Chapter 250: Central Area

The breeze blew gently, and the grassland was exceptionally quiet.

Xiang Bubu carried Su Xiao and ran on the grassland, having already traveled for nearly two hours.

"Xiang Bubu, stop."

Su Xiao looked around at the situation. Everything in sight was emerald green. Before, he could vaguely see trees, but now only the grassland remained.

"What's wrong?"

The Little Emperor, who was taking a "hanging ticket," asked. Apart from Su Xiao, if anyone else dared to ride on Xiang Bubu's back, this idiot would bite them, so the Little Emperor was now taking a "hanging ticket," being held by Su Xiao with one hand.

"It's not normal here."

"Are there dangerous creatures?"

"No, we might be lost."

Su Xiao jumped off Xiang Bubu's back and pulled an iron rod out of the grass not far away. This was what he had inserted here before.

"How could we be lost? Weren't we moving forward all the time?"

The Little Emperor looked around. The scene in sight was roughly the same, an endless emerald green grassland.

"Xiang Bubu, run forward."

Su Xiao stood on the spot and let Xiang Bubu run in a straight line.

When Xiang Bubu ran more than ten meters away, it was still normal, but after running more than a hundred meters, the route began to deviate.

You know, Xiang Bubu would turn its head from time to time to determine Su Xiao's position, trying its best to keep a straight line with Su Xiao.

After Xiang Bubu ran several hundred meters, Su Xiao could only vaguely see it. Even more eerie things happened: Xiang Bubu actually ran out in a semicircle, circled around on the grassland, and arrived behind Su Xiao. A few minutes later, Xiang Bubu and Su Xiao reunited.

They had been circling in place all along, but Su Xiao was helpless.

There were no landmarks on the grassland before, but after he acted as a landmark, Xiang Bubu was still circling.

Things were a bit difficult. This place should be able to confuse a creature's sense of direction. It should be a visual deviation effect caused by the surrounding environment. The more you want to walk in a straight line, the more you will circle.

He had no way to quickly crack this layout unless his perception could cover the entire grassland, but this was obviously impossible.

Since he couldn't distinguish the direction, he simply wouldn't determine the direction to move forward.

This place could only confuse the sense of direction, not a maze; the two had essential differences.

Riding on Xiang Bubu, Su Xiao began to direct Xiang Bubu to run forward.

Now he circled two large circles to the left and circled a few more circles to the right. During this period, Su Xiao inserted iron rods on the grass from time to time.

Just like this, after circling around more than a dozen times, Su Xiao began to check those dozens of iron rods on the ground.

Some of the iron rods were in a straight line, while others were inserted randomly on the grass.

"Xiang Bubu, continue."

Su Xiao took out paper and pen from his storage space, first drawing a circle on the paper, and then using the pen to dot some black points on the paper.

The circling began again and again. After circling for dozens of times, even Xiang Bubu couldn't stand it. This idiot also realized it was circling.

"Forward thirty meters, left fifty meters, right ten meters, no, right fifteen meters..."

Su Xiao racked his brains to find the correct route. Although his face was calm, his heart had already "greeted" the designer of this grassland countless times.

The designer was a perfectionist. The number of steps for each change of direction was different, which made it even harder to calculate.

"Xiang Bubu, forward thirty meters."

Xiang Bubu turned its head to look at Su Xiao, its dog face full of confusion, seemingly asking: 'Boss, how far is thirty meters?'

Su Xiao sighed. He had overestimated Xiang Bubu's IQ. Xiang Bubu was a wise creature, that was true, but its IQ was a bit touching, commonly known as an idiot.

"Just walk forward, and stop immediately when I shout stop. Don't take a single extra step."

Xiang Bubu began to walk forward, sometimes turning left, sometimes turning right, and occasionally retreating a few steps.

"This direction, keep running."

Xiang Bubu ran wildly, and the scene in its sight changed, no longer a grassland.

Success. He used his IQ to walk out of that grassland.

The scene around finally was no longer the same, and some low trees appeared in his sight.

【You have entered the central area of the 'Pilumark Alchemy Testing Ground'. The alchemy toxins have changed.】

【You are being eroded by 'Strolow' alchemy toxins, Strength -10, Agility -10, Stamina -10, receiving 7 points of true damage per second.】

【Whether to turn on the high-level air filtration device, costing 300 Paradise Coins per hour.】

A feeling of weakness appeared, and Su Xiao felt his entire body begin to become heavy.

"Turn on."

Although his heart ached, he had to use Reincarnation Paradise's air filtration device now.

After moving forward for half an hour, the grassland around was no longer vast, and two stone walls appeared. The route forward was funnel-shaped, getting narrower as he walked.

Walking to the end, a cave several dozen meters high appeared in front, and the plants on the ground nearby were all yellow and withered.

A rich burnt smell came, and Su Xiao directed Xiang Bubu to walk into the cave.

Not long after entering the cave, a heavy sound of footsteps came from behind, and Xiang Bubu hurriedly ran into a crack in the rock wall.

"Gaba-ha-ke... (Unknown language)."

"Tu-tu-jiu... (Unknown language)."

This should be a language. Su Xiao couldn't understand a single word. He hid in the crack of the rock wall and leaned out to look.

A group of strange creatures, only about one meter tall, with thin bodies, dark yellow skin, protruding eyes, pointed ears, and overall humanoid, appeared.

There were five strange creatures in total. Although they were only about one meter tall, they had great strength. Each strange creature held a three-meter-high iron box, and inside the iron box was a kind of black shiny stone.

Su Xiao immediately recognized that it was coal. These creatures were very likely intelligent creatures. Could it be that these were alchemists? This appearance was too sorry for the audience.

"This seems to be a Danger Beast: Caveman, but Cavemen don't have such great strength."

The Little Emperor recognized the origin of the strange creatures.

"Caveman? A kind of human?"

"No, Cavemen are between humans and beasts. They have independent languages and generally live on the west side of the continent. There are about several hundred thousand of them. They often plunder nearby villages and have the habit of eating people. To be precise, as long as they are creatures, they will eat them. If they are too hungry, weak peers are also emergency food."

The Little Emperor knew quite a bit about Danger Beasts.

During their conversation, those few Cavemen had already walked into the cave.

Su Xiao was very concerned about the destination of those few Cavemen. He began to track those few Cavemen, with Xiang Bubu and the Little Emperor following behind Su Xiao.

Those few Cavemen were very familiar with the terrain of the cave, walking for about ten minutes, and those few Cavemen entered an open space.

*Boom, boom, boom. *

The sound of large machinery operating came from the open space. Su Xiao looked into the open space.

This was an open space of more than a thousand square meters, filled with large machinery.

These large machines were made of steel, with metal pipes connected to these machines, and the other end deep into the rock wall.

In the center of the open space, a furnace more than ten meters high was working, and the coal transported by those few Cavemen was all thrown into the furnace.

The temperature in the open space was very high. Around those large machines, hundreds of Cavemen were working, their bare upper bodies covered with oily sweat, and their dark yellow skin covered with dirt.

*Slap! *

A crisp sound of a whip came. A few Cavemen who were a bit taller were standing on the steel machines, holding long whips to supervise the Cavemen working below.

These Cavemen who looked like guards were about 1.5 meters tall, wearing simple armor, their skin was light cyan, and those big eyes were exceptionally cruel.

Hearing the whip sound, the Cavemen laborers below shivered, and worked harder to transport coal and maintain the machines. ===== CHAPTER 251 =====

Hearing the crack of the whip, the cave-dweller laborers below shuddered and worked even harder to transport coal and maintain the machinery.