Chapter 198 Desert Survival Day 29 (4) “Ghost Wall”…
Yu Miaomiao's movements were neat and smooth, without any unnecessary effort, but some of the liquid sprayed by the snail still scattered around the glass container.
If she went there, she was afraid she would never come back, so she didn't plan to go.
After all the stalactite liquid was collected in the glass container, she stood there and slowly pulled the rope on the glass bottle, pulling the glass bottle towards herself.
After putting the bottle away, she continued to move forward. Along the way, she encountered this situation 5 times and collected the treasures using this method until she saw a treasure chest appear.
After five bottles of stalactite liquid were poured in, the box was opened.
[Failed to trigger the Lucky trait. Expedition gift pack: 24 screws, 15 iron ingots, 8 refined iron ingots, 3 titanium ingots, 1 standard parachute. Has been stored in the system warehouse.]
【Name: Ordinary Parachute (100/100)
Level: 15
Introduction: Floating, floating to the Naihe Bridge
Attributes: Utilizes air resistance to reduce the user's falling speed, reducing fall damage by 90%.
It seems to be an item for dealing with falling off a cliff. It has only appeared now. This means that the survivor must survive the first cliff fall to get this item.
It is not bound and can even be repaired, but I don’t know how effective it will be.
Without any hesitation, she sent an inquiry to Hua Bie.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: How was your adventure? Are you okay?"
The other party still replied quickly. Yu Miaomiao didn't even need to close the dialog box and wait for a few seconds to see his message immediately.
"Hua Bie: Not good, I seem to have run into a wall of evil."
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Ghost wall?"
"Hanabetsu: Well, with the recurring roads and the constant falling cliffs, the airbags are no longer durable enough, so we can only use a normal parachute."
Seeing that he just mentioned what she wanted to ask, Yu Miaomiao asked it.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I just opened one too. Can a normal parachute withstand the damage of falling off the cliff here?"
"Hua Bie: I can withstand 90% of it. The remaining 10% will deduct 30 points of the intermediate shield's durability. However, if I walk back again, I won't search twice. If it doesn't work, I might have to leave first and use the bound Maze Forest Adventure Card. I'll come back after I get a new anti-fall airbag."
The other party explained everything very clearly, and Yu Miaomiao didn't find anything strange.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Will there be treasure chests on the road we walk?"
"Hanabetsu: No, but monsters will still spawn, so it's a bit of a waste of energy and time."
If 30 durability of the intermediate shield is deducted every time you fall, it is really not advisable to use it too much. It is such a waste. It would be better to go to the maze forest to get the air bag.
But was the ghost wall he mentioned the phenomenon she had just discovered? After falling from a high place, there was a cliff above your head and a cliff behind you, and it kept repeating back and forth.
She walked around first. If she encountered the same situation and couldn't find a way to deal with it, she would have to leave first. Otherwise, she would be trapped here and her endurance would be consumed endlessly.
The road became wider and wider, and the pink snails on the wall gradually became fewer, replaced by some moss bags, which she put into her backpack one by one.
There were quite a few monsters that attacked actively at her feet, such as some four-legged soft-bodied monsters crawling on the ground, which looked like some kind of amphibious monsters, but she had been maintaining the aura of turtle breathing, so these monsters did not take the initiative to attack her.
If it is really an amphibious monster, could there be a real large water source in the cave?
Unfortunately, resource search does not work here.
Throughout the whole process, only the stalactite snake would actively attack her when she approached, which means that only this kind of monster ignores any perception shielding, similar to the existence of a scavenger bird.
Anyway, she will definitely kill one by one when she sees one, after all, the stalactite liquid is needed to open the box.
After walking for about half an hour, she came to a new fork in the road.
The light in the entire cave was very dim, so she walked very slowly, fearing that a strange thing would suddenly appear from somewhere or that she would miss a step.
She had stopped to eat once in the middle. She looked at the time and found that it had taken her three hours to reach the second fork in the road.
It is said that time does not exist objectively. It is a concept created by people to describe the movement and change of matter. Different observers will have different perceptions of time due to the impact of movement. So when she was on the road, she did not feel that the three hours of walking were very long.
The fork in the road ahead was a bit special. There was a door blocking the intersection on both sides. The structure of the door was the same as the one she saw in the treasure cave, which was a thick stone door.
The door is painted with the game's characteristic pattern - vines.
The winding vine patterns on the two doors form a semi-arc circle, which looks very symmetrical. When put together, it looks like a heart shape. What does this mean?
No one has mentioned this feature. Could it be unique to her number?
Her current exploration progress is 6%, which is still very low. If she wants to improve the progress, she has to go through both the branch road and the main road, so it doesn’t matter to her which door she goes through.
