When Li Ang fell to the ground, he preemptively stepped on the invisible steps generated by the Cloud Ascending Ladder skill for cushioning, making not a sound.
However, the mutant creature plowing the field suddenly retreated half a step, as if it could "see" Li Ang, unable to hide its shock.
It froze in place for a full five seconds before snapping out of it, trembling all over,
retreating half a step, hurriedly grabbing the rusty longsword with its most robust green arm, and slashing at Li Ang.
Its entirely green arm was extrely strong, but its force and sword-wielding skills could only be described as "clumsy."
Li Ang did not dodge or avoid, casually waving the long spear, with a crisp "clang,"
the longsword held by the mutant creature was cleanly knocked away, spinning and nailing onto the wall, the hilt vibrating nonstop.
The weapon was taken away,
the mutant creature began trembling all over, seemingly stunned by fear, retreating several steps,
then suddenly turned around, abandoning the sword,
and ran away madly towards the room door.
Just ran away? Didn't even struggle?
Do I look that terrifying?
A hint of confusion flashed in Li Ang's eyes,
he had encountered countless scripted monsters before, almost a thousand or eight hundred,
ranging from fierce and ferocious to ghostly and sinister,
but this was the first ti he saw one so timid and cowardly.
Li Ang furrowed his brows slightly, landing on the ground; he really hadn't intended to kill the opponent directly; otherwise, he could have shot or released the Disintegration Technique just now.
In this script task, almost all the creatures encountered could resist the Mystery Delver title skill's mind-reading effect; uncertain if this was the script's design or they all had psychic defense attributes.
Nonetheless, the mutant creature before him lacked strong psychic defenses, allowing the Mystery Delver title skill to discover secrets.
The previous mind-reading result showed, "So lonely,"
after Li Ang appeared,
the mind-reading result changed to, "So scared,"
The mutant monster looked that terrifying but was so cowardly...
Li Ang shook his head, left hand holding the revolver, right holding the long spear, chasing after the mutant creature's back.
With his speed, he could easily catch up anyti,
ending the cowardly mutant creature's life with one spear,
or using various psychic abilities,
like "Dizziness Spell," "Clone Technique," "Domination," to control it.
Letting it escape was just Li Ang wanting to see where it could run to — this area seed exceptionally vast,
having a well-known terrain guide would definitely be better than exploring alone — after all, drones and scout bugs could not be used.
Li Ang followed behind the creature for a while,
the mutant creature seed to have lived around here for a long ti, choosing a path quite complex in its panic escape, theoretically able to shake off trackers with forks and blind spots,
it even voluntarily entered rooms with chanism traps, wanting to block Li Ang.
However, Li Ang had already left spores carrying Swamp God Power on it,
and released "Suggestion" from the list of psychic abilities on it.
"Suggestion" is a second-level skill from the ntal Ability Enchantnt Series, inducing the affected to follow suggested instructions.
Under the effect of "Suggestion," the mutant creature would involuntarily run, trying to reach a place it considered safe, Li Ang only needed to follow behind, maintaining spiritual energy effects and spore tracking position,
to find the place most likely to trigger the plot.
To maintain pressure on the mutant creature, create a sense of fear, and enhance the "Suggestion" skill effect,
Li Ang also intermittently laughed crazily from behind, yelling, "Run, cry, scream, then die."
If the opponent got tired and slowed down, he would symbolically speed up to shorten the distance,
simulating various noises with his mouth, like electric saws and machine guns.
He chased the mutant creature like a wicked villain, casually took out a walkie-talkie, pressed the button, and connected to the communication.
Li Ang: "Hello? Is anyone there?"
Ding Zhensi: "I'm here, why did you disconnect just now?"
Li Ang: "I had a strange creature here, not very strong; I'm chasing it now. How's your side?"
Ding Zhensi: "You can play by chasing creatures now? Anyway, I'm still in that closed room with statues, no doors or windows, just a wall with a bunch of puzzles."
Li Ang: "Puzzles?"
Ding Zhensi: "Yes, the whole wall has many stone bricks, differing shapes like Russian blocks, interlocking. Only the topmost square stone brick is white; the rest are black. There's a square gap at the bottom that matches the white stone brick's area."
Ding Zhensi briefly explained the situation in his room, Li Ang imdiately said, "Huarong Road?"
"Yes."
Ding Zhensi replied, "I tested it just now, couldn't leave the room using brute force, seems to require
to solve the similar Huarong Road puzzle on the wall.
If it were an ordinary hero, they might face the dual dilemma of diminishing oxygen and slowed thinking as ti progresses.
Fortunately, I brought an oxygen tank with ..."
Li Ang offhandedly asked, "Can you solve it?"
"I can."
Ding Zhensi confidently said, "Although I'm not very smart myself,
the Kui Ox cha I pilot is equipped with the most advanced computer processor,
even a tough chess ga can be brute-force cracked with exaggerated computing power, overwhelming the challenge.
The trivial Huarong Road ga will be solved in minutes."
How can you say with such confidence that you have low intelligence?
Using AI made by others to play puzzle gas, so proud of it,
are you the legendary talented but immoral?
Li Ang's eye twitched, almost complained,
but he had similar experiences — using AI chess software on the phone to find roadside chess gas for a ten or twenty yuan win, he didn't really complain.
Just as Ding Zhensi used the Kui Ox cha to solve the Huarong Road puzzle, Liu Wu Dai's walkie-talkie signal also joined the network,
her room had no direct danger,
according to her description, she was in a large well-shaped space, everywhere were freely rotating, directional-changing, connecting and separating stone staircases,
requiring careful observation, timing, taking advantage of the rapid staircase rotation interval,
to climb all the way to the top of the space — where a window emitting white light should be the exit.
