Reward props? Hearing Yuanshi Tianzun's question, all the travelers were stunned at first, and then they all turned their eyes to Tianxia Guihuo.
He was the one who figured out the way out of the moving forest. According to the previous two clearance mechanisms, props (consumables) would be awarded to those who made the greatest contributions or met special conditions.
For example, Yuanshi Tianzun, who figured out the killing pattern of the fog spider; for example, Guan Ya, who has the most vigorous vitality and is not anemic.
Therefore, it was logical for Tianxia Guihuo to receive the item reward. Facing the gazes from his teammates, Tianxia Guihuo frowned and said:
"I only got 10 points and no reward."
Zhang Yuanqing glanced at him, looked around at everyone, and said loudly again:
"I'll ask again, who has the reward items?" The official travelers looked at each other in silence.
The "Yu Nu Wu Gua" who was in his early 30s and had a "young uncle" temperament raised his hand and said:
"I think whoever gets the reward belongs to him, and there's no need to dig into the details."
Yu Nu Wu Gua thought that Yuan Shi Tian Zun wanted to collect the rewards and use them uniformly. But the person who got the prop (Tianxia Guihuo) didn't want to give away the reward he got by his own strength. If this matter is not handled well, the team will have a big conflict... The official walkers present frowned secretly. They were generally captains and mixed in the unit. Knowing Yuan Shi Tian Zun's behavior, it might start a power struggle and make the originally harmonious team fall into contradictions and conflicts.
Although in the online meeting on the eve of the opening of the killing copy, Elder Shibu asked everyone to take Yuanshi Tianzun as the core, obey his leadership, and help each other.
But after entering the killing instance, the organization's opinions can only be used as a reference, and no one will truly obey unconditionally. Zhang Yuanqing nodded and looked at his teammates:
"I promise that I will not ask you to hand over the props. Everyone can testify to this. Now you can answer me, who got the prop reward?"
Still no one spoke. Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice: "Look, I have made a promise, but still no one responded." Peony Fairy, Yu Nu Wu Gua and others all frowned, they realized something was wrong. "Yuan Shi Tian Zun, what do you want to say?"
Fairy Peony asked. So it seems that the person who got the reward item is the traitor... Zhang Yuanqing said in a deep voice:
"We are about to reach the top of the mountain. There are some things I need to be frank with you." After a pause, he said word by word: "There is a traitor among us.
"A traitor to Dark Night Rose." Everyone's face changed. Zhang Yuanqing continued:
"To be honest, before entering the killing copy, Elder Dog of the Songhai Branch told me one thing. The three evil organizations wanted to kill Fu Qingyang and me. Dark Night Rose was also involved in this matter. The latter planned to use spies planted in the official camp. "Not long ago, I ambushed outside the exit of the thick fog and tried to attack the people in the evil camp. I didn't expect that they knew my action in advance and set a trap for counter-ambush. If I wasn't strong, I would have been unable to come back." Hearing this, the official walkers realized the danger and couldn't help looking at each other. It turned out that Yuanshi Tianzun killed "Human Nature is Evil" under such pressure.
“Careful people should have noticed the scoreboard. Apart from the three people I killed, no one died when the evil camp passed through the Mist Spider’s territory.
In addition, they have now passed through the breeding forest, but no one has died. Is this normal?" Zhang Yuanqing asked:
"If there wasn't a traitor who tipped off the evil camp about our exploration results, how could they do it so easily?" The official walkers opened the leaderboard and map with grim expressions. After checking, they found that it was indeed as Yuanshi Tianzun said. The evil camp had once again cleared the breeding forest without any damage. "No wonder the people in the evil camp chose our route. They knew that Yuanshi Tianzun was good at raiding dungeons, and they wanted to take advantage of our results for free."
"Whoever is the traitor, I'm going to skin him alive." Not only was the Fire Master furious, but other professions were also very angry.
Zhang Yuanqing said: "Whoever takes the reward and keeps silent is a traitor. There are two suspects at present, one is 'The Little Match Boy' and the other is 'The World Returns to Fire'."
