Chapter 27 Gambling

What we have in front of us now is the Skeleton Forest. Its lush appearance has nothing to do with death, but the skeletons dangling in the forest tell us very clearly that this is the Skeleton Forest.

For the sake of safety, everyone first prepared their weapons before starting to carefully go deep into the forest. But what surprised us was that the skeletons were not interested in us. At first, we gave in, and then we simply passed by them. The results proved that these skeletons were not interested in us. The skeletons completely ignore us and don't step on them. As long as we don't bump into them, they won't cause attacks. Even if the distance is only a few centimeters, we can walk by safely.

"What's going on?" I asked Ling.

Ling shook his head: "I don't know for sure. These skeletons may have sensed our death aura and become quiet."

Rose said: "No matter what, everyone must stay alert. This may be just the calm before the storm." Boom! As soon as Rose finished speaking, there was a thunder in the sky, and then suddenly the wind started. Rose said strangely: "I'm not talking about this kind of storm!"

boom! There was another thunder in the sky, and then raindrops began to fall. Fortunately, everyone was wearing armor, so except for Ling and Xiaochun who changed their armor in a panic, everyone had nothing to do.

The rain wasn't very heavy, but it wasn't too light either. At first, the woods could protect us from the rain, but after a while, they were all watered down and became useless.

Eagle dragged his cheeks and said: "The mission said that we should go to the Skeleton Forest. This is already the Skeleton Forest, but what about the next step?"

Rose pointed at the skeletons: "They are hints. Find out why these skeletons are so docile and you will find the answer."

Bailang suddenly said: "I think I know what the problem is." Everyone focused their attention at once, and Bailang said slowly: "I heard a very low music sound, which seemed to be a requiem."

"Can you determine the direction?"

"Come with me!"

Bailang ran wildly in front, and we had to run along. As the distance shortened, even we could hear the melodious music. The forest in front of us suddenly opened up, and a lake surrounded by trees appeared in front of us.

As we emerged from the lake, the music suddenly stopped. Tens of thousands of skeletons standing by the lake turned back to stare at us almost at the same time. The situation seemed not good.

"Outsider?" There is a blue water polo floating in the center of the lake. A beautiful fairy wearing a sapphire blue gauze skirt is sitting sideways on the water polo in a lazy posture, and she is holding a ball in her left hand. with a small harp. It seems that the origin of the music is here. Before we could speak, she said, "Do you have any tokens?"

"Token? Yes, we brought it." I quickly looked at Rose, who immediately raised the token.

The beautiful fairy nodded, then smiled and said: "You want the other half of the token, right?"

"certainly."

"Then go to the Golden Labyrinth and bring Kuiman to me. Whether you invite him or tie him up, as long as he is brought to me alive, you can get the other half of the token." She said He took out the other half of the token and shook it: "Do you agree?"

"No problem." I agreed immediately. "Tell us the location of the Golden Labyrinth and the appearance of Quaiman."

"Over there." The fairy pointed in one direction. "Keep walking and you can see the golden maze. And Quaiman is a minotaur. He is the only creature in the golden maze. Everything else is gold."

"No problem, let's go right away."

Just as we rushed to the Golden Labyrinth, the audience outside also started to get excited. Skanvia took the microphone and explained: "Well, the Frost Rose Alliance has been the first to receive the task of obtaining the other half of the token, which means that the time for everyone's most anticipated treasure hunting has arrived."

There was a burst of cheers immediately from the audience, and Skanvia raised her hands to signal everyone to be quiet, but it took nearly a minute before it calmed down completely.

Skanvia continued: "Before we place the chopsticks, our three hosts will give you some brief introductions to facilitate your chopsticks."

Kaka'lu'ka said: "First of all, let me introduce the rules for making chopsticks. You can open the function menu through the ring on your hand, and then enter your own credit amount, and the system will automatically deduct it. The limit for the chopstick-making time is minutes. , if someone has not made a bet after minutes, it will be considered as not participating in the treasure betting activity. When everyone has placed a bet, all funds will be converted together, and the organizer, as the banker, will add another 5% of the total amount of funds entered by everyone to this amount. At the end of the game, the organizer can get 6% of the total funds, and the other 94% will be used as bonuses for the spectators who pressed the winner. If multiple spectators pressed the winner at the same time, the winner will be awarded according to the number of players who pressed the winner. The prize money will be distributed according to the proportion of money in the total amount of funds obtained by this team. If no one bids for the winner of the game, the spectators who bid will get 50% of the funds they invested, and the remaining funds will all go to the organizer. All parties own it. If no one wins at the end of the game, but everyone fights to the death, everyone’s funds will be returned and the 6% invested by the organizer at the beginning will be equally divided among all the players.”

