Cataclysm King

  Chapter 52 Rubik's Cube

   Three days later.

  In the dark underground palace, a blue lamp illuminated a corner.

Ji Xun was still burying his head in sorting out the materials in his hands, chanting something from time to time: "In the ancient Tarun language, ''represents space,''represents institutions,''represents secret passages,''represents curse seals,''is The cloister or the confusing passage" seems to point to a kind of noble and supreme existence?"

   Not only read the information, but also took detailed notes.

  In the past two days, he has firmly memorized the hundreds of thousands of characters in this stack of materials in his mind.

  But in fact, except for repeated occurrences, there are less than a thousand characters, and only a few hundred are commonly used.

  Whether it is pictographic or alphabetic, a single symbol refers to a certain semantic meaning. As long as it is a symbol that appears many times, once it is analyzed in the context, the general meaning can be deciphered slowly.

   appears frequently enough, the greater the probability of deciphering.

  This is true for any writing system.

  Ji Xun had memorized the content in the 407 space before, which gave him the most direct help.

   Ask the ninth day again, and she still remembers some.

  The two complement each other, and many sentences can be directly translated.

  For three full days, Ji Xun has been translating the ancient Tarun language in the literature except when he was resting for meditation.

   I have to say that super high comprehension and the ability to remember with a photographic memory are really an excellent combination for language learning. Coupled with his dedicated nature, the efficiency of translating ancient Chinese is a hundred times that of others.

  Although there are not many deciphers, and they may not be completely accurate, they have already mastered the general meaning of hundreds of Tarun ancient characters.

  Even if there are still unfamiliar symbols, as long as there is a connection, you can roughly guess some meanings.

  Ji Xun felt that it was almost done.

  Three days have passed, and there is no sound of battle in the maze passage.

   I think there should be no more people to live in the maze.

   The monsters should have been almost cleaned up by the people in the Governor's Mansion.

   At this time, Ji Xun packed up the materials in front of him, then stood up and said, "Let's go. The people in the Governor's Mansion should be almost dead. Let's find a way to get out now."

   "Finally leaving?"

  Hearing this, Nan Jing jumped up happily.

   This kind of sitting time is simply a torment for her lively temperament.

  She didn't know why Chu Jiu believed this guy so much.

   If you say wait, you can wait, and the first wait is still three days.

"Um."

  Ji Xun nodded.

  He and Chu Jiu didn't talk much at first, one translated ancient Chinese, the other healed wounds, and the three of them hardly communicated for three days.

  So, the rest of the South Mirror is boring.

  She tinkered with her summoning cards every day, and used the materials in the maze to make some small skull cards.

  The ninth day of the ninth day did not speak, but also stood up from meditation.

  The most important reason why Ji Xun chooses to act now is Chu Jiu's injury.

  Her silver hair has faded now, and the injury has obviously healed effectively.

  The team's "strongest combat power" and "humanoid radar" have to be taken care of, which is the best insurance to increase the fault tolerance rate.

  The three got up and walked towards the maze.

   Now that they have experience, Chu Jiu and Nan Jing can also deliberately suppress some fears and various mood swings.

  As long as you don't encounter elite monsters, you will basically not attract monster hatred.

  No matter how careful you were, it was almost impossible to avoid monsters in the labyrinth of the large cemetery with hundreds of thousands of skeletons.

  But the group of people in the Governor's Mansion were rampant in the maze, almost pushing the corridors they passed by with force.

   Don't look at the terrifying number of 300,000 skeletons, but the rank is too low, and there is almost no threat to that kind of high-level elite army.

   This also greatly facilitated the three of Ji Xun.

  Now those guys are probably dead, and there is no need to worry about being bumped into the passage suddenly like last time.

  With the super perception of Chujiu, the risk has been minimized.

  The three of them still chose to look at the corridor with traces of battle. Along the way, Ji Xun was still looking for something in the pile of skeletons.

   Sure enough, it didn't take long before they encountered the corpse of the second frost knight.

  The two women also looked solemn when they saw the human corpse killed by the Keeper for the first time.

