"This guy is quite clever. He first explores the depth of the maze in a straight line, and then determines his own position and the direction of the exit." Ye Yuzhen chased Li Xiu forward and soon discovered Li Xiu's strategy.
"Unfortunately, you still underestimated the dark maze. The B-level dark maze is not square, so this method is ineffective here." Ye Yuzhen sneered and continued to chase after him.
He didn't dare to chase too fast, in case Li Xiu heard his voice. The other party had very good hearing. He planned to wait until the other party encountered a dead end and had to go back, and then stand still and ambush the other party.
Suddenly, Ye Yuzhen saw the door being pushed open, and Li Xiu, who had just rushed in, ran back with Ah Fei.
"Good opportunity. I gave you the chance to live, but you didn't want it. Then don't blame me, Ye Yuzhen, for being ruthless." Ye Yuzhen stood motionless in the middle of the room, watching Li Xiu rushing over with Ah Fei. He stretched out his arms and pointed his two fingers at Li Xiu's eyes. He wanted Li Xiu to blind himself.
Seeing that Li Xiu had rushed in front of him and his fingers were about to pierce Li Xiu's eyes, Li Xiu suddenly turned his head and avoided Ye Yuzhen's fingers, and bumped into Ye Yuzhen's shoulder, causing Ye Yuzhen's body to spin.
Ye Yuzhen had just steadied himself when he heard the sound of a door opening. Li Xiu had already rushed into another room.
Ye Yuzhen was about to get up and chase after him, but suddenly he felt something was wrong. It seemed like something behind him was making a humming sound.
When he turned around, Ye Yuzhen was immediately frightened. A huge tiger rushed out from the room that Li Xiu had just rushed out of, staring at Ye Yuzhen with a fierce look.
If he could use the contract, Ye Yuzhen would not take a tiger seriously. But now he is in the trial field and cannot use the power of the contract. If he only relies on physical fitness, he will not be able to gain much advantage against a tiger.
And the tiger in front of him looked like a very hungry tiger.
"Wow...oh..." The tiger roared, causing Ye Yuzhen's eardrums to hurt.
Before Ye Yuzhen could figure out how to deal with the situation, the hungry tiger pounced on him and a battle between man and tiger immediately broke out.
"Didn't they tell me there are living beasts in the dark maze? Isn't this a scam?" Li Xiu pulled Ah Fei and continued to pass through the doors.
No one knew where that woman Shachu had gone. She had been missing since the beginning of the trial.
Her physical fitness is much stronger than Li Xiu and A Fei. Even with bare hands, it is no problem for her to kill a few wild beasts.
Unfortunately, Li Xiu has no idea where Sha Chu is now. Maybe he has already found the exit and escaped.
Li Xiu was much more careful this time. Although his current physical fitness could deal with ferocious beasts like tigers, the time to pass the dark maze was limited. He should not waste time on those ferocious beasts if possible.
Fortunately, with the killer taking the blame, Li Xiu continued to lead the bandit to find a way out.
A few minutes later, Ye Yuzhen, who was covered in wounds, pushed away the tiger's corpse that was pressing on him and climbed up, panting.
He was scratched by the tiger in many places. Although the scratches were not fatal, they were very painful.
If Ye Yuzhen was given a little more time, he might be able to kill the tiger without any injury, but in the dark maze, he simply did not have that much time to waste and had to kill the tiger as quickly as possible.
In addition to getting out of the dark maze before the countdown ends, he also has to kill other trial-takers.
Ye Yuzhen was so angry that his teeth were about to break after getting rid of the tiger at the cost of getting injured.
"That bastard, I must kill you." Ye Yuzhen dragged his slightly tired body, pushed the door and walked towards the next room, chasing in the direction where Li Xiu left.
"Don't move." In a room, Li Xiu held down Ah Fei and made her stay completely still.
As soon as he entered the room, Li Xiu heard a faint buzzing sound, which was the sound of some insect flapping its wings quickly.