The left side then.
She pushed open the door on the left and just took a step forward, the ground where her back foot was stepping suddenly disappeared, and her whole body was immediately suspended in the air, falling rapidly. She hurriedly deployed the anti-fall airbag.
Two seconds later, she landed.
She looked up and saw that the cliff was not high this time, and she could see the door she had just walked through at a glance.
The durability of the anti-fall airbag is reduced by 5 points.
At this falling height, an intermediate shield might be able to withstand the fall damage.
So the result of each missed step is different.
Because of the difference, many survivors will only lose a little shield durability when they fall for the first time, and they may think it is the same the next time they encounter it, and will not think of using the return card, and then die instantly after falling from a high altitude.
So it's a prank, a prank at the cost of the survivors' lives.
The road was wider, and leech-infested puddles appeared again on the ground. The stalactites no longer grew beside the walls, but hung upside down in the middle of the road.
"Tick-tick"
Familiar voices and scenes, isn't this the place where she first came to play pranks?
How did I get back... No, I fell back.
It's so weird.
She continued to move forward and still encountered a stalactite snake that would actively attack. However, after killing it, she held the bottle and waited for a long time but did not see a drop of stalactite liquid flow out.
No stalactite fluid means no treasure chest, and she is at a loss.
Walking further, Yu Miaomiao saw the fork in the road that she had passed for the first time.
There is still a ray of light crawling across the left cave wall. Is it the branch full of mirrors again?
What will you see if you walk over there? There will only be a mirror and no treasure chest. So what's the point of going there?
What about the right side, or is it a road with no steps?
It seems to have reached a dead end.
Going to the left is a meaningless road, and going to the right is a waste of 10 points of anti-fall airbags.
Waiting here is not a solution. Instead of sitting and waiting for death, it is better to try something new. You can only try everything before considering leaving.
As she walked along, there were really many monsters on the mirror road. The process was exactly the same as the last time she defeated them. The only difference was that after killing 30 snakes this time, she still didn't collect a single drop of stalactite.
Not only did half of his stamina get consumed, but his sword's durability also dropped by 10 points, and his shield also dropped by 20 points.
There is no treasure chest, and even the moss bag on the wall at the end is gone.
As she chewed the mutton pot cake in her hand, she felt no taste either in her mouth or in her mind.
I am unwilling, very unwilling.
If everything that happened before in the expedition area was just the appetizer of the system's pranks, now is the real main course.
She glanced around and saw that she was already in the desert survival world. It seemed that he had also chosen to leave. Was she going to leave?
After thinking about it, Yu Miaomiao sent a message to Iris. Currently, Iris is the second fastest survivor in the expedition area.
"Meow Meow is Not Short of Water: When you were playing the prank in the cave, did you ever encounter a situation similar to a ghost wall, where you walked a distance and then returned to the starting point? "
After the message was sent, it fell into oblivion. She had no choice but to go back, leaving some marks on the ground along the way.
Go back to the fork in the road and walk towards the right, and you will still fall into the air in the next second.
This time the fall time was 7 seconds, which was faster than before.
Could it be that she fell somewhere else?
When she landed safely, she saw the symbol she had drawn with the fine sand.
She had been here, just over an hour ago.
Now her mind was completely confused. Should she continue to move forward, walking back and forth in the same place endlessly?
I was feeling very irritated when a system sound came into my mind.
【System prompt: Please draw your gift pack card】
There are three cards to draw today.
The three dazzling cards looked particularly dazzling in this dim passage.
But their light was limited to the area around the card, and no other place was illuminated. She couldn't see anything else in the cave through this light.
The first card glowed orange. It was one she had seen before. On the back was written: "You are the sky, you are the light, you are the only myth. This card is a myth card. You will receive unexpected rewards in 24 hours."
It's a mythical card.
The second card, which emitted a familiar royal blue light, was also a treasure card she had seen before.
The third one was the golden shining card she had seen several times, the potential card.
Why does this combination seem so familiar? It was the same scene she encountered during the card drawing session on the second day of her desert survival, the first time she came to the apocalypse.
So she was just going around in circles in the adventure zone, even drawing cards repeatedly?
If she hadn't been paying attention to the time and knew it was 12 noon, she would have thought that this card drawing interface was not the system's daily card drawing, but a prank scene that appeared in the adventure land.
The first time she drew a card, she chose a mythical card because she couldn't wait and didn't even know what the treasure was.
But today, she already has sufficient supplies, strong strength, and reserves of supplies for survival at sea, so she can.
She can wait for the supplies sent by this potential card, or she can defeat this expedition. At least, even if it is objectively impossible to pass it, this expedition should not dominate her thinking.
