Chapter 249
The breeze blew on the grass was extremely quiet .
Bobtney, which was carrying Su Xiao, ran for nearly two hours .
“Bob, stop . ”
Su Xiao looked at their surroundings . He saw green grass around . He could see some trees before . Now there was only grassland around them .
“What happened?”
The little emperor who was held with one hand by Su Xiao in the air asked . Except for Su Xiao, Bob wouldn’t allow anyone to ride on his back . He would just turn around and bite, no matter who it was . So the only option for the little emperor was to be held by Su Xiao above the dog’s body .
“There is something weird here . ”
. ”Are there any dangerous creatures?”
“No, we may be lost . ”
Su Xiao jumped from Bobtney’s back and pulled out an iron stick from the grass not far away, which he had previously put there .
“How can we get lost? We are moving forward, aren’t we?”
The little emperor looked around, and the scene was roughly the same, an endless area of green grass .
“Bob, run forward . ”
Su Xiao stood in the same place and let Bobtney run straight .
It was normal at first before the route started to shift .
Bob would, from time to time, turn his head and look back at Su Xiao to keep a straight line from him .
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After Bobtney ran a few hundred meters, Su Xiao could only see it vaguely . The strangest thing happened, Bob appeared from behind Su Xiao as if he ran in a circle around them .
Su Xiao guessed correctly . They were going in a circle all along .
This can’t be sensed if there was nothing marking their place, but with him standing still and letting Bob ran alone, it was clear now .
This is pretty hard to deal with . It seemed like it was built to confuse any creature’s sense of direction .
Su Xiao could tell that this was caused by visually, and if they wanted to move straight ahead, they would end up going in a circle .
He won’t be able to solve this quickly unless his perception covers the entire grassland .
Since he can’t tell the direction, he would just go without aim .
This place confuses the sense of direction of creatures, but it wasn’t a maze .
Su Xiao directly got on Bob’s back and gestured for him to move forward .
Now, after going twice in a circle, Su Xiao kept inserting sticks on the ground as markers .
After running aimlessly around in circles for a dozen times, there were dozens of markers on the ground .
There were a few markers going in a straight line, while others were scattered randomly .
“Bob, continue . ”
Su Xiao took out the pen and paper from his inventory . He first drew a circle on the paper and used the pen to point out some black points on the paper .
The circling began, after running for a few dozen circles later, Bob was getting impatient as he knew they were running in circles .
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“The first 30 meters forward, then 50 meters left, then 10 meters right, no, it’s 15 meters right…”
Su Xiao racked his brain to find the right route . Although he looked calm, he had ‘cursed’ the designer of the grass area countless times .
The designer was a perfectionist, changing direction with a different number of steps each time, which made it even more difficult to calculate .
“Bob, move thirty meters forward first . ”
Bobtney turned to look at Su Xiao . The dog was confused . It seemed to ask: ‘Boss, how far are 30 meters? ’
Su Xiao sighed, he somewhat overestimated Bob’s intelligence, Bobtney was a smart creature, but its intelligence was somewhat poor, commonly known as a stupid dog .
“Just move forward, you stop immediately when I ask you to stop, you can’t move one more step . ”
Bob began to move forward, sometimes it turned left, sometimes it turned to the right, and occasionally it took a few steps back .
“This is the direction, keep running . ”
Bobtney ran wildly . The view changed, it was no longer a grass area .
They succeeded .
The surrounding scenes were finally no longer the same; some trees appeared .
[You have entered the center of ‘Birummark alchemy trial ground’, alchemy poison begins to change . ]
[You are eroded by ‘Sdrolo’ alchemy poison, strength-10, agility-10, physical strength-10, and 7 points of real damage per second . ]
[do you want to turn on a high-level air filter? it costs 300 Paradise coins per hour . ]
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Su Xiao felt his body getting heavier from the poison .
“Activate it . ”
Although he was reluctant, he had to use the air filter, or else he’d die .
After half an hour, the grass started to disappear as walls appeared from the sides forming a tunnel which was getting narrower .
In the end, they were in a cave . The cave was about ten meters high, and the plants on the ground were withered .
A heavy smell directly attacked them, which made Su Xiao order Bob to move further ahead .
After entering the cave, heavy footsteps were her behind them, and suddenly they heard some strange voices . So Bob directly hid in a crack inside the cave .
“Gabahaha… (unknown language) . ”
“Tutu… (unknown language) . ”
This should be some kind of language . Su Xiao couldn’t understand it at all . He just took a peek to see what’s going on .
He could see a group of people about one meter tall, their bodies were thin, the skins were dark yellow, their eyes protruded, the ears were sharp . They looked like humans .
There were five strange creatures . Although they were only about one meter high, they were powerful . Each strange creature held an iron box with three meters high in their hand . The iron box contained black stones .
Su Xiao immediately recognized the stones . It was coal . These creatures were very likely to have intelligence . Were they alchemists? Their appearance didn’t give that feeling .
“They seem to be dangerous species: crypt people, but the crypts people don’t have such great strength . ”
The little emperor recognized the origins of strange creatures .
“Crypt man? A kind of human?”
“No, the crypt people are between humans and beasts . They have an independent language . They usually live on the west side of the mainland . They are numbered in the few hundred thousand . They often rob nearby villages . They also have the habit of eating people . To be exact, they will eat any kind of creature . If they are too hungry, their weak companions are also treated as food for an emergency . ”
The little emperor knew a lot about dangerous species .
During the conversation between the two, the crypt people had entered the cave .
Su Xiao was very concerned about the destination of those crypt people . He began to track several crypt people, Bobtney and the little emperor followed Su Xiao .
These crypt people were familiar with the terrain of the cave . Moving forward in the cave for about ten minutes, the crypt people entered another area .
Boom .
As Su Xiao looked at this new area, he saw some heavy machinery all around the place .
These large machines were steel structures with some metal catheters attached to them, and the other end was attached to the rock wall .
At the center of the area, a ten meters high furnace was working, all the coal transported by the crypt people was put into the furnace .
The temperature of the area was very high . There were hundreds of crypt people around the large pieces of machinery working . Their naked upper bodies were covered with oily sweat . The dark yellow skins were covered with dirt .
Snap!
A crisp sound of a whip came, several tall crypt people were standing on the steel machinery, holding the long whip to supervise the crypt people below working .
These crypt people looked like guards who were about one meter and a half tall, they wore simple armor, their skins were light cyan, and their big eyes were extremely fierce .
When crypt people heard the whip sound, they trembled and started working harder to move coals, maintain the machines, etc .
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