Chapter 473 - I Will Be Here with You (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

The cleverer the man, the more arrogant he would be. Yang Chen desired a clear—even if it was just one time, it was a proof of competence.

“I disagree.” Ol’ Zhou was the first to reject the idea. “When we came in, you said that we’re all teammates, but now that something has happened, that is thrown out of your mind? Don’t you think you’re being a bit much?”

“Ol’ Zhou…” Duan Yue smiled at the crowd apologetically as she pulled on Ol’ Zhou’s sleeves. It appeared like she was used to apologizing on Ol’ Zhou’s behalf since the man was a man filled with justice and would often run his mouth on certain events.

“I also do not think that we should abandon them.” It was Xiao Lee who spoke. Since he came in alone and had no team support, he was afraid that if the same thing happened to him, he would face the same issue as the Fan siblings—cruelly abandoned.

“I was just stating my thought. Whatever the decision, it’ll still be dependent on the majority.” Yang Chen raised his hand. “I think we should go back to the junction and go down the other corridor.”

When he finished, Wang Dan and Lee Xue also raised their hands.

“Only three, now who agrees with searching for the chef and his brother.” Ol’ Zhou was the first one to raise his hand. It was followed by Duan Yue and Xiao Lee. Three versus three. “The rest of you, stop wasting time.”

“I have no issue with going to find the chef, but the student has a point as well.” Bai Qiulin gave a third option. “I agree we should go look for the chef, but we cannot take the corridor that he took.”

Then he turned to look at Ah Nan. “What does the rest of you think?”

Ah Nan had been thinking, and he turned to Ol’ Zhou. “We’re a party, and internal conflict will only bring us down, so I also choose to find the chef.”

He and Hu Ya raised their hands. “Five versus three, so let us move out.”

When Ah Nan was doing the headcount, he suddenly raised something. He looked left and right. “Wait, where is Tails‽”

“Is she still inside the room?” They all ran into the warehouse and hopped over the trash and squeezed through the racks. They searched the whole place but could not find Tails.

“Where is she?”

“I swear she was just behind us!”

When darkness fell, it was not two people who disappeared but three!

A chill wrapped itself around everyone present. They stood where they were, and some were already ready to quit. They had prepared everything that they could. Yet, in just a few minutes, a quarter of the team had already disappeared.

“A living person could not have disappeared just like that! There has to be a hidden passage in this room!” Ah Nan had not given up. “The boss would not build a completely useless space.”

“Perhaps Tails has discovered the secret of the room, triggered some kind of trap, and fallen into the secret passage?” Hu Ya thought back to where Tails was standing. She walked to the printer and stared at the power button that was flickering. She moved her eyes downward and saw the printed paper that littered the ground.

“I remember there wasn’t so much paper.” She squatted down to pick them all up. The few earlier pictures were rough frames, but the last sheet had the words ‘Look behind you!’ written on it.

It was three simple words, but it created a different type of terror due to the unique circumstance they were in.

“Looks like Tails really did discover something, but how did she trigger the trap, and where is this trap?” Hu Ya looked at the paper and then at the printer. “Could it be related to this thing?”

She waved behind her, and the few worked together to move the printer away. On the wall that was behind the printer, they saw a deep tunnel that they had no idea where it led. The edges of the hole were uneven like they were gouged out by human hands.

“Tails?” Ah Nan screamed into the hole, but there was no reply.