Chapter 092 Chapter 92
The corridor was long and narrow, so it was impossible for two people to run side by side. The three of them had to line up in a long queue. The dark-skinned Duke led the way, followed by Tony with headphones hanging around his neck, and finally Mandy in slippers.
This corridor is not particularly long. After all, the entire prison castle is not that big. You can see the end of the corridor at a glance. If you run hard, ten seconds will be enough.
But for some reason, even though they had been running for nearly half a minute, the exit with bright light in the distance was still so far away, and showed no sign of getting any closer despite their running.
Duke realized something was wrong and stopped. The person in front of him suddenly stopped, causing Tony and Mandy behind him to bump into the person in front of them unexpectedly. The momentum of the two people knocked Duke in front of them, and the three of them piled up in the corridor.
"Get up!" Duke said, patting the floor.
Mandy and Tony got up. Tony's earphones were thrown out and fell to the ground, breaking the shell. Tony looked at his Bluetooth earphones with distress. His face turned unhappy. "Why did you stop so suddenly?"
"Something's wrong." Duke stood up and brushed off the dirt on his body. "No matter how fast I run, I can't get close to the exit."
After hearing this, Mandy's face changed. Tony no longer cared about his broken headphones. He threw away the electronic waste and looked ahead. Sure enough, the exit with the light was still very far away, as far as they had seen when they entered the corridor just now.
"Then let's go back?" Mandy turned and said.
"Give it a try," Duke said.
But he didn't hold out hope. The exit in front was out of reach, so could the entrance behind them easily let them go back?
Although he hasn't seen it yet, he believes that something strange has already happened.
As expected, when the three wanted to turn back, the entrance became out of reach. No matter how fast they ran, they could not get closer. It was as if the corridor was infinitely extended. Although the scenery on both sides changed while they were running, the exit in front did not move. Not only that, Duke also observed that they passed the door of the same cell three times. Because only that cell had two iron bolts, while the other cells had only one.
"Stop." Duke was the first to stop. "It's just like a Mobius strip. There's no end to this road!"
"I've seen this before." Mandy's voice trembled. "It appeared in a weird live broadcast in Japan. No matter how you run, the surrounding scenery keeps looping. No matter what, you can't leave the street."
"You saw it, so how did they leave?" Duke immediately asked Mandy.
Mandy shook her head. In the live broadcast of Japan, those people did not leave by their own power, but they automatically released themselves after a period of time.
No, someone showed up at that time.
That’s not right. It’s because someone encountered the weirdness of that street, and then someone... became the victim of the weirdness.
Mandy's forehead was covered with sweat. There were too many variables, and she couldn't be sure what caused the trapped people to leave the endlessly circulating streets.
If the reason is the last one, then among the three of them, one is destined to be missing.
"I, I don't know." Mandy said, "I think the time is right."
"Time?" Duke wiped the sweat from his forehead with his arm, "Then how long do we have to wait before we can leave here?"
Mandy didn't say anything, she didn't know.
She didn't even know the real way to leave here.
With a bang, there was a sound of slamming the door in the cell on the right, which startled the three of them. They turned their heads and saw an old prisoner who had appeared in the cell door. The old prisoner grabbed the iron bars of the cell window with his skinny hands, stared out with cloudy eyes, opened his mouth and revealed his dirty teeth: "Water, please give me water..."
No one answered him. Neither Duke nor Tony dared to respond to the old prisoner's words. Mandy didn't dare to say a word. She even covered her mouth with her hands.
The hoarse voice of the old prisoner seemed to turn on a switch, and soon noisy sounds came from other cell doors. Some people were cursing in low voices, some were crying, some were cursing loudly, and some were banging on the wooden doors of the cells. Seeing the wooden doors banging, the three were very afraid that the prisoners would suddenly run out of the cells.
These guys are, unsurprisingly, weird.
Although it doesn't look dangerous now.
No matter what the prisoners were arguing about, even if someone saw them through the barred window of the cell door and spoke to them, the three did not respond.
After watching several recorded videos of weird live broadcasts, they knew not to respond to weird requests easily without knowing anything, and if possible, it would be best not to even talk to them.
Perhaps seeing that the three were going to play dead and not reply, the prisoners gradually stopped making noise and began to quiet down. Once the air started to quiet down, some subtle sounds became very obvious, such as the sound of chains dragging on the ground from the front and the sound of footsteps approaching slowly.
"What should we do?" Tony asked Duke in a low voice.
Duke was also panicking. Who else could be dragging chains around in prison except a prison guard? Needless to say, it must be weird. And judging from the heavy footsteps and the sound of the chains being dragged, it must be very dangerous.
