Chapter 35 Underground Labyrinth

"You mean... there are secret underground passages in the wilderness?"

Shen Yi was talking with Zhang Jianjun and Lan Meier on the open grass in the wilderness of difficulty level 4. *.

After Shen Yi and Zhang Jianjun separated that time, Zhang Jianjun and Lan Meier came together, and soon established a team called the Warriors.

Shen Yi knew about this, because shortly after the formation of the team, Zhang Jianjun spent money to buy a team assembly order from Shen Yi, and Shen Yi gave him a discounted price.

But after Shen Yi was promoted to the third difficulty, due to the inconvenience of communication, the contact between the two parties gradually decreased, so Shen Yi did not know that the Warriors had also been promoted to the apartment area not long ago and completed two tasks.

With the team assembly order, Zhang Jianjun became more courageous and dared to enter the wilderness again. However, due to his limited strength, he didn't dare to challenge those powerful beasts, so he tried his best to find some places that were not so strong but could give good things.

Finally he thought of the city of ashes.

He decided to go to the city of ashes to get the mission order card.

Since task order cards are obtained through mining, unlike other special props, the acquisition of task order cards requires more luck than strength.

For example, although the Broken Blade team ran amok in the wilderness, they couldn't get the task order card.

Of course, this is also related to their cherishing of time and their reluctance to waste time in this area of ​​uncertainty—for those with strength, control is the most important thing, and for those with insufficient strength, it is also a good idea to try their luck s Choice.

The City of Ashes is a special area that spans the second and third districts. The most special thing there is that the beasts that inhabit there are all undead transformed from adventurers after death, and they are extremely cunning and have a huge area of ​​activity.

Since the undead in District 3 will move across regions, City of Ashes is one of the most dangerous areas in the second-difficulty wilderness for District 2, but for adventurers in District 3, the danger of City of Ashes is greatly reduced, and it is also The most suitable place for low-level adventurers to take risks.

So Zhang Jianjun went to the City of Ashes not long ago, hoping to try his luck there.

He was indeed lucky, and it only took two days to gather seven kinds of jadeite. Seeing that a task order card was obtained, the members of the Warriors jumped for joy, their confidence soared, and they continued to mine with joy. In their eyes, the ferocious beast became cute because of this. ~

Unfortunately, their luck seems to have come to an end.

In the following time, they failed to dig out a few decent pieces of emeralds.

Seeing more and more time wasted, but little gain, even Zhang Jianjun was in a hurry.

He finally made a risky move: to go deeper into the mine. .

"You went to the lower mine? Are you crazy?" Shen Yi was taken aback by Zhang Jianjun's choice.

Zhang Jianjun sighed: "I was also dazzled by interests at the time."

The mines in the City of Ashes are divided into upper, middle and lower levels, and the monsters living in them are also different, corresponding to the second, third and fourth levels of difficulty. As for the fifth difficulty, since there are only interstellar worlds, the task order card has no effect, so it does not exist Corresponding mine area.

Zhang Jianjun and the others are adventurers with difficulty three, so it is reasonable to dig in the middle mine. But Shen Yi knows that mining is the same as hunting ferocious beasts, the lower the probability is, the higher the probability is, but the Duanren team who mined on the second difficulty did not dare to break through the area and go down to the middle level, and they just barely hang out in the middle level The guy dared to go to the lower floor, it can only be said that this is really costing money.

This is the danger of gambling. Before most people become addicted to gambling, they only gambled lightly for fun, but later they always develop into big gambles that hurt their health, and finally end up in the end of strong gambling.

Zhang Jianjun also wanted to take a gamble, and wanted to put a few hoes near the entrance of the mine before encountering the four-difficulty beast in the lower mine, and use the mine to retreat if there was danger.

He thought that he could use the teleportation point to repeatedly enter and exit like Shen Yi.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he entered the mine, he encountered a large number of densely packed beasts, which almost killed him in one blow, and even blocked his escape route, forcing him to use the teleportation scroll to escape .

It was only later that he realized that this kind of thing had been done before, and as a result, the lower mine naturally attracted a large number of monsters to block the door. Adventurers almost come and die one by one, even adventurers with difficulty level 4 dare not enter easily. ~

However, this lower mine was actually a self-contained area, and the teleportation scroll did not teleport him away, but directly teleported him to any point in the mine.

Now Zhang Jianjun was in big trouble, he couldn't teleport out immediately, the team assembly order had already been used, and a large number of monsters blocked the entrance of the cave, the people above couldn't get down, and the people below couldn't get up, he became a sleepy man waiting to die Dead end.

Zhang Jianjun had no choice but to look for a way out everywhere.

Eventually he discovered that there was an underground river in the mine.

At that time, Zhang Jianjun was already on the verge of death, so he simply jumped into the underground river and went upstream along the river to see if he could find a way out.

Fortunately, his adventurer physique can withstand a long period of not breathing, and in the end he really returned to the wilderness along the river, and he was still in the city of ashes, finally saving his life.

