Chapter 509: Sustainable Exploitation

Somewhere in the maze, behind a corner, is a lush flower bush full of colorful flowers.

In the middle of these flowers, there is a high platform with a huge treasure chest on it.

Such a place deep in the maze looks like a reward for adventurers. But if you go there without thinking...

A mechanical dog walked into the flowers with a brisk pace. Just halfway through, it was suddenly entangled by a large number of vines that emerged from the flowers. Those colorful flowers also changed their previous delicate appearance. They twisted one by one and became several times larger. Sharp teeth emerged from the center of the flowers and began to bite the mechanical dog.

Accompanied by a creaking sound, the metal armor could not resist the teeth of this strange flower. Seeing that it was about to be swallowed up, the mechanical dog's head suddenly lit up with a red light, and then exploded with a bang, blowing out a charred open space in the flower field. But soon, the vacant space was filled by the surrounding flower vines.

"It seems that the guardians this time are these carnivorous plants..." Sun Xiaowei looked at Yuan Lao: "Flowers and plants are most afraid of fire."

"No..." Luo Jun shook his head: "Do you remember the last treasure chest? After being smashed by Ma Qiao's energy, the things inside also disappeared. This treasure chest is not invincible, and it is too dangerous to set fire to it."

"What should we do?" Sun Xiaowei looked around: "This sea of ​​flowers is so big that even steel can be bitten. If we walk in rashly, the energy may not be able to defend against it."

"I'll go." Yuan Lao volunteered: "Ordinary energy won't work, but my Condensed Energy will definitely be able to withstand it."

"No!" Luo Jun immediately denied: "Let me do it."

"You're even worse!" Yuan Lao hurriedly stopped him. Although he knew that Luo Jun's Condensed Energy was stronger than his, he thought that Luo Jun had not yet exposed his strength, so along the way, Yuan Lao and Ma Qiao dealt with the monsters they encountered, and he tried not to let Luo Jun take action. Anyway, it was easy for him to deal with the Class A monsters. The strength of this maze monster was not high, so Luo Jun didn't need to take action at all.

"Don't worry, Mr. Yuan." Luo Jun gave his master a look, came to the flower field, took out a pair of shoes from the treasure box and put them on, then looked at the treasure chest on the high platform in the center of the flower field, and suddenly stomped his feet.

Swish!

Luo Jun's figure disappeared, and almost at the same time appeared on the central high platform, standing next to the treasure chest.

As soon as he appeared, the flower fields around the treasure chest immediately surged, and countless vines began to grow wildly and spread towards the high platform. But Luo Jun didn't give them a chance. He picked up the treasure chest, stomped his feet again, and teleported back with a swish, putting the treasure chest on the ground.

"You can teleport!" Sun Xiaowei said in surprise: "There are not many treasures that can flash, and the distance is not close, so the grade must be high, right?"

Luo Jun laughed: "I found it on the black market..."

This pair of instant boots was taken from the Hell Creek family by him. The effect is that it can teleport three times in a row, up to 100 meters each time. I never had the chance to wear it before, but it came in handy this time.

"Come and see what's inside!" Ma Qiao rubbed his hands excitedly.

They detected three treasure chests in total. The first one opened three silver ingots and a pile of copper coins, nearly 4,000 yuan. The second one was accidentally broken by Ma Qiao. I don't know what this one will open.

Luo Jun opened the treasure chest, and a light came on. There was a transparent crystal ball the size of a palm inside. A pointer floated inside, pointing diagonally in a direction, and there was a string of numbers under the pointer.

"What is this?" Several people looked at each other. There was a note under the crystal ball, which wrote the function of this thing.

Origin Pointer: No matter where you are, this pointer will always point to the first place where the player enters the endless maze, and indicate the distance from that place.

It can be activated by injecting vitality, consuming five breaths per minute, and can guide the nearest road to the origin.

"Indicate the original location?" Sun Xiaowei frowned and said, "Isn't that the big room with twelve doors? What's the point of indicating this? Can we go back?"

"At least it can be convenient for positioning." Luo Jun played with the crystal ball for a while: "I roughly know my relative position in the maze..."

Luo Jun looked at the number under the pointer, "That is to say, the big room with twelve doors is more than 80,000 meters away from us in this direction... more than 80 kilometers?"

