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.

solved the numerical equation above

same time, another wall slid open, unleashing countless rats from

the next room,

with the rats now out, she was paralyzed by fear and wouldn't

the wall closes,

I yelled at Stella.

as the rats surged towards

rats swarming the floor, she had nowhere to

another mechanism, causing the

It was too late.

"Stella..."

thought crossed my mind in

I just leave her to her

I caught Stella's

"Damn it..."

into the

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

clung to me,

numb,

was on the

made escaping all the more

the odds of that happening were even slimmer than clearing

pouring out from the crevices,

I was about to give up,

the other side... was a floor covered in dead

that madman turning the maze

I saw Colin, drenched in blood and

body stiffened for a

crushing