Volume 19 Chapter 161 Time Maze

I originally rushed into the first Ice Hall with the intention of supporting Olivia and the others, but when we rushed into that hall, Frostxue and Yeying, and I were stunned.

There are indeed two groups fighting in the hall, and one of them is the kind of ice monster I heard Olivia say in Ditans. However, the other party fighting with the ice monster is not the Olivia or her team member we imagine, but...

"Night Moon?"

The one who was surrounded by a group of ice monsters was not someone else, but my demon pet Ye Yue. Ye Yue was also quite surprised after hearing our screams. She first attacked and cut over a few monsters that rushed up, then used her pupil technique to petrify several monsters, and finally nailed the remaining monster to the wall before looking at me in surprise and asked, "Master? Why are you coming in from outside? You are not..."

"Yeyue, hurry up, come back with me..." Before Yeyue could finish her words, she saw a white figure suddenly running out of the fork next to her, rushing to Yeyue and pulling her into the hole. However, after not pulling her, she quickly realized that there was a group of people next to her, and then when she turned around, she was stunned.

The one who just ran out was not someone else, but Frost and Snow that came in with me. The problem was that Frost and Snow around me did not disappear, so she was standing there.

"You... why have you become two people?" Ye Yue asked in surprise as she looked back and forth at the two Shuangxue.

The Shuangxue, who had just run out, reacted much faster than Yeyue. She quickly reacted and said, "It must be time disorder. They are the masters and us at another time." After explaining to Yeyue, Shuangxue turned to me and said, "Master, no matter which time you are, come and help!"

When I heard the cry of Frost Xue, I didn't hesitate. I immediately put away Ye Ying and ran over with Frost Xue. No matter what time it was, we were all our own people, so it was certain that we would help each other.

As the frost and snow rushed into the passage quickly. After running two steps, he heard a loud rumbling sound in front of him. Then he saw a figure flying backwards and falling to the ground and struggling for a few times before he stopped moving. I looked down at the guy who was obviously dead and found that this was someone I didn't know at all. And looking at the sign on his chest, it was clearly a leader-level player of the guild, because he also had the badge of the guild leader on his chest.

Since we are not acquaintances, don't worry. Frost and snow led us forward quickly and soon arrived in a very wide passage. The condom was completely disrupted here. At least two or three hundred people were fighting, and it seemed that they belonged to three different forces. In addition to these two or three hundred people, there was a group of about four or five hundred monsters in front of them, all of which were all ice-type creatures. The largest of them were two ice dragons, with blue light all over their bodies. Except for the wrong color, they looked very similar to Mira's body. Of course, in terms of hardness, the ice dragon must not be comparable to the gem dragon. After all, even if the ice is hard, it cannot be harder than diamonds.

Shuangxue, who was dragging us over, was stunned for the first time when she looked at the chaotic scene. Then she immediately stood there motionlessly as if she was demented. I saw that she didn't react for a long time and patted her, and then asked, "What's wrong with you? Who are we helping? Didn't you see us?"

The Shuangxue, who brought us here, suddenly burst into tears, making me so busy that I didn't know how to persuade her. After all, I couldn't even understand why she cried. However, the other party was a snow demon after all, and was a relatively strong creature. After just two crying, he went from crying to sob. At the same time, he cried, "Woooo... I lost them again!"

Shuangxue's words completely made us faint, and we had no idea what she was talking about.

"What does it mean to lose it?"

"Just not found!"

“Not found?”

Seeing that I still didn't understand, Ye Yue explained to me: "You have just come in and it's not clear about the situation. The time flow here is changed according to the channel. Each channel and each hall in the entire maze has its own time characteristics. Some channels have normal time, some will accelerate, some will slow down, and some will flow backwards."

When I heard Ye Yue’s explanation, I immediately asked in surprise: “Doesn’t that as long as we leave separately, we will be in different times soon?”

Ye Yue nodded and said, "We just discovered this problem, but in order to understand this situation, we have lost many companions. Every time we are always divided into different channels for one reason or another. Then the time in the channel will change after a period of time. When we go back, the people will disappear. Even if everyone runs back to the same hall, they cannot meet each other because we are already at different times!"

After hearing Ye Yue's words, I suddenly realized a problem, that is, the previous maze problem. At first we all thought that this ice cave was a huge three-dimensional maze, which relied on its three-dimensional structure to create an extremely complex three-dimensional channel that made people lose it. However, after hearing Ye Yue's introduction, I suddenly thought of a question, that is...what is this maze used for?

