MTLNOVEL Chapter 35: 39
The punishment segment ended, although Zhang Binxin did not get the reward, he also avoided a disaster. Mr. Mao Zi did not stop much, left Zhang Binxin bald, and flew towards the second section of Ou Weiqun's car.
"My friend, what kind of character do you think you have?"
"Red is courage, blue is wisdom ~ yellow is kindness, green is cleverness ~"
As if afraid that the master had forgotten the four different colors represented different attributes, Mr. Mao Zi thoughtfully repeated it once more.
"I, I..." Ou Wei Qun thought he was prepared, but when the bloody atmosphere surrounded him, he still stuttered.
That ancient blood essence had an ancient and rotten taste, and also had a hint of a fresh fishy smell. Needless to say, that fishy smell came from Xu Lin just now.
If Ou Wei Quan was also dead, the fresh smell of blood would be even more intense.
Diep Tich's heart was tense, afraid that Au Ve Quan's short-sighted brain would choose "Kindness" again.
Because that question was a dual choice, Zhang Binxin seemed to rule out a wrong answer, but in reality it was obviously not. If Ou Weiqun encountered the same question and instead chose to abandon the child to save the adult, Ye Xi had no doubt that Mr. Mao Zi would judge this action as "giving up a child with infinite possibilities in the future to save the adult", which was also a dead end.
Fortunately, Ou Wei Quan was not as worried as she was. After a short while of not being able to breathe, he replied: "I feel like I am still brave..."
"Oh, is that so?" Mr. Mao Zi revealed a meaningful smile.
"Ti ti ti ——" Ou Wei Qun's ears heard a faint sound. Although this sound was light, it was very unique. Roughly any person with normal hearing would think of it the first thing they heard —— this was the sound of a snake spitting out a dead body!
Following closely, a red emperor patterned black venomous snake poked its head out from the collar of Ou Wei Quan, its body curved in front of him, its head coming face to face with him.
The pair of little black beans' eyes reflected a bit of light, the tip of its tongue was still continuously licking, and it was slightly closer to Ou Wei Quan.
Ou Wei Quan clearly felt the sweat on his back soaking layer after layer, very quickly his clothes were soaked.
But he held back, not screaming, not making any sound. It was just that from behind his sweaty back, another kind of feeling was slowly spreading out.
It was as if there were countless slender, bushy legs crawling on his back.
Is it a spider? Is it a centipede? Still something else?
Au Ve Quan couldn't see it, but couldn't help but think about it.
Across the carriage, Diep Tich could hear his breathing gradually becoming heavier, one breath after another, carrying a trembling sound.
Rustling rustling sensation from behind slowly spread to the shoulders, Ou Wei Quan's teeth started to tremble, but still did not make any sound.
Just when Ye Xi thought he could endure this one level, Mr. Mao Zi let out a laugh: "Haha, young man! Look what I found? You seem to be sweating!"
"I don't... I don't!" Au Ve Quan swore in denial.
"Is that so?" Mr. Mao Zi asked with great interest, the brim of his hat twitched, and he rubbed it lightly against Ou Wei Qun's face, "Look, you're covered in cold sweat, as if you've just washed your face!"
The satirical tone is very gentle, even a bit mischievous.
Au Ve Quan stiffened his neck and said: "I, I feel hot, so I sweat..."
At the same time, he felt a white blur in the left corner of his vision.
The sudden height made him feel dizzy. Without thinking, he turned his head and stared at her intently. A miserable scream broke out from his throat: "Ah ——!!!"
He saw the image, others could not see it, so for a moment everyone was confused, not knowing what he had experienced.
But suddenly the image that stabbed into his sight, if changed to someone else, would be hard not to call.
——On his left, a female ghost fell from the cliff, her dress was pale, her face was pale, her dress was stained with blood, the corner of her mouth was also covered with blood, her long black hair was hanging upside down and tangled, not knowing if it was also coagulated by blood plasma.
What was even more fatal was that Ou Wei Qun turned his face away and just happened to meet her eyes. Her right eye was blind, her eyelids deeply sunken in. And in the frame of her left eye, there was a bright red eyeball.
After hearing Ou Wei Qun's miserable scream, the female ghost raised her hands and grabbed his neck.