'Lu' Lu' Ka 'Lu' continued: "Okay, the rules have been introduced. Let me analyze the main tendency of this competition. Come on, big screen." The screen that the audience saw suddenly switched to The Gunslinger was running through a valley with his men. "This is the most popular Holy Spear League team this time. The national champion gun player is the captain of this team. You can imagine how powerful it is. At present, they are less than 10 minutes away from the token mission. I believe it will be soon. Then you can receive the token mission."

The scene changed, and a team of knights was galloping on the grassland. "This is the second-seeded team, the Lancers Alliance team from Salt Lake City. The overall strength of this team is excellent, and its guild has the title of the strongest on the land. They are now close to the token mission location."

The scene switched again, this time it was an acquaintance. The second reincarnation team is working hard to cross the river, and it looks like it will take a while to cross. "This is the team of the assassination organization Shadow Association. Their captain seems to be a Chinese. The characteristic of this team is that it responds quickly and can quickly find countermeasures to all situations. However, their current ranking is not ideal, but I believe them There is still hope of winning the championship. Okay, there are only three main seeded teams, and now Skanvia will introduce the dark horses to everyone."

Skanvia said: "Let me introduce the dark horse team that everyone is looking forward to. The first is the latest and most popular Frost Rose Alliance." We were walking through the trees on the screen. "So far, their progress has been far ahead of other teams, but I don't know if they can continue so smoothly. And there is very unfortunate news. The token task currently received by the Frost Rose Alliance is the most difficult task list of this difficulty. One of them is really unlucky, but with their strength, they should still be very promising."

The scene suddenly changed to the grassland, and this time there was only one person running. "This is the speed player Hayate Lightning. Although he has a long journey, his path is relatively simple. If other teams are too popular, he is likely to become the champion. If you want to try for an upset, you can consider suppressing him."

The screen changed again, and the character who appeared this time would definitely scare me if I saw it. She is the kitten No. 2. She came over just after we were building the bridge together and we passed by. Unexpectedly, she was also on the dark horse list. Skanvia introduced: "This little Asian girl is the third dark horse. Although she has no special skills, her progress so far has been quite fast. There is no guarantee that she will not become a dark horse. If she wins and But you guys didn’t take advantage of her, so Mr. Sleepy Dragon is going to die laughing.”

Kaka'lu'ka said: "Okay, that's all the recommendations. Can you guys give your chops quickly? If you want to defeat other teams other than the 6 teams we recommend, you can also use the auxiliary function to check for yourself who are still competing. The team will play chopsticks. Also, please note that your funds will be deducted tax first and then calculated into the chopsticks playing funds."

At this time, the red moon is betting on behalf of our guild's official funds. Members are betting on their own. The money under the red moon is our guild's activity funds. According to my explanation, Red Moon first bet 1 crystal coin on all teams that have not withdrawn from the competition. This is to ensure that there will be no byes and that if there is any advantage, they will not suffer any loss. The formal capital investment will be larger. Hongyue has bet more than 11 million crystal coins on our own team. After tax, there are just over 10 million crystal coins left. The tax is really cruel!

After everyone finished making chops, everyone was shocked by the statistics. After deducting taxes, the total number of all funds was 3.79 billion crystal coins. This value scared everyone. No one expected that it would be so large. In fact, the major leagues are so well-known that many players cannot make it to the scene and simply ask their friends to do it for them. As a result, almost all of the people present represent a group of people who do it, and in the end they end up with more and more funds.

According to the rules agreed in advance, the organizer needs to pay 5% to supplement. In other words, another 189.5 million crystal coins have to be invested to complete it. The broadcast suddenly rang, and Skanvia said: "Dear viewers, I am very sorry to inform you. Because the organizer did not expect that the amount of funds invested by you would be so large, it did not prepare enough funds to supplement the 5% part. Currently, I am sleeping Mr. Long has gone offline to recharge, and the settlement time will be delayed by 10 minutes. Players please watch the game first."

