Chapter 1408 Maze
The train arrived at the station. Chen Wenwen stumbled to the platform holding Xia Wang. Following the route in her memory, she came to the exit of the complex and huge maze, which was also the entrance when she left.
She stopped in front of the entrance and did not easily enter the platform. She looked at the ordinary entrance with some fear and fear. She could never forget the terrible hunger that came when she and Sima Xuxu went through the maze. It was a hunger that almost wanted to eat herself. If Sima Xuxu had not secretly brought a few Snickers with him at that time, they would really starve to death on the way to the train.
She was not sure if she still remembered the way to completely leave the maze. She had better believe that she could walk out in one go, because in her and Xia Wang’s current state, once they got lost, it meant death. They could not last long in the maze.
This is the bad news, but it is also a good news that is not good news.
Chen Wenwen looked at Xia Wang in her arms. The wound on his chest was almost healed, but the price was that he was getting lighter and lighter. The weight of the whole person disappeared as fast as a lot of blood flowed. Chen Wenwen, who was holding him, felt like she was holding an empty shell like a paper man, without any weight inside. This was the main reason why she could still run away with the boy until now.
She didn't know what happened to Xia Wang, but she had seen too many strange things in these days, and she gradually became numb and didn't think about "why". The only thought in her mind was "what to do" now.
Sima Xuxu and Zhao Xusheng were trapped behind. In the end, Sima Xuxu gave her the order to run away, to escape from this Nibelungen. There was no corner in this place that was safe, and danger would always find you. Even if Chen Wenwen really wanted to sit down and rest on the spot, or wait for rescue on the spot, Xia Wang in her arms couldn't do that. He must get the treatment he deserved, whether it was blood transfusion or surgery, or a lot of high-calorie food tonic or something, he must get help from the outside world, the sooner the better, otherwise he would die.
If you want to save Xia Wang, you must take him away from Nibelungen. As long as you get outside and find a hospital, everything will be fine.
Chen Wenwen gradually suppressed the panic in her heart and rushed into the maze with Xia Wang in her arms.
The moment she entered the maze, it was like breaking through a strange film. She could no longer feel the fatigue and weakness brought by hunger. This also meant that she had entered that disturbing area. The longer she stayed in it, the faster her physical energy would be consumed. Once she got lost or was tripped by something for a long time, she would be completely finished.
Chen Wenwen rushed back along the route she remembered. She and Sima Xuxu were very lucky when they passed this level. They didn't encounter any trouble while crossing the river by feeling the stones. At most, they hit the wall a few times.
The main reason was that Sima Xuxu thought of using the bronze sword he carried with him to carve marks on the wall as he walked along, and made a mark every time he entered an intersection, and successfully found the exit all the way.
In fact, other people who get lost in the maze can also use similar methods, and many people have tried it, but the final outcome is that they all die in the maze without exception, because when they make marks all the way to the deepest part of the maze, they find that the marks they made before always disappear inexplicably, as if someone deliberately followed them and erased them.
Some people like to get to the bottom of things. After making marks, they secretly hide in a place to see if someone is deliberately erasing their marks. As a result, they find that the marks on the wall actually disappear with the passage of time - the walls of the maze seem to have some kind of self-healing ability, and all the scars and paint left on them will be erased by time. This also leads to most people who make marks while going deeper into the maze, and when they look back, they find that they have already lost themselves in the depths of the maze.
But Chen Wenwen was undoubtedly lucky. Not long after she broke back into the maze, she found a mark carved on the wall by Sima Xuxu. It was a rather counter-perceptual mark. It was not a traditional arrow, but a systematic symbolic code, a bit like the "four-letter word" symbol of God's name, with a hollow circle as the frame, and the Hebrew-like symbols inside as the information carrier.
Sima Xuxu explained to Chen Wenwen at the time that this was the symbolic code in their Langjuxu, which was a compulsory course for every orthodox operator. In order to prevent information leakage, they usually have this kind of short strokes but extremely large information-carrying symbolic code to transmit messages outside.
She ran into the maze with Xia Wang in the opposite direction of the mark and continued to find more marks, which made her happy. She did not notice that the traces of the symbolic code in these inconspicuous places on the wall were lighter than those left when they came, but they could still be recognized as a whole.
Few people know that when the maze was designed, it was taken into account that the players would use the method of leaving marks to pass the level, but the game designer did not want to make this level so easy, so the entire maze was given a certain concept of "life" in the rules. The entire complex corridor of the maze can actually be regarded as an independent section of the intestine of some creature. Creatures trapped in the intestine will lose their electronic signals of hunger, and at the same time, their "heat" will be quickly digested by the maze.