He told everyone what he had said before about the world returning to fire.
Instantly, everyone stood beside Yuanshi Tianzun, isolating the two. The little match boy glared at the world returning to fire:
"You are the traitor, aren't you? You actually slandered me. Do I have a grudge against you?" After saying that, he looked at his companions and shouted:
"The reward for the Moving Forest must be with Tianxia Guihuo. He just refused to give it to me. It's clear who the traitor is."
Guan Ya asked, "Why are you touching the trees?"
The little match boy frowned and said, "Of course we are trying to communicate. Although the plants in the maze seem unable to communicate along the way, the task prompt does not explicitly mention that communication is ineffective. Moreover, just because the tree in front cannot communicate does not mean that all the plants along the way cannot communicate.
"I think necessary attempts should be persisted and not given up."
This explanation is noteworthy, not very convincing, but there is nothing wrong with it either.
But compared to the little boy, Tianxia Guihuo, who cracked the moving forest by himself, was more suspicious. The reward props were most likely on him, and he just refused to hand over the reward. Facing the doubts of his teammates, Tianxia Guihuo took a deep breath, restrained his emotions well, and asked:
"If I were a traitor, I would have handed over the props just now. Why would I do something like this that would incriminate myself?"
"No!" Guan Ya exposed the loophole in his words and said:
"The spies planted by Dark Night Rose in the Five Elements Alliance are able to avoid the extraordinary physical examinations time and time again. The lie detector props and skills will not be effective against you. So you know, even if you don't hand over the props, we have no substantial evidence to identify you." And without evidence, Yuanshi will not be able to kill you.
Of course, this also applies to the little boy selling matches. Tianxia Guihuo sneered:
"So, unless the traitor reveals himself, you have no way of finding him. Your making such a fuss, other than making the team lose morale, is there any effect?" Zhang Yuanqing smiled and said, "It has an effect! As long as we control the two of you, the problem will be solved."
After that, he took out the Silent Mask and said:
"I need to restrict the freedom of both of you and put you under surveillance. We are all colleagues, so don't resist."
At this time, whoever resists is a traitor. Baihu Wansui immediately said: "I have a confinement tool."
"I have one too." The fairy from Niulanshan agreed. The two of them had an iron chain and a wooden yoke.
Iron chains can restrict the hands and feet and the movement, while wooden shackles can only restrict the hands, but can make the target weak. The little match boy took a deep breath, his face full of indignation, but he chose to obey: "The innocent will be innocent!"
Tianxia Guihuo looked at Yuanshi Tianzun deeply and said, "Force control is indeed a good method." At Zhang Yuanqing's signal, everyone tied up the little boy with iron chains, and sealed Tianxia Guihuo with wooden shackles and masks. Then Tianxia Guihuo carried the little boy on his back and led the team forward under everyone's supervision. The group headed towards the top of the mountain, which was less than ten minutes away from the temple on the top of the mountain. Near the exit, Tianxia Guihuo said, "Open the map and take a look. The cursor representing the evil camp has been moving forward in an orderly manner. There is no chaos or regression. What does this mean?" Peony Fairy and others opened the map to check. Sure enough, they were all shocked. Tianxia Guihuo said in a deep voice:
"This means that they already know how to capture the Moving Forest. But since we reunited, we have been together. If I am a traitor, how did I convey the information?"
Since we reunited, Guan Ya and I have been observing their ears. Indeed, no one wore a headset, and no one whispered during this period of time, so there should be no opportunity to pass on information... Zhang Yuanqing pondered and asked, "What do you want to say?" Tianxia Guihuo shook his head: "I don't know, but I instinctively feel that something is wrong. I'll tell you when I figure it out."
As a result, Tianxia Guihuo still didn't figure it out until he left the maze forest.
[Ding! Congratulations on crossing the maze forest, you will be awarded 30 points.] From entering the maze forest to leaving, the three levels in between will award a total of 60 points.
