Cataclysm King

  Chapter 46 San value

   The light in the maze is dim.

  The main color of dark cyan is very depressing, and there is a suffocating horror in the air. The corridor was very quiet, and occasionally a gust of wind blew through, bringing out bursts of mournful cries like the moaning of a wronged soul, which echoed in my ears for a long time.

  It seems that the end of the dark corridor is the intersection leading to hell, making people tremble with fear every step they take.

  The details of rusty blades and axes, broken clay pots, and fragmentary bones all imply that there will be terrifying monsters here.

  Ji Xun observed it and confirmed that the atmosphere of the maze should be intentional.

   This is a very clever psychological hint, which will affect the mentality of the intruder invisibly.

   But he still doesn't know the purpose of this setting.

  As a senior fan of puzzle solving, Ji Xun knows very well that there is a very important idea in solving puzzles, which is to identify the intention of the layout maker and get rid of interference.

   It's like the dubbing of a horror movie. After it is turned off, the horror atmosphere immediately drops by 90%.

  The more the environment suggests that you should be afraid, the calmer you should be.

Um.

   Originally, he was not prone to fear.

  Ji Xun thought of this, and even more indifferently, walked in the maze passage at a leisurely pace.

  He walked all the way, leaving some nicks on the wall along the way.

  The underground labyrinth is completely sealed. If you don't know the correct way to move, you can only use the traditional marking method to keep trying.

   But Ji Xun knew that if he kept trying like this, he would run into a monster sooner or later, so he didn't dare to go too fast.

  While walking, he kept thinking about where the breaking point of the maze was.

   Three hundred thousand laborers were killed and turned into monsters, the probability of encountering them is very high.

   But maybe the fierce battle in another place attracted the attention of most monsters. He walked through a few passages without encountering any danger.

   I frequently see piles of bones in the corner.

   I can't see why.

  Ji Xun vaguely felt that he was about to grasp some key point.

  But he is definitely not the only one who can think of avoiding the group of people in the Governor's Mansion.

   Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind him.

   "Captain, there are more and more skeletons."

   "Forget about these skeletons, let's go! If we are targeted by the Keeper, we will die!"

   "It's too scary, then [Keeper] actually killed Frost Knight with one move! Damn, what happened, isn't this a D-level space?"

  “.”

  As soon as the voice came, the three people ran over in a panic as if they were being chased by some monster.

   And in the empty corridor behind them, there were dense bone friction sounds of "click" and "click".

   Can't avoid it, and was hit straight.

  Ji Xun took a closer look, and it turned out to be Captain Dong Jiu and two other corpse collector colleagues.

   But he doesn't care who these three people are.

   Instead, he was attracted by another bizarre scene.

  As soon as the three of them came, the bones that were still in a pile in the corridor suddenly seemed to be awakened by some mysterious force, and stood up with a click, turning into skeleton monsters?

  Ji Xun narrowed his eyes slightly, and sighed in his heart: "These dead bones are really monsters?"

  As if a chain effect had been activated, the original skeletons in the tunnel stood up and became [Skeleton Artisans].

  As soon as these undead creatures appeared, in an instant, the entire tunnel became gloomy.

   Seeing this scene, Ji Xun not only didn't feel horrible, but had a flash of inspiration in his mind.

  He seemed to have captured something, thinking in his heart: "In this case, I seem to understand a little bit."

  Fleeing in embarrassment, the three of them were slightly surprised to see Ji Xun in the passage.

   Isn’t this the newcomer?

  Sometimes, when you look at each other, you already know that someone has evil intentions.

  The three rushed all the way, and the guy named Baoya had already touched the dagger at his waist maliciously.

  Ji Xun was originally thinking about the awakening of the skeleton, when he caught a glimpse of the little movement from the corner of his eye, he murmured, "Isn't it good to be alive?"

  He also knew why the three of them did this.

   These guys are not stupid, now there are skeleton monsters in all directions, and seeing being entangled is almost a dead end. Apparently they felt that a bait that could attract the hatred of monsters would keep them alive.

