Chapter 33 Labyrinth 15 Baichuan, he is now only one...

According to the Rubik's Cube layer-first restoration rule, except for the edge block in the middle of the bottom layer and the block in the middle of the second layer, which are always consistent, the other modules in the second layer can only be restored after the first layer is completely restored to consistency.

That is to say, after completing the hide-and-seek game, everyone is sent to the room with red and white edges by the maze, simply because they can only get here and this is the only way. Because the second layer of edges upwards are currently disordered rooms with random color modules, it is impossible to go there, and the starting room cannot be returned because it has been stopped twice.

The young man's graceful mouth curved slightly, and this disgusting man-eating maze finally revealed its true colors.

Even though he was able to confirm the killing pattern of this man-eating maze, An Rao's nerves became even more tense: since the Rubik's Cube maze was being restored, every time the player took a step, the Rubik's Cube would naturally be restored. In other words, on the surface, the maze seemed to be an indefinite game, and as long as the player did not die, he could just get out in the end. However, since the Rubik's Cube itself was also being restored, if he did not get out before the maze was completely restored, it was not difficult to guess what would happen based on the degree of evil in this amusement park.

This maze didn't even give the player any chance to make mistakes. An Rao closed his eyes, and he didn't even know whether this was a 3x3 Rubik's Cube or a 4x4 Rubik's Cube!

It needs to be verified. If it is a fourth-order Rubik's Cube, then everything will have to be started over again.

Seeing that there was not much time left in the countdown, An Rao quickly walked to the leisurely spinning slot machine. Just as he was about to slap the button, a strong hand grabbed his wrist.

"Thank you for your courage, but rules are rules," the tall woman in overalls said with a stern temperament and a calm expression, "It's my turn now."

After saying that, Sister Lili pressed the black button on the slot machine without hesitation. Because the previous hide-and-seek game was too scary, a player actually fainted while waiting for the pattern to stop.

Finally, the three-row wheel pattern stops at a chaotic and disordered pattern.

"Oops! Sorry, you didn't win the prize!" The big crying face appeared on the screen again.

Unlike last time, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the crying face. Fortunately! Fortunately! Seeing anything is better than seeing the little boy's face!

Next is to choose the door.

"Choose this one!" An Rao said quickly, pointing to a door.

Sister Lili stopped reaching for the other door, looked at An Rao deeply, and actually followed the advice and chose the door that An Rao pointed to. She put her hand on the door button and looked at An Rao: "I hope you have a reason for your choice. At the same time, I hope you can share your clues with everyone. Life is precious. Five of us have already died."

An Rao didn't comment, just nodded and said thank you.

"No, why should we listen to him?!" Zhang Yong shouted unconvinced. This man had been showing off again and again, and even saved Shi Yirou. As long as he existed, he would be a living pillar of shame to him. "It was him, he made us play hide-and-seek! This time he wants us to go to the wrong room and die! We can't listen to him!"

"So, what do you think?" Sister Lili glared at the howling Zhang Yong with a cold tone. Even though she had not witnessed what he did in the game of hide-and-seek, it was not difficult to guess what happened in the game by looking at Shi Yirou, who had always been courageous and cheerful, and now had her soul sucked out.

"I..." Zhang Yong was breathless for a moment, "Anyway, I can't let him lead me by the nose, unless he shares his clues with everyone!"

This sentence actually touched the pain point of all the players. No one cared about the private grudges among the players. Even if An Rao had just taken advantage of someone's misfortune to force a sale and steal Zhang Yong's girl, no one would come out to uphold justice. But it was different when it came to the game. Whoever had the information to pass the maze was holding everyone's lives in their hands!

The room began to buzz with discussions, and everyone's looks at An Rao gradually became complicated.

"I do have some ideas, so I need this door to verify them," An Rao's clear and pleasant voice sounded, neither hurried nor slow, with no intention of defending himself, "If I am right, I will naturally share it. If I am wrong, of course there is no need to speak out and interfere with everyone's thinking. If you have your own thoughts and judgments, you are welcome to speak out and discuss together. If not, I hope to seize the time, after all, time is life."

Several zeros have appeared on the blood-red countdown on the roof. There is no time left.

"This door," An Rao knocked on it, "is a key step in my self-verification. If it's correct, I will tell you all the clues. Do you have any objections?"

