Tang Ci's Merry-Go-Round, while having a rather unusual running style, is actually quite useful. It carries teammates at 200 km/h, faster than the speed of a car in the overtaking lane of a highway. Furthermore, its first skill can forcibly drag a designated target onto the Merry-Go-Round, making it a very strong crowd control ability.
After seeing Tang Ci's cards, Lu Jiuchuan also showed everyone the cards he had drawn.
[ White Wolf King ]
Additional Skill 1: Wolf Howl
The White Wolf King howls at night, its loud voice echoing through the night sky. Targets within a 1000-meter radius who hear the sound will immediately fall into a state of fear and be unable to move for 3 minutes.
This skill can be used once every night.
Additional Skill 2: Wolf King Summoning
White Wolf King can summon up to 50 wolf pups to join the battle. The pups will automatically chase and bite enemy targets within a 500-meter radius. Once all the pups are dead, the skill will go on cooldown and can be used again in the next dungeon run.
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and handed the card to Tang Ci: "Summon a pack of wolves to attack the enemy. This card is quite useful in group battles. Here you go."
Tang Ci said, "No need. You can keep the cards you drew."
Lu Jiuchuan insisted on putting the card into Tang Ci's hand, whispering, "Take it. Your cards are all functional cards. This White Wolf King card can save your life in critical moments. If you are alone and surrounded in a secret room later, you can use White Wolf King to summon a group of wolf pups to hold them off for a while until your teammates come to your aid."
Meeting the man's persistent gaze, Tang Ci had no choice but to accept the card: "Thank you."
Lu Jiuchuan smiled slightly and turned to look at Yu Hanjiang: "What card did you draw?"
Yu Hanjiang flipped the card over and showed it to him, saying, "Flashbang."
Lu Jiuchuan raised an eyebrow: "Your cards are as simple and straightforward as ever... However, this card is quite useful. It doesn't have any special abilities; you can just throw it at the area that needs to be bombed."
Yu Hanjiang had previously collected pistols, submachine guns, shotguns, sniper rifles, and wide-range throwable grenades. Now, with flashbangs, his combat weaponry is quite complete.
Yu Hanjiang said, "This card has no cooldown time. Each time I enter a secret room, it will give me five flashbangs. Once thrown, they will instantly blind targets within range, with an effective range of 500 square meters."
Qu Wanyue asked curiously, "What did Xiaoqiao draw? Was it another fairy tale card?"
Liu Qiao opened her hand and looked—
[ Elsa ]
Rarity: S
Description: The eldest princess of the Kingdom of Arendelle, heir to the throne. Born with the magical power to manipulate ice and snow, an ability both beautiful and dangerous. An accident during her coronation ceremony caused her magic to spiral out of control, plunging the entire kingdom into a frozen wasteland.
Additional Skill 1: Frozen World
Elsa uses her ice magic to turn the entire scene into a snowy landscape for 24 hours.
In heavy snow, visibility is reduced to 5 meters, the temperature drops to -24 degrees Celsius, the ground will be covered by thick snow, and all modern transportation such as cars and trains will be prohibited.
This is a skill limited to the escape room and can only be used once per escape room.
Additional Skill 2: Ice and Snow Descend
Elsa summons a blizzard, instantly covering a designated 500-meter area with snow, burying all targets within the area. If it encounters a river, it can instantly freeze the entire river.
Cooling time: 8 hours.
When Qu Wanyue saw the card, her eyes lit up. She exclaimed, " Elsa? Isn't that the female protagonist from the animated film 'Frozen'? Her ability to control blizzards is amazing!"
Liu Qiao also liked this card very much. He happily handed the card to Xiao Lou to look at, and said, " Professor Xiao, isn't the skill of changing the scene somewhat similar to your Historical Figure Summon turning the environment into a night scene?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "Yes, the Historical Figure Summon can turn the scene into a night scene for 8 hours. The cards we drew before, such as the Witch, Butterfly, and Nightmare, can only be used at night. When necessary, we can use the Historical Figure Summon to turn day into night. Your Elsa card is the same. In special circumstances, it can turn the scene into a blizzard and disable vehicles. We can then escape on the Merry-Go-Round that Mr. Tang just drew."
Upon hearing this, Ye Qi couldn't help but exclaim, "A blizzard that lasts for 24 hours is indeed very interesting!"
Liu Qiao happily put away the card and looked at Qu Wanyue and Long Sen: " Teacher Qu, what card did you draw?"
