POSTED ON JANUARY 30, 2023 BY JACK RUSSELL

Suuankou walked within the designated course for about quarter-hour and eventually exited the “roadless” forest.

“—In idea, you’ll be able to simply memorize the trail, proper?”

“—Yeah, you don’t must kill Brother Messenger should you can overcome the Maze Forest by memorizing the set path.”

“—Then why don’t you proceed with Brother Messenger? Anyway, you’ll die within the ground section.”

“—That’s true…” The gamers have been nonetheless discussing.

Nonetheless, Suuankou steadily started to pay attention.

That was as a result of he realized that this dungeon occasion had already formally began.

Suuankou walked a couple of steps ahead from the principle street.

Then, three paths appeared in entrance of him. It didn’t appear to be a forked street that took place due to folks threading it. As an alternative, they have been extra like a crooked trident-like street drawn by the kid.

The street fork diverged into one straight path and two symmetrical U-shaped paths.

A faceless gentleman, holding a cane, was standing earlier than the junction.

He raised his head and checked out Suuankou.

—This gentleman’s drawing fashion was just like the acquainted within the Magic Lady Madoka’s [1] world.

Suuankou complained in his coronary heart.

The person had no facial options—that was to not say that his face was as clean as a duck’s egg.

Reasonably, it was the alternative.

The faceless gentleman had marks of varied colours of crayons painted on his face. It was like a baby’s drawing, the place they lose endurance midway by way of and begin scribbling randomly, leading to a messy ‘egg’”

So perhaps the person may be known as the “egg-faced gentleman”.

“Sir,” the egg-faced gentleman mentioned, “There isn’t a turning again from right here onward.”

Though Suuankou already knew the reply to this dialogue, this dialogue functioned as a set off that he couldn’t afford to omit.

This was a important a part of the choice course of. Each time the dungeon challenger got here to this location, the “stage” he might select diversified.

Due to this fact, Suuankou respectfully requested the egg-faced gentleman, “So, the place ought to I’m going?”

The egg-faced gentleman requested, “The place do you need to go?”

“To be sincere, I don’t know both,” Suuankou replied truthfully.

He had no thought.

“In that case.” The egg-faced gentleman replied slowly, “It doesn’t matter the place you go.”

“The place do these three roads lead?”

“This path,” the egg-faced gentleman raised his left hand, “results in the ball. And right here,” he raised his proper hand, “to the sweet home. And behind me, that’s Mr. Bear’s Dwelling. So go wherever you want, however keep in mind by no means to show again.”

Fuck…

Suuankou had a tough time resisting the urge to cuss.

Why is it so tough this time?

The bullet textual content abruptly made a fuss:

“—Go to the ball!”

“—No, no, no, it’s time to go to the sweet home. You didn’t convey alongside the messenger this time, so perhaps you’ll be able to progress additional.”

Some gamers had by no means watched the stay broadcast about this nightmare earlier than. Solely now did they acknowledge the supply of this remark:

“—It’s the Cheshire Cat.”

“—Suuankou’s Adventures Within the Wonderland [2]? Ew, don’t disgust me.”

—Ah, begging for the bullet textual content system to implement real-name registration.

Suuankou glanced on the bullet textual content blankly, and this concept got here to his thoughts.

This time, it was a hell of a begin.

He had been to the ball and the sweet home.

Undoubtedly, the ball was not his possibility as a result of some large stone statues have been dancing inside. They saved spinning backwards and forwards in the midst of the dance ground. Suuankou went there 4 occasions. Earlier than he even found out what he ought to do, the stone statues crushed him to loss of life.

He might solely decide that these stone statues appeared to be chasing him. It was simply that their behavioral guidelines have been totally different.

Some stone statues chased Suuankou alongside the shortest distance; some statues aimed for the place the place he would arrive after 10 seconds; some statues focused the place the place he handed by way of 5 seconds in the past; some statues patrolled on a set route till they acquired nearer to him.

There appeared to be just one distinctive resolution to this problem.

Nonetheless, there was no secure zone as soon as he entered the dance ground.

Though Suuankou might clear up it, he was chased by a bunch of six-meter-high stone statues. His nervous mind was in a multitude, and he couldn’t suppose correctly — he lacked a transparent thought of what to do subsequent.

What precisely am I in search of?

Is my purpose to seek out the exit?

Or am I required to outlive there for a chosen time interval?

All of those stay unknown.

I ought to have Sister Jiu Er problem this.

The sort individuals are blessed with good luck.

Suuankou thought in his coronary heart.

As for the sweet home, it was merely a lure home.

It was additionally the explanation why he wished to kill the messenger. The messenger would select the trail as a substitute of him.

If Suuankou didn’t possess the token, then he wouldn’t be capable of see this “egg-faced gentleman” in any respect. Solely one of many three roads that confronted ahead could be revealed.

If the sweet home have been an possibility, the messenger would select the sweet home.

Nonetheless, that so-called “sweet home” was merely a lure home.

The doorway hall was put in with an phantasm ground. Some flooring solely revealed a little bit of transparency. If the dungeon challenger by chance stepped on it, he would fall and die.

The primary room forward was the heating room.

The important thing was hidden beneath an enormous pile of desserts, and the temperature within the room continued to rise. The challenger could be roasted alive if he couldn’t discover the important thing.

Subsequent up was the sweet slide. It was a curler coaster-like slide with no handrails. If the challenger didn’t clear his fingers within the earlier stage, he could be thrown out immediately into the huge cauldron of boiling sugar.

The following stage was the biscuit room. That was to say, the room with no survival. The ceiling would fall in response to the load within the room. If there have been just one individual, it might descend midway by way of. Nonetheless, the ceiling would drop to the ground if there have been two folks. However, the door to the subsequent stage was about three-fifths of the peak.

Right here the individual should surrender all the load on his physique earlier than he might barely enter the subsequent stage.

After that was a “single-plank bridge” that appeared like a range present. The one-plank bridge was fabricated from a stick-shaped biscuit that shatters when stepped on. Additionally, sizzling syrup was gushing out from the cannons on either side.

Anyway, Suuankou had not handed this stage but.

He didn’t know what the subsequent stage was.

All he knew was that this was a nightmare of a kid’s prank.

Adults have been typically not that obsessive at enjoying methods.

Thus far, Suuankou had not even seen “the Mill.”

He would die over and over fanatically on the street fork, which was the second save level of this nightmare.

The one one that had seen the mill was Jiu Er.

That point, Jiu Er died from touching the toy of the miller’s daughter together with her fingers that had been dirty.

By the way in which, she died one other time after touching a toy with bloody fingers.

Certainly, she died twice in the identical spot.

Nonetheless, Suuankou had not forgotten his major mission — checking up on the traps along with his life.

So this time, let’s select a spot I’ve but to go…

“I’m going ahead,” Suuankou replied.

On the subsequent second, the egg-faced gentleman disappeared. The paths on the left and proper sides vanished alongside as effectively.

It was as if all the pieces that had occurred beforehand was simply an phantasm.