LRAB 10. Strike when the iron is hot.
10. Strike when the iron is hot.
Inside the villa, Xiao Rou, who had been staring intently at Qin Mian's perspective, had an increasingly strange expression.
Not right.
Something's really wrong.
Everyone else was visibly anxious because they couldn't find their way, and even the calmest Park Guk-chang and Alice looked serious.
But what about Qin Mian?
Although he looked sweaty and disheveled, a closer look at his eyes and subtle movements...
His eyes didn't look like he was exhausted.
That was clearly... a look of great interest in watching the spectacle!
Especially when Kia started "performing a shaman's ritual" just now, Qin Mian's gaze briefly lit up before he forcefully suppressed it, and that subconscious little gesture of touching his pocket...
Xiao Rou, as Mu Yunni's personal assistant, has an exceptional ability to read people's expressions and moods.
The more she thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed: all day long, Qin Mian always seemed to be falling behind, but he always managed to keep up leisurely; he seemed to be exhausted to the limit, but he never actually fell or groaned in pain; and now he even had the leisure to "enjoy" Kia's performance...
"Could it be that the young master, like the young lady, is also hiding his true abilities? Is he doing this on purpose?" A startling thought arose in her mind.
Moreover, she thought of the two entries that Mu Yunni had seen.
Besides the potential stock and the forbidden god, combined with Qin Mian's current performance, Xiao Rou became increasingly suspicious of this conjecture.
……
On the screen, Kia's dance grew wilder and his chanting higher, as if he had truly stirred some unseen force. The desert night wind seemed to swirl around him, whipping up fine sand.
Everyone held their breath, awaiting the arrival of the "oracle".
After jumping for a while, Kia suddenly stopped, and then rolled his eyes back, like a dead fish.
"This is... a twitching episode?" Qin Mian muttered.
Upon hearing his words, everyone rolled their eyes.
"Hehe... I was just talking nonsense!" Qin Mian immediately put on an innocent smile.
Park Guk-chang frowned and said coldly, "Ignorant! You're a Chinese man, don't you understand this? This is clearly a case of divine possession!"
"Huh? India knows about this too?" Qin Mian didn't know what to say.
"Shh, don't talk, listen to what he's saying!" Alice quickly made a shushing gesture.
Everyone held their breath, watching as Kia's lips parted slightly, and a breathy sound, seemingly coming from a very distant place, escaped his throat:
"The way to survive... lies in... the map..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kia snapped back to normal.
He was initially bewildered, then immediately asked excitedly, "God, what hint did the God give?"
Everyone's expressions turned somewhat strange.
"You, you just said that the way to survive is on the map!" Scarlett said with some doubt.
Is it really divine guidance?
Or is this guy just talking nonsense?
Everyone else looked on incredulously.
Originally, asking Kia to pray to the gods was a last resort, but now that this guy has actually come up with some tricks, they can hardly believe it.
Only Kia became even more agitated upon hearing this.
"As expected! The gods have not abandoned their messenger! The oracle has been answered! Hahaha!" He knelt down again with a thud, arms outstretched to the sky, and cried out in a trembling voice, "Supreme God, thank you for your guidance, your humble servant will surely follow..."
Andrei stared at the agitated Kia with his bear-like eyes. "Was that state just now real or fake? You'd better tell the truth, it concerns the lives of all of us."
The others also looked at Kia with obvious suspicion.
Upon hearing this, Kia's chest heaved violently, clearly indicating that he was extremely angry.
"Do you dare to question the gods?"
Andreev frowned; he could hear the desperate strain in Kia's voice and the madness in his eyes.
If he gave a negative answer, Gia would probably fight him to the death.
He wasn't afraid of Kia, but he also didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble. He said coldly, "This concerns the lives of all of us. I need a definite answer!"
"That's right!" Akuku stared at Kia. "Kia, if you dare to lie, none of us will let you off the hook!"
Kia gritted his teeth, furious.
But seeing everyone staring at him, he suppressed his anger and said in a deep voice, "I swear by the glory of my Brahmanship and my faith in Shiva! What I just said is absolutely true! If there is even a single lie, may my soul be condemned to eternal damnation!"
Only then did everyone believe it to some extent.
Park Guk-chang then pulled out a map. "Everyone, if Kia isn't lying, then this map must contain crucial information. Let's all study it carefully!"
Immediately, no one dared to waste any more time, so they put the map together and began to study it.
"This triangular marker is undoubtedly a mountain peak..."
"The thick yellow line represents an ancient riverbed, but what does the dotted line represent? Is it dried up? Or an underground river?"
"Look at this inconspicuous little circle, could it represent a spring or an oasis?"
……
A cacophony of voices arose.
As the saying goes, many hands make light work; if those who know and those who don't study together, the chances of understanding the material are greatly increased.
However, when they studied together, no one paid attention to Qin Mian. They clearly regarded Qin Mian as invisible and thought that Qin Mian, a fat college graduate who almost fell behind, could not provide them with any useful information.
Seeing them huddled together, Qin Mian shrugged helplessly and took out his own map to look at it.
"Playing dumb to fool others is safe, but the rewards for completing dungeons are based on contribution... If you just coast through the whole thing, even if you survive to the end, the rewards will probably be pitifully meager!"
Qin Mian stared at the map carefully, thinking to himself, "It seems I should make a move when the time is right. Qilin Blood should be one of the best rewards in this dungeon, so I must make sure I get it."
Having obtained the bloodline of the Qilin, Qin Mian's five senses were greatly enhanced.
Upon closer inspection, a discovery was indeed made.
what……
He saw on his map, beside the Peacock River, three tiny black dots arranged in a triangle. They were so small that they were barely noticeable unless you looked closely, and you would just think they were tiny ink splatters from the printing process.
But Qin Mian suddenly realized something.
During this day, everyone else was rushing on their way and was exhausted, so they had no time to look at the scenery around them, and there really wasn't much scenery around them anyway.
Because he had plenty of energy, he had time to observe his surroundings.
Just as dusk fell and the setting sun painted the sand dunes golden red, he vaguely remembered glimpsing three long-dead but still stubbornly standing poplar trees on the shady side of one of the dunes. Their location... seemed to be such a twisted triangle!
At the time, I just thought it was a common sight of dead trees in the desert and didn't pay much attention. But now, combined with these three strange points on the map...
To confirm his theory, and to make sure the three black dots weren't ink residue, he hurriedly walked over to the crowd. "Excuse me, excuse me, let me see your map. I might have found it!"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Qin Mian in surprise, seemingly never expecting that he would be the one to discover the problem.
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