Although they could see the edge of the monster army, it was obviously impractical to try to break out of the encirclement. Five level 30 players might be able to break out of the encirclement of hundreds of monsters, but their average level was 6.6. It was impossible for them to even think about it.
"Brother Feng … they're still coming …" Long Aomin reminded Feng Bujue, who was deep in thought.
"It's fine. Let me think about it." Feng Bujue said. "From the looks of it, retreating into the door is the last choice that the game has given us. There has to be a difficult boss inside, and after we defeat it, we'll clear the scenario with a normal ending, like 'even though the players have successfully escaped from this space, Sam Montier will remain there forever'."
"Okay, but I don't want to die at the end. If they really charge at us, we'd better retreat into the door," Long Aomin said.
Feng Bujue nodded. He sat down with his legs crossed and studied the two keys in his hands. The approaching monster army did not seem to pose much of a threat to him. He rested his elbows on his legs, lowered his head, and tapped his forehead with two fingers. After a few seconds, he slowly raised his head, and his fingertips slid down the bridge of his nose. During this process, his gaze moved upward until it came into contact with the hazy moon in the sky. His eyes suddenly lit up, and something flashed through his mind.
"Do you remember what the scenario said when we first entered the scenario?" Feng Bujue asked.
Wang Tanzhi looked at the monster army that was less than one hundred meters away, and his breathing became erratic. "Didn't it just say that the location was a city, the time was night, and the characters were us survivors?"
Feng Bujue repeated as he tried to remember. "The second paragraph … until one night, the sun set and never rose again. Behind the drifting dark clouds, the moonlight shone on this silent city. "He did not miss a single word.
"So?" Long Aomin asked.
"The sentence is not telling us that the event will happen at night," Feng Bujue said. "It is pointing out the phenomenon of a 'cycle'." He suddenly asked, "So far, have you seen any clocks or mechanical devices that can keep time?"
The other four people's minds were in a mess. The fear that was visible to the naked eye was approaching. The closer the monsters got, the scarier they became. How could they calm down to recall such trivial things? Ji Mo replied without thinking, "Who would remember it!? What does that have to do with the current situation? "
Feng Bujue said, "The law behind this scenario … the so-called cycle and the darkness … I have understood it now." "If we view the time in this virtual world as a straight line, and the two ends of the line extend infinitely. The line cannot be traced back to the beginning and the end cannot be seen. Then, the city that Sam Montier has separated from is like a line. It has a beginning and an end, and it is about thirty minutes long." He stood up and gestured with his hands. "He bent this line and placed the head and the tail together to form a circle. This city will always operate on this circle … "As he spoke, he pointed at the demons." These people, like us, do not belong to this city. We are all inside the circle, not on that line. Therefore, Sam Montier's power cannot consume us. He can only target the things that are moving on the line. "
Ji Mo was shocked. He glared at Feng Bujue. "Brother! My dear brother! I am really not a science student! Mathematics is thirty percent talent, seventy percent hard work, and ninety percent destiny! "
"I'm not talking about geometry. I'm just using graphics as a metaphor." Feng Bujue was still explaining slowly.
"Brother Feng … No, Brother Jue! You don't have to explain it to us. Really, you should understand these things yourself. Tell me, other than retreating into the door, what else can we do? " Just like that, Long Aomin became another person who called Feng Bujue brother … and he was four years older than Feng Bujue.
"Actually, we don't need to do anything special to recover the seal." Feng Bujue said as he picked up the two keys. They were still held in his hands, and his action did not change.
"Hey! All we can do is wait! "Wang Tanzhi yelled. The monsters were getting closer and closer. They were only twenty meters away.
"This is a challenge to our courage. Let's see if we have the courage to stand until the last second." Feng Bujue was still able to laugh. "Haha … This system is really focused on creating this kind of last-minute escape from death."
"What do you mean escape! You're just holding up the keys! "Ji Mo also shouted.
"When we were at the police station, I said that the puzzle of the Key of Fire was too simple. I take that back." Feng Bujue's train of thought jumped back to that. "69185 is another hint. Combined with the element of 'time', we will know the answer."
"Brother Jue … now …" Long Aomin did not finish.
