“Huh? So that works too.” Yongzhe Wudi said, surprised.

“Very good, another flag has been tested that can change the ownership of the halo,” Feng Bujue mused. “But this method doesn't seem very practical.”

“That's for you,” Ye Zhi looked at Feng Bujue with disdain. “I think this method is much better than your chuunibyou declaration.”

Feng Bujue heard this, just spread his hands and shrugged, without comment.

Copernicus and Galileo then came to the front of the team to lead the way. They had also been somewhat distracted by the abnormal radar signals from the Derivers. At this moment, Feng Bujue's words conveniently allowed the two to step forward and lead the way.

The GMs knew the clearance methods and the flag locations. In this respect, Feng Bujue's skill [Unsurpassed Strategist] was far from reaching them. The Boss he saw with his title skill was Resentment Well, because when he observed, Vile was in the world on the other side of the well, so he couldn't detect it.

If there were no Derivers in this script, there were specific conditions for the players to reach the true Boss ending. And the basic route to clear the game didn't require facing Vile.

The GM menu could be viewed directly. On this mountain, there were a total of four Soul-Seizing Arrays. Three regular arrays were scattered in the mountain, and one main array was located at the bottom of Resentment Well. According to the normal process, after the players started the game and entered the mountain, they would inevitably encounter a regular Soul-Seizing Array first. As long as they survived the illusion and broke it, they could trigger the main quest prompt. At that time, the system would prompt the players that a total of four arrays needed to be destroyed, and then they could seal Resentment Well.

Then, the players successively dealt with the three regular arrays and one main array to clear the game. Of course, the array at the bottom of Resentment Well would be more difficult to deal with. But in any case, following this game line, Vile would not appear.

When Feng Bujue and the others entered the script and walked in the opposite direction, it was actually equivalent to discovering a hidden reward. According to that route, they could also find a Soul-Seizing Array on a ruined wall outside the mountain. Although dealing with this array didn't trigger any flags, in fact, this array could be used to make up the number for the main quest. That is to say, players who had dealt with this array in advance, after breaking any regular array in the mountain and updating the main quest, their progress would directly be 2/4. This meant that players who had completed the mansion trial didn't need to fight against the Resentment Well main array at all, and could clear the game by dealing with only four regular Soul-Seizing Arrays.

The above two game routes were respectively the unquestioning regular clearance route and the simple clearance route with puzzle-solving elements. The difficulty of the latter was obviously lower, while the former required dealing with more troublesome battles.

Of course, there was a third route, which was a plan that even the GMs would not choose, and it was also the simplest and most brutal one. That was to ignore everything, disregard the illusions and the various other flags in the mountain, kill all the way to the mountain top shrine, jump into the well, and rush into the "other world" to kill Vile.

This route might be possible for a six-person strong team at the studio level, or it might be possible for two GMs to avoid all the dangers along the way without the Derivers causing trouble and go directly to the well to fight the true Boss. But for ordinary players, this last method of violent clearance completely relying on force was almost an impossible task.

Since they had now reached the simplest clearance route, and the Derivers were elusive, Copernicus and Galileo's original plan had naturally changed. They initially underestimated the strength of the players, so they didn't want to make things too complicated, and just planned to quickly lead everyone up the mountain, deal with the four arrays according to the regular route, and send the players away. But now, they had the opportunity to complete the main quest without going to the top of the mountain and send the players away, so they had to seize it.

After the six walked for a while, Galileo led the team away from the original mountain path and into the adjacent woods.

Feng Bujue watched the two's actions with an attitude of onlookers, without expressing any doubts. Ye Zhi did ask a few questions, but the two "reconnaissance experts" explained it in a duet and brushed it off.

Unconsciously, about twenty minutes had passed since entering the mountain. The shadowy mountain forest and the unchanging slope under their feet gradually made people feel a kind of mental oppression and fatigue.

"This forest has no real boundaries," Galileo said in an explanatory tone. "I think the entire mountain entered a state of spatial anomaly on the night of October 31st."

The information Feng Bujue read from his words was just five words: Please be patient.

"Then let's not walk around anymore, just go straight up the slope, we'll always reach the top of the mountain, won't we?" Yongzhe Wudi continued.

"Too naive..." Feng Bujue said, "People have already said 'no boundaries'... then the sense of direction can be discarded. The only basis for thinking we are 'detouring' is the slope under our feet." He tilted his head. "Then... imagine that we are now walking on a flat ground, but the trees on this ground are growing obliquely, and the gravity is also inclined, then you will feel that this is a slope."

"Um..." Yongzhe Wudi couldn't imagine it.

"In addition, spatial anomaly means that the actual area of this mountain may be infinite," Feng Bujue continued. "In this kind of place, holding the idea of 'going out as long as you keep going in the same direction' will most likely trap you in place." He drew a positive infinity symbol in the air. "If this is a loop space with no exit, then from the moment we stepped in, there is no such thing as 'going out', only breaking the spatial anomaly can find a way out. But from the current situation... this is another situation."

The two GMs heard this and turned to look at him. Their expressions had shown that Feng Bujue was right again.

"The current situation?" Ye Zhi asked doubtfully, "What do you mean by that?"

"No backtracking traces." Meng Jingchan suddenly opened his mouth at this time, and threw out a concise and insightful sentence.

"Ha! Awesome, it seems there are still people who understand." Feng Bujue laughed.

"You flatter me, same to you," Meng Jingchan said, taking another sip from his wine bottle. This man was much more reliable than he looked.

Feng Bujue continued, "So far, have you seen any familiar scenes, or repeatedly seen your own footprints?"

"Uh... that's true, we haven't," Yongzhe Wudi said. "But this mountain looks very big from the outside, that shouldn't prove anything, right?"

Galileo turned back to explain for Feng Bujue, "What we see from the outside and what we are in now are completely different two spaces... it's like..."

Before he finished speaking, Copernicus in the front suddenly raised his arm to make a gesture, and made a short and forceful shush, then lowered his voice and said, "There's something ahead..."