Vuong Loi up until this moment still did not dare to relax his guard, ever since he discovered the woman taking the object he started staring at her hand.
The woman smiled and walked up to them, shook hands with them first, said thank you, then asked: "I thought, you guys must have come with other friends?"
Vuong Loi did not say yes or no, but did not reveal any obvious hostility, just smiled and asked her back: "Why are you asking this?"
The woman gently said: "This place is so big, if you come here to bring Xiao Wu, it might not be easy to find them."
These words made both of them nervous, afraid that the woman's next words would be to invite them to travel with their family of three. In their minds, they were already thinking about how to refuse.
But the woman held out a small circular gift: "This is a gift from 'him', it can help you find a companion. Please accept it, consider it as our husband and wife's thanks."
"... Thank you." Wang Li trembled slightly, but still reached out to receive it.
Because he was also worried about how to meet his friends again, this gift was really hard to refuse.
"Happy shopping, see you again!" A family of three stood together and waved at them, then their expressions slowly faded, until they disappeared.
"..." Chu Ziyang secretly mocked whether this NPC's way of getting off stage was a bit too sloppy.
Then he looked tentatively at the watch in Wang Li's hand: "Can this interesting idea be used? Could it be a trap for us?"
Hearing this, Vuong Loi's eyes also fell on his own hands.
Just now he was also worried that this prop had a hole, but in the moment he looked closely and saw the prop clearly, he chose to believe.
Because this is an extremely delicately designed instrument, the clock face is very similar to a normal compass, divided into four directions: east, west, south, and north. The clock hands have many points, each point has a portrait of a participant, in the middle is him and Zhou Ziyang. That is, if they follow the direction of the clock hands, they should be able to find them.
If the props were to trick them, then they were completely unnecessary. Just like what the lady said just now, this place was too big. If no one helped them, they would most likely never find anyone else for the rest of their lives. There was absolutely no need for so many props to add legs to the snake.
Then looking closely, Wang Li discovered another detail...
Currently, most of the needles on the clock were leaning against each other, because they communicated with each other, making it impossible to see clearly who was there at a glance. However, because the large group of people were advancing, the needles were also moving slowly, occasionally intertwining, allowing him to see more portraits.
He thus slowly distinguished: The best watch face does not have Thuy Than Hao and Quach Mong.
In fact, the first time he looked at the clock face, he had a guess about this, because Cui Shen Hao and Guo Meng had separated from the large group of people together, but he still thought with good intentions, they might have reunited smoothly.
Now this goodwill speculation is completely lost.
"Thoi Than Hao and Quach Mong..." Vuong Loi sighed sadly, "They might meet with an accident."
Chu Ziyang also discovered this point, but he was not as kind as Wang Li. Although he was touched by Wang Li and felt ashamed for his previous thoughts of wanting to kill and rob, he did not feel much regret when facing the coldly abandoned Shui Shenhao and Guo Meng.
"Let's go, find them." Chu Tu Duong said.
"Yes." Wang Li nodded, without much effort, flying straight to the direction the figure pointed.
On the other side, Diep Tich and Tieu Lanh led a large group of people to meet the resentful female flower twice. With the experience from the last time, everyone was not embarrassed and sat down together with great interest to give the resentful female flower a "psychological consultation".
These two resentful women's love stories are not very similar in detail, but their basic nature is similar. They use the excuse of changing the medicine instead of changing the medicine, combined with a little improvisation, and the problem can be easily solved.
Apart from this, they did not encounter many other dangers. In the forest, they were still accompanied by various birds, most of which were still irregular murmurs, with the rhythmic notes of the four cuckoos sounding exceptionally pleasant to the ears.
Not long after they walked along the road, a loud noise suddenly came from within the bushes. Everyone thought at the same time that a wild beast was about to attack them, so they all stopped. Yang Ge instinctively prepared to activate his shield to defend himself.
A few seconds later, the thing in the bushes finally came out. Before they could react, the other party's eyes lit up: "Finally found you!"
