Chapter 7: The Race to the Death: The Mystery of the Three Gates

When the temperature began to drop, Lu Yu and Amano were standing in front of the third 'gate'.

The time to stand in front of this 'door' was a little later than they expected, because the group of snakes that they thought had been wiped out actually appeared again, but their range of activity seemed to be controlled near the third 'gate', which was an indirect proof that Lu Yu's reasoning did have its merits.

Amano's fighting ability came into play again, and he alone was able to deal with all the snakes present, and those who were not killed on the spot were intimidated by his momentum and swam into a small 'hole' at the foot of the 'gate'. Lu Yu bent down to inspect it, this 'hole' was probably only a little thicker than an arm, and it seemed to be extremely deep inside, and it was impossible to see how many snakes were entrenched in it. However, a handle-like device can be faintly seen about 30 centimeters deep from the entrance of the 'hole'.

"It seems that this is the mechanism that opens this 'door' nine times out of ten." Lu Yu said as he rolled up his sleeves. Amano next to him looked at him and said, "You're going to reach in and pull the switch?" Don't forget that there are a lot of snakes in there, which will definitely bite you. ”

"Snakes are probably not poisonous." Lu Yu was already lying on the ground, ready to put his hand in, "And if it's poisonous, most of the 'doors' will have serum in them, or it's simply a slow-onset 'sexual' poison." ”

"What is your basis?"

"Intuition."

Lu Yu was about to put his hand into the 'hole', but Tianye suddenly grabbed him.

"Wait." Amano sniffed, "Something is wrong. ”

"What's wrong? Oh! Lu Yu seemed to suddenly remember something, "The time has come!" The second 'trial' is coming. ”

"I think it's probably already here." Amano pulled Lu Yu up, and the latter still looked uncertain, "Do you feel that the temperature is dropping?" ”

Lu Yu took a deep breath when he heard this, and suddenly felt a chill in his nasal cavity. At this time, he found that his 'naked' and 'exposed' skin was already a little 'chicken' bumps when the wind blew it. He closed his eyes and tried to feel the direction in which the cool breeze was blowing.

"You're right, wait a minute." Lu Yu opened his eyes and said with a smile.

The two of them stood in front of the 'door' for a while, waiting until they were too cold to stand it. Lu Yu lay down and reached into the 'hole' to pull the mechanism, and then quickly retracted it, and the whole process was at most two or three seconds. As they estimated, the cold-blooded animal of the snake was greatly weakened after the temperature dropped, and its reactions and movements were so slow that it was too late to attack Lu Yu's hand.

As soon as the handle is pulled down, the mechanism is activated. As soon as Lu Yu stood up, he found that the 'door' had slowly moved to the side. On the other side of this 'door' was not a passage, but a small closet with a small instrument and a syringe of dark green 'medicine'. As soon as Lu Yu's hand approached the instrument, a description of the item appeared in his field of vision.

Name: One-time 'sex' decoder

Type: Consumables

Requirements: None

Effect: Brute-force cracking to unlock part of the electronic combination lock. Can only be used once.

Description: Brute-force cracking, invincible in the world!

"There's a decoder here, so you should need it for the next 'door'." Lu Yu thought to himself.

Amano picked up the syringe containing the 'medicine' and praised it: "Lu Yu, you expected it well, there is indeed a serum in it." ”

Name: Detoxification serum

Type: Consumables

Requirements: None

Effect: This serum can dissolve all snake venom.

Note: The skin bet 'shot' takes effect immediately, but it must be all in at once to be useful~~~

"'Oh' big! As a description, it's also cute! Lu Yu couldn't help but complain, but then said again: "But this needle must be used all at once to be effective, that is, it can only save one person." ”

"Well, so it's not impossible to force the mechanism, but it must be done in one go." Amano nodded, "If someone is bitten by a snake and retreats, and a second person or more people take over, then there will be sacrifices among these people." ”

Lu Yu looked at the needle and thought thoughtfully: "If it is not useful here, will it be useful in the future......?"

Amano smiled and threw the needle to him. Lu Yu hurriedly caught it, but his face was puzzled.

"You probably don't know." Amano picked up the decoder, "There are two kinds of items obtained in this game, one is that they can only be used in the game, and even if they are left on the body, they will disappear when they leave; The other is that you can bring out the game and use it in other games in the future. In the case of the former, it is usually indicated in terms of genre as a plot item, or at least in the description. ”

Lu Yu looked at the two items, and there was no such explanation on them.

"In my opinion, both of these items in our hands are things that can be brought out of the game." Amano said, "It's fair that one person takes one." ”

Lu Yu knew very well in his heart that although Amano said that it was fair for one person to take one, he was actually taking care of him. Compared with the two items, the antidote serum obviously has greater value, after all, there are not many opportunities to unlock the electronic password lock in the game, even if you can't open the lock, you can try other methods to open the 'door', and the snake is a common dangerous creature, it is estimated that it often appears in some spade games, and the chance of survival will be greatly increased if there is a serum. He was still hesitating to say thanks, and Amano had already walked away with the decoder and talking to himself.