   Chujiu looked at the shriveled state, and murmured, "Curse means?"

  Nan Jing also said seriously: "It seems to be. The flesh and soul have been drained."

  Ji Xun had studied corpses a long time ago, so he wasn't interested in seeing more.

  He quickly put away the dump ring and equipment on the corpse.

   There is nothing to be polite about.

  The three of them walked along the bone-strewn corridor all the way to the depths of the labyrinth.

   Along the way, Nan Jing left marks along the way.

   This also saved Ji Xun some effort.

  The three continued to walk towards the maze.

  Ji Xun found three more frost knight corpses one after another.

  Including the previous ones, there are five in total.

  Five excellent armors, five great ice swords, five storage rings and some potions, supplies, iron armor, leather armor. There are many good things.

   These spoils of war are definitely a sudden fortune for him, an apprentice card master.

  Unfortunately, no large troops of the Frost Knight Legion were found.

  But there is a high probability that you don't count on it.

  Governor Cao must have died last, and the place where he died must have the most guards, but it must also be full of 【Keepers】.

Along the way,

  As Ji Xun expected, with the "humanoid radar" of Chujiu, the danger of the underground palace has been reduced to the minimum.

  The three of them walked in the tunnel, and she could always sense the breath of powerful monsters immediately, so she could avoid danger in advance.

  Although the [Keeper of Secrets]'s hatred range was farther than her perception, once they sensed a monster, the three of them ran away.

  Using some obstacles that have been prepared long ago, the three of them can escape smoothly every time.

   Using this method, the three of them encountered the 【Keeper of Secrets】 several times in the maze, but they never met head-on.

  Without this greatest deadly threat, all that remains is to crack the maze itself.

  Nan Jing had been to the maze to collect skeleton materials before, and actually knew the maze movement mastered by the hunter union.

  But now the door-sealing stone has fallen, and the original way out is blocked.

  They can only find another way out.

  Although Ji Xun picked up an adventurer's diary, it did not record the correct way of walking.

  The three of them turned around in this maze, and it took another three days in a flash.

   This maze is too big.

   I had to avoid some monsters, took a lot of detours, and wasted a lot of time.

   Moreover, the complexity of the labyrinth in the Great Cemetery has always been known by the Hunter Union as being very difficult, and it has only been explored at about 40% so far.

  The remaining 60% may have been walked by, but they are all trapped inside.

   But all labyrinth-like alien spaces have the same fatal threat, that is food and water.

  Although there is a storage ring, the supplies carried by the three of Ji Xun can last for more than half a month at most.

   Even if you scraped the corpses, you got some more.

   But the problem still exists.

  If they can't find the exit, they will eventually be trapped in it.

  In the dark passage, the three of them walked unhurriedly.

  Ji Xun's expression remained calm, walking and observing all the way.

  Chu Jiu didn't make a sound, just followed quietly, focusing on sensing the surroundings.

   But the psychic lady seemed a little anxious.

  Anyone who walked for three days in such an oppressive underground palace with no way out would feel restless.

   Oh, no.

   That guy didn't!

  Nan Jing even suspected that this guy was an expressionless zombie.

  Two days ago, she could still hold her breath. After all, Chu Jiu said that this guy named Ji Xun is a very powerful decryption master.

  Before, Nan Jing still believed in it.

   But just the observations of these two days.

  She feels more and more unreliable.

  Where does this guy look like a master of decryption?

  I don’t know what to ask, and when I choose the corridor, I just choose someone else’s path, and I don’t even mark it.

   This made her wonder if Chu Jiu was cheated.

  Finally, the three of them came to a fork in the road again. Nan Jing saw the mark he had left on the wall for the third time, and couldn't help muttering: "Ah, shall we continue walking?"

  Ji Xun responded lightly: "Yes."

  Chu Jiu looked at the sign on the corner of the wall, although he knew what Nan Jing was referring to, he didn't speak.

But Nan Jing couldn't help it, and reminded anxiously: "But, this is the third time we have come to this corridor. In other words, we have fallen into an endless loop. Food and water alone are useless. Aren't we going to find other routes we haven't traveled?"