In addition to being used for entertainment, the biggest purpose of the maze should actually be obstacles. This is a bit similar to a space password lock. It uses a complex channel structure to make it impossible for people who don’t know the password to pass through it to a certain location, and allows people who know the way to easily pass through this area. This is the basic purpose of the maze. So, what is the maze in front of you for? The answer is obvious. It is used to protect the Book of the World. Moreover, if nothing unexpected happens, the book of time stored here should be the Book of Time. This is exactly the same as the time turbulence here.

So, if the Book of Time is placed in this maze, will it necessarily exist in the fixed position in the maze? Obviously not. Time props are different from ordinary things, and it has time uniqueness. Take Olivia for example. Because of the time turbulence, four Olivia emerged from Ditans, which means that there is an Olivia at every time point. However, time equipment is different, and they have time uniqueness. No matter how many time points you find, there is only one time equipment, and it will not appear many individuals at different times. If the Book of Time is really time equipment, then it should have this characteristic, that is, even if we reach the position where the Book of Time is stored in the maze, we may not be able to get it, because the time point of its existence is not necessarily the time point we arrive, and as long as the time point does not match, we will not see the Book of Time.

My demon pets have both intelligence and the Shuangxue beside me screamed as I thought of the problem. "Oh my God. We made a huge mistake. This is not a space maze, but a time maze!"

"Luckily I got this first." I took out the hourly pocket watch from my arms, and then opened the dial and found that the dial on this thing had changed from one to two. On the dial that was originally normal, there were two sets of pointers of different colors rotating respectively. One of the sets of golden hands was walking normally, which seemed to be normal time, while the other set of black hands walked very fast. Obviously, the time displayed by this set of pointers was the time we were currently at, and judging from its speed, the time we are currently at should be much faster than the normal time.

In addition to the time on the normal dial on the right, a dial now appears on the cover of the pocket watch. The dial is not time, but some scales. The dial is marked at the twelve o'clock position on the dial, and then the dial interval between the twelve o'clock position and the three o'clock position is constantly increasing. Finally, the number displayed at the three o'clock position is four, and after the three o'clock position, the number begins to shrink again until the six o'clock position becomes zero again. After the six o'clock position, the number marked on the dial becomes a percentage, and the minimum 50% is displayed at the nine o'clock position, and after the nine o'clock position, the number begins to gradually increase until it reaches the twelve o'clock position and becomes zero again. In addition to this strange scale dial, there is only a pointer on the dial on the left, and it is different from the dial on the right. There is no crystal panel for protecting and dust-proofing and waterproofing on the dial on the left, but the pointer is directly exposed.

Obviously, the dial on the left is not for people to see time, but is used to adjust the time. Combined with the capabilities mentioned in the properties, I guess that the dial pointer on the left is a device used to control its own time flow rate, and the right is the dial that displays the current time and standard time.

After reading the speed dial, I said to Yeyue and the two frosty snow: "Now we have two choices. First, use this thing to search for different caves at different times, so as to find everyone, and find our target Olivia. Second, let's not worry about people first, find the book of time first, that thing may solve all problems at once, and of course, it may also take a space and time to find it."

"Since that's the case, it's better to find the Book of Time first, as soon as possible, I'll go and find it sooner or later." Ye Yue suggested.

The two Shuangxue nodded and expressed their support for this plan. I summoned Ling out and asked her for her opinion. After receiving the affirmative reply, I took back the Shuangxue I brought and let another Shuangxue follow us to find the Book of Time.

Unlike Shuangxue and Yeyue, Ling, who has been a goddess, is obviously much stronger than them in terms of brain power. After hearing my explanation, she immediately said: "I think we have to do three more things before we find a book."

"What's the matter?" I asked with some confusion.

Ling pointed to the speed in my hand: "First we must find the room where the Book of Time is."

"Then what?"

"Then we need to record the time flow of several channels near the room where the Book of Time is located. Finally, we have to use the time speed difference of different channels to get us to the time point where the Book of Time exists so that we can get it."

"But how do we know at which time the Book of Time is?" Ye Yue asked.

Ling stretched out a finger and pointed the dial and said, "If I guessed correctly, it should be at the time point where the golden pointer pointed."

"You mean the time point we entered?"

"That's right." Ling explained: "There is no prompt on the existence of the Book of Time, and the system will not arrange a time for us to store the Book of Time without any clues. Then this Book of Time must exist at a time point with a specific meaning. Which time is more meaningful to us than real time?"

"It makes sense, let's try it according to this plan first. If it doesn't work, then think of other solutions."

