The Chosen System: Counterattack with Husband

It was not known whether it was Rong Yan's illusion, but the moment Xu Yiyu said this, the black cat seemed to instantly put away its innate laxity and laziness, and its sitting posture became much straighter.

It stared at Xu Yiyu in silence for a while, then stood up on all four paws and slowly walked deeper into the underground palace.

"Sister, you just said we were playing games...what do you mean?"

"Don't you think the three of us just looked like we were playing a side-scrolling parkour game? Or one with lots of powerful debuffs and traps?"

As he followed the black cat inside, Lin Yi finally regained his original resolute expression, but Rong Yan lowered his voice and humbly asked Xu Yiyu for advice.

Xu Yiyu turned his head slightly and tried to explain to Rong Yan as concisely as possible.

As soon as she said that, Rong Yan simply imagined the scene in his mind and found that she was absolutely right.

The owner of the underground palace's behavior gave people the feeling that he was playing tricks on the three of them from a God's perspective. If you think about it carefully, it would indeed make people feel uncomfortable.

While the two were talking, the black cat stopped at the rock protrusion where Rong Yan had just fixed the other end of the rope, stretched out its front paws, and used the slightly curved claws to hook the rope loop off the rock.

Xu Yiyu raised his eyebrows and was about to figure out the intention of the black cat's action, but he found that the little guy pushed the rope loop aside and ignored it, instead retracting his claws into his paws.

As if it had done this a million times before, it pressed its fore paw against the rock and pushed it lightly, seemingly casually.

Next, the black cat turned around in a very human way and signaled the three humans who were following him with his eyes, as if he wanted them to move away.

Along the way, Xu Yiyu had almost gotten used to the black cat's extremely intelligent movements. He immediately pulled Lin Yi and Rong Yan back five steps, one on each side.

As soon as the three of them stood still, the ground beneath their feet began to shake violently.

This sudden "earthquake" did not shatter any structure in the cave, and Xu Yiyu quickly stabilized his body.

There was nothing at the bottom of the dark cave, just a smooth wall made up of countless square bricks.

When the "earthquake" came, the bricks and stones on the wall retreated back into the cave walls on both sides one by one, just like a scene in a fantasy movie, as if they had never existed.

Deeper inside, a round stone carved with strange grooves and patterns slowly emerged from the darkness and stopped where the brick wall used to be.

Xu Yiyu understood in his heart that this should be another mechanism set up by the owner of the underground palace, and the seemingly fantastic scene just now should also be the result of the mechanism embedded in the bricks and stones in advance.

If it weren't for the black cat leading the way, no one would have found the right path.

"Mimi, you are a good Mimi. After we go in, I will give you two more cat strips."

Xu Yiyu lowered his head and smiled gently at Mimi, and his tone was much softer than when he "threatened" it just now.

The stone bridge behind them had collapsed, and it was obvious that she and Lin Yirongyan would not be able to return the same way they had come.

Apart from this strange round stone in front of them which obviously had some tricks, the three people had no other choice.

The black cat seemed to have accepted Xu Yiyu's request for "peace". It barked a little arrogantly, then silently stepped aside, giving the position closest to the boulder to the three people.

In order to liven up the somewhat solemn and serious atmosphere, Xu Yiyu turned on the high-intensity flashlight that had not been used for a while and illuminated the strange round stone that was hiding a secret.

The space vacated by the bricks that had just retreated into the stone wall was now filled with round stones tightly, and there was almost no "tolerance" visible to the naked eye.

The more Xu Yiyu looked at the strange grooves on the cobblestone, the more familiar they looked.

Lin Yi scanned the boulder from all directions, then stepped back a few steps and observed the direction of the grooves and lines on the boulder from a distance.

——Finally I can see what this is.

"Boss Xu, this is a maze."

"Sister Yi Yu, this is a maze."

Lin Yi and Rong Yan's voices sounded almost at the same time. The two looked at each other, and the corners of their mouths curled up in a similar arc.

"Come on, let Xu come and see what this maze is all about. When I was a kid, I loved walking through all kinds of mazes in newspapers."

Xu Yiyu rolled up his sleeves in a rogue manner, raised the flashlight higher, and looked up and down, left and right, of the circular maze.

As a result, she actually found something interesting.

The light was too dim just now, and the round stone appeared suddenly, so Xu Yiyu did not have time to observe it carefully. However, with the powerful help of the high-intensity flashlight, she also noticed the patterns painted on the four directions of the circular maze: up, down, left, and right.

Directly above the maze, there is a four-pointed star that often appears in the history of ancient Chinese astronomy.

Directly below is a cluster of flames depicted in great detail.

On the left, is a toad with its mouth wide open.

On the right, is a crow with its wings spread.

As for why Xu Yiyu didn't think it was a crow instead of some other bird——

In ancient Chinese mythology, when thinking of the three-legged bird, the first one that came to Xu Yiyu's mind was the three-legged golden crow.

Moreover, below these four different patterns, there is a very obvious entrance at the edge of the maze. At the entrance, there is a round stone in the shape of a chess piece, which seems to be movable.

In the upper left corner of the maze, there are four lines of small characters engraved in small seal script, which can be easily missed by careless people.

"They set out in the morning and arrive in the evening, traveling from the south to the north. The four directions gather together, and the world becomes one."

As the four sentences passed between his lips and teeth, although Xu Yiyu was just reciting them, he still felt an indescribable mystery and domineering aura.

If she didn't know that the charming ancestor of China was still lying under the imperial mausoleum in Shaanxi Province, she, Xu, would almost think that he had written these sixteen words.

After Xu Yiyu finished reading these four lines, Rong Yan behind him patted him lightly on the shoulder.

She turned her head and noticed the pen and paper he already had in his hands, and immediately understood what he was thinking.

After Lin Yi roughly memorized the layout and roads of the maze, he didn't look at it for long, but silently gave the position in the middle with the best view to Rong Yan.

Xu Yiyu also retreated behind Rong Yan, waiting for his next move.

Rong Yan, who was silently placed with high hopes, just pushed his glasses on his nose calmly, spent another minute observing the maze, and then lowered his head without hesitation and began to write and draw on the notebook in his hand.

Xu Yiyu was curious, so he leaned over to take a look at Rong Yan's notebook and immediately understood what Rong Yan was doing.

——This great artist actually hand-painted such a complicated maze, it was so impressive that it made her scalp tingle.

But five minutes later, Rong Yan put down his pen, raised the notebook and compared it with the maze again, then tore off the paper on which he had hand-drawn the maze.

"I have drawn all the elements of the maze. The real thing cannot be moved casually, but we can use the photocopies to try out the route a few more times."

Rong Yan slapped the paper into Lin Yi's palm with an expression that said "this is nothing", then lowered his head to draw a second "copy" and slapped it into Xu Yiyu's hand with the same expression.

Xu Yiyu stared at the "copy" of the circular maze in his hand in amazement and was speechless for a moment.

Unlike her, Xu, who was given a golden finger by Tongzi, Rong Yan was the real god-level player who had a photographic memory!