An Rao's eyes swept over everyone. Among the nine people in front of him, there were resentful, suspicious, pleading, and doubtful looks. There were all kinds of looks, but very few were kind. But even so, An Rao still felt very relieved. In the face of life and death, these malicious and negative emotions were so naked that there was no need to wear any disguise. Compared with the quagmire of hypocrisy and backstabbing that he had been trapped in, wasn't this a reassuring frankness?

There was no time left, so Sister Lili directly pressed the door that An Rao pointed to.

The round door swung open, revealing a room with two colors of light bands. The wall in the same direction as the red light band they were currently in was surrounded by red light bands, while the wall directly opposite them was surrounded by blue light bands, and the floor was surrounded by white light bands just like the one they were currently in.

An Rao closed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief. From red, green and white to red and white and then to red, blue and white, this was a three-level Rubik's Cube maze. Fortunately!

But just when An Rao suddenly relaxed, he suddenly heard a player screaming in fear: "Ah! There's a dead person in the room!"

An Rao opened his eyes and looked. He was so busy verifying his own thoughts that he didn't bother to check what was in the room.

There were two bodies lying in two corners of the room. One was completely bald above the neck, but the cut surface of the neck was not smooth, as if the head and body had been torn apart by some brute force. The head was nowhere to be found, leaving only the torn skin hanging softly, with the muscles contracted and curled. Obviously, when the player's head was torn off, he was still alive. The other body lying in a pool of blood had all the body parts intact, but if you look closely, you will find that the body has been cut into several equal parts, and now it is just neatly arranged, as if he was lying on the floor and a grid net fell from the sky and passed through his body.

Just like Xiaoyun’s previous death, even though it was so horrific and bloody, they could not smell any blood at all when standing outside the door. Things that happened in the room would only happen in the room.

"Ugh..." Shi Yirou and Su Ming, who were walking beside An Rao, saw the tragic scene inside the door and leaned against the door to vomit.

These two people are not players from his team. It can be confirmed that there are other player teams in this maze. An Rao frowned. It seems that the subsequent battle for points will be very fierce.

However, since there are other player teams, and based on the fact that the starting room of our team is the bottom edge block of the green side of the Rubik's Cube, as long as the amusement park has enough evil taste and wants to watch people kill each other in the end, then the starting point of other player teams should naturally be the same as our team, that is, in the middle of the bottom layer of different sides of the Rubik's Cube. In this way, the end point of the Rubik's Cube is easy to guess.

The top of the white-bottomed Rubik's Cube must be yellow. Since everyone starts from the bottom of the different colored faces, the room that is equally far from each team can only be the middle module room on the yellow top. According to the design of the maze, it should be a room with a circle of yellow light on the ceiling and frosted glass on the other five faces.

And... An Rao looked at a black figure that flashed by on the wall opposite him. The figure of Baichuan he saw before was not an illusion. Baichuan, he was now separated from him by only a room with two corpses.

Sister Lili, who was standing by the door, had a very unpleasant expression on her face. Perhaps she was thinking of Xiaoyun. Her body was stiff, her fists were clenched, and her nails were deeply embedded in her palms.

"Sister Lili, she fell backwards and died in an instant. She was not frightened and she was not in pain." Shi Yirou noticed the blood dripping from Sister Lili's clenched fist and walked over to comfort her softly.

"Yeah." Sister Lili didn't say anything. She nodded arrogantly at Shi Yirou and walked towards the door.

"Wait, you can't enter this room." An Rao grabbed the hand of this determined and brave beautiful woman.

"What? Is there any danger?" Sister Lili's expression was still cold and arrogant. "This is the door you designated."

"I designated this door only to confirm my inference about the maze. It doesn't mean that we have to go through here." An Rao looked at the black figure in the distance with an expressionless face. Both intellectually and emotionally, he didn't want to step into this room at all.

"What? Are you scared?" Zhang Yong sneered and said sarcastically, "You asked to open this door, but now you don't dare to go in after seeing the body inside? What other use is there for a pretty boy like you, other than stirring up trouble and stealing other people's girlfriends? Go ahead and go in! You rubbish!"

"Girl, it's a good thing that you two haven't gotten married yet." An Rao had a headache and said to Shi Yirou earnestly. Zhang Yong's intention was too obvious and he couldn't tolerate An Rao. If provoking An Rao didn't work on An Rao, then it would be a good idea to arouse other people's fear, vigilance and even hatred towards him.

