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The pointer points to 12 o'clock.

There is no need to ask any more questions now because something is happening.

Something is approaching.

Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan stood back to back, looking around in panic.

At first there was the sound of heavy breathing, then a pungent smell and an uncontrollable sense of dread.The air felt like a wound had been torn open, and black dust poured up in front of their eyes like uncontrolled sewage, and then an inhuman thing crawled out of the black curtain.

It is approaching.

It's coasting.

The deformed long claws drew filthy marks on the ground and walls, and the scarlet ghost eyes gleamed in the darkness.

Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan didn't know what this thing was, but there was no doubt that in the teenagers' senses full of fear, all their rational consciousness was telling them that disaster was coming at this moment.

Unlike the monster in the labyrinth, this was a bloodthirsty beast beyond their comprehension.

As long as it launches an attack at lightning speed, it can easily tear their flesh and blood, devour their consciousness, and harvest their lives.

Liu Xingquan threw out a magic scroll [Frost Arrow].

The special effect of the Frostbolt exploded suddenly, leaving only an afterimage of shattered ice on the scroll that should have caused damage to the monster.The monster didn't take any damage.It just stared at them and swung its long claws at them.

Liu Xingquan let out a cry of grief.

Everything is coming to an end.

They are going to die.

At that moment, a line of text appeared in front of Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan.

【Present a holy gem to the good god to save your life】

【whether】

Without any hesitation, Yan Zhen clicked [Yes].

So in an instant, the sky fire came.

Bright flames rushed out, like waves sweeping the monster in front of them.The weird sizzle sound was like the howling of a monster, the ugly figure was peeling off layer by layer, the black filth quickly evaporated under the white light, leaving only a few ashes flying in the air.

The shadow of calamity disappeared in the fiery flames.

Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan looked around with lingering fear, only a few lingering flames remained in the room, flickering in the mist.The monster was completely destroyed.

Thick black marks were left on the floor and walls of the room, which were the scars after being scorched by the flames.

Yan Zhen came back to his senses, and said, "That monster was killed?"

"Yes. Fortunately, there is an option to sacrifice stones to continue life." Liu Xingquan exhaled.

"..." Yan Zhen frowned, and pulled out the little spider from his pocket, "What was that monster just now?"

The little spider was silent and as quiet as a real spider.

"Hey! Hey!!" After shaking it a few times, seeing that the little spider was pretending to be dead so skillfully, he obviously didn't want to answer him, so he could only stuff the little spider back into his pocket.

Liu Xingquan said with a pale face: "That feeling of oppression is almost like the final boss. Will this kind of monster be recruited as soon as 12 o'clock comes?"

Yan Zhen glanced at the timer in his field of vision. At this moment, the pointer deviated slightly from 12, and was slowly moving towards 1 o'clock. "The boss who comes at 12 o'clock, is this a mandatory mechanism of this alien game? Liu Xingquan, have you ever played Famine?"

"I don't have time to play."

"Tsk, I know you're a top student. It's like this. There is a mechanism in Don't Starve. There will be wild dogs attacking you every few days. The producer wants to increase the thrill and playability of the game. This foreign game Could it be this kind of mechanism too?" Yan Zhen said to himself, then he shook his head, "No, it's not that simple. The boss at 12 o'clock, and the sacrificial gems to renew life... I understand!!"

Liu Xingquan stood quietly aside, waiting for Yan Zhen's next words.He knew his buddy must have grasped something important.

"This is the time penalty mechanism." Yan Zhen said loudly.

"Time penalty?"

"Yes. When we pick up items in the safe room of the maze or stop for a short time, the timer will run relatively slowly, but as soon as we hit monsters, the timer will run fast."

Liu Xingquan nodded and said: "I have recorded that the monsters in the monster room will enter the turn-based mode, and the pointer will move forward about half a grid every time we fight a round. As long as we drag for five or six rounds, the pointer of the timer will move forward. Go 2 to 3 points forward."

"That's right, this is a time penalty mechanism. The safe period of exploring the maze is a cycle of one week of the timer. If we run out of this cycle, there will be a boss that our players can't fight at all to attack us. The only one who can continue to live The price is the holy gem."

"..."

"The game is using this mechanism to deliberately consume our holy gems." Yan Zhen bit his lip, "At the same time, the number of holy gems determines the outcome of the player's PK match."

The ultimate goal of the game is to find the bottom entrance and get the antidote to save the queen's kingdom. There is no doubt that this process requires time-consuming exploration of the maze. On the premise that killing monsters will quickly consume time, it may appear before all the exploration is completed. Several cycles, that is, the state of consuming several holy gems; on the other hand, exploring the maze may encounter life and death threats from other player teams entering the PK competition.

Yan Zhen gritted his teeth and said, "This game is really insidious."

Liu Xingquan nodded, and after a moment of contemplation, he said: "So, keeping the number of existing holy gems is the decisive point of this game."

