Chapter 40: The Dilemma

The dimly lit labyrinth, with the sound of gears snapping and turning every once in a while, adds an eerie atmosphere to the otherwise silent walled world.

In the dim underworld, the silence was broken by the sound of hurried footsteps, and a thin figure hurriedly bypassed a wall and hid behind it.

Then there was another rush of footsteps, coming from far and near, until it stopped on the other side of the wall.

"It's really infuriating, just now when I was far away, I heard the sound of his large wooden shoes, and he followed the sound and disappeared. A voice said in exasperation, his fat fist slamming hard against the wall, and the figure behind the wall held its breath in fright.

"I don't think he can run far, let's chase it further. Another voice suggested.

As the two men ran past the wall, the figure behind the wall slipped silently to the other side, narrowly avoiding the afterglow of their backward glances.

When the footsteps became quieter and quieter, until they disappeared into the distance, Mu Zilei breathed a sigh of relief. Soon after being separated from the ghost tiger, in this vast labyrinth, the person I met for the first time was none other than Shi Chisha and his follower Shi Haoyu, the two old enemies.

However, this fright reminded him that the wooden leg bands on his body had to be taken off, otherwise it would be too attractive in such a quiet environment.

At this moment, a white light signal rose above his head, illuminating the nearby high wall and illuminating the black mask on Mu Zilei's face.

"Has anyone been taken off the mask?" he muttered to himself, praying that the signal wasn't from the Oni Tiger.

Suddenly, the sound of the gears turning came from under his feet again, but it quickly faded away.

The light signal in the air lasted for a moment before disappearing, and then the surrounding area was dim again. Mu Zilei took advantage of the rare light in the middle, took off the wooden leg band and put it away in his backpack. It feels so good to be barefoot, and the whole body suddenly becomes as light as a swallow, and God knows how heavy these wooden leg bands are!

Soon, the viscous darkness that could not be dissolved came again as promised, shortly after the gears turned.

In the darkness, the wall in front of him slowly squeezed towards Mu Zilei, and he hurriedly took a few steps back, but ran into another high wall squeezing in from behind.

By the time he realized that something was wrong, the way out on both sides was blocked by two other high walls, and the front and back walls were still squeezing towards him one by one, without the slightest intention of stopping.

"I'm not going to be caught alive like this, am I? But no one told me that this labyrinth would trap people. At this time, Mu Zilei's face was already attached to the wall, and he could clearly hear the wooden leg hoop behind the backpack began to moan "click", and if it continued like this, even if he was not clamped to death, the wooden leg hoop would be scrapped.

At this moment, he was close to the ears of the wall, and faintly heard the sound of footsteps from far and near on the other side of the wall, and at the same time, the wall moving back and forth clamped tighter and tighter on him, and his originally hunched body was almost straightened alive, his hands struggled to the sides of the backpack, and took out two signal stones to call for help.

Seeing that he was about to be strangled to death.

In desperation, the signal stone in his left hand fell to the ground without catching it.

He hurriedly bent down and reached out to pick it up, and a feeling of tiredness and weakness in his bones suddenly swept through his body.

Then, he felt as if his hand had touched the signal stone, but what puzzled him was that he couldn't see his hand at all, but his hand had the touch of touching the stone, and the dull sound of the stone falling to the ground made him suddenly realize that the feeling of oppression on his body was completely gone.

He turned his head and saw another version of himself. This Mu Zilei's whole person was almost sandwiched between the two walls in the form of "big", and his left hand was still stretched forward vigorously, but his whole body couldn't move. His eyes were still fixed on the direction in which the stone had landed.

God mercy! Am I just caught in the trap?

At this moment, there was another sound from behind the wall, but this time it was like coming through a thick quilt, and it was not really audible.

"Mu Zilei" was thinking about going around the wall one moment and planning to find those people for help, but the next moment he had already appeared on the other side of the wall inexplicably.

At this time, the darkness cleared and the dim light reappeared.

In front of him, five figures in hideous black masks were leaning against the wall and gasping for air, each with minor injuries, but they could not hide their excitement in the slightest.

He appealed to them for help with joy, but they were completely indifferent.

He shouted in his ear to the tallest "tall" boy among them, who sat on the very edge, and tried as hard as he could, but nothing but shivered at the tall boy.

He angrily "sits" next to the tall boy, calmed down, and suddenly remembered what happened during the soul evaluation at the beginning of the school year, when the soul power was tested, is it the same as last time, another strange dream?

A voice came like a thin layer of water, and it was none other than the tall boy beside him.

"Do you feel the wind blowing here?" said the boy, curling up, and seeing everyone looking at him with contempt or confusion, he quickly diverted the subject, "Maybe I was delusional, I was fortunate that you showed up to help in the middle of the way, otherwise our masks would have fallen into the hands of White." ”

"Well, we were also surprised that one second we were stuck in a dead end, and the next second the wall behind us suddenly moved away, and then we saw the three of you being attacked by White's men," a thin boy in the middle chimed in, "This time we were able to defeat White by outnumbering them, but in terms of fighting alone, none of us were against any of White's three men." ”

"Then the five of us will team up and recruit any of our Black men along the way," suggested another bald boy eagerly, "and the masks we'll take down as we did just now." If the team is big enough, we will not be afraid of White's people. ”

"Don't be blindly optimistic, don't forget the previous evil hunts, our black side has always been like prey, played by the people of the white side," a boy's melancholy voice in the middle came out coldly, like cold water to extinguish everyone's enthusiasm, "You know, the more people, the larger the team, the more obvious the goal, besides, what we met just now are just ordinary opponents of the White side, if we meet someone from the Star Tower Special Training Class, we will definitely not be able to eat and walk around." ”

"Even so," retorted the bald boy reluctantly, "it's better than being alone, as long as we get to the center of the maze and find the exit to leave, we can end this hellish race......"

"It's even more impossible," interrupted the last boy who had been silent and sitting in the corner, he was the only one of the five dressed in black, and along with his black mask, the whole person was hidden in the darkness, "I have a very good friend in the Star Tower training class, and before entering the labyrinth, he told me that it was best not to go to the center of the labyrinth. ”

"Why?" the other four asked in unison.

"Before I could ask why, he called someone. The boy in black regretted.

"I think what your friend said is true," the tall man swallowed uneasily, the cold wind seemed to have been around him, "Before the start of this evil hunt, I also deliberately searched through the books about the history of Bacon's Academy, and found that although there were people who successfully walked out of the maze in previous evil hunts, there was never a record that Black was able to reach the required number of people to leave the center of the maze......"

"With your strength, you also want to go to the center of the labyrinth, and you don't look in the mirror to see how many catties and taels you have. The sixth voice suddenly sounded with a hint of banter.