Chapter 257: The Ninth Round of Dungeon - Urushihara Ritsu and the Seven-Layer Dark Room
"This is the situation. Please convey this to the senior leaders of the law enforcement team and the national team respectively." Anson Lu said calmly.
Lorenzo's blue eyes seemed thoughtful. He took a long breath and slowly said:
"I see. I will pass this information to the higher-ups as soon as possible."
"Okay, thank you for your help." Anson Lu drank the milk bought from the fast food restaurant while playing with his mobile phone with his other hand.
"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first. This intelligence is important, so I think it would be a good idea to report it as soon as possible." Lorenzo said, "Besides, there are still a lot of matters waiting for me to deal with at the law enforcement team."
"Bye, see you next time."
After Lorenzo left, Jiang Yijie, who had been silent for a long time, spoke:
"Let's not talk about the fact that the twelfth round of dungeons is the world boss battle. What you mean is that we missed the opportunity to negotiate with the game developers in the eighth round of dungeons?"
"Yes, but most likely Nash won't let us negotiate with him." Anson Lu nodded.
"I understand. Although it's a pity, it can't be undone." Jiang Yiji sighed. "I really want to meet the mastermind who messed up the world into this."
"From the role he played in the dungeon, he was just a little brat in a tuxedo, and he was quite cynical."
"Did you get any other information on the Titanic?"
"No, there are only these two. Asuka and I are the only ones who have the authority to enter that passenger ship. I'll go take a look if I have time later, but there shouldn't be anything on it."
"Okay, I believe in your judgment." Jiang Yiji breathed a sigh of relief. "I will contact the senior management. With Lorenzo's power in the law enforcement team, this news will soon spread to the officials of various countries."
"Captain Jiang, you look too haggard recently. Pay more attention to rest."
"There are too many things to do..." Jiang Yijie said slowly, "Too many sequence players died in the eighth round of the dungeon. The environment of the entire country has become chaotic. As the captain of the national team, I need to go in and out of various occasions frequently."
"That's true..." Ansen Lu lowered his eyes, "Captain Jiang, I will join the national team soon and share some of the pressure with you."
"Well, I'll wait for your news."
"I have to go back to Liukan Town to prepare for tomorrow's dungeon."
As we chatted, it was already dusk. The pale yellow afterglow cast its light into the park. Children were playing around the fountain, chasing the white pigeons in the square, their figures constantly moving back and forth in the gaps of the fountain's water.
"I understand." Jiang Yijie leaned his head back, closed his heavy eyelids, and smiled slightly: "Ordinary life is really a precious thing..."
Anson Lu put away his phone and put his hands in his pockets: "I'm sorry, Captain Jiang, I've always been so willful and put all the pressure on you and Lorenzo."
After saying that, he slowly stood up from the wooden chair and left after a short walk, leaving Jiang Yiji alone in the park. He bought a loaf of black bread before coming here as he wanted to feed the pigeons in the square.
After finishing the eighth round of dungeons and obtaining the rewards for the settlement phase, Anson Lu's level soared directly to level 39. He was only 6 levels away from taking the final advanced trial and drawing the Black Moon-level chess pieces.
And during this period of time, relying on his strong interpersonal relationships in the three areas of "law enforcement team", "national team" and "underground world", he pieced together a wave of materials and directly upgraded the queen's statue from "epic level" to "legendary level".
There are three upgrade directions for the Queen's statue, namely: Lord of the Lamp God, Corrupted Black Hand, and Dragon Guardian. Undoubtedly, Anson Lu chose the "Lord of the Lamp God" advancement direction.
As a result, the overall attributes of the Queen Statue were improved, and the original skill mechanism was temporarily retained, but on the basis of retaining the mechanism, the numerical values were comprehensively improved.
By the night of March 31, he had finally raised the favorability of all the chess types he had at hand to the maximum, whether it was the Captain of the Dragon Boat, the One-eyed Parrot, the Darklight Dragon, or Santa Claus, all of which had gained a certain improvement.
At the same time, Anson Deer used the materials and evolution coins at hand to raise Santa Claus to the maximum level.
Not only that, that night, he spent all his savings to buy a total of four high-level extraordinary chess packages, from which he opened a Red Tide-level chess piece.
At noon on April 1, the ninth round of dungeons began. Anson Lu failed to achieve three consecutive MVPs in the previous round of "World Mythology Chronicles".
After all, the MVP of two of the mythological carrier subjugation battles, the one for Black Goku was taken by Crow, and the one for Yamata no Orochi was taken by Cosimo.
So he had to choose from two copies that looked quite annoying.