The crowd was stunned: "Wang Li? Zhou Ziyang?"
At the same time, there was no shortage of people whose vigilance became deeper.
——the two of them left the team for so long, who knows if they are still normal people now?
——Moreover, it is said that the strange talk can also distort memories. They suddenly appeared like this, what if they weren't teammates at the beginning?
Tieu Lanh stared at the two people, deep in thought.
He didn't think that they had been contaminated, because all the recent reports showed that if they didn't consider violating the rules, they only took "leaving the team" as the prerequisite condition, so only leaving the team alone would be contaminated, two people being friends could basically eliminate this possibility; and if they considered "leaving the team" and "violating the rules" at the same time, violating the rules basically meant that whoever violated the rules would contaminate who, and then the person who was contaminated would very quickly start looking for a target to take the person's head——in other words, under such circumstances, the uncontaminated would have almost no chance of surviving together.
Of course there is also an extreme situation, where the two of them stray from the team after leaving, then get contaminated during their solo activities and are brought back together again.
But considering the area here, this possibility is too small, and there is currently no data to show that it is easier for the polluted to find their own kind.
However, if the distorted memories are brought to the natives...
Before Tieu Lang could open his mouth, Diep Tich spoke directly: "We just started with 24 individuals, who are they? You two report your names at once."
"... Rely?" Zhou Ziyang was stunned, "No... I don't remember! I only remember that we had 12 teams, okay?"
"That's right." Ye Xi generously nodded, Zhou Ziyang quickly pointed out once here: "There's Miss Xi, you, Mr. Ye, Yu Ying, Gong Zi, Deng Lan Lan, and the two of us... These are seven, right?"
Diep Tich asked: "So what are you two called?"
"My name is Chu Tu Duong, his name is Vuong Loi." Chu Tu Duong quickly replied.
Diep Tich nodded in agreement, and Vuong Loi followed and said: "Dead… The first one is that fat one, bitten to death by two flowers, and there are also Tran Du, Chu Nguyen, Ngo Pham, Vuong Huy, and Te?"
"Yes." Diep Tich breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems you guys aren't contaminated."
"No, why is this not contaminated?" Li He widened his eyes, "If it is a distortion of memory, this answer cannot prove that what they said is true?"
"No, you want to combine the rules of judgment." Tieu Lanh smiled.
"The fifth rule of the world says, 'Remember to confirm the number of people who entered the Rule Realm together with you from the beginning. If you remember it later, please disregard this rule. The number of people is no longer important.'——this rule explains that the number of people you remember will not be distorted. That way, you only need to check the total number of people later to prove its safety."
"Like this..." Li He seemed to be thinking about something and appeared to accept it.
But from the very beginning, Yu Ying and her team discovered a loophole: "Wait a minute… When Chen Yu wanted to return to the unit, you didn't say that!"
When Tran Du wanted to return to the unit, Diep Tich gave an explanation: "As long as the team's numbers change, even if the number of people is reduced first and then increased by the same amount, it is not safe."
Diep Tich: "I am..."
"She is confusing her ears and ears with words." Xiao Leng glanced at Ye Xi and smiled faintly, "Miss Xi is very experienced in strange talk. At that time, Chen Yu left the team alone. This kind of situation was enough for her to conclude that Chen Yu was definitely contaminated. However, at that time, Chen Yu was so fierce that he threatened people. She needed some words to convince everyone."
Diep Tich's face was red.
Tieu Lang's face did not change color: "Actually, you might as well directly use your own experience as an excuse, it's also quite useful."
Ye Xi thought about it, it seemed like it was the same. At first, she didn't want to say it like that because she didn't want everyone to discover that she was talking about her rich experience, and then expose her special identity. But now that she had passed through the ring and been beheaded, anyone with a brain had probably guessed it, so there was no point in covering it up.
