Puzzle games

Behind the stone gate, Ye Zhao stood at the front of the crowd. When he saw Zhang Sijia appearing in the tunnel, his eyebrows twitched, and he quickly realized that there were not enough spiders.

He quickly rushed out of the stone gate and ran back, passing by Zhang Sijia. The latter had a surprised expression on his face, and Bai Tian in the opposite stone room instantly widened his eyes.

However, at this moment, the whole tunnel suddenly vibrated violently, and the gravel on the top fell one after another. Zhang Sijia quickened his pace, and Ye Zhao had already run to the secret door. He picked up Tiantian involuntarily, and rushed towards the stone gate at the fastest speed. .

The ground continued to collapse, and the stone gate began to close. Ye Zhao didn't care about dodging the falling rocks, and reached the end at the last moment, and the stone gate slammed shut behind them.

Ye Zhao was panting heavily, his legs were shaking physiologically due to ultra-limit running, and his arms holding Tiantian couldn't help tightening, as if only feeling the temperature under his hands could calm the lingering fear in his heart.

"The system probably didn't expect that someone would have passed and came back, which exceeded its original setting, so the tunnel collapsed." Tian Tian raised his head and looked at his chin and said sullenly, "Are you dying? ?”

"What about you?" Ye Zhao's tone was a little blunt, and he was obviously angry.

"You knew early on that the number of spiders is not enough for everyone to pass through the tunnel, right? So you plan to stay in the stone room by yourself, right? During the day, I never knew you were so self-sacrificing!"

Bai Tian sighed softly, he struggled a bit, and signaled Ye Zhao to put him down, Big Brother Ye did so silently, but his right hand was still firmly grasping his wrist.

Bai Tian helplessly rubbed his eyes: "The spider is gone and there are other living creatures. Have you forgotten the little monster in the pool? Although I am not as skilled as you, I have a lot of props. It is not difficult to catch one." .

What's more, the task of this dungeon is to find treasures. Even if I stay in the stone room and don't go out, as long as you complete the main task and pass the level, I will be ejected from the dungeon together, so it is not necessarily a dead end. "

He said with a wry smile: "Also, if it weren't for Zhang Sijia's spider, everyone wouldn't be able to pass through the tunnel so smoothly, so no matter what, I couldn't do anything to get out of the stone room before her and leave her there."

What he said during the day could not completely relieve Ye Zhao. He ruffled the other party's soft hair with some annoyance, then put the back of his hand on his forehead, and murmured in a low voice: "I'm just very scared."

When Ye Zhao rushed over to take Tiantian out of the stone room, Li Yilan, Zhang Siji and others had already figured out the whole story.

Zhang Siji didn't know the way out during the day, but only knew that he left his "last chance of survival" to his sister, and was very moved.

He patted Bai Tian on the shoulder and said: "Brother, I will remember this love. If you and Ye Zhao need help from the Zhang Group in the future, just come to me."

After speaking, he also strongly requested to exchange contact information with the two.

Wei Wei was a little surprised when she heard about Zhang's Group during the day, because the company's name was too big.

When he was working in the neighborhood committee of the community, he often heard Sister Li and the others mention Zhang Yun, the chairman of the Zhang Group, and detailed his extraordinary deeds from an ordinary university teacher to the richest man in the country. Unexpectedly, Zhang Siji's siblings were actually Zhang Yun's children.

Heh, the system is really fair enough, no matter rich or poor, as long as one is selected by it, no one can escape the game.

During the day, they didn't take Zhang Siji's thanks to heart, their immediate priority was to clear the dungeon.

Behind the huge stone gate is a staircase, which is so long that there is no end in sight.

The stone gate extends out to a platform that is not too wide. At the moment, the players are standing on the platform. The stairs are suspended and do not connect with the stone gate. There is nothing other than the stairs, only endless darkness.

Li Yilan was very courageous, he blew a whistle, carried the cross with a smile and walked up the stairs first, followed by Wen Pengpeng like a little fan.

I don't know what kind of material this ladder is made of, but it can emit a faint blue light on its own, like a jade belt extending upwards in nothingness.

The jade belt is very narrow, only allowing two people to walk side by side on it, but for the sake of safety, the players still queue up one after another.

Zhang Miao intentionally stayed at the end. He looked at the expressionless Bai Tian, ​​hesitant to speak, until the latter said flatly, "Are you still going?"

Zhang Miao blushed instantly, and quickly said in an inaudible voice, "I didn't mean to target you."

Bai Tian glanced at him coldly: "I don't care, everyone is just trying to clear the level."

Zhang Miao was startled, the heat on his face subsided a lot, he took a deep look at Bai Tian, ​​then lowered his head and followed the footsteps of the person in front of him.

Standing on the platform during the day, he turned and looked at the closed stone gate.

There is also a pattern engraved on the back of the stone gate, but the attention of the players was attracted by the staircase that looked extremely unreasonable early on. No one thought of checking the stone gate that almost wiped them out again.

"You used a Rubik's Cube when you were in the tunnel." Ye Zhao affirmed.

Bai Tian nodded. He knew what Ye Zhao was worried about. He looked away from the stone gate and looked into the latter's deep eyes: "The system didn't remind me to pay the price."

The last time he used the [Time-Space Rubik's Cube] to pause time for ten seconds, the system soon reminded him to pay back the price of the paused time in one hour after returning to normal, but at least half an hour has passed since the time reversal this time, and he also Did not receive the prompt from the system.

