The boulders roared overhead, whipping up gusts of strong wind. Ning Yu and his companions were like tiny boats in a raging storm, desperately dodging through the narrow passage. One team member couldn't dodge in time and was grazed on the arm by a boulder, blood instantly staining his sleeve.
"Ah!" He gasped in pain, his face turning deathly pale.
"Damn it! Who designed this maze?!" another team member shouted in panic, his voice filled with fear and anger.
"This isn't the time to talk about this!" Ning Yu shouted, dodging the falling rocks with agility. "Everyone, spread out and find cover!"
However, in this cramped space, where could they find any cover? Huge rocks fell relentlessly like dense raindrops, forcing them to scatter in all directions, their faces filled with despair and fear.
"Mu Xue, let's go over there!" Ning Yu grabbed Mu Xue's hand and ran towards a relatively open corner. However, just as they were about to arrive, an even larger boulder, carrying immense force, fell from the sky, blocking their path.
"Damn it!" Ning Yu's heart sank. He watched the boulder fall, with nowhere to hide. In a split second, he shoved Mu Xue aside, but was himself enveloped in the boulder's shadow...
"Ah Yu!" Mu Xue's terrified scream was drowned out by the loud noise. She watched helplessly as Ning Yu was swallowed by the boulder, her heart seemingly stopping for a moment.
However, when the smoke cleared, Ning Yu's figure appeared unharmed in the same spot, only with some dust on his clothes.
"You...how could you..." Mu Xue stared wide-eyed at the person in front of her in disbelief, as if she had witnessed a miracle.
Ning Yu dusted himself off, a cold smile playing on his lips. "I told you, I would protect you."
Mu Xue was still shaken, but the continuous sound of falling rocks around her quickly brought her back to reality. Just then, she suddenly realized that the falling rocks didn't seem entirely random; their positions and order of descent seemed to have some connection to the strange patterns on the wall…
"Ayu, look!" Mu Xue pointed to the patterns on the wall and said urgently, "Those patterns..."
Upon hearing this, Ning Yu immediately focused his attention, his gaze sharp as a hawk's as he quickly scanned the patterns on the wall and the trajectory of the falling rocks. Sure enough, just as Mu Xue had said, those seemingly chaotic patterns actually had a subtle correspondence with the position and order in which the rocks fell!
"Attention everyone!" Ning Yu's voice rang out amidst the chaos, carrying a calming power. "Those patterns are key! Follow me!"
He took the lead, guiding his team through the narrow passages based on a model he had quickly built in his mind. He could anticipate every falling rock and guide everyone to avoid danger.
"Over here!" Ning Yu grabbed a teammate's arm and pulled him behind a boulder, narrowly avoiding a boulder falling from the sky.
"Quick, get behind that stone pillar!" he shouted, pointing to a thick stone pillar not far ahead.
Under his command, the team members danced on the edge of a knife, each movement fraught with danger yet filled with astonishing precision and teamwork. They seemed to have transformed into a highly trained unit, unleashing an incredible survival instinct under the shadow of death.
Mu Xue stayed close to Ning Yu, her gaze never leaving him, her heart filled with admiration and gratitude. In this critical moment, his calm mind and decisive actions became everyone's last hope.
However, just when everyone thought they saw a glimmer of hope and that they could escape once they cracked the secret of the pattern, a sudden change occurred!
The stones, which had been falling according to a certain pattern, suddenly became haphazard, and the entire passage seemed to have turned into a giant meat grinder, frantically reaping lives.
"What's going on?!"
"Damn it! Have these rocks gone mad?!"
The team members screamed in panic, their previously built-up confidence crumbled instantly, and despair spread once again.
Ning Yu's heart sank. He realized that things were far more complicated than they had imagined. This maze was far more cunning and deadly than they had anticipated!
"Concentrate! Don't panic!" Ning Yu shouted, trying to steady the team, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the deafening roar.
At this critical moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck Ning Yu. His gaze was fixed on the chaotic falling stones and the strange patterns on the wall. A bold and crazy idea gradually took shape in his mind...
He turned sharply to look at Mu Xue, his eyes filled with determination and resolve. "Trust me!" "Trust you!" Mu Xue answered without hesitation. At this critical moment of life and death, she chose to trust Ning Yu without hesitation.
"Everyone, follow me!" Ning Yu didn't hesitate for a moment. He grabbed Mu Xue and ran in one direction. He knew they didn't have much time left; they had to find a way to break the maze as soon as possible!
As he ran, he frantically recalled the patterns of falling rocks and the designs on the wall that he had observed earlier. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and a bold conjecture came to him.
"Those seemingly chaotic falling rocks might not be entirely without pattern!" Ning Yu thought to himself. "If we consider them as a whole, perhaps we can find the hidden patterns within them!"
With his astonishing memory and spatial imagination, he constructed a three-dimensional maze model in his mind. He input all the information about the falling rock trajectories and the positions of the patterns on the wall that he had previously observed into this model, trying to find a glimmer of hope for a breakthrough.
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