She thus paused her breath, calmly explained: "It is this kind of thing, from experience, there has never been a situation where a native or NPC, a monster disguised as a real teammate mixed into the team. The situation of directly distorting the impression of the number of people actually happened once, at that time if we had not first carved our names on the wall, we might have stepped into a pit, but now, we have a way to verify whether this kind of danger has appeared or not."
Chu Ziyang was eager to clear his doubts and immediately asked: "How to verify? Let's cooperate!"
Ye Xi looked at him: "Right now, regardless of whether our memories are true or false, we all remember that the two teams that started out had 12 people. Furthermore, I also remember that we were separated by the strange birds at the canyon. At that time, the only ones who left the team, aside from you two, were Guo Meng and Cui Shen Hao."
"——If all your memories are distorted, then Guo Meng and Cui Shen Hao should have found them later, right? Otherwise, this memory fragment that brought them both together is very unnecessary. It's better to start with 22 people, 11 people per team, and then lose two of you."
She paused and said, "That way, you don't have to explain where they went."
"They..." Chu Ziyang quickly grasped the meaning of her last sentence, immediately told what happened after they separated, conveniently criticizing Guo Meng and Cui Shen Hao for being unrighteous.
Wang Li was also very straightforward and honest, giving the NPC that gave them the form to Ye Xi, filling in the whole story behind it, and directly admitting that through this form they judged that Guo Meng Shui Shen Hao must have met with an accident.
This kind of frankness and sincerity more or less increases the trust of some big shots. Ye Xi thought for a bit and said to Xiao Leng: "I choose to trust them."
"Let's do it this way." Xiao Leng looked at his still suspicious teammates and said to Wang Li and Zhou Ziyang, "You two go ahead, we'll keep a 5 meter distance from you."
This kind of doubt actually hurt people, but considering the danger of strange talk, Wang Li and Zhou Ziyang could only accept: "Okay."
"Let's go then." Tieu Lanh glanced ahead, signaling them to go first.
The two of them obediently walked ahead. Zhou Ziyang saw that Wang Li seemed to be a bit miserable, and patted his shoulder to comfort him: "Don't think too much. If I were one of their loyal members, I would do the same. Is it safe for everyone?"
"I know." Vuong Loi laughed.
He was actually not miserable, it was just that this suspicion made him once again deeply feel that the monster was not human, his feelings were very complicated.
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Strange talk is too difficult...
When can I go out?
The tycoon continued walking forward like this for more than ten minutes. When he passed a large tree about two meters in diameter, Xiao Leng suddenly stopped: "Wait a minute."
Walking in front, Zhou Ziyang and Wang Li, along with everyone behind, all looked towards him. He quickly walked to the tree. Considering the issue of respecting nature, he did not dare to directly make a mark on the bark. He looked left and right, picked up two branches that had already been peeled off the ground, and then picked up a slender grass leaf. He tied the branches into a small cross and stuck it in the mud in front of the big tree.
He finished this and replied to the team: "Let's go."
Diep Tich looked at him confusedly and asked: "What are you doing?"
Tieu Lanh tilted his head and asked him: "Don't you feel like this road looks familiar?"
Diep Tich was shocked by what he said, and reflexively looked towards Duong Ca.
Duong Ca was also timid, noticing Diep Tich's gaze, he immediately shook his head: "Don't look at me... I'm blind!"
Diep Tich smiled bitterly, she was also blind!
The main reason was because she was directionless, she didn't feel that this road was familiar at all, and moreover, she felt like she had been walking in the same direction all along. And if Xiao Leng was telling the truth, it would be like saying that they had met a ghost.
Ghost wall... Then how to go out?
She took a deep breath, necessity is the mother of invention: "Wang Li!"
Wang Li turned his head: "Ah?"
Diep Tich said: "Can I borrow that tablet of yours to use for a bit?"
"Oh... Heh." Wang Li generously took out the sign and handed it to her, but was a bit confused, "This... Can't be used? Although it has east, west, south, and north on it, it doesn't have normal clock hands, and we're all together, there's no way the clock hands can go!"
