Xiu summoned the nightmare and mounted it with Du Ze. The nightmare neighed, raised its hooves and ran to the entrance.
By the time they arrived at the statue, almost everyone was there. When Du Ze got off the nightmare's back, his legs were so weak that he almost fell. Although he felt no pain because of undead magic, his hands and feet were so sore that they didn't feel like his own.
Xiu held Du Ze in his arms and let him lean on him. Because of the atmosphere, no one dared to ask the gloomy Lich about Du Ze's condition. Xiu's dull eyes scanned the surroundings. When he saw the drunken First Mage holding a jug of wine, the soul flame in the depths of his pupils shook slightly.
"Young man, we meet again. I heard about you from little Mi 'er. It turns out that we all know each other. " Antonio shook the jug of wine and sighed: "I didn't expect you to be willing to save this group of little bastards …"
The First Mage's words seemed to have other meanings. Xiu's pale face looked gloomy in the dim light. Antonio and Xiu looked at each other, their hazy, drunken eyes full of understanding. "They gave you the certificate, didn't they?"
Xiu did not avoid Antonio's gaze. He nodded slowly: "Yes."
The atmosphere suddenly became a bit heavy. Antonio stared at Xiu, his eyes full of scrutiny. Old John and the others gathered quietly on Xiu's side. The gold mercenary squad stood in the middle, looking back and forth in bewilderment. In this tense atmosphere, Antonio suddenly drank a few mouthfuls of wine and sighed heavily: "Then there's no other way."
The First Mage stretched out his hand. Moore and the others were subconsciously on guard when they saw the black flame representing the certificate appear on Antonio's palm.
"Let's take the old man with us."
Du Ze watched as Xiu silently accepted Antonio's certificate and then looked at the gold mercenary squad. Suddenly, he understood something.
Moe Lord: The plan works.
With the addition of Antonio, they no longer had to struggle to find books or fight for levels in the following levels. Antonio is simply an encyclopedia. There seems to be no problem he doesn't know. The group of people who were kept by the number one Archmage happily made it to the last stage. What appeared in front of them was no longer a monster statue, but a real sphinx monster. The monster was entrenched on the road, and behind it was a void. It had the face of a beautiful woman. Seeing Du Ze and the others, the monster shook its wings and changed from a lying position to a sitting position.
"This is the last question. You only have one chance to answer it." The sphinx said, "What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs at night?"
Du Ze almost knelt down. The last question was so simple? Who hasn't heard of that famous Greek myth? Everyone knows that the answer is "man"!
"I've never heard of such a magical beast …" Rachel sighed. "Am I too ignorant?"
Enoch frowned and said, "I think we really need an encyclopedia of Magical Beasts right now."
Honey tugged at Antonio's robe. "Does Grandpa know what that is?"
"Little Honey, Grandpa is not omnipotent." Antonio reluctantly opened the jug, took a sip, and fell into deep thought.
Seeing everyone's reaction, the silly, cute reader suddenly realized that this is not Earth. If he didn't know the answer in advance, this puzzle would have been really difficult. When he first heard the question, he couldn't answer it at all.
OMG, it's been a long time since he encountered this kind of benefit!
"The answer is man."
Everyone looked at Du Ze. The black-haired youth pressed his headphones, his expressionless face showing a strange sense of calmness.
"I think, the answer is man."
"You made the right choice."
The sphinx revealed a beautiful smile, then scattered into golden dust, forming a golden path in the void that led into the distance. Everyone was a little confused. Enoch scratched his head and asked Du Ze curiously, "Hey! Brother, how did you come up with the answer? "
Seeing that Xiu was also looking at him, Du Ze wanted to explain, but the moment he was about to say it, he realized something and broke out in a cold sweat – he seemed to have underestimated this question.
The sphinx said "choice," not "answer." The morning, noon, and evening in the question refer to childhood, middle age, and old age. On Earth, the answer to this question is only man, but now he is in a different world. Here, whether it's beasts, elves, or gnomes, they can all be the answer to this question. There is no longer only one answer to this question, so you have to choose the answer that satisfies the monster the most …?
