In the end, everyone followed the instructions and took the left path. It didn't take long. If it was before, it would take at least 30 minutes to reach a conclusion. Now, they could continue by throwing a coin, which was undoubtedly a big improvement.
Lin took out a simple map. This was the result of his trade with the Orc mercenary group at the Dwarf Fortress. The mercenary group seemed to want to enter the southwest peninsula to look for opportunities to make money. Since they were unfamiliar with the place, of course, they hoped to find a way.
Lin directly traded a browser with them using a Red Dazzling magic stone as the carrier. The content was so rich that they were shocked when they saw it. Especially the Lynx girl, who was in charge of external communication. When she saw the public map on the forum, not only did her ears and tail stand up, but her pupils also became vertical slits, and her body stiffened for a while.
Maps were strategic items in the maze. Many guides of merchant teams and mercenary groups only dared to memorize the relevant information in their minds and didn't dare to write it down on paper. If ordinary people carried maps with them, they would most likely be treated as spies by the local noble lords and executed.
Otherwise, it was just a simple map of a few lines with only a rough indication of the direction and the name of the town. They didn't dare to record any additional information. This was the map that Lin had obtained from the Orc.
However, the public map on the forum was originally for an insignificant matter. Let's talk about the Adventurer's Guild and the Mercenary's Guild. In order to let their members obtain job opportunities and rewards, the two guilds had their own public channels on the forum.
Since it was a forum, of course, people would ask questions. They might ask about the job content or the rewards — because it wasn't always money. Sometimes, there would be items or labor conditions as rewards. But the most popular question was, "Where is the location?"
After all, before the forum, most adventurers and mercenary groups only accepted missions in the areas they were familiar with. It was a moderate challenge to leave the comfort zone that they were familiar with. The scariest thing was to leave without a better opportunity to make money. This was what the Orcs were worried about now.
After the forum, there were missions in the southwest that could make money. So, the question was, where was the mission location?
At first, someone selflessly publicized a small part of the map that they thought was very simple and unimportant. Then, everyone publicized a small part of the map that they knew and did not affect the overall situation.
Things got out of hand when enough people made a small part of themselves public. A map of the southwest that was more detailed than any country, the Society of Sorcerers in the four districts, and the tower master of any magic tower became public information on the forum.
For a newbie, the operation of the forum was not difficult. This was especially true for those who planned to develop in the southwest peninsula. The information about the Adventurer's Guild and the Mercenary's Guild, as well as the map, were all very important to the Orcs. Therefore, they pooled some money together and bought a few more browser magic stones. It was only when the Beastmen spoke that the Dwarves realized the identity of the person in front of them.
For the dwarves living on the border of the southwest peninsula, it could be said to be a browser desert. They knew that this thing was very useful, but most of the goods in the caravans that came to the Dwarf Fortress were sold out on the way. Now, the dwarves had a few magic stones in their hands, and they had asked the members of the caravans on good terms for them to use.
In the southwest peninsula where the power of mages was greater than in most countries, those who had the ability to copy the magic stone program could not afford to offend the Association. Those who were so small that the Society of Sorcerers did not care about them did not have the ability to copy the program. Now that the creator had come in person, the dwarves brought out boxes of magic stones.
It could be said that he stayed in the Dwarf Fortress for a few more days to digest the magic stones that the dwarves brought out …
Looking at the simple map in his hand, Lin could not help but think of what had happened in the Dwarf Fortress. Perhaps the last money he made from the browser was with the dwarves. After that, he would not be able to make money like this anymore.
After all, the browser was selling like hotcakes in the southwest, and it had been brewing for a period of time. It was impossible to reproduce such a scene in other places without staying behind to manage it. But Marco Lin did not want to tie himself up in any place … Well, at least not at this stage.
He sighed slightly and returned his attention to the map.
Those who had followed the map to find their way must have faced a problem, which was, "Where am I?"
In the 21st century on Earth, even GPS could lead people to strange places, not to mention a map with only a few lines.
When Lin first got the map, he saw the apologetic faces of the Orcs. After all, compared to the detailed information on the forum, which only lacked the military deployment of each region, the level of detail was completely different.
This kind of map could only be understood by a guide who was familiar with the nearby terrain, not by luck.
During these days, Lin, of course, had thought of a solution. Although he was wandering aimlessly, it did not mean that he did not even want to know where he was going.
Lin was not the only one thinking about such a topic. Fen and the two apprentices who had just started to learn Language P were also thinking about it.
However, the three natives were limited by their knowledge and could not come up with any good ideas. One of them wanted to directly shoot a satellite into the sky, but this idea was even more unreliable than the natives' idea. In the end, it was Kaya who took off the warning device installed in the corner of the truck and brought it to her teacher. It was barely an answer.
