751 “AV Shooting Guide” 715: Maze

There are 52 people in the red phalanx where Qiao Qiao is located. At present, these people are all gathered near the drop point, discussing the situation in front of them in low voices.

Someone suddenly shouted something that Qiao Qiao couldn’t understand. Everyone turned to look at him, and saw him holding up a small ball that was broken into two pieces. Inside was a delicate headset.

Everyone checked their balls, and sure enough, there was a headset in each ball. Qiao Qiao took out the headset and put it on her ears. The bird language spoken by the people next to her immediately changed into Chinese, and she could understand various languages.

Real-time voice translation?This is really a black technology…

But if a headset is specially provided so that they can communicate with each other, does it mean that this level requires more teamwork?

“Can you understand me?”

The person who just found the headset shouted again, and everyone looked at him.

“My name is Hans. I have participated in two insect fighting competitions. I have some experience. Let’s first look for any signs nearby. There may be winning conditions written on them.”

Everyone began to rummage, but the search scope was limited to places with light sources near the mat. No one dared to walk into the dark maze rashly.

After a while, someone discovered an iron piece on the wall next to it with some words engraved on it.Hans came over immediately and read the text aloud.

This is indeed a maze walking game. Four teams are placed at the four corners of the maze, and the exit is in the middle of the maze. As long as they can reach the exit of the maze, they win, and there is no time limit.

Someone in the team cheered. Unlike the previous game, how many people had to be eliminated before it could end, which meant that they no longer had to worry.

But some people frowned. Qiao Qiao saw that the expressions on the faces of Ah Qing and Hans were quite solemn. These old people who had participated in several insect fighting competitions knew very well that the more benevolent the rules, the more cruel the consequences.

After a while, someone called out again. It turned out that after they moved the big mat away, they found a lottery machine embedded in the stone bricks below. Throwing a red ball into it would produce an item. Someone pulled it once and a torch came out.

This was a very important discovery. Hans immediately led people to surround the lottery machine and asked everyone to line up to draw the lottery. What was drawn was what it was, and there was no fighting over it.

Everyone was gearing up to draw out, most of them were torches, a small number of them got flashlights, and some got ropes, chalk and other things, they were all very basic tools.

Qiao Qiao also drew a torch, and Ah Qing drew a rope, but there was one exception, a white girl, who drew a knife.

Everyone’s eyes changed now. Everyone else had basic tools, but she was the only one who got an offensive weapon. Besides, things are rare and expensive. After more than fifty people drew out, they only got one knife. This little girl was really lucky.

This white girl was not an economical person either. She immediately pulled out the knife and stared at everyone warily.

It was Hans who took charge of the situation. He had a leadership style and was fair in his words and deeds. Some contestants who were fighting alone gradually tended to focus on him.

However, both Qiao Qiao and A Qing tacitly kept a distance from Hans and waited to see what would happen.

Hans invited the white girl to join his team to ensure her safety, but the condition was that the knife needed to be shared. The white girl thought for a while and agreed. After all, she was only one person, and ordinary men were not guilty of carrying the knife. She was also afraid that she would be plotted and lost her life as well as the knife. Joining a larger organization was the best way.

Even the only offensive weapon fell into Hans’s hands, and it was even less likely for others to challenge his authority. Everyone formed a formation according to Hans’s request and prepared to go to the center of the maze together.

When they were on the ground, those who drew the red ball stood in the northeast corner. Someone suggested that the center of the maze might be in the southwest. However, the premise of this guess was that the four square arrays were at the four corners of the maze. In order to confirm this, Hans decided that everyone should go northeast to see if they could find the edge of the maze.

If found, it means that they are indeed in the northeast corner of the maze, so as long as they turn back and walk southwest, they will be able to find the center of the maze.

Everyone lined up in two teams, and one person who had drawn the torch was inserted at a distance. Qiao Qiao and Ah Qing were placed in the middle. A group of about fifty people carefully stepped into the dark maze.

The maze was well built, with brick walls on all sides and no vegetation. Qiao Qiao suspected that the walls were painted with paint that could absorb sound and light, because it was too quiet in the maze, and the lighting range of the torches was also very limited. As far as the eye could see, there were only walls and dark forks, and you couldn’t see the top. It looked very depressing.

Because they are not sure what is in the maze, the teams have to rotate every once in a while and take turns being the leader to share the risk equally.

As they walked, people at the back of the team would mark the ground with chalk in case they couldn’t find their way back.

The group of people advanced slowly through the maze, and everyone was highly nervous. The slightest movement would cause a commotion in the team, making everyone exhausted physically and mentally.

Suddenly, the people in the front row stopped, and it turned out that there was another lottery machine in front of them.

“What to do? We have no more balls.”

People came over one after another. Fortunately, the lottery machine stood on a relatively empty platform, otherwise it would not be able to squeeze in so many people.

The appearance of the lottery machine is very different from the previous one. It looks like a vending machine with colorful cartoon patterns on the outside, which is very inconsistent with the atmosphere of the maze.

Hans stepped forward and everyone around him looked at him. After hesitating for a while, he tried to click the lottery button.

