Weird Regulator

“This maze is bigger than I imagined.

Its area is almost comparable to Tianming Mountain!

Huang Banxian's dry and sallow face was even more haggard. He pressed his body close to the right side of the stone wall and moved forward cautiously.

He rolled up his sleeves and glanced at the mechanical watch on his wrist, which was still ticking.

Under his gaze, he watched helplessly as the second hand drew a circle again.

It was now 23:51 late at night.

Huang Banxian took a deep breath, gradually sat down along the wall, and rubbed his sore calves.

This meant that he had been in the maze for more than two and a half hours.

What he didn't know was that there were countless yellow half-immortals in this maze barrier.

And he is the only one among these yellow half-immortals who has been in the world the longest, has traveled the farthest, and has the most accurate watch time.

According to the theory of people named Ji, he believes that he is real.

So, how to determine the truth? Is it related to the time on the watch?

In other words, is the current Huang Banxian the only real one among countless Huang Banxian?

Apart from the person named Ji, no one should be able to explain this.

Huang Banxian naturally didn't know this either. He only knew that he had been wandering for two and a half hours.

During this period, he occasionally felt strange, and the golden talisman in his pocket felt slightly hot, but he was not really attacked.

There was no living person except him. Clay seemed to have been swallowed up by the maze, and he was the only one left in the vast enchantment.

This long feeling of loneliness and powerlessness is gradually eroding his will to survive.

In a chaotic place with no sense of space, Huang Banxian was about to reach his limit. If he didn't rest, he would be completely lost.

Sitting next to the wall, listening to no movement nearby, he took out bread and mineral water from the dry cloth bag.

The sound of tearing open the plastic packaging is subtle, but still enough to create an abnormal sound in a silent environment.

Huang Banxian held the bread in hand and looked around vigilantly. After confirming that it was correct, he started to eat and adjust his condition as soon as possible.

While eating the bread, he began to review the road map along the way.

“I walked all the way to the right and walked as soon as I encountered a road, adhering to the policy of drawing a circle.

After an hour, I completed the first circle.

In the first circle, I saw 43 circular areas, 43 straight passages and 129 forks.

The first space map gradually took shape in his mind.

However, human memory is unreliable after all. He can only roughly conceive a map, but cannot perfect many details.

In the second hour, I completed the second circle.

In the second circle, I saw 43 circular areas, 43 straight passages and 115 forks.

These two space pictures look similar, but they are very different.

In just half a minute, he had devoured a piece of bread. After opening the bottle of mineral water and taking a sip, he felt that his chaotic brain had become clear.

“If you think of the entire maze boundary as being composed of circles.

So the biggest difference between the first circle and the second circle I completed is that the forks in the road are constantly decreasing.

There was a trace of confusion in Huang Banxian's eyes, but there was also some kind of understanding.

In fact, each fork in the road represents more areas. The number of forks in the road is decreasing, which means that the overall space is also compressed.

Thinking about this, he looked to the side of the road ahead, but his mind was filled with doubts about the reduction of this space.

“In the first two hours, I only completed two circles.

But in the last half hour, I once again completed a complete circle.

According to the fact that the maze is composed of an unknown number of circles, Huang Banxian speculated from the calculation that the three circles he completed should only account for about one-fifth of the total amount of the maze.

Then the conversion shows that the entire maze will have about fifteen circles.

But the space of the maze is constantly decreasing.

The areas on the far right and second right are decreasing very slowly, but the area on the right again has almost disappeared by half!

What is causing the maze's area to decrease?

who?!

Huang Banxian's thoughts stopped here. He suddenly heard a slight strange noise, not far from the corner.

It was the faint sound of sand and gravel being stepped on by shoe soles, but he caught it immediately.

Fengjiao?

A tentative inquiry came from a position that was undetectable by sight.

This title that Huang Banxian didn't like shocked his whole body at this moment, and even his mental energy was instantly full.

Xiao Kezi! It's you!

…

Huang Banxian stood close to the wall, looking at Clyde who was sitting cross-legged on the ground and eating bread, his eyes full of surprise.

I thought you were already dead!

Clay's face bulged high, and the sides of his mouth were filled with food. He raised his head and said vaguely:

I walked away for a long time and thought you were dead!

After a long separation, Huang Banxian was in a great mood now that he could finally see his familiar teammates, but he knew that now was the time to exchange information.

While Clay was eating, he quickly revealed all his conjectures about the maze enchantment.

