C27 encounter

The hills were like chess.

When I saw the first hill that protruded from the ground, I suddenly understood the reason for the majestic legend about the thirty-six plates.

The circular and orderly hill was not far in front of him, or was it more suited to be a small mound? Its diameter was less than ten meters and its height was about five meters. Some green vegetation covered it, and occasionally some colored wildflowers would appear on it, drowning this dark green sea of trees.

From the looks of it, it really did look like a chess piece that had been enlarged by wireless. However, he didn't know if this one was black or white.

At this moment, I suddenly had the feeling that I had fallen so high that I looked down at the thirty-six plates from above to see if the hill hidden within was really a chess piece on a chessboard.

"This place is really strange and powerful!" I took out my pocket watch and was surprised to find that it had stopped moving. The second hand was placed one after the other, unwilling to move any further.

The time card was 3: 47, which made me a bit uncomfortable. I reached out to randomly dial a number and put it back in my pocket.

Lil Thing also stopped calling out. It was lying quietly on my shoulder as it looked around vigilantly. Fan Cunlong was the same as well. He walked forward slowly, to the point where every step he took was light. He kept poking at the grass with the branch he was holding, making sure we were absolutely safe with every step we took.

After I had walked through around seventeen mounds in the first round of thirty-six plates, I heard Fan Cunlong say in a slightly thick voice: "The first round is over, we have to enter the second round now. I can't guarantee whether there will be any beasts in the second round or not.

After they passed the first round, Fan Cunlong said that, according to his understanding, the first three sets should not encounter any kind of wild beasts. However, he had only walked through this place once, so he was not 100% sure.

"It's fine, let's go!" I glanced back at the first set and felt dizzy. Looking back, those interlaced trees seemed to have some sort of magic that could attract people's attention and then ravage their brain and senses through their vision.

Quickly retracting my gaze, I saw that there were three trees in front of me. The dizziness in my head made me want to vomit. I was really afraid that if I continued to look, I would be unable to hold back and vomit the food I ate.

The second set felt exactly the same as the first, with at least ninety-nine percent of the things I saw, including the earth, being similar. If I didn't know for sure that we were already in the second plate, I would definitely have thought that the four of us had unknowingly returned to the original location of the first plate and started walking the same path as before.

As I walked, I tried to compare the route I had taken to the first mound with the first. Finally, at the eleventh mound, I found something quite different from the first one.

The position of the mound was not right. Compared to the eleventh 'chess piece' in the first round, the second round clearly had at least three pieces misaligned.

That is to say, at the tenth mound we passed by, we had already unknowingly changed our direction. However, as we passed through the trees, I didn't notice these subtle changes at all.

"If it weren't for the fact that my memory is stronger, even the position of the eleventh mound would have seemed normal, right?" "Don't worry, we didn't make a mistake." Looking at Huang San Huang Si's bewildered and uncertain eyes, I said a few words to them.

Just as Fan Cunlong had said, this place was indeed countless times more complicated than a maze. Even the slightest deviation in one direction would lead to an unknown extreme. Because here, there was no sense of direction.

Raising your head, unable to see the sun, lowering your head... Even with a compass, he would probably fail completely here. The thirty-six plates seemed to have some sort of magnetism that could interfere with things such as pocket watches and fingers.

The further I went, the deeper I went, the more I felt that life was like a game of chess, one wrong step at a time. If he took the wrong step here, it would be hard to find the right path.

It was obvious. This place is also very challenging for Fan Cunlong. He brought us to a place with sweat on his forehead, we have already wiped it off several times.

I don't know how he managed to memorize such a complicated path, but I only followed him through the first set. Even remembering the path of the first set was a bit difficult, not to mention the second set we're going through right now.

This is truly dangerous to the extreme. If Fan Cunlong's memories were to have even the slightest deviation, I would only need to think about the consequences so that I could break out in a cold sweat.

I prayed in my heart, hoping that Fan Cunlong didn't bring us away because he was young and impulsive, even though he didn't seem to be that kind of person. But humans were like this. The moment they became aware of the danger, they would let their imagination run wild. Even though they knew this guess was not reliable, it would still cause them psychological panic.

