In the white room, Li Xiu and the other three were wearing white tights. As they were looking around the room, the light screen lit up and a cold voice came out: "Welcome to the Hero Trial Field. The S-level trial is about to begin. The trial rules are as follows..."
"Only one hour!" After hearing the rules, Ye Yuzhen's face changed instantly.
According to his experience, the difficulty will increase exponentially with each increase in the number of rooms at each level, and the time required will also double.
The difficulty of S-level is likely to be more than just doubled, but the time has not increased. Ye Yuzhen has already lost hope.
Chu Jun had an eager-to-try expression, and it was obvious that he had not realized the difficulty of the S-level dark maze.
Ah Fei looked at Li Xiu. She didn't even realize that she was becoming more and more dependent on Li Xiu.
"City Lord, I will lead the way later..." Ye Yuzhen said gritting his teeth. He had to get out no matter what, so he had to risk his life.
"You explore the way, but you have to follow my instructions." Li Xiu said.
"We don't have much time. Even if there aren't too many mistakes, one hour is too little time... I can see from here that the chance of success is greater..." Ye Yuzhen didn't quite believe Li Xiu in his heart.
"Listen to me, or go by yourself, you can choose." Li Xiu said lightly.
Ye Yu felt really bitter inside. He didn't know what was wrong with Li Xiu, why he had to act like a city lord at this time.
But looking at Li Xiu's expression, you can tell that he is determined to do this and there is no way he will change his mind just because of a few words from him.
In silence, the countdown ended and the whole room suddenly became dark.
"Follow me." Ye Yuzhen called out and walked towards one of the doors. He felt that the facts would make Li Xiu give up his own ideas.
Li Xiu didn't say anything. He called Chu Jun and A Fei together, and followed Ye Yuzhen through the door and into the new room.
Ye Yuzhen chose the door based on his own experience and walked into three or four rooms in succession. Li Xiu didn't say a word, which made Ye Yuzhen feel much more at ease.
"It seems that although he said that, he still has to rely on me. He just can't let go of the city lord's face." Ye Yuzhen felt a lot more relieved, and based on his experience and intuition, he chose another door.
After entering the new room, Ye Yuzhen was about to continue moving forward, but Li Xiu suddenly said, "This road is wrong, let's go back."
The paths through these doors were enough for Li Xiu to determine the direction of the entire maze, and he already knew which way to go.
"Go back?" Ye Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly said, "The road ahead should be correct. I have experience with this, and I can be sure that this road is correct."
He was really afraid that Li Xiu would let him go back like this, wasting so much time in vain.
There is not much time to begin with, and if we waste any more, even if we find a way out, it may be too late.
"This is the second time and the last time. Next time you don't have to say anything and just go." Li Xiu said and turned away.
Ah Fei followed Li Xiu without hesitation. Although Chu Jun had the Night Eyes skill, he could only vaguely see some figures here and couldn't even tell who was who. When he heard Li Xiu's voice, he hurriedly followed.
Ye Yuzhen stared in a daze as A Fei, Chu Jun and Li Xiu left. He felt very aggrieved and wanted to say something, but when he thought of what Li Xiu had just said, he swallowed it back.
After looking at the door that Li Xiu returned through, and then looking at the door he chose, Ye Yuzhen gritted his teeth and followed.
It's not that he believed Li Xiu, but that he had to believe Li Xiu.
If Li Xiu and the other two died inside, and he went out by himself, would Sha Chu outside let him go? Ye Yuzhen knew that if he went out alone, he would also have no way to survive.
If he follows Li Xiu, there might still be a chance to lead Li Xiu and the others back to the right path. Saving Li Xiu and the others is saving himself. Ye Yuzhen has no other choice.
After Ye Yuzhen caught up with Li Xiu, he explained in a low voice: "I just want to take everyone out."
"Good intentions may not always lead to good results." Li Xiu said calmly, "Don't waste time. Just follow my instructions."
Several people returned to the room where they started. Li Xiu chose another door, and Ye Yuzhen still walked in front.
Every time he entered a room, Li Xiu would instruct Ye Yuzhen to choose a route.
