Weird Game: I brought an old version bug

The B01 passage was narrower than any section of road they had ever traveled.

The cracks on both sides of the walls spread like a spider web, and in some places, liquid could even be seen seeping from the cracks.

It was dark red, reflecting a faint light in the torchlight.

It's not water.

"Where does this road lead?" Qingzhu asked, breathless from running.

Shiyu did not answer.

She kept running forward without slowing down or hesitating.

The footsteps behind me grew fainter and fainter.

But they didn't completely disappear—they retreated back to the entrance of Area A, as if waiting there.

"Stop for a second," Jiang Chen called out.

The group stopped at the corner of the passage.

Everyone was panting. Northern Wolf lowered his shield against the wall and wiped the sweat from his brow.

"Those things... didn't chase after us?" Qingzhu glanced back.

"No." San Dao leaned against the wall, his ears twitching slightly. "They stopped at the entrance to Area A. It's like they're guarding the entrance."

"Will they guard the entrance and wait for us to leave?" Northern Wolf frowned.

"Or—" San Dao said, "they can't enter Area B."

Shi Yu raised her head, her eyes flickering.

"They can't get in." She repeated the sentence, as if suddenly remembering something.

"Area B is safe. Area A... is their territory."

"How do you know all this?" Qingzhu stared at her, her voice clearly tense.

"You said you knew this place, the way, and that door—now you even know about the monster ward?"

Shigure fell silent.

"I..." she paused, "I don't know why I know."

But I know.

She looked at Qingzhu, "Just like you know fire will burn your hand—you don't need a reason, you just know."

Qingzhu opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Jiang Chen looked at Shi Yu, and a guess began to form in his mind.

If she lived here in the old version—then she knows these passageways as well as a local knows their own neighborhood. No need to think, her body knows the way on its own.

But the question is—why is she living in a dungeon underground facility?

"Let's figure out a way to get out of here first." Jiang Chen suppressed his doubts.

"How much of the dungeon time limit is left?"

Northern Wolf glanced at the system panel.

"Twenty-eight minutes remaining."

Is that enough?

"It will take about fifteen minutes to return to the mineral crystal beast's lair from here by the same route."

The northern wolf estimated that...

"The problem is, the original route will definitely pass by the entrance of Area A—those things are still waiting there."

"Then we can't go back the way we came," Jiang Chen said.

He looked at Shi Yu: "Are there any other routes that lead to the mineral crystal beast's lair?"

Shi Yu closed her eyes.

Everyone was looking at her.

The passageway was so quiet you could hear your own heartbeat.

About ten seconds later, she opened her eyes.

"There is one," she said, "but I'm not sure if it's still there."

"What do you mean?"

"There is a maintenance passage behind the B02 passage, which can bypass area A and lead directly to the back of the mineral crystal beast's nest."

She paused, "But that passage was already collapsed the last time I walked through it... in my memory."

"How long ago was that?"

Shiyu did not answer.

Because she herself didn't know.

"Let's go," Jiang Chen decided. "Let's go take a look."

The five people continued forward in passage B01.

After walking about two hundred meters, the first fork in the road appeared ahead.

The numbering signs on the wall read: B01→B02 branch line.

"This way." Shigure turned to the side quest.

The branch passage was narrower and sloped downwards.

The slope wasn't steep, but every step led deeper into the valley.

The air temperature dropped lower and lower, and the breath turned into white mist.

"This temperature..." Qingzhu shrank her neck. "It shouldn't be this cold underground."

"It's not natural cooling." San Dao reached out and touched the wall. "The wall is cool. Not icy cool, but a different kind of cool."

Jiang Chen also reached out and touched the wall.

The texture was strange—it didn't feel like stone, nor did it feel like soil.

It is a smooth material with a slightly cool feel.

Like... metal.

But the wall looks like an ordinary rock face.

He peeled off a piece of plaster from the wall.

After a thin layer of rock debris fell off,

The exposed lower surface is—dark gray metal.

The entire wall is covered in it.

The entire passageway is inside a metal shell.

"Another old facility," Jiang Chen said in a low voice.

"Just how many of these things are underground in this game?" Northern Wolf frowned.

No one can answer this question.

After walking for about seven minutes, a sound came from the front of the passage.

It wasn't footsteps—it was the sound of fighting.

Someone is fighting monsters ahead.

"Is he from Route A?" Qingzhu perked up.

Jiang Chen strode forward and peeked out from around the corner—ahead of the passage was a huge mine cavern.

Unlike the previous underground hub, this place is more like a real mine – there are rubble and scattered minecart tracks everywhere, the ground is pitted and uneven, and the walls are covered with faintly glowing ores.

In the center of this space, a team of five is struggling against three mine guards.

They are in very poor condition.

The tank in the team was already at half health, the healer's mana bar was almost empty, and the two DPS were panting heavily—it was clear that they had been fighting for a long time.

"It's the team that took Route A before." Northern Wolves recognized them.

"The soldier leading the team, his name is... what was it again?"

"Berserk Under Heaven." Jiang Chen glanced at the other party's ID.

It's the person who sent him a private message, telling him, "If you want to die, don't drag others down with you."

"Should we save him or not?" the Northern Wolf asked.

Jiang Chen glanced at the battlefield.

