Chapter 30

Chapter 30

The lights throughout the corridor grew even dimmer, and the sound of low, heavy breathing filled his ears.

Tianyu stared at the passage behind him, his voice trembling slightly.

“That… that was a staff member just now, right?”

Just a moment ago, a shadow drenched in blood had flickered past under the lights.

It was obvious that it was absolutely not human!

“B-brothers, let’s move faster.”

As they advanced through the passage, words written in blood began to appear on the surrounding walls.

[Give up.]

[This is a dead end!]

[Run! Don’t go any further!]

Sentence after sentence struck Tianyu’s heart like a heavy sledgehammer.

The biggest difference between the Maze and attractions like the Drop Tower was the sense of oppression.

You never knew what lay ahead, nor did you know just how much further you had to walk.

It was precisely this fear of the unknown that was eating away at his resolve, step by step.

Time soon approached the thirty-minute mark, and the mechanisms were triggered.

The path explored during the first half-hour had become completely useless.

Tianyu slowly came to a halt in the corridor. His hearing, which surpassed that of an average person, allowed him to pick up a faint sound.

It was definitely the sound of gears turning. Just as he was about to listen more closely, the dim lights cut out completely, and a whisper echoed in his ear.

“Hehehe, you really did come in!”

The voice was raspy, sounding more like words forced out of someone being strangled.

Stiffly turning his head, a face covered in blood appeared before him.

“Mangled” wasn’t enough to describe it; the face looked like it had been cobbled together from various scraps of flesh.

In that instant, Tianyu couldn’t care less that he was live-streaming.

Having visited numerous Haunted Houses, his heart knew with absolute certainty: this was definitely not a living person!

In just two short seconds, Tianyu made the most correct choice of his life: he ran!

His figure bolted back the way he came, only slowing down after rounding two corners.

Tianyu hadn’t reached his current level of fame for nothing. Although he hadn’t yet figured out the rules of the entire Maze, he had memorized the path he took to get here.

In his memory, there should have been a fork in the road after two corners.

But before him was nothing but an endless corridor; the fork was nowhere to be found.

After pausing for a moment, Tianyu gritted his teeth and pressed on.

If his memory wasn’t failing him, then the Maze itself must have changed.

Sitting in front of the monitors, Zhang Bei rubbed his chin as he watched Tianyu on the screen.

When he originally designed the Maze, he had divided it into roughly three difficulty levels.

The level of scares in the corridors varied by difficulty.

The path Qingqing had experienced was considered medium difficulty, while most of the people who had fainted had randomly ended up in the high-difficulty sections.

These shifts in difficulty only manifested after the thirty-minute mark.

However, during the design phase, Zhang Bei had felt somewhat unsatisfied and added a “Top-tier Difficulty.”

That was exactly what Tianyu was experiencing right now.

From this point on, one must never believe anything their eyes see in this corridor.

All the walls were tilted at a fifteen-degree angle, and in some places, what looked like a wall was actually an illusion simulated by special lenses.

Tianyu, stuck in the corridor, was currently facing this exact problem.

Despite the dim environment, he could tell he had just passed through this area.

Taking a deep breath, he ignored the skull sitting to the side and continued forward.

This time, he counted every step in his head.

Three hundred and fifty-seven steps. He had returned exactly to his starting point.
Looking at the familiar skull in front of him, Tianyu’s expression turned completely ugly.

This was nothing more than a run-down Amusement Park in a second-tier city, yet it had managed to trap him here.

And most crucially, the faint bloody smell in the air made a suspicion take shape in Tianyu’s mind. Combined with that face from earlier-one that didn’t look like it belonged to a living person-the owner might be hiding bodies here!

But he couldn’t say anything. Who knew whether someone was still watching him through the surveillance feed?

If he exposed the owner’s secret, there was a good chance the Underground Maze would end up with one more corpse.

As Tianyu thought about how to expose this amusement park, he had already been standing in place for over three minutes.

A hidden rule was triggered, and all the dolls lurking in the dark corners started to move.

The lights in the entire passageway flickered, and a blood-red shadow appeared in Tianyu’s field of vision.

It was still a bit far, so Tianyu couldn’t tell what it was.

But that didn’t affect how fast he ran.

However, after only two steps, something bizarre slowly squeezed out from the wall beside him.

It was the same creature Qingqing had spotted before-the monster with four legs stitched together.

Tianyu’s mind went blank. Whether it was a Haunted House or a Maze, most “ghosts” were just staff in costume. But there was no way the thing in front of him could be acted by a person.

A blood-red shadow was chasing him from behind, and a Stitched Monster was closing in from the side.

Tianyu’s gaze snapped toward the last direction-the final path of escape.

And in his view stood a human-shaped figure covered head to toe in blood.

A person!

Just as Tianyu was about to rush over, he stopped.

Behind that person, on a cart, was a heap of severed limbs and broken remains.

The last path out was blocked. Only one sentence echoed in his head: “The owner’s gone crazy!”

Zhang Bei scratched his head as he looked at Tianyu, who was unconscious on the floor.

He’d come to help transport some people who’d passed out to the Morgue,

and to ask Tianyu whether he wanted to switch to a lower-difficulty route.

But now that the guy had fainted, there wasn’t much to discuss.

After glancing at the number on the Wristband, Zhang Bei casually tossed him onto the cart.

But seeing the camera on Tianyu’s chest, Zhang Bei still considerately picked it up.

“Oh, this is a Live Stream?”

But with only the camera, he couldn’t see the comments anyway.

There were plenty of streamers who came to the Amusement Park, so Zhang Bei didn’t pay it much mind.

He set the camera on top of Tianyu’s glasses and pushed the cart back into the Employee Passage.

There was nothing wrong with that on his end, but the viewers in the Live Stream knew Tianyu had passed out.

And the feed from the glasses was transmitted to the entire Live Stream.

Severed limbs and blood everywhere-within ten seconds, the Live Stream was temporarily shut down.

But the hundred thousand-plus people in the Live Stream exploded.

Tingtingting: [Holy shit, what was that just now?]

Xiaolongbao: [Damn, something happened to Brother Yu!]

Dageng: [Call the police, now!]

A misunderstanding spread among the Stream Viewers, and those few seconds of footage were even posted to Moments by people who loved a spectacle.

After handing this batch of people over to the doctors, Zhang Bei stretched lazily.

He frowned as he watched Li Yang push the cart away.

With more and more attractions being added at the Amusement Park, having only a single cart was clearly not enough.

The Drop Tower needed the cart every day. The Ski Resort didn’t.

But down in the Underground Maze, they needed a cart to haul people out almost nonstop.