Chapter 1989 U Transcendence Event (80)

After confirming the identities of the hunter and the priest, Schiller got a map that only the priest could see. It was a very detailed topographic map depicting a prosperous commercial street.

The reason why it is called a topographic map is that it is a three-dimensional map, and it is a translucent image that appears directly in front of Schiller. He only needs to concentrate to see it, and no one except him can see it.

Compared with Schiller, Stark's safety is more worrying, but fortunately this is not a wilderness with nothing, but a prosperous city. When Stark found that the level of civilization here is close to or even higher than that of humans, he was sure to make a useful armor here.

So his destination is the factory area, but it is far away, so he plans to find a car first to see if it can be started. There is a parking lot not far away, so they parted ways under the signal light at the birth point.

The map positioning is just where the commercial area presented on the map is. There is a tall building next to it, and Schiller plans to go up and observe the surrounding terrain first.

The interior of the high-rise building was filled with thick fog and was very dangerous. Schiller did not intend to go in, but the advantage of this high-rise building was that it had an external staircase that led to about the 9th to 10th floor.

Schiller did not stop and walked quickly up the stairs. After a while, he climbed to the 6th floor where he could see far away.

Looking far into the distance, the whole city was in ruins, but Schiller soon discovered that the roads in this city were very narrow, even narrower than those ancient European cities, or simply not for cars, but more like sidewalks or bicycle lanes.

However, the roofs of some shorter buildings that had not completely collapsed were very flat, and there were some facilities installed on them, which looked like helicopter landing pads.

It is very likely that air transportation facilities have been popularized in this world, Schiller speculated and continued to walk up.

After reaching about the 9th floor, it was impossible to go up anymore. The stair treads and handrails were already shaky. At this height, the whole city was in full view.

Unexpectedly, the city is not big, at least the urban part is very small. If you look closely, it is only as big as a district in New York. However, without roads, the buildings become more dense, and all functional areas are crowded together, just like a miniature model.

The city seems to have no residents, but Schiller saw two black shadows on the street not far away. He immediately held his breath because he recognized Superman.

When his abilities are not restricted, Superman's super vision and super hearing are still there. Although the city is full of fog, it is hard to say whether Superman's super vision will still work.

This Superman is not wearing a uniform, but because the distance is too far, Schiller can't see his age clearly, so he can't infer which universe Superman he is from. The figure opposite him can vaguely see two pointed ears, which looks like Batman, but because the distance is too far, it is impossible to tell which Batman it is.

Things are a bit troublesome, Schiller thought, no matter which Batman it is, he is a smart man. The problems that Schiller can think of, he can naturally think of, and it is not so easy to deceive him.

Suddenly Schiller discovered that Superman and Batman also had to split up their forces. It seemed that their plans were the same, and both pretended to be hunters.

This was interesting. If there was a smart person in each team, then there would be 12 hunters on the field, and no one knew who was real and who was fake, causing both sides to be afraid to take action.

Schiller always felt that things would not be so simple, and the organizer must have some other way to intensify the conflict.

As soon as he thought of this, he found that the map suddenly popped up, and a shining red arrow was marked on one of the buildings in the commercial district, and a totem pole pattern appeared above it.

Sure enough, the totem pole fragments were not found by luck. The map obtained by the priest would clearly mark the location of the totem pole fragments, and the priest who saw this scene would understand that the more maps he had, the greater the advantage, because the totem pole could directly kill people.

Schiller suspected that the maps obtained by each priest would overlap, and sooner or later two priests would see the location of the same totem pole fragment.

Schiller no longer hesitated and rushed to the location marked on his map. When he looked at it before, he had already determined the location of the commercial street.

On the way, a plan gradually took shape in Schiller's mind.

The whole game is a large-scale practical experiment of the Dark Forest Law.

If everyone is a hunter, then they will start fighting as soon as they meet, because it is very important to seize the initiative, but if there is a priest behind the hunter, and the hunter dies if the priest dies, then the hunter's first task becomes to protect the priest.

Assuming that everyone's estimate of the possible opponents in their hearts is hunter plus priest, then the desire to attack will not be very strong, because they can think that the hunter who protects the priest will not actively attack them.

Then the plan of all disguising as hunters can be carried out smoothly. When you see a person and find that he is a hunter, you will think that there is a priest behind him, and then think that because you want to protect the priest, he will not actively attack, so there is no need to attack, just be vigilant and leave.

