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Chapter 426 - 401 I Don’t Know the Way Either

Chapter 426: Chapter 401 I Don’t Know the Way Either

Lin Yi, did Zhong Tian also fall in?

Li Chen felt a chill in his heart. Just then, the group behind them also caught up and were startled by the sudden appearance of the huge pit ahead.

"What, what’s going on here?" one of them began to panic.

"Who fell in?"

One of them suddenly rushed to Bu Zan’s side, even grabbing his collar.

"You bastard, did you do this on purpose to harm us?"

"Stop it!"

Someone from behind pulled him back.

Li Chen took a deep breath. The pit appeared extremely eerie, resembling those sinkholes that frequently occurred in Huaxia, but they were usually caused by ground collapses. It shouldn’t be a collapse here, so there was only one possibility: there was another space underground.

Li Chen’s thoughts were racing, but facing this deep pit, he had to go down no matter what.

Lin Yi was inside, Zhong Tian was also inside, and the Ginseng Doll had fallen in with them. For the sake of these two alone, he had to go and rescue them.

"Bu Zan!"

Li Chen suddenly spoke. Although his voice wasn’t loud, it overpowered everyone else’s.

Bu Zan hurried over.

"I am going down there. If I don’t come up in half an hour, you’ll lead everyone back to the city, understand?"

Bu Zan nodded repeatedly. Li Chen didn’t hesitate and immediately leaped into the Divine Pit.

"He, he jumped down?" The girl beside them stepped back in fear.

The scene quieted down for a moment.

"What should we do now?"

Someone asked.

"Wait."

Eventually, an older employee spoke, "Wait for half an hour. If he doesn’t come up, we follow the guide back and then call the police."

Hearing this, everyone felt that was all they could do.

In the depths of the pit, Li Chen felt his body continuously falling, surrounded by pitch darkness, as if the light from above was swallowed completely.

Estimating the distance, he initially thought it would be very deep, but unexpectedly it was only about ten meters before he reached the bottom.

Li Chen landed, but his surroundings were enveloped in darkness, with only a faint light. Fortunately, his True Qi allowed him to see the things around him.

The surroundings resembled rock cliffs, as if the place was inherently hollow and a collapse was inevitable sooner or later.

He did not see Lin Yi or the others but saw a passageway ahead.

Li Chen walked toward the passageway. It wasn’t long, and as he passed through it, he noticed a dim light ahead.

Sweeping his gaze left and right, Li Chen was suddenly taken aback. He found himself in a long corridor with passageways branching off at intervals, like a crossroads at every turn, resembling a maze.

What, what is this?

Li Chen was shocked. How could there be such a maze-like place underground?

Could this be the relic mentioned in the messages?

Li Chen was moved, but the priority was to find Lin Yi and the others first.

"Lin Yi, Zhong Tian!"

Li Chen shouted loudly, the sound echoing. Not far off, Zhong Tian heard the voice, his face brightening as he shouted back robustly, "Big Brother, I’m here."

Li Chen tried to use the sound to locate Zhong Tian but realized that Zhong Tian’s voice seemed to come from all directions, making it impossible to pinpoint.

Startled, Li Chen realized that the maze was more formidable than he had imagined, with echoes completely cutting off any chance of using sound to find a way out.

Li Chen quickly said, "Zhong Tian, just stand there and don’t move, I’m coming to find you."

However, Li Chen had closely followed Lin Yi and the others down, so they couldn’t have gone far. Li Chen began to run forward quickly, scanning left and right, and soon he found Zhong Tian and Lin Yi, as well as their colleague called Little Yue.

"Big Brother." Zhong Tian still smiled naively, happy to see the Ginseng Doll on his shoulder, which also found this place a bit strange, disliking the odor in the air.

"A Tian, Lin Yi, are you guys okay?" Li Chen asked concernedly, but seeing that the three of them were unharmed, he sighed in relief.

"It was Zhong Tian who caught us as we were falling," Lin Yi said. "We owe thanks to your junior disciple."

Li Chen nodded. "Good to hear you’re okay, let’s get out of here."

This place, Li Chen felt, was somewhat sinister.

Little Yue was also scared, sticking closely to the others, and then, Li Chen retraced the path they had taken earlier.

A distance of about ten meters, Li Chen was entirely capable of leading people back up, so they just needed to find the original entrance.

The three followed Li Chen as he made his way back to the original path. He had a strong memory, and soon they reached a passageway, proceeding inside.

But after entering, seeing the same maze-like scene in front of him again, his heart couldn’t help but sink.

He was lost!

This was an astonishing fact. Li Chen, usually capable of memorizing everything he saw, especially with the help of True Qi, had actually gotten lost!

