Chapter 494: Repaying the Lord's Favor on the Golden Terrace!

The first day of collecting Decryption Cards.

The duo of Qiu Yinong and Lin Xuan from the West Route hid in another space and dared not go out.

East Route, Thirteenth Floor.

Chen Ran, Jiang Zhe, Mo Xi, the Afro Woman, and Zhang Chi were somewhat miserable, but they at least survived to reach this place.

Zhang Chi was still hanging onto a breath, and the two women were bandaging him again. Chen Ran and Jiang Zhe sat on the steps, silently smoking.

By clearing the Thirteenth Floor, they could obtain the Decryption Card held by Granny Zhang and the others.

But there was only one Card, and yet there were two teams here; Infighting was inevitable.

Mo Xi finished bandaging Zhang Chi's wound and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Chen Ran, I beg you, we can yield the Decryption Card to you. Zhang Chi's condition isn't suitable for Infighting. I only hope that if you want to kill us later, you don't implicate him."

But in this building, they had already lost two teammates and didn't want to lose a third...

Facing the pleading gazes of the three, Chen Ran and Jiang Zhe held their heads high, like high and mighty tyrants oblivious to worldly suffering.

Chen Ran gave Mo Xi a deep look. If he didn't kill this person, he truly wouldn't be able to sleep; this feeling was getting stronger and stronger.

Seeing the undisguised killing intent in Chen Ran's eyes, Mo Xi backed away in terror.

Chen Ran flicked away his Cigarette butt, patted his butt and stood up, leaving behind a sentence: "Let's go."

He was the first to push open the door to the Thirteenth Floor.

Jiang Zhe followed closely behind.

Mo Xi and the Afro Woman supported Zhang Chi, who lacked the Slayer's Sanctuary, to follow.

This was a Secret Room.

First, at the position entering the door, the walls on the left and right sides were quite thick.

Secondly, the Secret Room was very spacious, about the size of half a football field.

The layout was also very simple.

Inside the Secret Room, there was only a platform.

The platform was about one meter high and almost 70 centimeters wide. Resting on top of it was...

A Key!

And on the opposite side of the Secret Room, there was a locked door. It looked very simple: as long as one got the Key, they could escape.

The entrance door, the exit door, and the platform were all on the same straight line.

However, the four walls of the Secret Room were densely covered in thumb-sized holes.

The floor between the entrance and the platform was different from the rest of the floor; it was paved with two columns of purely tiled floor. The column on the left had slightly wider tiles, while the column on the right had slightly narrower tiles.

They counted and found that each column had exactly twelve tiles, but there were no patterns on the tiled floor, just pure white.

Jiang Zhe poked his head out, looked at the wall on the right side of the entrance, and found that there was a steel needle in the thumb-sized hole. In other words...

With so many holes on the four walls of the Secret Room.

They were all full of steel needles inside!

Connecting this with the two different columns of flooring leading to the platform, they realized that if they stepped on the wrong tile later, it might trigger a trap, and by then, steel needles would shoot out from all the holes...

'Strange, this Secret Room is different from the previous ones.'

'The previous Secret Rooms were all various accidents, but this Secret Room seems to have turned into a normal decryption.'

While they were puzzled, Chen Ran took off his backpack, threw it on the left side of the Secret Room, on a position that wasn't tiled floor. After throwing it, he immediately retreated, his back pressing tightly against the entrance door.

Fortunately, they were all used to Chen Ran's operations. Seeing him do this, they also leaned closely against the door behind them.

The next moment...

Steel needles shot out from the holes in the front, back, left, and right of the Secret Room, dense and numerous.

Because their backs were against the entrance door, and there were no holes on the door, no steel needles shot out from behind them. Furthermore, the walls on the left and right sides were thicker, so even if steel needles shot out from the holes in the strong side walls, they couldn't hit them.

And opposite was also a door, so no steel needles would shoot over from opposite either.

Simply put.

The reason why the walls on both sides of the entrance position were designed to be relatively thick was to leave a safe zone for the players.

After all, the Secret Room had to follow the Decryption Protocol. If no clues were given at all, the Secret Room could not be generated. This Secret Room had almost no clues to speak of, so naturally, it had to have a safe zone.

Chen Ran's backpack had already been shot into a hornet's nest, lacking any recovery value.

He looked at Jiang Zhe.

Jiang Zhe understood. Since the non-tiled floor would trigger the trap, then they could only cross from the tiled floor. But between the two columns of tiled floor, which tile had a trap and which one wouldn't trigger it, they still didn't know.

Therefore, they needed to experiment.

Thus, Jiang Zhe threw his backpack onto the wider tile on the left side.

Strangely, no steel needles shot out.

Two possibilities:

One: The weight of the backpack wasn't enough to trigger the trap under the floor.

Two: This tile was safe.

Thus, the other three also threw their backpacks onto the floor of the first row on the right side.

To people's surprise, Mo Xi actually threw her Liar-Slayer onto it as well.

However, it still didn't trigger the trap.

'There are twelve tiles in each row, and we cleared twelve Secret Rooms before.'

'Could there be some connection?'

'The tiled floor didn't trigger the trap; is it purely because the weight didn't meet the standard, or must a person stand on it to confirm?'

Chen Ran frowned in thought.

'Confirmed, this Secret Room has absolutely no relation to so-called luck.'

'Why is this?'

'From the designers' perspective, their Points are not enough to support their continued living in this world, so they obtained authority from the Bartender to set up a decryption.'

'Moreover, they don't participate in the decryption. Then the problem arises: since they don't participate in the decryption, even if players die in the Secret Room and drop their Point Cards, they should be picked up by the players who can clear the stage.'

'In other words, as long as there are players who can clear the Secret Room they made, wouldn't they be working for nothing?'

'Wait!'

'So that's how it is. Their core logic isn't to guard the Decryption Card, but...'

'To be able to earn Points.'

'As for who obtains the Decryption Card, to them, it doesn't matter.'

'In the first twelve Secret Rooms, teams wouldn't drive other teams to extinction. After all, no one knew if the next Secret Room would feature "physical labor" requiring mutual cooperation.'

'Therefore, it is highly likely that there are two or more teams that arrived here.'

'But there's only one Decryption Card, so the team that clears the stage will entrap the other teams to death in this Secret Room...'

'So, for this final Secret Room, the focus isn't on the Secret Room itself, but on...'

'Who deduces the decryption first!'

'Awesome!'

Chen Ran discovered that the Five-Star player who designed this Secret Room was truly a talent. As long as two or more teams arrived at the Thirteenth Floor, he would definitely be able to obtain Points.

This was the so-called, the simpler the Secret Room, the more lethal it could be.

It was just...

What meaning did twelve actually hold?

'There should be more hints inside the Secret Room. Otherwise, twelve has too many meanings, players simply wouldn't be able to distinguish which one it is.'

So he looked at Jiang Zhe again. The latter carefully pulled out his backpack that was pressed at the very bottom.

Seeing this, the other three also followed suit.

The reason was very simple.

In the previous twelve Secret Rooms, Chen Ran's sudden operations had left them with psychological shadows.

After all the backpacks were removed.

The five people found that two words had appeared on the floor that was previously pressed down by the four backpacks:

【Jianglou】

Chen Ran stroked his chin, asking Jiang Zhe to tie a rope to his backpack.

After tying the rope, Jiang Zhe threw the bag onto the narrower tiled floor on the right side of the second row.

The others did the same.

When the four people pulled their backpacks back with force again, they found that two more words had appeared on it as well:

【Daliang】!