In the past, the Hero’s Trial Ground belonged to soone else, and Li Xiu wasn’t willing to risk his life there.
Now the Hero’s Trial Ground is his, but if he doesn’t pass the S-level trial, the trial ground can’t be used anymore.
Moreover, it was a pity to waste the S-level trial when so many talents were sacrificed to complete it.
Of course, Li Xiu can’t just go there casually; he has to be fully prepared first.
"Are these maps all drawn by you?" Li Xiu asked Ye Yuzhen while holding the maze maps he found.
"Yes." Ye Yuzhen explained, "Before, when I killed in the Dark Maze, it was with the money from Zhongshan’s City Lord. No, it was from the previous City Lord of Zhongshan."
"You drew these maps well. Your mory is impressive." Li Xiu looked at so many maps, but only Ye Yuzhen’s drawings were accurate every ti.
"My family used to live next to the mineral veins. Many abandoned mines were there because they had long since stopped yielding raw stones, so they were abandoned. When I was a child, to survive, I’d go into those abandoned mines hoping to strike it lucky and find a few stones. But the mines were so interconnected that they lacked safety facilities long ago, making them prone to collapse. Additionally, without electricity and lights inside, people like us couldn’t afford headlamps or similar items and could only venture in the dark. Many kids like got buried inside without knowing when or lost their way, starving to death within."
"My mory and sense of direction are quite good, and my luck isn’t bad. No matter how complex the paths, once I’ve walked through them, I can rember them clearly and have found so raw stones to keep alive until now. I’d say I’m more familiar with the darkness than the dayti; I feel safer in the dark."
Li Xiu nodded slightly, "No matter your past, if you follow from now on, you’re not allowed to kill without my permission."
"Of course, without paynt, I don’t want to kill anyone." Ye Yuzhen nodded.
"From now on, in the middle of each month, you can collect a salary from the mansion. If you want to live in the mansion, I can arrange accommodations for you. If you prefer to live outside, that’s fine too, as long as I can find you when I need to." Li Xiu said.
"Thank you, City Lord. I think I’ll stay outside for now." Ye Yuzhen thought it over and said.
"Alright, here’s the map you drew during the A-level trials. There are a few places you’ll need to explain to ." Li Xiu pointed to the last few A-level Dark Maze maps drawn by Ye Yuzhen.
Li Xiu didn’t want to know what Ye Yuzhen and Qing Shan did before. He also didn’t care what they would do after.
As long as he could use them now, he would make use of them.
He didn’t plan to settle down in Zhongshan City; he just wanted to obtain the resources he needed quickly.
The maps drawn by Ye Yuzhen were more detailed than those known to Li Xiu.
After all, Ye Yuzhen had participated in the trials nurous tis and taken more routes than Li Xiu, so with such a collection of maps from low to high levels, coupled with Li Xiu’s own mory, it provided him with clearer insights into the Dark Maze.
"Each level of the Dark Maze adds outer layers based on the previous level. I’d known this before, but the layers added follow a pattern, and those rooms with traps also follow a pattern..." Li Xiu used the routes he rembered to complete the routes Ye Yuzhen hadn’t taken, resulting in a complete map.
First, categorize the maze into different zones based on levels, then consider the rooms as binary codes, with safe rooms as 0 and rooms with traps as 1. Convert each row’s codes into decimal and then corresponding letters, forming words by linking each zone’s letters together.
"When brave et narrow paths, the brave shall prevail."
Now Li Xiu finally understood why the Dark Maze was nad Hero Trial Ground, rather than Dark Trial Ground.
Li Xiu rembered there was more to this phrase. By following this pattern, the additional layers in the S-level maze might correspond to a few later phrases.
Li Xiu recalled the complete phrase: "When brave et in narrow paths, the brave shall prevail; when brave et wise n, the wise shall prevail; when wise et kind n, the kind shall prevail; when kind et righteous n, the righteous shall prevail; when righteous et loyal n, the loyal shall prevail; when loyal et virtuous n, the virtuous shall prevail; when virtuous et n of the way, n of the way shall prevail."
If extrapolating this further, the difficulty of the S-level maze far exceeds that of the A-level maze by untold multiples; if one really went to explore, not even an hour, possibly a week wouldn’t be enough to explore it completely.
But knowing this pattern, once the position and direction in the maze are determined, one can avoid all chanisms and traps, choose the correct path, and walk out.
"Just not sure if the S-level maze is arranged according to this phrase." Although it seems highly likely, Li Xiu had to prepare for other possibilities in advance to prevent preconceived notions from wasting too much ti in the maze.
After leaving the City Lord’s Mansion, Ye Yuzhen carefully made a series of left and right turns, ensuring no one was tracking him, swapped into different clothes and makeup at a corner in a dark alley.
Once out of the alley, Ye Yuzhen circled around several tis, confird no one was following him, and then proceeded to a small courtyard.
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