Seeing Du Ze's stiff face not answering, Enoch shrugged and stopped asking. He habitually ran first, letting the people behind him catch up.
"Let's go ~ I think we'll be able to leave this damn place soon. This thief's hunch has always been accurate!"
Because in front of them is the boss, young man.
The golden road seemed to slowly dissipate with the passage of time. Du Ze and the others were once again urged to move forward by the tower. On the golden road, Du Ze was still thinking about the question. Although he had chosen the best answer by a fluke, if he had chosen another race as the answer, what would the result be?
– Those who are not of my race must have a different heart.
At this moment, Du Ze finally realized which race this dungeon belonged to.
Whether it was Edward's story and the tower climbers who competed against each other, or the dungeon in the library, the sphinx that symbolized wisdom and knowledge, the most obvious was the last riddle, all of which explained one sentence:
[The human race gave tolerance, but took away learning.]
At the end of the golden road, a small reading room appeared in front of them. A man with long brown hair sat on a soft chair, reading a book in his hands. Beside him was a long, thin wooden staff, and the crystal ball at the top was emitting a soft light.
"There are three things in this world that others can't take away. The first is food that enters the stomach, the second is books that enter the brain, and the third is the dream that is hidden in the heart. "The man closed the book in his hands regretfully and turned his head to look at them. "But my dream has been taken away."
The man didn't look old, but his simple and scholarly aura made him look very old.
"Welcome to the Temple of Wisdom, I am the human race's Master God, Sovann."
Damn, it really is a human dungeon … Du Ze looked at the human race's Master God who was still sitting on the chair, seemingly not planning to fight them. Judging from the previous situation, this boss battle should also be a question and answer type of knowledge?
"Rather than using brute force, I prefer to solve things with wisdom," Sovann said. "Fools cannot survive, this is the rule of the Temple of Wisdom. I have tested you with enough questions before, now it's your turn to ask me questions. "
If you can answer the questions correctly, you can pass the dungeon, right? Du Ze suddenly felt that the human race's dungeon boss was too amiable. Only those who had been an examinee would know how happy it was to be a question maker.
"Under the rules, the questions you ask must be understandable to me, have a certain degree of truth or spread — either a theory that few people know, or a widely circulated anecdote. The most important thing is that you must know the answer. If there are multiple answers, I only need to answer one. "
Completely restricted. A certain silly, cute person was speechless. This was not scientific. Every time the protagonist of a YY novel encountered a checkpoint like this, didn't he use the all-purpose "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" to trick his opponent?
However, Sovann's rules were not finished.
"Both sides have ten minutes to ask questions and answer. You can't discuss, you can only choose three people to ask questions, but … "Sovann glanced at Du Ze and the gold mercenary squad. "For the sake of our race, I can give each human a chance to ask a question, but the others must remain silent."
Du Ze was shocked by the favoritism of the human race's Master God. Now there were Antonio, Honey, Bart, Enoch, and himself, a total of five people. Although Old John and the others could not speak, they had five chances to ask a question. The main force of this question-and-answer game was Antonio, who was the most knowledgeable. But if the number one Mage God failed, Du Ze could not think of anyone else who could save the situation except for Xiu.
Xiu glanced at the crowd, then said to Sovann in a hoarse voice: "Let all the humans ask questions."
"There are five humans here —"
"No." Xiu interrupted Sovann: "There are more than five humans here."
The first half of Xiu's words had the hoarseness of an undead, but the second half turned into a very pleasant young man's voice. To the amazement of Enoch and the others, the handsome blond, blue-eyed young man smiled at the Master God and said: "There's me."
Du Ze felt Xiu's hand become soft and warm. He could not help but cover his face. He had almost forgotten that the Moe Lord had a cheating artifact called bloodline conversion.
"… Well, you will have six chances." Sovann stared at Xiu, his eyes full of complex light. "Let's get started. Who wants to be the first to ask a question?"
When Sovann said to start, Violet suddenly felt a force that made her lose the ability to speak. She held Alice's hand and looked worriedly at Xiu and the others. The humans present looked at each other. The humans present looked at each other in dismay. Bart, the big man, was sweating. For him, it was better for him to fight the Lord God directly than to think of a problem that would baffle the Lord God. Enoch kept scratching his head, as if he could think of a suitable question. Antonio and Xiu seemed to be the calmest two. One was drinking and meditating, and the other was pressing the back of his neck thoughtfully.
