Chapter 42
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Chapter 42: Stay Firm in Your Beliefs!
These days, there are unusually many teams entering the Tower of Seals.
Starting from just a few hundred at first, to later even a thousand at a time, even players focused on living skills are entering the tower!
Some of them don’t even bother with the monsters, just blindly wandering around in fear, making it quite puzzling.
Why do you think this is happening?
This story begins with a post that Fang Ze made before.
After solving the first puzzle, Fang Ze and Ye Qiu started climbing the tower day and night.
They confirmed many of their previous guesses.
For example, where is the snake?
On the ground, the snake is made up of lines on the earth’s surface.
It can only be seen when the sun rises during the day, and at night, the snake disappears on the earth’s surface.
This relates to the puzzle of being chaotic and blurry, and lying on the earth’s surface, which they indeed guessed correctly.
As for the wolf, it is easy to find once the right path is discovered.
Ye Qiu also figured out the secret of the owl representing deceit, and now all three puzzles are solved.
Then came the question.
The mystery was solved, but how could the barrier in the core area be lifted?
Despite searching day and night for several days, the group still had no answer. Finally, Ye Qiu suggested going to ask the dwarf.
So they found the Hobbit again and told him about the mystery they had solved.
The dwarf listened to them in surprise, as if he hadn’t expected them to solve the mystery so quickly.
Wait, how did they solve the mystery?
It’s one thing to spot the owl in the sky, but how did they see the snake and the wolf?
The dwarf was puzzled, believing that no one could solve this mystery.
However, upon reflection, it seemed that these people had not solved his mystery after all.
At least, the final step didn’t completely solve it.
Thinking of this, the dwarf immediately started mocking everyone with sharp words.
Saying that they thought they solved the puzzle, but actually didn’t even find the first key in the puzzle.
Upon hearing this, everyone was dumbfounded.
What do you mean they didn’t find even the first key?
Is there another key in the puzzle?
Or perhaps, the key is hidden inside a certain terrain or mineral in the puzzle?
Thinking of this, Ye Qiu’s initial reaction was to turn the first layer upside down.
But Fang Ze shook his head, rejecting this idea.
The first level was so huge that even if they explored it for a whole year, they might not be able to explore it all!
But when it came to solving the puzzle, everyone was clueless.
Fang Ze, feeling helpless, came up with an idea.
His idea was to ask for help by posting a message!
He posted the dwarf’s puzzle, along with his decryption strategy, and ended with a special sentence…
According to the dwarf.
It was said that a huge treasure was hidden beneath this puzzle, awaiting the discovery of the first decipherer!
Upon seeing this, all the players were no longer calm.
A treasure!
In the first layer, there was another hidden treasure!
We must find it!
The treasure is only for lucky people, and that lucky person!
It must be me!
This is a common misconception among players.
Sometimes, they always feel that the lucky person must be themselves.
But who can really say for sure about such things?
After all, what if?
Just these three words can touch the hearts of many.
Its power can be seen.
Like buying a lottery ticket.
Many people are thinking they won’t win, but at times like this, you hear a voice in your head.
What if you win?
Lotteries are not expensive, just two dollars each, so even if you don’t win, you won’t lose much.
What if you do win?
Right?
Driven by this thought, players outside the tower quickly dropped their tools and work, and rushed into the tower to start a thorough search!
They all wanted to lift up the ground to see underneath carefully!
But in reality.
Actually, there is no treasure at all.
The treasure must be fake, it’s something Fang Ze made up to motivate all players to search for the keys together!
Look at how efficient it is for all players to search together!
Isn’t this hundreds of times faster than their slow exploration speed?
Fang Ze thinks so, but Ye Qiu is getting impatient!
Because there is indeed treasure hidden under this puzzle!
But Fang Ze doesn’t know, and he can’t say it out loud!
Oh no!
They had to grab those three things before the other players!
Thinking this way, Ye Qiu saw that they were exploring a mine deeply.
After upgrading their arsenal equipment, their equipment level made a qualitative leap!
Now, even facing a high-level demon beast, they could easily deal with it.
Killing middle-level demon beasts was as easy as cutting vegetables.
They had been focusing on exploring the mines these days, and this was already the fourth mine they had explored.
The mines in the game had huge shafts that could accommodate tens of thousands of people digging at the same time!
And the deepest mine had over twenty layers!
It was indeed very deep.
It is worth noting that the mines in the game will refresh in the late night and early morning.
Players will be teleported outside the mine, and all the stones and minerals that have been mined will regenerate.
However, the locations of the ores are not fixed.
So, Fang Ze and others must move quickly to conquer the mine, or they will be teleported out if they are too slow!
The good news is that the monsters inside the mine will not respawn.
Currently, several mines have been controlled by players and have become shared mining areas.
As for the pickaxe…
To be honest, there are no pickaxes.
If you want Hobbit to help you make a pickaxe, first you have to give him ore, and then you can pay him.
So, many players who wanted to dig holes got stuck on this level.
But soon, a player stepped forward.
He took the iron sword they found in the arsenal and melted it with Hobbit, making two iron pickaxes!
This move left everyone stunned.
So they followed suit, melting the expensive metal weapons and armor they bought into liquid metal.
Some players chose to sell the iron pickaxes made by Hobbit, making a small profit in copper coins.
But not all players could afford the expensive iron pickaxes.
As a result, two rival schools among the miners began to rise strongly!
The first group of people waved their hands and started melting copper coins to make copper bars!
You should know, the price of an iron pickaxe can be as high as one to two thousand copper coins.
But if they melt these copper coins, they can get more than one hundred and fifty pounds of copper ingots!
How many copper bolts can they make with all that?
Therefore, melting copper coins to make weapons and tools quickly became a popular way of playing.
Another group of people keep mining with their pickaxes and sell the ore at low prices for a profit.
Both of these ways of playing are very popular and have become the main ways of playing in the current version.
Chen Ye was speechless when he saw this, and had to admit that players always have unique and strange ways of thinking.
You see, when he first created the mines, he had already thought about the pickaxes.
It’s simple, players don’t need to make them on their own at all!
In the deepest parts of every mine, there were almost always some dwarf miners’ bodies, with notes on them!
But none of these people bothered to search carefully!
It really proved the saying that as long as you don’t lose hope, there are always more solutions than difficulties!
Are these players?
Chen Ye felt helpless because these people were not following his script at all.
"However, as the saying goes, the higher one’s abilities, the greater the challenges. Since you all are wealthy enough to forge equipment with copper coins…"
"So it would make sense for me to reduce the amount of copper coins dropped by monsters, right?"
"Just cut it in half, not too much."
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