Diep Tich waved his hand: "Maintain 5 meters, I'll see if I can use it!"
"... Go." Wang Li ran a few steps, returning to a place 5 meters away from them.
Diep Tich nervously stared at the clock face, suddenly letting out a sigh of relief.
The props did not disappoint her, this clock face was very tight. Just now, when Wang Li and she were just inches away, their portraits were both in the center of the clock face, but now, five meters away from each other, Wang Li and Zhou Ziyang had already been "refreshed" to the sharp point of the clock hand, and she was still in the position inside, at the same time, on the sharp point of the clock hand were also the two people walking at the tail, also about three to five meters away from Ye Xi.
In addition to this, the clock face also told her that they were currently heading southwest, with Wang Li and Zhou Zi's gold clock faces forming an approximately 30° angle to the south.
If they had always been walking straight, this angle would not have changed. But if they really encountered a ghost, regardless of the angle or the clock face, it would have slanted.
Diep Tich felt that using this method of observation was easier than finding the symbols, because Tieu Lanh made the symbols by sticking tree branches into the mud, the colors were almost completely the same, very difficult to distinguish, if not careful one would miss it.
... But this desperate situation makes things even more creepy.
About 20 minutes later, they found themselves having encountered a ghost even though they hadn't changed direction.
Because the clock face and hands did not have any slant, they could see the symbols that Xiao Leng had made earlier.
When Tieu Lanh walked over and pulled out the small cross to show everyone, everyone could clearly feel themselves breaking out in cold sweat.
If it weren't for knowing that Chen Yu was scared away and was contaminated, this kind of strange event would have scared a few people away.
"How is that possible?!" Yu Ying trembled to the point that even her hair was shaking, "If you are determined to walk straight, how could you hit the wall like a ghost..."
Tieu Lang looked towards Vuong Loi and Chu Tu Duong: "I remembered a problem."
"You came to find us on the way, passed that valley?"
Wang Li was stunned: "No... Should we go around?"
"There is this possibility." Xiao Leng nodded, and the topic changed, "But when we were at that canyon, I looked in both directions. The canyon was so big that I couldn't see it at a glance. We shouldn't have gone that far now."
"So, if my judgment is not wrong, there is probably one possibility that... This area is undergoing changes."
"The area has changed? What does this mean?" The teammates looked at each other.
"It always makes us wonder how to find the export? If we can't find the export, isn't it certain death?"
"That's right! I'm already feeling hungry! Let's go down like this... We'll starve to death here sooner or later!"
A sense of panic spread across the team, the sudden and unexpected disruption made everyone face death with fear.
But this unexpected thing completely did not appear in the rules, Diep Tich thought for a moment: "Everyone, let's reminisce together, did we overlook any details?"
"Details?" The teammates looked at each other, thinking carefully for a while before speaking. Deng Lanlan looked confused: "What kind of details? Is it about the species, or about the environment?"
"Own." Diep Tich was silent, "You can think of everything, you all tell me."
But the tycoon still had a confused look.
No one had predicted that there would be a ghost knocking on the wall, so no one had paid too much attention to what was happening along the way. Right now, most of the details they could think of were about the "Flower of the Resentment", because the Flower of the Resentment was a storm, and when they were dealing with the storm, their minds were on high alert, not daring to miss even a single detail.
Very quickly, Li He looked suspiciously at Zhou Ziyang and Wang Li: "How come you guys came here and started beating the wall? It's not you guys playing tricks, right!" He was about to rush forward to ask for clarification, but was stopped by Xiao Leng, "It's not them."
Ly Hac was overwhelmed by his aura and took half a step back.
Tieu Lang was indifferent; "Actually, I was suspicious before they appeared, but only after their suspicions increased did I start making signs."
"Okay." Ly Hac bit his lips, having no choice but to give up.
Diep Tich tried to recall the details all the way, but she couldn't remember anything.
Thinking carefully for a while, she looked at Tieu Lang: "Do you remember, after suspecting that a ghost was hitting the wall, we still haven't seen the milestone?"