Du Ze's equipment was being repaired, and he began to desperately search through his memories. As a transmigrator, after nine years of compulsory education and three years of college entrance examination hell, how could he show off his domineering side at this time?
But all he came up with were some nonsense brain teasers. How could he solve them?
Just as some silly, cute person was silently mourning the loss of all the knowledge he had given back to his teacher, Honey was the first to stand up. The little girl raised her head and asked Sovann her question, which turned out to be a puzzle.
"There is a true god who only tells the truth and a false god who only tells lies. Behind each of them is a door that leads to the upper world and the lower world. You don't know who is the true god and who is the false god. You can only ask each god one question. How do you know which door leads to the upper world? "
Compared to Du Ze's brain teasers, the silly, cute person was confused. However, Sovann just smiled and said the answer: "I will ask, 'Does the other god's door lead to the upper world?'"
Honey didn't expect her puzzle to be solved in an instant. She wrinkled her face and looked aggrieved. Honey's question seemed to have inspired Enoch. The thief excitedly said: "I also thought of one. Five people are allowed to divide a cake, but only three cuts are allowed. How do we divide it equally? "
"First, cut one-fifth of the cake, then cut the remaining four-fifths, then stack two two-fifths of the cake together, and finally cut again."
This time, Sovann answered without hesitation. Du Ze felt Xiu's hand pause. He looked over and saw that Xiu seemed to be in a daze, as if he had received an unexpected answer. Because they were fighting the boss, Du Ze couldn't ask Xiu.
"Hey, you answered it so quickly? The thief thought about it for a long time. "Hearing Sovann's answer, Enoch scratched his short hair. "My friend also said that he could kill one person with one cut and then split the cake with two cuts to the remaining four people, hahaha-"
… What a cruel question!
The first two questions were easily solved by Sovann. At this time, Antonio drank a mouthful of wine, then went forward and bent down to touch Honey's hair.
"The riddle the old man asked is based on Little Mi 'er." Antonio exhaled. Even though his face was still flushed with drunkenness, his eyes were clear and bright. "There are three gods whose names are 'true', 'false', and 'arbitrary'. You don't know which god they are. The true god always tells the truth, the false god always tells lies, and the arbitrary god's words are random. You need to distinguish who these three gods are. You can only ask 'yes' or 'no' questions three times, and each question can only be directed at one god. The gods can understand you, but they will only answer you in their own language. In their language, they are 'da' and 'ja'. You don't know which is' yes' and which is' no '. "(Note 1)
After Antonio finished speaking, the surroundings were silent. This question combined "language barrier", "truth and falsehood", and "randomness" together. For the first time, Sovann was lost in thought. Du Ze was in a state of confusion.
As time went by, Du Ze looked nervously at Sovann. The Human Lord God had already taken out a pen and paper. Soon, the allotted ten minutes were almost up, but at this time, Sovann smiled.
"That's a good question." Sovann sighed. "Even I almost fell for it."
Sovann raised his hand and the paper he had written flew into Antonio's hand.
"This is my answer."
Antonio read the paper in his hand, then sighed and waved to Xiu. "This old man can't do anything. I can only help you here."
Xiu nodded to Antonio to express his gratitude. Du Ze was still trying to think of a solution. His head hurt, but he still couldn't think of a problem that could defeat the boss. Now the situation is not good. The most promising number one Mage God has not been able to defeat Sovann. Apart from Xiu, the rest are cannon fodder. The Moe Lord must be kept as a last resort. Seeing Bart's helpless eyes, Du Ze decided to let him go first.
Just as Du Ze stepped forward to press down on his headphones, he suddenly froze. Why did he have to come up with such a difficult puzzle like Antonio and the others? His greatest advantage is not here, but his identity as a transmigrator.
– He thought of a question that no one in the world can answer.
Absolutely not.
Sovann saw the black-haired young man look up at him, his expression cold and emotionless.
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