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174 The Guardian of the Ruins

"What did you say? They didn't appear in the underworld?" Su Bai looked at Ming Ye in surprise.

Ming Ye nodded, "Yes, according to the information we know, after death, people in the world government will neither become evil spirits nor their souls will enter the underworld. Although they don't know what method they used, they have indeed escaped the shackles of the underworld in death."

"Is it because the soul is destroyed?" Su Bai instinctively thought of this third possibility besides the two, but he denied it in a flash, because no matter for anyone, the soul is destroyed, and it is the most terrible consequence. It completely disappeared in this world that no one wants to encounter. Even the world government, Su Bai didn't think they would do this level.

Because that is no longer just a kind of self-sacrifice, it is simply crazy self-abuse.

No one can do this except lunatics.

"Is there no way the underworld to take action in this situation?" Su Bai asked.

"I don't know this." Ming Ye shook his head, "After all, there are not many members of the world government. Even if their deaths are separated from the rules of the underworld, it is not enough to have a bad impact on the balance between the two worlds. Therefore, the person in charge of this matter does not seem to intend to intervene directly, but will wait and see for the time being... Of course, there are specific countermeasures, because I have not participated in the actions of this department, so I am not very clear."

I see.

Su Bai suddenly realized in his heart, but in this way, he could understand why the members of the world government dared to openly provoke the underworld. Perhaps it was because they could get rid of the underworld in death that they were so confident.

"Forget it, let's stop here for the topic of the world government. No matter what their purpose is, it has nothing to do with our trip. What we want to do will not change in anything." Su Bai then said seriously.

The two women nodded, and then the group of three continued to move towards the depths of the ruins.

Just from the outside, this ruin is already very large. Ordinary people may not be able to explore it for a year. However, from the inside, this is no longer a big one. It is simply boundless. After walking for nearly three hours, Zhang Yu was stunned by the large and complex terrain.

Their location is at this moment, but of course it is not a three-way or four-way intersection. There are more than a dozen turns in front of them. There are countless doors on the left and right sides of each turn. When you open a door, there are more than a dozen turns in it. You can't imagine where these doors are connected. Where will these turns lead to?

"It seems that we have fallen into a super troublesome maze." Su Bai couldn't help frowning. How should they go to such a place?

Not only did Su Bai have a headache, but Ming Ye and Xue Ti were also completely out of their minds.

"Which path should we take?" Then Xueti asked Su Bai.

"Well, let me think about it..." Su Bai suddenly became singular, but before he could enter the state of thinking, he suddenly glared at Xueti, "Hey, what do you mean is that you have decided to push all such troublesome things to me?"

Xueti looked as if he was taken for granted, "Didn't your IQ reach max? Then of course, this kind of thing that requires brains can only be solved by you. And no matter what, the reason why we came here is because of you, you are the captain, and we are just your helpers. We can't let us make decisions at this critical moment, right?"

"Well, I think so too." Mingye expressed her opinion in a timely manner.

"Okay, since you all said that, I have to take the initiative to take charge of me. Next we will..." Su Bai could only take on this important task helplessly, then hesitated for a moment at the dozen or so roads in front, and finally said, "Let's go ahead and count the seventh road to the left."

"That road counts from the right and seems to be the seventh..." Xue Ti couldn't help but complain and asked, "Why choose this?"

"Men's intuition!" Su Bai said proudly.

Xueti immediately touched her chin and said unsatisfiedly: "Generally speaking, men's intuition is not very reliable. This reason is not enough to be convincing... Mingye, what do you think?"

Mingye nodded and said, "I also feel that I need a more reasonable explanation."

After saying that, the two of them shot towards Su Bai at the same time.

Hello, since I decided to refute from the beginning, don’t let me decide!

Su Bai felt depressed and had to find an excuse casually, "Actually, I am more sensitive to the number seven."

"Oh, that's it, then there's no problem." The two women immediately expressed relief, and then walked towards the seventh road ahead.

Hello, you will accept such a casual excuse?

Su Bai was unable to complain. He was very suspicious whether these two girls were deliberately playing with him. Of course, although his excuses were very casual, the reason for choosing the seventh path was not casual, but combined with countless examples, such as... the number of days in a week, the Big Dipper, the Seven Primary Color, the Seven Dragon Ball, the Seven Virtues of the Knight, the Seven Heroes of the Holy Grail War, the Seven Pillars of the Body Snake, the Seven Treasures of the Goddess, the Seven Fairies of the Happy Earth, and the Seven Palaces of the Underworld. In countless instances, the number seven has extraordinary significance.

