Chapter 508 Black and White
After running for an hour continuously, the effect of the portable map finally ended, and several people finally stopped.
"It's all over..." Ma Qiao pressed the brake, stood with his legs spread on the ground, and gasped: "Even riding a bicycle is tiring... How far have we run?"
"My electric bike has a mileage display." Sun Xiaowei said: "I started switching to an electric bike about half an hour ago, and I have ridden 88 kilometers since then."
"It's close to 90 kilometers in half an hour?" Ma Qiao smacked his lips in surprise: "In that hour, we ran a total of 1,780 kilometers?"
"Not that much..." Mr. Yuan shook his head: "After you and Xiaowei both rode, our speed has increased. The total should be only one hundred and fifty kilometers."
"That's far enough." Ma Qiao exclaimed: "Luo Jun, aren't you an elemental sect? Why are you running so fast?"
"Who said elementalists must run slowly?" Luo Jun curled his lips and said, "Senior Xiaowei can ride an electric bike, but I can't use some wind elements?"
"It turns out it's the wind element..." Ma Qiao believed it and finally felt better.
"Next, let's sort out the harvest from the map." Mr. Yuan said: "For more than 150 kilometers, we tried to run in one direction. Even if we encountered a wall, we would use the map to find a way around it and try to keep the original direction. , Even so, we still haven’t touched the edge of the endless maze, this place is bigger than we imagined.”
"Thanks to the maze being big enough, the corridor is as wide as the road, and there is a corner every few hundred meters, otherwise I wouldn't be able to run fast..." Sun Xiaowei recalled the moment of speeding just now. Although she has a weak foundation, her physical fitness and The reaction speed is far beyond what ordinary people can match. The small electric motorcycle with special characteristics is faster than a professional racing driver. Even so, you have to concentrate on the second half of the race to barely keep up.
"It seems that we have to be prepared for a protracted war." Luo Jun took out the video recorder and started to play back the previous video: "If I remember correctly, we saw two stores along the way, and I made a note of the time. One time was about thirteen minutes and forty seconds, and the other time was about forty-eight minutes and fifteen seconds... There are more relics, I noticed six of them, and the time is also impressive..."
With that said, Luo Jun began to adjust the video to verify his memory.
"In addition to relics and shops, there are also three treasure points. We have never encountered a treasure point before. We don't know what they are, whether there will be mechanisms or monsters to guard them... There is a special room, which will take about fifty minutes. At that time, it should be similar to the Hall of Decision... Apart from these, there are basically monsters and mechanisms. These can be seen almost every minute..."
Mr. Yuan nodded and said: "Even if there is one per minute, according to our speed, these monsters and mechanisms are still two or three kilometers away from each other. This is the straight-line distance in the maze. In fact, we have to walk two kilometers. According to the map You may have to take several detours, and if you wander around without guidance, it’s really difficult to encounter monsters.”
"Okay now, we have a guide, follow this video and kill back!" Luo Jun looked at the screen: "Come on, let's go this way, let's go find the first monster first!"
A few people walked around the maze for a while, and soon came to an empty crossroads, with a tall knight's armor standing in the center.
As if sensing someone approaching, the armor trembled slightly, stretched his body, came to life, and rushed towards him with the giant sword in his hand.
As usual, he started with long-range attacks. Ma Qiao picked up the shotgun and fired one at the head. With a bang, the armor was torn into pieces, the parts were scattered on the ground, and a handful of copper coins were scattered.
"So simple?" Ma Qiao was a little surprised. The lanky monster before was only taken care of by Mr. Yuan...
"It seems that Caroline is right." Mr. Yuan checked the energy fluctuations around him and confirmed that the monster was dead: "The strength of the monsters in the endless maze is not high. Even because of the existence of the store, there are no monsters but it is more powerful." It’s troubling. The one we fought had gold ingots, and this one only had a handful of copper coins. It seems that the strength and value of the two monsters are very different.”
"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat." Luo Jun stepped forward and said, "Let's keep the money first, everything else is fake."
Several people picked up the copper coins in a hurry, there were two hundred coins in total, and Luo Jun put them all into the smart equipment bag. Then he continued to search back along the video, and soon came to a trap point.
This was the first time for several people to see the trap point. It was more of a challenge than a trap.