  The more she talked, the more resentful she became. She really doubted whether this guy would be able to solve the maze. She didn't even understand this bit of common sense.

  “.”

  Ji Xun listened, and glanced at her, his eyes narrowed slightly.

   Along the way, he didn't express all his puzzle-solving ideas too early.

  One is that it is unnecessary.

  Second, many ideas can only be known by him, and he can't explain them clearly for the time being.

  Chu Jiu understood the silence and didn't say anything.

   But Nan Jing didn't understand.

  She asked: "Mr. Ji Xun, can you tell me why we continue to repeat this road now?"

  Ji Xun said casually, "I don't know."

  He really doesn't know.

   The complexity of this maze is something Ji Xun has never encountered before.

  Because, this is beyond the two-dimensional level.

  His photographic memory allows the map of the maze in his mind to form a "QR code".

   But now, there are many bugs on this QR code map.

  The more times you go, the more bugs.

   They have come to this corridor three times, that's right.

   And Ji Xun remembered very clearly.

  ↑←↓←↑→↓←

   This is their fixed move each time.

   But the strange thing is that every time it goes like this, even if it is a cycle, the path is exactly the same in theory, and the marks should also be the same.

   But the strange thing is that most of the passages are the same, but there are a few passages with different marks on the way.

   And after walking twice more, you will find that the passage with disordered marks is not exactly the same as the last time.

   This is the "key point" he grasped.

  Intuition told Ji Xun that as long as he figured out why the passages were different, he would completely unlock the secret of this maze.

  So I can only keep going.

   See what the difference is.

   But walking so many times is not completely fruitless.

   Perception has not been misguided and memory has not been tampered with.

  He is basically sure that the "maze" of this maze is an obstacle at the physical level, not a mysterious level.

   But these findings are speculation for now.

  He didn't want to explain either.

  Nan Jing's expression became very ugly when he heard the sentence "I don't know".

   Are you going to be trapped here?

  She turned her head and glanced quietly: "Sister Chu Jiu?"

  Chu Nine said calmly, "I trust Mr. Ji Xun's judgment."

  The calmness that hasn't changed from the beginning to the end is the reason why it is convincing.

   And she has observed it herself, and she has already seen the complexity of this maze.

  In the current situation, if they were to go by themselves, they would have no idea at all.

  Nan Jing listened, and muttered anxiously: "But."

   After spending three days together, we have a little understanding of each other. Ji Xun knew that this ball-headed psychic lady was not hostile, but felt that this kind of headless chicken was running around like a headless chicken, and his heart became more and more anxious.

   After all, after wandering around in the maze for three days without knowing anything, an ordinary person would have collapsed in despair.

   She's been good enough.

   Thinking about it, Ji Xun also revealed a little bit of progress: "The puzzle is almost solved. No surprises, just walk a few more times and the maze will be solved."

  Chu Jiu listened and nodded: "Yes."

  “.”

  Although Nan Jing was skeptical about this statement, it was difficult to say anything.

  The three continued to walk in the maze.

   After a while, it was another half day.

  The three of them walked two more times in the dark corridor, and returned to the intersection again.

  Although Nan Jing questioned it, he was not really stupid.

  She walked two more times, and only later did she realize Ji Xun's intention to walk this road repeatedly, and also found that the signs of the corridor changed every time she walked.

   But even if she found out, she couldn't understand why it happened.

   But this time it was different.

  Walking and walking, Ji Xun suddenly stopped and fell into deep thought.

  Chu Jiu tilted his head and looked sideways, saw the burning eyes under the gas mask, and already guessed something, "What's wrong?"

  Nan Jing also cast a curious look.

  Ji Xun pondered for a moment, then suddenly his eyes froze, and he said, "I have found the correct way to move through the maze."

  The tone was very calm, as if he had long expected that after working hard, he would definitely get an answer.

  Hearing this, Chu Jiu and Nan Jing Qiqi's expressions brightened: Really?

"Um."

  Ji Xun already has enough information in his mind, and he has stitched the information together during this half-day walk.

  Just now, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of the key word: run.

