Chapter 473 Night Attack
After working for nearly an hour and a half and completing the calibration, Zhou Qingze finally sat down to rest.
In fact, he was not in a hurry. He had predicted that they were far ahead in speed.
He roughly estimated the number of words on the stone slab in the dark room: two pages, three hundred and fifty words.
If they calculated that others could copy five words an hour, they could only copy 120 words in 24 hours without eating or drinking, which would take three days. Moreover, it was impossible to work non-stop. According to others' speed, it would take at least five days at the fastest. If they worked a little harder, they could finish everything in two days at most, and they could complete it with guaranteed quality and quantity just like now...
However, the competition period is seven days. Even if these contestants submit their results in advance, they still need to wait here for seven days for others to complete.
This does prevent cheating, but it also locks them out.
Seeing Zhou Qingze starting to rest, Xia Wange stood up and said, "I'm almost done resting. I'll go back to the darkroom."
When Lu Qiu heard this, he prepared everything in time, sat at the table, and prepared to start work.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Qingze climbed up again and said, "I'll continue with the divination. Divining one word at a time is faster than doing a lot of divinations at once. Yuyao, you take a rest first and take over from me later."
"It's okay, I'll go with you." Yu Yao also held the copper coin and said, "It's not safe to calculate alone, two people together will have a higher accuracy rate and will be faster."
"Okay." Zhou Qingze nodded, "Do what you can."
So a few people got busy again. For the whole day, except for eating and necessary rotation breaks, they spent the rest of the time copying. However, the effect was remarkable. They finished 150 words in one day. Compared with others, that was much faster.
"What are your plans for tonight?" Xia Wange asked while putting eye drops in her eyes.
Zhou Qingze, who had just stretched, was stunned. "What do you mean by how to arrange it?"
After saying this, he reacted instantly, "Yuyao and I set up a formation to defend against some people..."
"Give me the thing. With my physique, I can see the little ghosts and such, and I can defend myself against them." Xia Wange said.
"Okay." Zhou Qingze didn't hesitate and handed the paper he had been working on all day to Xia Wange. "I'll be on guard in the living room tonight. If there's any problem, just call for help and I'll rush in."
After saying that, he pointed to the area in front of the living room door and said, "Yuyao and I will set up a trap formation there, which is what we are best at at Mingmen Mountain. The formation will also extend to your door."
"You arrange it first, and let me see how big the range is, so I can have an idea." Xia Wange said.
"Okay." After saying that, Zhou Qingze took Bai Yuyao to work. They took a bunch of copper coins strung together with red thread, and the two of them divided the work and began to set up the array near the door of the living room. Every time a line was fixed, Zhou Qingze would gently flick it. At the moment of flicking the line, the copper coins that were originally hanging diagonally on it seemed to be activated and stood up. It was magical.
"This is roughly the range." Zhou Qingze said, "I will reinforce it later."
Xia Wange nodded, and she and Lu Qiuxian took the copied papers and went back to the room.
Outside the door, Bai Yuyao asked in a low voice: "Brother, doesn't every contestant copy something different? Why are we doing this?"
"There are two ways to win this kind of competition. One is to be faster than everyone else." Zhou Qingze held up his finger, "The other is to make sure that no one else can finish."
Bai Yuyao's eyes widened. "Is there such a method to destroy other people's achievements?"
Zhou Qingze nodded, "We'll be busy tonight."
As soon as he entered the room, Xia Wange directly stuffed the paper with the contents of the Heavenly Book into Lu Qiu's arms and said, "Keep it close to you."
Lu Qiu nodded, "Are you really coming?"
"If you don't keep silent while vomiting, you will become a pervert while vomiting." Xia Wange lowered his voice and said, "Those who don't have a good way to copy must have been suffocated to death. If not now, when will they make trouble?"
After saying that, Xia Wange pointed to the formation of Mingmen Mountain outside the gate and said, "Their formation is only for defense and not for attack. You should be careful."
Lu Qiu: “?”
Xia Wange pulled out a piece of yellow paper and folded a little man while saying, "When the team splits up and has an individual competition, this thing will be your nemesis."
If you don't hurt people, the purple energy will not protect you.
After folding up a few little figures, Xia Wange drew eyes on them with cinnabar and put on seals. Then she opened the window and scattered all the little figures out, while her hands were constantly making seals.
Seeing that Xia Wange had finished her work, Lu Qiu asked, "What are you doing...?"
"Keep a close eye," Xia Wange said. "If we find out which floor is coming towards us, I'll take advantage of their inability to spare any time and get the things they copied."
"The best defense is offense."
Seeing Xia Wange's high morale, Lu Qiu clapped his hands in cooperation without any need for reminders. "Then what should I do?"
"Just sit on the bed and help me fend off all the enemies."
Lu Qiu: “…?”
"I?"
"I'm alone? Just sitting here? You're not going to give me anything?"
"I have to distract myself to observe those paper figures." Xia Wange glanced at the closet. "Then I will hide in the closet and control the paper figures to see which floor the person is coming up from. What do you need me to give you? You just need to sit down."
Lu Qiu: “…”
Although some things have been said countless times, Lu Qiu still wants to say them.
"You really think highly of me."
Before it got dark, Xia Wange got into the closet, while Lu Qiu obediently sat on the bed waiting for the ghost.
Of course, he wasn't necessarily waiting for a ghost. After all, as Xia Wange said, everyone had all kinds of tricks. He could relax, as it might not be a ghost but something else even more terrifying.
Night fell, and time passed especially slowly at night when one could not play with mobile phones. The lights in the room were not turned off. Lu Qiu sat on the bed, feeling as if all the hairs on his body stood up. Terror itself was not scary, but the process of waiting for terror to come was the scariest thing.
He is now paranoid about everything.
"Do you hear the wind outside the window?" Lu Qiu asked in a low voice.
"This is indeed a rumor." Xia Wange replied.
"Do you hear that ticking sound?"
"That's the sound of water dripping from a tap that's not closed properly."
Lu Qiu took a deep breath, and heard a very strange sound like a spell in his ears. But he couldn't hear it clearly when he listened carefully. He just felt that the buzzing was very annoying. "A mosquito got in?"
"This is a drop for you." Xia Wange in the closet suddenly opened his eyes, "Okay, I know which floor it is."
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