Chapter 337 A Bad Encounter
Xia Liang is facing a test.
If she were given a chance now, and time went back to ten minutes ago, and she were asked to choose again between going upstairs and going downstairs, she would definitely not choose to go downstairs, but would go upstairs without hesitation.
Because perhaps only in this way can we avoid this embarrassing situation.
Their team of three was caught in a battle zone.
This battle was not an attack against them, but a sudden fight between two other teams in this area. Not only that, the attacking party also used a lot of concealment techniques, making the entire passage full of smoke and light curtains. Even if they were at the scene, they still couldn't see clearly what was happening.
The only thing Xia Liang could sense was that the frequency of the magic power fluctuations at the scene was extremely chaotic. In other words, there were definitely more than two magical girls in the battle, and it should be a big melee with all the members of both teams.
Should we return the same way we came, or just wait and see what happens?
Xia Liang's mind was working rapidly while hiding in the corner.
The safest option is to return by the original route. However, if you want to bypass the battle zone ahead, you will inevitably waste a lot of time, which means that the team's exploration progress will be slowed down. If you wait and see, you may be able to wait until the battle ahead is over, and then confirm the appearance of the other team, and use this as a basis to pass through this dangerous place. However, if you are discovered by the magical girls in the battle in advance, you may be dragged into the battle as an enemy, which is completely not worth the loss.
She had never thought about joining the battle in front of her, because the teams involved in the battle had no grudges against her and no conflicts of interest. There was no need to go up and bring hatred upon herself.
"What's the matter? Xiao Jin, don't you want to keep going forward?"
Just when Xia Liang was struggling with her inner thoughts, Shandan's voice came from behind her.
As she said this, she walked over to Xia Liang and peeked in, looking over the corner of the wall, wondering, "Wow, is there a fight going on?"
"Shh." Xia Liang immediately signaled her to be quiet, and then he lowered his voice and said as quietly as possible: "Speak more quietly."
"Oh." Shandan nodded and lowered his voice: "Why?"
She chose to listen to Xia Liang first and then ask the reason, because Xia Liang's analysis just now had conquered her. In Shandan's cognition, Xia Liang's strength aside, his brain was definitely very useful.
In this exam that concerns their own future, "the one who succeeds comes first" is also the consensus of most candidates. So after realizing that Xia Liang seems to have a good brain, Shandan naturally chose to trust him more.
"Of course, that's to avoid attracting the attention of these people."
Xia Liang answered as if it was a matter of course: "What if I'm considered an enemy?"
"In that case, wouldn't we have been noticed?" Shandan asked back.
"Huh?" Xia Liang was stunned.
"Our hiding place is not very secretive, you see." Shandan pointed to the wall behind Xia Liang.
So Xia Liang once again looked over the wall at the scene of the battle, only to see that the thick smoke and light curtain had been cleared away at some point, leaving only two teams confronting each other in the passage.
Without the cover of these sleight of hand, the place where Xia Liang and others were hiding was naturally not hidden at all. And judging from the positions of the two teams, they had obviously noticed that there were people behind the corner of the wall here, so they deliberately kept a distance.
However, they didn't seem to have any intention of taking the initiative to greet Xia Liang and others. After all, the two sides in the war needed to be most vigilant about the enemy in front of them.
This also gave Xia Liang and others the opportunity to observe the two teams openly. You won't know until you see it, and you will be shocked when you see it - the leaders of the two teams are all "big shot"-level figures on the so-called "big shot list".
The leader of the team on the left, a man with short yellow hair and a proud look, is "Calla Lily", who is ranked twelfth on the thigh list.
In the team on the right, the one standing at the leader position is even more of a heavyweight - this magical girl who looks pretty but has a strange look, with long purple hair dragging on the ground and mixed with white highlights. She is the "Buddleaf", who is ranked second on the thigh list.
In other words, the battle in the smoke just now was a fight between these two magical girls who were listed on the "big leg list".
"You bastard..." The one who took the initiative to disperse the smoke and light curtain was none other than Calla Lily, who was standing on the left and glaring at the other party. The reason for doing so was actually very simple - she was the one being attacked.
Calla Lily's team had no intention of rashly starting a war with others, because one of her team members was a rookie, so she had been carefully avoiding the possibility of encountering other teams. However, despite all her precautions, she was inexplicably attacked by a team.
Whether it was the smoke or the light curtain, it was obviously a tool used by the opponent to hide their identity and make a quick decision. So at this time, Calla Lily's choice was not to fight hastily, but to defend with all her strength, to ensure that her team did not lose members while cracking the opponent's spell as soon as possible.
