Chapter 184 Endless Corridor Maze
[Looking at the sign on the side, you confirm that the office in front of you is the office of ‘Grand Bachelor McGuire’, and you push the door open...]
[The furnishings in the office are simple. There are many paper documents on the desk and large bookcases filled with books next to the wall. 】
【searching……】
[You find an ancient book in the desk drawer. 】
[The book is called "108 Ways to Chase the Stars". You were greatly surprised and quickly opened the book. 】
[Most of the pages are dilapidated, and the handwriting is difficult to read. You ponder and identify them word by word, and finally find part of the information about the 'Star-Chasing Corridor'. 】
[Because many of the contents are incomplete, you can only roughly deduce the key contents by guessing. 】
[The ‘Star Chasing Corridor’ is the only passage connecting the ‘Star Spirit Hall’, and it is also the test before entering the ‘Star Spirit Hall’. 】
[The 'Star Chasing Corridor' overlaps with each other like a maze. People who enter by mistake will often lose their way and be trapped in the corridor forever. 】
[Only believers who believe in the ‘Bright Stars’ can safely pass through the ‘Star Chasing Corridor’ and enter the legendary ‘Star Spirit Hall’. 】
[The more pious and firm the faith, the simpler the complex and intertwined corridors will become. On the contrary, the corridors will become more complicated and tortuous, becoming a nightmare for pagans. 】
[If you can successfully pass through the ‘Star Chasing Corridor’ and enter the ‘Star Spirit Hall’, you will receive the favor left by the gods...]
[You have gained knowledge, and your knowledge has increased by 1500! Current amount of knowledge: 2101/15200]
Lin Xun was embarrassed.
The ‘Star-Chasing Corridor’ is a test used to test the piety of believers.
For a devout believer, the test is simple, but for him, an oathbreaker, it may be the most difficult.
He is not worried that the 'Star Spirit Palace' is the residence of some kind of god.
If the gods of the stars are really hidden in it, the 'Servant of the God of Knowledge' will summon him when he obtains the teleportation scroll.
Lin Xun tried to click on the teleportation scroll again.
[Do you want to use the teleportation scroll of the Star Chasing Corridor to teleport to the Star Chasing Corridor? 】
[You have met all transmission conditions, do you want to start transmission? 】
He hesitated for a while and then made up his mind.
"It's done! I don't believe that the little maze can still find me!"
[Transmitting...]
【……】
【……】
[Transmission successful! 】
[An ordinary wandering soul wakes up in a hall full of stars...]
[Open your eyes and look around...]
[You are in a hall, and the walls, vaults, and floors around you are all painted with stars. The stars are bright and charming, constantly flickering and moving. 】
[You look back and see a black elliptical portal behind you. You tried to touch the portal, but were repelled by an invisible force...]
[You understand, you cannot pass through the portal yet. 】
[The starlight illuminates the entire hall and also illuminates an obelisk in the center of the hall. 】
[You step forward and read the words recorded on the obelisk - 'Only those favored by the stars can pass through this place'. 】
[Behind the obelisk, a huge glowing book page floats in mid-air...]
[You found the remaining pages of the 'Book of Salvation', the 'Leave of Rest'! 】
Lin Xun felt happy.
Since there are resting pages here, he has unlimited opportunities for trial and error.
It’s only a matter of time before we pass the ‘Star Chasing Corridor’.
[You step forward and touch the resting page, and the mysterious power remaining in it makes your heart throb, and the ordinary soul resonates strongly with the page. 】
[You pass through the 'rest page', and there are three long corridors on the left, middle and right at the end of the hall. 】
[You look around and see three long corridors like halls, filled with depictions of twinkling stars. The stars are constantly moving around, as if you are in the starry sky. 】
【Which corridor do you want to enter? 】
Lin Xun clicked on the long corridor on the far left to enter.
[You step into the long corridor on the left and keep moving forward...]
【……】
[At the end of the corridor, three identical corridors branch out, still three corridors on the left, middle and right. 】
【Which corridor do you want to enter? 】
He smiled slightly, and the two of them dared to try their best.
While holding the phone, turn on the computer.
"Isn't it just a series of forks in the road? As long as I write down every option and try them one by one... problems that the liver can solve are not problems."
Lin Xun confidently began his journey to the extreme.
…
Half an hour later, he had some doubts about life.
He had chosen the fork-in-the-road option more than ninety times in a row, and the options in front of him seemed endless.
[You enter the long corridor on the left again...]
[You keep moving forward, and the scene in front of you is finally no longer the long corridor of forked roads that you are tired of seeing...]