He knew that the path Ye Yuzhen took before was also the right one. If it was a dark maze of level A or below, the path Ye Yuzhen took was the fastest way out.
However, this is not an A-level dark maze, but an S-level dark maze. If you take that path and pass the A-level dark maze area, you will encounter many rooms with mechanical traps and poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts.
Although the path Li Xiu chose would be the most circuitous one at the beginning, only by taking this path could he avoid the rooms with poisonous insects and ferocious beasts in the later areas. It was also the fastest way out.
If Li Xiu had not cracked the code of the dark maze and had only relied on experience to get through, the more experienced he was, the more miserable his death would be, and it would have been impossible for him to get out.
Ye Yuzhen followed Li Xiu's instructions, but he was still unconvinced, or rather, extremely anxious.
After walking for a while, Ye Yuzhen already knew that the path Li Xiu had chosen was not wrong, but this path was too circuitous and would waste a lot of time. At their speed, it would probably take thirty to forty minutes to finish walking through the previously known areas. With the remaining time, would they be able to walk out of the new area of the S-level dark maze?
Ye Yuzhen really wanted to tell Li Xiu to change his route, but when he turned to look at Li Xiu and saw his expression, he knew that it was useless for him to say anything.
Ye Yuzhen gave in again and again, but found that the road Li Xiu pointed out was getting more and more roundabout. He could obviously take a shorter way, but he chose to take the longer way.
"It seems that today next year will be the anniversary of my death. What should I do in the future?" Ye Yuzhen's lips felt bitter.
But after walking for so long, it is impossible to go back. The time taken to go back is almost the same as the time taken to walk this way.
"If you die here today, I will never let you rest in peace even if I become a ghost." Ye Yuzhen looked at Li Xiu with anger in his heart.
Although Ye Yuzhen hated the way Li Xiu pointed out, he still had to follow the path pointed out by Li Xiu. Fortunately, the path pointed out by Li Xiu was not wrong, and it avoided the rooms with mechanisms and traps.
After walking out of the familiar area, Ye Yuzhen roughly estimated that it should have taken more than thirty minutes, which was similar to his previous judgment.
There are only more than twenty minutes left at most, or maybe even only twenty minutes. Can we still get out of this unknown area?
"Left." Li Xiu continued to give orders without any hesitation.
Now is the time to verify his inference. He brought Ye Yuzhen in to serve as a pathfinder. Otherwise, why would he bring in the person who once tried to kill him?
Li Xiu can let go of the past, but the prerequisite is that he must make a sacrifice, and now is the time for him to make a sacrifice.
Ye Yu really didn't know why Li Xiu chose the route. This was an area that no one had ever been to. What was the basis for Li Xiu's choice of route? Ye Yu really didn't know.
But he had no other choice now and could only leave it to fate.
"Anyway, you won't be able to live if I die, so the worst that can happen is that we die together." Ye Yuzhen walked into the room with gritted teeth.
But he was still scared, so he didn't walk as fast as before and walked inside carefully.
"We don't have much time left, please walk faster." Li Xiu urged from behind.
Ye Yuzhen gritted his teeth and quickened his pace. Fortunately, this room was safe.
"Continue to the left." Li Xiu said again.
Ye Yuzhen also knew that time was running out and there was no time for him to slowly explore the way, so he just went for it. He rushed straight in wherever Li Xiu told him to go.
Once, twice, and three times, Ye Yuzhen was a little scared at first, but after going through several doors, Ye Yuzhen found that he did not encounter any traps or poisonous insects or beasts.
"Luck?" Ye Yuzhen quickly denied this idea. Trying one's luck in the dark maze would lead to a miserable death.
Ye Yuzhen turned to look at Li Xiu, but could only see his face which was mostly covered by sunglasses, and could not tell what his expression was.
"Does he really know the way? But how does he know the way? No one has ever been to the S-level area..." Ye Yuzhen felt a little complicated.
I hope that Li Xiu really knows how to get out, but I don’t dare to believe that Li Xiu really knows the way.
