After talking about the business, everyone lost their interest in nonsense. Liu Qingbo simply got up and went to lay out the sleeping bags. The others were also busy. Four teams of about 20 people spread in a row on the shore far from the sea. It was a bit like Outdoor teams come out to play adventures.

The winter solstice did not expect that the old-fashioned British people only brought sleeping bags like them, while the carefree Americans came all the way over with their tents. Although they only carried two tents, five people were more than enough to sleep.

Seeing the Americans set up the tent, the others didn't say anything, and they couldn't help feeling envy in their hearts. When they looked at the shabby sleeping bag in their hands, they were suddenly less interested.

Although there are many people, everyone still retains a certain degree of vigilance. Each team has someone in charge of the vigil. The vigils gather together to have a fire and chat, but it is more lively. The one in charge of the vigil in southern Europe is a Greek. Not fluent in English, most of the time just listen to what others are saying in silence.

At the winter solstice, he wanted to keep vigil, but William quietly pulled his clothes and took him to the tent.

"We suspect that there are no golden apples on this island." William lowered his voice, making it clear that he did not want to be heard by the two parties outside.

The Winter Solstice also learned to keep his voice down, like an underground party. "Why do you think so, you got the news in advance?"

William smiled bitterly: "Why don't you believe me? If we get the news in advance, can we let our companions get trapped in it?"

Solstice: "Okay, sorry, please continue."

William: "There are two main reasons for my doubts. First, it does not match the riddle of the golden apple. The beauty shrouded in clouds and mist will eventually take off her veil. A certain mountain there?"

Winter Solstice: "All islands are shrouded in fog, including the labyrinth here. I think the riddle itself is very unreliable. It seems that every island can apply a riddle, but it doesn't seem to match."

William: "But the labyrinth is so ugly, it's obviously not a beauty, and the names are even more different. Diana Island and Princess Island are more similar in name!"

Winter Solstice: "...Maybe there is a beautiful woman waiting for us in the maze?"

William shook his head like a rattle: "No no no, that's terrible! Didn't you think of anything when you saw this maze?"

Winter Solstice is at a loss: "What do you think of?"

William sighed: "Eastern! Forget it, as I told you before, the person in charge of organizing the game is obsessed with Western mythology, especially Greek mythology and Norse mythology! I suspect that the labyrinth here is imitated in Greek mythology— —The Labyrinth of Crete, have you heard of this myth?"

The winter solstice suddenly came to him, he remembered.

This is also a well-known Greek th, but can’t blame it for not thinking about it at the winter solstice. After all, he was born and raised in the East. If William spoke about Buzhoushan, he could immediately realize that it was a story of Gonggong.

Legend has it that the wife of the king of Crete had an affair with the cow of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and gave birth to a son, the half-human, half-bull monster Minotaur. The king built a labyrinth for him and imprisoned it in it regularly. Send boys and girls in to it.

Winter Solstice: "So you mean that the monster in the labyrinth might be that half-human, half-cow monster?"

William: "That's not necessarily true. Even if the Organizing Committee can find the eagle-claw banshee, it may not be able to find this legendary ancient monster. Besides, it has been killed long ago. Maybe it is something else, but it is definitely There is a certain degree of danger, after all, our companions have already fallen inside. What's more, this time there are monsters watching, the possessed Japanese you mentioned will not be the first, and will never be the last one."

The winter solstice suddenly showed a gloomy smile: "That's right, I may also be possessed by a monster."

William was startled, he quickly reached out to touch the gun, and then saw the winter solstice smirk, and realized that the other party was deliberately trying to scare him, his shoulders could not help falling: "Dong, don't scare me, my bullets don't have eyes!"

Winter Solstice grinned: "Just kidding to adjust the atmosphere, I didn't expect you to draw a gun quite quickly!"

More than that, in the blink of an eye, William's gun was in his hand. Before the winter solstice, he always had a smile on his face when he talked, and it was inevitable that the other party was arrogant, but now it seems that the strength of the Americans is still very impressive.

William winked at him: "Then would you consider helping me convince Miss Li to date me?"

Winter Solstice: "No problem, I can help you convey it, but whether she agrees or not depends on her."

"Oh my god, you're the cutest person I've ever met! As soon as I saw you, I knew you must be a lovely friend and rival!" William wanted to give him a hug. Push it away without mercy.

"Hurry up and get down to business!"

William said: "Well, I suspect that someone outside has been possessed by a monster."

This time, it was Winter Solstice's turn to be startled. He subconsciously thought that William was also joking with him, but when he raised his head, the other party's expression was serious.

He also became serious: "Are you sure?"