Yan Zhen said: "Let's go, in this new cycle, we must do our best to save the timing."

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In the upper left corner of Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan's field of vision, the pointer of the timer started to rotate slowly again.

This time, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan have fully understood the meaning of this timer, and they will be forced to lose a holy gem every time the timer completes a circle.Each team's timing cycle is different. If too much time is wasted on monsters, it may consume multiple cycles and lose multiple gems. Otherwise, the speed of gem consumption can be avoided.Fortunately, they found the law of the maze on the first floor, which is the advantage of having the ability to investigate.

"Safety!"

"This room is safe!"

"It's strange!"

"Safety!"

"It's strange!"

Under the leadership of Liu Xingquan, a master minesweeper, the two teenagers quickly cleared this level and found the exit.

After leaving this maze, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan entered a new maze.

They discovered something new.

It was still a 9x9 maze of aggregated squares, but this level of the maze was obviously different from the levels they explored.

They walked into a room, and the treasure chest that was supposed to contain props was opened wide, but there was nothing in it.

Liu Xingquan pushed open the door of the room next to him. He found an obvious collision depression on the wall of the room, and the depression was full of cracks, which meant that there had been a battle here.

"Someone has been to this floor." Yan Zhen said.

"Well, maybe I just left." Liu Xingquan said, "This is what I wanted to tell you just now. If the number of maze layers is limited, we will be randomly sent into an unexplored maze, and we will also meet those with other players' teams. One floor, then of course it is also possible to enter the labyrinth floor that other player teams have explored."

"It's pretty good. Although you can't pick up any props, you just need to walk along the opened room. Anyway, they must have cleaned up the monsters." Yan Zhen looked around the room, "I don't know who explored here just now. Which team?"

"Let's watch as we walk."

Walking into one room after another, Yan Zhen and Liu Xingquan seemed to be a little more relaxed than the tense exploration just now, and the labyrinth floor that had been cleaned by people was extremely easy to explore.The only downside is that there are no props to pick up.

From the state of the room facilities, we can infer the other team’s experience in this layer of the maze. This team obtained at least three food supplies and scrolls from this floor. The weapons they use are not disposable consumables such as magic scrolls. Every monster room that was blown up left obvious dent marks.

"I guess this floor may have been explored by Fan Yingjie and the Terminator." Yan Zhen pointed to the crack in the room and said, "It seems that the room where the battle took place suffered a huge impact. The magic scroll we picked up None of them can cause such destructive results. According to the intelligence, Fan Yingjie and the Terminator team got powerful weapons, which fit this battle pattern very well."

"It may also be the Nelika Bawa team of unknown circumstances." Liu Xingquan walked to another room, "Yan Zhen, come here quickly!!"

"what happened?"

"Look at this room!!"

Yan Zhen got up and came to Liu Xingquan's side.

Before their eyes, the room seemed to have been scorched by flames, with black scars on the walls and the ground.Leftover embers of dust floated in the air.

This is what they have experienced.

"Fan Yingjie's team also encountered a time penalty boss." Liu Xingquan said.

"Well, obviously, they also consumed a holy gem here." Yan Zhen said.

"Well." Liu Xingquan said, "If they haven't PKed yet, then there are still 9 holy gems left."

Yan Zhen's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said enthusiastically, "So that's how it is, that's how it is."

"what happened?"

"I understand how to play this game!" Yan Zhen turned around, "I guess, next we may enter the maze that other teams have already explored. Since it is a comparison of size, the key to the game is to use this way to figure out how many gems the other team has left.”

"But you can't confirm how many gems Fan Yingjie and the others spent in the PK match.",

"It's not hard to guess. Assuming that Fan Yingjie's team meets Niehaha's team, I think they will try to avoid consuming gems in the first PK match, and they will give priority to choosing 1 from each other in the same way as we and Bailianlian's team. A tie is avoided, but the two teams have a fatal point, that is, the two teams are strangers who are not familiar with each other, and it is impossible to establish a relationship of trust."

"You mean they will tear up the agreement during the PK, and deliberately increase the price to win the other party?"

"Hmm. I guess it will probably end with 3 vs. 3." Yan Zhen said, "Originally there are 10 gems, assuming that the PK match consumes 3 gems and the time penalty consumes 1 gems, then the current number of gems in Fan Yingjie's Terminator team is not enough Will exceed 6."

Liu Xingquan said: "But in this case, if we meet them, we must consume more than 6 gems to win steadily. The remaining gems are impossible for us to win against other teams."

Yan Zhen shook his head, and he said in an extremely serious but slightly troubled tone: "I have a way to definitely win this game."

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Nerija Bawa stared at the empty room in front of him. The floor and walls were covered with black scars that had been burned by flames.

His servant whispered: "Yan Zhen Liu Xingquan's team, eight. Bai Lianlian and Song Jiarui's team, eight. Fan Yingjie's Terminator team, six."

"Victory is destined for me," he declared.