Chapter 698 Treasure
The route map of the maze was very complicated. Even with Zhou Wen's memory, it took him a long time to memorize it.
In addition to the fact that the maze is too complicated, it is also because the maze is constantly changing, and the complexity of the changes far exceeds the limits of what ordinary humans can imagine.
To memorize these route maps, you not only need to remember the routes, but also need to use some formulas. When you really get lost, you don’t rely on your brain to remember the way, but you need to use formulas and route maps to calculate a way out.
Zhou Wen spent a lot of time on this. Just in case, Zhou Wen worked hard.
Two days later, Zhou Wen and An Sheng came to an inconspicuous field. Originally, it was a cornfield, but the place was too remote. After the extra-dimensional storm, it was affected and changes occurred here.
The corn here grows very tall, each one as straight as a big tree. The corn on it is bigger than a human head, and the corn kernels are all golden and transparent.
And since that dimensional storm, the corn here has never withered and has been growing continuously.
The entrance to the maze was in the cornfield. At that time, An Tianzuo and An Sheng were being chased by a mythical creature and were fleeing in panic. In their panic, they fled into the cornfield and finally fell into the maze, thus escaping the disaster.
It was there that An Tianzuo obtained his first mythical companion pet.
Ansheng wandered around in the cornfield for a while and finally found a place. He used a shovel to dig up the soil on the ground, revealing a metal plate.
When the metal plate was lifted, an ancient well was revealed underneath.
An Sheng patted the dirt off his hands and said, "Later, the Governor and I camouflaged this place to prevent others from mistakenly entering. Firstly, to prevent the treasure chest from being opened by others, and secondly, to prevent humans from getting trapped in such a complex maze. It would be impossible to get out, and then they would be dead."
"Master Wen, after you go down, you must follow me closely and don't take the wrong path." An Sheng reminded him again before going down the well.
Zhou Wen followed Ansheng down into the ancient well. There was water underneath the well. Ansheng dived down and found a horizontal passage not very deep.
Soon, the two men passed through the underwater passage and appeared in a square stone room.
An Sheng took Zhou Wen through the stone rooms. Every stone room here looked exactly the same, with almost no difference.
Moreover, each stone room has six exits, including exits in the front, back, left, right, up and down. A normal person cannot walk far in it and will get lost.
What's more, the stone houses here can move by themselves, and it is almost harder than climbing to the sky for ordinary people to get out.
The only thing to be thankful for is that there are no dimensional creatures in this maze. They only need to identify the path and make sure they don't get lost.
An Sheng walked and stopped, calculating something from time to time. It took him three or four hours to finally find a treasure chest with Zhou Wen.
This stone house is a little special because it has no exit below. Instead, there is a stone box where the exit should be.
Unlike the treasure chest inlaid with gold and silver that Zhou Wen had imagined, this was just an ordinary stone box and didn't look anything special.
"The treasure chests here are very strange. One person can only open three treasure chests. If there are more than three, even if you bombard it with all your strength, it will be difficult to move it at all. According to our previous experience, the treasure chest may be empty, or it may contain companion eggs, dimensional crystals and some strange items, all of which are extra-dimensional items." An Sheng said.
Zhou Wen walked forward, reached out and pressed the lid of the treasure chest, lifting it up.
There was no golden light or precious aura. Inside the huge box, there was only a crystal hourglass the size of a palm.
"What is this? What use is it?" Zhou Wen took the hourglass out of the treasure chest and looked at it in his hand.
I saw the sand in the hourglass slowly flowing from one end to the other.
The sand is white sand, not the common yellow sand, and it looks finer.
"There could be all kinds of strange things in the treasure chest. It's hard to say whether it's useful or not. Maybe this hourglass will be of some use." An Sheng said.
Zhou Wen nodded and was about to put the hourglass away when he discovered something strange.
Because he wanted to put it into his backpack, Zhou Wen turned the hourglass sideways. Strangely, when the hourglass was turned sideways, the sand did not stop and continued to fall to the other side.
"Strange!" Zhou Wen picked up the hourglass and looked at it again. He saw that the sand was flowing horizontally, which completely violated the laws of physics.
Zhou Wen turned the hourglass upside down. The sand that should have flowed downwards actually flowed upstream, with no sign of falling at all. It looked extremely strange.
"This hourglass is really unusual!" Zhou Wen fiddled with the hourglass curiously. No matter how he placed the hourglass, the sand inside stubbornly flowed in the same direction.
But apart from that, there was nothing particularly magical about it. Zhou Wen injected vital energy into the hourglass, but it had no effect on it. It seemed as if it was an insulator of vital energy.
Seeing that the hourglass had no special use, Zhou Wen put it into his backpack and continued to look for other treasure chests with Ansheng.
During the time they stayed here, the location of the stone house changed again. An Sheng kept calculating, and after figuring it out, he took Zhou Wen and continued walking.
After walking for about half an hour, Zhou Wen suddenly heard a ding sound, like the sound of an electric oven resetting its timer.
Zhou Wen and An Sheng were both startled, and then they realized that the sound came from inside the backpack.
Zhou Wen opened the backpack with a strange look on his face. There were no mechanical items or clocks inside.
Zhou Wen suddenly discovered that the sand in the hourglass had leaked out and all the sand had flowed into another hole.
"Could it be that the sound just now was made by it?" Zhou Wen felt that there seemed to be no other possibility besides this.
After looking left and right, he saw that nothing happened except that the hourglass started to flow in the reverse direction.
After putting the hourglass back into the backpack, the two continued walking. However, just as they stepped into the next stone house, they suddenly found that a light was on inside the stone house.
All the stone houses that Zhou Wen and his companions had passed by before were the same, without any difference, and there were no carvings or anything like that on the walls.
But now, on the wall of this stone house, there is a mural that looks like a phoenix, which is radiating light and seems to be coming alive.
Just as the phoenix mural lit up, all the passages in the stone house were automatically closed.
(End of this chapter)
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