It would be bad if the other side saw the three of them. Whether they regarded them as prey, intruders, or prisoners who escaped from the cell, nothing good would happen.
But there was no place to hide here. The straight corridors did not even allow for a place to hide. The only things there were were cells.
Wait, a cell?
"See if there are any empty cells." Duke whispered.
The footsteps were getting closer.
Tony and Mandy understood immediately, looked at the cells one by one, and then found an empty cell, which happened to be the cell with two iron bolts.
The other cell doors all had only one bolt, but this one had two. Duke felt a little wary, as if this was a trap set here waiting for them to fall into.
However, she had to jump, as the patrolling prison guard was about to come here. In a hurry, Mandy opened the cell door and slipped in first, followed closely by Tony.
Let's take a chance. Although he has never won in gambling before, maybe he will have good luck in gambling with his life.
Duke slipped in as well, and as he closed the cell door, the patrolling guard turned the corner and came into the corridor.
The guard was very big, about 2.23 meters tall, and very strong, but he didn't look like a human. His clothes were tattered and stained with dark blood. The guard dragged the chain and lowered his head as he entered the corridor.
The moment the prison guards appeared, the prison became quiet. The prisoners, who had been making a little noise before, were completely quiet this time, and their breathing could be heard. Two of Duke and his two companions stood against the wall beside the cell door, and one squatted under the cell door, leaning against it. They were all out of sight from the small window on the cell door. They hoped that this way they could escape.
The footsteps were getting closer, and the rustling sounds of chains were getting louder. As the big guards got closer, Duke and his companions became more nervous. They even covered their mouths and noses, fearing that their loud breathing would attract the guards' attention.
The footsteps moved forward, then stopped at the door of the three-person cell.
When Mandy heard the footsteps stop in front of the cell door, she almost fainted. She covered her mouth nervously, her nerves were extremely tense, and her heartbeat began to accelerate.
Don't come in. Don't come in.
However, the prayer was in vain. The guard smelled something. He twitched his nose and lay flat on the cell door. His face was pressed against the small window on the cell door, and he stared inside with all his might.
"A strange smell..." The guard started to push the door strangely.
Mandy held the door tightly, and the two people next to her came to help. They had been discovered, and now was not the time to hide. The only way to avoid death was to guard this broken door and not let it be broken by the monster.
Bang! Bang!
The guard banged on the door with increasing force, and the three people inside felt they could not hold on any longer.
"I want to go home," Mandy cried, pressing her body against the door.
"Why are you crying? Just grit your teeth and hold on!" Duke roared.
Tony also had a tearful face: "I want to go home, too."
"You are a man!"
"Men can't cry. You are being sexist!"
Duke couldn't help but swear.
With a click, the cell door opened a crack.
After all, it is made of wood and is not as strong as imagined.
"It's over. It's really over this time." Tony's eyes were filled with tears. "I haven't said my last words yet."
"I may not die here." Duke tried his best to block the door, "Come on, try harder, this is all for the sake of survival!"
However, Tony next to him had already begun to say his last words.
The wooden door cracked again, and the cracks spread upwards. Even Duke began to despair.
Just as the wooden prison door was about to be smashed, the guard suddenly stopped pounding on it strangely.
Outside the prison door, everything became very quiet again.
Without the force pushing against the door, Duke and the other two who had been working so hard to block the door could finally relax. However, none of them dared to relax. Who knew if this was the monster's trick of playing hard to get? Therefore, they still desperately used their bodies to block the door.
A few minutes later, there was still silence outside the cell. Duke began to wonder if the so-called time had come, and whether it was the prisoners, the guards, or even the dead-loop corridor that he could not leave, had all disappeared?
How about taking a look outside?
Before, I was busy blocking the door without looking out of the small window on the door. Now that the huge push has disappeared, I can turn my head and take a look.
Duke did not relax his pressure against the door, but slowly leaned to the side and looked toward the small window. As a result, he turned his head and met a pair of dark eyes.
Outside the cell door, a man was sticking close to the door, silently looking inside through the small window in the bars.
I happened to meet Duke's eyes.
The unexpected scene frightened Duke so much that his legs went weak and he relaxed a little. Fortunately, the guy outside the cell door did not take this opportunity to kick the door open and break in. He still kept looking inside the door.
Seeing Duke's frightened look, a hint of smile appeared in those dark eyes.
The smile didn't carry murderous intent, but it didn't seem kind either. It looked more like the satisfaction of a successful prank.