   It is best to see the blood of the bait.

   This kind of lure is often used by hunters in the wild.

  Bao Ya confidently drew his knife, probably because he thought that his Katu second-stage strength could easily cut off Ji Xun's thigh in front of him?

  However, at this moment, a scene that surprised him appeared.

  Ji Xun's slack eyes turned sharp, and he drew his gun quickly.

   Almost at the same time as the bucktooth dagger flashed coldly, a black muzzle of a gun hit the guy's head like lightning.

   With a gun pointed at his head, his buck-toothed expression instantly changed from contempt to infinite horror, and his pupils dilated infinitely, filled with shock.

   But this is the last picture in his life.

   There was a "bang".

  Thunder-like gunshots exploded in the corridor.

   Without any delay, Ji Xun pulled the trigger the moment he drew his gun.

  He didn't take a second look at the guy whose head had exploded in front of him. He quickly turned the gun and pointed it at Captain Dong Jiu a few meters ahead, and decisively pulled the trigger again.

  I didn't intend to kill people, but if I did kill someone, I wouldn't be relentless.

  These three are a team.

  Since the action is made, it must be killed quickly.

   "Boom!"

   "Boom!"

   Fired two shots.

  In an instant, the bullet shot two streams of air in the air.

  Dong Jiu kept glancing at this side from the corner of his eye, seeing Bao Ya being shot in the head, he was startled at first. Seeing that the muzzle of the gun was pointed at him, and the moment his hairs blew up, he also instinctively stopped and turned sideways, and the fighting technique under his feet made him dodge to the extreme.

  He is an apprentice card master with six levels of spell power, and he still takes the "fighter" route, and his nerve reaction speed and muscle burst are several times that of ordinary people.

   This extreme dodge also caused the two shots originally aimed at the chest to miss, and the other hit the shoulder.

   Warhead raglans.

  Besides, the physical toughness of extraordinary people is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and this shot did not cause much trauma.

"you!"

  Dong Jiu looked at Ji Xun, who was aiming at him indifferently with a gun, and looked extremely shocked.

   Is this really the cowardly rookie in my team who has been deducted from his salary?

Before he had time to think about it, Dong Jiu endured the severe pain in his shoulders and turned over and kicked on the ground suddenly. The muscles in his thighs burst out, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the ground with a "squeaky" sound. He rushed towards Ji Xun as fast as a cheetah .

   Extremely fast!

  So what if you have a gun?

   At such a short distance, firearms are not necessarily faster than fighting skills.

  Ji Xun saw that the two shots did not kill Dong Jiu, his expression remained unchanged from the beginning to the end.

   I have to admit that Dong Jiu is really not bad.

  He bought a large amount of supplement medicine with the money obtained by squeezing the newcomers. His physical fitness is much stronger than the average person, and his fighting skills are not bad.

   The two shots just now, Ji Xun thinks that if he is himself, he can't avoid it.

  Great power does not mean it will be used.

   This is the gap in fighting skills.

   But even if the gun is empty, there is no expression fluctuation on his expression.

  His eyes were fixed on Dongjiu all the time, and after his arm stabilized the recoil of the previous shot, he pulled the trigger decisively again.

   However, the third shot also missed.

  This distance is no longer suitable for guns.

   During the gap between shooting, Dong Jiu lowered his body and slammed into Ji Xun's waist, secretly delighted: "This guy is dead!"

   Now that you are close, this is the most ideal over-the-chest throw posture in close combat. As long as you use inertia to lock the opponent's waist, you can immediately turn over and throw him to the ground. The target's skull and vertebrae can be broken in an instant.

   This move is a fatal move.

  However, Dongjiu's happiness only lasted for a moment.

  The next second, his face changed suddenly!

  Did not pick him up as expected, but Dong Jiu felt as if he had bumped into a strong bull, and was startled: This guy didn't move at all?

How can it be!