Anyway, there are no clues now, so it seems like a good way to try your luck with the number seven.

However, this was just a chance after all. Even Su Bai himself knew that the success rate of this method was extremely low, so half an hour later, the three of them finally walked out of the end of the turnover and came to the beginning of another fork, and his head hurt more and more.

"Your intuition is indeed not accurate enough." Xueti seemed to have completely turned into Su Bai's special complaint, and then launched a verbal attack on him.

"It's too early to say this, let's continue to follow the seventh way."

"It seems you really have a special liking for this number."

"Even if it's wrong, you can only make mistakes to the end. Anyway, there is no clear answer to this multiple-choice question."

"That's true."

Then, the three of them set foot on the seventh fork in front of them again, and then after almost the same time, as the three of them expected, they saw the almost completely copied scene. This situation made the three of them a little suspicious that they were hitting a wall.

"No, we are indeed moving forward." Su Bai looked around carefully and said seriously, "I left a little spiritual energy breath at that fork in the road before, which can be guaranteed to not dissipate within an hour. But I didn't feel that breath here. So we are not in the same place."

"So that's it. Then do we still take the seventh road?" Ming Ye asked.

"Well, keep moving forward." Su Bai gritted his teeth. He was determined not to hit the wall and not look back.

Naturally, after a long period of time, the same forks appeared again and again. But the three of them did not hesitate at all. They chose the seventh fork as always. Finally, after walking nine such forks, the scene in front of them finally changed a little... The opposite of them was no longer the replicated forks. Although the forks did not exist, there was an additional platform with a radius of more than ten meters between them and the forks.

At the same time, just as the three of them looked at the platform, a wave visible to the naked eye in the center of the platform spread out in all directions, and then a red robot seven or eight meters high appeared in front of the three of them and made a squeaking sound.

"Patil*Matil?!" Seeing this robot, Ming Ye immediately lit his eyes and screamed in dismay.

Su Bai suddenly sweated and said speechlessly: "Although I know you have been moving towards mecha control recently, it is obviously not good or bad. And no matter what, Patil Matil is just a character in the game, how can it appear in reality?"

"So it's not, tsk." Ming Ye looked regretful.

Su Bai could understand Ming Ye's excitement and loss. After all, this girl has always been obsessed with the products of the two-dimensional series. Both games and animation are her interests, and her favorite is undoubtedly the cute and powerful existence. Although the robot Patil Mathil in that game has nothing to do with cuteness, its owner is very consistent with Ming Ye's aesthetic view. And what is more coincidental is that both of them are loli who use giant sickles, which makes Ming Ye feel a great sense of substitution and gradually begins to develop towards mecha control.

Xueti, who was completely confused about the conversation between the two, asked curiously: "What Patil* Mathil? Is it a person?"

"That's right." Su Bai was too lazy to explain and said casually. Just as Xueti wanted to continue asking, he had already pointed to the huge robot on the opposite platform and said, "After that, although this guy appeared very villainous, he did not seem to have plans to attack us."

At this time, the two women's attention finally turned back.

Indeed, although this huge robot was the only one who lived in the way of the three of them, it was just standing there.

"Is it not activated yet? Or does it need to be controlled by others?" Ming Ye said quickly, staring at the robot with his eyes straight, and he didn't know what idea he was doing.

Since the other party had no intention of attacking, Su Bai did not want to take action rashly. After all, in such a mysterious place, everything needs to be careful.

"By the way, those people from the World Government look very leisurely."

Suddenly, Su Bai said something stupidly.

The two of them immediately cast puzzled eyes at him, "What did you suddenly mention them?"

"Haha, because I probably understand the meaning of this robot staying here." Su Bai snapped his fingers and said slowly in the curious and surprised eyes of the two of them, "First of all, the door in this ruins. As a ruin that may have the secrets of the previous world, don't you think it has too many entrances? Theoretically, it is enough to have a main door in each direction, but why do so many side doors exist? The maker wouldn't be bored to do such meaningless things, right?"

When the two of them instinctively looked at each other when they heard this, they were indeed too many doors in this ruins, not only outside, but also inside.

"Then what do you think is for?" Xueti asked immediately.

"It's very simple. If I guess correctly, those odd gates should be defense mechanisms." Su Bai smiled slightly and explained, "Let's make an assumption again, assuming that there is a secret in this ruin and its owner does not want others to know, but he no longer has the time and strength to stop outsiders from exploring the ruins, or when he creates the ruins, he is already unable to manage them for some reason. Then he needs to create some caretakers, such as the quicksand vortex we encountered outside..."

