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

time, another wall slid open,

the next room, looking back at

she

the wall

I yelled at Stella.

frantically as the rats surged towards her. "Phoebe...

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

mechanism, causing the

It was too late.

"Stella..."

crossed my

just leave her to

the walls slowly closed, I caught Stella's

"Damn it..."

a momentary headache, I dashed back into the

knife pierced through a rat, and grabbed another that had climbed onto Stella's back, hurling it to the ground with lethal

screamed and clung to me, crying

feel numb, struggling to

clear she was

our missed chance made escaping all the more difficult... unless someone

happening were even slimmer than

kept pouring out from the crevices, impossible to kill them

about to give up, the wall ahead

was a floor covered in

that madman turning the

wall opened, I saw Colin, drenched in blood and

stiffened

crushing