Sleepy Dragon didn't expect to have so much money. He only prepared 150 million crystal coins. He thought it was more than enough, but he didn't know it was not enough. The audience didn't have much opinion on this issue. After all, the organizers were famous for their big business, and most people didn't doubt that they could spend so much money.

Ten minutes later, Sleepy Dragon finally brought in the money, and Skanvia started broadcasting again: "Hello everyone, Mr. Sleepy Dragon has transferred the funds. After deducting taxes and adding your funds, the current total amount It’s 3.96 billion crystal coins. That means viewers who bet on the right bet can get dividends from 3.762 billion crystal coins.”

This number once again caused excitement, but Hongyue didn't react much. Ordinary people may be deceived by numbers, but Hongyue is not an ordinary person. This economic issue is obvious at a glance. Although the winning team can score points with 3.762 billion crystal coins, the hit rate issue needs to be considered first. Each team has at least tens of thousands of people crushing them, so the last point won't actually be too scary, but even these are enough to excite those who bet on the right one.

Hongyue specially checked the number that suppressed the victory of our Frost Rose Alliance team, and it turned out to be only more than 70 million. Doesn't everyone think highly of our guild? But this is good, there will be fewer people pressing, and if you win in the end, you can get more money. Of the 70 million crystal coins, our 10 million accounts for one-seventh. In other words, if it succeeds, we can get more than 537 million crystal coins out of the 3.762 billion, which is already quite a lot. Moreover, of the 70 million, in addition to our guild's centralized suppression of more than 10 million, the members of the guild also suppressed 7 to 8 million crystal coins in their personal capacity.

After looking at the betting situation of our guild, Hongyue looked at the situation of several other popular teams. The betting situation of our three dark horses was similar. Our team was bet on more than 70 million crystal coins in total, Kitty No. 2 was bet on more than 30 million crystal coins, and Gale and Lightning were bet on more than 60 million crystal coins.

The focus of betting seems to be the three main seed teams. The second reincarnation team was bet on more than 800 million crystal coins. If they were victorious, the victors would probably not get much money. That pure cavalry team was weighed down by more than 1 billion crystal coins, which was scary enough. The most terrifying thing is the Paladin League. Their status in the United States is unmatched, so there are more people who believe in their strength. Their team actually received more than 1.8 billion crystal coins in bets. I really don't know how much money those who won will get. It is estimated that one point will not be much by then.

These six teams accounted for almost half of the total funds of 3.96 billion, and all the remaining teams received a total of less than 50 million in bets. The most puzzling thing is that there are actually teams that cannot receive bets at all. Before we entered the competition venue, we told Hongyue that all teams must play chopsticks, and each team except our own team will have one chopstick. This is an insurance policy. It is said that everyone knows this method and should be used by many people, but when Hongyue checked the data, it showed that one team only received a bet of 1 crystal coin. That means that this team, except Hongyue, pressed a crystal coin according to my request. There was absolutely no one outside to oppress them.

In order to find out the reason, Hongyue specially checked this team and found that there was only one person in this team, and he was a player majoring in life profession. This man is called "Give You a Stick", and his main occupation is a heavy weapon warrior, the kind of warrior who uses an ax and a hammer. The data shows that this guy is currently only level 401, which is below the average level. What's even more unbearable is that the evaluation given by the system in his ability evaluation is: extremely poor combat effectiveness, average luck, low speed, extremely poor agility..., poor overall strength. Among a large list of attributes, only luck is generally the best evaluation, and it’s okay to ignore the others!

Hongyue switched the ring screen to this guy's position, and saw that the man on the screen was trying to swim across a river, and his mount was already waiting for him on the other side. Looking at his game data floating on the screen, this guy hasn't even completed the first sign yet. What's worse is that the route he took is completely different from the indicated route. Either he read the map wrong, or he didn't understand the prompt at all. Anyway, the route he took was far from the correct target.

After reading these data, Hongyue had only one thought, that is, the crystal coin was thrown away in vain. If this kind of person can win the championship, it will be unless all participating teams are dead.

