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

walls shifted, but at the same time, another wall slid open, unleashing

into the next room, looking

now out, she was paralyzed by fear and

the wall

I yelled at Stella.

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

afraid of the rats swarming the floor, she had

she triggered another mechanism, causing the

It was too late.

"Stella..."

crossed my mind in that

leave her to her

I caught Stella's desperate, pleading

"Damn it..."

back into the room

pierced through a rat, and grabbed another that had climbed onto

and clung to me, crying

feel numb, struggling to understand her

was clear she was

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

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

kept pouring out from the crevices,

was about to give up,

was a floor

turning the maze into a wildlife

saw Colin, drenched in

stiffened for a

crushing