Me heard Xia Hunaao say this and tidied up her equipment. The two continued forward. After passing through the second door and walking for a while, Xia Hunaao and Me saw the third door, and before the third door was the familiar stone slab ground. Looking at the one-meter square stone slabs before him, Xia Hunaao sighed, "More of this stuff."
According to last time's experience, there should be a mechanism here, and as long as they bypassed it from the side, the mechanism would not be triggered. However, Xia Hunaao and Me searched carefully but found no way to bypass it.
Xia Hunaao looked at Me, and this time Me was much smarter. Instead of foolishly stepping on it, she took out a Poké Ball and threw it, hitting the nearest stone slab.
The stone slab was hit, but no hidden weapons flew out from the surroundings. Me breathed a sigh of relief and then stepped forward.
Me stepped on the first stone slab, which suddenly sank and then returned to calm. Me and Xia Hunaao were surprised, but seeing no other changes, Me took a second step. However, as soon as Me took the second step, the first stone slab completely sank.
Xia Hunaao, watching from behind, was startled and quickly sprinted and jumped onto the stone slab where Me was.
"So, these stone slabs sink when the weight is reduced. It seems we have to go together."
The two looked at each other, then jumped together in one direction. After the two stepped on the second stone slab, new changes occurred. A large area of stone slabs sank. Xia Hunaao was stunned, "What is this? Do the stone slabs have different effects?"
Xia Hunaao looked at the only remaining stone slab around and asked, "Are we jumping or not?"
Me thought for a moment and replied, "Let's jump. This is something our predecessors left for us. They wouldn't leave us without a path."
The two jumped towards the only remaining stone slab. Unexpectedly, this time the stone slab did not sink but rose, lifting the slab they were on.
The stone slab rose more than two meters before stopping. Xia Hunaao looked down at the surroundings, "I'm not making any more comments. This place has exceeded my computational abilities."
In fact, Xia Hunaao had basically figured out the layout of this place, but to train Me, he decided to remain silent for the time being.
Me looked around, randomly found a direction, and jumped out, landing on a stone slab. As Me landed, Xia Hunaao's stone slab began to rise again. Xia Hunaao estimated that if this stone slab rose another two meters, it would crush him into a meat patty, so he casually jumped in a direction.
Although Xia Hunaao jumped out, he was embarrassed to have chosen the wrong direction. Where he jumped was a pit, and the drop suddenly increased to five or six meters. Fortunately, Xia Hunaao reacted quickly, or rather, Guagua reacted quickly, and popped out of the Poké Ball to save Xia Hunaao's life.
After landing, before Xia Hunaao could observe his surroundings, he heard Me shouting from above, "Are you alright! Do you want me to come down and help you!"
"I'm fine, you stay up there and don't move. We don't know what the situation is down here! You go ahead, maybe there's something to save me at the end!"
Xia Hunaao urged Me to move forward while he observed the surrounding stone pillars. "So that's how it is. Those with upward marks go down, those with downward marks go up, and those with no marks stay still. What a perverted setup."
Xia Hunaao said as he weaved through the stone pillars, dodging the ones with upward symbols and reaching the end from below. Me, still above, was now hesitant. Because she didn't know which stone pillar would have what effect, she stayed still and analyzed the surrounding stone slabs.
Meanwhile, Mu Zhishui and Feng, who were following far behind, watched Xia Hunaao resting at the end and sighed with emotion, "So, why isn't Hu one of our Man Ying people? He might break our assessment record!"
Mu Zhishui looked at Feng, who was preoccupied with Xia Hunaao's identity, "You don't seem very concerned about Me's result?"
"Because I know Me definitely won't pass, so I'm not concerned."
Me sneezed violently on the stone pillar, "Is someone cursing me? Never mind."
Me studied for a long time but couldn't come up with any results. So, she simply ran forward. Anyway, Xia Hunaao was already sitting on the sunken stone slab, so she wouldn't fall any further.
Me's reckless charge forward surprised Feng. Although this could lead to passing the level, he didn't expect Me to be so courageous.
When Me reached the end, she found a lever. After pulling the lever, a stone elevator rose beside her. Xia Hunaao stood in the elevator, looking at Me.
"Why did you come out here?"
Xia Hunaao put his hands on his hips. "I watched for a long time down there before I found this thing. Fortunately, I was clever enough to slip in, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get up. The mechanism can only be activated from above."
