Cloud Thinking

The second round of the competition came as scheduled. Tarvin's withdrawal made the team short of players and they could not find a substitute, so they voluntarily gave up the competition. Under the meticulous care of his teammates, Kalzer reluctantly dragged his body, which had not yet fully recovered, to participate in the competition.

Because of the drastic changes in the first round of the competition, everyone has become extremely cautious. Before the game, they wanted to cram the rules of the game from their eyes to their brains, and ponder over every word over and over again to avoid being tricked by the competition organizers again. In the last game, no one expected that the clues would be presented in the form of word puzzles, and even less expected that the designated objects would be alive! But the competition organizers did not tell them in advance!

So, under everyone's protest, the organizers made another adjustment to the rules of the second round of competition that had already been determined, and gave the students some peace of mind - there would be no unexpected situations in the competition that were not mentioned in the rules.

But after reading only a few lines, Helia felt that the organizers of this competition were really good at making trouble. They were afraid that there would be nothing interesting in this competition, right? Yes, although all matters of the competition were mentioned in the rules, it did not say that the organizers could not play word games on the rules. Everything that should be said was said in the rules. If the students themselves did not understand it, it was none of their business.

The second round of the competition has a different focus from the first round. If the core point of the first round of the competition is speed, then the core point of the second round of the competition is to find and grab. The competition time limit is one and a half hours. During this one and a half hours, the participating teams not only need to find the designated items hidden by the competition organizer, but also ensure that the items are still in their hands when the competition ends.

According to the experience of previous competitions, it takes about 40 minutes to find the item, and the rest of the time is the exciting scramble. But Helia felt that the organizers of this competition clearly did not want to play the same routine as the previous team competitions. In connection with the tips the mixed team got in the first round of the competition, the organizers of this competition will definitely focus on finding the item.

Moreover, in this competition, all teams set out at the same time, but from different starting locations. The starting locations of each team formed a circle at the outermost edge of the competition field, and the starting locations were randomly assigned. As for the advantage of the winning team in the previous game, it was not the opportunity to set out early, but a more detailed map and hints about designated items.

With the change in the rules of the game, the luck factor has actually increased, because the initial location is randomly allocated. If you are lucky, you can find the designated item after just a few steps, which is quite unfair to other teams.

But most teams thought of this and took it for granted that the organizers would definitely not do this, so the designated items should be hidden in a place that is about the same distance from everyone. Once they got the map, they looked towards the center, completely ignoring other places.

But Helia felt that since the competition was focused on finding the item, they definitely wanted to downplay the struggle, especially since someone almost died in the last competition, so they didn't want to gather these students together, so they probably wouldn't hide the item in the middle of the place where everyone would go. But as for where it would be hidden, she didn't know, she only knew that the competition was very cunning and very evil.

"So, what are our plans for this competition?" Drummond looked at Helia and asked. The others also looked at her, as if as long as she gave the order, they would immediately roll up their sleeves and rush to do it.

"Am I the only one who uses his brain in this team?" Helia replied casually while still analyzing the rules of the game. If the organizers wanted to play word games with them, she wouldn't mind finding loopholes in the rules to play a trick on them who were so self-righteous.

"It's tiring to use your brain, and besides, you're the captain after all." Drummond said lazily. Anyway, Helia would be there to support him if the sky fell, so it would be enough for him to lend her a hand.

"I don't have any plans this time. I'll just have to adapt to the situation and wait until I find something." Helia pressed her forehead. Thinking like this is not something that suits her...

"Are you so confident that we can find the thing first?" Britney briefly processed the map, circled all the places where things might be hidden, and handed it to Helia.

"To be honest, Lydia and I went to the temple of the goddess of luck and knelt for two hours last night. We praised her all night long, and our lips are almost worn out. She will definitely bless me." Helia said seriously.

Helia felt that if she had to cram at the last minute, she had to cling to something useful, to someone with a bigger thigh. In this world, there was indeed an ancient god who held the power of destiny - Sphenthenia. Although she was not a believer, she said so many good things last night. If one or two of her words could reach the ears of the goddess and get some help from her, then her still aching knee would be worth it.

Lydia nodded, "My knee hurts."

"You said it yourself, but instead of believing in God, you should believe in yourself..." Drummond once again found one of Helia's narcissistic quotes in his mind and repeated it.

Helia felt that Drummond was not suitable to be a friend. Sooner or later, she would not be able to resist stabbing him in the back. Who would like to have someone around who always records your dark history and takes it out from time to time to help you review it!

Helia cast him a speechless look, then clasped her hands together, looked up at the sky devoutly, and said affectionately: "That's the goddess of luck! She is so holy and beautiful! How dare I, a little believer, compare myself with her! That is a naked desecration and blasphemy against the goddess!"

"I will defend the goddess to the death! Start with me! Start every day! Start with every little thing!"

"Praise the great lady of luck!"

The passionate tone and almost crazy expression not only stunned Helia's teammates, but also the audience outside the field, especially those who knew Helia's true identity. There was a loading circle symbol on their foreheads.

This is, crazy???

