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Similar means are quite common in deities, where initial connections are made between dreams and selected potential believers before potential believers arrive at a particular location to transform potential believers into true believers through miracles. Similar stories are found in different mythological systems.

As one of the most well-known monsters in Nordic mythology, it is not surprising that Jemengade selects its followers in this way, and its potential believer mortality is alarmingly high.

According to the old man, he had contacted a total of 16 potential believers, and only three eventually succeeded in leaving the island and returning to human society. The rest of them were either lost forever in the maze or simply swallowed up by Yemengade.

And now he treats Zhang Heng as the seventeenth potential believer on the island.

This is not to blame for his carelessness, mainly the unusually desolate nature of the island, which has nothing on it, and sometimes no one even comes for more than a decade, while Jemengade, as the fiercest monster of the Giants, has never been the only one to target anyone, and nothing has ever happened to proactively provoke it.

The elderly also don't think that there will be people in the world who can't think about it, so they firmly believe in Zhang Heng's identity.

In this way, Zhang Hengzong accepted his new identity and asked the elderly to teach him courtesy, "Is this maze difficult to walk? ”

The old man nodded, “I know what you're thinking, the size of the island is small, and the central labyrinth is smaller, no matter how complicated the labyrinth, you can always try the right path by trying one of the dumbest ways. ”

“Isn't that so? ”

“The general maze may be like this, but this maze behind me, if you use this method, you'll never find the right path. ”

“Hmm?”

“This maze is constantly changing.” Old Man, “so the wrong way to go back and try again the wrong way is not working here, and not only will the places you walk change, but the maze in front of you is constantly changing. ”

“Is that pure luck? ”

“No, this maze is actually meant to test whether the spiritual connection between you and it is strong enough. The first three people who passed through the maze didn't really take much effort, and the slowest one took less than half an hour, and the fastest only took 10 minutes.” The old man said, "As long as you are close enough to its spiritual connection, the moment you enter this maze, you will naturally know where to go. ”

This is not good news for Zhang Heng, because he is not a real potential believer, and there is no spiritual connection at all between Jemengade and Jemengade. The only connection between the two is that Zhang Heng intends to go in and kill it. If Chenghan is still alive, save Chenghan, and then leave this subway line with the Fanmei sisters and Maru, and if possible, get Loki's whereabouts from Jemengade.

However, Zhang Heng did not show any anxiety and frustration, but continued to talk to the elderly.

The latter seemed to have been on the island for a long time, and it was usually difficult to see people, so they didn't agree to wait for an island of their kind, so they were happy to continue their conversation with Zhang Heng.

And I don't know if it's because of Zhang Heng's status as a potential believer, his attitude is also very good. After all, if Zhang Heng passes the maze, he will be a believer. After that, he will be one of himself. If Zhang Heng doesn't hang inside through the maze, then these things he knows won't be passed on to the third person's ear.

Even so, on some of the more central questions, the elderly chose not to answer.

For example, Zhang Heng asks how big Yamengaard really is, the usual time of activity, how often he leaves the maze, etc., and the old man shuts his mouth when he hears such a question.

So Zhang Heng changed direction and started talking to the old man about his own affairs. This time, the old man's words became obviously more.

“I've been on the island for 51 years. Before I came here, I was a construction worker for a construction team. Our construction team built quickly, the quality of the project was good. I won a lot of awards, and I went to the newspaper. At that time, the capital was going to build a subway. The first thing that came to mind was our construction team. The movement in the construction process caught its attention, and then I was summoned by it, and came here to be a guide. ”

Although Zhang Heng had almost guessed the identity of the elderly before, it was the first time the latter had personally admitted that he was the missing worker more than 50 years ago.

The old man's face is getting a little complicated when he talks about it.

I can tell that he actually misses the days before. Although that was more than 50 years ago, when the material was scarce, he didn't have a cell phone or a computer, but it was much better than on this red island, where there was nothing, and he had his own family and friends, but many of them are gone now.

But after such a long time, he also seemed to have confessed his life, and the colour of remembrance on his face flashed away and returned to normal.

“Have you also entered this maze?” Zhang Heng continued,

“Unfortunately I don't have the right to go into the maze, I have to do some miscellaneous work outside," said the old man, "I know you must be a little confused right now, probably frightened by the numbers I said before, and hesitating to go into this maze, but in fact I don't think you need to worry so much, because this may be the biggest opportunity of your life, it has always been very picky, it doesn't have a lot of people to look at, I've only hosted 17 people here for over 50 years, including you, and my last visit to the island was 12 years ago. ”

Twelve years ago? ”Zhang Hengyang raised his eyebrows.

“Exactly, and the guy was acute, and he seemed to be in a lot of trouble, and we said less than five sentences in total, and then he stuck his head in the maze.” The old man said, "He's also the one I told you about who walked out of the maze in only 10 minutes, and I don't know what happened now. He was still an unidentified little singer on the island, singing in a bar. If you can get through the maze, I'll tell you his name, and I'm actually curious about how everyone left the island was doing, but I can only get word from the next person. ”

Zhang Heng thought about it and asked the last question, “Can I use tools through this maze? ”

“Tools?” the old man stunned, “What tools, ladders, but you don't have ladders... it doesn't mention any requirements in this regard, so you have any tools to use, and I won't stop you. ”