"The purpose of arranging the four keys in this way is to distract us, so that we can act separately and not take care of anything."

"And each key carries a significant negative effect, which becomes even more pronounced when divided into four teams."

"So why can't we just leave all three keys here? I can take the last one, and we can all work together?"

Yeah, since the key has negative effects, and Jiang Ran is immune to them, why don't the rest of them just throw the key away?

First, find the room corresponding to the first key, then solve the problem before coming back to get the second key. Although it's more troublesome, it's safer.

“But there’s a problem with that…” Rusger pondered for a moment, “that is, it takes a lot of time, which means we have to waste a lot of mental energy.”

Jiang Ran needs to keep the Wheel of Fate running, and Rusger needs to keep the Justice active.

This can easily lead to a situation where their mental energy is exhausted before they have fully cracked the secrets of the eerie academy.

"This is indeed a problem that cannot be ignored, but we have an advantage, which is why I don't want to split up the teams."

What is their biggest advantage right now?

Of course there are more people!

There are many ways to replenish someone else's spiritual power. For example, Ye Ye can directly use Taoist techniques to transfer his spiritual power, and Yu Cheng can use the [Creator] to create items that restore spiritual power.

There are countless other methods, such as exploiting bugs.

As long as they are a team, they can almost share each other's mental strength!

Yu Cheng threw away the "rat eye" in his hand, and with a flick of his right hand, a ball of light shimmering with a pale blue glow appeared.

This is a miracle from the Creator!

"Touch the ball of light with your hands, and then agree to the connection."

"If even one person in the connection is consuming mental energy, the amount of mental energy consumed will be shared equally among everyone in the connection."

Okay, we don't even need to exploit bugs anymore, a single ball of light will solve it.

Yu Cheng was the first to touch the light sphere, and everyone else did the same.

After completing the task, Jiang Ran did feel that the decline in his mental energy had been greatly reduced. Although he could still feel the energy being depleted, it was now very slow.

"Okay, now that we've solved this problem, we don't really need to panic."

Yang Hai also threw away the keys in his hand and clapped his hands as he did so.

They first need to find the room corresponding to "staggering".

"Magic Mirror, where is the door that can be opened with this key?"

Jiang Ran picked up the key and waved it in front of the magic mirror.

Patterns began to appear on the magic mirror, accompanied by the text "4th floor, room 402".

Following the guidance of the magic mirror, everyone arrived at the corresponding door. Jiang Ran inserted the key, and sure enough, a click was heard, and the door was successfully opened!

Jiang Ran stepped inside first. It was an ordinary room, with nothing else in it except for a carpet on the floor!

That's right, there were no tables, no chairs, no objects at all, not even lights for illumination.

To see what's inside the room, you have to rely on the light coming in from outside, because there isn't even a single window.

Gwen followed curiously inside, followed by Alice. But at the very moment they stepped into the room, the door mysteriously vanished!

Alice flipped her hands and pulled out several fluorescent threads, turning her head to look in the dim light.

There were no doors on any of the four walls, forming a completely sealed room!

boom!

Alice stepped forward and punched the wall, but the wall didn't budge, not even a crack appeared.

"Is this place protected by the power of rules?"

Why is there the protection of rules in this strange world?

Did the director transform this place into a ghost story world before the fall to the next level?

Impossible. If he could do that, he would have done it already.

This is the world created by the Wheel of Fate. Could it be that all these creations were left behind by Him?

The key to becoming a god lies in divinity and the ritual of becoming a god.

Nothing else matters.

What is He hiding in this strange world?

As mentioned before by the Wheel of Fortune, even He didn't know exactly how to perform the ritual of becoming a god, since He had never gone through it himself.

So this secret is most likely not about the ascension ritual. Could it be a hidden divine essence? Does it mean there are fallen gods here?

Or is there some important information hidden that Jiang Ran is currently unaware of—a secret between the gods?

Regardless, the most urgent thing is to get out of this secret room!

There were no keys or anything else in the room except for a carpet, so it's highly likely that it's hidden under the carpet!

Just then, the pattern on the carpet lit up in circles with fluorescent light, filling the entire room with a pale green glow.

A feeling of dizziness washed over him, and when Jiang Ran opened his eyes again, he found that the three of them had already left the previous room and arrived in a forest!

"forest?"

No wonder there was nothing in the room; it turned out to be just a simple teleportation medium.

Jiang Ran looked up and saw that the dense canopy of trees blocked out the sun, allowing only a few rays of light to pass through. Even though he looked straight up, he couldn't see the sky.

"Mountain God!"

The phantom of the white-bearded old man appeared beside Jiang Ran, startling Gwen and Alice.

After the Dream Sea ended, Jiang Ran used [Miracle] to revive the Mountain God, but he could not manifest in the real world.

The appearance of the mountain god here indicates that this is an illusionary world! They are still in a strange world.

"Is one of the four keys hidden in this forest?"

"Brother Jiang Ran?!"

When Yu Cheng saw the door disappear inexplicably, he rushed forward and knocked on the wall, but there was no response.

"Indeed, sometimes the design of rules cannot be avoided by humans."

Yang Kaixu stepped forward to explain: "Each key represents a problem, and the rules are designed so that we can be divided into four different groups to solve these four problems."

“We want everyone to work together and crack the code one by one, but the rules only allow three people to go in, which is clearly to prevent the rest of us from contributing more.”

He shrugged and smiled helplessly.

"Are we just going to wait here for Jiang Ran and the others to come out?"

"What's the point?" Yang Kaixu asked in response to Rusger's question. "Even if they get out, if they want to overcome the next obstacle, only three people can go in, right?"

"What use are the rest of us, just watching the show from outside?"