Chapter 131
Participating in the competition is a matter for the entire team, so make sure to let others know. Xu Shaohuai called the remaining three people over to discuss the matter together. However, with five people sitting together, minus two logistics staff, there are only three people who can actually play, so the main thing to discuss is to choose two out of three, to pick one person.
Time was limited and they couldn't afford to consider for too long, so they finally decided on Xu Shaohuai and Jing Ling. VIP privileges, no need to rely on luck to sign up for the lottery, no need to find other players to buy spots, just call the waiter to confirm the registration and you can directly participate in the game.
At 7:25, temporary registration ends. All the teams that have registered to participate have already arrived near Area A1 and are waiting to gather together to draw number plates after three teams are drawn. There are ten participating teams in total, and the number plates from one to ten represent the entrance locations from near to far to the treasure. Xu Shaohuai, whose hands were as black as a coal miner, took two steps back and gave his seat to Jing Ling, letting him draw the number plate.
Sure enough, he randomly drew card number one.
"If you are really short of money in the future, you can try buying lottery tickets." Xu Shaohuai made a rare joke. However, he was wearing a fox mask on his face, which was very delicately made and could not be compared with the cheap ones that cost one or two dollars on the street. Only a pair of eyes and a nose were revealed, and there was no way to guess the expression behind the mask.
Jing Ling also wore a mask, a clown with exaggerated and scary makeup, and his smile looked a bit creepy. In fact, it wasn't just the two of them. Almost every team present wore one. After all, the game had just begun and they didn't want to be exposed, but they were also unwilling to give up the advantage of half an hour in advance.
After all teams have drawn their number tags, they will go to the corresponding entrance under the guidance of the waiter. At 7:30, the voice of the female host sounded on the radio and the game officially began.
At entrance number nine, the moment the broadcast sounded, the electronic door in front opened silently and moved slowly from left to right. When they reached the door, the two of them didn't even wait for the door to be fully opened. They leaned sideways and squeezed through the gap, shooting out like an arrow. It’s not that they were in a hurry to find the treasure hidden in the center of the maze, they just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible. There was nothing we could do, because the tiger’s roar never stopped, making our ears hurt and making us feel creepy.
They were unlucky as they drew the number nine, which was a perfect combination of bad luck as it was far from the center of the maze yet very close to the cages where the wild animals were held. I don’t know how long this hairy beast has been hungry. It seemed to go crazy after smelling the blood. Hungry beasts are extremely ferocious. They don't want to encounter this thing at all, so they naturally run as fast as they can and as far as they can. The man in the bloody clothes took off his clothes and held them in his hands. As he ran, the clothes stuck to the wall, leaving an undulating bright red mark that looked shocking.
Doing this can not only disperse the bloody smell, but also serve as a mark. Faced with a maze that looks almost exactly the same at first glance, this is the dumbest but most effective method.
"Why the hell is this beast howling all the time!" One of them cursed as he ran.
"Just be thankful that when it's barking, you can still hear the sound and tell its direction. If it shut up, that would be hell!" said another person unhappily.
Gate No. 9 is not a good place, and Gate No. 10 next to it is even worse. In this situation, the first thing to consider is definitely saving life. Without life, everything else is empty talk. Under limited conditions, the way this team of two responded was not much different from the ones next door: they ran and made marks at the same time.
Jing Ling drew the best spot, but the activity area was so small, and the trio of tiger, lion and wolf roars was almost non-stop and could be heard everywhere. The blood-stained shirt was put on by Xu Shaohuai, but like everyone else, he held it in his hand from the beginning. After the door opened, he wiped it along the wall on the left.
Because they were farther away from the source of the sound, they didn't have to rush as much as the people at the back. Xu Shaohuai was okay, at least he looked serious. On the other hand, Jing Ling was also walking against the wall, his fingers touching the wall, as calm and leisurely as if he was taking a leisurely stroll in the garden.
He walked for a while and suddenly stopped. Xu Shaohuai also stopped and looked back at him, "What's wrong?"
Jing Ling stood in front of the white and smooth wall, stroking the wall gently with his fingers, as if looking for something. After a few seconds, his hands stopped moving. "Interesting," he whispered. Where the finger rests, you can feel a gap. If you follow this line all the way to the end, you will find the outline of a rectangle. He placed his palms against it, testing it a little bit with a little force. When he applied pressure to the upper left corner area that would not normally be touched, he heard a slight sound coming from the wall. The side where his palms were pressing continued to sink inwards, and finally turned into a two-way flip door. On the other side of the door was another road.
Xu Shaohuai was stunned when he saw this, and walked over in two steps. He touched the flip door with one hand and his eyes fell on Jing Ling, "How did you know there was a door in the wall?"