Lin Xun felt happy.
Finally reaching the end of the maze, could it be that he was so lucky the first time and reached the exit of the maze directly?
[You feel dazed for a while...]
[You step into a hall, and the walls, vaults, and floors around you are painted with stars. The stars are bright and charming, constantly flickering and moving. 】
[There is an obelisk standing in the hall. Behind the obelisk are the familiar ‘rest pages’ and the three-way corridor. 】
[Behind you is the dark portal you just passed through. 】
[Congratulations, after unremitting efforts, you finally returned to the starting point of your journey! 】
"..."
"A game in the underworld, are you playing with me?"
Lin Xun immediately broke his guard and cursed loudly.
After a long time, he suppressed his anger and began to think calmly.
Counting the cross-road options passed within half an hour, there were exactly ninety-nine, no more and no less.
He opened the scientific calculator on his computer and entered 3^99
The result is an extremely scary number.
1.71792506910e+47
He wanted to go through the maze through exhaustive trial and error. If he had the worst luck, he would have to go through... In human terms, 46 zeros are added after the number 17.
Lin Xunde has gone through nearly infinite attempts, searching endlessly without eating, drinking or sleeping. If he is lucky, he may be able to find the exit of the maze in his lifetime.
"...are you really not going to give the oathbreakers a chance?"
He tried to step into the corridor again...
Half an hour later, he returned to the starting hall again.
"How can we play with this?"
Lin Xun thought hard, trying to find a way to pass through the Star-Chasing Corridor.
The trial and error method can definitely no longer be used.
He could only expand his ideas based on the information he obtained from the books just now.
The ‘Star Chasing Corridor’ is a test for believers from the stars, and only the devout can successfully pass here.
As long as he becomes a devout person who believes in the stars, he can pass through the labyrinth.
It is definitely unrealistic to switch to the stars...
Lin Xun suddenly remembered that although the Chairman of the Direct Vision in his body column was not a believer of the stars, there was also a bachelor of the Polyvision Association, who was probably a believer of the stars.
According to the words of Chairman Duo Shi in the secret laboratory, it was learned that all the bachelors of the Duo Shi Association, except Lorna, had switched to the stars.
"There is only one truth. The so-called test...that's it? It's too simple!"
[You are possessed by the body of the ‘Grand Bachelor of the Multi-Vision Association who seeks knowledge’! 】
Lin Xun smiled slightly and used the body of the Grand Bachelor to enter the maze again.
According to the data, in front of the Star Believers, the corridor will become simple and will no longer be complicated and tortuous.
But as he walked, he realized something was wrong.
After crossing one branch after another, there are still long corridors of branch roads in front of us.
"Isn't it pious enough to be a great bachelor?"
Lin Xun didn't believe in evil, so he continued to press options and move forward.
Half an hour later, he passed through ninety-nine forked roads and returned to the familiar hall again.
【……】
[Congratulations, after unremitting efforts, you finally returned to the starting point of your journey! 】
Lin Xun frowned.
The academician is obviously a believer in the stars. Even if he is not very pious, there will be fewer detours than he takes on his own.
How come there are still ninety-nine forks in the road?
"Damn, I'm really confused. The oath affects the apostle himself, not the body."
"In other words, as long as the 'ordinary wandering soul' is a believer in the 'Almighty True Knowledge', even if the body is the evil god of stars, he is considered to be in the sworn camp of the 'Almighty True Knowledge'."
Lin Xun slapped his forehead and came to his senses.
Then he fell into deep thought again.
The method of changing the body is useless, what he faces will only be an extremely complicated maze.
If you cannot become a believer in the stars, you cannot pass the test.
If there weren't resting pages in the hall, he would have been trapped here and died.
If natives of the game world who are not believers in the Stars enter here by mistake, they will not be able to see the 'rest pages' and will only get lost here and die.
While Lin Xun was thinking about a solution to the dilemma, he manipulated his body to walk through the maze.
He still has a glimmer of hope, which is the 'lucky gold coin'.
Maybe by constantly clicking on the options, you can rely on the effect of the 'lucky gold coins' to get out of the maze.
However, after wandering around in the maze for a long time, the 'lucky gold coin' did not take effect.
"Lucky gold coins just aren't reliable. I'd better find another way."
Just when Lin Xun looked down on the 'lucky gold coin', the text suddenly appeared.
[The ‘lucky gold coin’ you carry shines brightly, and you suddenly feel that the fork in the middle of the corridor is very pleasing to the eye...]
【Which corridor do you want to enter? 】
"I was wrong, the lucky gold coin is just a charm."
