1595 Chamber After Chamber After Chamber (2/2)
However, if the creature was stronger than the Advisor Mummy, they would immediately retreat to the passage or run straight for the exit. If they took the same path they came from, they were more likely to return to the starting point.
Shreev told them since there were a few hundred chambers, there must be chambers with weaker guardians. He would rather visit more chambers than risk his life fighting incredibly strong creatures!
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Shreev's plan did work. It was just as he said, there were chambers with weaker guardians. When they took out the guardians, it would open all four of the chamber's doors. It was like walking in a gargantuan maze. Even though they knew how to quickly reach the exit of the maze, they had no chance of defeating the Golden Bird, so they had to take a longer route in the maze to avoid it. Similarly, every time they encountered a strong guardian they had no chance of defeating, they would use the same method to skip past it.
It was a very stupid plan, since they would have to enter an extra four to eight chambers every time they wanted to skip a chamber. However, it was still better than getting the whole team wiped out!
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”How many days have we spent in here?” Mu Bai suddenly asked.
”No idea, it's hard to tell what the time is in here. But I think it has been at least half a month,” Heidi said.
(Editor's Note: There's this recent invention called a Watch that would work here...)
”Shreev, are you sure your plan is going to work? We're not just running around in circles, are we?” Zhao Manyan began to doubt Shreev's plan.
The route that skipped the chambers was a lot longer than they had imagined, especially since they had to skip a chamber every time they stumbled into a Mummy that they could not defeat. In the end, the number of chambers they had to enter kept stacking up.
”We are definitely on the right track, you have to believe me!” Shreev said.
”But you told us we just need to go through twenty-four chambers to reach the exit, and now you're telling us it's thirty-six… I feel like we are all going to die of fatigue at this rate!” Zhao Manyan said.
”I can't help it, the Mummies in this Great Pyramid of Giza are too strong on average. Every time we want to skip a chamber, it increases the number of chambers we have to go through!” Shreev said helplessly.
”We are all going to lose our minds at this rate,” Meos said.
”I agree.”
”Let's keep going, we don't have a choice.”
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Fatigue!
The group insisted on only challenging the weaker guardians after encountering the Golden Bird. Unfortunately, the Great Pyramid of Giza was not so easy to be overcome. They kept finding themselves in chambers guarded by strong Mummies. The numbers of chambers they had to go through to reach their destination eventually reached fifty-six!
They initially thought the Pyramid had a few hundred chambers at most, and that they would eventually reach the chambers they had visited before. That way, they could just go through them without fighting a guardian. However, they had clearly underestimated Khufu's influence. A few hundred chambers? Based on the number of chambers they had gone through, there were at least a thousand chambers in the Pyramid!
The plan was much more difficult and time-consuming than they first expected. They were on the verge of suffering a mental breakdown.
”How long do we have to stay in here for?”
Every time a person asked the question, it showed that their determination was shaken again.
”By measuring the length of my mustache, I believe we've spent two months in this place,” Zhao Manyan leaned against the wall. He was so dispirited that he looked like a mummy himself.
”Why don't we try our luck against the Golden Bird?”
”I would rather kill myself here!”
”I'm going crazy, f**k these Mummies!”
”How unlucky are we? We keep stumbling into strong Mummies... I guess it's because we are too weak. If we were at the Super Level, we wouldn't have to skip so many chambers, keeping up with this never-ending journey,” Shreev sighed.
”Just treat it as a way of training, get yourself together!” Mo Fan was more optimistic than the rest of the team.
It was torture for the team. Mo Fan was still motivated because he was able to claim the Soul Essences from the Mummies they killed. In addition to that, Mo Fan also noticed that if the chamber had a Huntsman Spider on the ceiling, he would obtain even more benefits from killing the Mummy!
It was the only thing that had kept him going for two months!