Chapter 39 Riddle (Thanks to my beloved Sister Lan)
After taking a shower, the takeout I ordered earlier arrived one after another.

The dining table was piled with food. Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao sat at the table, eating while studying the clues of the maze.

Huangfu Miaomiao took this matter extremely seriously.

"You should have understood by now that cards are a special kind of gene chain. Any creature that comes into contact with a card will have a corresponding genetic mutation. The maze is a super-large experimental field where various genetic mutations are constantly occurring—"

Huangfu Miaomiao took a disposable fork and gestured exaggeratedly with her arm, emphasizing: "It's very big, extremely huge!"

Feng Ling nodded in approval, peeling a crayfish in his hand.

Huangfu Miaomiao said: "Because it is an experimental field, the genes inside the maze are extremely chaotic and unstable. A large number of creatures mutate, reproduce, and die here, forming a special biosphere. Among them, one creature will stand out and complete the final evolution. It is not only the winner of the experimental field, but also the master of the maze. The player's task is to defeat the master of the maze! Destroy the maze!"

Feng Ling understood, "That's what the dungeon means. If you kill the dungeon boss, the entire dungeon will naturally disappear from the map."

"Yes, that's right." Huangfu Miaomiao nodded repeatedly, "Killing monsters in the dungeon will earn you double the points, so players are flocking to the maze dungeon."

"Is there a card after killing?" Feng Ling asked.

"No, only stable genes can form cards. The creatures in the maze are in an unstable chaotic state. No cards will appear after they are killed. But the maze master is different—" Huangfu Miaomiao narrowed her eyes and said very slowly, "The maze master has a complete and stable gene chain. Once successfully killed, a unique and rare card will drop."

Feng Ling peeled a spicy crayfish, dipped it in the sauce, and put it in his mouth.

"No wonder your idols are placed in the labyrinth," she said.

Huangfu Miaomiao was slightly stunned after hearing this, "...Ah?"

"To ensure that players can obtain rewards smoothly." Feng Ling glanced at her, continued to peel crayfish, and said slowly, "Obviously, the card of the Lord of the Maze is the most valuable reward in the entire maze, but the inconsistency of the card characteristics will produce serious pollution value. If I were a player, it would be enough to enter the maze to fight monsters. Why should I fight the Lord of the Maze? I may not be able to use the cards I get after killing it. This is very uneconomical. Therefore, in order to prevent the highest reward from becoming useless, the system sets up the so-called statue in the maze so that you players will no longer have to worry."

Huangfu Miaomiao pondered for a while, "It seems... it's true. I never thought about this before."

"Okay, tell me the clues you know." Feng Ling wiped his hands and looked at the durian pizza on the table, "... find the maze and go in together. You will get points and I will get the statue. It's a win-win situation."

She picked up a piece of durian pizza and took a bite.

Huangfu Miaomiao stirred the spaghetti bolognese on the plate with a fork. "I'm not sure I can find it... The clue to the maze is a riddle with three sentences in total, and I only solved one of them."

"Tell me about it." Feng Ling said while eating.

"The frog in the top hat rushes to the sky, salivating and kissing the lone white bird, and the sky fire of the snake moon burns a gate in the ashes." Huangfu Miaomiao read out the riddle word by word.

Feng Ling: “…………”

Suddenly I felt that... she might never be able to clear this 29% pollution value in her lifetime.

The riddle of the maze is so confusing!

"So which sentence did you decipher?" Feng Ling asked.

"In the first line, a frog wearing a top hat soars into the sky."

Huangfu Miaomiao ate a few mouthfuls of noodles seriously and said, "Frogs can't wear top hats and can't soar into the sky, so when I'm doing the map-running task, I'll pay attention to the landmarks in the city that look like frogs. Then I found that the Ferris wheel in the amusement park used cartoon-shaped cabins. The outer layer of the cabins were painted with rabbits, ducks, elephants and so on. One of the green cabins had a frog wearing a top hat painted on it." Feng Ling felt a little relieved.

If that's the case, the riddle doesn't seem that difficult. As long as we find the correct reference, we should be able to find the entrance to the maze, right?
"The tickets to the amusement park are too expensive," Huangfu Miaomiao said, "I don't have money to ride the Ferris wheel, so I went to the forum to find help. I thought that as long as I provided clues, they would be able to help me earn some points..."

Needless to say, Feng Ling already knew what happened next.

Feng Ling stuffed the last bite of pizza into his mouth, opened the tin foil box containing the charcoal grilled pork ribs, and said, "Let's go to the amusement park after we finish eating."

Huangfu Miaomiao disagreed, "Have you forgotten that your location has been exposed on the forum? In the next few days, many players will come to look for you. Maybe someone in the player team will use the detection skill. It's easy to run into them if you go out casually. It's too dangerous."

Feng Ling was a little annoyed. These players were too troublesome.

Because of her mood, the pork cartilage made a crunching sound in her mouth. Huangfu Miaomiao pursed her lips and lowered her head silently to eat the pasta.

After a while, Feng Ling said, "Go to the forum and send a message to that person, saying that you want to buy the information about the hidden boss and see how he reacts."

Huangfu Miaomiao thought that she should indeed find out more.

She opened the virtual screen and found the previous post discussing the hidden boss, and then found the reply that mentioned Qingjiang City among hundreds of replies.

The forum is anonymous and you cannot see the name of the person who replied. You must add friends to communicate privately.

Huangfu Miaomiao sent a friend request to the other party, and the application message read: Boss information for a high price.

"Ah, the other party agreed to the friend request, so fast." Huangfu Miaomiao stared at the virtual screen, "The name is Yueying, this person should be a woman, and she has only been online for two days. She is either a new player or she logged in again after dying once."

"Let her name the price." Feng Ling was impatient.

"I was just asking..." Huangfu Miaomiao was operating on the screen. When she saw the message from the other party, she was slightly surprised. "She wants 2000 points!"

After all, it wasn't money, Feng Ling didn't have much sense for the points, so he said casually: "Then it's 2000, ask her how to trade."

"2000 is too much!" Huangfu Miaomiao was anxious, "This price is totally unreasonable! Why does it cost 2000 just to provide clues? The reward for killing the hidden boss may only be around 3000 points!"

Feng Ling said irritably: "I won't really give her that many points. The key point is to ask her out, or find out where she is."

"She said someone offered 1800 points, so I have to offer 2000 points before she will consider selling the information to me. Now I ask her where she is..." Huangfu Miaomiao frowned, "No, she is very alert and refuses to tell me."

Feng Ling was even more annoyed after hearing this, "How can we trade without telling the location?!"

Huangfu Miaomiao was also anxious. Just as she was about to ask the other party again, she discovered that the message failed to be sent, and her face suddenly changed.

“…She deleted me as a friend.”

Feng Ling's heart was filled with anger, and he raised his fist and slammed it on the table. Bang! All the food was shaken out of place.

Huangfu Miaomiao looked at her as if she was scared.

I made some progress today! I updated five chapters! Hahaha~ See you tomorrow