vrcanaries Chapter 374 Even dogs wouldn't play with this!
Chapter 374 Even dogs wouldn't play with this!
He lowered his hand, looked at the pixelated wall in front of him that seemed to be silently mocking him, and then looked back at the identical passage that had led him to his doom.
A strange sense of irritation welled up inside me.
With his mental and intellectual attributes of up to 300 million, his memory and spatial reasoning abilities are already superhuman. Theoretically, this kind of geometric maze could not possibly trap him.
But the truth is, he was trapped.
"What a piece of trash puzzle game!"
Lin Tian finally couldn't hold back any longer and let out a low roar into the empty maze passage. His clear voice echoed between the square walls.
Even dogs wouldn't play with that!
As soon as he finished speaking, the maze remained silent, with only his own echo gradually fading away.
Lin Tian took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
Getting frustrated won't solve anything.
He is Lin Tian, whose attribute panel is off the charts and who possesses several god-level skills. How could Lin Tian lose his composure because of a pixel maze?
"Brutal action doesn't seem to be working... At least, let's try the violence permitted by the 'rules' first."
His eyes narrowed, and his gaze fell on the "round stone" wall blocking the way.
Raise your right hand and extend your index finger.
Without chanting incantations or gathering power, a point of pure, starlight suddenly shone from the fingertip, condensing and compressing.
[Astral Rays]!
"laugh--!"
A condensed, tangible beam of light, only the thickness of a finger, burst forth from his fingertip!
The beam of light was a deep blue-purple, with countless stars seemingly born and dying within it, containing destructive power.
The 50% spell penetration effect allows this ray to ignore most non-absolute defenses.
The beam of light silently disappeared into the pixelated wall.
There was no earth-shattering explosion, no flying debris.
The cobblestone blocks that were hit by the Star Rays were like ice blocks swept by the highest temperature laser; they instantly vaporized and disappeared, leaving behind a smooth-edged, neat circular hole about half a meter in diameter.
The circular hole was extremely deep, and looking into it, one could actually see... the scene of another passage!
Sure enough, the walls are destructible!
Lin Tian's spirits lifted.
But the next second, his brows furrowed again.
At the edge of the hole pierced by the [Star Rays], at the cross-section of the pixel block, countless tiny points of light, also composed of pixels, began to flow and converge rapidly, like living things.
In just two or three seconds, the vanished blocks were "refreshed" out of thin air, and the walls were restored to their original state, with the same color and texture, as if they had never been damaged.
"Self-repairing? And so fast?"
Lin Tian narrowed his eyes.
He could sense that the energy repairing the walls did not come from a core part of the maze itself, but rather from one of the fundamental rules of this space—that the maze structure cannot be permanently destroyed by conventional means.
"That's interesting. It seems the designers were already prepared for players to use the brute-force method of 'digging tunnels'."
Lin Tian was not discouraged at all; instead, he curled up the corners of his mouth.
"But... what if that's the case?"
He took a few steps back, faced the wall, and slowly raised his hands, palms facing each other.
The space around him began to ripple slightly, and an invisible force field spread out from him.
His powerful intelligence and mental attributes grant him control over every detail of his next skill.
【Shinra Tensei】—Minimum release.
hum!
There was no earth-shattering repulsive force eruption.
Lin Tian precisely controlled his mana output (consuming approximately 1% of his maximum mana), and a gentle yet incredibly resilient, controllable spherical repulsive field was generated around him.
The repulsive field made contact with the pixelated wall in front of him.
A creaking sound rang out... a sound that made your teeth ache.
It wasn't that the wall was breaking, but rather that the countless pixel blocks that make up the wall were being pushed backward as a whole, slowly, under the influence of this uniform, powerful, and persistent repulsive force!
Yes, not destruction, but promotion!
Since a single block will respawn after being destroyed, what if we treated an entire wall, or even a large area of a maze, as a single "item" and moved it?
Lin Tian maintained the repulsive force field of [Shinra Tensei] and slowly moved forward.
Before him, the thick pixelated wall, like a block wall being pushed by an invisible giant hand, began to slide backward along the direction of the passage!
The walls rubbed against the floor and ceiling, producing a dull rumble and leaving pixelated marks on the floor and ceiling.
A straight passage, formed by forcibly "pushing open" the wall, appeared before Lin Tian!
"It really works."
A smile flashed in Lin Tian's eyes.
The rule of this maze is that "the structure cannot be permanently destroyed", but it doesn't seem to stipulate that "the structure cannot be moved as a whole".
He was like a human demolition machine (or bulldozer), using this brute force and trickery to "carve out" his own path in the maze.
He pushed the wall, which was tens of meters long, forward for about a hundred meters and then came to a T-junction.
The uniform repulsive field pushed the three walls at the T-junction backward, creating a small circular plaza in the center of the maze.
However, the good times did not last long.
Just as Lin Tian thought this method was brilliant and was preparing to push forward to the core of the maze or the exit in one go, another unexpected change occurred!
The pixelated walls he had pushed away from their original positions, including the blocks on the ground and ceiling, suddenly began to shake violently at the same time!
Immediately afterwards, all the blocks lit up with a glaring red warning light and emitted a sharp, urgent "beep beep" alarm sound!
[WARNING! Abnormal spatial structure changes detected!]
[WARNING! The maze's basic stability has been compromised!]
[Forced repair process initiated! Area violated regulations... locked!]
Om-! ! !
An indescribable, vast spatial power descended from the sky (or rather, surged from every block of the maze), instantly enveloping Lin Tian and all the blocks he had moved.
Lin Tian felt a tightness all over his body, and even the force field of [Shinra Tensei] was strongly suppressed and interfered with.
The next moment, something happened that surprised even him:
All the pixel blocks that he pushed away from their original positions, whether walls or the ground, were "slid" back along their original paths at an astonishing speed under the influence of the red light and spatial power, like a movie scene that had been rewound!
The sound of bricks rubbing together was like the tide. In just a few breaths, the hundred-meter passage and small square that Lin Tian had painstakingly pushed open were all restored to their original state!
The wall was restored to its original position perfectly, and even the marks of friction on the floor disappeared, as if nothing had ever happened.