Because the time in this channel is messy, it is obviously not feasible to rely on the batch search of ghost bugs, because the time fault will constantly transmit my ghost bugs to different time points. As long as the time fault here is not a fixed number, its theoretical volume will be infinite. It is obviously delusion to want the number of ghost bugs to win in such a space.

If you can't use ghost bugs, you have to find them yourself. The bad thing is that you are afraid of getting separated and you cannot search separately. You must gather together to prevent you from being divided into different time zones and losing contact.

The area of ​​this super underground maze is definitely as large as you imagine. The room used to store the Book of Time is not known exactly, and we are not sure whether such a room exists. The only thing we can do now is to try to walk the entire maze as much as possible to determine where the location was not missed.

It's really thanks to me that I'm not an ordinary human. There is a part of my brain that can build three-dimensional channel models in the brain like a computer. These models can ensure that I won't get lost here. If I were an ordinary person, facing this ice wall that looks similar, I would definitely lose my direction and wander around here soon, and finally run out of supplies and be trapped here.

As we walked, I kept increasing the area of ​​the three-dimensional map in my brain. Although we were walking more and more areas, the map became more and more complete. Of course, in addition to marking the correct road, this map also marked different time segments in three colors: red, white, blue, and each section marked the time flow rate of the segment.

As the map continues to expand, the data we have mastered has also begun to change. During this period, we also encountered many creatures, including ice monsters, players and NPCs who don’t know where they came from. Finally, we unexpectedly encountered the female vampire in Olivia’s team. Of course, I can’t figure out which time she was a player.

After contacting us, the female vampire finally joined our team. After all, this place is quite unsafe. Although it is not a time segment, the female vampire is at least an ally with us. At least our life safety can be guaranteed.

With our normal senses, after about seven or eight hours of wandering in the maze and killing countless monsters along the way, we finally found the storage place of the Book of Time in a fork in the middle of the maze. Although there is no Book of Time here now, there is a platform in the room that looks like a podium, and there is a book-shaped groove on the platform. It is obvious that it is where the Book of Time once existed.

"Okay, the location has been found, let's see the time." Ling said to me.

I quickly took out the speed and opened it. The time displayed by the set of golden pointers and black pointers was exactly the same.

"What's going on?" asked in surprise as the two sets of pointers showed the exact same as Shi Shuangxue.

I looked at the dial for a while before I suddenly realized. "By the way, the time gap must have reached twelve hours! This dial is twelve hours in one circle. If the time gap between the two dials is exactly a multiple of the twelve hours, the two sets of pointers will completely overlap."

"How do we know now whether we are twelve hours faster or slower than the actual time? And you also said it is a multiple of twelve hours. What if it is twenty-four or thirty-six hours? Have you noticed before that our time is fast or slow?"

"Wait a moment." I took out a piece of paper from my personal equipment and spread it on the ground, then drew a lot of line segments on it, and finally marked the time on the map of memory in my brain one by one, and finally wrote down the approximate time we stayed at each position. Multiplying the residence time by the time flow rate, what I got was the time actually passed in that section. After adding all these times, the number was negative twenty-three hours and some minutes. Because I could not determine the exact time to stay in each section, it was acceptable to have a little error, and twenty-three hours was very close to the twelve multiple of twenty-four hours. As for the previous negative, it means that we were twenty-four hours slower than the real world. In this way, we had to look for those sections with accelerated time to recover the time.

Needless to say, everyone understood what I meant. Ling looked in the picture and immediately pointed to a channel with about eight intervals from the room we are in. "Let's go here. The nearby area has the fastest time flow rate, and the eight times the time flow rate means that we only need to wait here for three hours and our time will catch up with the normal time. If we count the time loss caused by the time zone that needs to pass when we come back, we only need to stay there for three hours and ten minutes at most. The specific time can be calculated using the speedometer. When the needle accelerates for two rounds and then overlaps again, it is the correct time for us to return to this room."

"Okay, let's do it like that, let's go now."

Because there is a detailed map in your mind, it is very simple to find the corresponding time zone. With the speed of the time, we easily confirmed the correct time zone. This section with eight times the time flow rate is just an environment similar to a hall. It is a slightly flat ellipse inside, and three channels are densely connected on the edge of an ellipse arc. The channel to the storage of the Book of Time is in these three channels. There is only one channel connected on the edge of the arc opposite the ellipse. As for where the other side is connected, we are still not sure. Although we have been walking for eight hours before, we actually have not walked too many roads. After all, the ice channel is not a safe amusement maze. There are monsters everywhere. In some places, there are even monsters like ice dragons, so it is actually a waste of time to move here.