"I don't know." Jing Ling replied, "This is my first time here, how could I know. But you, you must have been here a few times, but you don't know either. Is it a new change?"
Xu Shaohuai nodded, "I haven't seen it before."
Jing Ling bent down and passed through the flip door and stood on the other side. "Captain, I have a guess."
"What?"
"Do you think the wall will move on its own? It blocks the original path and creates a new one."
This speculation is not without reason. The organizers suddenly changed the rules of the game, eliminated rookies, and forced the team to leave the game, all in order to prevent the game from being as boring as before. But in fact, it is difficult to achieve this goal just by changing the rules, because there are a total of ten teams on the field, and although the venue has expanded from one area to three areas, the scope is still very limited, and the terrain is maze-like. The teams enter from different entrances. If they are lucky, it is entirely possible to avoid their own kind and wild beasts, get the treasure and leave. This is very different from the organizers' expectations, and they certainly don't want to see it, so in addition to the rules that are read out publicly, there should be safeguards.
Upon hearing this, Xu Shaohuai's eyebrows almost frowned together, and he said unhappily, "What a fucking hassle!" Obviously he also thought this guess was very reliable. "What should I do next?" The previously marked road is just a few steps away from a three-way intersection. Now I have to find a new one. Without a topographic map, it is difficult to judge which road is closer. He thought that knowing and remembering the way was not his strong point, so he gave the choice to Jing Ling.
"Actually, it doesn't matter where you go. The people behind the scenes will definitely not let the people inside get out easily anyway." Jing Ling replied.
"OK."
So the two of them didn't rush to look for treasure, but instead wandered around in the maze. The howling of wild beasts came one after another, occasionally mixed with one or two evil screams from humans. Xu Shaohuai had long stopped using the blood-stained shirt to mark the wall, but as they walked, they would encounter shocking bloodstains suddenly appearing in their field of vision. It was obvious that other people had the same idea as he did at the beginning.
Along the way, Jing Ling's hands almost never left the wall. He found more than a dozen flip doors, in addition to several sensing devices.
There are surveillance cameras installed in the gaming venue, which broadcast live.
In room 1009, members of a certain team gathered together. The live broadcast perspective switched to Team One, and two people wearing a fox mask and a clown mask appeared on the screen. The walls of the maze are very high and their surface is too smooth to climb. People inside have no way of climbing over them and can only see the situation on the road they are on. But live broadcast is different. The camera is installed above the head, and the audience is in a God's perspective. They can not only see the situation of the team, but also the other side of the wall.
It has been nearly twenty minutes since the game started, and Team One has not encountered a single beast, so much so that the host simply changed their name to the Lucky Team. But now the team's luck may be coming to an end, because a slightly injured wolf is moving silently just across the wall from them. Judging from the direction of movement of both parties, if they walk a little further, they will collide at the corner.
"The fox's good luck ends here!" said the man sitting on the sofa. His voice was a little hoarse, and there was a long scar on the left side of his face from the brow to the tragus, like an ugly red worm with legs all over it, lurking there, making his whole face look a little hideous and scary.
Sitting next to him was a blonde girl with a pair of eyes as blue as the sky, big breasts, a perky butt, and a slender waist. She was a real stunner. She was holding a dagger that flashed with cold light in her hand and was trimming her nails with a nonchalant expression on her face. "Although I understand that you want to tear the fox apart, to be honest, a wounded puppy is not a big threat to him. At most, it will cause him a little trouble."
The scarred man looked a little grim upon hearing this. "The wolves can't do anything to him, but the guy next to him who looks so fragile may not be the same, right? In the last hunting game, although his teammates were alive, they were all seriously injured and could not continue to fight alongside him. The four new teammates he found this time don't seem to be reliable, and the most important thing is that their coordination is definitely not as good as before. Just wait, when we get to the hunting ground, I will definitely get back at my previous grudge with interest!"
He said it with gritted teeth, but the blonde woman laughed after hearing it. "Falcon, have you forgotten how you got the scar on your face? If you weren't lucky, Fox's knife would have sent you to see God. You should know what kind of person he is. Even if his previous teammates are useless, he wouldn't just randomly find a few people to fill the numbers. Just wait and see, this clown must be no simple person!"
As she finished speaking, the distance between Team No. 1 and the wolf in the video was already very close, and they would run into each other if they walked a little further. At this time, the clown who had been walking with the help of the wall stopped, pushed the wall with his hand, and a flip door appeared. He and the fox walked through the door one after the other and entered another path.
Just as the wall returned to its original shape, the wolf's figure appeared at the end of the road where they were originally on, and the two sides avoided each other perfectly.
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