Lan He was immediately delighted, looked at Su Mu with gratitude, and quickly extended his hand: "Hello, Mr. Su, it's our first meeting, please take care of me."
Su Mu smiled and shook his hand: "I only have one silver, so please take care of me when the time comes, Mr. Lan."
"Of course, of course. Where is Mr. Su from?"
"Star City."
Lan He seemed to be quite familiar with the person and wanted to continue the conversation, but Su Mu said, "Mr. Lan, we will be taking the test soon. If you have anything to say, please wait until you get off the bus. Don't disturb everyone's rest."
Lan He was stunned, turned his head and looked around, and found that indeed, several people were looking at him with unfriendly eyes. He quickly apologized, shrank back to his seat, and dared not say anything more.
There was no conversation along the way. After two hours, the bus finally stopped.
After getting off the car, everyone found that they were taken to a cave.
The yellow-brown cave stands tall, and the dark and deep entrance seems to be connected to the darkest world in the deepest part of the earth, exuding a cold breath.
"This is entrance No. 12 of the cave." The examiner who had been waiting for a long time said coldly.
“Your improvised team will enter from Entrance 12. This cave is a huge underground maze that holds a large number of nightmare monsters. Your mission is to get out of the cave alive.
In addition, there is a mithril plate that we placed in the cave in advance. In addition to walking out of the cave alive, you must also find the mithril plate. Only when you leave the cave with the mithril plate in your hand will you be qualified."
As he spoke, the examiner took out a palm-sized silver metal plate with extremely complex patterns engraved on it, like some kind of extraordinary magic circle, which was obviously designed to prevent people from cheating.
Although mithril is precious, all those present are silver-level warriors, so it is very easy to take out a piece of mithril. If the mithril plate does not have any mark, someone may have evil intentions and make one by themselves.
"Remember, the first ten people who get the Mithril Plate and leave the cave will automatically become captains and have the power to form teams, with five people in each team."
As soon as this was said, someone immediately asked, "There are ten teams in total, five people in each team, so there are only fifty people in total. Where are the rest of the people?"
The examiner said expressionlessly: "The remaining people will be eliminated."
"What? This is different from what you said yesterday. Didn't you say that we won't be eliminated anymore?"
“When I say elimination, I don’t mean completely depriving you of the opportunity to participate in the exploration plan, but this time, the Empire has a technology that can allow multiple people to enter a nightmare world at the same time, but this technology is not mature and cannot include all of you at once.
Therefore, the ten teams formed this time are considered the advance troops. They will go first, and the rest will wait for the second batch. "
After listening to the examiner's explanation, everyone finally understood the reason.
"Okay, if there are no other questions, let's go now."
"Wait a minute, examiner, I have another question." Lan He raised his hand and asked embarrassedly: "Examiner, I want to ask what if someone finds the mithril plate, but it is taken away by someone else?"
The examiner gave him an impatient look and said, "As long as this test is not expressly prohibited, you cannot snatch other people's mithril medals."
Everyone suddenly had different thoughts. Since there was no explicit prohibition, it meant it was allowed.
For a moment, the atmosphere among the crowd became subtle.
"Okay, hurry in, you've already wasted too much time, the other groups have already entered."
Everyone's heart tightened and they immediately walked towards the cave.
As you step into the cave, a cold and damp breath hits you in the face. It is very dark inside and you can vaguely see the rugged stone walls. The irregular rock surface is covered with traces of years of erosion. Some places are as sharp as knives, while others are as round as jade.
The top of the cave is undulating and looks extremely depressing. The ground is also rugged and uneven, filled with many shallow puddles that reflect blurry shadows.
Such a gloomy environment could almost immediately induce claustrophobia, but everyone was a Silver-level warrior who had experienced countless dangers, so this gloomy environment could not scare them.
"There's a flashlight here!" Lan He quickly walked to a corner, turned on a flashlight, and waved excitedly to everyone.
There was a table with thirty flashlights on it, which were obviously prepared by the examiner in advance.
Everyone immediately stepped forward to get the flashlight, and Lan He kindly turned on the flashlight and helped pass it on.
After taking the flashlights, some people immediately headed deeper into the cave, and the rest were not willing to be left behind and set off one after another.
But every few steps, a fork in the road appeared in front of everyone.
Looking at the dark corridors on both sides, someone went forward to take a look, but could not see the end at all.
"The examiner said this is an underground maze, so which way should we take?" Lan He was puzzled when he saw the fork in the road.
At this time, a bald man in the crowd shouted, "Is there anyone with the ability to detect in the team?"
"I am." A middle-aged woman with an ordinary face raised her hand, but she shook her head with an unpleasant expression: "I have already explored it, but it's useless. It seems that there is something here that can interfere with my exploration."
The bald man looked unhappy when he heard this: "You lead the way, I'll follow you."
The middle-aged woman's expression changed slightly: "I already said that I can't investigate, why do you let me lead the way?"
"Humph, who knows whether what you said is true or not. Maybe you have already found the correct path, but you just don't want to tell us."
"I don't!"
"Stop talking nonsense, I'm Bai Yinsan! Lead the way!" the bald man shouted, emitting a powerful aura.
The middle-aged woman's face turned pale immediately and she dared not say anything more. She had to choose the right passage to enter according to the rule that men should go on the left and women on the right, and the bald man followed closely behind her.
People tend to follow the crowd, and immediately most people followed and moved to the right.
But there were a few who observed the terrain indifferently and chose the left side.
"Mr. Su, which way are we going?" Lan He asked in a low voice.
In the darkness, Su Mu's mouth curled up into an imperceptible smile. This Blue River is indeed very interesting. It has already begun for us.
"left."
"Why? Mr. Su, can you tell the right way?"
"Guessed." Su Mu took a step forward and walked into the passage on the left.
"Wait for me." Lan He hurriedly followed in.
Fewer and fewer people stayed where they were. Some chose the left, and some chose the right.
Yan Wu looked at Su Mu's departing back, hatred flashing in his eyes, and he walked to the left silently.
Tick-tock, tick-tock,
The passage was too quiet. Apart from the sound of people's footsteps, there was only the sound of dripping water.
I didn't see any of the numerous nightmare monsters that the examiner mentioned.
At this moment, the tall man walking in front suddenly stopped.
Everyone was stunned and stopped as well. They shone their flashlights on the road ahead and found nothing unusual.
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