"Look everyone! He clearly knew that he could only stay in a room twice, but what happened? He chose a door himself but refused to go in! He wasted everyone's chance of life! I'm sure no one has forgotten the tragic death of that little girl!" Zhang Yong stood in the crowd and shouted, "Either you go in and prove to us that this is the right room, or you get to choose the second time and leave!"

There was a sudden buzz of discussion among the crowd. Personal grudges were not worth mentioning, but wasting a chance to survive was extremely exciting for everyone.

"Yeah, since you chose it, why don't you leave?"

"Why are you wasting our chance to survive?!"

"These are human lives. Can you afford to pay for them? Just walk away and show us now!"

"Everyone," An Rao turned to the remaining players and said, "This room is safe, but it's not the room we should enter." Only Su Ming, Shi Yirou, Sister Lili, Zhang Yong, and four other players were left in front of him. These four players obviously didn't know each other. Not only did they keep a certain distance from everyone, but their reactions to the current situation were also different. An Rao looked at a player who was always cowering in the corner with some surprise. Since everyone was here to compete for the 3,000 points, shouldn't they all be veterans? But this person didn't look like a veteran at all. Instead, he looked like a newcomer who had just entered the game for the first time.

"But safety does not mean correctness. After passing through this door, I think I have found the death rule of the maze. However, before ensuring absolute safety, I don't want my behavior to put everyone in danger. I hope everyone can survive, rather than letting others die in a despicable way to save their own life." When An Rao said the last sentence, he stared at Zhang Yong and spoke in a clear voice.

An Rao, who was always gentle, now had eyes filled with coldness and indifference. Zhang Yong was frightened by An Rao's eyes and took several steps back unconsciously.

The countdown ends, the round door closes again, and a new round of lottery begins.

"Old rules, it's your turn." Sister Lili pointed at Zhang Yong and said.

"Why me?!" Zhang Yong was annoyed. "You didn't even leave just now. You broke the rules yourself, so what qualifications do you have to command others here?!"

"First of all, I didn't shirk my responsibilities. I pressed the buttons when it was my turn. Secondly, since he was the only one present who had clues that needed to be verified, I was willing to give him my right to choose in exchange for a higher chance of survival so that everyone could pass the test smoothly. This doesn't mean that I was shrinking or escaping. In addition, I was originally prepared to be the first one to walk in after he pressed the buttons," Sister Lili said in a cold voice. "Of course, you can do the same if someone is willing to help you."

"Then you," Zhang Yong rushed over and grabbed An Rao's arm, "didn't you just say you were verifying? Now the verification is complete, and the death rules should be determined, right? It's unreasonable for you not to leave, right?"

"Well, so you're not afraid that I'll press the slot machine again and drag everyone to that brat's house?" An Rao looked at the ugly man in front of him who was biting everywhere and laughed angrily.

Zhang Yong choked up. He would never enter that nightmare game again even if he died! Zhang Yong's eyes rolled. Indeed, it was just a slot machine. What was so scary? When the time came, he would let this idiot who loved to show off come in to choose the door. Didn't he say that he knew the rules of death? When the time came, he would incite him. He must choose and must enter first!

Thinking of this, Zhang Yong stopped talking, loosened his hand that was tightly holding An Rao's arm, walked to the slot machine with an attitude of being ready to die, and pressed it.

A gloating children's voice was heard, and it was announced again that there was no winner.

"Okay, next, please ask this gentleman who already knows the rules of death but doesn't want to share it with us to choose a door he thinks is correct and walk in." Zhang Yong looked at An Rao provocatively and made an exaggerated gesture of invitation.

"Shameless!" Shi Yirou couldn't bear to look at him and cursed softly, "Crazy!"

He is indeed crazy. An Rao recalled how this man looked before he entered the maze. At that time, he just blamed his girlfriend for her reckless conflict with the staff, and did not do any other out of line or despicable behavior. It seemed that in the game of hide-and-seek, his temperament changed drastically since he pushed Shi Yirou out. What happened in the game of hide-and-seek that could change a person so completely?

"I am shameless?" Zhang Yong screamed. "The strong prey on the weak. What's wrong with me trying to survive? You guys are pretending to be polite and righteous. I don't see you guys rushing to die for everyone else."

"Especially you," Zhang Yong pointed at An Rao's nose, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You keep talking nonsense all day long. Don't you just want everyone to be bewitched by you and die for you? I'm telling you, I'm not that stupid!"

