Mystic Overlord: Reading Gives Strength-Chapter 1204 - 1198: Platform Entrance

Certainly! Here's the translation:

The maze's changes are not about random reorganization without rules.

There might very well be some established rules, adhering to evident and fixed transformations!

If this is the case.

Then the difficulty of conquering this maze shouldn't be as exaggerated as I imagined.

Ronald made a judgment, continuing to search for familiar maze structures without stopping.

It didn't take Ronald long to find five maze nodes that reverted to their original state.

The number is enough to be a reason for trying.

So Ronald didn't hesitate, and immediately began to act.

As he approached the platform in the current maze environment, he also started paying close attention to the passage of time.

Then, fifteen minutes later.

The information on the train station hall's bulletin board moved up one row, and the human-flow maze changed anew.

"Yes!"

"I knew my idea was right!"

After this maze transformation, Ronald confidently displayed his assurance as the maze around him showed familiar but slightly different structures.

The familiar maze structures reappeared around, as expected!

If there's no surprise, the conditions affecting maze transformations are related to the train station's huge bulletin board. The train numbers displayed, the entrance and exit times, are connected to the maze changes.

So as long as you can correlate the maze's specific changes with the hall's announcements.

Then you can conquer this maze as if holding a strategy guide!

Ronald's confidence soared.

After coming up with a plan, the next step was naturally to execute it.

Yet, he didn't foolishly stand in place awaiting maze changes to summarize rules. Instead, Ronald moved his position, attempting to get closer to the train station's center.

This action is based on a simple principle.

In a maze with a complex structure, the edge often signifies lengthy dead ends and absolutely wrong paths. Since the maze's exit is usually at the edge, the designer prevents people from easily stumbling into the exit by accident.

However, the maze center is different.

Though often this place serves to make people turn in circles and get lost.

In terms of physical structure, it's also a well-connected node leading to any corner of the maze.

If Ronald can reach the maze center beforehand.

Then once he summarizes the train station's transformation pattern, he can swiftly leave!

Thus, after another fifteen minutes of maze changes.

Ronald successfully reached the center of the train station flow.

Then, after two more thirty-minute changes, Ronald combined previous experience to finally grasp the general rules of maze change.

First is the train number. It marks the status of several key maze nodes, while time change implies their appearing coordinates.

Take a look at the bulletin board.

Although it's a traditional mechanical structure bulletin board, the pattern of displaying messages is no different from electronic displays. They update by pulling out the topmost message when time passes, then inserting a new message at the bottom.

If you memorize the maze structures associated with the trains, then count the time alignment.

Theoretically, you can directly calculate what the maze will change into next!

This happens to be Ronald's forte.

Thus, standing at the maze center, Ronald closed his eyes and stood for a minute.

Once he opened his eyes again, his expression held nothing but pure confidence and a smile of success.

Next, Ronald walked forward without hesitation.

He set off from the maze center, passed through sixteen distinctly different corners, and finally arrived at a place that seemed to be a dead end.

Just at this moment, fifteen minutes had passed.

The bulletin board in the train station hall changed, and the maze of people also underwent the corresponding transformation.

Once this change ended, Ronald's dead-end had turned into a shortcut leading to the final exit!

Now he just needs to cross a couple of simple turns.

Right before him is the broad avenue leading directly to the platform entrance!

In fact, not just Ronald. Even if it was a child who just learned to recognize roads, getting lost in such a simple path would be quite a difficult challenge.

"..."

"Patricia, you must be here…"

As Ronald approached his successful outcome, he couldn't help but pray softly.

Though his maze-strategy process in the train station didn't seem difficult.

Each fifteen-minute passage accumulates vast time consumption.

If the person he's searching for isn't here.

Then Ronald's actions at the train station might be the biggest mistake since entering the maze graphic novel.

Worried at heart, Ronald passed through the road leading to the platform.

Upon entering here, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

Inheriting the reconstruction rules of the maze graphic novel's world, the train station and platform also transformed into a maze.

Unlike the previous human-flow maze.

Here, a tangle of tracks, trains, and blockades creates a maze easy for horizontal movement but difficult for vertical movement.

Such a structure inevitably leads to one fact.

It is easy to solve, but takes up much time.

At the same time, a realistic issue stands before Ronald.

How will he find Patricia?

In terms of maze structure, this is the end of the entire train station maze.

There's nothing visible suggesting locations hiding treasures or such.

Is Patricia here or not?

If she is, where is she located?

Faced with such questions, Ronald decisively employed his previous strategy — shouting.

"Patricia, are you here?"

"If you are, please answer!"

"..."

"Ronald, I'm here!"

After a few tense breaths, Ronald seemed to hear an angel calling to him.

He looked toward the direction of the voice.

Ronald saw clearly a platinum figure stretching her head out of the train window along the third track beyond the platform, vigorously waving at him.

"I can't get out of this carriage, you have to come and fetch me!"

Seeing Patricia's figure, Ronald's inner tension vanished completely.

"Patricia, wait for me!"

"I'll be right over!"