Below the grassy slope was a concrete surface the size of several basketball courts, with crisscrossing gullies in which dark red blood flowed.
Viewed from above, these crisscrossing ravines form a huge blood-red grid, with five squares in each row and column, for a total of twenty-five squares.
The wind blowing in my face carried a faint smell of blood. The grid diagram looked like a simple 25-square grid, its lines and shapes were not complicated, but it gave people an eerie feeling, as if it were an ancient and complicated formation, with an ancient ferocious beast being suppressed below the formation, making people dare not enter casually.
But for the players, this eerie and ominous feeling was just right. Just as the three were about to go down the slope, a deep, hoarse voice suddenly came from behind them.
Almost instantly upon hearing the sound, their bodies reacted, drawing their weapons with reflexive speed, and the three looked in the direction of the sound.
It's that tree that's speaking!
A human face protruded from the thick tree trunk, and as the mouth opened and closed, the tree roots that looked like a beard swayed.
"Adventurers who have come from afar, I admire your courage, but I must warn you that something incredibly terrible will happen in the Grid. Do you really want to enter the Grid?"
"What's so scary?" the man in beach shorts asked.
"The grid is ever-changing, each grid a world in itself, and each world is extremely dangerous. Only by breaking through the grid can the person who entered escape. Otherwise, they will be trapped in the grid forever. Even if you die, your soul will be trapped in the grid and unable to find peace, suffering endless torment."
As he spoke, the tree-man emphasized his words, seemingly trying to make Xia Linyin and the others want to back down.
"The treasure you seek is in the very middle square. Some squares are easy, some are difficult, but the middle square is undoubtedly the most difficult. Even if you manage to get through the previous squares, you will definitely be trapped in the last square."
The old treant asked again, "Adventurers, do you really want to enter the palace?"
None of the three spoke. It wasn't a matter of whether they wanted to or not; they had to enter the palace, even knowing it was extremely dangerous, they were willing to risk their lives to go in.
The game clearly requires them to solve a grid; only by entering the center square and exiting the grid world can they leave the game world and complete the mission.
It's like playing a video game, with each square representing a level.
According to the old tree man, these squares vary in difficulty. If there are bosses in the square world, then the bosses guarding each level will be divided into big bosses and small bosses of different strengths. The square in the very center will definitely contain the ultimate boss that is the most difficult to deal with in the entire grid.
Xia Linyin's heart suddenly raced; she had a strong premonition that the ultimate boss was definitely Xiao Li!
She wanted to get into the middle square; she absolutely had to get into that square!
Xia Linyin ran down the slope like a gust of wind towards Gong Getu. The man in beach shorts was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly ran down the slope to chase after Xia Linyin.
The magician asked the old tree man, "Do you know which squares are difficult and which are easy?"
The old tree man only gave four words: "Leave it to fate."
The magician man didn't linger and quickly went down the slope.
Watching the three figures disappear into the distance, the old tree-man thought that after hearing its warning, Xia Linyin and the others would hesitate for a while even if they wanted to go down. However, to his surprise, after hearing its words, the three of them ran even faster, as if they were rushing to be reincarnated.
The old tree man sighed helplessly. Another group of people willing to risk their lives for treasure.
Standing at the edge of the grid, the smell of blood became even stronger. Although there were twenty-five squares in total, they only needed to pass through two squares to get to the central square, as long as they didn't go to the wrong square.
Regardless of which square you choose to start with, this is the case. In other words, players only need to solve three squares in the entire grid game.
The middle square is the one that must be solved and is the most difficult. The choice of the other squares is random. They might pick two easy squares, one difficult and one easy square, or even two difficult squares. It all depends on their luck.
Anyway, the difficulty of picking a square depends on luck, and Xia Linyin stepped directly into the square closest to her.
The man in beach shorts and the magician were stunned when they saw Xia Linyin's figure disappear into the square.
That clean and decisive posture is too domineering, oh no, it's too casual!
The man in beach shorts hesitated for a moment in front of the square Xia Linyin had entered. He had originally planned for the three of them to enter one square so they could look out for each other. If the three of them worked together, it would definitely be much easier to solve the problem.
But Xia Linyin hadn't studied it for long before randomly choosing a square. Although choosing a square of varying difficulty was a matter of luck, it felt so casual that it made people feel very insecure.
The magician man admired Xia Linyin for her calmness, decisiveness, and fearlessness. Although three players could enter the same square, he felt that they wouldn't stay together after entering.
This game should allow each player to solve the grid independently; otherwise, there wouldn't be so many grids for players to choose from.
Furthermore, there are overlapping squares between different routes. If players meet, when two players enter an overlapping square one after the other, if the first player has just solved the square, wouldn't the second player simply skip that square and enter the last square?
Given the game's notoriously unreliable nature, they definitely won't let this happen.
After choosing a square that looked good to him, the magician stepped into it.
Seeing that the magician man had also entered the grid, the man in beach shorts no longer hesitated and decided to solve the grid on his own. He numbered the squares, then picked a lucky number and stepped into the corresponding square.
The man in beach shorts thought to himself that he had always been lucky, and Lady Luck would surely smile upon him again this time.
After Xia Linyin entered the square, red words appeared on her palm.
"Dear player, you have entered the E3 square. Friendly reminder: The ghost told the truth."
As the red text disappeared, the scene around Xia Linyin suddenly changed, and a corridor that seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance appeared before her.
The floor was covered with a dark red carpet, the walls on both sides were painted snow white, and an incandescent light bulb hung at intervals above, emitting a dazzling light.
There is nothing else besides that.
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