  I already have six levels of spell power, and I can definitely be regarded as a master among card master apprentices. The strength and explosiveness are not bad, and I am still an intermediate fighting professional, so I didn't hug this newcomer?

  Dong Jiu also realized immediately: This newcomer is also an apprentice of a melee card master! And the power is stronger than yourself!

  But he also couldn't figure it out. For such a strong guy, no matter whether he was a hunter or other income, he was definitely better than being a corpse collector. Why did he come to be a corpse collector and pretend to be a weak chicken?

  However, Ji Xun didn't give the enemy time to figure it out.

   Seeing himself being hugged by the waist, he took a step back to stabilize his body, put the muzzle of the gun against Dong Jiu's waist, and fired twice decisively.

   Hugging and falling at this distance is fatal.

   But guns are deadlier.

  At least for these card master apprentices who don't have magic body protection, bullets can easily penetrate musculoskeletal.

  The gunshot rang out, and blood gushed like a fountain in an instant.

  The bullet pierced through the internal organs, and the blood on Dong Jiu's face faded quickly.

  Ji Xun looked at Dong Jiu who was slowly lying on his feet, still panting, and shot another shot in the head.

   This is completely dead.

  The corpse fell in a pool of blood.

  Ji Xun killed two people in a row, without even taking a second look at the corpses on the ground, he turned his gun around again and aimed at the last living victim in front of him.

   Scarlet Liu was completely dumbfounded, only fear and disbelief remained in his eyes: Captain Dongjiu is dead?

  How could he have never imagined that the usual rookie would be so ruthless that he would even kill two people without even shaking his hands?

  Many head Liu looked at the muzzle of the gun aimed at him, and his body trembled with fright: "Brother, no, big brother, don't kill me!"

   Ji Xun tilted his head to look at it, but didn't pull the trigger, just staring at it coldly.

   Pulling the trigger was just one more bullet, but he didn't.

  Leave one alive,

   Just to verify my judgment just now.

   Killing is only a few breaths, and at this time, the skeleton monsters in the maze are gradually approaching.

  These skeleton monsters are not fast, and their attack power is not strong. Only when three or five small skeletons attack together can they pose a fatal threat to ordinary people.

   But the combat power is not enough, there are a lot of them.

   In the blink of an eye, hundreds of skeletons and skeletons were already rushing into the corridor where the two were.

   There are more and more behind.

  And some of these monsters are holding old axes, swords, and shields in their hands.

  These weapons are shabby, but deadly.

   Seeing more and more skeleton monsters with thick bones coming, Scarlet Liu was already scared to death.

  He wanted to escape.

   But he was pointed at by a dark muzzle and dared not escape.

  What made Scarlet Liu unable to understand was that the newcomer who pointed a gun at him didn't even run away?

   You just want to use me as bait, why don't you run away?

  Ji Xun didn't say a word, just raised his gun, and quietly retreated to another fork in the road.

  The experience of [407 Abnormal Biology Research Institute] gave him a lot of experience and inspiration.

  He now knows that obeying the space rules is the only reasonable way to clear the level.

  Although the information obtained from enlightenment just now is not much, it is already obvious.

  Key words are: solving puzzles.

   In this maze, 300,000 laborers were killed, that is to say, there were 300,000 skeleton monsters.

  For spell card masters, these low-level skeleton monsters are indeed one punch at a time.

   But there are 300,000 skeletons in this necropolis maze, can you punch 300,000 punches?

   Besides, it sounds like there is a [Keeper of Secrets] who can instantly kill Frost Knight.

  Ji Xun doesn't think killing monsters is the correct way to clear the level.

  So, at this moment, he needs to clarify some things first.

   For example, the monster's hatred mechanism.

  Ji Xun has been carefully observing the various body details of the skeleton monster.

  Standing at the fork in the road, in case I make a wrong judgment, I can retreat calmly.

   Prepare with both hands, able to advance and retreat.

   Ji Xun naturally has nothing to panic about.

  But Liu, who was robbed and pointed at, was already scared out of his wits, and his face was as pale as a sheet of fear.

