The maze's route map was very complicated. Even with Zhou Wen's memory, it took him a long time to memorize the route map.
Apart from the maze being too complicated, it was also because the maze was constantly changing. The complexity of the changes far exceeded the limits of ordinary humans' imagination.
Memorizing these route maps not only required memorizing the route, but also required some formulas. When one really got lost, one wouldn't rely on their brains to memorize the route, but to use formulas and the route map to figure out a way out.
Zhou Wen spent quite a bit of time on this. To be safe, he had put in a lot of effort.
Two days later, Zhou Wen and An Sheng arrived at an inconspicuous field. It was originally a cornfield, but it was too remote. After the dimensional storms, it was affected by them, causing an anomaly.
The corn here grew extremely tall. They were as tall as trees, and the corn on them was even bigger than a person's head. The corn kernels were all golden and translucent.
Furthermore, ever since the dimensional storms, the corn here hadn't withered. It had been constantly growing.
The entrance to the maze was in the cornfield. Back then, An Tianzuo and An Sheng were being chased by a Mythical break-out creature. In their panic, they fled into the cornfield and eventually fell into the maze. As a result, they escaped the calamity.
It was there that An Tianzuo obtained his first Mythical Companion Beast.
An Sheng circled the cornfield for a while before finally finding a spot. He used a shovel to dig up the soil on the ground, revealing a metal plate.
He lifted the metal plate and revealed an ancient well.
An Sheng patted the soil on his hands and said, "Later, Overseer and I disguised this place to prevent others from entering by mistake. Firstly, it was to prevent the treasure chest from being opened by others. Secondly, we were afraid that humans would fall into it. It's impossible for them to exit such a complicated maze. When that happens, only death awaits them. "
"Young Master Wen, you have to follow me closely after we go down. Don't take the wrong path," An Sheng exhorted again before descending the well.
Zhou Wen followed An Sheng down the ancient well. There was still water at the bottom of the well. An Sheng dived down, and before long, there was a horizontal passageway.
Soon, the two of them passed through the underwater passageway and appeared in a squarish stone room.
An Sheng led Zhou Wen through the stone rooms. Every stone room looked identical. There was almost no difference.
Furthermore, every stone room had six exits. There were exits from the front, back, left, right, up, down, and so on. A normal person would not be able to go far in there before getting lost.
Moreover, the stone houses here could move on their own. It would be harder than ascending to the heavens for an ordinary person to get out.
Fortunately, there were no dimensional creatures in the maze. All they needed to do was identify the path and ensure that they didn't get lost.
An Sheng walked and stopped, occasionally calculating something. After three to four hours, he finally found a treasure chest with Zhou Wen.
This stone house was a little special because it didn't have an exit. In the place where the exit should have been, there was a stone box.
It was different from the treasure chest inlaid with gold and silver that Zhou Wen had imagined. It was an ordinary stone chest that didn't look anything special.
"The treasure chests here are very special. A person can only open three treasure chests. If there are more than three, it will be difficult to move it even if you use all your strength. According to our past experience, the treasure chests might be empty, or they might have Companion Eggs, dimensional crystals, and some strange items. They are all dimensional items, "An Sheng said.
Zhou Wen walked forward and reached out to press the lid of the treasure chest before lifting it.
There was no golden light or treasure aura. Inside the huge chest, there was only a palm-sized crystal hourglass.
What's this? What's its use? Zhou Wen took out the hourglass from the treasure chest and sized it up.
He saw the sand in the hourglass slowly flowing from one end to the other.
The sand was a kind of white sand, not the common yellow sand. It looked even more exquisite.
"It's possible that there's something strange in the treasure chest. It's hard to say if it's useful. Perhaps this hourglass will be of some use," An Sheng said.
Zhou Wen nodded and was about to put away the hourglass when he discovered something strange.
As he wanted to put it in his backpack, Zhou Wen turned the hourglass horizontally. Strangely, the sand didn't stop when the hourglass was turned horizontally. It continued falling to the other end.
"Strange!" Zhou Wen picked up the hourglass and sized it up again. He saw that the sand was flowing horizontally, completely violating the laws of physics.
Zhou Wen turned the hourglass upside down. The sand that should have flowed downwards flowed upstream without any intention of falling. It looked extremely strange.
"This hourglass is really unusual!" Zhou Wen fiddled with the hourglass curiously. No matter how he placed it, the sand inside stubbornly flowed in the same direction.
However, other than that, there was nothing particularly magical about it. Zhou Wen injected his Primordial Energy into the hourglass, but it didn't affect it at all. It was as though it was an Primordial Energy insulator.
Seeing that the hourglass didn't have any special use, Zhou Wen placed it in his backpack and continued searching for the other treasure chests with An Sheng.
During the time they stayed here, the location of the stone house changed again. An Sheng kept making deductions and after he was done, he continued walking with Zhou Wen.
After walking for about half an hour, Zhou Wen suddenly heard a ding, as though an electric oven had been reset.
Zhou Wen and An Sheng jumped in fright before realizing that the sound came from his backpack.
Zhou Wen opened his backpack with an odd expression. There were no mechanical items inside, nor were there any clocks or watches.
Zhou Wen suddenly realized that the sand in the hourglass had been emptied. All the sand had entered another hole.
Could it be that the sound just now came from it? Zhou Wen felt that there was no other possibility apart from that.
He looked left and right, but apart from the hourglass flowing in the opposite direction, nothing happened.
After putting the hourglass back into his backpack, the two of them continued walking. However, just as they stepped into the next stone house, they suddenly realized that there was a beam of light inside.
All the stone houses that Zhou Wen and company had passed were the same. There was no difference, and there were no carvings on the walls.
However, there was a mural that resembled a phoenix on the stone house's wall. It was still emitting light as though it was coming to life.
Just as the phoenix mural lit up, the passageways in the stone house automatically closed.
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