Chapter 55: X-level copy completed

"What sheep hoof bone?"

After hearing Ye Xiaoxuan's words, the members of the advance team asked subconsciously.

Seeing their looks, Ye Xiaoxuan knew that they were probably like herself. Because they understood some of the game mechanics, they asked key questions on the first night and left without playing the game. Naturally, they missed the sheep's hoof bone, which was a possible key prop.

The shitty beginner's guide made Ye Xiaoxuan once again remember the evaluation she gave when she first came to the dungeon.

In the end, Ye Xiaohua lived up to expectations and took out the sheep's hoof bone and gave it to Ye Xiaoxuan.

After getting the sheep's hoof bone, Ye Xiaoxuan first held it in her hand, but it didn't work. She then put it on the analyst, but it still didn't work. However, she was still unwilling to give up, so she kept trying, and finally put it in a groove in the cave.

As a result, the sheep's hoof bone was successfully embedded, a blue light flashed, the halo disappeared, the countdown stopped, and three questions appeared on the stone wall.

"Is it that simple?" Seeing the situation before him, the advance team member who had been answering their questions before looked incredulous and couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth. It was unclear whether he was laughing or crying.

Ye Xiaoxuan could understand his feelings at this moment very well.

The famous French writer Maupassant has a novel called "The Necklace", which tells such a story:

In order to attend a ball, the vain Mathilde borrowed a diamond necklace from a friend, but accidentally lost it. In order to return the necklace, she and her husband spent all their money and went into huge debt, turning their once well-off life into destitute.

But after ten years of hard work to pay off the debt, they found out that the necklace was a fake.

From the reader's perspective, this is a novel that satirizes Mathilde's vanity with a surprising reversal.

But if the positions are reversed, the story is not only uninteresting, but also cruel, because it means that she was tricked by fate.

I lost so much and paid so much, but the answer was actually given at the beginning. It’s not a good feeling.

However, no matter how uncomfortable it was, this advance team member was much stronger than Mathilde. He quickly adjusted his mindset and began to look at the words on the stone wall.

As the final items in the dungeon, after the sheep's hoof bone is given, three puzzles are given on the wall.

Puzzle 1:

“It can’t speak, but it can devour everything; the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets. What is it?” (Hint: It’s related to the nature of the curse)

Puzzle 2:

"I was originally a guardian, but was taken away by the greedy; those who lose me will eventually become me. What am I?" (Hint: It is related to the key item in the ice cave)

Puzzle 3:

"It has no life, but it can grow; it does not move, but it can devour living people. What is it?" (Hint: It is related to some phenomenon in the ice cave)

Seeing the three puzzles in the ice cave, Ye Xiaoxuan sighed again. She had to say that as a puzzle copy, finding puzzles in this copy seemed to be easier than solving them.

Along with the three questions, three grooves appeared, which seemed to be where corresponding things should be put. Without thinking, Ye Xiaoxuan cut off a finger from the monster they had caught before, or the former "Eternal Hunger" and put it on, and the groove closed smoothly.

Then came the second groove. The sapphire was taken from the mummy's mouth by the advance team, and the groove closed again.

Then there is the third groove, which comes from the blue crystals in the ice cave, which, according to the advance team, have this property.

The three grooves closed, a blue light flashed, and the blue ice crystals that originally covered the cave disappeared instantly, replaced by a narrow door.

Ye Xiaoxuan raised her head and looked carefully at the door in front of her again. Is this the exit of the copy? Ye Xiaoxuan gestured towards the cave entrance.

The entrance to the cave was so narrow that one had to bend over to pass through, and it was completely covered with thick thorn bushes.

If it was an ordinary thorn bush, she might be able to cut it off easily, but how did this thorn bush grow to this extent? Even someone with B-level strength could not shake it at all.

It is heavy and solid, so hard that even a knife cannot cut into it.

After trying to move the thorn bush, Ye Xiaoxuan quickly raised her head.

Ye Xiaohua understood instantly and took out the testing equipment.

With a "beep", the test result came out, but the result left her speechless.

The test results showed that this was a plant that would shrink at a specific time every evening, and there was still about 40,000 seconds, or 11 hours, left.

Faced with this situation, everyone started arguing. Some people thought that they could not stay in the mountain any longer as they had no food and were suffering from severe hypothermia. Anyway, the exit had already appeared, so the rest could go back to the village to rest and then come back later.

Indeed, Ye Xiaoxuan listened to the other party's thoughts and nodded. With the supplies running out, it was indeed a bit difficult to sleep outdoors.

But another group of people had a different view.

"I, I won't go. I'd rather stay here all night and wait. I don't want to go back to that village again."

When Ye Xiaoxuan heard this, she looked back and saw the D-level mutant who was first selected by the mechanism.

Ye Xiaoxuan: ...

Finally, they gave up the idea of going back to the village to rest and decided to hold on and survive these 40,000 seconds. After all, they had paid so much and someone had to watch this exit in case anything went wrong. Otherwise, they would have nothing to cry about.

Tick, tick, tick—

The 40,000 seconds in the cave were exceptionally long. I thought it was almost over, but I didn’t expect that there would be a final wait. It’s like when your boss suddenly calls you to a meeting when you’re about to get off work. Who would be happy about that?

Finally, when the sun rose and set at the entrance of the cave, the thorns in front of the narrow passage shrank. They bent down and climbed out of the cave with difficulty.

But as Ye Xiaoxuan climbed, her heart began to beat fast. Even now, the red moon in the nursery rhyme still hadn't appeared, which made her very uneasy.

A bright light swept across her eyes, and Ye Xiaoxuan successfully crawled out of the long passage.

Then, to their surprise, what came into view was the entrance they saw when they first entered the copy!

According to their memory, they walked towards the village, but the closer they got there, the warm heat felt more and more on their skin, forming a sharp contrast with their almost frozen bodies.

Standing on the top of the hill, you can see a blazing fire burning in the center of the village, "crackling". Although the bonfire in the center of the village looks like a warm gathering, it is not actually like that.

Because what surrounds it at this moment is already scarlet.

Different people performed the human tragedy of eating and being eaten in front of them.

The old man Doji was surrounded in the middle, his flesh was being torn off bit by bit, until only bones were left.

Looking up at the sky, the moon has turned red.

At this point, the last paragraph of the nursery rhyme has been perfectly confirmed.

Fortunately, Ye Xiaohua brought the sheep hoof bone with her when she left the cave. With the sheep hoof bone, the 11 participants left the instance together. Sure enough, the entrance at this moment had changed from a one-way street to a two-way street. As they left, the instance collapsed.

When they opened their eyes again, they were already back outside the copy.

Countless official personnel are surrounding them at this moment, concerned about their physical condition.

After returning, Ye Xiaoxuan couldn't help but sigh while looking at the blue sky above her head.

However, at this moment, she suddenly felt that something was wrong.

After thinking for a while, Ye couldn't help but screamed:

"No, where's my dog?"

I wanted to get up and look for the dog, but then I ran out of energy and fainted.

So where did it go? In the last moments before fainting, Ye Xiaoxuan couldn't help but wonder: Could it have been destroyed along with the copy?

Thinking of this, Ye Xiaoxuan couldn't help but feel a little heavy in her heart.

At the same time, Goudan, who had been missing, actually entered another copy.

On a green meadow, it slowly opened its eyes.

"Woof? Woof woof!"

The dog, who had already woken up, looked around and shouted in confusion.