Damn it! Why is this Lao Liu bullying me again?

"Hey~" Tiantong is a good guy. He could only smile awkwardly and spread his hands helplessly to indicate that he and his two brothers are just like this.

Walking along the Crystal Avenue, you can see Steelix or Onix everywhere, and the quality is not bad, at least there is brown level, and some are so pink that they are orange. With such quality, it is very likely that a silver crown can upgrade it to red.

Sure enough, those who can live on this level are not weak.

However, these are not Zhao Chao's goals, even if there is a chance to upgrade to a red-quality Steelix, he does not want it.

Zhao Chao witnessed the battle of Overlord Steelix twice in the ruins cave. His vision has been greatly improved and he really looks down upon ordinary Steelixes.

After all, putting aside its appearance, Steelix only has excellent defense, and that is limited to physical defense. Its special defense is not high, and its attack ability is also average.

The only good thing about it is that it can learn Dragon Dance to make up for its shortcomings in speed and attack.

It was not until he read the introduction to each secret realm that he saw a description on the badge box: Diamond Steelix has the strength comparable to Overlord Steelix and can be captured. These two conditions alone made Zhao Chao unable to take his eyes away.

This is when he came up with the idea of ​​trying his luck in the Onix Cave, and he did not avoid this issue. He explained the purpose of this trip to the three brothers at the entrance to the fourth-floor basement.

Of course, the three brothers all expressed that they had no interest in Steel-type and Ground-type Steelix. If given the chance, they would like to see the strength of the overlord Steelix in the ruins cave.

After walking along the winding route for a long time, there were still some crystals around. If everyone hadn't been following the map, they would probably have thought they were lost.

"Finally I found the exit, little boss. I didn't see the Diamond Steelix you mentioned along the way?" Looking at the exit right in front of him, Bert couldn't help but complain: "And this damn place is too dazzling. It's so easy to get lost!"

"If Diamond Steelix was so easy to find, it would have been captured long ago. No one can resist the temptation of the words 'comparable to the Overlord'."

"Indeed! But we have been following the route all the way here. What went wrong?"

Zhao Chao also fell into deep thought. He raised his head slightly and looked above the exit. There were also two lights above the exit, illuminating the cave, and the color of the lights was slightly different from that at the entrance.

The careful Zhao Chao also discovered that in addition to the color, the heights of the two lights were also different. He clearly could not reach the entrance with his hand, but at the exit, he might be able to touch it with just a slight jump?

"No!" Zhao Chao thought thoughtfully.

"What's wrong?"

"We've been going around for a long time, and it seems we've come back."

"Come back, little boss, do you mean this is the entrance?"

"Of course it's not the entrance. If it were, so many people would have discovered it long ago. We should have gone around to the fifth floor."

“Now that I know of it, I’ve discovered it, too.” Tian Tong rubbed his chin. “Although this floor uses a lot of minerals to refract light and interfere with our senses, we kept moving forward at the beginning. The light was above our heads at that time, but when we turned the first time…”

"The light has moved to our right side!" After being reminded, Cohen also discovered it.

"That's right, and the height is not fixed." Tiantong recalled.

“So, we didn’t start out walking in a straight line, but in a downward curve!”

"This trick happens at almost every turn. Every time we turn, the light is always above our heads, but when we reach the refraction point, the light always inexplicably moves to the right or left. It looks like it's giving us a direction, but it's actually covering up the curve."

"Then why don't we feel it?"

"It means we are walking on a polygon with rounded corners! And light cannot turn, so it can only interfere with our vision through continuous refraction. In fact, it is almost... almost..." Cohen thought for a long time and couldn't remember how many turns he had made in total.

"Seventy-two turns! We turned seventy-two turns in total!" Tian Tong said with certainty.

Zhao Chao was once again shocked by Tiantong's attentiveness. Without any preparation, Tiantong actually memorized the number of bends. The key point is that there are not ten or twenty bends, but more than seventy.

"If nothing unexpected happens, the exit is forward. If we really find the exit, our trip would be in vain."