Her nearly inch long fingernails were gray-white, the touch was cold, Ou Wei Quan clearly felt her sinking inch by inch, his eyes suddenly widened, his heart was crazily calling for the "Protector God" to choose to shoot out.
The people who came to the Hoan Du Anh Thanh music garden with him were all his university roommates. According to the mechanism that Hong Tu had just introduced, there should be at least one person who entered the Rule Realm with him at the same time, and there was also the possibility of more.
They normally have a very good relationship. While he binds others and becomes others' guardian gods, there must also be others binding him and becoming his guardian gods.
Among boys, one should focus on "Brotherly loyalty" and the other should focus on "Not sparing one's life for a friend".
But this kind of words are easy to say, but now something really happened...
Au Ve Quan tightly closed his eyes, apologizing in his heart, but at the same time impatiently wanting the other party to go find death in his place.
But, the choice in the middle of the wait did not come out, the female ghost in the long armor pinched his neck.
The tourists behind couldn't see the female ghost, they only saw a few dents suddenly appear on his neck, then the dents suddenly broke, blood curses gushed out!
"Wu——" the plasma choked into his trachea, Ou Weiqun wanted to cough, but more blood poured in.
His whole body began to convulse, his hands desperately covering his throat, trying to stop the bleeding, but it was no use. Very quickly, his eyes rolled back in pain, he trembled and fell into the car, losing all hope of life.
The female student in the car who called herself "Su Su" was so scared that her face turned pale. She tightly covered her mouth to keep herself from screaming.
Mr. Mao Zi left the body and stopped above her head: "My friend, what kind of character do you think you have?"
"Red is courage, blue is wisdom ~ yellow is kindness, green is cleverness ~"
Still the same exact problem, same exact lines.
Diep Tich clearly saw the girl's shoulders shaking violently, but after Mr. Mao Tu finished speaking the last sentence, she quickly calmed down: "I choose blue, wisdom."
"Oh, is that so——" Mr. Mao Zi dragged his words.
Next, a natural science chooses to use white light text to float in front of Su Su.
This instance setup is very strict, because the rules stipulate that participants cannot speak or make noise at will. The terrifying images just now were all "visible to only one person", completely unintentionally leading other players to accidentally step into the thunder zone.
But now the subject in the visual effect does not have such strong stimulation, it is everyone can see.
Diep Tich just glanced at that sentence, and immediately felt in his heart: It's over.
This was a very long question, the question had five or six lines, it was no exaggeration to say that Ye Xi could not even understand all the symbols inside, let alone solve the question.
Looking back at the four options below... Haha, the options are all numbers, she actually recognizes them all, but when put under the headings, she can't tell who's right or wrong at all!
Then heard Su Su in front say: "Choose C."
Diep Tich:... Ha???
"Are you sure——" Mr. Mao Zi slowly asked, "This question is very complicated, I will give you enough time to solve it, you don't need to just answer like that, my friend."
"No, just choose C." Su Su said calmly, the fear and shrinkage just now had disappeared, her tone was very confident, "If Mr. Mao Zi wants to see the specific steps to solve the question, then he really needs to give me some time to write it, but if he just needs the answer, it is C. I have participated in two rounds of "The Strongest Brain", I have already done this question."
"..."
The air here was quiet for a moment.
Diep Tich was clearly standing behind To To and Mr. Mao Tu, but she strangely felt that Mr. Mao Tu's expression seemed to have become a bit distorted.
What is the concept of the strange rules of math problems that meet the "strongest brain" contestants? Basically, it puts the intelligence of the C country's top human race here.
In front of them, "Su Su" and "Mr. Mao Zi" were more like a dungeon boss, suddenly becoming very difficult to explain.
A few seconds later, Mr. Mao Zi floated up from above Su Su's head, mumbling as he floated towards the blue rune-painted rock wall: "You are truly very intelligent, my friend. Mr. Mao Zi likes intelligent humans."
He flew to the cliff and stopped, probing the top half of his hat, touching the cliff.
The talisman felt touched, blooming white light, a golden ball of light floated out in the white light, carrying a kind of sacred feeling, slowly falling in front of Su Su.
Su Su reached out to catch it, the white light disappeared, in her hand was a book.
