Mystery: Paradox Path

In the dark and deep passage, lit lights came from afar, and a group of more than 20 people walked slowly with lanterns. As the scenery in front of them changed, the man at the head, dressed like a poker player, suddenly pushed hard. With a wave of his hand, he said in a majestic voice:

"Sneak attack is prohibited here."

The position with a little electric light spread, and a series of sharp screams suddenly sounded in the darkness.

The dull black flames followed, turned into a ring of fire and spread out, silently igniting the monsters in the dark, and the team continued to move forward in the shrill struggle and mourning.

Each cabin of the Ghost Empire is very huge. This is not because of the brainless proportional enlargement in the design. In fact, at the beginning of this ship's establishment, every compartment was also designed with the normal size of a human being. But in the past thousands of years, under the influence of the hand of order, the ship has been infiltrated by a certain order, and the rooms with similar functions and similar internal structures began to slowly merge, and finally became huge, as if A labyrinth world like a small biosphere.

The crew room has become a undead lair full of undead and wraiths; the storage compartment is full of various golems; the watertight compartment that was originally used for water isolation has now been filled with sea water; the original kitchen has also become The mountain of swords and the sea of ​​fire...

The MI9 team took a map that was only about 40% complete, and began to explore this labyrinth with the normal sailing structure as a guide.

"Collect the loot and check if there are lighting facilities nearby." Grove quickly gave the order, and the members of MI9 dispersed in groups of three.

Not long after, as a fire suddenly rose, the gloomy atmosphere was also swept away.

The labyrinth cabins of the Ghost Empire are not really dim. In fact, many cabins have lighting devices, but these devices need to be triggered manually. Most of the time, adventurers can't even deal with monsters in the dark. Spare energy to excite lighting equipment.

Soon, several people who collected the spoils came back, and in their hands, they were holding a few fist-sized wriggling internal organs.

The Ghost Empire ship has the ability to actively absorb Beyonder characteristics. If it is not immediately stripped after killing a monster, it will be recovered by the Ghost Empire and reprocessed into monsters.

For monsters, it is also possible to reduce losses by speeding up their actions, but if the deceased is a Beyonder, it is often absorbed by the ship together with the corpse before the Beyonder characteristics are released.

"The level of materials has been significantly improved. It seems that we are heading in the right direction." Integra looked at the extraordinary materials and said with a hint of admiration.

Novart, who was in charge of summarizing information and drawing a map, couldn't help showing a proud look, but it was only for a moment that he forcibly stabilized his mind to prevent himself from falling into the witch's trap.

She didn't care about his posture because of Tegula's disease. She looked at the environment in the cabin and couldn't help but sigh:

"The original function is completely invisible here. Speaking of which, this ship will actively destroy the internal structure, which is a bit unreasonable."

"It's just for humans." Grove shook his head lightly, as a chaos hunter, speaking from experience:

"There is an order for people and people, and ships have rules for ships. The original structure of the Ghost Empire was built to allow humans to live a normal and comfortable life, so a large number of compartments suitable for human size were needed, but there are no human beings in the Ghost Empire. What it needs is an isolation layer that can protect itself, so the watertight cabin will be filled with water, and the dormitory will be merged... What humans think is unreasonable is just arrogant words from their own perspective.

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"His Royal Highness is like a philosopher." Integura's tone carried an indescribable meaning, but Grove did not answer. He just swept his eyes to the areas suitable for avoidance, but did not clean up, but Lead the team directly towards the door a few hundred meters away.

For the ghost empire with the characteristics of the creator, monsters cannot be killed. In other words, the more you kill now, the more characteristics the ghost empire can recycle, and the key to creating more monsters in the future is position.

Instead of that result, it is better to leave more monsters and let them have the characteristics of the ghost empire, just like a real-time strategy game card population.

The team moved forward slowly. Under the leadership of the two semi-god-level powerhouses, the whole process was smooth sailing. However, both Grove and Integra were vaguely aware that something was wrong.

Because the strength of these monsters is too average.

Although there are no Sequence Five or above powerhouses among the Beyonders who died in the Ghost Empire, the monsters transformed by the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence Six and Sequence Seven have never appeared. The Empire has almost no resistance to "Extraordinary people exploring the labyrinth", otherwise, not to mention sending more monsters, just setting stricter rules is enough to keep the vast majority of adventurers here.

But in fact, the survival rate of adventurers who entered the labyrinth was more than ten percent.

Don't think it's too little, this is a miracle-level survival rate for a relic of the ghost empire level. In fact, let alone a ghost empire, even if it is a relic involving the heritage of a demigod, wild adventurers explore The survival rate is this number.

In fact, this is a good thing for most people, because it means that the efficiency of exploration is improved.

But not so with Integra.

It is precisely because of the misjudgment of the mortality rate that there were obvious deviations in the operation of the rules she added, so that without accumulating enough bugs, it has begun to show inconsistencies with the original rules of the Ghost Empire. compatible.

"What is this big guy thinking? Or, it doesn't actually think anything? It's just acting according to specific rules? But it shouldn't! The reason why the ghost ship is a ghost ship is because it has... etc. a bit!"

A possibility suddenly appeared in Integra's mind, and his eyes became a little dangerous. Is the Ghost Empire really just a big ship that has come alive?

Is it really just a ghost ship?

The thought arose, and Integra released a slap in the face at himself, and almost at the same time, Grove showed a vigilant look——

"Ms. Integura, what have you done?"

No wonder Grove is vigilant. It is true that this witch's mental state is very strange. Although she maintains a reasonable rationality in terms of spiritual body and communication, she always has some inconsistencies, such as inexplicable. If it wasn't for the Chaos Hunter's ability to confirm that she was in good condition, Grove would even wonder if this woman was on the verge of losing control.

"Don't be nervous... I just found a small problem..."