This is an open space fifty meters square. The ground is covered with black and white grids about one meter long, interlaced with each other. At the entrance of the agency, there is a sign with the rules of the game.
The requirements are very simple. Walk through all the white grids, but you cannot step on or cross the black grids. Moreover, after the white grids are stepped on, they will automatically turn into black grids, so you cannot go back. There is only one chance. If you can succeed in the challenge, Then you will be given five hundred coins. If you fail, once you step on or cross the black grid, you will be randomly teleported to other places in the maze.
"I can play this!" Sun Xiaowei volunteered: "As long as you plan the route first, success is not difficult."
As she spoke, she stood outside the venue, carefully observing the grids, and drawing with her fingers to plan the route.
But as time passed by, the expression on Sun Xiaowei's face changed from eagerness to doubt, then to irritability, and finally collapsed completely.
"Something's wrong. There's no solution to this at all. If you don't go back, you'll definitely not be able to get through it!"
Sun Xiaowei pointed to the ground and said, "Look, there are several white grids here. There is only one way to step on them. But it is easy to get in, but you have to go back the same way to get out. It is impossible not to cross the black grid..."
Others also found the problem she mentioned. It seems to be an unsolvable problem...
"Let me try!" Luo Jun suddenly stood up.
"Don't, what if you are teleported away." Sun Xiaowei advised, "If you encounter monsters, you won't even have the chance to ask for help!"
"Don't worry, I found a way." As he said that, Luo Jun jumped directly into the venue.
As he stepped over a white grid, the grid immediately turned black and could not be stepped on or crossed over. Luo Jun didn't look behind him, but walked straight forward and soon came to a fork in the road.
Turn right here, there are two forks in the road, one is to continue forward, the other is a straight line composed of four white squares, sandwiched by black squares on both sides, extending into a dead end. If you want to step on all four squares, there is only this way to go, but if you want to go back, you must step on the white squares that have turned black.
"See, this is simply unsolvable." Sun Xiaowei spread her hands: "Now the road you entered has also turned black, and you can't get out even if you want to. You can only accept your fate and be teleported away... You said you..."
Sun Xiaowei was very anxious for Luo Jun, but before she finished speaking, she saw Luo Jun raised his leg and jumped directly over three white squares and stepped on the innermost white square.
"Huh?" Sun Xiaowei was stunned, and then she saw Luo Jun turned around and stepped on the white square that had just been crossed and walked back...
Yes, the rules say that you can't cross the black squares, but they don't say that you can't cross the white squares. As long as you have enough jumping power, it doesn't matter how many white squares you cross in one step!
In this way, all the dead ends that were previously thought to be unreachable were solved.
Luo Jun jumped left and right in the map, and finally stepped on all the white grids. The ground suddenly changed color and became the appearance of ordinary floor tiles in the maze. Then a brick rose from the ground, and a large string of copper coins was placed on it.
A rough count showed that there were about 500 coins.
"It seems that this copper coin represents one dollar." Luo Jun put the copper coins away: "I just don't know how many copper coins that gold ingot can be exchanged for."
After cracking this mechanism, everyone continued to walk back, killing monsters and breaking challenges all the way, and they were very busy.
As Yuan Lao said before, most of the monsters in the maze are not strong, and they are basically free points. Killing one usually only earns a few hundred copper coins, and the mechanism is similar, mostly accumulating three to five hundred yuan. Occasionally, you will encounter silver ingots. According to calculations, one silver ingot should be equivalent to one thousand copper coins... So, that gold ingot, wouldn't it be 10,000 yuan?
Could it be that they killed the hidden boss in this maze?
Luo Jun thought about it carefully and it was possible. Old Yuan was a top-level fighter, and the Eight Trigrams Fingers were a mythical treasure. With such a configuration, he could create a world in the special mission. This was just a Class A, shouldn't he just kill them randomly? The monster could withstand the burning of the Eight Trigrams Fingers for more than ten seconds, which proved his strength!
In this way, this mission doesn't seem as difficult as imagined...
As long as he killed monsters all the way back and arrived at the store, he would have accumulated a lot of money. Even if it was not enough to exchange for the exit indicator, he could exchange for a portable map. Then he could come a few more times, and it wouldn't take long for 100,000 yuan to be enough.