This kind of spell is not focused, it is just to cover the field of vision, the principle of cracking it is not complicated - even if you don't know which spell the opponent is using, you only need to use the same spell to offset the opponent's influence on the area's magic power, and then actively remove it, and you can solve it. The only problem is that it may consume more magic power.
But Calla Lily also knew very well that in this maze, according to the rules previously announced by the examiner, when encountering an attack, "seeing the opponent clearly" was far more important than "counterattack."
If you fight back, no matter you win or lose, you will put yourself in a much more complicated situation than the average candidate.
If you fight back and win, then you are far from safe unless you completely defeat your opponent and make him incapable of action. But if you really make him incapable of action, as long as the opponent identifies you to the examiner after the test, all the results and points you have obtained in this test will become a favor to others.
If you fight back but fail to win, you will either be eliminated directly, and the next score you can get will depend entirely on the attitude of the person who defeated you; or you will survive but have to use a large amount of magic power to heal your wounds and recover, and will inevitably fall into the dilemma of "lack of magic power and poor condition" in the next assessment process.
It can be said that in this maze, "fighting with others" is definitely the least profitable thing.
With this in mind, Calla Lily chose to crack the opponent's technique just to see that person's face clearly. Only in this way could the opponent be deterred from taking any action and both sides could stop fighting.
But when she saw the other person's face clearly, she suddenly realized: that was someone she knew.
Calla Lily does not pay attention to the so-called "big leg list". In her opinion, these are all tricks used by busybodies to attract attention and have no reference value.
The only reason she knew the other person was because the two of them had some conflicts during the written test a few days ago.
The process of the conflict is not worth mentioning. Basically, the other party was sitting in the aisle of the examination room for unknown reasons. Ma Jialian felt that the other party was blocking the way so she scolded him, but the other party not only did not give way, but also began to provoke Ma Jialian. Then, the two people started to argue.
The outcome of this matter was naturally nothing, because the examiner on site separated the two people, and neither of them intended to cause trouble in the written examination room.
"Why did you suddenly attack?" After recognizing the other party's identity, Calla Lily finally relaxed a little, because she already had the other party's biggest handle - his identity. In this situation, anyone with a normal mind would not think of continuing to fight.
"Speaking of why...does this kind of thing need a reason?"
The magical girl codenamed Buddleja grinned, her teeth slightly showing between her pale lips, and said in an inexplicable tone: "The outcome of the battle that was not decided at that time... You should be concerned about it too, right? I care about it very much, so I marked you long ago and came to find you specially?"
"ha?"
The strange tone of the other party made Calla Lily feel uncomfortable, but the logic in his words made her even more confused: "You marked me? And you came to fight me specifically? Is there something wrong with you?"
"Hehe, it seems you know me well. Yes, I am sick."
Buddleija smiled rather slyly again, and stared at Calla Lily with a pair of eyes covered in smoky makeup without blinking: "But, is this really okay for you?"
"What's good or bad? What did you do to me? Untie me now, you psychopath!"
Calla Lily cursed angrily: "I've seen your face, what other tricks do you want to play..."
Her words got stuck in her mouth halfway through.
Because she suddenly realized that a strange feeling had been spreading through her body without her knowing when.
"Oh, what a pity, you saw me."
Buddleja moved forward with a smile, gradually getting closer to Calla Lily: "Yes, we should think of a way."
"you……"
Calla Lily gnashed her teeth, but she only found that she was completely powerless. She could only stare at the other person, and then slowly, slowly knelt down on the ground:
"How dare you do that... What are you doing... Aren't you worried about your points..."
She already knew what Buddleija meant by "Is this really okay?"
Because, when she thought that the other party had no chance of attacking her again, Buddleja scabra still secretly used some ability to deprive her of her ability to move.
This was a battle without any suspense and with a huge disparity in the outcome, but one side had already lost the battle before even showing any willingness to fight.
But Calla Lily still didn't understand why the other party did this.
Under such rules, if someone comes to "seek revenge", even if he plots against you and gets eliminated, his score will be reset to zero after you point the finger at him to the examiner. Does this really make sense?
She herself had become like this, and her other two teammates were naturally not much better, including her junior, two more junior magical girls, who had also collapsed to the ground.
At this time, the Buddleija was completely in front of her.
"Don't worry, just point me out to the examiner. You will just fail in the end anyway."
She chuckled and stretched out her hand that had been hidden behind her back. She had held up a lamp of incense without knowing when. "Well, we've finished talking nonsense. Now, just enjoy being an audience."
"Good night."
As she chanted this, the incense in her hand began to glow with magical light, and the smoke, as if it had a physical substance, flowed down her palm, immersing Calla Lily and her teammates in it.
Soon, all three magical girls closed their eyes and fell to the ground as if they were asleep.
Then, as the red light of their number plates lit up, they were all teleported out of the maze.
(End of this chapter)
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