Li Xiu listened carefully for a while and determined that the sounds were probably made by bees, most likely poisonous bees, and the sounds were heard in several directions.
Li Xiu had to stop and listen slowly. After a while, Li Xiu realized that there were not only poisonous bees in the room, but also a beehive, and there was more than one.
After the poisonous bee flies in the air for a while, the sound of its wings vibrating will disappear for a while. This situation is not a problem with any one poisonous bee, but all poisonous bees will notice this situation, and they are not in the same position.
According to Li Xiu's calculations, there are nine beehives in the entire room. Some are big, some are small, some are high, some are low, some are left, and some are right, distributed throughout the room.
If you rush in like this, no matter which direction you go, you will run into a beehive, and then the poisonous bees in the hive will pour out. You can imagine the tragic scene.
"Let's take a detour. This room is not easy to navigate." Li Xiu calculated in his mind. Although he could bypass the beehives, it would be difficult to calculate the movement trajectories of the poisonous bees that occasionally left the nests.
If Li Xiu was alone, it would be fine. But if she brought Ah Fei with her, she would have no idea of the movement trajectory of the poisonous bees. If she accidentally touched a poisonous bee while moving her hands or feet, who knows if it would bring revenge from the entire bee colony.
After much consideration, Li Xiu decided to avoid this room.
Slowly retreating to the door, Li Xiu reached out and opened it.
The door had just been opened when someone was heard stumbling in and rushing into the house. Li Xiu wanted to reach out to pull him but it was too late.
Hearing the sound of a beehive being smashed and the wings of swarms of poisonous bees fluttering, Li Xiu immediately pulled Ah Fei out of the house and closed the door behind him.
Ye Yuzhen chased Li Xiu angrily. This time he would not wait any longer and did not want to waste any more time. He wanted to catch up with Li Xiu immediately and kill him directly.
As he thought about it, Ye Yuzhen sped up and rushed towards the gate opposite.
The door opened to the room opposite, and he bumped into it without thinking.
Who knew that when he was about to bump into the door, the door actually opened by itself. Ye Yuzhen couldn't stop his momentum and crashed directly into the room.
He rushed forward for several steps without stopping and was about to collide with a beehive facing his face.
Li Xiu couldn't see it, but Ye Yuzhen could. He was frightened when he saw the beehive, but he couldn't stop his momentum. He could only twist his waist forcefully and avoid the beehive in front of him in a very awkward posture.
"Fortunately, my old waist is strong enough. It's not that easy to mess with me!" Ye Yu was really proud of his agility and waist strength, but he only heard a cracking sound coming from under his feet.
Ye Yuzhen's face suddenly changed, and his neck bent down mechanically. Sure enough, he saw a beehive on the ground that was stepped on by him, and a swarm of poisonous bees rushed out from it.
"Ah!" Ye Yuzhen screamed strangely and ran back.
Seeing Li Xiu and A Fei rushing out of the door in front of him, he exerted force with his legs and jumped up, flying out like an arrow, trying to use the momentum of the impact to rush out of the room.
Who would have thought that when Li Xiu went out, he actually closed the door.
Looking at the closed door, Ye Yu's real body couldn't even stop in the air and hit the door with a bang.
Buzz! Buzz!
Swarms of poisonous bees surrounded Ye Yuzhen and stabbed him with their poisonous needles.
"Ah! Ah! Oh..." The screams continued to ring out.
Li Xiu dragged Ah Fei to another room and continued to look for another way out.
No matter where he ran, it was as if there was a map in Li Xiu's mind. Wherever he ran, the map would be remembered and constantly analyzed, calculated, and judged.
After more than twenty minutes, Li Xiu and A Fei finally found the exit. After they walked out, they saw Sha Chu and three other trial-takers had already come out. Together with Li Xiu and A Fei, there were six people in total.
Time passed by minute by minute, and no one else came out except the six of them.
When half an hour was almost up, a man with a head full of lumps and swollen like a pig's head rushed out in the last few seconds.
