Those Classmates who Suddenly Disappeared
Chapter 1301: You Are Being Unreasonable

Chapter 1301: Chapter 1301: You Are Being Unreasonable

After running for a long time, everyone was exhausted. Lu Yi looked behind, feeling no one had caught up, and then suggested they rest right there, as their legs were nearly running out.

The members of the Flame Mercenary Corps glanced at Lu Yi with disdain, feeling that he was rather useless.

Understanding their looks, Lu Yi began to defend himself, "Come on, you guys are trained and have good stamina. I’m just an ordinary person. Of course, I need to rest. Try to understand a bit."

Nobody said much. Since they had chosen to stand with Gu Fan and Lu Yi, they had no choice but to have no regrets.

Gu Fan had some people continue to keep watch, while the rest took a good rest. Then, he crossed his arms and sat down on the ground to think.

Previously, almost one hundred and fifty people had entered the maze. They were scattered, and if the maze was large and complicated enough, it generally wouldn’t be possible to regroup so quickly.

However, when Gu Fan and General Horton had a fallout and exchanged fire, the noise from the battle drew others scattered around to encircle and pursue Gu Fan and his team.

"It’s impossible!" Gu Fan began to assume he was one of those who were scattered. Hearing gunfire, he would immediately head towards it. However, this was a maze; it was impossible to find a simple and direct path to the source of the gunfire. It would definitely require many twists and turns, even walking into dead ends.

"Could it be?" Gu Fan remembered how the artificial intelligence Xiaolan had controlled the stone doors to block passages. He then realized that the maze was entirely under the control of Xiaolan, able to change passages and transport people to desired destinations.

If that were the case, then General Horton would catch up soon. Just as Gu Fan was worrying, sure enough, he heard many footsteps approaching.

General Horton had managed to catch up to Gu Fan’s group so quickly. As soon as both sides encountered each other, they took positions and pointed guns at each other.

Since they were in a corridor, there was no cover, and both sides were exposed to each other’s guns. Once the gunfire started, the casualties were hard to estimate.

General Horton didn’t want to be shot either, so he began to negotiate, "Listen, we only want Lu Yi’s life, then everyone can leave alive. Sacrifice one to save everyone; it’s better for all of us."

To this, Irina scoffed, "What a joke. Even if we leave here, can you guarantee that we can get out of the Dark Primitive Mountain?"

Hearing this, everyone’s hearts sank, thinking indeed, this secret base was full of dangers, and the outside was just as treacherous.

Gu Fan also spoke, "Actually, I have another suggestion. I’ve found a way to leave this maze; how about killing General Horton?"

"What?" General Horton chilled, turning back to see the mercenaries’ eyes flickering, seemingly wavering.

To stabilize the situation, General Horton shouted fiercely, "What a joke. If you truly had a way to leave, you would have left already. Stop bluffing us here."

"I’m not lying to you. I just thought of a way just now." Gu Fan pointed at General Horton, smiled faintly, and then added, "Just let me see the route you took to chase us, and everything will become clear."

"What do you mean?" General Horton was confused, but Gu Fan had already started walking towards them.

Seeing Gu Fan confidently approaching, General Horton and his men grew nervous, fearing that Gu Fan might take a ’capture the leader first’ approach and suddenly attack. Lu Yi and his group were also extremely anxious, fearing that the other side might shoot at Gu Fan.

"Excuse me, let me through!" Gu Fan walked past General Horton and his group, stepping onto the route General Horton had taken to get here.

General Horton, unsure of what Gu Fan was up to, immediately followed him, questioning, "What exactly are you planning to do, Gu Fan?"

Gu Fan calmly replied, "The place we are encountering now and the place where we had conflict before, I’ve marked the route along the way, and I believe you’ve done the same."

"Yes, of course we’ve made marks. Look, there’s one we made." General Horton vaguely guessed Gu Fan’s intent and could not help but anticipate Gu Fan revealing the answer.

At that moment, everyone else also dropped their hostility and followed Gu Fan back along the route.

Initially, the route had marks made by Gu Fan as well as those made by General Horton, which looked normal.

However, at one bend, there was no mark from General Horton, only from Gu Fan, which was perplexing.

General Horton explained that there was only one path here, so it was unnecessary to make a mark.

The reason Gu Fan made marks was definitely because he encountered intersections; he needed to know which route they were taking, and in order to prevent the marks from giving away their position, Gu Fan was cunning. He made no marks on the selected path and marked the paths not taken.

If the enemy came to an intersection and saw the marks made by Gu Fan, they would think Gu Fan had taken that route and would choose the wrong path to pursue.

Now there was only one path here, not an intersection, nor a junction of paths, yet there appeared a mark made by Gu Fan. Was that normal?

"Indeed, this crafty artificial intelligence." Gu Fan gritted his teeth in hatred.

At that time, Lu Yi couldn’t help but barge in, looking at the mark and instantly becoming puzzled, "Wait a minute, I remember when you made this mark, Gu Fan, I was right beside you. I even drew a few strokes myself, but this mark should be at a crossroads. Why is it here?"

"Because someone moved the stone walls here, creating a quick route for General Horton to catch us up." Saying this, Gu Fan couldn’t help but shout, "You deceptive artificial beauty, didn’t you say you would only change the maze layout once? How many times have you changed it now?"

The artificial intelligence Xiaolan quickly jumped out, making an apologetic gesture, "I’m really sorry, I couldn’t help but change the maze layout one more time. Then I thought about it carefully; I’d already broken the promise anyway, whether I change it once or ten times doesn’t make much difference, and then I just unconsciously..."

Hearing this, Lu Yi almost exploded in anger, confronting there and then, "What does that mean? I trusted you so much, almost fell in love with you, and this is how you treat me? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?"

Everyone was speechless, secretly thinking what nonsense Lu Yi was talking about, discussing conscience with an artificial intelligence.

Then, the artificial intelligence Xiaolan covered her chest, looking remorseful, "Yes, my conscience does hurt a little, but this really is fun."