Volume 1 Chapter 5 (1/1)

Chapter 5 Out of the Flying Pan and Into the Fire

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Chapter 4 Out of the Flying Pan and Into the Fire In the huo, the huht the monsters, which hun After the battle, the White Phoenix Snake Empress was lured into the mountains and sealed by Que Hun With one of the four monster leaders trapped, the other three leaders didn’t want to fight anyon’s spine area in Taohua Village The battle was apparently just part of the momentum for the blood contract used by the four hidden fa in thechip in the contract And he has died a o from the power of the contract The new development has made everyone rethink what they knew about the battle Everyone stared at the still unconscious Bird, their eyes filled with venom Cass’s rotund body squeezed into the door thanks to his underlings’ pushi+ng He wanted to walk onto the cashi+er’s platforait“If you weren’t all players in this ‘escape from the secret room’ competition, you’d have all died when you learned the truth” He paused and continued, “right, we have rules for this corave in Taohua Village in three days, and get soh, with how things are now, you’re better off leaving the village if you wanted to live” “Why do we have to leave? Is so to happen here? Is it because of the snake euessed“Snake ht years of peace She’s the White Phoenix we should all respect” Cass was not pleased, he ordered the people who talked out loud to be led outside; screams sounded Blood splattered onto the already-stainedsill Only 10 or so people survived the slaughter, with alone Cass seery He walked out the door, and it didn’t seem like he would return Bird and Quesi opened their eyes, they looked at each other Quesi’s gaze was mixed with confusion and hate“Bird, you’re finally awake” Tiger and Dragon reached hi because of me” Bird was helped to the corner of the roo people were all killed by Cass“What should we do now? We trust your ideas”“See if Mantang Inn is any different since ent into the secret tunnel” The three of thest themselves Er Ce walked over, ”e came back from the secret tunnel, the tables at the inn all showed a nine-by-nine grid” Jiang Ju also spoke up, “every tirids appear It wasn’t hard to solve, but with things repeating over and over, it’d be almost impossible to solve them in the time we have”“We have to save the spiritual fire and beat the deadline too, so it’s not easy Even if Dragon and I kne to solve these puzzles, we can’t help without the spiritual fire”“Don’t worry about the spiritual fire with us here You just have to solve the puzzles”“Great, we don’t have rid was solved, another table would show a new grid; the cycle continued and the questions became harder“The puzzles had all sorts of questions, with fewer nu over tirid repeated, we just have to find its pattern to solve things fast” The questions went fro and had others take over Quesi, with Bird’s help, solved the puzzles faster and faster She also had her own goal, and that was to find out where Que Hun was and take his ashes with her Quesi looked at Bird:“Your name is really Bird Three? And you’re really my brother-in-law’s disciple?”“Yes”“He really passed away?” “Yes”“When did he pass away? Was he peaceful?”“About a rets He only said, ‘my ht” As the puzzles were solved faster and faster, there was less ti Ju, and Er Ce remainedRumble-- Rumble-- Loud noises came from outside, the usually busy toas filled with screaer ran to the , but he couldn’t open it and see as going on“Stay calht rows, four columns” As he filled in the last answer, all the nine-by-nine grids disappeared After a fewbeaht fro sto Ju and a few others following hi withto take her family member’s ashes back to her fao When they stood on the roof and looked out, the once bustling toas devastated, and the monsters were to blame The reason: Que Hun has died, and the blood contract has ended With the monsters not bound by any contract, the e to kill the huhun“I have to find er crawled off the roof and ran Dragon also flipped off the roof to go with hion, don’t be rash!+” Bird chased after the two“Hey, don’t go!” Quesi tried to stop Bird fro Ju stopped her“You’re the Que faure out what to do”“But--”“You have to keep on living, don’t forget your acy, sole shapes of Bird and his friends She nodded “Second Brother, let’s get out of here!” As they fled as well, the e