At this time, Yuanshi Tianzun was still at the top of the leaderboard with a total of 398 points. The second place Ayi had 190 points.
The other people on the list had their points increased by 20 points each, and their rankings remained basically unchanged. The points increase in the maze was fixed, and each time you passed a level, you would gain 10 points.
Walking out of the maze forest, the bright moonlight sprinkled all over the sky. In front of me was a temple built of huge stones. The style was rough and simple, but it had a majestic atmosphere. Outside the temple was an open space with no weeds or trees, except for a few flat stones lying horizontally. It was empty and clean.
This open space should be used by the monkeys to worship the mountain god.
The quaint mountain temple stands quietly on the top of the mountain, bathed in the moonlight, with the clear night sky and lush treetops as the backdrop.
Zhang Yuanqing and others quickened their pace, crossed the open space, and walked along the crude steps into the mountain temple. The interior of the temple was empty and crude, with six thick stone pillars supporting the dome, which was made of thin and large stone slabs, and the stone pillars were also made of stone mixed with mud. Although it was crude and simple, this group of mountain monkeys had indeed mastered simple architectural principles. They had a high IQ. At the end of the main hall, there was a high altar, on which stood a stone statue, vaguely a woman, with vague facial features and even no clothes, but the monkeys tried hard to express through their physiological characteristics that the mountain god was a woman.
——Bulging breasts! The sculpture held a staff made of vines, with an emerald gem embedded in the top. Zhang Yuanqing led everyone to the sculpture and reached out to touch the staff.
An invisible barrier stopped his movement. At the same time, a task reminder sounded in his ears: [Ding! This item cannot be touched!] Background props cannot be used by spiritual realm walkers? But in the third side quest, it was mentioned that the evil cultivator sent minions to try to snatch the mountain god's staff... Only the mountain ghost camp can take it away?
Zhang Yuanqing was thinking when he suddenly heard Jiang Jingwei shout, "There are paintings here!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Jiang Jingwei holding a "torch", standing by the wall, pointing at the murals on the stone wall and shouting. The murals were broken and dim, most of them were simple lines drawn with limestone, and a few were colored, and the style was extremely abstract. A group of people carefully identified it for a long time, half looking and half guessing, before they understood the content of the murals. It was about the battle between the mountain god and the evil cultivator. The powerful evil cultivator was wreaking havoc in the city. He bewitched the living people in the city and gathered everyone together. Then, the stickmen on the murals kept falling down, covered in blood (the blood was dyed with red berries).
Everyone's blood gathered into a pool of blood, and a pair of black eyes opened in the pool. Just as everyone was dying, the mountain god holding a staff descended, engaged in a fierce battle with the evil cultivator, and successfully killed the evil cultivator. Afterwards, the mountain god built a "high wall" around the city, cutting off the city's connection with the outside world.
"Strange, the content on the mural shows that the evil cultivator has been killed by the mountain god, so what is her purpose in sealing this city?"
"The evil cultivators seem to be holding some kind of ritual. The eye in the blood pool... Could it be that the purpose of the mountain god sealing the city is to prevent that eye from coming out?"
"That should be it, so our main task is to reach the Lost City." Everyone discussed quietly. At this time, Asano Ryo said loudly: "The evil camp is coming." The official travelers opened the map to check. The guys from the evil camp had passed through the moving forest and were very close to the exit of the maze forest. Zhang Yuanqing immediately said: "Go out and prepare to fight... The other two teams have not arrived yet, but they are not far from the top of the mountain." The other two teams advanced a little slower, after all, they did not have Yuanshi Tianzun in their team.
"I hope they can arrive sooner..." Peony Fairy sighed.
Otherwise, their team will suffer heavy losses. At this moment, someone snorted:
"Don't worry, you don't need to face the enemy. The Mountain Ghosts will definitely win this round." Everyone turned their heads to look. The person who spoke was tone-deaf. He stood by the stone pillar away from the crowd and took out a palm-sized miniature forest sand table with a sneer on his face. "Go back to the Moving Forest!" As soon as the words fell, the forest sand table turned into light dust and dissipated, enveloping everyone present.
