parasitic son

Strictly speaking, the essence of this alien game is the Yizhong Data Protocol.

In the eyes of Yan Zhen and those players, everything, mysterious dungeons, medicines, props, treasures, and monsters are all in a form of presentation that conforms to the environmental data protocol.

If you just blindly immerse yourself in the atmosphere that the game gives you, then you will become a pawn controlled by the game.Only by finding the rules can we go on smoothly in this foreign land.

Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan walked into the room in front of them. One of the doors of this square room was pasted with a skull pattern by a little spider.There is also a "×" drawn on the blood-stained skull, which is a self-evident warning.

"There are monsters behind this door." Liu Xingquan said.

Yan Zhen said, "It's obvious." He stared at the icon and looked again and again.

Liu Xingquan said: "Don't tell me, you are going to open this door to die."

"Yeah." Yan Zhen said, "I really want to know what's behind this door and how dangerous it is."

"Don't die!!"

"I know, I know." Yan Zhen took a step back, and he looked at the remaining two doors, "Both information has been marked, which means that the detection ability of spiders at this level has been exhausted."

"Yes."

"Since there have been hints of monsters in the room, it means that there may be monsters in other rooms, and then we will really have to try our luck."

Liu Xingquan silently drew the monster logo in the square on the paper.

They had only been walking for a few minutes before they encountered a monster prompt.This silent monster graphic is in a way scarier than a real monster.The little spider warned a monster for them, so what about the next room?How many monsters are hidden in this endless maze of rooms?How many crises are buried behind these doors?

Originally, they could push open the doors of one room after another to explore as if nothing had happened.But now, it seems like there is a monster hiding behind every door like now.

This is a psychological trap deliberately set by the game, allowing players to experience the pressure of unknown fear as they advance.

Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan looked at each other.Yan Zhen said, "Don't you want to know how strong the monster is?"

"Do not want to."

"Really don't want to?"

"Do not want to."

"Okay." Yan Zhen said, "Anyway, I think we will bump into a monster sooner or later."

"During the adventure, please don't place flags indiscriminately." Liu Xingquan wandered around the room, observing the surrounding walls.

He said to himself: "In fact, every time we enter a room, we choose one of three. Except for the door we come in, we move forward among the third choices."

"This room marks a monster, it's a choice."

"Well, the key is our next road. How many rooms are there on this floor?" Liu Xingquan stood in the corner, looking at the patterns on the wall.All the stone walls are carved with the same pattern, and the theme is a goddess with wings descending from the sky.This should be the story background legend of this alien game.Liu Xingquan's hands touched the uneven and rough surface of the stone wall, checking wall by wall.

Yan Zhen pulled the little spider's legs.It pretended to be an ordinary spider again, and no matter how Yan Zhen pulled its feet, it didn't make a sound. Instead, it showed the fine and sharp teeth on its mouthparts to Yan Zhen, indicating that if Yan Zhen continued to play with its body like this, it would Let him see blood immediately.

Seeing that the tool spider with a limited number of reconnaissances just lay down and stretched out after finishing the work, Yan Zhen had no choice but to stuff it into his pocket.

Afterwards, Yan Zhen took a look at the square diagram drawn by Liu Xingquan, and now there is no doubt that the maze is not a nine-square grid, but an aggregation of squares with more specifications than this.After thinking for a while, he raised his head to signal Liu Xingquan that we can start again.

Liu Xingquan took out a pen and drew a mark in this room.All the maze rooms are almost exactly the same. In order to prevent going back, they will leave a mark every time they pass through a room.

The duo of the team decided to maintain the existing exploration policy and find out the end of the maze.

The fifth room to the right from the starting point is marked with an unknown monster. They deduced the direction according to the square drawn by Liu Xingquan with "up north, down south, left west, right east", and pushed the fourth room to the south. to the door.

The new room was empty.

They pushed open the door to the right (i.e. east) of this new room.

No monsters, safe entry, the sixth square room is still empty.

After walking two more rooms forward, Yan Zhen picked up a key in the eighth room they passed.

The note on the key is: the key used to unlock the lock, even the mentally handicapped know how to use it.

Yan Zhen glanced silently, and threw the key into her luggage.

"Tell me, what if this maze has no end?" Liu Xingquan said suddenly.

"The spider who pretended to be dead said that it would scout twice for us on each floor, which means that each floor has a range." Yan Zhen said, "I think we are about to find a breakthrough."

"If only it were as easy as you said." Liu Xingquan sighed, and he pushed open the door to the east of the room.

A monster suddenly appeared from behind the door and rushed towards Liu Xingquan.

"This is really a breakthrough!" Liu Xingquan shouted.

The high-spirited battle music played in the room, and Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan found themselves drawn into a ridiculous battle scene.They and the monster are facing each other diagonally.This monster is a weird orange slime monster, with at least five or six eyes growing on the tumbling slime, while opening three bloody mouths to scream at them menacingly.

[The slime monster launched a mental threat to Liu Xingquan. 】

【The timid Liu Xingquan is trembling. 】

Liu Xingquan shouted: "Who is trembling!! Who is timid! Why can't I even move!"

Yan Zhen said: "I see a state of being mentally intimidated on your head, and your actions are restricted." He raised his wooden sword, "It seems that the battle mode is still RPG turn-based, and now it's my turn. I Choose to attack."

【Yan Zhen launched an attack on the slime monster! 】

[Slime Monster -3 HP]

The angry slime monster sprayed acid at Liu Xingquan!