William nodded: "At that time, we decided to go to Rose Island to see the situation first, and it happened that the British and the southern Europeans were fighting the eagle-claw banshee. This has been said outside, but what I didn't say is that after we Searching for the whereabouts of the golden apples on Rose Island, I passed the night by the way. That night, I was sound asleep, but I suddenly felt a chill in the back of my neck, followed by a pain in my back. If I hadn't woken up quickly, I might have been dead."

As he spoke, he took off his jacket and pulled down his clothes. The Winter Solstice saw five purple-red bloody marks on his back, which looked like a person's five fingers. The strength was so strong that he was afraid that he wanted to penetrate the flesh and gouge out his heart.

"Who is next to you?"

William said: "The deputy head of the United Kingdom, the person who was sitting next to Liu just now, but it should not be him, because when I woke up, he was sound asleep, but it is not ruled out that he was pretending. I thought it was The monsters lurking in the dark, just hurried others to be on guard, nothing happened later, they laughed at me for making a fuss, but then I heard you talk about the Japanese being possessed by monsters, I feel that that night, there may be Some strange. In short, be careful, I only told Lilith about this matter, whether our team is reliable or not, we are still observing. "

Winter Solstice: "Thank you, I will pay attention when I go back."

William laughed: "Just verbally thank you?"

Winter Solstice: "I owe you a favor?"

William: "Okay, let Miss Li go on a date with me."

Winter Solstice was expressionless: "Go away."

Leaving William's tent, the winter solstice's face was no different, but as he passed the bonfire, the bell on his body suddenly rang.

Jingle Bell!

The voice was so soft that only he could hear it.

The footsteps of the winter solstice come alive.

There were five people sitting beside the bonfire.

One American, two British, and two members of the Southern European team, a man and a woman, remembered them as Italians.

Liu Qingbo and the others are not introverted, but they don't like to deal with practitioners from other countries too much. Although the other three teams are from different countries, they have similar growth backgrounds and values. It is easy to talk about it. Now Liu Qingbo They were almost resting, and they were still chatting, but they almost brought some barbecue over for the party.

The ringing of the bell is limited in scope. Li Haner said that it will only ring if it is very close, such as the distance between the winter solstice and William when they were secretly talking in the tent, but William is normal, so the bell will naturally not ring.

And now the winter solstice is also very close to these five people, so the bell rang.

Is it the problem with the nearest Englishman, or the two Italians?

Although the Americans on the opposite side were the furthest away, they were also suspicious.

Solstice was thinking about walking around them to test it out, but that would be a little obvious.

He stood still, already attracting the attention of the five.

"Hi, Dong, why are you standing still, do you want to come over and have a fire together?" the Italian greeted.

"He seems to have lost his soul when he came out of William's tent. Could it be that his confession to William was rejected?" The Englishman joked.

Everyone else laughed.

The winter solstice also followed with a smile: "I just heard you talk about barbecue, and I'm a little hungry."

When he mentioned the barbecue, the others also drooled involuntarily.

In fact, it may not be hungry, but since the beginning of boarding, everyone has not eaten any delicious food. After going to the island, they ate dry food for a few days. Now let alone barbecue, it is delicious to eat grilled sausages.

Then everyone smelled a scent.

At first they thought they were hallucinating because of their greed, but when they turned their heads, they saw that the winter solstice took out a bunch of vacuum-packed sausages from their backpacks and handed them to his teammates. Yang Shou thought about it as soon as he took the sausages. The skewer was grilled on the sword. The sword had only been stained with the flesh and blood of the zombies the day before. Li Haner couldn't stand it any longer. He took out a bamboo hairpin and asked him to bake it with the bamboo hairpin.

Everyone was numb to the surprises that seemed to be endless in the regiment's backpack, but other foreigners saw it for the first time, and their eyes were straight. The Americans even brought tents, but no sausages. William is thick. The skin came over to eat it, and the Winter Solstice gave him one.

"The last one, you just caught up."

William looked at a small and exquisite sausage in his hand, opened the package, divided two by three, and ate it in the envious eyes of others, and finally smacking his lips: "This is really the most delicious sausage I've ever eaten, and it's still on top. There is a faint fragrance left by Miss Li's bamboo hairpin!"

Yang Shouyi rolled his eyes, why didn't he praise him for his good cooking!

The corners of his mouth twitched on the winter solstice, and he slapped William on the back: "Spit it out for me, that's my sausage!"

William hurriedly said: "Don't, thank you for your gift, I can eat such delicious food!"

When the two were fighting, Dongzhi took the opportunity to lower his voice and talk about the bell ringing just now.

William's expression froze: "Who do you think it is?"

Winter Solstice said: "I'm not sure, your companion was the furthest away from me at that time, and the other four were more suspicious. You should also observe it. If there is any news, feel free to communicate."