Bai Tian speculated: "I suspect that because of the difference in time flow between the time in the dungeon and the time outside the dungeon, props are not willing to trade at a loss."

In fact, this is also good. After he entered the dungeon, he only had the same clothes, and he didn't even have a change of clothes, let alone use them to pay the huge price of the Rubik's Cube. Now that the props allow "credit", it saves him the embarrassment of naked/running away.

Ye Zhao felt relieved when he heard the words, and looked at the pattern on the stone gate together with Bai Tian.

The pattern is similar to the painting style on the other side of the stone gate, and it is also weird and twisted.

The man holding the sword was covered with broken hands all over his body. These hands did not know where they came from, and who their masters were. They were like angels from hell, trying to drag the man into the endless abyss.

However, there was no trace of fear on the man's face, only anger, mockery and despair were revealed in the extremely huge pupils that were portrayed.

"Let's go." During the day, he had a vague guess about the story of the tomb owner's life, but there were still a few crucial pieces missing like a puzzle. He had an intuition that the system would take the initiative to deliver those pieces to them. It's just that it will inevitably be accompanied by corresponding dangers.

The stairs were suspended in the void, and when they stepped on them during the day, they felt very stable under their feet, no different from ordinary stairs, and the two of them quickly followed the footsteps of others.

Each step is not high, even shorter than the real stairs, so players don't feel strenuous.

Li Yilan was still in the mood to joke: "Do you think this staircase is long and high, does it look like a staircase leading to heaven?"

"We are underground, so it should be the stairway to hell..." Wen Pengpeng whispered.

Li Yilan choked on him, put her elbows around his neck and ground her teeth: "What did you say, little four eyes?"

Wen Pengpeng was forced to get close to his body, his face blushed instantly, and he stammered: "Brother, I was wrong, it is the ladder to heaven, the ladder to heaven."

"Is there a difference? Whether it's a stairway to heaven or a stairway to hell, it's a stairway to death..." Guan Xin said quietly behind the two.

Li Yilan and Wen Pengpeng froze for a moment, and felt a chill coming from behind, and the others also had goosebumps when he said it, and no one spoke again for a while.

The nine people walked quietly on the stairs, repeating the movements of raising and lowering their feet.

Once a person keeps doing something mechanically, he will easily feel tired. The players gradually lose their strength, and their originally straight backs slowly bend down.

"Why is this ladder so long? How big is this dungeon?" Zhang Sijia complained to her brother in a low voice.

During the day, he looked at the still endless stairs, and then looked behind him, and saw the same endless stairs and darkness, and Shimen could no longer be seen.

They were like isolated islands forgotten in the vast sea, small and helpless, he couldn't help frowning, stopped, and said to the people walking in front: "This ladder is wrong."

"What's wrong?" Zhang Siji asked subconsciously.

"Too long." Bai Tian said calmly.

A hint of puzzlement flashed in Zhang Siji's eyes, but he was obviously not a stupid person to be able to clear two dungeons until now, and he quickly understood the meaning of the daytime words.

The system will never allow players to do useless work. It is absolutely impossible for the system to do things like setting up an endless ladder just to consume their physical strength.

"I looked at the time. We have been walking for nearly two hours, climbing up the stairs non-stop for two hours. Even if each step is very short, we should have been unable to hold on according to our physical fitness in reality. , but now I just feel a little tired."

During the day, I looked around at the reactions of everyone, and seeing that they all looked thoughtful, I knew that everyone's feelings at the moment should be similar to my own.

"It's unreasonable, and I have two guesses about it.

First, the system deliberately weakens our perception of fatigue, causing us to unknowingly overuse our body functions and lead to exhaustion and death.

There is also a possibility that there is something wrong with this ladder, we are not actually going up all the time, our vision is blinded by some unknown force. "

"Bai Tian, ​​can you prove these two conjectures?" Li Yilan seemed to be very confident in Bai Bai's IQ, and looked at him with burning eyes.

"The first guess is my worst plan for the current situation. Whether it is confirmed or not has little effect on our passing the ladder. As for the second, it is very simple."

During the day, he raised the small match in his hand: "This is my lighting prop. I will leave it on this step. Now let's move on."

Seeing this, everyone vaguely understood his intentions.

Zhang Miao looked at the little match reluctantly. It was a dungeon item anyway, so if they said they would keep it, they would keep it. If they guessed wrong, wouldn’t it be a waste of an item.

Looking at the glimmering eyes in the daytime, Zhang Miao shook his head with a smile. If he didn't believe in the daytime, he might be slapped in the face again soon.

Li Yilan took the lead and turned around, Wen Pengpeng was about to follow but was stopped by Bai Tian: "Pengpeng, is your camera on?"

Xiao Siyan scratched his head in confusion, and replied honestly: "It was on at first, but the stairs couldn't be finished. I was worried that the battery would run out, so I turned it off."

"Open it, use camera mode." Bai Tian ordered.

"Ok."

Probably guessing about the secret of the ladder, the players who restarted their journey felt a little heavy. After all, if this is really a ladder that cannot be completed, how should they get out of here.

This time, all the people with watches watched the time silently, and soon an hour passed, and they hadn't seen the little match yet. Many people wondered in their hearts, is the guess during the day really reliable?

Are they really playing in circles?