"Ha? So that works too." Yongzhe Wudi said, sounding surprised.

"Very good, we've found another flag that can change the aura's attribution," Feng Bujue mused. "But this method doesn't seem very practical."

"That's just for you," Ye Zhi said, looking at Feng Bujue with disdain. "I think this way is much better than your melodramatic declarations."

Feng Bujue heard this, simply spread his hands and shrugged, offering no comment.

Copernicus and Galileo then came to the front of the group to lead the way. They had been somewhat distracted by the derivatives' intermittently appearing and disappearing anomalies on the radar, but Feng Bujue's words conveniently allowed them to move to the front of the group and take the lead.

The GMs knew the methods for clearing the level and the locations of the flags. In this regard, Feng Bujue's skill, [Winning Strategy], was far inferior to theirs. The Boss he saw with his title skill was Wraith Well because Wail was on the other side of the well's world when he was observing, so he couldn't detect it.

If there were no derivatives in this script, there would be specific conditions for the players to reach the true Boss ending. And the basic route to clear the level didn't require facing Wail.

The GM menu could directly display that there were a total of four "Soul-Snatching Arrays" on this mountain, three regular arrays scattered throughout the mountain, and one main array located at the bottom of Wraith Well. According to the normal process, players would inevitably encounter a regular Soul-Snatching Array upon entering the mountain. As long as they endured the illusion and destroyed it, they would trigger the main quest prompt. At that time, the system would prompt the players that they needed to destroy a total of four arrays, and then they could seal Wraith Well.

Then, the players successively dealt with the three regular arrays and one main array to clear the level. Of course, the array at the bottom of Wraith Well would be more difficult to handle. But in any case, Wail wouldn't appear on this game path.

And Feng Bujue and the others walked in the opposite direction after entering the script, which was actually equivalent to discovering a hidden reward. According to that route, they could also find a Soul-Snatching Array on a broken wall outside the mountain. Although dealing with this array didn't trigger any flags, in reality, this array could be used to make up the number for the main quest. In other words, players who had dealt with this array in advance, after destroying any regular array in the mountain and updating the main quest, their progress would directly be 2/4. This meant that the players who had completed the mansion trial didn't need to fight the Wraith Well main array at all, and could clear the level by dealing with only four regular Soul-Snatching Arrays.

The above two game routes were respectively the unthinking regular clearing route and the simple clearing route with puzzle-solving elements. The latter was obviously less difficult, while the former required dealing with more troublesome battles.

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

Perhaps a studio-level team of six strong players could do it, or two GMs could avoid all the dangers along the way without the interference of the derivatives and go directly to the well to fight the true Boss, which might also be possible. But for ordinary players, this last method of violently clearing the level, which completely relied on force, was almost an impossible task.

Now that they had reached the simplest route to clear the level, and the derivatives were in a state of unpredictability, Copernicus and Galileo's original plan naturally changed. They had initially underestimated the players' strength, so they didn't want to make things too complicated. They were just planning 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 mountaintop and send the players away, so they had to seize it.

After the six had traveled for a while, Galileo led the team away from the original mountain path and into the nearby forest.

Feng Bujue watched the two's actions with an attitude of onlookers, without expressing any doubts. Ye Zhi asked a few questions, but the two "reconnaissance experts" echoed each other and explained it, which perfunctorily passed it over.

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

"This forest has no real boundaries," Galileo said in an explanatory tone. "I think the entire mountain has 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 keep going around and around, right? Just go straight up the slope, and we'll eventually reach the summit, right?" Yongzhe Wudi added.

"Too naive..." Feng Bujue said. "People have already said 'no boundaries'... then the concept of direction can be discarded. You think we're 'detouring' based only on the slope underfoot." He tilted his head. "Then... imagine that we're currently walking on a flat ground, except that the trees on this ground are all growing at an angle, and the gravity is also tilted. Then, you'll feel that this is a slope."

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

"In addition, spatial anomalies mean that the actual area of this mountain may be infinite," Feng Bujue continued. "In this kind of place, holding the idea of 'going straight in one direction will get you out' will most likely trap you to death in place." He drew a positive infinity symbol in the air with his hand. "If this is a closed-loop space with no exit, then from the moment we stepped in, there's no such thing as 'getting out.' Only by breaking the spatial anomaly can we find a way out. But judging from the current situation... this is another situation."

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

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

"No traces of backtracking," Meng Jingchan suddenly said at this time, and also threw out a concise and insightful sentence.

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

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

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

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

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

Before he could finish speaking, Copernicus at the front suddenly raised his arm and made a gesture, and hissed briefly and forcefully, then lowered his voice and said, "There's something ahead..."