"The first round of trials has ended, rewards have been distributed, and cleanup is in progress... The countdown to the second round of trials has begun... Those who do not participate in the second round of trials, please take off your trial bracelets..."
Everyone who passes the trial will receive a magic core and a physical enhancement.
Ye Yuzhen's eyes were swollen like slits, and he glared at Li Xiu fiercely. His look was not ferocious at all, but rather pitiful and funny.
"Don't let me see you again, or you will surely die." Ye Yuzhen felt that he was threatening Li Xiu fiercely, but his current appearance did not make people scared at all, and even made people want to laugh.
Li Xiu smiled and said, "Originally, entering the trial field means accepting your fate. If you want to kill me, just come and kill me. I can't blame you if I die."
"Okay, you can do it, just wait for me... Ouch..." Ye Yuzhen wanted to be fierce, but he pulled the wound on his face. He covered his face in pain. This time he touched the sting from the poisonous bee, and he screamed in pain again.
"Next time...next time I will definitely kill you..." Ye Yuzhen took off the bracelet while cursing.
He really didn't dare to go on. His physique was not strong enough to ignore the bee venom. Fortunately, he was already a real trial-taker with a physique far superior to that of ordinary people. If he were an ordinary trial-taker, he would have been stung to death long ago and would not have had the life to run out and threaten Li Xiu.
Several other ordinary trial-takers chose to withdraw. The difficulty of Level B is already very high for ordinary people, and being able to come out requires a certain amount of luck. They are unwilling to continue taking risks.
Li Xiu, A Fei and Sha Chu chose to continue. The second round of trials required them to get out of the dark maze within twenty minutes.
The three of them walked together this time. Although the layout of the maze had changed, the three of them still easily passed through the dark maze within twenty minutes.
With three people still left, the next round actually started directly with the final trial. The rules of the Brave Trial Field were obviously somewhat different from those of other trial fields.
After receiving the reward, Sha Chu looked at Li Xiu and Ah Fei and said, "According to the rules, the next round of trials should require us to pass through the dark maze within ten minutes. This is almost impossible, unless we can choose the correct room, not even once, and not be delayed by the poisonous insects and beasts inside. This is too difficult. I give up. What about you?"
"I want to give it a try." Li Xiu thought for a while and said, if he doesn't participate in the final trial, he won't get other rewards. Only body enhancement and magic core rewards can't meet his needs.
"I give up too." Ah Fei was the person who least needed to give up, but she knew that she was just a burden in such a trial and didn't want to waste Li Xiu's time.
The final trial only lasts ten minutes, and Li Xiu cannot afford to be distracted, otherwise he will easily die in it.
"Let's go together." Li Xiu stopped A Fei and asked her to continue to participate in the trial, because Li Xiu was sure of winning.
The reason why Li Xiu took so long to come out during the first round of trials was not only because Ye Yu really made trouble and was unfamiliar with the dark maze, but also because Li Xiu deliberately walked through most of the rooms.
When walking through the dark maze for the second time, Li Xiu had already confirmed one thing.
The maps for these two rounds of dark maze are actually the same, it’s just that the angle of the entire dark maze has been changed, which makes people mistakenly think that the layout of the dark maze has changed, but in fact it has not changed at all.
Because there is no vision in the dark, it is easy to lose your sense of direction, so it is not easy to discover the real situation.
"Okay." Since Li Xiu asked for it, Ah Fei did not hesitate and agreed directly.
"Are you so sure that you can come out of this in one go?" Sha Chu looked at Li Xiu strangely. She couldn't understand where Li Xiu's confidence came from.
"It'll only be one mistake at most, it shouldn't have any impact." Li Xiu said with a smile.
"Okay, since you are not afraid of death, I will accompany you this time." Sha Chu suddenly changed his mind and wanted to face the final trial with Li Xiu.
Sha Chu himself felt that it was impossible to complete the trial within ten minutes, but Li Xiu seemed very confident.