"This is because we have searched a long way back." Sun Xiaowei said: "If we count the more than 100 kilometers we ran before, our farthest distance from the origin may be more than 200 kilometers... How big is this maze?"

"Endless, maybe it is really infinite." Luo Jun put away the pointer and took out the camera: "Let's continue, there are still a few monsters to be cleared."

To make a long story short, the distance that everyone rushed out in an hour, in the end, it took two days to come back to clear those encounter points, and all the supplies exchanged before were eaten up.

But Luo Jun was not in a hurry. He waited until the Generosity was about to refresh, and then came to the last store with an empty stomach.

After knocking on the window, without waiting for the fat merchant to say hello, he threw a pile of gold ingots and copper coins in front of him.

"Change them all into banknotes!"

Seeing this pile of treasures, the fat merchant's eyes were straight, and he quickly calculated the number. In the end, he exchanged more than 12,700 banknotes for Luo Jun.

At this time, Luo Jun took out the Generous Badge and exchanged it for 3,000, exchanged for ten supplies, and when the cooling was over, he exchanged another ten, and then left the store with satisfaction.

Since then, the team has a total of 20 supplies, more than 14,000 banknotes, seven relics, two maps, an origin pointer, and a gold ingot of unknown purpose.

These things are also a big pile, which is not convenient to carry normally, but Luo Jun has a smart equipment bag, so storing items is not a problem at all.

Looking at this rich supply, several people were a little dazed for a while.

The endless maze, an extremely difficult challenge that no one has succeeded so far, has been turned into a farming game? This is not survival, it is clearly a sustainable maze wool plucking!

Although the maze now looks endless and there is no hope of getting out, at least with Luo Jun's routine, there is basically no need to worry about survival.

But even so, you can't stay here forever. The endless maze is too big, and finding the exit is a long way off...

"It seems that there seems to be no other way except saving money to exchange for the exit indicator." Sun Xiaowei looked at the food in front of her. Although the food categories of each supply were rich and delicious, and they were often changed, she had no appetite at all.

"Don't worry, senior sister, you can always get out." Luo Jun took a bite of the chicken leg and encouraged.

"But I want to take a shower..." Sun Xiaowei complained.

It has been more than four days since she came into this mission. Although there is no shortage of food and there are basic toiletries in the supplies, not taking a shower for more than four days is still a torture for this girl who loves cleanliness.

Although several men don't care much, she always feels that she is starting to get stinky...

"This condition can only be overcome." Ma Qiao smiled and said, "Of course, there is plenty of water here. If you want to take a shower, we won't stop you. We just promise not to peek."

"You wish!" Sun Xiaowei glared at him.

"I heard Caroline mention that there seems to be a place like a hotel in this maze." Yuan Lao suddenly said, "She seems to have seen a luxury hotel where you can stay and take a shower, but the ticket is very expensive. She missed it because she didn't have money at the time. When she came back after killing a few monsters, the store was gone."

"Huh? Really?" Sun Xiaowei's eyes lit up when she heard it.

"Senior, do you still want to go out?" Luo Jun poured cold water on her: "Didn't you hear from Mr. Yuan that the tickets are expensive?"

"Please, good junior..." Sun Xiaowei begged: "Just buy me a ticket... When you go out, you have something to ask me, and I will agree to anything!"

Luo Jun waved his hand: "Don't say too much, let's talk about it when we meet. Besides, it's uncertain whether we can go out..."

Luo Jun refused while flipping through the camera.

"What are you looking at?" As if trying to get close to her, Sun Xiaowei came to Luo Jun and found that he had cut the previously recorded video into small segments and flipped it up and down.

"What is this for? Haven't we confirmed these places?" Sun Xiaowei asked puzzledly.

"We only confirmed the special places marked on the map." Luo Jun explained: "You forgot that the map description mentioned that this map cannot mark the location of the exit. What if there is an exit in the place we passed by?"

"Then what's the point of dividing the video into these small segments?" Sun Xiaowei continued to ask.

"I divide it into small segments and screen them one by one. If I find any suspicious part in a segment, I will mark it out so that it will be easy to find later." Luo Jun explained.