Unexpectedly, the lottery machine started immediately this time. After a blaring music, a long knife fell out of the machine.

“You don’t need a small ball, you can just smoke it!”

I don’t know who shouted, and everyone immediately rushed forward, but no matter how hard they pressed, the machine didn’t respond.

“This machine needs to cool down for 20 minutes before it can draw a second time.” Qiao Qiao pointed to a notice on the bottom of the machine, “And this machine has only a one percent chance of being able to draw out special items. Generally, it can only draw out food and drinking water.”

“Huh?!” The first person who discovered this machine quit, “That knife should be mine!”

Hans: “I drew this knife.”

“Fuck you! I was about to whip, but you beat me to it, and you whipped my knife!”

“I did it because no one dared to do it just now.”

“That’s nonsense. Did I say I wouldn’t smoke anymore?! You took my knife and it’s reasonable, right?!”

The atmosphere became tense, and both sides refused to give in. After all, there were many people on Hans’ side. Seeing that they couldn’t frighten Hans, the man and his companions retreated, snorted, and led seven or eight people to another side road and left.

The team suddenly became much smaller, and everyone looked at each other. Unexpectedly, after only ten minutes of walking, the team began to fall apart.

Hans: “If anyone else wants to leave, please leave quickly. If you think this knife belongs to that person, you can also leave together.”

Qiao Qiao didn’t realize that Hans had done something wrong. She often played drawing games and knew that these things actually had nothing to do with who drew them. The knife should be drawn when the draw pool turned here. Even if a dog pressed the button, the knife would be drawn.

Whoever gets it is fair.

Such an incident was a huge blow to morale, so Hans ordered renovations in place while waiting for the second lottery opportunity.

While waiting, Hans also made new rules. Now it can be preliminarily concluded that the maze is much larger than expected. The four teams may not be at the four corners of the maze, and the exit is not known where. Since there is no point in which direction to go in this way, everyone can only try their luck.

The only source of food and water is the lottery machine. It seems that there should be more than one such lottery machine. Since you have to stay in the maze for several days, the distribution of food and water is very important. Therefore, Hans decided that no matter who draws the food and water, they must hand it over and distribute and manage it uniformly. This can ensure the survival rate of everyone with the highest probability.

Of course, apart from food and water, whoever draws other things gets it, but the team has the right to use it and must take it out when necessary, not hide it.

Everyone nodded and had no objections to the new regulations.

Twenty minutes passed in a blink of an eye. This time a different person smoked. After another burst of piercing music, a bottle of mineral water fell out of the machine.

The capacity is not large either, with an ordinary 500ml bottle, one person can drink it for two days if he saves some.

But there are about forty people here, and if the bottle of water is evenly distributed, each person will probably only get two sips.

And there is even greater bad news. The cooldown time of the lottery machine has been extended to 30 minutes.

Hans frowned, Ah Qing gave Qiao Qiao a look, and the two avoided the crowd to talk.

“This won’t work.” Ah Qing said straight to the point, “This is too slow and there are too many people. We will starve to death.”

Qiao Qiao: “There must be more than one lottery machine. We have to find other lottery machines quickly. Only the first draw has no cooling time.”

At this time, Hans also spoke. He thought the same as Qiao Qiao and Ah Qing. The maze set up a lottery cooling mechanism to prevent players from forming a group. So Hans took advantage of the situation and announced that the team was disbanded. He only left eight people around him, and the others were free to form a team and find another way out.

After hearing the news, some were happy, some were sad, and some begged Hans to take him with him, but Hans only named a few of his friends, took the white girl with the weapon, and left on a side road.

As soon as he left, some people stood up and left. Qiao Qiao and Ah Qing were also about to leave, when an Asian-faced girl stopped them.

“Can you take me with you? I eat very little, just give me some water. I don’t want to give you anything from the pump, as long as you take me out.”

Ah Qing looked her over and shook his head: “We are not sure we can go out.”

“It’s okay. I followed you voluntarily. Even if I can’t get out, I won’t blame you, as long as you don’t abandon me.”

Qiao Qiao: “Why did you choose us?”

The girl lowered her head: “I think it’s safer to be with women.”

“Are you Chinese?”

“Well, my name is Zhang Jie.”

Qiao Qiao: “Okay, but you have to obey the command. We won’t tolerate it if you want to cause trouble.”

Zhang Jie nodded obediently.

Qiao Qiao: “What did you draw before?”

Zhang Jie took out a flashlight, and in order to prove her loyalty, she gave it directly to Qiao Qiao and asked her to hold it.

Qiao Qiao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “I won’t use it if you give it to me. Batteries are rare items. I don’t know if there is any place to replenish them. Let’s keep them for now.”

Only then did Zhang Jie put it away.

I don’t know why, but Qiao Qiao is quite pleased with Zhang Jie. Maybe it’s because they are both Chinese and have a hometown filter, which makes them feel more friendly than other white and Latin Americans.

“Okay, which way shall we take?” Ah Qing asked.

There are almost ten forked roads around the lottery machine, seven of which have been chosen by other teams, and the remaining three have not been walked yet.Qiao Qiao pointed at one of them, and Ah Qing lit the torch and walked into the darkness first.