Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 400



"Freeze, don't move. If you trigger anything by accident, I can't save you," I warned Stella, stepping back slowly until my back pressed against the wall.

Stella barely dared to breathe.

"Phoebe..." Stella's voice quivered with fear, her greatest phobia being rats.

I gestured for her to be silent and slowly crouched down.

The pristine floor beneath us was marked with the layout of a maze, its exit at the very center.

The safe passage out was located in the heart of this floor.

Navigating the maze wasn't the hard part; the real challenge lay in its walls, which shifted positions at set intervals.

Moreover, stepping on certain triggers could unleash dangers.

"Countdown begins... 10, 9..."

That eerie voice filled the space once more.

If we hadn't found the correct exit by the time the countdown ended, the maze would rearrange itself.

Once the walls started moving, rats would swarm out from the underground, trapping us alive in this space to meet a grisly end.

Stella was panicking, too frightened to move.

"5, 4, 3..."

Right as the countdown neared its end, I stepped on a specific floor tile in the corner.

I solved the numerical equation above the maze and determined the

another

room, looking back at

rats now out, she was paralyzed by

the wall

I yelled at Stella.

frantically as the

afraid of the rats swarming the

she triggered another mechanism, causing the walls to start

It was too late.

"Stella..."

thought crossed my mind in that

leave her

I caught Stella's desperate,

"Damn it..."

I dashed back into the

and grabbed another that had climbed onto Stella's back, hurling it to the ground with

and clung

feel numb, struggling to understand

it was clear she was

looked around, realizing our missed chance made escaping all the more difficult... unless someone opened

odds of that happening were even slimmer than clearing out all these

kept pouring out from the crevices, impossible

was about to give up, the wall ahead

the other side... was a

turning the maze into a

the wall opened, I saw Colin,

stiffened for a

crushing