Qu Wanyue smiled and said, "I drew the [White Dancing Shoes]. Wearing these shoes makes me move silently and allows me to traverse any terrain, including ice, fire, and blades, as if walking on flat ground..." She paused and continued, "For example, I was able to get through the mountain of knives and sea of fire I encountered in the ancient tomb's secret chamber. The key is that these shoes can be given to others to wear, and the size will automatically adjust to the user's foot, with no cooldown time."
Ye Qi said, "It's great that there's no cooldown! If we had drawn this card earlier, we would have had a much easier time getting through the Weekly Secret Chamber. We could have easily stepped over mountains of knives and seas of fire... But it's not too late to draw it now. At least we won't have to be afraid of these special terrains anymore."
Long Sen drew the [Bowling Ball], which, when thrown along the ground, knocks down all enemy targets in its path. It's similar to knocking down pins at the end of a bowling ball, although it doesn't inflict damage.
The enemy can be knocked down and then handed over to teammates, which is also a good support skill.
Long Sen scratched the back of his head and chuckled dryly, "Bowling is much easier to control than badminton. Especially on narrow paths, the bowling ball rolls far and can take down a whole bunch of enemies along the way."
Ye Qi imagined the scene and laughed, "If you throw a bowling ball over there, everyone around will fall to the ground in unison, just like advanced qigong. This card is fun!"
The cards for Lao Mo, Gui, Chu Huaying, and Xiao Lou have not yet been announced.
Everyone turned their attention to the four teammates. Chu Huaying simply flipped over a card and said, " The cards I drew before all enhanced physical abilities. This time, the card increases the strength and speed of my arms, allowing me to smash a boulder with one punch."
She had barely finished speaking when she suddenly stretched out her right hand—
Suddenly, her right arm stretched out like a spring, exceeding two meters in an instant. As if guided by a spirit, the arm deftly bypassed her teammate standing beside her and slammed into the wall to the side with perfect precision.
Three seconds later, a wall collapsed with a roar, having been smashed into dust by Chu Huaying.
Teammates: "..."
Lu Jiuchuan couldn't help but stroke his chin and tease, "Ahem, it seems that no one can easily offend Hua Ying in the future. If she punches your head in the head, it's a real 'head explosion'."
Chu Huaying looked at him and said, "Ninth Brother, would you like to give it a try?"
Lu Jiuchuan immediately made a "zipping" motion over his mouth: "I don't want to."
Gui Yuanzhang then took out a card and said, "I only drew four S-level cards before: brush, ink, paper, and inkstone. This time, I was given a [landscape painting] card."
As Old Gui used his card, a hazy landscape painting appeared before everyone's eyes. With just a few strokes of black ink, it depicted a fairyland of verdant mountains. Xiao Lou asked in confusion, "What is the purpose of this painting?"
Old Gui said, "This painting can record all the beautiful scenery we have seen, including mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, automatically generate landscape images, and create phantom images of the scenes in the painting at designated locations."
Xiao Lou realized what was happening and said, "Simply put, it's like using a landscape painting to project a mirage - like, illusory scene? The content of that scene is the landscape depicted in the painting, and it can be modified?"
Old Gui nodded seriously: "Yes, environmental illusions can be modified once a day."
In other words, creating illusions to confuse the enemy. For example, if you have just walked through a maze, record it in a painting and generate an illusion in another place, it will make the other party mistakenly believe that they have walked into the maze again, thus trapping them there.
Besides the night view of Historical Figure Summon and the blizzard of Elsa, Old Gui has already drawn the third card that changes the environment.
Xiao Lou had a bad feeling—would the next escape room be a harsh and unpredictable world?
He temporarily suppressed his worries and looked at Mo Xuemin, saying, "Old Mo, take a look at your cards."
Mo Xuemin said with a smile, "I used to get A cards a lot when I cleared the game, but my luck seems to have improved after teaming up with Professor Xiao. This time I got an S card - Cement."
Cement, though cheap and common, plays a vital role and is an indispensable material in construction and decoration.
Mo Xuemin said, "There are two skills. The first skill is 'Cement Sculpture,' which can throw out cement and turn all targets within a 100-meter radius into cement statues for one hour. During the transformation, the targets will lose consciousness but cannot be moved or attacked."
Ye Qi scratched the back of his head and said, "So, you can also turn your teammates into statues to avoid danger at crucial moments?"
Old Mo nodded: "Yes, it can be used as an invincible team, or it can be used to control enemies with clay." He paused and said, "The second skill is 'Cement Filling,' which can fill any gap with cement... including a person's internal organs. In other words, if someone opens their mouth to speak, I can pour cement into their mouth and instantly solidify the cement inside their body, thus killing them."