"Wow, you are so reliable, junior brother!" Sun Xiaowei gave a thumbs up: "Then such a reliable junior brother, can you meet the senior sister's small request?"

Luo Jun glanced at her: "Let's talk about it when we meet."

"Then I will take it as your consent!" Sun Xiaowei returned to her seat with a smile, and picked up the chicken leg again, which immediately felt much more delicious.

Luo Jun sighed and flicked the video segments with his fingers...

He divided the video into so many segments, not because of the so-called convenience of searching. As I just said, there is no exit in this map. Even if he is blinded, he can't see what is not there. The reason for this division is actually for other purposes.

Luo Jun swiped his finger, and the dozens of videos that were divided began to scroll rapidly along the list, and he set it to scroll in a loop, and it would not stop when it scrolled to the bottom.

"Tianji dice!"

"Click on the map to find the video of the exit!"

That's right, Luo Jun's real purpose is to rely on Tianji to find the exit!

If he really happened to pass by while running all the way, and the exit was scanned into the map, then this method can be used to lock the exit's location within a few kilometers!

It will be much easier to find it at that time!

However, things are not as smooth as he imagined.

"Ding, this event is an inevitable event and cannot be determined."

It seems that it is not so easy to find the exit without passing by...

Luo Jun sighed and put down the video recorder.

At this time, everyone was basically full and full. Yuan Lao looked at the leftover food and the rich supplies in the storage space, and suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Let's contact other people."

"What for?" Ma Qiao asked.

"It's been four or five days since we came in. We have food and water, but we don't know what's going on with the other people. Even if cultivators have stronger physical strength than ordinary people, they will be very weak after not eating for four or five days." Elder Yuan sighed: "I think we should give them some supplies. Anyway, we have the map and Xiao Luo's tactics now, so we don't have to worry about supplies for the time being."

Everyone had no objection to this, after all, if one more person survived, there would be one more chance to find the exit. But the key is that after so many days, no one knew where they had gone, how could they meet up with others?

"Don't we have the origin pointer?" Yuan Lao said: "Use the pointer to go back to the origin. This is the only meeting point that everyone has a chance to find."

Everyone had no objection, and after a simple cleanup, Yuan Lao took out the talisman paper, lit it, and sent a message.

The specific content is that they now have sufficient supplies. If they lack food and water, they can go to the origin to find them. But from now on, they will only wait at the origin until 48 hours later, and they will not wait after that.

In two days, at most eight supplies will be consumed. In fact, considering individual differences, each supply is very affordable, ensuring that even those with a large appetite can eat enough, so save some, one supply cannot be eaten in a day. What's more, if you just wait, there will not be so much consumption, and you may only consume four or five supplies in these two days.

After sending the message, Yuan Lao activated the origin pointer, and a green line immediately appeared on the ground, corresponding to the shortest route back to the origin.

Several people set off immediately, and Sun Xiaowei and Ma Qiao rode their bikes and rushed all the way. As a result, after walking for a while, they found that the route was often contrary to intuition. The pointer originally pointed forward and upward, but the route told you that you should go to the stairs down here, then walk back, and make a big circle before finally returning to the direction of the pointer.

However, according to the description of the prop, this thing should indicate the shortest route, which means that if you choose the route according to your intuition, even if you specify the direction, you may not reach your destination.

This reminds them of the exit indicator... From this point of view, even if you spend 100,000, the possibility of getting out is very small, which casts a shadow on everyone's heart.

"Don't lose heart." Yuan Lao saw the frustration of others and encouraged them: "At least we now have a stable way to survive. As long as we keep exploring, we will always find a way out."

"I hope so..." Sun Xiaowei curled her lips: "Yuan Lao, how far can we get?"

"In a straight line, there are still more than 30,000 meters..." Yuan Lao glanced and said: "It should be soon..."

Halfway through his words, Yuan Lao suddenly froze and signaled everyone to stop.

The team that was moving at high speed braked suddenly and almost rear-ended.

"What's wrong?" Ma Qiao finally stopped the bicycle.

"Look over there!" Luo Jun also found the problem and pointed to a diagonal fork in the road ahead.

"That is..." Ma Qiao and Sun Xiaowei were surprised after seeing it clearly.

At the end of the fork in the road, there was a black plaque...