Chapter 12 The Nature of the Labyrinth
At this time, Su Zhou naturally did not know that the enemy attached so much importance to him that he listed himself as the top hunting target.
However, he had already guessed something, and for Su Zhou, it would be abnormal for the other party not to do this.
Now, he is in the underground maze, feeling the unique underground structure unique to the Taltadis world.
The first maze is an area that has been explored by maze adventurers of all generations for more than a thousand years, and is also the safest area. Just after entering the entrance of the maze that is hundreds of meters wide and diving for nearly a hundred meters, what Su Zhou saw was a brand new underground world.
It was a colorful underground chamber composed of pyroxene lamps, fluorescent mosses and various luminous ores. The underground maze was not dim, but was extremely bright because of the adventurer's lighting tools and local luminous plants, and even brighter than the sun's dim surface.
Here, Su Zhou could feel that even if they were free from the protection of the elemental array, the stagnant element conversion speed on the surface could not affect this place.
There are also the most adventurers here, and most of their missions are planting some special magic plants here.
"Hey, but there is no soil here, how did you plant it?"
After hearing this, Su Zhou remembered what the fishman maid said during breakfast. She said that there are areas suitable for normal plants in the maze. Now, with this level of care, the underground is indeed more suitable for farming than the surface, but the first layer of the maze is composed entirely of rock ore layers, where can we get the place to farm?
"You'll know if you look."
Elias smiled mysteriously and took Su Zhou to a corner of the first floor.
Then, Su Zhou saw a group of giant earth puppets walking back and forth in the vast open space.
Rumble... The sound of giants walking came, stirring like thunder.
The huge earth puppet nearly ten meters tall is the "monsters" produced in this maze. They are the predecessors of the earth element, and are composed of soft soil, sand and gravel, and they do not have much wisdom.
“Wow!”
Su Zhou opened his eyes wide because he found that the bodies of these earth puppets were covered with seedlings of various plants on the backs of their chests!
Each earth puppet is like a moving field. By walking continuously, the body can evenly withstand light. The magic of soaking the soil all over the body has become a fertilizer for nourishing plants.
Here, dozens of adventurers are working, among which there are those who perform water magic, "attack" all earth puppets and carry out watering operations, and those who use binding magic to "harvest" and "replant" the earth puppets with mature crops. Of course, there are also adventurers who are responsible for eliminating some powerful earth puppets that are too large and are about to advance to "super giant earth puppets" or "earth elements" to ensure the stability of this maze farmland.
All adventurers are smooth and skillful in their movements. I don’t know how familiar they are with this process. Obviously, they have done this process hundreds or thousands of times.
"Your use of the maze is really unique."
Even Yala complained, "The people in this world are quite similar to you, you can farm anywhere." Su Zhou was even more amazed: "Even earth puppets can be land, can they become your mineral source?"
At this time, Elias showed a reserved and mysterious smile. It was not until Su Zhou left the "Fluorescent Cave" on the first floor and fell to the "Metal Chamber" on the third floor that he realized that his guess was hit.
Because the metal puppets appear here, the alloy that forms their body structure is the prototype of the Tartadis world's universal currency, "Gold". After defeating and crushing them, take out the metal in the core area slightly and refining it, and you can become that kind of solid metal alloy!
People in this world, even currency, all originate from the maze.
The shortest maze in the first four layers has been developed for more than 800 years. What monsters will appear in it, and how the monsters will act have been well-known to all adventurers. As long as they do not settle for a long time, there will be almost no danger. The most dangerous monster is just a formal high-level, that is, the awakening high-level. These places, apart from surprise, are not very valuable to Su Zhou.
In fact, it was not only surprising, but also frightened. In the second maze of Mushroom Plain, Su Zhou found a "mushroom elves" that were very similar to the roasted mushrooms he had eaten for breakfast. Most of these mushroom elves were only the size of fists, with strange white hands and feet similar to spider legs. They could secrete strong acid corrosion liquid, fix themselves on the dissolved biological body, and then grow on the other party's corpse.
In general, although like most mushrooms, they are fungal organisms that grow on humus, these mushrooms will make their own bodies and are quite proactive.
"Can't it be these things that I ate in the morning?!"
As soon as he saw these mushroom elves, Su Zhou was stunned, but soon, he didn't care: "Hi, it looks a little disgusting, but it's delicious. If you think about it carefully, it's just a mushroom-shaped crab that you can hunt by yourself, and there's nothing disgusting."
He is not harsh on the food in this regard. As long as the source is not too much, it is as long as it tastes good.