"Met." Tieu Lanh nodded, "Met many times."
Diep Tich let out a breath: "Okay, let's go find a landmark."
Tieu Lanh closed his eyes: "What are you looking for a milestone for?"
He didn't quite understand, because the milestones only pointed to specific locations, and they didn't include the exit. If the bird's nest area was still in flux, then going to those specific locations wouldn't be of much help in finding the exit.
Diep Tich glanced at him, through his clothes, pinched his collarbone in front of the object.
Xiao Leng noticed her meaning in a blink of an eye and nodded. When he saw the next milestone, he glanced over and pointed to the next turn: "The shop is over there."
Diep Tich: "Okay."
The group thus followed the road markers and continued to move forward. After a while of not knowing much, they encountered a familiar small wooden house.
Diep Tich walked in through the glass door, inside were still two store employees, one standing in front of the cash register, one standing between the shelves.
But this time, the store employee who was standing on the shelf glanced at them but had no intention of opening the door. Ye Xi stepped forward and pushed the door, but it didn't open.
She turned around and knocked on the door. The store clerk looked over again, first waved, then pointed at her, and used his hand to make a "1".
Combining the store employee's mouth movements, Diep Tich understood that she was saying "Each person can only enter the store once".
She gently released the corner of her mouth and stubbornly waved at the store clerk.
The store clerk couldn't be bothered, so he had to walk over, push the door open, and poke his head out: "Excuse me, miss. Our store has a rule, each person can only enter the store to shop once. Just now you and your friends all came, so I..."
"Business is still not good? Let us go shopping again!" Zhou Ziyang thought that Ye Xi wanted to get some clue through shopping, so he directly started to work hard according to reason.
But the store clerk just apologized and continued: "We really can't go against the rules."
"It doesn't matter, you don't need to break the rules." Ye Xi looked at her, fortunately not directly taking out the props, "I just want to ask, how exactly can we leave the bird hunting area? We've been gone for a long time."
The store clerk's expression changed slightly, and he immediately closed the door: "Sorry, we..."
Diep Tich sighed in his heart, and took out the pendant at the right time.
The store clerk suddenly stopped as he closed the door, staring at the pendant, his eyes filled with fear: "You are..."
Diep Tich looked without blinking: "Can you tell me? Please."
The store clerk swallowed: "If it's like this, of course it's possible."
Everyone pricked up their ears, the shop assistant said in a clear voice: "Four green azaleas."
Diep Tich was stunned: "Four azaleas?"
"Yes... The export instruction is the four-tone rhododendron." The shop assistant leisurely told her, "According to the four-tone rhododendron's call, you will be able to find the export very quickly. Have you forgotten... You must maintain respect and awe for nature!"
Diep Tich: "..."
Damn it, she maintained respect and awe for nature! Although the four-tone cuckoo's call was indeed unique, she had noticed the sound all the way there, but who would have thought that thing would be leading the way!
Although she was madly dissatisfied in her heart, she still controlled her emotions and thanked the store clerk. After the store clerk closed the door, the group of people began to concentrate and listen to the birds chirping.
Wang Li listened and rubbed his temples, complaining: "This isn't my first time entering a strange chat… It's all strange chat, why is this such a pit! The four cuckoo calls to lead the way, this kind of thing, at least it should be mentioned in the rules!"
Chu Ziyang said complicatedly: "According to the store clerk's meaning... Actually, what he proposed? Is it to maintain respect and awe for nature?"
"Can that count?!" Wang Li glared at him fiercely, "You say with your conscience, do you think that counts?! If that counts according to the Four Azure Azaleas rule, then I will be the same as the Four Beauties of the World as a mold carved out of their appearance!"
Chu Tu Duong: "..."
If you want to criticize someone, then criticize someone. Why do you even want to criticize someone's appearance?
The others were laughing and joking, but the 17th and 4th people were alerted by what he said, silently exchanging glances. :,,.
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