Chapter 249: The Center
A light breeze was blowing, and the meadow was unusually quiet.
Bubtney had been running nonstop for almost two hours.
— Mumble, stop, " Su Xiao looked around. He only saw green grass and very few trees.
— What happened? The emperor, who was currently suspended in midair, asked. Other than Su Xiao, Bubtni now didn't allow the emperor to sit on his back. As soon as it touched its fur with its body, Bubtny would turn its snout and try to take a bite out of the emperor, and even Su Xiao's order couldn't fix this situation — it only helped for a couple of minutes, after which Bubtny would start trying to get a light snack again, so Su Xiao was forced to hold the emperor directly over Bubtny's fur.
— Something's wrong.
— There's a dangerous creature near us?
— Su Xiao jumped down from Bubtny's back and pulled out the iron bar that he had previously stuck into the ground from the grass nearby.
— But how? Haven't we been moving forward all this time? The emperor looked around and realized that he had seen such a landscape before.
— Bubtni, run in a straight line from me, " Su Xiao said while standing on the ground.
At first, everything was fine.
Bubtney would turn his head from time to time and look at Su Xiao.
After Bubtni ran for several hundred meters, Su Xiao only saw a vague silhouette right in front of him, but after another couple of meters passed, a strange thing happened: Bubtni suddenly began to slowly move to the left and eventually stopped behind Su Xiao.
All this time, they were actually moving in a circle.
But there was no way to feel it, and if he hadn't stuck it in, they would have been hanging around for who knows how long.
This will be quite difficult to handle. They managed to create an illusion that would confuse any creature.
Su Xiao started to think. This meadow seems to have been created to throw uninvited guests off the path — the same type of scenery, the lack of landmarks... if they just keep moving forward, they'll end up moving in circles.
He couldn't solve this problem in no time, for his perception couldn't even detect this problem in advance.
But since he couldn't determine the direction, he could just go in any direction.
This place was confusing, but it wasn't a maze.
Su Xiao immediately climbed onto Bubtny's back and motioned for him to start moving forward.
After making two circles, Su Xiao began inserting various items into the ground as markers.
After a dozen laps, he left dozens of marks in the ground.
Several markers formed a straight line, while others were placed randomly.
— Su Xiao took out a pen and paper from his inventory. First, he drew a circle on the paper, then began to place dots in it.
After several dozen laps, Bubtney began to lose patience with the fact that all they did was go around in circles.
— Forward 30 meters, then 50 meters to the left, then 10 meters to the right, no, 15 meters to the right... Su Xiao tried hard to solve this riddle. Although he looked calm, in his mind, he cursed the designer of this puzzle.
This designer was a perfectionist and each time changed the direction for a different number of steps in some unique sequence, which further complicated the solution of this puzzle..
— Bubtney, move thirty meters forward.
Bubtney turned to look at Su Xiao.
He was confused and asked with his gaze, " Master, what is 30 meters?»
Su Xiao sighed. He slightly overestimated Bubtny, this dog was smart, but his knowledge was limited and now he was smarter than an ordinary dog, but no more.
— Move forward and stop when I tell you to. As soon as I say "stop", you will have to stop immediately and not move.
Bubtney began to move forward.
Sometimes he turned left, sometimes right, and sometimes took a few steps back...
— Run forward at full speed.
Bubtney immediately rushed forward at full speed.
The scenery immediately changed — they were no longer on the lawn.
[You have entered the heart of the "Alchemy Testing Ground", the gas in this place has a completely different structure.]
[You were exposed to Sdrolo's poison.
Strength -10; Agility -10; Stamina -10.
You get 7 points of real damage per second.]
[You want to purchase a high-level filter?
It costs 300 Paradise coins per hour of operation.]
Su Xiao felt his body begin to turn leaden.
— Come on, activate it.
Although he didn't want to acquire it, he simply didn't have a choice.
After half an hour of advancing, the surrounding area stopped being so huge. To the left and right, the stone walls gradually began to narrow, and the passage in front of them became narrower and narrower.
They ended up in a cave. The cave was about ten meters high, and all the plants in it had long since turned yellow and withered.
A heavy smell assaulted their noses, but Su Xiao told Bubtney to keep moving forward.
As they entered the cave, they heard heavy footsteps behind them, and Bubtney immediately hid in a very large crack in the wall.
— 嘎巴哈咳... *Kha*
— 图图啾...
Su Xiao didn't know what kind of language it was and cautiously peeked out.
Not far from them was a group of people about a meter tall. Their bodies were thin, their skin dark yellow, their eyes bulging, and their ears pointed, but their bodies were similar to those of ordinary people.
There were five of them. Although they were only about a meter tall, they were quite strong. Each of them carried one iron box three meters high.
There were black stones in the iron boxes.
Su Xiao immediately recognized these stones. It was coal. These creatures most likely possessed intelligence.
«Are they alchemists? No, you can't tell by their appearance».
— They look like cavemen, but they don't have that much power, " the emperor muttered.
— Cavemen? One of the human subspecies?
— No, they are located between humans and animals. They have their own unique language. They usually live on the western side of the mainland. There are only about a few hundred thousand of them. They often loot nearby villages, and like to eat the flesh of ordinary people. In general, in fact, they are not averse to eating any creature. If there is a famine in their tribes, they eat their weak tribesmen.
Su Xiao was concerned about their sudden appearance and began to keep a close eye on them.
After following them for about ten minutes, these strange people entered another area.
*Bang!*
Su Xiao saw a large amount of large equipment, and there was a lot of this equipment in this very spacious room.
This entire technique was made of steel, and metal pipes were connected to this technique.
The other end of the pipes ran into the walls.
In the center of a very large and open space, a ten-meter-high furnace was working, and all the coal that the five cavemen were dragging was quickly thrown into the furnace.
The temperature in this place was very high. There were at least ten people around each large car. Their naked upper bodies were covered in oily sweat and mud.
*Click!*
The sharp sound of a whip striking rang out.
There were only a few taller men standing on so many steel vehicles, and they all held long whips in their hands, which they sometimes used to strike those below.
They looked like wardens, and they were happy to find idlers and punish them immediately.
They were about one and a half meters tall and wore simple armor. Their skin was light blue, and their large eyes looked extremely fierce.
When the cavemen heard the whiplash less often, they shivered and immediately began to work harder.
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