Chapter 116: Broken Legs, New Pass, Gift Cottage.

The warm blood spilling out of the communication window dyed half of Yuan Benshan's face bright red.

He imprinted the corner of his lip with his thumb, already swollen.

He glanced down at Gan Tang, who had fallen to the ground, and thought better of it, but stepped forward to help her up.

Gan Tang had fainted, but fortunately the wound had coagulated a shiny substance that looked like a broken glass ballast section, and did not bleed.

Gan Tang's eyes were closed and gray, as if he were on the verge of death.

Chi Xiaochi rushed to Gan Tang's side, kneeling down carefully, "Sister Tang?"

His hands were shaking so badly, even he didn't know why he was reacting so badly.

When she saw her right leg turn into a pile of broken glass and fall to the side from a distance, Chi Xiaochi's head buzzed and her eyes went straight to black for a few seconds.

...... tens of seconds ago.

When he realized that something was wrong, Chi Xiaochi should have been the one to pull Yuan Benshan back.

In a very short period of time, Chi Xiaochi built up a complete chain of logic in his head.

The mechanism in the corridor must be triggered by human body heat, therefore, it is impossible to move the cabinet in instead of triggering the heat sensing device.

Therefore ...... the glass corridor must go in a person, and by the terrain limitations, go in only the thinnest among them.

The person responsible for "holding hands" at each end of the communication port is required to be over 55 kilograms.

It only takes one person over 55 pounds to use the terrain to successfully hold someone in a tight spot, let alone two.

The situation was already urgent as the door to life would only open if the glass corridors were closed, and that cue from Drum Monkey was undoubtedly the decisive push that pushed Jia Siyuan to his death.

And if she manages to escape, then, unless someone is willing to sacrifice themselves, who will be willing to walk down that life-threatening tunnel?

At that time, the people will shirk their responsibilities, beat each other up, and even go so far as to kill each other.

For no other reason.

This is the last mission, one that's only an hour long.

No one wants to die, then, only to send others to their deaths.

Even if Chi Xiaochi tried to convince them that there might be a way out of the room, how would he convince those who had grasped at a glimmer of hope for survival to give up hope in the nick of time?

...... So it's a total dead end.

Either way, the clown watching them from the outside could see the play he wanted to see: either a forced sacrifice of one to blaze a trail of life, as was happening now, or a few sitting around, grumbling at each other, coaxing each other to their deaths.

Chi Xiaochi took a few moments to build a chain of logic in his head and then began to think of a way to deal with it.

To save the life of the totally innocent Jia Siyuan in such a short period of time, he could only think of one way to violently break the wall.

The Joker has said that he hates interior redecorating, which means that there will be a penalty for any damage to the interior.

An unknown punishment compared to a human life ......

Chi Xiaochi hesitated for a moment, then got up and took a step, ready to break the damning glass.

At that moment, Gan Tang stopped right in front of him.

She said, I'll do it.

With just two simple words, she saved Chi Xiaochi from a disaster.

Chi Xiaochi took Gan Tang into his arms and called to her in a muffled voice, "...... Sister Tang?"

Gan Tang is not moving.

Chi Xiaochi felt breathless and tried her breath with trembling fingertips.

He couldn't remember the last time he'd done this, only that he hated the feeling.

It's not about hating others, it's about hating your own incompetence.

It's a good thing the tryst wasn't bad.

Gan Tang still breathes and beats, but the rate is reduced to near nothing, just enough to keep his body functioning at a minimum.

Chi Xiaochi breathed a huge sigh of relief when the energy in his heart was relieved.

...... Just now he nearly drove himself to suffocation.

He lowered his head, buried his face into her faintly scented hair, and murmured in a small voice, "Sister Tong."

As her ability to breathe returned, so did Chi Xiaochi's hearing.

Already arguing on the other side of the room were Xu Jiayi and Qiao Yun.

However, having witnessed Gan Tang's tragedy with their own eyes, they did not dare to make another move even though they were arguing.

Xu Jiayi, who was originally a rather unruffled character, was also shocked by the tragic state of the entrance.

He raged at a bloodied Qiao Yun, "You killed her!"

Qiao Yun was trying to wipe away the blood flowing into his mouth when he sniffed and sneered, "But I opened the door for you."

Xu Jiayi: "Where is the other way of life? You're rushing to send her to her death without looking for it first?"

"Looking for what?" Qiao Yun found it hard to get rid of the fishy taste in his mouth and dry-heaved twice in disgust, "You're looking for it, when Xiao Jia comes out of the passageway and we can't find a way to survive, you'll go in and step on the mechanism for her?"

"What if there's another way?"

"Just in case it doesn't."

"Is there really none, or are you too afraid to look for it because you're afraid it might actually lead to something else?"

"I can fuck you up!" Qiao Yun was furious at his questioning, "What are you pretending for? If you're so noble, why didn't you stay and let that headless ghost eat you last time? Why did you run faster than that woman? I took the blame for you and got dirty, so don't you dare take advantage of me! If you have the guts, why don't you go in and stay here to watch over her corpse?"