Then he immediately turned around and shouted to everyone, "Everyone, please don't be fooled by this hypocrite! He just wants to drag people to their deaths! He is doing all these fancy things. He clearly chose a door just now but didn't dare to go out, and he wasted everyone's chance of survival. If you know the rules, just say it. If you have the guts, choose the door and go in!"

Zhang Yong's shouting was broken due to his excitement, sounding weird and crazy. Compared with the diligent staff outside the maze, he looked more like a competent clown.

"Fuck, what's your attitude? Are you born in the year of the dog? You only know how to bark! Sorry, I have to apologize to the dog for saying you are like a dog!" Su Ming couldn't stand it anymore. He turned around and pulled his boss, "Brother, you choose! If you choose me, I will be the first to go in. I believe you!"

"I'm leaving." Shi Yirou also came out at this time.

"Oh, adulterer, so disgusting!" Zhang Yong made an exaggerated vomiting expression.

"No need," An Rao adjusted his glasses, his voice gentle and calm, without a trace of anger, "I can do it myself."

After saying this, An Rao grabbed the ladder in the room that was specially used to climb to the ceiling without hesitation and climbed straight up.

"Click." The round door on the ceiling swung open, and An Rao continued to walk inside along the vertical ladder without any hesitation. However, when he entered the new room, he seemed to be frozen for a moment, but he quickly recovered and continued to climb in without stopping.

Next came Su Ming, who was very obedient to his boss. He spat at Zhang Yong who was standing in the room and then climbed up like a monkey.

Then there are Shi Yirou and Sister Lili. It's not just because they have a high degree of trust in An Rao, but also because they don't care if the person they care about dies physically or mentally.

A strange player followed closely behind and screamed in fear as he entered the room. There was a dead body in the room.

Although the presence of a corpse in the room was not a surprising thing, the death of this player was too tragic. The skin exposed outside the clothes was all torn and black and red, and there was no healthy skin on his face. Even his entire head was sunken. All the flesh and bones were melted and stuck together. Only one eyeball was hanging abruptly in the air. The whole person seemed to have been poured by some highly corrosive liquid. He collapsed on the ground in a shapeless state, red and yellow.

The whole room was filled with the sour smell of corroded corpses, which was almost suffocating.

"Ah!" The player who had been huddled in the corner and shivering seemed unable to bear it any longer, and finally broke down and cried in despair.

“Why, why is this happening! Wuwuwu…” It was hard to tell from his expression whether it was pain or fear. “I’m just curious as to why this free amusement park brought me into such a horrible game as soon as I entered the door!”

“It’s just a maze! Why would people die just walking in a maze? And so... uh, so..." The man couldn’t continue speaking. He squatted at the place farthest from the corpses and covered his face tightly. All you could see was that his shoulders were shaking violently.

"What's the use of crying? Aren't we trying to find a way out now? Get up!" Sister Lili strode over and pulled the man up with a cold face. The man's weakness and retreat reminded her of Xiaoyun who had died not long ago. A fragile person is not worthy of surviving in this amusement park. The only way is to be strong and try hard to make herself strong.

The man couldn't get rid of Sister Lili's grip. His whole body was like a limp flour bag. His limbs were held powerlessly in Sister Lili's hands. He murmured in refusal, "We can't leave. If we don't die in this room, we will die in the next room. We will all die. We can't leave... We can't leave..."

Suddenly, the man seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. He jumped up suddenly, and before anyone could react, he pressed the locator on his collar.

"I don't want to play anymore! I want to get out now!" The man changed his previous limp attitude and pressed the poor locator on his collar hard, even frantically. "Why didn't I think of it earlier! The locator was given to us for our escape and exit. I should have thought of it earlier! I could have quit playing earlier! I spent the money for the ticket and I can't regret it!"

An Rao stood aside, watching the almost crazy scene in front of him, and did not make a move to stop it. Even if he did, it would be meaningless, because he had already pressed the button. There were too many players like this. This had happened in the pirate ship before. Players with weak psychological defenses could easily suffer a mental breakdown and lose their rationality in extreme environments and fear, and do things they shouldn't do. It was like when a person reaches the highest point on a bungee jumping machine, they would have the urge to unfasten their seat belts, and when they stand on the edge of a tall building, they would have the urge to jump down.

However, in real life there will be corresponding equipment obstacles, such as high fences on high-rise buildings and safety belts on bungee jumping machines that can never be opened. But here, the player's desire to survive will be easily satisfied, just like the poisonous honey wine that appears at hand when you are thirsty. Even if you know it is poisonous, you can't resist its sweet temptation. Even if you know it is poisonous, you will make excuses for the toxicity.

