Chapter 36: Unable to Pass
Lu Jiamu gave a hypocritical smile, pretending not to see the words, and took the opportunity to kick the maintenance worker named Li in the stomach: "Go over here quickly."
Although the maintenance worker looked strange at first glance, he still retained basic human physical characteristics and was very weak, so he was kicked away by Lu Jiamu with one kick.
The others were stunned at this amazing development, and then quickly ran past him.
Lu Jiamu turned the diary over and took a look at it.
Such a big, buzzing electric drill could bore a hole in a person's head, but the cover of the diary was not damaged at all, not even a scratch.
Very cool.
This is not a diary, it's just a shield. It really didn't take the sand in vain.
Lu Jiamu secretly took note of this characteristic and planned to use it as a shield in the future.
After Lu Jiamu kicked the maintenance worker to the ground, he quickly ran away.
The maintenance worker who fell to the ground took a while to get up again, but he was lost in the mirror maze again.
Lu Jiamu ran for a while while looking back, and only slowed down when he saw that the maintenance worker was not chasing him.
The brave girl asked breathlessly: "What...what happened?"
She saw that the man was wearing a work uniform and asked them if they were lost, so she thought that the other person was a staff member who had discovered through surveillance that something was wrong with them and came to pick them up.
But she didn't expect that the other party would use an electric drill to drill into her face right away, which scared her silly.
Is this some special plot played out between the NPCs?
But it was too realistic. Looking at the situation, it seemed like they were really here to kill them...
Lu Jiamu replied: "He is the Xiao Li that the boss mentioned, the one who entered the site for maintenance but got stuck inside for a whole day."
The girl thought about it and remembered that the boss had actually mentioned this incident when he was bragging outside about the complexity and exquisite design of his maze.
She asked blankly: "But he got lost here, what does it have to do with him wanting to... kill us?"
“Who knows.” Lu Jiamu pointed forward and said, “Let’s go out first, or they will chase us again.”
The girl gritted her teeth and nodded. She also wanted to escape from this horrible maze as soon as possible.
The mirror maze was nearing its end, and after a few more minutes they reached the end.
The middle-aged boss was waiting there.
Girls should be happy.
But for some reason, maybe it was because the smile on the middle-aged boss' face was too strange, or maybe it was because the dim green light made his face look strange, the girl actually felt fear towards this boss.
The boss waited motionlessly at the exit until they were a few meters away. Then he seemed to come alive and clapped his hands at them with a smile: "Congratulations on reaching the end. Our gaming experience is pretty good, right? Often people come in and can't leave."
Regardless of being afraid, the girl said anxiously: "Boss, there is a problem with your props here, my friend..."
The middle-aged boss still had that stereotyped, unnatural smile on his face, and he clapped his hands gently at them, as if he was turning a deaf ear to what the girls said.
As they all ran out of the maze, the middle-aged boss who was still clapping suddenly disappeared.
Several people were stunned and soon realized something was wrong.
They... they didn't seem to have walked out of this maze house.
They returned to the starting point of the maze again...
The light made each of their faces look pale and green, and the overlapping and indistinguishable mirror images made people dizzy. The whole space seemed to be in disarray.
Except for the boss who was waiting at the exit, the red-clothed figure who was chasing them with an electric drill and a toolbox, and who occasionally appeared in the corner of their eyes, had also disappeared.
Xuanxuan screamed: "What's going on?! Didn't we get out?"
If it was so easy to get out, it wouldn't be a haunted place.
Lu Jiamu opened his pocket watch and took a look. "We have five minutes of absolute safety. In five minutes, an NPC will come after us. In the last round, Xiao Li took eleven minutes to find us after he showed up, and the guy in red took even less time."
The brave girl widened her eyes and interrupted him: "Wait, no... why are we at the entrance again?"
The boys didn't want to show too much fear, they just started shouting: "We don't want to play anymore! We want to go out!"
As he spoke, he came to the entrance of the mirror maze and tried to leave, but the door they came in through had disappeared, leaving only a smooth mirror surface.
Can’t go out…
Lu Jiamu thought for a moment and said, "The boss said before that there is a hidden treasure in the maze. Maybe because we didn't find it, the game is not over yet."
"Mrs……"
She wanted to say "that's ridiculous", but finally she thought: that's incredible.
Suddenly I was back to the starting point from the end point, and a living person suddenly disappeared from my sight.
The boy, because he was overwhelmed, began to try to understand the situation in front of him: "The universe is so big, and human history is so short. There may be some alien creatures or some anomalies that have never changed but are rarely discovered. So when we suddenly encounter something incomprehensible, it's... not strange, not strange..."
He looked like someone who had read too many science fiction novels.
Lu Jiamu opened the diary with a hypocritical smile on his face, wanting to see what the diary said.
The diary seemed to have forgotten that Lu Jiamu had just used it to block the electric drill. After discovering that it had been opened, it hesitated for a while and began to write slowly: [There is indeed a big abnormality here. It may be related to the hidden treasure.]
[I think you can find clues from the position where the NPC first appears and the movement tendency of the mirror.]
In the previous round, Lu Jiamu actually didn't see Xiao Li immediately in the fifth minute, but only saw the poor lost man in the tenth minute. Maybe he should pay more attention in advance this time.
Lu Jiamu recalled and quickly reproduced the scene of overlooking the maze in his mind. He compared them one by one and pieced them together into a rough map.
He had others help him □□ times in the last round. If he thought about it carefully, he could find that the changes in the positions of the mirrors in the maze were indeed not completely random.
Sometimes, the mirror behind them would change position as soon as they ran past, and sometimes it was much quieter.
Lu Jiamu felt in his pocket, took out a pen, and then opened the last page of the diary.
Following this idea, Lu Jiamu first scribbled a large rectangle on the surface, and then began to randomly mark the areas. As he drew, he said, "I thought about it carefully and found that the frequency of the mirror mechanism changing during the last round of walking through the maze was not the same. The major changes were mainly concentrated in these areas. We will take a closer look later. The hidden treasure may be here."
It was not known whether the diary could not directly display the text on the last page, or whether it did not want to speak in public, so Lu Jiamu began to scribble but nothing happened.
The young couple and the brave girl were a little surprised to see how well he spoke.
Could it be that he could really memorize the entire maze at a glance? Seriously? Super memory?
Lu Jiamu put away his pen after he finished speaking: "The safe time is only five minutes, we have to hurry up, it would be best if we can split up and check all these areas."
The three people felt a little scared, because they had watched many horror movies before and knew a law of horror: the protagonists had to act separately.
Lu Jiamu's eyes swept across their faces, and he had caught their little thoughts, revealing a sincere smile: "We are not acting in a horror movie, don't worry. The NPC will start chasing from the fifth minute, the boss said so himself. So let's get started."
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