[Book of Wisdom]: As long as you are smart enough, there will be an escape plan for any danger. If you encounter danger in the Rule Realm, open this book, it will tell you a simple and foolproof escape method (you can use one each time you enter the Rule Realm).
It's a weird prop!!!
To To was so happy.
In the real world, she was not only a contestant of "The Strongest Brain", but also a teacher at a certain key high school in B city. The day the sandstorm fell, the school was about to start. She was so busy that her feet didn't touch the ground. She didn't destroy the blind box or play the game, and it was even more unreasonable to deliberately come into contact with a corpse. Naturally, she became an "ordinary person".
The advantages and disadvantages of "ordinary people" are both very clear. The advantage is that the probability of entering the Rule Realm is very low. Before today, Su Su had only gone through one new dungeon.
As for the bad environment, the remaining "ordinary people" think it is difficult to obtain extraordinary props.
Simply put, the normal fantasy props can only be obtained by accumulating points and then going to the props store to exchange them——but accumulating points is to clear the monster pool, and she normally doesn't have much contact with the monster pool, so where can she accumulate points?
Now suddenly getting a piece of prop, To To is really overjoyed.
... Of course, if she could make her mind come true, she hoped that she would never want to enter the strange talk, this best prop would never have the chance to start using.
But once things don't go as planned, this life-saving prop looks pretty good!
The atmosphere in the cave became complicated. The general lecture was basically explaining a famous saying: Human joy and sorrow are not mutually connected.
At the same time that Su Su was overjoyed, the other attendees also had no way to be happy——Su Su passing the exam safely was of course a good thing. Big shots meeting small fry, no one wanted to see her die miserably, but this good thing had nothing to do with them.
This kind of perverted natural science question, basically not many people will do it! The vast majority of people are at the top of the college entrance exam, later as time passes, the amount of knowledge becomes smaller and smaller.
So Su Su successfully couldn't replicate it, but the tragic death of Ou Wei Quan before was completely possible to still be intact and pasted.
Strangely silent, Mr. Mao Zi had stopped on top of Diep Tich.
"My friend, what kind of character do you think you have?"
"Red is courage, blue is wisdom ~ yellow is kindness, green is cleverness ~"
He once again recited the same unchanging lines, the rusty and bloody gas rushed straight to Diep Tich's nasal cavity, the sticky feeling stuck to her forehead, causing her to stop breathing.
She decided to gradually calm down and her heart started to beat chaotically, and she opened her mouth: "Omnipotent and omniscient Mister Mao Zi, can I ask you a question?"
"Oh——" Mr. Mao Zi was slightly stunned, then suddenly replied, "Of course you can. Mr. Mao Zi really cares about hospitality, although he doesn't like humans, but when humans enter Mr. Mao Zi's cave as guests, Mr. Mao Zi will kindly answer human questions."
Diep Tich gently nodded: "I want to ask a question, what exactly is courage, what is wisdom, what is kindness, what is cleverness?"
"You just need to..." Mr. Mao Zi wanted to speak, but Ye Xi was afraid that he would say "Just answer my questions and it will be fine", so he immediately raised his voice and scolded, "In my opinion, humans are a very complex species."
After saying that, she was so nervous that her heart stopped beating twice.
Fortunately, Mr. Mao Tu did not do anything to threaten her safety.
It seems that the rule that says "Do not interrupt Mr. Mao Zi's conversation with other tourists" is very strictly explained — as long as you do not interrupt his conversation with other tourists, it is fine, but when you are the one who is having the conversation with him, you can interrupt him.
Diep Tich calmly continued speaking; "In Mr. Mao Tu's eyes, is sacrificing oneself for others not considered brave? Or should we say, being fearless towards all things in the world is considered brave?"
"Is it wise to attack one's own technical work? Or is it wise to understand all the difficult answers?"
"Being compassionate and willing to help the weak within one's ability, is that called kindness? Or is it being able to prevent all tragedy that counts as kindness?"
"In interpersonal relationships, being truly appreciated and being able to make everyone feel comfortable, is that considered clever? Or is it only when you want to maximize all benefits that you can be called clever?"