She set a deadline in her mind: if he came back a second time, she would leave and not waste her time here.
Yes, she really wants the functions provided by the hidden mission, but that doesn’t mean she should waste time here endlessly just for a hidden unknown thing.
Yu Miaomiao quickly selected a potential card and received the card's reward. If nothing unexpected happened, it would be the first day of survival at sea. She hoped to get some items that would help her life at sea.
She continued walking forward, avoiding whatever she could without fighting any monsters, and soon came to the second fork in the road.
Last time, Yu Miaomiao chose the left side and returned to the starting point. This time, she looked at what was on the right side. If both roads led back to the starting point, there was no need to continue the adventure.
But before pushing the door open, she was holding a flashlight and carefully observing the stone door in front of her.
Every time she fell into the treasure cave, she thought of a possibility, which was to push open both doors at the same time, so that she could get the treasure in both doors at the same time.
But the previous few times, either she didn't have enough strength and agility to reach the second door, or the system simply didn't give her the opportunity.
This time.
If this is the treasure cave, what will happen if she pushes open both doors at the same time?
This was also the thought that came to her mind when she saw the half-heart-shaped vine patterns on the two stone doors.
The area that the flashlight could illuminate was still too small, so she could only shine it over bit by bit, comparing each vine pattern.
It's so symmetrical. The doors on the left and right are basically copied one-to-one, just flipped over, so...is this a mirror effect?
The treasure chests on the mirror are all fake branch treasure chests, so are the mirror doors also fake?
But there are stone walls on both sides, and there are only two tightly closed doors in front. How can there be a third non-mirror path?
She tried to open the door on the right a little.
"Crack—"
When a crack appeared in the door, she didn't rush to open it, but walked to the left and tried to push it open a little.
As a result, the gap on the right side of the door closed immediately.
Are you only letting her choose one of the two?
Following this idea, she continued to push open the right door and used an iron plate to block the gap. Now she wanted to see how to close the right door.
As he walked to the left, he just exerted force with his hand when he heard a sound of iron cracking that echoed throughout the cave.
When did stone become harder than iron?
Not long after the iron sheet was clamped off, a loud thud of something falling to the ground was heard from outside the right door.
So there is also a cliff on the right.
If she had opened the door a little wider and run faster, like she had in the treasure cave.
In order to verify her guess, she simply drank a bottle of Happy Coke to improve her personal temporary attributes and quench her thirst.
She rubbed her hands together and quickly pushed open the door on the right. After the door was half open, she quickly ran to the side and pushed open the door on the left.
It can be pushed, and right in the middle of the two doors, there is a creaking sound, which is the sound of the wall rubbing against each other.
She seemed to be able to see that the originally closed wall had sagged a little to one side, revealing a small doorway.
But with the quick closing of the door on the right, the wall quickly returned to its original state.
So you have to push open two doors at the same time to open the third hidden door.
She had just used all her strength, but it seemed she couldn't do it all at once.
Even if we use all the current props and food, it seems that we can't do it.
She walked to the wall between the two doors and knocked on it with her hand, then knocked on the walls on both sides.
The surrounding walls emitted a thick "bang bang" sound, while the sound coming from between the two doors was a somewhat hollow "dong dong" sound.
It turned out to be a secret door.
Is this the only way to open a secret door—pushing open both the left and right doors at the same time?
Or, can it explode?
Anyway, explosive mines can be used in the exploration area. If she pushes the door on the right now, she will fall off the cliff and return to a repeated place. She might as well try to blow it up.
She had used this mine several times before and had a rough idea of its explosion range in her mind. After placing it, she walked back more than 20 meters, took out her shotgun, and shot at the exploding mine.
"Bang--"
"Bang—bang"
Thick smoke billowed, and as the mine exploded, the entire cliff wall began to shake. All the pink snails on the wall began to self-destruct, and countless snail liquids sprayed from all directions.
The walls and the ground were instantly covered with slippery fluid, and the soles of my feet were covered with this fluid. My body fell uncontrollably to the ground.
Her hands and body were covered in slippery liquid. She could only lie on the ground, and even moving forward was useless.
Then the rocks on the cliff began to slide down, three of them hit her behind, two hit her in front, and one hit her.
Yu Miaomiao struggled forward, but still couldn't move.
Even the use of jet devices and sickle ziplines could not separate her from the slime on the ground.
The rocks continued to slide down, and the number increased. She wasn't sure if this was the beginning of the expedition's self-destruction or if it had been a normal phenomenon for a while. She only knew that her shield began to drop at a rate of 10 points per second.
Use your mind to control the adventure card in the advanced backpack expander and return!