Based on her understanding of Li Xiu, he is obviously not someone who would take risks without being sure, so she chose to enter the final trial with Li Xiu.
Deep down in his heart, Sha Chu actually wanted to know how Li Xiu would be able to pass through the dark maze within ten minutes.
The final trial began, and it lasted for ten minutes as expected. Sha Chu and A Fei both looked at Li Xiu.
"Hold hands, all you have to do is follow me." Li Xiu held A Fei's hand, and A Fei held Sha Chu's hand.
The three people, led by Li Xiu, moved forward quickly in the darkness and opened the first door.
After entering the room, Li Xiu did not immediately choose which door to enter, but instead touched the other three walls of the room.
"Go back." Li Xiu's words made Sha Chu's heart tighten immediately.
"No way, did we go through the wrong door at the first door?" Sha Chu felt a little regretful now. What if Li Xiu really made a mistake and couldn't get out of the dark maze within ten minutes, wouldn't she be buried with him?
"Alas, one should not trust others too much. Only oneself can be relied upon." Sha Chu thought a little uneasily.
Li Xiu took them back to the original room, and then walked towards another door without hesitation.
Next, Li Xiu didn’t care about anything else. After entering a room, he immediately rushed to the next door.
He chose left, then right, and from time to time he chose the door directly in front of him. Anyway, Sha Chu couldn't figure out why he made such a choice.
But not long after, the three of them arrived at the exit, and the time to complete the final trial was fixed at nine minutes and thirty-one seconds, which was still plenty of time.
"How do you determine which door to go through? Are there any markings in the dark maze?" Sha Chu had clearly followed Li Xiu all the way, but she still didn't understand how Li Xiu got out. She couldn't understand anything she saw.
"This thing is difficult to explain, and even if you understand it it's useless." Li Xiu was telling the truth.
Even if Sha Chu understood what to do, she didn't have the same memory and judgment as Li Xiu, so it would be useless even if she knew it.
Sha Chu's eyes twitched, but he said nothing more.
The rewards for the final trial appeared in front of the three people, and each person could choose a reward.
There are also four possible choices for rewards for the B-level trial, but unfortunately only one can be chosen. Li Xiu’s four options are talent, skill, magic core and attribute, which are all common rewards.
Li Xiu chose the attribute reward without saying anything. A powerful energy was injected into his body, which significantly improved his physical fitness again.
“The B-level attribute reward is not bad. After another ten or twenty times, I think I will be able to run like a normal person while carrying the weight of the Fire Lotus Sword.” Li Xiu felt the changes in his body and felt extremely comfortable.
A Fei chose the skill reward, while Sha Chu chose the talent reward.
"When there are skill rewards, why do you choose talent rewards?" Li Xiu asked Sha Chu curiously.
"Of course I want the skill rewards, but compared to skills, I prefer talents. Although talents are not as direct as skills, I don't need to use them myself. They can be used at any time, which is an advantage that skills don't have."
Shachu continued to explain: "There are too many skills, and sometimes I don't know how to choose. For me, it is more practical to have several high-level skills than to have a bunch of low-level skills."
Li Xiu understood what Sha Chu meant. She said that she didn't think highly of B-level skills.
After leaving the Brave Trial Field, the adjutant arranged a dinner to entertain the three of them and invited them to participate in the next Brave Trial.
Li Xiu and the other two naturally agreed happily. The adjutant was very happy to hear that. The four of them toasted to celebrate with their own ulterior motives, and the scene was very harmonious.
However, Li Xiu and the other two didn’t eat much, and they had another meal on the way back to the hotel.
It is still unknown who arranged the murder of the trial-taker. The City Lord's Mansion is highly suspicious, so we have to be on guard.
After returning to the hotel, they brought some food to Ximen Guan. When they saw him, the three of them were scared.
Ximen Guan's hair was disheveled and his face was haggard, and he looked even worse than when he was imprisoned.