This level of predicant certainly couldn't stop Liu Wu Dai,
Her figure was light and agile, hopping back and forth in the stairwell; she estimated it wouldn't take long to escape the predicant.
Li Ang summarized the current situation of the three people. The places they were transported to were dangerous but not deadly.
They could use their own abilities to get out of the predicant.
"According to the hints we heard from the surrounding environnt before, the so-called trial should be to go to each room, constantly searching for the way up."
Li Ang said on the intercom channel, "Until we climb to the top and get so kind of reward."
"I don't know where Hoenheim and the others are."
Ding Zhensi said, "There's no signal from them on the intercom; maybe they're beyond the 10km communication range, or they're in a signal-blocking space,
or perhaps they encountered a powerful opponent or a deadly room and have no ti to pick up the intercom..."
Li Ang thought for a mont and said, "The intercom's battery can last for three hours of talk ti at most.
We didn't use much battery in the underground palace before, so there should be at least another hour or more remaining.
For now, we maintain the power-on state and, during our exploration, continuously describe the room scenes we see along the way to others,
hopefully mapping out a rough diagram of the entire building based on each person's route and the rooms they pass through to regroup as soon as possible.
When only thirty minutes of talk ti remains, then we'll save the battery."
"Okay."
Liu Wu Dai agreed; with a player's agility level, they could move quite fast, only stopping to think when encountering puzzles.
The hint said to move upward, so it's reasonable to assu this place is divided into different floors; perhaps there are multiple paths and multiple solutions to reach the upper levels.
It shouldn't be possible to get stuck on a particular floor.
"Hoenheim and the others haven't yet connected to the intercom network."
Li Ang pondered and said, "Here's what I'll do: as I move, I'll leave arrow marks at intersections and on walls to mark my path.
If you head upwards and follow these marks, you should be able to find
and we can reunite."
"Good idea."
Ding Zhensi agreed, "But what if we encounter looping paths or dead ends? Could it negatively impact Hoenheim's route?"
"We can note the current ti next to the marks,
or use more complex symbols, even maps or text for annotation."
Li Ang casually said, "Just like how thieves would leave burglary symbols on walls near apartnt buildings,
a slanted square symbol indicates no one lives there,
a 'day' character symbol extends with vertical lines on both sides, indicating danger to avoid.
Of course, we don't need to be so complicated; we can directly leave text descriptions and ti records on the walls and doors.
When Hoenheim and the others see them, they'll naturally understand what's going on."
Li Ang had previously made a point to learn the symbols used among thieves,
but the aning of these symbols isn't fixed.
Different theft groups have their conventions and use special codes according to agreed rules, which only group mbers understand.
Of course, with surveillance caras everywhere in today's real world, all connected to the Skynet monitoring system managed by AI,
thieves or burglary groups,
once they leave a mark at a residential entry, will be flagged as a dangerous target by Skynet AI within seconds, followed persistently,
and their birth address, growth experience, and recent months' activity will be traced automatically,
and if identified as thieves, a warrant will be issued to the local jurisdiction imdiately,
apprehending the group within minutes and throwing them in jail.
For the age-old profession of theft, the Skynet monitoring system is a dinsional reduction strike.
Common thieves now have no room to operate; nearly all civilian devices are moving towards internet connectivity—from the smallest phones to larger bikes and electric vehicles,
the computing power of computers can greatly make up for the lack of police resources, not to ntion the Special Affairs Bureau is developing intelligent robots for various roles.
Li Ang's drifting thoughts returned to focus,
the special skills he had learned with effort over the years,
such as lock-picking, cryptography, and underground slang,
were now of no use.
However, he didn't feel much regret—this was also an inevitability of technological progress,
after the monitoring system is fully deployed, most people will be under AI surveillance,
it will be increasingly difficult to hide secrets or utilize special skills in the gray areas.
Probably, even Li Ang's cover will be exposed eventually.
He's just not sure whether he'll reveal his identity on his own or be uncovered by soone or so organization.
In his mind, concern over his identity being exposed flashed briefly,
with his current strength, even if his identity were fully exposed, it wouldn't be a major problem,
especially since he had given Wang Congshan "that" item, so he did not worry about her personal safety being threatened.
Due to the Kui Ox cha driven by Ding Zhensi having photo printing and text spraying functions, Liu Wu Dai and Li Ang each had their skills to conveniently and efficiently leave marks,
so after a brief discussion, the three of them headed upward in their respective directions, leaving symbol marks as they explored.
They weren't too concerned that the marks would be altered by monsters in the script task, misleading those who ca later—
the symbol markers were just a substitute for the intercom link being unavailable,
as long as Hoenheim and others could free up a hand and re-establish contact, they wouldn't need to rely on symbol markers to regroup quickly.
"The intercom Hoenheim gave seems to have quite a few hidden features."
Li Ang casually chat in the intercom channel while chasing the mutated creature unhurriedly, "There's even a frequency modulation broadcast function."
Ding Zhensi said, "The broadcast function probably won't work in this script world since there are no broadcasting stations here."
"Tsk."
Li Ang smacked his lips a bit regretfully; he was curious to hear what a broadcast program in this other world would sound like, "This script world's background setting is quite diverse and complex,
with their technical level, developing a broadcast station shouldn't be too difficult.
Uh... I just rembered when I took the English Level 6 exam long ago."
"Brother Li, you took the Level 6 exam?"
Ding Zhensi was slightly surprised. According to the Special Affairs Bureau's estimates, Li Rising might be soone who lives a mundane and cautious life as an ordinary citizen,
living a mundane life, which is why he lets loose in the killing ga.
"Yeah, I did."
Li Ang said naturally, "But the Level 6 listening test was really hard. As I listened, I tuned it to 92.1 MHz."
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