Li Xiu was still directing Ye Yuzhen to move forward. After passing more than a dozen doors, he was sure that his previous speculation was correct. The entire S-level maze was deduced backwards according to those few sentences.
Door after door, several people rushed forward as fast as they could without saying a word.
Li Xiu fell behind. Although his physical fitness was not bad, the burden on his shoulders was too heavy. His physical strength decreased sharply and he walked slower and slower.
Ye Yuzhen turned back several times to wait for Li Xiu, wishing he could pull Li Xiu along to run together.
Now he had completely given up the idea of walking on his own, because in this unknown area, he didn't know how to walk, but Li Xiu seemed to know.
At least so far, all they had gone through were safe rooms.
Li Xiu gritted his teeth and ran forward. His strength was decreasing faster than he expected, but time was running out and he had no time to rest.
A Fei and Chu Jun both slowed down their pace and waited for Li Xiu, and Ye Yuzhen in front could only wait patiently.
"Time is running out. There are less than ten minutes left at most. In the worst case scenario, there may only be five minutes." Ye Yuzhen estimated the time and felt very annoyed.
"There are still eight minutes and thirty-four seconds left." Li Xiu said.
Ye Yuzhen was stunned: "How do you know the exact time?"
No one can bring in timing tools, and there is no light screen to display the countdown, so we can only rely on estimation. How can Li Xiu estimate the time so accurately?
"I've been counting in my mind. There are still eight minutes and thirty-one seconds left. I should still be in time. Give me twenty seconds to rest." Li Xiu said as he sat on the ground. He was so tired that the sweat kept pouring down his body.
Ye Yu really couldn't believe that Li Xiu would really take a break when he said so. He didn't believe that Li Xiu could really count the seconds so accurately, to the second.
You have to know that Li Xiu had a disagreement with him before and talked to him so much, how could he still read it accurately?
He didn't believe that there were such people in the world, but there was nothing he could do but watch Li Xiu rest.
Li Xiu sat there, taking deep breaths, inhaling as much oxygen as possible and relieving his muscle soreness at the same time.
His body was covered in sweat, and carrying the weight of two poles was more tiring than carrying a 300-pound fat man. It was quite rare that he could keep running for so long.
Twenty seconds is not enough time for most people to recover much strength, but Li Xiu's physical fitness was quite good and he recovered quite quickly. Perhaps the evil spirit that was parasitic on him also played a role.
Li Xiu was resting, but for Ye Yuzhen, the twenty seconds were extremely torturous, as if twenty centuries had passed.
Several times, he wanted to urge Li Xiu to leave quickly, but in the end he swallowed his words.
After this time together, he already knew what kind of person Li Xiu was, and he would never change his decision.
Finally, Li Xiu stood up and directed Ye Yuzhen to move forward.
After resting, Li Xiu's physical strength recovered a lot. Although he still didn't run fast, he was much stronger than before.
Door after door, the same rooms repeated over and over again, gave everyone an illusion that they were walking around in the same room, as if they were trapped in a ghost wall.
Ye Yuzhen's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He was not tired, but scared. The fear in his heart was spreading infinitely, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.
Because it has reached the bottom line of his estimation, it may be almost an hour now.
He was afraid, afraid that a light screen would suddenly appear in the next second, announcing the end of the trial, and then his body would be blown into pieces by the trial bracelet.
For Ye Yuzhen, every second that follows is like holding a time bomb that could explode at any time. The key is that he doesn't know the time yet.
Second after second, Ye Yuzhen's heart was beating violently, but fortunately it did not explode.
"Hurry up, there are three minutes and twenty-two seconds left. We don't have time to waste." Li Xiu noticed that Ye Yuzhen's speed had really slowed down and reminded him.
"I don't know who wanted to take a break just now, and I don't know who was walking so slowly. Who is wasting time?" Ye Yuzhen was depressed, but he was not in the mood to refute anything. He quickened his pace and walked forward.
"Two minutes...one minute and thirty seconds...one minute..." Li Xiu reported the time every thirty seconds.
