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.

of time, I solved the numerical equation above

but at the same time, another wall slid open, unleashing countless rats from the

next room, looking back

rats now out, she was paralyzed

before the

I yelled at Stella.

started jumping around frantically as the rats surged towards her. "Phoebe... save

so afraid of the rats swarming the floor, she had nowhere to

triggered another mechanism, causing the

It was too late.

"Stella..."

thought crossed my mind in that

just leave her

walls slowly closed, I caught Stella's desperate,

"Damn it..."

back into the room before the

another that had climbed onto Stella's back,

clung

to feel numb, struggling to

she was on the

around, realizing our missed chance made escaping all the more difficult...

happening were even

from the crevices,

was about to give up, the

the other side... was a floor covered

turning the maze into

wall opened, I saw Colin, drenched in blood

stiffened for

crushing