Feng Bujue interrupted him. "The minute hand on the clock turns clockwise from 6 to 9, which is fifteen minutes. Then from 9 to 1, which is twenty minutes. Then from 1 to 8, which is thirty-five minutes. Finally, from 8 to 5, which is forty-five minutes." He was still holding the key. "If the minute hand does not turn back, or if time does not rewind, 69185, we have spent a total of one hundred and fifteen minutes, and the game time since we entered the scenario until now is …" He looked at the monsters with their sharp claws or opened mouths before him, but he still said calmly, "If I am not mistaken, now is …"
The key's flash interrupted him. The light shot into the sky, and even the heavy air in the night seemed to clear up. The two keys flew up and sank into the missing part of the door. The rune lit up, and the fire and wood magic circles were restored. The pentagram reappeared, and the door started to close.
The monsters were horrified. They let out heart-wrenching screams and scattered. They moved much faster than when they had arrived. They practically ran away from the plaza.
"What … what is happening?" Long Aomin had raised his shield and was ready to receive the attack. He did not expect the situation to turn around so quickly.
Xiao Tan, Mr. Saddest, and Ms. Saddest's brains had short-circuited. They had been angered by the pressure around them and Feng Bujue's calmness, but at that moment, they did not know what to say. It was no wonder. After all, the joy of coming back from the brink of death usually took a long time before it exploded.
"At one hundred and fifteen minutes, bring the keys to the door, and the seal will be restored. That's all." Feng Bujue said. "With regards to the monsters, it's very simple. The system will arrange for the monsters to surround the door at the last moment, and it will depend on whether we will be forced into the door or not. The reason the monsters are moving so slowly is to create this dramatic effect when the seal activates. "
"If we gather the two keys and come to the Demonic Door, it will trigger the monster encirclement," Wang Tanzhi said. "Then, what if we arrive too early or too late?"
"It will be very difficult to gather the two keys and return to this place earlier. The difficulty of the scenario is based on the team's ability. We have already completed the scenario quite well, and there are only a few minutes left until the time limit. Don't forget, we entered the police station first before we found the mission. That saved us the time needed to go back and forth. If we had gone back and forth, those few minutes would have been wasted. Then, we did spend some time at the shopping mall. If we had found the flashlight and gone down immediately instead of searching for equipment, perhaps we would have been able to grab a few more minutes. However, we took less than a minute to deal with the illusion monster, so we made up for it. " Feng Bujue replied. "In any case, even though there are gains and losses, the line set by the system will not change. If we arrived here with the two keys one hundred and fifteen minutes earlier, we would have entered this scenario.
If we were late … naturally, we would have missed the time limit of the seal, and we would have been forced into the door. "
"Then, what about now? We've cleared the scenario? "Long Aomin asked." How come the system didn't say anything … "
"Current quest completed. Main quest …" At that moment, the system did say something, but to everyone's surprise, it did not finish the sentence.
"Ants from another world, do you know what you've done?"
This sentence appeared in the five's mind and interrupted the system audio. The voice that spoke was the clear whisper from the third darkness.
Feng Bujue opened the menu to look. Even though the system did not finish the sentence, the 'Seal Recovery' mission had been ticked, and a new mission had been added. "Survive Sam Montier's attack."
"Have you seen the new mission?" Feng Bujue's tone made it sound like it was not a big deal.
"Could it be that the guy has a physical form?" Wang Tanzhi asked.
"Based on my speculation, Sam Montier does not have a physical form. Or rather, based on his settings, his physical form exists in a higher dimension. If he wants to appear before us, he has to morph into a physical form that we can understand in this dimension." Feng Bujue replied. "Just like how Star Swallower appeared as a perverted uncle in purple. If Sam Montier wants to deal with us personally, he has to morph into a physical form and then deal us physical damage."
"Speak human …" Wang Tanzhi added.
"Look, it's just like that …" Feng Bujue said as he raised his finger to point at a certain spot on the plaza.
At this moment, the dark clouds had dispersed, and the moonlight covered the cobblestone road in the square like frost. Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw an abnormally thick circular shadow with a diameter of about five meters on the ground. It was like a black abyss, and even light could be sucked in.
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