In fact, this secret realm is set up like this to protect the Diamond Steelix. There are many high-quality Steelix on the fourth floor. Normal people will not return empty-handed if they come here. Moreover, if they cannot see through the maze set up by the secret realm, they can only think that they are unlucky.

The key point is that Zhao Chao's ambition is too big. He doesn't think highly of ordinary Steelix and comes purely for Diamond Steelix. With the help of the three mascots that follow him, he has a chance to see through the maze of the fourth level.

"Little boss, what do you say?"

"Turn around! Now that we're here, we can't come here in vain. The legendary Diamond Steelix will always be looking for food. If we split up and search carefully, we should be able to find something."

Since we know that it is a maze set up by the other party on purpose, there is no reason to flee without fighting.

"Next, we will split up when we reach a three-way intersection and keep in touch at all times."

There were forks in the road along the way, but because he had followed the map before, Zhao Chao didn't doubt anything. Now, he has to search carefully.

"I agree! It would be a shame if I didn't come here to see Diamond Steelix."

When they came to the first fork in the road, Bert volunteered to go forward and explore.

"Little boss, let me, Bert, take this passage!"

"No, there won't be any clues at this fork."

"Huh? Why?" Bert asked bluntly.

"Idiot, of course it's because the fork in the road is on the left!" The calm Cohen couldn't keep calm at all when he met his brother.

"Is there any difference between left and right?" Bert still didn't understand.

"Of course. When we came here, the light gradually shifted to the right, which means we have been shifting to the left."

"Hmm, what next?"

"Are you using your brain? This means we drew a big circle to the left and returned to the entrance." Cohen complained helplessly. While explaining, he drew a sketch on the ground, trying to explain the reason to Bert.

"Cohen is right. We are going back now, which is equivalent to drawing a big circle to the right. The center of this big circle is on our right hand side." Tiantong took over the conversation and continued.

"I see. What you mean is that the traces of the Steelix will only appear on the fork on the right."

"Yes, that's basically it. We don't have enough manpower right now, so we won't consider any special circumstances for now. If we go our separate ways, we'll definitely run into the problem of pursuit. At that time, everyone should mark the intersections they've passed by, so the next person who passes by won't have to go in again when they see the mark. We'll gather at the entrance."

Cohen stood up and carefully wiped off the traces on the ground.

"Roger that!"

Bert was the first to cross the fork. Bert was very arrogant and drew an unknown thing that looked like neither a flame nor a crown. In his own words, this was the Flame Crown, and he would be the future Fire King.

As a result, before the main group reached the second fork in the road, Bert had already caught up with them.

"Oh, our Fire King has hit a wall? Oh, no, the future Fire King!" As expected, the more cocky a person is, the easier it is for him to be slapped in the face. Seeing Bert in such a miserable state, he might have been chased by Steelix.

Zhao Chao had reason to suspect that the trio's luck could have been better, partly because of Bert's pretense.

"Laugh if you want to, don't hold it in."

Everyone was just joking at first, but Bert blew himself up, and everyone just started laughing. Even Cohen trembled for once, as if he was trying to hold back his laughter.

When he reached the second intersection, Bert hesitated for a while, but decided to explore the way.

A real man never falls in the same place twice.

Therefore, facts tell us that a person's luck is conserved, and the more one fears something, the more likely it will come to happen.

This time Cohen could no longer bear it. He knew that his brother's luck was sometimes so outrageous. When it was good, God would chase him and feed him, and when it was bad, he would be looked down upon by a jinx.

So, in order to relieve his worries and boredom, Cohen told Zhao Chao about Bert's luck as a child.

Zhao Chao didn't expect that there were actually people who were even more extreme than himself in terms of luck. Isn't he the same?

At the beginning, I hatched eggs and transformed them into red ones, but the secret realm became black. Later, I hatched eggs and transformed them into black ones, and then I inexplicably found a red Pokémon.

At least I get lucky in fits and starts, but Bert's luck is calculated piece by piece. For example, he won 100,000 yuan in the lottery in the morning, got hit by a car when he went out at noon, and then unexpectedly won the lottery again in the evening. This luck conversion efficiency is beyond my reach.