As for why Kaya did this, Lin could understand. It was because the first map he had was the most detailed one. After the Tower of the Great Sage built the Arcane Eye, it scanned the entire area.
With the Magic Tower as the center, all the geographical information within a radius of about 200 kilometers was recorded. It included the outline of all man-made buildings, the height of the terrain, the depth of the river bed, and so on.
That was the most detailed geographical information Lin had before the public map on the forum was fully formed. The reason why he could have such a thorough grasp of the map was, of course, related to the advancement of his astronomical observation technology.
Before using the technology of distance measurement, mapping, and so on in outer space, of course, he had to first scan the place where he lived. In addition to the accuracy of the experiment, he also used this scan to see if there was anything around him that he should pay attention to.
As expected, there were a few places that the Arcane Eye could not observe. Most of those places were where the gods' churches were located. And they were not ordinary churches, but regional centers of faith.
Lin did not consider provoking the gods, so he did not think about how to crack the fog that the Arcane Eye could not see through. In addition, the indoors that were covered by buildings were also not within the range of the Arcane Eye's observation.
Now that she was worried about the information on the map, Kaya placed the warning buzzer, which was also built with the Arcane Eye as the core, in front of a certain someone. Lin Yi wanted to say that it had such power back then because there was an entire magic energy pool as support. What did the current warning device have? Only a few magic stones that did not catch his eye.
But since there was a direction, it was better than not knowing what to do. In the past few days, Lin and the other three had been discussing this problem.
Originally, the Arcane Eye on the warning device would only react to living things. Now, they just added a few pieces of program code so that it could record the topography of the terrain while being on alert. The more troublesome part was how to convert the recorded topography into information that could be used on the map and then store it. And as they continued to move forward, keep recording, and constantly update the map's information and store it.
Another difficulty was that it was closely related to one of the inventions of their ancestors. How to determine the north of the map and their own north? The related principle was simple, but they couldn't build a compass cart and drag it around, could they? So they had to think carefully about how to simplify this function, or even integrate it into the map, or even miniaturize it.
The biggest problem with some simple methods of making a compass was that the magnetic field was quickly demagnetized. Even if they used iron materials with magic properties, they could not maintain the magnetic field for a long time.
The solution was found by Fern from a very obscure spell: Toto Wayfinding. After analyzing this spell, one would get a way to point in a specific direction.
But … "How do you know about this spell? Did you go to the south tower by yourself? "Toto Wayfinding, a spell with a name, was created after Fern was sealed. The spells left behind before the Dark Age were all classics. They only had the name of the spell, not the name of the creator. So Lin asked curiously.
"I heard that all the knowledge in the south tower has been put online, so I went to visit it and downloaded it." While speaking, Fern threw a compressed package into Lin's vision.
Lin was speechless when he saw the package. Fern had packed the entire south tower of Wulian City and brought it back. However, from the beginning, he didn't spend too much effort on security and encryption. He just wanted to take advantage of the situation. Now, he had packed all the knowledge in the south tower back to make up for the loss he suffered in Wulian City.
In the end, Lin Zheng took out the results of the test run in the past few days. The map information stored in it was also combined with the map of the southwest peninsula. Due to the fact that the maze was an absolute reference point, in terms of direction and distance, Lin dared to guarantee that the map he took out was definitely the most accurate map in the maze.
However, the detection range of this small Arcane Eye was too narrow, only about 500 meters in radius. So, the map was like a slime extending a thin tentacle. And that irregular tentacle was the path he had taken in the past few days.
This feeling was quite similar to when he played a game on Earth that required him to open the map. As someone with a bit of OCD, he was always satisfied with the feeling of opening the map completely. But in the real world, who would have the life to really go to every place and open the fog on the map?
Lin wouldn't consider things that couldn't be done. The reason why he wanted to check the results of his observation was that even if the new part was only an outline, Lin wanted to see if there were any similarities and differences between the map drawn according to the real world and the one he got from the orcs.
After this comparison, Lin unexpectedly found that the simple map in his hand wasn't worthless. At least some of the lines overlapped with the path he had drawn. So, he spent some effort to embed the lines of the simple map and the marked positions of the towns into his map.
It was also this kind of homework that let him know that if he walked down this road, he would find a gathering place called Twilight Town. However, there was a place marked as a skull next to it: Twilight Castle.
The skull appeared on the map, and it also represented fatal danger in the maze. It wasn't a symbol of everything. As for why it was marked like this, Lin had no way to ask, so naturally, he had no way of knowing. Right now, he could only go to that town and inquire about it.
But, looking at the skull. Why did he have the idea of going back …
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