Lin Xun turned around faster than flipping through a book and chose the middle path without hesitation.
[You step into the long corridor in the middle and keep moving forward...]
【……】
[At the end of the corridor, three identical corridors branch out, still three corridors on the left, middle and right. 】
【Which corridor do you want to enter? 】
Lin Xun looked at the 'lucky gold coin' again.
Lucky gold coins:…
After a long time, Lin Xun saw no movement of the lucky gold coin.
"Lucky gold coin, you are really a fast man, you can be strong for three seconds and then wither..."
"It works quickly. Men can't say no!"
No matter how Lin Xun used the provoking method again, the lucky gold coin remained motionless, lying flat and smashed.
"Is there a possibility that the lucky gold coin is actually a girl?"
…
Soon, Lin Xun gave up on metaphysical methods.
There are ninety-nine forking options in the maze, so you can't expect the 'lucky gold coin' to be effective every time.
Then just rename the 'Lucky Gold Coin' to 'Goddess of Luck'.
"Since it's too soft, I'll be hard!"
[You are possessed by the body of the ‘fallen earth giant’! 】
[Your figure suddenly becomes huge, and in the blink of an eye you become a giant standing tall...]
[In the blink of an eye, you have grown into a giant man more than three meters tall, and you have already reached the vault of the corridor, unable to grow any further. 】
[Your thickening and enlargement process was suddenly interrupted, and you suddenly became furious. You raised the 'Ancient Dragon Tooth Club' in your hand and smashed it against the wall. 】
[The wind pressure suddenly rose in shock, sparks flew in the loud noise, and the stars on the walls of the corridor shone dazzlingly. 】
[If you look carefully, you will see that where the giant stick struck, there is not even a single dent or crack in the wall. 】
Lin Xun twitched the corner of his mouth.
"You can't destroy the terrain... In terms of the level of the underworld, you have to be the underworld game."
Even after trying hard and soft methods, I still can't find the exit of the maze.
Lin Xun returned to the initial lobby while constantly pressing options.
[You step into a hall, and the walls, vaults, and floors around you are all painted with stars. The stars are bright and charming, constantly flickering and moving. 】
[The obelisk that originally stood in the hall turned into a sculpture at some point. 】
[The shape of the sculpture is not a human form, but a rotating elliptical galaxy dotted with countless tiny stars. 】
[You discovered the statue of the ‘Bright Stars’! 】
[You can’t help but be attracted to the statue, and you step forward to touch it...]
[Are you going to break the oath of ‘Almighty True Knowledge’ and take the oath of ‘Bright Stars’? 】
[You have been permanently hostile to the ‘Bright Stars’ camp and cannot join the pledge again! 】
Lin Xun was confused by the sudden situation.
The obelisk serving as a warning has become a statue of a god who made an oath...
After a second thought, I understood the key.
If someone accidentally enters the 'Corridor of Stars', and this person is not a believer in the 'Bright Stars', he will be trapped in an extremely complicated maze and fall into a desperate situation of death.
The sculpture of 'Brilliant Stars' suddenly appears in despair. As long as you can change your belief, you can not only find the exit of the maze smoothly, but also enter the 'Star Spirit Hall' to obtain rewards from the gods.
People who have no faith or whose faith is not firm will most likely make an oath to the stars on the spot and become believers in the stars.
"Switching to the 'Almighty True Knowledge' is indeed the right decision. The 'Brilliant Stars' camp is full of old yinbi. If you work in the Stars camp, you will probably be swallowed up to the bone."
Lin Xun couldn't help but sigh.
He no longer entered the maze and wandered blindly, but stayed where he was and thought carefully about countermeasures.
None of the props left in the inventory seem suitable for use here.
Suddenly, his eyes were fixed on the 'fluorescent footprint powder' that Bennett had given him before.
['Fluorescent Footprint Powder'*3 (Prop):...Using this prop, the path you travel will leave colorful fluorescent footprints in a short period of time. You can find your way home based on these footprints. 】
"No, this prop can return to its original place in the fog, but it is not suitable for the maze in front of you."
Lin Xun shook his head and looked at other props.
After a long time, he shook his head and sighed again. Just as he was about to close the inventory, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
He slapped his thigh and blurted out: "I know!"
"I'm already an oathbreaker. I can't take the 'Bright Stars' oath, so I can't pass the maze."
"But as long as I find a creature from the 'Brilliant Stars' camp to enter this place, can't I follow it out of the maze!"
His eyes looked at the special piece of equipment in the inventory - the 'Ring of Stars' Light'.