What if it was just poison? What if it was just a little bit of physical pain that could help him survive?

What if?

"Boss..." Su Ming came closer, "Is he...not going to survive?"

"Well," An Rao looked expressionlessly at the player who was holding the emergency locator like a life-saving straw, "Article 4 of the park guide states that you are not allowed to exit an amusement project once it starts, and Article 3 of the maze rules states that the emergency locator button can only be used in an emergency. He violated two rules, both of which are fatal prohibitions."

I don’t know if there is any special passage for employees, but the staff came very quickly. Almost as soon as An Rao finished speaking, a staff member in clown work clothes appeared in the room where everyone was.

"Hello, is there anything I can help you with?" The Joker staff accurately identified the player who pressed the emergency positioning button, bowed to him, and asked politely.

"I..." The player was confused by the clown staff's respectful and polite attitude, and stammered, "I don't want to play anymore. Can I go out?"

"Excuse me, are you injured during the game?" the clown staff asked gently.

"No, not at all."

"Excuse me, did you have a sudden illness during the game?" The expression on the clown staff's face was impeccable.

“No…”

"Do you have any other emergency?" Even Shi Yirou, who was studying painting, couldn't tell the expressions of the clown staff.

"No…Oh, yes! I have an emergency!"

"Excuse me, what is it?" The clown staff always took their time and controlled the rhythm of the questions.

"I'm scared, I'm very scared! I want to go out, I can't stand it anymore!" The player broke down and cried again.

"Okay," the clown staff nodded to show his understanding, "Please follow me."

Soon the two figures disappeared in the room, leaving nine people looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Damn... is this possible?" Su Ming was shocked and even touched the emergency button on his collar involuntarily. "I thought he would be executed on the spot!"

“Then should we…” Several other players even began to get restless.

"Everyone, I believe you all remember the second rule of the park guide. The dolls of the staff are designed to be consistent with the corresponding attractions. The doll staff will never have a human face." An Rao paused. "So, did anyone notice the face of the staff who came to pick us up just now?"

The staff's face...

"I remember," said Shi Yirou, who had been depressed, "the clothes he wore were the clothes of the staff who checked tickets for everyone at the entrance of the maze, but there was no paint on his face. He had a human face."

Human face! The players in the room took a deep breath. When the staff came in, no one thought there was anything wrong with it. But now they thought about it and realized that according to the regulations of the "Garden Guide", the staff should not have a human face!

Since the genuine staff are so scary, what if they are fake staff?

Until this moment, players deeply felt the malice of the "Guide to the Park". When I saw the third item of the "Guide to the Park" before, I thought it was nonsense to deliberately create a scary and weird atmosphere. The staff in the amusement park are always wearing doll costumes, such as Disney. It is really strange to see the staff wearing doll costumes without doll headgear. Isn't this an obvious thing?

However, when people are in extreme fear, they will instinctively trust and naturally rely on human faces. At this time, it is even impossible to distinguish whether the other person is kind or malicious. It is like a drowning person who will instinctively pull when he sees someone else extending a hand, without thinking about whether the person is trying to push him into the water or save him.

Even when I see staff members with similar faces, I don’t feel weird at all, but rather feel very close to them.

An Rao turned around and faced all the players and said, "As I said, I think I already know the death rules of this maze. So far, the previous door, this room, and all the routes forward can support my deduction. I can share it with everyone, but I have a request."

"What request?" everyone asked in unison.

The thin young man faced everyone, with the only wall in the room glowing red behind him. A circle of bright red light surrounded him, making his whole body glow slightly reddish. His exceptionally beautiful facial features looked particularly gorgeous against the red light, adding an unfathomable charm to him.

"We are just strangers who happened to gather in this maze," An Rao looked at everyone's anxious eyes, "I hope there will be no more doubts and betrayals on the rest of the journey."

This will only slow down my progress in getting 3,000 points!

What kind of request is this? Everyone agreed without hesitation.

"To show my sincerity, I ask you to transfer half of your points to me. Once we exit the maze, I will naturally return the full amount to you." An Rao's glasses were shining.

"But if you betray your teammates," An Rao paused, "I believe that your points will be useless."

This... Everyone looked puzzled, but An Rao had already raised his wristband with a smile.

After a thrilling message notification sound, An Rao repeated his inference about the maze.

