Alien Relic Hunter

Ke Lan hesitated for a moment and then turned around and walked back... Rushing into an unfamiliar maze without any information, this kind of behavior can only be done by a fool.

He planned to search the camp again, maybe there were any clues that he had missed...

"Whenever you encounter a fork in the road during the exploration process, unless there are special circumstances, you must leave a mark at the fork that is easily identifiable and cannot be easily erased..."

This is the content of the "Relic Hunter Beginner's Guide" and is a required course for every hunter who enters the industry. Although these people are not hunters, since they are a field team, the training they receive will only be more systematic and strict than that of hunters. .

Even the entrance of the cave is marked with steel nails. There is no reason why these four forks should not leave any marks.

Ke Lan thought this...but when he shined the flashlight straight ahead, he was frozen in place.

On the way back, there were four forks!

"Grass!"

A creepy feeling came over him. Ke Lan slowly bent down, picked up a pebble from the ground, and threw it towards the fork in the road——

The stone hit the cave wall with a crisp "thud" sound, and then was bounced to the ground again.

These four forked roads are real and are not optical camouflage or anything like that...

"Is this the legendary 'ghost against the wall'? I actually got hit by it?" Ke Lan took a deep breath and tried to calm down, "Could it be... another hallucination or something like that? "

If it was a hallucination, when did it start? Where did it start?

After you leave the camp?

Or... earlier?

Ke Lan swept the light of his flashlight over the four forked roads in sequence. Fortunately, these four forked roads were different from the four he had just encountered... Although things were still very strange, at least it was not to the point of being outrageous...

Ke Lan calculated the distance by counting steps. The fork in the road he encountered for the first time was 762 steps away from the camp. Calculated as one step is almost half a meter, that is 381 meters... And after he chose to turn back, he walked another 240 steps. , that is, 120 meters. At this location, the original one-way road turned into a five-way intersection...

This passage is straight, without any branches along the way, just like the ice passage under the glacier ruins, so Ke Lan will never and cannot go the wrong way... It is these four forks in the road, Appearing alive on the only path leading to the camp.

If the old dog were here, he would definitely talk about "evil things" several times in a row.

Ke Lan thought for a moment, turned his head again, and walked in the starting direction.

After another two hundred and forty steps, he returned to the five-way intersection he first encountered... Fortunately, there was no change in this place.

Then, he turned around, closed his eyes, and walked back while counting the steps.

This is a very stupid method... but it is widely circulated among the hunter community. Old hunters often say this to rookies who are visiting ruins for the first time: When you find that you may be trapped in an illusion, don't Believe whatever you see with your eyes, close your eyes, cover your ears, and move forward——

Many hunters who did this fell into the trap with their eyes closed... However, there were also a considerable number of hunters who actually got out of the maze by this method.

Some hallucinations disturb the five senses of human beings, but when people completely abandon the five senses, these hallucinations are of no use at all.

"Two hundred and thirty-eight...two hundred and thirty-nine...two hundred and four."

He opened his eyes, and what appeared in his field of vision was still the five-way intersection that had become somewhat familiar. The four holes seemed like four weird and twisted smiling faces, laughing at his stupid attempt...

"Fuck you, mom." Ke Lan said word by word, and pointed his middle finger viciously at the four holes.

He suddenly thought of the memoirs of a famous hunter he had seen before. He seemed to have written this sentence in it:

"Real danger never waits for you to decide whether to face it, but it swallows you whole when you make the decision."

Ke Lan felt like he was being swallowed by this underground maze... I'm afraid he had already entered this maze after he left the camp.

The old hunter also encountered the underground maze, and he only left six words on how to deal with this situation: "Don't look back, go forward."

"Don't look back, go forward..." Ke Lan repeated softly, "Okay... just be stupid... I didn't expect that the fool was me..."

He turned back for the fourth time, heading towards the four forks he had discovered at the beginning.

What the old hunter said is actually correct. In this case, the more you analyze, the more chaotic the situation will become. If you are rash, you may be able to break this "mysterious" puzzle.

"There are four choices. After turning back four times, I chose the fourth fork in the road." Ke Lan identified the hole on the far right and plunged in.

After walking for almost five hundred meters, four more forks appeared ahead.

Ke Lan stopped and carefully inspected the four cave entrances. There were no abnormalities, nor any valuable findings.

"It's better to choose four, the road will be dark."

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Nearly five hours had passed, but Ke Lan felt as if he had been trekking in this dark underground cave for a year. Counting from the first fork in the road when he left the camp, he had spent the past five hours totaling Encountered nineteen forks in the road, each time there were four options, and every time, he chose the fourth one.

Finally, what appeared in front of him this time was no longer a fork in the road.

It's a dead end.

"Huh...huh..."

"I thought I would always be allowed to choose..." Ke Lan was already a little numb, "It's just like those endless looping horror movies..."

In this dead end, there is a statue.

To be precise, it is part of the statue... This statue was originally supposed to be a huge stone pillar, but now only the top is exposed. A lifelike giant eye is carved on the exposed part of the stone pillar. The pupil of the giant eye has a piece of ore embedded in it, which is emitting a faint dark green fluorescence.

Ke Lan sighed and said two words expressionlessly: "My day."