   It suddenly became clear!

  At this moment, looking at the passage in front of him, Ji Xun already understood what the clues that the adventurer named "Yuri" left in his diary were.

  Ji Xun solved the puzzle that had puzzled him for several days, and he let out a long breath.

  Nan Jing couldn't help asking: "Mr. Ji Xun, how do we go now?"

  Ji Xun said to the two of them: "In a while, you run after me as fast as you can."

  Nanjing was unclear, so: "Huh?"

  On the ninth day of the ninth day, he was thoughtful.

   Now that the thinking is clear, there is nothing to say, Ji Xun carefully explained: "This maze is actually not as big as it is in the legend. At least it is not as big and endless as we see with the naked eye."

  Chu Ninth is used to this kind of jumping thinking, and looked at the past as usual.

   But Nan Jing was surprised and puzzled: "Isn't it that we haven't come to the end these few days?"

   They walked for several days without getting out. The maze is so big that I have experienced it myself.

   But now they say it’s not that big?

  Ji Xun said meaningfully: "If you think in a two-dimensional way, you will never be able to solve the mystery of this maze."

   After a pause, he said again: "Because these corridors are not on the same plane at all!"

   After saying this, the two women immediately frowned, obviously unable to understand the exact meaning of this sentence.

  Ji Xun didn't beat around the bush, and directly reminded: "Have you ever played the 'Rubik's Cube'?"

   After saying this, Chu Jiu faintly understood something.

  Nan Jing was half a beat slower and hadn't reacted yet.

  Ji Xun said: "This maze is like a Rubik's cube. It is not a flat maze as seen, but a three-dimensional one, which can move and change."

Without waiting for the two to ask, he directly explained: "In fact, the exit may always be in a certain direction, such as the top of the Rubik's Cube. But every time we approach the exit, the passage of the maze will change, leading us into the wrong direction." This is why we have been stuck in the loop before. The principle is also very simple, that is, there is a sensor at some passage openings, and when we step in, the maze starts to turn. Because the distance is far enough, we do not Cannot perceive the movement of the maze."

   This is already very easy to understand.

  Nan Jing was overjoyed, and understood, and continued: "So, we have to run! Use running to reduce the time difference of the maze's movement, and finally find the exit before it completes its movement?"

"Um."

  Ji Xun nodded with a smile, and added: "And it is to run on the correct route."

  As soon as the idea of ​​solving the puzzle was uttered, all doubts suddenly came to light.

   And Nan Jing looked at Ji Xun again at this moment, the doubts in his eyes before had completely disappeared, and turned into an expression of ignorance.

  It was only then that she understood why the words "Mr. Ji Xun is a master at solving puzzles" that Chu Jiu often said contained gold.

   Only when you see it with your own eyes, will you know that it is really strong!

  The solution to the maze has been revealed, it may not look difficult.

  But it is really difficult to stay in the maze for a few days, get rid of external interference, and analyze the structure of the maze with an absolutely calm mind.

  It's like herself, she can't find an exit these days, and the environment and supplies have gradually made her anxious.

   Moreover, how can a normal person's decryption thinking go back and forth for a day or two in a channel that knows the cycle?

  This kind of almost paranoid behavior, Nan Jing looked completely like "stupid" before.

  But now I know that this is due to the precise judgment and confidence brought by his super puzzle-solving ability!

   There is also the magical brain circuit of the "Rubik's Cube", how did he come up with it?

  Nan Jing realized that she had misunderstood before, and she was not hypocritical, and said directly: "Mr. Ji Xun, I'm sorry, I was too rude before."

  Ji Xun responded with a smile, but he didn't care at all.

   After spending three days together, he had a good impression of this psychic lady.

He added: "However, finding the correct way to move is not absolutely safe. After entering that space, you may encounter many monsters. I am not sure what the situation is, and the risk is definitely not small. We also have to make some preparations in advance .”

"Um."

  Chu Jiu and the two also nodded.

   Finding a breakthrough is already the best news.

   Otherwise, I am afraid that I will really be trapped in this maze.

  (end of this chapter)