Guided by the talisman in the bag, he had no doubt that the current Clyde was a real person.

Clay nodded as he listened. Huang Banxian's experience was similar to his, except that he was exploring the two circles on the left.

After drinking half a bottle of mineral water in one breath, he stood up against the wall, his eyes became solemn, and he said in a deep voice:

Your idea is absolutely correct, the entire maze is indeed decreasing crazily.

And I've found the reason for the reduced space.

Huang Banxian's eyes lit up, he couldn't help but take a step forward, and hurriedly asked:

Say it!

Clay's face turned bright and dark, and he mysteriously pulled Huang Banxian's sleeve and led him out of the narrow passage.

Where are you taking me...

After just saying a few words, Huang Banxian stopped.

Because the scene in front of him made his mind buzz, and his thoughts were completely stagnant at this moment.

In front of Huang Banxian and Clyde, there were two corpses stacked on top of each other. Their deaths were miserable, but they were obviously caused by living people.

The corpse sitting next to him was none other than Huang Banxian himself, and the cause of death was a cut throat;

The body lying flat on the ground was Clyde. The cause of death was mechanical asphyxia.

Clay looked at Huang Banxian who was completely stunned, sighed and said:

I explored from left to right and walked for two hours. I have already seen 6 corpses of myself and 8 of your corpses.

They were all brutally hunted by another person for some purpose.

Seeing your own body so close is not a pleasant experience.

Huang Banxian turned his head in disbelief and looked directly into Clyde's eyes, full of doubts.

Clyde had no such evasion. He squatted in front of the two corpses and took off the watch from the corpse's wrist:

Look, when you die, the time on your wrist stays at 22:17.

But now your time is obviously still going on, and it is much, much further behind him.

Huang Banxian felt as if he was struck by lightning. He instantly understood what Clay's words meant.

You...you mean, he is Huang Fengjiao at 22:17.

And I am Huang Fengjiao who is further back in time!

Yes, there are countless us in this maze barrier.

Clay nodded:

This maze is not only a space barrier, but also a time barrier.

From the moment we entered the maze, we were split into countless individuals.

Once we are killed in each area, the corresponding space will disappear.

When all the extra space disappears, there is only one space left, and that is the exit!

The man who hunted us obviously guessed the way out before we did, and he had succeeded many, many times.

Huang Banxian was completely shocked by this amazing way of life. He looked down at his tragically dead body and reviewed this theory.

Yes.

If explained this way, it makes sense.

This maze is both a time system and a space system.

Time acts on the clerk and space acts on the maze, resulting in the isolation of information from each other.

Killing the clerks in the occupied space and erasing the timeline will reduce the size of the maze.

If you push this to the extreme, the last person will control the final maze, and he will inevitably find his way out!

Huang Banxian's heart skipped a beat as he suddenly realized the predator.

Because the Hunter had obviously entered much earlier than him and Clyde, he had already taken the lead.

At least half of the maze has disappeared now. You can imagine how much advantage that person has.

Even with this advantage, he and Clyde were completely unable to make a comeback!

We have lost the qualification to compete, so what we can do now...

Huang Banxian captured the key to the present moment. He quickly pulled Clyde over and said:

time!

The one with the last time on your watch must be your true self.

If our true selves were hunted, we would cease to exist!

Huang Banxian thought to himself that even if he was not the last, he should still be very close to his true self, because he had been in for a long time.

It’s 23:59.

As soon as he grabbed Clyde's hand, he suddenly realized the problem, quickly rolled up his sleeves and checked his watch.

The time on Clay's wrist was far ahead of him: 22:49.

Clay lowered his head slowly. When he raised his head again, his face was full of indifference and darkness, and he suddenly chuckled.

I was discovered by you.

At the same time as he finished speaking, a knife suddenly turned over in his hand and stabbed Huang Banxian in the heart.

Huang Banxian had no idea that Clay would take action against him, and his life was taken away without any defense.

Why...why?

Clay's face was expressionless, only calm and rational. It was obvious that he was not Clay himself now, but the second personality created by Fang Jing.

In order to kill Huang Banxian, his second personality played an awkward role for a long time, but he succeeded in the end.

“Even if I’m not the real Clyde, if I kill him in all the other timelines, then I’m real.

And you, Huang Fengjiao, must try your best to die.

As the space becomes smaller and smaller, the chance of me meeting other Clydes will become greater and greater...