Unfortunately, I am in this completely unreliable state right now.

At this time and place, there are no other options available to me to choose from. Other than following Fan Cunlong and giving him a 100% confidence in himself, I have no other choice.

Looking back, I don't have any extravagant hopes. In other words, even if I were to turn back, I wouldn't choose to turn back. The purpose of this visit was very clear. I must see it. It's not my style to give up a decision halfway.

I don't know if it was due to losing my pocket watch that I couldn't calculate the time, or if it was because we had unknowingly sped up our pace. Anyway, when the second round was over, the forest that covered the rooftop was unexpectedly quite bright, with only a little bit of darkness.

Fan Cunlong heaved a sigh of relief, and said to me: "Zheng, it seems that we will be able to reach the thirteenth round at night, much faster than I thought."

"No way!" Even though it was still early in the morning, I was still unable to tell how I managed to make it to the thirteen plates. The first and second sets alone had taken a great deal of time.

At this rate, I think it's more or less the same as going through the fourth and fifth sets. Thirteen sets is really quite outrageous.

Fan Cunlong seemed to be able to tell what my son was thinking about. He explained, "We don't need to walk around in circles. The last time I went back, I found a shortcut from here. It can directly go from the fourth to the twelfth round! These two points seem to be connected together. "

"So you're saying, this thirty-six plates is not spread horizontally?" Fan Cunlong's words aroused my curiosity. I asked him and he nodded as he said, "It should be like this. However, the last time we returned from the sulcus basilaris, we ran into two bear blind s in the seventeenth round. After that, we were chased all the way until there was nothing we could avoid, and in the end, somehow, we went straight from the twelfth round to the fourth round. "

"You offended the bear blind? And it's even two? " I was stunned again by Fan Cunlong's words. It was hard for an ordinary person to escape after being targeted, and they could only wait to die. Yet, Fan Cunlong actually managed to offend two of them at the same time and still escape? I wondered, but when I thought about his skill, I felt it was only natural, and then I felt relieved.

Fan Cunlong said a little embarrassedly: "Un, back then I found some movement in the forest, and wanted to ambush me with the thing, so I casually shot it, but I didn't expect to provoke those two big things."

Fan Cunlong's words left me speechless. I didn't know whether to say that he was lucky or unlucky. Just a single arrow would be able to scare off a monster like the bear blind. Fine, fine, I actually managed to find a shortcut in the midst of my haste.

Only after walking past this place would one know how complicated the thirty-six plates was. Even if an expert who had broken through the maze was here, he would probably not be able to find a way out.

Again, the thirty-six plates was countless times more complicated than the maze. Not only was the path much more complicated, the level of access was tens of thousands of times more complex than the maze. Who knew which way to go through the gaps between the trees? With the cover of the shrubs and grass, who knew which direction was the correct direction? All the passages were full of variables, not to mention the existence of the Leopards and Wolves in the maze.

The more they walked, the more they felt that the thirty-six plates was dangerous, and the more they felt lucky that they had actually walked past another place safely. To us, not encountering any ferocious beasts was a matter of great fortune.

It was just that the good times didn't last long. Sometimes, it was really because people didn't want to achieve what they wanted. If they didn't want to do something, they just had to do it. Fan Cunlong who was walking in front suddenly stopped again, and in one breath he nocked an arrow. The bow was like a full moon, and the thick arrow was pointed straight at our right side.

I knew that something was wrong, because within two seconds of Fan Cunlong's actions being completed, I heard a sound that seemed to be hidden behind a bush and grass.

As we approached, I heard a rough humming sound. I immediately realized that I had encountered another herd of wild boars.

Sure enough, four or five seconds later, a bush not too far away on the right was split open. A long nose of a wild boar squeezed out of the bush, then half a body, and then a body.

"Only one?" A wild boar Huang San squeezed out of the bush suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could finish, a second wild boar came out of the bush and appeared in front of us.

And then a third, a fourth, a fifth … Huang San and Huang Si's expressions turned uglier and uglier, and just at this moment, another group of people rushed out from our left side …

He attacked from the left and right, and couldn't move forward or backward. It was as if he had fallen into a desperate situation!