Xia Hunaao was lying. There was actually a lever below, but Xia Hunaao had no intention of touching it.
"So, what's the use of this mechanism?"
Me shook her head, "I don't know either. Let's move on. Here's another door."
Seeing this second door, Xia Hunaao took a few steps back, "Go open the door."
Me pouted, seeing Xia Hunaao ten feet away from her, "How can you be like this?"
Me reached out and touched the third door. The door creaked open, and there were no new mechanisms. Xia Hunaao clicked his tongue, "This doesn't make sense. No traps this time?"
Xia Hunaao and Me passed through the third door. Not long after, they encountered another area of stone slabs, which were not only carved but also colored.
Xia Hunaao looked at the stone slabs and asked Me, "Seriously, were your ninja ancestors architects? It's all stone slabs and all sorts of mechanisms. What treasure is being guarded here?"
Me wasn't sure what treasure was behind it, but she knew one thing: "Our ancestors did research architecture, but I didn't expect them to make it so difficult for us descendants."
Xia Hunaao squatted down and looked at the stone slabs before him. "These three colored stone slabs should represent the basic attributes of water, fire, and grass. Why don't you try stepping on them?"
Me nodded and stepped directly onto a blue stone slab. The moment she stepped on it, a torrent of water suddenly poured down from above, drenching Me completely.
Me wiped the water from her face. "So, the blue stone slabs are water attacks?"
Xia Hunaao looked at Me, who was drenched in water, "Although ninjas like to wear tight clothes, I didn't expect yours to be waterproof. But, you have a great figure."
Hearing Xia Hunaao say this, Me became angry. "I tried to seduce you before and you were unmoved, but now you're looking when my clothes are soaked and clinging to me. Do you like this?"
"Appreciating beauty is appreciating beauty."
Although Xia Hunaao said this, in his heart, he was guarding against shurikens or kunai that might fly out from anywhere.
Me took another step forward and stepped on a red block. As soon as she stepped on it, Me jumped to the side, trying to dodge the flame attack. As a result, she stepped on a green stone slab and was immediately bound by vines and set ablaze by the flames.
However, perhaps because the ignition source was different, the temperature of the flames was not very high. Nevertheless, the vines ignited by the flames still had a significant impact on Me.
Me slapped out the small sparks on her body. "Damn it, I dodged it, so why did I still get burned?"
Xia Hunaao thought for a moment, "Perhaps this mechanism can track this time. Your ancestors are too outrageous. It's already got the semblance of our Ming Long Kingdom's mechanist arts!"
Me stood on the green stone slab, afraid to move. "What do we do next?"
Xia Hunaao asked, "Do you want me to go in and help you?"
Me shook her head, "No need. This is ninja pride!"
Seeing Me constantly being hit by various mechanisms, Xia Hunaao, though unwilling, still watched intently. He couldn't blame himself. What clothes could withstand such dense water, fire, and grass attacks that couldn't be dodged?
After Me passed through the three-colored stone slabs, her clothes were tattered beyond recognition. Fortunately, Me was prepared and took out another set of clothes to change into, thus covering up the scenery.
"There are no special mechanisms here. It seems you'll have to run over yourself."
Hearing this, Xia Hunaao was stunned, and even Mu Zhishui was taken aback. "No mechanisms, then how do we get across?"
Feng shook his head. "It's not that there are no mechanisms, but Me hasn't found them. It's okay, Hu will definitely find them."
Xia Hunaao looked at the stone slabs and sighed. He didn't know if there were any other trials ahead, so he could only charge through and try. However, Xia Hunaao was not a ninja. Although he had some training, he decided to let his Pokémon help him through the level.
"Guagua, Ninjask, I leave it to you."
After speaking, Xia Hunaao stepped on a water stone slab. A water curtain came down, and Xia Hunaao pointed upwards. "Guagua, Ice Beam!"
With that, Xia Hunaao retreated. The Ice Beam froze the descending water curtain into an ice sled. Xia Hunaao jumped onto the ice sled. "Guagua, use Water Pulse to launch us!"
Guagua obeyed and fired a Water Pulse at the ice sled. The ice sled accelerated and started moving. Although it triggered many stone slab mechanisms along the way, the acceleration from Water Pulse made it truly unparalleled. No mechanism could catch up. The only problem was that the ice sled accelerated very quickly, but stopping it was quite troublesome.
"Me, have Marill use High-Speed Star on the sled!"