  He also couldn't figure it out, the monster had already arrived, why didn't the guy on the other side run away?

   At this very moment, the skeleton monster has approached within ten meters, and the sound of crunching and rubbing bones makes one's hair stand on end.

   Scarlet Liu finally couldn't bear the fear of approaching death.

   It's dead anyway!

   Waiting for death is worse than running away!

   This guy let out a strange cry of "Ah", and regardless of pointing at the muzzle of his gun, he turned around and ran towards another passage crazily.

   Immediately, a large number of skeleton monsters chased after him.

  Seeing the skeleton monsters coming like a tide, Ji Xun still didn't make any changes.

  Did not shoot, did not flee, kept breathing as low as possible, and hid in a dark corner.

  Because a bizarre scene is taking place.

   Those skeleton monsters seemed to be unable to see the living people close at hand in the passage, and all of them went after the fleeing scarlet Liu.

   Seeing countless skeletons running in front of his eyes, Ji Xun's eyes were bright: "So that's how it is."

  At this moment, he finally came to an accurate conclusion in his mind: Skeleton monsters rely on fluctuations in sanity value to capture targets. Or in other words, the San value in the previous life concept!

  When Ji Xun was in the car and heard Dongjiu and the others talk about the skeleton monsters in the maze, he had a doubt in his heart: those skeletons only have skeletons, how did they perceive and lock on the target?

  General organisms rely on various sensory organs to complete target perception, such as smell, temperature, vision, and sound.

   But skeletons have no organs.

   Not even brains.

   This is a magical world, but it does not mean that there is no basic logic.

  Since the skeleton can perceive the living, it must be caused by some objective factors.

  I couldn't help it when I was alone just now, but I didn't expect to meet Dong Jiu and the other three.

   Fortunately, there are conditions for verification.

  There are two corpses on the ground, and the flesh and blood are still fresh.

  There is temperature and there is smell.

   But the skeleton monster is not interested at all.

   It also directly proves that flesh, smell, and temperature are not factors that attract the hatred of skeletons.

  The range immediately becomes smaller.

   And Ji Xun left alive just now to rule out the last few possibilities.

  Actually, when the three broke in at first, Ji Xun carefully observed the body reactions of those skeletons and found something abnormal.

  The moment the skeleton monster appeared from the corner of the corridor, almost all the skulls found the target, and the skulls had a tendency to "look".

   This does not mean that their empty eye sockets really saw anything, it is most likely an instinct left behind during their lifetime.

  But it can be judged from this that the target of the monster's hatred.

   Obviously, their attention was all on Dong Jiu and the three of them, and they didn't see Ji Xun at all.

   Only a few [elite skeletons] with tall skeletons noticed it, and turned their heads to look over. But as soon as he put on the clown mask and suppressed his mood swings, the monster instantly lost its target.

  Ji Xun thus ruled out the two perception pathways of the skeleton: soul and breath.

   Not much left.

   Both are two living people, the biggest difference is that one is full of fear, while Ji Xun has controlled his fear.

  The facts were right in front of our eyes, and the skeletons were all chasing the scarlet Liu who was so frightened.

  So we come to the final conclusion: the reduction of San value caused by fear is the most important incentive to attract skeleton monsters!

   And thinking about walking alone in the tunnel before, those dead bones did not wake up. Ji Xun didn't understand why at that time.

  Thinking about it now, it's just that from the first moment he entered the maze, his San value fluctuated very little, and it didn't reach the critical value to arouse the hatred of monsters.

  The environment of the labyrinth is full of horror hints all the time, and it is also to affect the San value of the intruder.

   This had little impact on Ji Xun, who had discovered the abnormality long ago.

   Figured this out.

  The danger in the maze was immediately reduced by half.

  This is the difficulty that the original [Great Cemetery Labyrinth] should have when it was rated as a D-level space.

  Ji Xun already saw the hope of breaking the game.

  Of course, this does not include the [Keeper of Secrets] that no one has seen.

  (end of this chapter)