He was not reminding Ye Yuzhen, but calculating the remaining time and the distance to go, and correcting the error caused by different walking speeds.
"Hold on a little longer, the time should be just right." Li Xiu calculated again and again and felt that the time was just right, similar to what he had calculated before, with some room for improvement.
But to Ye Yuzhen's ears, this voice sounded like a death-threatening devil's voice, which made him tremble with fear.
"Do you think you are an alarm clock? I don't believe that you can really calculate so accurately. Are you just comforting yourself?" Ye Yuzhen thought depressedly.
But he didn't dare to slow down and kept walking forward. However, he walked too fast and Li Xiu couldn't keep up with him, which made him feel really uncomfortable, as if he was caught between ice and fire and suffering.
Fortunately, they haven't encountered any traps so far, which makes Ye Yuzhen feel a little surprised.
"Ten seconds left...the last two doors...there's still time..." Li Xiu said, panting.
"The last two doors... ten seconds... do you really think you are a navigator?" Ye Yuzhen was skeptical and pushed the door in the direction Li Xiu said.
One... Two...
Suddenly, Ye Yuzhen saw a bright light in front of his eyes. There was a shining light screen inside the door. The light screen was counting down. There were only the last 0.004 seconds left. Adding the few seconds he walked over, the time calculated by Li Xiu was surprisingly accurate, with an error of only about one second at most.
Ye Yuzhen sat on the ground as if exhausted, staring blankly at the countdown above.
"How could there be such a person!" Ye Yuzhen was now extremely scared.
After walking through this journey, Ye Yuzhen already knew that the S-level dark maze was many times larger than the A-level one.
If we follow his way and try our luck later, there is no way we will get out.
He is now very grateful that he followed Li Xiu. This may be the only way to survive.
"The S-level dark maze doesn't seem as difficult as imagined." Chu Jun said with a smile.
Ah Fei rolled his eyes at him. If it weren't for Li Xiu leading the way, the S-level maze would not be just difficult.
Chu Jun smiled and said, "Don't look at me like that, I'm just trying to ease the atmosphere."
"The S-level trial is over, and the rewards are being randomly generated... Each person can choose two rewards..."
Li Xiu sat on the ground, gasping for breath, sweat pouring down his face. In front of him, four options appeared on the screen.
Skills, talents, attributes, magic cores, there is no option for admission tickets.
Li Xiu looked at the reward lists of the other three people and found that only Chu Jun had the option of an admission ticket.
"For those who want to enter the trial land, there is a reward left." Li Xiu said as he chose the attribute reward.
The bracelet suddenly felt a sharp stinging sensation, making Li Xiu feel as if countless small insects were crawling inside his body.
The blood vessels on the arms were bulging, as if something was crawling wildly in the blood vessels, and the blood vessels could be seen rising and falling.
"It seems that I am lucky. This is for you." Chu Jun distributed the prepared trial badges to Li Xiu, A Fei and Ye Yuzhen.
Ye Yuzhen hesitated for a moment, took the trial badge, and then chose the magic core reward.
An S-level magic core, plus his previous savings, should be more than enough to buy a set of A-level magic equipment.
"Why don't you choose skills or talents?" Chu Jun looked at Ye Yuzhen and asked curiously.
The demand for magic cores by magic armorers is far greater than that by trial-takers. Unless they have no choice, ordinary trial-takers will rarely choose magic core rewards.
"I like money." Ye Yuzhen held the S-level magic core in his hand, his heart unusually calm, and said with a smile.
Chu Jun chose the skills himself, while A Fei chose the attributes.
Li Xiu had already told her how to become a true trial-taker, and she also had to prepare to become a true trial-taker. Once the right opportunity came, she would immediately become a true trial-taker.
"Okay, I'm going to open the tickets, you all get your trial badges ready." Chu Jun said, selecting the tickets.
The admission ticket appeared in front of Chu Jun and turned into a black vortex.
Li Xiu and several others hurriedly threw the trial badges in their hands into the black hole. As soon as the trial badges entered the black hole, Li Xiu immediately felt a huge pulling force coming from the black hole, pulling him into the black hole.