to say..." Yu Xing raised his head and glanced at the top of his head with unclear meaning, "Something is coming again."

The gatekeeper ghosts were calmed down, but the things that existed in the maze itself had been attracted by them staying in the same place for a long time.

That's a lot of hair.

No one has ever said that except for the gatekeeper ghosts, the maze is safe. Ordinary tombs are still full of dangers, not to mention the strange evil tombs everywhere.

I don’t know when it started, but the corners of the winding corridors were filled with hair. They were spreading and squirming like insects, but they made no sound.

Carlos was shocked to notice the existence of hair after Yu Xing's reminder. He looked up along Yu Xing's line of sight and saw a strand of hair hanging on top of his head, almost reaching his forehead.

The top of this strand of hair is tied in a knot, which looks like a hanging rope.

Carlos was shocked. The danger was so close to him, and he didn't even notice it!

It seems that this hair ghost is very good at interfering with people's perception. Even if he sees the dense hair, his brain cannot make corresponding analysis, as if his brain ignores them uncontrollably.

I'm afraid that ordinary people standing here will not realize that they are in a pile of hair that should not be there until the hair is wrapped around their necks and they feel suffocation and pain.

Yu Xing was also surrounded by hair, which swept over him like a wave. He lowered his eyes, put on his backpack, and drew out the Tang Dao.

A bunch of hair climbed to the top of his head, formed a hanging rope, and dropped in front of Yu Xing.

As long as he walked forward normally, he would put his head in with his own hands.

A bit of silvery cold light flashed, and the knots fell lifelessly to the ground. Yu Xing put away the knife and walked forward with a normal expression. Carlos had already moved forward a lot in order to avoid these hair knots - ahead No gushing hair.

Walking into Carlos' line of sight again, Yu Xing paused: "I have calmed the gatekeeper ghost. Let's leave the area as soon as possible and walk a while longer before it wakes up. Then you can use your paper man Went to find them.”

"Yeah." Carlos opened his mouth, and suddenly his pupils shrank, "Wait--"

I saw that Yu Xing didn't seem to notice the knot of hair hanging down in front of him, and he couldn't avoid it and was about to hit it.

For a moment, a thought flashed through Carlos' mind.

It's not "If he dies here, no one will compete with me for the Ghost Seal", but...

"This guy just reminded me that there are other ghosts appearing, and now he pretends not to see them. Isn't he just trying to test whether I can be cruel to him, and then decide whether to take the Ghost Control Seal back?"

After a moment of weighing, he not only shouted to be careful, but also directly started to cut off the knot in front of Yu Xing with a dagger.

This kind of hair is abundant in quantity, but it is not tough in any calculation. It is a type that is easy to cut.

When Yu Xing's "crisis" came into contact, he looked into Carlos' green eyes, and the countdown on the persona panel came to the last twenty seconds.

"Can you please stop testing me with such a weak-minded behavior?" Carlos turned the ghost control seal on his fingertips dissatisfied, "No one with any brains and emergency response capabilities will believe you."

"I'm not testing your attitude, I'm just testing your IQ."

Carlos never expected that Yu Xing could say such shameless words. As he spoke, they had left the range of hair knots and came to a brand new area that they had never seen before.

With five seconds left, Yu Xing raised his hand and handed Carlos a golden sign wrapped in an unknown material layer: "Take it."

Carlos: "?"

When he took the sign, the first thing he thought of was that Yu Xing could steal things and steal the Ghost Control Seal back without anyone noticing. However, as a top magician, he didn't notice it at all. He was too comfortable.

However, the next second, he touched the ghost control seal he had taken before, and the small card was still in his pocket.

It means that what Yu Xing gave him and what he took away are not the same thing. There is a difference between the two if you look closely. The former is covered with a layer of translucent material, which is smooth and hidden and cannot be seen without looking carefully.

The latter is a bit black, like normal gold that has been left for a long time.

Once the five seconds are up, the system countdown stops abruptly.

[The time has expired, and after judgment, the Ghost Control Seal is not in your hands]

【mission failed】

[Mission punishment: The plot kill will come within thirty minutes, the survival rate is 50%, please be prepared]

Three reminders flashed through Yu Xing's mind, indicating that he had failed in a rare mission.

Different from Yu Xing.

Carlos received a reminder that the task was completed, and belatedly asked: "Did you make a fake ghost seal? When and how did you have time?"

"You don't need me to do it. Didn't you see that the gatekeeper's belt has a lot of it?" Yu Xing was moved by his wit. The gatekeeper's belt was simply something designed to fool people. It was covered with scales. The golden sign is deliberately made similar to the Ghost Seal. It takes a long time to find the Ghost Seal among them.

I'm afraid that the evil spirit had such a wishful thinking at the beginning, so that the tomb robbers would think that the ghost mark was on the belt. After searching for it for a long time, they would ignore the position of the tongue base of the long tongue.

"But...since you were so cunning and fooled me with the fake one, why did you give me the real one?" Carlos couldn't understand. This was a plot kill with a 50% survival rate. It was so dangerous. It was equivalent to a targeted attack in the middle and late stages of a normal deduction. Yu Xing actually gave up the safety opportunity like this?

Not to mention a key clue as a mission reward.

"I saw that you took the fake one without raising any suspicion. I once suspected that there was something wrong with your IQ." Yu Xing glanced at him, "Then I thought about it for you. You haven't looked at the Ghost Control Seal carefully, so it's normal that you don't recognize it. And maybe you are not good at identifying authenticity. So, I decided to test you from another angle——"

"It turns out that your grasp of human psychology is quite accurate."

"So what does this have to do with you helping me?" Carlos raised his eyebrows.

"You have proven that you are a more valuable teammate. Relatively speaking, you are more important than the 50% survival rate." Yu Xing may be killed in the plot at any time. He waited with faint joy, "For me Say, 50% mortality rate is too low and not very important."

"I'm convinced. If you had said it earlier, I wouldn't have worried about myself if I had told him earlier." Carlos was surprised by Yu Xing's tolerance and respect for his teammates, but was also speechless by Yu Xing's usual bad taste.

It's hard to say whether the 50% mortality rate is low or not. Many bosses definitely think it is low, but Yu is lucky to have resurrection items.

Carlos is still thinking about the resurrection he saw in Coffin Village. Carlos has only heard of this kind of sacrifice with incredible power, but has no chance to get it.

"What's the point of saying it earlier? Let me see your reaction first." Yu Xing said with a smile, but did not say the second half of the sentence.

After watching it, I must say that Carlos, a young man, looks like a wild wolf cub that is difficult to control, but he is very talented in some aspects and deserves attention.

The two stepped lightly. After more than five minutes, they had turned five or six forks in the road, and could no longer hear the janitor's cries that had become more frequent again.

There was no silence for a while. Carlos walked next to Yu Xing and elbowed Yu Xing.

"Do you have any more questions?" Yu Xing asked proactively without waiting for him to speak.

"How did you realize that the hair ghost just now?" Carlos didn't even react when he was standing there. Yu Xing was squatting there, still paying attention to the janitor ghost. How did he multitask?

"It's simple, because I saw something in the corridor just now that shouldn't be here." Yu Xing answered matter-of-factly, "It's on the ground, something left by modern people. No one from Oster Company opened the door. Ghost's coffin, if that team dropped something in a hurry, what could be the reason? I can only guess that there are other dangers in the maze."

"Thinking of this, I woke up and noticed the hair."

He took out a palm-sized miniature doll from his pocket. The little boy in a black suit's eyes were full of hope: "That's it. You are still a magician. It's time to strengthen your eyesight."