William made an OK gesture.

With this discovery, the winter solstice had to stay for a night vigil. He first called Liu Qingbo and the others together to talk about the matter in private, and asked everyone to be vigilant and observe secretly. Before the bright light, everyone had already packed up and prepared to set off into the huge maze.

From a distance, the maze is like a huge city, standing above the yellow Gobi, and integrated with the island. When got closer, found that the maze was even bigger than imagined, with people standing five or six meters away. Looking up from the bottom of the city wall, suddenly felt a sense of insignificance. If it is not a practitioner, once ordinary people enter it, it is really difficult to get out easily.

The four teams entered the labyrinth together. No one could predict that the prophet would bring a ball of wool on his body, and there was no way to use the mythical Crete princess to teach the hero to get out of the labyrinth, but all of them made marks on the ground or walls to avoid getting lost.

In the maze, there is nothing but the tall city wall. The wall is rough but strong. Zhang Song used a sword to mark the wall, and it took a little effort to draw the Taoist talisman. They inserted branches dipped in red ink into the cracks of the masonry.

Sure enough, just as the Americans said, after walking a short distance, everyone turned a corner, and three forks appeared in front of them, leading to three different directions.

There was a female astrologer among the southern Europeans, who took out the tarot cards on the spot and calculated the most auspicious one in the middle, so she decided to go to the middle. The British looked at the winter solstice and Lilith, and followed the southern Europeans. .

Lilith asked the Winter Solstice: "Which way are you going?"

The winter solstice said: "Let's do whatever we want."

Li Han'er said: "Life is death, and death is life. The gate of life and the gate of death here are interconnected. Each path contains both vitality and death. No matter which path you take, the result will not change."

She didn't speak in English, Lilith couldn't understand, and the Winter Solstice said: "My companion means that everything is relative, and safety is accompanied by danger at the same time, you choose first."

Lilith: "Then let's go to the right."

William waved at the winter solstice: "Take your mobile phone and contact us anytime if you have anything."

The winter solstice didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, thinking that if we were far away, even if we got in touch, we wouldn’t be able to make it.

Watching the Americans walk away, Zhang Song marked the winter solstice and asked Liu Qingbo, "Why did you keep staring at that female astrologer just now?"

Liu Qingbo said, "She was one of the five people beside the bonfire last night."

Winter Solstice: "You doubt her?"

Liu Qingbo: "I don't know, but after you said it last night, I went to try it out. So far, I've had close contact with three people, and the bell has not rang. The only one who didn't have the chance to get close is this female astrologer. and another Englishman named Luke."

Li Han'er suddenly said, "I think she is a female astrologer."

Liu Qingbo raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

Li Han'er: "Last night when the boss took out the sausage, everyone else's attention was more or less attracted. Only the woman glanced over here and didn't show any desire to eat at all."

Zhang Song said: "It may be that she is losing weight, or that women are more reserved."

Li Haner raised her eyebrows slightly: "Do you have to raise the bar? I've seen her several times. She doesn't look like she wants to eat and can't hold back, but she's not interested at all. It's completely different from other people, unless she's a vegetarian. Otherwise, the average person has eaten dry food for several days, and suddenly smells the smell of grilled sausages, at least they will take a look."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, the Winter Solstice was busy trying to smooth things out: "Okay, we didn't go with them anyway, just leave some snacks."

The labyrinth that occupies most of the island is indeed very wide. After the Winter Solstice team was separated from the others, they followed the road ahead for a few hours, encountering countless forks during the process, and until noon, the big sun hung overhead. , they themselves don't know how far they have gone, they can only recognize from the mark that they have reached the center of the maze.

Everyone leaned against the wall to rest for a while, and Liu Qingbo couldn't help complaining: "How long does it take to get here, it's better to fight zombies!"

As if in response to his words, a bang sounded not far away.

"It's the sound of gunshots!" Li Han'er responded quickly.

In fact, they have also received training in firearms on the Winter Solstice, and each of them was given a gun before they set off, but they were all ordinary bullets. Everyone's guns are pressed against the bottom of the backpacks, and if they don't have to go back and turn them over, they all want to just throw them away to save trouble.

Needless to say now, the guns were definitely from the other three teams.

After one sound, there were three or four more sounds, vaguely mixed with shouting and shouting, which made people's hearts twitch, but couldn't see what happened, and couldn't help but feel anxious.

Everyone couldn't help but pricked up their ears to listen, but after that sound, the surroundings became quiet again, but there was a kind of tranquility before the storm.

They looked at each other and stood up together, clenching the weapons in their hands.

The winter solstice was about to say to keep walking, when there were hurried footsteps from far to near, and a familiar figure appeared in front of them.