Because we had to wait three hours in the oval hall, we simply put a bunch of papers here and started calculating the time ratio between the points, hoping to find some rules and other things. After all, the Book of Time may not necessarily help us find the missing Olivia, so in case of this, it is best to prepare early.

We calculated for about an hour and learned all possible rules. We found that the time of these channels seemed to be irregular, at least we could not find the rules. According to this situation, if we could not find something that could completely solve the disordered time, then we would have to spend at least ten days to find the Olivia that Ditans needed. Of course, this time is just a normal calculation of time. If we are lucky, we might find her in the first channel we were looking for, and we might never find her. This is not impossible.

"I hope the Book of Time can help us solve this messy time!" Looking at the calculation paper that was almost covered with the room, I sighed helplessly. Just as I was about to go over to clean up the paper, I suddenly heard a loud bang from behind, and then a figure turned around and fell into the ice room where we were.

Seeing this figure flying in, the few people present immediately turned around and entered a state of fighting, but when they saw the man who had climbed up on the ground, everyone found that he was an acquaintance again.

The guy who just flew in was the undead knight in Olivia's team before, but he looked like he was so embarrassed. His armor was only a few pieces of armor the size of a palm were hanging on his body, and it seemed to be broken at any time. Fortunately, the *** leg guards and boots were still intact, so they didn't run naked, but there were several blood marks on his face, and there was nowhere to go on his left eye, leaving only a black hole.

Although we don't know which time this Dead Knight was, one thing is certain, that is, he is Olivia's man, so after we saw his appearance clearly, we flashed to the entrance of the hole where he flew out, staring at the hole with caution and trying to see what exactly attacked him.

The creatures behind did not disappoint us. Almost as soon as we flashed to the entrance of the cave, a huge white creature roared out of the cave.

"Damn, it's the Ice Ape!" Seeing the giant beast like a white gorilla rushing out, I quickly called everyone to dodge it, and then after the guy rushed over, he chased him from behind and jumped up and stabbed into the guy's cervical spine. The huge body of the Ice Ape completely lost control and tilted to the side as the sword tip pierced in. I hurriedly kicked its body and jumped off the back of the Ice Ape's back, and the Ice Ape's corpse continued to rush forward and hit the wall opposite and stopped.

Retrieving Eternity, I walked to the undead knight in confusion and asked, "Although the ice ape is a little more powerful, it is not a monster that is difficult to deal with, right? Why are you doing this?"

The undead knight got up from the ground and pointed at us hard. I looked back in confusion. When I was about to say that there was nothing, I suddenly felt a slight vibration on the ground, and this vibration was gradually escalating. At the beginning, it was only a little bit, but in a few seconds it had increased to the point where most people present could feel it.

Just as we were puzzled by the vibration of the ground, an ice ape suddenly slid horizontally from the corner of the passage in front of us. The ice ape slid horizontally from the bend as if he was drifting. Then, after a violent collision on the ice wall opposite, it immediately returned to the center of the passage. However, at this time its direction had been completely adjusted and rushed towards us.

When I saw this first ice ape, I already understood why the undead knight was like this. He was not unable to beat the ice ape, he just couldn't beat a group of ice apes. Just less than two seconds after the first ice ape stumbled out, a large row of ice apes slid out at the corner of the passage like a flood collapsed. These ice apes hugged and pushed each other and rushed out from the corner. Then, after slowing down through the ice wall opposite, they rushed towards us.

"Frost and snow."

As I screamed, my own frost and snow had been released by me. The frost and snow at the other point in time also raised their palms towards the entrance of the hole together with the frost and snow I released. A thin ice wall appeared at the entrance of the passage instantly. Then the ice wall grew and thickened rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. In a few seconds, it had turned into an ice wall of more than one foot thick to completely seal the entrance of the passage. However, although the passage port was sealed, the thickness of the ice layer was obviously not enough. It is definitely no problem to block an ordinary person with a foot thick ice, but if you want to block a group of crazy ice apes, it would be a bit too much to see.

With a thud, the first ice ape hit the ice wall, causing a large spider-web-like crack to appear on the surface of the ice wall that was more than one foot thick. Although the two frost and snow quickly repaired some of the cracks with frozen gas, unfortunately, the ice apes behind did not give them enough time to continue repairing. A large group of ice apes rushed up and hit the front row of ice apes, and then squeezed all the ice apes into their mouths and noses, but the ice wall in front also completely exploded under their crazy impact. The ice apes in front rolled and crawled into the hole.
Chapter completed!