Li Chen began to think back—it seemed he first walked forward, passed five intersections, then saw Zhong Tian and the others’ shadows to his left. Afterward, he turned right.

But why did things go wrong when he tried to return?

"Did I get lost?" The girl Yue’er was nearly crying.

"It’s okay, I’m here." Lin Yi hurriedly comforted her. Although she felt uneasy inside, her psychological resilience had grown very strong after experiencing so much, and Li Chen was still by her side this time.

"Let’s head back."

Li Chen said.

The group retraced their steps to the original passage and then moved forward again. However, this time, they entered a chamber with various odd items that looked like relics from ancient times.

Li Chen felt something was off; the maze indeed had a creepy feel to it.

After trying a few more times, Li Chen had to admit that he was lost.

However, he also realized where he went wrong while searching for the exit.

He had mistaken the channel they had entered from as one at the maze’s edge, the outermost layer. But in reality, the maze wasn’t regular at all. It was indeed the outer layer, but the adjacent channel protruded further outward, and the various scenes, lamps on the walls, and bricks on the ground were all identical, making it very easy to get lost after a while.

The maze was irregular and extraordinarily large—what kind of relic was this?

"It’s okay. Let’s try again and maybe we can find the exit," Lin Yi gently comforted from the side.

"Mhm." Li Chen nodded and led his group to continue their search, but invariably, every path they found was merely a corridor and they couldn’t find an exit. Li Chen felt that the original entry point had become completely confused.

This is the most terrible aspect of a maze; being trapped here can easily make one feel demoralized and anxious.

Li Chen was neither demoralized nor anxious, and with Lin Yi by his side, he needed to bring her out no matter what.

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Outside, half an hour had passed, and the group peered into the dark pit below, knowing that Li Chen could not come up.

"What should we do?" a girl said in a voice tinged with sobs, not having expected such a problem to arise from a trip.

"Let’s go back and call the police," said a staff member who had suggested it earlier, and the others agreed. At this point, it seemed the best course of action.

Lin Xiaoxiao didn’t want to leave, but was dragged away by the others!

As Lin Xiaoxiao and the others were leaving, many mercenaries poured into the Mong Kok Forest from bordering countries like Myanmar and Laos.

The news had already spread, and of course, those who were least afraid of death were the mercenaries. As long as they could bring items out, they would surely fetch a good price.

At the same time, many experts also entered from these countries, bold and confident, mostly operating solo.

The reason they didn’t enter the Mong Kok Forest from within Huaxia was due to the strict controls; without a proper passport, one couldn’t get in, whereas countries like Myanmar were much more chaotic and thus, more convenient for their operations.

Ghost King led his group, looking at the Primitive Forest in front of him, and then waved his hand: "Let’s go!"

They also went in, and not long after, the Li Siblings arrived with the original top-notch Mercenary Corps and some new experts, entering Mong Kok Forest.

Many experts continuously entered the Mong Kok Forest, including Brian from the East Siberian Plain and a man wrapped in a black robe.

By now, countless experts were inside the Mong Kok Forest.

Li Chen had no idea about all this; he just wanted to find an exit quickly. This damn maze was like a Trapping Formation, holding him inside.

Luckily, Lin Yi kept encouraging him, and Li Chen’s nature was also resilient, helping him maintain his composure.

"What if we just pick a random path?" the girl called Yue’er said softly.

Now that they could no longer find the initial entrance and the maze had so many paths, they might as well try their luck by choosing one at random.

Li Chen thought for a moment, nodded his head, "Then let’s just pick one at random."

Meanwhile, as people entered the maze through various entrances, they were also shocked by the scene in front of them.

"Son of a bitch, what the hell is this place? Why does it all look the same?" a mercenary cursed.

"God, this is actually a maze!" another exclaimed, "And it’s an underground maze at that. My god, the people who built such a magnificent structure in the old days must have been amazing."

"Stop rambling, let’s just keep moving. Otherwise, by the time others get ahead, the good stuff will be gone," another urged.

These people walked forward for a while and soon faced a damned problem.

In front of them were two paths, both looking identically the same—who knew which to choose?

With about a dozen people looking at each other, no one could make up their mind.

"Damn it, let’s just pick one; it’s always a game of luck with these things anyway," one of the mercenaries pulled out a coin, "Heads we go left, tails we go right."

He tossed the coin—it landed on heads.

"Go left."

The other mercenaries shrugged; this was indeed a good method. But after they walked left for a while, they were dumbfounded again.

Shit, why were there three paths now?

And they all looked identical.

All eyes turned to the coin-tossing mercenary, who couldn’t help but twitch at the corners of his mouth.

"Fuck sake, don’t look at me; I don’t know which way to go either."

Similar scenarios unfolded in different parts of the maze, this large-scale maze had many entrances, which had been disclosed in the news earlier.