Chapter 2592: Trap or Goodwill?

The direction Xia Duo chose to delve into the rock mass was perpendicular to the path and toward the core palace, but he soon encountered an obstruction—

There was still a Jieti existing within the rock mass!

Thus, Xia Duo did not go to the plaza he had discovered first, but instead continued deeper into the rock mass along the periphery of the Jieti; he wanted to see the general coverage area of this Jieti.

Before long, he arrived at the edge of the Plane—let's call it the edge of the Plane, as it was, after all, a piece of Folded Space constrained from the Main Plane.

Except for the volume being inferior to the Main Plane, everything else was the same as the Main Plane.

The Main Plane has a Plane edge, and this Folded Space naturally has one too; the moment he saw the edge of the Plane, Xia Duo immediately realized that the protective Magic on the two plazas were not one and the same.

Perhaps they were interconnected within the Mythallar, but at least on the surface, the two were separate.

Xia Duo guessed that perhaps the Secret Land Mythallar, in order to maintain the long-term existence of the Core Area, had to selectively disconnect its support for other non-core areas.

Of course, it is also possible that the Mythallar had fallen into disrepair over the years, and the Mythallar in some areas had naturally failed, but considering that Mythallar collapse is often accompanied by Magic Net riots.

That place similar to a living area just now, apart from being a bit dilapidated and covered in dust, was almost in its original state; it did not look like it had experienced a Magic Net riot.

If it could not be confirmed that this Midi was the Longkuang Midi Fortress, Xia Shao might not have such hesitation, but now all the phenomena here reminded him that this place was highly likely to be the Longkuang Midi Fortress.

Therefore, Xia Duo was more inclined to believe it was the automatic choice of the Mythallar, or the active setting of the Maintainer, thereby abandoning the maintenance and protection of non-core areas.

And besides the living area, Xia Shao also discovered a material warehouse; due to the extremely long passage of time, apart from some Gemstone as well as gold and Adamantine that could still maintain their original appearance, other things, even Mithril, had somewhat deteriorated and rusted.

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After such a long time, wood had either rotted or had already petrified and crystallized, and although the cloth had rotted, the original form could still be distinguished.

But if he used the method in the scroll, he was worried that it was a trap; this was truly a difficult choice! This was actually a process of analysis; with the assistance of the intellectual brain, the progress was very smooth.

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Two medium-coverage Jieti were located on both sides of the largest Jieti, the three were almost on the same straight line, and those four small Jieti were located on the same side of this straight line, distributed in a scattered manner.

Adamantine is slightly inferior to gold, but it can still maintain its original appearance; after rubbing it slightly, it would continue to shine with a metallic luster.

This part looked cumbersome and complex, and it was indeed so in practice, but Xia Shao after all had an avatar inside the Folded Space; he could make corrections to the detection process and direction of the Detection Array through observation from a macro perspective.

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The other path was to attempt to obtain Mythallar Permission through an intrusion method; this could also be used to judge whether this place was the Longkuang Midi Fortress.

And while Xia Shao's avatar was personally exploring the Folded Space, his main body in the Laboratory of the Main Plane also completed many investigation tasks regarding the macro Magic Net inside the Folded Space with the help of the Detection Array.

He preliminarily judged that the vast majority of the functions of the Secret Land Mythallar were in a dormant or closed state, but the protection of the Core Area remained strict.

The advantage is that as long as one is careful, there is a high probability of not alerting the potential Secret Land Maintainer; the disadvantage is that there is a relatively high probability of triggering certain countermeasures of the Secret Land.

So the question returns to Mythallar Permission: whether to try to use the method of obtaining permission in the scroll, or to try to obtain permission through an intrusion method.

One is to try to use the method of obtaining permission recorded in the scroll, which is also the most direct way to verify whether this place is the Longkuang Midi Fortress.

But the secret scroll was made by someone else; who knows if this is a signal to wake up the Maintainer! Of course, if the secret scroll has no problems, once successful, the benefits are also huge; this means he could almost control the Longkuang Midi Fortress.

Then Xia Shao returned to the plaza discovered initially; unlike the plaza discovered later which only had two passages, this plaza had passages on all four sides, it was just that three of them were sealed off.

Without seizing the permission, or paralyzing the Jieti function, even if one entered, one would still be subject to countermeasures.

It was not that it was difficult to continue, but that it was enough; now it was time to make a decision!

As for metal, only deterioration caused by Elemental Transmutation would change its essence; otherwise, even if it rusted, it just existed in a different form and could still be detected.

As for gold and Gemstone, they almost never deteriorate or rust, especially the former; the latter might have some changes in properties during long-term storage, but it is always correct that they are Gemstone.

Of course, there were more things that were suspected to be food, piles of white ash; they didn't look like traces left by metal, wood, or cloth.

Therefore, even if the Core Areas in those three directions were important, they were likely not as important as the palace from before.

Midi, outside the plaza in front of the core palace, before the passage.

After a simple investigation, Xia Shao discovered that the sealing method of these three passages was still a Jieti, and at the same time, the Jieti in these three directions were still in a separated state from the Jieti on the other plaza, and each was independent.

Under such circumstances, if one were to obtain permission through an intrusion method, if it failed, it would be very difficult to have room for maneuver.

Of course, because the Detection Array acts on the subtle, its investigation of the macro Magic Net also starts from the micro; therefore, in this process, it is necessary to collect a large amount of data on the flow state of the Magic Net String, and then obtain the specific macro Magic Net state through analysis.

If possible, he still hoped to live in peace with the other party and negotiate calmly; at least for the period of the first contact, it should be like that.

Subsequently, Xia Shao searched the entire Folded Space and discovered a total of one large, two medium, and four small Jieti; the largest Jieti was the area where the core palace was located.

Of course, there was another path that only flashed through Xia Shao's mind for an instant, which was to use the Personal Space overlap to enter the Core Area, but the Jieti was not an empty shell, but a field.

Xia Shao's avatar stood like a wooden man for a long time, and only occasionally did his eyes become lively; I don't know how long had passed, but Xia Shao's main body finally stopped the analysis.

Now there were two paths in front of him—

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Considering that this area only lacked protection but was still essentially within the coverage of the Mythallar, Xia Shao did not move anything in the warehouse, so as to avoid encountering the ancient Maintainer and causing a conflict.

Xia Shao speculated that there was also a Core Area in each of those three directions, it was just that he did not find a torrent of Magic Net String similar to the palace on the side of the previous plaza near those three Jieti.