In short, the betting was over and everyone began to pay attention to the game again, but this time there was a little differentiation. The three commentators began to explain the six main favorites separately, and the main screen was also divided into three, making it easier for everyone to follow their favorite teams at any time. In fact, it is different from the beginning. Now everyone is more concerned about whether the team they are pressing can win, and other teams are too lazy to watch.

At this time, the Gun Gods have received the token mission. Their mission is to eliminate a small group of monsters and clear the passage between the valleys. It is much simpler than our mission. But we started early, they were still rushing to the target valley, and we were already outside the golden maze.

Standing in front of the golden maze, I had an impulse, an impulse to move the entire maze. The huge labyrinth, which is like a small city, is entirely made of gold. How impressive this amount of wealth is! But after a little experimentation, I gave up this idea, because these golden walls are completely invincible, and even eternity cannot leave even a single scratch on them. This must be a mission facility that is prohibited from destruction, otherwise there would not be such a hard thing, not to mention that gold is inherently soft.

The maze is not only large in area, but the height of the walls is also terrifying. The wall, which is more than 10 meters high, is very tall and has a roof on top. My idea of ​​walking on the wall is impossible!

"Shall we go in?" Eagle said.

Rose interrupted: "Don't worry, we have to be prepared first, right? If you go in like this, you won't be able to get out!"

"What should we do?"

Rose took out a cloth bag and said to me: "Husband, get some wood."

Although it was strange, I still got a lot of wood. Rose piled up the wood, and then asked Kristina to light a fire to burn the wood. After the wood burned for a while, she asked us to put out the fire with earth. At this time I finally understood what she was going to do. The burned wood becomes charcoal, which can be used as a pen. We experimented and found that these charcoals can indeed leave black marks on the walls, and they are quite clear.

Rose said to us: "After entering, everyone walks separately. Each person should take a few pieces of charcoal. Mark the intersection or turn when you encounter it. Draw arrows wherever you go. If you are sure it is a dead end, put a cross on the arrow. This way It will take a while to search the maze. If you have searched all the paths you took, follow other people's routes. If there are forks, don't go through them."

"Okay, let's do it like this." We each took the charcoal and entered the golden maze to start a carpet search.

In the audience area, Lu'lu'lu'ka'lu' was explaining the progress of our guild: "The dark horse is indeed the dark horse. The Frost Rose Alliance has designed a very practical method to deal with this so-called super-difficulty maze. According to their Method, as long as your luck is not too bad, you should be able to complete the mission in front of the Holy Spear Alliance and get the other half of the token."

I turned left and right in the maze and hit several dead ends in a row. Suddenly I found a golden statue at an intersection. I thought I was getting rich, but I didn't know I was unlucky. The golden statue was of a minotaur holding an axe. As soon as I got close to him, he immediately started moving.

This guy's whole body was made of gold. My weapons were extremely ineffective against him. It took a lot of effort to finally kill him. I thought I could pick up some gold and go back, but I didn't know that as soon as he died, he immediately regrouped and returned to his original station. s position. I tried to cut it a few times, but found that it turned into the same shape as the wall and couldn't be cut at all!

Starting from this golden statue, I walked through several dead ends. It turned out that this entire branch was a dead end, and I had no choice but to run back. After completing his own route, he went to others' route and followed the arrow all the way into Rose's area. He helped her check a branch to confirm that it was a dead end, and he happened to run into her when he came back.

"Husband? Why are you here?"

“It’s all dead ends over there.”

Rose shook her head and said, "I have one here."

Kristina's voice suddenly sounded in the team channel: "Help! I found the target!"

"Where are you?" Everyone's inquiries rang out in the guild channel.

"I don't know either. Just follow my arrow and find it. Hurry up! That guy is chasing me."

"You hold on for a while!" Eagle's voice said.

Kristina's voice was choked with tears: "I'm being chased so I don't have time to recite a spell, so what can I do to hold me back?"

"Don't worry, you run to the meeting point first, and we'll be here right away. It would be best if we could lead him out of the maze."

"Help! This guy can attack from a distance...ah...shhh...I almost lost my head! Why did I run into a dead end! 5555~I ran the wrong way! Hurry up! You won't see me if you don't come back. !”