"You mean. Those side doors are also such caregivers?" Ming Ye's heart suddenly moved.

Su Bai nodded. "It may be a bit inappropriate to say that the caregivers are, but the existence of those side doors will undoubtedly cause considerable trouble to explorers. Let's talk about the forks we encountered along the way, so many forks and so many side doors. The problem is very simple."

"ah!"

After hearing what he said, the two women suddenly realized.

The countless forks in this ruins form a maze-like terrain, and such a maze may not be a dead end. As long as you take a wrong step, it is very likely to lead to a side door, so that you can leave the ruins naturally. In this way, it will naturally be difficult for explorers to go deep into the ruins and will not be able to explore the secrets of the ruins.

"It makes sense." After the two women figured this out, they naturally accepted Su Bai's statement, but then asked again, "But what does these have to do with the robots in front of us?"

"At the beginning, we all thought that they had explored the ruins before they came out, but judging from the situation we encountered, it was obviously impossible to be like this. Although their number is a little more than us and it is hard to say about their strength, I think I should still crush them in terms of IQ..."

When Su Bai said this, both women wanted to complain. What was going on with this inexplicable superiority?

Is it really okay to be so narcissistic?

Su Bai obviously did not have such awareness, but instead looked at it with a natural expression, "I don't even have any clues in this ruins. With their much lower IQ than me, it is obvious that it is impossible for them to find any useful secrets in this ruins in such a short time, so they probably took the wrong path and walked around the side door before they were hit by us."

Although you were shameless in your self-promotion just now, you are a little too modest now. You have found so many secrets in this ruins in such a short time. You can't describe them as "no clue"... The two women secretly complained, and resisted the urge to complain and continued to listen.

"We have also seen before that, regardless of whether they are dressed or demeanor, the guys in the World Government are relaxed and normal, and their spiritual power fluctuations are also very calm. Obviously, they should not have experienced any battles. With their temperament, there seem to be a few very warlike guys. If they encounter a robot like this, they will probably fight. In that case, even if they win, it should not be the way we see it... Of course, if their strength exceeds a certain level, then my assumption will not be true, but the initial limitation of this ruins can allow me to rule out this possibility."

"Is that the limit that the strong man above the ghost general level cannot approach?" Ming Ye asked.

Su Bai nodded, "Yes, the super-special masters have been eliminated in advance. Those who can come in will not be too perverted. In addition, the rules that this ruins faintly reveal to us should be quite troublesome if they encounter necessary battles. So my final conclusion is... Although they took the wrong path, they were safe all the way, but we encountered such a big iron block here. It is obvious that we are going the right way. The robot opposite us is probably the guardian of the ruins. If we don't defeat it, we may not be able to enter the further inside."

"In other words, we always have to fight with this big iron block, but this is strange. Since it is the guardian of the ruins, why don't we attack us?" Xueti asked in confusion.

"This is to talk about my other assumption. It is not that it does not attack us, but is waiting for our attack..." Looking at the two women's wide eyes, Su Bai explained with a smile, "This is likely to be a way of testing the ruins. Only by passing the Guardian's test can you be qualified to enter the inner place. Otherwise, you will go back wherever you come from. Perhaps in the setting of this ruins, the Guardian will not attack people who dare not accept the test..."

"Wait! Wait!" Xueti became more and more confused when she heard it, and frowned, "Didn't you just say that the owner of this ruins doesn't want outsiders to explore? But now she says that the guardians won't attack easily. Isn't this a contradiction? Regardless of strength, killing all the invaders is the most reasonable way."

"The way you said is just that you absolutely do not want to be explored. But is it really the case?" Su Bai asked back. Before the two of them could speak, he had already explained, "From the moment when the ruins came out, whether there was anyone behind the scenes, it means that the ruins need to be explored. Everything I just said was not completely stopped. It may be just a way to delete and select. And no one said that there is still a master of this ruins? Even if there is, will its current owner be the one who made it first?"

"Uh..." Xue Ti was speechless and scratched her head in confusion, as if she knew she could not speak Su Bai, and stopped talking nonsense, and said directly, "Then tell us what should we do now?"

"It's very simple, you two can just go up and challenge it."

"Ha?" Xueti pointed to himself immediately, then pointed to Mingye, and said in disbelief, "It's just us? What about you?"

Su Bai looked at her like an idiot, and said for granted: "Of course I am watching here, and I will give you spiritual support."

Ming Ye: "…"
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