"So... we are actually inside a big Rubik's Cube now?"

"Um."

"So the Rubik's Cube is being restored layer by layer from the bottom up?"

"Um."

"So what will happen if the Rubik's Cube is restored but we haven't walked out yet?"

"What do you think?"

"What should I do? I don't know how to play the Rubik's Cube!"

"Yeah, I can't either!"

"But I can," Anrao's voice was gentle and steady, enough to calm everyone's anxious and collapsed emotions, "so I hope that next time, everyone can work together."

"So what do you think is the next step?"

An Rao looked up at the room filled with the sour smell of corpses. Only one wall in the room was surrounded by a red halo, and the rest was all dazzling white light and translucent walls. They had walked to the central module on the red surface of the Rubik's Cube, which was the room in the middle of the three rooms on the second floor.

If the restoration is done layer-first, the best case scenario is that both the left and right sides of the room have been restored. The next best case scenario is that one of the side rooms has been restored. The worst case scenario is that neither the left nor the right sides of the room have been restored yet.

"Are we still walking on the ceiling?"

"No," An Rao shook his head, "the ceiling is a dead end now." The third layer of the three-level Rubik's Cube can only be restored after the second layer is completed.

"You can only go left or right, both are possible. I can only prevent people from walking into the wrong room where they will die, but I can't guarantee that the room you open is the right one." An Rao adjusted his glasses and said calmly.

"Damn it, you are so arrogant... um!" Zhang Yong opened his mouth to sneer, but unfortunately he was stopped by other players before he could finish his words.

An Rao: Well, I am very satisfied with the effect!

"It's my turn this time!" A player stepped forward and said. With An Rao's protection, even the most frightening tasks of pressing the slot machine and choosing the room were no longer scary.

Unfortunately, I didn’t win the prize again this time.

"Choose the left or right one," An Rao encouraged. "It doesn't matter. If you make a mistake, it's just a waste of an opportunity. No one will die."

"Okay!" After getting An Rao's assurance, the player happily opened the door on the right.

"Oh, at worst..." Zhang Yong snorted coldly.

The white round door swung open silently. As An Rao expected, this was a side room. Unfortunately, the two different colored light bands in the room were not the lucky red and green, but disappointing green and orange. This was a trap that would kill anyone who entered.

"We can't enter this room, let's go to the other side." An Rao sighed silently for his luck in his heart, and said to the players who were standing at the door and looking at him eagerly.

As for the room on the left, the room on the left is the room connected to the blue side. Because An Rao saw Baichuan through the wall twice in the room close to the blue side, the light band that he least wants to see now is blue.

It’s a pity that they can’t go back to the room below now. The room on the ceiling and the room on the right are all dead ends. They have no choice except the room on the left.

After pressing the slot machine as usual and opening the door of the room, the wall in the same direction as the red light band of the room everyone was currently in was also a circle of red light band, and opposite An Rao who was standing at the door, there was a circle of blue as expected.

The players surrounding An Rao looked like hungry cubs, staring at An Rao eagerly, and only dared to step into the new room after his order.

"This room is safe." An Rao closed his eyes. According to the way this Rubik's Cube was restored and the two times he saw Bai Chuan, Bai Chuan was so smart that he should have discovered the secret of this maze long ago. According to the room where he met Bai Chuan and the color of the Rubik's Cube...

An Rao was feeling desperate. The chance of him meeting this cool guy next time would be quite high!

The player who opened the door received a positive response from An Rao, and just as he raised his foot excitedly, he was stopped by a hand: "Whoever chooses gets to go, why are you in such a hurry?"

As he said that, Zhang Yong looked at An Rao provocatively: "Smart guy, let's go?"

"Boss, he is too malicious towards you!" Su Ming was indignant.

Even Sister Lili, who usually had a cold personality, couldn't stand it anymore, and Shi Yirou's face turned pale.

"It's okay." An Rao shook his head calmly, then walked into the room first, safe.

The red and blue lights collided together, filling the entire room with psychedelic lavender. A thin young man in white knelt on one knee, and together with the corpse lying in front of him, formed a strange picture of life and death, beauty and wounds, lavender and scarlet, a white shirt and a torn T-shirt.

"He seems like a god." Shi Yirou sighed softly.

"Of course. My boss helped the princess to avenge herself and let the evil spirits rest in peace in the previous game. He even risked his own life to help us pass the game!" Su Ming, who blindly worshipped his boss, looked proud.