"winter!"

The winter solstice had never seen William showing such an anxious look. The other party always smiled and smiled, but now he was full of anxiety, as if he had encountered the most difficult thing in his life.

"There are monsters, my companions have been attacked, come and help me!" He said in a hurry.

They didn't have time to think about it on the winter solstice, so they quickly followed behind.

"You fired the gunshot just now?"

"Yeah!" William didn't look back. "There was a huge monster with a lot of tentacles that suddenly appeared. Everyone else was attacked. Only I ran out!"

Winter Solstice: "Then how did you know we were here?"

William: "I ran around, didn't I just see you?"

"Wait!" Winter Solstice said.

William stopped and turned his head impatiently: "Please, Dong, my companions are still waiting for me to rescue!"

The winter solstice took out a mobile phone: "The phone is returned to you, you just left me here!"

William stretched out his hand to take it, but the hand that handed over the phone suddenly turned into a sword. He was startled and hurriedly backed away!

Liu Qingbo attacked him with a sword, and William had to dodge and say angrily, "Are you crazy!"

Winter Solstice said: "You saw us just now, and there was no surprise on your face at all, as if you had expected it long ago. Who are you?"

Zhang Song and Yang Shouyi also blocked the opponent's retreat from the left and right, and directly forced the opponent to the base of the wall.

But seeing William suddenly smile strangely, his body turned into a huge purple-red flesh column, and the flesh column danced wildly and rolled towards the crowd.

Liu Qingbo scolded his mother and said, "What kind of thing is this!"

"It's squid whiskers!" Yang Shouyi suddenly shouted.

"Squid, your head is a tentacle!" Zhang Song said angrily.

The meat column is thick at the top and thin at the bottom, the tail is slightly rolled up, and there are dense suction cups attached to it. It seems to have a special attraction, which can attract the sword to it. They have to use force to draw the sword back. When the sword is cut up, You can still feel the slight elasticity, isn't it just a huge tentacle?

The tentacle would become someone they were familiar with and could speak, which was unheard of, but everyone didn't think much about it at the moment, and only wanted to keep the tentacle for good study. Liu Qingbo jumped up directly, hugging the whole person Staying on the tentacle, slid along it and climbed to the top, only to find out that the tentacle had crossed the city wall of the maze, and at the other end of the city wall, there was a longer tentacle attached, from the end of the wall. Head, around the mouth of the wall.

Liu Qingbo took a breath.

I'm afraid this is not tentacles, right?

Without saying a word, the Demon Demon Sword turned directly into a tentacle that slashed at the wall with its sword light. For the monsters and monsters, the Demon Demon Sword was their natural nemesis. Under the sword light, the tentacles as thick as an adult man's body suddenly It was chopped into two ends, and the other end seemed to be in pain, and quickly shrank back, and soon disappeared.

The big chunk that was cut off by him fell heavily on the ground, Zhang Song flickered a little slower, and his tentacles smashed his feet directly, causing him to groan in pain, and angrily said to Liu Qingbo, "Aren't you going to pay attention! "

Liu Qingbo's answer was to roll his eyes.

Everyone looked at the tentacle again, good guy, didn't think it curled up when attacked just now, but now it's straight, it's at least three meters long, and the tail is thinner, but it's also as thick as an adult man's thigh.

Liu Qingbo jumped down. "This should be just a part of its body, I seem to have seen it run away just now!"

Li Han'er picked up the tail of the tentacle and smelled it: "It smells of fishy sea."

Zhang Song: "That's the octopus monster. How could this thing come to the labyrinth from the sea? And a tentacle is so big, how big should the body be!"

Proportionally, it wouldn't be more surprising if the octopus behemoth was about the size of a maze, but where it hides is a question.

Yang Shouyi remembered that it had just turned into William's appearance, and that he could actually speak human words, and said incredulously: "Can the octopus monster transform into a human shape?"

Liu Sidao: "Ordinary octopuses have the ability to disguise as other creatures in the ocean. If this octopus is so huge, it would not be surprising that it can turn into a human shape and speak human words, but in the final analysis, this is also a kind of illusion, so the old man just now. As soon as Liu's sword was slashed, the illusion was broken."

Li Han'er said solemnly: "Then we must be careful, if it turns into our appearance and replaces one of them, it will be very dangerous."

Zhang Song disagreed: "We didn't go separately, even if it wanted to plot, it would be hard for people not to find out. At most, it can only pretend to be us to deceive people from other teams. We figured it out...what are you doing?"

He looked at the winter solstice squatting on the ground, who was pulling out a knife and slicing the tentacles into pieces.

"Cut your supper!" Winter Solstice didn't look up.

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