Reborn In a Murderer’s Embrace

Chapter 399



"They're clueless," I muttered, frowning as I crouched down, inspecting the ground closely.

Given that we were dealing with a shifting maze, there had to be seams between the walls and the floor that the naked eye could distinguish.

Considering what we faced on the seventeenth level, it seemed some mechanisms were pre-set by the murderer - like timed release of poison gas, scheduled lights out, and walls moving to form a maze at specific intervals.

Colin had managed to clear some obstacles for us in advance, but unfortunately, the killer was among us.

He wouldn't let us get through that easily. He still had cards to play.

So... the killer took advantage of our distraction to paint bloody arrows, luring us into dangerous areas on purpose.

"Ah!" A scream, followed by sounds of gnashing, came from beyond the wall.

Just as I thought, they'd encountered danger.

"Snakes! There are snakes!"

"Aah!"

Stella panicked, pounding on the wall. "Robin! Robin, are you guys okay?"

No response came from the other side.

were in no position to

this wall?" Stella asked,

we open it?" I looked at her, puzzled. "If we do, we'll

there, we have a chance to get out safe.

a wall with a visible seam, and tapped it, confirming it could

those words came from me. "Phoebe... What about

you really think we can save them? If it's something we definitely can't do, why waste time and risk our lives?" I couldn't grasp what Stella

in there would be a death wish. Why

slowly backing away. "You're not Phoebe...

expression darkened,

"The maze's walls

random. They triggered a

should come with me, get out of here find the exit, and

somewhat scared, clutched her knife

I wasn't

explaining further. "If you don't want to die, keep up. Finn might not be the sharpest tool in the

a moment, Stella

to the corner, found the trigger tile,

a crowded and chaotic situation,

the

into another space, pristine as if untouched by