An Rao half-knelt beside the dead player, carefully studying the corpse in front of him. The unique sweet smell of blood was strong and thick. In the pool of blood, the dead player's eyes were wide open, and the expression frozen on his face was even more shocking than painful. Compared with the perverted killing methods they had witnessed before in the maze, this corpse was incredibly intact, it could even be said to be compassionate and merciful.

"This man was stabbed in the heart and died from excessive blood loss." Sister Lili squatted beside An Rao at some point and said as she looked at the deceased's chest that was soaked in blood and turned deep red.

"So he wasn't killed by the maze." An Rao nodded in agreement. This way of dying was too un-maze-like, or too un-amusement-park-like.

“No matter how horrible the paradise is, finding the law of death can give you a glimmer of hope. But the human heart,” Sister Lili said as she looked at Zhang Yong who was trying to show goodwill to Shi Yirou not far away, “the human heart is the most terrifying thing.”

"Well, the maze has a reward of 3,000 points. There are very few players who can reach the second floor purely by luck. By now, most of them have figured out the rules. All that's left is to kill all the competitors to get the reward," An Rao said, looking at the corpse's eyes that refused to close until death. "It's a pity that he never expected that greedy teammates are more terrifying than the maze."

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"Let's go to the next door." Tan Yang's tone did not change at all. He pulled out a white handkerchief from the pocket of his straight silver-gray suit jacket, carefully wiped the blood that was accidentally splashed on his hands, and said to Bai Chuan who was standing beside him.

"You killed your own people." Baichuan lowered his eyes and looked at the fresh corpse in front of him. His eyes, which were wide open but with dilated pupils, were filled with reluctance and disbelief.

"Oh no," Tan Yang carefully checked his fingers, "I'm doing this for his own good. You know, he obviously can't survive on his own, and I can't take care of him forever. I'm not his father. Rather than letting him be killed in various cruel and unimaginable ways in the amusement park, it's better to kill him with one knife. He will die quickly and with little pain."

"Really?" Bai Chuan did not comment. The man was killed by the strong man who was always standing behind him at the signal of Tan Yang. Before the man died, Tan Yang quickly transferred all the points shown in the man's wristband to his own wristband. He even frowned in disgust because he was not satisfied with the number.

For some reason, Baichuan suddenly thought of the doctor Lin he met on the pirate ship. This man seemed cold and introverted, always staying away from the crowd. He never showed sympathy, but tried his best to save everyone he could. Compared with the ruthless Tan Yang who always had a smile on his face, Doctor Lin was much more complicated and difficult to understand.

Maybe he really is a doctor. That thin and gaunt figure appeared in Baichuan's mind. He wondered if he had entered into some game again and had the audacity to play tricks on some staff member.

"Yes," Tan Yang smiled warmly, instantly pulling Bai Chuan's thoughts back to the disgusting death scene, "You are so powerful, I dare not have any ideas about you, I still have to rely on you to help me get 3,000 points."

"You promised me to help me find someone." Baichuan said coldly.

"Of course, I always keep my promises." Tan Yang rubbed his wrists. The black poisonous snake on his wrists seemed to be wriggling slowly because of the rubbing of the skin, and a few golden scales were extremely dazzling.

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"Keep going, you're next." Sister Lili patted Su Ming's shoulder.

Ever since An Rao figured out the death rules of the maze, the atmosphere among the players has become noticeably more relaxed. Although they are still afraid, at least they are not walking on swords and seas of fire every step of the way like before. However... An Rao always feels that something is wrong, as if the maze is just a smokescreen to kill people and lure people into a deeper trap. Otherwise, once the players have figured out the death rules, how should they proceed?

"Okay!" Su Ming agreed heartlessly, and slapped the black button of the slot machine with great vigor and momentum without any pause.

Cheerful music played and the pictures on the screen flashed in a dazzling manner.

"Click." A picture slowly fixed in front of everyone. A little boy wearing a golden crown laughed at the nine players in front of him. There was an unfathomable black in his wide open mouth, which was creepy.

"No!" some players began to scream.

Another picture of a little boy stopped.

"If it really is hide-and-seek again, remember what I said before, nursery rhymes are most likely the rule of death." An Rao reminded everyone calmly while staring closely at the third picture wheel, whose rotation speed had begun to slow down.

As expected, after everyone finally found the rules of death and felt a little relieved, killing without rules was the most irritating thing.