"Then why did you enter the mine again later, and why did you appear here directly?" Shen Yi was puzzled.

Zhang Jianjun sighed: "You know people's hearts are always greedy. At the beginning, a large number of monsters surrounded the entrance of the lower mine, and the result was that there were few monsters in other parts of the mine, but it was much safer. Otherwise, I would not have been able to escape. Later I Thought, if I could swim that river into the mine again, I could mine freely there."

"So that's how it is."

"But I didn't expect that when we entered the river again, we found a secret door inadvertently."

"Secret door?"

"Yes!" Speaking of this, Zhang Jianjun's face suddenly became excited: "It turns out that there is a secret underground passage under the lower mine!"

"And then you broke into the passage? Just like in the novel, expecting to discover a hidden secret treasure cave?"

Zhang Jianjun smiled embarrassedly, lowered his head and replied: "Yes, we did think so at the beginning, and you also know that many things in this world do not exist for no reason. When we saw the secret door, we were indeed very excited, thinking that we had discovered it. found some hidden secret lair and hoped to make a fortune from it."

"The results of it?"

Zhang Jianjun showed a bitter smile on his face: "We opened the secret door and found a long passage behind it. So we walked along the passage, thinking that if there was danger, we would withdraw. Unexpectedly, after walking through the passage, We found that this passage was actually a branch of a labyrinth, and we came to an area with seventeen or eighteen branch roads. When we were discussing how to go, a fierce beast rushed out from a branch road. It was a beast that was about as strong as the Shadow Leopard, but since there was only one, we were not afraid of it. We fought it, but soon we found out that we were wrong..."

Shen Yi thought for a while and asked, "Are you lost?"

Zhang Jianjun nodded with a wry smile: "Yes."

Fierce battles often make people lose their sense of direction. When the battle ended, Zhang Jianjun and the others found that they couldn't tell which was the passage for them to come in.

In this situation, they could only try one way and another, but new fierce beasts continued to appear, and soon they were completely lost in the underground labyrinth.

"How did you get out then?"

"Random, try your luck." Zhang Jianjun answered honestly.

After the Warriors realized that they were completely lost, they simply let go of their scruples and wandered around. Unexpectedly, they finally found a stone room.

There is nothing in the stone room, only a magic circle.

After Zhang Jianjun and the others stepped onto the magic circle, they were directly teleported out.

They thought they had regained their freedom, and when they were excited, they didn't expect a large group of shadow beasts to come out. It turned out that the place where the teleportation array sent them turned out to be the dark jungle in the fourth difficulty area.

This time the Warriors were terrified, they could only run wildly under the pursuit of a large group of shadow beasts, if they hadn't met Shen Yi, all members of this team might have died.

Listening to Zhang Jianjun's narration, Shen Yi frowned.

For some reason, after hearing Zhang Jianjun's narration, he felt a faint sense of familiarity, as if these places had some kind of wonderful connection with him.

He stood up and walked a few steps repeatedly with his hands behind his back, thinking hard. Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he took out a map from the coat of arms and spread it in front of Zhang Jianjun.

This is exactly the map that Shen Yi took out together with the Eye of Hades in Nether Valley.

There are many strange marks on this map, which are mainly used to mark those places that are more dangerous, but due to the age, the wilderness city has changed greatly, and many of the information on it have been distorted, so it is of no great use to Shen Yi.

It's just that there are still some areas on it, which are marked with special symbols, but Shen Yi has not been able to find out what the symbols represent.

Until this moment, he took out the map, pointed to one of the ~ numbers and asked Zhang Jianjun: "Is this the place where you entered the underground passage from the river?"

Zhang Jianjun looked at the map for a long time, hesitantly said: "It should be... I'm not too sure, but it seems that the area represented by this mark is very close to the place we entered."

"Then what about this?" Shen Yi pointed to the dark forest part of the fourth difficulty area, and there was a * mark on it.

Zhang Jianjun was stunned for a moment, then pointed to the * mark and shouted: "That's right, we came out from here! This *...Damn it, this * is very similar to that teleportation array!"

"The number * represents the six-pointed star array." Shen Yi said lightly: "The number ~ represents the river."

And not far from that ~ sign, there is also a strange ∞ sign, Shen Yi pointed to this ∞ sign and said: "∞ stands for infinity, it should mean the maze."

Then his gaze stayed on the ⊙ not far from the ∞.

"There is another symbol here, which should represent the deepest secret of the labyrinth... You were so close to it, but unfortunately you missed it again."

Zhang Jianjun stared dumbfounded at Shen Yi's finger pointing to another place, it was another * mark.

Shen Yi already said: "There are nine such * marks on this map. It is very likely that each mark represents a teleportation array, but the end points actually point to one place, which is the underground labyrinth... It seems that there are indeed some secrets hidden in this labyrinth, waiting for us to discover... just like the Valley of Strange Beasts."

Shen Yi put away the map and said: "A total of nine * symbols should represent different entry points."

He looked at Zhang Jianjun and said with a smile, "Are you interested in going to the underground maze again?"