The space inside the cage was limited, barely enough for one person to sit cross-legged.
Luo Nian grabbed the bars with both hands and looked around. His mind was in a mess. Who knew what he would face next?
There were probably thousands of creatures in this underground space. They came in all shapes and sizes, and even their languages were different. They were all chattering in different ways, as if they wanted to communicate with each other, but they couldn't understand each other.
"Although these creatures have some intelligence, most of them don't seem to be very intelligent …" Luo Nian frowned. "What the hell is this place? Why do they want to capture me …" Although Luo Nian was smart, he was far from his father's temperament. Although he could be complacent at times, he would show his true colors when faced with a setback.
"Coo coo coo …" Diagonally across from Luo Nian, a white bird was chirping and flapping its wings. It had been flapping for more than an hour.
"Stop it, you're so annoying!"
"Clang!"
Luo Nian roared and punched the bars.
The white bird sensed Luo Nian's anger and paused for a few breaths. Its eyes suddenly glowed dark green.
When Luo Nian looked into its eyes, he felt as if his head had been hammered. The pain was so great that he almost fainted.
"Coo coo coo coo …" After a warning, the white bird began flapping its wings again. Its chirping was even louder than before. Luo Nian hugged his head for a while before recovering. He said helplessly, "Although these guys have gained intelligence, they're still stupid …" The questions on the mirror were very simple. They must have taken into account the cultural barriers of different races. It was just a simple graphical test. How smart could these guys be?
Just as he was feeling depressed, Luo Nian suddenly saw a cage across from him. Inside the cage was the little monster he had seen before.
The little monster didn't make a fuss. Instead, it stared at him with its black eyes and a strange smile on its face.
"This is also a strange guy. Why does it keep staring at me?"
Luo Nian complained. He simply turned over and closed his eyes with his hands covering his head.
Although he didn't need to sleep at this level of cultivation, out of sight, out of mind, he could only isolate himself from the outside world.
A night passed in this state of boredom. The noise of the monsters also continued throughout the night.
When the door to the underground space opened again, a rustling sound came from the door.
Luo Nian got up and looked over from the corner of his eye. He saw a dense swarm of "spiders" pouring in.
When one of the "spiders" came in front of Luo Nian, he saw a pile of broken wooden planks on the back of the "spider". Next to the pile of planks were three square wooden frames of different sizes.
"This is a tangram?"
Luo Nian had played with this kind of gadget in the Cloud Hall before. Ning Yudie had hired a professional to make it. Every piece of wood could emit light.
After Luo Nian glanced at it, he reached out and picked out a few wooden planks and pieced them together. In the blink of an eye, he had filled the first square wooden frame with seven wooden planks.
Childish! Next, he used twelve wooden planks to fill the slightly larger square wooden frame, and then sixteen wooden planks to fill the largest square wooden frame.
"This test is a little more difficult. About the intelligence of an eight-year-old child should be able to do it." After Luo Nian finished, his gaze fell on the large white bird opposite him.
There was no doubt about the strength of the large white bird. Just a glare from it was enough to give Luo Nian a headache. At this time, the white bird stretched its head out of the fence and pecked the wooden planks into the square wooden frame like a chicken pecking rice. Its movements were fast, but the wooden planks were not pieced together properly.
"Da da da, da da da …" The wooden planks were either missing or missing. Not to mention twelve or fourteen, it couldn't even piece together the simplest tangram.
The white bird seemed to know the consequences of not piecing the wooden planks together. Its pecking movements became faster and faster, and its eyes revealed its anxiety. In the end, the more it pieced together, the more incomplete it became. The wooden planks flew everywhere, and a few of them even flew out. It was destined to fail.
"Gu gu gu gu gu …" The white bird stretched out its neck and cried anxiously to the sky.
Luo Nian sneered. "Serves you right. Let's see if you dare to glare at me again!"
This time, the "spiders" gave them more than enough time. After about an hour, the "spiders" left one by one with the unpieced wooden planks.
The originally noisy underground space suddenly became quiet. Most of the monsters knew their fate.
"Bo …" A muffled sound suddenly came from one of the cages. Then, a golden light flashed, and the monsters in the cages were burned to ashes.
"Bo bo bo …" The golden light lit up one after another, and the sound was endless. The monsters were burned to death in the cages one by one.
The white bird clearly knew what it was facing. It struggled madly in the cage, wanting to break out.
Its wings turned into a special form of energy, and it kept slashing at the fence. However, the fence was too strong. Even with the white bird's strength, it was unable to break the fence. It couldn't even leave a scratch on it.
"Bo!"
Following the golden light in the cage, the white bird was burned to ashes. Only a few white feathers floated out of the cage.
Luo Nian saw the white bird die tragically, but he didn't feel happy. Instead, he felt terrified.
Although he had completed the puzzle, he was still very nervous. If there was a mistake in the other party's record, or if his puzzle wasn't complete enough, dying here would be a waste.
When the bursts of golden light disappeared completely, Luo Nian saw that he was safe and sound, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Pass …" he said in a hoarse voice.
Just as he finished speaking, Luo Nian's gaze fell on the cage diagonally opposite him.
The little monster's tail was wagging nonstop, and it was still looking at him with a playful gaze.
Luo Nian couldn't be bothered with the little monster. His gaze swept across the cages in front of him, and he counted silently. Basically, one out of ten of the cages would survive. The elimination rate was 90%. The remaining monsters seemed to be relatively smart.
This kind of intelligence test would probably continue. He just didn't know how far it would end.
But what was the point of this test?
If it was a selection of intelligent creatures, they could have just sent someone over … What made Luo Nian the most uncertain was that the first and second rounds of tests were still relatively simple. He could easily deal with them. If the difficulty increased bit by bit, it would be hard to say.
However, he had no choice now. He could only grit his teeth and go through the tests one by one.
Twenty-four hours later, the "spiders" appeared in the underground space again. This time, they presented six unique iron blocks of different sizes.
After seeing these iron blocks, Luo Nian's expression relaxed, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Eight Trigrams Lock …" These iron blocks were locked together in a mortise and tenon structure. Even an adult would have to spend a lot of effort to open them.
Luo Nian had liked to open Eight Trigrams Locks since he was young. He had already memorized the method to open them.
Just as he was about to do it, the little monster suddenly grabbed one of the Eight Trigrams Locks and waved it at Luo Nian. With a gentle rub of its hands, it opened it. Its eyes revealed a provocative expression.
Luo Nian was speechless at this provocation.
The creatures in the fifth grid world all had immeasurable strength. At least, they were much stronger than Luo Nian. Any one of them could be easily killed. But now, they had to compete with these children's toys.
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