She paused here, threw away her fear, and from the bottom of her heart, she harbored a sincere request for advice: "Mr. Mao Zi, I am just an ordinary person. I aspire to possess courage, wisdom, kindness, and cleverness, but I also have fear, ignorance, selfishness, and dullness. These are natural human feelings. Perhaps, in our entire lives, we will not be able to reach the limit of the four qualities that Mr. Mao Zi likes."
Diep Tich's clear voice echoed in the cave, as if all the silent sounds suddenly poured into a stream of clear water, the tinkling sound made people feel happy and comfortable.
The fellow travelers all stopped breathing. Su Su, who was sitting in front, couldn't help but turn her head and looked at Diep Tich in surprise and worry.
"Oh... You think so?" Mr. Mao Zi hesitated in a low voice above Ye Xi's head, muttering to himself, as if he was also a bit embarrassed, "In other words, you don't have enough courage and wisdom, nor are you kind enough, and you're also not clever enough? Oh... Mr. Mao Zi doesn't like this kind of ordinary human."
Diep Tich's shoulders tensed, his breathing began to become uneasy.
"However..." The hat book book, his mouth somewhat relaxed, "You are very sincere. Sincerity is also a very good quality, Mr. Mao Zi has never met a sincere person, Mr. Mao Zi likes sincere people."
"So!" Its tone became joyful, suddenly leaving Ye Xi's head, staggering and swaying as it drifted towards the left cliff wall that had a rune of courage and wisdom.
It's helmet touched two cliffs in order, then flew from the front of the car to the right, and hit the other two, "Although I don't have a 'sincere' gift prepared here, but I'm willing to give you a gift. You choose for yourself, my friend, any one is fine!"
Diep Tich's eyes trembled slightly.
Although Mr. Mao Zi's happy and friendly tone did not sound malicious, she did not dare to relax, and nodded her head with caution and humility, "I am not worthy of your gift, Mr. Mao Zi. If you still want to give it to me, then it should be your choice. No matter what it is, I am very grateful."
"Oh... Okay!" Mr. Mao Zi was even happier.
It made Ye Xi choose the timing without any ill intentions, but Ye Xi's reply made it feel more comfortable.
"I like this human, I like this human!" The sharp-horned hat spun around the cliff and hopped around, every time it passed a rune it would pause for a moment, as if wondering whether the gift inside was suitable for this human.
Courage, intelligence, kindness, cleverness, it goes round and round clockwise.
Clever, kind, intelligent, courageous, it turns the clock around again.
But in the end, it did not take out any similar gift and give it to Diep Tich. The hat on it did not have clear facial features, making it look very messy.
After a long while, he seemed to suddenly hear something, turned to "face" and said to Ye Xi: "This lovely human friend, please wait for me a moment."
After saying that, it floated up again, floating towards the darkness where it was.
This action made the tourists very curious, the rich people momentarily forgot their fear, greedily looking around in the darkness.
After a few minutes, it floated back, not returning to Ye Xi's head, but very gracefully and gently stopping in front of her to support the stick: "My dear friend, I know this gift may seem a bit arrogant at first glance, but listen to me, it can really help you."
His attitude had completely calmed down, his nagging voice somewhat resembling that of a normal but kind-hearted uncle. Ye Xi finally relaxed a bit, even feeling that his appearance was a bit... cute?
She laughed out loud, her elbows on her knees, her hands supporting her chin as she looked at him: "What is it? Mr. Mao Zi."
"Here, for you." Mr. Mao Zi raised the brim of his hat a little, revealing a pendant underneath.
This was an oval-shaped antique pendant, in an ancient bronze color, with intricate European-style patterns carved on it, and a blood-red gemstone set in the middle. Ye Xi noticed that there was a small seal on one side of the oval. He tried pressing it, and the lid flew open, revealing a small black and white photo set inside.
... But it is Mr. Mao Zi's photo.
Mr. Mao Zi said: "This pattern on the top, is Mr. Mao Zi's favorite pattern; this gem on the top, is Mr. Mao Zi's unique gem! And this photo..." It coughed a little embarrassedly, "I said it was a bit arrogant, but this is indeed the truth——in our world of weird rules, there is no one who doesn't know me, they all say I am the omniscient and omnipotent Mr. Mao Zi. So, my friend, when you enter the Rule Realm again, remember to bring it with you. If you have any doubts, or need any help, you can use it to ask the residents here for help, they will be willing to help you in my eyes, because I will bless them."