The next second, they disappeared. He was the traitor, a member of Dark Night Rose.
After informing the evil camp of Yuanshi Tianzun's ambush plan, Yinchi considered that if the ambush on Yuanshi Tianzun failed, the existence of the traitor would inevitably be exposed. He needed to respond. So he secretly used the musician's hypnotic ability to influence the unsuspecting "little match boy" and made him deliberately make a series of weird actions in front of Tianxia Guihuo. The hypnotized person will not feel that there is any problem and will not be unaware that he has been hypnotized. With Tianxia Guihuo's wisdom, he will definitely notice the abnormality of the little boy. If Yuanshi Tianzun really comes back alive, Tianxia Guihuo will definitely tell Yuanshi Tianzun about it.
If the lie detector is ineffective, Yuanshi Tianzun will most likely take measures such as restricting the actions of suspicious persons.
Sure enough, Yuanshi Tianzun did so.
However, the development of the situation was a little beyond the expectations of Yin Chi. He originally just wanted to shift the blame to someone else. But he did not expect the subsequent excellent operation of Tianxia Guihuo. However, it happened that there was one more suspect, which made him more detached and less suspected.
The reward from Moving Forest was also beyond his expectations.
After getting separated from the others, Tone-deaf thought of using reference points to locate himself, a common method used when trapped in a "maze". He had never thought of using this method to leave the Moving Forest. Coincidentally, the location where he was moved was not far from the exit, so he was the first person to leave the Moving Forest.
Luck is something that defies logic. Even Yuanshi Tianzun, no matter how smart he is, could not have guessed it. Of course, he could not hand over the reward props. After receiving the props from the Moving Forest, the tone-deaf knew that he had won. He first shared his experience with the Mountain Ghost camp, then put away the props and returned to the Moving Forest to join the official walkers. Although he became the last one, fortunately he was not suspected.
The subsequent development was as he expected. Although Yuanshi Tianzun did not find out the traitor, he adopted the simplest, crudest, and most effective method - control! However, those two people were just a cover.
The sound-chidden man took a look at the Mountain God's staff. The Mountain God camp could not touch this prop. He turned around and walked out of the Mountain God Temple without any reluctance, stood in front of the temple gate, and waited silently.
Twenty minutes later, the evil camp led by Ah Yi and Bai Wu Jin Ji passed through the maze forest and appeared outside the mountain temple. Bai Wu Jin Ji saw the tone-deaf person at the entrance of the mountain temple at a glance and raised his lips:
"Well done!" The tone-deaf man nodded slightly, "The staff is inside, go in and get it." The walkers in the evil camp were not surprised at all when they heard the conversation between the two. They had participated in the summit before. They knew that there were people from their team in the official team. They just didn't know who it was. "So it's you, this guy."
"Dark Night Rose is too insidious. They can even instigate the top eight contestants in the competition to rebel."
"Hahaha, Yuanshi Tianzun is doomed to die in this killing dungeon."
As they were talking, everyone quickly crossed the open space and ran towards the mountain temple. Suddenly, Ah Yi's amber eyes caught a pair of exquisitely crafted retro boots standing by a bluestone in front of him. They were woven from bright yellow silk and embroidered with delicate cloud patterns. "Why are there boots here?"
He stopped and spoke in a deep voice.
The tone-deaf man at the temple gate was stunned for a moment. He didn't remember seeing a pair of boots like this when he came here. Just as he was wondering, a figure appeared beside the bluestone. It was Yuanshi Tianzun. He just appeared out of nowhere and looked at everyone with a mischievous look on his face: "Oh, this is my thing! Sorry, I forgot it here, I'll come back to get it."
As soon as he finished speaking, another figure teleported back, a tall, bright mixed-race beauty wearing rattan armor, arm guards, and leg guards. ···………