Meng Qian's head hurt from the noise and she scolded "Shut up", trying to avoid the mess of flesh in the glass, she looked to the other side of the room and asked Chi Xiaochi: "How is she doing?"

Chi Xiaochi replied, "Alive."

"You're asking for trouble!" Qiao Yun was actually so flustered that he could only rely on his bluff to bolster his courage and restrain the guilt of killing his life, "I've told you not to destroy things, what's the point of dying?"

Chi Xiaochi didn't say anything, only raised his eyes to gaze at her silently.

Qiao Yun was even stabbed by his gaze to some extent, but also refused to be obediently silenced, muttering, "What is the point of being a hero when you don't have the ability."

Meng Qian cursed dirtyly, "Stop arguing! The first room took 18 minutes, are you going to be able to get through the next room?"

Chi Xiaochi leans down, intending to carry the unconscious Gan Tang.

Yuan Benshan, who had been crouching nearby, offered a hand.

Far from being as righteous as Qiao Yun, he tried calling the person in front of him, "...... pure ...... Xiaochi."

Chi Xiaochi pilfered a packet of toilet paper from his pocket and handed it to him, "Wipe your face."

Yuan Benshan looked a little surprised, "You don't blame me?"

Chi Xiaochi stared at a certain void at the back of his head, her lips quirking a few times as if she was thinking about something in her mind, or as if she was avoiding his gaze, "...... Who let the organ be designed that way."

Yuan Benshan was busy agreeing, "Yes, yes."

Chi Xiaochi says, "We're not dealing with the orphanage kids or the ghost girl in the old castle. The other guy was a serial killer, a psychopath, and we couldn't reason with him."

Yuan Benshan was touched by Song Chunyang's understanding of him and took the initiative to lift Gan Tang by the waist and move the unconscious woman onto Chi Xiaochi's back.

As he carried Gan Tang on his back, Chi Xiaochi thought, they were indeed dealing with a pervert all right.

However, the fact that this Qiao and Yuan were both able to echo the perverted brainwaves in the first place was truly odd.

Gan Yu, who had not spoken a word since a moment ago, walked slowly toward Chi Xiaochi at this point: "Leave Tangtang to me."

His face was hard, his expression was light, but the tip of his nose was seeping cold sweat outward in grains, and he didn't know whether it was nervousness or annoyance.

Chi Xiaochi didn't say a word, but only carried Gan Tang upwards again.

He tries to distribute his steep weight to the maximum extent possible, and with each step he takes on the glass, he inevitably crunches and clacks, causing a moment of alarm for Yuan Benshan, who is trailing behind him.

Luckily, they made it through the door unscathed.

The door seemed to have consumed Jia Siyuan's flesh and blood and had absorbed enough nutrients. The moment Jia Siyuan was crushed, he looked to the wind and grew back to his normal size, and although there was still a glass wall in the center of the door, the gaps on the left and right sides were fully capable of guaranteeing the passage of one person.

Time was running out, and even Xu Jiayi, who had been quite critical of Qiao Yun's practices, did not choose to stay behind, to accompany the blood and bones, or to search for a second way of life that might or might not have existed.

The doorway suddenly closed after everyone had entered the darkened, raw doorway.

It was as if they had entered a small, narrow, elevator-like mobile, and were transported with a roar to an unknown distance.

Chi Xiaochi eyes are still slowly down the glass wall of blood and flesh, as well as broken glass on the ground.

...... Gan Tang's right leg fragment was mixed in there and never recovered.

He gasped softly twice, forcing himself to calm down.

For now, they not only have to break the game, but also take care of the injured Gan Tang.

Gan Tang She should be fine ...... as long as she makes it out ......

In the darkness, a left hand gently reached out and gripped his hand tightly.

With a jolt, he instinctively turned around, only to find Gan Tang's head still resting on his shoulder, unconscious.

From his side came Gan Yu's extremely gentle whisper, "It's none of your business. Don't blame yourself."

Chi Xiaochi, lower your head.

All he felt was that the hand he held over was colder than his, but the grip was unexpectedly reliable and solid.

As with every contact with Gan Yu, Chi Xiaochi produced no discomfort.

His mind wandered, and he cocked his head to try and see him, but the face was hidden in the heavy darkness, hard to make out.

Where he couldn't see, Gan Yu's back was pressed against the side wall, his right hand pressed against the base of his thigh, sweating like a waterfall.

If Chi Xiaochi had listened carefully just now, he would have realized that there was a slight tremor of pain at the end of his words.

The elevator unit ran horizontally and vertically for about two minutes and then did not move.

There were thumps and violent heartbeats in all directions.

Meng Qian: "Stopped?"

Before the words fell, the floor beneath several people's feet was abruptly removed!

A tidal wave of horrible weightlessness washed over him.

However, the next moment, a few people are already standing in the brightly lit room, just like in a light sleep "falling from a height", in the thought that they are going to fall to their death, only to open their eyes to find that they are lying on the bed.

It was a lot more normal than the room from earlier, at least the floor and walls were concrete, and there was an iron door with a big brass lock on it from the inside, which looked like it was probably the only way out.

However ......