After a dizzy spell, she lay steadily on the floor of her house, with the colorless and odorless slippery fluid still on her body. She struggled a few times before finally standing up.
There are only 20 points of intermediate shield left. If she continues to be hit for two more seconds, she will be crushed to death under the rubble.
So the exploding mine triggered a landslide, destroying the expedition?
It seems that this method of opening the door doesn't work either.
What to do...
Do I really have to give up on the prank cave?
Yu Miaomiao washed the stains off her body and looked at the new messages.
"Is Pipi here? Sister Miaomiao, do you want to find that monster pile? I just found a new mining site nearby and want to go check it out."
Yu Miaomiao glanced at Api's position. He was clearly almost there.
"Meow Meow: Are there a lot of monsters over there? It's almost night time. Wouldn't it be unsafe for you to go over there now? I heard the area near the monster pile is the eye of a sandstorm. If a sandstorm hits, I'm afraid your house wouldn't be able to withstand the strong winds."
"Is Pipi here? But I don't have any adventure cards now. If I don't go mining, I'll have nothing to do. It's a bit of a waste of time."
Yu Miaomiao had just come out of the shower under the window curtains, and her wet hair dried quickly. Although it was already past three in the afternoon, the sun was still very strong.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Wait until the sun gets a little smaller, and then you can slowly move closer to me. We can try to meet up tomorrow morning, okay?"
"Is Pipi here? What's wrong? Are you having any problems?"
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I just went to the Prank Cave and encountered a very difficult problem. I probably can't get through it alone. I need someone to come in and help. If possible, I would like to invite you to go in with me..."
"Is Pipi here?: Sure, I'm free right now, but I only have some brute force, I'm not sure if I can help you."
Brute force was exactly what she needed, and what she didn't have.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: If that's what you said, then I might need you even more. There's a door in the Prank Cave that I need to borrow your power to open. But not now. I have to stay at the base tonight and wait for the zebra cat. Also, I need to prepare some more shields, just in case."
At least she pushed open that door very slowly. She was worried that if she found someone with the same low strength as her, even if the doors on both sides were pushed open, the door would be closed again when the two of them walked back to the hidden door in the middle.
Only when one side is much stronger than the other, the one with higher strength may be able to open the new crack in the door and see clearly what is going on inside.
"Is Pipi here? Okay, I'll leave for your place now. After tonight, I'll be there early tomorrow morning."
"Meow Meow is not short of water: That's great!"
Thinking about meeting Api soon, the bad mood caused by the system's teasing just now immediately dissipated halfway.
"Pangpang: That's great! I'm so envious that you can live together. If I didn't have two bound adventure cards Yingying gave me, I'd have wanted to go with you guys tomorrow."
"Is Pipi here? Humph, you've also made new friends and are living happily together."
"Meow Meow is not short of water: How about Lulu come with us after the hailstorm is over? Bring Yingying with you."
"Pangpang: Really? I was always afraid that Sister Miaomiao wouldn't like being around too many people, so I didn't have the nerve to bring it up. Now that Sister Miaomiao has taken the initiative to bring it up, I won't hold back."
"Pangpang: Oh, by the way, we're still with Hanabetsu-sama. I don't know what Yingying thinks, and whether Hanabetsu-sama is willing..."
"Miaomiao is not short of water: It's okay, no rush, you can talk to Yingying. As for Hua, I'll wait until the sea survival world comes and see what the situation is. I can ask him myself."
"Pangpang: Okay, Sister Miaomiao, are you going to build your own base too?"
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Well, yesterday Chen Qiang and Yiwan Watt sent people to attack me, but I killed them. From now on, technology and weapons are becoming more and more advanced. It will be difficult for me to deal with so many of them alone. If possible, it would be better to have a trusted friend with me so that they can take better care of me."
This was also the decision Yu Miaomiao made after coming out of the expedition.
If it is said that one must form a team to conquer all the expedition areas, there is no need for her to continue to try to be alone.
There is strength in numbers. Only by working together can we better overcome the difficulties of the end times and return home as soon as possible.
Afterwards, Api and Lulu asked a lot of questions about the two people, and only felt relieved after confirming that she was indeed safe.
What followed was a barrage of flattery from everyone, which made Yu Miaomiao so overwhelmed with praise that she even forgot how upset she felt after coming out of the expedition.
It’s really good to have friends.
Finally, Api vowed that he would come to meet up before sunrise tomorrow, ensuring his own safety.
After the few of them finished chatting, it was almost night. Yu Miaomiao looked at Hua Bie's progress and found that he was already at 70% of the Devil's Bend, which was really fast.
Because the airbag is bound and can only be used by yourself, if you invite Api, you have to give her the parachute.
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