It's a pity that there is no ancient god who holds wealth and power in this world, otherwise, Helia would definitely quickly join his religion, worship his statue and burn incense day and night, and kowtow three times every time she goes out and comes back to show her loyalty to him.

"Okay, stop being crazy here. The game is about to start. Let's go here first. I think this place is suitable for hiding things..." Britney snatched the map back from Helia, unfolded it to show everyone, and pointed to a small pond not far in front of where they were.

"Where's the hint? Didn't you give me any hint?" Drummond suddenly remembered this and asked.

"Of course I did, but with the IQs of the five of us, I don't think anyone can understand it..." Britney's mouth twitched. She had long since faced the reality that no one in her team had a good brain, including herself...

"Take a look, maybe you'll get an idea in a flash!" Karl Ze was optimistic. He asked Britney for a note with a hint on it. There was only one line of words on it:

[Can walk anywhere but has no feet and no life]

Everyone: ... Loading... Loading failed... Reloading... Loading failed...

"Haha, it turns out that we are just a bunch of idiots!" Helia said with her hands on her hips and a smile. If you didn't know, you would think she was saying something nice, but with her personality, even if she was calling herself stupid, she would make it sound like she was praising herself.

Beavis here——

"What is this again..." Gena felt like he was not participating in a competition, but rather a brain teaser contest. He knew very well that he was not very smart, so he consciously handed the note with the hint to Beavis, the team's think tank.

But this time, Beavis was silent. They got the same slip of paper as Helia, because they were not the winning team, and the first, second and third place in the previous game would get more detailed clues, and the clue for the first place might even be the answer directly.

Although Beavis couldn't guess the answer, he felt better when he thought that Helia and the others couldn't guess it either.

Just as the other non-winning teams were scratching their heads, thinking about what the answer to the riddle might be, the preparation time passed quietly, and after a loud bird call was heard, the competition officially began.

There is another point in this game that makes everyone complain, that is, the competition cannot use tracking magic to track the location of designated items. Although it was not allowed in the previous game, the venue for the second round of competition is almost twice as large as the first round!

Although tracking magic is not allowed, a beam of light will be erected at the location of the designated item every ten minutes, which will last for half a minute to guide everyone. For the non-winning teams that fail to solve the clue puzzle, all they can do in the first ten minutes of the game is to search blindly, and the mixed team is now searching blindly.

Helia was quite relaxed, without any sense of nervousness about the competition. She walked slowly, without even taking out her wand. She put her hands behind her back and hummed a little tune leisurely.

No one else had any objections, and the entire team walked slowly forward, talking and laughing along the way, leaving the audience who chose to watch them a little confused, thinking they had been transferred to the entertainment and leisure section.

The pond was not far from their starting point. Even though they slowed down to take care of Kalze who had not yet recovered, they still arrived at their first destination in the eighth minute after the start of the game.

"Huh? There seems to be an unusual fluctuation of magical power here." Britney, the most powerful magician present, sensed something was wrong as soon as she approached the pool of water which was only seven or eight square meters.

“No way? So lucky this time?” Drummond was a little surprised. Generally speaking, the place with strange magic fluctuations on the competition field is where the designated items are, because the designated items have protective magic cast by the competition organizers, and where there is magic, there must be magic fluctuations. But this time they were even just walking around, how could they encounter it so soon? ? ?

"Let's spread out and look for it. After all, we've prayed to the goddess of luck, so if we find it, it's what we deserve," said Helia.

Helia roughly divided each person into areas to be responsible for, and the five people spread out, looking everywhere for something that looked like the designated item. After all, the clues were too vague. There was a forest and a pond here, with all kinds of things. Unless they went over one by one to check and see if there was any fluctuation of magic power, they could not confirm it.

The area Helia was in charge of was by the lake. For some reason, the designated items for the two games seemed to be related to water. Based on the competition organizers’ tendency to make things difficult for people, could it be that they hid the items under the water? ? ?

Just as she was feeling around, a blurry black figure emerged from the murky water and silently approached Helia with the rippling water. When she turned her back to touch the pebbles by the water, the black figure suddenly jumped out of the water and rushed straight towards its prey.

Helia felt something cool and slippery touching her, and she jumped up reflexively. She turned around and saw that it was a water snake! The water snake wanted to attack by surprise, but it bumped into the protective magic that Britney had cast early in the morning, making it dizzy and collapsed to the ground, motionless.

It would have been fine if the sneak attack had not succeeded, but it never expected that the woman it regarded as its prey would scream loudly after seeing it. Then it watched as she raised her hand to summon a magic wand taller than her, and smashed it down with both hands, each time heavier and stronger than the last, while she cursed and swore. Not only was she heavy-handed, but the curses were also particularly nasty. It was simply a double torture for her body and mind!!!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Snake! Oh my god! Snake, ahhhhhhhhhhh! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!"

Everyone was frightened by Helia's sudden scream. Lydia was originally huddled in the grass, touching the stones on the ground. When she heard Helia's scream, she immediately jumped out; Britney also ran over in a hurry; Drummond supported Kalzer and walked over quickly with great effort.