Elias actually hasn't been to the maze several times himself. Most of them have gained experience by watching the records. Along the way, he has seen much more in the maze than Su Zhou.
However, when Su Zhou decided to go to the fifth layer of maze "Miscity Forest" where elite initial monsters might appear and have not been fully developed, he reminded him seriously: "Mr. Su, although you are strong, it seems that you have not explored in the maze many times. So I must remind you that no matter how powerful you are, you cannot underestimate the monsters in the maze! Most of them have special abilities, so you must be careful, otherwise you will suffer severe damage!"
Su Zhou: "Diet? What kind of snack?"
In fact, Su Zhou still remembered Elias' warning. He never underestimated any opponent. Although this is mainly because he prefers to abuse food, it can also be regarded as part of his prudence.
In the fifth layer of maze, the most powerful creature is the huge chameleon that can control the toxicity of miasma and is invisible in the miasma. It has a length of seventeen meters and the strength of the elite elementary level, which is indeed very difficult to deal with. It is indeed easy for ordinary exploration teams to come to the fifth layer to be hunted by it.
However, the hard power of Su Zhou is several times higher than that of all poisons, so his ending will naturally be to be tortured and killed.
He didn't even use the Lan Armor, Thunder Method and Destroy Blade, but relied on the water control power of the Mingwei Dragon Transformation Method and some water-based magic he had just learned last night, turning water into a prison and drowned that extraordinary giant beast.
However, Su Zhou did not underestimate the giant beast because of this: "This guy's ability to control poison gas is essentially using special 'extraordinary organs' to control the dust of the 'macromolecular structure'! And the strange scales on its body can achieve rapid color change and temperature conversion. If I hadn't had the thunder method, I could directly scan the electromagnetic fluctuations around me, and relying solely on thermal vision, I would have been deceived by it!"
Thinking of this, Su Zhou carefully cut off a part of the body of the chameleon and stored it as a reference material. He did not forget the purpose of his real body. Fighting with these special monsters with their own strengths can not only enrich his reserves of various extraordinary organs, but also give him inspiration.
"My true body should face enemies that I cannot deal with in normal form. The type of enemies is generally divided into two types. The first type is that it is as large as the giant whale I encountered in the deep sea, and it is difficult for me to do my full attack. The second type is that it is difficult for me to break the defense and cannot cause damage to the opponent."
Su Zhou did not think much about the points that "the enemy's attack is so powerful that he can't defend at all" or "the enemy's speed is faster than himself". The former is because if he encounters an enemy of this level, the first thing he has to do is to escape first, rather than fight head-on with the other side, while the latter is because others are small in size and light in weight. With the help of Lan Jia, he can run away at a supersonic speed. He may not be as fast as he originally turned into a real body.
In this way, the basic structure of his true body is obvious, that is, his body must be large and his attack power must be high. As for defense, it must at least reach the point where ordinary soldiers can ignore the attacks, so as not to be killed by a large group of people because of their large body.
In this way, he gradually improved his thoughts on his true body in his heart, and Su Zhou took Elias to continue wandering in the maze.
Along the way, Su Zhou not only hunted extraordinary monsters, but also went to hunt some weak monsters that were very common to the locals. For example, the fire poisonous ant colony that was about the size of a calf, which was a strange chamber structure and could float in the air through breathing... These unique monsters and various plant animals, even the Taltadis world before the arrival of the end of the world, were probably extinct, but the maze made them revival and reappeared.
Locals may have been accustomed to it and even regard the existence of the maze as common sense. However, as a visitor to another world, Su Zhou has another view on the existence of the maze: "No matter how you look at these 'mazes' are like layers of independent special ecosystems, preserving some extraordinary creatures that can only survive in special environments in various eras!"
"And all of this is a maze with a vein that can be found, the deeper the more complex the creatures are, and it is also similar to the ecology of the Taltadis world before the end of the world. The earlier the creatures are, the simpler and more primitive and abnormal."
The complexity and danger of organisms are gradually growing. For extraordinary creatures, this is especially true. So when they are arranged layer by layer, they will feel that the "maze is gradually increasing the difficulty"!
Su Zhou did not hide all this, but told Elias that he was not the kind of person who would keep it in his heart if he had something to do, not to mention that he also needed a local person to analyze the rationality of this speculation for him.
After hearing Su Zhou's anatomy and analysis from another perspective, the young grandfather of the Neisser family suddenly became serious.
"I need to go back and compare and analyze the data in the family."
He said this, but it can be seen that Elias also thought Su Zhou's guess was quite reasonable. Moreover, in this case, it seemed that there was a vague connection with the "epoch change".
Chapter completed!