Ye Qi's eyes lit up, and he gave a thumbs up, saying, "This card is amazing. If it solidifies from the outside, it becomes a statue; if it solidifies from the inside, then you're doomed!"
Compared to the functional cards like marble, wood flooring, and color dye that Lao Mo drew before, the cement card he drew this time is indeed a more powerful card, and his teammates are quite happy for him.
Finally, only Xiao Lou hadn't revealed his card yet, and everyone turned to look at him.
Professor Xiao frequently draws character summoning cards, which is like stirring up a hornet's nest of historical figures. I wonder if another ancient person will come looking for him this time.
Seeing the sparkling looks in his teammates' eyes, Xiao Lou didn't keep them in suspense any longer and directly summoned the card character.
A young man dressed in a white robe, his black hair simply tied back, smiled freely and casually. He held a sword in his right hand and a wine pot in his left. He squinted as he drank and recited a poem: "Let's drink, don't stop the cup, let me sing you a song, please lend me your ear."
Teammates: "..."
After listening to the entire poem, Ye Qi was dumbfounded: "This is... Historical Figure Summon?!"
Xiao Lou smiled helplessly: "That's right. Following Historical Figure Summon, Historical Figure Summon has also come to me."
[ Historical Figure Summon ]
Rarity: S
Description: His courtesy name was Taibai, and his pen names were "Qinglian Jushi" and "Zhexianren". He was the greatest romantic poet of the Tang Dynasty and was hailed as the "Poet Immortal" by later generations.
Additional Skill 1: Drinking Song
Historical Figure Summon raises his jug, inviting everyone to drink. All targets within a 500-meter radius simultaneously enter a drunken state, regardless of friend or foe. While drunk, one experiences dizziness and blurred vision for 10 minutes. Cooldown time is 1 hour.
Additional Skill 2: Wandering Swordsman
A silver saddle shines on a white horse, swift as a shooting star. He can kill a man in ten steps, leaving no trace for a thousand miles.
The Historical Figure Summon wields a longsword and teleports to a designated target within ten steps, stabbing them with his sword. After killing the target, he teleports to the card summoner and immediately refreshes the skill; if he fails to kill the target, the skill goes on cooldown and can only be used again after 24 hours.
Additional skill 3: Everyone has their own unique talents, and even if you spend all your money, it will come back again.
Once the skill is activated, the gold coins consumed within the next 10 minutes will be fully refunded to the user's account.
Limited-use skill; can only be used once per escape room.
When Shao Qingge saw the last skill, he couldn't help but chuckle: "From now on, when I spend a lot of money, Professor Xiao can release Historic Figure Summon to collect the money, and Xiao Ye will never say I'm a spendthrift again."
Ye Qi sighed in exasperation, "This is allowed?!"
Liu Qiao said expressionlessly, "I always feel that Professor Xiao has put his hand into a very strange card pool."
Lu Jiuchuan walked up to the Historical Figure Summon, looked the great poet up and down, and said, "Indeed, why does Xiao Lou keep summoning such strange ancient people?"
Xiao Lou said, "...I am a Forensic Doctor. Summoning ancient people is better than summoning corpses, right?"
The teammates thought about it and agreed. Bai Juyi started a fire, Historical Figure Summon stewed braised pork, and Historical Figure Summon gave everyone drinks...
Because Xiao Lou is in their team, their style has been constantly going astray.
Yu Hanjiang walked over and gently put his arm around Xiao Lou's shoulder, saying, "Skill 1 is crowd control, skill 2 is single kill, skill 3 is gold recovery—of all the cards I drew today, Xiao Lou's is actually the strongest, right?"
Yu Hanjiang's teammates all agreed with what he said.
Ye Qi said enviously, "It's much better than my drum set. My drum set will make a lot of noise in the future."
Liu Qiao said, "My Elsa can summon a blizzard, so when we go to the Secret Chamber, everyone will need to prepare a set of down jackets to keep warm."
Long Sen complained, "It's much better than mine. My badminton, soccer, and bowling equipment are too difficult to operate. I need to go back and practice my skills."
Listening to his teammates' discussion, Xiao Lou put away his cards and said seriously, "No matter what, with 12 new cards and the team-bound card [ Time Reversal ], our strength has been further enhanced... Let's go back and rest for a bit before considering pushing for level K."
What kind of secret room will the Kth level be? Everyone felt both excited and apprehensive.
Will these new cards play their due role in the new secret room?