All three mine guards were level 8 monsters, significantly higher than the average level of their team.

The team that was supposed to be able to hold out this long is already pretty good, but it's clear they won't last much longer—the healer's mana is almost depleted, and the tank's health is dropping.

"Saving them means we'll have more people to fight the boss," Jiang Chen said.

"Let's do it." The Northern Wolf charged straight out.

He'd been holding back all this time, and now he could finally make his move.

"I'll pull one!" he roared, slamming his shield on the ground with a heavy thud.

A few pebbles were shaken off the rock face.

Drawn by hatred, a mine guard turned and pounced on the northern wolf.

"I'll remotely pull the other one for you."

Qingzhu's staff glowed blue, and an ice spike shot towards the second guard.

San Dao had already circled behind the third guard, his dagger flashing a silver light as it precisely sliced ​​open the leather armor on the back of its neck.

Shiyu drew his bow and shot an arrow that pierced the knee joint of the first guard—it knelt down, exposing the vulnerable area on its head.

"Shoot him in the head!" Jiang Chen shouted.

The Northern Wolf slammed his shield down, and the guard's skull cracked.

The battle lasted less than two minutes.

All three guardians fell, shattering into specks of light that dissipated into the air.

The members of the Mad Warriors team all collapsed to the ground, panting.

"Thanks." Kuangzhan Tianxia stood up and walked up to Jiang Chen.

He glanced at Jiang Chen's ID, and his expression became complicated.

"You're the captain who said we'd go for Route B?"

"it's me."

Mad Warriors fell silent.

"You're right," he said. "Route A is problematic."

"What's the problem?"

"We followed the route recommended by the system, and things went very smoothly at first."

But when they arrived at the abandoned demolition zone…

Mad Warrior's expression was not good.

"The road marked on the map was open, but when we got to the middle, we found out—it wasn't a road at all, it was a trap."

"trap?"

"The ground in the blast zone is empty."

It feels like solid ground when you walk on it, but if more than three people stand in the same area at the same time, the ground will collapse.

Two of our teammates fell straight down.

"Fell down?" Qingzhu's face turned pale. "What's down there?"

"The lower levels of the mine are full of monsters."

Kuangzhan Tianxia gritted his teeth, "It took us a lot of effort to pull them up."

But after logging in, I found that the boss strategy guide in the system announcement was completely different from what I actually experienced.

Jiang Chen frowned: "What do you mean?"

"The system says the Crystal Beast's weakness is its core—attacking its glowing core in its chest will deal damage. But our attacks hit its core three times, and the damage decreased with each hit."

Mad Warrior clenched his fist.

"That thing's weakness isn't its core."

"What is that?"

"I don't know. We came here before we even had a chance to try."

Jiang Chen looked at Shi Yu.

Shiyu stood at the edge of the line, remaining silent.

But Jiang Chen noticed that when Kuang Zhan Tianxia said "the weakness of the mineral crystal beast is its core," the corner of her mouth twitched.

It was a very subtle expression.

It's not sarcasm.

It's like saying, "I know it's not true, but I don't know how to say it."

"Shiyu," Jiang Chen walked over and lowered his voice, "You know what the weakness of the mineral crystal beast is, right?"

Shi Yu looked at him, her eyes showing some hesitation.

"In my memory..." she began slowly.

Its weakness is its sound.

"A sound of a specific frequency will cause it to freeze, at which point any attack will be a weak point."

She paused, then added, "But I'm not sure if it still is."

Jiang Chen understood her hesitation.

Her memories come from the old version.

Data from older versions may not be usable in newer versions.

"Then let's give it a try," Jiang Chen said.

"How do I try?"

Jiang Chen looked at Kuangzhan Tianxia: "Does your team have a musician?"

"What musician?" Mad Warrior World was taken aback. "There's no musician class in this game."

"That produces sounds at specific frequencies..."

Jiang Chen's gaze swept over everyone, finally landing on Qingzhu.

"Can a mage control the frequency of sound?"

Qingzhu thought for a moment.

"There is a skill called 'Sonic Oscillation,' which is a control skill that can cause monsters to be briefly stunned."

She said, "But the frequency of that skill is fixed."

"A fixed one is fine too," Jiang Chen said. "We should at least try it once."

Kuangzhan Tianxia looked at Jiang Chen with a somewhat complicated expression.

"Are you so sure that 'voice weakness' thing works?"

"I'm not sure," Jiang Chen said, "but do you have a better solution?"

The Berserker has nothing to say.

His team had already been tricked once by the system's strategy guide.

If they were to do it again, they might not be able to get out alive.

"Okay," he said. "Go with your plan. But you better be right—two of our teammates are still low on health."

Jiang Chen made no promises.

He can't guarantee that.

He glanced at the instance time limit: less than twenty minutes left.

"Walk."

"Let's go and meet that mineral crystal beast."

He walked at the very front.

Shi Yu followed beside him and whispered something:

"What if my memory is wrong?"

Jiang Chen did not turn around.

"If you're wrong, you're wrong."

"Since the system's strategy guide is wrong anyway, I won't trust anyone's and will judge on the spot during the battle."

Shi Yu looked at him, her lips moving slightly.

In the end, she said nothing and followed in his footsteps.