After hearing what Mr. Mao Zi said, Diep Tich really wanted to maintain his composure, but still couldn't help but show surprise.
This is really a Divine Spirit!!!
Mr. Mao Zi continued: "Of course, it also has some small limitations —— I need to set limitations for it, otherwise 'he' won't be happy."
"This limitation is, for each Rule Realm you can only use 1 of it. However... Oh, it won't take up your props, if you have other props, you can continue to choose and use them, but keeping 3 props doesn't include it."
"Just like that, my friend." Mr. Mao Zi finished speaking and jumped up from the support stick, passed by Ye Xi's shoulder, and flew towards the fifth person.
But before it landed on the opponent's head, it thought of something else, so it jumped back to Ye Xi's car and blocked the way, probing and saying to Ye Xi: "That's right, it seems like I didn't make it clear just now——the 'residents' you can ask for help don't include those people who pretend to be 'fake participants', but those 'natives'. They are working for 'him', they can't help you."
"... Good." Ye Xi nodded, her expression of gratitude just now still had some "acting" in it, but now it was truly sincere, "Thank you for giving me the gift, and also thank you for telling me such detailed instructions on how to use it."
"You're welcome." Mr. Mao Zi used his cap to kindly point at her shoulder, "Keep your sincerity, my friend. If everyone could keep their sincerity, your human world would have a lot less trouble."
"You are absolutely right." Diep Tich nodded earnestly, and after Mr. Mao Tu jumped back again, she lowered her head to look at the jewelry in her hand, as if thinking about something.
At the time when she first guessed the method, she felt that her analysis was not wrong.
The magic cave's independent rules have a total of four articles, two of which are related to rewards and punishments. One is the second half of the second article, "If you obtain Mr. Mao Zi's approval, you will receive a valuable reward." The other is the fourth article, "Mr. Mao Zi does not like to lie. Lying, deceitful, and greedy humans will be severely punished."
These two things at first glance seem to correspond, one is a reward and one is a punishment, but in fact they contain more important information. If one wants to know the information inside, one cannot be intimidated by its literal meaning, and must analyze the two internal rules.
"If you get Mr. Mao Zi's approval, you will receive a luxurious reward" —— this place says that getting approval can have rewards, but it doesn't say that the only way to get approval is to choose the four qualities Mr. Mao Zi gives.
"Mr. Mao Zi doesn't like lying" —— so what does he like?
Relatively lying is being honest and straightforward.
So the key point of that part of the problem that Diep Tich asked was not actually a "problem", but rather expressing her sincerity. At each step that followed, she tried her best to appear sincere.
Just...
Although she had guessed that she could pass the pass safely, she did not expect that it would make Mr. Mao Zi so happy that he would give her a Divine Artifact in return.
Moreover, this Divine Artifact also bypasses the normal prop mechanism, it is a "privilege" like existence.
This made her realize that "Mr. Mao Zi" did not seem to be an ordinary NPC. Even in this world with strange rules and strange stories, he was still unusual.
What he said, is there another hidden meaning?
Diep Tich was shocked, Mr. Mao Tu had fallen to the fifth tourist's head.
The fifth tourist looked very young, eighteen or nineteen years old, at most no more than twenty.
This young person still has a bit of a newborn calf that is not afraid of tigers, brave and clear-headed. Seeing that Ye Xi successfully cleared the customs and captured the Divine Artifact, she looked at Mr. Mao Zi with wide eyes.
This kind of eye-catching appearance, Mr. Mao Zi naturally saw what she was thinking, and stopped at her head with a bit of anger: "This young friend! I know what you are thinking! Let me tell you——if you copy the answer from that friend before, I will not give you a gift! I have seen too many of you profiteering humans!"
"If you copy the answer from that friend before, I won't give you a gift!" —— Ye Xi noticed these words, couldn't help but turn his head, and looked at Mr. Mao Zi with an angry smile.
The female student who was undergoing the test also keenly realized what this meant, took a deep breath, and smiled: "I don't want to copy, but, Mr. Mao Zi, can't I have the same doubts as this elder sister?":,,.
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