[The slime monster launched an acid attack on Liu Xingquan. 】

[Cowardly Liu Xingquan - 2 HP]

Liu Xingquan said angrily: "Why are you staring at me and hitting me!!"

"It doesn't matter Liu Xingquan." Yan Zhen waved the wooden sword again, "Hold on! I will avenge you!"

After Yan Zhen repeatedly hit it three times, the slime monster let out a scream and disappeared before their eyes.

At this time, Yan Zhen was not injured, and Liu Xingquan's blood volume was only a precarious 2 points.This means that as long as the slime monster on the opposite side attacks one more time, Liu Xingquan will die suddenly on the spot.

"Did you see that I'm going to die?" Liu Xingquan said.

Yan Zhen pulled out the apple, "Here you are, this is for blood recovery."

"I have." Liu Xingquan took out his own apple and gnawed a few bites. The apple disappeared in his hand, and his blood volume returned to full.

Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's blood volume is initially 10 points in the status bar.Judging by the slime monsters they encountered, it only took a few hits from the monsters to take them away.

The frantic fight didn't give them any experience points, but the slime dropped two items when it died.

The props are a [Page Fragment] and a [Mealworm].

Liu Xingquan picked up a fragment of the page, on which was written a paragraph:

The galaxy flows under her feet,

Across the sea of ​​thunder and flames,

Fly through the gravel corridor,

The double star of the rose adorns her wings.

"what is this?"

Liu Xingquan shook his head, "Maybe it's a clue to solve the game's puzzle. What's that in your hand?"

"Mealworm." Yan Zhen read the note, "common feed. Although this mealworm is still alive, even the mentally retarded know how to use it."

"I don't know if it's my illusion." Liu Xingquan said, "The programmers of this game are very unfriendly."

"Hehe." Yan Zhen stroked his chin, staring at the mealworm in his hand for a while.

He took out the dead little spider from his pocket, picked up the mealworm and shook it at the little spider.

The big eyes of the little spider who had been laying flat and pretending to be dead just now lit up. It stretched out its legs and snatched the mealworm, stuffed it into its mouth and chewed it relish.

"Well, yes, yes." The little spider muttered while chewing.

"Yo, you've finally spoken." Yan Zhenpi said with a half-smile, "For the sake of bringing you a meal, do you want to investigate a few more rooms for us? For example, find out what's inside. A room like the entrance to a labyrinth on the first floor."

The little spider hiccupped, "What are you doing, rest first. What's the use of doing so much work! Rest first!"

"Spit out the mealworm you ate!" Yan Zhen lifted the little spider upside down and shook it vigorously, "Spit it out!"

"Why are you shouting so loudly?" the little spider said, shaking its limbs, "I don't have enough physical strength to do anything."

"Not enough physical strength?" Yan Zhen stared at it and said, "That is to say, if your physical strength increases, you can scout a few more rooms for us, right?"

"Theoretically so," said the little spider.

"How do you get your strength up?"

"Just like before, give me a few more mealworms." The little spider covered his face and said shyly, "My physical strength will probably improve a little bit."

Yan Zhen put it down, he turned to Liu Xingquan and said, "Our scouting spider can be upgraded and expanded to expand its scouting range by feeding it."

"But you need new mealworms." Liu Xingquan was still looking carefully at the fragments of the book in his hand.

"So we're going to fight a few more monsters?"

"The most important thing for beginners in RPG games is sufficient supplies." Liu Xingquan said, "Our current supply is only one apple and one bottle of water. It costs one apple to fight a monster. I think this situation is very embarrassing. If you If we encounter two slime monsters like the one just now at the same time, we will both be on the street."

"The key is that you have no experience in fighting." Yan Zhen said, "It can be seen that players in this game mechanism cannot be upgraded. We should rely on obtaining equipment and props in the maze to improve our combat effectiveness. Tsk, look at Fan Yingjie's team in this way. The super powerful weapons are simply taking advantage of everything. In this way, I guess Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui's team is likely to be able to heal spells, and for a team that lacks supplies and medicines, knowing milk is cheating!!"

"Captain Yan, it sounds like our team is really miserable." Liu Xingquan said expressionlessly.

"..." Yan Zhen said, "Liu Xingquan, have you seen the round clock timer in our field of vision?"

"I see. Huh? Just now, the pointer obviously hasn't moved that far."

"It's fighting monsters, and killing monsters will speed up the pointer." Before meeting the enemy just now, the pointer's position was less than 1 o'clock, and now it has reached 3 o'clock.Yan Zhen suddenly said, "What will happen when the timer reaches 12 o'clock?"

"do not know."

"Let's keep going." Yan Zhen said in a low voice, "I think the original intention of this game may not be for us to fight monsters and become stronger."

"Are you sure?" Liu Xingquan looked at him, "If you don't fight monsters, you can't get props, you can't upgrade the little spider, and you can't expand our team's scouting advantage."

"The game has rules." Yan Zhen said, "Mr. Air told me that everything has rules. Rules are invisible walls that prevent you from doing whatever you want, but they also use rules and regulations to show you the way forward. Rules often Hidden in the meaningless noise. Liu Xingquan, I have a feeling that this strange world has shown us its rules, but we haven't discovered its hint yet."

Liu Xingquan applauded, "So, shall we move on?"

"Ah."

Then, in the new room, they found that the door facing east could not be opened at all.

They have come to a certain end of this maze.