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.

nick of time, I solved the numerical equation above

but at the same time, another

into the next room, looking back

with the rats now out, she was paralyzed by

before the

I yelled at Stella.

jumping around frantically as the rats surged towards her.

of the rats swarming the floor,

she triggered another mechanism,

It was too late.

"Stella..."

thought crossed my mind in that

just leave her to

the walls slowly closed, I caught

"Damn it..."

back into the room

knife pierced through a rat, and grabbed another that had climbed onto Stella's back,

and clung to me,

began to feel numb, struggling to understand her

was on the verge of

made escaping all the more difficult... unless someone opened the door from

happening were even slimmer

more rats kept pouring out from the crevices, impossible to

was about to give up,

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

the

the wall opened, I saw Colin, drenched in blood and frenzied

body stiffened

crushing