Chapter 141
Chapter 141
Brother Long did not dare let his sprinting feet stop for even a second, but the three passages that appeared before him made him hesitate.
Which one?
In less than a second, Brother Long made his decision. When in doubt, pick C!
He ducked into the third passage.
There was no saying whether the choice was right or wrong, but the ghosts behind him really did stop chasing him.
They all clogged up at the entrance to the passage, allowing Brother Long to catch his breath and lean against the wall for a rest.
Only, this passage was clearly not that simple.
The walls were practically soaked in blood, flickering between light and dark, while an eerie piano melody rang in his ears.
Brother Long did not dare rest for long. After all, there was still the rule about lingering.
He could only steel himself and explore deeper inside.
He had only taken a few steps when a lone chair abruptly appeared in the middle of the passage.
Brother Long glanced down at his useless legs and pressed himself tightly against the wall, trying to edge around it.
Who would have thought the chair seemed to have a pair of eyes? It shifted direction along with Brother Long’s body.
It was at that moment that another voice drifted over.
“This puzzle is so hard!”
Brother Long turned his head and saw Ji Wei walking out from a gap in the wall.
Behind her was a little doll-like child.
Only, the child’s face was bluish-purple, and his eyes were nothing but whites.
“B-Behind you!”
Ji Wei glanced back. “He’s a pretty cute kid. What about him?”
You call that thing cute?
Brother Long opened his mouth, then suddenly felt that this passage might not be quite so terrifying after all.
Ji Wei looked at the little doll trailing behind her.
“If there’s danger, he’ll make a sound. This place is fine!”
Brother Long nodded and followed Ji Wei forward.
“What’s the deal with that little doll?”
“Just a puzzle. After you solve it, he follows you around. If there’s danger, he cries.”
She made it sound easy, but that passage had been anything but simple.
She had needed to carry a man whose five viscera had been hollowed out onto a bed, then place the five organs into five corners of the passage.
If she put even one in the wrong place, she would have to endure being chased by the reanimated corpse.
The two of them walked along the passage for several minutes before the doll behind them let out an eerie wail.
Ji Wei’s expression instantly turned grave. “Careful. Something’s coming!”
Brother Long had just turned his head when a powerful visual impact slammed into him.
What appeared before his eyes was a monster with tubes stuck all over its body.
One half of its face was covered in stitched-up scars, and countless parts of its body were rotting.
On the other half of its face, vague bone could already be seen.
Brother Long, who had already spent a huge amount of stamina, suffered yet another massive shock. His eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
Ji Wei was not doing much better. Not being afraid of corpses did not mean she was not afraid of monsters!
This thing was very clearly no longer human!
And just as she was about to flee, the surrounding walls suddenly split open, and a freak pushing a cart piled with severed limbs and broken arms walked out.
Ji Wei’s gaze lingered for only a moment before she decided discretion was the better part of valor.
Her legs moved at lightning speed as she bolted toward the depths of the passage.
The doctor stretched out a hand, then looked at the girl’s retreating back and sighed.
Your boyfriend is lying right there!
After checking Brother Long’s body, he went to enormous effort to haul the burly man onto the cart.
Then he looked at the toy beside him that greatly resembled a Gundam and fell silent for a moment.
He was really curious what it looked like through the glasses!
But his body was weak, so the doctor suppressed that dangerous thought.
Ji Wei, who had been running for a long time, suddenly heard a faint clicking sound.
Something seemed to be changing inside the Underground Maze.
It was the perfect chance to catch her breath and relax a little.
Ji Wei swept her gaze around. Aside from the little doll that had been following behind her the whole time, the only unusual thing here was the wall.
She reached out and felt around. Before long, she found a mechanism.
With a hard push, the wall opened like a rolling shutter, revealing what was inside.
A man was tied to a bed, and the entire bed had been embedded into the wall.
Hanging from the bedside beside him was a glass jar. Inside were the man’s missing eyes.
“Heh, ah!”
The man lying on the bed began thrashing violently, as if he might snap the ropes and leap down to devour someone in the very next second.
Ji Wei wasn’t afraid at all when she saw he was human-shaped.
Living or dead, as long as it still looked human, this was her area of expertise!
She quickly opened the jar and put the eyes back where they belonged.
The struggling man went still, and a passage opened at the same time.
This mechanism looked easy, but in reality, it was a trap.
If a visitor hesitated for more than fifteen seconds, the ropes binding him would loosen.
The man would also transform into a malicious ghost and chase them down the entire way.
He would even trigger the monsters from two other mechanisms.
But dangerous mechanisms also came with more generous rewards.
When Zhang Bei saw this passage from the Monitoring Room, he already knew the result. He saved the documents he had finished organizing, then turned and walked out of the Monitoring Room.
“Li Yang, bring the Underground Maze rewards and come with me!”
“Got it, coming right now!”
Excitement lit up in Li Yang’s eyes as well.
How long had it been?
Just how long had it been?
At last, someone had cleared the Underground Maze!
The visitors waiting in the surrounding lines scattered in an instant.
They could ride the attractions anytime, but if they missed the badass who cleared the Underground Maze today, who knew if they would ever get another chance?
The massive crowd made its way to the end of the Ski Resort. After a full two minutes, a hidden door suddenly opened in the ground.
Ji Wei narrowed her eyes against the light and walked out step by step.
Zhang Bei took the trophy from Li Yang. “Congratulations. You are the first person to clear the Underground Maze!”
Ji Wei looked at the crowd around her, then accepted the trophy in a daze.
Li Yang even took out a red certificate. “Fate whispered to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm.’ The warrior whispered back, ‘I am the storm!'”
Zhang Bei had written those words on it himself as encouragement for the brave.
The certificate, the trophy, and the Pass Card, all numbered 001, were handed to Ji Wei.
The visitors beside her looked at this young lady with eyes full of reverence.
Anyone who could clear a hellhole like this truly deserved to be called a warrior.
Ji Wei really didn’t know the amusement park’s rules.
“I’m the first one to clear it?”
Li Yang nodded. “Yes. The very first person to clear the Underground Maze so far!”
“No one cleared such a simple mechanism?”
The moment those words were spoken, the air suddenly went quiet.
Li Yang was shocked that someone could call this place simple.
The visitors, meanwhile, were directly emotionally shattered by that one sentence.
As for Zhang Bei, he had already begun thinking about how to increase the Underground Maze’s difficulty.
Since a visitor had brought up that the difficulty was too low, then as the owner and designer, he definitely had to satisfy the visitor’s needs!
With those thoughts in mind, Zhang Bei left the follow-up to Li Yang and silently walked back toward the Monitoring Room.
He had only made it halfway when he was stopped directly in the middle of the road.
That strange voice came again. “The author is single and typing away. There’ll be more in a bit!”