Of course, Luo Jun also knew that he had a lot of luck to get to this point. According to Old Yuan, Caroline stayed in the maze for more than a month and didn't encounter a store until she starved to death. I can only say that the dice are really awesome...
The crowd swiped all the way back, and finally, when they returned to the first store, they already had more than 5,000 copper coins, three silver ingots and one gold ingot!
It feels so good to be rich!
Luo Jun raised his neck and knocked on the window of the store, and the familiar fat man poked his head out again.
"Welcome... Hey, isn't this a regular customer? You're here again so soon?"
"Do you still remember me?" Luo Jun was a little surprised: "Do you open all the stores by yourself?"
"Hehe, yes, no..." The fat businessman did not answer this question directly, but just smiled and asked: "What do you want to buy this time? After opening the door, my store can only exist for one hour."
"Don't rush to buy things, help me check these first, can you exchange them for money." As he said, Luo Jun took out all the ingots and copper coins he had accumulated.
"Oh, you've gained a lot, little brother... These silver ingots and copper coins are the same as the banknotes I issued, and can be used directly as currency. Of course, if you want to carry them conveniently, I can help you change them into banknotes."
"Change it." Luo Jun was not afraid of carrying it, mainly because copper coins were too scattered and not as easy to count as paper money.
Soon, the merchant exchanged more than 8,000 yuan for him.
"Eh? Can't this be exchanged?" Seeing that the merchant did not accept the gold ingots, Luo Jun asked in confusion.
"Oh, this gold ingot is different from the silver ingot..." The merchant explained: "This is dropped by special creatures, we don't accept it here..."
"You don't accept it..." Luo Jun heard the merchant's implication: "Then where should I hand it in?"
"We don't accept white-signed shops like ours." The merchant pointed to the tattered sign on the window. "But occasionally you'll run into one with a black sign, and they'll accept this kind of stuff... but the price they give is not very fair, and this special monster is hard to fight, so I don't recommend you go hunting it on purpose."
"Black sign?" Luo Jun frowned, "Are the things they sell different from yours?"
"Not exactly the same..." The merchant shook his head, "Some have similar functions, but are completely different things. We don't have much contact with them, and I don't know much about them. But I don't recommend you to have too much contact with them."
"Why?" Luo Jun asked, "What will happen if you come into contact with them?"
The merchant swallowed his saliva and whispered, "It's dangerous to trade with them. If you don't handle it well, you might get eaten... literally!"
"Eat?" Luo Jun raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect there were hidden elements in this maze?
He wanted to ask more about the black-signed shop, but the fat merchant couldn't say more anyway.
In desperation, Luo Jun could only use the badge to withdraw another 3,000 yuan, and then exchange it with the previous 8,000 yuan for two portable maps.
With a portable map, there is capital for sustainable development. After bidding farewell to the store, Luo Jun left with the remaining more than 1,000 bills, and told Yuan Lao and others about the black plaque store.
"This may be an important intelligence..." Yuan Lao analyzed: "The store with a black plaque is obviously not in the same camp as the white plaque..." As he said, he looked at the fat businessman in the depths of the exchange: "What he said may not be true."
"I think so too." Luo Jun nodded: "But now, we have no other source of intelligence. For now, white stores can still communicate in a friendly manner. Since they are so repulsive to black stores, we should at least be more careful."
"Share this news with other groups first." Sun Xiaowei said: "Remind them too."
Yuan Lao nodded, took out the talisman paper and lit it, and briefly told the news about the black and white stores, reminding everyone to be careful.
...Somewhere in the maze, leaning against the wall, Li Ying, covered in blood, took out the talisman paper and played the message from Mr. Yuan.
"The black shop may be dangerous? Mr. Yuan, you reminded me too late..." Li Ying almost cried out. At this moment, he was broken below the waist, and blood and internal organs were scattered all over the corridor. Not far from him, half of a bloody head could be seen, as if it had been bitten by some beast. If you look closely, you can see that it was Zheng Yu who walked with him!
At this time, a creepy roar came, and a thick tentacle stretched out from the depths of the alley, wrapped around the dying Li Ying, and dragged him into a dilapidated door. Above the door, there was a huge black plaque...
Endless Shop!