The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#298 - Solve the problem smoothly

When Yan Jun saw Lu Jing running from afar with his book case on his back, she wasn't as surprised as the others. Instead, she nodded to him.

Lu Jing craned his neck curiously and asked, "Is this the third question? You seem to have already been inside. Do you have any information to share?"

Yan Jun actually spoke when she heard this, "There is a strange object behind this wall. Capturing it means passing the test."

"Isn't that simple? Just smash this mud wall, right?" Lu Jing didn't think the wall looked very sturdy. It definitely couldn't withstand a strike from his Zen staff.

However, Yan Jun then said, "There are more walls behind the wall."

"Then I'll just smash them again."

"It's useless," Yan Jun shook her head. "I've tried it. This is probably the ability of that strange object. It can create eighty-one mud walls on the open ground. If you destroy the existing mud walls, new mud walls will appear, and the total number will always be eighty-one."

"A maze?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows.

"You could call it that."

"So, as long as we solve this maze, we can find the strange object inside?" Lu Jing felt that a maze with only eighty-one walls shouldn't be too difficult to solve.

Even if he only used the right-hand rule, he could probably figure it out in half an incense stick's time.

However, Yan Jun was still standing outside the maze, so things probably weren't that simple.

Sure enough, he then heard the chief disciple of the Yunshui Jingci Pavilion say, "These mud walls move."

"Hmm?"

"Once you enter this... uh, maze, the mud walls inside will start to move, so it's not that easy to find the strange object in this maze."

"Have you tried walking on top of it?" Lu Jing pointed to the mud wall in front of him. "This wall doesn't seem very high. It should be easy to get on top of it, right?"

Yan Jun still shook her head. "I've been up there, but once I see it, it will burrow into the ground and disappear, and these mud walls will turn into dust along with it, and it won't reappear with the mud walls until half a cup of tea later."

"It can't be observed... Hmm, that makes it really hard to deal with." Lu Jing raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and also felt a little tricky.

However, when Yan Jun heard his words, she was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to fall into thought. After a while, she looked up, "I may have found a way to solve this question."

Supervisor Huang's square face remained expressionless, and he only said, "Did Professor Ke show mercy to him?"

"No, Old Ke said that he solved the second question entirely on his own strength, forcing Old Ke to throw away the teacup in his hand with poison." Professor Zheng paused. "But I'm curious, where did he get this poison? I remember that he didn't seem to know how to use poison before he entered the academy."

"The poison on his hand should have been given to him by a paper figure in Mirror Lake Valley," Supervisor Huang sighed. "I know that person. She should have been among this year's new students. Guo Shaojian was very optimistic about her. The reason why he brought her back was to let her enter the Sitianjian and become one of us in the future.

"However, the hatred in that person's heart is too deep to be resolved, and her actions are quite extreme. She has never met the conditions for entering the academy to study, so she can only continue to be a paper figure in Mirror Lake Valley, or this is her own choice. I didn't expect that the relationship between the two of them would look so good."

Supervisor Huang shook his head, seemingly unable to understand why Lu Jing, a righteous hero famous in the Jianghu, could get along so well with a heretical witch who was not tolerated by the martial arts world, and even obtained some poison from her, which came in handy in this small competition.

Professor Zheng didn't ask much. He was an old man in the academy and naturally knew that many of the paper figures in Mirror Lake Valley had sensitive identities. Since Supervisor Huang didn't say the person's name, he wouldn't be talkative. He just turned the topic to the current small competition.

"In any case, he has already solved two questions, and the questions in this small competition are much more difficult than in previous years. If he solves the third question as well, then he can at least get a middle ranking."

"He can't solve the third question," Supervisor Huang said. "Ji Zi Ninety-Five can't be dealt with by brute force. His poison is also useless. Then he will understand the role of secret power."

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Although he didn't want to admit it, Lu Jing found that he was indeed in trouble this time.

Especially after he saw Yan Jun's figure becoming lighter and lighter in the sunlight, and finally only a transparent outline remained, he knew how the other party planned to solve this question.

--Invisibility.

Since the maze would start moving after someone walked into it, trying to hide and not be discovered seemed like a feasible solution.

Speaking of which, it was Lu Jing's sentence that it could not be observed that reminded Yan Jun, so Yan Jun didn't rush to enter the maze immediately after becoming invisible, but said to Lu Jing again.

"Sorry, you can't use my method, but before I leave, do you have anything else to ask?"

Lu Jing was also a little helpless. He could now understand the feelings of Wei Zixian, Zhao Ming, Bai Yu and others.

Being a competitor with someone like Yan Jun is really depressing. It's like you try your best every time, and finally see the taillights of her car, but when you turn your head, she throws you far away again.

However, Lu Jing didn't regret being talkative. With Yan Jun's intelligence, she would have thought of the invisibility thing sooner or later even if he didn't speak, and the other party had shared with him what she had explored during this time without reservation, which also saved Lu Jing a lot of time.

So Lu Jing thought for a while and said, "What does that strange object look like?"

"Its external appearance is a jade bamboo shoot."

"Thank you, I have no other questions. I wish you success in solving the problem."

"I also wish you to solve this problem as soon as possible. I believe we will meet again later."

"I hope so." Lu Jing smiled wryly, watching the translucent figure walk into the maze in front of him. After a while, there was no sound from the maze, and the mud walls did not start to move.

Lu Jing knew that Yan Jun had already succeeded halfway. After waiting for a while, the mud walls suddenly collapsed, and the voice of a teacher sounded in the scattered dust, "Yan Jun, passed the third question!"