Since it is an intestinal tract, the scars and marks it receives will quickly self-repair, which is the real reason why the marks disappear - but this does not mean that this method cannot be used. The level designer specifically left a reminder in the game introduction: Collecting the legendary item "Seven Deadly Sins" can effectively reduce the difficulty of passing the level.
If the player has the "Seven Deadly Sins" item, even the most insignificant one, after using this legendary alchemical sword to leave marks on the wall, they will find that those marks will not disappear easily, but can be retained for a long time.
All the secrets are in the domain of the alchemical sword and the special effects of the gold-titanium alloy. Using this magical sword to leave marks on the walls of the maze is tantamount to causing a festering scar on the walls of the maze. The difficulty and time of repairing those scars will be greater and longer than normal marks, so naturally, you can pass the level by cheating by making marks.
What is particularly interesting is that Sima Xuxu didn't actually have the Seven Deadly Sins at the time. He didn't think much about it at the time, and directly used the alchemical sword "Qingwu" he carried with him to leave a mark on the wall. The bronze sword "Qingwu" was originally just an ordinary alchemical weapon, and there was nothing special except that it had its own alchemical field.
But as the successor of "Yue", the orthodoxy was always willing to tilt a lot of resources on him, that is, if there was anything good, he had to bring it with him. This also led to the first time that the gold-titanium alloy metal was released, "Qingwu" was recycled to the Tianji Pavilion to reforge and process the blade part, so that it had similar properties to the 'Seven Deadly Sins'.
When the conditions of the alchemical field and the gold-titanium alloy were met, "Qingwu" successfully concealed the rules of the maze, which was considered a bug in the system rules, deceiving the underlying code to play the same effect as the Seven Deadly Sins, and successfully helped Chen Wenwen and him escape from the maze at that time.
But in the final analysis, the alchemical bronze sword "Qingwu" is not the Seven Deadly Sins after all. This also means that although it can exert the same attribute effects as the Seven Deadly Sins in a short period of time, once the time is magnified to a long transition, the gap between the two will be exposed.
The most direct manifestation at the moment is that the traces of the marks are getting fainter and fainter due to time. The deeper into the maze, Chen Wenwen was shocked to find that the traces of the marks were getting shallower and shallower. From the beginning, the entrance (exit) of the maze could be seen clearly at a glance, and gradually she had to look carefully close to the wall to find those symbolic secrets.
Because she entered from the exit this time, the time when the symbolic secrets she encountered along the way were not consistent. The earlier the symbolic secrets were engraved, the longer they have existed and the faster they disappear. Now she has reached the middle of the maze, and the traces are almost invisible. It is hard to imagine that if she delays for a while, the deeper, that is, the symbols left around the entrance of the maze when they first came, will disappear to the point where they are invisible to the naked eye.
The more she thought about this, the more anxious Chen Wenwen became. Especially when she found that Xia Wang in her arms was lighter, so light that she could hardly feel that she was holding a person in her arms. From the naked eye, Xia Wang's originally flawless and smooth skin gradually began to wrinkle, like the lines caused by dehydration, which made people panic.
"Sister."
Suddenly, Chen Wenwen heard Xia Wang talking. He woke up at some point, his eyes were so confused, calling the name that was always on his lips.
Chen Wenwen looked down at Xia Wang in surprise. She didn't expect that he could still speak. She wanted to comfort him that he could escape soon, but the more anxious she was, the more mistakes she made. She was obviously one of the top three long-distance runners, but she still made a mistake in her rhythm. She tripped over her left foot and fell to the ground. Before she fell, she could only hold Xia Wang tightly in her arms and lift him up to avoid further injury.
She was in pain all over after falling to the ground. The muscles she had strained and sore when running away had already made her bruised and battered. Until now, she was basically running away with great effort, not caring about the broken knees and forehead she had fallen, and hurried to check if Xia Wang was okay.
Facing those beautiful and fragile eyes, Chen Wenwen whispered to comfort him, "Don't be afraid. It's okay, I will take you away from here, I will take you to find your sister."
Watching Xia Wang nod gently and his weak eyes closed with peace of mind, Chen Wenwen took a deep breath, gathered the few courage she had, pursed her lips and tried to get up, wiped away the tears from the pain, and continued to flee forward along the blurred traces while holding Xia Wang.