In the center of the room stood a huge one-person-high enclosed aquarium, with a small wigwam, long aquatic plants, lighting, and all the amenities that could probably be used to raise a small shark according to its size.

Qiao Yun, with blood on his face, is sitting inside the aquarium.

She hadn't yet reacted to what was going on in front of her and was stroking the inside of the aquarium with a dumbfounded look on her face.

Qiao Yun tapped the glass twice, then got up to push the tightly closed top cover, which was locked on all sides, and even though she exerted her strength to push it, the cover remained motionless and heavy as a stone.

She felt around along the aquarium and couldn't find an exit, except for a banner hanging outside in traced red and color that was supposed to say something, but she couldn't make it out from the back.

By now, she should have sensed something was wrong even if she had been slow to realize it, and with a grimace she tapped the glass and asked, "What does it say?"

The crowd was silent, and even Xu Jiayi, who had just choked with her, shut up.

The banner depicts a myriad of clear yellow stars and colored ribbons, as well as a clown jumping out of a scare box, and a phrase written in floral script.

"This is a reward for the player who performed the best in the previous level!"

Yuan Benshan blanched and exhaled with a slightly grateful sigh.

Chi Xiaochi propped the Gan Tang on his back carefully upwards and walked over to the aquarium, reaching out and tapping it twice with his duk-duk.

Unlike the ordinary glass in the last world, the quality of the glass here is ridiculously good, completely bulletproof grade.

In addition to this huge aquarium, there were four smaller boxes placed in the four corners of the room.

Yuan Benshan walks over to one of the boxes, lifts the lid, and finds a half-inch-thin square operating disk inside.

Meng Qian lifted the box and found the same thing.

He wondered, "Isn't this one of those game rulers you used to get as a kid."

Indeed, the square plastic disk resembles a game ruler commonly found in kiosks, with the back of the ruler being used for measuring, and the front featuring a small maze of long strips and a small steel ball that can be rolled around at will.

Kids who run away from class love to play with these rulers and have the little steel balls roll from the start of the maze to the end and back again.

The operating panel is an enlarged version of this game ruler, but the "maze" is larger and the terrain is more complex.

Meng Qian reached out and went to take the operating panel out of the case.

Gan Yu, seeing that the situation was not right, shouted in a cold voice, "Don't move!"

Meng Qian's hand froze in mid-air.

He also realized something was wrong.

That operating panel was connected to the bottom of the case, by a thin wire.

Meng Qian A closer look, white hair sweat suddenly exploded all over the body.

He wasn't a professional, but if he'd seen a few police movies, who wouldn't recognize the thin, colorful plastic wires as the standard for bombs?

...... if he just pulled the cord ......

The crowd was in a state of disbelief when there was a sudden sound from the trumpet on the southeast side of the room, startling the crowd.

"Welcome to my marvelous gift cottage-"

It's the Joker's voice.

His tone was filled with twisted excitement, "Congratulations on successfully passing the first level! ~Our victor of the first level has been rewarded! Becoming the key figure of the second level! Let's cheer for her!!!Bravo!!!"

Qiao Yun's hands scratch nervously at the inside of the aquarium, cold and sweaty.

"Now to our winner, find your prize in the wigwam!!!"

Daring not to lose time, Qiao Yun dropped to both knees and, with trembling hands, fumbled in the decorative wigwam for a brass key.

...... is the key to the outside.

The Joker clapped his hands together in the microphone, "Now, it's up to me to inform you of the rules of the game. Behold these four fun scare boxes, each containing a maze disk, and in the maze disks, there are paths of life, paths of death, and one very interesting thing - bombs."

Meng Qian They rushed to see.

Sure enough, in addition to the small steel balls on the labyrinth disk, there were also dense grains of black orb-like objects distributed in the corners of various labyrinths at tricky angles and in great numbers.

"They're real bombs, oh." The Joker grinned, "Careful, if your little balls of steel accidentally hit it on the way to the finish line-"

A short silence.

"BOOM ！！！！！"

The voice raised abruptly and Qiao Yun screamed out in fear.

"You have fifteen minutes. By unlocking the four boxes, you will be able to open each of the four locks on the aquarium and take the treasures you want~" the clown received the effect of the performance he wanted and his laughter became more and more eerie, "By the way, in order to make it easier for you to calculate the time, I will provide you with a more intuitive way to do so."

Qiao Yun was in a state of shock when he suddenly felt some wetness on his hands.

She looked down and could no longer suppress the fear in her heart and screamed out.

The aquarium's inlet, in fact, began to fill with water!

"In fifteen minutes, if you haven't opened the lock-" the Joker laughed strangely, "the person in the aquarium will be my mermaid princess. Hee hee hee hee."

When the communication breaks, only Qiao Yun screams and reaches out to plug the spout, but the water continues to spill out of her fingertips.

Chi Xiaochi knows that mechanical machine games are the weakest of his weaknesses.

So he naturally gave Gan Yu a pat, "Dr. Gan, over to you."

Gan Yu kneeled down on one knee with his left leg, using his knee as a support point, and barely braced himself for a moment before leveling his right leg on the ground.

He tried to focus his mind, which had been disorganized by the excruciating pain, and said softly, "I'll try."