The first copy is called "Seven Dark Room Escape", which is an extremely rare "puzzle survival" copy;
The second copy was called "Iron Blood Forest Survival Battle", which was a very classic "combat survival" copy, so Anson Deer passed it and he chose the first copy.
After entering the copy, what comes into view is a secret room without even a window. In front of you is a door with an electronic combination lock embedded in it. In the center of the room is a scale, and the four corners of the room are filled with puppets of different shapes, each of which has an unknown number engraved on it.
Anson Lu was already starting to have a headache until he saw his teammate enter the dungeon and saw his face clearly - Urushihara Ritsu.
President Lu was stunned for a moment, then raised his lips and said, "I'm lying down."
The scene of the copy is set as seven rooms that are wrapped one inside the other - the largest room wraps the next largest room, and the next largest room wraps the next largest room.
There are seven rooms in total, each with different puzzles. The game system gives players seven days to solve the puzzles.
The room they were in at the beginning was of course the smallest one, which was the innermost one surrounded by the other six rooms. If they wanted to break through the seven rooms, they had to do it one by one.
The puzzle in the first room is not that complicated.
The weight of each puppet at the four corners of the room is marked on them. Players must follow instructions to put different puppets together and distribute them to the two ends of the scale so that the scale can remain balanced after all the puppets are placed.
This will open the door to the room.
It sounds simple, but the weights marked on some of the dolls are false. Urushihara Ritsu must guess which dolls have false weights based on the various cryptic clues drawn on the wall by the system.
Moreover, he cannot touch the puppet with his hands, nor can he use any means to artificially measure the weight of the puppet, otherwise he will be eliminated.
The copy did not allow for any mistakes. If they made a mistake, both he and Anson Deer would be eliminated, and the price would be heavy. They would either be deprived of their player qualifications or actually die.
Anson Deer only realized the price of being eliminated after entering the dungeon, otherwise he would never choose this dungeon and would simply choose the confrontational dungeon next door to bully the weak.
At that time, Anson Lu couldn't help but curse, thinking that if it had been marked out in advance, he would never have chosen this crappy thing.
But after finding that it was Crow's turn, he quickly felt relieved. He patted Crow on the shoulder, then sat aside to play with his mobile phone, occasionally listening to music to relax, and almost chanted Buddhist scriptures to pass the time.
While solving the problem, Ritsu Urushihara had to listen to Anseno chanting "Namo Amitabha..." beside him to distract his thinking.
I don’t know if chanting the Buddhist scriptures really helped to calm his mind, but Anson Lu fell asleep quickly.
He hadn't slept so soundly for a long time, as if he had forgotten that if he got one puzzle wrong in this copy, he and Crow might die here, or become ordinary citizens. In the future, he would sit in another space to fight the world boss, eating popcorn, wearing 3D glasses, and watching Lorenzo and Jiang Yiji and others slay the dragon desperately on the big screen.
Indeed, this copy has no tolerance for error, and a single mistake will result in complete destruction.
But Anson Lu just slept soundly, without even thinking about whether he could use his super intuition to help Urushihara Ritsu.
When he woke up and stretched, he found himself sleeping in the innermost room. Turning his head, he saw that the doors of the seven secret rooms were all open, forming a smooth path in front of him.
The light from the exit spilled in.
Urushihara Ritsu was sitting cross-legged at the exit, piling up cards in front of him into a pyramid nearly two meters high. When he noticed that Anson Lu had woken up, he looked up and smiled at him.
"Crow, have you become stupid?" Anson Deer asked, "If your IQ was at the level of The Lord of the Rings when I first met you, then now you have degenerated to the level of Chasing Dreams in Show Business."
"Lu Jun, you are exaggerating a bit." Urushihara Ritsu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, staring at the card pyramid with his deep eyes, "Didn't I see that you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't wake you up?"
"In fact...it only took me two hours." He stretched out his hand and touched the center of the pyramid.
The pyramid fell down, and hundreds of cards clattered to the ground, scattered all over the entrance.
The result was just as Crow said, he easily solved the puzzle of the seven secret rooms and opened the password doors of these rooms one by one. It took him less than two hours in total to complete a copy that was expected to take seven days.
The time it took to break through was comparable to the time Anson Deer took to fight the dungeon in the desert, or even faster.
After passing the dungeon with Anson Deer who was slacking off the whole time, Crow naturally got the MVP of seven puzzle-solving sessions and secured the "right to choose one of three dungeons" for the tenth round of dungeons.
Then, the two returned to the empty town of Liukan, and none of the others had returned yet.
April 2026 is destined to be a difficult month.
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