"Then, as long as we don't hide alone and don't get close to water or smoke, it will be fine?!"

"Not necessarily," An Rao was in a bad mood, "Children's temperaments and ideas are changeable."

"Click." The third little boy stayed on the screen without any suspense.

"ah!!!!!!!"

An Rao had just stood firm in the big villa with a daze when he heard the players around him screaming in fear.

"Boss, boss, look!" Su Ming patted An Rao, who was still dizzy, with a look of horror, signaling him to turn around quickly.

There were three paper figures sitting neatly on a circle of sofas in the secondary living room. They were cut out of ordinary dark yellow corrugated paper, with clothes drawn on them with colored pens. Although their facial features were at the level of children's simple drawings, the fear and pain expressed through their facial expressions almost overflowed from the edge of the paper.

The three cardboard figures sat upright on the sofa around the cake on the coffee table, as if they had bones, and they were not like ordinary cardboard figures who would fall over without support. The cake on the coffee table was still fresh, and there were traces of the cream stolen by the ghost child on the red velvet cream icing. It seemed that the current time was continuous with the time when they left.

"Oh my god! Their faces!" Shi Yirou covered her mouth and screamed, then she trembled and grabbed An Rao's arm, and asked with trembling teeth, "Do you still remember the man who would rather give you points than walk in the door himself? The one with glasses! Do you think the cardboard man in the middle is him?"

An Rao tilted his head to look at the faces of the three cardboard figures. The tallest and thinnest cardboard figure in the middle wore a pair of crooked glasses, and even drew in great detail the cracks on the lenses after being smashed, but were they really cracks? From the deformed facial features of the cardboard figure due to pain and fear, one could vaguely make out the appearance of a tall and thin man.

So... these three paper figures are the players that were captured by the faceless ghost boy before? !

However, An Rao's eyes fell on the wrist of the female cardboard figure who was closest to everyone, and suddenly a more terrifying and horrifying thought came to his mind. He was startled and quickly walked to the three cardboard figures, carefully grabbing the wrist of the cardboard figure to check.

There was a cartoon watch-like thing drawn on the cardboard wrist, and the numerical value was displayed on the simple display screen with colorful strokes.

"Boss, what did you find?" Su Ming also came over.

"Have you ever noticed the wristbands of the dead players in the pirate ship?" An Rao asked as he fiddled with the wristband that looked like a paper man's stick figure.

"No..." Su Ming scratched his head. Most of the time, An Rao and Bai Chuan had a tacit understanding to protect this underage child as much as possible. Su Ming had hardly ever come into contact with those terrible deaths.

"When you die, the value in the wristband will return to zero." Sister Lili stood over, looked down at the paper man on the sofa, and said in a cold voice.

"Yes," An Rao nodded. As a money-grubber, he noticed this at the beginning in the pirate ship, and then made way for everyone to see. "But you see, the wristbands painted on their wrists have numerical values."

"But this is a painting after all," Shi Yirou came over and looked at the wristband of the female cardboard figure carefully. "The purpose of a painting is to express the content of what you see at that moment, and to preserve it forever?"

"Not necessarily. Let's try it out." An Rao shook his head and put his wristband close to the female paper-shell figure's wristband and touched it lightly.

"Ding." The familiar points arrival notification sound came from An Rao's wristband. He used one of the points of the female paper man to do an experiment.

"The points can still be transferred, they are all still alive!" An Rao looked at the marks on the paper man's body that were casually folded by Gui Dongdong, and his voice trembled rarely.

The three cardboard figures in front of me are all living people. They are in pain but cannot speak it, and they are afraid but cannot escape. They may still have thoughts and brains and may still be clear, but their souls are trapped in a piece of cardboard in a horror game. They can neither live nor die. This is undoubtedly more terrifying than death!

This discovery plunged all the players into despair, and no one noticed that the faceless child had been standing silently behind them.

"Aha!" The child yelled mischievously, startling everyone. The players subconsciously turned their heads to look at the source of the sound and saw the little boy's white face without any facial features. They were so scared that they hugged each other and huddled together.

"The game of hide-and-seek just now was so much fun! Let's do it again! As usual, I'll be the ghost and you guys go hide!"

This time, before the faceless ghost kid finished speaking, everyone ran as fast as they could. No one noticed that the faceless ghost kid waved at the three paper figures on the sofa and said, "What are you all sitting for? Come and play together! Let's be ghosts together!"