"Look at this decoder should be used to crack the second 'door', it just so happens that the temperature drops so fast, I don't want to spend time 'spending' on cracking the code, so I just use this opportunity."

He walked briskly as he spoke, and the plummeting temperature didn't seem to affect him much. But Lu Yu behind him had gradually felt the sluggishness of his body. Although Amano was only walking briskly and hadn't really run yet, Lu Yu found that he couldn't keep up at all.

It's almost nothing about personal qualities. In terms of physical fitness in reality, although Lu Yu is not as good as Amano, it is only slightly worse. However, in the game, level will have a bonus to the player's basic qualities, and each level will give an additional chance to add a bonus to the 'sex'. Although the game uses a fuzzy and invisible treatment for the value of 'sex', and only distinguishes the levels by text descriptions, it is conservatively estimated that at this time, the level 5 Amano is at least twice as strong as the level 1 Lu Yu in terms of physical strength, not to mention that he also has the strength bonus brought by the props and skills accumulated in the game so far.

There was only a few hundred meters between the two 'gates', but in this environment, it was a long journey for Lu Yu. It was almost a minute after Amano arrived easily before Lu Yu arrived breathlessly.

"Did you find anything?"

As soon as he arrived, he asked Amano without even breathing. At this time, Amano was sticking his face to the wall next to the 'door', and his right hand was tapping on the wall. When Lu Yu asked, his eyes lit up, as if he had discovered something.

"Shhhh......h

"It's empty." Amano announced, and with a sudden force of his right hand, he actually broke a piece of the cement wall. Lu Yu took a closer look, only to find that this so-called "cement wall" was fake at all, and there was a small opening on the edge that was easy to hold down when he reached out and pressed it down. In order not to be easily noticed, this "cement wall" is deliberately made very thick, so that the hollowness is very low. It's a pity that this still can't hide from Amano's keen ears.

"It's the password disk inside...... right," Lu Yu's teeth chattered uncontrollably, "Use the decoder." Before he could finish speaking, Amano had already 'plugged' the decoder, and after a while, the green light lit up, and the 'door' automatically popped open.

The other side is still just a closet, but it's much larger than the first 'door'. There was a strange stone inside, and something that looked like a grenade 'firing'. Lu Yu, who was about to freeze, didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and forcefully moved the two things out. Looking at the explanation, Lu Yu was stunned for a moment.

That strange stone turned out to be a high-tech product.

Name: Absolute Barrier Generator

Genre: Expendable (Drama)

Requirements: None

Effect: After activation, a shield that can protect against all external attacks and adverse effects within a radius of 5 meters is generated, and it is absolutely impenetrable from the outside, for a duration of 5 minutes.

Description: No amount of strong walls can stop an attack from within.

And that grenade launcher...... It's really a grenade 'firing'

Name: Grenade 'shooter'

Grade: 'Fine'

Genre: Ranged (Drama)

Equipment Requirements: None

Attack: Strong

Special Effect: No recoil

Description: Unable to penetrate mountains, but still a powerful weapon. There is only one round of 'medicine'. Use it where it's needed most!

"Both of them are marked with 'plot', which is really clear at a glance." Amano smiled and said to Lu Yu, "How do you say, the protective shield should be used now, or will it not be activated until the last five minutes?" ”

Lu Yu directly 'touched' the stone, and as soon as a thought flashed in his heart, the protective shield of 'milk' white and 'colored' instantly spread out within five meters, enveloping him and Amano.

"Of course it's for now!"

The temperature within the protective shield returned to the normal comfort range, and Lu Yu finally relieved himself. He moved his hands and feet, trying to get his frozen body back in motion, and said, "I'm no better than you, if I don't use it now, I'm afraid I'll die suddenly from the cold every minute." Then again, even you may not really make it to the last five minutes. ”

"Yes." Amano put away the grenade launcher and continued to run in the direction of the starting point with Lu Yu. In a comfortable environment, although the physical strength was almost at the bottom, the last part of the journey did not 'take' too long.

"By the way, should we bet on whether this thing can break the blockade at that end?" Amano suddenly had a fresh thought, and raised the 'shooter' to aim at the pile of rocks at the other end of the tunnel.

"Don't, don't!" Lu Yu hurriedly stopped the madman, "This is obviously impossible, the phrase 'unable to penetrate the mountain range' in the explanation refers to this!" Let's just do what we need to do. ”

"Cut ......" Amano shook his head dissatisfiedly, turning and aiming the launcher at the real target, the 'door' marked "emergency exit" that he had found at the beginning. The shield's effect continues, but as its description suggests, it doesn't stop attacks from the inside out.

"Boom!"

The force of the grenade explosion swept through the entire area, and even the ground could be felt shaking. Lu Yu subconsciously raised his hands in front of him, but soon found that there was no need - the absolutely invincible protective shield faithfully protected the two of them.

As the smoke cleared, they finally saw what was going on behind the first door. It still looked like a closet, but it looked like a second 'door' several times the size of a heavy weapon enough to fit into a pile, and even a small ground-mounted cannon powerful enough to blast through a pile of rocks.

But now it's empty.