But if there is something that must be snatched, this is not true. When two parties meet, they claim to be hunters, but as long as they come to snatch the totem pole fragments, it proves that the hunter wants his priest to kill someone, and the person killed may be himself, so he must not let him snatch it, so he will attack.

But Schiller thought of another thing, that is, the number of totem pole fragments each person has is also a secret, and the priest with three totem pole fragments is the highest threat, because he even avoids the hunter's attack process and can kill people directly.

According to this idea, pretending to be a priest with three totem poles is a better choice. As long as you make a move, I will curse you immediately, and no one dares to bet whether this is true.

But the problem now is that the game has just started for a few minutes. Even the most brainless people can think that it is impossible for the priest to gather three totem pole fragments within these few minutes, so the threat will be easily exposed.

And Schiller's method is to forge.

But forging is not to make fake fragments, which can be easily seen through, because the priest can see the number of fragments he has obtained, but there are many things to do about the step of cursing.

After arriving at the commercial district, Schiller immediately found the house with the totem pole fragments and took the totem pole fragments, which was a relatively short cylinder. It looked like three of them stacked together could form a complete priest totem.

After getting the totem fragments, he should have started looking for other information immediately, but Schiller stood there and looked at the fragments carefully for about two or three minutes, and then walked towards the place that might be a supermarket on the commercial district map with great purpose.

Sure enough, the largest, flattest house with a three-story underground parking lot was a large supermarket, but all the items on it were written in a language Schiller did not recognize, which did not seem to be the language used by any race on Earth, indicating that the people living in this city should be near-earth civilizations.

From the appearance of the building he had seen before, Schiller speculated that this civilization was not much different from humans, and must have achieved remarkable artistic achievements and had corresponding art education.

Sure enough, Schiller found something similar to paint in the supermarket, but the paint here was all spray cans, which consisted of a bottle carried on the back and a spray gun.

Schiller picked up a few cans of paint, and found a rag like a mop and a long pole in the daily necessities area, as well as some plates and bowls for mixing paint.

About half an hour later, Batman, who had parted with Clark, saw a huge magic circle on the roof of the building on the way to the area on the map he owned.

Batman always likes to occupy the commanding heights, first because of the wide field of vision, he can observe the surrounding terrain well; second, standing higher can see more threatening movements in advance, so he has been walking on the roof.

He was wearing a bat suit, so he had all kinds of grappling ropes, and he could also glide temporarily. He just used the grappling rope to climb a taller building than the one he was standing on before, and what appeared in front of him was an extremely complex pattern.

This pattern occupied almost the entire roof of the building. The whole was a concentric circle. There was a huge text in the center of the concentric circle, and the surrounding was densely packed with small characters, and there were many similar but completely different small symbols, connected in different postures.

Batman just walked over and found that the paint was not dry yet. This pattern was obviously just appeared.

Soon Batman was attracted by the text in the center. He silently memorized all the text and symbols on the entire magic circle in his mind, and continued to rush to the place where the totem pole fragments were shown on his map.

Batman also obtained the first totem pole fragment without any trouble, but as soon as he took the fragment in his hand, he found that the pattern and text on the totem pole fragment were similar to those on the huge magic circle he had just seen.

Or they are a set of patterns and text systems, which are exactly the same from the writing method to the stroke rules.

Batman immediately took the totem pole fragment back to the place where the huge magic circle was located, and began to compare the text and patterns on it one by one.

This is indeed a regularity. Not long after, Batman found that the text and patterns on the totem pole in his hand all appeared on the magic circle, but only occupied one-third of the information of the magic circle.

The information on a totem pole fragment is one-third of this magic circle, and there are exactly three totem pole fragments. This can't be a coincidence anyway.

Batman took out the product packaging he had picked up from a roadside window and took a look at the place full of words on it. He found that the words used by the aliens now were related to the words on the totem poles and the magic circle, but they were different.

This might be the ancient words of the aliens. Batman speculated that the words and patterns on the totem poles and the magic circle evolved into the words used by the aliens today.

There were enough words on the product packaging for Batman to decipher the meaning of some of the words, but he obviously didn't have so much time to do it.

Batman also thought about the fact that the organizer did not announce the victory conditions. He thought that this might also be related to the danger deep in the fog, but the first thing he had to do now was to get the three totem fragments.

His idea was similar to Schiller's. A complete totem pole was equivalent to a nuclear weapon. It didn't have to be launched to kill people, but it could make others act according to Batman's will.

After taking another look at the totem pole fragments, Batman thought that this magic circle must be related to the totem pole.